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Year for 1994/95 by his coaching
peers... The new Dispensing Optician
Program was announced...Douglas
College received major funding for Skills
Now Innovation projects...More than 210
awards worth $70,000 were presented at
the Foundation’s Spring Awards
Ceremony.

April

Centre 2000 launched two new
programs in micro-enterprise and business
management: the Self-Employment
Assistance program and Professional
Practices for Artists and
Designers...College President Bill Day
announced that after 25 years at the
College, he would be retiring at the end of
August...Tara Smetany was named to
coach the Douglas College Women’s Golf
Team...Employers and students met at the
Career Exploration Fair...Dave Dalcanale
followed up his BCCAA Coach of the
Year accolades with the CCAA Coaching
Excellence Award...ESL Instructor Tom
Whalley successfully defended his
doctoral dissertation.

May

The Psychiatric Nursing Department
and the Department of Child, Family &
Community Studies competed to collect
peace packs for war-torn
Mozambique...Child, Family &
Community Studies instituted the Prior
Learning Assessment Program to give
students credit for past
experience...Former College Board Chair
Myrna Popove returned as co-chair of the
Pinetree Way Capital Campaign.

June

The Canada-wide search for a new
president ended with the appointment of
Susan Hunter-Harvey, who was then
Vice-President at Brandon University in
Manitoba and President of the Western
Universities Telecourse
Consortium...Artist Chidi A: Okoye
brought his African-theme drawings,
sculptures and paintings to the Amelia
Douglas Gallery...A large contingent of
College folks came out for the Corporate
Challenge Division of the Vancouver Sun
Run...DGS Construction began
construction work on the site of the
Pinetree Way campus...Anne Fenton
stopped for a rest after 4 1/2 years of
working on behalf of Douglas College’s
BCGEU members.

July

David Smith took over head coaching
duties of the Royals men’s basketball
team...The Tzu-Chi Foundation of Canada
donated $50,000 to create a bursary
supporting students in Nursing and
Psychiatric Nursing programs...A
delegation from the People’s Republic of
China visited Douglas College looking for
ideas for their own training and education
industry.

August

Planning to raise $5 million for the
Pinetree Way campus, the Douglas
College Foundation announced the
Building On Excellence campaign... The
Amelia Douglas Gallery celebrated its
fourth year with a retrospective collection
of its past projects...262 new parking
spaces became available below the
College at 720 Carnarvon Street...Centre
2000 concluded an agreement to download
and distribute satellite feeds of advanced
technology management training...A
shrine to Chris Johnson was discovered in
Guernsey...IMS received $228,000 in
Skills Now funding to begin phase one of
a distance education project.

September

New President Susan Hunter-Harvey
assumed office on September
15...Structural reorganization continued as
College divisions were renamed...After 25
years at Douglas College, Academic
Division Dean Gordon Gilgan moved on.
to become President of Grande Prairie
Regional College...Louie Girotto was
appointed Evening and Weekend
Administrator...Architectural drawings for
the new Douglas College Student Society
Building were completed.

October

Douglas College went on-line with its
own web site with hardware donated by
Westminster Savings Credit Union......A
special reception welcomed exchange
students from College de Bois-de-
Boulogne in Quebec...Members of the
Douglas College music faculty performed
at the Scholarship Benefit Concert...The
Amelia Douglas Gallery featured
Women’s Visions -- Women’s Stories,
with work from nine Lower Mainland
female artists...Students, faculty and staff
met President Susan Hunter-Harvey at the
President’s Forum...The Men’s golf team
won a fifth straight championship.

November

The Douglas College Theatre
Department staged Top Girls and Ten Lost
Years...Anticipating cuts to federal transfer
payments, Victoria asked Douglas College
how it would deal with a cut of 2, 5, or 10
percent to its budget...Douglas College’s
Thomas Haney Centre signed an
articulation agreement with the Coquitlam
and Maple Ridge School
Districts...Photographer David Cooper
brought some truly strange images to the
Amelia Douglas Art Gallery... The Women’s
soccer team missed post-season play but the
men’s team advanced to the BCCAA
Championships...Douglas College signed
an articulation agreement with School
Districts 43 and 42...The College United
Way campaign raised over $5000.

December

Top students in the College music
program gathered for the final Noon at New
West concert...Suzanne Laplante-Edward
presented a tribute to the victims of the
Montreal Ecole Polytechnique killings. 1

Pinetree to
offer five
career
programs

The Pinetree Way Campus will offer
students a choice of five applied
programs and two Associate Degree
options when it opens in September,
1996.

The Dispensing Optician and
Financial Services programs will shift
from New Westminster to Coquitlam.
Computer Information Systems will be
available at both Pinetree and New
Westminster.

Two new applied programs,
International Business Studies and
Tourism and Hospitality Management
will also be offered at Coquitlam,
pending final government funding
approval. Additional applied programs,
such as Coaching, are expected to be
added to Coquitlam in 1997.

Pinetree’s university transfer students
may complete Associate Degrees in Arts
and Sciences, and select from courses in
Commerce and Business and physical
education.

The new campus is expected to serve
more than 1,000 students when it first
opens and is designed to accommodate
2,000 FTE. I