CFUW Guelph 2011-2012
Program
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church,
161 Norfolk Street, Guelph
Fourth Tuesday of the Month
Refreshments @ 7:00 p.m. and after the meeting as time allows
Meeting @ 7:30 p.m.
Speaker @ 8:00 p.m.
Please bring your own mug!
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Note:
In the unlikely event that it is
necessary to cancel a General Meeting due to extreme
weather
or other factors, the President will make the
decision by 4 p.m. on the day of the meeting.
The Information will be
given to the local media, posted
on the home page of our website,
and circulated to members
on our e-mail list.
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Parking
Parking is available on
adjacent streets, in the church parking
lot (accessed from Yarmouth
Street), and in the Baker Street lot. In
addition, we have permission to park (evenings
only) in the parking lot of Dukelow Chiropractic
Care Centre, located on the northwest corner
of the intersection of Norfolk and Suffolk Streets.
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CFUW 2011-2012
February
28, 2012
Wendy Shearer
BA, BLA,
OALA, CSLA, ASLA, CAHP
Landscape Architect
MHBC Planning
An Historic Garden Restored
Wendy Shearer
is currently involved in the landscape design
of the new Civic Museum,
and is
the designer of CFUW Guelph's Reflection Garden on Gordon
Street.
Wendy Shearer,
Landscape Architect, is the Managing Director
of Cultural Heritage of MHBC.
Wendy established Wendy Shearer Landscape
Architect Limited in Guelph in 1984, and served a wide range
of municipal and private sector clients throughout the
Province of Ontario, specializing in the assessment,
conservation planning and rehabilitation of historic
properties, and landscape design of new public open spaces,
streetscapes and community facilities. Her firm has been
the recipient of numerous awards for both heritage conservation
and urban design projects.
She continues to offer her expertise to
former and new clients through MHBC since joining the firm in June
2008.
Wendy is a leading practitioner in the
field of heritage conservation, particularly relative to cultural
landscapes. She has established the Cultural Heritage section
within MHBC, bringing together a team of planners and
landscape professionals integrating heritage issues
in the decision making process.
Wendy received her Bachelor of Landscape
Architecture (Honours) from the University of Guelph in 1981 and
previously received her Bachelor of Arts from Glendon
College, York University in 1969.
She has been an active member of The Alliance
for Historic Landscape Board of Directors from 1998
to 2010 and Chair of the American Society of Landscape Architects,
Historic Professional Interest Group from 2000 to
2001.
She is a full member with seal of the Ontario
Association of Landscape Architects, the Canadian Society
of Landscape Architects, the American Society of Landscape
Architects and the Canadian Association of Heritage
Professionals.
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March 27,
2012
Dr Matt Vickaryous
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences
University of Guelph
Regeneration Genetics
Prof. Matt
Vickaryous, Biomedical Sciences, has joined U of G to study
the dermal skeleton, work that may help us understand how
creatures like this leopard gecko can regrow their tails.
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... We've all heard
about lizards whose tails snap off and grow back
as effortlessly as new shoots sprouting from a clipped
shrub. Look more closely, as Dr Vickaryous has, and you
learn that the mystery of regeneration involves bone
as well as every other tissue.
... On one slide
is highlighted the vertical fissure running through
the middle of one tail vertebra. That enables the limb to
break cleanly, like perforations on a sheet of paper.
Similar fracture planes exist in the other vertebrae, explaining
how the lizard can more or less throw of its tail away.
... Or consider
the bony bits in birds' eyeballs. “It sounds extraordinary
but almost all birds have bones in their eyes.” So do
most lizards and fish, but not snakes or crocodiles. Why?
Another black box.
.. Look in the
mirror, not at your eyes but at the superficial bones
of your face and skull. You're looking at dermal bones whose
origin can be traced back to the earliest vertebrates.
Full article:
The Skeletons in
the skin - Vickaryous
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Professor Vickaryous studied anatomy at the University of
Calgary and at Dalhousie University. For his
master's degree at Calgary, he studied a group of armoured
dinosaurs called ankylosaurs.
He's done
his share of digs here in Canada, including boyhood camping trips to
the Badlands. Part of that master's degree involved digging
with famed Canadian paleontologist Phil Currie, mostly
in southern Alberta but also in Argentina.
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April 24, 2012
Dennis Johnson
Educator and Director
Arthur Cutten, The Reluctant Tycoon
Arthur Cutten, poster boy for the great Stock
Market boom in the late
1920’s, tried to keep a low profile, but
became an unwilling celebrity and a
target of thieves, kidnappers and the tax
collector.
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DENNIS JOHNSON is an educator and theatre director
who started researching the life of Arthur Cutten twenty-five
years ago in order to find material for student plays. He is
currently working on a biography of Cutten, arguably the richest
and most famous person ever born in Guelph, even though he is virtually
unknown today. Dennis has lived in Guelph since 1975 and has been
actively involved in all local theatre companies - the Road Show Theatre,
Royal City Musical Productions, the Guelph Little Theatre and Theatre
Guelph (at the River Run Centre). He has served as president of Ontario's
drama teachers (the Council of Drama in Education / CODE) and recently
retired as Community Theatre Coordinator for Theatre Ontario.
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May 22, 2012
AGM
and Banquet
Guest Speaker:
Terry Crowley, University Professor Emeritus
Department of History
University of Guelph
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Frank Schofield of Guelph: New Light on Renown in
Canada and Korea
Frank Schofield was the Ontario Veterinary College's
best researcher during the half of the twentieth century, but
he is almost better known in Korea.
As a medical missionary to Korea, Schofield assisted
Korea's first independence movement against Japan in 1919, and
after retiring from OVC in 1955, he returned to Korea and died there
in 1970.
As 33 Koreans had signed the 1919 declaration of independence,
Schofield's importance was acknowledged by naming him the
34th Patriot and his body
was laid to rest as the only non-Korean in the National Cemetery in
Seoul.
This talk uses untapped archives to reveal the dynamics
of Frank Scholield's journey, professional and personal, more comprehensively
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Terry Crowley is University Professor
Emeritus at the University of Guelph. An award-winning historian
and former chair of the History department, he retired in 2010 after
39 years on faculty.
Terry Crowley's active involvement
in a variety of community organizations over the decades garnered
three community service awards and the first William Winegard Volunteer
Service Award for faculty members.
Terry is pleased to have taught in
China, India, and Mexico.
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Cutten Fields
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Previous Programs in 2011-2012 Year
September
27, 2011
Dr Maureen Mancuso
Provost and Vice President (Academic)
University of Guelph
Open Meeting ~ Bring a Friend!
Ethics and the Politician
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Dr Mancuso, an expert
in political ethics,
is a
professor in the Department of Political Science
at the University of Guelph; in fact, she was one
of the first female lecturers in political science at
the U of G. She earned her BA at McMaster University, her MA
at Carleton University and a D.Phil. in politics from Nuffield
College, Oxford University. Mancuso joined the Department
of Political Science in 1992 and was appointed chair in 1996.
Before joining Guelph, she
spent a year as a parliamentary intern in
the House of Commons and held teaching appointments
at McMaster and Windsor. In fall 1996, she was
a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Congressional
and Presidential Studies at the American University.
Very interesting article in
Macleans on campus magazine:
http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2011/06/03/canadas-best-teachers-maureen-mancuso/
To learn more about the Office of the Provost:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/vpacademic/
On another note:
Y honours local women's contributions
May
7, 2010
GUELPH — Dr. Maureen Mancuso said the Women
of Distinction Award she received at Thursday night’s
gala shows the importance of education.
“No matter what level, from kindergarten to
university, teachers are the ones who motivate you and inspire you,”
said Mancuso, a professor and vice president at the University of Guelph
who was the recipient in the education and training category at the
15th annual Women of Distinction event held by the YMCA-YWCA of Guelph.
She was one of 11 women honoured at the River
Run Centre. In total there were 33
nominees in eight categories.
Mancuso urged women to strive for bigger and
better roles in the field of education,
She said women have made “great strides” in
the halls of academia, “but there is
still a long way to go.”
Mancuso recalled her days as a camp counsellor
growing up in Niagara Falls, where
teaching canoeing, archery and leading
campfire songs instilled in her the lesson that everyone
has untapped potential.
Lauded as a role model for students and faculty
at the U of G, Mancuso is a faculty
adviser, runs a research program and is
active in a number of community organizations.
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October 25, 2011
Dr Linda Mahood
Professor
University of Guelph
No Silk Blouse Social Worker: Victorian Ladies
Go Slumming Among the Poor
Representations
of the Sacred and the Profane in Late-Victorian
Women's Voluntary Action: The case of Save the
Children
Eglantyne
Jebb, like half a million other women,
was drawn into what was called philanthropy,
charity work or slumming. A grammar school teacher,
social worker, publicist, fundraiser and co-founder of Save
the Children, Jebb led a group of feminists and pacifists
to collaborate on the Declaration of the Rights of the
Child. Women born late in Victoria's reign were beneficiaries
of expanded educational opportunities; however, legal
and social conventions stifled many ambitions. Charity
work represented a chance for adventure and rebellion, but
it was also thankless work that could be physically and morally
exhausting and politically controversial. Professor Mahood
uses Jebb's life as a lens through which to view the role
volunteering played in women's lives before and after WWI. By
ousting the Lady Bountiful and promising to give aid to children
regardless of race or creed, Jebb brought a professional ethos
to women's unpaid social work and created the first international
child welfare charity.
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Education:
B.A. (University of Saskatchewan), 1984;
M.Lit. (University
of Glasgow), 1982; Ph.D. (University of Glasgow), 1992.
Over the past 20 years Linda has taught at Glasgow
University in Scotland, University of Saskatchewan and Lethbridge
University. She joined the Department of History at the University
of Guelph in January 1995.
Linda is the author of 4 books and a number
of articles in the area of the histories of child welfare, the history
of charity, and women and gender studies.
Linda is the recipient of a College of Arts
Distinguished teaching award, an UGFA Special Merit Award for Teaching
Innovation and has been nominated by her students for the 2010 TVO:
‘Big Ideas’ Lecturer and by the College of Arts for Y Women of Distinction
(2011).
Linda had 2 grown children in post-secondary
education in Montreal. Since becoming an empty-nester Linda has taught
ESL in Vietnam with World University Services of Canada, Leave for
Change program. Last fall she returned to competitive swimming by
joining the Guelph Marlin's Maters Swim Club after a 35 year break.
Linda and her husband are walking their way through the The Camino de
Santiago de Compostela, they have 600K to go. Linda member of Guelph
Trillium Rotary.
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November 22, 2011
Ken Irvine
Program Coordinator
Guelph Museums
My Great Uncle in the Great War
Duncan Robert Irvine was a famous cusser.
He was also a good farmer,
a man with a sense of history and one of 100,000 Canadian
soldiers who fought at Vimy Ridge in the First World War.
Irvine, whom everyone knew
as Dunc, will be remembered vividly in an evocative
rendition of Dunc's war years (and his return), illustrated
by photos, diary entries, letters, and official
memos carefully preserved by the soldier.
“You
hear about the war, the big picture and all the battles, but
I wanted to find out more about the people,"
relates Ken Irvine.
Ken is on
the Executive of the Guelph Historical Society. He has worked for
the past fifteen years designing and delivering
the education programs at both the Guelph Civic Museum and
the John McCrae House, as well as coordinating special
events at the museum.
Ken went on a trip with a group of 20
Guelph Centennial High students to Vimy Ridge and to other battlefields
in Northern France in 2007. While at Vimy,
they witnessed the re-dedication ceremony and
heard speeches from the Prime Minister of France, Queen
Elizabeth II, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
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Some background
notes regarding Ken Irvine:
Raised in Guelph; BA in History at the U of G and a BS in Education
at Medaille College, New York; Certificate in Museums Studies; 17-year
volunteer with the Fergus Scottish Festival; Coordinator of War of 1812
Bicentennial Symposium; Married 12 years with a 2.5-year-old daughter.
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January 24, 2012
Dr Mark Fenske
Associate Professor (Neuroscience & Applied Cognitive
Science)
Department
of Psychology
University of Guelph
Open Meeting ~ Bring a Friend!
The Winner's Brain
Contrary to popular belief, winning in life has little
to do with IQ, your circumstances, your financial resources, or
even luck. But it has everything to do with creating a failure-resistant
brain.
Every
time you think a thought, feel an emotion, or execute
a behavior, your neurocircuitry changes, and the good
news is you can take charge of this process. Yes, the
key to success really is all in your head.
In
The Winner’s Brain, Harvard-trained brain experts
Dr. Jeff Brown and Dr. Mark Fenske explore the surprising
science behind motivation, focus, and extraordinary
achievement.
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MARK FENSKE,
PhD, a neuroscientist and former faculty member
at Harvard Medical School, is an Associate Professor in
Psychology at the University of Guelph. His research combines
neuroimaging and studies of behavior to better understand brain
function and how to enhance performance. He also writes the
'Better Brain'
column,
which appears biweekly in the Globe and Mail
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