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Contents

3 Barry Belchamber - actor and Individualist

Free-lance journal ist , John Hearn , d igs deep to see what makes Barry - a '76 Arts drama graduate - t ick,

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7 Impressions of the OAC, 1918 ·1923

Harold (Dis) Disbrowe, OAe '23, a ret ired h igh school principal, turns his hand to writing and recalls memories of his time on campus ,

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11 Campus Child Care Cooperative

The former Grad House, adjacent to the campus, on Gordon Street, is now a humming Day Care Centre. Part­time feature story writer for the Department of Information and a member of the centre's board of directors, Mary Cocivera, reports on the eight years of dreams, plans and hard work that made it possible .

13 Campus highlights

15 Dates and times to remember

Schedules for Homecoming '76 and the Gryphon football season.

Back cover. Coming events

Details of the First Annual Wine Symposium - a day with the grapes .

Cover design by Erich H. Bart h , Depart ment of Information .

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back cover

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

GtIELPH Summer, 1976

AWMNUS Volume 9, Number 2

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

HONORARY PRESIDENT: Professor D. Forster .

PRESIDENT : Mr. P. D. (Peter) Anderson , B.A. '68 .

SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT : Dr . H. J. (Howard) Nee ly, OVC'51.

VICE-PRESIDENTS: Dr . D. A . (Donald) Barnum , OVC '41; Mr. John Gi llespie, OAC '74; Mr. Gordon W . Harris , B.Sc . '75; Miss Miriam Ostir, B .A. '68; Mrs. A. L. (Olive Thompson) Thompson, Mac '35.

SECR ETARY : Mrs. D. J. (Jean Fuller) Hume , Mac '64.

DIRECTORS: Mr. F . T. (Tom) Cowan, OAC '65; Me. John A. Eccles , OAC '40; Mr. Jim Grayston , B.Sc . '75; Dr . Wm. C. (Bi ll) Hacking, OVC '69; Miss Judith A. Main , B.A. '75 ; Mrs . J . P. (Janet Thompson) McNally, B.Sc. '69 ; Mr. Jim Rule, B.A. '69; Mrs. Kath y Sanford, B.Sc. '75; Dr . D. I. (Dav id) Silver, OVC '72; Mrs. G. (Anne Patrick ) Thompson , Mac '69.

EX-OFFI CIO DIRECTORS: Mrs. R. (Carla Knell)

Bechtel, Mac '66 ; President Mac-FACS Alumni Asso­ciation ; Mr. R. J. (Bob) Esch, B.Sc. '70, President, College of Physical Science Alumni Association; Dr. J. H. Millington, OVC '69, PreSident , O.V.C, Alumni ASSOCiation; Mr. Tom G. Sawyer, OAC '64, President, O.A.C. Alumni Association ; Mr. M. C. (Mike) Streib, B.A. '69 , President, Arts Alumni Association; Miss Jan Watson , B.Sc . '75 , President, College of Biological Science Alumni Association; Me. Peter Meisenheimer, President U.G.C.S.A.; Me. Dennis Fitzpatrick, B.Sc. '75, President, University of Guelph Graduate Sludents' Association; Mr. J . K. (John) Babcock , OAC '54 , Director , Alumn i Allalrs and Development

The Guelph Alumnus is published by the Department of Alumn i Affairs and Development in co-operation with Ihe Department of Information , Universi ty of Guelph.

The Editorial Committee is comprised of Edilor- David G. Smith , Publicat ions Officer ; Art Direclor - Erich H. Barth; J . K. Babcock , OAC '54 , Director of A lumni Affairs and Development ; Rosemary Clark , Mac '59, Assistant Director, Alumni Programs; D. L. WalerSlon, Direclor of Informat ion ; D. W. Jose, OAC '49, Assistant Direclor o f Information .

The Editorial AdviSOry Board of the University of Guelph Alumni Assoc iation is comprised of Dr . D. A. (Donald) Barnum , OVC '41, chairman; Dr. Allan Aust in W. J . Bowles, B.A. '72; Dr. W. C. Hacki ng , OVC'69; Robert Mercer, OAC '59 ; G. B. Powell , OAC '62; James Rusk , OAC '65; Mrs . J . W. (Joan Ellerington) Tanner, Mac '57 ; Ex-offic io: J. K. Babcock, OAC '54; Mr. P. D. (Peter) Anderson, B.A. '68 ; Correspondi ng members: D. A. Bates, OAC '69; G. M. Carman , OAC '49; and H. G. Dodds, OAC '58.

Undel ivered copies shou ld be returned to the Department of Alumni Affairs and Development University o f Guelph , Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1.

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Unot just another pretty face"

By John Hearn.

W hat kind of man would choose pro­fessional acting for h is career? A

num ber of possible images spring to mind - but not an ath lete, not a cop , not a bouncer - not Barry Belchamber.

The man is ta ll. There is vitali ty there. The face is neutral, pleasant, adaptab le to

• a wide range of roles and the vo ice, wh ich is partl y h is own and partly the product of first-c lass coach ing, has lot s of projection and a warm, rosinous t imbre. There is someth ing fam il iar about him, someth ing wh ich con jures up vis ions of coo l schooners of suds and those energet ic

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outdoor types whose thirst is the very stuff that beer commercials are made of. Then you reme mber where you have seen him ­a "Labatt's 50" commercial. If your memory is really good , yo u may recall him as a brutal character in a local movie Recommendation for Mercy or sporting the uni form of Toronto's F inest in Po/ice Surgeon. You may recog nize him as one of the "Magnificent men in their flying ma­chines" from a Buick Skylark comm ercial. Or he may ha.ve thrown you out of The K ing Edward Hotel.

Barry is a graduate of the Un iversity of Guelph Drama Department - an actor, an athlete and an individualist.

" . . . 1 am a loner . .. " " Okay, so everyone needs a crutch and I need people , I don't deny it, but I believe in individuality. It is a st rong philosophy of mine . I've never been a foll ower; I've never gone along with the crowd."

He radiates an air of invincible realism about himself.

"Conflicts? Within me? I've never claimed to be an intellectual but I am not stupid. I know what I can do and what I can 't do and I choose to work with in the areas of my strengths rather than my weaknesses. I haven't tried to be cool since Grade Nine. I've tried to be me - and that wasn't too hard. I've played a lot of games - sports, I mean - to win or for the sheer pleasure of the game, but not for approval, not for applause. I was never interested in applause - except for acting, but that's different.

" Self-reliance is the thing . Af ter all, when it comes down to it, who else can you rely on? I know that it sounds as t hough I am rejecting people but I am not. What I mean is, who else should you rely on? I don't mind giving a helping hand or asking for one at times - people have always been good to me but you just don't lean on them."

IInot just another pretty face"

"Looking back on it I th ink my experience as a referee, particular ly in basketball , was of critical importance. Ou t on the cou rt you are o n your own . You have to make one fast decis ion after another and there is no question of trying to please anyone, let alone everyone. I call th e shots the way I see them.

"M y father Chari ie, was an important influence. He was a Physical Educat ion teacher at one time - graduated from OAC , as a matter of fact, back in 1940. I have always enjoyed sports. Ilike win n ing but that is not as im portant to me as it used to be. In the long run it is partici­pation that matters. Competitive sports have their place but we need much more physical recreation to bui ld a better fitness level . I can run a couple of m iles without flaking out but I doubt if most students here could say the same thing. I am not co ncerned about people being fit enough to play games but to be able to handle themselves well in a crisis. We've never been tested - not in this country - not anything like the Guatemala Earthquake for example. I hope we never are but if we are then physical fitness could be critical and frankly, I doubt if many people could handle it.

" ... You make your own luck . .. " "I was interested in studying Psychology of Sports when I got into an acting cou rse; that was in 1973, fall semester. A g irl I w as interested in at the time wanted me to take it with her. At the last moment she changed her mind and I was stuck with it. A mon th later, I was hooked .

"I've been accused of hopping around, trying too many thi ngs , never sticking with anything . I am not sure if that is true : experimentation is one thing, a life decision is another. Half way through that first semester I had made up my mind. I was going to be an actor . It was as simple as that - no fuss, no bother. I went to m y professor, Harry Lane (Department of Drama) .

" I want to try professional theatre ­what do you think?' He said exactly what I expected him to say - the odds are terrible, years of gr ind ing appren tice­ship with not the slightest g uarantee that you will even make a living. The average income of Canadian professional actors is barely $2,000 . It is not worth it. If you enjoy drama why don't you teach it in

high school an d work in amateur theatre . " 'Thanks', I said." "You are not going to take any notice of me, are you? "

"No." He held out his hand , " Well , best of

luck ." "I bel ieve you make your ow n luck. If

you s i t and wai t for someth ing good to happen to you, you mi ght wa it forever." A pri me exam ple of Barry's philosophy in action was his part in the Simpson's Great May Sale televis ion advertisement where he started o ut wear ing a heavy winter parka and stri pped dow n to a pair of bermuda sh ort s . "I go t that job because I happened to be at my agent's off ice when the call for a 'virile young man' came from the Si mpson's com pany. My agent looked up at me stand ing there and asked me 'Are you virile?' W it h an inflated chest 'I'm loveable bu t I don't know if I'm viri le'. She shrug ged her sh oulders and I was sent for an audition. I d id get the job and it was partly due to the luck of being there when the pho ne cal l came in, but , it was because I was hustl ing that I was there in the first place . In effect , I made my own luck ."

" ... maybe a little pre­mature . .. " Early in 1974 , Barry was ready for Stratford. He pho ned Jack Hutt , Produc­tion Manager for th e St ratfo rd Shake­spearean Festival , and asked for an aUdition. He said he tho ugh t it co uld be arranged and then asked about exper ience. Upon learning that this consi sted o f one semester in the Drama Department at the Universi ty of Guelph and one non­speaking role in a high school play, he gently suggested that an audition m ight be a I itt Ie premature.

The problem is an old one - no work without experience and no experience without work. The Association of Canadian Television and Radi o Actors (ACTRA) accepts as members only actors who have played six speak ing roles - an d it is d i fficult to get si x speaking roles unless you are a member of ACTRA. It is a device to discourage the faint- hearted and • one which can be outflanked only by a combination of bluff and gall. " ... don't call me. I' ll call you .. . "

Barry bluffed his way to the casting director of the film Recommenda tion for Mercy and was told that they might g ive him a call in June if they need ed him - as an extra.

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On June 1 , Barry was back. " You told me to come back in June." " . . . um ... 1 did? .. . . wel l ... ok." He was cast as a policeman , a part

which called for a haircut, about a dozen words and two days of shooting . He insinuated himself into additional scenes and was handed a contract for 12 days work at $25 per day.

That, technically, made him a pro­fessional with the begi nnings of a track record. Eventually he appeared in the movie , not as a policeman but as the hunter-rapist - a lesser role calling for only eight days work but, as he said, more likely to be noti ced. It was a start . Af ter that it was just a ma.tter of knockin g on doors.

" I don 't think I am pushy; I am real ist ic. It would be great to thi nk that directors and agen ts , once they met me would never forget me. My ego is in good shape but it is not that good. Send a resu me and it finishes up on the bottom of the pile. I calion them - again and aga in . I never give them the opportuni ty to forget me; there is a lot of competi tion out there and unl ess you are prepared to work very hard for a chance, forget It."

The agents listen ed. Drama students were not what t hey were look ing for - but an actor with mov ie ex erlence, that counts .

" ... never look back. " Barry is a member of ACTRA now. Thi ngs are not easy but they are eas ier. The two years have been product ive - 10 episodes in the N BC-CTV series , Police Surgeon , differen t roles in CBC productions and pleasi ng ly frequent exposure by way of commercials . Jack Hutt never called back and Stratford is a million m iles away. It does not matter, Barry Belchamber has found his vocation.

"I don't care how long it takes or how hard the road is . I never look back. There is nothing I would rather be doing . Act ing is al ways excit ing. I've never been into dope but I can't imag ine any kind of drug high which could equal a stage performance. To take a solo bow to a standing ovation must be about the ultimate peak experience and just to watch it happening to someone else Is an Indescribable thrill.

"Any audience turns me on, large or small, on stage or just tell ing stories for my friends. I like making people happy. I like to take them ou t of themselves for a

couple of hours . I like to make them laugh. "Stage acting petrifies me - I can't

eat on the day of a performance. Television is demanding but it's a much more subtle type of acting . You never have six hundred lines in front of a camera. On stage you have only one chance - the curtain goes up and boy , you are on your own . For the true individualist, this is a supreme moment. There is no second chance. Of course you are not really alone, the other actors and stage crew are part of the same team but if the p lay is to do well then every

member of it has to be right on. This is the point where individualism and teamwork are in harmony - maybe that is why I enjoy it.

".. . 1 believe in marriage but . .. " " It is better to be happy and lonely than unhapp y and lonely - and I am happy now. Marriage poses great pro blems for the individualist. I can respect my partner's needs , those are part of her ind ividuality . It

Assuming yet another role , Barry is learning to fly - "for personal satis faction . "

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is the abstract demands of marr iage itself which tr ip me up.

"I was married, for a while. It lasted less than a year. You might say I never gave it a fair chance but the trends were all wrong and the writing on the wall spe lled out a clear and unm istakeab le message. I was being asked to give too much of myself to a compromise which benefitted neither one of us. I have never understood compromise. I don't see the poin t of it.

"Frankly, I foun d the who le dating and mating game tiresome and art ifi c ial. It is a rit ual. Everyone gets caught up in it sooner or later and mostly it is phoney.

"I am enjoying my freedom . I don't rule marriage out in the future but if t he time ever comes, I hope I remember to take full accoun t o f my own needs. It would have to be with a fully au ton omous person - an agreed part nership between two peop le who d id not need one an other as a crutch but were together on Iy because it sui ted them and req uired neither to make sacr ifi ces for the other . You can call it selfishness if you l ike but sacri f ice rare ly makes sense - parti cular ly those sacri­fices which actual ly in hib it the growth of self-rei iance in the other. The first responsibility of the indi vi dual is to make himself happy and then the other person will be happy. "

".. . I've always had to hustle . .. " He works - rent-a-car dispatch er, bar­tender, bouncer, dispatcher for the Guelph campus police, basketball referee, jail guard at Wellington Cou nty Jai l ­anything which will make hi m a buck without in terferin g wit h that all-important flexab ili t y of time wh ich wi ll perm it h im to respond immediate ly to the magic call which will summon him to Toronto­another commercial, another television series, something at the SI. Lawrence Centre perhaps. The calls come more fre­quently these days but it is sti li all hustle .

"I've always had to hust le. I supported myself through school. Nothi ng ever came easy so what I am doing now is no hard­ship . The security of $1 0,000 a year is nothing; I want all or nothing . I wan t to act regard less of monetary reward. I want to be a good actor . I'll give it whatever it takes. I know what I am up against."

It is typical of him that he sees all problems as external. If there are 20 people auditioning for on e part, 19 of them are going to be disappointed . Winning is not just another job, it is a lift, a moment of triumph.

"Studying here at Guelph was a great experience, I would not have missed it for anything but I look at acting now from the point of view o f a professional an d f rankly, the quality and quantity of effort required of a professional is of a different order

than in a university dram a department. The university environmen t is secu re and no one gets hurt . lowe a lot to Guelph - I remem ber a com men t made by Professo r D. C. Mu llin , wh o isn' t exactl y extravagant w ith pra ise. He had just seen me play Morrell in Candida and he said: " You are still lacking in experience but given another 10-15 years you could be a very good actor." He gave me a rough ti me but he gave me that too. It was a 11ft. It carr ied me through.

"Where do I go f rom here? Wherever t he act ion is. Toron to is a major theatre city now by any standards. There is work there and I am getti ng some of i t. There is a lot more to be had . (Barry recent ly appeared in the ro le of a cit izen in a science f iction Western enti t led "Welcome to Blood City" starrin g Keir Dullea, Sa­man tha Eggar, Jack Palance, and Barry Morse . The movie was shot at MGM studios in Kl einburg, just north of Toronto. There are more fi lms coming to Toronto and Barry feels he has a good chance of getting roles in them .) Don't knock commercials - so t hey are not great theatre bu t they are bread and butter and a successfu l one can be steak as well . Above al l they are exposure. The States? Who knows . For the moment it does not att ract me, but if I change my m ind . .. . . "

Between engagements Barry has had a wide variety o f occu­pations. For a while he was a ren t-a-car dispatcher.

If Barry Belchamber dec ides to go to the United States or Ti mbucktu , that is what he will do. It wi l l be a s imple strai ght­forward decisi on , autonomously arrived at and autonomous ly carried out. Right now he is the new man in Canad ian theatre , whether we have an O li vier on our hands or not remains to be seen but one th ing is certa in , Barry is a fac t to be reckoned w ith - "not just another pretty face" 0

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Editor's note: This article Is an abridgement of two chapters of a book of reminiscences that Harold Disbrowe has written for his family. It conveys the impression of how the Ontario Agricultural College appeared to a 17-year-old boy, fresh from the farm, and the opportunity it provided for him to develop and grow, and find a place in a society where opportunities were limited .

Since a lengthy high school teaching career came to an end in 1965 with his retirement, Mr. Dlsbrowe has Indulged In a long-suppressed wish to try his hand at writing. Most of his efforts have appeared in the London Free Press, and some In the Brantford Expositor and the Toronlo Star.

IDlpressions ofthe OAC

Massey Hall and Library; overlooking the famous "Floral Wheel ", a campus landmark for many years. The picture was taken from old Johnston Ha ll in 1922 by Norman M. Blaney OAC '23, who recently donated it and several other valuable historical campus pictures to Alumni Affairs .

O ne morni ng In September of 1918. I left my Elgin County farm home, and

was driven to the vil lage stat ion where , in a state of mi ld excitement, I boarded " Old Granny", the local tra in, and set out for Guelph to attend the Ontario Agr icul t ural College.

The distance was less than a hundred miles, bu t it requi red nearly a day of travel with three changes of trains , to get there . I

was not the on Iy co llege-bound passenger; as we approached Guelph on the Stratford Line in late afternoon , the coaches were fill ed with bo istero us no isy students , all bound for the same dest inat ion.

The station at Guelph was a frenzy of act ivity . Studen ts were arrivi ng from all d irections ; they shouted greet in gs to one another, and nois ily competed for the services of draymen to haul their

belon gings up the h ill . After cla imi ng my own luggage and

arrangi ng for its transfer to the Co llege, I stepped out to Wyndham Street and made my way to SI. George's Square, the place where the street cars met for a sociable pause before go ing on their var ious runs to other part s of the town. There I boarded a College car which. with freq uent stops and clanging of its bell, went weaving and

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bobbing up the hill to College Heigh ts . On the campus there was a fin e flurry

of excitement: Students were passing in and out of the Administration Build ing , while others formed noisy clusters on the roadway and sidewalks, or called to their fr iends from the open windows of the residence.

I made my way through this scene of frenetic activity, and lined up with o ther freshmen to pay my fees and to be assigned to a room in residence. Afterwards, I followed the l ine of students through a large offi ce where the act ing president, a small grey-haired man with a Vandyke beard and twinkl ing eyes, gave each a friendly handshake and a word of welcome . This was Dr . C. A. Zavitz , worl d-renowned agronomist and Field Husbandry Head. When these formalities were ended, I went off to find my room in a place called , "Upper Panton", on the third floor of the building .

As I had been told I wo uld have a roommate , I was not surprised , when I had found my room, to discover another fres h­man in the process of moving in. Hi s name was McLaughlin , and he, unfort unate lad, was destined to be a vic tim of the dread Spanish Inf luenza wi thin two months. But of course , we had no premonition of this, and light-heartedly tossed for cho ice of beds, and hel ped each other carry our trunks from the basement where the draymen had left them. By the time we had unpacked it was dinner t ime, and we walked over to the dining hall for our first meal on cam pus .

To my unsophisticated eyes , the interior o f the great hall, with its lo fty cei l ing and d ign if ied decor, was an impress ive sig ht. It contained, I su ppose, abou t a hundred oak tables of circular des ig n , each covered with snowy linen and attended by a bust l ing wa itress in uniform.

We stood for grace, wh ich was spoken by the Dean of Residence, and then sat down to our meal. The food was plent iful and wholesome, and we were favou rably impressed; later, when we were able to determine the day-o f-the-week by observing the menu , we were less apprec iat ive.

Before leaving the table we were instructed in din ing hall etiq uette , by the Dean : jackets and ties were to be worn; we must occupy a place at the same table each meal; and on entering , must stand until grace was spoken . Our coll ege education had begun'

By bedtime we had explored the campus, and made the acq uaintance of our freshmen neighbours in Upper Panton. They hailed from every part of Ontario, and other provinces as well; there were even some from foreign countries. We had a fine time discussing the merits of our respective native areas , and the course of events that had brought us to the OAC .

It was late when we retired , and being exhausted from all the exci tement and activ ity , soon fell asleep . It was somet ime after midnight when all hell broke loose: The door crashed open; we were doused w ith icy water; and ou r beds were overtu rn ed - all in the space of a few seconds .

By the time we had regained our senses, and were stand ing wet and shivering am idst the wreckage of our room , our nocturnal assail ants were noisi ly escap ing down the corr idor. In the momentary s ilence that followed their de­parture , we could hear the sound of crash ing bedsteads in other parts of the building .

The next day the sophomores extended their persecuti ons, which were designed to assert their supremacy over the freshmen: We were given ridiculous little red caps to wear; forbidden to go out with girls; inst ruc ted to show proper respec t for ou r sen iors; and informed that infraction of the rules would be punished by hair-cropping .

Needless to say, while the rest rictions were in effect, they were chall enged many times by defiant f resh men. The sopho­mores, armed with barber' s c l ippers,

battle was vigo rous , to say the least, tho ugh not vicious, as fi sticuffs formed no part of it. But there were torn garments aplenty , and some unfortu nates ended the day , " in the bu ff ". In the end the superior strategy of the better-organized sopho­mores prevailed ; they captured the flag , and carried it triumphantly from the field.

During the ear ly weeks of the term, while these pranks were in progress, we were introduced to the curriculum . The subject s of the freshmen program fell into two categories: academ ic and pract ical. The former con si sted o f English, and the basic sciences; the latter of such down-to­earth things as, ani mal and fiel d husbandry, dairyi ng , and hort icu lture . The morning sessions were devoted to lectures , and on al ternate afternoons there were laboratory sessi ons . On the re­maining aftern oons we parti c ipated in , "Student Labour".

Th is fea ture , happ il y long-s ince dropped from the College program, was fo r many years part of the experience of all freshmen. The studen ts were ass igned to the various departments on a rotation basis, supposedly to gain experience in approved agricultural methods.

In theory, the idea may have had some

Th ree members of the senior c lass, spring of '23. From left , Ross Kirk of A lmonte, Tim Dyce of Meaford - later to become a professor of apiculture at OAC - and the au thor of this article, Harold (Dis] Disbrowe.

patrolled the campus and streets in pairs , meeting out punishmen t to recal c it rant freshmen whom they happened to encounter. The hazing reached its climax on "Initiation Day" , when the sophomores subm itled the "Frosh", to a whole program of assorted indignities.

The final event was the traditional "Flag Fight", in which the freshmen defended their emblem agai nst the assaul ts of the sophomores. The ensu ing

merit; in practice it was of minimal value, for nearly all the st uden ts were already well-experienced in practical agriculture. In any case, the scheme was unw ieldy and impract ical because of the numbers involved . On student labour days there was a redundance of horseplay and practical joking , as well as p lain "goofing off" . But there was at least one tang ible benefit: We were paid for our work at the rate of nine cents an hour.

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The landscaped campus was a place of serene beauty. Its focal point was the "O ld Residence", with its distinctive central tower and ivy-clad walls , flanked by clusters of statel y trees; and in front, the famous "Floral W heel", a campus land­mark for many years.

The presiden t of the OAC was Dr G.C . Creelman, a frie ndly, j ovial man who was well-liked by the st udents. He was one of the first Gu elph graduates to qualify for the 8.S .A . degree. Un der his leadership the College had grown in stat us and prestige, and acqui red an internati onal reputation.

The total number of students enrolled at this time could hardly have exceeded 300, and I soon knew them all, either by sight o r by name. This , and the fact that all li ved in the same residence and dined together in the great hall, made us a closely-knit family . I fou nd all of th is much to my liking.

At the daily lectures and laboratory sessions, I could feel my interest grow in g in a way I had not experienced since public school days. There was immense satisfac­tion in the discovery that I could hold my own with the others, even in subjects such as Chemistry and Physics, in which my

returned to Guelph for my sophomore year. What a contrast to my prev ious arrival! On that occasion I had been an inexperien ced insecure freshman; now I was a self-assured second-year man re t­urning to a familiar place.

It was great fun to greet old friends and exchange vacation experiences . There was just one sour note: because of the shortage of residence space, we were informed that we would have to find lodgings in the town.

We discovered that autumn that our class had doubled in size since the previous year. Up to then, we had been a typical class o f 60, mainly inexperienced farm youths. Now suddenly, our numbers were augmented by a flood of war veterans intent on resuming their interrupted edu­cation.

A well-remem bered event that year was the visit of the Prince of Wales, which took place during the fall term. This gol­den-haired youth of dazzling boyish charm, was the darling of the Empire, and his brief visit a minor incident of the famous "Royal Tour" of 1919.

The adulation he inspired was a fore­taste of the bobby-sox hysterics of later years . He lunched at Macdonald Hall , to

A well re membered event of '19 was the campus visit of the Prince of Wa les, which took place during the fa ll term. He lunched at Macdonald Ha ll and la ter posed fo r this charm ing photograph on the steps of the building.

grounding was inadequate . I worked hard to accomplish this­

much harder than in high school. I suppose, to use some modern educational jargon, I had been "motivated" . In any event, for whatever reason, my first steps to becoming a mature student were taken during that first wonderful year at the OAC .

In September, 1919, having passed my first year examinations successfully, I

the ecstati c joy of the girls, who, when he left the table, engaged in an undignified scramble to obtain as souvenirs , the dis­carded ch icken bones from his plate . Afterwards, he posed for a charming photograph on the steps of the Hall; and then , stepping into his car, departed for the Royal Train and the resu mption of his tour.

Another important milestone that year, in 1920 , was the departure of Dr .

Creelman to assume the post of Agent­General for Ontario, in Englan d. I suspect th is was a political appoin tment and it proved to be short-I ived.

He had been president since 1904­some 16 years. During the war he had been absent for lengthy periods on special missions for the Govern ment. To some extent I suspect, he may have lost touch with College affairs. Then too, he had fallen out of favour with some of the "pol­iticos" who controlled the place.

Dr. Creelman's successor was the formidably austere Dr . J. B. Reynolds, who came to us from t he presidency of the Manitoba Agricultural College . Th e new president was thoroughly acquainted wi th th e OA C through his previous assoc iation as Professor of English and Physics. He was an unsmiling dark-visaged man whose appearance belied a quiet sense of humour and dry wit. He possessed a voice of deep resonance , and spoke in sentences of grammatical perfection.

Early in his regime it was announced that the admission requ irement wo uld be raised to junior matriculati on level. How­ever, the door was not closed to non­matriculants: The two-year Assoc iate Course was retained, and students who completed it were to be admitted to an Intermediate Year , in which they could make up their academic deficiencies, and afterwards enter the deg ree course at th e th ird-year level .

As I pursued my studies that year, and explored the natural sciences that form the basis of agriculture, I could feel my intel­lectual powers developing. I was not a scholarship st udent, but at the end o f the final term, when the resu lt s were pub­lished , I was agreeably surprised to see my name among the upper third on t he l ist.

I have occas ionally po ndered on the . circumstances that attended the salvage of

my academic career at the OAC . The credit, I believe, belongs to the faculty of the day . They were not h ighly-qualified academ ically, but in spite of th is, some of these men were excellen t teachers, and the majority were , in my opinion, of acceptable com petence.

The strengtn of the facult y , where I was co ncerned, lay in the capacity of its members to inspire self-confidence . They shared with their students , with whom they were on a first name basis, an affection for the College and respect for its traditions . Without deliberately striving to do so, they succeeded in creating a relaxed but stimulating environment in which an unsophisticated young man like myself could develop and grow. When I left the College at the end of my sophomore year, I was 19 years old, and a far more confident, self-assured young man than when I entered it two years earl ier.

In the autumn of 1921 I returned, after an absence of one year, to the Guelph

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Campus . My intention to acquire the funds needed to com plete the degree cou rse had not been realized, but I d id have enough to meet my expenses for a fu ll year. As I was by this time, a junior, I was agai n eligible to l ive in resi dence , and was fort unate to obta in a prized ground-f loor room in " Grub Alley", in the main building.

I was now somewhat c ut o ff f rom my old comrades of th e cl ass of 1922, who were by this time, sen iors . I was a stranger among my new classmates ; but this situa­tion was soon remed ied, in the close asso­ciati on of laboratory and residence , I quickl y came to know them.

Even in t he th ird year, at th is t ime, there was very li ttl e spec ializat ion. The main em phasis continued to be on Engl ish and t he nat ural sciences . However, students were expected to se lect and devote a certain amount of time to their cho sen specia lt ies.

I selected apicu lt ure as my "opti on". There were several reaso ns for my ch oice: The firs t was that , th roug h my father wh o was an amateur beekeeper , I had acqu ired an interest In th e occupation; th e second was my in te rest in the bio logical sciences on whi ch th e co urse was based ; and lastly, as a b ran d new spec ialty , it s graduates would presumabl y enter an uncrowded f ield. However, I was informed that before entering the fi nal year of spec ializat ion I would be requ ired to obtain additio nal pract ical exper ience in commercial bee­keepi ng .

That summer I went to work for Mr. Jesse Byers o f Markham , Ontario, one of Canada's most success ful beekeepers, with a.p iaries spread over four counties. The experience tau ght me an enormous amoun t concerning the many facets of commercial beekeeping, which at th e t ime was enjoying its greatest period of suc­cess in this province.

In Septem ber I returned for my final

year. I was contented with my chosen specialty, and my recent experience had provided me w ith an excellent backQ(Qund. Under the gu idance of Professor Eric Millen, an d Roy Jarvis, of the Apiculture Department, I and the others pursued our major studies, which consisted of an in­depth study of the life cycle and behavior of the honeybee and related species, as well as apiary products and all phases of management.

There were other suppo rti ng science courses, the prerequisites for which we had completed in previous years: animal pathology and immunology; Insect morphology, anatomy , and h istology; plant physiol ogy and analytic chemistry. And, as in all the previous years, there was English: nineteenth century literature and poetry, and the fundamentals of writing for publication.

It was a heavy program, but the small classes, and close association with our professors in the laboratories and seminar rooms, fostered an intimate atmosphere that was favourable to learnin g, and conse­quently I profited greatly.

As the year wore on I became pre­occupied with the problem of fi nding per­manent employment. It was at this stage that I came to realize that , in spite of its newness, there were few professi onal opportunities in my chosen fi eld . I sent out dozens of job enquiries, none of which produced any results.

During th e last crowded weeks of the term, my energies were absorbed in completing my thesis and prepari ng for the final examinations, which were under the jurisdi cti on of th e Universi t y of Toronto. But finally, at the end of May when the examinati ons had been wri tten, I was again confronted with the prob lem o f what to do wi th my l ife. I was rel uctant to return home empty-handed , bu t for a ti me th is appeared to be the prospect. At the last moment I was reprieved .

An opportuni ty materia lized for me to manage an apiary at Iroquo is Falls, in North ern On tario. It was a stopgap at best, but I accepted the o ffer w ith alacr ity , and lost no ti me in sett ing out forthe Nort h , not even wa iti ng for Co nvocati on at th e U. of T. My salary was to be $100 per month, and I was requ ired to provi de my own board.

As I rode thro ugh the fire-scarred bushland o f Northern Ontario on my way to Iroquois Falls, I occupied myse lf by to tall ing th e expenses of my fou r years at Guelph . I d iscovered that my col lege ed u­cation had cost approxim ately $1 ,700, of which I had personally contributed about $700.

Another graduate of the Ontario Agr i­cultu ral College, the fa mous John Ken neth Gal bra ith , OAC '31, wh o was the reCi pient of an honorary doctorate at the firs t Convocation at the University of Guelph in

1965, is said to have described his alma mater as: "The cheapest and the worst in the English-speaking wo rld " Well, inex­pensive it certain ly was, for the Department of Ag riculture which maintained it, purposefull y kept the fees low; but "cheap" it was not , and to describe it as the "worst", as he allegedly did, not only revealed a strange ingrati­tude, but belied the facts.

The OAC of my time, and Galbra ith's, was certainly not Harvard , but neit her was it Pineywoods Baptist. It produced grad u­ates who won distinction in many walk s of life: university presidents, pro fes sors, writers, scientist s, professional men, business tycoons, an d o thers a lmost too nu merous to menti on .

Ga lbrai t h, the world renowned econo­mist, advisor of presidents, Harvard pro­fessor, ambassador, and author o f best­sellers, has been descr ibed as, "Guelph's most distinguished graduate". At any rate , he is living proof of the wisdom o f th e lenient admission policy of those years, for he was one of those who, lacking some of the basic requirements, was able to enter the deg ree course by way of the Associate Course, and Intermediate Year. It was the imprimatur of t he degree he won at OAC that gave him the en t re to t he great world of academe, and made possible his remarkable career.

The long-legged professo r was in the habit of making abrasive commen ts con­cerning the Co llege. To g ive h im hi s due, his rem arks though acerb iC , were usually well-fou nded, and in the long run con­structive; but his surprisin g characteri za­tion, in th is in stan ce somet ime after he re­ceived his honorary degree fro m Guelph contained an element o f malice that most surely must have reflected some anc ien t resentment t hat only he remembered.

His statem ent aroused much indign at ion among the alumn i and friends of the Co llege , but provoked no public response , defens ive or otherw ise, f rom the admini s trat ion.

In bestowi ng the honorary degree on Dr. Galbraith , the new Universi ty of Guel ph ass uredly exem pl ified one part of an ancient aphori sm: " He wh o bestow s a benefit should never rem ember it ; he wh o receives it should never fo rget it. " Wheth er Galbraith , by his acceptance, exem pli fied the oth r part , is a matter for interesti ng conject ure.

I must confess that in 19231 was not thi nki ng of my own debt to th e Co llege as I passed over t he b lackened wil derness o f the recently burned-over New Li skeard and Haileybury areas ; I was too preoccu pied with my need to secure a footh old so me­where that might lead to a sati sfyin g career. It was not un t il a good deal later that I came to realize th at I , and a ll the others si m il arl y s ituated, owed much to that institution. 0

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W here graduate students once played snooker in smoke-filled rooms and

part ies stretch ed far into the night , t hirty preschool child ren spend th ei r days in a su pport ive and stim ulat ing environment. The former Grad House, adjacent to the cam pus, at 346 Gordon Street , has seen many c hanges in it s day , but the tran s­format ion from Grad House to Day Care Cen tre is an ach ievement of great significance to families in the Univers ity community. It is t he culm ination of no less than eight years of dreams, plans, and hard work , against seemingly insurmou ntab le odds .

by Mary Cocivera

The Cam pus Child Care Cooperat ive opened in Septem ber, 1975, with a co re group of hopeful parents and a staff of two . By Jan uary, 1976 , enro lmen t had swelled to capac ity, the staff had in­creased to three and the parent group had hammered out policies , defi ned jobs and solved most of the problems of start ing a cooperative group. By Ju ne, the cen tre had filled its spaces for September and the wai ting list grows daily. By any yardst ick , the first year was an unquali f ied success.

The existence of a day care cen tre on campus is the fu Ifi Iment of a dream conceived in 1967 . Through the ensuing

During circle, Kathy Burgess reads to the older children.

years , many students, facu lt y and staff members were invo lved in the day care issue and tried to initiate a centre . Their efforts were hampered by a shortage of funds and the lack of a sui tab le fac ility.

Financial hel p came from the Ontario Government. Earl y in 1974, amendments to the Ontario Day Nurseries Act enab led parents to form a day care cooperative and receive govern ment fu nding for construction of new fac ilit ies or re novation of exi st ing fac ilities. Pam Cross , B .A . '75 , and Birg it Castl ed ine, the Canad ian Un iversity Students Overseas (CUSO ) representat ives o n cam pus, were instru­mental in estab li shing the Child Care Cooperative. They spent 18 months fi ndin g a location , planning re novations , ordering equ ipmen t, hirin g staff and sett ing up t he organizat ion of th e centre.

Th e search for a fac ility took several months and cO incided w ith the com pl eti o n of the Universi t y Centre. When the Graduate St uden ts Associat ion moved in to new quarters In the Ce ntre, the Department of St uden t Affai rs made represen tations to the Un ivers ity on behalf of the Child Care Cooperative. The house and grounds were provi ded by the Universit y and are leased to the cooperative for a token fee o f one dollar per year.

Thro ughout the planning stages and duri ng the f irst year of operation, University personnel " ben t over backward s to help ," accordi ng to Pam and Birg it. The engineerin g department drew up p lan s for renovations, which were subsequent ly appro ved by the Ministry of Communi ty and Social Services. University people have lent th eir su pport in all areas from accounting to plu mbing.

Convertin g the two-storey house to a child ren's cen tre cost $24,000. Renovatio ns incl uded ins tal li ng pint-sized toilet s, removing several wal ls to create large open rooms, fi ni sh in g the basement, and building a galley-t ype kitch en. Eq ui p­ment purchases requ ired another$12 ,000 for clo thes washer and dryer, d ishwasher, refr igerator, f reezer, dehumidif ier, cribs , toys and play eq uipmen t . The M inistry revi ewed and approved every construction expense and purchase, ri ght down to the last rattle .

Cooperative day care is new to Guelph . Indeed, the concept seem s uniq uely su ited to a universit y community , wh ere student sched ules are usually flexib le enough to enab le parents to spend fo ur hours week ly in the cen tre. This parent he lp m in imizes costs and en hances thE! day care program. Parents develop a sensitivity to the centre, the staff and t he children wh ich ultimately leads to better rapport .

This time commitm ent puts pressure on workin g and student parents, whose time for themselves and their ch ildren is already at a m in imum. Most, however are willing to put in the time in order to reap

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the other benefits of a cooperative ­namely , lower costs and a voice in the day care program . " Parents have control over the operat ion of the centre and the day care program ," notes Pam Cross. " They have access to the centre and thei r children during the day. Parents have organized field trips , planned the menus, and generally become involved in the program."

Letty Curley feels her children benefit from exposure to many different parents during the week . "Parents come in fresh every four hours," she explains somewhat facetiously , "and can keep up with the inexhaustible energy reserves of the kids."

This centre is cooperative in every sense of the word. Parents administer, maintain , clean and help staff the cen tre. Each parent is required to cont ri bute fou r hours per week to the centre, either helping the staff with the program during the day, or in the evenings mowing the lawn, shoveling snow , repairing toys, keeping the books o r shopping .

Du ring the fi rst year, many parents have demonstrated extraordinary commit­ment to the cooperative. They pitched in to do such extras as des ign ing and building the playground, plantin g a garden, building a bird feeder , making doll clothes, collecting good used toys and entertaining the children with folk songs.

The 25 or so families in the cooperative take obvious pride in their "day care cent re with a dif ference". It is the only centre in Guelph to accept child ren un der two years of age. The ten "babies" (si x mont hs to tw o-and-a-hal f years o ld ) have adjusted well to their loosely organ ized rou tine.

" The size of the centre appeals to me, " says Sue Ulmeanu. "I didn't want my son in a b ig centre wh ere the k ids are homogeni zed. Here, in the gro up of 20 older chil dren, hecan bean in divi dual ."

Th irty lively child ren under one roof req uire some regimentat ion for any sem blance of order. Fi nding th e right combination of spontanei ty and routi ne is the tr ick. A lvin Reb ick, a paren t who has worked as a volu nteer in severa l day care centres, is impressed with the " sense of calm nd the warmth of the cent re. It's homey rath er than Inst itutional. " He att ri­butes this success to the staff's sensit ivity to eac h child 's problems and spec ial needs .

The three professional staff members meet the qualif icat ion s estab lished by the Ministry of Commun ity and Soc ial Services for day care workers. Kathy Burges s and Christina K lerner carry out the program for the o lder group of chi ldren , ass isted by one parent . Sue Discipli ne, an infant specialist trained in England, has responsibil ity forthe bab ies , assisted by two paren ts.

Pam adm its that she and Birgit were

very naive when they started organizing the centre. "We just didn't anticipate such problems as apathetic parents. During the f irst difficult months, we parents worked through all kinds of problems and the centre is now running quite smoothly." Birgit is optimistic about the future of the

Thecentre because so many of the parents are really committed to day care and are willing to work for the centre's continuing success.

Day care is such a pressing need . Yet, the University community has had to rely on a few individuals to organize and run a day care centre . Day care , especiall y on a campus, is a temporary need for a fam ily, but a permanent need for a community.

The member parents are worki ng for the success o f the centre now and for future generat ions of Un ivers ity fam ili es.

Diane Goodwillie, Comm un ity Projects Coordi nator in the Department of St udent Affa irs, fee ls that comp leting the f irst year is a major step fo rward for the centre, but it is just the beginn in g of a • more en lig htened atti tude toward day care and better day care facili ties .

Meanwhile , the children happily cut and paste, si ng, cl imb and read stories in the red brick house on Gordon St reet , ob livious to the hard work and dedication wh ich made their cen tre possible. Yes .. . it was wort h the effort. 0 Today 's craft - string painting.

Christina Klemer helps the ch ildren to their family style lunch .

Children arrive as early as 7:30 a. m. Play is unstructured.

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campus highlights

G-OPIRG gives relevance to research Something new is being added to university campuses across Canada and Guelph is no exception. It's called a PIRG (Public Interes t Research Group). The PIRG's in Ontario are called OPI RG's and the one recent Iy establ ished at the University of Guelph is logically called , G-OP IRG.

Just what is a PIRG? It is an idea first suggested by Ralph Nader, the crusading reformer from the United States, who has been seeking to make the automobile and other large industries improve on the quality of their products. A t the time of his visit to the University of Waterloo in 1972, during " Environmental Week," he argued the students could build on the activism of the sixties by establishing a stable, effective organization unencumbered by "problems of continuity and finances ."

The constant request of students is for relevance and meaning in their work. The feeling is that students turn out reams of research that bear little relation to their own interests and concerns. While this situation exists, countless issues of public concern go under-researched. Often what is researched for concerned citizens is by voluntary groups who have insufficient time, expertise and funds to take the action which will cause a change. The PIRG's attempt to offer both a relevant classroom experience for the student and the time to participate in constructive action on issues of public concern.

Some of the accomplishments of the University of Waterloo and McMaster University illustrate the kinds of research that the PIRG's are interested in . The PIRG's of these two universities played a central role in helping to preserve the natural beauty of the Elora Gorge, exposed undesirable conditions in the Kitchener jail, and prepared a bicycle path study utilized by the City of Waterloo. Currently, these PIRG's are exploring such issues as land use and land speculation in the Waterloo Region , and the amount of control exerted by the banks in Canada.

Over the years the public has developed a "You can't fight City Hall" syndrome. It

Jan is Flowers

will be the business of the PIRG's to see that government and business, and indeed, all social institutions, act in the interests of the many and not just the few.

When the background research work is completed, the PIRG becomes an ad­vocate for its findings in whatever ways and through whatever strategies are most appropriate to the issue. This may involve public education, testifying before administrative tribunals, prodding government departments to perform existing duties , lobbying the leg islature for improved legislation , or initiatin g litigation.

In the United States there are now 22 states that have PIRG's and the idea quickly found favour with active Canad ian students. In 1973 the Waterloo OPIRG was incorporated as a provincial charitable organization. Another was established at McMaster University the followin g year.

The PIRG at th e Un iversity of Guelph was established by a hard-working group headed by Janis Flowers, FACS '75. She was sponsored by the PIRG's of McMaster and Waterloo to form a PIRG at the University of Guelph.

To start this group off, the Waterloo chapter sponsored events at the Guelph campus that introduced the PIRG idea to the students.

When enough students showed interest, the fledgling Guelph OPI RG applied for club status . This was obtained and w ith it a clubroom and some funding from the University of Guelph Central Student Association .

Next there was a campaign to carry out a public awareness program and the sponsoring of events that informed the students of the University exactly what kind of issues G-OPIRG was able and willing to sponsor.

The PIRG is funded by the students on campus who pay $2 .00 per semester. A referendum held at the University March 19 brought out 27 per cent of the student body and of these, 73 per cent voted in favour of paying the $2.00 fee.

At present the G-OPIRG office is in

Room 228 in the University Centre. Similar PIRG 's being established across Canada will employ two full-time employees or coordinators wh o wi ll draw thei r salary from the Central Ontario PIRG . These full-time workers will have to be qualified in research in order to direct the students in their research projects.

Jan is F lowers has completed her part in forming the Guelph PIRG and a resea rch coord inato r, Peter Cameron, fomerly of McMaster PI RG has been employed.

The hiring is the f i rst step towards establishing a permanent group at Guelph after the successful fee referen dum in the winter semes ter. The fee has received approval from the Board of Governors. 0

Board of Governors has new chairman and vice-chairman

Kenneth Murray A Ian Marchmen t

Kenneth G. Murray, OAC '50 , has been appointed chairman of the Board of Governors of the University of G uelph. Alan A. Marchmenl is th e new vice-chairman , succeeding Mr . Murray .

The two prominent businessmen took over their new positions as of July 1. Mr. Murray , pres ident of J. M . Schne ider Ltd., Kitchener, moved into the vacancy left by the retirement of W .W. Lasby from the position of chairman and member of the Board on June 30.

Mr. Murray was first appointed to the Board in 1971 , and became vice-chairman in 1973. Mr. Marchment, president of Guaranty Trust of Canada, Toronto, was first appointed as a member of the Board in 1973.

During his five years on the Board Mr. Murray has been actively involved in several committees. He was vice-chairman of the Membership Committee and a member of the sub-committee on Board Organization and Procedures, and the Finance Comm ittee. He also headed the OAC Centennial Fund Management Committee in 1974 which raised $100,000.

Mr. Marchment has also been active in committee work for the Board, serving as vice-chairman of the Finance Committee, chairman of the Committee on Compensa­tion and Social Benefits, and member of the Investment Sub-Committee and the Membership Committee. 0

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New members on Board

Janet Wardlaw W.K .Mounfie/d

Professor Janet Wardlaw, dean of t he Co ll ege of Fam ily and Consumer Stud ies, has been elected to the Un iversity's Board of Governors , as one of the Senate nominees .

Professor Wardlaw joined the facu lty of the Department of Foods and Nutriti on at Macdonald Instit ute in 1966, where she was involved in teaching and research in the f ield of community nutr ition and in the effect of feeding pattern s on body compos ition . With her appoin tment as associate dean in 1968, she was involved in a study of the Bache lor of Househo ld Science program in Family and Consumer Studies.

Appointed dean in 1969, Professor Wardlaw was actively invo lved in t he implementation of the B.A .Sc . program and the re-organ ization w ith in Macdonal d Institute whi ch led to the format ion o f the College of Famil y and Cons umer Studies into wh ich the Schoo l of Hotel and Food Admini stratio n was incorporated . In 1974, upon com pletion of a five year term as dean, Professor Wardlaw won a World Health Organization Travel Fellowsh ip that enabled her to visi t educational Institutions and government and pri vate agencies in Canada, the United States , Colomb ia, the Caribbean and Brita in .

A Toronto industrial ist has been appo inted to the University o f Guelph's board of governors . William K. Mountield , presi dent of Massey Ferguson Industries Ltd ., was recentl y named by the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council to fill a vacancy.

Mr. Mounfield, 52, has been with Massey Ferguson since 1948. He served in sales and admini st rative pos iti ons in the U.K., France and Ital y until 1960 w hen he became assistant secretary of Massey Ferguson Ltd . In 1972 he became secretary and director of legal services and a year later was appointed pres ident of Massey Ferguson In du stries Ltd .

Born in To ronto, Mr. Mounfield atten ded Universit y of Toronto Schools and the University o f Toronto where he ob­tained a B.Comm. deg ree in 1948 and an M. B.A . degree in 1960. Duri ng the war he

served in the Royal Canadian Arti llery, retiri ng as a lieu tenant .

Mr. Mounfield is al so chairman of t he board of Sunar Ltd., pres ident and di rector of Massey Ferg uson F inance Company of Canada Ltd. , and a director of Perk ins Eng ines Canada Ltd. In addit ion, Mr. Mounf ield is a member of the Canad ian Manufactu rers' Associat ion, the Canad ian Chamber of Commerce , The Board of Trade o f Metropoli tan Toronto, and is a director of both the Canad ian Farm and Industrial Equ ip ment Inst itute and the Cham bre de Commerce Francai se au Canada. 0

Crop Science chairman

Professor J. W. (Jack) Tanner, OAC '57. has been appO inted chai rman of the Unive rs ity of Guelph 's Department of Crop Sc ience . The appointment was effec­tive July 1. He succeeds Professor E. E. Gamble,• OAC '52, who has Jack Tanner served two five-year

terms as chai rm an . A member of the Guelph crop science

faculty since 1959, Professor Tan ner led the firs t team of Guelph sc ient ists to partic ipate in the Guelph-Ghana exchange program in Legon from 1970 to 1972, and served as head of the crop science depart­ment there.

Over the years Pro fessor Tanner has been heavily involved in the crop science teaching program, curriculum deve lopment and most recentl y in t he minor in international agricul ture in OAC . Off campus he has become known for his research on corn and soybeans. He also served as vis i ti ng professor at Iowa State University in 1966 and as external exam iner for the agricultural degree prog ram at Kenya 's Universi ty of Nairobi.

More recently, Professor Tanner has gained the nickname " Ontar io's pean ut man" f rom h is d irecti on o f the Un ivers ity of Guelph's project to establish peanuts as an alternative crop in southwestern Ontario.

A native of Eden, Ontari o , Professor Tanner graduated from the Ontario Agr icultural College wi th B.S. A . and M.S.A. degrees and from Iowa State University with a Ph. D.

In 1974, Professor Tanner won the OAC Alumn i Assoc iation's distinguished teach i ng award and to date, has aut hored or co-authored some 70 scienti fic and technical papers.

Professor Tanner is married to the form er Joan Ellerlngton, Mac '57, of Exeter, Ontario , and has th ree children . 0

Convocation Honors The Univers ity presented an honorary D.Sc . May 27 to Professor Emmanuel Crispin Amoroso, currently professor emerit us at the Royal Veter inary Co llege; visi ting professor at the Univers ity of Nairobi and a member of the Institute of An imal Physio logy, Barbraham, Cambridge.

A second honorary D.Sc. degree , was presen ted on May 28 to Dr. Olga Uvarov who was elected first woman president of the Roya l Col lege of Veter inary Surgeons of Great Britain last June.

The third ho norary degree, an LL.D. was also presen ted on May 28, to WIlliam A. Stewart, form er minister of Agriculture and Food for Ontario.

Although Mr. Stewart never received a college educat ion, his 14-year min ist ry gave strong su pport to agricu ltural educa­tion in On tario .

Bill, as he's known to most , has been a frequent visitor to campus, comi ng officially to open buildi ngs, research stat ions and College Royals . He also came for many conferences , part icu larly in 1974 at the t ime of the OAC Centennial celebra­t ion s. During the year he was awarded an OAC Centennial Medal for his outstanding contribution to agricu lture.

Among the many hon ors he has already rece ived is the naming of a graduate research fe ll owsh ip after him , tenab le at Gue lph and funded by m ilk producers o f Ontario. 0

Wintario windfall for Guelph art collection The University o f Guelph art collec tion has received an additi onal " shot in t he arm " of $14,000 from the On tario Minist ry o f Culture and Recreatio n's Wi ntario prof it s . These funds match alum ni contribut ions to help publish an i ll ustrated catalogue of the Universi ty Art Co llection .

"The Ministry has recognized the importance of the Univers ity's Canadian art collection by giving one of the f irs t catalogue publishing grants fro m Wintario sources to the Univers ity of Guelph A lumni Assoc iati on," says Judith Nasby , the University's Curator of Art . The Assoc iat ion w ill act as publisher of the 200-page art catalog ue. An am ount of $12 ,000 has been des ignated fro m Alm a Mater Fun d donati ons for th is purpose. The catalogue will be written by Mrs . Nasby and will conta in a history o f the collection, bi ographical sketches on the •artists, catalogue entries and photographs of each art work . Approximately 16 art works wi ll be ill ustrated in co lour. The soft cover catalogue wi ll be distr ibuted to galleries , librar ies and other insti tu tions across Canada and be for sale to the general publiC at a min imum charge. The catalogue will be availab le in 1977. 0

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PROGRAM OF EVENTS you're invited back Friday, October 1

to Guelph

for

Friday and S aturday,

October 1 and 2

12 00 PEP RALLY AN D MEET THE PLAYERS Talent Ni ght Sem i F inals

20 00 TAL ENT NIGHT FINA LS War Memorial Hall

20 30 CBS ALU MNI-STUDENT BIO-BAS H Gryphon Room, Al umni Stadium

Saturday, October 2 10 00 HOMECOMING PARADE OF FLOATS AND

MARCH ING BA NDS Route beg ins on Sou th Ri ng Road

10 45 OFFICIAL OPENING, AG RICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND EXTENSION EDUCATION BU ILDIN G

11 00 HUMAN KINETICS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING 12 00 BRUN CH & ANNUAL M EETING

Hotel and Food Adm inistration Alumn i Assoc iat ion Macdonald Stewart Hall PRE-GAME BEEF BAR BECU E Alumni , Faculty & Student s Creelman Green

13 00 WARM -U P PUB Gryphon Room, A lum ni Stadium

14 00 FOOTBALL GAM E Guelph Gry phon s vs York Yeomen Half Time Show and Sky Divers

14 00 HA FA ALUMNI-STUDENT CASH BAR Room 429, Un ivers ity Centre

16 30 GET-TOGETH ER, Mac-FACS A lumn i-Students Room 441 , Un iversity Centre

18 30 UNIVERSITY O F GU ELPH A LUMN I ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING Room 103, Un iversity Centre

19 00 CAS H BAR , Peter Clark Hall 19 30 ' ALU MNI DINNER-DANCE (Dance on ly , at 21 00)

Peter Clark Hall Room 001, University Cen tre (Table reservat ions for ticket holders may be made at the door) Music by THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD RECOGN ITION OF 1976 ALUMNUS OF HONOUR Miss Helen M. McKercher, Mac '30 1976 ALU MN I MEDAL OF ACHIEVEMENT AWA RD PRESENTATION to Dr. K. Ross Stevenson , OAC '65

20 30 CONCERT - ARLO GUTHRI E A thletics Centre

'Spo nsored by the OAC A lumn i Association

1976 GRYPHON FOOTBALL SCHEDULE

Friday, September 3rd OUAA preview tournament 9:30 a.m. Ivor Wynne Stadium - All Day

Saturday, September 11th WINDSOR HERE 2:00p.m. Saturday, September 18th at McMaster 2:00p.m. Saturday, September 25th WESTERN HERE 2:00 p.m. Saturday, October 2nd YORK HERE (HOMECOMING) 2:00p.m. Friday, October 8th at Waterloo 8:00p.m. Saturday, October 16th at Toronto 2:00p.m. Saturday, October 23rd LAURIER HERE 2:00p.m. Saturday, October 30th Play-Oils 1:00p.m. Saturday, November 6th Play-Ofts 1:00 p.m. Saturday, November 13th Semi-Final Bowl 1:00 p.m. Friday, November 19th College Bowl 1:00 p.m.

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plan to attend the

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION'S

to be held Saturday, September 25, 1976 in St. Catharines, Ontario

$19.00 per person

(includes bus, lunch, dinner - the whole shot!)

8:30a.m. Meet at the Assembly Hall of the Hor­t icultural Research Inst itute of Ontar io , OMAF, Vineland Station

9:008.m. Lect ures and Discussions about Wine and W ine Using by Ralph Crowther and Ch ris Grant.

10:308.m. Bus leaves for St . Catharl nes View the GRAPE AND WIN E FESTIVAL PARADE

1:00 p.m. Travel to Bri ght's W inery Vineyards near St . Catharines

September 20-25

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October 2

events 8

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November 12-20

26-27

1:30 p.m. Lunch at the Vineyard s Sample Ontario W ines in the Ten t sponsored by the Ontario Wine Inst itute

4:00p.m. A tou r of Bright's Winery limited at Niagara Falls has been arranged by George Hostetter, OAC '44 and John Ghetti , OAC '51 . 6:00p.m. Dinner at the Pri nce of Wales, N iagara­on-the-Lake

about 8:30 p.m. Buses leave Niagara fo r Toron to , London and Guelph

Aggie Week

Aggie Games OAC Alumni Golf Tournament

Homecoming '76

Annual meetings - HAFA, Human Kinetics and University of Guelph Alumni Associations

Convocation

Guelph Night Oktoberfest

Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Toronto

"Fair November" - expose and sale of Canadian crafts

GUELPH AWMNlJS

Summer, 1976

Volume 9, Number 2

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