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The Douglas College Newsletter

  

Happy faces highlight
Summer Grad ceremonies

 

Community Social Service Worker (CSSW) graduate Christine Warner (I)
poses with CSSW instructor Nancy Newman at the June 7 graduation.

Tina Perret of the Alumni Association would like to thank the hard-working, dedicated

people who volunteered their time to ensure that the Alumni Assocation was able to

provide the graduates with a great reception.

“A very special thanks goes out to Karen Esau, Heather Scott, Myrna Popove, Rose
Wilson, Heather Campbell, Arleigh Bell, Amber O'Doherty, Loretta Milne, Dave
Seaweed, Susan Witter, Lisa Crosbie and the cafeteria staff, and of course to the awesome
Building Service Workers from Facilities who worked so incredibly hard to attend to our
every need before, during and after the ceremonies. Thank you again one and all for

your support.”

Education leaves focus on environmental issues

and anthropological finds

Sociology instructor Melody Hessing and Anthropology
instructor Alan McMillan recently completed educational

leaves to pursue work in their respective fields.

Hessing, whose leave was in the Fall of 2000, worked on
several projects in the area of the Sociology of the
Environment. She completed a manuscript, Green Mail:
The Social Construction of Environmental Issues through
Letters to the Editor, which focuses on media coverage of
environmental issues, specifically that of the logging of
the Carmanah Valley in BC in 1989-90. Her paper
describes the ways in which this “green” mail shapes
issues of social conflict and economic transitions. In
addition to this paper, Hessing also published Canada
Unobserved: Globalization and Canadian Environmental
Restructuring. She was also involved in the submission of a
grant on Canadian health care policy where her focus was
on environmental and women’s health, and began
negotiations in the development of a textbook, Women
and the Canadian Environment.

m New Westminster Campus, David Lam Campus & Thomas Haney Campus

British Columbia’s best-
equipped training facility
for dispensing opticians is
based at the David Lam
Campus — and it’s about
to get better.

The Vision Centre has
acquired a $27,000 corneal
topography system, which
offers another key tool in
training Douglas College
students.

“This device is used to map
and analyze the cornea,
and can be very useful for

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Eye-opening machinery at
vision training centre

patients with more slit lamp that is connected

complicated corneal toa high resolution
shapes,” says Ted monitor. This equipment is
Littlewood, Convenor of used to train students in
the Dispensing Opticians becoming dispensing
Program. “We are excited opticians, who fill
about this system as a prescriptions for eyewear
teaching tool, and how it lenses and fit contact
will enhance eye care.” lenses. The centre also sells
eyeglasses and contact

The centre has a fully lenses to the general public.
equipped edging lab with
state-of-the-art equipment — For more information
for first year students. The about the Dispensing
contact lens lab is equipped — Opticians Program or the
Vision Centre, call 604-

527-9995:

with four complete fitting

lanes as well as a teaching

 

 

Working in partnership with Peter Bell, a civilian criminal intelligence
analyst of the Organized Crime Agency of BC, Centre 2000 will begin
delivering Criminal Intelligence Training, two separate training

McMillan, whose leave was
in the Spring of 2001,
caught up with the analysis
and reporting of several
summers worth of research
involving the archaeology
and ethno-history of the
Nuu-chah-nulth people of
Western Vancouver Island,
particularly those of Barkley
Sound. He prepared a substantial report on the results of
the research so far and submitted it to the funding
agencies. The focus for his educational leave studies was on
the excavation of the large village of Ts ishaa on Benson
Island (in Pacific Rim National Park), cooperatively
supported and funded by the Tseshaht Nation (a Nuu-
chah-nulth group now at Port Alberni) and Parks Canada.
Ts ishaa was the origin place of the Tseshaht people in their
oral traditions and is one of their most important heritage

A security guard training program is set to begin at the David Lam
Campus in Coquitlam this Fall. Centre 2000 has received confirmation
of funding from the Ministry of Advanced Education Training and
Technology for this program, which is targeted for individuals in receipt
of Employment Insurance.

 

What's new at Centre 2000

Centre 2000 will work with the Motor Dealer Standards Association on
the delivery of a two-day industry-owned certification program for all
people working in the retail sector of the motor vehicle industry. They
will be working with Malaspina University College and the College of
New Caledonia on the delivery of this program which is tentatively
scheduled to start in September 2001.

 

programs for law enforcement personnel. Level | is a three-day
introduction to the theoretical as well as the practical issues in the field of
criminal intelligence. Training dates are July 25, 26, and 27. Level 2 is an
eight-day advanced course for law enforcement officials who require
currently work in the field. Training dates are September 8-15.

sites. The main village area, with deposits up to four
metres in depth, spans the last 2000 years or so of
Tseshaht history and yielded many artifacts, several of
which confirm Tseshaht oral traditions of the great
whalers who once lived there. McMillan will present an
illustrated talk on this research at a “brown bag” session
November 5, 2pm, in the Boardroom at the New
Westminster Campus.

 

Quote of the Month

“Its a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”

Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)