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June 1998

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Hoshina retirement helps create new scholarship

Even if you don’t know him
directly, chances are that the
work of Music instructor
Tatsuo Hoshina has touched
your world. In his 27 years at
the College, he has helped
countless students enter the
music community as
performers, conductors and
teachers in their own right.

To honor Hoshina on his
retirement this spring, friends
and colleagues presented a
Gala Farewell Concert on
May 3. Performers included
many vocal soloists as well as

the Douglas College Chamber
Singers (Eric Hannan,
conductor), the Douglas
College Choral Society
(Patricia Rolston, conductor),
and the Vancouver Sakura
Singers (Ruth Huang-Suzuki,
conductor). Flautist Kathryn
Cernauskas, guitarist Michael
Strutt, trumpeter Blair Fisher
and pianists Barrie
Barrington, Rudy Rozanski,
Ellen Silverman and Henry
Waack also joined in the
musical tribute.

Looking back on his start
with the College, Hoshina
points to the efforts of David
Peterkin, who established a
modest yet solid foundation
for the budding Music
Department. “We started
with an attainable vision of
providing music education
that was high in quality but
still accessible—nothing too
elaborate or ambitious to
start with. Well, we are still
following that vision, and are
now known throughout the
system for our excellence.”

In addition to teaching what
is perhaps the widest range of
courses in the history of the
department, Hoshina served
as the College’s choir director
for over 20 years. He also
started the Douglas College
Choral Society to allow
College and community
singers to join together in
song, and served as director of
that organization for over 10
years. During this period, the
Society performed many
major works of the choral
repertoire with orchestra, an
inspiring experience for

students and community
members alike. “You might
call me a jack-of-all-trades,”
Hoshina says with a modest

chuckle.

Funds from the Gala Farewell
Concert are being used to
establish a new fund to help
Music students in need: the
Tatsuo Hoshina Voice
Scholarship. For more
information on this new
scholarship, please call the
Douglas College Foundation
at 527-5876. @

 

Health and Safety Week

Last month featured a week of health and safety events at the New Westminster Campus.
Among the offerings (which were based on College employees’ suggestions) were an

ergonomics update with BC Tel’s Deanna Harrison, a workshop on personal safety and security
with Mark Barritt of the New Westminster Police, and a day-long seminar with Gary Harper on

dealing with difficult people and situations. “The courses had a really good turn-out," says Pat
Thomasson of Facilities Services. Pictured (L to R) are five of those who made Health and
Safety Week happen: Thomasson, Psychiatric Nursing's Paula Maisonville, History's Jacqueline
Gresko, Officer Mark Barritt and new Workplace Safety Coordinator Sandy McKinley.

 

Mainly Maynes

Karen Maynes has been named Acting Vice President for the
College's Division of Finance and Administration during Peter
Greenwood's secondment to the National Research Council.
The year-long posting is effective June 15, but the Finance
team showered her with flowers in May.

 

 

Anniversary planning underway

Douglas College turns 30 in
the year 2000! Planning has
now begun for activities
which celebrate three decades
of education and look ahead
towards the future.

With many employees
discussing how the College
might commemorate the 30th
anniversary,-a meeting
between President Susan
Witter and ESL instructor
Tom Whalley led to a series
of employee forums in March
and April to kick off the
planning process.

“People came up with a wide
range of good ideas at the

forums, in areas such as
innovative education projects,
legacy initiatives, employee
and graduate recognition and
ways to reach out to the
community,” says Brad
Barber of the CMO. “Asa
result, we established some
planning subcommittees in
which people can work with
colleagues to develop
meaningful events and
projects that interest them.”

Members of the 30th
Anniversary Steering
Committee encourage people
to get involved and share
ideas. The five planning sub-
committees are: Education

(contact Tom Whalley),
Legacy (contact Lorna
McCallum), Employee/
Retiree Recognition (contact
Kris Remmem or Jacqueline
Gresko), Homecoming/
Graduate Outreach (contact
Tad Hosoi or Tina Perret)
and Open House (Brad
Barber).

The steering committee is
composed of faculty, staff and
administrators and will begin
meeting in September to
coordinate overall planning
and budgeting for the
anniversary.

 

Quote of the Month

"The most serious threat to a person's progress arises from one's efforts to keep safe
in one’s job, to see to it that one doesn't make mistakes."

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