MN:

Remember December. It’s the best of
months, and the worst. When you were a
kid, it was lights, Christmas oranges and
candy, piles 0’ gifties under the
tree...magic. Now that it isn’t quite so
simple, one has to approach the holiday
season fairly adroitly. If you buy into the
fairytale notion that everything will be
perfect at Christmas, that the world’s
problems disappear for one day, then it
can eat you up. But if you can find a way
to dance in the penumbra of the whole
darn thing, keep the best and pitch the
rest, you can have a pretty good time, and
maybe feel something like you felt when
you were a kid. If you celebrated
Christmas, that is.

 

Safety wins...

Jean Allan and the crew who organized
last June’s staff PD day got a little
recognition last month. The PD day,
which featured safety programs such as
earthquake preparedness, was named a
winner in the Schools category in the
Canada Occupational Health & Safety
Week Challenge 95, which recognized
superior efforts to create awareness of
occupational health and safety goals.

Mike’s cooking...

The Douglas College Foundation’s
October 60/40 draw winner was Shipper/
Receiver Mike Cook. Mike got $798,
while $532 went to student aid.

Gary, Jack, and Douglas...
Criminology Instructor Gary Parkinson’s
spring 1995 educational leave project
resulted in the publication of a booklet
called The House That Jack Built: Twenty
Five Years of Criminology at Douglas
College. It’s available in the College
Bookstore, with all proceeds going to the
Jack Ferguson Scholarship Fund. Jack
Ferguson passed away in 1990. He was a
founder of and instructor in Douglas
College’s Criminology program, upon
which many B.C. colleges patterned
similar programs.

Baby news...

English Instructor Karen Cowan is
expecting a child in February...CIS
Instructor John Blackwell is a proud
grandfather again. His son Brett and
daughter-in-law Tamra had their second
baby boy, Matthew John, on November
D1.

Dave’s in the hall...

Douglas College Men’s Wrestling Coach
Dave McKay was inducted into the
Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in
November. Raised in Winnipeg, McKay
excelled in several sports before
specializing in wrestling. He accepted a
wrestling scholarship at SFU in 1980,
and went all the way to the 1984 and
1988 Olympics before becoming a coach
in 1989. Congratulations!

LONE

Golfing for Bill...

Golf teams from Douglas College and
UBC competed in the first annual Bill Day
Cup on October 28 & 29. The
competition is named in honor of the
recently retired Douglas College President,
who gave strong support to athletics
during his 13 years as president. Matches
were held at Shaughnessy and Belmont
golf courses, and the competition ended up
ina tie.

The staff of the Communications &
Marketing Office wishes you and yours
the very best of the holiday season.

Goodbye until 1996! ff

 

Maria takes the tube!

 

 

 

Maria laquinta, Disabled Student Services Coordinator, won a television in the
United Way’s November Octoberfest. See pages 6 and 7.

 

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