INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / NOVEMBER 27, 1990

 

 

Douglas College
Board gains
three new
appointees

ON TAYLOR, one of the
newer appointees to the
Douglas College Board, is excited
at the opportunity he has been

given.

“I’m delighted to do it. It’s ac-
tually a major area of interest to
me,” he says. “I come at it from
two angles.” Taylor will approach
the position as someone who has
taught in post secondary institu-
tions and also as someone who has
recruited employees from post
secondary institutions.

Taylor, who presently lives in
Mission, was born in London,
England. He received his Bachelor
of Science (Economics) at the
University of London and com-
pleted his post graduate work at
the Loughborough University of
Technology.

Since his arrival in Canada in
1967, Taylor has lived in Thunder
Bay, Edmonton and Mission. “In
the time I’ve been here, I taught in
the School of Business at Lakehead
University in Thunder Bay,” he
adds.

In his job as Information Ser-
vices Director for the Corporation
of Burnaby, Taylor is responsible
for the corporation’s computer sys-
tems.

In the past, Taylor has worked
on computer systems with major
companies in the United
Kingdom. He was also president
of Educomp Management Ltd. for
nine years.

Taylor is affiliated with the
Data Processing Management As-
sociation and the Canadian Infor-
mation Processing Society. He is
also an Associate Member of the
British Institute of Management.

Taylor and his wife have a 16-
year-old daughter and a 14-year-
old son.

 

 

 

 

 

New Board members: (left to right)
Terry Hewitt, Ron Taylor and Chris Mellalieu.

ERRY HEWITT, a recently ap-

pointed member to the
Douglas College Board, says his
age, legal training and community
involvement are some of the at-
tributes he will bring to the Board.

Hewitt, who received a
Bachelor of Science at Simon
Fraser University, was the biology
representative on the student
society for a year and a half.

“T have that type of perspec-
tive, a student type perspective,”
he says. Hewitt, who attended
public educational institutions in
B.C. as recently as 1987, believes
that experience will also come in
handy.

In 1983, Hewitt entered the
University of British Columbia's
law school. After graduating in
1987, he articled and worked for a
Burnaby law firm.

“I moved to New Westminster
in the summer of 1987. And in
January of this year I started my
own practice at Columbia Square
in New Westminster,” he says.

Hewitt, who has lived in the
Douglas College region for all of
his 33 years, would like to see in-
creased awareness of the college.
When he worked at the New
Westminster law courts, he would
wander across to the college to use

the cafeteria, but it wasn’t until he
was appointed to the Board that
he became aware of the college’s
many facilities.

“I’m quite surprised that I
could have lived in this area and
not been as aware of Douglas Col-
lege as I should have been. There
is room for some more community
awareness. I want to be involved
in this community,” he says.

Hewitt is looking forward to
his involvement on the Douglas
College Board. “I think it is great. I
feel like I want to put a lot of effort
into it because it seems
worthwhile. It’s a good oppor-
tunity to get some good com-
munity involvement.”

Hewitt and his wife Gillian
have two daughters, Hayley and
Brittany, and one son, Fraser.

HRIS MELLALIEU is looking
forward to his role on the
Douglas College Board.

Mellalieu, who was recently ap-
pointed to the Board, says he would
like to work in areas such as
fundraising, exposing high school
students to college offerings. “We
need practical degrees, such

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