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THE MAD HATTER
A Douglas College Newsletter
published weekly during the spring
and fall semesters, bi-monthly in
_the summer semester
by
Douglas College Technical
and Vocational Institute
P.O. Box 2503, New Westminster,B.C.
Editor: Judie Steeves, Surrey campus
Telephone: 588-4411, loc. 283

 

 

 

MS. ED'S NOTES:

Reminder to contributors and readers:
the Mad Hatter will be published bi-
monthly beginning this issue § through

June, July and August rather than weekly

as it is during the spring and fall sem-
esters.

News from Jim McIntosh (in hospital
this week for tests) is to watch for the

next issue of Reader's Digest. Apparent

ly, the digest has picked up on Jim's
role as founder of the National Youth
Orchestra, and done a story on it. Odd-

for it from an interview I did with Jim

when I was a news reporter with the Col-

umbian before I started at Douglas. Jim
is still officially Public Information '
Officer for the college, although he has §
been off for over a year on extended ;
sick leave with an “immunological defic-
iency" which doctors have been working to
correct. He's been hoping to get back to
his work here each month since, and now §
predicts he'll be back to participate in§
the fall ‘semester. y

Our esteemed principal, Dr. George
Wootton, is lapping up the cider in
those good old British pubs this week.
He is one of six post-secondary princi- §
pals chosen in Canada by the Association
of Canadian Community Colleges to part-
icipate in a project supported by the :
External Affairs Department. Along with
Gordon Thom, principal of BCIT, George
will be spending 10 days in Britain on
development of an exchange program for
students, faculty and administrators
between the U.S., Canada and Britain.

Two upcoming events to remember:
Faculty/Staff Development Days, May 5
through 7, with a variety of disting-
uished speakers; and the college's
Graduation ceremonies, May 13, with
Dr. Hugh Keenleyside as speaker.

Hurry up = ene 50 I can get my

garden planted! ules
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THE BOOZE

I read an interesting short on mixed drinks
which I include for your information it's

sort of like that article I read in my
favorite "capitalist press" which discussed
feet as sex objects and shoes as symbolic of
attitudes. I feel better about all those

navy boots I polished in my 21(odd) years in
the Queen's own, and it rather tickles my
fancy to think that when I polish my shoes I'm
just buffing up my "id".

I now have to re-think two phrases of my youth
"your mother wears G.I. boots" and "when is a
foot not a foot?"

I'm not much on mixed drinks myself being
only an occasional drinker (any occasion will
do thanks). I have learned over the years

that the taste of "agua puro" can be enhanced
somewhat by suitable amounts of dark rum,
light rum, white rum, cutty sark, chivas
regal, ne-plus-ultra bushmills and other
potions to a greater or lesser degree.

But I have experimented with some mixed drinks
from time to time .

I remember one that was called Thigh-opener
which was not unlike a martini in that there
were equal proportions of Gin and any other
white wine that happened to be at hand. As
I recall there were two versions of this
drink one for males and one for females.

Another one was one we used to make in Masset
called "Old Tennis Shoes" which was very
successful there were several off shoots of
this mash/brew one was called “Heart Stopper"
and another was called "Wet the Bed".
Unfortunately, before we could patent our
formula we were apprehended by the authorities.
We felt somewhat revenged when the old man's
chickens devoured the mash, which we were
forced to dump out, and all 23 of them died
in a drunken chicken orgy.

MARTINI STILL TOPS . In case you were wonder-
ing which mixed drink is most frequently
ordered, relax, we have the answer for you:
the martini. In a poll taken by a large
liquor distiller, the following list reports
the results of the survey.

1. Martini

2. Manhattan

3.2 Sours

4. Bloody Mary F

5. Gimlet te area
6. Daiquiri