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championship, landing the badminton
national finals for March 1996...an
anonymous Douglas College employee
organized the Seasonally Affected Draw
(SAD) to help cheer people up during the
dark, winter months. Cathy Gibney won
the $30 gift certificate...the College was
saddened by the sudden death of Margaret
Meagher, a popular faculty member in the
Dental Auxiliary Program, on February 5.
Funds are now being raised for a $600
commemorative park bench for the Quay
(contact the Foundation at 527-5360)...on
February 8, employees completed the
Employment Equity Census to develop a
statistical profile of our workplace.

March

 

Working in conjunction with the
Centre for International Education,
Tokyo’s Meiji University OB Mandolin
Orchestra performed at the Massey
Theatre on March 17; with concert
proceeds, donations and matching funds,
the event raised $10,000 for student
scholarships...Marian Rossell was named
as the new Director of the Thomas Haney
Centre campus...The Royals men’s
basketball team appeared in the first-ever
nationally televised CCAA final in
Lethbridge, Alta., but lost 84-77 to the
Malaspina Mariners...in badminton, Julia
Chen won her second CCAA gold medal
in women’s singles in Nova Scotia...with
wondrous sets and costumes, the
Stagecraft and Theatre department’s
production of Alice in Wonderland
proved popular with audience members of
all ages...the Amelia Douglas Gallery
featured paintings from the Huxian region
of the People’s Republic of China by
Wang Jinglong.

April

After placing every student from their
first graduating class into an industry job,
the Financial Services Studies Program
continued its success by securing a
$183,450 grant from Employment and
Immigration Canada to fund a new Co-
Operative Education option...After
serving on the College Board since 1988,
and as chair from 1990-93, Myrna Popove

stepped down at the end of April to
pursue other challenges...the gallery
featured the Hundred Languages of
Children, art from the world-famous child
care facilities of Reggio Emilia, Italy.

May

As Douglas College continues to plan
for multi-campus operation when
Coquitlam’s Pinetree Way opens in Fall
1996, the Task Force on Organizational
Restructuring delivered its final report to
the President...the Ministry of Skills,
Training and Labour announced its $200
million Skills Now initiative on May
3...Consumer and Job Prep faculty
member Bobbie Boehm retired after 17
years with the College.

June-July

Milo Mitchell was named as the new
Director of Psychiatric Nursing...instead
of having a party, retiring ECE instructor
Cathleen Smith invited College friends to
celebrate by brightening up the Nanook
YMCA daycare in East Vancouver on
June 11. About 25 artists took up the
brush...developed in collaboration with
the Open Learning Agency, the College
began offering a new Geology 120
distant-education course, allowing
students to complete lab experiments at
home.

August

The College announced plans to offer
a new Dispensing Opticianry program
beginning in Fall 1995...Tim Frick of
Physical Education coached Canada to
gold at the Gold Cup Women’s
Wheelchair Basketball World
Championships at Stoke Mandeville,
England.

September

Tom Childs of Learning Resources
and Jamie Gunn of IMS provided
communications media training to
members of the Nicaraguan Institute for
Popular Education and Research in that
country from September 17 to October |
as part of an ongoing educational
project...the new site for the First Nations

Student Services Office officially opened
on September 19...125 representatives of
school districts, business and labour
groups and government agencies attended
a College-organized Community Forum
on September 20 in Coquitlam.
Participants learned about existing
College services and offered feedback on
what kinds of new services could serve
their needs...Urban Primitive by artist
Michael Mancuso opened the fall season
at the Amelia Douglas Gallery...8,051
credit students registered at all College
sites for the fall semester...on September
22, President Bill Day presented an
official announcement to the College
Board that he will leave Douglas College
in August, 1995.

On October 19, Community Programs
and Services hosted another successful
Quantum Leaps event, in which 100
young women from secondary schools
met women working in science and
technology fields...the Douglas College
golf team under coach Gert van Niekerk
captured its fourth-consecutive BCCAA
championship.

November

With volunteers offering students and
employees escorted walks on weeknights,
Douglas College’s Safe Walk Program
began operating on November 23...more
than 175 members of the public and
media attended the November 22
information launch in Coquitlam for the
Pinetree Way Project.

December

The Theatre and Stagecraft
Departments staged The Diviners in the
Performing Arts Theatre....It was a
ceremony of music, poetry and
remembrance on December 6 in the
concourse to reflect on the deaths of 14
female engineering students killed five
years earlier in Montreal.