Ontario Agricultural College - OAC Bulletin Yearbook (Guelph, Ontario Canada)

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IUINI AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Lt ttii fr-svETERlNARY COLLEGE UFIQHF' o N EA R I On nd-,y llefq ,.,,D, r? i W. R. REEK, M.B.E., B.S.,-X. Acting President ll Appreciation 1945 was an eventful year for the Ontario Agricultural College as well as the rest of the world. It marked the beginning of the reorganization of our College to meet the great influx ol returning service men. Early in that college year Dr. Christie, who had carried the burden of presidency for seventeen years, was stricken ill and forced to retire temporarily from active college adminis- tration. Mr. Reek, then Deputy Minister of Agriculture, was summoned back to his Alma Mater as Acting President. His wealth of expirience and progressive mind were turned at once to the task of preparing the College to aciommodate the expanding student body. ,Xlways zt strong' advocate ol' student' self-gavernment, Mr. Reek innnediately won over the student body. They have found in him a sympathetic listener and a willingness to co-operate in solving their many and varied problems. Dr. Christ it-'s illness proved more serious than at first expected, and Mr. Reek has remained with us now lor two years. The many changes which have been successfully carried out as our Lollcge has expanded, and the respect in which Mr. Reek is held by both faculty and students is the best evidence of his ztccotnplishments as Acting President. lift X

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Lu,1JUl,m o N TA RIO lJ.'i l AGRICULTURAL coLLEGE:i.Lf' 5 VETERINARY COLLEGE l I i A-'I I Message froin the Presitlent ecognition ol the soils ol Ontario as the theme ol' the year hook ol class I9-I7 is an important lorward step. I wish to oller sincere congratulations on the support given this provincial and national resource. Realization ol' this fact in recent years has stimulated intensilied studies ol soil. Surveys and analyses have given us a doctor's diagnosis of soil ills. Improved Inethods of tillage. uses of fertilizers, and conservation measures are helping to restore Zlllil rejuvenate run-down lands that have been, lor too long. neglected and dehilitated. From all this work a new attitude towards the soil is developing among research workers and farmers, among teachers and students. and even among the general public-an attitude of responsible stewardship iII the use ol a priceless and irreplaceable heritage. Graduates of the Ontario Agricultural College have taken and should take an itnportant part iII soil stewardship, both directly hy their work, and indirectly by their inlluence upon all those associated in any way with agriculture. To use the soil, but not to abuse it: to make up for the short-sighted wastage ol' the past by restorative Ineasures which may give us hack areas already partially lost: and to hand it on to our sons and daughters as an enriched llllll not a depleted possession should he the primary aitn of all true agritulturists. 6,11 ' ' 'age 'U