Graduation 1987
Versatile Valedictorian

A mature student from the Sunshine Coast,
this year's valedictorian held the unusual
distinction of being nominated jointly by
the Business Management and Theatre
departments. Shelley Nowazek, who
graduated from the Accelerated Business
Management Program (Marketing option),
started her college career at the Sechelt
campus, where she took several courses,
including Creative Writing, and acted as
stage manager for a play put on by the
Theatre department there.

Interestingly, it was Nowazek's
involvement with the arts (she has stage
managed many plays for the Theatre B.C.
Festival) that led her into Business
Management, because she became interested
in the administration of the arts. She is
hoping to eventually earn her BFA or MFA
in Arts Administration.

It is very unusual for anyone taking the
accelerated Business program to take on
extra courses, but Nowazek took Theatre

this spring and acted as stage manager for
the production of "The Caucasian Chalk

Circle" at Presentation House. "With the

kind of workload that Business Management
students have and the kind of involvement
required in our production course, she had
to work very hard to keep up," commented
Theatre instructor Dawn Moore.

But her marks certainly didn't suffer.
Despite the workload, Nowazek was on the
Dean's List for the fall and spring
semesters, and accumulated the remarkable
total of seven Ats in her Business
courses.

Valedictory Address - an excerpt

Capilano College is a microcosm. There is
no conflict that we have not seen here
which will suddenly spring upon us in
another hall of learning, or in the world
at large. Only the circumstances change.
There have been many times here when I
felt that I was insulated from the
"outside" but it was always an illusion.
Wherever there are people, there is the
ever static, ever dynamic, interchange:
society. Politics, and divergency are as
much a part of life as breathing. Actively
or passively, we are all involved. As
children we were instructed, manipulated.
We are no longer children, it is our
dreams and ideas which will shape the

pe future.
COLOPHON
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