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4 in and Around the University

U OF G FACULTY

have earned many kudos in recent months,

including prestigious

research awards for physi­

cist Carl Svensson and

environmental biologist Peter Kevan. Six profes­

sors received teaching

awards from the U of G

Faculty Association, two

were named to Canada

Research Chairs, and

three received grants from the Canada Foun­

dation for Innovation.

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Prof. Jacek Lipkowski says

electrochemistry is an enabling

science.

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RESEARCH

IT'S IN THE ATOMS Producing metals and preventing corrosion are industrial processes

that share a common scientific basis. Both are better understood

because of pure research conducted in aU of G chemistry lab that

studies the effect of voltage on chemical reactions.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE? Some high school graduates want both an honours university degree and an applied college diploma. U of G makes it easier by launching

a new partnership with Humber College.

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alumni Matters

THE UNIVERS I TY

community is paying tribute to chancellor

Lincoln Alexander on his 80th birthday, while the

U of G Alumni Associa­

tion celebrates the launch

of two new alumni ser­vices. An online commu­

nity will make career net­

working easier, and a new

credit card program

offers greater benefits for

U of G card holders.

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UNIVERSITY 9fGUELPH

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

message from the President

TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE.Atthe

University of Guelph , we take this old saying to

heart through our emphasis on collaboration with like­

minded partners. It's been part of our strategy for suc­

cess since the earliest days of our founding colleges. And

it's more important than ever in our 21st-century world.

When you look back to the beginning of this insti­

tution, you see an agricultural college

and model farm that distributed the

seeds of its crop research at the begin­

ning of each new year and gathered

yield data from farmers in the fall. By

1890, this relationship among faculty,

farmers, students and alumni was lead­

ing the largest system of co-operative

experimentation in the world.

The University's commitment to

working with other groups and indi­

viduals has grown substantially since

then, deepening over the years to the

point where "collaboration" is

MORDECHAI ROZANSKI

researchers from several science disciplines at Guelph

and the University of Waterloo. Together, they earned

support from Canadian and Ontario infrastructure pro­

grams, with matching contributions from about a dozen

industrial manufacturers of scientific equipment.

Such links within the sciences and among the sci­

ences, social sciences and humanities will lead us to

improvements in the quality of life.

Our vision is global, but it begins at

home with collaborative efforts such as

the Centre for Families, Work and Well­

Being, which involves more than 50 fac­

ulty and staff. Only three years old, the

centre is already having a national

impact by working with public- and pri­

vate-sector organizations on issues such

as child care and family-friendly work­

places. Guelph scholars also draw on the

knowledge and advice of individual

Canadians like those who support our

Scottish studies program.

an official part of our strategic

plan. It's one of the ways we

capitalize on our historical

strengths. It's a way to stretch

limited resources when work­

ing together means being able

to accomplish more. Through

collaboration, we become more

LINKS AMONG THE We've built strong relation­

ships with the business com­

munity, government, alumni

and other educational institu-

SCIENCES, SOCIAL SCIENCES

AND HUMANITIES WILL LEAD

US TO IMPROVEMENTS IN tions, and our students benefit

in numerous ways. They learn

about teamwork and the

importance of a broad per-THE QUALITY OF LIFE

competitive when attracting

faculty, staff and students. Equally important are the intel­

lectual and technological advances we're making because

of the synergy created by shared ideas and knowledge.

A bird's-eye view of the Guelph campus reveals just

how far we have come from the days of the model farm .

You can see the extent of the research and development

cluster that's growing in and around our campus. More

than 35 external partners, 25 research centres and

research funding that approaches $100 million annual­

ly - these are the results of successful collaborations.

In this issue of the Guelph Alumnus, electrochemist

Jacek Lipkowski reminds us that interdisciplinary

research is made imperative by the increasing complexity

of the problems we address. He holds a prestigious

Canada Research Cha ir funded through a partnership

with the federal government, and he's part of a new Elec­

trochemistry Technology Centre that brings together

spective. The experience they

gain creating knowledge and working with cutting-edge

technology is a tremendous asset later in the workplace.

Another story in this magazine describes a new part­

nership with Toronto's Humber College that will allow

students to earn both an honours university degree and

an applied diploma in only four years of study. Students

and parents are very excited about the new University

of Guelph-Humber programs, and we're delighted that

this new satellite campus will allow us to enrol an addi­

tional 2,000 students at a time when the demand for

university education in Ontario is skyrocketing.

And as always, we report on U of G's alumni part­

nerships- among the most important in helping to

achieve our vision. Alumni provide a vital link to the

world outside the University. Together we can contin­

ue Guelph's great traditions of education and service to

society.

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

• 1n an I aroun PHYSICIST WINS POLANYI PRIZE

"AT THE MOST FUND AM EN TAL lev­

el, I am just trying to understand the way

nature works;' says physics professor Carl

Svensson. He's talking about a track

record in research that has earned him a

prestigious John Charles Polanyi Prize.

Svensson, who joined U of G last Jan­

uary, received the $15,000 prize for his

work in gamma-ray spectroscopy, which

he uses to study the properties of the atom­

ic nucleus. "I study how nuclei behave by

looking at the high-frequency light, or

gamma rays, emitted by the nucleus of the

atom. By studying this light, you can learn

about the properties of the nuclear forces!'

MORE CHAIRS UNFOLD AT U OF G

ABI OMEDICAL SCIENTIST

and a his tory scholar are

the lates t professors to be

appointed to Canada Research

Chairs at U of G.

Prof. Jonathan LaMarre will

pursue better ways of control­

ling Alzheimer's disease, cir­

rhosis and tumour growth

while sitting in a junior chair in

OVC's Department of Biomed­

ical Sciences. H e will receive

$100,000 annually for the next

five years. A faculty member at

Guelph since 1993, LaMarre

will lead a laboratory inquiry

on the regulation of individual

genes, tissues and species and

the role they play in disease.

The work 1s expected to

increase scientific knowledge in

many health areas, including

the diagnosis, pathogenesis and

potential therapies for both ani­

mal and human illnesses.

4 GuELPH ALUMNUS

Prof. Douglas McCalla will

receive $200,000 a year for sev­

en years to hold a senior cha ir

in Canadian rural history. H e

comes to Guelph from Trent

Un ivers ity, where his research

resulted in an award-winning

economic hi story of early

Ontario. He plans to pursue

systematic research on Canadi­

an economic history between

1600 and 1939, basing it on the

experiences of ord inary farm

and artisan families.

U of G expects to have 35

chairs funded by the federal

Canada Research Cha irs pro­

gram over the next few years;

the total to date is seven.

CFI SUPPORTS NEW FACULTY

ENV IR ONMENTAL ISSUES

and animal health were at

the top of the list when the

Canada Foundation for Inno­

vation (CFI) announced new

A native of Deep River, Ont., he earned

his B.Sc. and PhD degrees from McMas­

ter University, then worked at the Lawrence

Berkeley National Laboratory in Califor­

nia as a Natural Sciences and Engineering

Research Council post-doctoral fellow.

During Svensson's two years in Berke­

ley, his research provided insights into

how the individual particles in the nucle­

us add up to produce the collective

motion of the nucleus as a whole.

He is the second Guelph physicist to

receive the Polanyi Prize in recent years.

Prof. Elisabeth Nicol received the award

in 1994.

research funding in November.

Three new Guelph faculty will

receive a total of more th an

$550,000 to apply to research

infrastructure costs.

The CFI awarded grants

from its New Opportunities

Fund to Prof. Stephen Seah,

Microbiology, for his study on

effective strategies to fight chlo­

rinated pollutants in Ontario; to

Prof. Jinzhong Fu, Zoology, for

his research on loss of biodiver­

sity; and to Prof. Carolyn Kerr,

Clinical Studies, for her work on

the pathophysiology of lung dis­

eases in horses and cattle. All

three researchers have joined the

University in the last two years.

In total, the CFJ has invest­

ed some $23.5 million in U of

G research through its various

programs. Through matching

funds from the provincial gov­

ernment and the private sector,

the amount has increased to

more than $61 million.

U OF G STANDS OUT AS RESEARCH INSTITUTION

TH E UN IV ERS ITY of

Guelph is ranked 11th

among Canada's best- funded

resea rch centres by Research

lnfosource Inc. Guelph was the

only university in the top IS that

does not have a medical school.

The company looked at

research dollars garnered by

Canada's top 50 universities in

2000. Guelph received $96.7

million in 2000, up from $88.5

million in 1999. Research fund-

ing rose again in 2001 to almost

$ 100 million.

On a " resea rch intensity"

ranking, which meas ures the

number of research dollars per •------..; full-time faculty member,

Guelph came in fourth, receiv­

ing $150,100 per capita.

The rankings are ava ilable

online at www.researchinfos­

ource.com.

• • n1vers1 PEOPLE IN THE NEWS • CAMPUS HIGHLIGHTS • UNIVERSITY NOTES

UGFA honours seven

SIX FACULTY MEMBERS

and one librarian were

honoured when the U of G

Faculty Association present­

ed its annual awards for excel­lence last fall.

Recipients of the Distin ­

guished Professorial Teaching Awards were Profs. Peter

Goddard, History; Pat Wright,

Zoology; John Holbrook,

Mathematics and Statistics;

and Rick Up fold, Plant Agri­culture. Special Merit Awards

for innovative teaching went to Profs. Bill Smith, Mathe­

matics and Statistics, and Jim Mottin, Psychology. The Aca-

Front row, from left: John Holbrook, Peter Goddard, Pat Wright and

Jim Mottin. At back are David Hull and Bill Smith.

demic Librarianship Award was presented to David Hull,

who works in the OVC Learn­

ing Commons.

Insect pollinators vital to economy

THE ROLE OF INSECTS

as pollinators of agricul­

tural and horticultural crops has been greatly underesti­

mated, says environmenta l

biologist Peter Kevan.

Kevan has been collabo­

rating with beekeepers and fruit and vegetable growers in

Ontario for years to show that

the economic value of hon ­

eybees goes way beyond hon­ey and beeswax. That collab­

oration has been recognized

by the Natural Sciences and

Engineering Research Coun­cil and the Conference Board

of Canada through a $25,000

Synergy Award. Kevan says the research grant will help

him launch an international

research resource centre.

He says apple growers

who follow agricultural prac­

tices that allow for pollination

receive a 700-per-cent return

on their investment, but adds

that profitability shouldn't be

the only concern for growers

and agricultural policy­makers. Kevan warns that

agricultural practices that dis­

rupt natural pollination

processes are putting Canada and the world's food diversi­

ty and ecosystems at risk. He hopes to build pollinator sus­

tainability by providing reli­

able scientific information

about pollination.

GUElPH RECEIVES HP/INTEL GRANT

U OF G IS ONE offourCana­dian universities and one of

40 universities worldwide selected to receive part of a $2.5-million

grant from Hewlett-Packard Com­

pany and Intel Corporation. U of G will receive two HP/Intel

Itanium Processor Family (IPF)

workstation products, which will allow the University to enhance its

existing computing systems. "It includes 64-bit architecture

that will allow sc ien tists to run

more complex computations;' says Prof. Deborah Stacey, assistant vice-president ( research infra­

structure programs). Stacey, a facu lty member in

the Department of Computing

and Information Science, applied

for the grant and will oversee the

integration of the new worksta­

tion into the SHARC-Net project, a high -performance computing

consortium involving the univer­

sities of Guelph, McMaster, West­

ern, Wilfrid Laurier and Windsor,

as well as Fanshawe and Sheridan

colleges. biodiversity ..,

research is one examp le of a ~ SHARC-Net project that will ben- ~ efit from the new workstations. ~

Stacey says

~ The HP/lntel grant builds on ~

a long-standing relationship with ~ the computer company, which g began in 1980 when the Univer- ~

OJ , sity acquired a cent ralized HP

computer system. HP Canada also )> z 0 0

provided the vast majority of the ~ $4.7 million in matching funding s>;

for the addi tion to the Thorn- ~ brough Building. ~

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SHORT STORY WINS TOP PRIZE

ASHORT STORY written

by library staff member

Mary Swan received first

prize in the 2001 0. Henry

Awards. It's the highest hon­

our she's received in the

course of publishing a dozen

stories in literary magazines

over the last 20 years.

The 0. Henry Awards are

among the top prizes for lit­

erature in North America.

They are given each year to

the best short fiction by Cana­

dian and American authors

published in Canadian and

American magazines. Past

winners include Alice Munro,

joyce Carol Oates and John

Updike. All of the 3,000 or so

stories publi shed over the

course of a year are reviewed

and whittled down to about

two dozen that make up the

Prize Stories: The 0. Henry Awards collection.

"It's very flattering and

gratifying to have my work

appear in a volume with

writers I've been reading for

years," says Swa n, who has

worked for the University

since she graduated with a

BA in the early 1980s.

Her prize-winning story,

Th e Deep, is a poetic tale

about twin sisters and their

experiences in the horror

and confusion of the First

World War.

6 GuE LPH ALU MNUS

Convocation was a family affair

THE jENKINSON FAMILY has claimed 14

Guelph degrees and diplomas, including the

master's degree awarded to jonathan, B.Sc. '95,

during October convocation ceremonies.

Jonathan's wife, Alison Wylde, M.Sc. '00, is also a

Guelph graduate, as are h is brother, Robert, ADA

'95; sister, Carol Anne, B.Comm. '97; and parents,

Robert, ADA '64, B.Sc.(Agr.) '69 and M.Sc. '74,

and Janet, BA '68. Robert launched the family tra­

dition more than 40 years ago along with his

brother, Michael, B.Sc. (Agr. ) '63 and M.Sc. '67,

and Michael's wife, Joan, DHE '66.

Jonathan received one of 550 degrees and

diplomas awarded in October, including hon­

orary degrees to Donald Woods, a chemical

engineering professor at McMaster University,

and Michel Laroche, a marketing professor at

Concordia University.

Pictured are: Jonathan , centre front , and ,

clockwise, Alison, joan, Michael, Robert and

Janet.

Maclean's ranks U of G third

U OF G WA S RANKED the

third -bes t comprehensive

university in Ca nada, compared

with seco nd last year, in

Maclean 's magazine's annual

ranking issue published Nov. 12.

T he magazine gave Guelph

first-place rankings in four key

indica to rs o f student quality,

and the University rose natio n­

all y to pl ace second a mon g

comprehensive universities and

sixth overa ll in the reputation ­

a! portion of the ranking.

T he University of Waterloo

placed first overa ll in th e com­

prehen sive ca tegory, which

includes U o f G and 11 o th er

Canadian universities. Mnclen11's class ifi es co m p rehensive u ni ­

versities as those with a signifi ­

ca nt amo unt of research activi­

ty and a wide range of programs

at the graduate and undergrad­

uate levels. T he two o ther clas­

sifica tio ns are medical/doctor­

al ( uni ve rsit ies with a b road

ra nge of Ph D p rogra m s a nd

research a nd m edica l schools)

and primarily undergraduate.

Am ong comprehensive uni ­

versities, U of G rose nationa l­

ly fro m third to second place in

the "highest quality" sec tio n of

th e repu tat io nal ca tegory. T his

is based o n surveys of mo re

tha n 7,200 high sc hoo l guid ·

ance counse llors, academ ic

administra tors, CEOs of major

Canadian corporations a nd

members of the publi c sector.

Res po nde nts ra te uni ve rsiti es

in t hree ca tegor ies: hi g hest

q ua li ty, most in novative and

leaders of tomorrow. Best over­

a ll rep resents the su m of th e

sco res. U of G was ra nked sec­

o nd among compre hens ive

u nivers it ies in a ll categor ies,

includi ng best ove rall. Amo ng

a ll th ree classificatio ns of un i­

ve rs it ies, U of G m oved u p

fro m I Oth to sixth p lace in the

nati o nal rep utat io n su rvey.

I N FACT • • • Students launched the U of G's annual United Way campaign by selling Tootsie Pops during Orientation Week in September. The one-day Lollypalooza event raised $6,500. In total, the campus community donated more than $250,000 to the Guelph and Wellington United Way.

Guelph awarded Monnet Chair

THE EuROPEAN Com­mission has awarded a

Jean Monnet Chair in Euro­pean Integration Studies to U of G. Consumer studies pro­fessor John Pratschke, co­ordinator of the European studies program, will hold the appointment.

"U of G's European stud­

ies program has now come of age and can look forward to wider national and interna­tional recognition," he says. "We will be linked with the international network of Monnet chairs, which will be very helpful for teaching and research in the future."

The Monnet Chair will enable Pratschke to devote

himself full time to European studies for the next five years. He will develop new under­graduate and graduate cours­es, design distance educa­tion/open learning formats for existing courses, and continue the development of an open learning certificate in Euro­pean studies. Biennial confer­ences for students will focus in alternate years on European culture and civilization and European business.

The European studies pro­gram is designed for students who seek a career in interna-

tiona! relations, particularly 111 international business and administration, between

Canada and Europe. It offers courses in languages and European culture, history and literatures, and is enriched by a study and work year abroad. The program offers 87 Euro­pean studies majors, up from 66 in 1997.

Named for Jean Monnet, who is generally recognized as a father of European integra­tion, the Monnet Chair at Guelph is one of three in Canada; the others are at the universities of Montreal and Victoria.

Finding new uses for soybeans

M.Sc . STUDENT Amy Proulx and her adviser,

Prof. Yukio Kakuda, are exam­ining soy for future develop­ment into soy-derived iron supplements. The supplements provide a vegetarian source of heme iron (the form of iron that is easily absorbed). This

makes it a potential solution to iron deficiency in North Amer­ica and has applications for developing countries.

Proulx began the research as an entry in U of G's Project SOY (Soybean Opportunities for Youth), and is continuing the project with funding from

the Hannam Soybean Utiliza­tion Fund (HSUF); both were initiatives of First Line Seeds president Peter Hannam, BSA '62. Designed to catalyze new uses for soybeans, HSUF has also supported research to develop better aquaculture feed, create a biodegradable alternative to polystyrene pack­aging, use soy products to treat kidney disease and improve the flavour of soy milk.

BETTER BEGINNINGS WILL CONTINUE

A COMMUNITY-BASED long-term research 1111-

tiative that provides valuable

information about Canadian children's health is receiving

more than $4 million to con­

tinue the research for the next four years.

Better Beginnings, Better Futures- a collaborative cross­disciplined project primarily involving the universities of Guelph, Wilfrid Laurier, Queen's, Ottawa, Windsor and Ryerson- received the research

funding from the Ontario min­istries of Health and Long-Term Care, Community and Social Services and Education.

The project is now in its lOth year of providing com­munity-based programs in low-income neighbourhoods of Guelph, Kingston, Sudbury, Toronto, Walpole Island, Ottawa, Cornwall and Etobi­coke. The research component of the project is intended to collect information on the fac­

tors that influence child health and the impact of community programs. At U of G, Profs. Susan Evers and Kathleen Bro­phy, Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, are respon­sible for the nutritional and child-care components of the research.

Staff association joins United Steelworkers

T HE U oF G Staff Asso­ciation - an indepen­

dent union since 1974 has -

voted overwhelmingly in sup-port of joining the United Steelworkers of America.

Almost 95 per cent of the

nearly 500 staff members tak­ing part in th e Nov. 22 vote approved the merger The staff association, which has about 800 members, repre-sents clerical , secretarial and technical employees on the

main U of G campus. UGSA president Marg

Carter says she hopes the vote will strengthen the unit's rela-tionship with the University adm-inistration because staff will now feel more empowered.

Brendan Soye, U of G's man­ager of employee relations, says the University has had a long and positive relationship with USGA and he expects this pos-itive relationship to continue with the Steelworkers.

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PHYSICISTS ANSWER THE BIG QUESTION

U OF G PHYSICISTS, with

help from their colleagues

across Canada, have solved a

30-year-old mystery.

Through their work at the

Sudbury Neutrino Observato­ry (SNO), the researchers have

answered the question of the

missing solar neutrinos. This puzzle has baffled scientists

since the early 1970s when

experiments first detected these

tiny particles of matter pro­

duced by the sun, but only a

fraction of the amount that should be arriving on Earth.

John Simpson

6 That tneant there was some­z if. thing wrong either with theo-;;;: ries of the sun or with the 0 ~ understanding of neutrinos.

~ A feature story in the fall 3 1999 issue of the Guelph Alum­

~ nus addressed this question and I e- the role of Guelph scientists at

~ the SNO research facility. Data s g: collected since then show that z <( w 0

the electron neutrinos generat­

ed by the sun change into oth­> ~ er types of neutrinos as they

~ travel to Earth. I 0.. "We were pretty excited

about that;' says physics profes­

sor john Simpson, who worked

on the project with Guelph col­

leagues Jimmy Law and Robin

O llerhead as well as graduate

students and post-docs.

The data supplied by SNO

have deep implications for

physics theory beyond con­

firming models of sun energy

production, says Simpson. The fact that neutrinos are capable

of transformation indicates

they have mass, albeit very lit­

tle. That information throws a

wrench in the Standard Model

of Elementary Particles, which

predicted the existence of neu­trinos but assumed they had no

mass, he says.

Estimates of the amount of

mass 111 neutrinos provide

another clue about the fate of

the universe. If the universe col­

lapses someday (known as the Big Crunch theory), it won't be

neutrinos that cause it. They

weigh too little to exert that

much pressure.

"The best guess is that the

universe is going to expand for­

ever and at a faster rate," Simp­

son says.

FEMALE MUSICIANS OVERLOOKED

U OF G MUSIC PROFESSOR

Mary Cyr says women have

been involved with music since

man - and woman - first

began banging sticks on stones. Unfortunate ly, while men's

musical achievements have

been documented in minute

detail, the historical record on

women's advancement of music

remains somewhat sketchy. Cyr hopes to help change

that with new research she is

undertaking with support from

the Social Sciences and Human-

Mary Cyr

ities Research Council. She will

be studying the work of Eliza­

beth-Claude Jacquet de Ia

Guerre, an early baroque

French composer.

"Music history tends to be

the story of men's accomplish­ments;' says Cyr, director of the

School of Fine Art and Music.

"Women have certainly con­

tributed to the field, but

through performance rather

than composition. As a result ,

this contribution has either

been ignored or simply lost to

future generations because it could not be preserved."

The first woman in France

to write an opera, Jacquet de Ia

Guerre first appeared at the

court of Louis XIV at Versailles

at the age of five. When she got older, she became a composer.

"In her day, women were

not expected to compose music," says Cyr. "They could

perform it, but usually lacked

the means to be educated to

become composers:'

Cyr plans to study Jacquet de Ia Guerre's sonatas, cantatas

and other vocal music and pub­lish them in a new scholarly

edition. She also hopes to even­

tua lly stage some of the works,

in collaboration with colleagues from the Un iversity of Western

Ontario.

MONARCH'S STILL SAFE FROM GM CORN AN EXTENSIVE two-year

research project by U of G and

American scientists may put an end to the ongoing debate on

whether genetically modified (GM) corn is harmful to the

monarch butterfly.

A series of studies headed by

Guelph environmental biology

professor Mark Sears and sci­

entists at a number of U.S.

institutions- published in the

Proceedings of the Nationa l

Academy of Science - found

that the risk posed to the

monarch butterfly by GM corn

pollen is negligible.

The studies were conducted at various locations across

Ontario and North Amer ica's

corn belt in fields and labora­

tories and examined a range of

issues associated with GM corn,

including toxicity and exposure

rates. The researchers found

that the levels of pollen on

milkweed (the monarch's food source) in and around corn­

fields had no effect on monarch

caterpillars. "The risk is so small that it

Winter 2002 9

Mark Sears

is almost not even there, almost impossible to measure," says

~ Sears, who worked with U of G

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on the collaborative research.

That finding is in direct con-

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Bt corn, as it is commonly

called, has been altered by the

~ transfer of genes from the nat-

~ urally occurring soil bacterium ~ Bacillus thuringiensis to corn

plant cells. It does not affect

humans or other animals, but

inhibits a crop-damaging cater­

pillar called the European corn

borer by producing a toxic pro­

tein in the green tissues of the

corn plant. Sears's studies found that

only a small portion of the

monarch population comes

into contact with pollen from

any type of corn, let alone pollen from Bt corn.

ANIMAL BOND OVERCOMES FEAR

THE BOND BETWEEN female

horseback riders and their ani­

mals may be strong enough to

help the women recover from

extreme fear and anxiety, new

research by OVC professor Cindy Adams shows.

Adams, a faculty member in

the Department of Population Medicine, is working with grad­

uate student janet Yorke to exam­ine the "therapeutic alliance" of

the human-equine bond. They

hope to discover whether "getting

back in the saddle" affects the

emotional and psychological

recovery of riders experiencing

post-traumatic stress.

Adams and Yorke are inter­

viewing 50 female riders who say

horseback riding influenced

their recovery from traumatic

Cindy Adams, left, and student

Janet Yorke

situations such as car accidents,

illness or physical or sexual

abuse. The researchers will look

at what experiences interviewees

identify as traumatic and how their relationship with a horse

helped or didn't help them cope.

"We know that fear and

anxiety can be transferred to

other aspects of a person's life, such as riding," says Yorke. "I

think people. could really be

reached through the use of

horses in therapy."

The researchers decided to

focus on women after a recent

finding by the Canadian Eques­

trian Foundation that women make up the fastest-growing

segment of the companion horse owner population. In fact,

75 per cent of new horse own­

ers are women, most of them

baby boomers, Yorke says.

BIKING SAFE AS HIKING

MouNTAIN BIKES are no

more harmful to the environ­

ment than hiking is, according

to a new study by botany pro­

fessor Richard Reader and grad­

uate student Eden Thurston.

Their study of trail use found

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that with average amounts of

activity, cycling and hiking have similar effects on the great out­

doors. The study is one of only a few ever conducted on trail use

in North America. "We've found that hikers

have the same effect as bikers do, regardless of the number of trips along the path;' says Reader.

Environmental damage to

areas along recreational trails from everyday use is a common problem faced by managers of

natural areas. When trails start showing signs of stress and degradation, sharing the trail

puts some hikers and mountain

bikers at odds, says Reader. For

the study, cyclists and hikers were asked to walk or ride

down a four-metre-long track

with no existing trail m Ontario's Boyne Valley Provin­cial Park. The impact on vege­tation cover and soil exposure was measured at five different

intensities of bike and foot traf­fic: zero, 25, 75, 200 and 500

passes (trips along a specific trail). According to the data, the

first 25 passes were the most­

and equally- damaging for

both hiking and cycling, great­

ly reducing vegetation cover

and exposing the soil.

Despite the damage done by

the 500-pass trials, the recovery

rate one year later was almost

l 00 per cent. Reader says this

means damage caused by both hikers and bikers is reversible if

management decisions are

made to allow the trails to rest and recover.

CHILD TEMPERAMENT AFFECTS PARENTAL

STRESS U 0 F G R ESE ARC H E R S are

studying the potential link

between the temperament of

children with developmental

disorders and levels of parental stress.

Psychology professor Mary

Konstantareas says the work she

is doing with graduate students Susan MacKay and Jennifer Janes could have important

implications for professionals in the field, as well as for the

children and their families. They are working to determine which characteristics of autis­

tic children predict high stress

levels in parents and how they affect parents' coping strategies.

"If we can identify specific

traits of autistic children that

are especially difficult for par­

ents to handle, we can help

them cope;' says Konstantareas. "People can learn appropriate

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natural phenomenon

is attacking the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in St. Petersburg, Fla.,

and it's adding $6 million to the cost of converting a historical

Ottawa building into a national Sports Hall of Fame. Last year,

the same plague caused 800 cubic metres of deadly hydrogen sul­

phide gas to spew into the environment near Grand Prairie, Alta.

It can crumble a sheet of steel and threatens every nuclear reac­

tor in the world, all military and commercial aircraft and your

home. Even Holly Hunter's Oscar is a victim.

Corrosion - in all its many forms from rusty bus axles to pitted gas pipes and fatigued concrete bridges- is arguably the most unyielding and expensive natural phe­nomenon our society has to deal with. Indus­trialized countries measure the cost of repairs due to corrosion in terms of gross national product, ranging from three to five per cent. In the car capital of the world, it's approach­ing $500 billion US in direct costs every year.

For scientists like U of G electrochemist Jacek Lipkowski, the corrosion of metals presents "one of our most important eco­nomic and technological challenges!' Much

of his research over the last 20 years has looked at variables that can slow down the corrosion of metal surfaces - air, water,

other metals and organic materials. Not just for the sake of your rusty car, but also to gain a more fundamental understanding of how metals interact with molecules and ions from the environment around them.

Looking even closer at metal surfaces, Lipkowski wants to understand how the geometrical arrangement of atoms affects the rate of metal dissolution (corrosion) or deposition (electroplating) of the metal.

Electrochemistry is the science that deals with the interrelationship of electrical cur­

rents and chemical reactions, providing knowledge through pure research that has broad practical applications in a range of industries, energy and environmental con­cerns and even medicine.

The production and protection of met­als is one industry where the contributions of electrochemistry are easily understood. It takes energy to turn ore into metal. In electrometallurgy, an electric current pro­vides the energy to produce metals like alu­minum, magnesium and sodium; to refine lead, tin, copper, nickel, gold and silver; or to apply protective and decorative coatings through electroplating.

Winter 2002 13

Canada alone makes more than $5 bil­

lion worth of electrolytically produced met­

als each year. We use them constantly in our

daily lives: stainless-steel products, recharge­

able batteries, computers, automobile parts,

TVs, telephones and powered wheelchairs

-the list goes on.

Problems arise when energy deposited

in the metal during its production is spon-

taneously released later on (e.g. your car

starts to self-destruct). Corrosion is a nat­

ural process, a reverse chemical reaction that

happens when the surface atoms in metal

react with environmental agents to return

to a more stable compound. Rust is really

iron oxide, which has the same general form

as the original mined ore.

The electrolytic production of metal and

corrosion protection have a common sci­

entific basis. Knowledge of how organic

molecules affect the rate of removal or

incorporation of an atom from or to a met­

al may be used to control the chemical reac­

tion that takes place when steel pipes cor­

rode or to ensure the shiny appearance of a

nickel-plated bumper on a car.

14 GuELPH ALUMNus

Industrial research That knowledge helped Lipkowski and his

laboratory partners develop the formula for

an inhibitor that slows the corrosion of steel

cooling pipes inside a nuclear reactor. Lip­

kowski's team received support from the

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research

Council (NSERC) to work with scientists at

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) (formerly

Ontario Hydro) and Atomic Energy of

Canada Limited (AECL).

The seven-year project solved a major

industrial problem and set an example for

effective industry/university partnerships.

OPG and AECL later nominated Lipkow­

ski for a Conference Board of Canada Uni­

versity/Industry Synergy Award.

Lipkowski 's research program also

gained $100,000 worth of equipment used

on the project. More important, he says, five

graduate students found employment in the

Canadian nuclear industry: james Noel,

B.Sc. '87 and M.Sc. '90; Lorne Stolberg, PhD

'91; David Mancey, PhD '90; jocelyn Rich­

er, M.Sc. '86 and PhD '90; and Dongfang

Yang, PhD '95.

"Most of our research is fundamental

work that is a blend of electrochemistry,

materials science, surface analysis and sur­

face spectroscopy;' he says. " It's good for stu­

dents to see the relevance of that work by

applying it to an industrial problem."

"There is a synergy between basic and

applied research;' adds Prof. Peter Tremaine,

dean of the College of Physical and Engi-

neering Science (CPES), who is also a

chemist with considerable industry experi­

ence. "Industrial contracts are evidence that

the pure research we are doing does have

value for society. And through contract

research, you can identify problems that

need to be addressed in more fundamental

studies."

Those fundamental studies can solve

problems in many different industries.

Research associate Grzegorz Szymanski

points to a recent project for !nco Limited

that investigated the use of organic addi­

tives to produce nickel and copper with a

smoother, shinier surface.

Looking at the metal surface through an

atomic force microscope, you want to see

brick-shaped crystals instead of cauliflower­

shaped deposits, says Szymanski. A

smoother surface means a metal product

that is purer, more uniform and a better

conductor. That's important when you're

selling nickel to manufacture auto parts and

copper that will be used to make printed

circuit boards for microelectronic devices.

Former student Bruce Love, B.Sc. '86 and

M.Sc. '89, was the primary contact on the pro­

ject. To scale up the research results for use in

an industrial setting, I nco will duplicate U of

G procedures in a small-scale process on site

before implementing them in the refinery.

In addition to electrometallurgy, Lip ­

kowski's research team is working on the

development of more efficient fuel cells. The

National Research Council (NRC) of Cana­

da co-ordinates a national fuel cell program

to develop alternatives to the internal com­

bustion engine as well as technologies for

the manufacture of miniature but power­

ful fuel cells that will power electronic

devices such as cell phones.

Post-doctoral fellows Dimitri Malevich

and Hong-Qiang Li, PhD '0 I, are involved

in research that is supported by a strategic

NSERC grant and involves collaboration

with NRC and Energy Venture Inc., a high­

tech company in Ottawa. Li is now employed

by Energy Venture. The Guelph team will be

joined by a PhD student this month, with

The current members

of Prof. Jacek Lipkow­

ski's electrochemistry

research team enjoy

the science and the

camaraderie of the U

of G lab environment.

Standing, from left,

are Andreas Lachen­

witzer, Vlad Zamlynny,

Dimitri Malevich,

Shimin Xu, Xiamin Bin,

Tania Onica, ian

Burgess, Hong-Qiang

Li, Vincent Lee,

Grzegorz Szymanski

and Ming Li.

everyone focused on the development of a

better anode for direct methanol fuel cells.

The success of these research initiatives

has not gone unnoticed. In 1995, Lipkow­

ski was honoured by Germany's Alexander

von Humboldt Foundation. The organiza­

tion awards research grants to internation­

ally recognized scholars and invites them to

carry out research in Germany in co-oper­

ation with scientists there. In 1996, the

International Society of Electrochemistry

recognized him for developing a new elec­

trochemical technique that measures and

analyses adsorption of organic species on

electrode surfaces. The Canadian section of

the Electrochemical Society awarded its

Gold Medal to Lipkowski in 1999 to recog­

nize his contributions to the advancement

of electrochemistry.

The accumulation of past achievements

and future potential resulted in Lipkowski

being named to a Canada Research Chair

(CRC) last year. It's the first of three chairs

that will be situated in CPES.

The federal program helps universities

retain senior researchers by providing funds

that enable them to spend more time on

research. "We need that kind of base fund­

ing so we can compete with the United

States and Europe in the recruitment and

retention of established scientists," says

Tremaine. "Prof. Lipkowski's work is mak­

ing important contributions to technology

development and the economic forecast of

industries that use electrochemistry."

Collaboration among chemists The CRC application was supported by oth­

er developments in the Department of

Chemistry and Biochemistry, including the

1999 formation of an Electrochemical Tech­

nology Centre (ETC). Ten researchers at U

of G, two chemical engineers at the Uni­

versity of Waterloo and 18 graduate students

launched the centre and applied success­

fully to Canadian and Ontario infrastruc­

ture programs for equipment funding.

A grant from the Canada Foundation

for Innovation (CFI) leveraged matching

funds from the Ontario Innovation Trust

and made the centre an attract ive partner

for industrial manufacturers of scientific

equipment. About a dozen companies pro­

vided "deep discounts," says Prof. Nigel

Bunce, who drafted the original application.

The result was the purchase of $3.2 mil­

lion worth of highly sophisticated equip­

ment that will allow ETC members to push

their research into new frontiers of electro­

chem istry.

The ripple effect continues as students

train with this equipment and take that

expertise out into the workforce, says Bunce.

ETC already includes two physicists, but the

availability of better instrumentation will

interest others on campus, increasing

opportunities for interdisciplinary research,

he says. Strategically focused to help indus­

try solve its most pressing problems, ETC

Winter 2002 15

research exper tise lies in electrometallurgy,

electrocatalysis, nanotechnology, waste treat­

men t, thin films and the development of

sensors and biosensors for industrial and

environmental applications.

Tremaine says the coll aborat ion has

become a magnet for new industrial part­

ners, both companies that supply equip­

ment and those that may want to use it

through contract research. "Any time we

bring high-profile business peop le in the

door of the college, it gives us a chance to

show them what goes on here;' he says. That

could pay off when U of G seeks industry

support to equip a new science complex that

includes renovat ion plans for some chem­

istry facilities and labs used by ETC, he adds.

Both Bunce and Tremaine predict that

the synergy created within ETC will gener­

ate a profound body of research over the

next 10 years. "CFl awards should nucleate

someth ing of high quality that will contin­

ue to grow in the future;' says Tremaine.

He's looking for the centre to contin ue

to expand its facilities and equipment. And

the reputation he envisions wil l enable ETC

to att ract top faculty and graduate

researchers. "It should be a source of exter­

nal support to bring in experts from other

parts of the world and provide scholarships

for students. Such features are tied to long­

term stability in research."

It's hard to imagine a research environ­

ment more stable than the labs managed by

Lipkowski. He came to U of Gin 1983 after

completing graduate work and beginning

his academic career at the University of

Warsaw in Poland.

He calls himself a man of the trenches.

"!like to be in the lab. l like science and

working with students, problem solving."

He has supervised about 30 graduate stu­

dents and post-doctoral fellows. Twenty

have graduated, and all are employed as

electrochemists. "''m proud of the lOO-per­

cent employability of my students," he says.

Their photographs decorate his office wall,

and several have continued to work with

him on industrial projects contracted by the

companies they now work for.

If he keeps one foot in the trench, the oth­

er is travelling all over tJ;e .)Norld in search of

expertise and instrumentation that will help

answer his queries. Lipkowski takes a prob­

lem related to fuel cells to Alicante, Spain, to

16 GUELPH ALUMNUS

the world centre for research on single crys­

tal electrodes. He uses high-end atomic force

microscopy equipment in Germany. For neu­

tron reflectivity studies, he takes his students

to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in

New Mexico or the National Institute of

Electrochemistry is an enabling science. We know well how to use electrochemical methods to manipulate ions and molecules

Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg,

Maryland. Other questions are answered by

working with colleagues in Berlin, Israel, Por­

tugal and the United Kingdom.

"Each of us has limited intellectual

capacity, limited time and limited instru­

mental resources," he says. "The complexi­

ties of the problems we investigate are

immense. We have to share our experience,

our uniqueness. We learn from each other."

That's a philosophy students appreciate,

says Szymanski, who was a student himself

when he first met Lipkowski in Warsaw. In

I 992, Szymanski came to Guelph to join

Lipkowski's lab as a post-doctoral fellow.

Now as a research associate, he helps make

the connections among two post-docs, sev­

en grad students and one undergraduate

student. One of his newest responsibilities

is being the trouble-shooter and trainer for

the new ETC instrumentation room.

Frontiers of research By its very nature, electrochemistry draws

heavily on the disciplines of physics and

mathematics and shares its tools with engi­

neers, biochemists and molecular biologists.

Today more than ever, the exciting frontiers

of electrochemistry are found in interdisci­

plinary research, says Tremaine.

"Even theoretical chemistry has grown to

the point where many of its fundamental prin­

ciples can be used by other scientists for prac­

tical applications in advanced material science

and for medical and biological science."

Those are important new directions for

research among ETC members, who make up

one of the largest groups of electrochemical

researchers in North America. Their expertise

also offers tremendous possibilities for Guelph

efforts in the life sciences, Tremaine says.

There is a buzz on campus about bio­

electrochemistry, the science that deals with

the way electrical currents control or

respond to chemical changes in living

organisms. Our bodies are essentially living

electrochemical cells, says Lipkowski. Many

biological processes- such as respiration

-depend on the charge transfer process­

es in the body.

This is another area of research that will

receive emphasis in Lipkowski's lab because

of the CRC funding.

"Electrochemistry is an enabling sci­

ence," he says. "We know well how to use

electrochemical methods to manipulate ions

and molecules. We can use this knowledge

to investigate more complex biological mol­

ecules on membrane surfaces."

The ultimate application won't be cor­

rosion protection, but perhaps biosensors

that will monitor environmental pollutants.

Lipkowski predicts that electrochemistry

can be used to determine the voltage

required to open and close ion channels that

regulate biological processes in the body. He

says even DNA molecules, which have a

negative charge, can be manipulated using

the electric field of an electrode. He makes

an analogy to the magnetic field created by

placing a magnet under a piece of glass and

using it to move iron filings on top.

"These are interesting intellectual chal­

lenges to which electrochemistry is well suit­

ed," he says. "It is my opinion that in the near

future, surface electrochemistry will play a sig­

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Meet two women who chose U of G first, then Toronto's

Humber College. They're big fans of a new partnership

between Guelph and Humber that aims to give students

new skills for a changing labour market. Lee-Anne Hirst realized early in life that she

would go to university- at age I 0, to be

exact. "I knew in Grade 5, really. I come

from the kind of family where a university

education was the bare minimum that was

expected of me."

So when she graduated from Nelson

High School in Burlington, Ont., in 1994,

Hirst came to the University of Guelph to

study sociology and French. When she left

Guelph three years later with a general bach­

elor of arts degree, she had trouble finding

18 GuELPH ALUMNUS

the kind of job she really wanted.

Hirst put her "dream job" on hold and

signed on with a Canadian airline, where

she spent a couple of years passing out trays

of spongy chicken and dispensing soda pop

in plastic cups. "I hated it the whole time;'

she recalls. Trips to Athens and Paris were

nice diversions, but overall, Hirst believed

she was wasting her university education.

By 1999, she was more than ready to give

up the skies. A friend told her about a one­

year Humber College program in public rela-

tions that is geared specifically to university

graduates. The idea clicked with Hirst. "By

then, I knew I had strengths in writing and

in dealing with people, so I applied."

At the Humber campus in Toronto, Hirst

studied with a couple of other University of

Guelph graduates who had similar experi­

ences. One of them was Toronto native

Sarah Dolbey.

Dalbey's parents, too, had advocated a uni­

versity education, and she earned a bachelor

of commerce degree at Guelph with a focus

Eor many _students to1Lay_, _choosing to atten_d university __or college Js Itot sa_ much_a question ~whicb_onel" but "which one first?"

in marketing."[ had really good summer jobs

in my field;' she says. "Despite that, l didn't

find the full-time job l wanted, partly because

I was determined to stay in the Guelph area."

After short-term postings with a bank

and a Waterloo firm that had her juggling

numbers instead of interacting with peo­

ple, Dolbey also enrolled in Humber's post­

graduate public relations program.

Today, Hirst manages special events for

a not-for-profit Toronto arts foundation

that has her rubbing shoulders with the likes

of Karen Kain and Albert Schultz of the

Soul pepper Theatre Company. Dol bey is an

account representative with a public rela­

tions and marketing firm in downtown

Guelph, where she helps develop strategic

communication plans, writes news releas­

es, advises on media relations, and produces

posters and brochures.

Both Hirst and Dol bey say the combi­

nation of university and college studies

helped them land such good jobs. "My

employer specifically interviewed me

because of my Humber certificate and

Guelph degree," Dol bey says, adding that

she wishes she could have earned both cre­

dentials much earlier.

Students graduating from high school

this spring can do just that ... at the Uni­

versity of Guelph-Humber.

A new collaboration and a new educa-

HUMBER tiona! institution, Guelph-Humber is the

first in Ontario to offer a developed-from­

scratch, fully integrated academic and

applied curriculum. Graduates will earn

both an honours university degree and an

applied college diploma - in just four

Opposite: Lee·Anne Hirst at the University

of Guelph, top photo, and at Humber

College. Above: Sarah Dalbey at her Humber

convocation.

years. Those credentials will enable Guelph­

Humber graduates to enrol in graduate pro­

grams and professional schools or to enter

the job market with a unique skill set.

"! really believe this new program will

leave students ready to start working right

away," says Dolbey. "! think it will be very

valuable and very positive for its graduates."

Thirteen per cent of all high school stu­

dents in Canada follow a path similar lo that

of Dolbey and Hirst- pursuing education

at both university and college. Respondents

to a 1995 survey by Statistics Canada and

Human Resources Development Canada

said one of the reasons was that they

believed they would be more employable in

a competitive labour market.

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Guelph's track record in college collaboration

BOTH DEGREE AND DIPLOMA prO­

grams have been offered by the

Ontario Agricultu ral College since 1888.

The successful combination of applied

training and academic studies on this cam­

pus has given Guelph's agriculture students

more options and set an early example for

articulation agreements with community

colleges across the country. Most collabo­

rations give college graduates some credit

for their college education when entering a

U of G degree program; others are more

integrated. Here's a sampling:

A second survey by the same agencies in

1997 found that 65 per cent of Ontario uni­

versity graduates in 1990 went on to pur­

sue further post-secondary study by 1995

and that 41 per cent received an additional

certificate, diploma or degree within five

years of graduation.

Prof. Fred Evers, director of Guelph's

Centre for Educational Research and Assess­

ment, believes those figures are probably

higher today and for the same basic reason

given by those students in 1995- a per­

ceived need to move beyond the theoretical

foundation provided by a university edu­

cation toward an applied specialization that

will all but guarantee them a job.

In response to student concerns about

employability, Evers now offers a course that

deals specifically with the transition from

school to work. It's not a required course,

20 GuELPH ALUMNus

Agriculture MANY OF OAC's two-yeardiplomagrad­

uates apply for advanced standing in the

four-year bachelor of commerce in agricul­

tural business or bachelor of science in agri­

culture programs. The same privilege is

extended to diploma graduates from the agri­

cultural colleges in Ridgetown, Kemptville

and Alfred, Ont., which joined the U of G

family in 1997.

Kathleen Hyland, academic advisor for

OAC's associate diploma programs, says

about 20 college students a year take advan­

tage of the offer for advanced standing. "The

most popular program over the years has

been agricultural business;' she says. When

these students grad uate, they are quickly

snapped up by employers, often receiving

four or five job offers. "Students with diplo­

mas and degrees have a reputation for being

hard-working," Hyland says. "Many come

from farms and they 'speak the language' of

but one that helps stem the panic in those

sociology students who aren't sure what they

can do with their degrees.

"The course teaches them what they

have to offer," says Evers.

Hirst finished her Guelph studies one

semester too soon to take advantage of Evers's

transition course, but her experience helps

explain why demand is growing for it and

why many students want to add more prac­

tical experience to their university education.

"The number of students with both

degrees and diplomas is increasing quite

dramatically because students have come to

reali ze that in some instances, they need a

general education and applied skills to find

work," says Evers. "You only have to look at

community college calendars to see that

programs requiring a university degree first

have become widespread. That demand is

agriculture. They have the applied skills from

their diploma studies and gain breadth in

problem solving, teamwork and communi­

cations skills from their degree studies."

Technology IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Seneca College

in Toronto, the College of Physical and Engi­

neering Science has offered a bachelor of sci­

ence in technology since 1999. Students

spend study time at both institutions and

complete four co-op work semesters while

majoring in either applied pharmaceutical

chemistry or physics and technology.

"The B.Sc.(Tech.) gives students a solid

science background, as well as training in

business and communications skills," says

Lori Jones, the program's academic coun­

sellor. "With this degree, they are well pre­

pared for a rewarding career in the high-tech

sector."

Co-op work semesters are scheduled

definitely being driven by students' needs."

Humber College, for example, offers 41

post-degree and diploma programs.

It 's not just colleges that have jumped

on board this trend. Universities, too, have

long realized they could help more students

by forming alliances with community col­

leges. Over the past decade, universities have

made it easier for college students to enter

the university system, chiefly through artic­

ulation agreements. In other cases, students

can earn combined degrees and diplomas,

but this usually means having university stu­

dents attend a semester or two at a com­

munity college as part of their university

studies rather than delivering fully inte­

grated or joint programming.

Governments, meanwhile, have also

bought into the notion of co-operative uni­

versity/college programs. In 2000, Ontario

between full-time study semesters to give

students the opportunity to apply what they

have learned in the classroom to real life

professional situations.

Sports injury management THE DEPARTMENT OF Human Biology and

Nutritional Sciences in the College of Bio­

logical Science began a joint program with

Oakville's Sheridan College of Applied Arts

and Technology in 1996. Graduates of this

five-year program earn a Guelph bachelor of

science degree in human kinetics and a Sheri­

dan diploma in sports injury management.

Prof. Brian Wilson, the human kinetics

program co-ordinator, says the joint venture

can accommodate only 18 students a year, and

most years, demand exceeds availability.

"I probably receive three e-mails a week

from high school students and from stu­

dents seeking transfer from other universi­

ties," he says. "I also hear from high school

allocated $145 million from its SuperBui ld

fund to nine projects aimed at promoting

more collaborative programming, innova­

tive partnerships and easier movement

between colleges and universities. One of

these was the new University of Guelph­

Humber, which received $28.6 million

toward the estimated $44.9-million cost of a

new building located on Humber 's north

campus in Toronto. Among its features wi ll

be innovative lecture theatres and classrooms,

full electronic capabilities and an art gallery.

Although the building won't open until

fall2003, the first Guelph-Humber students

have already applied and wi ll begin classes

in September in temporary facilities at

Humber. They'll study business, comput­

ing or media studies. These fully integrat­

ed programs are the first offered by Guelph­

Humber, but new programs in applied

guidance counsellors and parents wanting

to know more about our program."

Wilson says graduates find employment

ranging from posts in general rehabilitation

centres to jobs at elite athletic training facil­

ities. They have also been successful in gain­

ing acceptance into competitive paramedic,

chiropractic or physiotherapy programs.

Environmental science IN 2000, Sir Sandford Fleming College in

Peterborough, Ont., and U of G signed an

articulation agreement that grants advanced

university standing to qualified graduates

of Fleming's School of Natural and Envi­

ronmental Resource Sciences.

Careers in the environmental field "are

one of the fastest-growing areas in Canada,

and students who combine our two pro­

grams will have a distinctive blend of skills,

knowledge and theory, allowing them to

make a unique impact on the growing field

gerontology, early childhood services, fam­

ily and community social services and jus­

tice studies are already in development.

Guelph-Humber tuition costs will be

comparable with those of other university

programs in the Toronto area.

"All the courses will be university-level

quality, incorporating Guelph's respected

learning goals and the employability skills

for which Humber College is known," says

Prof. Michael Nightingale, Guelph-Humber's

vice-provost, academic. "The courses will also

integrate theory and practice, classroom

instruction, electronic learning and an expe­

riential component to prepare students for

the workplace or for graduate work."

Developed after consultation with indus­

try leaders, the Guelph-Humber curriculum

is designed to meet the emerging demands

of employers for strategic skills, including

of environmental management;' says Prof.

Michael Moss, associate dean of the Facul­

ty of Environmental Sciences.

More recently, the faculty signed anoth­

er articulation agreement with Seneca Col­

lege and is awaiting final approval on a sim­

ilar agreement with Fanshawe College.

These two new agreements will bring stu­

dents into other majors at the faculty, par­

ticularly environmental monitoring and

analysis, environmental protection, and

earth and atmospheric sciences.

Hospitality THE ScHOOL OF HotelandFoodAdmin­

istration has numerous articulation agree­

ments with colleges across the country. The

partnering colleges include Algonquin,

Canadore, Centennial, Georgian, Humber, La

Salle, Niagara, Seneca and St. LaWTence. Most

frequently, their graduates receive advanced

standing in Guelph's bachelor of commerce

critical thinking, communications, computer

expertise and leadership, says Nightingale.

David Trick, Guelph - Humber 's vice­

provost, administration, and a former assist­

ant deputy minister in the Ministry of

Training, Colleges and Universities, believes

that although various colleges and univer­

sities are making efforts to offer joint pro­

gramming, this initiative is the most inno­

vative to date and, as such, will succeed .

He says the two partners have resolved

some of the issues that foiled others in the

past, such as differing admissions policies

(colleges accept students with Grade 12

whereas universities accept only those with

Grade 13) and concerns by university facul ­

ty that partnering with colleges would "water

down" academic standards and instruction .

"From my vantage point, this project

between Guelph and Humber is the one that

Winter 2002 21

has had the most momentum, energy and

willingness by faculty and administrators to

work together," says Trick. "Faculty from both

institutions have designed the curriculum,

faculty from both will teach the students, and

each of the institutions' governing bodies have

approved the concept and programs. To my

mind, that almost guarantees its success."

On the issue of academic standards,

Nightingale notes that students admitted to

Guelph-Humber will have to produce the

same marks now required by the Universi­

ty of Guelph- in the 70s and 80s. Happi­

ly, that requirement has not deterred

prospective students.

Since last summer, Guelph-Humber

recruitment staff have handed o ut more than

20,000 admissions brochures and answered

hundreds of telephone calls and other

inquiries. Meanwhile, the GuelphHumber.ca

Web site launched in September is averag-

son Secondary School in Burlington, Ont.

"With this program, students can really get

the best of both worlds - a university

degree and a college diploma," he says.

"When you consider the rising cost of post­

secondary education, if students can do in

just four years what normally would have

taken them five or six years, they can save

themselves thousands of dol lars."

In addition to time and money, the

Guelph-Humber initiative will benefit stu­

dents in two other significant ways. Because

of it, the University will be able to admit an

extra 2,000 students at the time of the "dou­

ble cohort"- the expected influx of thou­

sands of additional students into the

Ontario university system in 2003. That

would raise Guelph's intake of new students

to 5,000 overall.

"This is really a way for the University

of Guelph to fulfi ll a number of objectives,

tural, economic and business centre. For oth­

ers, it means being able to lower university

costs by living at home while completing a

Guelph-Humber program.

"It's a win-win situation for the students,

for U of G because it takes the University

into that Toronto market, and indeed for

the Province of Ontario," says Nightingale.

Both he and Trick agree that Guelph­

Humber is an exciting undertaking, but they

don't foresee many other universities and

colleges rushing out to become partners in

the same way.

"By far, the large majority of students go

either to university or to college but not to

Prospective students got their first look at

the University of Guelph-Humber last Sep­

tember when administrators and recruitment

staff from both institutions opened a display

at the Ontario Universities Fair in Toronto.

"This is an outstanding opportunity for the University

of Guelph to increase its enrolment and assist in accom­

modating the double cohort without undermining the

quality of its education."

ing more than 3,000 hits a week.

"We are absolutely delighted- and a bit

overwhelmed- by the interest;' Prof. Alas­

tair Summerlee, U of G's provost and vice­

president (academic), told a University Board

of Governors meeting in October. "People are

really enamoured with this concept of being

able to combine a degree and a dip loma."

The idea is attractive to many high school

students, says Robb McQueen, B.Sc.(H.K.)

'83, a guidance counsellor at M.M. Robin-

22 GuELPH ALUMNUS

not the least of which is to improve access

to a U of G education in the Toronto area,"

Board of Governors chair Simon Cooper

said at the October board meeting. "This is

also an outstanding opportunity for U of G

to increase its enrolment and assist in

accommodating the double cohort without

undermining the quality of its education."

Many students will benefit from the

opportun ity to study in Toronto. For some,

that holds the allure of being in Canada's cui-

both, and these students are well served by

our current system of post-secondary edu­

cation;' says Trick. "Although the choices we

have right now are good and right for most

students, for others, these choices just don't

fit their needs. l have believed for a long

time that students should have more

options when it comes to their post-sec­

ondary education. Giving these students

more choice in these matters is definitely an

idea whose time has come." ga

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UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

PROFILE

THIS 1922 LINCOLN IS A CLASSIC

TH E CONVOCATION CROWD always

reaches out to shake hands with U of

G chancellor Lincoln Alexander as he leads

the procession into War Memorial Hall.

"Hello, how are you?" he says. "Thanks for

coming out."

As the graduands line up and, one by

one, walk up to be congratulated, he invari­

ably holds both of their hands. "I clasp their

hands and thank them for working so hard,"

he explains. "I try to make the event as per­

sonal as possible for them."

Chancellor since 1991, Alexander has indi­

vidually congratulated more than 20,000

graduates over the past decade. He has also

met thousands of others, including alumni,

high school students, faculty, renowned schol­

ars from around the world and members of

the general public. That, he says, is one of the

most enjoyable aspects of the chancellor's job.

"I am very social. I like being with peo­

ple. In fact, I like to be called Line and to

'work the room,' as I call it."

Alexander has been 'working the room'

- to great success - for nearly four

decades. A former lieutenant-governor of

Ontario, he has also been a member of Par­

liament, federal minister of labour, a Unit­

ed Nations observer and chair of the Work­

ers' Compensation Board of Ontario.

Born in Toronto in 1922 to West Indian

working-class parents, Alexander grew up

in Toronto and New York City. He served in

the Royal Canadian Air Force during the

Second World War, then settled in Hamil­

ton, married and attended McMaster Uni­

versity. He went on to Osgoode Hall Law

::;; School and was called to the bar in 1953. ::;; >-- "My mother was the one who encour-

~ aged me to go to school,'' he says. "She was

in right, of course. My education has always 0 >--0 :r: "-

been my empowerment."

Alexander is a Companion of the Order

24 GUELPH ALUMNUS

of Canada and an Officer of the Order of

Ontario and has had three schools named

in his honour, as well as a road in Hamilton.

He says he was excited and delighted to

accept his appointment as U of G chancellor.

"I knew about Guelph before it knew about

me because a lot of West Indian students had

been coming here for decades to attend the

vet school and the agricultural school. We are

a wonderful university, with a great reputa­

tion for excellence and professionalism, and

whenever I can, !let everybody know it."

President Mordechai Rozanski notes that

the U of G community has always returned

the chancellor's affection. Alexander is the

only chancellor in the history of the Uni­

versity to be re-elected for four terms. "He

has been a tireless advocate, always embody­

ing the values and ideals of this university

at its best," says Rozanski.

When a group of Toronto business and

community leaders proposed a gala dinner

in celebration of Alexander's 80th birthday

Jan. 21, the chancellor asked that the party

be a fund-raiser for two new U of G schol­

arships. The Lincoln Alexander Chancel­

lor's Scholarships will recognize the achieve­

ments of entering students of academic

excellence who are aboriginal, a member of

a visible minority or disabled.

"These scholarships are very important

to me because they represent my lifelong

and heartfelt belief in the power of educa­

tion and the importance of focusing assist­

ance on those who are sometimes over­

looked,'' Alexander says.

The U of G campus community will

hold a birthday celebration Jan. 23, and

plans are under way to create a tribute book

as a lasting memento (see page 29).

atters HIGHLIGHTS • GRAD NEWS • OBITUARIES • CALENDAR

UGAA HELPS GRADS CONNECT ONLINE

HAvE YOu EvER wondered what your

former roommate is doing now? Have

you recently married or changed jobs and

want to share your news with fellow alum­

ni? Are you looking for career advice or help

wi t h a job search? If you answered yes to

any of these questions, the new U of G

alumni online community is for you!

"The on line community is free, confi­

dential and available to all alumni 24 hours

a day, regardless of where you live;' says Uni­

versity of Guelph Alumn i Association pres­

ident Jim Weeden, B.Sc.(Eng.) '71 and M.Sc.

'86. "The UGAA is pleased to offer this new

service in response to requests for career

assistance from alumni."

Weeden says the UGAA spent months

researching various commercial vendors of

portals and online communities before sign­

ing on as a member of the On-Line Com­

munity (OLC) Network™ developed by the

University of Victoria in British Columbia.

"We are the ninth Canadian institution to

sign with UVic and, as such, have access to

an established network of career mentors

who are willing to share their knowledge with

Guelph alumni and students;' says Weeden.

Access to a customized Guelph site is

available only to U of G alumni and students,

but registration on the Guelph site also gives

you access to the complete OLC database for

certain features such as job mentoring, a

business directory and travel information.

• Interactive career mentoring This is one of OLC's most exciting features,

says Weeden. Mentors willing to share their

career experiences are asked to fill out an

anonymous profile where they answer ques­

tions related to their occupation. Once sub­

mitted, the profile is added to a searchable

database availab le to all members of the

OLC network.

Mentors are contacted by e-mail if a user

has questions related to the profile.

Anonymity is preserved until the mentor

responds to the e-mail request.

• Searchable business cards In this OLC section, users can post their own

business cards - including logo, e-mail

address and Web links- for others to view.

• Travel advice Network schools benefit from a directory

of users willing to give travel and relocation

advice. The directory includes alumni from

all nine member institutions, living in coun­

tries around the world.

• Guelph's unique OLC There are a number of additional features

in the customized U of G online commu­

nity that are unique and available only to

Guelph alumni, says Weeden.

More than 20 U of G bulletin boards are

up and running. You can post messages to

the boards to promote events, ask questions

or just reconnect with other alumni with

similar interests. Additional bulletin boards

will be added at the request of users.

The Guelph site also provides a searchable

alumni directory of registered OLC members.

You have complete control over your direc­

tory profile and can include as much or as lit­

tle information as you wish. A section called

"Keeping in Touch" allows you to post news

items for other Guelph alumni to read. Both

of these sections will grow as more alumni

participate in the online community.

Registering for the U of G alumni online

community takes four easy steps:

l. Visit www.olcnetwork.net/uoguelph.

2. Go to "New members click here to join."

3. You will need your U of G student num-

ber or birth date for entry.

4. Complete your anonymous profile.

The UGAA welcomes your input on this

new alumni service. If you wish to comment

or need more information, contact UGAA

through Alumni Programs staff at 519-824-

4120, Ext. 6544, or alumni@uoguelph.ca.

HOT CHill, COOL GRYPHONS AT HOMECOMING

THE CHILI WAS HOTTER THAN

the football Gryphons at the

Homecoming game Sept. 29. A

chilifest luncheon at Alumni House

set the tone for a sunny day, but the

Gryphons were defeated 36 to 27 by

the Windsor Lancers.

Hall of Fame inductees: from left, Dave

Copp; Mitch Mason, BA '85, wrestling;

Vilis Ozols, B.Sc. '85, volleyball; and

Michele (Timar) Jovanovich, B.Sc.(H.K.)

'91, soccer. Absent: Eric Hammond, BA

'91, basketball.

Weekend activities also included

the traditional alumni swim meet and

football Glory Bowl and the Gryphon

Club dinner. Four athletes and the

1981 wrestling team were inducted

into the Hall of Fame with builder

Dave Copp, who served as director of

athletics from 1983 to 2000. His con­

tributions were further honoured by

the unveiling of the Dave Copp court­

yard and sitting wall in the front of

theW. F Mitchell Athletics Centre.

The late Prof. John Powell, Human

Biology and Nutritional Sciences,

received the Award of Merit.

Winter 2002 25

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alumni Matters

UGAA LAUNCHES

NEW CRED I T CARD PROG RAM

LAST FALL, THE UGAA launched

a new alumni MasterCard program

with MBNA Canada Bank. You may

have noticed a letter in your mailbox

announcing the new credit card pro­

gram, says UGAA president Jim Weeden,

B.Sc.(Eng.)'71 and M.Sc. '86.

If you already hold a U of G Master­

Card, you will have received a note in a

recent billing stating that the Universi­

ty ended its former credit card relation­

ship with the Bank of Montreal effective

March 2001.

"We are grateful to existing Bank of

Montreal cardholders for their past sup­

port, and we are confident that the appli­

cation process will be easy and conve­

nient for anyone who'd like to carry the

new U of G card," says Weeden.

He adds that the UGAA selected

MBNA Canada Bank after months of

review because of its commitment to cus­

tomer service.

GETTING TOGETHER IS EASY

APHONE CALL OR E-MAIL isallyou

need to add your class to the reunion

list for Alumni Weekend June 21 to 23. Bring

friends and family together to reminisce and

visit your alma mater.

These classes are already planning spe­

cial reunions: Mac '52, Mac '52D, Mac '57

and '57D, Mac '62, Mac '67, FACS '72, FACS

'77, HAFA '92, OAC '33, OAC '37, OAC '42,

OAC '47, OAC '49, OAC '52 and '52A, OAC

'57, OAC '67, OAC '67A, OVC '47, OVC '52,

OVC '57, Bio Sci '82, the Ontarian and

French House. You can join them by calling

your class reunion organizer or Jennifer

Brett at Alumni House, 519-824-4120, Ext.

3540. E-mail her at jbrett@alumni.uo

guelph.ca.

Alumni Weekend events include: the U

of G president's lunch, silver and golden

anniversary dinners, horse-drawn trolley

tours, a dean's tea in the Macdonald Insti­

tute building, UGAA and alumni associa­

tion annual meetings and a farewell break-

"The UGAA endorses affinity pro­

grams that provide the very best prod­

ucts and services available for Guelph

alumni. In turn, our affinity programs

support alumni activities at the Univer­

sity of Guelph, including Homecoming,

Alumni Weekend and student career

nights."

The MBNA MasterCard offers alum­

ni an annual no-fee preferred or plat­

inum card with low regular interest rates

and high initial credit limits (up to

$100,000) in the affinity credit card mar­

ket, says Weeden. MBNA operators are

available 24 hours a day 365 days a year

to handle inquiries.

To apply for the new University of

Guelph MasterCard, call 1-800-416-6345

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contact an M BNA representative. Alter­

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fast. The list of events is updated regularly

at www.uoguelph.ca/alumni, and a brochure

of all the events will be available in late April.

MEET IN WASHINGTON

BERT M ITCHELL, BSA '60 and DVM

'64, invites Guelph alumni who live

near Washington, D.C., to join the city's

Canadian Club. The not-for-profit non-par­

t isan organization is dedicated to promot­

ing social, cultural, educational, economic

and charitable activ ities. Membership infor­

mation is available at www.canclubdc.org

/index.html or by contacting Mitchell at

gamitchelll @home.com or 301-963-6840.

TAKE IN COLLEGE ROYAL

THE ANNUAL U OF G OPEN IIOUSE

will be held March 16 and 17. Publicity

chair Lena Levison says the 2002 theme, "Let

the Good Times Roll," will be reflected in

campus-wide displays and favourite events

like the cat and dog shows, chemistry magic

show, MacDonald's farm, synchronized swim-

ming, square dancing and live animal surgery.

Admission is free. For more information, call

Levison at 519-824-4120, Ext. 8366.

JOIN A TRIBUTE TO THE CHANCELLOR

THE UNIVERSITY OF GuELPH com­

munity is producing a "tribute book" to

celebrate the 80th birthday of our chancel­

lor, Lincoln Alexander. Tributes from friends,

loved ones and admirers will recognize his

Jan. 21 birthday and honour his many con­

tributions to Canadian society. You can add

your personal tribute to help create a last­

ing memento. The book will be presented to

the chancellor this spring.

The cost ranges from $100 per line to

$2,000 for a half page in the tribute book.

The deadline for submitting a tribute is Feb.

28. A tax receipt will be issued for the max­

imum allowable contribution.

Request a form to order your tribute by

calling 519-824-4120, Ext. 6142, or sending

e-mail to sharrop@alumni.uoguelph.ca.

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We want the best winter photo of campus for our 2002 greeting card • Amateur photographers only • Colour or 8& W • 4" x 6" prints only

Deadline March 1, 2002

Submit photos to: Photo Contest

Alumni Affairs and Development

University of Guelph

Guelph, ON NtG 2W1

For contest rules and entry form: www.alumni.uoguelph.ca/ contests/photocontest, gangel@alumni.uoguelph.ca or

519-824-4120, Ext. 6934.

Winter 2002 27

Coming Events

Jan. 21 to 25- OAC Career week, Good Times Banquet Friday night at the Holi­

day Inn. Contact: OAC Web site or Nicole

Munroe at nmunroe@uoguelph.ca.

Jan. 24 to 26- OVMA conference at Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto.

Contact: Andrea Pavia at Ext. 4430 or apavia@ovc.uoguelph.ca.

Jan. 26 -"Living Smart for a Healthy

Heart" symposium hosted by Human

Biology and Nutritional Sciences in the

OVC Lifetime Learning Centre. Contact: Lori Quach at lquach @uoguelph.ca.

Feb. 8 - Nomination deadline for UGAA Awards of Excellence.

Feb. 11- OVC alumni reception at the Western Veterinary Conference, 6:30p.m.,

MGM Grand Conference Centre, Las Vegas. Feb. 22 - Nomination deadline for

OACAA Distinguished Faculty Awards.

Contact: Carla Bradshaw at Ext. 6657 or cbradsha@oac. uoguelph.ca.

March 6 -Florida alumni reunion at Maple Leaf Estates, 2100 Kings Highway,

Port Charlotte. Contact: Jennifer Brett at Ext. 3540 or jbrett@uoguelph.ca.

March 16 and 17 - College Royal.

March 16 -Texas alumni reunion in San Antonio. Contact: Jennifer Brett at Ext. 3540 or jbrett@uoguelph.ca.

March 22 and 23 - OACAA annual curling bonspiel, Guelph Curling Club

and Guelph Country Club. Contact: Car­la Bradshaw at Ext. 6657 or cbradsha@ oac. uoguel ph. ca.

March 23 - CSAHS Heritage Night, silent

auction and dinner; reception at 5 p.m., din­

ner at 7 p.m. Special guests at this student­driven event include graduates of Mac,

FACS, HAFA and CSAHS. Contact Debbie Bailey at Ext. 6753 or baileyd@uoguelph.ca.

june 21 to 23 - Alumni Weekend;

alumni association annual meetings on

Saturday. Contact: U of G alumni Web

g site or Vikki Tremblay at Ext. 6544 or iii vikkit@alumni.uoguelph.ca.

~ For details on alumni events, call the exten-

~ sian listed at 519-824-4120 or send e-mail 0

t5 to alumni@uoguelph.ca. :r: o._

28 GUELPH ALUMNUS

alumni Matters

WHO WOULD YOU HONOUR?

Among Guelph's 72,000 alumni, who

deserves the designation Alumnus of Honour?

Thirty-three people have been

named to this distinguished roll since the award was established by the Uni­

versity of Guelph Alumni Association in 1970. Among them are:

philanthropists, business leaders,

academics and librarians, en vi ron mentalists, veterinarians,

entrepreneurs,

an astronaut,

a medical doctor and

a theatrical set designer.

The UGAA launched the Alumni Medal of Achievement in 1972 to rec­

ognize the accomplishments of gradu­

ates in mid-career and the Alumni Vol-

unteer Award in 1995 to honour those

who have given selflessly to the Univer­sity. In these categories, you'll find peo­

ple who have distinguished themselves

in the fields of medicine, sport, science, the arts, social work and education.

Each award given recognizes indi­vidual achievement, but it also brings

honour to the University of Guelph. U

of G president Mordechai Rozanski has

said many times that "the success of an educational institution can be measured

by the achievements and reputation of its graduates."

Now is the time to nominate your choice for these distinguished awards.

Nominations for the Alumni Awards of Excellence must be received at Alum­

ni House by Feb. 8. For details on the

nomination process, contact Andrea Pavia

at Ext. 4430 or apavia@ovc.uoguelph.ca.

REMEMBERING GUELPH-GHANA

Patience Adow, left, and Clara Opare·Obi·

saw at the Ghana Project reception in Accra.

PR OF. JIM SHUTE, directorofthe

Centre for International Programs, rekindled old friendships during a spring

2001 trip to Ghana. There are more than 50 Guelph alumni living in Ghana, as

well as many colleagues who were part

of the Guelph-Ghana Project in the

1970s. Shute was the project director.

Kwadwo Opare, M.Sc. '69, organized a reception that was hosted by the Cana­

dian High Commission in Accra. Among

the guests were: Patience Adow, B.A.Sc. '74; Walter Alhassan, PhD '75; John Azu,

PhD '79; Joseph Crentsil, M.Sc. '91;

David Dako, a former visiting fellow at U of G; Susan Des Bordes, BA '76; Docea

Fianu, M.Sc. '74; K.D. Opare, M.Sc. '69;

Clara Opare-Obisaw, M.Sc. '74; Frema

Osei-Opare, M.Sc. '76; James Quashie­

Sam, PhD '79; Samuel Sefa-Dedeh, PhD '78; Nabilla Williams, M.Sc. '74; and Laetitia Hevi-Yiboe, M.Sc. '75.

During the trip, Shute also shared U

of G memories with Gertrude Aboagye,

M.Sc. '76; Godwin Atlakpui, M.Sc. '90;

Joseph Cobbina, PhD '85; Edith Fran­cois, M.Sc. '81; Kofi Laryea, PhD '79;

William Asenso-Okyere, M.Sc. '76; Syd­

ney Williams, PhD '75; and Reg Assoku, another former visiting fellow.

GRAD NEWS

Canada's painter is a Guelph grad

• Phil Irish, BA '95, says it was

an honour to represent Cana­

da last summer at the jeux de

Ia Francophonie in Ottawa.

More than 50 French-speaking

countries around the world

were represented at these inter­

national cultural games by

artists under age 35- sculp­

tors, photographers, poets, sto­

rytellers, dancers and painters.

Irish was Canada's painter.

He created this new work,

Reves du Nouveau Monde

1920 • Margaret Whiteside, DHE

'26, celebrated her lOOth birth­

day Nov. 17 at her home in

Charlottetown, P.E.I. Born in

Burks Falls, Ont., she moved to

the island in 1930 with her hus­

band, George, BSA '27, who

worked for the provincial agri­

culture ministry. He died in

1987. They had two daughters,

Mary Ran by of Leeds, England,

and Susan, who hosted the

birthday party. Numerous

nieces and nephews were also

in attendance.

(Dreams of the New World), for

the competition, and it was

exhibited at the National Gallery

of Canada in July 2001. The oil

on canvas depicts an immense

ocean wave full of forceful move­

ment and four vessels that sug­

gest the complexity and diversi­

ty of Canadian history and the

disparate origins and dreams of

its people, says Irish, whose work

generally explores water and

marine environments. The four

boats in the image are taken

1930 • Donald MacDonald, BSA

'38, is a retired farm writer and

editor. He served five years in

the military during the Second

World War, worked in the

newspaper business for 28

years and spent the last 12

years of his career in the infor­

mation division of Agriculture

and Agri-Food Canada in

Ottawa. He and his wife,

Rachel, have two children,

Malcolm and Linda, and invite

friends to contact them at don­

ray@magma.ca.

from different moments in

Canadian history- a tree-bark

canoe, jacques Cartier's tall ship,

a commercial boat that brought

refugees to Vancouver's coast and

a Sea-Doo. "I leave it to your

imagination to explore the rela­

tionships, tensions and possible

import of these frail vessels;' he

says.

Irish adds that his involve­

ment with the Francophonie

reflects well on his education at

Guelph. "It is important for

people to see how a life in the

visual arts is rewarding." Irish

works from a home studio in

Elora, Ont., where he lives with

his wife, Anna, BA '96, and one­

year-old daughter, Arden Renee.

In the past year, he has

exhibited in Kitchener, Toronto,

Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec

City. His work often explores the

beauty and danger of water,

"and the frail means we use to

stay afloat." He also has a series

of paintings that use plants as

growth metaphors. To see more

of his work and a schedule of

future shows, visit his Web site

at www.philirish.com.

1940 • Kenneth Lantz, BSA '45, was

inducted into the Ontario Agri­

cultural Hall of Fame in june

for outstanding service to

Ontario agriculture. He is

retired from the Ontario Min­

istry of Agriculture, Food and

Rural Affairs and lives with his

wife, Mary, in Mississauga, Ont.

1950 • Robert Boisclair, DVM '52,

and his wife, Wendy, moved to

Kingston, Ont., last March.

They have four children: Mau­

reen in Toronto, Steven in

Georgetown, Ont., Colleen in

Lethbridge, Alta., and Kevin in

Athens, Ont. They also have two

grandchildren.

1960 • Ed, DVM. '66, and Monica Dahl, DVM '68, are easing into

retirement on Vancouver Island

after moving there in fall 2000

from Dawson Creek, B.C.

• Ronald Darling, DVM '60,

retired in 2000 from the Cana­

dian Food Inspection Agency,

where he worked in meat

hygiene. He lives in Guelph.

• Margaret Dickenson, B.H.Sc.

'68, is taking her culinary and

entertaining expertise to televi­

sion in a new series called Mar­

garet's Sense of Occasion. The

weekly show airs on Rogers Tele­

vtston stations throughout

Ontario Tuesdays at 10 a.m., 4

p.m. and 10 p.m. and Sundays at

6 p.m. Her entertaining talents

were honed while accompanying

her husband, Lawrence Dicken­

son, to his Canadian Foreign

Service postings around the

world. She has also taught

gourmet cooking and is a "con­

seiller gastronomique" of the

international gourmet club La

Chaine des R6tisseurs. In 1998,

she published the book Fro111 The

Ambassador's Table, which was

named best cookbook on enter­

taining at the fifth World Cook­

book Fair in Perigueux, France.

It was also shortlisted as one of

the best five recipe books in the

world at the World Food Media

Awards at "Tasting Australia."

• Fred Mogelin, BA '69, still

Winter 2002 29

Alumni send top scholars to U of G

Among the 12 President's Scholarship winners welcomed to Guelph

in September were two young wome n who represent the third

generation of family members to attend the University. Above:

Caroline Tucker of Fall Rive r, N.S., right, poses on campus with

her parents, John, B.Sc.(Eng.) '78, and Anna, B.Sc.(Agr.) '79- In

back is Caroline's grandfathe r, Pat Tucker, B.Sc.(Agr.) '65. Below:

Laura Zadro of Gloucester, Ont. , second from left, is con gratulat­

ed by her grandmother, Frances Zadro, BA '71, left, her mother,

Ann, and her brother, Matthew, a third-year student in manage­

me nt economics at Guelph . Laura's fathe r, Richard , BA ' 70, was

unable to attend the awards ceremony.

A third President's Schola r, Li sa Werd en of Port Dover, Ont.,

also boasts a U of G alumni family. Her parents are both 1975

graduates, Don with a B.Sc.(Agr.) and Marga ret with a B.A.Sc.

operates Cascott Property Man­

agement Services in Owen

Sound, Ont., bu t says he is

semi-retired and spends part of

his time driving a school bus in

Georgian Blu ffs. Contact h im

at mogeli n@bm ts.com .

30 GUELPH ALUMNUS

• David Reilly, B.Sc.(Agr.) '67,

has re located to Toronto as

senior vice-president of Confec­

tionery Americas after spending

three years in England at the

head office of Cadbury

Schweppes. He and h is wife,

Mary, have four children: Lynda,

Lisa, Michael and Brian. Contact

him at david.c.reilly@ctai.ca.

• Ch ris Watts, B.Sc.(Eng.) '66

and M.Sc. '67, received the

CSAE/SCGR Maple Leaf Award

for his dedication to agricultur­

al and biological engineering

teaching, research and profes­

sional service. He is a professor

of biological and mechanical

engineering at Dalhousie Uni­

versity in Halifax. He lives in

Dartmouth with his wife,

Marny, and their three children:

Carolyn, Stephanie and

Jonathan. Contact him at

chris.watts@dal.ca.

1970 • Gary Bauer, B.Sc.(H.K.) '74,

teaches at Johnson Elementary

School in Watson Lake, Yukon,

where he lives with his wife,

Shirley, and their three children:

Joseph-Warn , Tara-Jean and

Amber-Dawn. Contact him at

sbauer@yknet.ca.

• Ron Bisaillon, ADA '78, and

Chris Morrison, BA '80, are co­

founders of a new company

called Organic Expressr" Inc.

The company is introducing new

technology that allows pneu­

mat ic conveying of landscape

materials as well as erosion and

silta tion control. The new tech­

nology is aimed at areas of envi­

ronmental sensitivity and high

human impact and areas where

access is limited. Morrison lives

near Fergus, Ont., with his wife,

Nancy jane, and their five chil­

dren: Allison, Will, Jim, Mallory

and Leanne. He can be reached

by e-mail at MorrisonChrs@

aol.com. Bisaillon also runs

Brantford Landscape and Sod­

ding and lives near Paris with his

wife, Wendy, and their daughters,

Michelle and Danielle.

• Geoff Carpentier, B.Sc. '73, is

district manager at the Hamilton

office of the Ontario Ministry of

the Environment. He lives in Ajax

and has three children: Tammy

at Sir Sandford Fleming College,

Scott at Sheridan College and

Tim in high school.

• Gerald Channer, M.Sc. '78,

and his wife, Sharon, have had

great success ~ith their herb gar­

den since it started in 1993. The

Channers organically grow about

250 varieties in the 0.8-hectare

garden, part of the farm they

own near Ottawa. Write them

online at herbgarden@ icons.net.

• Rob Clement, BA '78, trav­

elled the world for about 20

years and taught in five coun­

tries before returning to Cana­

da in july 2000. He is now prin­

cipal of Tukisiniarvik School

with the Kativik School Board

in Montreal. Contact him at

rob@ca noemail.com .

• Bruce Forster, BA '70, spent

more than 13 years 111

Wyoming, including nine years

as dean of the College of Busi­

ness at the University of

Wyoming. In the summer of

2000, he relocated to Arizona,

where he is dean of the School

of Management at Arizona

State University West tn

Phoenix. He has three children:

Kelli in Vancouver, jeremy at the

University of Wyoming and jes­

sica in high school.

• Harry Huffman, B.Sc.(Eng.)

'71, received the CSAE/SCGR

John Turnbull Award, which rec­

ognizes outstanding contributions

to the design of ventilation sys­

tems for livestock and poultry

barns. He has spent 30 years doing

extension work for the Ontario

Ministry of Agriculture, Food and

Rural Affairs. He and his wife,

Mary, have three children: Greg,

)an1es and Heather. Contact him

at huffman@omafra.gov.on.ca.

• Harihar Joshi, PhD '7 1, lives

in Massachusetts with his wife,

Vaijayanthi, and is the owner

and president of Omega Med­

ical Laboratories Inc. He came

to Guelph after earning a veteri­

nary degree in India and a mas-

ter's at the University of Hawaii.

He taught at OVC for five years

and headed a Cambridge med­

ical unit dealing with drug and

hormone testing before launch­

ing his own company.

• Alvin Rebik, ADA '76, has

opened a new restaurant called

Bistro Six and a catering com­

pany in Guelph and recently

published a cookbook called

Bistro- Trade Secrets From n Life in Food. Contact him at alv­

inandglenna@sympatico.ca.

• Thomas Roberts, B.Sc. '78

and M.Sc. '82, lives in Saska­

toon with his daughter, Claire,

12. He practises patent and

trademark law with the firm

Furman & Kallio, Barristers and

Solicitors, and welcomes e-mail

at troberts@furman-kallio.com.

• Lorraine Roy, B.Sc.(Agr.) '78,

is combining her love of nature

and her profession as an artist to

create a series of wall hangings

titled "Saving Paradise: The

Arboretum Project." It will high­

light the importance of the U of

G Arboretum's gene bank pro­

ject, which preserves rare and

endangered woody plant species

of southwestern Ontario. Roy

worked at the Arboretum as a

student and after receiving her

degree in hotticulture and is now

a full-time artist living in Lon­

don, Ont. "Saving Paradise" is

already booked at five Ontario

art galleries in 2003, and Roy is

looking for other venues to

showcase the Arboretum project.

For more information, visit her

Web site at www.Lroytextile

art.com.

• Adaoha Uwaegbute, M.Sc.

'78, is a professor of human

nutrition and director of acad­

emic planning at the Universi­

ty of Nigeria in Nsukka.

• Barry Yeates, BA '74 and MA

'78, is a former Canadian diplo­

mat who now runs his own

international training business

called Foreign Service Coun­

selling Inc. in Ottawa. He can be

reached at sdhunt@netinc.ca.

1980 • Michael Baker Pearce, BA '85,

says he has printed a book of

flowers in his new poetry book,

Pansies and Wildflower. The col­

lection of 53 poems was pub­

lished by Micro Prose and is

available for $10 by contacting

the author at RR#4 Kenilworth,

ON NOG 2EO; 519-848-3129 or

mjsept7S@sympatico.ca.

• Tim Burgess, B.Sc. '86 and BA

'90, was recently appointed to

institutional sales for Haywood

Securities Inc., based in Toronto.

• Heather Champ, BA '86, is

creative director of a Web

design firm called jguru in San

Francisco. She also has a per­

sonal Web site that reflects her

talent as an artist: www.jezebel.

com/faq.html.

• Michele DuCharme, BA '81,

is a photographer "who loves to

GRAD NEWS UPDATE FORM

capture the quirky things in life

most people don't notice." She

has exhibited at several pho­

tography shows and lives in

Oakville, Ont., with her hus­

band and four children: Emilie,

twins Zoe and lain and Aimee.

She's also a marathon runner

and welcomes e-mail at

ducharmed_life@hotmail.com.

• Susan (Greatrex) Fitzgerald,

BA '83, recently completed a

career development practition­

er program at the Doon cam­

pus of Conestoga College. She

and her husband, Patrick, have

three children: Michelle, Tam­

my and Brendan. Contact her

at blarney@sympatico.ca.

• David Galbraith, B.Sc. '82

and M.Sc. '86, has been

appointed manager of biodi­

versity projects at the Royal

Botanical Gardens in Hamilton,

Ont. He has been with the

RBG's science department since

1995 and continues to work

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with botanical gardens in Canada and

around the world on endangered species

recovery, educational programs and

institutional policy on biodiversity issues. He is also studying the population genet­

ics of endangered plants in Ontario,

holds adjunct faculty appointments at

McMaster and McGi ll universities and

is current ly teaching undergraduate

courses in genetics and conservation

biology at McMaster. Contact him at dgalbraith@rbg.ca.

• Guy Gilron, B.Sc. '84 and M.Sc. '88,

manages the specialty chemicals labora­

tory at ESG International in Guelph. He is also serving as an alumni senator at U

of G for the College of Biological Science

and is a guest lecturer for a course on research problems in zoology. He lives in

Erin with his wife, Joanne, and their chil­

dren: Meghan, Jeremy and Alice. Con­tact him at ggilron@ yahoo.com.

• Humphrey Mbungua, OVC M.Sc. '85, is the veterinarian in charge of patholo­

gy in the Kenyan Ministry of Agriculture

and Rural Development. His department

deals with veterinary diagnostics, disease

outbreak investigations and trans­boundary disease surveillance. He lives

in Nairobi.

• Glenn Morison, BA '83, is minister to

the Marion Harper Memorial Circle, an

urban native congregation of the United

Church of Canada located in Winnipeg.

He encourages all former classmates to keep in touch; he can be reached at

moon@morison.ca.

• Sue Richards, BA '84, is the producer

of an educational tool called Breast of

Canada that encourages a proactive

approach to breast health and the culti­

vation of a positive body image. Breast of Canada 2002 is a calender featuring

powerful black-and-white photography and information on breast health prac­

tices. For more information, contact her

in Guelph at kculture@sentex.net.

• Sandra Sabatini, BA '8 1 and MA '95,

was shortlisted for the 2001 Upper Cana­

da Brewing Company Writer's Craft

Award for her collection of short stories,

The One With the News. The title story about living with Alzheimer's won a

writing competition sponsored by the

Guelph Alumnus in 1995. Her work has

also bee n publi shed in The Malahat Review, Prism International and The New Quarterly. She lives in Guelph with her

husba nd and five children and teaches creat ive writin g at the University of

Waterloo, where she received her Ph D.

• JoAnne Sweeting, B.Sc.(Agr.) '86, says

that after a number of years in Toronto,

she moved cat and dog to a fixer- upper

waterfro nt cottage near Peterborough,

On t. She is worki ng as an ass istant co­

ordinator with the information and pri­

vacy un it of the Ministry of Na tu ra l Reso urces. In her spa re time, she's start­

ing an antique resale business. "How I

ended up here 15 years after grad uating

with a degree in agribusi ness is anybody's

best guess;' she says. Contact her at antiq­

uities.emporium@sym patico.ca.

1990 • Michael Barclay, BA '93, is the associate

editor of Exclaim! magazine, a national free monthly devoted to underground

music, and a contributor to Eye weekly in

Toronto. He and two friends just published

a book, Have Not Been the Same: The Can­Rock Renaissance 1985-1995. He also does

some free lance rad io work for the CBC and hosts a show on U of G's CFRU. Write

to him at barclay@exclaim.ca.

• Deanna Bowen, BA '97, and Paul Sud­mals, B.Sc. '98, were married on Sept. 30,

2001, in Toro nto. They met in first yea r

when both were living in Lambton Hall.

She wo rks wi th children wi th special

needs and is completing a master's degree in social wo rk. He is empl oyed in th e

fo restry industry as operations manager

of Outland Resources, Austra lian Divi­

sion. They will be moving to Australia in

january and ca n be contacted at psud­

mals@outland resources.com.au.

• Jenny (Anttila) Bullough, BA '95, is

working as a Web site producer fo r Har­

lequ in after fi ve years as an editor for an educational publisher. On Sept. 2, 200 I,

she married Brent Bullough, B.Sc. '95,

in Toronto, where they have lived for the

past four years. They welcome e-mail s from old fri ends at jen ny _a nd_bre nt @hotmail.com.

• Jennifer Cotton, B.Sc. '93, and Chris­tian Krupke, B.Sc. '94, were married in

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researcher for Washington State University

and she is a chemistry technician in a water­

quality laboratory. They would love to hear from old friends at spinnyl @juno.com.

• Lisa (Birse) and Kris Davis, both B.Sc. '90,

have been living in Burnaby, B.C., for the

past eight years, but left in August for a

backpacking trip around the world. They'll

be checking their e-mail and would love to

hear from classmates and Lambton Hall friends at asilsirk@hotmail.com.

• Denis Dyack, M.Sc. '96, is president of Silicon Knights, one of Canada's top video­

game developers. He co-founded the com­pany in 1992 while a student at Guelph and

has watched it grow from a four-person

operation to a company with 57 employees.

It is located in St. Catharines, Ont.

• Christine Gilman and Alex Therrien, both B.Sc. '93, have moved nine times since

graduation, but are back in Ontario in

Thornhill. They'd love to hear from friends at cgilman@canada.com or ajt@canada.com.

• Kallie Honeywood, B.Sc. '97, graduated from McMaster University's MD Class of

200 I. She is currently completing a resi­

dency in anesthesiology at the University of

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British Columbia. Get in touch with her at

kalliehoney@hotmail.com.

• Natalie Hotrum, M.Sc. '99, is living in the

Netherlands and working on a PhD in food

physics at Wageningen University. • Jailani Husain, M.Sc. '94, is a lecturer in

soil science in the Faculty of Agriculture at

Sam Ratulangi University City in North

Sulawesi, Indonesia. He spent three years

doing PhD research at Germany's Techni­

cal University at Cottbus, defended his the­

sis in November 2001 and returned to

Indonesia with his wife and three children

in December. He says he hopes to pay a

return visit to U of G someday.

• Todd and Karen (Young) Jasie, both BA '96, recently bought their first house in

Unionville, Ont. She is a human resources

co-ordinator, and he works in sales. Con­tact them at jasiek@norbord.com.

• Shawn Kitsemetry, B.Comm. '97, and

Chris Adams, B.Sc. '95, have started an e­

business consulting company called cgk

Technologies Group Inc. The group's pro­

prietary product Hot Banana is a Web site

solution to help medium-sized organiza­

tions self-administer their own sites. Visit

1 800 548 3475

cgk at www.cgkgroup.com.

• Amy Kwok, B.Sc.(H.K.) '94, is a sales rep­

resentative in the surgical division of Smith

& Nephew in Toronto. She also holds an

M.Sc. degree in biomechanics from Dal­housie University. E-mail her at amywlk­wok@hotmail.com.

• Christy Laing, B.Sc. '96, went on from

Guelph to earn a B.Sc. in nursing at Ryer­

son University and is now working at

Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. She

lives in Oakville and says she'd love to hear

from classmates and former College Royal

members at christylaing@hotmail.com.

• Jamie Lambert, B.Sc. '94, and his wife,

Antoinette, are the proud parents of David

Campbell Domenic, born April 14,2001.

After leaving Guelph, Lambert went on to

complete a master's of science in education

at Niagara University in Lewiston, N.Y., and is now a Grade 7 teacher with the District

School Board of Niagara. Friends can reach him at jamlm@aol.ca.

• Jeff Latimer, DVM '92, runs the Princess

Animal Hospital in Kingston, Ont., now in

its sixth year of operation. He married

Valerie Dunbar in 1999, and their son,

Noah, was born Aug. 23, 2000. • Ann Marie (Raos) Martin, BA '93, and

her husband, Ryan, had a third child, Char­

lotte, Feb. 27, 2001. She joins brothers

Thomas and Quinn in the family home in

Oakville, Ont.

• Andrea Murphy, B.Sc. (Agr.) '95, is an ani­

mal nutrition consultant with Semex

Alliance in China, helping to improve milk production in the Chinese dairy industry.

In her spare time, she plays for a Chinese

women's rugby team. She plans to marry in

April 2002 and will make her permanent

home in New Zealand.

• Maria Barzso-Paul, B.A.Sc. '90, and Doug

Paul, ADA '89, celebrated the birth of their

first child, James, March 24, 2001. Maria is

an elementary school teacher, and Doug runs a dairy farm near Crysler, Ont.

• Danielle Perigoe, BA '97, went on to earn

a master's degree in interdisciplinary

humanities, then worked at U of G as an admissions liaison officer before the travel

bug bit her. She has now settled in Toronto

and is working in alumni affairs at the Uni­

versity of Toronto.

• Tammy (Tipler) Priolo, B.A.Sc. '90, is working on an advanced certificate in

genealogical studies with the

National Institute for Genealog­

ical Studies in Toronto. She is

also editor of the institute's newsletter, The Exchange, and

has started her own research and

consulting business in genealo­

gy called Tammy and Clark's

Genealogical Adventures. Find

her Web site at http:/ /tpriolo.

tripod.ca/gen ealogy.html. Pri­

olo lives in North Bay, Ont., with

her husband, Clark, and four­

year-old daughter, Erica.

• Elizabeth (Johnston) Robin­son, B.A.Sc. '94, was married in

1999 to Mark Robinson. They live in Virginia and invite

friends to get in touch at beth_and_mark @msn.com.

• Brad, ADA '93 and B.Sc. (Agr.) '97, and Shelly (Nichol­

son) Rooney, B.Sc.(Agr.) '97,

announce the birth of their first child, Ainsley Laurel, born Aug.

19,2001. The proud parents say

they can't wait to bring her to campus and show her all their

favourite places.

• Monica Siegenthaler, B.A.Sc. '94, lives in Ottawa and is a

housing supervisor for a non­

profit housing corporation.

• Karen Thirlwall, BA '93, a

singer/songwriter originally

from Denfield, Ont., has released

her third album of original pop

songs recorded in Whistler, B.C.

She now works out of Calgary and can be reached at karen@kt

music pro.com.

• Meredith (Wilson), B.A.Sc.

'97, married Mike Tuck July 31,

1999, in a ceremony at Casa

Lama in Toronto. She teaches

secondary school with the

Toronto District School Board

and would love to hear from

old friends at meredith. wilson @etel.tdsb. on.ca.

• Sharon Van Kampen, B.Sc.(Agr.) '92, graduated from

Brock University's Faculty of

Education in June 2000 and was

married the same month to

Stephen Johnston. They met while both were working for

Reinhart Foods in Staynor,

Ont., and now live in Creemore.

She works for the Simcoe

County District School Board.

• Ruth Ann Lockrey-Vande­walle, BA '90, went on from

Guelph to earn a nursing diplo­

ma and a degree from the Uni­versity of Western Ontario. She

works for the Oxford County

Board of Health and lives in

Strathroy, Ont., with her hus­

band, Phil, and son, Calum. Contact her at vanderwal@

julian.uwo.ca.

• Karen (Singleton) Vanderley,

BA '90, and her husband, Peter,

had their first child, Mattias

Derek Anthony, Feb. 23, 2001,

in London, Ont. She has been

teaching high school but plans to stay home for a while and

welcomes e-mail at karenvan­derley@hotmail.com.

• Donald Welsh, PhD '94, and Suzanne Brett Welsh, B.Sc. '91

and M.Sc. '95, have returned to

Canada and accepted positions

at the University of Calgary. She is a research technician; he is an

assistant professor in the Fac­

ulty of Medicine.

• Shannon Whatman, DVM

'93, and her husband, Michael

Krohn, live in Hemmingford,

Que., with their one-year-old

daughter, Bronwyn.

• Jim Winterbottom, BA '91, is

an optometry librarian at the University of Waterloo. He and

his wife, Kim, live in Guelph

and can be reached at winter-

bottoms@sympatico.ca.

• Nicole Sy and Patrick Wong,

both B.Comm. '95, were mar­

ried Dec. 16, 2001, just a month

after receiving master's degrees

in information systems from the Hong Kong Polytechnic Uni­

versity. She is a knowledge man­

agement consultant in the tele­

com industry, and he is a retail

project management consultant.

• Clarence Yu, B.Sc. '97, and Lisa Wassenberg, B.Comm. '00,

who met at U of G in 1995,

were married in August 200 l.

He is an account manager at

Philips Canada, and she is a

management consultant for

PricewaterhouseCoopers. They

live in Toronto and would love

to hear from friends at cyu65@hot mail.com or

lwassenberg@hot mail.com.

2000 • Josette Heslop, B.A.Sc. '01, fol­lowed in family footsteps when

she received her degree in child

studies last June. Her parents are both two-time Guelph gradu­

ates: Lome, B.Sc.(Eng.) '70 and

M.Sc. '86, and Louise, B.H.Sc. '67

and M.Sc. '69. Louise was on fac­

ulty in the former College of

Family and Consumer Studies from 1969 to 1973 and 1976 to

1983. Joset;te also has seven aunts

and w1cles who are U of G grad­

uates and two cousins currently

enrolled as students.

• Nicole Salmon-Seivers, BA '00, moved to Australia in 1996

to complete an education diplo­ma at the University of Wol­

longong. She is now a perma­

nent resident of Australia and a public school teacher and tutor

in West Wollongong. She and her husband, Simon, have an

infant son, Bailey Christopher,

and can be reached by e-mail at

simcole@primus.com.au.

• Vanessa Ward, B.Comm. '00, has made several career moves

since graduation: supply man­

agement at Brookfield LePage johnson Controls, then prop­

erty services co-ordinator for

the Royal Bank in Toronto and

now national property services

analyst for the bank.

The Way We Weren't

The fall 2001 issue of the Guelph Alumnus included this archival

photo of students digging out the basement of Massey Hall to

make way for a student lounge. The work crew was incorrectly

identified as an Aggie group. Most diggers in the picture are

actually members of the OVC Class of 1955. The Massey Hall

excavation was a co-operative student project, leading to the

construction of a coffee shop enjoyed by the entire campus.

Winter 2002 35

Grant Misener, ADA '32, BSA '34 and

DVM '38, died Sept. 6, 200l.A native of

Illinois, he spent his career in private prac­tice in the Chicago area and was active in

the Chicago, Illinois and American veteri­nary medical associations. He was a vol­unteer with the OVC Alumni Association for over a decade and helped establish a

U.S. charitable foundation called Friends

of University of Guelph. Dozens of stu­dents have benefited from a bursary

endowment established in the 1980s by him and his wife, Mildred, DHE '36. He

was named OVC Distinguished Alumnus in 1979 and a Fellow of the University of

Guelph in 1984. He is survived by his wife and sons, Ken and Robert.

James Adamson, ADA '31, May 3, 2001 William Addison, DVM '52, Oct. 10,2001

Fred Anderson, OAC '34, March 20, 2001

Grant Anderson, BSA '33, June 14,2001

Michael Andrews, B.Sc.(Eng.) '71, in 1997

Catherine Armstrong, DHE '51, date unknown

Clarence Bell, ADA '49, July 31,2001 Jamie Bell, BSA '37, Nov. 10,2001 Samuel Berry, BSA '37, Aug. 18,2001 Teresa Brusso, DHE '70, Aug. 16,2001 Justin Bryant, BSA '52, Aug. 25,2001 Daniel Burt, ADA '33, Aug. 3, 1999 Gwendolyn Calverley, DHE '50, june 5,

2001

Trafford Carvell, DVM '50, June 10,2001 Stan Cock, DVM '50, Sept. 7, 2001 Brenda Conn, B.A.Sc. '87, Sept. 7, 2001

Sidney Cooper, BSA '59, June 1, 2001

Wilmer Cooper, DVM '50, July 21, 2001

Robert Cusler,ADA '47, in 1994

Laura Dale, DHE '33, Sept. 13,2001

Harry Dawson, BSA '39, July 21,2001

Donald Desmond, BSA '48, Sept. 11, 200 1

Dennis Duckworth, BA '71, Sept. 4, 2000 Larry Dunlop, BSA '55, Aug. 14,2001

Eugene Epperson, DVM '33, Aug. 20, 2001

William Foott, MSA '53, May 11, 2001

Kristina Fralich, B.Sc.(Eng.) '93, Aug. 10,

2001

Marc Gaudinat, BA '76, Aug. 14, 1996

Gordon Ghent, BSA '41, Aug. 31, 2001 Bev Glover, M.Sc. '83, Sept. 12, 2001

36 GuELPH ALUMNUS

<>BITUARIES

Chris Gosset, ADA '54, June 23, 2001

Joan Graham, DHE '37, Sept. 29, 2001

Judith Gruetzmacher, ODH '93, Feb 4, 2001

Robert Hall, BSA '58, July 27,2001 Richard Harris, BA '68, Dec. 1999 Joseph Hartley, ADA '41, July 6, 2001

lnara Hartt, BA '74, Oct. 14, 2001 Jason Hayden, B.Sc.(Agr.) '95, Nov. 8, 2001

Isabelle Henderson, DHE '32, Oct. 13,2001 Nicholas Hill, MLA '94, Aug. 21, 2001

James Holdsworth, B.Sc. '78, Sept. 1, 2001

Judy Hone, B.Sc.(Agr.) '66, Feb. 27,2001 Deodatt Jagdeo, B.Sc. '77, date unknown

Norman Jerome, DVM '36, june 5, 2001

Thomas Jukes, BSA '30 and H.D.Sc. '72, Nov. 1, 1999.

Ruth Kennedy, DHE '31, Aug. 28,2001

Dolores King, DHE '52, date unknown Edward Klos, BSA '50, July 3, 2001

Hedda M. (Maim) Lada, BSA '51, Aug. 16, 1989

Pierre Laforet, B.Sc. '92 and DVM '95, Oct. 5, 2001

Raymond Lane, BSA '57, Aug. 17,2001 Ralph Leach, ADA '62, date unknown

Charles Leaver, BSA '40, April 20, 200 I

Rosario Leduc, BA '91, Aug. 15, 2001

Marshall MacNeal, BSA '64, March 15,

2001

Jennifer Madsen, BA '95, October 2000

Hugh Mavin, BA '74, March 4, 2001 Veronica McCormick, BSA '49, Nov. 5,

2001

Shawn McFadden, MA '96, Oct. 22, 2000

Lisa McGimpsey, B.Comm. '78, in 1992

Marilyn Miezajs, DHE '51, Aug. 21,2001

Michael Millar, BSA '37, Sept. 4, 2001

Winston Moffatt, DVM '73, Jan. 21,2001

James Newitt, BSA '51, July 19,2001

Henry Noble, BSA '49, Aug. 15,2001 Thomas Noble, BSA '52, in 1988

William O'Connor, DVM '39, Oct. 13, 2001

Lawrence Ogilvie, BSA '21, 1997

Franklin Pearce, ADA '48, October 1994

Robert Phillips, BSA '47, May 15,2001

Irene Porter, DHE '58, March 2000

Peter Poruks, DVM '52, Dec. 31, 2000

Arnley Quackenbush, DVM '61, Oct. 8, 2001

Francis Redelmeier, BSA '45, Aug. 5, 2001

Beatrice Reed, DHE '35, Aug. 22, 200 I

Robert Reid, BSA '52 and MSA '54, Oct. 17,2001

Kenneth Reist, ADA '54, Nov. 4, 2001

William Ricker, D.Sc. '96, Sept. 9, 2001

Danny Saint, DVM '81, Sept. 13,2001 Laura Simmons, MLA '90, Nov. 3, 2001

Gordon Smith, B.Sc.(Agr.) '65, june 2,

2001

John T. Smith, ADA '34, May 18,2001 Robert Smith, BSA '50, Aug. 21, 2001 William Smith, ADA '56, Dec. 27, 1997

Frank Stone, BSA '50, july 26, 200 I

Desmond Stuckey, BSA '46, Jan . 4, 1998

John Thompson, DVM '49, July 25,2001 Margaret Tomarkin, DHE '31, Aug. 3,

1996

Margaret Tremblay, DHE '35, Dec. 21, 2000

Joanne Watt, ADA '56, June 2, 2001 Kenneth West, B.Sc.(Agr.) '69, Aug. 28,

2001

Donald Willitts, DVM '54, july 25,2001 Margaret Wood, DHE '39, Sept. 10,2001 George Yeates, BSA '51, July 13, 2001

Faculty & staff Roy Anderson, University Professor

Emeritus, Department of Zoology, Aug. 27, 2001

Wilfrid Bean, retired vice-president

(administration), Oct. 18, 2001

Louisa Brill, retired from the Department

of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, Oct. 10, 2001

Harvey Caldwell, BSA '51, retired from

the Department of Rural Extension Studies, Nov. 14, 2001

Walter Carpenter, retired from the School

of Languages and Literatures, Aug. 19, 2001

Donald Masters, University Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Nov. 14,2001

Richard Protz, University Professor

Emeritus, Department of Land Resource Science, Nov. 17, 2001

Ronald E. Smith, BSA '48, retired from

the Department of Microbiology, Aug. 5, 2001

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

the CWay CWe CWere

U OF G STUDENT GROUPS co-ordinated their

efforts in February 1975 to host a winter carnival.

Snow sculpture competitions, broom ball and bed races

on ice were some of the events.

It was a bigger version of an established annual event,

with Interhall Council, student clubs and college stu­

dent unions working with the new Central Student Asso­

ciation (CSA) to involve students from across campus.

Later called Snobash, the event helped raise aware­

ness of the CSA's role as the University's official student

government. The organization replaced an earlier Stu­

dents' Union Council in 1973.

Today, the CSA provides services for students that range

FROM THE ARCHIVES

from cheap photocopying to a Campus Safe Walk pro­

gram and city bus pass. The association operates the Bull­

ring, hosts a Sunday cinema and supports more than 60

student clubs, as well as a human rights office. But it also

provides student representation on U of G boards and

committees and takes on an advocacy role to ensure that

students' rights are recognized, both on and off campus.

The current CSA board has launched a renewed

effort to focus public attention on issues that concern

students and revived a monthly newsletter called Prop­aganda to keep its members informed of the organiza­

tion's evolving role. Find out more about the CSA today

at www.csa.uoguelph.ca .

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