August 15 Events Calendar All events take place at the New Westminster Campus unless otherwise noted. The Amelia Douglas Gallery presents Greenlinks 2001: Nature's Services Show runs August 15-September 13 with reception and Backyard Challenge Awards Ceremony on September 13, 4-8pm; awards presented at 7pm August 30 12noon-2pm President's Welcome Back Barbecue Plaza between College and Students Union Building (fourth floor Theatre entrance) Kudos to College employees Douglas College employees work hard at more than just their jobs. Many of the people who work here have achieved great things both inside and outside of the office. We recently found out about a few of them, and we'd like to share their accomplishments with you. If youd like to tell us about yourself or a colleague, please call Tracey Winters at 527-5325 or e-mail winterst@douglas.bc.ca. Joy Fletcher, Health Information Services Program instructor, received the Canadian Health Record Association’s Special Achievement Award in recognition of her authorship of the ICD-10-CA/CCI Classification Primer (a text for teaching the classification of health care data.) The Special Achievement Award recognizes a specific major accomplishment which positively enhances the health record profession. In June, Jacqueline Gresko of the History Department was invited by the Port Moody Historical Society to speak on Mary Moody’s Life in BC 1858-1863, based on research on her letters. Also, an interview with Gresko about Mary Moody was printed in the Tri-City News, June 14 (now posted on bulletin board outside of room 4700, New Westminster Campus). After three years as a part-time student, Mary Hatch of Cooperative Education graduated from the College's Print Futures program in June. Her future plans include becoming a freelance writer, mainly for business, so that she will be able to spend part of the year in Ireland and part in Canada. Dave Munro, Douglas College mens basketball coach, was recently selected to the National Team Coaching Pool for the 2001-04 Quadrennial, assisting with duties such as player identifications, research, evaluation and practices leading up to the 2004 Olympics. Event magazine’s new editor, Cathy Stonehouse, reports that Event was the proud winner of the Best Fiction winning story was The Cane Field by Kevin Armstrong, published in issue 29/1. Event was also nominated in the same category for a story by Annabel Lyon, Fishes, also published in issue 29/1, as well as being nominated in the Human Experience category for a non-fiction piece by Marcello DiCintio entitled Bone Etchings and Blood Tattoos published in issue 29/3. In addition to these honours, both The Cane Fieldand Fishes have also been nominated for this year’s prestigious Journey Prize, and will be published by McClelland and Stewart in this year’s Journey Prize Anthology. Maureen Jaeggle Literacy Bursary aids students in need Foundation Executive Director Myrna Popove (I) and VP Educational Services Al Atkinson (r) congratulate Developmental Studies instructor Maureen Jaeggle (c) at the | CARE Spring Dinner in May. Jaeggle, who has been an Moneca Faircrest of the Registrar's Office is a volunteer with drive. In addition to doing 150 hours of volunteer work for the Coquitlam Crisis Line, she was nominated VP of Education for her Loudspeakers group of Toastmasters in July. She has also volunteered extensively at the College in the past year, working at the College's Open House, the Deepak Chopra event and the Women’s Centre Unsung Heroine Awards dinner. The Douglas College Institute of Urban Ecology Green Links Program received an Environmental Star instructor at the College since 1980, recently had a bursary named after her for her devotion to helping students in need at Douglas College. The Maureen Jaeggle Literacy Bursary is awarded based on financial need and current standing in the program, and is available to | CARE and Developmental Studies literacy students. Award from the City of Burnaby in June in the category of Communications (Environmental Awareness). Maria Iaquinta of Student Development starts a four- year Ph.D. program in Counselling Psychology this September at UBC. Last year, Maria was part of a group which presented on the use of metaphor, visual imagery and narrative in career counselling at the Going for Gold award at this year’s Western Magazine Awards. The Briefly Wedding bells Congratulations to Ron Fournier of the Printshop who was married to Margret Blaine on May 12 in New Westminster! Double Happiness Susan Greffard of Distributed Learning Services became a first-time grandmother on June 8 when her two Gemini grandchildren were born. Addison Cade (5]b 2 0z) made his appearance at 10:23am while sister Ainsley Paris (4lb 202) entered the world two minutes later at 10:25. Join a simplicity circle Wendy Waidson of Douglas Development reports that “about 50 people attended Cecile Andrews’ presentation on June 14th and another 20 attended her workshop. We have now formed three Simplicity Circles at the College, two at New West and one at David Lam, but they won't begin meeting until September. Meetings at New Westminster will be Mondays 12-1pm or Thursdays 1-2pm. Meetings at David Lam will be on Tuesdays (time TBA but it will be during the lunch hour). Simplicity Circle members are asked to commit to meeting once a week for ten weeks. If people can’t attend their. regular meeting, they are welcome to attend one of the others. Douglas Development will buy a book for each member. I can be contacted for further info at local 5503.” Farewell to a friendly face Michael Hoadley of Distributed Learning Services (DLS) is moving to Salt Spring Island this month. You may have seen Michael with his cart, checking to see that classroom TVs, VCRs and overhead projectors were working properly. Michael was in the Consumer and Job Preparation Program for Students with Special Needs before he started working for DLS in September 1997. Michael, you will be missed! May and June 60/40 winners Congratulations to May’s 60/40 winner Jan Hastings of BC Benefits and June's Meg Hoppe of EASL. Jan takes home $792 and student aid increases by $528 while Meg takes home $792 and student aid increases by $528. Tons of shredding Nick Parker of Purchasing reports that “between January and June the College used the services of a professional shredding company to shred 15,713 lb or almost eight tons of confidential documents. Everything is shredded and converted into more paper products. And which department International Career Counselling Conference. contributes the most paper? No contest — Commerce and Business and Finance and Accounting by a wide margin.” Musical chairs in Financial Aid There’s been a lot of movement in Financial Aid lately. Stephanie Williams replaces Loretta Milne who replaces Sarah Bertin in BC Benefits while Sarah is on maternity leave. Veronica Tinsley is in a new regular position in Financial Aid at the New Westminster Campus (part-time). Louise Jenkins (Financial Aid at David Lam Campus) is going on educational leave for one year. Wendy Collins moves into Louise’s position, while Michelle Shauer will start August 16 at the Financial Aid Office to replace Wendy. Staff Moves In Finance, Nicola Grigg moves from auxiliary in the Registrar's Office to regular as Accounts Receivable/ Cashier, replacing Kim Sanders who moves to the position of Bookstore Supervisor, replacing Margo Lott who moves to the position of Accounts Receivable Supervisor. In Systems and Computing, Homa Shirazi is the new Programmer/Analyst and Kathy Ely is the new Computer Help Desk Technician. INside Douglas College is published by the Communications & Marketing Office the first Tuesday of each month. Submissions and story ideas are welcome; deadline is 10 working days before publication. Send text-only files to INside editor, CMO, Room 4700, New Westminster Campus; e-mail to winterst@douglas.bc.ca; or call 527-5325. Printed by the Douglas College Printshop.