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Writes team member Graeme Hedley: “We had a great time, and it is always fun to win. After each win, we got to travel to Wingham to appear on CKNX TV.”

ON CAMPUS

• The provincial University of Guelph Act established the new institution.
• Wellington College was created to offer degree programs in the arts and sciences.
• Dr. John MacLachlan, a professor of botany, became U of G’s first president.
• Dr. Hugh Branion, first head of the Department of Animal Nutrition, was named dean of U of G graduate studies.

OFF CAMPUS

• The 18th Summer Olympics were held in Tokyo.
• The U.S. Civil Rights Act was signed into law.
• The Beatles played on the Ed Sullivan show as part of their North American tour.
• American pilot Geraldine (“Jerrie”) Mock became the first woman to fly solo around the world.
• Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) defeated Sonny Liston for the world heavyweight boxing championship.

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“We worked so hard that we couldn’t lose, even though we weren’t supposed to win,” Jeff Volpe, a player on the winning team, said years later. “We had a feeling of destiny, the feeling that you were part of something bigger than yourself. That, in essence, is what a team is all about.”

The Gryphons beat four-time Vanier Cup winner Western Mustangs to win the Yates Cup, becoming champs of Ontario. Then, on Nov. 24, U of G rallied to defeat the Mount Allison Mounties 22-13 at Toronto’s Varsity Stadium, in front of a crowd of 19,842.

Gryphon receiver Parri Ceci, who went on to a professional career in the CFL, was the game’s MVP. He made two receptions in the game, both for touchdowns. One was carried 89 yards, the longest in Vanier Cup history to that point.

ON CAMPUS

• Burt Matthews became U of G’s fourth president. He earned his undergraduate degree at OAC. A soil chemist, he spent 20 years here, beginning as an OAC lecturer.
• New head football coach John Musselman replaced Tom Dimitroff, who returned to the Ottawa Rough Riders of the CFL. Musselman would coach the Gryphons to a Vanier Cup victory.
• Macdonald Stewart Art Centre got the go-ahead to begin landscaping work on the expansion of the Donald Forster Sculpture Park.

OFF CAMPUS

• The Soviet Union boycotted the Summer Olympics Games in Los Angeles, in retaliation for the United States led boycott of the 1980 games held in Moscow.
• The space shuttle Discovery had its maiden flight, which lasted from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5.
• An agreement was reached to return Hong Kong to China.
• Canadian film director James Cameron gained international fame with the release of his critically acclaimed The Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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The complex is among campus buildings highlighted in “Brutalism at Guelph: Concrete in a new light,” an ongoing exhibit in the McLaughlin Library about U of G’s late-sixties building boom that reshaped the campus.

The exhibit highlights the beton brut (“raw concrete”) style of South Residence, Lambton Hall, the library, and the MacKinnon and MacNaughton buildings.

The display was assembled from library archival materials by art history and landscape architecture students in an experiential learning course.

The students chose this photo taken from inside the newly built South Residence to illustrate the exhibit.

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Over the years, the coffee shop changed with the times, including sporting a psychedelic vibe in the mid-1970s. The shop closed in 1998.

We believe this shot to be from about 1975. Are we correct? Do you spot yourself or anyone you know? Send a note to porticomagazine@uoguelph.ca and let us know!

ON CAMPUS

• The University Centre officially opens in June and is dubbed the “campus hub.”
• Donald Forster becomes the University of Guelph’s third president.
• The Umbria sculpture is installed in front of the University Centre. The trio of cast fibreglass and concrete sculptural forms by Walter Redinger now stands in the U of G Arboretum.
• U of G scientists announce freezing techniques to store cow embryos.

OFF CAMPUS

• The Vietnam War ends in April 1975 with the fall of Saigon.
• The British Conservative Party chooses its first woman leader, Margaret Thatcher.
• The IRA attacks the United Kingdom.
• NASA launches the first joint United States/Soviet Union space flight.
• Betamax videotapes and VHS tapes are introduced by Sony and Matsushita/JVC, respectively.
• One of the very first blockbuster films, Jaws, is released in the summer.

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Measuring 100 by 60 feet and about 10 feet deep, the pool was installed in 1897 for a practical reason. The year before, a fire had razed the former chemistry building that stood directly south of Johnston Hall. Administrators decided to install the reservoir as extra fire protection.

Surrounded by a black wrought-iron fence about three feet high, the pool also became a decorative feature, particularly when tea roses planted around it were in bloom (hence its name as the Rose Bowl).  

Besides its practical and aesthetic qualities, the Rose Bowl served as a makeshift recreational pool.  

The reservoir was used for its intended purpose more than once, including helping extinguish a blaze in the Creelman dining hall. But the pool also presented a hazard; two drownings occured: a child in 1916 and a student in 1930.

By 1956, the campus no longer needed the Rose Bowl, and it was filled in.

ON CAMPUS

• Supported by a gift from philanthropist Sir William Macdonald, Macdonald Institute opens to offer courses in home economics, nature study and manual training.
• Massey Hall library opens with just over 10,000 volumes. Built the same year, the Judging Pavilion would become known as the Bullring.
• Two years earlier, Charles Zavitz, Ontario Agricultural College grad and ultimately OAC president, releases the robust Early Yellow soybean for on-farm evaluation. By 1903, he is confident that soybeans can thrive in Ontario.  

OFF CAMPUS

• Crayola crayons are introduced with eight colours packaged in the same yellow and green box as today.
• Orville Wright makes the first documented and successful powered flight.
• Due to a severe drought, the American side of Niagara Falls runs dry, leaving only a trickle of water.  
• Winners of hockey’s Stanley Cup, the Ottawa Silver Seven team members receive silver nuggets instead of money to preserve their amateur status.  

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It was a great privilege to return in July 2017 to a place that I treasure in my memories: Vineland, Ont. This was the experimental farm on the Niagara Peninsula where I and two other girls from OAC spent the summer of 1942 with different horticultural jobs.

We anticipated an introduction to various experimental procedures, possibly leading to new varieties of corn or some other harvest. One strategy was to cover the plant to avoid ad hoc pollination and then to introduce pollen from a desirable plant. Tasting the new product was also a part of our job.

While such experimental procedures were welcomed, the bulk of our work included scrubbing old plant pots for future re-use – something I suspect is now done by a machine. We improved on this monotonous job by singing and storytelling. I have also many memories of travelling in the back of a pickup truck from orchard to orchard to attend to various jobs. The best one was to test new peach crosses directly off the new tree.

While today’s Vineland Research and Innovation Centre is strictly a working place, without residences (human or horsey), this was not the case in my time. Faculty lived in homes across the street, while the greenhouse and stable staff had houses on the station.

That first year, there was only a male dormitory. When it came time to decide how to house four single women, including one from a Toronto lab, the station created Spinster’s Hall in a large empty house. Although the original furnishings were sparse, female residents of the station were quick to add from their surplus. Their most memorable contribution was a picture of Queen Victoria – perhaps to keep us honest!

Three daily meals were provided to all students (at cost) by a cook in her small assigned house. Lake Ontario and a wharf were only five minutes away and there was also a tennis court, ready for a nightly workout. What more could you want? I was happy to join the tennis. As far as I recall, there were enough of us, between faculty and students, for a personal game rating, and even to field a team to compete Saturday afternoons in St. Catharines.

Once a group of us were rounded up to visit a dance at the nearby Vineland community, although specific details escape me.

Graduate students from the University of Toronto and some professors in plant pathology came down from Toronto to use the station’s equipment. The expert staff included provincial entomologists Peter, who was hard of hearing, and Bill, who had a speech impediment. One day they were working in the field when a man came by and asked for directions. Bill could not articulate an answer and Peter did not hear the question, so the man walked on – a story now more meaningful to me in light of my personal hearing degradation.

In 1942 the war was still on, and we would often see training planes from the nearby St. Catharines air base overhead. One small plane splash landed in the lake close to shore. It was good luck that the pilot survived.

The station housed a great barn filled with women called Farmarettes. Since the fit men were off to war, farmers lacked field hands. City girls moved to the farms to perform many simple but essential jobs. I befriended a couple of the Farmarettes. What a surprise when, a few years later, I met one of them as my future sister-in-law!

I was the only girl from the summer of 1942, to spend a second year and then a third year at Vineland. By then, there was no more Spinster Hall, and I roomed with a worker’s family.

With another OAC girl, I inspected the nurseries of the Niagara Peninsula for the entomologist of the Ontario government. [Not sure about the point here on: Yes, our appointment was a witness to the changing times: replacing one man with two girls – a single woman working alone in a field was not an option to be considered! With gasoline scarce during the war, our mode of transportation was a bicycle. That this gender replacement had other effects that were soon apparent: girls became upset with minor happenings in the kitchen, during their lunch, i.e. the changing of crying babies, etc. We also objected to sharing a single bed, while paying separate rent. It did not take us long to find another place. We moved out on the next week end.]

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But inside, its corridors, rooms and spaces have changed and been rearranged over the years. The basement once housed a bar, a tuck shop and even a barbershop. Tenants have included U of G administrators, government broadcasters, war service officials and – then and now — students.  

Constructed after the original Johnston Hall was demolished in 1928, the building has always doubled as a student residence. It also provided numerous student gathering spaces, such as the one in this photo. 

We believe the photo was taken in a common area on the third floor of the centre portion of the building (note the spiral staircase that would have led to the fourth floor). The plaid carpeting hints at the 1970s, but we are not sure. 

Can you date the photo? Do you see yourself in the shot? Recognize anyone? Bonus points if you can recall what this gathering was about or you can name the mystery bearded speaker. Send us a note and let us know! 

ON CAMPUS

• The University approves plans to develop the U of G Arboretum 
• An exhibit of sculptures and drawings by the renowned French artist Auguste Rodin comes to campus   
• An observatory opens atop the then-Physical Sciences building for teaching, research and star-gazing 
• The Dairy Cattle Research Centre opens in Elora 
• U of G gets its own radio station, Radio Gryphon 
• Campus discusses whether educational TV has a place in the classroom 

OFF CAMPUS

• Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the only peacetime use of the War Measures Act  
• The Beatles call it quits 
• Canada amends its Criminal Code to outlaw hate propaganda 
• Four unarmed Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War are shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard 
• Thousands of Canadian lakes are declared devoid of life due to acid rain
• The world watches as NASA works to return the crew of the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft to Earth 

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ON CAMPUS

• The women’s basketball team wins its first provincial championship title in 25 years.
• Veterinarians Without Borders (VWB) is established at the Ontario Veterinary College, becoming the first VWB group in North America.
• The new University of Guelph-Humber building receives a 2005 Award of Excellence for innovation in architecture from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
• U of G launches a coffee-table book featuring campus photos and reflective quotes, with a foreword by astronaut and graduate Roberta Bondar.+

OFF CAMPUS

• Hurricane Katrina, one of the five deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history, hits the Gulf coast, causing destruction from Florida to Texas.
• Three PayPal employees create video-sharing website YouTube.
• George W. Bush begins his second term as president of the United States.
• Charles, Prince of Wales, marries Camilla Parker Bowles.

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We think this photo was taken around 1980 but the exact year is unknown — can you provide a date? Or can you identify any of the people? Send us a note and let us know!

ON CAMPUS

• The College of Physical Science (now the College of Physical and Engineering Science) celebrates its 10th anniversary.
• The Macdonald Stewart Community Art Centre (now the Art Gallery of Guelph) opens with an exhibition featuring pieces from U of G’s Canadian art collection.
• Singer Gordon Lightfoot entertains at Homecoming.
• The first day of FM broadcasting occurs for U of G’s new radio station CFRU-FM.

OFF CAMPUS

• Millions of viewers tune in to the TV soap opera Dallas to learn who shot lead character J.R. Ewing.
• Six Iranian-held U.S. hostages escape with help from Canadians.
• John Lennon is shot and killed by a crazed fan.
• The Pac-Man video game is released.

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