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Y ou l ikely caught last year’s headlines aboutthe landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars, but did

you catch the connection to the University of Guelph?That robotic vehicle carries a device for analyzing Mar-

tian soil and rock that was built by an international teamof scientists led by Guelph physicists. Those physicists arenow monitoring and analyzing results beamed back fromthat instrument in a specially equipped facility just aMartian stone’s throw from my office.

It might seem like a greater distance to go from dis-cussing the red planet to talking about the food on yourtable here on Earth – but you can trace both topics backto Canada’s “food university.” That rover instrument ishardly the first instance of soil and rock analysis involv-ing Guelph scientists. For that, go right back to the rootsof the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC).

By the late 1800s, agriculture students and facultyhere were studying and testing soils, learning about nutri-ent needs to improve crop production. By the time U of G was founded almost half a century ago – andcontinuing into the 1970s – OAC experts mapped soilsand developed tools to help establish a national farm-land classification system still used today.

U of G researchers continue to develop solutionsnot just for food production but for processing and dis-tribution, economics, safety, and health and nutrition.Food-related studies span all seven of today’s collegeshere on the main campus and at our regional campusesand research stations. As Canada’s food university, this isthe place for innovative food research and solutions tofood-related problems.

For proof, look at a few more recent headlines.Last year, we strengthened our international food

reputation by appointing what we believe to be theworld’s first food laureate – Anita Stewart, an expert onCanadian food and cuisine and a longtime friend of theUniversity.

A December cover story about the global food crisisin Canada’s Walrus magazine was co-written by geog-raphy professor Evan Fraser, Canada Research Chair inGlobal Human Security.

Prof. Ralph Martin has completed his first year asLoblaw Companies Limited Chair in Sustainable FoodProduction. The chair is a Canadian first; the result isleadership in teaching, research and industry collabora-tion to advance Canada’s food-production system.

Even our students and wider community have cometo the table, with hundreds of people taking part inworld record-breaking campaigns on campus to pack-age meals for famine relief abroad.

They join a growing cluster of experts who havemade Guelph the go-to place for commentary, adviceand research on all aspects of food from soil to table. Justlook at the story in this issue of the Portico highlightingrecent media analysis and commentary by our researcherson food safety, food security and generally all things food.

No one plans to grow food on Mars anytime soon.But it’s not such a leap from the interplanetary projectoutlined in our cover story to food production studiesback in OAC where environmental sciences researchersare studying ways to grow plants for food to sustain long-distance space missions. Maybe we will one day be calledthe universe’s food university.

Here at Guelph, we’re now looking to bring togeth-er those wide-ranging strengths and interests to launchsomething of our own: a proposed food institute. Theinstitute will offer experts both on and off campus aforum to exchange ideas, innovations and informationon food production and processing, food safety and secu-rity, and the impact of food on culture, economies andthe environment.

For nearly a century and a half, we’ve been leadersin food production, processing and delivery. As many ofyou know, food quality and safety already make up a keypillar of our BetterPlanet Project fundraising campaign.Now we need to apply our knowledge and experienceto do more, both nationally and internationally.

Call it a giant leap for humankind, one that ourresearch curiosity can help us take right here on Earth.

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Chancellor emer itus LincolnAlexander, the University’s longest-

serving chancellor and one of Canada’s mostgroundbreaking and influential leaders, diedOct. 19 at the age of 90.

“He was an amazingly giving man, andthousands of University students, faculty,staff and alumni have benefited from hisdevotion, kindness and generosity,” said Uof G president Alastair Summerlee, whospoke at a state funeral Oct. 26 in the chan-cellor’s adopted hometown of Hamilton,Ont., and at a memorial service on campusOct. 29. “He will be remembered, greatlymissed and loved always.”

Members of the University communityand many grads posted tributes on U of G’sFacebook page. The memorial service isavailable on the University’s YouTube chan-nel; find links on the U of G homepage.

Alexander was appointed U of G chan-cellor in 1991 and served an unprecedent-ed five terms. He conferred degrees onmore than 20,000 graduates at convocation.His rapport with students was legendary,

and he always spoke to every graduate. In2007, at the end of his final term, he wasnamed “chancellor emeritus” to recognizehis years of dedication to the University.

Alexander’s life is often described as oneof exemplary firsts. Among them, he was thefirst person in his family to attend universi-ty; Canada’s first black MP; the first black chairof the Workers’ Compensation Board; the firstvisible minority appointed as Ontario’s lieu-tenant-governor; and the first person to servefive terms as U of G’s chancellor.

He published a memoir, Go to School,You’re a Little Black Boy, in fall 2006. “Mybook is aimed at people who think they can’tdo something or think they’ll never makeit,” Alexander said then. “I’d like to think I’mhelping convince others to never give up.”

Alexander was born in Toronto Jan. 21,1922, and grew up there and in New YorkCity. At age 20, he enlisted in the RoyalCanadian Air Force during the SecondWorld War. He earned a bachelor’s degreein political economics from McMaster Uni-versity, attended Osgoode Hall Law School

and was called to the bar in 1953. He wasfirst elected MP for Hamilton West in 1968.

While in Ottawa, Alexander also servedas an observer to the United Nations in 1976and 1978 and was appointed labour minis-ter by then prime minister Joe Clark in 1979.

Several Ontario schools, buildings and ahighway have been named after him. Amonghis many awards, Alexander was appointed aCompanion of the Order of Canada and tothe Order of Ontario. In 2006, he was namedthe “Greatest Hamiltonian of All Time.”

Three U of G awards carry his name:the Lincoln Alexander Outstanding Lead-ership Award, the Lincoln Alexander Medalof Distinguished Service and the LincolnAlexander Chancellor’s Scholarship. Oncampus, a refurbished teaching and researchbuilding called Alexander Hall honours hiscommitment to the University.

Predeceased by his first wife, YvonneHarrison, Alexander is survived by his sec-ond wife, Marni Beal; his son, Keith; hisdaughter-in-law, Joyce; and his grand-daughters, Erika and Marissa.

Tributes posted online by U of G alumni: “He lived a larger than life life;” “He called me a ‘mover and a shaker’ of the future at my 2006

convocation. I will remember that always;” “If we could all strive to understand and view the world as he did, what a place this would be.”

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Uof G’ s new Mona CampbellCentre for Animal Cancer offers

the most advanced tools for cancer diag-nosis, treatment and teaching. Locatedat the Ontario Veterinary College(OVC), “the centre will maximize thequality of life for animals living withcancer and provide world-class trainingfor veterinarians and cancer specialists,”says dean Elizabeth Stone.

The centre emphasizes an interdis-ciplinary team approach to cancer treat-ment, ranging from medical, radiationand surgical oncologists, technicians,interns, graduate students and supportstaff to a clinical counsellor for clientsmaking difficult decisions for their pets.

Clients have access to investigation-al therapies, clinical trials and state-of-the-art technology, including a linearaccelerator for radiation therapy thattargets cancer cells while minimizingharm to healthy tissues.

The centre also provides chemother-apy and oncology wards; a tumour tis-

sue bank for storing biopsies for futureinvestigations; examination, treatment andprocedure rooms; and family visiting areas.

“The level of sophistication is similarto what you find in human medicine,”says Kevin Hall, U of G’s vice-president(research). “Scientists can perform clini-cal trials that parallel human research anduse new cancer therapies, which willdeepen our understanding of cancer. Itmeans we can help fight and even preventthe disease in humans while improvingcare for our pets.”

Officially opened in September, thecentre is named for the late MonaCampbell, a longtime U of G donor andanimal advocate whose $9.5-millionbequest has supported the OVC cancercentre. It is also supported by donationsfrom the OVC Pet Trust Fund.

Stone says Canada’s most compre-hensive animal cancer treatment andresearch centre will raise awareness ofcancer in animals and attract top stu-dents and researchers to Guelph.

New OVC Cancer Centre State-of-the-Art

Visitors view OVC’s linear accelerator at the opening of the animal cancer centre.

U OF G APPOINTS FOOD LAUREATE

A nita Stewart, an expert on food and Cana-

dian cuisine, will serve as the University’s

first food laureate. Her two-year role as honorary

food ambassador will highlight U of G contri-

butions to the culinary life of Canada.

“My goal is to explore how U of G has set

our national and international tables with both

talent and ingredients,” said Stewart, “and while

I’m at it, I intend to recognize some very real culi-

nary heroes whom all of Canada can celebrate.”

Stewart founded Cuisine Canada to promote

the growth of Canadian food culture. She was

the first Canadian to earn a master of arts in

gastronomy, has authored or co-authored 14

books on Canadian foods and wines that include

many U of G examples, and appears regularly

on CBC Radio.

Stewart also created Food Day Canada,

which evolved from her World’s Longest Bar-

becue in 2003 to support Canadian farmers after

that year’s BSE crisis.

Stewart has helped U of G celebrate its own

food history and participates in the University’s

annual Good Food Innovation Awards that rec-

ognize restaurants showing culinary creativity

with local ingredients. She received an honorary

degree from U of G in 2011 and was appoint-

ed to the Order of Canada in 2012.

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Pro f. T h e o d o r e N o s e wo rt h y ,Marketing and Consumer Studies, co-

authored a 2012 research report that sayspeople are more likely to spend dirty, crum-pled currency and hold on to new bills.

He says it’s an important finding formany reasons, mostly because it challenges

some long-held beliefs that we perceive onlythe nominal, or face, value of money. “Wetend to regard currency as a means to con-sumption and not a product itself,” he said.“In other words, it should not matter if it’sdirty or worn, because it has the same val-ue regardless. What we show is that money

is indeed a vehicle for social utility, and thatit’s actually subject to the same inferencesand biases as the products it can buy.”

In five different studies, the researchersgave subjects new or old bills and askedthem to shop and spend. In all the studies,people spent more and took more chanceswith older worn money.

All the studies found the same main rea-son: an aversion to “dirty money.” “It’s the‘ick’ factor,” Noseworthy says. “People wantto rid themselves of worn currency becausethey are disgusted by the contaminationfrom others.” On the other hand, people val-ued crisp new bills and often chose to spendthem only when others were watching.

“It turns out money itself can be part ofconspicuous consumption,” he says.

In an economy driven by consumerspending, this research has caught the eye ofauthorities who print new currency and take“old” money out of circulation. It may alsointerest Canadian authorities who recentlyintroduced more durable polymer bills thatwill likely look “new” longer.

Dirty Money Affects Spending Habits

Car crashes are the leading cause ofdeath for teens 16 to 19. That worries

psychology professor Lana Trick, who alongwith other researchers hopes to find ways toreduce the risks faced by young drivers.

Trick is principal investigator on a pro-ject funded by AUTO21 Teen and NoviceDriver Network, a Government of CanadaNetworks of Centres of Excellence program.Her studies take place in a driving simula-tion lab on campus whose stationary car sur-rounded by environmental screens conveysthe feeling of driving down a busy street.

Cellphones, text messaging, onboard com-puters and infotainment systems all presentrisks to drivers, but for many teen drivers, thebiggest hazard may be the person sittingbeside them. “We know that having anotheryoung person in the car increases the risk ofcollision,” she says. “An older person, such asa parent as a passenger, reduces risk. Risks are

highest when both the driver and the pas-senger are young males.”

Her research looks at the relationshipbetween the young driver and the passenger.“Is it different if the person is a good friendor a stranger?” Trick asks. “What if we try toengage a co-operative relationship betweenthe two people in the car by having themplay a co-operative game before they startdriving?” She’ll compare that outcome toresults when driver and passenger engage ina competitive activity before driving.

Other network researchers are analyzingcar accident databases to learn the effects ofalcohol and other drugs and to see whethergraduated licensing programs and laws ban-ning cellphones while driving have made adifference. One of Trick’s students is lookingat a video-game approach that provides instantfeedback (warning buzzers) to learn the effectsof being rewarded for good driving habits.

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NOTEWORTHY• A survey by The Impact Group has

ranked U of G as Canada’s most

inventive university, in number of

inventions per faculty and in pro-

portion to research funding.

• Profs. Alejandro Marangoni, Food

Science, and Rosario Gomez, Lan-

guages and Literatures, were

named among the 10 Most Influ-

ential Hispanic Canadians by

Guillermo Rishchynski, Canada’s

ambassador to the United Nations.

• Members of the University commu-

nity donated more than $560,000

to the United Way in 2012.

• Cross-country runner Joanna

Brown won bronze Oct. 20 in her

first showing at the World Under 23

Triathlon Championships in Auck-

land, New Zealand. She finished

with a time of 2:14.12 and, at age

20, was the youngest competitor

on the podium. Brown is a second-

year marketing student at U of G.

• Going beyond traditional grading, U

of G aims to demonstrate student

knowledge and achievement by

adopting University-wide learning

outcomes in critical and creative

thinking, literacy, global understand-

ing, communication, and profes-

sional and ethical behaviour. U of G

is one of the first Canadian universi-

ties to adopt such across-the-board

learning benchmarks for all degree

programs and specializations.

• For the first time in U of G sports

history, all of the University’s varsi-

ty teams made the Ontario Univer-

sity Athletics playoffs last fall.

• DNA barcoding developed by U of

G researchers has proven up to 88

per cent effective in authenticating

natural health products. It’s a cru-

cial finding, as the health products

industry is under-regulated world-

wide and as mislabelling poses

economic, health, legal and envi-

ronmental implications, says Prof.

Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Integrative

Biology.

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Humanitarian work in Africaand his contributions to higher

education and science have earned twoprestigious awards for U of G presidentAlastair Summerlee.

He received the Award of HighestHonour from Japan’s Soka University inSeptember. In December, he was award-ed the annual International Quality ofLife Award from Auburn University dur-ing a ceremony at the United Nationsin New York City. Previous recipientsof both awards include Nobel Prizewinners, heads of state and interna-tionally recognized philanthropists.

Founded by educator and philoso-pher Daisaku Ikeda, Soka University islocated near Tokyo. The school encour-ages students to use education to pro-mote peace and to contribute to soci-ety. Summerlee was recognized for hisleadership at Guelph, especially for pro-moting “a philosophy of putting stu-dents at the centre of all undertakings.”

The Auburn University award wascreated in 1994 during the UN’s Inter-national Year of the Family to recognizesignificant and lasting contributions toindividual, family and community well-being, locally and globally.

Summerlee is known as an “innova-tive teacher, internationally acclaimedscientist, visionary administrator and pas-sionate humanitarian,” said June Hen-ton, dean of Auburn’s College of HumanSciences. She cited his efforts to improveaccess to education for girls and womenin the Dadaab famine refugee camp inKenya and his six-year term as chair ofthe World University Service of Cana-da, one of the country’s leading interna-tional development agencies.

The awards also recognized his lead-ership in civic engagement and volun-teerism, his award-winning teaching,and his research in biomedical sciences.

A Guelph professor since 1988,Summerlee was named president in2003. He received a 3M Teaching Fel-lowship in the same year, and contin-ues to teach undergraduates, supervisegraduate students and conduct research.

During his visit to Japan in Sep-tember, Summerlee presented Ikedawith an honorary degree from theUniversity of Guelph-Humber. Ikedawas nominated for his lifelong com-mitment to inspiring students to pro-mote peace but had been unable totravel to Toronto to receive the award.

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U of G President Receives International Awards

President Alastair Summerlee, centre, receives Auburn University’s International

Quality of Life Award from Auburn dean June Henton and congratulations

from Tye Burt, vice-chair of Guelph’s Board of Governors and chair of The

BetterPlanet Project.

Leadership gift for library

U of G archivists were enthusiastic whenRobert Whitelaw offered files fromhis former fertilizer business to the

library’s rural history collection, but they admit-ted that the library is running out of storagespace. Planned renovations seemed a long wayoff, so Whitelaw stepped forward with a$500,000 gift to kick-start the expansion.

In addition to archival space, the library ren-ovation will enlarge the exhibition area andcreate a multi-purpose room with the latesttechnology for lectures, classes, receptions andconferences.

Whitelaw’s Agrico documents will enrichthe library’s rural life and agricultural archives,already one of the finest in North America.“It’s the oldest fertilizer company in the coun-try and has been a leader in the business sincethe 1920s,” he says. “Agrico is an economicand agronomic innovator with a history thatshould be preserved.”

He joined the company in 1965, became amajor shareholder and eventually sold the com-pany to La Coop Fédérée.

“With its long agricultural history, the Uni-versity of Guelph was my first choice to becustodian of the company documents,” he adds.

Gryphons Aimfor Top Tier

G ryphon Athletics has announced afundraising goal of $20 million tocomplete its long-range building and

renovation plan. “Our goal is to have one of the best out-

door and indoor athletics facilities in Canadato complement our leadership position insports and recreation, and to build a sense ofcommunity and connection in Guelph,” saysathletics director Tom Kendall.

First outlined in 2010, the athletics masterplan includes ongoing renovations to AlumniStadium and installation of an eight-lane run-ning track, the new Gryphon Field House andthe outdoor soccer complex. It also includes anew fitness and recreation centre for campusmembers and community users. Kendall says U of G’s current indoor recreation facilities areaging, limited and over capacity.

The new facility will be partially fundedthrough student contributions pledged in a2008 referendum. “We’re asking others to alsomake an investment in the future of our com-munity,” adds Kendall. “Inactivity is being calleda pandemic, and we can help change the faceof healthy living in Guelph and beyond.”

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L inamar Corporation CEO

Linda Hasenfratz and U of

G president Alastair Summer-

lee enjoyed the company of

200 guests at the Sept. 22 Ter-

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event hosted by Linamar and

the Hasenfratz family. The

event raised more than

$100,000 for the University’s

BetterPlanet Project. Almost

30 U of G student volunteers

from the hotel and food admin-

istration program assisted with

the event, which featured a

moveable feast with five gar-

den settings and a locally

sourced menu.

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Artist’s concept for upgrades to U of G’s

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LOVE OF HORSES LEADS TO BEQUEST

Olympic equestrian Lorraine Stubbs has

taken steps to ensure her passion for

horses and farming will live on in perpetuity. Her

gift of a life insurance policy to the University of

Guelph will create the Lorraine Stubbs Equine

Fund at the Ontario Veterinary College to ben-

efit the health and well-being of competitive

dressage horses as well as mare reproduction,

clinical care and research. She has also

designed a gift plan that will benefit the Uni-

versity of Guelph and farmland conservation.

“Given the school’s long history with horses

and an understanding of and appreciation for

rural conservation, it’s a comfortable choice for

me,” says Stubbs.

She says both planned gifts were easy to

execute, and hopes other donors will consid-

er a similar path. When the ownership of a life

insurance policy is transferred to U of G, not

only does the University become the benefi-

ciary, but also the donor can make the premi-

um payments as an annual tax-deductible char-

itable gift.

“It’s a win-win scenario,” says Stubbs.

“I view my contributions as a responsibility

to my sport, to the equine industry and to con-

tinued excellence in veterinary care and

research. I chose the University of Guelph as

the future custodian of my lifelong passion. I

hope that others will be inspired to do the

same.”

Planet Project

The University of Guelph

has received a $750,000 gift fromTD Bank Group to create the

TD Agricultural Policy Research Fund,which will support economic researchand analysis on new farm policies, espe-cially those affecting the health and pros-perity of the agri-food sector and ruralcommunities.

“We are a leader in our commitmentto addressing challenges in the agri-foodsector,” said president Alastair Summerlee.“This will be a vital complement to thefunds provided by our partnership withthe Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Foodand Rural Affairs (OMAFRA).”

“TD is pleased to support the Uni-versity of Guelph on this importantendeavour,” said Frank McKenna, deputychair of TD Bank Group. “We want theUniversity to continue to drive cutting-edge research on agriculture, agri-foodand rural development. These are keyissues to the Canadian economy, and wehope they will share their research wide-ly, as these issues impact us all.”

The research fund will be managedby the Ontario Agricultural College(OAC). It will support research and out-reach activities in the Department ofFood, Agricultural and Resource Eco-nomics and in other campus departments.

OAC dean Rob Gordon said the goalis to ensure timely, credible and inde-pendent policy analysis of importantissues, and to inform policy and regula-tions in agri-food and other areas suchas energy, environment and health.

“There is no denying the social andeconomic importance of food and agri-culture in Ontario,” said Gordon.“Informed policy is a cornerstone of theOMAFRA innovation agenda; it can bal-ance the varying interests of society,enhance the competitive position of pro-ducers, improve the agri-food economyand mitigate unintended consequences.”

TD Bank has supported student bur-saries and awards, infrastructure and oth-er investments in capital campaigns at Uof G since 1968. The new gift will bedistributed over 10 years.

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A lone in his hotel room last sum-mer, physicist Iain Campbell was in tears.Scheduled to speak at a conference in FortWorth, Texas, in early August, the Guelphemeritus professor had spent a restless night.It wasn’t nerves over his talk that kept himawake but a make-or-break moment forwhat he calls “the biggest single research ven-

ture in the University of Guelph’s history.” Relief came only after he flicked on the

television news that morning. When he sawa clip of NASA engineers jumping arounda control room at the Jet Propulsion Labo-ratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., he exclaimedaloud, “Ah, thank God.” Not just that. “I wasin tears; all the tension came out.” Almost

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nine months after being launched from CapeCanaveral, Fla., on its 80-million-kilometrejourney, the Curiosity rover had touched downon Mars, carrying with it U of G’s latest con-tribution to interplanetary exploration.

Officially called the Mars Science Lab-oratory (MSL), the minivan-sized rover car-ries 10 scientific instruments designed to

sniff, scratch and scan the Martian atmos-phere and landscape. Among them is a keygeology device called an alpha particle X-ray spectrometer (APXS) for analyzing rockand soil. It was designed by an internation-al team of scientists led by Guelph physicsprofessor Ralf Gellert. For the next twoyears, that team – directed by U of G

researchers working from a specially builtcontrol centre on campus – will help guidethe rover mission and interpret informationreturning from a brand-new perspective onMars. The goal of the $2.5-billion missionis to seek evidence that the red planet mighthave supported life – and to tell us some-thing about life on Earth as well.

U of G to Mars

COMPOSITION OF ROCKS AND SOIL ON MARS

Left to right: Iain Campbell,

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Planetary neighbours “It’s possible we are all Martians.” That mightsound like jet lag talking – or maybe “Marslag.” Gellert had just returned to Guelph inlate October, following three months spentin California living and working on Marstime at JPL; each day on a slower-rotatingMars is 40 minutes longer than our own.But no, the Guelph physicist is serious.

Imagine a habitable early Mars havingcollided with, say, a huge meteorite thatlaunched a chunk of the red planet rock-eting across space. Might a Martian organ-ism have survived the journey, landing onthe neighbouring planet and sowing lifethat, over the ages, would ultimately giverise to physicists and other humans?

“What if Martian life forms wereknocked out and made it to Earth?” asksGellert. Even if a lowly microbe arose onthe red planet independently from the

unspooling of life on Earth, that discoverywould carry implications rivalling that of“Earth-is-round” magnitude, he says. AddsGlynis Perrett, a PhD student with Camp-bell and a member of the Guelph APXSteam for four years: “If we found life onMars, that would be just incredible.”

Before looking for life, look for water –life’s prerequisite as we know it – or at leastfor a watermark left on the landscape. Thatwas the goal of the Spirit and Opportunityrovers that landed on Mars in 2004. Both ofthose rovers carried an earlier version of thespectrometer, designed by scientists in Ger-many, including Gellert at the time. It wasthe APXS on Spirit that detected the first insitu evidence of water bound up below theMartian surface, a finding reported in 2010by Campbell, Gellert and Guelph colleagueProf. Joanne O’Meara. Although Spirit hassince fallen silent, its twin is still going

beyond its best-before date, still aimingbeams of alpha particles and X-rays at Mar-tian rocks and soil, and relaying data back toscientists here on Earth.

After his former team at Germany’s MaxPlanck Institute for Chemistry broke up in2005, Gellert landed a faculty position atGuelph. He assembled a new research teamto complete designs for an upgraded ver-sion of the APXS – funded by the Canadi-an Space Agency (CSA) – for the next Marsrover. Curiosity carried that new instrumentto Mars last summer and now transmits databack to a Mars APXS operations centre inU of G’s MacNaughton Building. APXSresearchers based at Guelph are among onlya few scientists worldwide involved withnot one but two Mars rover expeditions atthe same time.

Following the Curiosity landing, Gellerteven spent a few shifts at JPL receiving and

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analyzing spectrometer data from Opportu-nity, although, as for most of the 400 MSLscientists monitoring developments aroundthe clock last summer and fall in Pasadena,it was mostly eyes on the new rover begin-ning its hunt for signs of habitability on Mars.

New generation of explorersSeated in Guelph’s APXS operations centredownstairs from Gellert’s office, Perrett spinsa Mars globe in her hands to locate a spotnear the equator. This is where Curiositylanded last August, in a 150-kilometre-widebowl called the Gale Crater. The crater liesbetween an expanse of pocked southernhighlands and smooth northern lowlandsbelieved to have been an ancient sea. Ris-ing five kilometres from the floor of GaleCrater itself is Mount Sharp, the rover’s ulti-mate destination. Why? Perrett says satellitesorbiting Mars have detected rock layers, clays

and sulphates on and within that peak – allhints of the physical and chemical effects ofnow-vanished water.

As of mid-December, Curiosity was stillseveral kilometres away from that formation.Trundling along at an average speed of 30metres an hour, the vehicle will take a whileto get there. But along the way, the rover isalready living up to its name. In late Sep-tember, its robotic arm contacted a chunkof igneous rock nicknamed Jake Matijevic.Bombarding the rock with those X-rays andalpha particles, the coffee cup-sized APXSturned up a range of chemical elementsmore like those of Earth rocks than like for-mations found elsewhere on Mars by theearlier rovers. Visit www.jpl.nasa.gov forupdates and photos.

Apart from Campbell pacing his Texashotel room, all of the Guelph physicists gath-ered in California last August to witness

Curiosity’s touchdown. Watching the moni-tors in a JPL room, they waited through whatNASA called “seven minutes of terror” as therover made its unprecedented landing involv-ing a heat shield, parachute and sky crane.

Scott VanBommel, who completed hismaster’s degree with Gellert last fall, saysthose few minutes were “probably thehighlight of my life. I’ll never forget whenthey announced the landing. The wholeroom erupted.” For months while the crafttravelled to Mars, he was playing mindgames. “I remember telling people, ‘It’sgoing to work.’ It was the only way I couldcope with the suspense of not knowing.”

Post-doc Irina Pradler got involved withthe rover team only after arriving at Guelphin 2011. An experimental particle physi-cist, she had studied in Russia and Ger-many. “I couldn’t even dream about beinginvolved in an interplanetary expedition.”

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A – NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory

spacecraft was launched Nov. 26, 2011,

from Cape Canaveral, Fla., beginning an

eight-month interplanetary cruise to Mars.

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snapped this shot of Mars on Aug. 26,

2003, when the planet’s orbit brought it

within 55.8 million kilometres of Earth.

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was created by stitching together 55

images taken on Oct. 31, 2012.

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Curiosity’s safe landing in Gale Crater on

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rovers in approximate true colour:

E – Spirit’s winter location April through

October 2006. Left of centre, a trench dug

by the rover’s wheel exposed bright white

sulphur-rich salty minerals in the subsoil.

Similar samples analyzed by U of G scien-

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F – Opportunity photographed layered

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Recalling the Curiosity landing, she says, “Itwas one of the most exciting days in my lifeto be there, to share that moment with bril-liant engineers, brilliant geologists.”

For months, Nick Boyd counted downto the landing not just in Earth days but inMartian “sols.” Now APXS operations lead,he has been involved with the Mars projectsince 2006; he studied physics for his under-grad at Guelph and completed a master’sdegree in engineering in 2012. He says his

moment of truth came with the first grainyimages taken by the rover’s camera, includ-ing a shot of the vehicle’s shadow on theMartian surface. “We’ve taken better images,but that has a special place in my heart. Itwas the first confirmation that the last sixyears of effort were worth it.”

Living in Mars timeWith touchdown, the entire team shifted intoMars time. Hundreds of scientists, including

Boyd and Gellert, spent the next 90 days atJPL, helping to plan and guide the rover’sactivities and analyzing the instrument data.

Boyd slipped away once to serve as bestman at his brother’s wedding at home inPicton, Ont. Even then, he felt the tug ofMartian gravity. “I was sitting in my tuxedobetween photos and the start of the recep-tion, creating a file on my computer that hadto be transmitted to Mars later that night forupload into the APXS instrument.”

APXS CHRONOLOGY:

A – Nick Boyd, left, and Ralf Gellert

prepare for the installation of the alpha

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sensor head during testing at NASA’s

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this photo taken by Curosity’s mast cam-

era after a successful landing on Mars.

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of a rock surface.

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During that three-month period, Pradler,VanBommel and Perrett travelled back andforth for two-week monitoring stints at JPL.Besides the Guelph members, the APXSteam includes collaborators from the Uni-versity of New Brunswick, the Universityof New Mexico and the Australian Nation-al University, as well as CSA scientists.

If they found the landing otherworldly,many of them have also found working withthe rover to be a surreal experience, for sev-

eral reasons. Tacking 40 minutes onto the daymeans that work periods on Earth and Marscycle in and – mostly – out of sync. BecauseCuriosity’s working day rarely lines up withthat of ours, the researchers’ shifts occur atany time of the Earth day or night. SaysGellert: “Only the rover works from nine tofive. When the rover works, you sleep.”

As well, scientists can communicate withthe rover for short periods only twice a day,when orbiting satellites pass above Curiosity.

So instructions and data may be relayed toand from Earth-bound antenna arrays onlyat set times; it takes five to 30 minutes tosend a message from one planet to the oth-er. Researchers need to plan their days with-in a tightly scripted timeline, working inshifts with partners worldwide to receiveand analyze today’s data, and co-ordinatinginstruction sequences for tomorrow’s roverand instrument activities.

Besides the APXS, other devices aboard

Sept. 21. The purple circle indicates

where the APXS trained its view, and

the close-up shows the rock surface

in more detail.

G – The graph produced by U of G

scientists shows the abundance of

elements in Jake and a calibration target

(red line) as measured by the APXS.

Compared to previously found rocks on

Mars, “Jake is kind of an odd Martian

rock,” says U of G’s Ralf Gellert. “It’s

high in elements consistent with the

mineral feldspar and low in magnesium

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By late October, team members hadreturned to Guelph and were beginning tosettle into a routine closer to a regular iflengthened working day. The control cen-tre for the global APXS group – built withCSA funding – is located in the Mac-Naughton Building, just around the cornerfrom a ground-floor display case highlight-ing aspects of the mission. Here APXS teammembers work in shifts to monitor thedevice, analyze data and communicate withscientists worldwide in co-ordinating thatday-by-day interplanetary choreography.

Unexpected encounters Back at Guelph, the team also has access totools that will help in running the APXS mis-sion and interpreting results from Curiosity.

One is a copy of the spectrometer devicemounted on the rover’s arm. That will allowthe researchers here to troubleshoot, mimicor anticipate what the rover encounters aworld away. “If we see anything strange onMars, we can try to simulate it here,” says Per-rett. “I call it the twin or the stunt double.”

In 2008, the U of G physicists used a spe-cially constructed clean room in Gellert’s labto calibrate the actual Mars-bound device,which was built by MacDonald Dettwiler andAssociates Ltd. in Brampton, Ont. The APXSwas then delivered to NASA, where Gellertand Boyd installed it during testing at JPL.

One floor down from Gellert’s U of Glab, Campbell has spent decades workingwith an instrument called a proton micro-probe. Filling an entire lab and connectedto a particle accelerator, that device beamsprotons at varied samples including rocksand air pollutants. In order to analyze theresults from that technique, called proton-induced X-ray emission (PIXE), he and col-league John Maxwell developed special soft-ware decades ago. Now that softwarepackage – modified for Curiosity’s alpha par-

ticles and X-rays instead of protons – isbeing used by the APXS team to help inter-pret data from the Mars rovers.

In fact, it was PIXE that in 2004 prompt-ed a call to Campbell from Rudi Rieder,Gellert’s then boss in Germany. Rieder hadsettled on Campbell’s software package foranalyzing results from the APXS instrumentdestined for the Spirit and Opportunity rovers.Campbell laughs as he recalls turning downthat initial request: sorry, too busy, he said.Things changed, including closure of theGerman institute. That was when Gellertjoined U of G, bringing his ideas for thenew rover instrument.

Now Campbell has a new plan. “It wouldbe nice to get some Mars rocks.” Nobodyplans to visit the red planet in person any-time soon, let alone lug back samples, but theGuelph physicist has cultivated ties with theRoyal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toron-to, which holds several Martian meteoritesin its collection. In a real-life version ofGellert’s interplanetary stone-throwing sce-nario, those rocks arrived on Earth after ejec-tion from the Martian surface in collisionswith comets or asteroids. Campbell hopes toexamine paper-thin slices of those ROMmeteorites, akin to human tissue samplesunder the microscope of a medical lab tech-nician. What he learns from looking at thoserocks will give scientists a different angle oninterpreting data from Curiosity, he says.

That prospect excites scientists such asPerrett, a lifelong rockhound who minoredin geology while completing her physicsundergrad at Guelph. Holding that russet-coloured globe aloft, she says early Mars prob-ably looked more like its planetary neigh-bour, until something happened billions ofyears ago. Because dynamic plate tectonicsforever alter the Earth’s crust, much of ourplanet’s early history has been erased. But inits arrested landscape, Mars holds its historyand perhaps ours. “We’re learning about ourown planet because Mars is showing us whatmay have happened to Earth,” she says.

Getting a closer look at those rock sam-ples also excites Kim Tait, the ROM’s cura-tor of mineralogy. “This is a snapshot of whatcould have happened to our planet underdifferent conditions,” she says. Was therewater or life on Mars? “The best way to findout is through Curiosity – and by studyingthe rocks as they come to us.” ■

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The Royal Ontario Museum holds about 15 Martian meteorites among its collection of

“space rocks.” Here, mineralogist Kim Tait and technician Ian Nicklin use a diamond-wire

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When a food crisis hits…

…themedia call U of GKeith Warriner’s telephone startedringing almost immediately after the firstreports of E. coli contamination at an Alber-ta meat-packing plant surfaced in Septem-ber. Make that telephones: work, cell, home.

His email inbox was flooded, too. It wasthe media calling. Would he drive to Torontofor a live TV interview that afternoon? Howabout doing a radio show at 6:15 a.m. the nextmorning? What about talking to a newspaper

reporter that very minute? The reporter want-ed to know how the outbreak could happenand, more important, what people could doto protect themselves and their families. Oh,and could he explain it so that people of allages and backgrounds could understand?

And that was only day one. The Canadi-an Food Inspection Agency soon expandedits recall of products manufactured at XLFoods, which processes a third of the coun-

try’s beef. By October, the number of prod-ucts on the recall list was in the hundreds;stores and food chains across the countrywere affected. Warriner was inundated withmedia requests for weeks.

This is the new normal for Warriner, aU of G microbiologist and food science pro-fessor. He and other Guelph faculty andresearchers have emerged in recent years asthe go-to people for media – and for indus-

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try and the general public – on all thingsfood, especially in times of crisis.

“Whenever I am covering a food story, Ialways think of Guelph. Guelph has becomethe food expert mecca,” says Jennifer Tryon,who covers health and food issues as anational correspondent for Global Nationalnews. “I always know that I will be able tofind someone who has studied the issue andwill be able to speak objectively about it,someone who will not be swayed necessar-ily by industry or by private interest.”

Media are often approached by peoplelooking to gain by promoting a particularangle on a story, she adds. “As a journalist,you are sometimes not sure what the truthis. You need someone you can trust to helpyou sort through the industry jumble, andI’ve always found there are experts at Guelphwho can help you do just that.”

Warriner says working with the mediacan be unpredictable and occasionally time-consuming, especially when it involves spur-of-the-moment trips to television studios inToronto. But it’s a role he has come toembrace. “I look at it as an opportunity. It’sa way to get a message out, to talk aboutwhat’s important,” he says.

Given that U of G has become knownas Canada’s “food university” due to its rep-utation as the place for innovative foodresearch and solutions to food-related prob-lems, he also considers it his responsibility.“When I am called to give an opinion basedon my expertise, I am doing my job: edu-cating people. I should be telling journalistswhether there is an issue here, whether peo-ple should be concerned.”

After all, the people researching andteaching about food should be the ones talk-

ing about related problems such as diseaseoutbreaks, he says. As for having to simplifyhis research in order to help the general pub-lic understand it, Warriner just smiles andsays, “I don’t know the big words myself.”

Humour aside, the Guelph professor isknown for developing decontaminationmethods to improve food safety, includingan effective way to sterilize seeds used toproduce bean and alfalfa sprouts – culpritsin major food-borne illness outbreaksaround the world.

He and his research team also discovereda method that could effectively eliminatesalmonella contamination by combining abacterium naturally found on tomatoes withviruses that infect the pathogen.

So when reporters were looking forexperts to discuss the 2009 tomato salmonellaoutbreak, Warriner’s name topped the Google

If there is a food issue making headlines in

Canada, U of G researchers are bound to be

found “in the news.” With food scientist Keith

Warriner, these are among U of G’s “most-

called” food experts.

Food Distribution – Whether asked to write a

commentary, chime in on a debate or provide

expertise or an opinion on television, radio or

in newspapers, Sylvain Charlebois, the asso-

ciate dean of research and graduate studies in

the College of Management and Economics,

is always game. Charlebois is an author and

expert in food distribution and safety. He

belongs to the national expert advisory com-

mittee of the Canadian Food Inspection

Agency and co-produced the 2012 Food Price

Index forecast with U of G economics professor

Francis Tapon.

Food-borne Illness – During the E. coli out-

break in Walkerton, Ont., in 2000, pathobiolo-

gist Carlton Gyles became the U of G face and

name for expertise on the issue. He gave

dozens of media interviews, discussing water

monitoring, techniques used to test for the bac-

terium and controlling the risk of contamina-

tion. Gyles began studying E. coli more than

35 years ago and was among the first to pin-

point how a toxin produced by the bacterium

could cause illness. Now retired but still work-

ing, he was in the news recently discussing the

merits of a national E. coli vaccine.

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search list – and he was happy to respond. “It’sanother way of discussing what you’ve dis-covered, to get your name out there,” he says.

All of Warriner’s research findings havebeen published by peer-reviewed journals,“but who reads those things? To go onnational TV, to be asked what you think aboutsomething based on what you do for a liv-ing, well, that’s as good as anything, isn’t it?”

In recent years Guelph’s food experts,including Warriner, have had plenty of mediaopportunities. Food issues and crises havemade headlines regularly: the global foodcrisis, the Maple Leaf Foods listeriosis out-break in 2008, a new E. coli strain in 2011,the frozen beef recall last spring and, mostrecently, the XL Foods recall.

In October and November alone, War-riner appeared on CTV’s The National, Glob-al National and Canada AM, and in the Globe

and Mail, to name just a few.It is a role he never imagined taking on

when he arrived at U of G 10 years ago fromthe United Kingdom. “Food safety was hard-ly ever spoken about over there,” he says. “InCanada, people care; people are worried.”

Warriner admits there was a learningcurve. “Going live: that used to scare me abit. The last thing you want to do is messup.” In fact, he was so frazzled after his firstlive CBC Radio interview that he thoughtit would be his last. “I rambled on and on.”

He admits to rarely watching himself ontelevision or listening to his own radio inter-views. “I get anxious about making mistakes:what I didn’t say that I should have said. I’mmore comfortable with it now, but still thereare times.” His 11-year-old daughter, how-ever, never tires of seeing her dad on thesmall screen.

Warriner understands why otherresearchers may be hesitant to take on therole, but he says there’s a need for expertcommentary.

Does he worry about backlash fromindustry or government for being outspo-ken? Quite the opposite: he says the OntarioMinistry of Agriculture, Food and RuralAffairs, which supports much of his research,has “been nothing but supportive.”

In 2008, after he did numerous inter-views about the listeriosis outbreak, he wascalled by Maple Leaf Foods and asked towork with the company on various projects.“They called after hearing me on (a CBCRadio show) The Current.”

He has also found many new researchpartners this way. “I just had a guy ring meup and say, ‘I saw you on TV; I want to dis-cuss a collaboration.’” ■

Food Safety – Brita Ball has lived up to her

name, picking up the ball in Guelph’s dormant

Food Safety Network and becoming its co-ordi-

nator. She studies safety management systems

in the food processing sector, food safety and

quality assurance. In media appearances dur-

ing the XL Foods recall, she discussed proper

cooking and sanitary procedures for consumers.

Food Prices – When the media turns its atten-

tion to implications of rising food prices, no one

is more in demand than Prof. Alfons Weersink in

the Department of Food, Agricultural and

Resource Economics. Raised on a cash crop farm

near St. Marys, Ont., he’s an expert on govern-

ment and environmental policy and is well-known

by the media for his ability to explain the dramat-

ic causes and effects of the global food crisis.

Weersink’s departmental colleague, Prof. John

Cranfield, is also a sought-after source of exper-

tise on consumers’ eating and buying patterns

following disease outbreaks and food recalls.

Food Security – How and why does human

culture depend on food, and what happens

when a culture runs out of food? These are the

questions media often pose to geography pro-

fessor Evan Fraser, holder of the Canada

Research Chair in Global Human Security and

co-author of the book Empires of Food: Feast,

Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations.

Fraser has written about the fate of humanity

and become a sought-after media expert and

consultant on the global food crisis.

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I t’s a difficult story for both people and elephants,says history professor Susan Nance, but it’s a story she

believes should be told. Her new book, Entertaining Ele-phants: Animal Agency and the Business of the American Cir-cus, begins in 1795 when the first elephant was import-ed into the United States and ends in 1907 when the firstelephant born there was killed by her owners becauseshe’d become completely unmanageable.

“The circuses marketed their elephants as happy per-formers,” says Nance. “Many Americans saw them asbelonging in circuses, but behind the scenes, those ele-phants lived lives of quiet desperation. Adult elephantstolerated close human contact only with great effort,and many were treated violently. Some would eventu-ally try to escape or lash out to protect themselves, andthey represented an enormous workplace and publicsafety hazard. Many circuses publicly strangled or shottheir most dangerous elephants to death when they ranout of other management options.”

Because of those incidents, Nance says, some peo-ple perceived elephants as “nasty, jealous, vicious brutesor inherently broken animals that had no business in theUnited States.”

These two conflicting images of elephants – genialperformer and vicious brute – could co-exist partlybecause 19th-century circus advertising used both: theformer appealed to children and women, the latter toteen boys and men. In the 20th century, especially afterthe release of the sentimental Disney film Dumbo in1941, circuses tried to retain public sympathy by cov-ering up violence between humans and elephants.

Nance became interested in this topic when she dis-covered the many memoirs written by circus peopleand saw how many stories they told of people killingelephants and elephants killing people. “It seemed incred-ible to me that elephants were such a problem in the19th-century U.S., so I had to know why,” she says.

A book about animal history is unusual and, somehistorians believe, not really appropriate. Nance obvi-ously disagrees. “We have books focusing on every otherkind of history – women’s history, environmental history– and I believe we need to be addressing the issues ofanimals.” Scheduled to be published next month by JohnsHopkins University Press, Nance’s book also tackles thequestion of whether these elephant experiences matterto history. “I think it does,” she says. “They are not justbackground noise; the population of elephants I studiedhad everything to do with how circuses looked and howthey worked or didn’t work.”

She says circus history also exposes our human lim-itations with wild animals. “When we approach animals,we tend to overestimate our abilities.

“People thought they could manipulate elephantsand put them to work, as they had done with sheep, dogsand other animals. The Americans who ran travellingcircus shows had limited understanding of elephants’needs, to be sure, but also saw them as a transient inven-tory, like workhorses, meant to be used for short periodsof maximum productivity. To them, circus elephants werereally a kind of show business commodity, not a preciouswild being,” says Nance. “By the time the circuses real-ized that elephants might be more trouble than they were

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worth, audiences had come to expect that ‘circus equalselephant,’ so there seemed no turning back.”

Nance uses current scientific research into elephantwelfare and psychology to reinterpret the historical sto-ries of elephant behaviours and explain why normallyquiet, compliant elephants might suddenly attack a keep-er, audience member or other animals.

“We know that elephants have very sophisticatedminds,” she says. “They are similar to humans in termsof their emotional range and their thinking.” Elephantscaptured and sold to a circus in the 19th century had tofight their natural survival instincts to cope with con-finement, travel and dominance training.

Nance says elephants sometimes failed at obediencebecause they just weren’t designed for close and subservientcontact with humans. She gives the example of a femaleelephant killed by its owners in 1907 because it was “com-pletely unmanageable.” Like humans, elephants matureslowly and rely on older elephants to learn how to managetheir emotions, physical needs and massive strength. “Beingan elephant is not just to have an elephant body; there is acultural aspect as well,” she says. Even this elephant’s han-dlers admitted that the young female suffered because hermother and other elephants were kept chained and unableto teach her how to cope with her surroundings.

Nance hopes her historical research will make a dif-ference for elephants living in circuses and zoos today.She commends people in the industry who have admit-ted that captivity does not allow elephants to be ele-phants and praises the Toronto Zoo’s decision to moveits remaining elephants to a sanctuary. “It’s better for them

and better for us to phase out hands-on management ofelephants and their confinement in small spaces.”

Nance says elephants in the wild often walk 50 kilo-metres a day searching for food, so confinement produceshealth problems such as obesity, foot disease and bore-dom. She suggests humans are not effective surrogatesfor autonomous elephantine ways: “Elephants survivedat large without our help for millennia, so money spenton elephant captivity might be better spent protectingendangered elephant communities in Africa and India.Elephants know best what they really need.”

American circuses once imported hundreds of ele-phants, but Nance predicts the animals will be almostextinct on this continent within a generation. She notesthat elephants rarely reproduce in captivity and that theU.S. Endangered Species Act of 1973 bans importation.

Nance has also studied the history of other animalsused to entertain humans and is writing now about therise and fall of dog-racing tracks in the United States. Shesays tracks for racing greyhounds originated in the 1920sbut had a surge in popularity and growth in the early1990s – possibly because the opening credits of the pop-ular TV show Miami Vice featured images of the dogs gal-loping along the course. “Many cities invested in puttingup dog tracks that were never profitable,” she says, addingthat journalists helped to expose the animals’ sometimesgrim living conditions along with injuries and large num-bers of young dogs killed when graded off the track. “It’smuch like the elephant story. Track operators find itincreasingly difficult to stay relevant, since our values oftenchange in response to animal experience.”

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T ucked away in a strip mall in Cambridge, Ont.,is Canada’s only manufacturer of autogenous swine

flu vaccines: Gallant Custom Laboratories Inc. Thesevaccines aren’t destined for a doctor’s office but will beshipped to farms across Canada to inoculate livestock.

Jackie Gallant, B.Sc.(Agr.) ’82, started the lab in 1995after she lost her job when the Guelph lab she wasworking for shut down. Four years later, her companyneeded more space, so she relocated it to the 10,500-square-foot facility in Cambridge. The vaccines are pro-duced, bottled and labelled on-site. The lab employs 11people, including Jackie as president and her eldest son. Her husband, Adrien, B.Sc.(Agr.) ’81, says the lab is awell-kept secret that deserves more attention. “We wantthe secret to get out.”

Aside from vaccine production, the lab performsdiagnostic work to determine how an animal died. “It’slike a crime lab,” says Adrien of the CSI-like detectivework that goes on there. Autogenous vaccines are madeof antigens, which are inactive viruses or bacteria,explains Jackie: “We actually have to find an organismon a farm to make the vaccine. The veterinarian has rec-ognized a disease problem in a herd or a flock.”

Gallant Laboratories focuses primarily on swine butoccasionally receives samples from other animals. Mostof the samples consist of swabs or tissue that a veteri-narian collects during a post-mortem of the animal. “Wecan get body parts,” she says. “We get ears occasional-ly.” Samples arrive from across the country. Once theorganism has been identified, production of the vaccinetakes four to five weeks. The vaccine is not designed foranimals that are already sick, she says. It’s designed toprotect new animals coming into the herd or facility.

Pathogens recovered from tissue samples are grownin the lab and deactivated, rendering them harmless yetstill recognizable by the immune system.

When an animal is vaccinated, its immune systemproduces antibodies that attack the foreign invaders. Ifthe animal encounters the same antigens again, the anti-bodies will recognize and destroy them. It takes two tothree weeks for most livestock vaccines to take effect,and Jackie says the animal usually needs a second vac-cination for long-lasting protection.

Each vaccine the lab produces is tailored to fight aspecific disease and must be customized according tothe type of animal, its physiology and its age. Vaccinesdeveloped for pigs are often administered to lactatingsows because their colostrum will pass on immunity totheir piglets. “That’s a more efficient way to vaccinate

really young animals,” she says, adding that it’s also morecost-effective than vaccinating each piglet. Within thefirst few days of life, piglets are particularly vulnerableto a life-threatening form of diarrhea called scours,which can be controlled with a vaccination.

Much like human influenza vaccines, swine flu vac-cines must be customized each year to target a specificcombination of strains. “There are a lot of diagnostictools that have increased our efficiency in identifyingstrains,” says Jackie. One of those tools is called poly-merase chain reaction, which identifies a bacterium basedon a piece of its DNA, much as a fingerprint identifiesa criminal. “That’s a method that’s really catching on indiagnostics. It’s been an enormous aid in identificationand comparison.”

A pathogen sample that the lab can't identify will besent to the University of Guelph or a lab in Montrealfor further analysis. “It doesn’t happen very often, thank-fully,” she says. “We don’t really like surprises.” Sheexplains that pathogens aren’t restricted by borders andcan vary greatly by region; even those found in Canadaand the United States can be different. That’s why vac-cines need to be one-size-fits-all. “The challenge for acommercial vaccine company is to create a vaccine thatcan protect against all of those variations.”

Jackie decided to go back to school when her sonSteve was five years old. Back then, she was known asJackie Hucker. “We started school together,” she says.“He started kindergarten and I started university. I’dalways wanted to go back to school and had an interestin veterinary medicine and lab work, so I chose Guelphbecause of the veterinary side of it.”

Even in high school, she knew that she would pre-fer working in a lab to being a vet. She says the micro-biology education she received at U of G was key toher success after graduation. “I’m one of the lucky onesbecause I use it every day.” She maintains ties with theOntario Veterinary College (OVC); her lab often par-ticipates in research projects. The lab also supports ascholarship for post-graduate research in immunology.

“It was just one way of supporting and extendingresearch in immunology,” says Jackie. “We try to gear ittoward swine and poultry. We thought those areas mightnot get a lot of attention.”

She is also a strong supporter of Global Vets, an OVCprogram that sends veterinary students to developingcountries. “I think it’s a phenomenal opportunity forstudents to see how other countries and cultures oper-ate their veterinary medicine programs.”

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Jackie met her future husband in 1978 on her first dayat U of G. Both she and Adrien were mature students,but they were known by a less polite title back then. “Wewere ‘older than average,’ as they called it,” she says. “The‘older than average’ student lounge is where we met.”

Not many children can say they witnessed themoment their parents first met, but Steve was there whentheir eyes met across a crowded student lounge. “I thinkit was over the doughnuts,” says Jackie with a laugh asshe recalls meeting Adrien for the first time. “My son

was helping himself quite happily to the doughnuts.”Adrien had decided to go back to school to study agri-culture after earning a degree in Moncton, N.B. He nowworks as a fertilizer consultant. Steve is now 39 yearsold and works in the lab. The Gallants have another sonand a daughter, both of whom are pursuing careers inthe theatre and film industry.

“I think what Jackie has done will inspire a lot of youngpeople,” says a proud Adrien. “She started from nothing.”

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H i s career was proceed ing just as he’dplanned. Brian Morcombe, BA ’96, had a Guelph

degree in management economics, his accounting cer-tification and a job with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,one of the top firms in the country. By the time he was26, Morcombe was already a senior manager travellingthe world to work with major clients.

Then one day his young son asked him to bring hisguitar when they went to the park near their home inGuelph. “After the kids ran around for a while, I pulled outmy guitar and sang a song,” recalls Morcombe. “Peoplestarted to gather around. I played for more than 45 min-utes, and the crowd kept growing. At the end, someonecame up and asked for my name and phone number.”

That person passed his name to the Guelph PublicLibrary, and he received a call asking him to perform ata library event. It went well, and they called him again.“They told me people were asking them to have meback.” The audiences for his shows became so big thatthe library had to close its doors to stop any more fromcoming in.

Other libraries, then festivals, began calling. “Even-tually, I had to ask for a three-week leave from workbecause I had a little tour going,” he says. As the toursand performances took up more time, he decided toleave the firm to focus on his music full-time. He nowperforms across Canada and the United States.

His Music with Brian and Friends stage show featuresdancing partners Melody the Hippo and Alan the Lion.Musicwithbrian.com offers free songs, video, lyrics andeducational material as well as an opportunity to pur-chase Morcombe’s three CDs and a DVD.

Last spring, he found himself back outside his oldoffice in downtown Toronto. “I actually parked in myold parking spot,” he says. “I made sure my hair wasmessier, though; musicians tend to have a differentapproach to fashion than accountants.” He was headeddown King Street for the announcement of the 2012Juno nominees. Morcombe’s album Everyone was nom-inated in the Children’s Album of the Year category.

He didn’t win the Juno but remembers the awardsceremony as a highlight: “To go in the room with allthese famous people, these incredible talents – I was lit-erally standing next to Blue Rodeo and watching Dead-mau5 on stage just a few feet away – it was amazing.

“I was thinking: ‘In my previous life, I was meetinghere with the likes of Paul Godfrey; now I’m being rec-ognized for a completely different talent.’”

Morcombe’s wife, Susan MacKay, was obviously

excited about the nomination. “You deserve it and I’mnot surprised,” she told him, but Morcombe adds, “Ithink she was surprised. I was!” He says her support hasbeen crucial to his success, and it hasn’t always been easy.“She married an accountant, and then one day I wokeup and said, ‘I want to be a musician.’”

MacKay is a psychological associate with a Guelphmaster’s degree in developmental psychology. She mayhave figured things out even before he did because“music time” with their own children had taken overtheir living room and become a family tradition.

Truth is, Morcombe’s love of music was always there,hovering in the background. He began playing the organwhen he was six but soon quit. It wasn’t until middleschool that he learned to play the saxophone and dis-covered his passion for music.

“The sax is such a cool instrument,” he says. “Mybrother (Stuart Morcombe, B.Comm. ’95) played thetrombone, and in the evenings we’d just jam and impro-vise. We had loads of fun.”

In high school, Brian’s ability to play and improvisemusic got him into the regional arts program at MayfieldSecondary School in his hometown of Brampton, Ont.“In my final year, I was on stage 126 times; we performedin places as far away as Vancouver, Halifax and Texas.”

His parents, though, didn’t see music as a viable wayto make a living and encouraged him to find “a good,solid career” – like accounting.

But the music lingered. While working at a summercamp after high school graduation, Morcombe offeredto teach the kids some music. “They said, ‘Great, getsome guitars.’ But I didn’t know how to play the gui-tar,” he recalls. No problem. He taught himself guitar,then taught the kids, and learned a few other instru-ments along the way.

Knowing how to play multiple instruments meansMorcombe can introduce kids to a greater variety ofmusic than many children’s performers can. His showsare also built on his ability to write songs. In fact, theJuno-nominated Everyone CD has all original music.“That was a real gamble,” he says. “Our previous CDswere 50-50 original music and traditional songs thatparents would know and recognize, but we found ouroriginal songs were popular in our shows.”

Morcombe’s new career has an important bonus:more time with his family. His three children are nownine, seven and two, and enjoy travelling with Dad tofestivals and events instead of waving good-bye at theairport as they did during his accounting years.

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What’s next? “I think TV is our next frontier,” hesays. Morcombe has already met with people at Disney,Treehouse, Nickelodeon and other networks to discusspossibilities and is developing a broadcast-ready DVD.

“For years I was an accountant for people who took

big risks and accomplished big things,” he says. “NowI’m trying to put into action the things I learned fromthem and the advice I gave them. When opportunitieslike this arrive in your life, you have to embrace them.”

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EVERYONE TOLD Naomi Jaye shewas crazy. “In retrospect, theymight have been right,” she says.

Making a film in Yiddish – a languageshe does not speak – with non-Yid-dish-speaking actors was her crazy idea.Now she’s crossing her fingers that therisk will pay off.

Jaye is used to risks. She took ayear off after finishing high school inToronto to travel in Europe beforeenrolling at U of G. “I was interestedin the London semester because mymom is British and I wanted to spendsome time in Britain.” She was hesi-tant because Guelph seemed so small,but decided to take the risk. Her the-atre classes inspired her, and hersemester in London resulted in life-long friends.

After graduating in 1996, Jayefound work doing costume design forTV and film productions. “I soonrealized that it’s the director whomakes all the interesting and creativedecisions, so I wanted to direct.” Shetook an international directinginternship in Paris and made her firstshort film when she returned.

She was then admitted to theCanadian Film Centre’s director’s lab,an intensive six-month program fol-lowed by another six months spentmaking a film. A grant from theCanada Council for the Arts allowedJaye to make her third short film.Then she wrote her first feature film,The Pin, and attended a programcalled Women in the Director’s Chairat the Banff Centre for the Arts.

It took her more than five years tomake The Pin: “One of the biggestchallenges is raising money.”

Still, she had a story to tell, begin-

ning with an elderly religious guardat a morgue who sits with those whohave died until they are ready for bur-ial. When a body is wheeled in oneday, the guard realizes it is a womanhe met and fell in love with duringthe Second World War, when theywere both hiding in a barn.

The main female character is basedin part on Jaye’s grandmother Leah,who died in 2003. “All her life she hadan intense fear of being buried alive.She made my father promise that hewould prick her hand with a pin to besure she was really dead,” says Jaye. Theman in her film makes the samepromise to the woman in the barnand, in the end, is able to keep it.

“It is about finding hope andbeauty in times of trauma, proclaim-ing life in the midst of death,” shesays. Because of its content and lan-

guage, the film has been championedby the Jewish community, but Jayesays it is really a universal story.

She had planned to shoot the filmin Russian or Lithuanian. “I wantedthe authenticity of having them speaktheir language; language takes youimmediately to a time and place.Then I realized that the young Jewishpeople in my film would actuallyspeak Yiddish as their first language,and I found myself making a Yiddishfilm with English subtitles.”

For screening updates, check herwebsite www.thepinmovie.com.

Jaye is already working on her nextfilm and is developing a musical calledWaxing Poetic about a Hungarianesthetician who is cursed. Yes, sheknows filming a musical is a risk, butJaye knows all about taking risks.

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Our Ambition Built on Success

The University had many successes in

2012, and we’re eager to embark on

goals for 2013. The BetterPlanet Project has

surpassed the $140-million mark on its way

to achieving our $200-million goal.

Supported by donors, alumni and

friends, the campaign has enjoyed incredi-

ble results. In 2011-2012, donations to the

University of Guelph totalled $27,588,730,

a 20-per-cent increase from the previous

year and the largest annual amount raised

in U of G history. Since The BetterPlanet Pro-

ject began, donations to the University have

increased more than 117 per cent. Thanks

to our dedicated alumni, donors and friends,

the University is able to invest in research,

facilities, teaching and learning while nur-

turing our next generation of leaders.

There were many great accomplishments

in 2012. Highlights include the following: David

Mirvish was installed as chancellor; U of G

was named Canada’s most inventive univer-

sity; our fall-season varsity teams all made the

Ontario University Athletics playoffs, with our

football team reaching the Yates Cup game;

and a grassroots fundraising effort raised $1

million in only two weeks to build an interna-

tional-calibre track in Alumni Stadium.

Through the work of faculty, staff, stu-

dents and alumni, we are making a differ-

ence. We value the opportunity to learn more

about how Guelph grads are working, both

personally and professionally, to help create

a better planet. Please share your story with

us at www.thebetterplanetproject.ca.

JASON MORETON

ASSISTANT VICE-PRESIDENT,

ALUMNI ADVANCEMENT

matters

T HE DEPARTMENT of Athleticswelcomed three athletes, two

championship teams and an entiredecade’s worth of football to theGryphon Hall of Fame on Sept. 21.

Sarah Hall, B.Comm. ’88, dominat-ed the pool as a Gryphon from 1985 to1988. A three-time Canadian Inter-university Athletic Union (CIAU)qualifier, she was among Canada’s topeight in 1988 with her times in the 50-and 100-metre breaststroke.

Sean Sepulis, BA ’01, won nationalswimming medals every year from 1997to 2001, including three CIAU goldmedals in 2001. He was an OntarioUniversity Athletics (OUA) All-Starwith the Gryphons and belonged to thenational swim team from 1997 to 2004.

In football, Rob Wesseling, BA ’95and M.Sc. ’97, was a three-time CIAUAll-Canadian and Academic All-Canadian, and the centrepiece of astrong offensive team that won theYates Cup in 1992. After graduation,he was a first-round pick of theEdmonton Eskimos of the CanadianFootball League (CFL).

The 1979 and 1980 men’s hock-ey teams won back-to-back OntarioUniversity Athletic Association cham-pionships, a feat matched by only one

other team in the last 70 years.Coached by Bud Folusewych, thehockey champs included Hall ofFame athletes Brad Pirie, MikeMcParland and Ray Irwin.

The 1998 women’s rugby teamwon the national CIAU champi-onship after five consecutive years asOUA champions. The team was ledby All-Canadian Maria Gallo andincluded OUA All-Stars AndreaMurphy, Jenny Thompson, TaraTrussell and Bree Warner.

Agriculture and veterinary stu-dents playing football in the 1930swere known as the Guelph Aggies.Led by coach Fred “Baldy” Baldwin,the Aggies won five national champi-onships. Seven members from thatdecade have been inducted into theGryphon Hall of Fame as individuals.

Gryphons Join Hall of Fame

From left: Sean Sepulis, Sarah Hall and

Rob Wesseling

CAREER NIGHTS AND NETWORKING

Alumni volunteers will meet on campus with

graduating students to network and share

career experiences.

Jan. 23 • CBS Career Night

Jan. 23 • HAFA/HTM Career Night

Jan. 23 • OVC Business Club

Jan. 24 • CSAHS Career Night

Jan. 29 • School of Engineering Career

Night

Jan. 29 • CPES Career Night

Find career night details at www.alumni.

uoguelph.ca/events, including how to get

involved in future networking events.

Jan. 25 • OVC Reception at OVMA

Dean Elizabeth Stone will host a reception

for OVC grads at the Westin Harbour Cas-

tle, Queen’s Quay Room.

Feb. 7 • Florida Winter Excursion

Relax on the water during a cruise to Franklin

Lock. Board at 10:30 a.m., enjoy a lunch

buffet and return at 3:30 p.m. Tickets $32.50

+ tax (USD). Contact: Bert Mitchell, 941-921-

6426.

Feb. 18 • OVC Reception at Western

Veterinary Conference

Join OVC alumni for a reception at the Four

Seasons Las Vegas, hosted by Dean Eliza-

beth Stone. Details: www.alumni.uoguelph.ca/

events.

Feb. 27 • MBA Alumni and Student Mixer

Meet at the Farmhouse Tavern in Toronto at

6:30 p.m. for a fun event hosted by owner

Darcy MacDonell, B.Comm. ’02 and MA ’10.

Enjoy a food demonstration while reuniting

with friends and grads. Details: www.alumni.

uoguelph.ca/events.

March 6 • Florida Alumni Picnic

Escape the cold Canadian winter and

connect with U of G grads in Florida. The

annual picnic will take place at Maple Leaf

Estates Recreation Center in Port Charlotte,

beginning at 10 a.m. $20 USD per person

for lunch with wine and dessert. Reserve by

Feb. 27 with Lyle Rea at 941-505-0183.

March 16 and 17 • College Royal

Enjoy family fun at the 89th annual College

Royal: livestock shows, dog and cat shows,

square dancing, logging competition, pho-

tography show, flower arranging, and seeds

and forage competitions as well as campus

tours and a lecture series. Details: www.

collegeroyalsociety.com.

March 23 • OAC Alumni Association

Curling Bonspiel

This annual Aggie event will be held at the

Guelph Curling Club. Details: www.alumni.

uoguelph.ca/events.

April 30 • UGAA Board Nominations

Don’t miss this deadline for nominations to the

University of Guelph Alumni Association board

of directors. Details: www.alumni.uoguelph.ca/

ugaaboard.

June 14 and 15 • Alumni Weekend 2013

Find more alumni events at www.

alumni.uoguelph.ca and visit the U of G

home page for campus events open to

the public.

CAMPUS CO-OP STILLVITAL AFTER 100 YEARS

The fellows in this 1913 photo are

dressed differently than today’s U of G

students, but they were concerned about

many of the same issues when they estab-

lished the Guelph Campus Co-operative –

the availability and cost of textbooks, and

finding a decent place to live.

The principles behind the co-op remain

the same, says Tom Klein Beernink, man-

ager of housing and member relations.

The campus co-op will celebrate its 100th

anniversary with events throughout the year.

Visit www.guelphcampus.coop to tell your co-

op stories and learn about anniversary events.

alumni matters

OACAA Tees Off

OAC GRADS ENJOYED a day of golfSept. 7 at the Ariss Valley Golf and

Country Club. Funds raised will sup-port student activities and help strengthen the partnership between thecollege and the agri-food industry. From left to right: OAC ’62 classmatesJohn Burton, Bill Harrison, John Paw-ley and Glenn Powell.

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THIS PHOTO, which appeared in theFall 2012 issue of The Portico, was

incorrectly captioned. Celebrating withstudents at the official opening of theUniversity’s new engineering complexare Frank Hasenfratz, chair of the boardof Linamar Corp., left, and engineeringalumnus Wolf Haessler, founder of Skyjack Inc.

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Gryphons in Love

Attending university isn’t just about the

books, lectures and keg parties; some-

times we’re lucky enough to meet our soul-

mate along the way. Just look at grads Scott

Moccia and Terra Wakeford, who celebrated

their wedding day in true Gryphon style by

taking advantage of a new campus venue.

Scott and Terra met in 2003, just months

before they both started their degrees at

Guelph. Their relationship blossomed from

there, and they wanted to capture that love

in their wedding pictures at a place known

only as home.

Exactly 10 years earlier, in the fall of 1993,

I saw my future wife for the first time during a

U of G lecture. She was wearing a blue den-

im jacket and bandana, and was carrying her

signature blue canvas bag. She came in and

sat at the far end of the same row that I was

in. It took me two years to get that first date.

If you want to know the rest of my story,

or if you’d like to submit your own romantic

tale, visit our “Gryphons in Love” contest web-

site at www.alumni.uoguelph.ca/inlove. You

can share your story and a photo for a

chance to win a romantic dinner for two in

your hometown and some U of G swag.

BRAD ROONEY, ADA ’93 AND

B.SC.(AGR.) ’97

UGAA PRESIDENT

Call for UGAA nominations

The University of Guelph Alumni Associ-

ation needs strong ambassadors to

volunteer their skills and experience. Nom-

inate yourself or someone else who can rep-

resent the voice of alumni. Details at

www.alumni.uoguelph.ca/ugaaboard.

Gryphon Green Draws Wedding Party

GUELPH GRADS HOLDING their wedding reception at Cutten Fields last sum-mer just couldn’t resist hiking across College Avenue for a photo in U of G’s

newly renovated stadium. The happy couple are Terra Wakeford, B.Sc. ’08 and DVM’12, and Scott Moccia, B.Eng. ’08. Other members of the wedding party are, fromleft: Evan Slinger; Wyatt Job; Chris Peters, B.Sc. ’07; Ed DeLay, B.Eng. ’09; JasonMuller; Mark Allen; Tracy Wakeford, BA ’11; Whitney Wakeford, graduating fromU of G in 2013; Vanessa Gilmor, B.Sc. ’08; Lauren Hungler, B.Sc. ’07; and RachelStadnyk, B.Sc. ’07 and DVM ’12. Terra and Scott live in Guelph; she works at West-mount Animal Hospital in New Dundee, he is a business analyst for OVC.

Find more U of G alumni news and events at www.alumni.uoguelph.ca

HOCKEY DAY

HOCKEY ALUMNI, family andfriends, along with current

Gryphon hockey players, celebratedtheir varsity connection at the annualHockey Day in Gryphonville Nov. 17.Team captains from 1949 through 1979were honoured at a reunion thatincluded a game of shinny, a dinnerbanquet and a chance to watch thehockey Gryphons beat the Universityof Ontario Institute of Technology. Backrow, from left: Ted Brown, 1973-74 and

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1974-75; Robbie Keith, 1958-59 and1959-60; Stu O’Neil, 1957-58; andHugh Mitchell, 1978-79. Front row:Max O’Neil, 1960-61; and Tom Sawyer,1962-63.

ALUMNI MEET AT JAYS GAME

ALMOST 60 U OF G grads met inToronto for a Blue Jays game on

Sept. 12. Left to right: Jen Gonzales,B.Sc ’04; Aaron Verdoch, BA ’05; NadiaRosemond, BA ’05; and Emily Ambos,BA ’07.

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Paralympic runner promotes active living

A S THOUSANDS OF FANS cheered inLondon’s Olympic Stadium, Par-

alympic track runner Jason Dunkerleycould barely hear Josh Karanja, but theyboth knew what they had to do: keeprunning until they crossed the finishline. And they did, winning bronze inthe 1,500-metre and silver in the 5,000-metre at the 2012 Paralympic Games.

It was guide runner Karanja whogave Dunkerley the medal-winningnews. “I actually didn’t know,” saysDunkerley. “The crowd was so loud.”

Dunkerley’s brother, Jon, also com-peted in the 400-metre and the 4x100-metre relay, achieving a personal best.The brothers, who were born blind, gottheir first taste of the runner’s highwhile attending a school for the blindin Northern Ireland. The school intro-duced them to a variety of sports,including running, swimming andwrestling. Their family moved to Cana-da when Jason was 13; he completedhis Guelph degree in internationaldevelopment in 2003, specializing inLatin American studies and Spanish.

He has run with Karanja for the pastyear. Karanja also competes himself andreceived a track scholarship from East-ern Michigan University. “He’s great atguiding, but he’s also a great trainingpartner,” says Dunkerley. “It’s just Joshbeing mindful of the two of us andbeing the eyes for the two of us.” As anexperienced 5,000-metre runner,Karanja was a perfect match forDunkerley, who says he wants to focuson training for longer races as he getsolder.

He also earned a bronze medal atthe 2008 Paralympics in Beijing andone silver medal each from the Sydney(2000) and Athens (2004) games.

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with his 2012 medal, Dunkerley says heavoided the “post-Paralympic hang-over” by going back to his daily rou-tine at the Active Living Alliance forCanadians with a Disability, where heworks. “Fifteen per cent of Canadianshave a disability, and very few of them

participate in sport or physical activi-ty,” he says. “Active living can be forpeople of all abilities. It’s transforma-tional. It doesn’t have to be about goingto the Paralympics or being a compet-itive athlete.”

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in the men’s 5,000-metre final at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.

1950s■ Ross Ainslie, DVM ’52, hasbeen looking after Halifax pets for60 years. He was recently inter-viewed by CBC reporter PaulPalmeter about his many contri-butions to veterinary care in theHalifax area. Ainslie has established10 veterinary hospitals in thecommunity and still practises part-time. In 2005, he received theNova Scotia Lieutenant Gover-nor’s Award for Animal Care. In2011, the Nova Scotia House ofAssembly recognized his long ser-vice and outstanding contribu-tions to the veterinary commu-nity. The Nova Scotia VeterinaryAssociation has also recognizedhis dedication to the profession,his clients and the community.

■ Ralph Fish, DVM ’52,received the 2012 Perth Medalfrom the Town of Perth, Ont. Hehas been a member of theRotary Club of Perth for morethan 55 years, has supported thePerth Blue Wings Jr. B hockeyteam, and has been involved withthe local curling club. He is apast-president of the Chamber ofCommerce and an active mem-ber of the Central Canada Vet-erinary Association. Perth May-or John Fenik commented: “Dr.

Fish is a great example of what itis to be a Perth Medal winner.”

■ Albert “Bud” Ings, DVM’52, is one of three 2012 recip-ients of the Order of PrinceEdward Island, recognizing hiscontributions to veterinarymedicine and the broader com-munity. In 2009, he received theAtlantic Award of Excellence inVeterinary Medicine and Ani-mal Care. He recently publishedhis second book, Vet Behind theEars, about his experiences as aP.E.I. veterinarian.

1970s■ Fiona King, B.Sc.(Agr.) ’77,has retired from the dog board-ing and grooming business andsays she loves spending her sum-mers on a sailboat. ■ James McRae, MA ’77, haspublished a book called WorldAwakening and is writing a sec-ond volume with the workingtitle The African Diaries. Sincegraduating from U of G, he hasearned a master’s degree insocial policy from CarletonUniversity, worked at Agricul-ture and Agri-Food Canada andEnvironment Canada, and vol-unteered with CUSO inBotswana. He has also worked

in mental health, addiction andcommunity development. ■ Milica Pavlica, BA ’79, hasbeen employed at McMasterUniversity since 1986. Sheworked previously for U of G’sCentral Student Association andthe McMaster Students’ Union.■ Kevin Wall, BA ’77, is return-ing to Canada after living in theUnites Stated for many years,especially in Philadelphia. Herecently graduated with a bio-statistics certificate from the Uni-versity of California, San Diego,and earned credentials in elec-

tronic health records. He has anew position as a clinical analystat Ontario Shores Centre forMental Health Services in Whit-by, Ont. An avid ballroom dancer,he hopes to reconnect withfriends and family and meet newpeople close to the GTA.

1980s■ Jerry Claessens, B.Sc.(Agr.)’80, has been general manager ofLely Canada Inc. for the past sixyears and was recently asked toopen the Latin American marketfor the company’s line of dairy

Retired business professor Bill Braithwaite writes about a

special group of Guelph grads who participated in the

1997 London business semester. “The four months that Liz

(his wife) and I lived and worked with these students in the fall

of 1997 was the most enjoyable experience I had as a teacher.

We regard these young people as part of our family and try

our best to keep in touch with them.”

Not only do these grads stay in touch, but they’ve held a

reunion every five years; their third get-together took place Sept.

22 at Cutten Fields in Guelph. Back row, left to right: Bill Braith-

waite, Kevin Winik, Brady Dunlop, Brad Cressman, Kate (Finlay)

Dickson and Rebecca Harth. Front row: Andrea (Robson) Fed-

dema, Barb (Jibb) Farrell, Elizabeth Braithwaite and Susan (Street)

Wooldridge. Absent: Chris Antonik, Natalie Caldwell, Emily Field,

Carolyn Gaudet, Martha Gonder and Barry McGroarty.

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equipment, including the Lelymilking robot. His family willstay in Canada while he com-mutes to Lely’s new Latin Amer-ican base in Valinhos, Brazil. ■ Raymond Fung, BA, ’85,completed a master’s degree infine art at the U.K.’s Universityof London in 2011 and now livesin Shanghai, China. ■ Marc Hurwitz, B.Sc. ’83and M.Sc. ’88, has beenappointed an assistant professorof organizational behaviour andhuman resource management inthe School of Business and Eco-nomics at Wilfred Laurier Uni-versity. He also co-runs FliPskillsConsulting, a business dedicat-ed to improving leadership, fol-lowership, partnerships andinnovation in organizations. ■ Monique Leclerc, M.Sc. ’82and PhD ’87, studied agrome-teorology at U of G and is nowon faculty at the University ofGeorgia, where she received theD. W. Brooks Award for excel-lence in global programs.■ Joanne Moran, BLA ’84,writes to say she recently visit-ed the School of LandscapeArchitecture and found thecampus “as beautiful as ever!”■ Shelley MacDermidWadsworth, B.A.Sc. ’82, andClint Chapple, B.Sc. ’82, M.Sc.’84 and PhD ’90, are both facul-ty members at Purdue Universi-ty in West Lafayette, IN. They dis-covered their U of G connections– living in the same residence andfinishing their undergrad degreesin 1982 – when they met at aPurdue awards ceremony lastsummer where both receivedmajor awards. A biochemist,Chapple won a university-wideaward for outstanding research.By manipulating a compound inplant cell walls called lignin – thesubstance lends structural strengthbut hinders conversion of plantsinto other materials – he hashelped improve processing tech-

niques for making paper frompulp. MacDermid Wadsworth isa professor of human develop-ment and family studies anddirector of Purdue’s Center forFamilies and its Military FamilyResearch Institute. She studieswork and family life relations, andreceived a new Purdue award rec-ognizing faculty excellence.■ Donna-Beverly McKee,BA ’86, earned an undergradu-ate degree in nursing at the Uni-versity of New Brunswick, com-pleted northern clinical trainingthrough McMaster Universityand finished a master’s degree atthe University of Victoria. She isnow completing a master’s inpublic health at Lakehead Uni-versity and works for the Gov-ernment of Nunavut as directorof population health for theKivalliq Region. With her part-ner, Michael Patterson, she israising their five children: Hay-den, Moyrah, Rhonyn, Shayneand Broghyn. When not flyingup and down to the Arctic, thefamily can be found in NovaScotia’s Annapolis Valley. ■ Catherine Milne, BLA ’83,and John Gibson recently cele-brated their 25th year in the gar-den centre industry with theirFarmgate Gardens. Their eldestdaughter, Catherine, is workingtoward an education degree.Their daughter, Alexandrea, willfinish high school this spring andson, Nicholas, is in Grade 9.■ Laurene Liversey Park,B.A.Sc. ’81, was invited to speakat the annual conference of theJapan Association of Life Orga-nizers in November. She is cer-tification program director of theInstitute for Challenging Disor-ganization and a past-presidentof Professional Organizers inCanada.■ Mark Stainer, B.Sc. ’84, issenior managing director andnational industrial director forthe real estate firm Cushman &

All in the Family

Guelph grads in the Bogaert family, standing, from left: Michelle,

George, Rick, Robin, Debbie, Peter and Greg. Seated: current

students Jordan and Brittany, and 2012 grad Katlyn.

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Wallaceburg, Ont., and studied at the University of Guelph. Each

one earned a degree but, more importantly, met his future wife on

campus. Their lives over the last 40 years have been busy growing

careers and families, including four second-generation Bogaerts who

have also pursued post-secondary education at U of G.

Peter Bogaert, B.Sc.(Agr.) ’78, and Debbie Portwood, B.A. ’77,

married in 1978. Peter and brother George operate joint business

interests, with Peter’s main focus on management of the family’s

Sydenham Farms. Debbie is an elementary school teacher with the

St. Clair Catholic District School Board. She and Peter have four

children, including son Greg, ADA ’01, who followed his father into

agriculture studies at Guelph. Greg works in partnership with his

father and uncle in the farm operation.

George, ADA ’82, and Michelle Stevens, B.A. ’84, were mar-

ried in 1985. George’s main focus is managing Select Finishing, a

custom coating operation in Wallaceburg. Michelle is a health edu-

cator with the Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit. Their two children

are now at U of G. Brittany will graduate this year with a degree in

arts and science. Jordan is completing a co-op program in mechan-

ical engineering and plans to graduate in 2014.

Rick, BLA ’84, is the third Bogaert brother in this story. He mar-

ried Robin Porritt, B.A.Sc.’86, in 1986. His career has included 26

years at landscape architectural and multidisciplinary design firms

in Detroit and Toronto. He recently became urban and landscape

implementation manager for the $1.4-billion Windsor Essex Park-

way. Robin is a case manager in health and social services for the

City of Windsor. They have two children, including daughter Katlyn

who graduated in June with a B.A.Sc. degree in adult development

and well-being. She is working on a master’s degree in social work

at the University of Toronto.

“It started with three brothers and their spouses who had pride

in being graduates of the University of Guelph and encouraged their

children to seek a great quality post-secondary education,” says Rick.

“We all have enough positive Guelph memories to last a lifetime.”

Wakefield in Toronto. ■ Lorraine Tawfik, B.Sc. ’80,is a statistical/accreditation/infor-mation analyst for Long IslandUniversity in Brookville, N.Y.She reports that her son com-pleted an MBA in May and isteaching at a community college.Her husband is a professor atFarmingdale State College.■ Caroline Young, ODH ’85,worked as a rose breeder in theNetherlands for 16 years beforemoving to Nova Scotia threeyears ago to complete a master’sdegree in divinity at the AtlanticSchool of Theology in Halifax.

1990s■ Lori Quinlan, BA ’94, ofBarrie, Ont., started at U of Gwith the class of 1988 but delayedher studies because of familyresponsibilities. Now she’d like toreconnect with friends from thelate 1980s. Contact her through

U of G by sending email toalumnirecords@uoguelph.ca.■ Deborah Rumble-Dani,BA ’95, is taking business cours-es and working as a parent gov-ernor for the nursery schoolattended by her son, Lyndunne. ■ Tammy Tipler-Priolo,B.A.Sc. ’90, of North Bay, Ont.,will speak at the OntarioGenealogical Society Confer-ence in May in Oshawa. Shereceived her genealogy certifi-cate (PLCGS) from the Nation-al Institute for GenealogicalStudies in partnership with theFaculty of Independent Studiesat the University of Toronto. Shehas more than 17 years of expe-rience in consulting, research-ing, teaching and writing arti-cles for www.BayToday.ca.■ Phil Williams, B.Sc.’97, andSandra (Gammond) Williams,B.Comm, ’97, have moved toSaint-Lazare, Que., with their

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Impact of Giving“Choose your passions” is worldly advice from Murray McEwen, a philanthropist and long-time friend of the University of Guelph. Last year, Murray and 13,751 alumni and friends, corporations, associations and foundations made gifts to the University.

Please visit the Impact of Giving Report online at www.uoguelph.ca/impactofgiving to read about Murray’s gift to support students passionate about clean, safe water, as well a collection of other stories about how support has made a difference at Guelph.

The Sept. 24 Homecoming football game was a memorable one

for U of G alumni and Gryphon players. Almost 300 grads vis-

ited the pre-game Manulife hospitality tent and supported the

Gryphons as they defeated the University of Toronto. The Gryphons

went on to play in the Nov. 10 Yates Cup but lost the Ontario Uni-

versity Athletic final to McMaster University.

Alumni reunions were held at Homecoming for Redmen foot-

ball, the Engineering Alumni Association, the School of Biological

Science Alumni Association and Gryphon men’s basketball. Play-

ers from the 1966 to 1976 basketball teams and their guests gath-

ered around coach Garney Henley for this photo.

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Jamie Slingerland, ADA ’79,

director of viticulture for

Pillitteri Estates Winery in the

Niagara Peninsula, received a

2012 Premier’s Award for agri-

food innovation. He leads the

winery’s Verona appassimento

project to produce the first

Ontario appassimento (rack-

dried) wine made from Amarone

grape varietals Corvina,

Rondinella and Molinara.

He was recognized for

developing new grape varieties

in Canada and for speeding up

the process though commercial

adaptation of experimental

green-shoot grafting, which

takes mere months to reproduce

a few vine cuttings into thou-

sands of vines in a greenhouse.

Through Niagara nursery

VineTech, he located the only

phytosanitary-certified wood cut-

tings of these varieties at a U.S.

research facility. Green-shoot

grafting was subsequently pio-

neered at the Vineland Research

Facility with U of G professor

Helen Fisher. Pillitteri harvested

its first crop of the rare varieties

The winery is a large pro-

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sons, Jackson, 7, and Tyson, 4.Phil is now product manager forMerial Canada Inc.

2000s

■ Allison Brown, B.Sc.(Env.)’04, moved to Australia in 2007and was a 2012 finalist in theprestigious Telstra Western Aus-tralian Business Women’s Awards.She is an environmental systemsand development manager forthe Australia Pacific division ofBarrick Gold Corp. Her respon-

sibilities include implementingenvironmental standards at nineproperties in Australia, PapuaNew Guinea, Zambia and Sau-di Arabia, and ensuring compli-ance across all Barrick mines inthe division. She has helped cre-ate an environmental graduateprogram for the company andhas promoted opportunities forwomen in the mining industry.For the first six months of 2012,she was acting environmentdirector for the division; she isnow pursuing a master’s degreein environmental sustainability.■ Chris Martin, BA ’00,moved with his wife, Erin, toMoncton, N.B., four years ago.They have two children, Oliveand Sullivan. He recently com-pleted an education degree atCrandall University and is look-ing forward to raising his familyand teaching in the Maritimes. ■ Tanya Springer, BA ’07,

For information on bequests and planned giving, please contact Ross Butler at 519-824-4120, ext. 56196, rbutler@uoguelph.ca, or visit www.alumni.uoguelph.ca

Make your legacy a better planet.

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Auctioneer David Moore,

ADA ’83, says the Nov. 24

sale of orange lampshades in

the University Centre brought

back memories of his student

days at U of G. The iconic light

fixtures were replaced last sum-

mer and were sold via live and

online auctions to benefit the

University’s annual United Way

campaign.

Moore remembers meeting

other students for lunch under

the cluster of orange lights, and

the UC courtyard is where he

got his start as an auctioneer

in 1981. He was asked then to

perform at a charitable “leg”

auction where bidders bought

a date for the evening by judg-

ing their bare legs. “Men were

part of the fun, too,” he says.

“They’d shave their legs and

wear high heels.”

After graduation, Moore

went to auction college to mas-

ter the trade lingo and started

David Moore & Associates in

Guelph in 1984. His wife, Car-

olyn, B.A.Sc. ’84, works as a

food research analyst for the

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture,

Food and Rural Affairs.

Overall, the U of G commu-

nity donated $560,000 to the

Guelph Wellington Dufferin

United Way in 2012.

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wrote and produced a full-length documentary titled “OfMothers and Merchants” thatwas shown on CBC’s The Cur-rent in March 2012. She creditsher experience at Guelph, espe-cially the India semester, withgiving her the education, toolsand courage to tackle this pro-ject. The film looks at the under-regulation of the commercialsurrogacy industry in India. ■ Heather Vita, B.A.Sc. ’04,uncovered a U of G connectionwhen she worked for the Thun-der Bay Regional Health Sci-ences Centre with LaurenBeach, B.A.Sc. ’09, and AlisonMcMullen, B.A.Sc. ’79. They allstudied applied human nutritionat Guelph and have pursuedhealth-related careers, althoughVita is now working for theThunder Bay Regional HealthSciences Foundation as a mar-keting and communications

officer. She says, “I found itquite a coincidence that, out ofa relatively small Guelph pro-gram, three of us are clusteredhere in Thunder Bay.”

2010s■ Julia Del Monte, BA ’12,started studies at the OntarioInstitute for Studies in Educa-tion in September.■ Mark McGown, B.Comm.’12, of Schomberg, Ont., and hishometown friend JeremyRobertson are starting a travel/backpacking web series called TheBackpacking Project, beginning witha trip to Thailand and Costa Rica.A graduate of the New York FilmAcademy, Robertson filmed a2011 pep rally at U of G (postedon YouTube).■ Zoe Waelchli, BA ’10, wasrecently accepted into the Uni-versity of Zurich to begin a mas-ter’s degree in psychology.

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Johannes Aalders, PhD ’71, July 30, 2012

Robert Abell, DVM ’50, Oct. 15, 2012Hon. Lincoln M. Alexander,

H.D.La. ’09, Oct. 21, 2012Frank Bell, BSA ’64, Sept 2, 2012Keith Bennett, BSA ’49, Aug. 19, 2012Margaret Blake, B.H.Sc. ’63,

Oct. 13, 2012Salvatore Bommarito, BA ’83,

date unknownJason Boverhof, B.Sc. ’97,

Aug. 23, 2012Stuart Bowman, BSA ’36, March 30,

2012Lesley (White) Brown,

B.Sc.(Env.) ’97, Sept. 8, 2012Gerardus Bruin, PhD ’80,

Aug. 1, 2012 Alan Bycraft, B.Sc.(Agr.) ’78,

March 31, 2012Carrie (Cook) Cadotte, DHE ’37,

Nov. 8, 2012Kwai Fong Chong, DVM ’60,

July 17, 2012Howard Colhoun, BSA ’50,

June 20, 2012Sarah Collin, MA ’96, Jan. 2, 2012Dudley Collins, DVM ’56,

July 21, 2012Marion Crewson, DHE ’48,

Oct. 13, 2012Ralph Cutten, B.Sc. ’71, Oct. 5, 2012David Davidson, BSA ’52,

Oct. 21, 2012Murray Dewart, BSA ’51,

Aug. 31, 2012Vijay Duggal, M.Sc.(Eng.) ’66,

July 18, 2012W. O. Edwards, BA ’72, June 7, 2012Donald Fishman, DVM ’58,

Nov. 15, 2012Elizabeth (Clark) Fuller, DHE ’35,

Aug. 26, 2012Edward Greene, DVM ’75,

Aug. 11, 2012Peter Greenhow, BSA ’61,

Oct. 9, 2012Joan (Allen) Hamilton, B.H.Sc. ’55,

April 1, 2012William Harrison, DVM ’49,

Sept. 2, 2012

Lois (Tout) Heath, DHE ’37, July 18, 2012

Julia (Lane) Hillmann, B.H.Sc. ’60,Nov. 2, 2011

Hanna Hogarth, ODH ’88, May 31, 2012

Gary Holm, M.Sc. ’86, Aug. 16, 2011Donald Hughes, DVM ’56,

Aug. 17, 2012Marilyn (Farage) Holm, M.Sc. ’85,

Sept. 28, 2011Ralph Honey, ADA ’61, Aug. 21, 2012Jane Jarrell, B.A.Sc. ’75, Nov. 1, 2012Stanley Klachan, BSA ’53, Nov. 22,

2012Lancelot Lam, DVM ’73,

Aug. 21, 2012Marian (Sibbald) Lawson, DHE ’47,

Dec. 31, 2010Joseph Lomas, DVM ’43, July 9, 2012Scot Lougheed, B.Sc.(Agr.) ’90,

Oct. 25, 2011Sharon Lynch, B.A.Sc. ’87,

Oct. 31, 2010Everett MacFarlane, ADA ’50,

March 2, 2012Ross MacLennan, B.Sc.(Agr.) ’67,

Aug. 26, 2012James Maki, BSA ’64, Oct. 25, 2008Margaret (Thomson) Maki,

B.H.Sc. ’64, Jan. 30, 2004Carmen Marcinko, BA ’12,

March 26, 2012Lorna Marshall, MBA ’02,

Nov. 21, 2011Lyle Martin, ADA ’67, Feb. 5, 2012Robert Mason, DVM ’86,

Oct. 21, 2012John Mbaya, PhD ’94, date unknownNicole McCord, BA ’99,

Aug. 18, 2012Margaret (Merkley) McLaughlin,

DHE ’37, Oct. 2, 2011Bernard McSherry, DVM ’42,

July 12, 2012Jake Mills, DVM ’62, Nov. 8, 2012Lloyd Minshall, BSA ’38,

Aug. 14, 2012Kenneth Orchard, DVM ’65,

June 14, 2012Pauline (Frankfort) Pattenick,

DHE ’40, March 17, 2012

Ross Patterson, BSA ’49, July 7, 2012Jean (Guest) Phoenix, DHE ’40,

June 30, 2012Helen (Sutherland) Pirie, DHE ’35,

Nov. 15, 2012 Storm (MacKenzie) Poynter,

DHE ’42. Dec. 22, 2009MacDonald Reid, BSA ’53,

Nov. 14, 2011Bruce Reynolds, B.Sc.(Agr.) ’72,

Aug. 4, 2012Leone Riddolls, DHE ’37,

Nov. 21, 2012Carleton Ring, DVM ’35,

April 24, 2012John Robinson, BSA ’48,

July 24, 2012Neal Robson, DVM ’74,

Sept. 12, 2012Robert Roughley, B.Sc.(Agr.) ’74,

Nov. 9, 2009Charles Shane, BSA ’51,

Aug. 26, 2012Ola (Robertson) Shoom,

B.H.Sc. ’52, Oct. 16, 2012Leslie Shugar, B.Sc.(Agr.) ’75,

June 2, 2012Archie Sinclair, ADA ’66,

Sept. 18, 2012Phillip Tobias, H.D.Sc. ’90,

June 7, 2012Gwendolyn (Peters) Tonge,

DHE ’59, Sept. 28, 2012Ronald Trenton, DVM ’76,

Aug. 2, 2012Audrey (Ellsworth) Troup,

DHE ’36, Feb. 9, 2010Donald West, BSA ’49,

March 31, 2012Aaron Whalen, ADA ’01, May 7, 2011 Kathryn (Field) Zimmer,

B.H.Sc. ’71, Aug. 25, 2012FACULTY Parvathi Basrur, retired,

Biomedical Sciences, Nov. 10, 2012Eric Beauchamp, retired,

Land Resource Science, April 17, 2012

Murdoch MacKinnon, retired dean,College of Arts, July 8, 2012

Stephen Rodd, retired, Rural Planningand Development, Sept. 6, 2012

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