University of Guelph Atrium

NEWS BULLETIN UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

Vol -10-26 25th July, 1966.

THREE-SEMESTER ASUMMER STUDENTS

In a report entitled "Who are they? and Why did they come?", the students who enrolled in the spring semester revealed just who they are and why they came. This report is the efforts of a joint committee of faculty members from the University and the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education who assembled the data from a questionnaire that was given to the students the second day of their arrival WHO ARE THEY? The data revealed several things: first of all, the girls out number the boys by a slight number bringing to an end the era of the 1:6 or 6:1 'proportion, From 246 students who enrolled in the spring, 216 were students who did not finish their Grade 13 course and were able to begin their university education earlier. If these students had not been able to come, the success of the summer program would have rested on only a few. Many of them have come from small communities and from families with wide ranges of income. About.two-thirds of the students are from families of three or more children. In most families, neither parent has | attended university. Of the more than six hundred secondary schools in | Ontario, the students attended 139 of them or one in every five. The high academic qualifications of this pioneer group is apparent | to all who teach them. As a group, they entered with an average of 73%. ! In the provincial, departmental tests that were given to all Grade 12 | students, almost one half of this freshman class placed in the top twenty ! percent. These students were all eligible to obtain financial help under the | new bursary-loan scheme instituted by the Department of University Affairs, j About 80% of the students received some form of financial aid,including 39 students with averages of 75% or above who were awarded University of j Guelph scholarships. WHY DID THEY COME? An overwhelming number of the students cited the trisemester system and the opportunity to complete their university education in a shorter period of time as their reason for leaving Grade 13 to enroll in the spring_semester, Only a small number of students stated the opportunity to avoid Grade 13 departmental examinations as their reason for coming. Some students mentioned that the opportunity the trisemester offers to balance educational costs with financial resources was an advantage. A few considered the job opportunities to be greater in the fall and winter semesters when most students are at university. 2

APPOINTMENTS

Mr. Harold Hughes has joined the staff of the School of Engineering as an Assistant Professor in his field of design. Although he will be mainly concerned with research in the design of machinery and mechanization in the fruit and vegetable production, he will also lecture in design. Mr. Hughes obtained a BSC from Michigan State University and this year completed his studies for a Masters of Science at the University of Arizona. GRANTS^ The National Research Council of Canada has recently awarded grants for the purchase of major equipment to DR. R.J. HILTON, DR. J.W. RIEKELS and PROFESSOR R.G. ROWBERRY of the Department of Horticulture. A grant of $8,500, has been made to Dr. Hilton for the construction of a root observation laboratory which will be utilized for diurnal and seasonal studies of root activity in horticultural plants. Dr. Riekeli' grant of $6,500, will be used for the purchase of a Packard Tri-Carb liquid scintillation spectrometer. This instrument will be used in measurements of the uptake and translocation of radioisotopes of iron, manganese and zinc by plants from nutrient solutions. Professor Rowberry's grant of $5 ,000.. is for a nuclear Chicago Model 5806 Moisture Gauge for accurate measurement of the movement and uptake of water in the soil under various irrigation systems in order to determine the most efficient use of water by various horticultural plants. PROFESSOR W.C. ALLEN, Department of Zoology, has received a grant of $500. from Chicago Corporation, Kansas City to aid in research of Face and Horn Flies on cattle.

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Survey DR. J.G. OUGHTON, Department of Zoology has signed a contract with the National Museum of Canada to make a survey of the molluscs of the Lake Erie drainage. Conf erences Increasing usage of the laser in medicine and biology was reported by scientists attending the Gordon Research Conference in Andover, New Hampshire. In particular it appears to hold great promise in removing or controlling carcinogenic tumors, reports DR.W.H.A. WILDE and MR. R. KOBYLNYK of the University of Guelph, Zoology Department, who were 3

FACULTY ACTIVITIES... Conferences continued members of the "foreign" participant contingent at this conference. Sixty laser researchers participated including scientists from Sweden, England and Czechoslovakia PROFESSORS VICTOR CHANASYK, ROMAN FODCHUK and JOHN MILLIKEN of the School of Landscape Architecture recently attended the National Conference of Instructors in Landscape Architecture in Madison, Wisconsin. An outstanding portion of the program was held in the new University of Wisconsin Multimedia Laboratory where an array of audio-visual teaching aids may be used under direct electronic control of the lecturer or through an automatically operated computerized system. One of the aims of the project is to provide meaningful, efficient teaching for very 1arge cl asses. The University of Wisconsin, Department of Landscape Architecture is using techniques developed in the Multimedia Laboratory to further its Environment Awareness Centres project. These Awareness Centres are to be out-of-door laboratories wherein interdiscipiinary research data on the environment and man's recorded impact will be used to assist students of Landscape Architecture and others in understanding the effects of comprehensive decisions about altering and managing various kinds of landscapes.

The fourteenth biennial convention of the Canadian Home Economics Association was held at the Mount Royal Hotel, Montreal, Quebec. Those attending from Macdonald Institute included MISS LEFEBVRE, MISS BRAY, MISS HARRIS (retiring chairman of the Family Life Committee), MISS FRANK (chairman of the Textile Committee), and DR McCREADY(chairman of the International Federation of Home Economics). Various aspects of family life were emphasized during this convention. MR. DOUG WATERSTON, Director of Information, and MR. JOHN BABCOCK, Director of Alumni Affairs, attended the American Alumni Council Annual Conference at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. 1200 representatives of United States and Canadian Universities attended the four day sessions dealing with alumni activities, fund raising and the publishing of University publications for alumni. Training_Courses PROFESSOR A. PEEPRE, Department of Physical Education, conducted several Leadership Training Courses for camp and playground leaders during the last few weeks. Among the places visited were the Simcoe County Recreation Centre,where nearly 100 leaders participated, and the local Y.M.-Y.W.C.A, "Camp Nagiwa" at POrt Severn, for their leadership course. Lectures and practical work in outdoor education, orienteering, and counselling techniques were included in the courses. - 4 - FACULTY ACTIVITIES. . continued.

Meet ing s

PROFESSOR W.C. ALLAN, Department of Zoology, attended a meeting at Lethbridge, Alberta, of the Medical and Veterinary Section of the Entomological Society of America. This meeting took the form of a work conference of all research and extension workers from Canada and the United States who are engaged in Livestock Insect Control. Professor Allan presented a report to the delegates on the work being done in Ontario through the Department of Zoology on Warble, Face, and Horn Fly control. DR. C.A.V. BARKER, Head, Division of Animal Reproduction, OVC, as President of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association, attended the executive council, and annual meetings of the Association which was held at the Bay shore Inn in Vancouver.

Fapers MISS RUTH SAISON, Veterinary Bacteriology, will present a paper on the anti-immune nature of Aleutian Disease in Mink at the XI International Congress of Haematology and Blood Transfusion in Sydney, Australia, August 21st to the 29th.

Publications Zoology Wilde, W H A CAB Spraying, IX,2X,3X,4X or? Canadian Fruitgrower, VOL. XXII, No. 5. May-June 1966. Illustrated.

Veterinary Ba ctevio logy The relationship of California Mastitis Test (C.M.T) Scores with Leucocyte Counts on Bucket Milk Samples. R.C.W. Daniel, G.C. Smith and D.A. Barnum. Can. Vet.Jour. Vol. 7. No. 4. April, 1966. The relationship Between California Mastitis Test Scores and Monthly Milk Production and Composition. R.C.W. Daniel, D.A. Biggs and D.A. Barnum. Can. Vet.Jour. Vol. 7. No. 5. May 1966. Viral Plasmacytosis (Aleutian Disease) in Mink. VI. The Development of Positive Coombs Tests in Experimental Infections. Ruth Saison, L. Karstad and T.J. Pridham. Can.Jour. Comp. Med and Vet. Sci. June 1966. R.Q. Fletcher and Daphne J. Osborne. Gibberellin, as a regulator of protein and ribonucleic acid synthesis during senescence in leaf cells of Taraxacum officinale. Can. Jour. Bot. 44: 739 - 746. W.A. Quick and Michael Shaw. The physiology pf host-parasite relations XVII Acid soluble nucleotides in rust infected and senescing wheat leaves. Can. Jour. Bot 44: 777 - 788. 'ff

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ANNOUNCEMENTS_ U. S. S. R. Honours Professor Cavers

The Organizing Committee for the 13th World's Poultry Congress at Kiev in August has honoured PROFESSOR J.R. CAVERS, Poultry Department with his return flight and an eight days stay at the Congress. It is understood that a member of the United States is being similarly honoured. The O.A.C. Poultry Science head had already accepted sponsorship by the Ontario Poultry Council and will use this to proceed to additional meetings in London and Warsaw. Two members of tne Russian committee were guests of O.A.C following the 1958 Congress in Mexico City. Professor Cavers feels that the invitation reflects the co operation between his staff and poultry officials of the U.S.S.R.

Fresh Approach to Art at Mac. Paintings and drawings by PAUL BUCHANAN are on display in Macdonald Institute during the day and on Wednesday evenings until August 6th. His paintings which hang in many Guelph homes and buildings include Liturgical subjects such as the "Pieta" in St. Georges Anglican Church. Publication D.C. HILL, J. SINGH and G.C. ASHTON "A Chick Bioassay for Lysine". Poultry Science Vo1.45 May 1966.p. 554.

Roy al Commis s ion on Agriculture Visits OAC_. Tffe Royal Commission of Inquiry on■Agricu1ture , Quebec, ■visi ted- OAC last Thursday and were welcomed by Dean N.R. Richards and Dr. W.E. Tossell. Later, the Commission met with various OAC department heads and professors to discuss programs in agriculture as part of a study of all phases of agriculture in Southwestern and Central Ontario. Dr. J.D. MacLachlan explained the projected development plans of the university to 1980 when 15,000 students are expected. ********:*******************■***'****■**■******************************■**** *•k CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS * * July - August 5th Art Exhibition by Paul Buchanan. Working hours* * and Wednesday evenings - closing dateAugust * * 6th. * * July 25th _ * * August 29th The Canadian National Wrestling Team. * x Physical Education Building. * * * * August 1st , CIVIC HOLIDAY!!! 8:30am to 5pm. * 6