_ Nove April Fool’s Day has come and gone, so there’s no point in trying to pull wool over anybody’s eyes. The end of a busy semester is near, and it’s not too soon to start thinking about summer vacation plans. We know of one College employee who’s’planning a trip to Spain this year -- hopefully the Canada-Spain fish war won't fry those plans, or our colleague might be forced to scale them back. Uh, anyway, we’ ve cast around for other news from around the College...please read on. John and June speak... Congratulations to Psychiatric Nursing’s John Crawford, who has been designated a keynote speaker at a nation-wide conference on psychiatric nursing education in Manitoba in May. John was instrumental in developing the College’s Advanced Diploma in Psychiatric Nursing, and is coordinator of the diploma. The other keynote speaker at the conference is well-known Canadian journalist and author June Callwood. Heather’s in the money... Chemistry Lab Technician Heather Avison won the Foundation’s February 60/40 draw, banking $829.20, while $552.80 went to student aid. Annette to wed... Annette Finlay, Clerk Typist in Psychiatric Nursing, is engaged to be married July 29. She will marry fiancee Mark in a garden wedding in Coquitlam. Where do pencils go to die? Last fall, Biology Instructor Allan Billy mounted a small project to find out where pencils really go when they disappear off your desk. He tagged and set free a couple of dozen specimens, with his phone number and instructions to call in and report the location and length every Friday. The results have been quite interesting...one pencil was last heard from in the Delta Hospital, another was sighted in Jervis Inlet on the Sunshine Coast, and one has made it all the way to London, England. “It’s a basic curiosity of what happens to the pencils I use. I never seem to be throwing away a stub, but all my pencils disappear.” One pencil commutes regularly between New Westminster and Richmond. A few are floating around the College, and a couple have moved into medical and legal professions. If you’ ve seen one around somewhere, give Allan a call at local 5237. Depending on the final data, Allan says he may be able to shed some light on one of office culture’s most perplexing questions. Super, Dave... Congratulations again to Dave Dalcanale, who has earned a second bow at the end of the College sports season. At the close of February, Dalcanale won Coach of the Year accolades from his BCCAA coaching peers and led the Royals women’s volleyball team to a provincial championship. For an encore, Dalcanale earned the CCAA Coaching Excellence Award for his sport and piloted the Royals to a silver medal at national finals in Edmonton in March. Douglas College won three consecutive games to earn its first-ever berth at this national event but dropped the championship match to Sherbrooke from Quebec. The doctor is in... ESL Instructor Tom Whalley defended his doctoral dissertation in Communication at SFU last month, and he says some people are afraid to ask how it turned out. He’s happy to report that the defense went well, and Tom is now a Ph.D. A story of struggle... For anyone interested in reading about one woman’s struggle to get to where she is, check the March 1995 issue of Our Times, a Canadian magazine devoted to labor issues. Page 13 contains a column 12 TONE. about education concerns, and the dreadful experiences in a residential school of a young First Nations child whose Anishnabe name is Szquatehsey, and years later, how a teacher who showed respect for her culture helped her turned her life around. Now she’s Douglas College’s First Nations Services Coordinator...Betsy Bruyere. Kathy to do major sun-time... We won’t be seeing much of Admissions Officer Kathy Rai this summer. With some holiday time carried over from last year, she’s got more vacation coming this year than any of her colleagues in the Registrar’s Office, and she likes to let them know about it on a regular basis. For her gloating, Kathy has been dubbed the Vacation Queen. No major trips are planned, but plenty of sun-bathing is on Kathy’s agenda. People who help each other... You know how Ros and Shirley in the Lower Cafeteria like to decorate it on holidays? Well, last February 14, some light bulb with nothing better to do stole the stuffed animals which were part of the Valentine’s Day theme. Ros and Shirley pay for the decorations out of their own pockets because they like to liven up the atmosphere for their customers, and the stuffed animals, worth about $70, belonged to Ros’s daughter Nicole. Many people around the College appreciate the efforts of the Lower Cafeteria folks to brighten up people’s days, so some College staff took up a collection and raised enough money to replace the stolen items. Goodbye until May! &