News from the SectionsIt has taken some time to get the Institute Affairs Section

of the Journal going this year. However, it now appears to begelling. The following members have been appointed by Pres.Richards to be the news-gatherers for the various Sections:

Montreal: Miss H. BennettManitoba: Mrs. M. VaiseyToronto: Mr. P. PirsoOttawa: Mr. A. G. HumphreysEdmonton: Mr. T. AllenWestern Ontario: Miss E. ]. RawlingsBritish Columbia: Prof. E. L. WatsonNew Brunswick: Mr. A. L. WynneHalifax: Mr. G. S. ChalmersQuebec: Mr. R. MarcouxSouthern Alberta: OpenSaskatchewan: Dr. A. K. SumnerGuelph: Mr. O. R. KnottThe health of this Section will be materially promoted if

you, the reader, will only feed information to these members.Regrettably, we cannot report on too many Sections at this

time, but, hopefully we will have better luck for the next issue.The Manitoba Section is functioning in high gear. Chairman

Don Chun opened the season with the annual golf match anddinner in September. Missing from the group was Ruth Diamant,who is on leave at Queen Elizabeth College in London, England.Farewells were given to Roy Clough who has gone to theMaritimes; Marion Vaisey and Tohn Wakelin were welcomedback to Manitoba. The former from her year's sabbJ.tical inSwitzerland is now back with the School of Home Economics,Manitoba University and the latter has joined the staff of Mani­toba Dept. of Mines, Resources and Environmentai Management.

A lot of Manitoba members appear to be on the move, evenif only within the area: Members of the Freshwater Instituteincluding Karen Shaykewich, Dave Iredale and Mike Yurkowsky,moved across the road to their brand new building, which openedin December on the Manitoba University Campus. Joining themat this location was Walter Kozak of the down-town WinnipegFisheries Services Lab. and Mr. S. K. Law, who is the newChief of Inspection Branch of the Fisheries Service. Alsocoming out to the Manitoba Campus from down-town Winnipegare some members of the Manitoba Dept. of Agriculture: DuncMacaulay, Chuck McNaughton and Herb McRae. Don Chunand Hob Cowdrey are now located in Labatt's new laboratoriesin Northwest ·Winnipeg. Slated to move soon are Dr. Bob Mat­suo, Beverley Thompson and Miss S. G. Marshall who will bemoving to the new building of the Board of Grain Commis­sioners, when the Grain Research Laboratories move there,early this year. Also in this building will be located Dr. WalterBushuk, who has been loaned to the Canadian InternationalGrains Institute from the Dept. of Plant Science, University ofManitoba, to set up the courses for this new InternationalMilling and Baking School. Moving further afield is Ram Ros­tigi, who is going to India to operate a Shrimp Processing Plantfor Union Carbide. He goes with best wishes from all theSection.

Congratulations go to Dr. Reg. Gallop on two counts. Hehas been appointed for the second successive time the Lecturerof the year by the I.F.T.; and he was given $2,000 by theOgilvie's Miracle Feed Mills for the development of microwave,

Annual Meeting, Nutrition Society of CanadaThe Annual Meeting of the Nutrition Society of Canada will

be held on June 26 - 29, 1973, at the University of Saskatchewan,Saskatoon, and will feature a half day symposium (Wednesdayp.m. June 27) titled: Relationships between Pharmacological andNutritional Effects of Nutrients. This will be discussed by fourspeakers from Canada and the U.S., each discussing the relation­ships in one of the following areas: minerals, vitamins, carbo­hydrates amino acids and lipids. Dr. H. M. Cunningham, HealthProtection Branch, Health and Welfare, Canada, Ottawa KIA OL2,i:: Chairman of the Organizing Committee. The Annual Meetingof the Nutrition Society of Canada is held simultaneously withthe Annual Meeting of the Canadian Federation of BiologicalSocieties.

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airdrying and pasteurization equipment for the recycling ofwaste food oroducts back to animal feeds.

Ben Berck and his Manitoba Environmental Research Com­mittee (MERC) are to be congratulated on their being therecipients of a 3rd grant ($200,000) from the L.I.P. of theC"nada Manpower. They are now creating jobs for 91 graduatesii, Science, Physics, Biology, Food Science, Engineering, Mathe­matics, etc. for projects including food storage and micro­biology; waste utilization; recycling; air, water, and soil pol­lution; pesticide residues; food additives; heavy metals in theenvironment, etc. They will have another busy summer.

The normal flow of affairs in the Toronto Section was upsetsomewhat this season by the decision of the newly elected Chair­man, Madhu Sahasrabudhe, to return to Ottawa, where he hastaken a position with the Food Research Institute. It mustalways be rather disrupting when a Chairman moves at thebeginning of a season. However, everyone will wish MadhuSahasrabudhe every happiness and success in his new job. For­tunately, the Toronto Section is well endowed with good mate­rial among its members and their season is in full operationwith Dr. Bertha Smith as the Acting Chairnlan. Their recentlypublished Section news letter, "Sci Tech" indicates that theSection is really going strong. They have shown excellentgrowth: 13 Professional, 8 Associate, one student, and 3 trans­fured members have been added to their roll. Congratulationsto Jim Connell and Randy Friesen, who are now, respectively,Vice President Quality Assurance and Manager Customer Serv­ice and Product Development Laboratories of Griffith Labo­ratories, and to Cy Sigal, who has been made Gen. ProductionManager of Agra Foods Ltd.

Our congratulations go to two members of the OttawaSection: Dr. Ross A. Chapman, who, last Fall, received theUnderwood - Prescott Memorial Award from the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology; and to our own Secretary, Art Green,who has been made Chairnlan of the North Atlantic Treaty Or­ganization Food and Agriculture Planning Committee (See sep­arate item).

The Edmonton Section is in a very healthy state. Theirfirst event of the season was a well attended Wine & CheeseParty with a talk given by Dr. F. Wolfe of the University ofAlberta Food Science Dept. President Richards made his of­ficial visit in October. In November they had a joint meetingwith the Alberta Institute of Agrologists, December saw thetheir Students' Night and in January they had a Panel onWaste Utilization. They report that Doug Morrow has beentransferred to London, Ont., where he has assumed the dutiesof Training and Safety Co-ordinator for Labatt Breweries ofCanada.

Congratulations to Linda Ewanyk and Sheila McFadyenor. the completion of their Masters Degrees at the Universityo~ Alberta. They are now employed as Consumer MarketingOfficers in the Marketing Division of the Alberta Dept. ofAgriculture. Linda Ewanyk is presently on assignment in Nigeria.

Presently, our President, Dr. J. F. Richards, is making hisofficial visits to the various Sections. Those Sections whichhave not yet had the pleasure of his company are in for a greatevening. Not only will he bring you up to date on the plansfor the Conference in Vancouver, and the state of the Institute,he presents a stimulating, provocative and interesting talk, "TheRisk-Benefit of Eating", which no one can afford to miss.

That is all for now, let us have more for the next issue.

Miles Symposium

The Miles 73 Symposium sponsored by the Nutrition Societyof Canada and supported by Miles Laboratories Limited, is sche­duled for Monday, June 25, 1973, at the University of Saskat­chewan, Saskatoon. Seven speakers will discuss various criteriain the Assessment of Nutritional Status, with particular referenceto the development and evaluation of new approaches, and theuse of simplified procedures. Participants are being invited fromCanada, United States and Great Britain. The Chairman of theOrganizing Committee is Dr. J. A. Campbell, Nutrition Bureau,Health and Welfare Canada, Ottawa KIA OL2.

Can. Inst. Food Sci. Techno!. J. Vol. 6, No.1, 1973