Faculty<\/strong><\/p>\n Jim Wright was hired in 1971 and Gerry Buchanan in 1972, and there followed a decade or so with no changes in the Faculty.<\/p>\n Jim Holmes retired in 1984 and died a few years afterward.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Remi Barradas became quite withdrawn and spent much of his time smoking in Lothar Klimpel\u2019s room. Later on he did the minimum of teaching and little else.<\/p>\n 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\u2019t afford him, so he went to Rochester.<\/p>\n 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\u2019t afford him, so he went to Waterloo. Later came: Lai, Buist, Storey, Burk, Crutchley, Wang, (R\u00e6n\u00e6 Roy was an adjunct for a short time)<\/p>\n There were no women on the Faculty in Chemistry. In my memory, only two ever seemed interested Natasha Hollbach and Lyndsie Selwyn. Selwyn didn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Department Chairmen<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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\u2019s 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(!).<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n Virginia Prince taught Chemistry 10 for many years. I don\u2019t remember that she had much to do with the labs.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019t work. Mary went to Grad Studies.<\/p>\n Lab Technicians were Wayne Archer, Fred Casselman, Pierre Juneau, John Birchall. Tony O\u2019Neil came in 1976; Denise Skellington, Ed Zabarauskas, Lothar Klimpel, Stefan Behrendt, Fred Crossan, Ian Babcock and others.<\/p>\n Stores:<\/strong>\u00a0Karl 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.<\/p>\n Electronics:<\/strong> Peter Bertels was the main electronics technologist for this period. He was assisted by others for long or short periods: Ray Tyson, Tony O\u2019Neil, Michel Grenier, Mel Bridgeman(?) Perry …… [Harold Proud\u2019s grandson]<\/p>\n At one point, in about 1979 or 80, the Support Staff of the University went on strike. I don\u2019t 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Lab assistants:<\/strong> 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\u2019t always understand what a wonderful opportunity he presented to them. Harold Bernstein came for one year, but didn\u2019t seem happy dealing at the level of the students.<\/p>\n Glassblowers:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Courses and Programs<\/strong><\/p>\n 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\u2019s 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\u2019 group) to help. It became a good course, but was soon dropped.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The Chemistry of Art and Artifacts was created Chemistry 107 after we found a group of students in Chem 10 who couldn\u2019t pass the course. They were all from Art History and all wanted to get into the Queen\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n CIC accreditations.<\/strong>\u00a0A CIC accreditation in the mid 1970s was done by Don Hayding (Queen\u2019s) 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.<\/p>\n Ottawa-Carleton Chemistry Institute (Langford, ApSimon)<\/strong><\/p>\n 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\u2019t cross the City to attend a Seminar.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n At one early meeting of a steering committee, the question of the first Director came up, and John ApSimon\u2019s name was mentioned. Peter Morand crouched down over the table and said “I don\u2019t think that my department will accept that.” So much for cooperation. ApS was selected anyway.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Notable Students<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the more dynamic graduate students was Jocelyn Par\u00e9. 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\u2019t attend. There is a photograph of the attendees. He has been a senior scientist at Environment Canada, River Road Laboratories, in Ottawa.<\/p>\n A close friend of his was Jacqueline B\u00e9langer, 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Notable equipment<\/strong><\/p>\n Major NMR spectrometers :<\/p>\n 1982: Varian XL-200 (NRC equipment grant to G.W. Buchanan et al.)<\/p>\n 1991: Bruker AMX-400 (University purchase)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n IR<\/p>\n Chakrabarti\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n MORE<\/p>\n Neutron Source:<\/strong> With the collaboration of AECL, a block of Beryllium, about 20 cm diameter by 15 cm height was supplied with a charge of\u00a0124Sb and located on the fifth floor of the new Steacie Building (currently Ken Storey\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n 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\u00a0124Sb 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s Pasture.<\/p>\n X-ray Fluorescence\u00a0<\/strong>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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n M\u00f6ssbauer Spectrometer. After several more or less successful starts, PhD student Joseph Dlouhy and A.A. Raffler developed an extremely good M\u00f6ssbauer 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Research<\/strong><\/p>\n Laser Spectroscoppy.<\/strong> The laser lab continnued to attract attention for its studies of rare-earth garnets and other solids. In 1972 Knoingstein\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Peter Gr\u00fcnberg 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.<\/p>\n On his return to Germany, he joined the Institute for Solid State Physics, at J\u00fclich, where he spent the rest of his career. At J\u00fclich, 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Peter Gr\u00fcnberg, Nol Koningstein, Mrs.Gr\u00fcnberg<\/p>\n 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\u2019s book “Liquids and Solutions: Structure and Dynamics” was published by Dekkers. Later students included Peter Githera, Mohammad Entezari and others.<\/p>\n G.W. Buchanan Research Highlights<\/p>\n Richard Ozubko (an NRC scholar from the University of Alberta) worked on\u00a013C NMR spectra of a series of carcinogenic polynuclear hydrocarbons, funded by a grant from the Canadian Cancer Society.<\/p>\n With the arrival of a multinuclear instrument in 1982, he was able to study other nuclei such as\u00a015N 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\u00a015N spectra when the Platinum specifically bound to the N3 site of guanosine for example.<\/p>\n 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\u00a013C 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\u00a013C solid state spectrum. This was the first known example of this type of motion in the solid state.<\/p>\n Hydrogen Reductions<\/strong>\u00a0During 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.<\/p>\n Stan Tsai continued to produce a small number of very good students MORE<\/p>\n Chak continued to produce many students in analytical Chemistry<\/p>\n Langford had several good students<\/p>\n Gerry Buchanan<\/p>\n John ApSimon continued to attract good students and good post-doctoral fellows. Notable among these was Alain Fruchier, from Grenoble.<\/p>\n Notable Events<\/strong><\/p>\n Highschool chemicals.<\/strong>\u00a0An 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Fire in Wigfield\u2019s lab.<\/strong>\u00a0One morning about 4 o\u2019clock 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\u2019s 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\u2019t help! There was considerable damage, mostly covered by the insurance policy.<\/p>\n Chemistry is Phun:<\/strong>\u00a0It all started in the egg, with ApSimon\u2019s 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\u2019t allow such audiences.<\/p>\n Books published.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Total Synthesis of Natural Products 12 Volumes. J.W.ApSimon, Editor.<\/p>\n John Wiley, New York<\/p>\n Introduction to The Theory of the Raman Effect. J.A.Koningstein,<\/p>\n Riedel (Doordrecht) 1973<\/p>\n Liquids and Solutions: Structure and Dynamics. Peeter Kruus,<\/p>\n Marcel Dekker, 1977<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Spawning of Companies:<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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)<\/p>\n BDW Enterprises came out of my involvement with the Seaborn Panel on Nuclear<\/p>\n 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\u2019t impinge on the Department.<\/p>\n Social and other Events:<\/strong><\/p>\n Not much else happened until we moved to the Steacie building. Then Christmas parties happened. They were great fun starting in Rooster\u2019s or Oliver\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Open House Festivities<\/strong>\u00a0For 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\u2019Neil\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n April Fools\u2019 Day<\/strong>\u00a0April Fools\u2019 day didn\u2019t amount to much, but there were a couple of notable instances. One Halloween morning there appeared footprints on the floor leading from Chakrabarti\u2019s office into the Faculty Washroom. This “Chaktrak” honoured the almost hourly trek that Chak took. There was no indication of his return.<\/p>\n On one memorable April 1 morning we found that the Chairman\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Stefan Behrendt:<\/strong>\u00a0Stefan 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s Biology).<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019t show up for work. The Union rules stated clearly that he should phone in by ten o\u2019clock, and he hadn\u2019t done that. As punishment, we gave him an assignment to perform by the following Friday. He didn\u2019t 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\u2019s suspension. Then a week\u2019s 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\u2019s wife answered and was not friendly, but harmless.<\/p>\n 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\u2019t replace him except temporarily by Tang. The end of the story came to a tragic end somewhat later .<\/p>\n Community Outreach<\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Honours Graduates during the period 1971 – 1990<\/strong><\/p>\n Trevor Trott 1971 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n M.Sc.Graduates during the period 1971 – 1990<\/strong><\/p>\n T.T.Nguyen 1971 Doctoral Graduates during the Period 1971 – 1990<\/strong><\/p>\n Henry F.M. Chung 1971 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. 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\nHenry Jakubinek 1971
\nBruce A.Sinclair 1971
\nLothar B. Huebsch 1971
\nLois B. Thrift 1971
\nVance Brian Symonds 1971
\nPaul A. Arp 1971
\nG. Thomas Herbert 1971
\nAndre J. Legris 1972
\nPatricia A. Mortimer 1972
\nRobert A. English 1972
\nJohn E. Hulse 1972
\nReinhart Reithmeier 1972
\nDaniel J. Holden 1972
\nRonald A. Jackson 1972
\nKeith Belinko 1972
\nMargaret E. Herbert 1972
\nJohn D. Kinrade 1972
\nPeter Lantos 1973
\nDavid J. Hendrick 1973
\nNancy A. Oda 1973
\nShu-Tim Cheung 1973
\nGayle B. Jakubinek 1973
\nRalph Sturgeon 1973
\nOleh Kutowy 1973
\nMalcolm W. McIntyre 1973
\nJosef F. Bossart 1973
\nDavid W. Smith 1974
\nThomas W. Epplett 1974
\nRay B. Trotman 1974
\nJames A. Landrigan 1974
\nKenneth J. Pisichko 1974
\nPeter R. J. Marshall 1974
\nDavid E. Laycock 1974
\nAndrew M. Holmes 1974
\nDaniel S. Sher 1975
\nDavid W. MacDonald 1975
\nHajro W. Avdovich 1975
\nKathryn L. Bowen 1975
\nFionnella S. Crombie 1975
\nJohn H. Bowen 1975
\nCatherine M. Cousineau 1975
\nNancy L. Fraser 1975
\nMary R. L’Abbe 1975
\nSuzanne F. Jackson 1975
\nDavid J. Dobson 1975
\nJ. Tom Coates 1975
\nJames A. Scott 1975
\nPeter A. Flavelle 1975
\nBruce W. MacKie 1975
\nLawrence W. Green 1975
\nKeith J. Bottriell 1975
\nGary S. Wells 1975
\nDanny R. Martin 1975
\nJohn P. Van Berlo 1975
\nJanet D. Walden 1976
\nJohn D. Taylor 1976
\nGary A.L. Cassidy 1976
\nDouglas E. Clarke 1976
\nStephen P.M. Ladelpha 1976
\nDavid S. Skinner 1976
\nDonna J. Garbutt 1976
\nTed D. Schnare 1976
\nMaxwell T. Hincke 1976
\nDouglas M. Templeton 1976
\nDonna J. Green 1976
\nDavid C. McBain 1976
\nJoachim W. Wittwer 1976
\nKim E. Fyfe 1976
\nPaula M. Wheadon 1976
\nChristopher W. Kurowski 1976
\nFrederick G. Morin 1976
\nGary J. Verrett 1976
\nLaurier L. Schramm 1976
\nRalph J. Kolt 1976
\nSteve A. Mitchell 1976
\nTerence R. Vieweg 1976
\nCecily M. Pearson 1977
\nDouglas G. Lichty 1977
\nGay W.Quance 1977
\nCharles Ian Johnson 1977
\nPaul R. Inwood 1977
\nMarla G. Sheffer 1977
\nRobert P. Carpenter 1977
\nRobert F. Fletcher 1977
\nDavid J. Burnell 1977
\nDavid B. Fowler 1977
\nDavid J. Kowbel 1977
\nDaniel E.S. Baker 1977
\nRobert R. McGregor 1977
\nSteven Lucken 1977
\nRichard M. Kay 1977
\nSheila J. Bruce 1977
\nMark A. Fraser 1977
\nGary Robert Harris 1977
\nStephen K. Gray 1977
\nLynda B. Bloom 1977
\nDavid Bruce Moir 1978
\nJohn L. Houle 1978
\nSean W. Kennedy 1978
\nBruce L. Roberts 1978
\nJanet Frances Johns 1978
\nReimar R.W. Gaertner 1978
\nAlan T. Madge 1978
\nPieter J. Asselbergs 1978
\nFrank V. Lamberti 1978
\nKaren M. Tippett 1978
\nJoanne P. Johnson 1978
\nDeanna M. Refling 1978
\nJim Paul Ounsworth 1978
\nFram R. Engineer 1978
\nBen L. Tom 1978
\nJohn L. Margeson 1978
\nChris Miedema 1978
\nRichard T. Pon 1978
\nMark W. Hersey 1978
\nKatarzyna M. Miedzinski 1979
\nD. James Donaldson 1979
\nMichael D. Farrington 1979
\nSean Michael McGuire 1979
\nAndrew Josh Wand 1979
\nNora K. Nishikawa 1979
\nStephen M. Croteau 1979
\nLorna Jean Brownlee 1979
\nDavid C. Taylor 1979
\nHeather M. Perkins 1979
\nJohn H. White 1979
\nCathy Jane Allen 1979
\nChristopher J. Bradley 1979
\nMoire A. Wadleigh 1979
\nJocelyn Madge 1979
\nEva F. Dickson 1979
\nJohn P. Stewart 1979
\nSteven Wilson 1979
\nMark D.Farrell 1980
\nJudith A. Lockwood 1980
\nKeith B. Male 1980
\nBill S. Shurben 1980
\nJudy E. Vaive 1980
\nCharlene M. Hogan 1980
\nIngrid D. Parups 1980
\nSherry L. Perkins 1980
\nCaroline Van Es 1980
\nDave J. Senior 1980
\nJeffrey E. Willette 1980
\nJennifer C. Selwyn 1980
\nTed J. Vandernoot 1980
\nMichael W. Kilpatrick 1980
\nH. Peter Hincke 1980
\nChristopher H. Evans 1980
\nJamie M. Williamson 1980
\nRobert Charles Burk 1980
\nThomas N. Setterfield 1980
\nJames A. Hampson 1980
\nIan R.A. Park 1981
\nStephen F. Haller 1981
\nRonald W. Brecher 1981
\nKevin D. Rooney 1981
\nLeslie E. Thompson 1981
\nPhilip H. Wyatt 1981
\nIan W. Wylie 1981
\nTim J. Patraboy 1981
\nStephen D. Kinrade 1981
\nTheresa M. Abbott 1981
\nSandra Walters 1982
\nJeffrey W. Eatock 1982
\nDaisy K.H. Tan 1982
\nRose-Marie Meier 1982
\nPaul M. Weiss 1982
\nYolanda M. Sutherland 1982
\nSandra C. Wright 1982
\nJohn C. Selwyn 1982
\nDouglas C. Howland 1982
\nCraig A. Laferriere 1982
\nMarvin G. Ryder 1982
\nAlan C. Morrison 1982
\nMichael D. Ritchie 1982
\nPauline Honarvar 1982
\nTony Andrea Mattioli 1982
\nSusan E. Guy 1982
\nMark R. Wilson 1982
\nMorrie David Goodz 1982
\nT. Lee Collier 1982
\nMaria Del Carman Carballo 1983
\nJoelle C. Marmonier 1983
\nNooreen Shah-Preusser 1983
\nJudith Miller 1983
\nDeborah A. Bisaillion 1983
\nPeter E. Cobbold 1983
\nPaul E. Parisien 1984
\nAndrew J. Atkinson 1984
\nAnn M. Craig 1984
\nKathleen Briere 1984
\nNancy Elaine Binnie 1984
\nDouglas M.C. Stewart 1984
\nCyril Butler 1985
\nRobert J. McCrossan 1985
\nHeather Frances Atkinson 1985
\nGerald Peter Dimnik 1985
\nRobert Andrew Pon 1985
\nJennifer Kendall-Dupont 1985
\nKenneth Patrick Mitton 1985
\nHelen Anne MacDonald 1985
\nDonald Hector Maurice 1985
\nGeoffrey Gordon Gay 1985
\nHoward James Waterfall 1985
\nRashmi Venkateswaran 1985
\nJoel Evan Polowin 1985
\nPatricia Teresa Boag 1985
\nDella June Berwanger 1985
\nGordon O’Connor 1986
\nRon Watts 1986
\nRobert Arnold Kirby 1986
\nJennifer K. Nuth 1986
\nAjoy C. Chakrabarti 1986
\nInger Weibust 1986
\nRoss Edward Whitwam 1986
\nPaul Charles Ciavolella 1986
\nSusan Amelia Eatock 1986
\nEdwin Stewart MacLaurin 1986
\nJohn Andrew Duncan 1986
\nPatricia L. Neal 1986
\nWendy G Pell 1986
\nMike D. Curran 1986
\nDave McDonald 1986
\nGreg Clarkin 1986
\nWade T. Kornik 1986
\nKurt L. Headrick 1986
\nGlen F R Gilchrist 1986
\nDavid Alexander Fielder 1986
\nGeorge Alexander Park 1986
\nDenis Joseph Landry 1986
\nMichael David Porter 1987
\nLeslie Henry Kondejewski 1987
\nAjoo Monica Narang 1987
\nBarbara Fryzuk 1987
\nAriadni Athanassiadis 1987
\nJennifer Lea Balon 1987
\nMary F. Geekie 1987
\nHelmut Garry Dallmann 1987
\nPeter M. Seigel 1987
\nRayad Robert Moore 1987
\nIain Scott Watson 1988
\nRakesh Sharma 1988
\nW Dale Conrod 1988
\nJames Joseph Tunney 1988
\nDoris Yvonne Schafhauser 1988
\nAlexandra Fotiou 1988
\nJonathan Andrew Gebert 1988
\nThomas Allen Churchill 1988
\nChristina Kraml 1988
\nNiels Erik Schwarz 1988
\nJohn Kane Denike 1988
\nStephen Mathias 1988
\nAnnette Ida Rein 1988
\nRoberto Zopito D’Attilio 1988
\nMark Naklicki 1988
\nSalbiah Seeni Abdul 1988
\nGerald Arthur Crotty 1988
\nVictoria Vandernoot 1988
\nJ. Craig Hutton 1988
\nRaymond Harold Kiehl 1988
\nAndrew Duncan Fraser 1988
\nDenis Richard Joanisse 1989
\nBrian Beck 1989
\nBruce William Beehler 1989
\nReese A. Adeney 1989
\nRomain Saha 1989
\nWilliam Brent Derry 1989
\nAdam David Vyse 1989
\nBarry John Lorbetskie 1989
\nMostafa Fayek 1989
\nAnthony Alexander Rywak 1989
\nKierstan Patricia McCaw 1989
\nCatherine Anne Govenlock 1989
\nThomas Edwin Mitten 1989
\nEdward Vincent Ruzylo 1989
\nJeffrey Andrew Warner 1989
\nMark Christian Jordan 1990
\nAngela Hughes 1990
\nJohn Bernard Douwes 1990
\nR. David Law 1990
\nDale Michael Marecak 1990
\nMichael Dennis Sole 1990
\nLauralynn Kourtz 1990
\nDavid Arne Berg 1990
\nMark Leonard O’Neill 1990
\nYvonne Lear 1990
\nAlexander Brooke Driega 1990
\nDale Andrew Robertson 1990
\nR. Sean Pemberton 1990
\nRonald John Robert Frazer 1990
\nTanya Sharlene Kanigan 1990
\nJeff T Ashley 1990
\nJoanna Forester 1990<\/p>\n
\nS. Jutowongse 1972
\nJohn S. Ng 1972
\nRein Otson 1972 Government labs, now deceased
\nDaniel Luk 1972
\nKouchi Matsumoto 1973
\nMichael J. Dove 1975
\nRoberta M.A. Messinger 1975 Highschool teacher, Ottawa
\nIzabel U. Dabrowski 1976
\nAndrew Holmes 1977
\nDavid A. Naranjit 1977
\nWalter A. Van Schalkwijk 1977 Back to the U.S.
\nPamela D. Dyer-McLaughlin 1977
\nKatalin W. Deczky 1977
\nDave Burnell 1978 PhD Carleton.
\nD.T.Nguyen 1978
\nMichael D. Guiver 1980 PhD Carleton
\nJean C. Meranger 1980
\nRick P. Seguin 1980
\nChaim Goldberg 1981
\nMichel Girard 1981 PhD Carleton
\nLee Herman 1981
\nIan Johnson 1981
\nChristine Joakim 1981 Private Sector – Pharmacology
\nErnest Rolia 1982
\nVernon Lyle Webb 1983 High School Teacher, Ottawa
\nJames R.P. Godin 1983
\nSeason Tse 1985
\nAna Herminia Delgado 1985 NRC
\nRose-Marie Meier 1985 To Ciby-Geigy in Basel, Switzerland
\nBruno Marchand 1987
\nJennifer Kendall 1988
\nDouglas Max Goltz 1989
\nDave Fielder 1989 Agriculture Canada
\nPamela Ann Wolff 1990 Lecturer, Carleton
\nL Blais 1991
\nC.Cheseaux 1991
\nR. D\u2019Attillio 1991 Agriculture Canada
\nS. MacKenzie 1997<\/p>\n
\nHelmut Beierbeck 1972 Faculty at McMaster
\nDave Durham 1973
\nJohn H. Carey 1974
\nKevser Taymaz 1975 Government labs, Ottawa?
\nJames P.K. Tong 1975
\nDilip M. Dixit 1976 Pharmaceutical Company in Montreal
\nRobert D. Guy 1976 Faculty at Dalhousie
\nSatyanand Badripersaud 1976 Private Sector, Quebec
\nJoseph F. Dlouhy 1976 Environment Canada
\nBetty P.L. Wen 1977
\nH Yamasaki 1978 Patent Agent in Japan
\nRichard S. Ozubko 1979
\nTahir R. Khan 1979
\nDenis C. Gregoire 1979 NRCan
\nAusten Greaves 1980 Back home to Trinidad
\nClaude Bordeleau 1980 Faculty at RMC
\nJean-Pierre Farant 1981
\nBrian A. Dawson 1981
\nAlan Underdown 1982
\nKim Fyfe 1982 Went into Medicine?
\nStephen Lee 1982
\nJ.R. Jocelyn Pare 1984 Environment Canada
\nRichard F. Lawuyi 1984 CPAXXX?
\nJacqueline Belanger 1984 Environment Canada
\nMichel Girard 1985 Environment Canada XX
\nAngela De Wilton 1985 Nortel??
\nDave Moir 1985 Health Canada
\nLee W. Herman 1987 Private Sector, Massachusetts
\nMichael Guiver 1987 NRC
\nDaniele L Thibodeau 1988 France, then Private Sector, Toronto
\nErik Jaan Kruus 1989
\nLee Collier 1989 Australia, then Faculty Columbia University
\nBernadette Niefer 1990
\nVictoria Barclay 1990<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"