Shopping for faculty: Is citizenship important? . . . page 3

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH July-August 1971, Vol. 4, NO. 4

CONTENTS

Citizenship versus Scholarship 3

Sass Peepre and the great outdoors 8

The Lecture Mystique 11

Alumni Weekend 12

Campus Highlights 14

Appointments 17

Alumni News 19

CREDITS

Design: cover, Ken Chamberlain;

Photography: p. 4, 10, (bottom), 12, 13, 14. 15, 16, D. Bates; p. 6, 17, Audio-Visual Services; p. 8, 9, 10 (top),

Prof. Alex Peepre.

UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

HONORARY PRESIDENT: Dr. W. C. Winegard.

PRESIDENT: P. W. COUSE, OAC '46.

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT: Dr. V. C. R. walk&. OVC '47.

VICE-PRESIDENTS: Mrs. J . D. (Vrrgrnra Shortt) Bandeen. Mac '57: P. D. Ferguson. Well '68: T. R. Hllltard. OAC '40: Dr. D. S. Macdonald. OVC '57.

SECRETARY: Mrs. D. J. (Jean Kellough) King. Mac '52.

TREASURER: J. J. Elmslie. Development Officer, University of Guelph.

DIRECTORS: Dr. C. R. Buck. OVC '46: Mrs. B. L. (Pat Lumley) Canwell. Well '68; Miss Jean Dewar, Mac '28; Dr. G. R. Doidge. OVC '52; Mrs. G. M. (Joan Anderson) Jenkinson. Mac '66: Mrs. M. S. (Linda Sully) Keith. Well '67: P. M. Lindley. OAC '57: Dr. D. S. Macdonald. OVC '57: D. W. McDonell. OAC '70: T. 8. Radford. Well '67: C. G. Triven. OAC '67.

EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS: R. G. Bennett. OAC '43, President. O.A.C. Alumni Association: R. D. Bever~dge. Well '67. President. Arts and Sciences Alumni Associa- tion: Mrss Rosernary Clark. Mac '59. President Mac- donald Institute Alumnae Association: Dr. T. L. Jones. OVC '34. President, O.V.C. Alumni Association; and J. K. Babcock. OAC '54, Director. Alumni Affairs and Development.

The Guelph Alumnus IS publrshed by the Department of Alumn~ Affa~rs and Developrnent. Un~verslty of Guelph.

The Ed~torlal Coni~n~ttee IS comprrsed of Edltor-D. A. Bates. OAC '69. Alu~nn~ Officer: Art D~rector-Prof. K. E. Chamberlain: J. K. Babcock. OAC '54. D~rector of Alurnnr Affarrs and Development: D. L. Waterston, Orrector of Inlormatron: D. W. Jose. OAC '49. Assstant Dlrector of Infornlatron.

The Edrtorral Adv~sory Board of the Univers~ty of Guelph Alumn~ Assoc~at~on: Glenn Powell. OAC '62, Chalrrnan; Mrs. G. M. Jenkrnson, Mac '66 and Mrs. J. M. (Kay Murdoch) Llttle, Mac '59, v~ce-cha~rmen: Dr. A. E. Austin. Dept. of English: and Mr. G. B. Love, Well '69. Ex-OH~clo: J. K. Babcock. OAC '54 and P. W. Couse, OAC '46. Corresponding members: D. R. Baron, OAC '49 and H. G. Dodds, OAC '58.

Undellvered copres should be returned to Alumni House. University of Guelph. Guelph, Ontarlo. Canada.

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About this issue Approximately three years ago, two Carleton University professors of English,

Robin Mathews and James Steele.

shocked their academic community as well as the nation with their findings

regarding the citizenship of professors

in Canadian universities.

They said that the proportion of

Canadian academics had fallen from

approximately 75 per cent in 1961-62 to about 49 per cent in 1968-69. Worse still, they said, the rate of this diminution

had increased sharply in the late 1960s. "It is evident," they write in their book,

The Struggle for Canadian Universities,

"that if this trend continues for much

longer, the net effect will be such that

the Canadian academic will become a proper specimen for cultural anthro- pologists-from a broad."

For their efforts, Mathews and Steele

have been both praised and cursed. Their

supporters applaud Mathews and Steele's findings for revealing yet another part of

Canada that is falling under foreign

domination. The critics contend that scholarship is, and always will be, inter-

national; that good teaching knows no

geographical boundaries; and that a pro-

fessor's citizenship has little or no effect on his teaching.

On the next five pages, we look at the

question of scholarship versus citizenship by means of an interview with University

President, Dr. W. C. Winegard.

Our report in this issue was initiated by a Council of Ontario Universities report that shows the University of Guelph had in 1969-70 the highest proportion of

Canadian academics of the 14 provincial

universities; 69 per cent of Guelph's

faculty (436 of 631) were Canadians.

Last year, there was no discipline with less than 53 per cent Canadians. As with most universities, the lowest proportion of Canadians a t Guelph occurred in the

humanities and social sciences, 53 and 57 per cent respectively. Canadians held 75 per cent or more of the posts in the sciences save for physical s c i e n c M 6

per cent. For outdoor buffs who have a tendency

to get lost while exploring, we present starting on page eight a sport that will make even the most timid camper an equal of David Thompson, or Lewis and Clark.

It's called orienteering, and it's a sport you'll be hearing a lot more about in the

next few years according to Alex Peepre,

professor of physical education.

On page 11, Professor Homer Hogan

comments on the potential of a audio-

visual teaching set-up at Guelph. The article originally appeared in the campus

publication Teaching Forum entitled

An Immodest Proposal. Immodest? Articles on Alumni Weekend, Convo-

cation, campus highlights, and alumni news follow.

Dr. Winegard, why does the University of Guelph have such a high proportion of Canadians on staff when some other universities have only a bare majority, perhaps even a minority, of Canadian academics? Is any effort made t o hire a specific proportion of Canadians?

I suspect that this is partially due to the fact that the founding col- leges, in many cases, had to train their own faculty. Looking at the University's calendar you'll find several professors who attended one of the three founding colleges as undergraduates and post-graduates. That would, of course, have given the University a relatively high proportion of Canadians on staff in 1965. Another reason is that this University still emphasizes the sciences, and there is no shortage of good Canadian scientists. Since the University was formed, we have been hiring the best people we could find, but we haven't made any conscientious attempt to hire just Canadians, and, of course, we haven't hired just Canadians. Almost by chance the University has a very high percentage of Canadians. and we are pleased with that. In many cases, we haven't been able to go out and find Canadians. As a result, we have somewhere in the range of 65-70 per cent Cana- dians, about 10 per cent from the United Kingdom, 12 per cent f r ~ m the Y.,$,& ,and the rest from other parts of the world.

Will the proportion of Canadians at Guelph decrease as the University continues to grow?

No, I think the proportion will end up much the same as it is now although I'm not at all sure the proportion of Canadians hasn't decreased over the past year from the 69 per cent we had in 1969-70. We have been hiring in several areas where it has been difficult to find Canadians, and applicants for the openings simply have not been Canadians. But since we will be hiring very few people over the next two or three years, I would expect that we'll end up with the same proportion we have now. say approximately 65-70 per cent.

What disciplines and subject areas lack Canadian scholars?

The humanities and social sciences generally. I don't believe that there are even now large numbers of Canadians with high qualifica- tions available in sociology, economics, agricultural economics, fine art, drama, etc., so it seems to me that we are going to have to rely on outside sources for academics for some time yet.

Why is there a shortage of Canadians in these areas? Have Canadian universities been as "disorganized and inefficient" as Professors Mathews and Steele claim in not realizing the need t o train Cana- dians in these subjects?

Mathews and Steele apparently made the great discovery in 1968-69 that many of us made in 1962, perhaps even earlier; specifically, that Canadian universities did not have the faculty in disciplines other than the sciences to cope with the large bulge in students that would be attending universities in the 1960s and 1970s. In the humanities and social sciences we realized we were going to be in real difficulty. So we urged upon the government a building-up of the graduate strength in universities across the country. We urged special scholarships be established, and there were administrative efforts m a d e f o r example. at Toronto, I was part of an administrative shuffle that was to put great emphasis on graduate work-so that we could produce people in the right areas to teach in the univer- sities. Well, those efforts made considerable impact. I f we hadn't cranked the whole system up from 1962 on, we would not be talking about the number of nonCanadians we have now, but, in fact, practically the whole staff at our universities would be nonCanadian.

Are there too many non-Canadian academics on our campuses today? Do they wield too much power? In our look at the issue, we ask University President, Dr. W. C. Winegard for his comments on

Citizenship versus

Scholarship

That c r a n k i n g - ~ ~ didn't come in time for the first wave of students to hit the universities, so we had no choice but to import large numbers of academics from wherever we could get them to help out in the educational system-there was simply no other way. Now the Mathews and Steele hysteria-what would we have done? The universities did what they could to get trained academics, they had to have faculty. The alternative was not to take in the students. I think the universities realized that it was not particularly good to have a very large percentage of nonCanadians on staff, but then (1962) we had no choice. Now we do have a choice. The results in the last few years are beginning to show, so much .so in fact, that now we have swung the opposite way; some Canadians can't find jobs. Mathews and Steele say Canadian universities are overlooking Canadian academics. I doubt it. Most of the universities have taken a pretty responsible line. They advertise academic open- ings, and will take Canad~ans if they are as qualified as non-Canadians -naturally we prefer to take Canadians. But it would be a terrible mlstake for the universities that are supposed to represent excellence (whether we do or not is always open to question, but we are sup- posed to) to purposely hire someone without the proper qualifications just because he or she happens to have the r~ght citizenship. That doesn't make any sense to me. Instead of decrying, and kicking the Americans. British and others we have in our education system, I believe Canadians should be damn thankful that they're here. or else their sons and daughters wouldn't be in univers~ty today. To suggest that Canadians have been overlooked, and that non-Canadians are purposely belng hlred, as Implied by some critics of the university system, is just absolute nonsense.

Figures put forth by both Mathews and Steele and the Dominion '. . . we should be thankful Bureau of Statistics for 1969 show the bulk of new aowintments are . -

they're here . . . our children still going to non-Canadians.

might not be in college That may be so. Maybe the bulk of appointments across the country

, are goins to non-Canadians but then we have to look at where these

otherwise . . . new appointments are comlng, what disciplines? They are in the soclal sciences. That's where we're short of faculty. That's where the students are flocking to study. If you can find somebody from Great Britain or U.S.A. who has a PhD and two or three years teaching experience, i t seems obvious to me that you're going to take that person over someone in Canada who has just completed his corn- prehensives for a PhD and still has a thesis to write. That situation in the social sciences I'm sure will go on for another two or three years but it is getting better.

Why should universities insist on hiring only teachers with PhDs? There are thousands of Canadians with masters degrees and par- tially completed PhDs. Couldn't more of these people be hired?

Perhaps, but I happen to believe that i f the professor doesn't know a lot more than the students, ignorance is going to talk to ignorance and we're really not going to get anywhere. I don't believe in the professor's standing up in front and preaching-that's lousy teaching. I do believe in his leading the class in the discussion of the subject ar6a and he's not going to be much of a leader i f he isn't some kind of an authority in his subject. And there's one other problem. If a faculty member comes to the university to teach and has very long to go on his PhD, or has dropped out of his PhD full-time research to teach before he has gotten a good start on the thesis, then he has that great axe over his head and is not sure what he should be doing. What is his responsibility: To finish his degree in every spare moment or to worry about his present situation, that is, the teaching and the research required by the university? Many people can solve this and they have. We've been particularly fortunate here with people with unfinished PhDs who have struggled along pretty valiantly to complete them. But there's no doubt that there's a terrible load on the person concerned.

Couldn't Canadian universities produce more PhDs if Canadians were given preference for available openings in graduate schools? You are on record as an advocate of Canada's responsibility to train foreign students, but considering the economic situation isn't the time com- ing when foreign graduates will occupy places Canadian post- graduates should?

Sure it will and is already. We have some foreign students occupying places Canadian students could take. But I hope we'll never see the time in this country when we will keep students out of our univer- sities because they happen to be foreign. However, if we are at the same time saylng we are golng to have to keep out a large number of Canadians because we can't afford them either, and therefore, we are going to have to have some sort of rationing of the number of noncanadians, that would seem to me to be fair. I f we are forced by economic reasons to put a percentage on the number of non- Canadians in areas already rationed to Canadians, I think foreign students are capable of understanding that kind of problem. If you go back to the tight-economy days of the 1930s, large numbers of Canadians were studying in the U.K. and U.S., and they weren't kicked out by those countries. Currently, I believe there are more Canadians studying outside of Canada than there are non-Canadians in Canada. And there are few non-Canadians studying in the social sciences and humanities, the areas where Canadians are lacking. The vast majority are studying in areas where Canada has some exper- tise. I haven't seen the latest figures but I'm sure most non-Canadian graduate students come from economically lesser developed coun- tries as one would expect just as Canada, as a lesser developed country in the 1930s, had to send its students elsewhere for train~ng. To ignore tra~ning foreign students in our graduate schools now would be ignorlng the debt Canada owes to other countries.

How much power should nonxanadians be able to exercise on Cana-. dian campuses? Should they occupy decision-making positions in the administration as well as teaching and research posts?

I don't see any reason to deny a man a job in a university on the basis of citizenship. It seems to me that if he's qualified to do the job and ~f in an open search such as the kind we have for senior posts he is the one the search committee feels most capable, then I think we should be prepared to let him do the job. After all, he is here and has decided to live in this country. Besides, it is against the Ontario human rights code to deny a man a job on the basis of citizensh~p unless you can prove definitely that citizenship is a real function of the job. I'd hate to have to prove that. I know many Canadians who have gone to the U.S. and have taken positions of some importance. I'm sure i t has not been any less valuable for the U.S. to have them there . . . I'm convinced that anyone would do the best job poss~ble regardless of what hls or her cltlzenship is.

But doesn't citizenship affect some of a person's decisions, for example, in hiring practices? Mathews and Steele say Canadians are overlooked because nonxanadians often use a "grapevine system" of recruitment, and approach friends and former colleagues at other universities outside Canada rather than advertise extensively, both in Canada and abroad.

Certa~nly there is a danger in using the "old boy" or "grapev~ne" network for new appointments, and that's why we have taken to advertising; everybody gets a chance to apply for positions that are available. We have tried to make all of our deans and department cha~rmen aware of the fact that it Isn't right to use the "old boy" network as their only source of information concerning available academ~cs. We must advertise; we must make sure that Canadrans have an opportun~ty to apply for the jobs that are available. We certainly don't want to make it difficult for a Canadian to find a job in

'. . . Canadians will get most jobs in our universities - no one wants it otherwise .. . 9

'. . . I see no reason to deny a man a job because of his

citizenship . . . 7

a Canadian university. I don't think the non-Canadians in senior administrative posts ignore Canadians; indeed, I would think experi- ence in this university is just the opposite. The nonxanadians who are in administrative posts are perhaps the most sensitive about trying to hire Canadians. They are the administrators who go out of thelr way, who go beyond the realm of reasonableness to search out Canadians from every corner of the world. I don't think there's any valldity in the worry that non-Canadians get in and then bring in other groups of non-Canadians. I suppose this relates to textbook purchases too. Some people say our publishing industry is being sold down the river by non-Canadians who ignore Canadian authors' books. As far as textbooks are concerned, like any small country, one has to admit that Canadian authors have not turned out very large numbers of textbooks either at the university level or at the high school level. In fact, I suppose there are more CanadIan textbooks being used at the hrgh school level than there are in our universities. After all, our whole scholarly history is not very long. Until after World War II, most of the people in Canada who were connected with univers~ties or senior research positions in government or industry had been tralned elsewhere, and had received their degrees in the U.S. or the U.K. Now some textbooks are being written in Canada and we use them, but it's pretty difficult to say we're not going to use textbooks from other countries. What you do is try to find the best textbook that is available. In my own subject, metallurgy, I naturally recommend my own book to everybody (what else?), but I guess the one book I've told more people to buy than any other is a book written by someone at the University of Chicago.

Would a departmont chaired by a non-canadian and with a majority of non-Canadian professors be capable of emphasizing existing and pertinent Canadian materials in courses offered, especially courses dealing primarily with Canada? Are these departments capable of supervising graduate students who are majoring in Canadian studies?

I won't deny there are some areas of scholarship where it would be wrong for a department not to have a significant number of Cana- drans because Canada is different from other countries, and one would hope that Canadian professors could give the Canadian view- point better than professors from elsewhere. I f you want to talk about the particular economic situation of Canada or the federal structure of Canada, yes, 1 suppose the people who have grown up here would have betier feeling for that than others. That's i f you're talking about special Canadian studies, but a general course in economics, or a general course In philosophy, it doesn't matter what the teacher's criizenship IS. There IS one other point that we have to look at here; many of the people from other countries, whether i t be the U.S. or the U.K.. may have a citlzenshrp that says one thing, but a background that says another. They may have spent many years in contact with Canadians; they may have spent vacations here or years on sabbatical leaves in Canada. Figures alone don't give you the krnd of information you want. You almost have to look at the individual case to see whether it could be done better by a Canadran.

And what about Canadian material in courses where applicable? Should the universities stress that courses must deal in part with available Canadian data, or that a specific number of courses dealing primarily with Canada be taught?

I don't know that one can really answer that. I know some depart- ments have said that they're going to make as one of therr speciali- ties, Canadian studles, and it may be a good thlng for them to do. I would think that if they make that decision, they would have looked around to see what other universities are offering, and if they had found that there is a major gap in Canadian studies in an area then it may well be that the University of Guelph should move into it. It would be quite wrong in some areas to over-emphasize Canada when most of the s~gnrficant work is not Canadian, for example, English literature. I think i t would be a lopsided course if half of the

program that was offered in Engllsh literature concentrated on Cana- dians because surely in terms of English lrterature we're a drop in the bucket. We have had some good writers and they should be stressed. There shoilld be programs and courses available to study Canadian writrng, but i f we push that to the extent that some English litera'ture that has come down through the centuries IS excluded, then surely we would be cheating the student rather than doing him a favour.

What is the University's policy then on Canadian content?

We urge that Canadian examples be used where a t all possible be- cause lt IS good teaching. After all, most of the students in the classes are Canadians; therefore, i f a professor can use a Canadian example he is relating h ~ s subject matter to something they have a feellng for. But we're not going to go out and inslst that people use Cana- dran examples. We're going to let the professors teach as best they can by using the examples from where they feel they can draw them.

You mentioned earlier the danger of using the "grapevine" or "old boy" technique of filling academic vacancies. Are academic openings advertised sufficiently in Canada?

Oh yes, I thlnk so. At Guelph, we have a policy approved by the Board of Governors which says this University will advertise all academ~c and senior admintstrative positions. We advertise all faculty openings in the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) Bulletin which is published several times a year. All administrative posts, including departmental chair- manshrps are 7dvertised in the Globe and Mail because of that newspaper's readership across Canada, and because there may be people In government or industry who don't read the AUCC Bulletin rnterested in such positrons. Occasionally, there may be an appoint- ment open which we can fill immed~ately wrthout advertising; in fact, to advertise ~t may be a waste of everyone's time because we are sure a more qualified candidate for the job doesn't exist. In such a case we would hire that person, but I would be obliged to tell the Board that the position was not advertised and the reason why. That is a one in 100 chance.

It has been suggested that the provincial governments enact legisla- tior? stipulating that only Canadians can hold positions from depart- mental chairman through chancellor inclusive, and that all academic departments aim for a 66 per cent Canadian faculty. What is your opinion of such legislation?

1 thlnk that would be flogging a dead horse and I disagree with it in prlncrple. I'm quite convinced that Canadrans will get most of the jobs available in Canadian universities and that no one wants it any other way. I f we legislate, then we are saying the universities will hire others in preference to Canadians and therefore, we, the people, have to prevent those drrty guys from doing that. That's nonsense! We're going t o hire Canadians where we can because it makes sense. To legislate saying we have to hire 75 per cent Canadians means we might have t o pass up hiring a qualified teacher because-'sorry our quota is filled'. A policy such as this in our universities, which are supposed to be dedicated to scholarship, strikes me as nationalism getting rn the way of common sense. And I'm a nationalist, a strong proCanadian. .

'. . . we urge that Canadian material be used where possible - after all, it's good teaching . . . 7

Unless 10,000 Swedes are wrong Orienteering's the only way to enjoy the great outdoors

F INLAND, 1941. Alex "Sass" Peepre's love affair with Scandinavia's un-

official national sport, orienteering, began many years before he found himself in Finland's rugged countryside leading his squad against an advancing Russian army. But he was never as thankful for having learned how to use a map and a com- pass--orienteeringPs basic tools--as he was then when survival meant conquering harsh Finnish winters as well as the enemy.

The desperate urgency of wartime ori- enteering is just a memory for Alex Peepre -now Professor Peepre of the Univer- sity's School of Physical Education, and the man alumni of the 1950s and '60s will recall as an instructor back in the days of compulsory physical education classes. The 56-year-old, Estonian-born Peepre is a fountain of bubbling optimlsm about the advantages which peacetime orienteering can offer a nation of 20th-century softies.

Orienteering, stated simply, is the per- ambulatory equivalent of car rallying. Possessing only their compasses and maps detailing the nearby countryside, orienteers must plot a course that will take them through a series of checkpoints in sequence and then back to the start- finish line. The orienteer managing this in the least time wins.

The graying professor, whose European heritage is readily apparent from his sharp accent and his occasional utterance of an Estonian phrase to replace the momen- tarily forgotten English counterpart, has good reason to be optimistic.

Orienteering, a sport until five years ago virtually unkown to Canadians, has now suddenly taken hold. The number of com- petltors showing up for meets is increas- ing annually; departments of education are beginning t o include it in their curri- cula; the University's "0" Club (Outdoors and Orienteering) is growing rapidly, and surprisingly, Professor Peepre estimates that 8 0 per cent of the club's 60-75 mem- bers are non-physical education majors, an indication of the over-all appeal of the sport; and there's even a $300 orienteer- ing scholarship available now for physical education students who are planning on a teaching career.

Professor Peepre feels there are several reasons why people have suddenly taken t o orienteering.

"It has a recreational value as applied in a practical way," he explains. "lt's a skill many hunters and fishermen find use- ful when they're out in a new territory, and, of course, boating enthusiasts and yachtsmen find i t helpful-it's a naviga- tional skill.

"Secondly, it offers a wonderful motiva- tion to get people outdoors and out of their cars. I f we want a healthy nation we must get people up and on their feet. Many people enjoy hiking-almost every camper will talk a walk in the woods when he and his family are on holidays. People like especially to hike in unknown country; it's more appealing psychologically, and more exciting than hiking in a more familiar area. If you have confidence in your ability to navigate in unknown terri- tory, you can enjoy it all the more.

"Another reason is that orienteering offers a competitive challenge for people. A person must compete with others as well as with himself. There are always decisions and choices to make; which route is best? Is it better to follow that path or to cut across that field? This is what orienteering is all about."

Dr. John Powell, director of the School of Physical Education agrees:

"It's challenging, and it's fun. It gets people out into the open air and allows each to compete not only against others, but primarily against himself. I f a person does compete against himself, it's much more important for him to achieve some satisfaction in his efforts than just winning a race. What happens when a person is 50. 60, or 70 years old? He doesn't want t o compete in a racing situation, but he does want to compete with guile, experience, and subtlety; he wants to go around the mountain instead of over it, and yet finish ahead of someone."

A recent meet at the University of Waterloo was typical of the broad range of participants which orienteering attracts. Several local clubs sent teams of com- petitors for each class of competition while the over-50 generation was ably repre- sented by Professor Peepre and several other gray-haired gentlemen. One young girl in her teens, her broken left foot wrapped in waterproof plastic bags, brought along two friends who seemed to enjoy slopping through boggy areas as

much as a family of four who were helping dad navigate through the woods while he kept his crutches clear of obstructions.

"There aren't many sports where the whole family can take part-there's usu- ally some physical restriction involved which dictates the degree to which every- one in the family can participate. In orienteering, the family can compete on a very even level," Professor Peepre says.

"Orienteering is open to people of all age levels and both sexes. In competitive orienteering, we have found time and time again that brute strength doesn't matter. Perhaps you can run a mile in four minutes, but you have to know where to run. Girls are very good in this regard. They make a decision and stick to it. So it's a mental sport as well as a physical one. Often, you have to make decisions under stress. You're tired, perhaps lost. You have to find where you are, and get back on the right track."

Dr. Powell calls orienteering an "inte- grated sport . . . a most complete one," a sport many athletes interested primarily in other activities have utilized for train- ing. Grant McClaren, whose cross-country

No one's too old or too young to enjoy orienteering. While Mrs. Riny Geddes and her sons Ewan, 5, and Glen. 7, (far left) stroll leisurely along the course, Bob Fawcett, a seventh semester ~hvs ica l

running exploits were the subject of an education major, races agarnit ihe clock. article a year ago in the Guelph Alumnus (Vol. 3. No. 3), and Bill Morrison, 1970 co- winner of the Ted Wildman Trophy were both active orienteers while at Guelph as were many other athletes. Both Dr. Powell and Professor Peepre know ath- letes-the calibre of Roger Bannister, first runner to break the four-minute bar- rier in the mile-who have stated that had they encountered orienteering earlier in their careers they might have switched right then and there.

"People familiar with the international scene of athletics are wondering why there are so few good Swedes and Finnish run- ners anymore. The answer is simply this. Orienteering is in their bloodstream now. They don't want to be 'straitjacket run- ners' going around and around the same asphalt track; they won't spend a time on 'straitjacket running' anymore," Professor Peepre says. His assessment is borne out by the overwhelming turnout last year of 7,000 participants for one local five-day orienteering meet in Skane, Sweden. Or- ganizers are expecting 10,000 in 1971.

As the coach of Guelph's track and field, skiing, and orienteering teams, Pro-

fessor Peepre now employs orienteering as a warm-up exercise for Guelph athletes. He often sets up a "mini-meet" for ath- letes to navigate before getting down to hard training. Orienteering itself is taught in two courses as part of the physical education degree program, and the School now sponsors a Guelph orienteering meet held every May which attracted 340 par- ticipants this year.

Orienteering's sudden rise in popularity -a direct result of Professor Peepre's efforts for many years to introduce the sport to Canadians-has been attributed by observers as divine recognition for the professor's "missionary work" for orien- teering. He laughs at that phrase, "mis- sionary work," a misnomer, no doubt, coined by those who mistook his exuber- ance when describing the sport for a proclamation. But the analogy seems ap- propriate considering his efforts to win acceptance for the sport which he recalls as "corning in very handy in wartime".

He was no stranger to orienteering even then. It had been included in his boy scout act~vities and taught in Estonia's compulsory military training for high school boys. By the time he arrived in 1935 at the University of Helsinki to ob- tain his bachelor of physical education

degree, the six times Estonia national ski champion (and later, for one year before the outbreak of the war, Estonia's national ski team coach) was himself ripe for con- version to his newly-discovered sport. Following the war, he lived in Sweden for six years where he became very active in orienteering circles, and today recalls those times with an admiring shake of the head exclaiming, "those Swedes."

He immigrated to Canada in 1950 with the notion of introducing the sport to Canada implanted in his mind by Bjorn Kjellstrom-the "father" of modern-day orienteering-who had briefly introduced orienteering to Canada in 1948 with demonstration races in Montreal and in Toronto's High Park.

The first 15 years were not terribly fruitful.

"I worked for the YMCA, both in To- ronto and in Guelph, and I just simply didn't have the time or the opportunity to introduce it properly. The YMCA program was different from its European counter- parts. There were many indoor programs I had to supervise, although I was in- volved in some outdoor activities, and was able to introduce it to some young people then."

He continued much the same following his appointment in 1956 as the director of the required physical education pro- gram at Guelph. He taught any interested students and took any opportunity t o discuss the sport at gatherings of physical education instrudors and coaches.

"It took many years of groundwork," he says, "until 1962 when John Disley, 1952 Olympic steeplechase bronze medallist and a keen orienteer, and myself were in- vited to address the Royal Canadian Legion National Track and Field Coaches Clinics which have been held annually at Guelph since then. In 1965, 1 got the 'green light' from the University and the School of Physical Education to set up our own annual clinics. This is how orienteer- ing finally got introduced on a large scale. I really got involved, was able to travel, and orienteering has now snow- balled."

Since then, he has organized the stand- ing committee on orienteering for the Canadian Association of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation which received in 1967 a government grant to organize

three national c l in ics-at the University of Calgary, Mount Allison University, and Queen's University.

Now that the sport has been accepted by the civilian population, Professor Peepre hopes to persuade the Canadian Armed Forces to adopt it. Historically, orienteering's military value has been rec- ognized since its conception in 1893, but the military is often the last to act. Pro- fessor Peepre recalls the British army as being particularly obstinate and to prove a point the British orienteering organization issued a challenge. The 10 best orienteers from each group competed-the civilian team included two women and three junior members-and the army's interest in orienteering increased immeasurably when the civilians swept the first 10 spots.

"We hope to challenge the armed forces this year," says Professor Peepre. I f his- tory repeats itself, the armed forces may get a new training program to go along with their new uniforms. D.A.B.

Above left, an unidentified orienteer copies checkpoint locations onto her map. Above, during a recent meet in Waterloo, Ontario, Professor Peepre punches card to verify that he has visited that checkpoint.

We must overcome the lecture mystique

By HOMER HOGAN

CCORDING to many observers, univer- A sities are caught in an increasingly tightening vise: On one side, rising costs create a pressure for crowding classrooms and raising the faculty-student ratio, and on the other side, growing student protest makes it imperative to reduce "gaps" between teachers and students, and de- velop participatory education. I suggest that there is an e s c a p m n e so obvious, in fact, that only age-old prejudice and the blinding effects of lethargy and mis- taken self-interest can explain why we all do not recognize it. Specifically, I mean the university-wide abolition of the lecture system and its replacement by a combina- tion of small discussion groups and audio/visual workshops. By means of this admittedly revolutionary but entirely practicable change, we could reduce greatly both costs and student-faculty alienation, and as a result, vastly improve the quality of education.

Here are the ways it could be done at the University of Guelph:

1. By Senate decision, faculty members who use their free "development time" to prepare audio/visual programs for their courses would be considered to have pro- duced, for the purposes of determining increment and promotion, the equivalent of articles published in learned journals.

2. A complete "audio/visual program" for a course would include the presen- tation of all the information and concepts normally delivered via lectures and not

Homer Hogan is associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature. A noted author and poet, Pro- fessor Hogan's book, Poetry of Relevance, has been adopted for use in Alberta's high schools. He is currently writing three more.

readily available in good, easily under- standable books. In preparing the pro- gram, the teacher could use any practical means of reproduction: mimeographed material, with the most important points underscored by color, art, typography, or even just a numbering system; dioramas; exh~bits; charts; tapes of readings, music, drama, or discussion; slides and v~deo- tapes of what can be interestingly visual- ized in motion (and that, of course, does not include the face of a lecturer reading his notes on a teleprompter!) The teacher might also be advised to have skilled speakers or drama students present his material i f they can project i t more ef- fect~vely than he can.

3. The A/V programs described above would be located in "workshop" rooms where the student could go at any time to study and review as often as he likes. It is now technically possible for a student to play even videotape in a separate booth, stop the show when he can't under- stand the point being made, and then replay the puzzling portion of the tape until he comprehends it.

4. Instead of, say 30 students meet~ng three times a week to scribble down the fleeting Word of their instructor, students would now need to meet no more than once a week in a group of 10. At such sessions, there would only be discussion, questions, and, I hope, rigorous cross- examination.

5. 1 doubt that there is a student on this campus who would not heartily en- dorse these arrangements. But the changes would also allow us to cut the present classrooms in half, thereby supply- ing far more than the space needed for A/V workshops. If we raised academ~c standards so that we could have more independent students, it would also be possible for many courses to require students to meet only once every two weeks. And that would also enable us to increase faculty-student ratio considerably.

6. According to what I've been told, steps in this direction have already been

too. The Language Laboratory, headed so ably by Mr. Douglas Schwenker-ne of the most dedicated and progressive edu- cators on this campus-could be the basis for building an excellent A/V work- shop system.

As I said before, the only real obstacles to adopt~ng this Nay out of our present drlemma are prejud~ce and self-interest. A recent example of the distorting effect of these forces is the report of the On- tario Confederation of University Faculty Associations which concluded, after a long study, that educational television "has failed whenever it has been used to substitute for a lecture conducted by the professor in person." Of course a TV lecture would be worse than a live one. But TV "lectures" are not television edu- cation. TV comes into its own when i t is used for visualized motion in a workshop where the videotapes can be played and replayed by individual students working with individual screens. The idiocy of the OCUFA study was exposed when, soon after, McGill University reported the splen- did achievements of TV in teaching chemistry, the McGill chemistry depart- ment having used TV properly in the sort of workshop arrangement described above. (See Globe and Mail, Dec. 23, 1970, p. 1).

Finally, I offer this suggestion for psychically rrdd~ng ourselves of the lec- ture" mystique inherited from the days when the sermon and oration were the models for certified communication in universrties: At the next celebration of this mystique, the "commencement exer- cises," let us all burn our ghostly robes and hail our graduates with feast, song, and dance.

taken by several science departments. There is no excuse for the Colleges of Arts and Social Science not to move this way

Alumni Day:

Graduates approve projects to mark OAC's 100th birthday

In June, 1974, graduates returning to Guelph for Alumni Weekend plan to gather on a knoll centrally located in the former experimental field research plots east of the main campus to take part in dedica- tion ceremonies for the new OAC Centennial Arboretum Centre.

Earlier that day they may have wit- nessed similar ceremonies as the 100- year-old plus Johnston Hall portico was declared an Ontario historic site; while munching on a chicken leg at the annual picnic luncheon, alumni may glance through a new book detailing OAC's 100 years of service to agriculture authored by Professor Alex Ross, chairman of the De- partment of English; and philatelists may be able to order first day covers of a com- memorative stamp issued to recognize OAC's 100th birthday.

These four items--Centre, book, his- toric site, and stamp-were unanimously approved by alumni attending the O.A.C. Alumni Association's annual meeting held June 19 as projects to mark OAC's cen- tenary in 1974.

Elsewhere during Alumni Weekend, 12 OAC and Mac classes celebrated anniver- sary reunions as an estimated 750-900 alumni and their families returned to the campus. The last regularly scheduled auction of antique dining hall crockery was held with Gordon Bennett, OAC '43, as auctioneer while Dr. M. G. "Moe" Free- man, OAC '55, directed the children's races. A band concert, campus tours, an exh~bit of Guelph memorabilia and the Rothmans of Pall Mall tapestry display hung in the library, and a punch party

OAC '71 year president T~~ schmidt (far rounded out this year's activities. left) who presented on Alumni Weekend the first class gift for the OAC Centennial Projects described Arboretum Centre, and Dr. Leslie Laking, At the OAC annual meeting, outgoing OAC '39, (far right) director of the Royal president, M. G. Greer, '41 introduced Paul Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, examine Fisher, '11. chairman of a special com- arboretum master plan. Looking on are mittee of past-presidents which recom- Mrs. Laking and A1 McFadden, '71 vice- mended the four centennial projects. and president. At right, Gordon Bennett, Dr. R. G. Hilton, arboretum director. OAC '43, auctions off dining hall crockery. Dr. Hilton described the arboretum

master plan adding that the first plantings of maple and locust varieties were under- way. The 9,300 square foot Arboretum Centre, he said, would act as the admin- istrative headquarters and meeting place

for the arboretum which will take another 10 years for total development.

The OAC Centennial Arboretum Centre will cost $237,600 exclusive of furnish- ings, site services, and cost escalation to date of construction, said John Babcock, OAC '54, director of alumni affairs. Total cost, he said, would run $375,000 but an anticipated annual grant from the City of Guelph, which the University proposes to use for capital development, would cover site services and certain other costs.

Mr. Babcock said that $250,000 would be required from alumni to sponsor the Centre which has been adopted at the request of the Association by the Alma Mater Fund Advisory Council as the major project for the three years 1972-74.

"It can be done." he said, referring to past and current giving records of OAC alumni in the Alma Mater and Develop- ment Funds.

Mr. Fisher told alumni that the Association's board of directors would approach the Postmaster-General and the Ontario Historical Society for the com- memorative stamp and historic site plaque projects' approval respectively. Professor Ross' book, he said, was com-

plete up to 1962, and that the Association would publish it and hope to recoup all or a major part of the cost through sales.

Portraits presented A highlight of the meeting was the

presentation to the University of two paintings to honour alumni. Dr. W. H. Minshall, OAC '33, presented on behalf of Year '33 the Evan Macdonald portrait of Professor Jack Baker, OAC '11, a member of the OAC staff for 44 years.

Following graduation, Professor Baker served as lecturer and associate professor until 1920 when he was named head of the then combined Department of Entomology and Zoology. a position he held until retirement in 1955.

Professor Baker developed the Entom- ology and Zoology program which included the first undergraduate major in Wildlife Management. In 1920, he chaired the committee which recommended the sep- aration of course work for the diploma and degree programs, as well as estab- lishing the third and fourth year programs. He also played a major role in the de- velopment of graduate programs at Guelph.

He is a member of several entomologi- cal and conservation societies; retains an active interest in the navy in which he served as a captain in World War II in- cluding action at Normandy; and holds a Canada Centennial Medal in recognition of his contributions to education, conserva- tion, and amateur sports.

The second painting was presented by Blair Dawson, president of OAC '54, in memory of Mrs. R. (Beth Duncan) Farley, "the only lass in '54," said Mr. Dawson. Mrs. Farley died in 1958 in childbirth.

Entitled "37 Gloucester Street," the oil by Albert Franck depicts an old Toronto house, and now hangs in the University's permanent Canadian collection. Class '54 also presented additional funds to the O.A.C. Alumni Foundation for use as a "Beth Duncan Memorial Gold Medallist Award."

R. G. Bennett, '43, succeeded M. G. Greer. '41, as president of the O.A.C. Alumni Association for the next year. Other officers and directors follow:

Honorary President, Dr. N. R. Richards, '38; First V~ce-President, G. R. Greenlees, '62; Second Vice-President, F. T. Cowan, '65; and Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. M. G. Freeman, '55.

Directors: J. L. Alderman, '68; J. A. Eccles, '40; W. B. Fox, 36; S. W. Holland, ODH '63; G. W. Jackson, '49; J. N. Mayes, '69; D. W. McDonell, '70; L. J. Ross, '54; G. T. Sawyer, '64; M. K. Stewart. 57A; W. L. Teeple, '48; W. D. Toombs. '68; C. G. Trivets, '68; G. Weeden, '70A; R. Wilcox, '50; Faculty Representative. Professor A. M. Pearson, '42; Student Representative, Jack James, '72; and '71 Degree Repre- sentative, Tom Schmidt.

Mac directors elected At the Macdonald Institute Alumnae Association annual meeting, Miss Rose- mary Clark. '59, succeeded Miss Frances Lampman, '54, as president. Other officers and directors are:

Honorary President Emeritus, Dr. M. S. McCready; Honorary President, Dr. Janet Wardlaw; First Vice-President, Mrs. D. (Jean Fuller) Hume, '64; Second Vice- President, Dr. E. A. K. Gullett, '55; Secre- tary, Mrs. L. (Grace Virtue) MacDougall, '35; Treasurer, Mrs. G. C. (Margaret Snedden) Taylor, '59; Membership Con- venor, Mrs. J. D. (Lynn Wilkenson) Cree- den, '68; President, Burlington Branch Mac Club, Mrs. H. (Doreen Dowler) Daw- son, '36; President, Guelph Branch Mac Club, Mrs. A. R. (Shirley Ann McFee) Holmes, '62; President, Niagara Branch Mac Club, Mrs. F. G. (Eila Ross) Lawson, '39; Alumnae News Editor, Mrs. J. G. (Leslie Good) Snell, '64; and Assistant News Editor, Mrs. E. D. (Aili Saving) Heater, '56. Ex-officio: Mrs. J. D. (Virginia Shortt) Bandeen, '57; Miss Brenda Rich- ardson, '71 representative; and Miss Anne McKelvie, '72, student representative.

Top left, Professor Jack Baker (right) OAC '11, whose portrait was presented to the University by OAC '33, reminisces with '33 classmates Professor Ted Heeg (far left) and Dr. Harold Minshall. At left, Blair Dawson, OAC '54 president,describes to unidentified visitor the Albert Franck oil painting presented to the University in memory of Mrs. R. (Beth Duncan) Farley, OAC '54.

Campus Highlights Convocation: Husband and wife installed as Fellows of the University Two drstrngurshed alumni were installed as Fellows of the University a t Convoca- tron exercises held May 28.

Robert Arthur Stewart, OAC '33, and hrs wrfe, Mrs. R. A. (Elsa Hevenor Stewart) Stewart. Mac '32, recerved the Fellow of the Universrty award. Thls award was establrshed rn 1969 to recognrze persons who have had a srgnrficant involvement wrth, and have made an outstandrng contrrbutron to the Unrversrty. Total number of Irving 'Fellows' will be re- strrcted to 25.

In their Convocation addresses, both Mr. and Mrs. Stewart remrnrsced about their undergraduate days at Guelph re- counting many humerous incidents. Both speakers urged the graduates to retain memorres of, and be proud of their as- socratron with the Unrvers~ty.

"Come back and visit your professors," Mr. Stewart said.

Mr. Stewart, who for years served on commrttees working to clarrfy tax laws affecting agriculture, sard control of pro- duction of farm products is controversial. "We lrve In a delrcate balance o f freedom and control," he sard.

"We must be alert at all times of the rrghts of people--laws must not control people," he said.

Mr. Stewart, 63. a Lanark County farmer since 1941, has been actrve in both commun~ty and provlncral affarrs. He IS a past-president of the Lanark Co- operatrve Medical Services and the Cooperative Medical Services Federation of Ontarro. He is the current charrman of the Almonte Hospital Board of Directors, and an executive member of the Ontarro Hosp~tal Assocration.

At the provrnc~al level, he has worked on many commrttees, and has been long assocrated wrth the Ontarlo Federatron of Agrrculture, servrng as president rn 1948. He is an active member of the Agricultural lnst~tute of Canada and the Ontario lnstrtute of Profess~onal Agrologrsts.

Actlve In alumnr affairs, Mr. Stewart served on the O.A.C. A lumn~ Foundatron for five years, including a one-year term as vrce-cha~rman. He was presrdent of the O.A.C. Alumnr Assocratron in 1964, and sewed four years as an alumni representa- trve on Senate. He and hrs wrfe acted as Lanark County co-charrmen for the Alumni Dlvrsron of the Development Fund in 1966-68.

Mrs. Stewart was described by Presr- dent W~negard "as a woman ful l of good

works," rn reference to her many actrvrtres in her commun~ty of Pakenharn, Ontarro.

In 1966, she presented to the Renfrew and Ottawa Presbyterres of the Unrted Church the "Stewart House" complex to be used as a Chrrstran Educat~on Centre. She remalns actrve rn rts operatron as well as other Unired Church groups and organizat~ons.

She has devoted consrderable trrne to the restoratron of many hrstorrc burldrngs In Pakenharn, and through the provrsron of apartments has provrded much needed accommodatron for newly-weds and senlor crtrzens.

An ardent supporter of Macdonald Institute-now the College of Famrly and Consumer Studres-Mrs. Stewart spon- sored In 1965 the Mrs. R A. Stewart Fund ($2000) for proficrency awards for st~rdents in that college.

Srnce 1955, she has also sponsored the Robert Arthur Stewart Bursarres, now numberrng 12 annual $500 awards to assrst students from Lanark. Renfrew, and Carleton Countres enterrng the first semester of a degree program.

Mr. and Mrs. Stewart jorn Dr. J. D. MacLachlan, first presrdent of the Unl- versrty, and Mr. T. A. McEwan, frrst charrman of the Unrversrty's Board of Governors, as Fellows of the Unrversrty.

Botanist and surgeon receive honorary degrees The d~rector of Hamrlton's Royal Botanrcal Gardens and a noted Brrtrsh heart sur- geon were awarded honorary degrees at the Sprrng Convocatron exercrses held May 26 and 27.

Leslre Lak~ng, OAC '39, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree for hrs leadershrp rn the development of Hamrl- ton's floral showcase. Lord Russell Brock. 67, drrector of the Department of Surgrcal Sewrces of the Royal College of Surgeons at Guy's Hosprtal, recerved an honorary Doctor of Scrence degree for his work In closed heart surgery which IS

generally acclarmed as havrng paved the way for open heart operations.

In hrs Convocation address, Dr. Laking, 54, sard no one need fear hrs condemna-

tron of the Unrversrty's arboretum "because of the fear of competrtron.

"I have supported the development of an arboretum here on thrs campus from the begrnnrng," he sard.

Dr. Lakrng sard: "It can be argued that two major arboreta arlsrng wrthrn 25 mrles of one another could serve better rf they were 100 mrles apart. The valid pornt IS

that they are developrng where the need exrsts."

"The obvrous need at an rnstrtutron such as thrs, where many drscrplrnes wrll become rnvolved wrth rt, IS reason enough to develop such a facrlrty here," he sard.

"Furthermore," he added, "we must not forget the enormous publrc rnterest In such developments. The Royal Botanr- cal Gardens cannot satrsfy the total publrc need. There are already rndrcatrons that our rnstrtutron must concern rtself wrth over use whrch IS surely comrng."

Dr. Lak~ng then challenged the 125 englneerrng and landscape archrtecture graduates to "have an affarr wrth your professron, your posrtron, your job; have an affarr wrth your every project."

He told students that the number of such ded~cated professronals IS decreasrng proportronately as the number of gradu- ates competrng for jobs IS rncreasrng. In a humourous vern he added: "As one krnd of 'affarr' becomes more common place, the other, whrch rnterests us here, ap- pears to be decreasrng."

"Get rnvolved," he sard. "Develop that rare dedrcatron whrch elevates from the mundane to the excrtrng, brrngrng double- barrelled sat~sfactron to the rnstrtutron or busrness you serve, and to yourself."

Dr. Lakrng also challenged the gradu- ates to reverse modern desrgn trends, whrch, he sard, "have not brought about the potentral Shangrr-La of great archl- ~ecture and plannrng.

"Grve us st~mulatron, somethrng whrch excrtes the mrnd, but somethrng wrth endurrng qualrtres," he sard.

After graduat~on, Dr. Lakrng drd post- graduate work at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England. He jorned the staff at Hamrlton In 1946, was appornted actrng director in 1953, becomlng drrector In 1954.

In his address to 175 post-graduate degree recipients and BA graduates, Lord Brock described his impatience with those who debate at length the function of a university, calling the teaching or re- search question a "false problem."

"Obviously it (a university) must teach. That is what most students go to a uni- versity for," he said.

"But, at the same time . . . the university that does no effective research will lapse into futility and failure. Up-to- date teaching cannot exist without re- search, and this is why I am impatient of a formal discussion on the topic.

"There are far better things that one can exercise one's mind with." he said.

Following Convocation, he told reporters at a press conference that organ banks would become a common feature in medi- cine before too long. Although he declined to predict when such banks would be establ~shed, he sald that his research over the last few years showed that animal hearts and kidneys could be kept alive for several days before transplanta- tion in another animal.

He said delaying transplants was "infinitely better" than present procedures in which human transplants occur al- most immediately after the death of the organ's donor.

Last year. Lord Brock invited Dr. James Archibald, OVC '49, chairman of OVC Clinical Studies Department, to join him and his research team for a SIX- month sabbatical in organ transplant research.

Dr. Archibald told the Guelph Alumnus that Lord Brock is a very "resewed man who demands a tremendously high stan- dard from everyone working with him.

"He runs the place like a ship's cap- tain," Dr. Archibald said. "Outside of the lab he's a different sort of person. Mlnd you, during working hours he never says a harsh word-he's always polite-but you know who's running the show. This. of course, characterizes the quality of work and research he has carried out."

Dr. Archibald described his sabbatical with Lord Brock's team as "just a tre- mendous opportunity," adding that the Britlsh and OVC surgical teams are con- tinuing a series of exchange visits.

Lord Brock, the Baron Brock of Wimbledon, sits in the House of Lords as a life peer, an honour granted him in 1965 for his contribution to medicine. He was named a Knight Bachelor in 1954.

Far left, newly-installed Fellows of the Unrversrty Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Stewart sign University Regrster as Presrdent Wrnegard (left), Mr. T. A. McEwan (middle) and Chancellor Drew look on. At immediate left, Dr. James Archibald points out campus features to Lord Brock who received an honorary Doctor of Science degree at Convocation.

Besides his many achievements in medicine, awards for which would fill a book, he is also a noted speaker and author, having written the biography of Astley-Cooper, a 17-century English statesman who was active in attempts to restore the Stuarts to the English throne.

Mr. Justice Hall succeeds Col. Drew a s Chancellor - d

Mr. Justice Hall

The University of Guelph has a new Chancellor. On July 1, Hon. Emmett Matthew Hall, Justlce of the Supreme Court of Canada, succeeded Col. the Hon. George A. Drew as titular head of the University.

Mr. Jllstice Hall, 73, who will be installed at the fall convocation exercises October 1, has had a d~strnguished career in juris- prudence, education and public service, and has been a Justice of the Supreme Court slnce 1962. He is particularly well- known in educational circles for his significant role as chairman of the Pro- vincial Committee on Aims and Objectives of Education in the Schools of Ontario, better known as the Hall-Dennis Report.

Prior to moving to Ottawa in 1962, Mr. Justice Hall lived in Regina where he was Chlef Justice of Saskatchewan and of the Court of Appeal. Previously, he was Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Saskatchewan.

Following graduation In 1919 with a law degree from the University of Saskatch- ewan, Mr. Justice Hall was called to the Bar in 1922. He practised law in Saska- toon until 1957, when he resigned as senior partner in the firm of Hall, Magulre and Wedge, to become Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench.

While in Saskatoon, Mr. Justice Hall lec- tured at the University of Saskatchewan, and was a member of the University's Senate. He was also chairman of the Separate School Board and president of the Catholic School Trustees Association of Saskatchewan.

In 1961, he was named chairman of the Federal Royal Commission on Health Services, and in 1966 received the Bronf- man Award from the Amerlcan Public Health Association in recognition of his achievements in the field of public health.

Recipient of many honors, Mr. Justice Hall was awarded an honorary DCL degree by the University of Saskatchewan, and in 1966 received an honorary D.Med. from the University of Ottawa. He also holds honorary LLD degrees from the University of Wlndsor, 1968, and University of Manitoba, 1969.

Born in St. Columban, Quebec, Mr. Justice Hall marrled Isabel Mary Parker of Humboldt In 1922. They have two children.

Col. Drew was the University's first Chancellor, and served for six years. In announcing Col. Drew's retirement at recent Convocation exercises, President Wlnegard described his as "a soldier, very young mayor of the City of Guelph, Premier of Ontario, leader of the opposl- tlon, High Commissioner to Britain, and defender of democracy."

A native of Guelph, Col. Drew has had an outstanding career in Canadian public Ilfe. In addition, he also has many ties wrth the City of Guelph and the University. As a young lawyer in the city almost 50 years ago, he served as a part-time lec- turer at the Ontario Veterrnary College. He is the son-in-law of the late Edward Johnson, one of Guelph's most illustrious sons. Although he now makes his home in Toronto, Col. Drew strll maintains an active interest in the Guelph Spring Festival, and. of course, in the University.

1,009 degrees conferred at Spring Convocation

A total of 1,009 graduates received degrees at May Convocation exercises. The breakdown of undergraduate degrees is as follows:

B.Sc.(Agr.)-168; B.A.Sc.--110; DVM-68; BLA-10; B.Sc.(Eng.)-21; Associate Diploma in Agriculture-68; B.Comm.-25; B.Sc.(PE)-27; BA (gen.) -203; BA (hons.)--89; B.Sc. (gen . )42 ; B.Sc. (hons.)-92.

There were elght PhD, 59 M.Sc., and 17 MA degrees and two Graduate Diplomas In Veterinary Medicine con- ferred.

Consumers are crushed in rush to loose money says consumer advocate

Circus showman P. T. Barnum's famous one-liner about a sucker being born every minute should be updated says Una Abrahamson, consumer editor of Chate- laine Magazine.

"It's more than one a minute," she said while delivering the keynote address at the Macdonald Institute Alumnae Association's annual seminar, held May 7 and 8, "and some people are almost crushed in the scramble to lose their money.

"As long as someone looks for some- thing for nothing, right there will be someone to give you nothing for some- thing," she told 125 Macdonald gradu- ates attending the two-day seminar entltled "Selectivity in the Seventies."

"Why can't we be less gullible, and, above all, why have we forgotten that two-letter word, 'no'," she said.

Why are people being "conned" and "rooked," she asked. "Because we are basically greedy. How else can you explain people responding to an offer of 'Want to hold down household bills? Send x dollars.' By return comes a paper weight."

Mrs. Abrahamson went on to describe the consumers' "Magna Carta" which includes, she said, the right to safety, the right to be informed, the right to choose, and the r~ght to be heard.

Desplte the government departments, the non-profit agencies, and the legisla-

tion, rules, and regulations established to protect consumers. Mrs. Abrahamson questioned the number of aware indivi- duals, and she lashed out at the indiscriminate consumer.

On reading hazardous products label- ling: "Are we going to learn to read packages or are we golng to continue to believe that once we've read instructions on one aerosol we've read them all."

On childproof containers and house- hold poisons: "We have drug safety warnings, but who ensures that we store these items safely? I've never been able to understand why a child can get a cheap bottle of polish to drink while the expensive liquor is hidden."

She ended her address calling for an updated education for consumers.

"We have to learn to understand what makes business function, to know basic economics, and what makes government function. We must lift our eyes from the supermarket packages and look at pro- fessional services, living conditions, tariffs, and education . . . we must begin to look at the problems of the nuclear age," she said.

"The concerned consumer understands that all cholces are competitive and there are few absolutes. When we come to understand that there is no free lunch, no free g~ft, then we'll be better consumers."

Following her address and the morning Interest sessions conducted by faculty of the College of Family and Consumer Studles, Department of Food Science Chairman John deMan, and Department of Education Program Consultants Ellen

Dr. R. G. Hilton (right), arboretum director, and assistants are shown planting first varieties of maple and locust trees. Plantings were financed by alumni gifts to last year's Alma Mater Fund.

Downie, Mac '38, and Jerry Babcock, alumnae heard Professor William Neilson, Osgoode Hall Law School, talk about professional consumer law.

Mr. J. Blair Seaborne, assistant deputy minister, Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs addressed alumnae at the luncheon, and described the Depart- ment, its organization, functions, and some of the legislation it administers.

Following lunch and three afternoon sessions. Jean Steckle. Mac '52, the first research fellow under contract to the Canadlan International Development Agency at the University of Ghana, des- cubed the Home Science Department there chaired by Macdonald Institute's former dean, Dr. Margaret McCready.

This year's seminar committee was chaired by Alumnae Association First Vice-President Rosemary Clark, Mac '59. with assistance from Dr. Elizabeth Gul- lett, Mac '55, Mrs. D. J. (Jean Fuller) Hume, Mac '64, and Frances Lampman, Mac '54.

University Centre Building Committee reconvenes

The University Centre Building Com- mlttee, charged with the responsibility of resurrecting the long-dreamt-of University Centre, has been called back into session by President W. C. Winegard.

The 13-member committee, including newly appointed alumni representatives Mrs. A. D. (Mary Graham) Hales, Mac '32, and Dr. Nigel C. B. Palmer, OVC '63, has not met since April, 1969, when the Province announced its interim capital formula financing plans. Under the formu- la, Guelph had more space than ruled necessary and was, therefore, ineligible for provincial grants to fund new buildings.

The University Centre has had top priority for the past few years, and with projected student enrolment figures the University will soon be eligible for some provincial assistance.

Designed as the campus meeting place and social centre with facilities for students, faculty, and alumni, the Uni- versity Centre was originally budgetted at about nine million. Addressing the com- mittee's meeting on June 30. Dr. Wine- gard warned a building of this magnitude might seriously cut into the University's space entitlement for future academic buildings.

He suggested the committee attempt to reduce the building's 121,000 net assign- able square feet (space supported by provincial grants up to $55 per square foot) to about 100,000 square feet. Esti- mated cost of the revamped building is $6.5 million.

Besides the provincial grants, the University Centre will be funded by student fees of $10 per semester, grad- uate student and faculty fees, alumni

gifts, an additional $250,000 from the Development Fund.

The committee hopes construction will start early in 1973 with completion by late 1974.

Guelph social scientists undertake 'grassroots' opinion project in Huron County

A project to seek out and record "grass- roots" opinion about events occuring in today's rapidly changing rural society is being undertaken by a team of Un~versity of Guelph social scientists.

The interdisciplinary project involves the departments of geography, extension education, economics, political studies, landscape architecture and sociology and anthropology. F~ndings are expected to yield information presently unavailable to planners, researchers and local govern- ment officials.

"There is a clear need for comDre- hensive research which will help incover today's rural perspective," says Dr. Ted Hadwen, a Guelph sociologist and co- ordinator of the project. "For the most part we know someth~ng of the economic and other changes faced by the residents of predominantly rural areas, but not how those individuals perceive these developments."

Huron County, in western Ontario has been chosen as the study area because of its predominately rural nature repre- sentative of "classical rural Ontario."

The important part of t h ~ s research, says Dr. Hadwen, is to discover how the rural population perceives the entire range of social changes it must face.

"We may not know what general char- acteristics of cultural makeup, institutional life, or senstivity to coming develop- ments, lie behind attitudes to such

specific events as the development of the Lake Huron shore or the movement of industry to the County," he says.

"We may know for instance, how many people are leaving rural Ontario, but not what they feel are the vital factors in deciding whether to go or stay. We may know the extent to which social services have become centralized, but not how important or unacceptable this is to local residents.

A prime objective will be to uncover information which would help govern- ment policy-makers become better acquainted with grassroots opinion.

The study, expected to take about a year to complete, is based at the Univer- sity of Guelph. In addition, a field office has been established in Clinton providing a central point for data collection.

OAC graduates have easier time finding jobs in 1971

Although Canada's economy was at a low point and unemployment at a high in late May, University of Guelph B.Sc. (Agr.) graduates had a significantly better year in gaining permanent employment than last year.

Following 1971 convocation exercises, the number of graduates who were un- employed or whose status was unknown totalled some 21 per cent of the graduat- Ing class as compared to 3 1 per cent In 1970.

Generally there were as many, i f not slightly more openings for this year's graduates than in 1970, but positions were slow to develop and many graduates were still waiting for replies after they had left campus.

Graduate study took the largest num- ber of students-almost 21 per cent.

The University's new Engineering build- ing, to be built on what is now a parking lot between the Land Resource Science (Soil Science) building and the South Residence, Complex 'B', could be com- pleted by September, 1973.

University officials are hopeful con- struction of the $2.4 million building will

start next January. I t will provide space for an expected enrolment by 1975 of 200 students; present enrolment in the School of Engineering is 125.

The Board of Governors approved last May the building's design, and authorized the director of physical resources to have working drawings prepared.

Although this figure is about the same as that recorded last year, it is markedly lower than figures of 34 per cent and 28 per cent in 1968 and 1969.

The number of graduates entering government service increased sharply over the 1970 figures, but is still lower than figures recorded in the years 1967- 69. Industry also claimed a large number of grads--some 19 per cent, again higher than in previous years.

One interesting fact brought out in the recently-issued figures is that farming claimed more than 11 per cent of the graduating class, as compared with only three per cent in 1968.

2,259 students enrolled for summer classes

Final registration figures for the summer semester showed 2,259 students enrolled. an increase of 10 per cent over 1970.

Approximately 1,600 students were in the BA program, 367 in B.Sc., 114 in B.A.Sc., and 80 in the B.Sc.(Agr.) pro- gram; 98 were enrolled in other programs. Of the total student population, 1,939 were full-time students, and 320 part- time.

Freshman enrolment increased to 659 from 541 in 1970.

Appointments Mr. Kenneth G. Murray, OAC '50, has been appointed to the University's Board of Governors for a three-year term effec- tive July 1, 1971.

Mr. Murray, 47, president of J. M. Schneider Limited, Kitchener, joined Schneider's as a salesman immediately upon graduation. In 1953, he was ap- pointed livestock buyer and 10 years later became assistant plant manager. He was named general manager in 1967. and president in 1969.

A director of the Meat Packers Council of Canada, Mr. Murray represented the meat packing industry at the 1969-70 agricultural congress called by the Hon. H. A. "Bud" Olson, federal minister of agriculture. Mr. Murray is also a member of the agricultural committee of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, a director of the Kitchener Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Kitchener Rotary Club.

Coinciding with Mr. Murray's appoint- ment, E. I. Birnbaum, a present member of the Board was appointed chairman- designate to replace Chairman R. S. Ritchie who was also reappointed for a six-month term ending December 31. 1971. J. M. Lindley, OAC '53, was ap- pointed vice-chairman; Dr. John F. Melby, former chairman of the Political Studies Department was appointed on

recommendation of Senate to a three- year term effective July 31, 1971 succeed- ing Dr. P. A. Wright, Department of Agri- cultural Economics; and S. G. Bennett was reappointed for a three-year term effective July 1, 1971.

Dr. C. K. Capstick has been appointed chairman of the new Department of Computing and Information Science.

As part of the College of Physical Science, the new department, which is located in the renovated old Physics building, will operate a distinctive teach- ing and research program emphasizing information processing systems in busi- ness and industry.

A member of the Operational Research Society and graduate of King's Col- lege. Durham University in England. Dr. capstick's experience with computer svstems has included construction of Gathematical statistical models of bio- logical systems; modelling complex industrial systems; simulating alternative ca~i ta l investment strategies; and systems development planning. -

Most recently, he served as director for Group Management Services of the Perkins Engines Group of Massey Fer- guson. His staff had world-wide responsi- bility for computers. systems analysis, programming, organization and methods, and operational research in the Perkins Engines Group.

Dr. David E. Eltick, OAC '53, has been appointed chairman of the Department of Land Resource Science, formerly known as the Department of Sail Science. He succeeds Dr. Murray Miller, OAC '53, who has headed the department since 1966.

An ardent supporter of anti-pollution programs and spokesman on environ- mental and natural resource issues. Dr. Elrick chaired a series of lectures and discussions on "Man and his Environ- ment" at the University last year. He also edited the book Environmental Change: Focus on Ontario, written primarily by Guelph faculty, and has authored more than 40 scientific papers.

Dr. Elrick has been active in national and international soil science and related conferences, and served for one year as exchange scientist at the University of Grenoble, France.

Clockwise from top left, Murray, Capstick, Elrick, Jordan

Dr. David C. Jordan, OAC '50. has been appointed chairman of the Department of Microbiology in the newly-formed College of Biological Science.

Author of 45 scientific papers, Dr. Jordan has an international reputation in two diverse research areas: the mechan- ism by which antibiotics inhibit growth of bacteria; and the bacterial convekion of atmos~heric nitrogen into combined forms'for plant use. The latter area is an important process in the nitrogen cycle.

Until the formation of the College of Biological Science, Dr. Jordan was pro- fessor of microbiology in the Ontario Agricultural College. He hopes to main- tain cooperative ties with OAC and other colleges of the University, and at the same time he and his colleagues in the Department of Microbiology hope to de- velop new and important emphasis in the area of general microbiology.

On July 1, the Department of Poultry Science and the Department of Animal Science amalgamated to form the De- partment of Poultry and Animal Science. With the new department came a new chairman, Dr. W. Douglas Morrison, OAC '49.

Dr. Morrison, 43, who will come to Guelph on September 1, is currently direc- tor of nutrition and research of the agri- cultural division of Maple Leaf Mills Limited, Toronto, a position he has held since 1961.

Dr. Morrison, currently an alumni rep- resentative on the University Senate, is a member of many national and inter- national scientific and professional organizations, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advance-

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ment of Science. A noted author, Dr. Morrison was a

member of the Canada Grains Council's Trade Mission to Europe this year and is chairman-elect of the newly-formed National Nutrition Council of the Cana- dian Feed Manufacturers' Association.

Dr. Freeman McEwen, an internationally- known entomologist and well-known faculty member at Guelph, has been appointed chairman of the new OAC Department of Environmental Biology.

Dr. McEwen, a McGill University gradu- ate (1950), came to the Guelph campus as professor of entomology in 1969, and has been active in the organization and coordination of the University's entire entomological program. He recently served as chairman of the OAC study committee which made recommendations for the reorganization of the College to enable it to meet more fully the needs of today's rural community.

In addition, Dr. McEwen presently sits on the board of governors of the Entomo- logical Society of America, is a member of the pesticide advisory committee of the provincial health department and vice-chairman of the ODAF pesticide com- mittee. He is also a member of the Entomological Societies of Canada and Ontario.

An expert in pesticide use and biologi- cal control of insects, he is author or co-author of more than 50 scientific publications.

Dr. Frederick Vaughan has been appointed chairman of the Department of Political Studies, succeeding Dr. John Melby, chairman since the department was created in 1966.

A Halifax native, Dr. Vaughan, 36, came to the University of Guelph in 1967.

He recently returned from Britain where he was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford. During his four-month stay. Dr. Vaughan undertook research for a book on political philosophy, his main area of interest.

Author of several articles on political philosophy and constitutional law, Dr. Vaughan was also senior editor of a recently-published book on issues in Ca- nadian politics, and hopes to publish a volume on the political philosophy of Giambattista Vica this fall.

Dr. Vaughan received a BA from St. Mary's University in Halifax and an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. Before coming to Guelph, he taught at Royal Military College in Kingston.

Professor T. K. Warley has been appointed director of the recently formed School of Agricultural Economics and Extension Education.

An internationally known agricultural economist, Professor Warley is a gradu- ate of the University of Nottingham. He

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has held a number of positions in the United Kingdom and has been the organi- zer of agricultural economic seminars for a variety of organizations, including the United Nations.

Professor Warley is the author of numerous techn~cal papers, articles and books on agricultural economics, many of them dealing with the problems of govern- ment regulation of agriculture and international trade.

A sought-after speaker. Professor Warley has also been regularly involved on the committee on grain marketing in western Canada. He is also working with a group of international scholars on a book entitled International Economic Relationships in the 1960s, to be pub- lished by the Royal lnstitute of Interna- tional Affairs, London, England. Professor Warley will submit a chapter on Interna- t~onal Agricultural Trade Policy.

Alumni News Dr. Kenneth M. Pretty. OAC '51. has been elected president of the newly-established Potash lnstitute of Canada.

Dr. Pretty, who is also vice-president of the Potash lnstitute of North America obtained his M.Sc. and PhD at Michigan State University where he taught soil science for many years before becoming Canadian director of the now dissolved International Foundation for Potash Research. He is the immediate past- president of the Ontario lnstitute of Agrologists.

Dr. N. R. Richards. OAC '38. dean of the Ontario Agricultural College, has been named a Fellow of the Agricultural lnstitute of Canada.

The 5,000-member Institute's highest award was presented to Dr. Richards at the Institute's annual meeting held re- cently in Lethbridge, Alberta.

In reading the citation for the Fellow- ship, Dr. T. H. Anstey, the retiring president, referred to Dr. Richards' con- tribution in the field of education and particularly his responsibilities for the reorganization of the curriculum in agri- culture at Guelph. He also cited Dr. Richards' research contributions in the field of soil science.

Fellowships are presented annually by the lnstitute to members who have at- tained professional distinction with outstanding accomplishment in any field of agriculture. Fellows must have attained recognition for integrating scholarship, knowledge, leadership and experience.

Dr. Richards was one of six to receive a Fellowship this year.

Moles. MacKay. and Ferguson elected to Senate John Moles, OAC '36, Dr. D. Campbell MacKay, OVC '50, and Clayton, OVC '70, the MacKay Animal Hospital in Whitby, Paul Ferguson, Well '67, have been elected to three-year terms Ontario. as alumni representatives on the University of Guelph Senate. Dr. MacKay said that he stood for election because he is

They are succeeding retiring senators Mrs. B. E. (Joan "very, very interested in education," and that he was approach- Lennox) Colnett, Mac '54, Mrs. J. T. Hurst, Well '68, and Dr. ing the task of fulfilling his duties as an alumni senator with W. H. Minshall, OAC '33. an "open mind" on the many education issues.

Mr. Moles, general manager of the Royal Agricultural Winter He agrees with current thinking that university research Fair, told the Guelph Alumnus that he stood for election to should become more productive. support the agricultural aims of the University, and to make "Some research I just can't see at all," he said. "If it's good, whatever contribution he could to the Guelph campus. sound research it's something that has to be done, but, in

the university he said, -it is going to be most my opinion, researchers should be searching for something important to me that there be no decrease in the activities, before they start looking." curriculum, and importance of the agricultural part of the Dr. MacKay is a member of both the Ontario Veterinary University." Association and the Canadian Veterinary Association, and is a

Discussing the growth of the he said that he was past-secretary of the Mid-Ontario Veterinary Association. He

not against expansion to the original concept (15,000 students has been active In the Telefund Division Of the

by the mid-1980s) that there is a need for expansion, Alma Mater Fund, and is a life member of the O.V.C. Alumni

and also that the students who will attend will receive the Association.

type of education that will fit them for the jobs that will be available in the 1980s." The University Senate is currently Mr. Ferguson, a teacher at John F. Ross Collegiate in discussing the possibility of limiting enrolment between Guelph, told the Guelph Alumnus he would like to see the 9-10,000 as reported in the Guelph Alumnus, Vol. 4, No. 1. University open its doors further to people who "don't meet Enrolment last winter semester was approximately 6.600. the old and true criteria for admission.

Regarding educational spending, Mr. Moles said he agrees "I think there are still ways left for the University to incor-

with the current cutbacks: think it is time now to re-assess porate people into its community who have a contribution to

much of the spending," he said, adding that some money make and who can receive tremendous benefits from the

should be available for projects and research provided that such university community- I think we should keep an 'pen eye On

proposals can be proved productive. admissions policy."

"I would hate to see cutbacks for the sake of cutbacks," Regarding the University's growth. Mr. Ferguson said that

he said. social pressure would probably demand that the University

Active in alumni affairs, he is a past-president of the O.A.C. expand to about 15,000 students. "Of course, we have to recognize in the meantime that nearly

Alumni Association, and was the OAC chairman in the alumni the criteria upon which the original plan was based no division of the University of Guelph Development Fund. Mr. longer exist in terms of enrolment projections, in terms of Moles also represented OAC on the University of Toronto capital funds available, and even operating funds," he said. Senate for one term. He is a member of several organizations Mr. Ferguson is currently a director of the Arts and Sciences including the OIA and AIC, and is a life member of the O.A.C. Alumni Association. Alumni Association, and is that organization's vice-president

to the University of Guelph Alumni Association. He is also the UGAA's representative to the Committee on University Struc-

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