The Steacie Building 1970-1990
Faculty
Jim Wright was hired in 1971 and Gerry Buchanan in 1972, and there followed a decade or so with no changes in the Faculty.
Jim Holmes retired in 1984 and died a few years afterward.
Peter Buist joined the Faculty in 1983, at the same time as Bryan Hollebone, who had come first as a research fellow with Cooper Langford, but was later taken into the Faculty. Langford left in 1980 and went to Concordia, eventually becoming Dean of Science. Then he went to Calgary and rose to become Vice President Research.
Remi Barradas became quite withdrawn and spent much of his time smoking in Lothar Klimpel’s room. Later on he did the minimum of teaching and little else.
Dwayne Miller, then a final-year PhD student in Toronto, was a friend and colleague of Nol Koningstein. He was very bright and wanted to set up some elaborate laser spectroscopy that sounded most interesting. After long negotiations, it appeared that we couldn’t afford him, so he went to Rochester.
Jim Sloan was a friend of Jim Wright. He was as Scientist as NRC, and doing very well there. An excellent experimentalist, he would fit in well with JAK and with Jim Wright. Unfortunately, he needed (wanted?) what amounted to all the class rooms on the third level (310, 311 and 312) After long negotiations, again we concluded that we couldn’t afford him, so he went to Waterloo. Later came: Lai, Buist, Storey, Burk, Crutchley, Wang, (Rænæ Roy was an adjunct for a short time)
There were no women on the Faculty in Chemistry. In my memory, only two ever seemed interested Natasha Hollbach and Lyndsie Selwyn. Selwyn didn’t seem to be really interested, and has remained at the Canadian Conservation Institute. Mary Wilkinson was promoted to Assistant Professor just before she left to go to Toronto.
Department Chairmen
At that time there seemed to be a move by Bert Nesbitt then Dean to get Jim replaced. The first replacement was John ApSimon, who kept his door closed. Then Carl Amberg, who also closed his door.
Carl Amberg: At one stage, when ApSimon left the Chairmanship, I was on the Nomination Committee to select a replacement. The two obvious candidates were Amberg and Langford. The problem was that Cooper had caused considerable unrest, not to say animosity, in the Department. The Committee collected the department’s votes and then decided how to weight the Support Staff votes. Somehow the weighting was arranged so that Amberg was selected by a very democratic process(!).
When Carl Amberg suddenly left to become Dean of Graduate Studies, I was somehow chosen (Don Wigfield campaigned for me). I tried to keep the door open, and it was monitored by Debbie Iscoe initially and then for many years by Barb Villeneuve. There were two problems: After hours usually about 1730, Bryan Hollebone came in about once a month. He was usually angry about something. When he left often nearly an hour later he was usually in a good mood. I listened with interest but little understanding when he explained his new theories of spectroscopy and quantum mechanics. I still think that he was close to something dramatic, but he never put it together. Again after hours usually about 1700 Remi Barradas tapped gently on the door and asked “Do you have a minute?”. This minute often lasted an hour. He felt that he had good and important ideas to pass on the the Chairman and I was usually too polite to turn him away.
After nearly three terms, felt that I was losing my sense of humour so I left the office and was replaced by Ron Shigeishi. By that time, occupants of that office became called “Chairs”. I suppose it makes sense, since Chairmen often get sat upon.
Staff
Virginia Prince taught Chemistry 10 for many years. I don’t remember that she had much to do with the labs.
Mary Wilkinson married and became Mary Valeriote. She remained in charge of the first year labs. She was promoted to the rank of Assistant Professor just before she left in 1978.
After Pete Stanley as Deprtment Administrator, came Bob Jones, who was much less obtrusive and much more effective. I remember frequently asking him to do something, only to find that he had done it already. When he left, Mary Moore came in.
It was Mary Moore who first brought computers into the Office. She got a DY4 machine of some sort with an early version of WordStar as the main program. It used the big 7-1/2 inch disks! We all learned how to use it, and it came to be the mainstay of the Department until it was finally replaced with better systems. I found that we were the first Chemistry Department in Canada to use e-mail. Mary was very bright and had good ideas. Unfortunately, she tried to get Karl to be organized in her way. This didn’t work. Mary went to Grad Studies.
Lab Technicians were Wayne Archer, Fred Casselman, Pierre Juneau, John Birchall. Tony O’Neil came in 1976; Denise Skellington, Ed Zabarauskas, Lothar Klimpel, Stefan Behrendt, Fred Crossan, Ian Babcock and others.
Stores: Karl remained as the main storekeeper (and much else) and there were many assistants through the years: Brian Picknell, John Holmes, Mike van den Hoff, Jackie Hogg, Steve Arsenault, among others.
Electronics: Peter Bertels was the main electronics technologist for this period. He was assisted by others for long or short periods: Ray Tyson, Tony O’Neil, Michel Grenier, Mel Bridgeman(?) Perry …… [Harold Proud’s grandson]
At one point, in about 1979 or 80, the Support Staff of the University went on strike. I don’t remember how, but the labs continued to function. Karl came through the picket lines and one other member of our staff came in. It was imperative that they not be asked to do anyone else’s work. That passed and there have been good relations with the staff every since. The next such strike was in 2007, by which time many of the Chemistry staff kept on working.
Jim Johnson went into the Purchasing Office and somehow managed to change the accounting system to be more convenient for the accountants and less for us. Ian Babcock went to Biology, then to the College of Natural Sciences and more recently back to Biology.
Lab assistants: Allison Flood, Reg Elworthy, Harold Bernstein, Mary Wilkinson. It was impressive to see Allison Flood dealing with students. He seemed to enjoy the students very much, but perhaps they didn’t always understand what a wonderful opportunity he presented to them. Harold Bernstein came for one year, but didn’t seem happy dealing at the level of the students.
Glassblowers: When Henry Christie retired, Lou Page was hired (12 July, 1978). When Lou Page left we were in a predicament which was solved in a most elegant fashion. Mike vandenHoff, son of Jack vandenHoff the glassblower at NRC had worked in stores with Karl summers, while doing a BSc in Chemistry at St.F.X. He was not doing very well in chemistry, and confided that he really wanted to be a glass blower, but he had no training or experience. We made a pact that he would finish his degree and then would be hired as glass blower. The trick was to publish a job description that identified only him. This was done by requiring a degree in Chemistry and access to superior glass training. Although one or two others applied, he was clearly the best candidate.
Only later did Mike move to NRC to replace his father as senior glass blower. At that point, an obvious candidate was David Raffler, who had proven himself to be an excellent welder and sheet metal worker, although he was totally deaf. By arrangement, Mike gave David lessons, and David turned out to have an excellent pair of hands for glass working, and stayed until the position was cancelled.
Courses and Programs
Many new courses were introduced: Radiochemistry, Kinetics, Applied Thermodynamics (451), Art and Artifacts (107), Chemistry for Engineers (111) and more. Appendix II gives a complete summary of the undergraduate courses that were given from the very beginning to the present. Applied Thermo was Langford’s idea, and he fingered me to teach it. I was somewhat over my head in that subject, but I was able to enlist John Sedlak (from Barradas’ group) to help. It became a good course, but was soon dropped.
Langford tried to set up The Metal Ions Group. It seemed to have no realistic purpose and accomplished nothing. Nominal members were Cooper, myself, Brian Hollebone, Nol Koningstein and perhaps Chak.
The Chemistry of Art and Artifacts was created Chemistry 107 after we found a group of students in Chem 10 who couldn’t pass the course. They were all from Art History and all wanted to get into the Queen’s program in Art Conservation. A new course was created for them and we had to write the book. The course was quite popular for a number of years, and nearly all the museum technicians in Ottawa took the course at one time or another. After a few years, Remi Barradas took it on and the course withered and nearly died. It came back with more enthusiasm for a while, but it has now fallen into abeyance. But it did lead to the publication of a book “The Chemistry of Art and Artifacts” which was widely used in other schools for a few years.
CIC accreditations. A CIC accreditation in the mid 1970s was done by Don Hayding (Queen’s) and someone else from Toronto. Their study was not as thorough as more recent ones, but their main recommendation was that the program was too difficult. This may have been in part because of the Third year Organic Chemistry Lab (320, formerly 340). This course, run by Paul Laughton, was almost cruel in early days, and led to many interesting stories. Karl Diedrich can supply these.
Ottawa-Carleton Chemistry Institute (Langford, ApSimon)
Perhaps following the model set by Guelph and Waterloo, it was decided that Carleton and Ottawa should collaborate more closely primarily at the Graduate level. This was, I think, largely the brain-child of Cooper Langford, who saw more collaboration than was actually there. John ApSimon had been very friendly with Bob Fraser, but there were no other examples of likely collaboration. Nonetheless, the structure was set up and the pattern was later followed by many other Departments some with considerable success, others with less. There is a regular Shuttlebus and students from each University are free to take courses at the other. Seminars are shared, but it seemed that many students are preoccupied with their own things and often don’t cross the City to attend a Seminar.
At one early meeting of a steering committee, the question of the first Director came up, and John ApSimon’s name was mentioned. Peter Morand crouched down over the table and said “I don’t think that my department will accept that.” So much for cooperation. ApS was selected anyway.
Soon after things got under way, it emerged that John ApSimon had earlier applied to NRC for an nmr spectrometer. Some at Ottawa U felt that they should have been consulted, even though the application had been made well before any agreement had been reached. Brian Conway, Chairman at U of O, wrote me as Chairman here a most nasty letter complaining about John’s alleged deceitfulness. John was very upset by this and felt that he had to resign as Director. He was replaced by Don Wigfield, who successfully charmed the two chief opponents Keith Laidler and Brian Conway.
A year or two after this, it emerged that Brian Conway and Bill Adams had managed to get a large grant (from DRB?) for electrochemistry. This was done with no consultation with Barradas, who would logically have shared in this venture. I phoned Peter Morand and mentioned this. He was annoyed, saying angrily that we had no business to sabotage their plans. So much for collaboration.
At one of the early organization meetings the subject of language exams came up. We had required all Graduate Students to pass reading tests in two major scientific languages. French was the most common, followed by German and perhaps by Russian. (Cooper once got one of his students through on the strength of an Arabic exam!) It had become difficult to find current research papers in French. In the discussion, Bob Fraser noted that Ottawa U would require that French must be one of the languages. Recognizing that French is not a major Chemical language, he therefore unhappily recommended that the language requirement be dropped. We reluctantly supported his recommendation, and the language tests are no more.
Notable Students
One of the more dynamic graduate students was Jocelyn Paré. Working with John ApSimon, he also was the founding Editor and Manager of a chemical journal – Spectroscopy Letters . He also organized at least one conference on organic spectroscopy, although at the last minute, he didn’t attend. There is a photograph of the attendees. He has been a senior scientist at Environment Canada, River Road Laboratories, in Ottawa.
A close friend of his was Jacqueline Bélanger, who came from the University of Moncton to work with John ApSimon. She was very charming but walked only with crutches because of an early bout of polio. She has been a senior scientist at Environment Canada, River Road Laboratories, in Ottawa.
Again, many of our students became University Professors Pam Aker (Pittsburgh), Manuel Aquino (StFX), Paul Arp (UNB), Helmut Beierbeck, (McMaster), Claude Bordeleau (RMC), Dave Burnell ( Dalhousie), Scott Daniels (Acadia), Mohammad Entezari (Mashhad, Iran), Bob Guy (Dal), Norm Hunter (Manitoba), Jack Porter (U Cal., Berkley), Jack Rosenfeld (McMaster). Others became High School Teachers: Henry Jakubinek, Zulfi Khoja, Robin Messinger, Mike Porter, Gord Simcoe, Scott Skemer, and many more.
Notable equipment
Major NMR spectrometers :
1982: Varian XL-200 (NRC equipment grant to G.W. Buchanan et al.)
1991: Bruker AMX-400 (University purchase)
Cooper arranged tp buy a PDP-8 computer. I never used it but it was available. I bought a disk for it at a cost of $70. This was initially used by Claude Bordeleau.
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Chakrabarti’s group acquired an atomic absorption spectroscopy system. Largely designed by Peter Bertels, it used the observation that graphite is a good conductor in two directions, while in the third direction it is an insulator. Using a capacitive discharge system for power, this instrument was able to heat the graphite cell at a rate of about 30,000 per second. It was thus ab le to vapourize a sample before any sample could diffuse out of the cell.
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Neutron Source: With the collaboration of AECL, a block of Beryllium, about 20 cm diameter by 15 cm height was supplied with a charge of 124Sb and located on the fifth floor of the new Steacie Building (currently Ken Storey’s labs). We gradually raised the level until we had a very strong source. AECL took over and developed a portable neutron source in a large trailer, which amounted to a complete self-contained laboratory. This was placed for one winter on the lawn between Steacie and Herzberg. Yun Chi Lin was the student mainly in charge of this facility.
Soon we outgrew this facility and built a small room in the loading area of Steacie. In this was placed a complete pneumatic system and a very large 124Sb source which made it likely the largest photo neutron source in the world at 10,000 Curies. The room still exists in the Loading Area of Steacie.
This worked well, but the biggest problem was the short half life of the antimony about 60 days so that it needed to be replaced every year or so. Ultimately we withdrew from this experiment and used Chalk River and Brookhaven for our studies until AECL installed their Slowpoke Reactor in Tunney’s Pasture.
X-ray Fluorescence At one time we were was approached by Ron Tolmie, recently retired from AECL Commercial Products Division. He had developed an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer that had higher sensitivity and higher resolution than anything else available. He would give us one, and would come and instruct us on its use for $4000. We spent the money and got the machine into Bryan Hollebone’s lab. Bryan assigned one of his students to take the instruction. The student ultimately left and the machine was never used. Bob Burk would have loved it.
Mössbauer Spectrometer. After several more or less successful starts, PhD student Joseph Dlouhy and A.A. Raffler developed an extremely good Mössbauer spectrometer. Its resolution was as good as any in the literature. It was used to trace the growth of peaks during the course of a reaction, among other uses. After a couple of other students used it, it fell into disuse.
Research
Laser Spectroscoppy. The laser lab continnued to attract attention for its studies of rare-earth garnets and other solids. In 1972 Knoingstein’s book “An Introduction to the Theory of the Raman Effect” was published, and established him as a world authority on the electronic raman effect. Many important visitors came to the lab during this period Michael Bulanin from Moscow spent some months with the Koningstein group.
Peter Grünberg spent three years as NRC Post Doctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Nol Koningstein. During these three years, he worked on laser-raman spectroscopy of lanthanide crystals and published numerous research papers with Nol and other members of the laboratory.
On his return to Germany, he joined the Institute for Solid State Physics, at Jülich, where he spent the rest of his career. At Jülich, he became a leading researcher in the field of thin film and multilayer magnetism. In 1986, he discovered the antiparallel exchange coupling between ferromagnetic layers, and in 1988 he discovered the Giant Magnetic Resistive (GMR) effect. This latter discovery is of major importance in the storage and retrieval of data from computer hard drives, and led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2007. His contact with Prof. Koningstein has been maintained, although he has not visited Carleton recently.
Bryan Hollebone, initially as Research Associate with Cooper, apparently did some rather interesting MCD spectroscopy. He claimed to be able to explain spectra that no one else could understand. Unfortunately, he didn’t publish this, and went from there into toxicology, and from there into theoretical interpretation of MCD transitions, which turned out to have been fundamentally incorrect or at least insufficiently explained.
Peter Grünberg, Nol Koningstein, Mrs.Grünberg
In the field of Liquids and Solutions, Peeter Kruus was establishing himself as an authority. Although he published little, everything he did was excellent. His students at the early stages were mostly undergrads – Cathy Hayes, Mike Farrington and others. In 1977 Peeter’s book “Liquids and Solutions: Structure and Dynamics” was published by Dekkers. Later students included Peter Githera, Mohammad Entezari and others.
G.W. Buchanan Research Highlights
Richard Ozubko (an NRC scholar from the University of Alberta) worked on 13C NMR spectra of a series of carcinogenic polynuclear hydrocarbons, funded by a grant from the Canadian Cancer Society.
With the arrival of a multinuclear instrument in 1982, he was able to study other nuclei such as 15N with much lower natural abundance. PhD student Mary-Jane Bell (an NRC scholar from Manitoba) studied the binding of some anti-cancer agents such as cis-platin to a series of nucleosides and mononucleotides. We found huge chemical shift changes in the 15N spectra when the Platinum specifically bound to the N3 site of guanosine for example.
Gerry began to look at the stereochemistry of crown ethers in both solution and the solid phase during my sabbatical at NRC in 1986. While at NRC I recorded the solid state 13C NMR spectrum of 18-crown-6 ether. Although it was very broad at room temperature, when he reduced the temperature a beautiful spectrum appeared showing the presence of 6 unique environments in the crystal. Later we deuterated the molecule and found that it was undergoing a merry-go-round type motion at room temperature which explained the broad room temperature 13C solid state spectrum. This was the first known example of this type of motion in the solid state.
Hydrogen Reductions During this period, Don Wigfield had established himself as an authority on organic reduction reactions, especially on the Birch reaction. He had such students as Scott Daniels, David Phelps and Kevzer Taymaz.
Stan Tsai continued to produce a small number of very good students MORE
Chak continued to produce many students in analytical Chemistry
Langford had several good students
Gerry Buchanan
John ApSimon continued to attract good students and good post-doctoral fellows. Notable among these was Alain Fruchier, from Grenoble.
Notable Events
Highschool chemicals. An important project was undertaken at one stage to help highschools get rid of their unwanted chemicals. This began when we learned that Renfrew Country schools had been given a quotation of $36000 for their four schools. We phoned the main teacher and agreed to do the job for much less (about $4000). Judy Lockwood got together a group of students, borrowed the University van and collected the chemicals. Many boxes were brought to my farm near Renfrew, and all that could be safely burned were simply added to a big bonfire. The rest were given to Karl Diedrich for proper disposal in the University. Many of the bottles remained for many years on the Storeroom shelves.
The same service was done for a number of the Ottawa schools – again at great savings in costs. There was one problem that occurred, however. One school had a broken bottle of potassium nitrate a strong oxidizing agent. This was carefully packed in styrofoam a good reducing agent. When this was unloaded, some of the contents and packing spilled. Germain Gauthier, the janitor, noticed a snapping sound as he swept this up and put it into a plastic pail in his storeroom. Later that afternoon, Paul Weiss rushed in announcing a fire in the janitor’s room. The halls rapidly filled with white smoke (likely polyethylene). We called the fire department and much of the problem was solved and the fire put almost out. One of the firemen stepped on a piece of blazing polyethylene which re-ignited immediately. He wrote “phosphorus” in his little notebook, and then the trucks and firemen left. Karl finally extinguished the last of the fires.
Fire in Wigfield’s lab. One morning about 4 o’clock Mary Wilkinson phoned me to say that there was a fire on the fourth floor and it might be in the radiochemistry lab. I got over there very fast (we were living across the canal, on Villa Crescent) and found the fourth floor awash in water. The fire was in Don Wigfield’s lab. What had happened was that a couple of flasks containing sodium or lithium under an appropriate fluid was stored in the fridge. After a time, the fluid had evaporated and the sodium caught fire and blew the fridge door open, splattering sodium all over the lab. Adding water didn’t help! There was considerable damage, mostly covered by the insurance policy.
Chemistry is Phun: It all started in the egg, with ApSimon’s explosion and went from there to Open House demonstrations and many subsequent parties. This became an important component of open house and class demonstrations for many years. Many times the audience overflowed the room, and even sat on the stairway. Often the room was quite filled with smoke at the end of the show. Fire Marshals now wouldn’t allow such audiences.
Books published.
The Total Synthesis of Natural Products 12 Volumes. J.W.ApSimon, Editor.
John Wiley, New York
Introduction to The Theory of the Raman Effect. J.A.Koningstein,
Riedel (Doordrecht) 1973
Liquids and Solutions: Structure and Dynamics. Peeter Kruus,
Marcel Dekker, 1977
Spawning of Companies:
Bill Craig worked in a 4th floor lab for a few months before going out to found Paracel Company, with ApSimon as one of his enthusiastic supporters.
Later, Mike Farrington worked in the same lab before going out with Judy Lockwood to form Farrington-Lockwood Co. Ltd. Mike was a major authority on the failure of high-tech batteries. Judy had become expert in the analysis of many toxins. They combined their expertise to form a company which lasts to this day (2008)
BDW Enterprises came out of my involvement with the Seaborn Panel on Nuclear
Fuel waste Disposal. It was a personal thing, but on one contract also involved Bob Burk assessing the effectiveness of the radioactivity cleanup process at Weldon Spring, Missouri. The experience we gained has led to many lectures in various courses around the University. It also generated enough money so that we were able to set up several scholarships. In most other respects it didn’t impinge on the Department.
Social and other Events:
Not much else happened until we moved to the Steacie building. Then Christmas parties happened. They were great fun starting in Rooster’s or Oliver’s we later came to Room 311 SC. Chris Miedema was often Santa, Nol Koningstein was also occasionally. These featured choral groups, mutual presents and lots of fun. Karl usually organized the food and drinks for all.
Open House Festivities For a period from about 1963, the University held Open House for all comers. This involved a lot of work, but generated a considerable spirit among both Students and Faculty. All the research labs were open and hundreds of visitors streamed through. The foyers and corridors were filled with demonstrations, usually operated by students. The magic show (Chemistry is Phun) was always popular, and occasionally had visitors sitting on the steps and standing at the back. This would not be allowed by the Fire Marshall now. Don Wigfield also did some chemical shows. Jim Wright did some smaller ones in the foyer. Many of the students showed themselves to be excellent teachers, and some proved particularly good with younger children. The Open House usually lasted two days, often a Saturday and Sunday. When all was over, we in Chemistry had very lively parties – usually in what is now Tony O’Neil’s Instrument Room or in 411 next door, which was the Resource Centre. By that time, everyone was exhausted but exhilarated, and the mood was very excited.
April Fools’ Day April Fools’ day didn’t amount to much, but there were a couple of notable instances. One Halloween morning there appeared footprints on the floor leading from Chakrabarti’s office into the Faculty Washroom. This “Chaktrak” honoured the almost hourly trek that Chak took. There was no indication of his return.
On one memorable April 1 morning we found that the Chairman’s office was filled with balloons, to a depth of nearly three feet. There is a photo of this. Apparently, the students had spent nearly the whole night blowing up these balloons, interrupted only by one visit and by the night watchmen, who were tempted to destroy it all. Mid morning, Brian Conway, Chairman at U of O, visited us for some other reason and was not amused. “Hmpf – Student pranks” He had little sense of humour.
Stefan Behrendt: Stefan Behrendt came as a post doctoral fellow with Cooper Langford. He was German Jewish, but had lived some years in Brazil. His specialty was chemical separation methods, and he was very good at that. When Langford was through with him, he was hired by the Department to operate the Instrument Room – for which he was eminently qualified.
It soon emerged that he was becoming paranoid about his responsibility. Fearing that students would steal the reference books, he cemented them to the benches. Fearing that his voice would not survive (it was always somewhat fuzzy) he used a bull horn in the lab when talking to the students.
He then became paranoid about other members of the staff. Since I was Chairman at that time, and it fell to my lot to deal with the problems. He claimed one time that he had seen Peter Bertels playing a propane torch all over the electronic components of the nmr spectrometer, to show that the components had been burned.
He had a mild heart problem at one point, and then began to accuse Karl Diedrich of trying to kill him. His heart problem was said to be particularly susceptible to fumes of a solvent (chloromethane?). He accused Karl of pouring that solvent into the ventilation system so as to kill him. Then he pointed out, gleefully, that his diagnosis had been changed and that he was after all not sensitive to that solvent. He apparently frequently poured diethyl ether down the sink of his lab, so that classes in Room 310 below had to be cancelled (George Setterfield’s Biology).
His actions had attracted also the attention of the Secretaries. Barbara Villeneuve claimed that whenever he came into my office she was never sure whether to call the police or the ambulance.
It took a year or so to figure out what to do. Each time we complained to the Administration we were told that, by inaction, he had been given a satisfactory grade on his annual performance assessment. Finally, one morning he didn’t show up for work. The Union rules stated clearly that he should phone in by ten o’clock, and he hadn’t done that. As punishment, we gave him an assignment to perform by the following Friday. He didn’t do that, but instead fought against our right to make the assignment. Another assignment, and a letter in his file. Another assignment and a day’s suspension. Then a week’s suspension. When we delivered this letter to his home door, Karl drove over and kept watch from his car across the street. We were both quite nervous. Stefan’s wife answered and was not friendly, but harmless.
Finally we were in a position to fire him and the deed was done. Unfortunately, the Director of Personnel, Dick Brown, rehired Stefan and put him on long-term disability. This meant that we couldn’t replace him except temporarily by Tang. The end of the story came to a tragic end somewhat later .
Community Outreach
Jim Holmes Continued to be active in EOSEC, ApSimon became Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Chemistry. Others (ApSimon Langford) were members of NSERC Grant Committees. Most of us were Members or Fellows of the Chemical Institute of Canada. Jim Holmes was Chairman of the Chemical Education Division, and later I was. Many others were involved in the Subject Divisions and assisted by organizing meetings, giving lectures and research papers. I was also Chief Judge for the Ottawa Science Fair for several years.
Honours Graduates during the period 1971 – 1990
Trevor Trott 1971
Henry Jakubinek 1971
Bruce A.Sinclair 1971
Lothar B. Huebsch 1971
Lois B. Thrift 1971
Vance Brian Symonds 1971
Paul A. Arp 1971
G. Thomas Herbert 1971
Andre J. Legris 1972
Patricia A. Mortimer 1972
Robert A. English 1972
John E. Hulse 1972
Reinhart Reithmeier 1972
Daniel J. Holden 1972
Ronald A. Jackson 1972
Keith Belinko 1972
Margaret E. Herbert 1972
John D. Kinrade 1972
Peter Lantos 1973
David J. Hendrick 1973
Nancy A. Oda 1973
Shu-Tim Cheung 1973
Gayle B. Jakubinek 1973
Ralph Sturgeon 1973
Oleh Kutowy 1973
Malcolm W. McIntyre 1973
Josef F. Bossart 1973
David W. Smith 1974
Thomas W. Epplett 1974
Ray B. Trotman 1974
James A. Landrigan 1974
Kenneth J. Pisichko 1974
Peter R. J. Marshall 1974
David E. Laycock 1974
Andrew M. Holmes 1974
Daniel S. Sher 1975
David W. MacDonald 1975
Hajro W. Avdovich 1975
Kathryn L. Bowen 1975
Fionnella S. Crombie 1975
John H. Bowen 1975
Catherine M. Cousineau 1975
Nancy L. Fraser 1975
Mary R. L’Abbe 1975
Suzanne F. Jackson 1975
David J. Dobson 1975
J. Tom Coates 1975
James A. Scott 1975
Peter A. Flavelle 1975
Bruce W. MacKie 1975
Lawrence W. Green 1975
Keith J. Bottriell 1975
Gary S. Wells 1975
Danny R. Martin 1975
John P. Van Berlo 1975
Janet D. Walden 1976
John D. Taylor 1976
Gary A.L. Cassidy 1976
Douglas E. Clarke 1976
Stephen P.M. Ladelpha 1976
David S. Skinner 1976
Donna J. Garbutt 1976
Ted D. Schnare 1976
Maxwell T. Hincke 1976
Douglas M. Templeton 1976
Donna J. Green 1976
David C. McBain 1976
Joachim W. Wittwer 1976
Kim E. Fyfe 1976
Paula M. Wheadon 1976
Christopher W. Kurowski 1976
Frederick G. Morin 1976
Gary J. Verrett 1976
Laurier L. Schramm 1976
Ralph J. Kolt 1976
Steve A. Mitchell 1976
Terence R. Vieweg 1976
Cecily M. Pearson 1977
Douglas G. Lichty 1977
Gay W.Quance 1977
Charles Ian Johnson 1977
Paul R. Inwood 1977
Marla G. Sheffer 1977
Robert P. Carpenter 1977
Robert F. Fletcher 1977
David J. Burnell 1977
David B. Fowler 1977
David J. Kowbel 1977
Daniel E.S. Baker 1977
Robert R. McGregor 1977
Steven Lucken 1977
Richard M. Kay 1977
Sheila J. Bruce 1977
Mark A. Fraser 1977
Gary Robert Harris 1977
Stephen K. Gray 1977
Lynda B. Bloom 1977
David Bruce Moir 1978
John L. Houle 1978
Sean W. Kennedy 1978
Bruce L. Roberts 1978
Janet Frances Johns 1978
Reimar R.W. Gaertner 1978
Alan T. Madge 1978
Pieter J. Asselbergs 1978
Frank V. Lamberti 1978
Karen M. Tippett 1978
Joanne P. Johnson 1978
Deanna M. Refling 1978
Jim Paul Ounsworth 1978
Fram R. Engineer 1978
Ben L. Tom 1978
John L. Margeson 1978
Chris Miedema 1978
Richard T. Pon 1978
Mark W. Hersey 1978
Katarzyna M. Miedzinski 1979
D. James Donaldson 1979
Michael D. Farrington 1979
Sean Michael McGuire 1979
Andrew Josh Wand 1979
Nora K. Nishikawa 1979
Stephen M. Croteau 1979
Lorna Jean Brownlee 1979
David C. Taylor 1979
Heather M. Perkins 1979
John H. White 1979
Cathy Jane Allen 1979
Christopher J. Bradley 1979
Moire A. Wadleigh 1979
Jocelyn Madge 1979
Eva F. Dickson 1979
John P. Stewart 1979
Steven Wilson 1979
Mark D.Farrell 1980
Judith A. Lockwood 1980
Keith B. Male 1980
Bill S. Shurben 1980
Judy E. Vaive 1980
Charlene M. Hogan 1980
Ingrid D. Parups 1980
Sherry L. Perkins 1980
Caroline Van Es 1980
Dave J. Senior 1980
Jeffrey E. Willette 1980
Jennifer C. Selwyn 1980
Ted J. Vandernoot 1980
Michael W. Kilpatrick 1980
H. Peter Hincke 1980
Christopher H. Evans 1980
Jamie M. Williamson 1980
Robert Charles Burk 1980
Thomas N. Setterfield 1980
James A. Hampson 1980
Ian R.A. Park 1981
Stephen F. Haller 1981
Ronald W. Brecher 1981
Kevin D. Rooney 1981
Leslie E. Thompson 1981
Philip H. Wyatt 1981
Ian W. Wylie 1981
Tim J. Patraboy 1981
Stephen D. Kinrade 1981
Theresa M. Abbott 1981
Sandra Walters 1982
Jeffrey W. Eatock 1982
Daisy K.H. Tan 1982
Rose-Marie Meier 1982
Paul M. Weiss 1982
Yolanda M. Sutherland 1982
Sandra C. Wright 1982
John C. Selwyn 1982
Douglas C. Howland 1982
Craig A. Laferriere 1982
Marvin G. Ryder 1982
Alan C. Morrison 1982
Michael D. Ritchie 1982
Pauline Honarvar 1982
Tony Andrea Mattioli 1982
Susan E. Guy 1982
Mark R. Wilson 1982
Morrie David Goodz 1982
T. Lee Collier 1982
Maria Del Carman Carballo 1983
Joelle C. Marmonier 1983
Nooreen Shah-Preusser 1983
Judith Miller 1983
Deborah A. Bisaillion 1983
Peter E. Cobbold 1983
Paul E. Parisien 1984
Andrew J. Atkinson 1984
Ann M. Craig 1984
Kathleen Briere 1984
Nancy Elaine Binnie 1984
Douglas M.C. Stewart 1984
Cyril Butler 1985
Robert J. McCrossan 1985
Heather Frances Atkinson 1985
Gerald Peter Dimnik 1985
Robert Andrew Pon 1985
Jennifer Kendall-Dupont 1985
Kenneth Patrick Mitton 1985
Helen Anne MacDonald 1985
Donald Hector Maurice 1985
Geoffrey Gordon Gay 1985
Howard James Waterfall 1985
Rashmi Venkateswaran 1985
Joel Evan Polowin 1985
Patricia Teresa Boag 1985
Della June Berwanger 1985
Gordon O’Connor 1986
Ron Watts 1986
Robert Arnold Kirby 1986
Jennifer K. Nuth 1986
Ajoy C. Chakrabarti 1986
Inger Weibust 1986
Ross Edward Whitwam 1986
Paul Charles Ciavolella 1986
Susan Amelia Eatock 1986
Edwin Stewart MacLaurin 1986
John Andrew Duncan 1986
Patricia L. Neal 1986
Wendy G Pell 1986
Mike D. Curran 1986
Dave McDonald 1986
Greg Clarkin 1986
Wade T. Kornik 1986
Kurt L. Headrick 1986
Glen F R Gilchrist 1986
David Alexander Fielder 1986
George Alexander Park 1986
Denis Joseph Landry 1986
Michael David Porter 1987
Leslie Henry Kondejewski 1987
Ajoo Monica Narang 1987
Barbara Fryzuk 1987
Ariadni Athanassiadis 1987
Jennifer Lea Balon 1987
Mary F. Geekie 1987
Helmut Garry Dallmann 1987
Peter M. Seigel 1987
Rayad Robert Moore 1987
Iain Scott Watson 1988
Rakesh Sharma 1988
W Dale Conrod 1988
James Joseph Tunney 1988
Doris Yvonne Schafhauser 1988
Alexandra Fotiou 1988
Jonathan Andrew Gebert 1988
Thomas Allen Churchill 1988
Christina Kraml 1988
Niels Erik Schwarz 1988
John Kane Denike 1988
Stephen Mathias 1988
Annette Ida Rein 1988
Roberto Zopito D’Attilio 1988
Mark Naklicki 1988
Salbiah Seeni Abdul 1988
Gerald Arthur Crotty 1988
Victoria Vandernoot 1988
J. Craig Hutton 1988
Raymond Harold Kiehl 1988
Andrew Duncan Fraser 1988
Denis Richard Joanisse 1989
Brian Beck 1989
Bruce William Beehler 1989
Reese A. Adeney 1989
Romain Saha 1989
William Brent Derry 1989
Adam David Vyse 1989
Barry John Lorbetskie 1989
Mostafa Fayek 1989
Anthony Alexander Rywak 1989
Kierstan Patricia McCaw 1989
Catherine Anne Govenlock 1989
Thomas Edwin Mitten 1989
Edward Vincent Ruzylo 1989
Jeffrey Andrew Warner 1989
Mark Christian Jordan 1990
Angela Hughes 1990
John Bernard Douwes 1990
R. David Law 1990
Dale Michael Marecak 1990
Michael Dennis Sole 1990
Lauralynn Kourtz 1990
David Arne Berg 1990
Mark Leonard O’Neill 1990
Yvonne Lear 1990
Alexander Brooke Driega 1990
Dale Andrew Robertson 1990
R. Sean Pemberton 1990
Ronald John Robert Frazer 1990
Tanya Sharlene Kanigan 1990
Jeff T Ashley 1990
Joanna Forester 1990
M.Sc.Graduates during the period 1971 – 1990
T.T.Nguyen 1971
S. Jutowongse 1972
John S. Ng 1972
Rein Otson 1972 Government labs, now deceased
Daniel Luk 1972
Kouchi Matsumoto 1973
Michael J. Dove 1975
Roberta M.A. Messinger 1975 Highschool teacher, Ottawa
Izabel U. Dabrowski 1976
Andrew Holmes 1977
David A. Naranjit 1977
Walter A. Van Schalkwijk 1977 Back to the U.S.
Pamela D. Dyer-McLaughlin 1977
Katalin W. Deczky 1977
Dave Burnell 1978 PhD Carleton.
D.T.Nguyen 1978
Michael D. Guiver 1980 PhD Carleton
Jean C. Meranger 1980
Rick P. Seguin 1980
Chaim Goldberg 1981
Michel Girard 1981 PhD Carleton
Lee Herman 1981
Ian Johnson 1981
Christine Joakim 1981 Private Sector – Pharmacology
Ernest Rolia 1982
Vernon Lyle Webb 1983 High School Teacher, Ottawa
James R.P. Godin 1983
Season Tse 1985
Ana Herminia Delgado 1985 NRC
Rose-Marie Meier 1985 To Ciby-Geigy in Basel, Switzerland
Bruno Marchand 1987
Jennifer Kendall 1988
Douglas Max Goltz 1989
Dave Fielder 1989 Agriculture Canada
Pamela Ann Wolff 1990 Lecturer, Carleton
L Blais 1991
C.Cheseaux 1991
R. D’Attillio 1991 Agriculture Canada
S. MacKenzie 1997
Doctoral Graduates during the Period 1971 – 1990
Henry F.M. Chung 1971
Helmut Beierbeck 1972 Faculty at McMaster
Dave Durham 1973
John H. Carey 1974
Kevser Taymaz 1975 Government labs, Ottawa?
James P.K. Tong 1975
Dilip M. Dixit 1976 Pharmaceutical Company in Montreal
Robert D. Guy 1976 Faculty at Dalhousie
Satyanand Badripersaud 1976 Private Sector, Quebec
Joseph F. Dlouhy 1976 Environment Canada
Betty P.L. Wen 1977
H Yamasaki 1978 Patent Agent in Japan
Richard S. Ozubko 1979
Tahir R. Khan 1979
Denis C. Gregoire 1979 NRCan
Austen Greaves 1980 Back home to Trinidad
Claude Bordeleau 1980 Faculty at RMC
Jean-Pierre Farant 1981
Brian A. Dawson 1981
Alan Underdown 1982
Kim Fyfe 1982 Went into Medicine?
Stephen Lee 1982
J.R. Jocelyn Pare 1984 Environment Canada
Richard F. Lawuyi 1984 CPAXXX?
Jacqueline Belanger 1984 Environment Canada
Michel Girard 1985 Environment Canada XX
Angela De Wilton 1985 Nortel??
Dave Moir 1985 Health Canada
Lee W. Herman 1987 Private Sector, Massachusetts
Michael Guiver 1987 NRC
Daniele L Thibodeau 1988 France, then Private Sector, Toronto
Erik Jaan Kruus 1989
Lee Collier 1989 Australia, then Faculty Columbia University
Bernadette Niefer 1990
Victoria Barclay 1990