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University of Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Winter 1974

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What OAC hath wrought This special issue of the Guelph Alumnus serves to commemoshyrate the one hundredth year of the Ontario Agricultural College And indirectly it also acknowledges the hundred-year heritage of the University of Guelph For in 1874 when F W Stone donated his SOO-acre farm to establish the Ontario Sc hool of Agriculture the seed of what is now a full-fledged university was sown

This is a fact often overlooked and somelimes resented by some of the newer alumni especially those who have graduated in the arts and sciences Though not always warranted such resentment is understandable-the influence and structures of the OAC are evident throughout the campus

It should be remembered that the Agricultural College spawned Wellington College the forerunner of the Colleges of Arts Social Science Physical Science and Bio logical Science Moreove r OAC students and faculty have contributed signifishycantly to the cultural life of the campus by funding art acquisitions and sponsoring exhibits concerts and lectures

Broadly speaking in the word s of Uni ve rsity president W C Winega rd the concerns of OAC have become the concerns of

the University and I have no doubt that OAC as part of th e University will serve agriculture better than if it had remained as a college

Dr Winegard goes on to say that th e goals of the University as stated in its Aims and Objectives report ca nnot be achieved without the complete support of the Ontario Agricultural College We cannot provide a liberal education to our students unless OAC provides courses in agriculture and applied biology which are of interest to students of other colleges We cannot fulfill our research objectives without a major resea rch program in agriculture and our international objectives are to a considershyable extent in the hands of the Ontario Agricultural College

Thus it is that OAC has in large measure set the stage fo r the University in the 1970s With the rapid changes in technology so cial priorities teaching methods and educational need s it is difficult to foresee what the next 100 years will hold for Guelph But there can be little doubt that the strength provided in the past by the Agricultural College w ill continue to reinforce the stability and progressiveness that has co me to characterize this University 0

THIRD ANNUAL

G ClCIft humb Day Saturday April 27

The University of Guel ph Al umni Asso c iat ion invites you and your family to return to Guelph for the third Green T humb Day program See how the t ree you pl anted last year has grown Or p lant a new one -

Many activ it ies are planned for the d ay inc luding a childrens prog ram t ips on improving your gDlf vegetable gardeni ng natu re trails rock gard eni ng th e care of house plants apartment and patio gardeni ng

A noon luncheon will be followed by tree plant ing at the Arboret um For furthe r informati on contact Al umni House University of Guelph

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

GUELPH Jan-Feb 1974 ALUMNUS Volume 7 Number 1

PICTURE CREDITS

Pages 4-7 R R Sallows (cou rte sy of On tar io Mini sshytry o f Ag riculture and Foo d) pages 9-10 Dan Thorshyburn Aud Io-Vsual Se rvice s p age 11 -12 AudioshyVis ual Servi ces page 13 Robe rt Lansda le page 14 Can ad ian Broadcast ing Corpora l ion

UNI VERS ITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSO CIATION

PRESIDENT r T R (Dick) Hilliard OAC 40

SEN IOR V ICE-PRES IDENT Mrs J D (Vi rginia Sho rll ) Bandeon Mac 57

VICE-PRESIDE TS rs J B (0 reen Ke r ) Dawso n Ma c 54 Mrs R P (Val eri e M l lt le r) G il o r B A 72 Dr Wm C (Bi ll) Hack in g OVC 69 Mr J A (John) Wley OAC 58

SECRETARY Mrs A R (Shirley Ann McFee) Hol mes Mac 62

D IRECTORS M r P D (Peter ) An derson We l 08 Dr D A (Dona ld) Barnum OVC 4 1 Mr G R (G eo rge) Green le es OAC 62 Mr M G (Mil t) Gree r OAC 41 Mrs M (Li nda Sull y) K h el l 67 Mr J N (J ohn) Mayes OAC G9 Mrs J R (Sh irley Jackson) Ro binson Ma c 48 Dr Jean Rumney OVC 39 Dr D I Si l ver OVC 72 Mrs S W (Pat Damude l Sq u ire Mac 63 Mr ~ C (Michael ) S lr~lb Wel l G9

EX-OFF IC IO DIRECTORS Mr R W (Robert) Close B Sc 69 Presi dont Arts and Sciences Alumni Association Mr F T (Tom) Cowan OAC 65 PreSi dent OAC Alumni Asso cia tion Dr H J (Howard) Nee ly OVC 51 PreSident OVC Alumni Association Mrs D J (J i ll ) Va rne ll Mac 61 Pre Si d ent Mac- FACS A lumni ASSOCiation Mr P (Pe ler) O Malley PreSident UGCSA Mr J K (Joh n) Babcock OAC 54 Director Alumni Affa i rs and Development

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The Guelph Alumnus is pub l ish ed by the Depar lment of Alumni Affa irs and Develop ment Uni versily 01 Guelph

The Ediloria l Comm i ttee is comprised o f Editor-John Bowles BA 72 Alumni Ollice r Art Di rector-Lyl e Doche rty BA 7 2 J K Babcock OAC 54 Director 01 Alumni Aflairs and Devel opment Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Sen ior A lumni Ollicer D L Waterston Direc tor of Inform allon D W Jose DAC 49 Ass istant Director of Inlormation

Th e Ed itOria l Adviso ry Board of he Un ive rSity of Guelph Alumni Assoc ialion is comprised 01 Mrs Pat (Damude) Squire 63 chairman Dr A ll an Austin Robert Mercer OAC 59 G B Powell OAC 62 James Rusk OAC 65 Mrs Joan (Elle r ing ton) Tanner Mac 57 EX-OffiCio J K Babcock OAC 54 T R HIllIa rd OAC 40 Correspond ing members D R Baron OAC 49 G M Car l an OAC 49 and H G Dodds OAC 58

Undeli ve red copies should be returned to Alumni House Uni ve rSIty 01 Gue lp h Guelph Onta rio Canada

Contents

4 Of days gone by bull bull bull To many ru ral li fe of yesteryear-if they can remember far enough back-is thoug ht o f as halcyon days on the farm Days of social gatherings at the vi llage smithy coupled with a strong sense of community The enchanting photographs of R R Sallows capture the feel of th ose early times

8 100 years A special supplement published by Good Farming to comshymemorate the OAC centennial highlights this issue of the Guelph Alumnus

9 The high school connection High school students no longer attend the same un iversity as their parents as a matter of course They shop around It s the job of the high school liaison offi ce r to provide the maximum amount of information about Gue lph so that prospective students are able to make a well-considered choice

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Contributor to this issue Helen Aitkin BA 71 has a graduate degree in English and is now engaged in freelance writing

Cove r design by Lyle Docherty

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Of days gone by a pictorial essay Agriculture has come a long way in the

past 100 years Alth ou gh the number of people actively engaged in farming in Canada has decreased over the yea rs ad vances in production techniques have resulted in greater agricultural output than ever before The last century has seen the advent of both the steam and the internal combustion engine the introdu ction of electricity and vastly improved methods of transportation

But to a growing number of peopleshyespecially young urban dwellers- th e improved efficiency in agricultural producshyti on has been gained at th e expense of rural customs and values characteristic of days gone by-customs and values now rarely exercised

Peter McArthur writing in 1900 in Pastures Green felt that working the land is not the sort of thing that a man can store in his granary or deposit in a bank It can be set down only in terms of personal satisfaction with the world we li ve in What I am treasuring most is chiefly the

memory of spacious days serene hours and emotions that were not even productive of thought After having felt the grip and grind of the world it is something to feel peaceful and secure for a few hours

Those were the days of the country store and the blacksmith s sh op centres for social encounter and political discussion

the days of due bills the payment of farm produce and livestock in exchange for manufactured goods or services rendered

the days of wood-fired baking ovens and subterranean ice chambers the days of the beef ring a common source of mea t for the entire community th e days of the cooperative work bees and barn raisings in which members of the community worked and socialized together for a common objective

Th e photographs on this and the followshying three pages capture some of the elements of those days The photographer was the late R R Sallows of Goderich Ont wh o took litera lly hundreds of pictures of rural life in Ontario 0

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COME BACK TO GUELPH

FESTIVAL WEER The highlight of the OA C centennial celebrations will be Festival and Alumni Week in early July Alumni D ay normally held in June will be combined with a revival of the famou s Farm and Home Week The result will be eight days of entertainshyment education reminiscence and sheer fun A time to meet old friends and talk over old times to take in the old and the new to celebrate a once-in-a-lifetime event

O Festival Week will begin Saturday July 6 with the Century Caravan parade of floats bands and antique cars An o lde-tyme picnic on the front campus will be followed by the unveiling of an historical plaque on the Johnston portico a reunion banquet for Associate D iploma alumni and a dinner for c lasses 24 and earlier

DOn Sunday July 7 an interdenomishynational service wi ll be held at War Memorial Hall followed by a special exhibit of historical mementos in McLaughlin Library and an opporshytunit y to meet Professor Alex Ross author of Tllc Collcge 011 the H ill I n

the afternoon thelc will be wa lking tours of the campus and in the evening the opening of the U niversity art collection

DMonday July 8 will be Town and G own D ay to celebrate the close relationship between the campus and the cit y of G uelph A civic luncheon open houses and a golf tournament will be features of the day oTuesday July 9 is Agricultural Day to mark the beginning of the threeshyday Farm and Home Week program There will be a parade of livestock and machinery tours of the Elora Research Stltltion and a display of antique farm m achine ry

D Wednesday July 10 wi ll be Family Day with a special program arranged by the College of Family and Consumer Studies A family barbecue and cen tenn ia l dinner will be among the features

OThursday July 11 is Education D ay T he Farm and Home Week program continues with spec ial emphasis in 4-H programs The annual life science student seminar will run al l day with square da ncing in Creelman Pin) in the evening

O Friday July 12 is Alumni Developshyment D ay T here will be seminars for OAC and Mac-F ACS alumni folshylowed by annual business meetings During the day a ceremony marking the issue of a commemorat ive sta mp will be held and in the evening there will be a G erman beer garden and skits from the past

OSaturday fuly 13 Alumni Celebrashytion D ay will be the climax of Festival Week The day will begin with a chuck wagon breakfast followed by a centennial parade an olde-tyme picnic and the official opening of the Centennial Arboretum Centre The grand fina le will be the Centennial dinner and ball

DSullday July 14 is Recovery D ay A service of worship at W ar Memori a l H all will be followe d by brunch and th e art exh ibit and machinery display will remain open for the day

O A detailed brochure a nd registration form for Fes ti val Week will be mailed to you at the beginning of M ay Reservations should be made by June 15

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Canadian Agriculture runs on teamwork We salute the Ontario Agricultural College of the University of Guelph on its centenn ial year

OAC during its hundred year history has earned an international reputation for its

continuing and vital leadership in agricultural research and high academic standards in agricultural education We at Ciba-Geigy many of us OAC gradshyuates owe a debt of gratitude to the Ontario Agricultural Co llege for its generous coshyoperation in agricultural research and development This teamwork is invaluable to shyCanadian agricu lture

elBA-GEIGY Agrochemicals Division

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Congratulations Ontario Agricultural College on your first hundred

And thank you In 1874 you were a little stone farmhouse with 30 students who were eager to learn about modern farming

Since then you have

Founded the Ontario Experimental Union in the 1880s-a forerunner of soil and crop improvement societies and government extension services

Developed the Ontario poultry breeding stations and flock approval plan in the early 1900s which made a viable poultry industry possible

Developed OAC 21 a grain variety which became the standard of malting barley in North America

Introduced the Provincial Spray Service in 1924 which laid the foundation for efficient disease and pest control in the commercial orchard industry

Introduced new crop species to Canadian agriculture-such as alfalfa and soybeans

Been instrumental in the development of hybrid poultry breeding and the refinement of artificial insemination techniques for livestock

Developed insecticides herbicides and application procedures which have been directly responsible for the expansion of corn as a major crop in Ontario

Maintained a research organization which has played a key role in improving the efficiency of Ontario agriculture for the last 100 years

The achievements have been many-more than we can possibly print here But one achievement stands out among all the rest the Ontario Agricultural College educates and trains people whose work in agriculture has gone a long way in making this world a better place in which to live

From one centenarian to another were proud to have grown up with you

-Massey-Ferguson Industries Limited

Toronto Ontario

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OAC Centennial Celebrations

l Iniversity of (~uelph carnpus

Special public events

At Home OAC Farmers Meetings College Royal

January 1 Jan 234

Open House March 9 and 10

Guelph Spring Festival Apri l 27 -May 12

Dedication of Johnston Arch Historical Plaque July 6

Centennial Festival July 6-13 OAC Farm and Home

Week July 91011 Official opening of OAC Censhy

tennial Arboretum Centre July 13 OAC Centennial

Symposi um Oct 1718 Laureate of Agriculture Oct 17

International Conferences

Symposium on Haploids in Higher Plants June 10-14

American Dairy Science Assoc annual meeting June 23-26

International Congress of Farm Management July 14- 20

CanAm Horticultural Science annual meeti ng Aug 8-15

International Agricultural St udents Conference Aug 18-24

Other Conferences

Ontario Food Processors Fieldshymens Conference Jan 8910

Ontario Institute of Agrologists annual meeting April 14 - 18

Ontario Cheese makers Conference April 17

Canadian Feed Manufacturers Nutrition Conference April 2324

Ontario Dairy Industry Conference Apri I 2425

Canadian I nstitute of Food Science and Technology April 26

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Ontario Bankers School May 6-10 Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food Extension Branch Conference June 3-6

Environmental Science Teachers of Ontario May 234

4-H Provincial Conference June 16-18

Canadian Veterinary Medical Assoc annual meeting June 30-July 4

4middotH Provincial Girls Club Conference July 9-12

Eastern Apiculture Society Conference Aug 7-10

Junior Farmers Association of Ontario Aug 10-11

University of Guelph activities

Winter Carnival Jan 12- 18 Winter Convocation Feb 1 Conversat Dance Feb 2 Interuniversity Choral

Festival Feb 10 Spring Convocation May 222324 Fall Convocation Oct 4 Aggie Week September Homecoming Weekend Oct 18-20 Homecoming Football

game Oct 19

These are the events as arranged bV November 1st 1973

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The Johnston arch is the portico of the original William Stone homestead shown here on the original Johnston Hall demolished in 1928 The arch still stands on the front campus of the University of Guelph and will be declared an historic site by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board during centennial year

Welcome to the Campus

On behalf of the Ontario Agriculmiddot

tural College of the University of

Guelph I would like to invite everyshy

one to participate in the many OAC Centennial 74 events to be

held on the campus

As we celebrate the 100th annimiddot

versary of the founding of the

College I would like to pay tribute to

the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food who initiated and then

operated the Guelph campus for the

first ninety years of its history The

OAC achieved a world-wide reputamiddot

tion under the direction of the Minshy

istry which still plays a vital role on

the campus especially in connection

with our research program

In addition t would like to conmiddot

gratulate the organizing committee

for the OAC Centennial Under the chairmanship of Professor Harvey

Caldwell the committee of faculty

staff and students has been work ing

for the past year planning the many

celebrations that will be held on the campus in 1974

You will be welcome at any or all

these events and especially during Festival Week

-WC Winegard

President

University of Guelph

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A message from the Minister

The Ontario Agricultural College has established itself as an integral part of our agricultural industry in this Province and its influence has been felt throughout the length and breadth of Canada North America and indeed around the world The Government of Ontario is pleased with the close working relationship that has existed over the past 100 years We have every reason to believe the future will bring an even closer liaison to the benefit of all of society

Graduates of the Ontario Agriculshytural College have taken their place in every profession and their exshyposure to agricultural science has given them a deeper appreciation of farming and food production The Ontario Agricultural College has shown the way in a wide range of

research progra ms related to agr icu 1shyture food and human resources Ontario s hard earned position as a

leader in food production can be attributed in large part to these farshyreaching research projects

I a m pleased to extend to the Ontario Agricultural College and all those who have been and continue to be associated with it the warmest congratulations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ontario on reaching their Centennial year

William A Stewart Min ister of Agriculture and Food for Ontario

We congratulate the Ontario Agricultural College and recogshy

ONTARIO ASSOCIATION of ANIMAL BREEDERS

RR5 GUELPH ONTARIO and its member organization

Eastern Breeders Inc United Breeders Inc Western Ontario Breeders Inc

nize the contribution it has made to the advancement of cattle breeding through research data analysis and aU phases of sire evaluation and livestock improvement

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College History Reflects People Politics and Progress

BV Don Jose

Introduction

The growth and development of the Ontario Agricultural College after one hundred years make it the largest agricultural college in the British Commonwealth Its achievements have more than kept pace with its growth in size and it is these achieve shyments that permit it to lay claim to a premier place in agricultural educashytion research and extension

Former University of Toronto president Or Claude Bissell remarked that the Colleges name was known throughout the world both through those whom you attract here and those whom you h ave sent to serve mankind in most of the countries of the world

That statement was made at the first convocation of the University of Guelph and just following a world tour by Or Bissell during which he met and talked with many University of Toronto graduates from all facul ties He remarked on the large number of Ontario Agricultural College alumni he found around the world in relation to the number from other U of T facul ties most of them with much larger enrolments than OAC

The tradition at OAC of preshyparation for service and particularly in the international dimension has become an integral part of the phi 10shysophy of the University which the College spawned - a university that seems clearly destined to play an important role in higher education in Canada

JB Munro Deputy Minister of Agriculture in British Columbia once phrased an employers assessment of the College in apt rural phraseology I always like to hire men from OAC he said You shake them out of the bag they land on their feet and go right to work You cant say that about any other group

What then is the story of the College that has achieved these and

other accolades within its first century of existence And what has really been its role in the developshyment of agriculture and indeed of society the province of Ontario across Canada and over seas

It has been a story with its ups and downs and not without a share of controversies I t has been a story of dedication with many leaders who had a real feel ing for the needs of Ontario agriculture It has also been a story tinged with its share of political overtones It can be noted that the intrusions of politics into the administration of the college didnt all occur in the first half century of its existence However it must be said that the clear divorcing of College administration from political exigencies was well established before the founding of the University in 1964

During its first century of growth and maturing ten men have occupied the chief administrators position The first one Henry McCandless held office scarcely long enough to warm h is office chair Each of the others has made his own distinct contribution to the College There is a danger of underestimating the significance of the contributions of recent incumbents because of the difficulty of getting recent events into proper perspective for objective judgement

If the space devoted to the contri shybutions of recent heads of the college seems less than might seem proper it is only because space is limited and recent events are generally better known than those of earlier times The title of the position has changed over the years From Principal it became President when the School of Agriculture became the Ontario Agricultural College In 1962 with the formation of the Federated Colleges as an interim step towards the establishing of the University the head of the College became known as Dean

The Ontario Agricultural College was established with the purchase of

the William Stone Farm near Guelph in 1873 and the first students were enrolled on May 1 1874 But the birth pangs of the College were no less excruciating than those associmiddot ated with other births

The proposal to establish such a school of agriculture in the province had been under active discussion sometimes with more heat than light being generated for a period of five years John Carling then Commisshysioner of Agriculture and Public Works made such a proposal in his report in 1869 The need for improved agricultural techniques was evident it was even being proshypounded by Egerton Ryerson the architect of our public school system and several Land Grant Colleges had al ready been successshyfully launched in the US

After a great deal of political con troversy over the pu rch ase of a site at Mimico and a change of government the Stone farm was finally secured in 1873 and plans began to develop in earnest

The first class had 31 young men enrolled in a one-year course Those first students were expected to spend seven hou rs a day working in the fields and barns The time for classes came after that Admission requireshyments were equivalent of high school entrance The students received free board and lodging and if they passed their final examinations received a bonus of $50

The influences of the leaders

During its first year the School was rocked by controversy between the Principal and his staff but late that year a new principal was found in England For personal reasons he returned to England after a brief period and finally in the spring of 1875 William Johnston assumed the mantle of responsibility

Johnston had been serving as Rector of the new School a position which apparently was a combination

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of dean chief administrator and bursar Under his direction the school rapidly gained in stature and respectability and to him goes a great deal of credit for setting the fledgling school safely on the path to the many successses which have marked its first century

Johnston established a curricumiddot lum divided the School into a number of departments and hired lecturers With the School welJl established Johnston resigned in 1879 for reasons wh ich were never revealed and was succeeded by James Mills Johnston entered law but died at the age of 37

Dr Mills set about to counteract much of the serious criticism of the School which from the beginning had been widespread throughout the countryside A great deal of that criticism had been directed to the mismanagement of the Modell Farm The lines of authority were set up so that the head of the farm department reported directly to Toronto not to the Principal But in the eyes of the public the School and farm were one and the School was saddled with the blame for the farms shortshycomings

Another source of rural distrust of the School Mills was convinced arose from lack of public knowledge about the School and what it was doing Accordingly in 1883 he began two week vacation periods at Easter and Christmas so that the faculty could go out into the province and meet farmers and speak at meetings These were the Farmers Institutes and thus began the long and fruitful history of rural extension from the Guelph campus While this helped greatly there were limits on how many meetings the facul ty could get out to attend and limits on the number of people they could reach

That is why the summer excurshysions to the campus played such an important role in publicizing the college There is record of excursions from a number of counties as early as 1880 As years went by with the assistance of the railways the number increased

Under Mills there were also signifishycant changes in the academic proshygram In 1880 a two-year diploma program was instituted and the same year the name was changed hom Ontario School of Agriculture to Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm

In 1887 a third year with more

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emphasis on academic work and less on practical subjects was added to the cu rriculum The next spring the long period of affiliation with the University of Toronto began and five candidates received the first Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degrees to be granted from this campus Among the five were GC Creelman who later succeeded Mills as President and CA Zavitz who as professor of field husbandry did much to enhance the reputation of OAC

Two other significant events which occurred just before Dr Mills tenure ended were the extension of the degree program to a four-year course in 1902 and the establishment of Macdonald Institute as a part of OAC in 1903 Macdonald Institute achieved separate status later

For George C Creelman who succeeded his father-in-law as Presishydent in 1904 and served until 1920 his incumbancy was a period of growth and expansion Many new buildings were added to the campus new academic programs added and many extension programs initiated or extended Perhaps the zenith of Creel mans career as president I ies in the fact that under him the College became almost completely acceptshyable among the people of rural Ontario No longer was the college viewed with suspicion or distrust Not only did Creelman get faculty members out on the back concession tackling the practical problems of orchardists livestock men and others but his own personal interest in rural Ontarios problems was evident

J B Reynolds who succeeded Creel man in 1920 was no stranger to the campus He first arrived in Guelph in 1893 to teach Physics and English later setting up the English Department and leaving the teaching

of Physics to others Reynolds was a classical scholar in the truest sense and his mark has ever remained on the Guelph campus Aggies from his day onward graduated with a reasonable exposure to the treasures of their mother tongue gained at the feet of ski 1led and dedicated teachers For instance Guelph was the first campus in Canada to offer a course in Canadian poetry

In 1915 Reynolds left to become President of the Manitoba Agricultural College returning to Guelph in 1920 Reynolds was born and raised on a small Ontario farm in Durham County and after his precipitate retirement in 1928 he returned to the farm and ran a successful operation for many years

Two important academic advances occurred du ring the presidency of Dr Reynolds In 1920 the requireshyment of Junior Matriculation for admission to the degree course was initiated For the first time the academic program for the first two years of the degree cou rse was different from that offered Diploma students But since in those days it was difficult for many rural students living long distances from school to complete high school an intershymediate year was offered to enable Diploma graduates to shift into the degree course (Many outstanding alumni entered the degree course by this means ) The Intermediate Year program was in effect until accessshyability to high schools became universal in the 1940s

Another important academic advance was the introduction of a graduate study program leading to the MSA degree in 1926 This program was under the supervision of a Conjoint Committee composed of six representatives of the University of Toronto graduate faculty and six representatives of the Guelph faculty Dr J P McMu rrich Dean of Graduate Studies at Toronto was Chairman and Prof Aw Baker of Guelph was Secretary The first MSA degrees were awarded in 1928

George I Christie had perhaps the most frustrating incum bency of all OACs presidents He had the depresshysion years to cope with and also the war years The political problems of the college reached a peak in the early to mid thirties For example 35 facul ty mem bers were re i ieved of

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their duties in one stroke of the Minister Duncan Marshalls pen Under PM Dewan however the situation improved noticeably

George Christies booming voice and cogent comments almost came to be the hallmark of a successful farm meeting He spoke throughout the province and did much to window-dress the college in rural Ontario Plagued by uncertain health he was forced to retire in 1942

W R Reek who succeeded Christie first as Acting President and later as President had some natural advantages in his favour Perhaps the greatest was the fact that Thomas L Kennedy was Mini ster of Agriculture Together the two men steered the College through what might be called the turning point in its history A new spirit was instilled into the institution and the stage was set for the great period of growth which followed The time of Reeks appointment was a natural growth period following the war years and their restric tions however his influence in setting the stage for the great period of expanded research which foil owed cannot be denied It was at about this time that industry in general began to back research efforts to a greater degree They provided the resources for carrying to successful conclusion research projects initiated by faculty Reek

also insisted on the importance of advanced degrees for his faculty

JD Maclachlan succeeded Reek as President in 1950 just in time to wrestle with the problems of expanshysion New facili ties were needed to cope with the post war growth in enrolment and already rumblings were heard about the need for expanshysion of the campus to more senior status

He played a key role in the planshyning which resulted in the formation of the Federated Colleges in 1962 as an intermediate step towards full university status which was achieved in 1964 When Dr Mac became the first President of the new Univershysity N R Richards then head of the Department of Soil Science became the first Dean of the best known agricultural college in the nation Richards played an important role in the councils of the fledgling univer shysity during those important early years

Under his leadership the College played its part as an integral part of

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the University providing leadership and providing key faculty members for several University departments During all this time however OAC never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget the place of agriculture on the campus as well as in the nations economy

When Professor Richards had completed his second five-year term as Dean in 1972 he returned to teaching in the Department of land Resource Science and Dr C M Switzer was named Dean (See article on Dean of Agriculture)

College relationships academic and polishytical

The last ten years of the Colleges first century have been its greatest to date Each year new records are set for numbers of students enrolled in OAC September 1973 saw 1150 full time students enrolled in the BSc(Agr) program of the College

Over the year s the relationship between th e OAC and the provincial department of agriculture has been close and fruitful Consistently the department has reacted to the needs of rural Ontario and the province in general by development and impleshymentation of new policies This reaction was clearly evident in the creation of new academic depart shyments on the campus As economic development proceeded the segments of the agribusiness industry acquired new needs and the Departshyment of Agriculture supported lhe growth of the College to meet these needs

An example of this relationship is the addition of an agricultural economist to the faculty of the college as the economic problems in agriculture gained recognition and as

business-like decision-making became more important in deciding the success of the farm operation Professor Archie Leitch of the Animal Husbandry Department began a cost accounting program on the College farm in the 20s and later was named Head of the Farm Management Departmen t He is perhaps best remembered for his work in organizing the Flue Tobacco Growers Association in the early 30s The work he began in Agriculshytural Economics has grown and now includes not only academic programs but special courses such as a weekshylong course for rural bankers

Another outgrowth of the close association between the campus and the Department of Agricu I ture may be seen in the establishment of the Agricu Itu ral Research I nsti tu te of Ontario to co-ordinate research program s and advise on de sirable projects

At the same time there has also been a continual close relationship between OAC and federal officials in agriculture For many years now CDA specialists in various fields have been posted on campus and have shared facilities with colleagues on the faculty here From the initiation of the degree program in 1887 until 1964 the campus enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the University of Toronto

Under the aegis of that University the Guelph BSA degree came to be recognized across Canada and around the world as representing a sound combination of practical background and academic training

Staff involvement and contributions

Over the past century many outstanding teachers and researchers have been members of the OAC faculty and countless graduates have played significant roles in their chosen segment of the agricultural industry

In the early days improved live shystock and livestock husbandry along with improved feed crops were the primary concern of Ontario farmers Men like Wade Toole and George Day are widely remembered by historians of the livestock industry along with field husbandry men like Squirrel and Zavitz Also in the pas t 25 years there has been a veri table

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CongratulationsOntario

Agricultural shyCollege on your first

hundredyears

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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The Ontario Agricultural College has done much for Ontario for Canada during their 100 years

Continual research and advancement have been the standards in OACs contribution to agriculture We at Ontario Harvestore believe we hold to similar aims

And in Putting it All Together

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

Increase in the number of

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

Agriculture in Canada and throughout the world has benefited from its progressive research programs and high standards of agricultural education ~~

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

SB WILLIAMS DEPUTY MINISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

be as fruitful and as helpful

to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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n appreciation of 0 ACs outstanding contribution

to the agricu tura industry

Congratulations

on 100 years ofcontribution

to agriculture shy

for Canada the WOrld

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

Ontario Agricultural College

THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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The College Crest

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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-Canada Packers Research Headquarters

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

UNlVERSIIY It1 ~OFGUELPH

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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What OAC hath wrought This special issue of the Guelph Alumnus serves to commemoshyrate the one hundredth year of the Ontario Agricultural College And indirectly it also acknowledges the hundred-year heritage of the University of Guelph For in 1874 when F W Stone donated his SOO-acre farm to establish the Ontario Sc hool of Agriculture the seed of what is now a full-fledged university was sown

This is a fact often overlooked and somelimes resented by some of the newer alumni especially those who have graduated in the arts and sciences Though not always warranted such resentment is understandable-the influence and structures of the OAC are evident throughout the campus

It should be remembered that the Agricultural College spawned Wellington College the forerunner of the Colleges of Arts Social Science Physical Science and Bio logical Science Moreove r OAC students and faculty have contributed signifishycantly to the cultural life of the campus by funding art acquisitions and sponsoring exhibits concerts and lectures

Broadly speaking in the word s of Uni ve rsity president W C Winega rd the concerns of OAC have become the concerns of

the University and I have no doubt that OAC as part of th e University will serve agriculture better than if it had remained as a college

Dr Winegard goes on to say that th e goals of the University as stated in its Aims and Objectives report ca nnot be achieved without the complete support of the Ontario Agricultural College We cannot provide a liberal education to our students unless OAC provides courses in agriculture and applied biology which are of interest to students of other colleges We cannot fulfill our research objectives without a major resea rch program in agriculture and our international objectives are to a considershyable extent in the hands of the Ontario Agricultural College

Thus it is that OAC has in large measure set the stage fo r the University in the 1970s With the rapid changes in technology so cial priorities teaching methods and educational need s it is difficult to foresee what the next 100 years will hold for Guelph But there can be little doubt that the strength provided in the past by the Agricultural College w ill continue to reinforce the stability and progressiveness that has co me to characterize this University 0

THIRD ANNUAL

G ClCIft humb Day Saturday April 27

The University of Guel ph Al umni Asso c iat ion invites you and your family to return to Guelph for the third Green T humb Day program See how the t ree you pl anted last year has grown Or p lant a new one -

Many activ it ies are planned for the d ay inc luding a childrens prog ram t ips on improving your gDlf vegetable gardeni ng natu re trails rock gard eni ng th e care of house plants apartment and patio gardeni ng

A noon luncheon will be followed by tree plant ing at the Arboret um For furthe r informati on contact Al umni House University of Guelph

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

GUELPH Jan-Feb 1974 ALUMNUS Volume 7 Number 1

PICTURE CREDITS

Pages 4-7 R R Sallows (cou rte sy of On tar io Mini sshytry o f Ag riculture and Foo d) pages 9-10 Dan Thorshyburn Aud Io-Vsual Se rvice s p age 11 -12 AudioshyVis ual Servi ces page 13 Robe rt Lansda le page 14 Can ad ian Broadcast ing Corpora l ion

UNI VERS ITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSO CIATION

PRESIDENT r T R (Dick) Hilliard OAC 40

SEN IOR V ICE-PRES IDENT Mrs J D (Vi rginia Sho rll ) Bandeon Mac 57

VICE-PRESIDE TS rs J B (0 reen Ke r ) Dawso n Ma c 54 Mrs R P (Val eri e M l lt le r) G il o r B A 72 Dr Wm C (Bi ll) Hack in g OVC 69 Mr J A (John) Wley OAC 58

SECRETARY Mrs A R (Shirley Ann McFee) Hol mes Mac 62

D IRECTORS M r P D (Peter ) An derson We l 08 Dr D A (Dona ld) Barnum OVC 4 1 Mr G R (G eo rge) Green le es OAC 62 Mr M G (Mil t) Gree r OAC 41 Mrs M (Li nda Sull y) K h el l 67 Mr J N (J ohn) Mayes OAC G9 Mrs J R (Sh irley Jackson) Ro binson Ma c 48 Dr Jean Rumney OVC 39 Dr D I Si l ver OVC 72 Mrs S W (Pat Damude l Sq u ire Mac 63 Mr ~ C (Michael ) S lr~lb Wel l G9

EX-OFF IC IO DIRECTORS Mr R W (Robert) Close B Sc 69 Presi dont Arts and Sciences Alumni Association Mr F T (Tom) Cowan OAC 65 PreSi dent OAC Alumni Asso cia tion Dr H J (Howard) Nee ly OVC 51 PreSident OVC Alumni Association Mrs D J (J i ll ) Va rne ll Mac 61 Pre Si d ent Mac- FACS A lumni ASSOCiation Mr P (Pe ler) O Malley PreSident UGCSA Mr J K (Joh n) Babcock OAC 54 Director Alumni Affa i rs and Development

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The Guelph Alumnus is pub l ish ed by the Depar lment of Alumni Affa irs and Develop ment Uni versily 01 Guelph

The Ediloria l Comm i ttee is comprised o f Editor-John Bowles BA 72 Alumni Ollice r Art Di rector-Lyl e Doche rty BA 7 2 J K Babcock OAC 54 Director 01 Alumni Aflairs and Devel opment Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Sen ior A lumni Ollicer D L Waterston Direc tor of Inform allon D W Jose DAC 49 Ass istant Director of Inlormation

Th e Ed itOria l Adviso ry Board of he Un ive rSity of Guelph Alumni Assoc ialion is comprised 01 Mrs Pat (Damude) Squire 63 chairman Dr A ll an Austin Robert Mercer OAC 59 G B Powell OAC 62 James Rusk OAC 65 Mrs Joan (Elle r ing ton) Tanner Mac 57 EX-OffiCio J K Babcock OAC 54 T R HIllIa rd OAC 40 Correspond ing members D R Baron OAC 49 G M Car l an OAC 49 and H G Dodds OAC 58

Undeli ve red copies should be returned to Alumni House Uni ve rSIty 01 Gue lp h Guelph Onta rio Canada

Contents

4 Of days gone by bull bull bull To many ru ral li fe of yesteryear-if they can remember far enough back-is thoug ht o f as halcyon days on the farm Days of social gatherings at the vi llage smithy coupled with a strong sense of community The enchanting photographs of R R Sallows capture the feel of th ose early times

8 100 years A special supplement published by Good Farming to comshymemorate the OAC centennial highlights this issue of the Guelph Alumnus

9 The high school connection High school students no longer attend the same un iversity as their parents as a matter of course They shop around It s the job of the high school liaison offi ce r to provide the maximum amount of information about Gue lph so that prospective students are able to make a well-considered choice

11 Campus Highlights

Contributor to this issue Helen Aitkin BA 71 has a graduate degree in English and is now engaged in freelance writing

Cove r design by Lyle Docherty

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Of days gone by a pictorial essay Agriculture has come a long way in the

past 100 years Alth ou gh the number of people actively engaged in farming in Canada has decreased over the yea rs ad vances in production techniques have resulted in greater agricultural output than ever before The last century has seen the advent of both the steam and the internal combustion engine the introdu ction of electricity and vastly improved methods of transportation

But to a growing number of peopleshyespecially young urban dwellers- th e improved efficiency in agricultural producshyti on has been gained at th e expense of rural customs and values characteristic of days gone by-customs and values now rarely exercised

Peter McArthur writing in 1900 in Pastures Green felt that working the land is not the sort of thing that a man can store in his granary or deposit in a bank It can be set down only in terms of personal satisfaction with the world we li ve in What I am treasuring most is chiefly the

memory of spacious days serene hours and emotions that were not even productive of thought After having felt the grip and grind of the world it is something to feel peaceful and secure for a few hours

Those were the days of the country store and the blacksmith s sh op centres for social encounter and political discussion

the days of due bills the payment of farm produce and livestock in exchange for manufactured goods or services rendered

the days of wood-fired baking ovens and subterranean ice chambers the days of the beef ring a common source of mea t for the entire community th e days of the cooperative work bees and barn raisings in which members of the community worked and socialized together for a common objective

Th e photographs on this and the followshying three pages capture some of the elements of those days The photographer was the late R R Sallows of Goderich Ont wh o took litera lly hundreds of pictures of rural life in Ontario 0

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COME BACK TO GUELPH

FESTIVAL WEER The highlight of the OA C centennial celebrations will be Festival and Alumni Week in early July Alumni D ay normally held in June will be combined with a revival of the famou s Farm and Home Week The result will be eight days of entertainshyment education reminiscence and sheer fun A time to meet old friends and talk over old times to take in the old and the new to celebrate a once-in-a-lifetime event

O Festival Week will begin Saturday July 6 with the Century Caravan parade of floats bands and antique cars An o lde-tyme picnic on the front campus will be followed by the unveiling of an historical plaque on the Johnston portico a reunion banquet for Associate D iploma alumni and a dinner for c lasses 24 and earlier

DOn Sunday July 7 an interdenomishynational service wi ll be held at War Memorial Hall followed by a special exhibit of historical mementos in McLaughlin Library and an opporshytunit y to meet Professor Alex Ross author of Tllc Collcge 011 the H ill I n

the afternoon thelc will be wa lking tours of the campus and in the evening the opening of the U niversity art collection

DMonday July 8 will be Town and G own D ay to celebrate the close relationship between the campus and the cit y of G uelph A civic luncheon open houses and a golf tournament will be features of the day oTuesday July 9 is Agricultural Day to mark the beginning of the threeshyday Farm and Home Week program There will be a parade of livestock and machinery tours of the Elora Research Stltltion and a display of antique farm m achine ry

D Wednesday July 10 wi ll be Family Day with a special program arranged by the College of Family and Consumer Studies A family barbecue and cen tenn ia l dinner will be among the features

OThursday July 11 is Education D ay T he Farm and Home Week program continues with spec ial emphasis in 4-H programs The annual life science student seminar will run al l day with square da ncing in Creelman Pin) in the evening

O Friday July 12 is Alumni Developshyment D ay T here will be seminars for OAC and Mac-F ACS alumni folshylowed by annual business meetings During the day a ceremony marking the issue of a commemorat ive sta mp will be held and in the evening there will be a G erman beer garden and skits from the past

OSaturday fuly 13 Alumni Celebrashytion D ay will be the climax of Festival Week The day will begin with a chuck wagon breakfast followed by a centennial parade an olde-tyme picnic and the official opening of the Centennial Arboretum Centre The grand fina le will be the Centennial dinner and ball

DSullday July 14 is Recovery D ay A service of worship at W ar Memori a l H all will be followe d by brunch and th e art exh ibit and machinery display will remain open for the day

O A detailed brochure a nd registration form for Fes ti val Week will be mailed to you at the beginning of M ay Reservations should be made by June 15

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Canadian Agriculture runs on teamwork We salute the Ontario Agricultural College of the University of Guelph on its centenn ial year

OAC during its hundred year history has earned an international reputation for its

continuing and vital leadership in agricultural research and high academic standards in agricultural education We at Ciba-Geigy many of us OAC gradshyuates owe a debt of gratitude to the Ontario Agricultural Co llege for its generous coshyoperation in agricultural research and development This teamwork is invaluable to shyCanadian agricu lture

elBA-GEIGY Agrochemicals Division

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Congratulations Ontario Agricultural College on your first hundred

And thank you In 1874 you were a little stone farmhouse with 30 students who were eager to learn about modern farming

Since then you have

Founded the Ontario Experimental Union in the 1880s-a forerunner of soil and crop improvement societies and government extension services

Developed the Ontario poultry breeding stations and flock approval plan in the early 1900s which made a viable poultry industry possible

Developed OAC 21 a grain variety which became the standard of malting barley in North America

Introduced the Provincial Spray Service in 1924 which laid the foundation for efficient disease and pest control in the commercial orchard industry

Introduced new crop species to Canadian agriculture-such as alfalfa and soybeans

Been instrumental in the development of hybrid poultry breeding and the refinement of artificial insemination techniques for livestock

Developed insecticides herbicides and application procedures which have been directly responsible for the expansion of corn as a major crop in Ontario

Maintained a research organization which has played a key role in improving the efficiency of Ontario agriculture for the last 100 years

The achievements have been many-more than we can possibly print here But one achievement stands out among all the rest the Ontario Agricultural College educates and trains people whose work in agriculture has gone a long way in making this world a better place in which to live

From one centenarian to another were proud to have grown up with you

-Massey-Ferguson Industries Limited

Toronto Ontario

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OAC Centennial Celebrations

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Special public events

At Home OAC Farmers Meetings College Royal

January 1 Jan 234

Open House March 9 and 10

Guelph Spring Festival Apri l 27 -May 12

Dedication of Johnston Arch Historical Plaque July 6

Centennial Festival July 6-13 OAC Farm and Home

Week July 91011 Official opening of OAC Censhy

tennial Arboretum Centre July 13 OAC Centennial

Symposi um Oct 1718 Laureate of Agriculture Oct 17

International Conferences

Symposium on Haploids in Higher Plants June 10-14

American Dairy Science Assoc annual meeting June 23-26

International Congress of Farm Management July 14- 20

CanAm Horticultural Science annual meeti ng Aug 8-15

International Agricultural St udents Conference Aug 18-24

Other Conferences

Ontario Food Processors Fieldshymens Conference Jan 8910

Ontario Institute of Agrologists annual meeting April 14 - 18

Ontario Cheese makers Conference April 17

Canadian Feed Manufacturers Nutrition Conference April 2324

Ontario Dairy Industry Conference Apri I 2425

Canadian I nstitute of Food Science and Technology April 26

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Ontario Bankers School May 6-10 Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food Extension Branch Conference June 3-6

Environmental Science Teachers of Ontario May 234

4-H Provincial Conference June 16-18

Canadian Veterinary Medical Assoc annual meeting June 30-July 4

4middotH Provincial Girls Club Conference July 9-12

Eastern Apiculture Society Conference Aug 7-10

Junior Farmers Association of Ontario Aug 10-11

University of Guelph activities

Winter Carnival Jan 12- 18 Winter Convocation Feb 1 Conversat Dance Feb 2 Interuniversity Choral

Festival Feb 10 Spring Convocation May 222324 Fall Convocation Oct 4 Aggie Week September Homecoming Weekend Oct 18-20 Homecoming Football

game Oct 19

These are the events as arranged bV November 1st 1973

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The Johnston arch is the portico of the original William Stone homestead shown here on the original Johnston Hall demolished in 1928 The arch still stands on the front campus of the University of Guelph and will be declared an historic site by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board during centennial year

Welcome to the Campus

On behalf of the Ontario Agriculmiddot

tural College of the University of

Guelph I would like to invite everyshy

one to participate in the many OAC Centennial 74 events to be

held on the campus

As we celebrate the 100th annimiddot

versary of the founding of the

College I would like to pay tribute to

the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food who initiated and then

operated the Guelph campus for the

first ninety years of its history The

OAC achieved a world-wide reputamiddot

tion under the direction of the Minshy

istry which still plays a vital role on

the campus especially in connection

with our research program

In addition t would like to conmiddot

gratulate the organizing committee

for the OAC Centennial Under the chairmanship of Professor Harvey

Caldwell the committee of faculty

staff and students has been work ing

for the past year planning the many

celebrations that will be held on the campus in 1974

You will be welcome at any or all

these events and especially during Festival Week

-WC Winegard

President

University of Guelph

GOOD FARIIIINGOA~SUPPLEMENT

A message from the Minister

The Ontario Agricultural College has established itself as an integral part of our agricultural industry in this Province and its influence has been felt throughout the length and breadth of Canada North America and indeed around the world The Government of Ontario is pleased with the close working relationship that has existed over the past 100 years We have every reason to believe the future will bring an even closer liaison to the benefit of all of society

Graduates of the Ontario Agriculshytural College have taken their place in every profession and their exshyposure to agricultural science has given them a deeper appreciation of farming and food production The Ontario Agricultural College has shown the way in a wide range of

research progra ms related to agr icu 1shyture food and human resources Ontario s hard earned position as a

leader in food production can be attributed in large part to these farshyreaching research projects

I a m pleased to extend to the Ontario Agricultural College and all those who have been and continue to be associated with it the warmest congratulations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ontario on reaching their Centennial year

William A Stewart Min ister of Agriculture and Food for Ontario

We congratulate the Ontario Agricultural College and recogshy

ONTARIO ASSOCIATION of ANIMAL BREEDERS

RR5 GUELPH ONTARIO and its member organization

Eastern Breeders Inc United Breeders Inc Western Ontario Breeders Inc

nize the contribution it has made to the advancement of cattle breeding through research data analysis and aU phases of sire evaluation and livestock improvement

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College History Reflects People Politics and Progress

BV Don Jose

Introduction

The growth and development of the Ontario Agricultural College after one hundred years make it the largest agricultural college in the British Commonwealth Its achievements have more than kept pace with its growth in size and it is these achieve shyments that permit it to lay claim to a premier place in agricultural educashytion research and extension

Former University of Toronto president Or Claude Bissell remarked that the Colleges name was known throughout the world both through those whom you attract here and those whom you h ave sent to serve mankind in most of the countries of the world

That statement was made at the first convocation of the University of Guelph and just following a world tour by Or Bissell during which he met and talked with many University of Toronto graduates from all facul ties He remarked on the large number of Ontario Agricultural College alumni he found around the world in relation to the number from other U of T facul ties most of them with much larger enrolments than OAC

The tradition at OAC of preshyparation for service and particularly in the international dimension has become an integral part of the phi 10shysophy of the University which the College spawned - a university that seems clearly destined to play an important role in higher education in Canada

JB Munro Deputy Minister of Agriculture in British Columbia once phrased an employers assessment of the College in apt rural phraseology I always like to hire men from OAC he said You shake them out of the bag they land on their feet and go right to work You cant say that about any other group

What then is the story of the College that has achieved these and

other accolades within its first century of existence And what has really been its role in the developshyment of agriculture and indeed of society the province of Ontario across Canada and over seas

It has been a story with its ups and downs and not without a share of controversies I t has been a story of dedication with many leaders who had a real feel ing for the needs of Ontario agriculture It has also been a story tinged with its share of political overtones It can be noted that the intrusions of politics into the administration of the college didnt all occur in the first half century of its existence However it must be said that the clear divorcing of College administration from political exigencies was well established before the founding of the University in 1964

During its first century of growth and maturing ten men have occupied the chief administrators position The first one Henry McCandless held office scarcely long enough to warm h is office chair Each of the others has made his own distinct contribution to the College There is a danger of underestimating the significance of the contributions of recent incumbents because of the difficulty of getting recent events into proper perspective for objective judgement

If the space devoted to the contri shybutions of recent heads of the college seems less than might seem proper it is only because space is limited and recent events are generally better known than those of earlier times The title of the position has changed over the years From Principal it became President when the School of Agriculture became the Ontario Agricultural College In 1962 with the formation of the Federated Colleges as an interim step towards the establishing of the University the head of the College became known as Dean

The Ontario Agricultural College was established with the purchase of

the William Stone Farm near Guelph in 1873 and the first students were enrolled on May 1 1874 But the birth pangs of the College were no less excruciating than those associmiddot ated with other births

The proposal to establish such a school of agriculture in the province had been under active discussion sometimes with more heat than light being generated for a period of five years John Carling then Commisshysioner of Agriculture and Public Works made such a proposal in his report in 1869 The need for improved agricultural techniques was evident it was even being proshypounded by Egerton Ryerson the architect of our public school system and several Land Grant Colleges had al ready been successshyfully launched in the US

After a great deal of political con troversy over the pu rch ase of a site at Mimico and a change of government the Stone farm was finally secured in 1873 and plans began to develop in earnest

The first class had 31 young men enrolled in a one-year course Those first students were expected to spend seven hou rs a day working in the fields and barns The time for classes came after that Admission requireshyments were equivalent of high school entrance The students received free board and lodging and if they passed their final examinations received a bonus of $50

The influences of the leaders

During its first year the School was rocked by controversy between the Principal and his staff but late that year a new principal was found in England For personal reasons he returned to England after a brief period and finally in the spring of 1875 William Johnston assumed the mantle of responsibility

Johnston had been serving as Rector of the new School a position which apparently was a combination

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of dean chief administrator and bursar Under his direction the school rapidly gained in stature and respectability and to him goes a great deal of credit for setting the fledgling school safely on the path to the many successses which have marked its first century

Johnston established a curricumiddot lum divided the School into a number of departments and hired lecturers With the School welJl established Johnston resigned in 1879 for reasons wh ich were never revealed and was succeeded by James Mills Johnston entered law but died at the age of 37

Dr Mills set about to counteract much of the serious criticism of the School which from the beginning had been widespread throughout the countryside A great deal of that criticism had been directed to the mismanagement of the Modell Farm The lines of authority were set up so that the head of the farm department reported directly to Toronto not to the Principal But in the eyes of the public the School and farm were one and the School was saddled with the blame for the farms shortshycomings

Another source of rural distrust of the School Mills was convinced arose from lack of public knowledge about the School and what it was doing Accordingly in 1883 he began two week vacation periods at Easter and Christmas so that the faculty could go out into the province and meet farmers and speak at meetings These were the Farmers Institutes and thus began the long and fruitful history of rural extension from the Guelph campus While this helped greatly there were limits on how many meetings the facul ty could get out to attend and limits on the number of people they could reach

That is why the summer excurshysions to the campus played such an important role in publicizing the college There is record of excursions from a number of counties as early as 1880 As years went by with the assistance of the railways the number increased

Under Mills there were also signifishycant changes in the academic proshygram In 1880 a two-year diploma program was instituted and the same year the name was changed hom Ontario School of Agriculture to Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm

In 1887 a third year with more

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Massey library was a favourite place to study 20 to 30 years ago

emphasis on academic work and less on practical subjects was added to the cu rriculum The next spring the long period of affiliation with the University of Toronto began and five candidates received the first Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degrees to be granted from this campus Among the five were GC Creelman who later succeeded Mills as President and CA Zavitz who as professor of field husbandry did much to enhance the reputation of OAC

Two other significant events which occurred just before Dr Mills tenure ended were the extension of the degree program to a four-year course in 1902 and the establishment of Macdonald Institute as a part of OAC in 1903 Macdonald Institute achieved separate status later

For George C Creelman who succeeded his father-in-law as Presishydent in 1904 and served until 1920 his incumbancy was a period of growth and expansion Many new buildings were added to the campus new academic programs added and many extension programs initiated or extended Perhaps the zenith of Creel mans career as president I ies in the fact that under him the College became almost completely acceptshyable among the people of rural Ontario No longer was the college viewed with suspicion or distrust Not only did Creelman get faculty members out on the back concession tackling the practical problems of orchardists livestock men and others but his own personal interest in rural Ontarios problems was evident

J B Reynolds who succeeded Creel man in 1920 was no stranger to the campus He first arrived in Guelph in 1893 to teach Physics and English later setting up the English Department and leaving the teaching

of Physics to others Reynolds was a classical scholar in the truest sense and his mark has ever remained on the Guelph campus Aggies from his day onward graduated with a reasonable exposure to the treasures of their mother tongue gained at the feet of ski 1led and dedicated teachers For instance Guelph was the first campus in Canada to offer a course in Canadian poetry

In 1915 Reynolds left to become President of the Manitoba Agricultural College returning to Guelph in 1920 Reynolds was born and raised on a small Ontario farm in Durham County and after his precipitate retirement in 1928 he returned to the farm and ran a successful operation for many years

Two important academic advances occurred du ring the presidency of Dr Reynolds In 1920 the requireshyment of Junior Matriculation for admission to the degree course was initiated For the first time the academic program for the first two years of the degree cou rse was different from that offered Diploma students But since in those days it was difficult for many rural students living long distances from school to complete high school an intershymediate year was offered to enable Diploma graduates to shift into the degree course (Many outstanding alumni entered the degree course by this means ) The Intermediate Year program was in effect until accessshyability to high schools became universal in the 1940s

Another important academic advance was the introduction of a graduate study program leading to the MSA degree in 1926 This program was under the supervision of a Conjoint Committee composed of six representatives of the University of Toronto graduate faculty and six representatives of the Guelph faculty Dr J P McMu rrich Dean of Graduate Studies at Toronto was Chairman and Prof Aw Baker of Guelph was Secretary The first MSA degrees were awarded in 1928

George I Christie had perhaps the most frustrating incum bency of all OACs presidents He had the depresshysion years to cope with and also the war years The political problems of the college reached a peak in the early to mid thirties For example 35 facul ty mem bers were re i ieved of

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their duties in one stroke of the Minister Duncan Marshalls pen Under PM Dewan however the situation improved noticeably

George Christies booming voice and cogent comments almost came to be the hallmark of a successful farm meeting He spoke throughout the province and did much to window-dress the college in rural Ontario Plagued by uncertain health he was forced to retire in 1942

W R Reek who succeeded Christie first as Acting President and later as President had some natural advantages in his favour Perhaps the greatest was the fact that Thomas L Kennedy was Mini ster of Agriculture Together the two men steered the College through what might be called the turning point in its history A new spirit was instilled into the institution and the stage was set for the great period of growth which followed The time of Reeks appointment was a natural growth period following the war years and their restric tions however his influence in setting the stage for the great period of expanded research which foil owed cannot be denied It was at about this time that industry in general began to back research efforts to a greater degree They provided the resources for carrying to successful conclusion research projects initiated by faculty Reek

also insisted on the importance of advanced degrees for his faculty

JD Maclachlan succeeded Reek as President in 1950 just in time to wrestle with the problems of expanshysion New facili ties were needed to cope with the post war growth in enrolment and already rumblings were heard about the need for expanshysion of the campus to more senior status

He played a key role in the planshyning which resulted in the formation of the Federated Colleges in 1962 as an intermediate step towards full university status which was achieved in 1964 When Dr Mac became the first President of the new Univershysity N R Richards then head of the Department of Soil Science became the first Dean of the best known agricultural college in the nation Richards played an important role in the councils of the fledgling univer shysity during those important early years

Under his leadership the College played its part as an integral part of

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the University providing leadership and providing key faculty members for several University departments During all this time however OAC never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget the place of agriculture on the campus as well as in the nations economy

When Professor Richards had completed his second five-year term as Dean in 1972 he returned to teaching in the Department of land Resource Science and Dr C M Switzer was named Dean (See article on Dean of Agriculture)

College relationships academic and polishytical

The last ten years of the Colleges first century have been its greatest to date Each year new records are set for numbers of students enrolled in OAC September 1973 saw 1150 full time students enrolled in the BSc(Agr) program of the College

Over the year s the relationship between th e OAC and the provincial department of agriculture has been close and fruitful Consistently the department has reacted to the needs of rural Ontario and the province in general by development and impleshymentation of new policies This reaction was clearly evident in the creation of new academic depart shyments on the campus As economic development proceeded the segments of the agribusiness industry acquired new needs and the Departshyment of Agriculture supported lhe growth of the College to meet these needs

An example of this relationship is the addition of an agricultural economist to the faculty of the college as the economic problems in agriculture gained recognition and as

business-like decision-making became more important in deciding the success of the farm operation Professor Archie Leitch of the Animal Husbandry Department began a cost accounting program on the College farm in the 20s and later was named Head of the Farm Management Departmen t He is perhaps best remembered for his work in organizing the Flue Tobacco Growers Association in the early 30s The work he began in Agriculshytural Economics has grown and now includes not only academic programs but special courses such as a weekshylong course for rural bankers

Another outgrowth of the close association between the campus and the Department of Agricu I ture may be seen in the establishment of the Agricu Itu ral Research I nsti tu te of Ontario to co-ordinate research program s and advise on de sirable projects

At the same time there has also been a continual close relationship between OAC and federal officials in agriculture For many years now CDA specialists in various fields have been posted on campus and have shared facilities with colleagues on the faculty here From the initiation of the degree program in 1887 until 1964 the campus enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the University of Toronto

Under the aegis of that University the Guelph BSA degree came to be recognized across Canada and around the world as representing a sound combination of practical background and academic training

Staff involvement and contributions

Over the past century many outstanding teachers and researchers have been members of the OAC faculty and countless graduates have played significant roles in their chosen segment of the agricultural industry

In the early days improved live shystock and livestock husbandry along with improved feed crops were the primary concern of Ontario farmers Men like Wade Toole and George Day are widely remembered by historians of the livestock industry along with field husbandry men like Squirrel and Zavitz Also in the pas t 25 years there has been a veri table

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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The Ontario Agricultural College has done much for Ontario for Canada during their 100 years

Continual research and advancement have been the standards in OACs contribution to agriculture We at Ontario Harvestore believe we hold to similar aims

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

Agriculture in Canada and throughout the world has benefited from its progressive research programs and high standards of agricultural education ~~

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

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YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

AN

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

be as fruitful and as helpful

to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

Ontario Agricultural College

THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

GUELPH Jan-Feb 1974 ALUMNUS Volume 7 Number 1

PICTURE CREDITS

Pages 4-7 R R Sallows (cou rte sy of On tar io Mini sshytry o f Ag riculture and Foo d) pages 9-10 Dan Thorshyburn Aud Io-Vsual Se rvice s p age 11 -12 AudioshyVis ual Servi ces page 13 Robe rt Lansda le page 14 Can ad ian Broadcast ing Corpora l ion

UNI VERS ITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSO CIATION

PRESIDENT r T R (Dick) Hilliard OAC 40

SEN IOR V ICE-PRES IDENT Mrs J D (Vi rginia Sho rll ) Bandeon Mac 57

VICE-PRESIDE TS rs J B (0 reen Ke r ) Dawso n Ma c 54 Mrs R P (Val eri e M l lt le r) G il o r B A 72 Dr Wm C (Bi ll) Hack in g OVC 69 Mr J A (John) Wley OAC 58

SECRETARY Mrs A R (Shirley Ann McFee) Hol mes Mac 62

D IRECTORS M r P D (Peter ) An derson We l 08 Dr D A (Dona ld) Barnum OVC 4 1 Mr G R (G eo rge) Green le es OAC 62 Mr M G (Mil t) Gree r OAC 41 Mrs M (Li nda Sull y) K h el l 67 Mr J N (J ohn) Mayes OAC G9 Mrs J R (Sh irley Jackson) Ro binson Ma c 48 Dr Jean Rumney OVC 39 Dr D I Si l ver OVC 72 Mrs S W (Pat Damude l Sq u ire Mac 63 Mr ~ C (Michael ) S lr~lb Wel l G9

EX-OFF IC IO DIRECTORS Mr R W (Robert) Close B Sc 69 Presi dont Arts and Sciences Alumni Association Mr F T (Tom) Cowan OAC 65 PreSi dent OAC Alumni Asso cia tion Dr H J (Howard) Nee ly OVC 51 PreSident OVC Alumni Association Mrs D J (J i ll ) Va rne ll Mac 61 Pre Si d ent Mac- FACS A lumni ASSOCiation Mr P (Pe ler) O Malley PreSident UGCSA Mr J K (Joh n) Babcock OAC 54 Director Alumni Affa i rs and Development

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The Guelph Alumnus is pub l ish ed by the Depar lment of Alumni Affa irs and Develop ment Uni versily 01 Guelph

The Ediloria l Comm i ttee is comprised o f Editor-John Bowles BA 72 Alumni Ollice r Art Di rector-Lyl e Doche rty BA 7 2 J K Babcock OAC 54 Director 01 Alumni Aflairs and Devel opment Rosemary Clark Mac 59 Sen ior A lumni Ollicer D L Waterston Direc tor of Inform allon D W Jose DAC 49 Ass istant Director of Inlormation

Th e Ed itOria l Adviso ry Board of he Un ive rSity of Guelph Alumni Assoc ialion is comprised 01 Mrs Pat (Damude) Squire 63 chairman Dr A ll an Austin Robert Mercer OAC 59 G B Powell OAC 62 James Rusk OAC 65 Mrs Joan (Elle r ing ton) Tanner Mac 57 EX-OffiCio J K Babcock OAC 54 T R HIllIa rd OAC 40 Correspond ing members D R Baron OAC 49 G M Car l an OAC 49 and H G Dodds OAC 58

Undeli ve red copies should be returned to Alumni House Uni ve rSIty 01 Gue lp h Guelph Onta rio Canada

Contents

4 Of days gone by bull bull bull To many ru ral li fe of yesteryear-if they can remember far enough back-is thoug ht o f as halcyon days on the farm Days of social gatherings at the vi llage smithy coupled with a strong sense of community The enchanting photographs of R R Sallows capture the feel of th ose early times

8 100 years A special supplement published by Good Farming to comshymemorate the OAC centennial highlights this issue of the Guelph Alumnus

9 The high school connection High school students no longer attend the same un iversity as their parents as a matter of course They shop around It s the job of the high school liaison offi ce r to provide the maximum amount of information about Gue lph so that prospective students are able to make a well-considered choice

11 Campus Highlights

Contributor to this issue Helen Aitkin BA 71 has a graduate degree in English and is now engaged in freelance writing

Cove r design by Lyle Docherty

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Of days gone by a pictorial essay Agriculture has come a long way in the

past 100 years Alth ou gh the number of people actively engaged in farming in Canada has decreased over the yea rs ad vances in production techniques have resulted in greater agricultural output than ever before The last century has seen the advent of both the steam and the internal combustion engine the introdu ction of electricity and vastly improved methods of transportation

But to a growing number of peopleshyespecially young urban dwellers- th e improved efficiency in agricultural producshyti on has been gained at th e expense of rural customs and values characteristic of days gone by-customs and values now rarely exercised

Peter McArthur writing in 1900 in Pastures Green felt that working the land is not the sort of thing that a man can store in his granary or deposit in a bank It can be set down only in terms of personal satisfaction with the world we li ve in What I am treasuring most is chiefly the

memory of spacious days serene hours and emotions that were not even productive of thought After having felt the grip and grind of the world it is something to feel peaceful and secure for a few hours

Those were the days of the country store and the blacksmith s sh op centres for social encounter and political discussion

the days of due bills the payment of farm produce and livestock in exchange for manufactured goods or services rendered

the days of wood-fired baking ovens and subterranean ice chambers the days of the beef ring a common source of mea t for the entire community th e days of the cooperative work bees and barn raisings in which members of the community worked and socialized together for a common objective

Th e photographs on this and the followshying three pages capture some of the elements of those days The photographer was the late R R Sallows of Goderich Ont wh o took litera lly hundreds of pictures of rural life in Ontario 0

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COME BACK TO GUELPH

FESTIVAL WEER The highlight of the OA C centennial celebrations will be Festival and Alumni Week in early July Alumni D ay normally held in June will be combined with a revival of the famou s Farm and Home Week The result will be eight days of entertainshyment education reminiscence and sheer fun A time to meet old friends and talk over old times to take in the old and the new to celebrate a once-in-a-lifetime event

O Festival Week will begin Saturday July 6 with the Century Caravan parade of floats bands and antique cars An o lde-tyme picnic on the front campus will be followed by the unveiling of an historical plaque on the Johnston portico a reunion banquet for Associate D iploma alumni and a dinner for c lasses 24 and earlier

DOn Sunday July 7 an interdenomishynational service wi ll be held at War Memorial Hall followed by a special exhibit of historical mementos in McLaughlin Library and an opporshytunit y to meet Professor Alex Ross author of Tllc Collcge 011 the H ill I n

the afternoon thelc will be wa lking tours of the campus and in the evening the opening of the U niversity art collection

DMonday July 8 will be Town and G own D ay to celebrate the close relationship between the campus and the cit y of G uelph A civic luncheon open houses and a golf tournament will be features of the day oTuesday July 9 is Agricultural Day to mark the beginning of the threeshyday Farm and Home Week program There will be a parade of livestock and machinery tours of the Elora Research Stltltion and a display of antique farm m achine ry

D Wednesday July 10 wi ll be Family Day with a special program arranged by the College of Family and Consumer Studies A family barbecue and cen tenn ia l dinner will be among the features

OThursday July 11 is Education D ay T he Farm and Home Week program continues with spec ial emphasis in 4-H programs The annual life science student seminar will run al l day with square da ncing in Creelman Pin) in the evening

O Friday July 12 is Alumni Developshyment D ay T here will be seminars for OAC and Mac-F ACS alumni folshylowed by annual business meetings During the day a ceremony marking the issue of a commemorat ive sta mp will be held and in the evening there will be a G erman beer garden and skits from the past

OSaturday fuly 13 Alumni Celebrashytion D ay will be the climax of Festival Week The day will begin with a chuck wagon breakfast followed by a centennial parade an olde-tyme picnic and the official opening of the Centennial Arboretum Centre The grand fina le will be the Centennial dinner and ball

DSullday July 14 is Recovery D ay A service of worship at W ar Memori a l H all will be followe d by brunch and th e art exh ibit and machinery display will remain open for the day

O A detailed brochure a nd registration form for Fes ti val Week will be mailed to you at the beginning of M ay Reservations should be made by June 15

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Canadian Agriculture runs on teamwork We salute the Ontario Agricultural College of the University of Guelph on its centenn ial year

OAC during its hundred year history has earned an international reputation for its

continuing and vital leadership in agricultural research and high academic standards in agricultural education We at Ciba-Geigy many of us OAC gradshyuates owe a debt of gratitude to the Ontario Agricultural Co llege for its generous coshyoperation in agricultural research and development This teamwork is invaluable to shyCanadian agricu lture

elBA-GEIGY Agrochemicals Division

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Congratulations Ontario Agricultural College on your first hundred

And thank you In 1874 you were a little stone farmhouse with 30 students who were eager to learn about modern farming

Since then you have

Founded the Ontario Experimental Union in the 1880s-a forerunner of soil and crop improvement societies and government extension services

Developed the Ontario poultry breeding stations and flock approval plan in the early 1900s which made a viable poultry industry possible

Developed OAC 21 a grain variety which became the standard of malting barley in North America

Introduced the Provincial Spray Service in 1924 which laid the foundation for efficient disease and pest control in the commercial orchard industry

Introduced new crop species to Canadian agriculture-such as alfalfa and soybeans

Been instrumental in the development of hybrid poultry breeding and the refinement of artificial insemination techniques for livestock

Developed insecticides herbicides and application procedures which have been directly responsible for the expansion of corn as a major crop in Ontario

Maintained a research organization which has played a key role in improving the efficiency of Ontario agriculture for the last 100 years

The achievements have been many-more than we can possibly print here But one achievement stands out among all the rest the Ontario Agricultural College educates and trains people whose work in agriculture has gone a long way in making this world a better place in which to live

From one centenarian to another were proud to have grown up with you

-Massey-Ferguson Industries Limited

Toronto Ontario

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OAC Centennial Celebrations

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Special public events

At Home OAC Farmers Meetings College Royal

January 1 Jan 234

Open House March 9 and 10

Guelph Spring Festival Apri l 27 -May 12

Dedication of Johnston Arch Historical Plaque July 6

Centennial Festival July 6-13 OAC Farm and Home

Week July 91011 Official opening of OAC Censhy

tennial Arboretum Centre July 13 OAC Centennial

Symposi um Oct 1718 Laureate of Agriculture Oct 17

International Conferences

Symposium on Haploids in Higher Plants June 10-14

American Dairy Science Assoc annual meeting June 23-26

International Congress of Farm Management July 14- 20

CanAm Horticultural Science annual meeti ng Aug 8-15

International Agricultural St udents Conference Aug 18-24

Other Conferences

Ontario Food Processors Fieldshymens Conference Jan 8910

Ontario Institute of Agrologists annual meeting April 14 - 18

Ontario Cheese makers Conference April 17

Canadian Feed Manufacturers Nutrition Conference April 2324

Ontario Dairy Industry Conference Apri I 2425

Canadian I nstitute of Food Science and Technology April 26

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Ontario Bankers School May 6-10 Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food Extension Branch Conference June 3-6

Environmental Science Teachers of Ontario May 234

4-H Provincial Conference June 16-18

Canadian Veterinary Medical Assoc annual meeting June 30-July 4

4middotH Provincial Girls Club Conference July 9-12

Eastern Apiculture Society Conference Aug 7-10

Junior Farmers Association of Ontario Aug 10-11

University of Guelph activities

Winter Carnival Jan 12- 18 Winter Convocation Feb 1 Conversat Dance Feb 2 Interuniversity Choral

Festival Feb 10 Spring Convocation May 222324 Fall Convocation Oct 4 Aggie Week September Homecoming Weekend Oct 18-20 Homecoming Football

game Oct 19

These are the events as arranged bV November 1st 1973

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The Johnston arch is the portico of the original William Stone homestead shown here on the original Johnston Hall demolished in 1928 The arch still stands on the front campus of the University of Guelph and will be declared an historic site by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board during centennial year

Welcome to the Campus

On behalf of the Ontario Agriculmiddot

tural College of the University of

Guelph I would like to invite everyshy

one to participate in the many OAC Centennial 74 events to be

held on the campus

As we celebrate the 100th annimiddot

versary of the founding of the

College I would like to pay tribute to

the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food who initiated and then

operated the Guelph campus for the

first ninety years of its history The

OAC achieved a world-wide reputamiddot

tion under the direction of the Minshy

istry which still plays a vital role on

the campus especially in connection

with our research program

In addition t would like to conmiddot

gratulate the organizing committee

for the OAC Centennial Under the chairmanship of Professor Harvey

Caldwell the committee of faculty

staff and students has been work ing

for the past year planning the many

celebrations that will be held on the campus in 1974

You will be welcome at any or all

these events and especially during Festival Week

-WC Winegard

President

University of Guelph

GOOD FARIIIINGOA~SUPPLEMENT

A message from the Minister

The Ontario Agricultural College has established itself as an integral part of our agricultural industry in this Province and its influence has been felt throughout the length and breadth of Canada North America and indeed around the world The Government of Ontario is pleased with the close working relationship that has existed over the past 100 years We have every reason to believe the future will bring an even closer liaison to the benefit of all of society

Graduates of the Ontario Agriculshytural College have taken their place in every profession and their exshyposure to agricultural science has given them a deeper appreciation of farming and food production The Ontario Agricultural College has shown the way in a wide range of

research progra ms related to agr icu 1shyture food and human resources Ontario s hard earned position as a

leader in food production can be attributed in large part to these farshyreaching research projects

I a m pleased to extend to the Ontario Agricultural College and all those who have been and continue to be associated with it the warmest congratulations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ontario on reaching their Centennial year

William A Stewart Min ister of Agriculture and Food for Ontario

We congratulate the Ontario Agricultural College and recogshy

ONTARIO ASSOCIATION of ANIMAL BREEDERS

RR5 GUELPH ONTARIO and its member organization

Eastern Breeders Inc United Breeders Inc Western Ontario Breeders Inc

nize the contribution it has made to the advancement of cattle breeding through research data analysis and aU phases of sire evaluation and livestock improvement

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College History Reflects People Politics and Progress

BV Don Jose

Introduction

The growth and development of the Ontario Agricultural College after one hundred years make it the largest agricultural college in the British Commonwealth Its achievements have more than kept pace with its growth in size and it is these achieve shyments that permit it to lay claim to a premier place in agricultural educashytion research and extension

Former University of Toronto president Or Claude Bissell remarked that the Colleges name was known throughout the world both through those whom you attract here and those whom you h ave sent to serve mankind in most of the countries of the world

That statement was made at the first convocation of the University of Guelph and just following a world tour by Or Bissell during which he met and talked with many University of Toronto graduates from all facul ties He remarked on the large number of Ontario Agricultural College alumni he found around the world in relation to the number from other U of T facul ties most of them with much larger enrolments than OAC

The tradition at OAC of preshyparation for service and particularly in the international dimension has become an integral part of the phi 10shysophy of the University which the College spawned - a university that seems clearly destined to play an important role in higher education in Canada

JB Munro Deputy Minister of Agriculture in British Columbia once phrased an employers assessment of the College in apt rural phraseology I always like to hire men from OAC he said You shake them out of the bag they land on their feet and go right to work You cant say that about any other group

What then is the story of the College that has achieved these and

other accolades within its first century of existence And what has really been its role in the developshyment of agriculture and indeed of society the province of Ontario across Canada and over seas

It has been a story with its ups and downs and not without a share of controversies I t has been a story of dedication with many leaders who had a real feel ing for the needs of Ontario agriculture It has also been a story tinged with its share of political overtones It can be noted that the intrusions of politics into the administration of the college didnt all occur in the first half century of its existence However it must be said that the clear divorcing of College administration from political exigencies was well established before the founding of the University in 1964

During its first century of growth and maturing ten men have occupied the chief administrators position The first one Henry McCandless held office scarcely long enough to warm h is office chair Each of the others has made his own distinct contribution to the College There is a danger of underestimating the significance of the contributions of recent incumbents because of the difficulty of getting recent events into proper perspective for objective judgement

If the space devoted to the contri shybutions of recent heads of the college seems less than might seem proper it is only because space is limited and recent events are generally better known than those of earlier times The title of the position has changed over the years From Principal it became President when the School of Agriculture became the Ontario Agricultural College In 1962 with the formation of the Federated Colleges as an interim step towards the establishing of the University the head of the College became known as Dean

The Ontario Agricultural College was established with the purchase of

the William Stone Farm near Guelph in 1873 and the first students were enrolled on May 1 1874 But the birth pangs of the College were no less excruciating than those associmiddot ated with other births

The proposal to establish such a school of agriculture in the province had been under active discussion sometimes with more heat than light being generated for a period of five years John Carling then Commisshysioner of Agriculture and Public Works made such a proposal in his report in 1869 The need for improved agricultural techniques was evident it was even being proshypounded by Egerton Ryerson the architect of our public school system and several Land Grant Colleges had al ready been successshyfully launched in the US

After a great deal of political con troversy over the pu rch ase of a site at Mimico and a change of government the Stone farm was finally secured in 1873 and plans began to develop in earnest

The first class had 31 young men enrolled in a one-year course Those first students were expected to spend seven hou rs a day working in the fields and barns The time for classes came after that Admission requireshyments were equivalent of high school entrance The students received free board and lodging and if they passed their final examinations received a bonus of $50

The influences of the leaders

During its first year the School was rocked by controversy between the Principal and his staff but late that year a new principal was found in England For personal reasons he returned to England after a brief period and finally in the spring of 1875 William Johnston assumed the mantle of responsibility

Johnston had been serving as Rector of the new School a position which apparently was a combination

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of dean chief administrator and bursar Under his direction the school rapidly gained in stature and respectability and to him goes a great deal of credit for setting the fledgling school safely on the path to the many successses which have marked its first century

Johnston established a curricumiddot lum divided the School into a number of departments and hired lecturers With the School welJl established Johnston resigned in 1879 for reasons wh ich were never revealed and was succeeded by James Mills Johnston entered law but died at the age of 37

Dr Mills set about to counteract much of the serious criticism of the School which from the beginning had been widespread throughout the countryside A great deal of that criticism had been directed to the mismanagement of the Modell Farm The lines of authority were set up so that the head of the farm department reported directly to Toronto not to the Principal But in the eyes of the public the School and farm were one and the School was saddled with the blame for the farms shortshycomings

Another source of rural distrust of the School Mills was convinced arose from lack of public knowledge about the School and what it was doing Accordingly in 1883 he began two week vacation periods at Easter and Christmas so that the faculty could go out into the province and meet farmers and speak at meetings These were the Farmers Institutes and thus began the long and fruitful history of rural extension from the Guelph campus While this helped greatly there were limits on how many meetings the facul ty could get out to attend and limits on the number of people they could reach

That is why the summer excurshysions to the campus played such an important role in publicizing the college There is record of excursions from a number of counties as early as 1880 As years went by with the assistance of the railways the number increased

Under Mills there were also signifishycant changes in the academic proshygram In 1880 a two-year diploma program was instituted and the same year the name was changed hom Ontario School of Agriculture to Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm

In 1887 a third year with more

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Massey library was a favourite place to study 20 to 30 years ago

emphasis on academic work and less on practical subjects was added to the cu rriculum The next spring the long period of affiliation with the University of Toronto began and five candidates received the first Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degrees to be granted from this campus Among the five were GC Creelman who later succeeded Mills as President and CA Zavitz who as professor of field husbandry did much to enhance the reputation of OAC

Two other significant events which occurred just before Dr Mills tenure ended were the extension of the degree program to a four-year course in 1902 and the establishment of Macdonald Institute as a part of OAC in 1903 Macdonald Institute achieved separate status later

For George C Creelman who succeeded his father-in-law as Presishydent in 1904 and served until 1920 his incumbancy was a period of growth and expansion Many new buildings were added to the campus new academic programs added and many extension programs initiated or extended Perhaps the zenith of Creel mans career as president I ies in the fact that under him the College became almost completely acceptshyable among the people of rural Ontario No longer was the college viewed with suspicion or distrust Not only did Creelman get faculty members out on the back concession tackling the practical problems of orchardists livestock men and others but his own personal interest in rural Ontarios problems was evident

J B Reynolds who succeeded Creel man in 1920 was no stranger to the campus He first arrived in Guelph in 1893 to teach Physics and English later setting up the English Department and leaving the teaching

of Physics to others Reynolds was a classical scholar in the truest sense and his mark has ever remained on the Guelph campus Aggies from his day onward graduated with a reasonable exposure to the treasures of their mother tongue gained at the feet of ski 1led and dedicated teachers For instance Guelph was the first campus in Canada to offer a course in Canadian poetry

In 1915 Reynolds left to become President of the Manitoba Agricultural College returning to Guelph in 1920 Reynolds was born and raised on a small Ontario farm in Durham County and after his precipitate retirement in 1928 he returned to the farm and ran a successful operation for many years

Two important academic advances occurred du ring the presidency of Dr Reynolds In 1920 the requireshyment of Junior Matriculation for admission to the degree course was initiated For the first time the academic program for the first two years of the degree cou rse was different from that offered Diploma students But since in those days it was difficult for many rural students living long distances from school to complete high school an intershymediate year was offered to enable Diploma graduates to shift into the degree course (Many outstanding alumni entered the degree course by this means ) The Intermediate Year program was in effect until accessshyability to high schools became universal in the 1940s

Another important academic advance was the introduction of a graduate study program leading to the MSA degree in 1926 This program was under the supervision of a Conjoint Committee composed of six representatives of the University of Toronto graduate faculty and six representatives of the Guelph faculty Dr J P McMu rrich Dean of Graduate Studies at Toronto was Chairman and Prof Aw Baker of Guelph was Secretary The first MSA degrees were awarded in 1928

George I Christie had perhaps the most frustrating incum bency of all OACs presidents He had the depresshysion years to cope with and also the war years The political problems of the college reached a peak in the early to mid thirties For example 35 facul ty mem bers were re i ieved of

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their duties in one stroke of the Minister Duncan Marshalls pen Under PM Dewan however the situation improved noticeably

George Christies booming voice and cogent comments almost came to be the hallmark of a successful farm meeting He spoke throughout the province and did much to window-dress the college in rural Ontario Plagued by uncertain health he was forced to retire in 1942

W R Reek who succeeded Christie first as Acting President and later as President had some natural advantages in his favour Perhaps the greatest was the fact that Thomas L Kennedy was Mini ster of Agriculture Together the two men steered the College through what might be called the turning point in its history A new spirit was instilled into the institution and the stage was set for the great period of growth which followed The time of Reeks appointment was a natural growth period following the war years and their restric tions however his influence in setting the stage for the great period of expanded research which foil owed cannot be denied It was at about this time that industry in general began to back research efforts to a greater degree They provided the resources for carrying to successful conclusion research projects initiated by faculty Reek

also insisted on the importance of advanced degrees for his faculty

JD Maclachlan succeeded Reek as President in 1950 just in time to wrestle with the problems of expanshysion New facili ties were needed to cope with the post war growth in enrolment and already rumblings were heard about the need for expanshysion of the campus to more senior status

He played a key role in the planshyning which resulted in the formation of the Federated Colleges in 1962 as an intermediate step towards full university status which was achieved in 1964 When Dr Mac became the first President of the new Univershysity N R Richards then head of the Department of Soil Science became the first Dean of the best known agricultural college in the nation Richards played an important role in the councils of the fledgling univer shysity during those important early years

Under his leadership the College played its part as an integral part of

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the University providing leadership and providing key faculty members for several University departments During all this time however OAC never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget the place of agriculture on the campus as well as in the nations economy

When Professor Richards had completed his second five-year term as Dean in 1972 he returned to teaching in the Department of land Resource Science and Dr C M Switzer was named Dean (See article on Dean of Agriculture)

College relationships academic and polishytical

The last ten years of the Colleges first century have been its greatest to date Each year new records are set for numbers of students enrolled in OAC September 1973 saw 1150 full time students enrolled in the BSc(Agr) program of the College

Over the year s the relationship between th e OAC and the provincial department of agriculture has been close and fruitful Consistently the department has reacted to the needs of rural Ontario and the province in general by development and impleshymentation of new policies This reaction was clearly evident in the creation of new academic depart shyments on the campus As economic development proceeded the segments of the agribusiness industry acquired new needs and the Departshyment of Agriculture supported lhe growth of the College to meet these needs

An example of this relationship is the addition of an agricultural economist to the faculty of the college as the economic problems in agriculture gained recognition and as

business-like decision-making became more important in deciding the success of the farm operation Professor Archie Leitch of the Animal Husbandry Department began a cost accounting program on the College farm in the 20s and later was named Head of the Farm Management Departmen t He is perhaps best remembered for his work in organizing the Flue Tobacco Growers Association in the early 30s The work he began in Agriculshytural Economics has grown and now includes not only academic programs but special courses such as a weekshylong course for rural bankers

Another outgrowth of the close association between the campus and the Department of Agricu I ture may be seen in the establishment of the Agricu Itu ral Research I nsti tu te of Ontario to co-ordinate research program s and advise on de sirable projects

At the same time there has also been a continual close relationship between OAC and federal officials in agriculture For many years now CDA specialists in various fields have been posted on campus and have shared facilities with colleagues on the faculty here From the initiation of the degree program in 1887 until 1964 the campus enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the University of Toronto

Under the aegis of that University the Guelph BSA degree came to be recognized across Canada and around the world as representing a sound combination of practical background and academic training

Staff involvement and contributions

Over the past century many outstanding teachers and researchers have been members of the OAC faculty and countless graduates have played significant roles in their chosen segment of the agricultural industry

In the early days improved live shystock and livestock husbandry along with improved feed crops were the primary concern of Ontario farmers Men like Wade Toole and George Day are widely remembered by historians of the livestock industry along with field husbandry men like Squirrel and Zavitz Also in the pas t 25 years there has been a veri table

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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The Ontario Agricultural College has done much for Ontario for Canada during their 100 years

Continual research and advancement have been the standards in OACs contribution to agriculture We at Ontario Harvestore believe we hold to similar aims

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

Agriculture in Canada and throughout the world has benefited from its progressive research programs and high standards of agricultural education ~~

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

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YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

AN

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

be as fruitful and as helpful

to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

Ontario Agricultural College

THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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Of days gone by a pictorial essay Agriculture has come a long way in the

past 100 years Alth ou gh the number of people actively engaged in farming in Canada has decreased over the yea rs ad vances in production techniques have resulted in greater agricultural output than ever before The last century has seen the advent of both the steam and the internal combustion engine the introdu ction of electricity and vastly improved methods of transportation

But to a growing number of peopleshyespecially young urban dwellers- th e improved efficiency in agricultural producshyti on has been gained at th e expense of rural customs and values characteristic of days gone by-customs and values now rarely exercised

Peter McArthur writing in 1900 in Pastures Green felt that working the land is not the sort of thing that a man can store in his granary or deposit in a bank It can be set down only in terms of personal satisfaction with the world we li ve in What I am treasuring most is chiefly the

memory of spacious days serene hours and emotions that were not even productive of thought After having felt the grip and grind of the world it is something to feel peaceful and secure for a few hours

Those were the days of the country store and the blacksmith s sh op centres for social encounter and political discussion

the days of due bills the payment of farm produce and livestock in exchange for manufactured goods or services rendered

the days of wood-fired baking ovens and subterranean ice chambers the days of the beef ring a common source of mea t for the entire community th e days of the cooperative work bees and barn raisings in which members of the community worked and socialized together for a common objective

Th e photographs on this and the followshying three pages capture some of the elements of those days The photographer was the late R R Sallows of Goderich Ont wh o took litera lly hundreds of pictures of rural life in Ontario 0

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COME BACK TO GUELPH

FESTIVAL WEER The highlight of the OA C centennial celebrations will be Festival and Alumni Week in early July Alumni D ay normally held in June will be combined with a revival of the famou s Farm and Home Week The result will be eight days of entertainshyment education reminiscence and sheer fun A time to meet old friends and talk over old times to take in the old and the new to celebrate a once-in-a-lifetime event

O Festival Week will begin Saturday July 6 with the Century Caravan parade of floats bands and antique cars An o lde-tyme picnic on the front campus will be followed by the unveiling of an historical plaque on the Johnston portico a reunion banquet for Associate D iploma alumni and a dinner for c lasses 24 and earlier

DOn Sunday July 7 an interdenomishynational service wi ll be held at War Memorial Hall followed by a special exhibit of historical mementos in McLaughlin Library and an opporshytunit y to meet Professor Alex Ross author of Tllc Collcge 011 the H ill I n

the afternoon thelc will be wa lking tours of the campus and in the evening the opening of the U niversity art collection

DMonday July 8 will be Town and G own D ay to celebrate the close relationship between the campus and the cit y of G uelph A civic luncheon open houses and a golf tournament will be features of the day oTuesday July 9 is Agricultural Day to mark the beginning of the threeshyday Farm and Home Week program There will be a parade of livestock and machinery tours of the Elora Research Stltltion and a display of antique farm m achine ry

D Wednesday July 10 wi ll be Family Day with a special program arranged by the College of Family and Consumer Studies A family barbecue and cen tenn ia l dinner will be among the features

OThursday July 11 is Education D ay T he Farm and Home Week program continues with spec ial emphasis in 4-H programs The annual life science student seminar will run al l day with square da ncing in Creelman Pin) in the evening

O Friday July 12 is Alumni Developshyment D ay T here will be seminars for OAC and Mac-F ACS alumni folshylowed by annual business meetings During the day a ceremony marking the issue of a commemorat ive sta mp will be held and in the evening there will be a G erman beer garden and skits from the past

OSaturday fuly 13 Alumni Celebrashytion D ay will be the climax of Festival Week The day will begin with a chuck wagon breakfast followed by a centennial parade an olde-tyme picnic and the official opening of the Centennial Arboretum Centre The grand fina le will be the Centennial dinner and ball

DSullday July 14 is Recovery D ay A service of worship at W ar Memori a l H all will be followe d by brunch and th e art exh ibit and machinery display will remain open for the day

O A detailed brochure a nd registration form for Fes ti val Week will be mailed to you at the beginning of M ay Reservations should be made by June 15

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Canadian Agriculture runs on teamwork We salute the Ontario Agricultural College of the University of Guelph on its centenn ial year

OAC during its hundred year history has earned an international reputation for its

continuing and vital leadership in agricultural research and high academic standards in agricultural education We at Ciba-Geigy many of us OAC gradshyuates owe a debt of gratitude to the Ontario Agricultural Co llege for its generous coshyoperation in agricultural research and development This teamwork is invaluable to shyCanadian agricu lture

elBA-GEIGY Agrochemicals Division

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Congratulations Ontario Agricultural College on your first hundred

And thank you In 1874 you were a little stone farmhouse with 30 students who were eager to learn about modern farming

Since then you have

Founded the Ontario Experimental Union in the 1880s-a forerunner of soil and crop improvement societies and government extension services

Developed the Ontario poultry breeding stations and flock approval plan in the early 1900s which made a viable poultry industry possible

Developed OAC 21 a grain variety which became the standard of malting barley in North America

Introduced the Provincial Spray Service in 1924 which laid the foundation for efficient disease and pest control in the commercial orchard industry

Introduced new crop species to Canadian agriculture-such as alfalfa and soybeans

Been instrumental in the development of hybrid poultry breeding and the refinement of artificial insemination techniques for livestock

Developed insecticides herbicides and application procedures which have been directly responsible for the expansion of corn as a major crop in Ontario

Maintained a research organization which has played a key role in improving the efficiency of Ontario agriculture for the last 100 years

The achievements have been many-more than we can possibly print here But one achievement stands out among all the rest the Ontario Agricultural College educates and trains people whose work in agriculture has gone a long way in making this world a better place in which to live

From one centenarian to another were proud to have grown up with you

-Massey-Ferguson Industries Limited

Toronto Ontario

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OAC Centennial Celebrations

l Iniversity of (~uelph carnpus

Special public events

At Home OAC Farmers Meetings College Royal

January 1 Jan 234

Open House March 9 and 10

Guelph Spring Festival Apri l 27 -May 12

Dedication of Johnston Arch Historical Plaque July 6

Centennial Festival July 6-13 OAC Farm and Home

Week July 91011 Official opening of OAC Censhy

tennial Arboretum Centre July 13 OAC Centennial

Symposi um Oct 1718 Laureate of Agriculture Oct 17

International Conferences

Symposium on Haploids in Higher Plants June 10-14

American Dairy Science Assoc annual meeting June 23-26

International Congress of Farm Management July 14- 20

CanAm Horticultural Science annual meeti ng Aug 8-15

International Agricultural St udents Conference Aug 18-24

Other Conferences

Ontario Food Processors Fieldshymens Conference Jan 8910

Ontario Institute of Agrologists annual meeting April 14 - 18

Ontario Cheese makers Conference April 17

Canadian Feed Manufacturers Nutrition Conference April 2324

Ontario Dairy Industry Conference Apri I 2425

Canadian I nstitute of Food Science and Technology April 26

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Ontario Bankers School May 6-10 Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food Extension Branch Conference June 3-6

Environmental Science Teachers of Ontario May 234

4-H Provincial Conference June 16-18

Canadian Veterinary Medical Assoc annual meeting June 30-July 4

4middotH Provincial Girls Club Conference July 9-12

Eastern Apiculture Society Conference Aug 7-10

Junior Farmers Association of Ontario Aug 10-11

University of Guelph activities

Winter Carnival Jan 12- 18 Winter Convocation Feb 1 Conversat Dance Feb 2 Interuniversity Choral

Festival Feb 10 Spring Convocation May 222324 Fall Convocation Oct 4 Aggie Week September Homecoming Weekend Oct 18-20 Homecoming Football

game Oct 19

These are the events as arranged bV November 1st 1973

COVER

The Johnston arch is the portico of the original William Stone homestead shown here on the original Johnston Hall demolished in 1928 The arch still stands on the front campus of the University of Guelph and will be declared an historic site by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board during centennial year

Welcome to the Campus

On behalf of the Ontario Agriculmiddot

tural College of the University of

Guelph I would like to invite everyshy

one to participate in the many OAC Centennial 74 events to be

held on the campus

As we celebrate the 100th annimiddot

versary of the founding of the

College I would like to pay tribute to

the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food who initiated and then

operated the Guelph campus for the

first ninety years of its history The

OAC achieved a world-wide reputamiddot

tion under the direction of the Minshy

istry which still plays a vital role on

the campus especially in connection

with our research program

In addition t would like to conmiddot

gratulate the organizing committee

for the OAC Centennial Under the chairmanship of Professor Harvey

Caldwell the committee of faculty

staff and students has been work ing

for the past year planning the many

celebrations that will be held on the campus in 1974

You will be welcome at any or all

these events and especially during Festival Week

-WC Winegard

President

University of Guelph

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A message from the Minister

The Ontario Agricultural College has established itself as an integral part of our agricultural industry in this Province and its influence has been felt throughout the length and breadth of Canada North America and indeed around the world The Government of Ontario is pleased with the close working relationship that has existed over the past 100 years We have every reason to believe the future will bring an even closer liaison to the benefit of all of society

Graduates of the Ontario Agriculshytural College have taken their place in every profession and their exshyposure to agricultural science has given them a deeper appreciation of farming and food production The Ontario Agricultural College has shown the way in a wide range of

research progra ms related to agr icu 1shyture food and human resources Ontario s hard earned position as a

leader in food production can be attributed in large part to these farshyreaching research projects

I a m pleased to extend to the Ontario Agricultural College and all those who have been and continue to be associated with it the warmest congratulations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ontario on reaching their Centennial year

William A Stewart Min ister of Agriculture and Food for Ontario

We congratulate the Ontario Agricultural College and recogshy

ONTARIO ASSOCIATION of ANIMAL BREEDERS

RR5 GUELPH ONTARIO and its member organization

Eastern Breeders Inc United Breeders Inc Western Ontario Breeders Inc

nize the contribution it has made to the advancement of cattle breeding through research data analysis and aU phases of sire evaluation and livestock improvement

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College History Reflects People Politics and Progress

BV Don Jose

Introduction

The growth and development of the Ontario Agricultural College after one hundred years make it the largest agricultural college in the British Commonwealth Its achievements have more than kept pace with its growth in size and it is these achieve shyments that permit it to lay claim to a premier place in agricultural educashytion research and extension

Former University of Toronto president Or Claude Bissell remarked that the Colleges name was known throughout the world both through those whom you attract here and those whom you h ave sent to serve mankind in most of the countries of the world

That statement was made at the first convocation of the University of Guelph and just following a world tour by Or Bissell during which he met and talked with many University of Toronto graduates from all facul ties He remarked on the large number of Ontario Agricultural College alumni he found around the world in relation to the number from other U of T facul ties most of them with much larger enrolments than OAC

The tradition at OAC of preshyparation for service and particularly in the international dimension has become an integral part of the phi 10shysophy of the University which the College spawned - a university that seems clearly destined to play an important role in higher education in Canada

JB Munro Deputy Minister of Agriculture in British Columbia once phrased an employers assessment of the College in apt rural phraseology I always like to hire men from OAC he said You shake them out of the bag they land on their feet and go right to work You cant say that about any other group

What then is the story of the College that has achieved these and

other accolades within its first century of existence And what has really been its role in the developshyment of agriculture and indeed of society the province of Ontario across Canada and over seas

It has been a story with its ups and downs and not without a share of controversies I t has been a story of dedication with many leaders who had a real feel ing for the needs of Ontario agriculture It has also been a story tinged with its share of political overtones It can be noted that the intrusions of politics into the administration of the college didnt all occur in the first half century of its existence However it must be said that the clear divorcing of College administration from political exigencies was well established before the founding of the University in 1964

During its first century of growth and maturing ten men have occupied the chief administrators position The first one Henry McCandless held office scarcely long enough to warm h is office chair Each of the others has made his own distinct contribution to the College There is a danger of underestimating the significance of the contributions of recent incumbents because of the difficulty of getting recent events into proper perspective for objective judgement

If the space devoted to the contri shybutions of recent heads of the college seems less than might seem proper it is only because space is limited and recent events are generally better known than those of earlier times The title of the position has changed over the years From Principal it became President when the School of Agriculture became the Ontario Agricultural College In 1962 with the formation of the Federated Colleges as an interim step towards the establishing of the University the head of the College became known as Dean

The Ontario Agricultural College was established with the purchase of

the William Stone Farm near Guelph in 1873 and the first students were enrolled on May 1 1874 But the birth pangs of the College were no less excruciating than those associmiddot ated with other births

The proposal to establish such a school of agriculture in the province had been under active discussion sometimes with more heat than light being generated for a period of five years John Carling then Commisshysioner of Agriculture and Public Works made such a proposal in his report in 1869 The need for improved agricultural techniques was evident it was even being proshypounded by Egerton Ryerson the architect of our public school system and several Land Grant Colleges had al ready been successshyfully launched in the US

After a great deal of political con troversy over the pu rch ase of a site at Mimico and a change of government the Stone farm was finally secured in 1873 and plans began to develop in earnest

The first class had 31 young men enrolled in a one-year course Those first students were expected to spend seven hou rs a day working in the fields and barns The time for classes came after that Admission requireshyments were equivalent of high school entrance The students received free board and lodging and if they passed their final examinations received a bonus of $50

The influences of the leaders

During its first year the School was rocked by controversy between the Principal and his staff but late that year a new principal was found in England For personal reasons he returned to England after a brief period and finally in the spring of 1875 William Johnston assumed the mantle of responsibility

Johnston had been serving as Rector of the new School a position which apparently was a combination

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of dean chief administrator and bursar Under his direction the school rapidly gained in stature and respectability and to him goes a great deal of credit for setting the fledgling school safely on the path to the many successses which have marked its first century

Johnston established a curricumiddot lum divided the School into a number of departments and hired lecturers With the School welJl established Johnston resigned in 1879 for reasons wh ich were never revealed and was succeeded by James Mills Johnston entered law but died at the age of 37

Dr Mills set about to counteract much of the serious criticism of the School which from the beginning had been widespread throughout the countryside A great deal of that criticism had been directed to the mismanagement of the Modell Farm The lines of authority were set up so that the head of the farm department reported directly to Toronto not to the Principal But in the eyes of the public the School and farm were one and the School was saddled with the blame for the farms shortshycomings

Another source of rural distrust of the School Mills was convinced arose from lack of public knowledge about the School and what it was doing Accordingly in 1883 he began two week vacation periods at Easter and Christmas so that the faculty could go out into the province and meet farmers and speak at meetings These were the Farmers Institutes and thus began the long and fruitful history of rural extension from the Guelph campus While this helped greatly there were limits on how many meetings the facul ty could get out to attend and limits on the number of people they could reach

That is why the summer excurshysions to the campus played such an important role in publicizing the college There is record of excursions from a number of counties as early as 1880 As years went by with the assistance of the railways the number increased

Under Mills there were also signifishycant changes in the academic proshygram In 1880 a two-year diploma program was instituted and the same year the name was changed hom Ontario School of Agriculture to Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm

In 1887 a third year with more

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emphasis on academic work and less on practical subjects was added to the cu rriculum The next spring the long period of affiliation with the University of Toronto began and five candidates received the first Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degrees to be granted from this campus Among the five were GC Creelman who later succeeded Mills as President and CA Zavitz who as professor of field husbandry did much to enhance the reputation of OAC

Two other significant events which occurred just before Dr Mills tenure ended were the extension of the degree program to a four-year course in 1902 and the establishment of Macdonald Institute as a part of OAC in 1903 Macdonald Institute achieved separate status later

For George C Creelman who succeeded his father-in-law as Presishydent in 1904 and served until 1920 his incumbancy was a period of growth and expansion Many new buildings were added to the campus new academic programs added and many extension programs initiated or extended Perhaps the zenith of Creel mans career as president I ies in the fact that under him the College became almost completely acceptshyable among the people of rural Ontario No longer was the college viewed with suspicion or distrust Not only did Creelman get faculty members out on the back concession tackling the practical problems of orchardists livestock men and others but his own personal interest in rural Ontarios problems was evident

J B Reynolds who succeeded Creel man in 1920 was no stranger to the campus He first arrived in Guelph in 1893 to teach Physics and English later setting up the English Department and leaving the teaching

of Physics to others Reynolds was a classical scholar in the truest sense and his mark has ever remained on the Guelph campus Aggies from his day onward graduated with a reasonable exposure to the treasures of their mother tongue gained at the feet of ski 1led and dedicated teachers For instance Guelph was the first campus in Canada to offer a course in Canadian poetry

In 1915 Reynolds left to become President of the Manitoba Agricultural College returning to Guelph in 1920 Reynolds was born and raised on a small Ontario farm in Durham County and after his precipitate retirement in 1928 he returned to the farm and ran a successful operation for many years

Two important academic advances occurred du ring the presidency of Dr Reynolds In 1920 the requireshyment of Junior Matriculation for admission to the degree course was initiated For the first time the academic program for the first two years of the degree cou rse was different from that offered Diploma students But since in those days it was difficult for many rural students living long distances from school to complete high school an intershymediate year was offered to enable Diploma graduates to shift into the degree course (Many outstanding alumni entered the degree course by this means ) The Intermediate Year program was in effect until accessshyability to high schools became universal in the 1940s

Another important academic advance was the introduction of a graduate study program leading to the MSA degree in 1926 This program was under the supervision of a Conjoint Committee composed of six representatives of the University of Toronto graduate faculty and six representatives of the Guelph faculty Dr J P McMu rrich Dean of Graduate Studies at Toronto was Chairman and Prof Aw Baker of Guelph was Secretary The first MSA degrees were awarded in 1928

George I Christie had perhaps the most frustrating incum bency of all OACs presidents He had the depresshysion years to cope with and also the war years The political problems of the college reached a peak in the early to mid thirties For example 35 facul ty mem bers were re i ieved of

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their duties in one stroke of the Minister Duncan Marshalls pen Under PM Dewan however the situation improved noticeably

George Christies booming voice and cogent comments almost came to be the hallmark of a successful farm meeting He spoke throughout the province and did much to window-dress the college in rural Ontario Plagued by uncertain health he was forced to retire in 1942

W R Reek who succeeded Christie first as Acting President and later as President had some natural advantages in his favour Perhaps the greatest was the fact that Thomas L Kennedy was Mini ster of Agriculture Together the two men steered the College through what might be called the turning point in its history A new spirit was instilled into the institution and the stage was set for the great period of growth which followed The time of Reeks appointment was a natural growth period following the war years and their restric tions however his influence in setting the stage for the great period of expanded research which foil owed cannot be denied It was at about this time that industry in general began to back research efforts to a greater degree They provided the resources for carrying to successful conclusion research projects initiated by faculty Reek

also insisted on the importance of advanced degrees for his faculty

JD Maclachlan succeeded Reek as President in 1950 just in time to wrestle with the problems of expanshysion New facili ties were needed to cope with the post war growth in enrolment and already rumblings were heard about the need for expanshysion of the campus to more senior status

He played a key role in the planshyning which resulted in the formation of the Federated Colleges in 1962 as an intermediate step towards full university status which was achieved in 1964 When Dr Mac became the first President of the new Univershysity N R Richards then head of the Department of Soil Science became the first Dean of the best known agricultural college in the nation Richards played an important role in the councils of the fledgling univer shysity during those important early years

Under his leadership the College played its part as an integral part of

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the University providing leadership and providing key faculty members for several University departments During all this time however OAC never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget the place of agriculture on the campus as well as in the nations economy

When Professor Richards had completed his second five-year term as Dean in 1972 he returned to teaching in the Department of land Resource Science and Dr C M Switzer was named Dean (See article on Dean of Agriculture)

College relationships academic and polishytical

The last ten years of the Colleges first century have been its greatest to date Each year new records are set for numbers of students enrolled in OAC September 1973 saw 1150 full time students enrolled in the BSc(Agr) program of the College

Over the year s the relationship between th e OAC and the provincial department of agriculture has been close and fruitful Consistently the department has reacted to the needs of rural Ontario and the province in general by development and impleshymentation of new policies This reaction was clearly evident in the creation of new academic depart shyments on the campus As economic development proceeded the segments of the agribusiness industry acquired new needs and the Departshyment of Agriculture supported lhe growth of the College to meet these needs

An example of this relationship is the addition of an agricultural economist to the faculty of the college as the economic problems in agriculture gained recognition and as

business-like decision-making became more important in deciding the success of the farm operation Professor Archie Leitch of the Animal Husbandry Department began a cost accounting program on the College farm in the 20s and later was named Head of the Farm Management Departmen t He is perhaps best remembered for his work in organizing the Flue Tobacco Growers Association in the early 30s The work he began in Agriculshytural Economics has grown and now includes not only academic programs but special courses such as a weekshylong course for rural bankers

Another outgrowth of the close association between the campus and the Department of Agricu I ture may be seen in the establishment of the Agricu Itu ral Research I nsti tu te of Ontario to co-ordinate research program s and advise on de sirable projects

At the same time there has also been a continual close relationship between OAC and federal officials in agriculture For many years now CDA specialists in various fields have been posted on campus and have shared facilities with colleagues on the faculty here From the initiation of the degree program in 1887 until 1964 the campus enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the University of Toronto

Under the aegis of that University the Guelph BSA degree came to be recognized across Canada and around the world as representing a sound combination of practical background and academic training

Staff involvement and contributions

Over the past century many outstanding teachers and researchers have been members of the OAC faculty and countless graduates have played significant roles in their chosen segment of the agricultural industry

In the early days improved live shystock and livestock husbandry along with improved feed crops were the primary concern of Ontario farmers Men like Wade Toole and George Day are widely remembered by historians of the livestock industry along with field husbandry men like Squirrel and Zavitz Also in the pas t 25 years there has been a veri table

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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The Ontario Agricultural College has done much for Ontario for Canada during their 100 years

Continual research and advancement have been the standards in OACs contribution to agriculture We at Ontario Harvestore believe we hold to similar aims

And in Putting it All Together

Ontario Harvestore Systems Ltd of Guelph Ontario has the people experience products and equipment needed to custom a completely automated storage and feeding system to your needs

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

Increase in the number of

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

Agriculture in Canada and throughout the world has benefited from its progressive research programs and high standards of agricultural education ~~

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

SB WILLIAMS DEPUTY MINISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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preciation to the College

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

Ontario Agricultural College

THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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FESTIVAL WEER The highlight of the OA C centennial celebrations will be Festival and Alumni Week in early July Alumni D ay normally held in June will be combined with a revival of the famou s Farm and Home Week The result will be eight days of entertainshyment education reminiscence and sheer fun A time to meet old friends and talk over old times to take in the old and the new to celebrate a once-in-a-lifetime event

O Festival Week will begin Saturday July 6 with the Century Caravan parade of floats bands and antique cars An o lde-tyme picnic on the front campus will be followed by the unveiling of an historical plaque on the Johnston portico a reunion banquet for Associate D iploma alumni and a dinner for c lasses 24 and earlier

DOn Sunday July 7 an interdenomishynational service wi ll be held at War Memorial Hall followed by a special exhibit of historical mementos in McLaughlin Library and an opporshytunit y to meet Professor Alex Ross author of Tllc Collcge 011 the H ill I n

the afternoon thelc will be wa lking tours of the campus and in the evening the opening of the U niversity art collection

DMonday July 8 will be Town and G own D ay to celebrate the close relationship between the campus and the cit y of G uelph A civic luncheon open houses and a golf tournament will be features of the day oTuesday July 9 is Agricultural Day to mark the beginning of the threeshyday Farm and Home Week program There will be a parade of livestock and machinery tours of the Elora Research Stltltion and a display of antique farm m achine ry

D Wednesday July 10 wi ll be Family Day with a special program arranged by the College of Family and Consumer Studies A family barbecue and cen tenn ia l dinner will be among the features

OThursday July 11 is Education D ay T he Farm and Home Week program continues with spec ial emphasis in 4-H programs The annual life science student seminar will run al l day with square da ncing in Creelman Pin) in the evening

O Friday July 12 is Alumni Developshyment D ay T here will be seminars for OAC and Mac-F ACS alumni folshylowed by annual business meetings During the day a ceremony marking the issue of a commemorat ive sta mp will be held and in the evening there will be a G erman beer garden and skits from the past

OSaturday fuly 13 Alumni Celebrashytion D ay will be the climax of Festival Week The day will begin with a chuck wagon breakfast followed by a centennial parade an olde-tyme picnic and the official opening of the Centennial Arboretum Centre The grand fina le will be the Centennial dinner and ball

DSullday July 14 is Recovery D ay A service of worship at W ar Memori a l H all will be followe d by brunch and th e art exh ibit and machinery display will remain open for the day

O A detailed brochure a nd registration form for Fes ti val Week will be mailed to you at the beginning of M ay Reservations should be made by June 15

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Canadian Agriculture runs on teamwork We salute the Ontario Agricultural College of the University of Guelph on its centenn ial year

OAC during its hundred year history has earned an international reputation for its

continuing and vital leadership in agricultural research and high academic standards in agricultural education We at Ciba-Geigy many of us OAC gradshyuates owe a debt of gratitude to the Ontario Agricultural Co llege for its generous coshyoperation in agricultural research and development This teamwork is invaluable to shyCanadian agricu lture

elBA-GEIGY Agrochemicals Division

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Congratulations Ontario Agricultural College on your first hundred

And thank you In 1874 you were a little stone farmhouse with 30 students who were eager to learn about modern farming

Since then you have

Founded the Ontario Experimental Union in the 1880s-a forerunner of soil and crop improvement societies and government extension services

Developed the Ontario poultry breeding stations and flock approval plan in the early 1900s which made a viable poultry industry possible

Developed OAC 21 a grain variety which became the standard of malting barley in North America

Introduced the Provincial Spray Service in 1924 which laid the foundation for efficient disease and pest control in the commercial orchard industry

Introduced new crop species to Canadian agriculture-such as alfalfa and soybeans

Been instrumental in the development of hybrid poultry breeding and the refinement of artificial insemination techniques for livestock

Developed insecticides herbicides and application procedures which have been directly responsible for the expansion of corn as a major crop in Ontario

Maintained a research organization which has played a key role in improving the efficiency of Ontario agriculture for the last 100 years

The achievements have been many-more than we can possibly print here But one achievement stands out among all the rest the Ontario Agricultural College educates and trains people whose work in agriculture has gone a long way in making this world a better place in which to live

From one centenarian to another were proud to have grown up with you

-Massey-Ferguson Industries Limited

Toronto Ontario

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OAC Centennial Celebrations

l Iniversity of (~uelph carnpus

Special public events

At Home OAC Farmers Meetings College Royal

January 1 Jan 234

Open House March 9 and 10

Guelph Spring Festival Apri l 27 -May 12

Dedication of Johnston Arch Historical Plaque July 6

Centennial Festival July 6-13 OAC Farm and Home

Week July 91011 Official opening of OAC Censhy

tennial Arboretum Centre July 13 OAC Centennial

Symposi um Oct 1718 Laureate of Agriculture Oct 17

International Conferences

Symposium on Haploids in Higher Plants June 10-14

American Dairy Science Assoc annual meeting June 23-26

International Congress of Farm Management July 14- 20

CanAm Horticultural Science annual meeti ng Aug 8-15

International Agricultural St udents Conference Aug 18-24

Other Conferences

Ontario Food Processors Fieldshymens Conference Jan 8910

Ontario Institute of Agrologists annual meeting April 14 - 18

Ontario Cheese makers Conference April 17

Canadian Feed Manufacturers Nutrition Conference April 2324

Ontario Dairy Industry Conference Apri I 2425

Canadian I nstitute of Food Science and Technology April 26

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Ontario Bankers School May 6-10 Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food Extension Branch Conference June 3-6

Environmental Science Teachers of Ontario May 234

4-H Provincial Conference June 16-18

Canadian Veterinary Medical Assoc annual meeting June 30-July 4

4middotH Provincial Girls Club Conference July 9-12

Eastern Apiculture Society Conference Aug 7-10

Junior Farmers Association of Ontario Aug 10-11

University of Guelph activities

Winter Carnival Jan 12- 18 Winter Convocation Feb 1 Conversat Dance Feb 2 Interuniversity Choral

Festival Feb 10 Spring Convocation May 222324 Fall Convocation Oct 4 Aggie Week September Homecoming Weekend Oct 18-20 Homecoming Football

game Oct 19

These are the events as arranged bV November 1st 1973

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The Johnston arch is the portico of the original William Stone homestead shown here on the original Johnston Hall demolished in 1928 The arch still stands on the front campus of the University of Guelph and will be declared an historic site by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board during centennial year

Welcome to the Campus

On behalf of the Ontario Agriculmiddot

tural College of the University of

Guelph I would like to invite everyshy

one to participate in the many OAC Centennial 74 events to be

held on the campus

As we celebrate the 100th annimiddot

versary of the founding of the

College I would like to pay tribute to

the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food who initiated and then

operated the Guelph campus for the

first ninety years of its history The

OAC achieved a world-wide reputamiddot

tion under the direction of the Minshy

istry which still plays a vital role on

the campus especially in connection

with our research program

In addition t would like to conmiddot

gratulate the organizing committee

for the OAC Centennial Under the chairmanship of Professor Harvey

Caldwell the committee of faculty

staff and students has been work ing

for the past year planning the many

celebrations that will be held on the campus in 1974

You will be welcome at any or all

these events and especially during Festival Week

-WC Winegard

President

University of Guelph

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A message from the Minister

The Ontario Agricultural College has established itself as an integral part of our agricultural industry in this Province and its influence has been felt throughout the length and breadth of Canada North America and indeed around the world The Government of Ontario is pleased with the close working relationship that has existed over the past 100 years We have every reason to believe the future will bring an even closer liaison to the benefit of all of society

Graduates of the Ontario Agriculshytural College have taken their place in every profession and their exshyposure to agricultural science has given them a deeper appreciation of farming and food production The Ontario Agricultural College has shown the way in a wide range of

research progra ms related to agr icu 1shyture food and human resources Ontario s hard earned position as a

leader in food production can be attributed in large part to these farshyreaching research projects

I a m pleased to extend to the Ontario Agricultural College and all those who have been and continue to be associated with it the warmest congratulations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ontario on reaching their Centennial year

William A Stewart Min ister of Agriculture and Food for Ontario

We congratulate the Ontario Agricultural College and recogshy

ONTARIO ASSOCIATION of ANIMAL BREEDERS

RR5 GUELPH ONTARIO and its member organization

Eastern Breeders Inc United Breeders Inc Western Ontario Breeders Inc

nize the contribution it has made to the advancement of cattle breeding through research data analysis and aU phases of sire evaluation and livestock improvement

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College History Reflects People Politics and Progress

BV Don Jose

Introduction

The growth and development of the Ontario Agricultural College after one hundred years make it the largest agricultural college in the British Commonwealth Its achievements have more than kept pace with its growth in size and it is these achieve shyments that permit it to lay claim to a premier place in agricultural educashytion research and extension

Former University of Toronto president Or Claude Bissell remarked that the Colleges name was known throughout the world both through those whom you attract here and those whom you h ave sent to serve mankind in most of the countries of the world

That statement was made at the first convocation of the University of Guelph and just following a world tour by Or Bissell during which he met and talked with many University of Toronto graduates from all facul ties He remarked on the large number of Ontario Agricultural College alumni he found around the world in relation to the number from other U of T facul ties most of them with much larger enrolments than OAC

The tradition at OAC of preshyparation for service and particularly in the international dimension has become an integral part of the phi 10shysophy of the University which the College spawned - a university that seems clearly destined to play an important role in higher education in Canada

JB Munro Deputy Minister of Agriculture in British Columbia once phrased an employers assessment of the College in apt rural phraseology I always like to hire men from OAC he said You shake them out of the bag they land on their feet and go right to work You cant say that about any other group

What then is the story of the College that has achieved these and

other accolades within its first century of existence And what has really been its role in the developshyment of agriculture and indeed of society the province of Ontario across Canada and over seas

It has been a story with its ups and downs and not without a share of controversies I t has been a story of dedication with many leaders who had a real feel ing for the needs of Ontario agriculture It has also been a story tinged with its share of political overtones It can be noted that the intrusions of politics into the administration of the college didnt all occur in the first half century of its existence However it must be said that the clear divorcing of College administration from political exigencies was well established before the founding of the University in 1964

During its first century of growth and maturing ten men have occupied the chief administrators position The first one Henry McCandless held office scarcely long enough to warm h is office chair Each of the others has made his own distinct contribution to the College There is a danger of underestimating the significance of the contributions of recent incumbents because of the difficulty of getting recent events into proper perspective for objective judgement

If the space devoted to the contri shybutions of recent heads of the college seems less than might seem proper it is only because space is limited and recent events are generally better known than those of earlier times The title of the position has changed over the years From Principal it became President when the School of Agriculture became the Ontario Agricultural College In 1962 with the formation of the Federated Colleges as an interim step towards the establishing of the University the head of the College became known as Dean

The Ontario Agricultural College was established with the purchase of

the William Stone Farm near Guelph in 1873 and the first students were enrolled on May 1 1874 But the birth pangs of the College were no less excruciating than those associmiddot ated with other births

The proposal to establish such a school of agriculture in the province had been under active discussion sometimes with more heat than light being generated for a period of five years John Carling then Commisshysioner of Agriculture and Public Works made such a proposal in his report in 1869 The need for improved agricultural techniques was evident it was even being proshypounded by Egerton Ryerson the architect of our public school system and several Land Grant Colleges had al ready been successshyfully launched in the US

After a great deal of political con troversy over the pu rch ase of a site at Mimico and a change of government the Stone farm was finally secured in 1873 and plans began to develop in earnest

The first class had 31 young men enrolled in a one-year course Those first students were expected to spend seven hou rs a day working in the fields and barns The time for classes came after that Admission requireshyments were equivalent of high school entrance The students received free board and lodging and if they passed their final examinations received a bonus of $50

The influences of the leaders

During its first year the School was rocked by controversy between the Principal and his staff but late that year a new principal was found in England For personal reasons he returned to England after a brief period and finally in the spring of 1875 William Johnston assumed the mantle of responsibility

Johnston had been serving as Rector of the new School a position which apparently was a combination

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of dean chief administrator and bursar Under his direction the school rapidly gained in stature and respectability and to him goes a great deal of credit for setting the fledgling school safely on the path to the many successses which have marked its first century

Johnston established a curricumiddot lum divided the School into a number of departments and hired lecturers With the School welJl established Johnston resigned in 1879 for reasons wh ich were never revealed and was succeeded by James Mills Johnston entered law but died at the age of 37

Dr Mills set about to counteract much of the serious criticism of the School which from the beginning had been widespread throughout the countryside A great deal of that criticism had been directed to the mismanagement of the Modell Farm The lines of authority were set up so that the head of the farm department reported directly to Toronto not to the Principal But in the eyes of the public the School and farm were one and the School was saddled with the blame for the farms shortshycomings

Another source of rural distrust of the School Mills was convinced arose from lack of public knowledge about the School and what it was doing Accordingly in 1883 he began two week vacation periods at Easter and Christmas so that the faculty could go out into the province and meet farmers and speak at meetings These were the Farmers Institutes and thus began the long and fruitful history of rural extension from the Guelph campus While this helped greatly there were limits on how many meetings the facul ty could get out to attend and limits on the number of people they could reach

That is why the summer excurshysions to the campus played such an important role in publicizing the college There is record of excursions from a number of counties as early as 1880 As years went by with the assistance of the railways the number increased

Under Mills there were also signifishycant changes in the academic proshygram In 1880 a two-year diploma program was instituted and the same year the name was changed hom Ontario School of Agriculture to Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm

In 1887 a third year with more

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Massey library was a favourite place to study 20 to 30 years ago

emphasis on academic work and less on practical subjects was added to the cu rriculum The next spring the long period of affiliation with the University of Toronto began and five candidates received the first Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degrees to be granted from this campus Among the five were GC Creelman who later succeeded Mills as President and CA Zavitz who as professor of field husbandry did much to enhance the reputation of OAC

Two other significant events which occurred just before Dr Mills tenure ended were the extension of the degree program to a four-year course in 1902 and the establishment of Macdonald Institute as a part of OAC in 1903 Macdonald Institute achieved separate status later

For George C Creelman who succeeded his father-in-law as Presishydent in 1904 and served until 1920 his incumbancy was a period of growth and expansion Many new buildings were added to the campus new academic programs added and many extension programs initiated or extended Perhaps the zenith of Creel mans career as president I ies in the fact that under him the College became almost completely acceptshyable among the people of rural Ontario No longer was the college viewed with suspicion or distrust Not only did Creelman get faculty members out on the back concession tackling the practical problems of orchardists livestock men and others but his own personal interest in rural Ontarios problems was evident

J B Reynolds who succeeded Creel man in 1920 was no stranger to the campus He first arrived in Guelph in 1893 to teach Physics and English later setting up the English Department and leaving the teaching

of Physics to others Reynolds was a classical scholar in the truest sense and his mark has ever remained on the Guelph campus Aggies from his day onward graduated with a reasonable exposure to the treasures of their mother tongue gained at the feet of ski 1led and dedicated teachers For instance Guelph was the first campus in Canada to offer a course in Canadian poetry

In 1915 Reynolds left to become President of the Manitoba Agricultural College returning to Guelph in 1920 Reynolds was born and raised on a small Ontario farm in Durham County and after his precipitate retirement in 1928 he returned to the farm and ran a successful operation for many years

Two important academic advances occurred du ring the presidency of Dr Reynolds In 1920 the requireshyment of Junior Matriculation for admission to the degree course was initiated For the first time the academic program for the first two years of the degree cou rse was different from that offered Diploma students But since in those days it was difficult for many rural students living long distances from school to complete high school an intershymediate year was offered to enable Diploma graduates to shift into the degree course (Many outstanding alumni entered the degree course by this means ) The Intermediate Year program was in effect until accessshyability to high schools became universal in the 1940s

Another important academic advance was the introduction of a graduate study program leading to the MSA degree in 1926 This program was under the supervision of a Conjoint Committee composed of six representatives of the University of Toronto graduate faculty and six representatives of the Guelph faculty Dr J P McMu rrich Dean of Graduate Studies at Toronto was Chairman and Prof Aw Baker of Guelph was Secretary The first MSA degrees were awarded in 1928

George I Christie had perhaps the most frustrating incum bency of all OACs presidents He had the depresshysion years to cope with and also the war years The political problems of the college reached a peak in the early to mid thirties For example 35 facul ty mem bers were re i ieved of

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their duties in one stroke of the Minister Duncan Marshalls pen Under PM Dewan however the situation improved noticeably

George Christies booming voice and cogent comments almost came to be the hallmark of a successful farm meeting He spoke throughout the province and did much to window-dress the college in rural Ontario Plagued by uncertain health he was forced to retire in 1942

W R Reek who succeeded Christie first as Acting President and later as President had some natural advantages in his favour Perhaps the greatest was the fact that Thomas L Kennedy was Mini ster of Agriculture Together the two men steered the College through what might be called the turning point in its history A new spirit was instilled into the institution and the stage was set for the great period of growth which followed The time of Reeks appointment was a natural growth period following the war years and their restric tions however his influence in setting the stage for the great period of expanded research which foil owed cannot be denied It was at about this time that industry in general began to back research efforts to a greater degree They provided the resources for carrying to successful conclusion research projects initiated by faculty Reek

also insisted on the importance of advanced degrees for his faculty

JD Maclachlan succeeded Reek as President in 1950 just in time to wrestle with the problems of expanshysion New facili ties were needed to cope with the post war growth in enrolment and already rumblings were heard about the need for expanshysion of the campus to more senior status

He played a key role in the planshyning which resulted in the formation of the Federated Colleges in 1962 as an intermediate step towards full university status which was achieved in 1964 When Dr Mac became the first President of the new Univershysity N R Richards then head of the Department of Soil Science became the first Dean of the best known agricultural college in the nation Richards played an important role in the councils of the fledgling univer shysity during those important early years

Under his leadership the College played its part as an integral part of

The judging pavilion was a popular spot when the horses were on show

the University providing leadership and providing key faculty members for several University departments During all this time however OAC never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget the place of agriculture on the campus as well as in the nations economy

When Professor Richards had completed his second five-year term as Dean in 1972 he returned to teaching in the Department of land Resource Science and Dr C M Switzer was named Dean (See article on Dean of Agriculture)

College relationships academic and polishytical

The last ten years of the Colleges first century have been its greatest to date Each year new records are set for numbers of students enrolled in OAC September 1973 saw 1150 full time students enrolled in the BSc(Agr) program of the College

Over the year s the relationship between th e OAC and the provincial department of agriculture has been close and fruitful Consistently the department has reacted to the needs of rural Ontario and the province in general by development and impleshymentation of new policies This reaction was clearly evident in the creation of new academic depart shyments on the campus As economic development proceeded the segments of the agribusiness industry acquired new needs and the Departshyment of Agriculture supported lhe growth of the College to meet these needs

An example of this relationship is the addition of an agricultural economist to the faculty of the college as the economic problems in agriculture gained recognition and as

business-like decision-making became more important in deciding the success of the farm operation Professor Archie Leitch of the Animal Husbandry Department began a cost accounting program on the College farm in the 20s and later was named Head of the Farm Management Departmen t He is perhaps best remembered for his work in organizing the Flue Tobacco Growers Association in the early 30s The work he began in Agriculshytural Economics has grown and now includes not only academic programs but special courses such as a weekshylong course for rural bankers

Another outgrowth of the close association between the campus and the Department of Agricu I ture may be seen in the establishment of the Agricu Itu ral Research I nsti tu te of Ontario to co-ordinate research program s and advise on de sirable projects

At the same time there has also been a continual close relationship between OAC and federal officials in agriculture For many years now CDA specialists in various fields have been posted on campus and have shared facilities with colleagues on the faculty here From the initiation of the degree program in 1887 until 1964 the campus enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the University of Toronto

Under the aegis of that University the Guelph BSA degree came to be recognized across Canada and around the world as representing a sound combination of practical background and academic training

Staff involvement and contributions

Over the past century many outstanding teachers and researchers have been members of the OAC faculty and countless graduates have played significant roles in their chosen segment of the agricultural industry

In the early days improved live shystock and livestock husbandry along with improved feed crops were the primary concern of Ontario farmers Men like Wade Toole and George Day are widely remembered by historians of the livestock industry along with field husbandry men like Squirrel and Zavitz Also in the pas t 25 years there has been a veri table

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Agricultural shyCollege on your first

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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Putting it all together for 100 Years

The Ontario Agricultural College has done much for Ontario for Canada during their 100 years

Continual research and advancement have been the standards in OACs contribution to agriculture We at Ontario Harvestore believe we hold to similar aims

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

SB WILLIAMS DEPUTY MINISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

Hardcover Illu st rated Copp Clark $12 95

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

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be as fruitful and as helpful

to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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COME BACK TO GUELPH

FESTIVAL WEER The highlight of the OA C centennial celebrations will be Festival and Alumni Week in early July Alumni D ay normally held in June will be combined with a revival of the famou s Farm and Home Week The result will be eight days of entertainshyment education reminiscence and sheer fun A time to meet old friends and talk over old times to take in the old and the new to celebrate a once-in-a-lifetime event

O Festival Week will begin Saturday July 6 with the Century Caravan parade of floats bands and antique cars An o lde-tyme picnic on the front campus will be followed by the unveiling of an historical plaque on the Johnston portico a reunion banquet for Associate D iploma alumni and a dinner for c lasses 24 and earlier

DOn Sunday July 7 an interdenomishynational service wi ll be held at War Memorial Hall followed by a special exhibit of historical mementos in McLaughlin Library and an opporshytunit y to meet Professor Alex Ross author of Tllc Collcge 011 the H ill I n

the afternoon thelc will be wa lking tours of the campus and in the evening the opening of the U niversity art collection

DMonday July 8 will be Town and G own D ay to celebrate the close relationship between the campus and the cit y of G uelph A civic luncheon open houses and a golf tournament will be features of the day oTuesday July 9 is Agricultural Day to mark the beginning of the threeshyday Farm and Home Week program There will be a parade of livestock and machinery tours of the Elora Research Stltltion and a display of antique farm m achine ry

D Wednesday July 10 wi ll be Family Day with a special program arranged by the College of Family and Consumer Studies A family barbecue and cen tenn ia l dinner will be among the features

OThursday July 11 is Education D ay T he Farm and Home Week program continues with spec ial emphasis in 4-H programs The annual life science student seminar will run al l day with square da ncing in Creelman Pin) in the evening

O Friday July 12 is Alumni Developshyment D ay T here will be seminars for OAC and Mac-F ACS alumni folshylowed by annual business meetings During the day a ceremony marking the issue of a commemorat ive sta mp will be held and in the evening there will be a G erman beer garden and skits from the past

OSaturday fuly 13 Alumni Celebrashytion D ay will be the climax of Festival Week The day will begin with a chuck wagon breakfast followed by a centennial parade an olde-tyme picnic and the official opening of the Centennial Arboretum Centre The grand fina le will be the Centennial dinner and ball

DSullday July 14 is Recovery D ay A service of worship at W ar Memori a l H all will be followe d by brunch and th e art exh ibit and machinery display will remain open for the day

O A detailed brochure a nd registration form for Fes ti val Week will be mailed to you at the beginning of M ay Reservations should be made by June 15

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Canadian Agriculture runs on teamwork We salute the Ontario Agricultural College of the University of Guelph on its centenn ial year

OAC during its hundred year history has earned an international reputation for its

continuing and vital leadership in agricultural research and high academic standards in agricultural education We at Ciba-Geigy many of us OAC gradshyuates owe a debt of gratitude to the Ontario Agricultural Co llege for its generous coshyoperation in agricultural research and development This teamwork is invaluable to shyCanadian agricu lture

elBA-GEIGY Agrochemicals Division

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Congratulations Ontario Agricultural College on your first hundred

And thank you In 1874 you were a little stone farmhouse with 30 students who were eager to learn about modern farming

Since then you have

Founded the Ontario Experimental Union in the 1880s-a forerunner of soil and crop improvement societies and government extension services

Developed the Ontario poultry breeding stations and flock approval plan in the early 1900s which made a viable poultry industry possible

Developed OAC 21 a grain variety which became the standard of malting barley in North America

Introduced the Provincial Spray Service in 1924 which laid the foundation for efficient disease and pest control in the commercial orchard industry

Introduced new crop species to Canadian agriculture-such as alfalfa and soybeans

Been instrumental in the development of hybrid poultry breeding and the refinement of artificial insemination techniques for livestock

Developed insecticides herbicides and application procedures which have been directly responsible for the expansion of corn as a major crop in Ontario

Maintained a research organization which has played a key role in improving the efficiency of Ontario agriculture for the last 100 years

The achievements have been many-more than we can possibly print here But one achievement stands out among all the rest the Ontario Agricultural College educates and trains people whose work in agriculture has gone a long way in making this world a better place in which to live

From one centenarian to another were proud to have grown up with you

-Massey-Ferguson Industries Limited

Toronto Ontario

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OAC Centennial Celebrations

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Special public events

At Home OAC Farmers Meetings College Royal

January 1 Jan 234

Open House March 9 and 10

Guelph Spring Festival Apri l 27 -May 12

Dedication of Johnston Arch Historical Plaque July 6

Centennial Festival July 6-13 OAC Farm and Home

Week July 91011 Official opening of OAC Censhy

tennial Arboretum Centre July 13 OAC Centennial

Symposi um Oct 1718 Laureate of Agriculture Oct 17

International Conferences

Symposium on Haploids in Higher Plants June 10-14

American Dairy Science Assoc annual meeting June 23-26

International Congress of Farm Management July 14- 20

CanAm Horticultural Science annual meeti ng Aug 8-15

International Agricultural St udents Conference Aug 18-24

Other Conferences

Ontario Food Processors Fieldshymens Conference Jan 8910

Ontario Institute of Agrologists annual meeting April 14 - 18

Ontario Cheese makers Conference April 17

Canadian Feed Manufacturers Nutrition Conference April 2324

Ontario Dairy Industry Conference Apri I 2425

Canadian I nstitute of Food Science and Technology April 26

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Ontario Bankers School May 6-10 Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food Extension Branch Conference June 3-6

Environmental Science Teachers of Ontario May 234

4-H Provincial Conference June 16-18

Canadian Veterinary Medical Assoc annual meeting June 30-July 4

4middotH Provincial Girls Club Conference July 9-12

Eastern Apiculture Society Conference Aug 7-10

Junior Farmers Association of Ontario Aug 10-11

University of Guelph activities

Winter Carnival Jan 12- 18 Winter Convocation Feb 1 Conversat Dance Feb 2 Interuniversity Choral

Festival Feb 10 Spring Convocation May 222324 Fall Convocation Oct 4 Aggie Week September Homecoming Weekend Oct 18-20 Homecoming Football

game Oct 19

These are the events as arranged bV November 1st 1973

COVER

The Johnston arch is the portico of the original William Stone homestead shown here on the original Johnston Hall demolished in 1928 The arch still stands on the front campus of the University of Guelph and will be declared an historic site by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board during centennial year

Welcome to the Campus

On behalf of the Ontario Agriculmiddot

tural College of the University of

Guelph I would like to invite everyshy

one to participate in the many OAC Centennial 74 events to be

held on the campus

As we celebrate the 100th annimiddot

versary of the founding of the

College I would like to pay tribute to

the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food who initiated and then

operated the Guelph campus for the

first ninety years of its history The

OAC achieved a world-wide reputamiddot

tion under the direction of the Minshy

istry which still plays a vital role on

the campus especially in connection

with our research program

In addition t would like to conmiddot

gratulate the organizing committee

for the OAC Centennial Under the chairmanship of Professor Harvey

Caldwell the committee of faculty

staff and students has been work ing

for the past year planning the many

celebrations that will be held on the campus in 1974

You will be welcome at any or all

these events and especially during Festival Week

-WC Winegard

President

University of Guelph

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A message from the Minister

The Ontario Agricultural College has established itself as an integral part of our agricultural industry in this Province and its influence has been felt throughout the length and breadth of Canada North America and indeed around the world The Government of Ontario is pleased with the close working relationship that has existed over the past 100 years We have every reason to believe the future will bring an even closer liaison to the benefit of all of society

Graduates of the Ontario Agriculshytural College have taken their place in every profession and their exshyposure to agricultural science has given them a deeper appreciation of farming and food production The Ontario Agricultural College has shown the way in a wide range of

research progra ms related to agr icu 1shyture food and human resources Ontario s hard earned position as a

leader in food production can be attributed in large part to these farshyreaching research projects

I a m pleased to extend to the Ontario Agricultural College and all those who have been and continue to be associated with it the warmest congratulations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ontario on reaching their Centennial year

William A Stewart Min ister of Agriculture and Food for Ontario

We congratulate the Ontario Agricultural College and recogshy

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College History Reflects People Politics and Progress

BV Don Jose

Introduction

The growth and development of the Ontario Agricultural College after one hundred years make it the largest agricultural college in the British Commonwealth Its achievements have more than kept pace with its growth in size and it is these achieve shyments that permit it to lay claim to a premier place in agricultural educashytion research and extension

Former University of Toronto president Or Claude Bissell remarked that the Colleges name was known throughout the world both through those whom you attract here and those whom you h ave sent to serve mankind in most of the countries of the world

That statement was made at the first convocation of the University of Guelph and just following a world tour by Or Bissell during which he met and talked with many University of Toronto graduates from all facul ties He remarked on the large number of Ontario Agricultural College alumni he found around the world in relation to the number from other U of T facul ties most of them with much larger enrolments than OAC

The tradition at OAC of preshyparation for service and particularly in the international dimension has become an integral part of the phi 10shysophy of the University which the College spawned - a university that seems clearly destined to play an important role in higher education in Canada

JB Munro Deputy Minister of Agriculture in British Columbia once phrased an employers assessment of the College in apt rural phraseology I always like to hire men from OAC he said You shake them out of the bag they land on their feet and go right to work You cant say that about any other group

What then is the story of the College that has achieved these and

other accolades within its first century of existence And what has really been its role in the developshyment of agriculture and indeed of society the province of Ontario across Canada and over seas

It has been a story with its ups and downs and not without a share of controversies I t has been a story of dedication with many leaders who had a real feel ing for the needs of Ontario agriculture It has also been a story tinged with its share of political overtones It can be noted that the intrusions of politics into the administration of the college didnt all occur in the first half century of its existence However it must be said that the clear divorcing of College administration from political exigencies was well established before the founding of the University in 1964

During its first century of growth and maturing ten men have occupied the chief administrators position The first one Henry McCandless held office scarcely long enough to warm h is office chair Each of the others has made his own distinct contribution to the College There is a danger of underestimating the significance of the contributions of recent incumbents because of the difficulty of getting recent events into proper perspective for objective judgement

If the space devoted to the contri shybutions of recent heads of the college seems less than might seem proper it is only because space is limited and recent events are generally better known than those of earlier times The title of the position has changed over the years From Principal it became President when the School of Agriculture became the Ontario Agricultural College In 1962 with the formation of the Federated Colleges as an interim step towards the establishing of the University the head of the College became known as Dean

The Ontario Agricultural College was established with the purchase of

the William Stone Farm near Guelph in 1873 and the first students were enrolled on May 1 1874 But the birth pangs of the College were no less excruciating than those associmiddot ated with other births

The proposal to establish such a school of agriculture in the province had been under active discussion sometimes with more heat than light being generated for a period of five years John Carling then Commisshysioner of Agriculture and Public Works made such a proposal in his report in 1869 The need for improved agricultural techniques was evident it was even being proshypounded by Egerton Ryerson the architect of our public school system and several Land Grant Colleges had al ready been successshyfully launched in the US

After a great deal of political con troversy over the pu rch ase of a site at Mimico and a change of government the Stone farm was finally secured in 1873 and plans began to develop in earnest

The first class had 31 young men enrolled in a one-year course Those first students were expected to spend seven hou rs a day working in the fields and barns The time for classes came after that Admission requireshyments were equivalent of high school entrance The students received free board and lodging and if they passed their final examinations received a bonus of $50

The influences of the leaders

During its first year the School was rocked by controversy between the Principal and his staff but late that year a new principal was found in England For personal reasons he returned to England after a brief period and finally in the spring of 1875 William Johnston assumed the mantle of responsibility

Johnston had been serving as Rector of the new School a position which apparently was a combination

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of dean chief administrator and bursar Under his direction the school rapidly gained in stature and respectability and to him goes a great deal of credit for setting the fledgling school safely on the path to the many successses which have marked its first century

Johnston established a curricumiddot lum divided the School into a number of departments and hired lecturers With the School welJl established Johnston resigned in 1879 for reasons wh ich were never revealed and was succeeded by James Mills Johnston entered law but died at the age of 37

Dr Mills set about to counteract much of the serious criticism of the School which from the beginning had been widespread throughout the countryside A great deal of that criticism had been directed to the mismanagement of the Modell Farm The lines of authority were set up so that the head of the farm department reported directly to Toronto not to the Principal But in the eyes of the public the School and farm were one and the School was saddled with the blame for the farms shortshycomings

Another source of rural distrust of the School Mills was convinced arose from lack of public knowledge about the School and what it was doing Accordingly in 1883 he began two week vacation periods at Easter and Christmas so that the faculty could go out into the province and meet farmers and speak at meetings These were the Farmers Institutes and thus began the long and fruitful history of rural extension from the Guelph campus While this helped greatly there were limits on how many meetings the facul ty could get out to attend and limits on the number of people they could reach

That is why the summer excurshysions to the campus played such an important role in publicizing the college There is record of excursions from a number of counties as early as 1880 As years went by with the assistance of the railways the number increased

Under Mills there were also signifishycant changes in the academic proshygram In 1880 a two-year diploma program was instituted and the same year the name was changed hom Ontario School of Agriculture to Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm

In 1887 a third year with more

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Massey library was a favourite place to study 20 to 30 years ago

emphasis on academic work and less on practical subjects was added to the cu rriculum The next spring the long period of affiliation with the University of Toronto began and five candidates received the first Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degrees to be granted from this campus Among the five were GC Creelman who later succeeded Mills as President and CA Zavitz who as professor of field husbandry did much to enhance the reputation of OAC

Two other significant events which occurred just before Dr Mills tenure ended were the extension of the degree program to a four-year course in 1902 and the establishment of Macdonald Institute as a part of OAC in 1903 Macdonald Institute achieved separate status later

For George C Creelman who succeeded his father-in-law as Presishydent in 1904 and served until 1920 his incumbancy was a period of growth and expansion Many new buildings were added to the campus new academic programs added and many extension programs initiated or extended Perhaps the zenith of Creel mans career as president I ies in the fact that under him the College became almost completely acceptshyable among the people of rural Ontario No longer was the college viewed with suspicion or distrust Not only did Creelman get faculty members out on the back concession tackling the practical problems of orchardists livestock men and others but his own personal interest in rural Ontarios problems was evident

J B Reynolds who succeeded Creel man in 1920 was no stranger to the campus He first arrived in Guelph in 1893 to teach Physics and English later setting up the English Department and leaving the teaching

of Physics to others Reynolds was a classical scholar in the truest sense and his mark has ever remained on the Guelph campus Aggies from his day onward graduated with a reasonable exposure to the treasures of their mother tongue gained at the feet of ski 1led and dedicated teachers For instance Guelph was the first campus in Canada to offer a course in Canadian poetry

In 1915 Reynolds left to become President of the Manitoba Agricultural College returning to Guelph in 1920 Reynolds was born and raised on a small Ontario farm in Durham County and after his precipitate retirement in 1928 he returned to the farm and ran a successful operation for many years

Two important academic advances occurred du ring the presidency of Dr Reynolds In 1920 the requireshyment of Junior Matriculation for admission to the degree course was initiated For the first time the academic program for the first two years of the degree cou rse was different from that offered Diploma students But since in those days it was difficult for many rural students living long distances from school to complete high school an intershymediate year was offered to enable Diploma graduates to shift into the degree course (Many outstanding alumni entered the degree course by this means ) The Intermediate Year program was in effect until accessshyability to high schools became universal in the 1940s

Another important academic advance was the introduction of a graduate study program leading to the MSA degree in 1926 This program was under the supervision of a Conjoint Committee composed of six representatives of the University of Toronto graduate faculty and six representatives of the Guelph faculty Dr J P McMu rrich Dean of Graduate Studies at Toronto was Chairman and Prof Aw Baker of Guelph was Secretary The first MSA degrees were awarded in 1928

George I Christie had perhaps the most frustrating incum bency of all OACs presidents He had the depresshysion years to cope with and also the war years The political problems of the college reached a peak in the early to mid thirties For example 35 facul ty mem bers were re i ieved of

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their duties in one stroke of the Minister Duncan Marshalls pen Under PM Dewan however the situation improved noticeably

George Christies booming voice and cogent comments almost came to be the hallmark of a successful farm meeting He spoke throughout the province and did much to window-dress the college in rural Ontario Plagued by uncertain health he was forced to retire in 1942

W R Reek who succeeded Christie first as Acting President and later as President had some natural advantages in his favour Perhaps the greatest was the fact that Thomas L Kennedy was Mini ster of Agriculture Together the two men steered the College through what might be called the turning point in its history A new spirit was instilled into the institution and the stage was set for the great period of growth which followed The time of Reeks appointment was a natural growth period following the war years and their restric tions however his influence in setting the stage for the great period of expanded research which foil owed cannot be denied It was at about this time that industry in general began to back research efforts to a greater degree They provided the resources for carrying to successful conclusion research projects initiated by faculty Reek

also insisted on the importance of advanced degrees for his faculty

JD Maclachlan succeeded Reek as President in 1950 just in time to wrestle with the problems of expanshysion New facili ties were needed to cope with the post war growth in enrolment and already rumblings were heard about the need for expanshysion of the campus to more senior status

He played a key role in the planshyning which resulted in the formation of the Federated Colleges in 1962 as an intermediate step towards full university status which was achieved in 1964 When Dr Mac became the first President of the new Univershysity N R Richards then head of the Department of Soil Science became the first Dean of the best known agricultural college in the nation Richards played an important role in the councils of the fledgling univer shysity during those important early years

Under his leadership the College played its part as an integral part of

The judging pavilion was a popular spot when the horses were on show

the University providing leadership and providing key faculty members for several University departments During all this time however OAC never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget the place of agriculture on the campus as well as in the nations economy

When Professor Richards had completed his second five-year term as Dean in 1972 he returned to teaching in the Department of land Resource Science and Dr C M Switzer was named Dean (See article on Dean of Agriculture)

College relationships academic and polishytical

The last ten years of the Colleges first century have been its greatest to date Each year new records are set for numbers of students enrolled in OAC September 1973 saw 1150 full time students enrolled in the BSc(Agr) program of the College

Over the year s the relationship between th e OAC and the provincial department of agriculture has been close and fruitful Consistently the department has reacted to the needs of rural Ontario and the province in general by development and impleshymentation of new policies This reaction was clearly evident in the creation of new academic depart shyments on the campus As economic development proceeded the segments of the agribusiness industry acquired new needs and the Departshyment of Agriculture supported lhe growth of the College to meet these needs

An example of this relationship is the addition of an agricultural economist to the faculty of the college as the economic problems in agriculture gained recognition and as

business-like decision-making became more important in deciding the success of the farm operation Professor Archie Leitch of the Animal Husbandry Department began a cost accounting program on the College farm in the 20s and later was named Head of the Farm Management Departmen t He is perhaps best remembered for his work in organizing the Flue Tobacco Growers Association in the early 30s The work he began in Agriculshytural Economics has grown and now includes not only academic programs but special courses such as a weekshylong course for rural bankers

Another outgrowth of the close association between the campus and the Department of Agricu I ture may be seen in the establishment of the Agricu Itu ral Research I nsti tu te of Ontario to co-ordinate research program s and advise on de sirable projects

At the same time there has also been a continual close relationship between OAC and federal officials in agriculture For many years now CDA specialists in various fields have been posted on campus and have shared facilities with colleagues on the faculty here From the initiation of the degree program in 1887 until 1964 the campus enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the University of Toronto

Under the aegis of that University the Guelph BSA degree came to be recognized across Canada and around the world as representing a sound combination of practical background and academic training

Staff involvement and contributions

Over the past century many outstanding teachers and researchers have been members of the OAC faculty and countless graduates have played significant roles in their chosen segment of the agricultural industry

In the early days improved live shystock and livestock husbandry along with improved feed crops were the primary concern of Ontario farmers Men like Wade Toole and George Day are widely remembered by historians of the livestock industry along with field husbandry men like Squirrel and Zavitz Also in the pas t 25 years there has been a veri table

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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Putting it all together for 100 Years

The Ontario Agricultural College has done much for Ontario for Canada during their 100 years

Continual research and advancement have been the standards in OACs contribution to agriculture We at Ontario Harvestore believe we hold to similar aims

And in Putting it All Together

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

Increase in the number of

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

SB WILLIAMS DEPUTY MINISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

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It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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73 graduates These fellows have diverse backgrounds and interests but all have the same goal setting up a profitable farming operation

Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

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ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

be as fruitful and as helpful

to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

Congratulations

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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COME BACK TO GUELPH

FESTIVAL WEER The highlight of the OA C centennial celebrations will be Festival and Alumni Week in early July Alumni D ay normally held in June will be combined with a revival of the famou s Farm and Home Week The result will be eight days of entertainshyment education reminiscence and sheer fun A time to meet old friends and talk over old times to take in the old and the new to celebrate a once-in-a-lifetime event

O Festival Week will begin Saturday July 6 with the Century Caravan parade of floats bands and antique cars An o lde-tyme picnic on the front campus will be followed by the unveiling of an historical plaque on the Johnston portico a reunion banquet for Associate D iploma alumni and a dinner for c lasses 24 and earlier

DOn Sunday July 7 an interdenomishynational service wi ll be held at War Memorial Hall followed by a special exhibit of historical mementos in McLaughlin Library and an opporshytunit y to meet Professor Alex Ross author of Tllc Collcge 011 the H ill I n

the afternoon thelc will be wa lking tours of the campus and in the evening the opening of the U niversity art collection

DMonday July 8 will be Town and G own D ay to celebrate the close relationship between the campus and the cit y of G uelph A civic luncheon open houses and a golf tournament will be features of the day oTuesday July 9 is Agricultural Day to mark the beginning of the threeshyday Farm and Home Week program There will be a parade of livestock and machinery tours of the Elora Research Stltltion and a display of antique farm m achine ry

D Wednesday July 10 wi ll be Family Day with a special program arranged by the College of Family and Consumer Studies A family barbecue and cen tenn ia l dinner will be among the features

OThursday July 11 is Education D ay T he Farm and Home Week program continues with spec ial emphasis in 4-H programs The annual life science student seminar will run al l day with square da ncing in Creelman Pin) in the evening

O Friday July 12 is Alumni Developshyment D ay T here will be seminars for OAC and Mac-F ACS alumni folshylowed by annual business meetings During the day a ceremony marking the issue of a commemorat ive sta mp will be held and in the evening there will be a G erman beer garden and skits from the past

OSaturday fuly 13 Alumni Celebrashytion D ay will be the climax of Festival Week The day will begin with a chuck wagon breakfast followed by a centennial parade an olde-tyme picnic and the official opening of the Centennial Arboretum Centre The grand fina le will be the Centennial dinner and ball

DSullday July 14 is Recovery D ay A service of worship at W ar Memori a l H all will be followe d by brunch and th e art exh ibit and machinery display will remain open for the day

O A detailed brochure a nd registration form for Fes ti val Week will be mailed to you at the beginning of M ay Reservations should be made by June 15

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Canadian Agriculture runs on teamwork We salute the Ontario Agricultural College of the University of Guelph on its centenn ial year

OAC during its hundred year history has earned an international reputation for its

continuing and vital leadership in agricultural research and high academic standards in agricultural education We at Ciba-Geigy many of us OAC gradshyuates owe a debt of gratitude to the Ontario Agricultural Co llege for its generous coshyoperation in agricultural research and development This teamwork is invaluable to shyCanadian agricu lture

elBA-GEIGY Agrochemicals Division

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GOOD FARMINGOAe SUPPLEMENT 2

Congratulations Ontario Agricultural College on your first hundred

And thank you In 1874 you were a little stone farmhouse with 30 students who were eager to learn about modern farming

Since then you have

Founded the Ontario Experimental Union in the 1880s-a forerunner of soil and crop improvement societies and government extension services

Developed the Ontario poultry breeding stations and flock approval plan in the early 1900s which made a viable poultry industry possible

Developed OAC 21 a grain variety which became the standard of malting barley in North America

Introduced the Provincial Spray Service in 1924 which laid the foundation for efficient disease and pest control in the commercial orchard industry

Introduced new crop species to Canadian agriculture-such as alfalfa and soybeans

Been instrumental in the development of hybrid poultry breeding and the refinement of artificial insemination techniques for livestock

Developed insecticides herbicides and application procedures which have been directly responsible for the expansion of corn as a major crop in Ontario

Maintained a research organization which has played a key role in improving the efficiency of Ontario agriculture for the last 100 years

The achievements have been many-more than we can possibly print here But one achievement stands out among all the rest the Ontario Agricultural College educates and trains people whose work in agriculture has gone a long way in making this world a better place in which to live

From one centenarian to another were proud to have grown up with you

-Massey-Ferguson Industries Limited

Toronto Ontario

NOVEMBE R 1 9 7 3 3

OAC Centennial Celebrations

l Iniversity of (~uelph carnpus

Special public events

At Home OAC Farmers Meetings College Royal

January 1 Jan 234

Open House March 9 and 10

Guelph Spring Festival Apri l 27 -May 12

Dedication of Johnston Arch Historical Plaque July 6

Centennial Festival July 6-13 OAC Farm and Home

Week July 91011 Official opening of OAC Censhy

tennial Arboretum Centre July 13 OAC Centennial

Symposi um Oct 1718 Laureate of Agriculture Oct 17

International Conferences

Symposium on Haploids in Higher Plants June 10-14

American Dairy Science Assoc annual meeting June 23-26

International Congress of Farm Management July 14- 20

CanAm Horticultural Science annual meeti ng Aug 8-15

International Agricultural St udents Conference Aug 18-24

Other Conferences

Ontario Food Processors Fieldshymens Conference Jan 8910

Ontario Institute of Agrologists annual meeting April 14 - 18

Ontario Cheese makers Conference April 17

Canadian Feed Manufacturers Nutrition Conference April 2324

Ontario Dairy Industry Conference Apri I 2425

Canadian I nstitute of Food Science and Technology April 26

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Ontario Bankers School May 6-10 Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food Extension Branch Conference June 3-6

Environmental Science Teachers of Ontario May 234

4-H Provincial Conference June 16-18

Canadian Veterinary Medical Assoc annual meeting June 30-July 4

4middotH Provincial Girls Club Conference July 9-12

Eastern Apiculture Society Conference Aug 7-10

Junior Farmers Association of Ontario Aug 10-11

University of Guelph activities

Winter Carnival Jan 12- 18 Winter Convocation Feb 1 Conversat Dance Feb 2 Interuniversity Choral

Festival Feb 10 Spring Convocation May 222324 Fall Convocation Oct 4 Aggie Week September Homecoming Weekend Oct 18-20 Homecoming Football

game Oct 19

These are the events as arranged bV November 1st 1973

COVER

The Johnston arch is the portico of the original William Stone homestead shown here on the original Johnston Hall demolished in 1928 The arch still stands on the front campus of the University of Guelph and will be declared an historic site by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board during centennial year

Welcome to the Campus

On behalf of the Ontario Agriculmiddot

tural College of the University of

Guelph I would like to invite everyshy

one to participate in the many OAC Centennial 74 events to be

held on the campus

As we celebrate the 100th annimiddot

versary of the founding of the

College I would like to pay tribute to

the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food who initiated and then

operated the Guelph campus for the

first ninety years of its history The

OAC achieved a world-wide reputamiddot

tion under the direction of the Minshy

istry which still plays a vital role on

the campus especially in connection

with our research program

In addition t would like to conmiddot

gratulate the organizing committee

for the OAC Centennial Under the chairmanship of Professor Harvey

Caldwell the committee of faculty

staff and students has been work ing

for the past year planning the many

celebrations that will be held on the campus in 1974

You will be welcome at any or all

these events and especially during Festival Week

-WC Winegard

President

University of Guelph

GOOD FARIIIINGOA~SUPPLEMENT

A message from the Minister

The Ontario Agricultural College has established itself as an integral part of our agricultural industry in this Province and its influence has been felt throughout the length and breadth of Canada North America and indeed around the world The Government of Ontario is pleased with the close working relationship that has existed over the past 100 years We have every reason to believe the future will bring an even closer liaison to the benefit of all of society

Graduates of the Ontario Agriculshytural College have taken their place in every profession and their exshyposure to agricultural science has given them a deeper appreciation of farming and food production The Ontario Agricultural College has shown the way in a wide range of

research progra ms related to agr icu 1shyture food and human resources Ontario s hard earned position as a

leader in food production can be attributed in large part to these farshyreaching research projects

I a m pleased to extend to the Ontario Agricultural College and all those who have been and continue to be associated with it the warmest congratulations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ontario on reaching their Centennial year

William A Stewart Min ister of Agriculture and Food for Ontario

We congratulate the Ontario Agricultural College and recogshy

ONTARIO ASSOCIATION of ANIMAL BREEDERS

RR5 GUELPH ONTARIO and its member organization

Eastern Breeders Inc United Breeders Inc Western Ontario Breeders Inc

nize the contribution it has made to the advancement of cattle breeding through research data analysis and aU phases of sire evaluation and livestock improvement

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College History Reflects People Politics and Progress

BV Don Jose

Introduction

The growth and development of the Ontario Agricultural College after one hundred years make it the largest agricultural college in the British Commonwealth Its achievements have more than kept pace with its growth in size and it is these achieve shyments that permit it to lay claim to a premier place in agricultural educashytion research and extension

Former University of Toronto president Or Claude Bissell remarked that the Colleges name was known throughout the world both through those whom you attract here and those whom you h ave sent to serve mankind in most of the countries of the world

That statement was made at the first convocation of the University of Guelph and just following a world tour by Or Bissell during which he met and talked with many University of Toronto graduates from all facul ties He remarked on the large number of Ontario Agricultural College alumni he found around the world in relation to the number from other U of T facul ties most of them with much larger enrolments than OAC

The tradition at OAC of preshyparation for service and particularly in the international dimension has become an integral part of the phi 10shysophy of the University which the College spawned - a university that seems clearly destined to play an important role in higher education in Canada

JB Munro Deputy Minister of Agriculture in British Columbia once phrased an employers assessment of the College in apt rural phraseology I always like to hire men from OAC he said You shake them out of the bag they land on their feet and go right to work You cant say that about any other group

What then is the story of the College that has achieved these and

other accolades within its first century of existence And what has really been its role in the developshyment of agriculture and indeed of society the province of Ontario across Canada and over seas

It has been a story with its ups and downs and not without a share of controversies I t has been a story of dedication with many leaders who had a real feel ing for the needs of Ontario agriculture It has also been a story tinged with its share of political overtones It can be noted that the intrusions of politics into the administration of the college didnt all occur in the first half century of its existence However it must be said that the clear divorcing of College administration from political exigencies was well established before the founding of the University in 1964

During its first century of growth and maturing ten men have occupied the chief administrators position The first one Henry McCandless held office scarcely long enough to warm h is office chair Each of the others has made his own distinct contribution to the College There is a danger of underestimating the significance of the contributions of recent incumbents because of the difficulty of getting recent events into proper perspective for objective judgement

If the space devoted to the contri shybutions of recent heads of the college seems less than might seem proper it is only because space is limited and recent events are generally better known than those of earlier times The title of the position has changed over the years From Principal it became President when the School of Agriculture became the Ontario Agricultural College In 1962 with the formation of the Federated Colleges as an interim step towards the establishing of the University the head of the College became known as Dean

The Ontario Agricultural College was established with the purchase of

the William Stone Farm near Guelph in 1873 and the first students were enrolled on May 1 1874 But the birth pangs of the College were no less excruciating than those associmiddot ated with other births

The proposal to establish such a school of agriculture in the province had been under active discussion sometimes with more heat than light being generated for a period of five years John Carling then Commisshysioner of Agriculture and Public Works made such a proposal in his report in 1869 The need for improved agricultural techniques was evident it was even being proshypounded by Egerton Ryerson the architect of our public school system and several Land Grant Colleges had al ready been successshyfully launched in the US

After a great deal of political con troversy over the pu rch ase of a site at Mimico and a change of government the Stone farm was finally secured in 1873 and plans began to develop in earnest

The first class had 31 young men enrolled in a one-year course Those first students were expected to spend seven hou rs a day working in the fields and barns The time for classes came after that Admission requireshyments were equivalent of high school entrance The students received free board and lodging and if they passed their final examinations received a bonus of $50

The influences of the leaders

During its first year the School was rocked by controversy between the Principal and his staff but late that year a new principal was found in England For personal reasons he returned to England after a brief period and finally in the spring of 1875 William Johnston assumed the mantle of responsibility

Johnston had been serving as Rector of the new School a position which apparently was a combination

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of dean chief administrator and bursar Under his direction the school rapidly gained in stature and respectability and to him goes a great deal of credit for setting the fledgling school safely on the path to the many successses which have marked its first century

Johnston established a curricumiddot lum divided the School into a number of departments and hired lecturers With the School welJl established Johnston resigned in 1879 for reasons wh ich were never revealed and was succeeded by James Mills Johnston entered law but died at the age of 37

Dr Mills set about to counteract much of the serious criticism of the School which from the beginning had been widespread throughout the countryside A great deal of that criticism had been directed to the mismanagement of the Modell Farm The lines of authority were set up so that the head of the farm department reported directly to Toronto not to the Principal But in the eyes of the public the School and farm were one and the School was saddled with the blame for the farms shortshycomings

Another source of rural distrust of the School Mills was convinced arose from lack of public knowledge about the School and what it was doing Accordingly in 1883 he began two week vacation periods at Easter and Christmas so that the faculty could go out into the province and meet farmers and speak at meetings These were the Farmers Institutes and thus began the long and fruitful history of rural extension from the Guelph campus While this helped greatly there were limits on how many meetings the facul ty could get out to attend and limits on the number of people they could reach

That is why the summer excurshysions to the campus played such an important role in publicizing the college There is record of excursions from a number of counties as early as 1880 As years went by with the assistance of the railways the number increased

Under Mills there were also signifishycant changes in the academic proshygram In 1880 a two-year diploma program was instituted and the same year the name was changed hom Ontario School of Agriculture to Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm

In 1887 a third year with more

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emphasis on academic work and less on practical subjects was added to the cu rriculum The next spring the long period of affiliation with the University of Toronto began and five candidates received the first Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degrees to be granted from this campus Among the five were GC Creelman who later succeeded Mills as President and CA Zavitz who as professor of field husbandry did much to enhance the reputation of OAC

Two other significant events which occurred just before Dr Mills tenure ended were the extension of the degree program to a four-year course in 1902 and the establishment of Macdonald Institute as a part of OAC in 1903 Macdonald Institute achieved separate status later

For George C Creelman who succeeded his father-in-law as Presishydent in 1904 and served until 1920 his incumbancy was a period of growth and expansion Many new buildings were added to the campus new academic programs added and many extension programs initiated or extended Perhaps the zenith of Creel mans career as president I ies in the fact that under him the College became almost completely acceptshyable among the people of rural Ontario No longer was the college viewed with suspicion or distrust Not only did Creelman get faculty members out on the back concession tackling the practical problems of orchardists livestock men and others but his own personal interest in rural Ontarios problems was evident

J B Reynolds who succeeded Creel man in 1920 was no stranger to the campus He first arrived in Guelph in 1893 to teach Physics and English later setting up the English Department and leaving the teaching

of Physics to others Reynolds was a classical scholar in the truest sense and his mark has ever remained on the Guelph campus Aggies from his day onward graduated with a reasonable exposure to the treasures of their mother tongue gained at the feet of ski 1led and dedicated teachers For instance Guelph was the first campus in Canada to offer a course in Canadian poetry

In 1915 Reynolds left to become President of the Manitoba Agricultural College returning to Guelph in 1920 Reynolds was born and raised on a small Ontario farm in Durham County and after his precipitate retirement in 1928 he returned to the farm and ran a successful operation for many years

Two important academic advances occurred du ring the presidency of Dr Reynolds In 1920 the requireshyment of Junior Matriculation for admission to the degree course was initiated For the first time the academic program for the first two years of the degree cou rse was different from that offered Diploma students But since in those days it was difficult for many rural students living long distances from school to complete high school an intershymediate year was offered to enable Diploma graduates to shift into the degree course (Many outstanding alumni entered the degree course by this means ) The Intermediate Year program was in effect until accessshyability to high schools became universal in the 1940s

Another important academic advance was the introduction of a graduate study program leading to the MSA degree in 1926 This program was under the supervision of a Conjoint Committee composed of six representatives of the University of Toronto graduate faculty and six representatives of the Guelph faculty Dr J P McMu rrich Dean of Graduate Studies at Toronto was Chairman and Prof Aw Baker of Guelph was Secretary The first MSA degrees were awarded in 1928

George I Christie had perhaps the most frustrating incum bency of all OACs presidents He had the depresshysion years to cope with and also the war years The political problems of the college reached a peak in the early to mid thirties For example 35 facul ty mem bers were re i ieved of

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their duties in one stroke of the Minister Duncan Marshalls pen Under PM Dewan however the situation improved noticeably

George Christies booming voice and cogent comments almost came to be the hallmark of a successful farm meeting He spoke throughout the province and did much to window-dress the college in rural Ontario Plagued by uncertain health he was forced to retire in 1942

W R Reek who succeeded Christie first as Acting President and later as President had some natural advantages in his favour Perhaps the greatest was the fact that Thomas L Kennedy was Mini ster of Agriculture Together the two men steered the College through what might be called the turning point in its history A new spirit was instilled into the institution and the stage was set for the great period of growth which followed The time of Reeks appointment was a natural growth period following the war years and their restric tions however his influence in setting the stage for the great period of expanded research which foil owed cannot be denied It was at about this time that industry in general began to back research efforts to a greater degree They provided the resources for carrying to successful conclusion research projects initiated by faculty Reek

also insisted on the importance of advanced degrees for his faculty

JD Maclachlan succeeded Reek as President in 1950 just in time to wrestle with the problems of expanshysion New facili ties were needed to cope with the post war growth in enrolment and already rumblings were heard about the need for expanshysion of the campus to more senior status

He played a key role in the planshyning which resulted in the formation of the Federated Colleges in 1962 as an intermediate step towards full university status which was achieved in 1964 When Dr Mac became the first President of the new Univershysity N R Richards then head of the Department of Soil Science became the first Dean of the best known agricultural college in the nation Richards played an important role in the councils of the fledgling univer shysity during those important early years

Under his leadership the College played its part as an integral part of

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the University providing leadership and providing key faculty members for several University departments During all this time however OAC never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget the place of agriculture on the campus as well as in the nations economy

When Professor Richards had completed his second five-year term as Dean in 1972 he returned to teaching in the Department of land Resource Science and Dr C M Switzer was named Dean (See article on Dean of Agriculture)

College relationships academic and polishytical

The last ten years of the Colleges first century have been its greatest to date Each year new records are set for numbers of students enrolled in OAC September 1973 saw 1150 full time students enrolled in the BSc(Agr) program of the College

Over the year s the relationship between th e OAC and the provincial department of agriculture has been close and fruitful Consistently the department has reacted to the needs of rural Ontario and the province in general by development and impleshymentation of new policies This reaction was clearly evident in the creation of new academic depart shyments on the campus As economic development proceeded the segments of the agribusiness industry acquired new needs and the Departshyment of Agriculture supported lhe growth of the College to meet these needs

An example of this relationship is the addition of an agricultural economist to the faculty of the college as the economic problems in agriculture gained recognition and as

business-like decision-making became more important in deciding the success of the farm operation Professor Archie Leitch of the Animal Husbandry Department began a cost accounting program on the College farm in the 20s and later was named Head of the Farm Management Departmen t He is perhaps best remembered for his work in organizing the Flue Tobacco Growers Association in the early 30s The work he began in Agriculshytural Economics has grown and now includes not only academic programs but special courses such as a weekshylong course for rural bankers

Another outgrowth of the close association between the campus and the Department of Agricu I ture may be seen in the establishment of the Agricu Itu ral Research I nsti tu te of Ontario to co-ordinate research program s and advise on de sirable projects

At the same time there has also been a continual close relationship between OAC and federal officials in agriculture For many years now CDA specialists in various fields have been posted on campus and have shared facilities with colleagues on the faculty here From the initiation of the degree program in 1887 until 1964 the campus enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the University of Toronto

Under the aegis of that University the Guelph BSA degree came to be recognized across Canada and around the world as representing a sound combination of practical background and academic training

Staff involvement and contributions

Over the past century many outstanding teachers and researchers have been members of the OAC faculty and countless graduates have played significant roles in their chosen segment of the agricultural industry

In the early days improved live shystock and livestock husbandry along with improved feed crops were the primary concern of Ontario farmers Men like Wade Toole and George Day are widely remembered by historians of the livestock industry along with field husbandry men like Squirrel and Zavitz Also in the pas t 25 years there has been a veri table

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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The Ontario Agricultural College has done much for Ontario for Canada during their 100 years

Continual research and advancement have been the standards in OACs contribution to agriculture We at Ontario Harvestore believe we hold to similar aims

And in Putting it All Together

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

Increase in the number of

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

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It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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73 graduates These fellows have diverse backgrounds and interests but all have the same goal setting up a profitable farming operation

Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

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One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

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100 years of progress Its a long way And we

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YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

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Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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campus highlights

CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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COME BACK TO GUELPH

FESTIVAL WEER The highlight of the OA C centennial celebrations will be Festival and Alumni Week in early July Alumni D ay normally held in June will be combined with a revival of the famou s Farm and Home Week The result will be eight days of entertainshyment education reminiscence and sheer fun A time to meet old friends and talk over old times to take in the old and the new to celebrate a once-in-a-lifetime event

O Festival Week will begin Saturday July 6 with the Century Caravan parade of floats bands and antique cars An o lde-tyme picnic on the front campus will be followed by the unveiling of an historical plaque on the Johnston portico a reunion banquet for Associate D iploma alumni and a dinner for c lasses 24 and earlier

DOn Sunday July 7 an interdenomishynational service wi ll be held at War Memorial Hall followed by a special exhibit of historical mementos in McLaughlin Library and an opporshytunit y to meet Professor Alex Ross author of Tllc Collcge 011 the H ill I n

the afternoon thelc will be wa lking tours of the campus and in the evening the opening of the U niversity art collection

DMonday July 8 will be Town and G own D ay to celebrate the close relationship between the campus and the cit y of G uelph A civic luncheon open houses and a golf tournament will be features of the day oTuesday July 9 is Agricultural Day to mark the beginning of the threeshyday Farm and Home Week program There will be a parade of livestock and machinery tours of the Elora Research Stltltion and a display of antique farm m achine ry

D Wednesday July 10 wi ll be Family Day with a special program arranged by the College of Family and Consumer Studies A family barbecue and cen tenn ia l dinner will be among the features

OThursday July 11 is Education D ay T he Farm and Home Week program continues with spec ial emphasis in 4-H programs The annual life science student seminar will run al l day with square da ncing in Creelman Pin) in the evening

O Friday July 12 is Alumni Developshyment D ay T here will be seminars for OAC and Mac-F ACS alumni folshylowed by annual business meetings During the day a ceremony marking the issue of a commemorat ive sta mp will be held and in the evening there will be a G erman beer garden and skits from the past

OSaturday fuly 13 Alumni Celebrashytion D ay will be the climax of Festival Week The day will begin with a chuck wagon breakfast followed by a centennial parade an olde-tyme picnic and the official opening of the Centennial Arboretum Centre The grand fina le will be the Centennial dinner and ball

DSullday July 14 is Recovery D ay A service of worship at W ar Memori a l H all will be followe d by brunch and th e art exh ibit and machinery display will remain open for the day

O A detailed brochure a nd registration form for Fes ti val Week will be mailed to you at the beginning of M ay Reservations should be made by June 15

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Canadian Agriculture runs on teamwork We salute the Ontario Agricultural College of the University of Guelph on its centenn ial year

OAC during its hundred year history has earned an international reputation for its

continuing and vital leadership in agricultural research and high academic standards in agricultural education We at Ciba-Geigy many of us OAC gradshyuates owe a debt of gratitude to the Ontario Agricultural Co llege for its generous coshyoperation in agricultural research and development This teamwork is invaluable to shyCanadian agricu lture

elBA-GEIGY Agrochemicals Division

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Congratulations Ontario Agricultural College on your first hundred

And thank you In 1874 you were a little stone farmhouse with 30 students who were eager to learn about modern farming

Since then you have

Founded the Ontario Experimental Union in the 1880s-a forerunner of soil and crop improvement societies and government extension services

Developed the Ontario poultry breeding stations and flock approval plan in the early 1900s which made a viable poultry industry possible

Developed OAC 21 a grain variety which became the standard of malting barley in North America

Introduced the Provincial Spray Service in 1924 which laid the foundation for efficient disease and pest control in the commercial orchard industry

Introduced new crop species to Canadian agriculture-such as alfalfa and soybeans

Been instrumental in the development of hybrid poultry breeding and the refinement of artificial insemination techniques for livestock

Developed insecticides herbicides and application procedures which have been directly responsible for the expansion of corn as a major crop in Ontario

Maintained a research organization which has played a key role in improving the efficiency of Ontario agriculture for the last 100 years

The achievements have been many-more than we can possibly print here But one achievement stands out among all the rest the Ontario Agricultural College educates and trains people whose work in agriculture has gone a long way in making this world a better place in which to live

From one centenarian to another were proud to have grown up with you

-Massey-Ferguson Industries Limited

Toronto Ontario

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OAC Centennial Celebrations

l Iniversity of (~uelph carnpus

Special public events

At Home OAC Farmers Meetings College Royal

January 1 Jan 234

Open House March 9 and 10

Guelph Spring Festival Apri l 27 -May 12

Dedication of Johnston Arch Historical Plaque July 6

Centennial Festival July 6-13 OAC Farm and Home

Week July 91011 Official opening of OAC Censhy

tennial Arboretum Centre July 13 OAC Centennial

Symposi um Oct 1718 Laureate of Agriculture Oct 17

International Conferences

Symposium on Haploids in Higher Plants June 10-14

American Dairy Science Assoc annual meeting June 23-26

International Congress of Farm Management July 14- 20

CanAm Horticultural Science annual meeti ng Aug 8-15

International Agricultural St udents Conference Aug 18-24

Other Conferences

Ontario Food Processors Fieldshymens Conference Jan 8910

Ontario Institute of Agrologists annual meeting April 14 - 18

Ontario Cheese makers Conference April 17

Canadian Feed Manufacturers Nutrition Conference April 2324

Ontario Dairy Industry Conference Apri I 2425

Canadian I nstitute of Food Science and Technology April 26

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Ontario Bankers School May 6-10 Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food Extension Branch Conference June 3-6

Environmental Science Teachers of Ontario May 234

4-H Provincial Conference June 16-18

Canadian Veterinary Medical Assoc annual meeting June 30-July 4

4middotH Provincial Girls Club Conference July 9-12

Eastern Apiculture Society Conference Aug 7-10

Junior Farmers Association of Ontario Aug 10-11

University of Guelph activities

Winter Carnival Jan 12- 18 Winter Convocation Feb 1 Conversat Dance Feb 2 Interuniversity Choral

Festival Feb 10 Spring Convocation May 222324 Fall Convocation Oct 4 Aggie Week September Homecoming Weekend Oct 18-20 Homecoming Football

game Oct 19

These are the events as arranged bV November 1st 1973

COVER

The Johnston arch is the portico of the original William Stone homestead shown here on the original Johnston Hall demolished in 1928 The arch still stands on the front campus of the University of Guelph and will be declared an historic site by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board during centennial year

Welcome to the Campus

On behalf of the Ontario Agriculmiddot

tural College of the University of

Guelph I would like to invite everyshy

one to participate in the many OAC Centennial 74 events to be

held on the campus

As we celebrate the 100th annimiddot

versary of the founding of the

College I would like to pay tribute to

the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food who initiated and then

operated the Guelph campus for the

first ninety years of its history The

OAC achieved a world-wide reputamiddot

tion under the direction of the Minshy

istry which still plays a vital role on

the campus especially in connection

with our research program

In addition t would like to conmiddot

gratulate the organizing committee

for the OAC Centennial Under the chairmanship of Professor Harvey

Caldwell the committee of faculty

staff and students has been work ing

for the past year planning the many

celebrations that will be held on the campus in 1974

You will be welcome at any or all

these events and especially during Festival Week

-WC Winegard

President

University of Guelph

GOOD FARIIIINGOA~SUPPLEMENT

A message from the Minister

The Ontario Agricultural College has established itself as an integral part of our agricultural industry in this Province and its influence has been felt throughout the length and breadth of Canada North America and indeed around the world The Government of Ontario is pleased with the close working relationship that has existed over the past 100 years We have every reason to believe the future will bring an even closer liaison to the benefit of all of society

Graduates of the Ontario Agriculshytural College have taken their place in every profession and their exshyposure to agricultural science has given them a deeper appreciation of farming and food production The Ontario Agricultural College has shown the way in a wide range of

research progra ms related to agr icu 1shyture food and human resources Ontario s hard earned position as a

leader in food production can be attributed in large part to these farshyreaching research projects

I a m pleased to extend to the Ontario Agricultural College and all those who have been and continue to be associated with it the warmest congratulations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ontario on reaching their Centennial year

William A Stewart Min ister of Agriculture and Food for Ontario

We congratulate the Ontario Agricultural College and recogshy

ONTARIO ASSOCIATION of ANIMAL BREEDERS

RR5 GUELPH ONTARIO and its member organization

Eastern Breeders Inc United Breeders Inc Western Ontario Breeders Inc

nize the contribution it has made to the advancement of cattle breeding through research data analysis and aU phases of sire evaluation and livestock improvement

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College History Reflects People Politics and Progress

BV Don Jose

Introduction

The growth and development of the Ontario Agricultural College after one hundred years make it the largest agricultural college in the British Commonwealth Its achievements have more than kept pace with its growth in size and it is these achieve shyments that permit it to lay claim to a premier place in agricultural educashytion research and extension

Former University of Toronto president Or Claude Bissell remarked that the Colleges name was known throughout the world both through those whom you attract here and those whom you h ave sent to serve mankind in most of the countries of the world

That statement was made at the first convocation of the University of Guelph and just following a world tour by Or Bissell during which he met and talked with many University of Toronto graduates from all facul ties He remarked on the large number of Ontario Agricultural College alumni he found around the world in relation to the number from other U of T facul ties most of them with much larger enrolments than OAC

The tradition at OAC of preshyparation for service and particularly in the international dimension has become an integral part of the phi 10shysophy of the University which the College spawned - a university that seems clearly destined to play an important role in higher education in Canada

JB Munro Deputy Minister of Agriculture in British Columbia once phrased an employers assessment of the College in apt rural phraseology I always like to hire men from OAC he said You shake them out of the bag they land on their feet and go right to work You cant say that about any other group

What then is the story of the College that has achieved these and

other accolades within its first century of existence And what has really been its role in the developshyment of agriculture and indeed of society the province of Ontario across Canada and over seas

It has been a story with its ups and downs and not without a share of controversies I t has been a story of dedication with many leaders who had a real feel ing for the needs of Ontario agriculture It has also been a story tinged with its share of political overtones It can be noted that the intrusions of politics into the administration of the college didnt all occur in the first half century of its existence However it must be said that the clear divorcing of College administration from political exigencies was well established before the founding of the University in 1964

During its first century of growth and maturing ten men have occupied the chief administrators position The first one Henry McCandless held office scarcely long enough to warm h is office chair Each of the others has made his own distinct contribution to the College There is a danger of underestimating the significance of the contributions of recent incumbents because of the difficulty of getting recent events into proper perspective for objective judgement

If the space devoted to the contri shybutions of recent heads of the college seems less than might seem proper it is only because space is limited and recent events are generally better known than those of earlier times The title of the position has changed over the years From Principal it became President when the School of Agriculture became the Ontario Agricultural College In 1962 with the formation of the Federated Colleges as an interim step towards the establishing of the University the head of the College became known as Dean

The Ontario Agricultural College was established with the purchase of

the William Stone Farm near Guelph in 1873 and the first students were enrolled on May 1 1874 But the birth pangs of the College were no less excruciating than those associmiddot ated with other births

The proposal to establish such a school of agriculture in the province had been under active discussion sometimes with more heat than light being generated for a period of five years John Carling then Commisshysioner of Agriculture and Public Works made such a proposal in his report in 1869 The need for improved agricultural techniques was evident it was even being proshypounded by Egerton Ryerson the architect of our public school system and several Land Grant Colleges had al ready been successshyfully launched in the US

After a great deal of political con troversy over the pu rch ase of a site at Mimico and a change of government the Stone farm was finally secured in 1873 and plans began to develop in earnest

The first class had 31 young men enrolled in a one-year course Those first students were expected to spend seven hou rs a day working in the fields and barns The time for classes came after that Admission requireshyments were equivalent of high school entrance The students received free board and lodging and if they passed their final examinations received a bonus of $50

The influences of the leaders

During its first year the School was rocked by controversy between the Principal and his staff but late that year a new principal was found in England For personal reasons he returned to England after a brief period and finally in the spring of 1875 William Johnston assumed the mantle of responsibility

Johnston had been serving as Rector of the new School a position which apparently was a combination

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of dean chief administrator and bursar Under his direction the school rapidly gained in stature and respectability and to him goes a great deal of credit for setting the fledgling school safely on the path to the many successses which have marked its first century

Johnston established a curricumiddot lum divided the School into a number of departments and hired lecturers With the School welJl established Johnston resigned in 1879 for reasons wh ich were never revealed and was succeeded by James Mills Johnston entered law but died at the age of 37

Dr Mills set about to counteract much of the serious criticism of the School which from the beginning had been widespread throughout the countryside A great deal of that criticism had been directed to the mismanagement of the Modell Farm The lines of authority were set up so that the head of the farm department reported directly to Toronto not to the Principal But in the eyes of the public the School and farm were one and the School was saddled with the blame for the farms shortshycomings

Another source of rural distrust of the School Mills was convinced arose from lack of public knowledge about the School and what it was doing Accordingly in 1883 he began two week vacation periods at Easter and Christmas so that the faculty could go out into the province and meet farmers and speak at meetings These were the Farmers Institutes and thus began the long and fruitful history of rural extension from the Guelph campus While this helped greatly there were limits on how many meetings the facul ty could get out to attend and limits on the number of people they could reach

That is why the summer excurshysions to the campus played such an important role in publicizing the college There is record of excursions from a number of counties as early as 1880 As years went by with the assistance of the railways the number increased

Under Mills there were also signifishycant changes in the academic proshygram In 1880 a two-year diploma program was instituted and the same year the name was changed hom Ontario School of Agriculture to Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm

In 1887 a third year with more

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Massey library was a favourite place to study 20 to 30 years ago

emphasis on academic work and less on practical subjects was added to the cu rriculum The next spring the long period of affiliation with the University of Toronto began and five candidates received the first Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degrees to be granted from this campus Among the five were GC Creelman who later succeeded Mills as President and CA Zavitz who as professor of field husbandry did much to enhance the reputation of OAC

Two other significant events which occurred just before Dr Mills tenure ended were the extension of the degree program to a four-year course in 1902 and the establishment of Macdonald Institute as a part of OAC in 1903 Macdonald Institute achieved separate status later

For George C Creelman who succeeded his father-in-law as Presishydent in 1904 and served until 1920 his incumbancy was a period of growth and expansion Many new buildings were added to the campus new academic programs added and many extension programs initiated or extended Perhaps the zenith of Creel mans career as president I ies in the fact that under him the College became almost completely acceptshyable among the people of rural Ontario No longer was the college viewed with suspicion or distrust Not only did Creelman get faculty members out on the back concession tackling the practical problems of orchardists livestock men and others but his own personal interest in rural Ontarios problems was evident

J B Reynolds who succeeded Creel man in 1920 was no stranger to the campus He first arrived in Guelph in 1893 to teach Physics and English later setting up the English Department and leaving the teaching

of Physics to others Reynolds was a classical scholar in the truest sense and his mark has ever remained on the Guelph campus Aggies from his day onward graduated with a reasonable exposure to the treasures of their mother tongue gained at the feet of ski 1led and dedicated teachers For instance Guelph was the first campus in Canada to offer a course in Canadian poetry

In 1915 Reynolds left to become President of the Manitoba Agricultural College returning to Guelph in 1920 Reynolds was born and raised on a small Ontario farm in Durham County and after his precipitate retirement in 1928 he returned to the farm and ran a successful operation for many years

Two important academic advances occurred du ring the presidency of Dr Reynolds In 1920 the requireshyment of Junior Matriculation for admission to the degree course was initiated For the first time the academic program for the first two years of the degree cou rse was different from that offered Diploma students But since in those days it was difficult for many rural students living long distances from school to complete high school an intershymediate year was offered to enable Diploma graduates to shift into the degree course (Many outstanding alumni entered the degree course by this means ) The Intermediate Year program was in effect until accessshyability to high schools became universal in the 1940s

Another important academic advance was the introduction of a graduate study program leading to the MSA degree in 1926 This program was under the supervision of a Conjoint Committee composed of six representatives of the University of Toronto graduate faculty and six representatives of the Guelph faculty Dr J P McMu rrich Dean of Graduate Studies at Toronto was Chairman and Prof Aw Baker of Guelph was Secretary The first MSA degrees were awarded in 1928

George I Christie had perhaps the most frustrating incum bency of all OACs presidents He had the depresshysion years to cope with and also the war years The political problems of the college reached a peak in the early to mid thirties For example 35 facul ty mem bers were re i ieved of

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their duties in one stroke of the Minister Duncan Marshalls pen Under PM Dewan however the situation improved noticeably

George Christies booming voice and cogent comments almost came to be the hallmark of a successful farm meeting He spoke throughout the province and did much to window-dress the college in rural Ontario Plagued by uncertain health he was forced to retire in 1942

W R Reek who succeeded Christie first as Acting President and later as President had some natural advantages in his favour Perhaps the greatest was the fact that Thomas L Kennedy was Mini ster of Agriculture Together the two men steered the College through what might be called the turning point in its history A new spirit was instilled into the institution and the stage was set for the great period of growth which followed The time of Reeks appointment was a natural growth period following the war years and their restric tions however his influence in setting the stage for the great period of expanded research which foil owed cannot be denied It was at about this time that industry in general began to back research efforts to a greater degree They provided the resources for carrying to successful conclusion research projects initiated by faculty Reek

also insisted on the importance of advanced degrees for his faculty

JD Maclachlan succeeded Reek as President in 1950 just in time to wrestle with the problems of expanshysion New facili ties were needed to cope with the post war growth in enrolment and already rumblings were heard about the need for expanshysion of the campus to more senior status

He played a key role in the planshyning which resulted in the formation of the Federated Colleges in 1962 as an intermediate step towards full university status which was achieved in 1964 When Dr Mac became the first President of the new Univershysity N R Richards then head of the Department of Soil Science became the first Dean of the best known agricultural college in the nation Richards played an important role in the councils of the fledgling univer shysity during those important early years

Under his leadership the College played its part as an integral part of

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the University providing leadership and providing key faculty members for several University departments During all this time however OAC never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget the place of agriculture on the campus as well as in the nations economy

When Professor Richards had completed his second five-year term as Dean in 1972 he returned to teaching in the Department of land Resource Science and Dr C M Switzer was named Dean (See article on Dean of Agriculture)

College relationships academic and polishytical

The last ten years of the Colleges first century have been its greatest to date Each year new records are set for numbers of students enrolled in OAC September 1973 saw 1150 full time students enrolled in the BSc(Agr) program of the College

Over the year s the relationship between th e OAC and the provincial department of agriculture has been close and fruitful Consistently the department has reacted to the needs of rural Ontario and the province in general by development and impleshymentation of new policies This reaction was clearly evident in the creation of new academic depart shyments on the campus As economic development proceeded the segments of the agribusiness industry acquired new needs and the Departshyment of Agriculture supported lhe growth of the College to meet these needs

An example of this relationship is the addition of an agricultural economist to the faculty of the college as the economic problems in agriculture gained recognition and as

business-like decision-making became more important in deciding the success of the farm operation Professor Archie Leitch of the Animal Husbandry Department began a cost accounting program on the College farm in the 20s and later was named Head of the Farm Management Departmen t He is perhaps best remembered for his work in organizing the Flue Tobacco Growers Association in the early 30s The work he began in Agriculshytural Economics has grown and now includes not only academic programs but special courses such as a weekshylong course for rural bankers

Another outgrowth of the close association between the campus and the Department of Agricu I ture may be seen in the establishment of the Agricu Itu ral Research I nsti tu te of Ontario to co-ordinate research program s and advise on de sirable projects

At the same time there has also been a continual close relationship between OAC and federal officials in agriculture For many years now CDA specialists in various fields have been posted on campus and have shared facilities with colleagues on the faculty here From the initiation of the degree program in 1887 until 1964 the campus enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the University of Toronto

Under the aegis of that University the Guelph BSA degree came to be recognized across Canada and around the world as representing a sound combination of practical background and academic training

Staff involvement and contributions

Over the past century many outstanding teachers and researchers have been members of the OAC faculty and countless graduates have played significant roles in their chosen segment of the agricultural industry

In the early days improved live shystock and livestock husbandry along with improved feed crops were the primary concern of Ontario farmers Men like Wade Toole and George Day are widely remembered by historians of the livestock industry along with field husbandry men like Squirrel and Zavitz Also in the pas t 25 years there has been a veri table

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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Continual research and advancement have been the standards in OACs contribution to agriculture We at Ontario Harvestore believe we hold to similar aims

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

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It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

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One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

DEKALB CANADA LTD Chatham Ontario Canada

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

24 G O O D F A R M I N G O A C SUPP L E M ENT

John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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PO BOX 129 LONDON ONTARIO

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

AN

ENVIABLE

RECORD

One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

be as fruitful and as helpful

to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

WILDWOOD FARM SERVICES RR 3 Embro Ontario

kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

Congratulations

on 100 years ofcontribution

to agriculture shy

for Canada the WOrld

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

Ontario Agricultural College

THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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-Canada Packers Research Headquarters

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

UNlVERSIIY It1 ~OFGUELPH

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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Canadian Agriculture runs on teamwork We salute the Ontario Agricultural College of the University of Guelph on its centenn ial year

OAC during its hundred year history has earned an international reputation for its

continuing and vital leadership in agricultural research and high academic standards in agricultural education We at Ciba-Geigy many of us OAC gradshyuates owe a debt of gratitude to the Ontario Agricultural Co llege for its generous coshyoperation in agricultural research and development This teamwork is invaluable to shyCanadian agricu lture

elBA-GEIGY Agrochemicals Division

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Congratulations Ontario Agricultural College on your first hundred

And thank you In 1874 you were a little stone farmhouse with 30 students who were eager to learn about modern farming

Since then you have

Founded the Ontario Experimental Union in the 1880s-a forerunner of soil and crop improvement societies and government extension services

Developed the Ontario poultry breeding stations and flock approval plan in the early 1900s which made a viable poultry industry possible

Developed OAC 21 a grain variety which became the standard of malting barley in North America

Introduced the Provincial Spray Service in 1924 which laid the foundation for efficient disease and pest control in the commercial orchard industry

Introduced new crop species to Canadian agriculture-such as alfalfa and soybeans

Been instrumental in the development of hybrid poultry breeding and the refinement of artificial insemination techniques for livestock

Developed insecticides herbicides and application procedures which have been directly responsible for the expansion of corn as a major crop in Ontario

Maintained a research organization which has played a key role in improving the efficiency of Ontario agriculture for the last 100 years

The achievements have been many-more than we can possibly print here But one achievement stands out among all the rest the Ontario Agricultural College educates and trains people whose work in agriculture has gone a long way in making this world a better place in which to live

From one centenarian to another were proud to have grown up with you

-Massey-Ferguson Industries Limited

Toronto Ontario

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OAC Centennial Celebrations

l Iniversity of (~uelph carnpus

Special public events

At Home OAC Farmers Meetings College Royal

January 1 Jan 234

Open House March 9 and 10

Guelph Spring Festival Apri l 27 -May 12

Dedication of Johnston Arch Historical Plaque July 6

Centennial Festival July 6-13 OAC Farm and Home

Week July 91011 Official opening of OAC Censhy

tennial Arboretum Centre July 13 OAC Centennial

Symposi um Oct 1718 Laureate of Agriculture Oct 17

International Conferences

Symposium on Haploids in Higher Plants June 10-14

American Dairy Science Assoc annual meeting June 23-26

International Congress of Farm Management July 14- 20

CanAm Horticultural Science annual meeti ng Aug 8-15

International Agricultural St udents Conference Aug 18-24

Other Conferences

Ontario Food Processors Fieldshymens Conference Jan 8910

Ontario Institute of Agrologists annual meeting April 14 - 18

Ontario Cheese makers Conference April 17

Canadian Feed Manufacturers Nutrition Conference April 2324

Ontario Dairy Industry Conference Apri I 2425

Canadian I nstitute of Food Science and Technology April 26

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Ontario Bankers School May 6-10 Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food Extension Branch Conference June 3-6

Environmental Science Teachers of Ontario May 234

4-H Provincial Conference June 16-18

Canadian Veterinary Medical Assoc annual meeting June 30-July 4

4middotH Provincial Girls Club Conference July 9-12

Eastern Apiculture Society Conference Aug 7-10

Junior Farmers Association of Ontario Aug 10-11

University of Guelph activities

Winter Carnival Jan 12- 18 Winter Convocation Feb 1 Conversat Dance Feb 2 Interuniversity Choral

Festival Feb 10 Spring Convocation May 222324 Fall Convocation Oct 4 Aggie Week September Homecoming Weekend Oct 18-20 Homecoming Football

game Oct 19

These are the events as arranged bV November 1st 1973

COVER

The Johnston arch is the portico of the original William Stone homestead shown here on the original Johnston Hall demolished in 1928 The arch still stands on the front campus of the University of Guelph and will be declared an historic site by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board during centennial year

Welcome to the Campus

On behalf of the Ontario Agriculmiddot

tural College of the University of

Guelph I would like to invite everyshy

one to participate in the many OAC Centennial 74 events to be

held on the campus

As we celebrate the 100th annimiddot

versary of the founding of the

College I would like to pay tribute to

the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food who initiated and then

operated the Guelph campus for the

first ninety years of its history The

OAC achieved a world-wide reputamiddot

tion under the direction of the Minshy

istry which still plays a vital role on

the campus especially in connection

with our research program

In addition t would like to conmiddot

gratulate the organizing committee

for the OAC Centennial Under the chairmanship of Professor Harvey

Caldwell the committee of faculty

staff and students has been work ing

for the past year planning the many

celebrations that will be held on the campus in 1974

You will be welcome at any or all

these events and especially during Festival Week

-WC Winegard

President

University of Guelph

GOOD FARIIIINGOA~SUPPLEMENT

A message from the Minister

The Ontario Agricultural College has established itself as an integral part of our agricultural industry in this Province and its influence has been felt throughout the length and breadth of Canada North America and indeed around the world The Government of Ontario is pleased with the close working relationship that has existed over the past 100 years We have every reason to believe the future will bring an even closer liaison to the benefit of all of society

Graduates of the Ontario Agriculshytural College have taken their place in every profession and their exshyposure to agricultural science has given them a deeper appreciation of farming and food production The Ontario Agricultural College has shown the way in a wide range of

research progra ms related to agr icu 1shyture food and human resources Ontario s hard earned position as a

leader in food production can be attributed in large part to these farshyreaching research projects

I a m pleased to extend to the Ontario Agricultural College and all those who have been and continue to be associated with it the warmest congratulations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ontario on reaching their Centennial year

William A Stewart Min ister of Agriculture and Food for Ontario

We congratulate the Ontario Agricultural College and recogshy

ONTARIO ASSOCIATION of ANIMAL BREEDERS

RR5 GUELPH ONTARIO and its member organization

Eastern Breeders Inc United Breeders Inc Western Ontario Breeders Inc

nize the contribution it has made to the advancement of cattle breeding through research data analysis and aU phases of sire evaluation and livestock improvement

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College History Reflects People Politics and Progress

BV Don Jose

Introduction

The growth and development of the Ontario Agricultural College after one hundred years make it the largest agricultural college in the British Commonwealth Its achievements have more than kept pace with its growth in size and it is these achieve shyments that permit it to lay claim to a premier place in agricultural educashytion research and extension

Former University of Toronto president Or Claude Bissell remarked that the Colleges name was known throughout the world both through those whom you attract here and those whom you h ave sent to serve mankind in most of the countries of the world

That statement was made at the first convocation of the University of Guelph and just following a world tour by Or Bissell during which he met and talked with many University of Toronto graduates from all facul ties He remarked on the large number of Ontario Agricultural College alumni he found around the world in relation to the number from other U of T facul ties most of them with much larger enrolments than OAC

The tradition at OAC of preshyparation for service and particularly in the international dimension has become an integral part of the phi 10shysophy of the University which the College spawned - a university that seems clearly destined to play an important role in higher education in Canada

JB Munro Deputy Minister of Agriculture in British Columbia once phrased an employers assessment of the College in apt rural phraseology I always like to hire men from OAC he said You shake them out of the bag they land on their feet and go right to work You cant say that about any other group

What then is the story of the College that has achieved these and

other accolades within its first century of existence And what has really been its role in the developshyment of agriculture and indeed of society the province of Ontario across Canada and over seas

It has been a story with its ups and downs and not without a share of controversies I t has been a story of dedication with many leaders who had a real feel ing for the needs of Ontario agriculture It has also been a story tinged with its share of political overtones It can be noted that the intrusions of politics into the administration of the college didnt all occur in the first half century of its existence However it must be said that the clear divorcing of College administration from political exigencies was well established before the founding of the University in 1964

During its first century of growth and maturing ten men have occupied the chief administrators position The first one Henry McCandless held office scarcely long enough to warm h is office chair Each of the others has made his own distinct contribution to the College There is a danger of underestimating the significance of the contributions of recent incumbents because of the difficulty of getting recent events into proper perspective for objective judgement

If the space devoted to the contri shybutions of recent heads of the college seems less than might seem proper it is only because space is limited and recent events are generally better known than those of earlier times The title of the position has changed over the years From Principal it became President when the School of Agriculture became the Ontario Agricultural College In 1962 with the formation of the Federated Colleges as an interim step towards the establishing of the University the head of the College became known as Dean

The Ontario Agricultural College was established with the purchase of

the William Stone Farm near Guelph in 1873 and the first students were enrolled on May 1 1874 But the birth pangs of the College were no less excruciating than those associmiddot ated with other births

The proposal to establish such a school of agriculture in the province had been under active discussion sometimes with more heat than light being generated for a period of five years John Carling then Commisshysioner of Agriculture and Public Works made such a proposal in his report in 1869 The need for improved agricultural techniques was evident it was even being proshypounded by Egerton Ryerson the architect of our public school system and several Land Grant Colleges had al ready been successshyfully launched in the US

After a great deal of political con troversy over the pu rch ase of a site at Mimico and a change of government the Stone farm was finally secured in 1873 and plans began to develop in earnest

The first class had 31 young men enrolled in a one-year course Those first students were expected to spend seven hou rs a day working in the fields and barns The time for classes came after that Admission requireshyments were equivalent of high school entrance The students received free board and lodging and if they passed their final examinations received a bonus of $50

The influences of the leaders

During its first year the School was rocked by controversy between the Principal and his staff but late that year a new principal was found in England For personal reasons he returned to England after a brief period and finally in the spring of 1875 William Johnston assumed the mantle of responsibility

Johnston had been serving as Rector of the new School a position which apparently was a combination

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of dean chief administrator and bursar Under his direction the school rapidly gained in stature and respectability and to him goes a great deal of credit for setting the fledgling school safely on the path to the many successses which have marked its first century

Johnston established a curricumiddot lum divided the School into a number of departments and hired lecturers With the School welJl established Johnston resigned in 1879 for reasons wh ich were never revealed and was succeeded by James Mills Johnston entered law but died at the age of 37

Dr Mills set about to counteract much of the serious criticism of the School which from the beginning had been widespread throughout the countryside A great deal of that criticism had been directed to the mismanagement of the Modell Farm The lines of authority were set up so that the head of the farm department reported directly to Toronto not to the Principal But in the eyes of the public the School and farm were one and the School was saddled with the blame for the farms shortshycomings

Another source of rural distrust of the School Mills was convinced arose from lack of public knowledge about the School and what it was doing Accordingly in 1883 he began two week vacation periods at Easter and Christmas so that the faculty could go out into the province and meet farmers and speak at meetings These were the Farmers Institutes and thus began the long and fruitful history of rural extension from the Guelph campus While this helped greatly there were limits on how many meetings the facul ty could get out to attend and limits on the number of people they could reach

That is why the summer excurshysions to the campus played such an important role in publicizing the college There is record of excursions from a number of counties as early as 1880 As years went by with the assistance of the railways the number increased

Under Mills there were also signifishycant changes in the academic proshygram In 1880 a two-year diploma program was instituted and the same year the name was changed hom Ontario School of Agriculture to Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm

In 1887 a third year with more

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emphasis on academic work and less on practical subjects was added to the cu rriculum The next spring the long period of affiliation with the University of Toronto began and five candidates received the first Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degrees to be granted from this campus Among the five were GC Creelman who later succeeded Mills as President and CA Zavitz who as professor of field husbandry did much to enhance the reputation of OAC

Two other significant events which occurred just before Dr Mills tenure ended were the extension of the degree program to a four-year course in 1902 and the establishment of Macdonald Institute as a part of OAC in 1903 Macdonald Institute achieved separate status later

For George C Creelman who succeeded his father-in-law as Presishydent in 1904 and served until 1920 his incumbancy was a period of growth and expansion Many new buildings were added to the campus new academic programs added and many extension programs initiated or extended Perhaps the zenith of Creel mans career as president I ies in the fact that under him the College became almost completely acceptshyable among the people of rural Ontario No longer was the college viewed with suspicion or distrust Not only did Creelman get faculty members out on the back concession tackling the practical problems of orchardists livestock men and others but his own personal interest in rural Ontarios problems was evident

J B Reynolds who succeeded Creel man in 1920 was no stranger to the campus He first arrived in Guelph in 1893 to teach Physics and English later setting up the English Department and leaving the teaching

of Physics to others Reynolds was a classical scholar in the truest sense and his mark has ever remained on the Guelph campus Aggies from his day onward graduated with a reasonable exposure to the treasures of their mother tongue gained at the feet of ski 1led and dedicated teachers For instance Guelph was the first campus in Canada to offer a course in Canadian poetry

In 1915 Reynolds left to become President of the Manitoba Agricultural College returning to Guelph in 1920 Reynolds was born and raised on a small Ontario farm in Durham County and after his precipitate retirement in 1928 he returned to the farm and ran a successful operation for many years

Two important academic advances occurred du ring the presidency of Dr Reynolds In 1920 the requireshyment of Junior Matriculation for admission to the degree course was initiated For the first time the academic program for the first two years of the degree cou rse was different from that offered Diploma students But since in those days it was difficult for many rural students living long distances from school to complete high school an intershymediate year was offered to enable Diploma graduates to shift into the degree course (Many outstanding alumni entered the degree course by this means ) The Intermediate Year program was in effect until accessshyability to high schools became universal in the 1940s

Another important academic advance was the introduction of a graduate study program leading to the MSA degree in 1926 This program was under the supervision of a Conjoint Committee composed of six representatives of the University of Toronto graduate faculty and six representatives of the Guelph faculty Dr J P McMu rrich Dean of Graduate Studies at Toronto was Chairman and Prof Aw Baker of Guelph was Secretary The first MSA degrees were awarded in 1928

George I Christie had perhaps the most frustrating incum bency of all OACs presidents He had the depresshysion years to cope with and also the war years The political problems of the college reached a peak in the early to mid thirties For example 35 facul ty mem bers were re i ieved of

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their duties in one stroke of the Minister Duncan Marshalls pen Under PM Dewan however the situation improved noticeably

George Christies booming voice and cogent comments almost came to be the hallmark of a successful farm meeting He spoke throughout the province and did much to window-dress the college in rural Ontario Plagued by uncertain health he was forced to retire in 1942

W R Reek who succeeded Christie first as Acting President and later as President had some natural advantages in his favour Perhaps the greatest was the fact that Thomas L Kennedy was Mini ster of Agriculture Together the two men steered the College through what might be called the turning point in its history A new spirit was instilled into the institution and the stage was set for the great period of growth which followed The time of Reeks appointment was a natural growth period following the war years and their restric tions however his influence in setting the stage for the great period of expanded research which foil owed cannot be denied It was at about this time that industry in general began to back research efforts to a greater degree They provided the resources for carrying to successful conclusion research projects initiated by faculty Reek

also insisted on the importance of advanced degrees for his faculty

JD Maclachlan succeeded Reek as President in 1950 just in time to wrestle with the problems of expanshysion New facili ties were needed to cope with the post war growth in enrolment and already rumblings were heard about the need for expanshysion of the campus to more senior status

He played a key role in the planshyning which resulted in the formation of the Federated Colleges in 1962 as an intermediate step towards full university status which was achieved in 1964 When Dr Mac became the first President of the new Univershysity N R Richards then head of the Department of Soil Science became the first Dean of the best known agricultural college in the nation Richards played an important role in the councils of the fledgling univer shysity during those important early years

Under his leadership the College played its part as an integral part of

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the University providing leadership and providing key faculty members for several University departments During all this time however OAC never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget the place of agriculture on the campus as well as in the nations economy

When Professor Richards had completed his second five-year term as Dean in 1972 he returned to teaching in the Department of land Resource Science and Dr C M Switzer was named Dean (See article on Dean of Agriculture)

College relationships academic and polishytical

The last ten years of the Colleges first century have been its greatest to date Each year new records are set for numbers of students enrolled in OAC September 1973 saw 1150 full time students enrolled in the BSc(Agr) program of the College

Over the year s the relationship between th e OAC and the provincial department of agriculture has been close and fruitful Consistently the department has reacted to the needs of rural Ontario and the province in general by development and impleshymentation of new policies This reaction was clearly evident in the creation of new academic depart shyments on the campus As economic development proceeded the segments of the agribusiness industry acquired new needs and the Departshyment of Agriculture supported lhe growth of the College to meet these needs

An example of this relationship is the addition of an agricultural economist to the faculty of the college as the economic problems in agriculture gained recognition and as

business-like decision-making became more important in deciding the success of the farm operation Professor Archie Leitch of the Animal Husbandry Department began a cost accounting program on the College farm in the 20s and later was named Head of the Farm Management Departmen t He is perhaps best remembered for his work in organizing the Flue Tobacco Growers Association in the early 30s The work he began in Agriculshytural Economics has grown and now includes not only academic programs but special courses such as a weekshylong course for rural bankers

Another outgrowth of the close association between the campus and the Department of Agricu I ture may be seen in the establishment of the Agricu Itu ral Research I nsti tu te of Ontario to co-ordinate research program s and advise on de sirable projects

At the same time there has also been a continual close relationship between OAC and federal officials in agriculture For many years now CDA specialists in various fields have been posted on campus and have shared facilities with colleagues on the faculty here From the initiation of the degree program in 1887 until 1964 the campus enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the University of Toronto

Under the aegis of that University the Guelph BSA degree came to be recognized across Canada and around the world as representing a sound combination of practical background and academic training

Staff involvement and contributions

Over the past century many outstanding teachers and researchers have been members of the OAC faculty and countless graduates have played significant roles in their chosen segment of the agricultural industry

In the early days improved live shystock and livestock husbandry along with improved feed crops were the primary concern of Ontario farmers Men like Wade Toole and George Day are widely remembered by historians of the livestock industry along with field husbandry men like Squirrel and Zavitz Also in the pas t 25 years there has been a veri table

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CongratulationsOntario

Agricultural shyCollege on your first

hundredyears

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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Putting it all together for 100 Years

The Ontario Agricultural College has done much for Ontario for Canada during their 100 years

Continual research and advancement have been the standards in OACs contribution to agriculture We at Ontario Harvestore believe we hold to similar aims

And in Putting it All Together

Ontario Harvestore Systems Ltd of Guelph Ontario has the people experience products and equipment needed to custom a completely automated storage and feeding system to your needs

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

Increase in the number of

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

SB WILLIAMS DEPUTY MINISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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73 graduates These fellows have diverse backgrounds and interests but all have the same goal setting up a profitable farming operation

Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

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first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

Congratulations

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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Congratulations Ontario Agricultural College on your first hundred

And thank you In 1874 you were a little stone farmhouse with 30 students who were eager to learn about modern farming

Since then you have

Founded the Ontario Experimental Union in the 1880s-a forerunner of soil and crop improvement societies and government extension services

Developed the Ontario poultry breeding stations and flock approval plan in the early 1900s which made a viable poultry industry possible

Developed OAC 21 a grain variety which became the standard of malting barley in North America

Introduced the Provincial Spray Service in 1924 which laid the foundation for efficient disease and pest control in the commercial orchard industry

Introduced new crop species to Canadian agriculture-such as alfalfa and soybeans

Been instrumental in the development of hybrid poultry breeding and the refinement of artificial insemination techniques for livestock

Developed insecticides herbicides and application procedures which have been directly responsible for the expansion of corn as a major crop in Ontario

Maintained a research organization which has played a key role in improving the efficiency of Ontario agriculture for the last 100 years

The achievements have been many-more than we can possibly print here But one achievement stands out among all the rest the Ontario Agricultural College educates and trains people whose work in agriculture has gone a long way in making this world a better place in which to live

From one centenarian to another were proud to have grown up with you

-Massey-Ferguson Industries Limited

Toronto Ontario

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OAC Centennial Celebrations

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Special public events

At Home OAC Farmers Meetings College Royal

January 1 Jan 234

Open House March 9 and 10

Guelph Spring Festival Apri l 27 -May 12

Dedication of Johnston Arch Historical Plaque July 6

Centennial Festival July 6-13 OAC Farm and Home

Week July 91011 Official opening of OAC Censhy

tennial Arboretum Centre July 13 OAC Centennial

Symposi um Oct 1718 Laureate of Agriculture Oct 17

International Conferences

Symposium on Haploids in Higher Plants June 10-14

American Dairy Science Assoc annual meeting June 23-26

International Congress of Farm Management July 14- 20

CanAm Horticultural Science annual meeti ng Aug 8-15

International Agricultural St udents Conference Aug 18-24

Other Conferences

Ontario Food Processors Fieldshymens Conference Jan 8910

Ontario Institute of Agrologists annual meeting April 14 - 18

Ontario Cheese makers Conference April 17

Canadian Feed Manufacturers Nutrition Conference April 2324

Ontario Dairy Industry Conference Apri I 2425

Canadian I nstitute of Food Science and Technology April 26

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Ontario Bankers School May 6-10 Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food Extension Branch Conference June 3-6

Environmental Science Teachers of Ontario May 234

4-H Provincial Conference June 16-18

Canadian Veterinary Medical Assoc annual meeting June 30-July 4

4middotH Provincial Girls Club Conference July 9-12

Eastern Apiculture Society Conference Aug 7-10

Junior Farmers Association of Ontario Aug 10-11

University of Guelph activities

Winter Carnival Jan 12- 18 Winter Convocation Feb 1 Conversat Dance Feb 2 Interuniversity Choral

Festival Feb 10 Spring Convocation May 222324 Fall Convocation Oct 4 Aggie Week September Homecoming Weekend Oct 18-20 Homecoming Football

game Oct 19

These are the events as arranged bV November 1st 1973

COVER

The Johnston arch is the portico of the original William Stone homestead shown here on the original Johnston Hall demolished in 1928 The arch still stands on the front campus of the University of Guelph and will be declared an historic site by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board during centennial year

Welcome to the Campus

On behalf of the Ontario Agriculmiddot

tural College of the University of

Guelph I would like to invite everyshy

one to participate in the many OAC Centennial 74 events to be

held on the campus

As we celebrate the 100th annimiddot

versary of the founding of the

College I would like to pay tribute to

the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food who initiated and then

operated the Guelph campus for the

first ninety years of its history The

OAC achieved a world-wide reputamiddot

tion under the direction of the Minshy

istry which still plays a vital role on

the campus especially in connection

with our research program

In addition t would like to conmiddot

gratulate the organizing committee

for the OAC Centennial Under the chairmanship of Professor Harvey

Caldwell the committee of faculty

staff and students has been work ing

for the past year planning the many

celebrations that will be held on the campus in 1974

You will be welcome at any or all

these events and especially during Festival Week

-WC Winegard

President

University of Guelph

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A message from the Minister

The Ontario Agricultural College has established itself as an integral part of our agricultural industry in this Province and its influence has been felt throughout the length and breadth of Canada North America and indeed around the world The Government of Ontario is pleased with the close working relationship that has existed over the past 100 years We have every reason to believe the future will bring an even closer liaison to the benefit of all of society

Graduates of the Ontario Agriculshytural College have taken their place in every profession and their exshyposure to agricultural science has given them a deeper appreciation of farming and food production The Ontario Agricultural College has shown the way in a wide range of

research progra ms related to agr icu 1shyture food and human resources Ontario s hard earned position as a

leader in food production can be attributed in large part to these farshyreaching research projects

I a m pleased to extend to the Ontario Agricultural College and all those who have been and continue to be associated with it the warmest congratulations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ontario on reaching their Centennial year

William A Stewart Min ister of Agriculture and Food for Ontario

We congratulate the Ontario Agricultural College and recogshy

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College History Reflects People Politics and Progress

BV Don Jose

Introduction

The growth and development of the Ontario Agricultural College after one hundred years make it the largest agricultural college in the British Commonwealth Its achievements have more than kept pace with its growth in size and it is these achieve shyments that permit it to lay claim to a premier place in agricultural educashytion research and extension

Former University of Toronto president Or Claude Bissell remarked that the Colleges name was known throughout the world both through those whom you attract here and those whom you h ave sent to serve mankind in most of the countries of the world

That statement was made at the first convocation of the University of Guelph and just following a world tour by Or Bissell during which he met and talked with many University of Toronto graduates from all facul ties He remarked on the large number of Ontario Agricultural College alumni he found around the world in relation to the number from other U of T facul ties most of them with much larger enrolments than OAC

The tradition at OAC of preshyparation for service and particularly in the international dimension has become an integral part of the phi 10shysophy of the University which the College spawned - a university that seems clearly destined to play an important role in higher education in Canada

JB Munro Deputy Minister of Agriculture in British Columbia once phrased an employers assessment of the College in apt rural phraseology I always like to hire men from OAC he said You shake them out of the bag they land on their feet and go right to work You cant say that about any other group

What then is the story of the College that has achieved these and

other accolades within its first century of existence And what has really been its role in the developshyment of agriculture and indeed of society the province of Ontario across Canada and over seas

It has been a story with its ups and downs and not without a share of controversies I t has been a story of dedication with many leaders who had a real feel ing for the needs of Ontario agriculture It has also been a story tinged with its share of political overtones It can be noted that the intrusions of politics into the administration of the college didnt all occur in the first half century of its existence However it must be said that the clear divorcing of College administration from political exigencies was well established before the founding of the University in 1964

During its first century of growth and maturing ten men have occupied the chief administrators position The first one Henry McCandless held office scarcely long enough to warm h is office chair Each of the others has made his own distinct contribution to the College There is a danger of underestimating the significance of the contributions of recent incumbents because of the difficulty of getting recent events into proper perspective for objective judgement

If the space devoted to the contri shybutions of recent heads of the college seems less than might seem proper it is only because space is limited and recent events are generally better known than those of earlier times The title of the position has changed over the years From Principal it became President when the School of Agriculture became the Ontario Agricultural College In 1962 with the formation of the Federated Colleges as an interim step towards the establishing of the University the head of the College became known as Dean

The Ontario Agricultural College was established with the purchase of

the William Stone Farm near Guelph in 1873 and the first students were enrolled on May 1 1874 But the birth pangs of the College were no less excruciating than those associmiddot ated with other births

The proposal to establish such a school of agriculture in the province had been under active discussion sometimes with more heat than light being generated for a period of five years John Carling then Commisshysioner of Agriculture and Public Works made such a proposal in his report in 1869 The need for improved agricultural techniques was evident it was even being proshypounded by Egerton Ryerson the architect of our public school system and several Land Grant Colleges had al ready been successshyfully launched in the US

After a great deal of political con troversy over the pu rch ase of a site at Mimico and a change of government the Stone farm was finally secured in 1873 and plans began to develop in earnest

The first class had 31 young men enrolled in a one-year course Those first students were expected to spend seven hou rs a day working in the fields and barns The time for classes came after that Admission requireshyments were equivalent of high school entrance The students received free board and lodging and if they passed their final examinations received a bonus of $50

The influences of the leaders

During its first year the School was rocked by controversy between the Principal and his staff but late that year a new principal was found in England For personal reasons he returned to England after a brief period and finally in the spring of 1875 William Johnston assumed the mantle of responsibility

Johnston had been serving as Rector of the new School a position which apparently was a combination

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of dean chief administrator and bursar Under his direction the school rapidly gained in stature and respectability and to him goes a great deal of credit for setting the fledgling school safely on the path to the many successses which have marked its first century

Johnston established a curricumiddot lum divided the School into a number of departments and hired lecturers With the School welJl established Johnston resigned in 1879 for reasons wh ich were never revealed and was succeeded by James Mills Johnston entered law but died at the age of 37

Dr Mills set about to counteract much of the serious criticism of the School which from the beginning had been widespread throughout the countryside A great deal of that criticism had been directed to the mismanagement of the Modell Farm The lines of authority were set up so that the head of the farm department reported directly to Toronto not to the Principal But in the eyes of the public the School and farm were one and the School was saddled with the blame for the farms shortshycomings

Another source of rural distrust of the School Mills was convinced arose from lack of public knowledge about the School and what it was doing Accordingly in 1883 he began two week vacation periods at Easter and Christmas so that the faculty could go out into the province and meet farmers and speak at meetings These were the Farmers Institutes and thus began the long and fruitful history of rural extension from the Guelph campus While this helped greatly there were limits on how many meetings the facul ty could get out to attend and limits on the number of people they could reach

That is why the summer excurshysions to the campus played such an important role in publicizing the college There is record of excursions from a number of counties as early as 1880 As years went by with the assistance of the railways the number increased

Under Mills there were also signifishycant changes in the academic proshygram In 1880 a two-year diploma program was instituted and the same year the name was changed hom Ontario School of Agriculture to Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm

In 1887 a third year with more

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emphasis on academic work and less on practical subjects was added to the cu rriculum The next spring the long period of affiliation with the University of Toronto began and five candidates received the first Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degrees to be granted from this campus Among the five were GC Creelman who later succeeded Mills as President and CA Zavitz who as professor of field husbandry did much to enhance the reputation of OAC

Two other significant events which occurred just before Dr Mills tenure ended were the extension of the degree program to a four-year course in 1902 and the establishment of Macdonald Institute as a part of OAC in 1903 Macdonald Institute achieved separate status later

For George C Creelman who succeeded his father-in-law as Presishydent in 1904 and served until 1920 his incumbancy was a period of growth and expansion Many new buildings were added to the campus new academic programs added and many extension programs initiated or extended Perhaps the zenith of Creel mans career as president I ies in the fact that under him the College became almost completely acceptshyable among the people of rural Ontario No longer was the college viewed with suspicion or distrust Not only did Creelman get faculty members out on the back concession tackling the practical problems of orchardists livestock men and others but his own personal interest in rural Ontarios problems was evident

J B Reynolds who succeeded Creel man in 1920 was no stranger to the campus He first arrived in Guelph in 1893 to teach Physics and English later setting up the English Department and leaving the teaching

of Physics to others Reynolds was a classical scholar in the truest sense and his mark has ever remained on the Guelph campus Aggies from his day onward graduated with a reasonable exposure to the treasures of their mother tongue gained at the feet of ski 1led and dedicated teachers For instance Guelph was the first campus in Canada to offer a course in Canadian poetry

In 1915 Reynolds left to become President of the Manitoba Agricultural College returning to Guelph in 1920 Reynolds was born and raised on a small Ontario farm in Durham County and after his precipitate retirement in 1928 he returned to the farm and ran a successful operation for many years

Two important academic advances occurred du ring the presidency of Dr Reynolds In 1920 the requireshyment of Junior Matriculation for admission to the degree course was initiated For the first time the academic program for the first two years of the degree cou rse was different from that offered Diploma students But since in those days it was difficult for many rural students living long distances from school to complete high school an intershymediate year was offered to enable Diploma graduates to shift into the degree course (Many outstanding alumni entered the degree course by this means ) The Intermediate Year program was in effect until accessshyability to high schools became universal in the 1940s

Another important academic advance was the introduction of a graduate study program leading to the MSA degree in 1926 This program was under the supervision of a Conjoint Committee composed of six representatives of the University of Toronto graduate faculty and six representatives of the Guelph faculty Dr J P McMu rrich Dean of Graduate Studies at Toronto was Chairman and Prof Aw Baker of Guelph was Secretary The first MSA degrees were awarded in 1928

George I Christie had perhaps the most frustrating incum bency of all OACs presidents He had the depresshysion years to cope with and also the war years The political problems of the college reached a peak in the early to mid thirties For example 35 facul ty mem bers were re i ieved of

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their duties in one stroke of the Minister Duncan Marshalls pen Under PM Dewan however the situation improved noticeably

George Christies booming voice and cogent comments almost came to be the hallmark of a successful farm meeting He spoke throughout the province and did much to window-dress the college in rural Ontario Plagued by uncertain health he was forced to retire in 1942

W R Reek who succeeded Christie first as Acting President and later as President had some natural advantages in his favour Perhaps the greatest was the fact that Thomas L Kennedy was Mini ster of Agriculture Together the two men steered the College through what might be called the turning point in its history A new spirit was instilled into the institution and the stage was set for the great period of growth which followed The time of Reeks appointment was a natural growth period following the war years and their restric tions however his influence in setting the stage for the great period of expanded research which foil owed cannot be denied It was at about this time that industry in general began to back research efforts to a greater degree They provided the resources for carrying to successful conclusion research projects initiated by faculty Reek

also insisted on the importance of advanced degrees for his faculty

JD Maclachlan succeeded Reek as President in 1950 just in time to wrestle with the problems of expanshysion New facili ties were needed to cope with the post war growth in enrolment and already rumblings were heard about the need for expanshysion of the campus to more senior status

He played a key role in the planshyning which resulted in the formation of the Federated Colleges in 1962 as an intermediate step towards full university status which was achieved in 1964 When Dr Mac became the first President of the new Univershysity N R Richards then head of the Department of Soil Science became the first Dean of the best known agricultural college in the nation Richards played an important role in the councils of the fledgling univer shysity during those important early years

Under his leadership the College played its part as an integral part of

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the University providing leadership and providing key faculty members for several University departments During all this time however OAC never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget the place of agriculture on the campus as well as in the nations economy

When Professor Richards had completed his second five-year term as Dean in 1972 he returned to teaching in the Department of land Resource Science and Dr C M Switzer was named Dean (See article on Dean of Agriculture)

College relationships academic and polishytical

The last ten years of the Colleges first century have been its greatest to date Each year new records are set for numbers of students enrolled in OAC September 1973 saw 1150 full time students enrolled in the BSc(Agr) program of the College

Over the year s the relationship between th e OAC and the provincial department of agriculture has been close and fruitful Consistently the department has reacted to the needs of rural Ontario and the province in general by development and impleshymentation of new policies This reaction was clearly evident in the creation of new academic depart shyments on the campus As economic development proceeded the segments of the agribusiness industry acquired new needs and the Departshyment of Agriculture supported lhe growth of the College to meet these needs

An example of this relationship is the addition of an agricultural economist to the faculty of the college as the economic problems in agriculture gained recognition and as

business-like decision-making became more important in deciding the success of the farm operation Professor Archie Leitch of the Animal Husbandry Department began a cost accounting program on the College farm in the 20s and later was named Head of the Farm Management Departmen t He is perhaps best remembered for his work in organizing the Flue Tobacco Growers Association in the early 30s The work he began in Agriculshytural Economics has grown and now includes not only academic programs but special courses such as a weekshylong course for rural bankers

Another outgrowth of the close association between the campus and the Department of Agricu I ture may be seen in the establishment of the Agricu Itu ral Research I nsti tu te of Ontario to co-ordinate research program s and advise on de sirable projects

At the same time there has also been a continual close relationship between OAC and federal officials in agriculture For many years now CDA specialists in various fields have been posted on campus and have shared facilities with colleagues on the faculty here From the initiation of the degree program in 1887 until 1964 the campus enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the University of Toronto

Under the aegis of that University the Guelph BSA degree came to be recognized across Canada and around the world as representing a sound combination of practical background and academic training

Staff involvement and contributions

Over the past century many outstanding teachers and researchers have been members of the OAC faculty and countless graduates have played significant roles in their chosen segment of the agricultural industry

In the early days improved live shystock and livestock husbandry along with improved feed crops were the primary concern of Ontario farmers Men like Wade Toole and George Day are widely remembered by historians of the livestock industry along with field husbandry men like Squirrel and Zavitz Also in the pas t 25 years there has been a veri table

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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Putting it all together for 100 Years

The Ontario Agricultural College has done much for Ontario for Canada during their 100 years

Continual research and advancement have been the standards in OACs contribution to agriculture We at Ontario Harvestore believe we hold to similar aims

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

Increase in the number of

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

SB WILLIAMS DEPUTY MINISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

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It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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73 graduates These fellows have diverse backgrounds and interests but all have the same goal setting up a profitable farming operation

Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

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ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

be as fruitful and as helpful

to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

Congratulations

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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OAC Centennial Celebrations

l Iniversity of (~uelph carnpus

Special public events

At Home OAC Farmers Meetings College Royal

January 1 Jan 234

Open House March 9 and 10

Guelph Spring Festival Apri l 27 -May 12

Dedication of Johnston Arch Historical Plaque July 6

Centennial Festival July 6-13 OAC Farm and Home

Week July 91011 Official opening of OAC Censhy

tennial Arboretum Centre July 13 OAC Centennial

Symposi um Oct 1718 Laureate of Agriculture Oct 17

International Conferences

Symposium on Haploids in Higher Plants June 10-14

American Dairy Science Assoc annual meeting June 23-26

International Congress of Farm Management July 14- 20

CanAm Horticultural Science annual meeti ng Aug 8-15

International Agricultural St udents Conference Aug 18-24

Other Conferences

Ontario Food Processors Fieldshymens Conference Jan 8910

Ontario Institute of Agrologists annual meeting April 14 - 18

Ontario Cheese makers Conference April 17

Canadian Feed Manufacturers Nutrition Conference April 2324

Ontario Dairy Industry Conference Apri I 2425

Canadian I nstitute of Food Science and Technology April 26

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Ontario Bankers School May 6-10 Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food Extension Branch Conference June 3-6

Environmental Science Teachers of Ontario May 234

4-H Provincial Conference June 16-18

Canadian Veterinary Medical Assoc annual meeting June 30-July 4

4middotH Provincial Girls Club Conference July 9-12

Eastern Apiculture Society Conference Aug 7-10

Junior Farmers Association of Ontario Aug 10-11

University of Guelph activities

Winter Carnival Jan 12- 18 Winter Convocation Feb 1 Conversat Dance Feb 2 Interuniversity Choral

Festival Feb 10 Spring Convocation May 222324 Fall Convocation Oct 4 Aggie Week September Homecoming Weekend Oct 18-20 Homecoming Football

game Oct 19

These are the events as arranged bV November 1st 1973

COVER

The Johnston arch is the portico of the original William Stone homestead shown here on the original Johnston Hall demolished in 1928 The arch still stands on the front campus of the University of Guelph and will be declared an historic site by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board during centennial year

Welcome to the Campus

On behalf of the Ontario Agriculmiddot

tural College of the University of

Guelph I would like to invite everyshy

one to participate in the many OAC Centennial 74 events to be

held on the campus

As we celebrate the 100th annimiddot

versary of the founding of the

College I would like to pay tribute to

the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture

and Food who initiated and then

operated the Guelph campus for the

first ninety years of its history The

OAC achieved a world-wide reputamiddot

tion under the direction of the Minshy

istry which still plays a vital role on

the campus especially in connection

with our research program

In addition t would like to conmiddot

gratulate the organizing committee

for the OAC Centennial Under the chairmanship of Professor Harvey

Caldwell the committee of faculty

staff and students has been work ing

for the past year planning the many

celebrations that will be held on the campus in 1974

You will be welcome at any or all

these events and especially during Festival Week

-WC Winegard

President

University of Guelph

GOOD FARIIIINGOA~SUPPLEMENT

A message from the Minister

The Ontario Agricultural College has established itself as an integral part of our agricultural industry in this Province and its influence has been felt throughout the length and breadth of Canada North America and indeed around the world The Government of Ontario is pleased with the close working relationship that has existed over the past 100 years We have every reason to believe the future will bring an even closer liaison to the benefit of all of society

Graduates of the Ontario Agriculshytural College have taken their place in every profession and their exshyposure to agricultural science has given them a deeper appreciation of farming and food production The Ontario Agricultural College has shown the way in a wide range of

research progra ms related to agr icu 1shyture food and human resources Ontario s hard earned position as a

leader in food production can be attributed in large part to these farshyreaching research projects

I a m pleased to extend to the Ontario Agricultural College and all those who have been and continue to be associated with it the warmest congratulations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ontario on reaching their Centennial year

William A Stewart Min ister of Agriculture and Food for Ontario

We congratulate the Ontario Agricultural College and recogshy

ONTARIO ASSOCIATION of ANIMAL BREEDERS

RR5 GUELPH ONTARIO and its member organization

Eastern Breeders Inc United Breeders Inc Western Ontario Breeders Inc

nize the contribution it has made to the advancement of cattle breeding through research data analysis and aU phases of sire evaluation and livestock improvement

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College History Reflects People Politics and Progress

BV Don Jose

Introduction

The growth and development of the Ontario Agricultural College after one hundred years make it the largest agricultural college in the British Commonwealth Its achievements have more than kept pace with its growth in size and it is these achieve shyments that permit it to lay claim to a premier place in agricultural educashytion research and extension

Former University of Toronto president Or Claude Bissell remarked that the Colleges name was known throughout the world both through those whom you attract here and those whom you h ave sent to serve mankind in most of the countries of the world

That statement was made at the first convocation of the University of Guelph and just following a world tour by Or Bissell during which he met and talked with many University of Toronto graduates from all facul ties He remarked on the large number of Ontario Agricultural College alumni he found around the world in relation to the number from other U of T facul ties most of them with much larger enrolments than OAC

The tradition at OAC of preshyparation for service and particularly in the international dimension has become an integral part of the phi 10shysophy of the University which the College spawned - a university that seems clearly destined to play an important role in higher education in Canada

JB Munro Deputy Minister of Agriculture in British Columbia once phrased an employers assessment of the College in apt rural phraseology I always like to hire men from OAC he said You shake them out of the bag they land on their feet and go right to work You cant say that about any other group

What then is the story of the College that has achieved these and

other accolades within its first century of existence And what has really been its role in the developshyment of agriculture and indeed of society the province of Ontario across Canada and over seas

It has been a story with its ups and downs and not without a share of controversies I t has been a story of dedication with many leaders who had a real feel ing for the needs of Ontario agriculture It has also been a story tinged with its share of political overtones It can be noted that the intrusions of politics into the administration of the college didnt all occur in the first half century of its existence However it must be said that the clear divorcing of College administration from political exigencies was well established before the founding of the University in 1964

During its first century of growth and maturing ten men have occupied the chief administrators position The first one Henry McCandless held office scarcely long enough to warm h is office chair Each of the others has made his own distinct contribution to the College There is a danger of underestimating the significance of the contributions of recent incumbents because of the difficulty of getting recent events into proper perspective for objective judgement

If the space devoted to the contri shybutions of recent heads of the college seems less than might seem proper it is only because space is limited and recent events are generally better known than those of earlier times The title of the position has changed over the years From Principal it became President when the School of Agriculture became the Ontario Agricultural College In 1962 with the formation of the Federated Colleges as an interim step towards the establishing of the University the head of the College became known as Dean

The Ontario Agricultural College was established with the purchase of

the William Stone Farm near Guelph in 1873 and the first students were enrolled on May 1 1874 But the birth pangs of the College were no less excruciating than those associmiddot ated with other births

The proposal to establish such a school of agriculture in the province had been under active discussion sometimes with more heat than light being generated for a period of five years John Carling then Commisshysioner of Agriculture and Public Works made such a proposal in his report in 1869 The need for improved agricultural techniques was evident it was even being proshypounded by Egerton Ryerson the architect of our public school system and several Land Grant Colleges had al ready been successshyfully launched in the US

After a great deal of political con troversy over the pu rch ase of a site at Mimico and a change of government the Stone farm was finally secured in 1873 and plans began to develop in earnest

The first class had 31 young men enrolled in a one-year course Those first students were expected to spend seven hou rs a day working in the fields and barns The time for classes came after that Admission requireshyments were equivalent of high school entrance The students received free board and lodging and if they passed their final examinations received a bonus of $50

The influences of the leaders

During its first year the School was rocked by controversy between the Principal and his staff but late that year a new principal was found in England For personal reasons he returned to England after a brief period and finally in the spring of 1875 William Johnston assumed the mantle of responsibility

Johnston had been serving as Rector of the new School a position which apparently was a combination

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of dean chief administrator and bursar Under his direction the school rapidly gained in stature and respectability and to him goes a great deal of credit for setting the fledgling school safely on the path to the many successses which have marked its first century

Johnston established a curricumiddot lum divided the School into a number of departments and hired lecturers With the School welJl established Johnston resigned in 1879 for reasons wh ich were never revealed and was succeeded by James Mills Johnston entered law but died at the age of 37

Dr Mills set about to counteract much of the serious criticism of the School which from the beginning had been widespread throughout the countryside A great deal of that criticism had been directed to the mismanagement of the Modell Farm The lines of authority were set up so that the head of the farm department reported directly to Toronto not to the Principal But in the eyes of the public the School and farm were one and the School was saddled with the blame for the farms shortshycomings

Another source of rural distrust of the School Mills was convinced arose from lack of public knowledge about the School and what it was doing Accordingly in 1883 he began two week vacation periods at Easter and Christmas so that the faculty could go out into the province and meet farmers and speak at meetings These were the Farmers Institutes and thus began the long and fruitful history of rural extension from the Guelph campus While this helped greatly there were limits on how many meetings the facul ty could get out to attend and limits on the number of people they could reach

That is why the summer excurshysions to the campus played such an important role in publicizing the college There is record of excursions from a number of counties as early as 1880 As years went by with the assistance of the railways the number increased

Under Mills there were also signifishycant changes in the academic proshygram In 1880 a two-year diploma program was instituted and the same year the name was changed hom Ontario School of Agriculture to Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm

In 1887 a third year with more

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Massey library was a favourite place to study 20 to 30 years ago

emphasis on academic work and less on practical subjects was added to the cu rriculum The next spring the long period of affiliation with the University of Toronto began and five candidates received the first Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degrees to be granted from this campus Among the five were GC Creelman who later succeeded Mills as President and CA Zavitz who as professor of field husbandry did much to enhance the reputation of OAC

Two other significant events which occurred just before Dr Mills tenure ended were the extension of the degree program to a four-year course in 1902 and the establishment of Macdonald Institute as a part of OAC in 1903 Macdonald Institute achieved separate status later

For George C Creelman who succeeded his father-in-law as Presishydent in 1904 and served until 1920 his incumbancy was a period of growth and expansion Many new buildings were added to the campus new academic programs added and many extension programs initiated or extended Perhaps the zenith of Creel mans career as president I ies in the fact that under him the College became almost completely acceptshyable among the people of rural Ontario No longer was the college viewed with suspicion or distrust Not only did Creelman get faculty members out on the back concession tackling the practical problems of orchardists livestock men and others but his own personal interest in rural Ontarios problems was evident

J B Reynolds who succeeded Creel man in 1920 was no stranger to the campus He first arrived in Guelph in 1893 to teach Physics and English later setting up the English Department and leaving the teaching

of Physics to others Reynolds was a classical scholar in the truest sense and his mark has ever remained on the Guelph campus Aggies from his day onward graduated with a reasonable exposure to the treasures of their mother tongue gained at the feet of ski 1led and dedicated teachers For instance Guelph was the first campus in Canada to offer a course in Canadian poetry

In 1915 Reynolds left to become President of the Manitoba Agricultural College returning to Guelph in 1920 Reynolds was born and raised on a small Ontario farm in Durham County and after his precipitate retirement in 1928 he returned to the farm and ran a successful operation for many years

Two important academic advances occurred du ring the presidency of Dr Reynolds In 1920 the requireshyment of Junior Matriculation for admission to the degree course was initiated For the first time the academic program for the first two years of the degree cou rse was different from that offered Diploma students But since in those days it was difficult for many rural students living long distances from school to complete high school an intershymediate year was offered to enable Diploma graduates to shift into the degree course (Many outstanding alumni entered the degree course by this means ) The Intermediate Year program was in effect until accessshyability to high schools became universal in the 1940s

Another important academic advance was the introduction of a graduate study program leading to the MSA degree in 1926 This program was under the supervision of a Conjoint Committee composed of six representatives of the University of Toronto graduate faculty and six representatives of the Guelph faculty Dr J P McMu rrich Dean of Graduate Studies at Toronto was Chairman and Prof Aw Baker of Guelph was Secretary The first MSA degrees were awarded in 1928

George I Christie had perhaps the most frustrating incum bency of all OACs presidents He had the depresshysion years to cope with and also the war years The political problems of the college reached a peak in the early to mid thirties For example 35 facul ty mem bers were re i ieved of

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their duties in one stroke of the Minister Duncan Marshalls pen Under PM Dewan however the situation improved noticeably

George Christies booming voice and cogent comments almost came to be the hallmark of a successful farm meeting He spoke throughout the province and did much to window-dress the college in rural Ontario Plagued by uncertain health he was forced to retire in 1942

W R Reek who succeeded Christie first as Acting President and later as President had some natural advantages in his favour Perhaps the greatest was the fact that Thomas L Kennedy was Mini ster of Agriculture Together the two men steered the College through what might be called the turning point in its history A new spirit was instilled into the institution and the stage was set for the great period of growth which followed The time of Reeks appointment was a natural growth period following the war years and their restric tions however his influence in setting the stage for the great period of expanded research which foil owed cannot be denied It was at about this time that industry in general began to back research efforts to a greater degree They provided the resources for carrying to successful conclusion research projects initiated by faculty Reek

also insisted on the importance of advanced degrees for his faculty

JD Maclachlan succeeded Reek as President in 1950 just in time to wrestle with the problems of expanshysion New facili ties were needed to cope with the post war growth in enrolment and already rumblings were heard about the need for expanshysion of the campus to more senior status

He played a key role in the planshyning which resulted in the formation of the Federated Colleges in 1962 as an intermediate step towards full university status which was achieved in 1964 When Dr Mac became the first President of the new Univershysity N R Richards then head of the Department of Soil Science became the first Dean of the best known agricultural college in the nation Richards played an important role in the councils of the fledgling univer shysity during those important early years

Under his leadership the College played its part as an integral part of

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the University providing leadership and providing key faculty members for several University departments During all this time however OAC never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget the place of agriculture on the campus as well as in the nations economy

When Professor Richards had completed his second five-year term as Dean in 1972 he returned to teaching in the Department of land Resource Science and Dr C M Switzer was named Dean (See article on Dean of Agriculture)

College relationships academic and polishytical

The last ten years of the Colleges first century have been its greatest to date Each year new records are set for numbers of students enrolled in OAC September 1973 saw 1150 full time students enrolled in the BSc(Agr) program of the College

Over the year s the relationship between th e OAC and the provincial department of agriculture has been close and fruitful Consistently the department has reacted to the needs of rural Ontario and the province in general by development and impleshymentation of new policies This reaction was clearly evident in the creation of new academic depart shyments on the campus As economic development proceeded the segments of the agribusiness industry acquired new needs and the Departshyment of Agriculture supported lhe growth of the College to meet these needs

An example of this relationship is the addition of an agricultural economist to the faculty of the college as the economic problems in agriculture gained recognition and as

business-like decision-making became more important in deciding the success of the farm operation Professor Archie Leitch of the Animal Husbandry Department began a cost accounting program on the College farm in the 20s and later was named Head of the Farm Management Departmen t He is perhaps best remembered for his work in organizing the Flue Tobacco Growers Association in the early 30s The work he began in Agriculshytural Economics has grown and now includes not only academic programs but special courses such as a weekshylong course for rural bankers

Another outgrowth of the close association between the campus and the Department of Agricu I ture may be seen in the establishment of the Agricu Itu ral Research I nsti tu te of Ontario to co-ordinate research program s and advise on de sirable projects

At the same time there has also been a continual close relationship between OAC and federal officials in agriculture For many years now CDA specialists in various fields have been posted on campus and have shared facilities with colleagues on the faculty here From the initiation of the degree program in 1887 until 1964 the campus enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the University of Toronto

Under the aegis of that University the Guelph BSA degree came to be recognized across Canada and around the world as representing a sound combination of practical background and academic training

Staff involvement and contributions

Over the past century many outstanding teachers and researchers have been members of the OAC faculty and countless graduates have played significant roles in their chosen segment of the agricultural industry

In the early days improved live shystock and livestock husbandry along with improved feed crops were the primary concern of Ontario farmers Men like Wade Toole and George Day are widely remembered by historians of the livestock industry along with field husbandry men like Squirrel and Zavitz Also in the pas t 25 years there has been a veri table

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

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It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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73 graduates These fellows have diverse backgrounds and interests but all have the same goal setting up a profitable farming operation

Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

DEKALB CANADA LTD Chatham Ontario Canada

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

AN

ENVIABLE

RECORD

One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

be as fruitful and as helpful

to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

WILDWOOD FARM SERVICES RR 3 Embro Ontario

kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

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on 100 years ofcontribution

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

Ontario Agricultural College

THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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-Canada Packers Research Headquarters

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

UNlVERSIIY It1 ~OFGUELPH

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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A message from the Minister

The Ontario Agricultural College has established itself as an integral part of our agricultural industry in this Province and its influence has been felt throughout the length and breadth of Canada North America and indeed around the world The Government of Ontario is pleased with the close working relationship that has existed over the past 100 years We have every reason to believe the future will bring an even closer liaison to the benefit of all of society

Graduates of the Ontario Agriculshytural College have taken their place in every profession and their exshyposure to agricultural science has given them a deeper appreciation of farming and food production The Ontario Agricultural College has shown the way in a wide range of

research progra ms related to agr icu 1shyture food and human resources Ontario s hard earned position as a

leader in food production can be attributed in large part to these farshyreaching research projects

I a m pleased to extend to the Ontario Agricultural College and all those who have been and continue to be associated with it the warmest congratulations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ontario on reaching their Centennial year

William A Stewart Min ister of Agriculture and Food for Ontario

We congratulate the Ontario Agricultural College and recogshy

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RR5 GUELPH ONTARIO and its member organization

Eastern Breeders Inc United Breeders Inc Western Ontario Breeders Inc

nize the contribution it has made to the advancement of cattle breeding through research data analysis and aU phases of sire evaluation and livestock improvement

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College History Reflects People Politics and Progress

BV Don Jose

Introduction

The growth and development of the Ontario Agricultural College after one hundred years make it the largest agricultural college in the British Commonwealth Its achievements have more than kept pace with its growth in size and it is these achieve shyments that permit it to lay claim to a premier place in agricultural educashytion research and extension

Former University of Toronto president Or Claude Bissell remarked that the Colleges name was known throughout the world both through those whom you attract here and those whom you h ave sent to serve mankind in most of the countries of the world

That statement was made at the first convocation of the University of Guelph and just following a world tour by Or Bissell during which he met and talked with many University of Toronto graduates from all facul ties He remarked on the large number of Ontario Agricultural College alumni he found around the world in relation to the number from other U of T facul ties most of them with much larger enrolments than OAC

The tradition at OAC of preshyparation for service and particularly in the international dimension has become an integral part of the phi 10shysophy of the University which the College spawned - a university that seems clearly destined to play an important role in higher education in Canada

JB Munro Deputy Minister of Agriculture in British Columbia once phrased an employers assessment of the College in apt rural phraseology I always like to hire men from OAC he said You shake them out of the bag they land on their feet and go right to work You cant say that about any other group

What then is the story of the College that has achieved these and

other accolades within its first century of existence And what has really been its role in the developshyment of agriculture and indeed of society the province of Ontario across Canada and over seas

It has been a story with its ups and downs and not without a share of controversies I t has been a story of dedication with many leaders who had a real feel ing for the needs of Ontario agriculture It has also been a story tinged with its share of political overtones It can be noted that the intrusions of politics into the administration of the college didnt all occur in the first half century of its existence However it must be said that the clear divorcing of College administration from political exigencies was well established before the founding of the University in 1964

During its first century of growth and maturing ten men have occupied the chief administrators position The first one Henry McCandless held office scarcely long enough to warm h is office chair Each of the others has made his own distinct contribution to the College There is a danger of underestimating the significance of the contributions of recent incumbents because of the difficulty of getting recent events into proper perspective for objective judgement

If the space devoted to the contri shybutions of recent heads of the college seems less than might seem proper it is only because space is limited and recent events are generally better known than those of earlier times The title of the position has changed over the years From Principal it became President when the School of Agriculture became the Ontario Agricultural College In 1962 with the formation of the Federated Colleges as an interim step towards the establishing of the University the head of the College became known as Dean

The Ontario Agricultural College was established with the purchase of

the William Stone Farm near Guelph in 1873 and the first students were enrolled on May 1 1874 But the birth pangs of the College were no less excruciating than those associmiddot ated with other births

The proposal to establish such a school of agriculture in the province had been under active discussion sometimes with more heat than light being generated for a period of five years John Carling then Commisshysioner of Agriculture and Public Works made such a proposal in his report in 1869 The need for improved agricultural techniques was evident it was even being proshypounded by Egerton Ryerson the architect of our public school system and several Land Grant Colleges had al ready been successshyfully launched in the US

After a great deal of political con troversy over the pu rch ase of a site at Mimico and a change of government the Stone farm was finally secured in 1873 and plans began to develop in earnest

The first class had 31 young men enrolled in a one-year course Those first students were expected to spend seven hou rs a day working in the fields and barns The time for classes came after that Admission requireshyments were equivalent of high school entrance The students received free board and lodging and if they passed their final examinations received a bonus of $50

The influences of the leaders

During its first year the School was rocked by controversy between the Principal and his staff but late that year a new principal was found in England For personal reasons he returned to England after a brief period and finally in the spring of 1875 William Johnston assumed the mantle of responsibility

Johnston had been serving as Rector of the new School a position which apparently was a combination

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of dean chief administrator and bursar Under his direction the school rapidly gained in stature and respectability and to him goes a great deal of credit for setting the fledgling school safely on the path to the many successses which have marked its first century

Johnston established a curricumiddot lum divided the School into a number of departments and hired lecturers With the School welJl established Johnston resigned in 1879 for reasons wh ich were never revealed and was succeeded by James Mills Johnston entered law but died at the age of 37

Dr Mills set about to counteract much of the serious criticism of the School which from the beginning had been widespread throughout the countryside A great deal of that criticism had been directed to the mismanagement of the Modell Farm The lines of authority were set up so that the head of the farm department reported directly to Toronto not to the Principal But in the eyes of the public the School and farm were one and the School was saddled with the blame for the farms shortshycomings

Another source of rural distrust of the School Mills was convinced arose from lack of public knowledge about the School and what it was doing Accordingly in 1883 he began two week vacation periods at Easter and Christmas so that the faculty could go out into the province and meet farmers and speak at meetings These were the Farmers Institutes and thus began the long and fruitful history of rural extension from the Guelph campus While this helped greatly there were limits on how many meetings the facul ty could get out to attend and limits on the number of people they could reach

That is why the summer excurshysions to the campus played such an important role in publicizing the college There is record of excursions from a number of counties as early as 1880 As years went by with the assistance of the railways the number increased

Under Mills there were also signifishycant changes in the academic proshygram In 1880 a two-year diploma program was instituted and the same year the name was changed hom Ontario School of Agriculture to Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm

In 1887 a third year with more

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emphasis on academic work and less on practical subjects was added to the cu rriculum The next spring the long period of affiliation with the University of Toronto began and five candidates received the first Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degrees to be granted from this campus Among the five were GC Creelman who later succeeded Mills as President and CA Zavitz who as professor of field husbandry did much to enhance the reputation of OAC

Two other significant events which occurred just before Dr Mills tenure ended were the extension of the degree program to a four-year course in 1902 and the establishment of Macdonald Institute as a part of OAC in 1903 Macdonald Institute achieved separate status later

For George C Creelman who succeeded his father-in-law as Presishydent in 1904 and served until 1920 his incumbancy was a period of growth and expansion Many new buildings were added to the campus new academic programs added and many extension programs initiated or extended Perhaps the zenith of Creel mans career as president I ies in the fact that under him the College became almost completely acceptshyable among the people of rural Ontario No longer was the college viewed with suspicion or distrust Not only did Creelman get faculty members out on the back concession tackling the practical problems of orchardists livestock men and others but his own personal interest in rural Ontarios problems was evident

J B Reynolds who succeeded Creel man in 1920 was no stranger to the campus He first arrived in Guelph in 1893 to teach Physics and English later setting up the English Department and leaving the teaching

of Physics to others Reynolds was a classical scholar in the truest sense and his mark has ever remained on the Guelph campus Aggies from his day onward graduated with a reasonable exposure to the treasures of their mother tongue gained at the feet of ski 1led and dedicated teachers For instance Guelph was the first campus in Canada to offer a course in Canadian poetry

In 1915 Reynolds left to become President of the Manitoba Agricultural College returning to Guelph in 1920 Reynolds was born and raised on a small Ontario farm in Durham County and after his precipitate retirement in 1928 he returned to the farm and ran a successful operation for many years

Two important academic advances occurred du ring the presidency of Dr Reynolds In 1920 the requireshyment of Junior Matriculation for admission to the degree course was initiated For the first time the academic program for the first two years of the degree cou rse was different from that offered Diploma students But since in those days it was difficult for many rural students living long distances from school to complete high school an intershymediate year was offered to enable Diploma graduates to shift into the degree course (Many outstanding alumni entered the degree course by this means ) The Intermediate Year program was in effect until accessshyability to high schools became universal in the 1940s

Another important academic advance was the introduction of a graduate study program leading to the MSA degree in 1926 This program was under the supervision of a Conjoint Committee composed of six representatives of the University of Toronto graduate faculty and six representatives of the Guelph faculty Dr J P McMu rrich Dean of Graduate Studies at Toronto was Chairman and Prof Aw Baker of Guelph was Secretary The first MSA degrees were awarded in 1928

George I Christie had perhaps the most frustrating incum bency of all OACs presidents He had the depresshysion years to cope with and also the war years The political problems of the college reached a peak in the early to mid thirties For example 35 facul ty mem bers were re i ieved of

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their duties in one stroke of the Minister Duncan Marshalls pen Under PM Dewan however the situation improved noticeably

George Christies booming voice and cogent comments almost came to be the hallmark of a successful farm meeting He spoke throughout the province and did much to window-dress the college in rural Ontario Plagued by uncertain health he was forced to retire in 1942

W R Reek who succeeded Christie first as Acting President and later as President had some natural advantages in his favour Perhaps the greatest was the fact that Thomas L Kennedy was Mini ster of Agriculture Together the two men steered the College through what might be called the turning point in its history A new spirit was instilled into the institution and the stage was set for the great period of growth which followed The time of Reeks appointment was a natural growth period following the war years and their restric tions however his influence in setting the stage for the great period of expanded research which foil owed cannot be denied It was at about this time that industry in general began to back research efforts to a greater degree They provided the resources for carrying to successful conclusion research projects initiated by faculty Reek

also insisted on the importance of advanced degrees for his faculty

JD Maclachlan succeeded Reek as President in 1950 just in time to wrestle with the problems of expanshysion New facili ties were needed to cope with the post war growth in enrolment and already rumblings were heard about the need for expanshysion of the campus to more senior status

He played a key role in the planshyning which resulted in the formation of the Federated Colleges in 1962 as an intermediate step towards full university status which was achieved in 1964 When Dr Mac became the first President of the new Univershysity N R Richards then head of the Department of Soil Science became the first Dean of the best known agricultural college in the nation Richards played an important role in the councils of the fledgling univer shysity during those important early years

Under his leadership the College played its part as an integral part of

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the University providing leadership and providing key faculty members for several University departments During all this time however OAC never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget the place of agriculture on the campus as well as in the nations economy

When Professor Richards had completed his second five-year term as Dean in 1972 he returned to teaching in the Department of land Resource Science and Dr C M Switzer was named Dean (See article on Dean of Agriculture)

College relationships academic and polishytical

The last ten years of the Colleges first century have been its greatest to date Each year new records are set for numbers of students enrolled in OAC September 1973 saw 1150 full time students enrolled in the BSc(Agr) program of the College

Over the year s the relationship between th e OAC and the provincial department of agriculture has been close and fruitful Consistently the department has reacted to the needs of rural Ontario and the province in general by development and impleshymentation of new policies This reaction was clearly evident in the creation of new academic depart shyments on the campus As economic development proceeded the segments of the agribusiness industry acquired new needs and the Departshyment of Agriculture supported lhe growth of the College to meet these needs

An example of this relationship is the addition of an agricultural economist to the faculty of the college as the economic problems in agriculture gained recognition and as

business-like decision-making became more important in deciding the success of the farm operation Professor Archie Leitch of the Animal Husbandry Department began a cost accounting program on the College farm in the 20s and later was named Head of the Farm Management Departmen t He is perhaps best remembered for his work in organizing the Flue Tobacco Growers Association in the early 30s The work he began in Agriculshytural Economics has grown and now includes not only academic programs but special courses such as a weekshylong course for rural bankers

Another outgrowth of the close association between the campus and the Department of Agricu I ture may be seen in the establishment of the Agricu Itu ral Research I nsti tu te of Ontario to co-ordinate research program s and advise on de sirable projects

At the same time there has also been a continual close relationship between OAC and federal officials in agriculture For many years now CDA specialists in various fields have been posted on campus and have shared facilities with colleagues on the faculty here From the initiation of the degree program in 1887 until 1964 the campus enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the University of Toronto

Under the aegis of that University the Guelph BSA degree came to be recognized across Canada and around the world as representing a sound combination of practical background and academic training

Staff involvement and contributions

Over the past century many outstanding teachers and researchers have been members of the OAC faculty and countless graduates have played significant roles in their chosen segment of the agricultural industry

In the early days improved live shystock and livestock husbandry along with improved feed crops were the primary concern of Ontario farmers Men like Wade Toole and George Day are widely remembered by historians of the livestock industry along with field husbandry men like Squirrel and Zavitz Also in the pas t 25 years there has been a veri table

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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Continual research and advancement have been the standards in OACs contribution to agriculture We at Ontario Harvestore believe we hold to similar aims

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

SB WILLIAMS DEPUTY MINISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

Hardcover Illu st rated Copp Clark $12 95

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

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first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

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extension and engineering

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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College History Reflects People Politics and Progress

BV Don Jose

Introduction

The growth and development of the Ontario Agricultural College after one hundred years make it the largest agricultural college in the British Commonwealth Its achievements have more than kept pace with its growth in size and it is these achieve shyments that permit it to lay claim to a premier place in agricultural educashytion research and extension

Former University of Toronto president Or Claude Bissell remarked that the Colleges name was known throughout the world both through those whom you attract here and those whom you h ave sent to serve mankind in most of the countries of the world

That statement was made at the first convocation of the University of Guelph and just following a world tour by Or Bissell during which he met and talked with many University of Toronto graduates from all facul ties He remarked on the large number of Ontario Agricultural College alumni he found around the world in relation to the number from other U of T facul ties most of them with much larger enrolments than OAC

The tradition at OAC of preshyparation for service and particularly in the international dimension has become an integral part of the phi 10shysophy of the University which the College spawned - a university that seems clearly destined to play an important role in higher education in Canada

JB Munro Deputy Minister of Agriculture in British Columbia once phrased an employers assessment of the College in apt rural phraseology I always like to hire men from OAC he said You shake them out of the bag they land on their feet and go right to work You cant say that about any other group

What then is the story of the College that has achieved these and

other accolades within its first century of existence And what has really been its role in the developshyment of agriculture and indeed of society the province of Ontario across Canada and over seas

It has been a story with its ups and downs and not without a share of controversies I t has been a story of dedication with many leaders who had a real feel ing for the needs of Ontario agriculture It has also been a story tinged with its share of political overtones It can be noted that the intrusions of politics into the administration of the college didnt all occur in the first half century of its existence However it must be said that the clear divorcing of College administration from political exigencies was well established before the founding of the University in 1964

During its first century of growth and maturing ten men have occupied the chief administrators position The first one Henry McCandless held office scarcely long enough to warm h is office chair Each of the others has made his own distinct contribution to the College There is a danger of underestimating the significance of the contributions of recent incumbents because of the difficulty of getting recent events into proper perspective for objective judgement

If the space devoted to the contri shybutions of recent heads of the college seems less than might seem proper it is only because space is limited and recent events are generally better known than those of earlier times The title of the position has changed over the years From Principal it became President when the School of Agriculture became the Ontario Agricultural College In 1962 with the formation of the Federated Colleges as an interim step towards the establishing of the University the head of the College became known as Dean

The Ontario Agricultural College was established with the purchase of

the William Stone Farm near Guelph in 1873 and the first students were enrolled on May 1 1874 But the birth pangs of the College were no less excruciating than those associmiddot ated with other births

The proposal to establish such a school of agriculture in the province had been under active discussion sometimes with more heat than light being generated for a period of five years John Carling then Commisshysioner of Agriculture and Public Works made such a proposal in his report in 1869 The need for improved agricultural techniques was evident it was even being proshypounded by Egerton Ryerson the architect of our public school system and several Land Grant Colleges had al ready been successshyfully launched in the US

After a great deal of political con troversy over the pu rch ase of a site at Mimico and a change of government the Stone farm was finally secured in 1873 and plans began to develop in earnest

The first class had 31 young men enrolled in a one-year course Those first students were expected to spend seven hou rs a day working in the fields and barns The time for classes came after that Admission requireshyments were equivalent of high school entrance The students received free board and lodging and if they passed their final examinations received a bonus of $50

The influences of the leaders

During its first year the School was rocked by controversy between the Principal and his staff but late that year a new principal was found in England For personal reasons he returned to England after a brief period and finally in the spring of 1875 William Johnston assumed the mantle of responsibility

Johnston had been serving as Rector of the new School a position which apparently was a combination

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of dean chief administrator and bursar Under his direction the school rapidly gained in stature and respectability and to him goes a great deal of credit for setting the fledgling school safely on the path to the many successses which have marked its first century

Johnston established a curricumiddot lum divided the School into a number of departments and hired lecturers With the School welJl established Johnston resigned in 1879 for reasons wh ich were never revealed and was succeeded by James Mills Johnston entered law but died at the age of 37

Dr Mills set about to counteract much of the serious criticism of the School which from the beginning had been widespread throughout the countryside A great deal of that criticism had been directed to the mismanagement of the Modell Farm The lines of authority were set up so that the head of the farm department reported directly to Toronto not to the Principal But in the eyes of the public the School and farm were one and the School was saddled with the blame for the farms shortshycomings

Another source of rural distrust of the School Mills was convinced arose from lack of public knowledge about the School and what it was doing Accordingly in 1883 he began two week vacation periods at Easter and Christmas so that the faculty could go out into the province and meet farmers and speak at meetings These were the Farmers Institutes and thus began the long and fruitful history of rural extension from the Guelph campus While this helped greatly there were limits on how many meetings the facul ty could get out to attend and limits on the number of people they could reach

That is why the summer excurshysions to the campus played such an important role in publicizing the college There is record of excursions from a number of counties as early as 1880 As years went by with the assistance of the railways the number increased

Under Mills there were also signifishycant changes in the academic proshygram In 1880 a two-year diploma program was instituted and the same year the name was changed hom Ontario School of Agriculture to Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm

In 1887 a third year with more

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Massey library was a favourite place to study 20 to 30 years ago

emphasis on academic work and less on practical subjects was added to the cu rriculum The next spring the long period of affiliation with the University of Toronto began and five candidates received the first Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degrees to be granted from this campus Among the five were GC Creelman who later succeeded Mills as President and CA Zavitz who as professor of field husbandry did much to enhance the reputation of OAC

Two other significant events which occurred just before Dr Mills tenure ended were the extension of the degree program to a four-year course in 1902 and the establishment of Macdonald Institute as a part of OAC in 1903 Macdonald Institute achieved separate status later

For George C Creelman who succeeded his father-in-law as Presishydent in 1904 and served until 1920 his incumbancy was a period of growth and expansion Many new buildings were added to the campus new academic programs added and many extension programs initiated or extended Perhaps the zenith of Creel mans career as president I ies in the fact that under him the College became almost completely acceptshyable among the people of rural Ontario No longer was the college viewed with suspicion or distrust Not only did Creelman get faculty members out on the back concession tackling the practical problems of orchardists livestock men and others but his own personal interest in rural Ontarios problems was evident

J B Reynolds who succeeded Creel man in 1920 was no stranger to the campus He first arrived in Guelph in 1893 to teach Physics and English later setting up the English Department and leaving the teaching

of Physics to others Reynolds was a classical scholar in the truest sense and his mark has ever remained on the Guelph campus Aggies from his day onward graduated with a reasonable exposure to the treasures of their mother tongue gained at the feet of ski 1led and dedicated teachers For instance Guelph was the first campus in Canada to offer a course in Canadian poetry

In 1915 Reynolds left to become President of the Manitoba Agricultural College returning to Guelph in 1920 Reynolds was born and raised on a small Ontario farm in Durham County and after his precipitate retirement in 1928 he returned to the farm and ran a successful operation for many years

Two important academic advances occurred du ring the presidency of Dr Reynolds In 1920 the requireshyment of Junior Matriculation for admission to the degree course was initiated For the first time the academic program for the first two years of the degree cou rse was different from that offered Diploma students But since in those days it was difficult for many rural students living long distances from school to complete high school an intershymediate year was offered to enable Diploma graduates to shift into the degree course (Many outstanding alumni entered the degree course by this means ) The Intermediate Year program was in effect until accessshyability to high schools became universal in the 1940s

Another important academic advance was the introduction of a graduate study program leading to the MSA degree in 1926 This program was under the supervision of a Conjoint Committee composed of six representatives of the University of Toronto graduate faculty and six representatives of the Guelph faculty Dr J P McMu rrich Dean of Graduate Studies at Toronto was Chairman and Prof Aw Baker of Guelph was Secretary The first MSA degrees were awarded in 1928

George I Christie had perhaps the most frustrating incum bency of all OACs presidents He had the depresshysion years to cope with and also the war years The political problems of the college reached a peak in the early to mid thirties For example 35 facul ty mem bers were re i ieved of

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their duties in one stroke of the Minister Duncan Marshalls pen Under PM Dewan however the situation improved noticeably

George Christies booming voice and cogent comments almost came to be the hallmark of a successful farm meeting He spoke throughout the province and did much to window-dress the college in rural Ontario Plagued by uncertain health he was forced to retire in 1942

W R Reek who succeeded Christie first as Acting President and later as President had some natural advantages in his favour Perhaps the greatest was the fact that Thomas L Kennedy was Mini ster of Agriculture Together the two men steered the College through what might be called the turning point in its history A new spirit was instilled into the institution and the stage was set for the great period of growth which followed The time of Reeks appointment was a natural growth period following the war years and their restric tions however his influence in setting the stage for the great period of expanded research which foil owed cannot be denied It was at about this time that industry in general began to back research efforts to a greater degree They provided the resources for carrying to successful conclusion research projects initiated by faculty Reek

also insisted on the importance of advanced degrees for his faculty

JD Maclachlan succeeded Reek as President in 1950 just in time to wrestle with the problems of expanshysion New facili ties were needed to cope with the post war growth in enrolment and already rumblings were heard about the need for expanshysion of the campus to more senior status

He played a key role in the planshyning which resulted in the formation of the Federated Colleges in 1962 as an intermediate step towards full university status which was achieved in 1964 When Dr Mac became the first President of the new Univershysity N R Richards then head of the Department of Soil Science became the first Dean of the best known agricultural college in the nation Richards played an important role in the councils of the fledgling univer shysity during those important early years

Under his leadership the College played its part as an integral part of

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the University providing leadership and providing key faculty members for several University departments During all this time however OAC never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget the place of agriculture on the campus as well as in the nations economy

When Professor Richards had completed his second five-year term as Dean in 1972 he returned to teaching in the Department of land Resource Science and Dr C M Switzer was named Dean (See article on Dean of Agriculture)

College relationships academic and polishytical

The last ten years of the Colleges first century have been its greatest to date Each year new records are set for numbers of students enrolled in OAC September 1973 saw 1150 full time students enrolled in the BSc(Agr) program of the College

Over the year s the relationship between th e OAC and the provincial department of agriculture has been close and fruitful Consistently the department has reacted to the needs of rural Ontario and the province in general by development and impleshymentation of new policies This reaction was clearly evident in the creation of new academic depart shyments on the campus As economic development proceeded the segments of the agribusiness industry acquired new needs and the Departshyment of Agriculture supported lhe growth of the College to meet these needs

An example of this relationship is the addition of an agricultural economist to the faculty of the college as the economic problems in agriculture gained recognition and as

business-like decision-making became more important in deciding the success of the farm operation Professor Archie Leitch of the Animal Husbandry Department began a cost accounting program on the College farm in the 20s and later was named Head of the Farm Management Departmen t He is perhaps best remembered for his work in organizing the Flue Tobacco Growers Association in the early 30s The work he began in Agriculshytural Economics has grown and now includes not only academic programs but special courses such as a weekshylong course for rural bankers

Another outgrowth of the close association between the campus and the Department of Agricu I ture may be seen in the establishment of the Agricu Itu ral Research I nsti tu te of Ontario to co-ordinate research program s and advise on de sirable projects

At the same time there has also been a continual close relationship between OAC and federal officials in agriculture For many years now CDA specialists in various fields have been posted on campus and have shared facilities with colleagues on the faculty here From the initiation of the degree program in 1887 until 1964 the campus enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the University of Toronto

Under the aegis of that University the Guelph BSA degree came to be recognized across Canada and around the world as representing a sound combination of practical background and academic training

Staff involvement and contributions

Over the past century many outstanding teachers and researchers have been members of the OAC faculty and countless graduates have played significant roles in their chosen segment of the agricultural industry

In the early days improved live shystock and livestock husbandry along with improved feed crops were the primary concern of Ontario farmers Men like Wade Toole and George Day are widely remembered by historians of the livestock industry along with field husbandry men like Squirrel and Zavitz Also in the pas t 25 years there has been a veri table

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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Continual research and advancement have been the standards in OACs contribution to agriculture We at Ontario Harvestore believe we hold to similar aims

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

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It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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73 graduates These fellows have diverse backgrounds and interests but all have the same goal setting up a profitable farming operation

Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

AN

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

be as fruitful and as helpful

to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

UNlVERSIIY It1 ~OFGUELPH

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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of dean chief administrator and bursar Under his direction the school rapidly gained in stature and respectability and to him goes a great deal of credit for setting the fledgling school safely on the path to the many successses which have marked its first century

Johnston established a curricumiddot lum divided the School into a number of departments and hired lecturers With the School welJl established Johnston resigned in 1879 for reasons wh ich were never revealed and was succeeded by James Mills Johnston entered law but died at the age of 37

Dr Mills set about to counteract much of the serious criticism of the School which from the beginning had been widespread throughout the countryside A great deal of that criticism had been directed to the mismanagement of the Modell Farm The lines of authority were set up so that the head of the farm department reported directly to Toronto not to the Principal But in the eyes of the public the School and farm were one and the School was saddled with the blame for the farms shortshycomings

Another source of rural distrust of the School Mills was convinced arose from lack of public knowledge about the School and what it was doing Accordingly in 1883 he began two week vacation periods at Easter and Christmas so that the faculty could go out into the province and meet farmers and speak at meetings These were the Farmers Institutes and thus began the long and fruitful history of rural extension from the Guelph campus While this helped greatly there were limits on how many meetings the facul ty could get out to attend and limits on the number of people they could reach

That is why the summer excurshysions to the campus played such an important role in publicizing the college There is record of excursions from a number of counties as early as 1880 As years went by with the assistance of the railways the number increased

Under Mills there were also signifishycant changes in the academic proshygram In 1880 a two-year diploma program was instituted and the same year the name was changed hom Ontario School of Agriculture to Ontario Agricultural College and Experimental Farm

In 1887 a third year with more

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emphasis on academic work and less on practical subjects was added to the cu rriculum The next spring the long period of affiliation with the University of Toronto began and five candidates received the first Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degrees to be granted from this campus Among the five were GC Creelman who later succeeded Mills as President and CA Zavitz who as professor of field husbandry did much to enhance the reputation of OAC

Two other significant events which occurred just before Dr Mills tenure ended were the extension of the degree program to a four-year course in 1902 and the establishment of Macdonald Institute as a part of OAC in 1903 Macdonald Institute achieved separate status later

For George C Creelman who succeeded his father-in-law as Presishydent in 1904 and served until 1920 his incumbancy was a period of growth and expansion Many new buildings were added to the campus new academic programs added and many extension programs initiated or extended Perhaps the zenith of Creel mans career as president I ies in the fact that under him the College became almost completely acceptshyable among the people of rural Ontario No longer was the college viewed with suspicion or distrust Not only did Creelman get faculty members out on the back concession tackling the practical problems of orchardists livestock men and others but his own personal interest in rural Ontarios problems was evident

J B Reynolds who succeeded Creel man in 1920 was no stranger to the campus He first arrived in Guelph in 1893 to teach Physics and English later setting up the English Department and leaving the teaching

of Physics to others Reynolds was a classical scholar in the truest sense and his mark has ever remained on the Guelph campus Aggies from his day onward graduated with a reasonable exposure to the treasures of their mother tongue gained at the feet of ski 1led and dedicated teachers For instance Guelph was the first campus in Canada to offer a course in Canadian poetry

In 1915 Reynolds left to become President of the Manitoba Agricultural College returning to Guelph in 1920 Reynolds was born and raised on a small Ontario farm in Durham County and after his precipitate retirement in 1928 he returned to the farm and ran a successful operation for many years

Two important academic advances occurred du ring the presidency of Dr Reynolds In 1920 the requireshyment of Junior Matriculation for admission to the degree course was initiated For the first time the academic program for the first two years of the degree cou rse was different from that offered Diploma students But since in those days it was difficult for many rural students living long distances from school to complete high school an intershymediate year was offered to enable Diploma graduates to shift into the degree course (Many outstanding alumni entered the degree course by this means ) The Intermediate Year program was in effect until accessshyability to high schools became universal in the 1940s

Another important academic advance was the introduction of a graduate study program leading to the MSA degree in 1926 This program was under the supervision of a Conjoint Committee composed of six representatives of the University of Toronto graduate faculty and six representatives of the Guelph faculty Dr J P McMu rrich Dean of Graduate Studies at Toronto was Chairman and Prof Aw Baker of Guelph was Secretary The first MSA degrees were awarded in 1928

George I Christie had perhaps the most frustrating incum bency of all OACs presidents He had the depresshysion years to cope with and also the war years The political problems of the college reached a peak in the early to mid thirties For example 35 facul ty mem bers were re i ieved of

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their duties in one stroke of the Minister Duncan Marshalls pen Under PM Dewan however the situation improved noticeably

George Christies booming voice and cogent comments almost came to be the hallmark of a successful farm meeting He spoke throughout the province and did much to window-dress the college in rural Ontario Plagued by uncertain health he was forced to retire in 1942

W R Reek who succeeded Christie first as Acting President and later as President had some natural advantages in his favour Perhaps the greatest was the fact that Thomas L Kennedy was Mini ster of Agriculture Together the two men steered the College through what might be called the turning point in its history A new spirit was instilled into the institution and the stage was set for the great period of growth which followed The time of Reeks appointment was a natural growth period following the war years and their restric tions however his influence in setting the stage for the great period of expanded research which foil owed cannot be denied It was at about this time that industry in general began to back research efforts to a greater degree They provided the resources for carrying to successful conclusion research projects initiated by faculty Reek

also insisted on the importance of advanced degrees for his faculty

JD Maclachlan succeeded Reek as President in 1950 just in time to wrestle with the problems of expanshysion New facili ties were needed to cope with the post war growth in enrolment and already rumblings were heard about the need for expanshysion of the campus to more senior status

He played a key role in the planshyning which resulted in the formation of the Federated Colleges in 1962 as an intermediate step towards full university status which was achieved in 1964 When Dr Mac became the first President of the new Univershysity N R Richards then head of the Department of Soil Science became the first Dean of the best known agricultural college in the nation Richards played an important role in the councils of the fledgling univer shysity during those important early years

Under his leadership the College played its part as an integral part of

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the University providing leadership and providing key faculty members for several University departments During all this time however OAC never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget the place of agriculture on the campus as well as in the nations economy

When Professor Richards had completed his second five-year term as Dean in 1972 he returned to teaching in the Department of land Resource Science and Dr C M Switzer was named Dean (See article on Dean of Agriculture)

College relationships academic and polishytical

The last ten years of the Colleges first century have been its greatest to date Each year new records are set for numbers of students enrolled in OAC September 1973 saw 1150 full time students enrolled in the BSc(Agr) program of the College

Over the year s the relationship between th e OAC and the provincial department of agriculture has been close and fruitful Consistently the department has reacted to the needs of rural Ontario and the province in general by development and impleshymentation of new policies This reaction was clearly evident in the creation of new academic depart shyments on the campus As economic development proceeded the segments of the agribusiness industry acquired new needs and the Departshyment of Agriculture supported lhe growth of the College to meet these needs

An example of this relationship is the addition of an agricultural economist to the faculty of the college as the economic problems in agriculture gained recognition and as

business-like decision-making became more important in deciding the success of the farm operation Professor Archie Leitch of the Animal Husbandry Department began a cost accounting program on the College farm in the 20s and later was named Head of the Farm Management Departmen t He is perhaps best remembered for his work in organizing the Flue Tobacco Growers Association in the early 30s The work he began in Agriculshytural Economics has grown and now includes not only academic programs but special courses such as a weekshylong course for rural bankers

Another outgrowth of the close association between the campus and the Department of Agricu I ture may be seen in the establishment of the Agricu Itu ral Research I nsti tu te of Ontario to co-ordinate research program s and advise on de sirable projects

At the same time there has also been a continual close relationship between OAC and federal officials in agriculture For many years now CDA specialists in various fields have been posted on campus and have shared facilities with colleagues on the faculty here From the initiation of the degree program in 1887 until 1964 the campus enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the University of Toronto

Under the aegis of that University the Guelph BSA degree came to be recognized across Canada and around the world as representing a sound combination of practical background and academic training

Staff involvement and contributions

Over the past century many outstanding teachers and researchers have been members of the OAC faculty and countless graduates have played significant roles in their chosen segment of the agricultural industry

In the early days improved live shystock and livestock husbandry along with improved feed crops were the primary concern of Ontario farmers Men like Wade Toole and George Day are widely remembered by historians of the livestock industry along with field husbandry men like Squirrel and Zavitz Also in the pas t 25 years there has been a veri table

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

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experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

SB WILLIAMS DEPUTY MINISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

Hardcover Illu st rated Copp Clark $12 95

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

be as fruitful and as helpful

to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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their duties in one stroke of the Minister Duncan Marshalls pen Under PM Dewan however the situation improved noticeably

George Christies booming voice and cogent comments almost came to be the hallmark of a successful farm meeting He spoke throughout the province and did much to window-dress the college in rural Ontario Plagued by uncertain health he was forced to retire in 1942

W R Reek who succeeded Christie first as Acting President and later as President had some natural advantages in his favour Perhaps the greatest was the fact that Thomas L Kennedy was Mini ster of Agriculture Together the two men steered the College through what might be called the turning point in its history A new spirit was instilled into the institution and the stage was set for the great period of growth which followed The time of Reeks appointment was a natural growth period following the war years and their restric tions however his influence in setting the stage for the great period of expanded research which foil owed cannot be denied It was at about this time that industry in general began to back research efforts to a greater degree They provided the resources for carrying to successful conclusion research projects initiated by faculty Reek

also insisted on the importance of advanced degrees for his faculty

JD Maclachlan succeeded Reek as President in 1950 just in time to wrestle with the problems of expanshysion New facili ties were needed to cope with the post war growth in enrolment and already rumblings were heard about the need for expanshysion of the campus to more senior status

He played a key role in the planshyning which resulted in the formation of the Federated Colleges in 1962 as an intermediate step towards full university status which was achieved in 1964 When Dr Mac became the first President of the new Univershysity N R Richards then head of the Department of Soil Science became the first Dean of the best known agricultural college in the nation Richards played an important role in the councils of the fledgling univer shysity during those important early years

Under his leadership the College played its part as an integral part of

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the University providing leadership and providing key faculty members for several University departments During all this time however OAC never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget the place of agriculture on the campus as well as in the nations economy

When Professor Richards had completed his second five-year term as Dean in 1972 he returned to teaching in the Department of land Resource Science and Dr C M Switzer was named Dean (See article on Dean of Agriculture)

College relationships academic and polishytical

The last ten years of the Colleges first century have been its greatest to date Each year new records are set for numbers of students enrolled in OAC September 1973 saw 1150 full time students enrolled in the BSc(Agr) program of the College

Over the year s the relationship between th e OAC and the provincial department of agriculture has been close and fruitful Consistently the department has reacted to the needs of rural Ontario and the province in general by development and impleshymentation of new policies This reaction was clearly evident in the creation of new academic depart shyments on the campus As economic development proceeded the segments of the agribusiness industry acquired new needs and the Departshyment of Agriculture supported lhe growth of the College to meet these needs

An example of this relationship is the addition of an agricultural economist to the faculty of the college as the economic problems in agriculture gained recognition and as

business-like decision-making became more important in deciding the success of the farm operation Professor Archie Leitch of the Animal Husbandry Department began a cost accounting program on the College farm in the 20s and later was named Head of the Farm Management Departmen t He is perhaps best remembered for his work in organizing the Flue Tobacco Growers Association in the early 30s The work he began in Agriculshytural Economics has grown and now includes not only academic programs but special courses such as a weekshylong course for rural bankers

Another outgrowth of the close association between the campus and the Department of Agricu I ture may be seen in the establishment of the Agricu Itu ral Research I nsti tu te of Ontario to co-ordinate research program s and advise on de sirable projects

At the same time there has also been a continual close relationship between OAC and federal officials in agriculture For many years now CDA specialists in various fields have been posted on campus and have shared facilities with colleagues on the faculty here From the initiation of the degree program in 1887 until 1964 the campus enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the University of Toronto

Under the aegis of that University the Guelph BSA degree came to be recognized across Canada and around the world as representing a sound combination of practical background and academic training

Staff involvement and contributions

Over the past century many outstanding teachers and researchers have been members of the OAC faculty and countless graduates have played significant roles in their chosen segment of the agricultural industry

In the early days improved live shystock and livestock husbandry along with improved feed crops were the primary concern of Ontario farmers Men like Wade Toole and George Day are widely remembered by historians of the livestock industry along with field husbandry men like Squirrel and Zavitz Also in the pas t 25 years there has been a veri table

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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Putting it all together for 100 Years

The Ontario Agricultural College has done much for Ontario for Canada during their 100 years

Continual research and advancement have been the standards in OACs contribution to agriculture We at Ontario Harvestore believe we hold to similar aims

And in Putting it All Together

Ontario Harvestore Systems Ltd of Guelph Ontario has the people experience products and equipment needed to custom a completely automated storage and feeding system to your needs

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

Increase in the number of

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

SB WILLIAMS DEPUTY MINISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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73 graduates These fellows have diverse backgrounds and interests but all have the same goal setting up a profitable farming operation

Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

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first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

Congratulations

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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The Ontario Agricultural College has done much for Ontario for Canada during their 100 years

Continual research and advancement have been the standards in OACs contribution to agriculture We at Ontario Harvestore believe we hold to similar aims

And in Putting it All Together

Ontario Harvestore Systems Ltd of Guelph Ontario has the people experience products and equipment needed to custom a completely automated storage and feeding system to your needs

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

Increase in the number of

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

Agriculture in Canada and throughout the world has benefited from its progressive research programs and high standards of agricultural education ~~

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

SB WILLIAMS DEPUTY MINISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

Ontario Agricultural College

THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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revolution in livestock and crop production practices in Ontario sparked to a I arge degree by presen t and recently past members of the faculty For example the use of atrazine and oil as a corn herbicide was discovered on this campus and the use of corn as a high yielding

feed crop was expanded from a narrow climatic strip of southshywestern Ontario to much of the province The use of computers to analyze livestock production data as a culling tool for the breeder was pioneered at OAC with one of the first campus-installed computers in the prov i nce

Three biologists contributed greatly to the modern development of the fruit growing industry Proshyfessor L Caesar Professor J E Howitt and Professor AW Baker will long be remembered for their roles in seeing that orchardists knew how and when to spray for insect and disease control In the early days of this century young graduates were sent oLlt to drive the concession roads with horse and buggy giving spraying demonstrations and teachshying growers how to use the available equ ipment Thi s work led to the setting up of the spray calendar service which put spraying on a scientific basis and later culminated in the Spray Advisory Service set up in 1942

WR Graham of the poultry department made the farm flock a real contri butor to farm income on the farms of his day and thereby laid the foundation of the present large scale poultry industry But Grahams long term influence reached much farther A close friend of Sir Frederick Banting and of both Dr TGH Drake and Dr FF Tisdall the join t research heads of the Hospital for Sick Children Professor Graham did much to enhance the close relationship between OAC and the University of Toronto and to move the campus into the orbit of modern research

Many environmentalists who have served on the faculty could be named Professor WH Day who was one of the early engineers on the faculty is perhaps best remembered for his work after leaving the faculty in dyking and draining the Holland Marsh a major vegetable producing area today GN Ruhnke was one of the first to think of resource use in the broad terms in which it is interpreted today He

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Engineering in the earlv days at OAC meant learning the ability to repair another form of horse power

preached soil testing fertilizer use

and soil conservation until these became accepted practices not just catch words He was instrumental in esta bl ish i rig broad areas of cooperashytion between the College and CDA wh ich have continued ever since Few faculty members were more widely known in international circles than O M McConkey plah t breeder and conservationist

The English Department has always been able to boast its facul ty In particular OJ Stevenson made a special contribution partly through his close association with mem bers of the Group of Seven and other painters and outstanding men of Canad ian letters of h is day many of whom came to Guelph to visit The Colleges substantial collection of art was begun under his influence There are those indeed who claim that the establishment of faculties of Arts and Social Science which occurred with the founding of the University of Guelph can claim direct influence from men like Stevenson

The past and future graduates

It has always been the proud boast of OAC that its alumni had carved important niches for themshyselves in a disparate range of endeavours from coast to coast in Canada They are to be found in high places in business politics governshyment service and other areas Today in response to modern demands the academic programs are more specialshyized than was once the case But for many years the deliberately general nature of the training provided young graduates an ideal background to use as a springboard to success in every facet of agriculture and in many other areas

For example GE Hall went on to medicine and then was widely known for his leadelship as President of the University of Western Ontario One of the campuss most outspoken critics JK Galbraith has had an outstanding career in the ac ademic and public life of the United States A professor of economics at Harvard he h as served as presiden ti al advism foreign ambassador and as an editor of Fortune magazine WR Graham Jr became Vice President Resealch of the Quaker Oats Company wi th its headquarters in Chicago

Many graduates have been prominent as provincial premiers a nd ministers of the crown and innumershyable alumni have served as deputy ministers and in other senior governshyment appointments at the national level and in every province Many have found their way into Whos Who through leadership in the business world But not all of the alumni have chosen to serve in their homeland Many have served are

serv i ng abroad OACs contributions to agriculshy

ture on the provincial national and

international levels are many To reshyview them briefly one must touch only

a few high points In every decade since its founding th e College has been devoted to seeking out the needs of rural people and developing programs to meet them These have ranged from comparing varieties for better adapted strains and introshyducing new crops such as alfalfa or soybeans to meet farm needs to such sophisticated efforts as introducing modern business management techshyniques to farm operations It has meant breeding new varieties developing new breeding techniques and preach ing the adoption of new methods with the zeal of an evangel ist

But such programs all depended on a common denominator the insight and leadership of men trained to assess problems and develop new pi ans and programs to best meet existing and future needs This has been one of the great contributions OAC has made to agriculture and to the nation over the years

Today OAC is usually described as a part of a university which is attracting growing numbers of excelshylent students But it is much more than that This college can in truth be said to have spawned the univer shysity The ideals and history of the College provided the foundation on

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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The Ontario Agricultural College has done much for Ontario for Canada during their 100 years

Continual research and advancement have been the standards in OACs contribution to agriculture We at Ontario Harvestore believe we hold to similar aims

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

Increase in the number of

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

Agriculture in Canada and throughout the world has benefited from its progressive research programs and high standards of agricultural education ~~

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

SB WILLIAMS DEPUTY MINISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

be as fruitful and as helpful

to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

Congratulations

on 100 years ofcontribution

to agriculture shy

for Canada the WOrld

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

Ontario Agricultural College

THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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-Canada Packers Research Headquarters

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

UNlVERSIIY It1 ~OFGUELPH

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

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which th e universi ty grew The coll ege provided facul ty to other coll eges which share with it a pl ace within th e university A nd sti ll the OAC of 1973 has more students

OAC enroll ed than at any other t ime in its history

OAC now manages two thousand acres of land for OMAF with mi-Ilions of dollars worth of other faciliti es devoted to agricultural research The Elora Research Station with about a thou sand aCIes of land is rapidly developing into a great rese arch station The other research locations though less extensive provide specialized re search facilities not offered at Elora

Wh at of the future 7 Without qu es tion OAC will continue its traditional concern for the food and fibre needs of a changing and dynamic society Its current intershynational concern and numerous f oreign undertakings will ensure th at th ose nee ds are interpret ed in a world-w ide context not onl y in th e relatively narrow perspective of th e province of Ontario I n th e past

decade in particular the Coll ege has become increasingly involved in seeking solutions to the human and social problems facing rural Ontario Without doubt this thru st will continue until such tim e as ru ral needs dictate a change of cour se

Perhaps the greatest probl em facing society today in all of the developed nations of the world is th e elucidation and implem entation of the environmental ethic That is th e philosophy by which peopl e learn to live together in harmony with each other and in harmony with their natural environment

The greatest contribution that OAC can make in the imm ediate future and it is a contribution w hich is bei ng ea rnestly sought is to give leadership in this directi on

Until now man has lived as if either our natural resources w ould las t forever or the wor-Id would end in thi s century All of us have been too profligate in the squandel-ing of those precious resources and now people and our governments mu st take a hard look at where we are going For 30 years some econom ists and conservationists on this campu s and elsewhere have been saying more care must be taken and now tha t mess age is being accepted A s OAC heads into its second century it can be counted upon to be in th e van shyguard of efforts to ensure our fu ture

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Putting it all together for 100 Years

The Ontario Agricultural College has done much for Ontario for Canada during their 100 years

Continual research and advancement have been the standards in OACs contribution to agriculture We at Ontario Harvestore believe we hold to similar aims

And in Putting it All Together

Ontario Harvestore Systems Ltd of Guelph Ontario has the people experience products and equipment needed to custom a completely automated storage and feeding system to your needs

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

Increase in the number of

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

Agriculture in Canada and throughout the world has benefited from its progressive research programs and high standards of agricultural education ~~

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

SB WILLIAMS DEPUTY MINISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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73 graduates These fellows have diverse backgrounds and interests but all have the same goal setting up a profitable farming operation

Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

Hardcover Illu st rated Copp Clark $12 95

U se the convenient fo r m below to o rder your copy

To O AC Alumni A ssociat ion Dept CH Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N 1 G 2W1

Please send me __copies of The College on the Hill I enshyclose chequemoney order for $ __ payable to OAC Alshyumni A ssociation

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

DEKALB CANADA LTD Chatham Ontario Canada

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

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to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

WILDWOOD FARM SERVICES RR 3 Embro Ontario

kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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n appreciation of 0 ACs outstanding contribution

to the agricu tura industry

Congratulations

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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something different This difference is agriculture comments Dean Switzer I am proud of the role that OAC plays in the University helping to ensure that Guelph will not become just another Arts amp Science University Speaking recently to a farmers group Dean Switzer emmiddot phasi zed the ro Ie of the Co liege and its continuing objective to serve agriculture The OAC was established to serve the rural people of Ontario and that objective remains today The ways in which this service is brought about have changed but the dedication of the faculty to serve agricu I tu re has not

Through the last one hundred years the agricultural college has grown spawned additional colleges and has been one of the founding colleges for a University During these changes the significance of the OAC in the field of agriculture has continued to expand The relative size of the college to the total University environment which has diminished has not affected this dominant position Although our student body is smaller in relation to the totai on campus the agricultural students have in my opinion says Dean Switzer benefited from the University atmosphere Students now have a much broader choice of submiddot

fc jects available to them and have a What does OAC o lerr much wider extramiddotcurricular learning

Dean Switzer gives his answer The personality of a College is

often reflected through the Deans office The deans office at a college in a university setting is much like but involves much more than that of the high school principal It is the administrative office of the college for the college programs that is responshysible through the president of the University to the University senate At the Ontario Agricultural College the programs revolve around teachshying research and extension For the next decade programs will be conshycerned with the agricultural and food system a major emphasis on socioshyeconomic problems of rural people and a broad concern for resource use and environmental quality

The Dean must among other things through his office and that of his associate dean keep the activities of the college under conshystant review As stated in the 1971

report on The Programs and Organshyization of the OAC for the Seventies The oversight of the programs must be continuous and imaginative

This re sponsibility is that of the present Dean Dr Clay Switzer Dr Switzer joined the OAC in 1955 in the department of Botany He became chairman of that department in 1967 associate dean in 1971 and Dean of the OAC in 1972

Students entering a University must be convinced in the two or four year period that they spend in the formal part of their education that the results of those studies will be meaningful to them at the time they graduate A College must be forward looking capable of adjustment and in tune with students Dean Clay Switzer feels OAC offers all thi s and more

The University of Guelph offers

experience on the campus If success of a University or

College program can be measured by student enrolment then OAC has lost none of its charm in a Uni shyversity setting Agriculture has just graduated its biggest classes ever Enrolment in OAC programs at 2000 is up 11 over 1972 The University of Guelph enrolment is up 10 over 1972 to a tota I of 8365 full ti me undergraduates and 541 full time graduate students Of this latter group 220 are in OAC

The Senate has establ ished a goal of 10000 students for the Unishyversity says Dean Switzer The mix of students within the Colleges will depend on each colleges ability to attract students to its programs I look for the day when agriculture will be graduating about 250 BSc(Agr) students annually This will mean that our intake of students will be close to 400 in the first year as stushydents switch courses fail to reach the academic standards or drop out for a number of other reasons

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

SB WILLIAMS DEPUTY MINISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

Hardcover Illu st rated Copp Clark $12 95

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

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first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

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extension and engineering

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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students applying for entry to the agricultural courses could be a result of the knowledge that many of the Ag-graduates have been able to find jobs whereas students from other faculties have had more difficulty in obtaining post graduation employshyment The placement of graduates in 1972 showed that there continued to be a general decline in the number of placements in teaching and governmiddot ment services I ncreases have been noticeable in job opportunities for industry and there has been a very defin ite swing back to the farm In 1967 and 68 only 3-4 of the gradshyuating students in the BSc(Agr) degree cou rse retu rned to the farm In 1973 over 18 returned to the farm

Dean Switzer gives one example of the demand for graduates from the OAC and that is in the area of Food Science This program does not replace nor is it related to houseshyhold science It trains students for the food processing meat and milling industries In this area there have been about three job openings for every graduate

Over the years the courses have changed and will continue to change with the present structures of semesters options and required credits subject to continual review In charting the changes for the College the previous dean of OAC Dean NR Richards commissioned the study previously referred to on the

Programs and Organization of the OAC In this report the aims and objectives of the college were set out The report stated that the aims and objectives of the College for the seventies were The objective of the OAC is to serve people Its greatest impact is in the agricultural and food system and in the improvement of the rural environment It will meet this objective through exceHence in teaching and research and through its ability in extension to communishycate its findings to the public

I n serving the people of the proshyvince Dean Switzer sees a gradual shift in the academic direction to greater concentration on socioshyeconomic aspects of courses and content In the past year modificashytion of courses has taken place so that there is now an approximate equal mix for the BSc(Agr) program

in agricultural physical biological and social science courses I would hope says Dean Switzer that our courses will allow students to receive

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an education and training which will better enable them to solve the probshylems presently facing rural Ontario

In the years ahead Dean Switzer sees the OAC having a total enrolshyment of about 2000 students in a University of 10000 Assuming this enrolment I would see our facshyulty and staff numbers stabilizing at about the present level although shifts in areas of expertise undoubt shyedly will occur as we respond to the changing needs of society In research we will continue to stress

those areas of plant and animal proshyduction that require our attention and will spend more time in research leading to a better understanding of our rural environment Changes in the academic program are already geared to the future needs of society as recognized in the Organizational Study as being a commitment to agriculture and the food system rural adjustment and development and the proper use of resources for the benefit of man

Research Each year about 15-20 of the

OAC students begin graduate studies Part of these studies include research projects The research proshygram at the Ontario Agricul tural College is an intrinsic part of the academic program Research is funded in different ways with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food contracting by far the largest part of the research activity We are always on the lookout for research

funds says Dean Switzer and we would certainly like to see more contributions from the private

sector

The major source of funds for agricultural research at the University of Guelph is the Ontario Ministry

of Agriculture and Food Support also comes from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment National Research Council Canada Department of Agrishyculture other Federal sources and private industry m

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A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

Agriculture in Canada and throughout the world has benefited from its progressive research programs and high standards of agricultural education ~~

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

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It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

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One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

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YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

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MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

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Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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P O ULTRY

A MONG the important advances of recent times lllay be mentioned the elevation of agriculture in all its branches to the dignity of a science Formerly the tilling of the soi l and the raising of

live-stock of various kinds were scarcely rated among skilled callings Nearly anyone with the inclinati on was supposed to be amply qualified for the business and that good results were accompli shed under such conshyditions was very greatly to the credit of the farmers themselves Probably also the economic conditions of former times had much to do with the successes reaped by conservative methods

At the present time the need of exact knowledge and careful training is nowhere more marked than in agriculture and nowhere is such knowlshy~ge of greater utility than in the rai si ng o f domestic fowls for profit The college-bred farmer may be a character who proyokes ridic l1le in some minds but hi s success is worthy the emulation of all At any ra te the foll owin g scientific treati se on practical poultry-rai sing should convince would-be fanciers th at there is a scient ific way of maki ng the poultry yard pay and tha t it is in a la rge number of respects superio r to the former method of allowing nature and chance to supplem Ent if they will the deficiencies of our own knowledge of this impor tant subj ect

The above statement introduced a section on poultry

raising in the New American Encyclopedia of Social and

Commercial Information published by P F Collier amp

Sons in 1907 The elevation of Agriculture in all its

branches has certainly been borne out and nowhere

more clearly than through the contributions of OAC

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

Agriculture in Canada and throughout the world has benefited from its progressive research programs and high standards of agricultural education ~~

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

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It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

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YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

AN

ENVIABLE

RECORD

One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

be as fruitful and as helpful

to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

UNlVERSIIY It1 ~OFGUELPH

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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Ralston Purina of Canada offers sincere congratulations on this the 1 OOth Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

Hardcover Illu st rated Copp Clark $12 95

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

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MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

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Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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Over the one hundred years of development the campus of the Ontario Agricultural College has changed It all started in the Stone homestead the arch of which is shown on page 1 and the campus now emmiddot braces traditional and modern designs The modern structures of the University blend in with the traditional College buildings and display the transitional phases of life in this educational institution

The modernistic front of the Arts building shown alongside the familiar Tower to the right indicates how well the new and the old have come together Modern sculpting in front of the Arts Building the McLaughlin tower and Physical Science Building are all part of the new University tradition but Memorial Hall and the Administration Building now known as Johnsto n Hall will long be remembered by many as the landmarks at Guelph

en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

SB WILLIAMS DEPUTY MINISTER

o 1+ Agriculture o Canada

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

LJc e United Co -operatives of Ontario Mississauga Ontario

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

Lets consider three young OAC

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73 graduates These fellows have diverse backgrounds and interests but all have the same goal setting up a profitable farming operation

Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

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YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

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MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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en ~ Agriculture Canada salutes the ontaro Agricultural College

in its centennial year for the many contributions it has made ee to Canadian Agriculture over the last century These contributions

have touched aU facets of agricultural life by producing leaders

IIIin farming agricultural extension agricultural research agrishy

business and government Agriculture Canada looks forward to

continuing its long and fruitful relationship with OAC

gt-HON EUGENE WHELAN MIN ISTER

SB WILLIAMS DEPUTY MINISTER

o 1+ Agriculture o Canada

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

LJc e United Co -operatives of Ontario Mississauga Ontario

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

Lets consider three young OAC

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73 graduates These fellows have diverse backgrounds and interests but all have the same goal setting up a profitable farming operation

Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

GOOD FARMINGOAe SUPPLEMENT

I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

Hardcover Illu st rated Copp Clark $12 95

U se the convenient fo r m below to o rder your copy

To O AC Alumni A ssociat ion Dept CH Alumni House University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N 1 G 2W1

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

DEKALB CANADA LTD Chatham Ontario Canada

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

AN

ENVIABLE

RECORD

One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

be as fruitful and as helpful

to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

WILDWOOD FARM SERVICES RR 3 Embro Ontario

kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

Congratulations

on 100 years ofcontribution

to agriculture shy

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

Ontario Agricultural College

THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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The contribution of the Ontario Agricultural College to the growth and success of United Co-operatives of Ontario is evident in many ways

OAC has provided several hundred graduates who have worked and given leadership in every area of our activities

Thousands have become CO-OP members

Both UCO and Ontario agriculture have benefited greatly from the open communication of ideas information and research with OAC

We at UCO welcome this opportunity to express our appreciation to OAC for the excellent relationship we have enjoyed over the years We look forward to the years ahead

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

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73 graduates These fellows have diverse backgrounds and interests but all have the same goal setting up a profitable farming operation

Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

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With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

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One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

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100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

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Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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Russel PIetsch hopes to use British beef and dairy animals in developing a modest but profitable beef cow enterprise This 1973 graduate like many of his classmates sees a bright future in farming

73 Graduates Seek Farming Careers

It was truly exceptional for an OAC degree graduate to choose farming as an occupation during the midmiddot 1960s According to Dr Bruce Hunter of the Crop Science Departmiddot ment only 4 of the 1967 gradumiddot ating class planned to farm Three years later this jumped to 1010 Of the most recent graduates (OAC 73)18 sought a career in primary agriculture

Why the sudden and rather dramiddot matic shift One could point to a number of factors but probably most influential is an improvement in potential income from farm ing OAC graduates normally enjoy the luxury of having a number of career opportunities open to them Farming must compete with these other occupations in terms of potential remuneration Improved prices and a bright future for agriculture in general are making primary producmiddot tion more attqlctive

There is also an increasing disshyenchantment with city life among young people Many students now take into considerat ion the positive value of country living along with the psychological advantages of w orking for oneself

Lets consider three young OAC

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73 graduates These fellows have diverse backgrounds and interests but all have the same goal setting up a profitable farming operation

Amassed land while at college

Glenn Hayter took a day off from planting on his Varna Ontario farm last May to attend convocation The young farmer had put together a package of 400 acres while still in school Glenn made his initial purchase of 145 acres in the fall of 1971 and added another 250 acres last year He grew 180 acres of white beans and 165 acres of grain corn on his land this past summer

I would have had 500 acres with 450 workable had I chosen to purmiddot chase another farm that came up for sale recently he offered However I decided not to buy with interest rates so high

Glenn works in a rather loose machinery sharing arrangement with his father and uncle He purchased equipment with the intention of complementing what the family already owned Glenn pointed out that his folks were somewhat overmiddot capitalized in machinery This was oneof the reasons for purchasing

additional land We could still handle another

200 acres comfortably with the line of equipment we have now he explained I think I would grow cereals if I had this extra land since we do have time available for planting and h3rvesting these crops

There are a total of 800 acres now being worked by the Hayters The past summer was a busy time for Glenn and his full middot time employee 73 graduate Tom Ford When not tied up with field work they occumiddot pied themselves building a grain drying and storing complex

Glenn an Agricultural Economics major and Tom an Animal Science graduate both had set their sights on farming a long time ago Tom plans to start out on his own next spring on a farm near Rodney Ontario He will be operating a 16D-acre hog setmiddot up Glenn will then be looking for a new fullmiddottime man probably another degree graduate

What did these fellows get out of their college experience

I didnt get exactly what I wanted admitted Glenn I majored in Economics since I felt production techniqu es are constantl y changing but money and finance

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

We Wish to Express Our Thanks to

the Ontario Agricultural College

of the University of Guelph

for the great help and cooperation this colleges highly-capabl e technical individuals have given us in improving our milk handling a nd cooling equipment for the dairy farmer We are sure this has been of great benefit to all dairymen not -only in Canada but also throughout the world

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

Hardcover Illu st rated Copp Clark $12 95

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

AN

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RECORD

One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

be as fruitful and as helpful

to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

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vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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I stay the same However I took a lot of crop and livestock courses at the 300 and 400 levels hoping to get some information on production techniques II found the degree promiddot gram just doesnt offer much in the way of teaching production

I do feel I got a good backshyground in accounting and finance he added The degree helps when it comes to planning your operation but you have to transl ate what youve learned to fit a practical situshyation

T om expressed agreement with Glenns views on the four year College degree program

You pick up a lot of good ideas he pointed out but you have to learn how to employ these once you start farming I dont think either Glenn or I would have traded our experiences at OAC It provided valuable experience and certainly helped to broaden your mind

Glenn recently purchased 300 pigs to feed this winter

I went into this to give us someshything to do over the winter he smiled Im not really interested in livestock My main concern is with crop production Id as soon just see the balance sheet and income stateshy

herd that includes a mix of British beef and dairy breeds He is also rentshying his dads 40-cow herd and will be keeping all progeny resulting from this exercise Land holdings will be purchased from his own family and his mother-in-law

Although Russ is a 1973 graduate his association with OAC extends back over seven years He completed the diploma program in 1968 then worked as a technician in the Crop Science Department prior to enrolshyling in the degree program in the fall of 1969 Russ still works at the College on an A RDA grant that will be completed in March Followshying this he will be devoting all his time to farming

I majored in Crop Science since I felt there were more advances to be made there than any other area of agriculture offered Russ I believe you have to do a good job of proshyducing crops before you can make improvements in your livestock Most of the optional courses I took were in the economics area since this is vital knowledge for anyone who plans to farm

Russ felt the diploma course gave him more practical information on

farming than the degree program The degree prepares you well for

any position he explained Howshyever I fel t we should have had the opportunity to visit more farming operations and not just a few big ones I didnt really enjoy the degree program until fourth year when we were offered more practical courses

Russ is the youngest of three Pietsch brothers to graduate from

OAC His older brothers actually continued on to do post-graduate work after receiving their degrees

I had thought of getting a Masters degree at one point he explained However I felt my experiences working in research were enough since I really wanted to get a start at farming I had thought I would like to farm when I was in high school concluded Russ Howshyever at that time the profitability did not look so good I tried working in industry after high school but found I didnt like it I made up my mind that I would farm while I was in college Financial returns have improved for the farmer and while you are tied to working seven days a week its a way of life that just cant be beat 100

ment when the pigs are sold Both Glenn and Tom enjoy farm

life and the satisfaction of being selfshyemployed However they had other opportunities upon graduating and would not have chosen to farm unless the financial rewards were adequate

I feel returns from farm ing must surpass what I cOllld get in other endeavours stressed Glenn Farming is starting to become far more lucrative but you definitely have to treat it as a business to be successful

Get good first

Crop Science graduate Russel Pietsch developed a personal philoshysophy for farming while at unishyversity

I believe in getting good before you get big explained Russ My plans are to build up an 80- to 100-head beef cow herd over a period of abou t five years Ill have 250 acres primarily in grain and forages to feed caWe I plan to finish my own calves There will probably be a small swine operation to handle anything extra that the land can produce

Right now Russ has a 25-cow

NOVEMBER 1973

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

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With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

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One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

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YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

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Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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THE COLLEGE ON THE HILL

A History of the 0 ntario Agricultural College

1874-1974 by Alexander M_ Ross

With schola rship dnd WIt Professor Ross traces the history of OAC from its foundation to the present This unique account documents the personshyalities and political forces that shaped Canadas oldest agricultural college

Whether you be historian agrologist farmer or educator this book is essenshytial reading

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OACs involvement in haploid development

Research at the University level does not always reach the farmer in a recognizable form Today the farmer planting corn and administering his weed control program may not realize the time effort and research facilities that were required to give him that high yielding variety of corn and that near perfect level of weed control The Ontario Agricultural College has been a pioneer in the development of corn husbandry for Ontario farmers and has seen acreage grow from 250000 acres of grain corn in 1941 to over one million acres this year

In a similar vein the present development of barley as a newly profitable c rop is closely related to the research work at the Ontario Agricultural College_ Barley which fell to a low of 80 000 acres in 1961 has now reached over 400000 acres in Ontario

Possibly the most exciting reshysearch in the barley story is the new breeding technique that was dis shycovered at the University of Guelph With the use of special laboratory and plant growth facilities researchshyers can produce barley haploids that can save according to Professor Ken Kasha three to four generations or years in the production of new varieties or inbred lines for hybrid seed production

This new breeding technique permits the production of new unishyform lines within one year and then these lines can be tested to determine if they carry desired yield genes and other positive gene combinations

The haploid plants develop directshyly from sex cells and contain only half the normal number of chromoshysomes This means they contain only one and not two sets of chromoshy

somes In normal techniques the two sets of chromosomes may not be identical However by doubling the number of chromosomes in a haploid plant it becomes completely homoshyzygous (breeds true to type) so that all progeny will be identical and therefore uniform for establishment of a variety The technique involves the sex cells which are induced to grow into plants following a cross with a wild grass relative of barley The embryos formed are then culshytured on medium in test tubes to develop haploid seedlings

The objective of the plant breeder is to cross and com bine desirable characteristics from different lines and to produce superior varieties The tests to determine the superiorshyity of any new variety are time conshysuming With the haploid technique the tests such as protein level can be made righ t away and that th is quality will be continued in subseshyquent growth and multiplication as the genetic material is homozygous

At Guelph many of the instant varieties are already being evaluated in field test plots The new technique has brought into focus the need for corresponding development of proshycedures for handling maintaining and evaluating the pure lines proshyduced early in the breeding program

While this new technique only works with barley new techniques for producing haploids in other crop species are be ing produced at various research centres around the world

The ability to shorten the breedshying cy cle by three to five years in contrast to the present breeding methods that require 5-6 generations of inbreeding subsequent to the cross before progeny I ines are uniform enough to evaluate has given impetus to this new technique in times of current world grain shortages

The topic is considered important enough that the University of Guelph is hosting an International symposhysium on Haploids in plants shyAdvances and potential during centennial year for the Ontario Agricultural College

Haploids may be a new term to many people and many farmers may have never even heard of it But they will be benefactors of haploid research that originated at the Ontario Agricultural College and arrived at their farm as a new variety of barley bred to the climatic and economic needs of the province ~

GOO D FARMINGj OAC SUPPL EMENT

One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

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YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

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YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

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John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

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MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

be as fruitful and as helpful

to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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One Hundred Years of Progress

Ontarios dairy fa rmers wish to acknowledge

the work of the Ontario Agricu ltural College

over the last 100 years in assisti ng them to become world leaders in breeding feeding and production techniques

In the years ahead milk producers look

forward to a continued close association with

the college in developing new technology for the betterment of the industry

THE ONTARIO MILK

MARKETING BOARD

50 Maitland Street

Toronto Ontario M5W 1 K2

YOUVE COME ALONG WAY

100 years of progress Its a long way And we

at DEKALB Canada Ltd congratulate and comshymend the Ontario Agricultural College for your great contributions to Canadian Agriculture You have come a long way

YOUR CHALLENGE IS OUR CHALLENGE

Feeding people Its the challenge of Agriculture today and tommorrow And its a big job The biggest and most important job of all Our part

is to develop produce and distribute quality DEKALB seed products seed that wi II help Canadian Farmers help feed a growing and hun shygry world of people

We at DEKALB join you in accepting the chal shylenge Helping people feed people Congratula shytions OA C

DEKALB CANADA LTD Chatham Ontario Canada

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

24 G O O D F A R M I N G O A C SUPP L E M ENT

John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

GEORGE WHITE amp SONS CO lTD

PO BOX 129 LONDON ONTARIO

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

AN

ENVIABLE

RECORD

One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

be as fruitful and as helpful

to Canada as have been the

first one hundred Our apshy

preciation to the College

especially for their work in

extension and engineering

WILDWOOD FARM SERVICES RR 3 Embro Ontario

kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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n appreciation of 0 ACs outstanding contribution

to the agricu tura industry

Congratulations

on 100 years ofcontribution

to agriculture shy

for Canada the WOrld

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

Ontario Agricultural College

THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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True in 1874 True in 1974

Its great to be an Aggie Measured in terms of agricultural accomplishment uates would influence world agriculture

Ontario Agricultural College AGGIES can cl aim a In 1974 some 10000 Aggies later the mere measure of greatness that is recognized the world mention of OAC identifies the graduate with 100

over The original 30 students in 1874 made their years of agricultural progress And it all started in a contributions to Ontario agriculture They could little school on a little farm on a little hill just

never have imagined the extent to which future grad- south of Guelph

24 G O O D F A R M I N G O A C SUPP L E M ENT

John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

Congratulations

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for Canada the WOrld

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

Ontario Agricultural College

THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

Ministry of Agriculture and Food

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

GOOD FARMING CANADIAN DAIRY FARMER ~AGRICULTEUR PROGRESSIF CANADIAN FARM EQUIPMENT DEALER

CANADIAN WESTERN FARM ampRANCH SHOW

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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-Canada Packers Research Headquarters

SHURmiddotGAIN DIVISIONCANADA PACKERS UMITED 31NOVEMBER 1973

to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

UNlVERSIIY It1 ~OFGUELPH

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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Page 31: Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Winter 1974

John A Stewart President

Congratulations OAC on 100 years of outstanding leadership to Canadian Agriculture For your Centenshynial occasion we w ish to annouce the formation of the Alex M Stewart and Son Limited 4-H Scholarship award This $50000 Scholarship will be awarded for the first time in 1974 to an outstanding 4-H Club member entering the Agri cultura l Degree Course at OAC Details of the scho larsh ip and application requirementswill be announced later I n this small way we say thanks to the 0 AC for a job well done

ALEX M STEWART amp SON LTD AILSACRAIGONTARIO

MARTIN FEED MILLS LIMITED

ELMIRA AND TAVISTOCK ONTARIO

MANUFACTURERS OF ACOMPLETE LINE OF animal feeds would like to pay tribute to the activities of the Ontario Agricu Itural College during the last one hundred years Ontario farmers agricultural business and consumers have all benefited from the high level of research extension and education undertaken by the college on behalf of the agricultural community

Congratulations to OAC and Martin Feed Mills looks forward to working with the college during the next one hundred years

Much of what we have achieved

we owe to the help of Aggies

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

Holstein-Friesian Association Brantford Ontario

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to the agricu tura industry

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

Ontario Agricultural College

THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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Palatability and pablum at Poultry Department

The Poultry Husbandry Departshyment now incorporated in the department of Animal and Poultry Science of the Ontario Agricultural College has provided the poultry industry with many years of valuable research findings _ Perhaps one of the most notable experiments conshyducted by the department was a study in 1928 of the hatchability of eggs_ The department under Professhysor W_R_ Graham received a large grant from the Empire iVlarketing Board and the Ontario Department of Agriculture to initiate the project_

Experiments on the effects of diet on hatchability showed among other things that both hatchability and number of eggs laid depend on the

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One hundred years of service

to Ontario agriculture May

the next one hundred years

be as fruitful and as helpful

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kind of animal protein used to supplement the hens diet These experiments also showed th at no one grain is a complete food for ch ickens Corn produces skeletal malformashytions wheat results in high mortality and oats produce beak damage

It was obviously essential to find the optimum combination of grains and protein supplements and as a result the department instituted a long series of feeding trials To test the acceptability of feeds the cafeshyteria system was introduced As the name suggests this was a free-choice feeding system Thirty or more types of feed were made freely available to the chickens and their reaction to each kind was noted

An interesting re su lt of these tests was that chickens reacted strongly to the texture of the food they preshyferred gritty or crushed grain to finely-ground grain Another experishymental finding was that Vitamin D supplied either by exposure to sunshylight or by the addition of cod liver oil to the diet is as important to egg hatchability as it is to the prevention of rickets in humans Experiments carried out in cooperation with the Hospita l for Sick Children in Toron to showed that these Vitamin shyD-rich eggs should be a very useful source of this vitamin in human nutrition

The poultry husbandry departshyment began an inten si ve program in nutrition research and in 1932 a new department animal nutrition was created under Dr HD Branion who is now the assistant to the president of the University of Guelph

In those days as today much of the research at Guelph was carried out cooperatively with the Hospitai for Sick Children and it was one of the se research projects that eventualshyly led to the development of a new infant fOOd Pablum Pablum is a precooked form of Meads Cereal a mixture of wheat oats cornmeal alfalfa leaf and vitamin and mineral supp lements marketed by the Mead Johnson Company Tests carried out at the Toronto hospital showed Pablum to be an ideal food for infan ts rendered very digestible by the pre-cooking process

It caused some amusement to those in the know at OAC that the formu la o f Meads Cerea I was almost identical to that of the mixture that Professor W R Graham and h is colshyleagues of the old poultry husbandry department had developed a few years earlier as a chick starter I ndeed rumor had it that some OAC faculty members were saving on grocery bills by feeding their children on chicken feed m

The HOLSTEIN- FRIIESIAN ASSOCIATION of CANADA

Sincerely appreciates the co-operation extended by

The Ontario Agricultural College May the next 100 years be

as successful as the first century

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

Ontario Agricultural College

THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

Ontario Agricultural College

THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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Computerization of ag records

started in 1953 at OAC

The Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph was one of the pioneers in the computerization of agricultural records In 1953 a small animal breeding laboratory was established in the department of animal husmiddot bandry for the purpose of conshyducting research on the large volumes of dairy cattle field records which had been accululated across Canada during the previous 50 years

Little did Professor J C Rennie who had the responsibi lity of developing the computer laboratory real ize that from thi s small unit would evolve computerized livestock record -keeping and eva I uat ion systems which would be used nationally and internationally By 1965 the laboratory had become so diversified in its activities that the decision was made to call it the

Institute of Computing Science for the University of Guelph and in so doing put it under a separate type of administration and removed from ani mal science

The primary objectives of the initial computer laboratory were to obtain and correlate vital statistics on the different breeds of dairy cattle to analyze type and production records by sires and to develop methods of evaluating the breeding value of dairy sires particularly those in artificial insemination units In addition computerized record keeping systems for the Ontario Dairy Herd Improvement Program had to be developed

Although most of the early work in the computer laboratory centred around dairy cattle few years elapsed before computer systems

were being used to study beef and swine records By the late 50s several other departments within OAC began to realize the role computers could play in the storage a nd ana lysis of research and field data and began to develop systems of their own

Many of the computerized cow and sire evaluation systems develshyoped in the Guelph laborator y in the 1950s and early 60s are now used with some modification by other centres acro ss Canada and in several other countries such as Mexico England France and Japan Guelphs head start in systematic recordshykeeping in cow and sire indexing and reporting systems with the aid of computers has been a very significant factor in aiding the development and expansion of Canadas world export trade in dairy cattle and semen ~

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THE FIRST 100 YEARS WILL BE A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Since 1874 the College has made outstandshying contributions to agriculture and rural life in Ontario

OAC may well look forward with confidence to a second century of achievement

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

The Southam Farm Group

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

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T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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Dairy research j keeps in step

vith changing food industry

Since its inception the Food Science Department of the Ontario Agricultural College has contributed immeasurably to the development of the dairy industry in Canada and indeed to Canadas position as a world leader in this field The departmiddot ment has existed in its present form only since 1968 but its predecessor the Da iry Science Department was active in research and teaching from its foundation in the 1880s

The improvement in the quality of dairy produce has always been one of the departments main aims and this is evidenced by its continuing efforts to assist the Ontario cheese producer Early experiments on Cheddar cheese were prompted by criticism from the departments founders on the quality of butter and cheese bei ng produced at that time They included investigations of cookmiddot ing tem peratures rennet i ng setti ng temperatures stirring methods the effect of the percentage of fat in the milk on yield and quality of cheese and the pasteurization of milk for cheesemaking Studies were also done on the various types of curd knives used for cutting cheddar cheese curd

In 1909 steps were taken to intromiddot duce foreignmiddottype cheeses to the Ontario consumer and in 1913 studies were conducted on the manumiddot facture and packaging of Neufchatel Butterm ilk Cottage and Wensleydale cheeses Process cheese now such an important part of the cheese industry was first studied in 1926 by the Dairy Department and in 1936 a study of the production of Canadian Blue Cheese begun which resulted in the eventual manufacture of blue mould cheese in Ontario This was

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followed by the development in 1943 of the Extraneous Matter Test for cheese and later stud ies on the nutritional value of Cheddar cheeses made from raw and pasteurized milk

Studies are presently being conshyducted and have been going on since 1950 on the factors responsible for the desirable flavour achieved in cheese made from unpasteurized milk as compared to the less desirshyable flavour obtained from using pasteurized milk According to the Food Science Department the future of the Canadian cheese export industry depends on answers being found to this problem

But cheese isnt the only dairy product being researched by the Food Science Department at OAC Ice cream is another product which has been under study there in fact since 1913 Early studies on ice cream dealt with factors affecting overrun smoothness of texture and ingred ient costs Later the use of eggmiddotyolk powder and rennet in iceshycream mixes was investigated and the viscol izing of mixes as well as the use of honey in ice-cream This work helped to determine the means by which sugar crystallization in sherbets and water ices could be controlled and has been of lasti ng value to the ice-cream industry

The role of ice-cream colours as sources of bacterial contamination was also investigated along with studies to determine which Ontario fruit varieties were most suitable for use in ice-cream In 1960 the Dairy Department was asked to provide the formulation for a good ice milk product which was subsequently introduced by the National Dairy Council of Canada

Perhaps the most unusual project that the Department has been asked to undertake was to develop the forshymulation for a Centennial ice cream to be distributed during 1967 The ice cream that the Department devised was a vanilla brick with a maple-walnut flavoured centre in the shape of a maple leaf

The Dairy Department now the Food Science Department of OAC has kept in constant step with the fast changing food industry in Canada throughout the years I t has contributed much to the countrys development as a leader in this field and as research and study continue it will contribute a great deal more in the years to come ~

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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in their fi eld and in dema nd by agricultural and related industri

es everywhere

Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

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the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

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T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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In todays wor ld its reassuring to know that the OAC is working to moke the world a better place in the next hundred years Just as it has tor the past hundred

Thanks to the OACs continuing rol e in agriculture resea rch and education not onl y the quality of food - the bread we eat the meat we buy the m il k we drink - but also the quality of our li ves and our futures w ill be enhanced

Thanks to the OACs international repu tati on its graduates are highly regarded the world over as t ops

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Thanks t o the OACs standards of exce ll ence on ly the highest qua lity and variety of farm produce is marketed in Ontario to meet domestic and ex port requ i rement s

And thanks to you - you r interest and support shythe OAC wil l continue to lead the fi eld in agricu ltural research and educati on

Heres to the second century of fi ne service

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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-Canada Packers Research Headquarters

SHURmiddotGAIN DIVISIONCANADA PACKERS UMITED 31NOVEMBER 1973

to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

UNlVERSIIY It1 ~OFGUELPH

GOOD FARMING OAC SUPPLEMENT 32

the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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ThankyouQAC andCongratulations Thank you for the hundreds of bright young men and women who over the years have come from you to us at Shur-Gain and other divisions of Canada Packers They have enlightened and enriched our company

So on this your lOOth Anniversary we join with all our Aggies in congratulating the University of Guelph and its Ontario Agricultural College

May the excellence of your standards and your students continue to flourish

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-Canada Packers Research Headquarters

SHURmiddotGAIN DIVISIONCANADA PACKERS UMITED 31NOVEMBER 1973

to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

UNlVERSIIY It1 ~OFGUELPH

GOOD FARMING OAC SUPPLEMENT 32

the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

9

An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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to Agriculture is the proud record of the Ontario Agricultural College founding College of the University of Guelph In 1974

OAC celebrates 100 years of agricultural progress and 10 years as a College of the University of Guelph

Call it hybrid vigour if you like 10 years ago an outstanding Agricultural College today an outstanding University comprising

seven colleges Where 100 years ago there were 30 students today there are over 8500 undergraduate students in the Colleges of Arts

Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies Physical Science Social Science the Ontario Agricultural College and

the Ontario Veterinary College

Remarkably academic excellence and research contributions have kept pace with campus growth And OA C Aggies everywhere will be pleased

to know that the old OA C spirit is very much a part of the new University of Guelph

Please join us in celebrating OACs Centennial Youll be most welcome Just write for details of important events throughout 1974

UNlVERSIIY It1 ~OFGUELPH

GOOD FARMING OAC SUPPLEMENT 32

the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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campus highlights

messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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Page 39: Guelph Alumnus Magazine, Winter 1974

the high school connection

by Helen Aitkin

Over the past few years Canadian univershysity enrolment has levelled off at some universities it has even dropped to a point where the future of those universities is in question Secondary school students are aware that a degree no longer offers the promise of immediate employment and many are therefore undertaking vocational training or entering the work force upon leaving school

Yet even now when the universities might turn in desperation to hard-sell techniques in an effort to increase enrolshyments an Ontario secondary school liaison program based on hcnesty and education of the student is still being employed The program which follows guidelines set forth by the Council of Ontario Universities emphasizes the dissemination of informashytion rather than promotional advertising

Liaison officers of the 16 Ontario univershysities have organized what they call the University Information Program a nonshyccmpetitive cooperative program designed to provide secondary school students with information on universities in Ontario Travelling as a group the liaison officers spend 13 weeks in the fall visiting high schools throughout Ontario The program includes a 15-minute introduction given to

the assembly of students and parents by one of the officers Each university liaison officer then has an opportunity to give three presentations speaking to students about specific programs and answering questions in an open discussion

It is at these sessions that liaison officers present an impression of the university they represent and provide details of courses available Cora Marie Dusk Guelphs high school liaison officer in explaining the nature of the University to interested students tries to be as honest as possible otherwise we couldnt be convincing She describes the changed status of the university-no longer an institution of career placement and trainshying but rather a place to enrich oneself and to grow

Students who attend the sessions on Guelph are usually interested in a particushylar program-such as environmental biology agriculture veterinary medicineshyand want to find out more about it These details are available from Mrs Dusk who will also advise the student of the

Liaison officer Cora Marie Dusk (left) discusses programs at Guelph with two prospective students

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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campus highlights

CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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An important element of the liaison function is showing students around campus

admission requirements and course content of the program in which he is interested Sometimes faculty members and academic counsellors from Guelph also attend to provide such information

Students frequentl y are interested in the non-academic aspects of university life at Guelph They want to know about class sizes residences food services offshycampus living and the problems they may encounter in the transiti on from high school to university Will I be a person or a number Will I get indi vidual assistshyance when I need it are questions often asked of Mrs Dusk

A short film providing visual impressions of the whole University is shown to supshyplement the discussion and to give students a feel for the campus Preshypared especially for liaison sessions such as these the film is updated every yea r keeping pace with changes at the

University

The secondary sch oo l liaison program is not restricted to visits through the Uni ve rshysity Information Program Invitations are often received from Ontario sc hools for representati ves from the University of Guelph to visit either individuall y or a long with peopl e from several other universities This year for the first time secondary school liaison officers from Guelph also spoke to students in Quebec schools

At all of these sessions students are urged to correspond with the University admissions officer if further information is desired In addition to having their questions answered students who corshyrespond recei ve information on ac ti vities at the University such as the Guelph Spring Festival or College Royal All Ontario secondary schools receive a monthl y bulletin from the liaison officer entitled Around Guelph which outlines

current activities at the University details of admission curriculum changes and many aspects of campu s life

Stud ents are also encouraged to arrange visits to the campus individually or with classmates so that they can see first hand many of the thing s they heard about rom Mrs Dusk Tours of the campus take them to residences classrooms laboratories the library and to specific points of interest

Tour guides all students at Guelph show secondary school students the campus and answer questions of the social aspects of uni ve rsity life Efforts are made to choose guides from the same part of Ontario as the visiting school or from an academic program of particular interest to the visit ors The tour guides serve the valuable funct ion of presenting the Unishyve rsity from the student s viewpoint

Arrangements for visiting students tel talk individually with academic counsellors or faculty members are made by Fred Mog elin SA 69 admissions officer and coordinator of campus vis its for secondary students Counsellors are careful not to pressu re a student into an y program but instead suggest a number of op tions that seem to be available to him We want students to make their own decisions Mr Mogel in emphasizes

At Guelph each student is treated as an Individual Even when visitors arrive unanncunced hasty arrangements can usually be made to put students in touch with counsellors or to show them what they want to see What I like about my job explains Mr Mogelin is that people do matter Im glad we re not so efficient that students are treated as numbers

Whether the student vis its the campus corresponds w ith the admissions office at Guelph or attends the University Informashyti on Program at his secondary school he will be able to obtain the information necessary to make a knowledgeable decision concerning his further education

High sc hoo l students need to be aware of the programs and facilities available at Guzlph and of uni ve rsity life in general but whether they choose to come to Guelph is their individual decision Mrs Dusk maintains that the importance of the secondary school liai son program is not only that it attracts students to Guelph but also that it keeps the lines open between the university and the secondary schools 0

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

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Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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campus highlights First Professor Emeritus named at winter convocation George Elwin Raithby OAC 22 was made the Universitys first Professor Emeritus at the winter convocation in February Degrees were awarded to 224 undergradushyate and graduate students and a DSc honoris causa was received by J R Weir OAC 36 chairman of the Fisheries Research Board

On being named Professor Emeritus a title approved by the Senate last year Professor Raithby said My professional days are over but I ll work hard on the emeritus He retired from OAC in 1965 after 50 years of association with the college

After graduation Professor Raithby became a lecturer in ani mal husbandry and achieved the rank of professor in 1930 as well as becoming supervisor of the college s dairy cattle program He was chairman of the Department of Animal Husbandry from 1954 until his retirement

For much of his professional life Professor Raithby has been associated with

Professor Raithby (left) and Dr Weir

the livestock industry and was widely acclaimed as a judge here and abroad He helped to establish type standard s and breed policies and was a principal architect in the creation of the animal breeding laboratory in the Department of Animal Husbandry

Professor Raithby has served on national and provincial livestock committees and has been a director of the Royal Agriculshytural Winter Fair Toronto and the Internashytional Livestock Exposition Chicago He

has contributed to 60 scientific and semishytechnical publications

On being awarded an honorary DSc John Robert Weir told the convocation audience that it is hi s hope and expectashytion that the University of Guelph with such a rich heritage over the last 100 years will continue to uphold its tradition cf the total development of the individual

After graduating from OAC Dr Wei r studied for an MSc at the University of Alberta and PhD at the University of Minnesota He was a faculty member in

OAC s Department of Field Husbandry from 1940 to 1952 and resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics at the Uni versity of Manitoba

In 1967 he became director of the Science Secretariat of the Privy Council and in 1969 was appOinted a member of the Science Council Dr Weir has particishypated in a number of educati onal pro jects and organizations in Canada the United States Brazil and Kenya In 1973 he was appointed an agricultural educator with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the advis ory committee on academic planning cf the Council of Ontario Universities

New scholarships announced Ten new entrance scholarships worth $500 each will be awarded annually to students entering the BA program beginning this fall One $500 scholarship will be made each year to a student entering the BSc (Eng) program and nine $500 scholarships will be awarded annually to students entering programs in the College of Bi o logical Science or the College of Physical Science The awards are made available by the University Board of Governors

The board also allocated $15000 annually from the University Endowment Fund for additional entrance scholarships Of that amount $10000 will be available for students entering this spring semester and $5000 for students entering in the winter semester The value of the scholarshyships is expected to be $500 each but that and the conditions of award have yet to be

determined by Senate Two new in-course scholarships will be

awarded BSc (Agr ) students who have completed their first four semesters and are registered in the international agriculshyture minor They are the Gulf Canada Ltd sc holarship for $500 and the F E Wolff International scholarship for $300 of which three are expected to be awarded annually

The number of Physical Science Students Council awards of $100 each will

be increased from four to 15 effective this year

Experiments use drug to help curb alcoholism Professor James Motlin of the Department of Psyc hology has been conducting experiments to determine the effecti veness of certain drugs in the treatment of alcoholism In his research he has found no evidence that the drugs now being routinely used to treat alcoholism serve a useful pharmacological purpose

The only function of such drugs seems to be psych o logical contends Professor Mottin The drugs may provide a daily pillshytaking ritual that reinforces the alcoholic s determination not to take a drink he says They may also help in selecting for treatment those people most likely to give up drinking regardless of treatment Proshyfesso r Mottin questions whether such active drugs are needed to serve those functions Proper clinical control studies have not been done he maintains yet some of the d rugs being used have severe

side effects In Ontario alcoholism poses a major

problem Some 300000 people in the province drink the equivalent of nine ounces of whiskey a day and 145000shyalmost two per cent of the populationshy

are alcoholic Professor Mottin recently has been

testing Artane a drug now used to treat Parkinsons disease which may also prove useful in treating alcoholism Unlike the current drugs that are designed to promote abstinence by making the person who takes a drink phys ically sick Artane could be used in temperance therapy aimed at moderate drinking-an approach growing

in popularity and success Artane affects the transmission of

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messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

12

In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

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Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

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campus highlights

CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

14

BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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campus highlights

messages in the drinking-emotional circuit within the limbic system of the brain In effect it reduces the physiological urge to drink rather than inducing sickness upon drinking

Professor Mottin discovered that rats that had been trained to consume excesshysive quantities of alcohol reduced their drinking after being administered Artane and eventually their alcohol consumption stopped completely He now plans to test rats that have been made physiologically dependent on alcohol He also hopes to survey clinical data on Parkinsons disease to find out whether the drug has reduced drinking in patients also suffering from alcoholism

With continued laboratory success Artane may also be tested in clinical settings for alcoholism But even if it does prove effective such a drug should not be used merely as another component of treatment Professor Mottin argues Its success will depend on its being an integral part of a total treatment program

Annual report released Figures in the Universitys 1973 annual report which was recently released to the public show that enrolments and operating expenditures for the year were at record levels

FUll-time undergraduate enrolment at December 1 was 8100 an 11 per cent increase over the 7284 students registered at that time in 1972 Total number of graduate students was 526 Enrolment in continuing education courses during the year rose from 2940 to 4206 an increase of 148 per cent

Operating budget for the year ended April 30 1973 was $51517000 compared with $40223000 for the ten-month period ended April 30 1972 Capital investment in land buildings and equipment stood at $1589 million the highest in the Universitys history

In his introductory comments to the report president W C Winegard notes that 1973 was the first year of the so-called slip year method of financing in which universities operating budgets are based on the preceding years figures not on calculated projections Dr Winegard

Hundreds attend OAC At Home

The Ontario Agricultural Colleges centennial celebrations got 011 to a flying start with a New Years Day reception held at Creelman Hall The event was so well attended that the receiving line had eventually to be abandoned Here Dr Edith Williams OVC 41 and the late Paul Fisher OAC 11 are greeted by OAC Alumni Association president Tom Cowan OAC 65 and Mrs Cowan Mac 67

believes that the new method will not be advantageous to Guelph although it should benefit most of the other Ontario universities

He expressed uncertainty about operashyting income for 1974-75 although a special grant awarded the University for 1973-74 should prevent any urgent problems from arising

The president points out in the report that the provincial government s freeze on capital expenditures prevented several building projects from proceeding includshying a social sciences building a new biology building a central services building and additions to the physical education complex and Macdonald Instishytute In cases where construction had already begun- the University Centre the laboratory animal building and the new human kin8tics building-work has been allowed to continue Expansion plans for the Ontario Veterinary College were seriously disrupted although construction of the new pathologyNMI building is proceeding with costs being shared equally by the federal and provincial governments

Two appointed to Board of Governors Kenneth Pretty OAC 5 1 of Mississauga and Marguerite Farmer of Guelph have been appointed to the Universitys Board of Governors by the Ontario LieutenantshyGovernor in Council They replace John A Stewart OAC 41 of Ailsa Craig and Dorothy Walden of Aurora both of whom have retired from the board

After graduating from the Ontario Agrishycultural College Dr Pretty joined the

Mrs Farmer Dr Pretty

Ontario Department of Agriculture as a soils field man for Middlesex County He later studied for masters and doctoral degrees in soil science at Michigan State University where he taught for a year

12

In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

-

Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

13

campus highlights

CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

14

BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

-

15

CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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In 1954 Dr Pretty became Canadian director of the Ameri can Potash Institute He was appointed vice president of the Potash Institute of North Am erica in 1967 and in 1971 became president of the Potash Institute of Canada a position he continues to hold

Dr Pretty is a member of the Agri cultural Institute of Canada vice-chairman of the Agricultural Research Institute of Ontario past-president of the Ontario Institute of Agrol og ists and the Plant Food Co uncil of Ontario He was a deputy leader and fertilizer specia list with the Canadian Agricultural task force to India in 1967

Mrs Farmer has been c losely identified with the Wellington South Progressive Conservative Association She is thought to be the first woman treasurer of the association and was campaign manager for the ridings Conservat ive candidate in the last provincia l election

During World War II Mrs Farmer worked at Allied War Supplies and at the Montreal Military Hospital After moving to Guelph she was a field worker in the SI Catharines and Hamilton area for the rehabilitation division of the Ontario Department of Family and Social Servi ces

Mrs Farmer is married to Dr Frank Farmer Guelph surgeon and Wellington County co roner They have four daughters

The 24-member Board of Governors includes four appointed by order-in-council and 18 elected by the board of which three are faculty members nominated by Senate The University chancellor and president are ex-offi cio members

Guelph President honoured by U of T University of Guelph president W C Winegard was awarded an LLD honoris causa at the University of Torontos December convocati on in recogniti on of hi s contribution to metallurgical engineering He also delivered the convocation address

It was appropriate than an honorary degree should be presented to an engineer for the convocation re cognized the centennial of the universitys facu lty of engineering Moreover the degree was awarded to a three-time Toronto alu mnus Dr Winegard received his BASc from

-

Dr Winegard receives honorary degree from U of T chancellor Pauline McGibbon while Toronto president J R Evans looks on

U of T in 1949 his MASc in 1950 and his Ph D in 1952

On completing graduate studies Dr Winegard joined the Toronto faculty and before coming to Guelph was professor and acting dean of graduate studies He has published a book and some 100 papers on the subject of metallurgy

Dr Winegard who is also chai rman of the Council of Ontario Universities spoke to the convocation audience about the relationship between the governmen t and the provinces universities He urged the government to change the reporting structure to the Ministry of Colleges and Universities Presently the collective voice of the universities is represented by the COU which acts as liai son with the Comshymittee on University Affairs which in turn reports to the Ministry

Dr Winegard told his audience that he hopes the government will implement in whole or in part Recommendation 91 of the Commission on Post Secondary Educati on That recommendation calls for the estabshylishment of an Ontario Counc il for University Affairs that will plan and coordinate ove rall university priorities advise the Minister on g lobal sums of money required to run the universities and

allocate and distribute operating and capital funds

He pointed out that there is considerable pressure on the government to consider efficiency as more important than educashytion He believes that an independent body acting as a buffer between the government and the universities would serve to resist such pressure

Dr Winegard concluded his address by saying that the universities of Ontario want the province to move towards an independent buffer group On behalf of all the universities of Ontario I urge the Minister to accept Recommendation 91 of the COPSE Report He will do the people of Ontario a great service

Noted film writer was artist in residence Canadian film and television writer Monroe Scott has been stayi ng at the University for th e past two months as artist-in-residence During hi s stay here he was writing for the open stage giving seminars and lectures and provi ding advice for interested students and faculty

A freelance writer working mainl y for the

13

campus highlights

CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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campus highlights

CBC the National Film Board Berkeley Studio and Carillon Films of Holland Mr Scott has written and directed many notable television programs Among his credits are The Tenth Decade a documenshytary on contemporary Canadian politics and First Person Singular a visual autoshybiography of the late Lester Pearson His first full-length play Wu Feng written for the open stage will be performed at the St Lawrence Theatre Toronto

Mr Scott s films have won him more than 20 national and international awards including a Gold Medal at Cortina Italy and three Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival

Munroe Scott

Summer courses will be available on campus This summer the university will be offering 10 six-week-Iong courses through the Colleges of Biological Science Family and Consumer Studies and the Ontario Agrishycultural College

The first time that such courses have been offered at Guelph they are designed for students with little exposure to the sciences and for students who require more advanced studies in nutrition family studies and consumer studies

A maximum of two courses may be taken during the summer session whi ch starts at the beginning of July students registered in the spring semester may not participate in the summer session

Residence accommodation and food service will be available to summer

students at regular rates for the session Tuition fee for each course is $70

The last date for submission of applicashytion forms is June 7 Classes commence July 2 and conclude August 9 Examinashytions will be held the following day

The courses offered are College of Biological Science 15-106

Introductory Biology 40-100 Genetics and Man 65-100 General Microbiology 92-102 The Animal Kingdom 92-150 Man in the Natural World 71-321 Fundamentals of Nutrition

College of Family and Consumer Studies 28-201 Introduction to Consumer Behavior 39-201 Marital and Family Dynamics 41-208 Economics of Food Usage

Ontario Agricultural College 53-100 Horticultural Science

Appli cations for admission and further information are available from W R Heath OAC 67 Associate Registrar Student Programs and Records University of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

Study attempts to measure quality of life In an age when the benefits of materialism are often questioned the quality of our lives is of increasing concern to many For the past few years researchers and scholshyars-principally in the fields of sociology and economics-have been trying to establish social indicators universal standards by which they can measure the quality of life in a given area

At Guelph the quality of life in Canada and the United States is the subject of a massive study being undertaken by Professor Alex Michalos

Professor Michalos is something of a rarity in this field of research for he is not a social scientist but a philosopher Although his published works have conshycentrated on logic and decision theory he has for some time taken an interest in social philosophy This study enables me to put it all together working with the things that are important emotionally as well as statistically he says

Using physical psychological and social standards defined by the World Health Organization Professor Michalos has established 14 research categories that include population health housing educashy

tion law enforcement and politics Within those categories he has so far identified over 1400 social indicators

Professor Michalos study has involved him in discussions with a number of federal government departments that are interested in the kind of work he is doing In addition he spent several weeks last year at the Swed ish Institute for Social Research where he studied with others doing research in quality of life measureshyment

As an adjun ct to his research Professor Michalos has founded an interdisc iplinary journal concerned w ith the quality of life Edited by Professor M ichalos Social Indicators Research will begin publication in the spring It is intended to serve as a central clearing house for research in the field

Funded through a grant from the Canada Council Professor Michalos study is expected to take another five or six years to complete The results may be publ ished in as many as three volumes

Centennial dollar will be currency in Guelph A specially min ted OAC centennial dollar wil l be legal tender in the city of Guelph th is summer Minted by the Sherritt Mint in Saskatchewan the nickel dollars will be available through Guelph banks and stores on June 1 and can be used at their face value until August 31

Also available in limited quantities will be pure silver dollars at $1250 each and

24-carat gold dollars The latter are expected to cost over $250 their exact price depending on current gold prices The silver and gold coins are available on special order from R H Ellis Secretary OAC Alumni Association Alumni House University of Guelph

14

BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS

AREA CODE 519 8241 17 0UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH middot GUELPHmiddot O NTARIOmiddot CA A DA

T o all University of G uelph alumni

A presidential search committee is now engaged in seeking a person to recommend for the position of president of the University of G uelph

The committee invites nominations from individual members of the alumni of suitably qualified persons who should be considered for the position Letters of nomination shou ld contain biographical inform ation on the p erson recommended and a detailed statement on the nominees qualifications for the office of presiden t

Additionally the members of the committee would welcome written views from individual members of the alumni on the desirable attribu tes of the person to be chosen to lead this University for the remainder of this decade

Such communications should be addressed in confidence to the chairman or any other member of the committee

Yours truly

W W L asby Chairman Presidential Search Committee University of G uelph G uelph O ntario N I G 2W l

Presidential Search Committee M r W W Lasby board member chairman Mr A N Kearns board member P rofessor E Benson faculty member vice-chairman M r K G M urray board member Professor R C A nderson faculty member Mr J Va nder Bijl student member

s M A A Butler s tudent member Professor T K W arley faculty member M r D M J amieson staff member Mr J E Hurst secreta ry

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CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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CENTENNIAlSEVENTY FOUR AI ONTARIO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH~ GUELPH CANADA

coming events April 27 Green Thumb Day

Apr il 27-May 12 Guelph Spring Festival

May 22-24 Spring Convocation

Come to Oktoberfest September 14-29

Munich in the fall is the time fo r gaiety laughter and good cheer-the time of the famous Oktoberfest As part of the University of Guelph Alumni Asshysociations second exclusive Alumni Tour you will visit this celebrated city and much more

Travelling by regularly scheduled jet service you will visit Amsterdam Cologne the Rhine district Heidelberg Munich Zurich Lucerne and reshyturn from Milan

Designed especially for alumni and their families the trip will include jet air fare from Toronto and relurn superior tourist class hotel accommodashytion based on double occupancy for 14 nights continental breakfast each day transfers and sightseeing by private motor coach and train in Amstershydam Cologne Heidelberg Zurich and Milan

All this for $729 per person (subject to fuel surcharge) For further inforshymation and a detailed brochure write Al umni Tours Alumni House Univershysity of Guelph Guelph Ontario N1G 2W1

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