Thursday, November 20, 1980.

 

The Other Press

 

 

 

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byPAT BURDETT

Richmond campus _ suc:
cessfully held their third

_, annual open house on Wed-
wa nesday evening, Novembe:
12.

Tony Moffat, the chair-
man of the open house
committee explained that
the purpose of the open
house was to ‘‘create an
awareness of what the col-
lege does...what programs
we have to offer the com-
munity.”’

Moffat was pleased with
the exhibition overall and
described the attendance as
“*good’’.

He added, “‘I was a little
bit disappointed with the
number of high school stu-
dents that turned out, but I
think we can improve that in
the future.”’

Richmond’s principal, Don
Porter, said, ‘‘I don’t know
exactly how many high stu-
dents and teachers there
were because I didn’t rec-
ognize them all, but I was
pleased to see that there
were a number of people
that I did recognize.”’

Porter added that the
open house was also attend-
ed by a number of dignitar-
ies. These included Gil Bla-
ir, mayor of Richmond,
alderman Ted Youngberg of

 

Richmond, Delta school tru-
stee John Charlesworth, and
Helen Casher, Maple Ridge
school trustee and chairman
of the Douglas College
board.

One of the highlights of
the night was the fashion
show put on by the fashion
design students at the col-
lege. A wide variety of
garments made by the stu-
dents themselves were mod-
elled. These ranged from a
space-look evening dress to
a rather popular selection of
swimwear.

The science displays were
also popular. Visitors were
fascinated as they watched a
laser beam stretch across
the room or saw their pen-
nies being electroplated with
silver.

Covering many of the
walls of the college were
displays of work done by
graphics and arts students.

The drafting program also
had a fascinating display as
did the other disciplines in
the college. Don _ Porter
commented on the quality of
the displays and of the
refreshments served, ‘‘Eve-
ryone was most impressed
with all the displays and
there is no doubt that the
fine quality of the sticky
buns did a lot for our
image.”

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