With half of the summer over, you ‘ve
probably had your vacation or are look-
ing forward to enjoying the sun which
never arrived in July. Well here is some
news to take with you if you held out for
an August holiday.

Speaking of vacations...

Bill Day recently returned from a five-day
trek along the West Coast Trail with his
two sons. From his perspective it was a
"life-time experience". Su Anderson (Ship-
ping and Receiving) just came back from
the "Iand-down-under". Su will be getting
married on August 14th and leaving again
for Australia in September. Pat Floyd
(Thomas Haney Centre) spent his
two-week vacation travelling to Denmark,
Germany and France. Geoff Campbell
(Systems and Computing) travelled with
his family down to Disneyland and Susan
Greffard (also from Systems) spent her
vacation in England.

New kids on the block...

Three Douglas College employees have
had additions to their families. Faculty
members Meg Stainsby and

Lin Langley, both from the English and
Communications Department had baby
girls. Rose Wilson (Music department)
had a baby boy. Congratulations!

Familiar face .... new job

Gisela Roth has been appointed as Gil-
lies Malnarich’s new assistant. She will be
coordinating the various faculty develop-
ment workshops. Welcome to Laurie
Smith in the Registrar's Office. Laurie has
been hired as a systems analyst to sup-
port the new computing systems now in
place in that office.

AwtNE

Happy Birthday!

Three Douglas College employees will be
celebrating their birthdays on Friday,
August 13th, Connie Doherty - Student
Services, Marilyn Houlihan - DCSS, and
Jean Easton - Facilities.

Cathleen gets published...

Cathleen Smith, Early Childhood
Education Instructor, has written a chap-
ter in a book entitled Children with
Special Needs - Family, Culture and
Society. Cathleen’s chapter, Cultural
Sensitivity in Working with Children and
Families, includes an interesting case
study about a Chilean refugee and her
two sons, one of whom is multi-handi-
capped. The book, published by Harcourt
Brace Tovanovich, is available in the Book-
store. Recently, Cathleen was asked to
speak about her video Making Friends:
Programming for Friendships at the An-
nual General Meeting of the Simon Fraser
Society for Community Living.

Fried today, Gone tomorrow...
High-technology came to the New West
campus two weeks ago in the form of a
french fry vending machine coined "Spud
Stop". After various staff members tried
out the processed fries, the machine was
quietly removed.

Have problems?....Call Christine

What do you do when someone in a 375-
pound motorized wheelchair gets a flat
tire? Call Christine Unterthiner from
Facilities. Recently, a group of students
from Surrey Variety Child Centre came
through on a tour and one of them blew
a tire on his motorized wheelchair. Rather
than wait three hours for a company
technician to come to the College,
Christine loaded him and his wheelchair
aboard an electric pallet jack and ““@
ered him safe, sound and grateful to the
Centre’s van. Way to go, Christine!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cathleen Smith, Early Childhood Education Instructor, writes chapter

for international book on children.