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Dept. of Biochemistry; then, in 1942, as an Assistant Professor; in 1946 he was appointed Associate Professor; and in 1961 was made a full Professor in Biochemistry. In 1965, he was appointed the Gilman Cheney Professor in the Dept. of Biochemistry and on his retirement was honoured with the rank of Professor Emeritus. Orville Denstedt was one of the Pioneers in the work of preserving human blood for subsequent transfusions to humans. The first shipments of Blood to England during the 1939-45 War were preserved with an anticoagulant developed by him. Although time brought in other preservatives, it is significant to note that the Red Cross now prefers a subsequently developed modification of DenstedCs method. Dr. Denstedt was associated with many Scientific and Professional Associations. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Chemical Institute of Canada, and the New York Academy of Sciences. In addition to his Presidency of our Institute, he had been the President of the Montreal Physiological Society (1955-56), the Physiological Society of Canada (1956-1957) and the Canadian Biochemical Society (1959-69). He was also a member of the following organizations, in many of which he played an important role; Canadian Federation of Biological Sciences Canadian Nutrition Society American Society of Biological Chemists American Hematological Society International Society of Hematology Scientific Advisory Committee of the Red Cross Quebec Executive Committee of Canadian Red Cross Society Canadian Haemophilia Society Scientific Advisory Committee of Montreal Diet Dispensary Society of Sigma Xi Montreal Council of Social Agencies Canadian Association of University Teachers Corporation of Professional Chemists of Province of Quebec At the time of his death, he was engaged in writing a History of the Evolution of Biochemistry at McGill University. Indeed, he was apparently working on this project on the night of his sudden death. Orville Denstedt was dedicated to his career and to the welfare of mankind. During his lifetime he gained a national and international reputation that will long remain as a fitting memorial to his devotion to Science and Humanity. He was a warm-hearted person, full of wise counsel, and always willing to lend a helping hand. He was a real family man and our deep and sincere sympathies go out to his wife "Willie" (Jessie) and his two adopted children, Margaret and Dennis. W. J. E.

News From The Sections Another Conference has come and gone. Each one has been better than the one before it. The Halifax Section is to be congratulated on their successful planning and execution of our 18th Annual Conference. Bill McLennan and his committee did an excellent job. It is interesting to note the growing involvement of the students in our Conferences. Dan Cumming (now Dr. Cumming) must be congratulated on his zeal in promoting this most important activity in our Institute, and our Council also for materially aiding and abetting this activity (You will read elsewhere in this issue of the tangible endeavours designed by our Council to get our students more and more involved.) As usual, there is very little to report from the Sections. So, I am taking the liberty of writing about the origin of our Conferences. When our Insiitute was first formed, in 1951, there were only two Sections: Montreal and Winnipeg. Shortly after the Toronto Section was organized. While growth in membership steadily improved, the number of Sections remained constant until 1960, when a Section was formed in Ottawa. In those early days, prior to 1956, we held a Council Meeting each year, at which there would be at least one representative from each Section in addition to the principal officers. Also a few interested members from the host Section would attend the Annual Meeting, which always followed the Council Meeting. The meetings were restricted enrirely to the business of running the Institution, with more attention being paid to ways and means of improving our national character than to anything else. By 1965, we had accumulated a small financial surplus. The expenses for that year were very low and it was decided that we should use some of our funds to help finance delegates from the Montreal and Toronto Sections to attend the Council and Annual Meeting in Winnipeg, the site of the 1957 Meetings, so that we could have full representation from all sections. A sum of $400 was allotted for the purposes: not much these days but quite a lot nearly 20 years ago. This action resulted in a full Council

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Meeting: Pres. Randy Friesen (Wpg), Pres.-Elect Paul Jean (Mont.), Sec_ Treas. Bill Eva (Wpg.), Montreal Directors Phil Leroux, Frank Semmen~ and Anna Wilson; Toronto Directors Steve Broudie, Percy Gitelman, and Beth Harper; and Winnipeg Directors George Andrich, Ben Berck and Lyle Johnson. It was an enthusiastic meeting and the future appeared particularly rosy. To mark the occasion, the Winnipeg Section had ar. ranged a dinner-dance in the St. Charles Hotel and had invited the Coun. cilto attend. They had been able to get Major H. G. L. Strange, an Agro. economist of some repute, to be the after-dinner Speaker. His subject was "Food and the World Population". Please note that this was nearly 20 years ago. Many of Major Strange's predictions are now manifesting themselves. However, be that as it may, Paul Jean had said earlier in his acceptancy of the Presidential Gavel that " ... he would endeavour to ... and to help to bring the day nearer, when we can have a full scale Annual Conference...." The Winnipeg Section supported the event well and it was a most enthusiastic occasion. The talk of holding a real National Conference pervaded the affair and Pres. Paul Jean was so encouraged, he announced that he would endeavour to arrange for our first National Conference in Montreal in the next year. It was a brave undertaking: our total membership was only 350, made up of 156 in Montreal, 140 in Toronto and 54 in Winnipeg. However, still carried along by the enthusiasm generated in the Winnipeg Meeting and enthusiastically supported by the Montreal Section, Pres. Jean set up a Conference Committee consisting of Bill Parry (Mercks) as Conference Chairman, Joe Hulse (Def. Res. Med. Lab.) as Programme Chairman, Phil Leroux (Can. Lab. Supplies) for Hotel Arrangements, Fred Kahn (Food Products) in charge of Registrations, and Bill Eva (Ogilvies) as Treasurer. We booked into the Queen Elizabeth Hotel and have the distinction of being the first to hold a conference in that Hotel. None of us knew much about arranging for conferences. There was little or no attempt made to develop any advertising except among our own members. There was little attempt made for pre-registrations and it was with much fear and trepidation that we assembled on the first morning of the Conference, June 12, 1958, wondering whether or not we would become bankrupt. No one else can imagine the relief and ecstasy of joy that arose within us as we saw the registrants rolling up to the Registration Desk. Not only did we have a good Conference, we actually made a small profit. Pres. Jean had set us off on a course that has been ever increasingly successful. As pointed out above, ours was the first conference held in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, I wonder how many know that although ours was not the first conference held in the Chateau Champlain, it was the first one to be booked into it. In 1964, we were again in the Queen Elizabeth in Montreal, and at that time Council decided that, because of "Expo '67", it would be good to hold the 1967 Conference in Montreal, However, when we approached the hotel management, we learned that the hotel was already fully booked for the Summer of 1967. And so were the other major hotels. Some member of Council (I wish that I could recall his name) said that he had heard that the C.P.R. was going to build a hotel for use in 1967. A delegation went to the C.P.R. and sure enough, it was going to build the Chateau Champlain. We were able to book into it even though the hotel was not yet on the drawing board. About the only department in our Institute that does not show any improvement is this column on News from the Sections. I talked with many members while at the Conference in Halifax and all liked the column and wished to see it continued. I cannot imagine that no one was bold enough to tell me directly that it was an unnecessary item in the Journal, I talked to many Section Executive members and the matter was also raised at the Council Meeting. I understand that still greater efforts are to be made to get adequate copy for the column. I will keep my fingers crossed. Incidentally, although it is beller for copy to go through the proper channels, i.e. the Section News-gatherer, any member should feel free to write me directly. It is not within my province to write about the MONTREAL SECTION. However, I can perhaps be excused if I mention an item concerning an old Montreal friend; Dr. R. H. Common, Dept. of Agric. Chern., Macdonald Campus, McGill University, received an Honorary LL. D. from Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland. We congratulate him on receiving this distinction. Dr. Common was one of the early workers in the formation of the Montreal Food Technologists Association, which became the Montreal Section of our Institute when the National Body was formed in 1951. THE MANITOBA SECTION had a very successful season under the chairmanship of Dr. Jack Hare. In his Chairman's Address at the Annual Meeting on April 22, Dr. Hare reviewed the awkward position that Western Canada is in as "the hewers of wood and drawers of water". He J. lnst. Can. Sci. Techno!. Atiment. Vo!. 8, No.3, 1975

· ted out that "commodities are produced in the West and shipped to World and only then processed into Foodot ;, " Efforts should be made, he stated, to regularize the freight rates so slU"s. h t raw materials can be processed .In the West and t h ere b y 'Improve t h e ~nomics for Western Canada and make it better for the consumer in all arts of our country and the world. . . P We wish Dr. H. M. Henderson of the Dep\. of Food SCience: Um..versity of Manitoba, success and pleasure on his one year sabbalIcal In

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Kenya. . . t h e Ch' ~ 1975 ; Stuart Law of the Freshwater InslItute IS airman lor Mrs. Beverley Thompson of the Can. Inter. Grains Ins\. is the new Secretary and Kjell Talgoy of Charles Tenant, IS the Programme Chairman. 'THE ALBERTA SECTION have elected Dr. P. Jelen of the Dept. of Food Science, University of Alberta, as their Chairman for the coming season and Mr. L. M. McKnight as their Secretary. . The 1975-76 Chairman for the ATLANTIC SECTION IS Mr. Ralph H. Davies of the Fisheries Inspection Lab., Halifax, and Mr. Fred Dolbet of The Twin Cities Co-operative Dairy, is the Secretary. THE OTTAWA SECTION held their second Annual Seafood Soiree on April 4 at the Government Conference Centre. The Minister of State-Fisheries, Romeo LeBlanc, opened the sOITee on behalf of EnVIronment Canada and Dr. C. M. Blackwood on behalf of the Ottawa Section. From accounts received, the display of fish and seafood products covered almost every conceivable type. However, I must admit that, In the extensive list submilled by Dr. Doug Chapman, I did not find an~ reference to "squid". However, it was a mouth-watenng Its\. There IS no doubt about it, the first Seafood Soiree was well remembered. Th~y tried to limit this affair to 300 people, but almost 500 showed up. 1\ IS to be hoped that they had enough fish to go all around. From the TORONTO SECTION we learn that AI Crawford, a longtime stalwart of our Institute, has been promoted to Vice-President, Marketing and Sales for Griffith Laboratories Ltd.; that Ross Ralph has joined Ashner Food Products Ltd.; that Donna McIlmoyle and Elaine Petreiw were each presented WIth Amencan Can Food-Processing $500 Scholarships; and that Clara Brak, one of their Student Members, recently became Mrs. Marinus. Although these achievements are qUlle varied, we offer our congratulalIons and send our best Wishes for success. W.J.E.

CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA International Association of Milk, Food and Environmental Sanitarians Incorporated. 62nd Annual Meeting, August 10-14: in Toronto. (Contact Mr. G. G. Ward, Milk Industry Branch. Ontano Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Parliament' Buildings, Toronto, Ontario. (416) 9652411.) Department of Food Science, University of Guelph and Guelph Section CIFST. Enrichment and Fortification of Foods. November 19, In Gu;lph. (Contact Dr. Ian Gray, Department of Food Science. University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario. (519) 824-4120).. .. Commission Internationale des Industnes Agncoles et Altmentalres. 15th International Symposium on The Application of the Mess Spectrometer and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to the Food Industry, October 1617, in Bologna, Italy. (Contact Secretary, CIIA, 24 rue de Te'ho'van, 75008 Paris. France, or M. Pallotta, Institut des Industnes Agncoles. 7 via San Giacomo, 40126 Bologna, Italy.)

BOOK REVIEW lACTIC ACID BACTERIA IN BEVERAGES AND FOOD. Proceedings of a Symposium. England. 1973. Edited by J. G. Carr. C. V. CUlling and G. C. Whiting, Academic Press Inc., III Fifth Avenue. New York. N.Y. 100m, 1975, p. 415, $28.50. This special technical publication brings together .in one volume all of the papers presented at the Symposium on LaCIIC ACId Bactena In Beverages and Food. held at the Long Ashton Research Station .. University of Bristol, September 19-21, 1973. Included are papers diSCUSSing the role of lactic acid bacteria in the processing of vanous food products and beverages. Of particular interest are the sections on malo-lactic fermentation. Although this book is a collection of conference papers and IS, therefore. a lillie patchy. it provides the reader wllh a great deal of valuable up to date information on lactic acid bacteria in foods. C. L. Duitschaever

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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

I) The prestige of any scientific and professional organization depends greatly on the contribution of the members to the further development and progress in the areas encompassed by the assocIatIOn. 2) We urge all our members to give serious consideration to submitting papers, covering your current and/or planned work, for the 1976 Conference, Ottawa, May 30 to June 2. 3) The Institute Call for Contributed Papers and the Official Abstract Form will appear in the October issue of the Journal.

CIFSTIICSTA ANNUAL MEETING HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA June 1-4, 1975 Conference For 473 people the Halifax Conference is history, however, for others who are readers of the Journal this is a brief. informal summary of the events. We normally begin a conversation by discussing the weather. The cool, damp, foggy weather that had delayed the arrival of some of the planes on Sunday, changed very. suddenly .Monday. morning and caught the Nova Scotia Hotel by surpnse. The air conditIOning had been diSconnected the previous week to warm the guests up. The weather became so warm that one person remarked that he had not been so warm since he left Egypt. One quoted Shakespeare and said "It was hke unto the e~er­ lasting bonfire". The Hotel was able to get the air conditIOning back Into service and it ended. up as an excellent conference. The 1975 Conference experimented with a full day on Wednesday differing from previous occasions which ended at noon. The ball used to halt the inevitable exodus was to stage a Lobster Party on Wednesday evening. 270 people donned aprons and studied the delicate art of dissecting the succulent creatures to recover every choice morsel. At the end of the operation Ralph MacKeivie, with much oratory. brought on the Halifax High School Jazz Band. a group that won top honours In Canada Wide competitions in 1973 and 1974 for High School Bands. The excellent entertainment will be talked about for many conferences to come both by those who listened and those who found room to dance. The Ladies Program was well organized by the Co-Chairman, Mrs. Georgie Maclennan and Mrs. Willie Simpson. Events included a bus tour of the city and a demonstration on the art of fish cookery by Mrs. Odelle David of the Federal Fisheries and Marine Services. The historic and the new look of Halifax can best be seen from a boat tour of the North West Arm and the Harbour. Perfect weather conditions helped make this a highlight of the Conference for many of the 72 spouses who visited Halifax. A luncheon in the Armdale Yacht Club and a gift of a piece of Nova Scotia pottery gave the ladles an opportunlly for good fellowship with opportUnIlIeS to do some explonng on their own. There was good enthusiasm among the students,. who were 40 In number, which was good representation when. one considers that there IS not a Food Science Department in the ManlIme UnlversllIes. Dr. Dan Cumming, Student Program chairman, nationally and for the Conference, co-ordinated the arrangements for the Students Booth and the Students Luncheon. These events and [he students themselves brought home to the members at large the important contribution of students to the life of the organization. The students themselves were enriched by having the opportunity to meet and share with students from across the country. The Annual Meeting endorsed two new Institute awards. (I) the best undergraduate paper and (2) the. best .graduate. paper. Details of the awards will be developed and publIshed In future Issues of the Journal. The affairs of the Institute were reported to be healthy from every standpoint. This was reflected in the tone of the well-allended annual meeting. A sense of confidence and trust In the officers prevailed throughout the meeting. . . . The annual Provincial Luncheon complete wllh bagpipes differed somewhat from previous ones in that the Minister of Agriculture. The Hon. Jack Hawkins, chaired and hosted the luncheon on behalf of the province. His remarks were brief in which he ,?ointed out the importance of agriculture and the supporting proces.slng Industnes to the Province. All were cordially welcomed to the Province. Honorary memberships to

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