Welcome to February, one of the most
disagreeable months of the year. The long-
awaited Christmas holidays are now long
past, the Super Bowl is over, spring and
the Easter break are still months away.
Fortunately, there is February 14, when
love blooms and the price of a dozen long-
stemmed roses hits its annual high. To
find out more about love and other

doings at the College, please read on.

Love in the laboratory...

An epidemic of engagements has been
reported involving instructors in Math
and Science. Physics Convenor Jennifer
Kirkey tops the list, with a wedding
planned for late spring. Following with
summer ceremonies are Wesley Snider,
who teaches Math and Physics, and Biol-
ogy Instructor Shamsa Rahemtullah.
Chemistry Instructor Alexandra
Templemann will wed next autumn in
Ontario.

Recycled Valentines...

Jean Allan is giving a workshop through
Community Programs & Services called
Homemade Paper Valentines. She’s show-
ing people how to recycle waste paper
into cards from Cupid for loved ones.
Call 527-5492.

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Bolivia on view...

World traveller, PIO Writer and person-
about-town Jeff McDonald presents a
slide show and possibly a short video on
Bolivia on Tuesday, March 2 at 12:15 pm
in Room 1606. Jeff was involved in
development work for five months in the
South American country last year. For
those who can’t make it, Jeff will reprise
the show on Friday, March 5 at 3 pm also
in Room 1606.

Peacock in the Sun...
In case you missed it, and especially if
you live in or visit Vancouver's East Side,

look up the January 12 edition of the Van-

couver Sun for an article by Biology
Instructor Adrienne Peacock. The piece
makes a very convincing argument in
favor of converting the PNE into green-
space parkland, pointing out that the
West Side has more than triple the East
Side’s per-resident green space.

Get better soon, Jim...
Our best wishes for a speedy recovery go
out to Physics Technician Jim Clogg. Jim
suffered a heart attack in early January

and will be away from the College for the
rest of the semester.

 

"Once at the beginning of a semester, |
had a student call me and ask if she had
to go to home room on Monday morn-
ing," she says. "But more often, I have
parents calling me and asking if I can find
their son or daughter who is either in the
cafeteria or library. Sometimes they call
to ask if their child showed up at school
today, or if I can tell them what their
marks were last semester."

Those kinds of calls are a little exasperat-
ing, but then Brown occasionally has to

deal with irate callers, such as people
who haven't got the courses they wanted.
There’s not much she can do to help
them. "You're the first person they talk to
so you get blamed for everything. It
makes you want to get up and run."

But, for the most part, Brown acknow-
ledges that people calling her for help are
friendly and courteous. A

 

Karleen II: The Son of Darryl...
Best wishes also go out to Darryl Kar-
leen and his wife, Jill, upon the birth of
their son, Dylan Andrew Karleen. Dylan
was born on January 5 and weighed in at
a very healthy 9 Ibs., 5 oz. Until recently,
Darryl had been a computer repair whiz
(and movie buff) at the College before
being lured to Kelowna and a job with
Okanagan College.

Pumping iron...

Building Service Worker Christine Unter-
thiner is training for the women’s Gold
Novice Bodybuilding Contest, held in Vic-
toria in April. It’s her second shot at the
title, and we wish her the best of luck. If
she places in the top three, she goes on

to the provincial competition in May.

Congrats...

To Accounting’s Tina Corbo, who has
been promoted to the position of Enroll-
ment/Accounting Assistant.

Leathernecks pork out...

Athletic Director Betty Lou Hayes was bil-
leted in Fort Benning, Georgia recently
while travelling with Douglas College’s
wrestling team to a tournament in Atlan-
ta. During her stay, Betty Lou was giving
a group of U.S. Marines a hard time about
all the chili dogs they were wolfing down
for lunch. The Marines replied that they
were soon slated to be shipped to
Somalia, "so we want to eat all the junk
food we can."

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