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(I. to r.) Mary Benson, Lee Chamberland, Sandy Resnik. Benson and Resnik are being recognized for their achievements.

Therapeutic Rec students tops in North America

Fifteen students in Douglas College’s Therapeutic Recreation Program are going on a trip to Spokane, and two of them are going all-expenses-paid.

Second-year students Mary Benson and Sandy Resnik are win- ners of the American Therapeutic Recreation Association’s Peg Con- nolly Scholarship, given annually in North America to ten outstanding students in the field. Their achieve- ments are to be recognized at a conference in Spokane in October.

Instructor Lee Chamberland says students were evaluated on their leadership, their work experience and philosophies, and their grade point averages. The two Douglas College winners scored high in all

respects. “They were looking for students with real potential to con- tribute to the field,” she says. “1 think it speaks to the quality of the program and the energy and dedica- tion of our students.”

Mary Benson says she got into therapeutic recreation after doing unofficial volunteer work with a rela- tive in the field. Before entering the program at Douglas, she worked at Vancouver’s George Pearson Centre with a multiple sclerosis patient. “During my first day at Pear- son, | knew this is where | wanted to be,” says Benson.

Sandy Resnik got her start at the Richmond Lion’s Manor working with older adults. She found that therapeutic recreation wasn’t doing

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Enrolment space race

Record fall registration has pushed Douglas College’s enrolment over 7,000 for the first time and forced the College to turn away 433 applicants.

Gordon Gilgan, Dean of the Academic Division, said the un- precedented demand underscores the need to proceed with new campuses as quickly as possible.

“What concerns me is not only the fact that we had to turn away over 430 students, which gave them nothing, but that of the 7,300 students we did register, we did a relatively poor job for about 1,000 of them in terms of providing the courses they want in the quantities needed.”

Gilgan said the message is that Douglas College must provide the space to meet growing community demands.

“It’s clear we need to get going on expansion at Coquitlam and the Thomas Haney Centre (Maple Ridge) to reduce some of this pressure,” he said.

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