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WENDY WATT (ABOVE)
GAVE NEW MEANING TO
THE WORD “CLOSE” AT THE
FIRST-EVER FOUNDATION
GOLF TOURNAMENT

Despite the rain, 44 Douglas
College golfers participated.

Roy Daykin was in especially
good form coming out on top
of the pack with the low score
and Leslie McCarther was
picked as the most honest
golfer.

The best was saved for last
as 55 people turned out for
an excellent dinner that
evening at the Carnoustie
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Ceremony marks new
beginning for graduates

Pee a backdrop of royal blue
curtains, bagpipe music played
and bright floodlights shone as a
long procession of men and
women marched up to the plat-
form to receive elegant blue
folders.

This ritual did not need a fancy
hotel: in fact, the setting was the
gym at Douglas College, and the
ceremony was held June 20 to
award diplomas, certificates and
citations to 497 students who had

completed programs at the college.

For Lynda Smyth, the class
valedictorian, it was a time to
remember “the long hours spent
studying, the exams, the friends
we’ ve made, and the fun times
we ve had together. Douglas
College will maintain a warm spot
in our memories for a long time.”

Other graduating students
seemed to agree with Smyth.

“I'm relieved that this year is
over,” said Carmond Drope, who
received a certificate in Early
Childhood Education. She praised
her program, saying that “the
teachers were really helpful and
always available; they gave out
their home phone numbers and
everything.”

Drope is currently employed at
a daycare, but she plans to return
to Douglas College to learn about
working with special needs
children.

“Tt’s nice to be finished,” said
Jackie Goss, who has just com-
pleted a Psychiatric Nursing
diploma. “Now we can do what

we really want to do — go out to
the community and make a
difference.”

Goss was hired two days before
graduation at Royal City Manor in
New Westminster. “I'll be working
in an intermediate-care facility
dealing with senior citizens,” she
said.

Paul White, who received a
diploma in Therapeutic Recrea-
tion, said the graduation ceremony
made him feel “supported by
faculty and classmates. I felt that I
have accomplished something I’ve
been working on for a number of
years. I reached a plateau, a peak.”

White is currently running his
own business, but plans to work in
the field of Therapeutic Recreation.

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