Informer Page 8

December 12,1988

P L E

- Our Counsellors

Yvonne McColl

Frank Reid

Born in Edinburgh, where he received his M.A in
French, Frank Reid moved to Canada and the west coast
in 1964 to become a founding faculty member at S.F.U.
While there, Frank worked on his M.A. in Linguistics,
then moved to Cap in 1968 to research and set up the
first languague labs. He also established conversational
groups with a native speaker, an idea still being used at
the College. Frank's enthusiasm for teaching and
learning French has never waned, and he continues to
study new methods and incorporate them in his classes.

Yvonne McColl, Coordinator of the Counselling
Department, is looking forward to some big changes in
her life. Her house is being renovated to make room for a
baby in June. “I’m getting really excited,” says the
prospective, first-time mother and avid gardener.

Yvonne joined the Counselling Department in
October, 1985, and brought with her a widely diversified
background. She has been assistant director of a crisis
centre, a social worker with the Ministry of Human
Resources, a family therapist with Vancouver Family
Services, and a counsellor with two alternative schools.
These experiences “gave me a nice base for working with
all the different types of students and crises we see
here,” says the personable counsellor.

Yvonne says many of the College’s mature female
students come to see her, a reflection perhaps of her
work in developing the Women’s Centre on campus and
co-ordinating a C.E.I.C.-funded Women’s Re-entry
program. Not least of these activities, is her present
membership on B.C.’s Status of Women Committee.
Yvonne looks forward to that Committee’s proposed
plans to introduce the federal government's affirmative
action policies at the College. “That could create some
fear,” says Yvonne, though, she notes, Cap’s record is
quite good in terms of female representation everywhere
but senior administration, and she says the percentage
of female faculty members is better than at most Lower
Mainland colleges.

Aside from her general counselling duties, Yvonne
has offered workshops in stress management, assertive
communication, relaxation techniques, and interviewing
skills, and in the last two years worked with the Student
Society to organize an August orientation for new
students.