PROGRAMMING of phone messages or.a voice at the*
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other end of the line saying, 'I
thought maybe you'd changed jobs!'
It's the satisfaction of hearing
people say they were pleased, excited,
and stimulated by a course you've

 

Dialogue following an introduction at a helped to create; and it's frustra-
social gathering: tion and disappointment when one of
your 'best-ever' ideas dies a painful
Q.° "What do you do?" death. It's wondering 'shere did I
go wrong?’ or ‘What did I do right?'
A. "Oh, I'm the Continuing Education It's fascinating, frustrating,
programmer for the Counselling Depart- frantic, and fun."
ment at Douglas College."
Q. "Is that right? Let me get you
Q. "What on earth is that?" another drink:"

A. "Well, it's community meetings and---
printing deadlines; it's sixty
students wanting a course limited to
twenty, and three students for a
course that requires fifteen; it's VOLUNTEER SERVICES ...
trying to take the pulse of the
community's needs when sometimes you -- Doris Patterson
can't even find the wrist; it's
smiles from everyone when you come

 

 

up with a catchy course title and "AS a resource person and contact between
gentle scowls from the Printing the College and the community, a volunteer
Department when you ask for crazy is able to provide a unique learning
things like purple ink. climate because of the one-to-one basis

that enables the student to become more
"It's lunch in your car en route to self-confident and to rely on his or her
yet another meeting; and it's a pile own resources."

RICHMOND CAMPUS: Left
to right -- Pat Major
(counsellor); Theresa
Phillips (student aide);
Norma Miller (reception-
ist); Susan Smith
(student aide); Beth
Morris (counsellor); Ben
Kawaguchi (student aide)