Spring arrives at the North Vancouver campus.
Photo by Ken Barbour.

IDEA award
winners

The Society of Graphic Designers of
Canada (GDC) has released its list
of national award winners for 2005
and, once again, Capilano College
IDEA students are included. Sherry
Jang is the winner of a $1,000
Adobe scholarship for her Little
Duckie catalogue. Christopher
Freeman was given an honorable
mention for his Hydrogen poster.
Instructor Karin Jager teaches
both students who are entering
their third year of the program.
The GDC National Scholarship
Awards are Canada’s pre-eminent
educational design awards, funded
by Canada’s top design-related
companies and coordinated by the
GDC. Another third year IDEA
student, Dana Lu, was presented
with a $500 Salazar Award at an
event held at the Ironworks Gallery
on May 26. The British Columbia
chapter of the Society of Graphic
Designers of Canada established the
GDC/BC Salazar Student Awards in
1985. They honour Enrique Salazar,
a founding member of the Society
and the national representative for
the B.C. chapter for two years.
Enrique was a partner in Salazar
Graphics and taught graphic design
at Capilano College until his death
in June 1985.

They made it!

All smiles on grad night, these

27 students successfully reached
the end of the College’s First
Nations Tourism Management
Co-op Diploma program. This
unique program was developed

in partnership with the Squamish,
Lil'wat and Musqueam First Nations,
Capilano College, and the Ministry
of Advanced Education. Students
who graduated will meet the
growing demands for cultural
tourism opportunities in the Howe
Sound corridor. The graduation
ceremony was held at the Squamish
Nation’s Totem Hall on Friday,

May 6. Photo by Tourism instructor
Drew Leathem.

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Terry Hood has been
named manager for
the B.C. Centre for
Tourism Leadership
and Innovation,
hosted by Capilano
College’s Tourism
and Outdoor
Recreation department, Squamish
campus. Terry served as the director
of educational services for the
former Pacific Rim Institute of
Tourism and has been working

as interim manager of the Centre
since last September. The new
Centre represents a network of
B.C. college and university
tourism programs and will serve
as a catalyst for connecting
tourism partners. It will help
identify education solutions to
assist the industry in achieving

Terry Hood

A its ambitious growth targets. The

Centre’s members will also work

| with the public and private sectors

to enable the sustainability and
expansion of tourism’s role as an
economic engine in the province.
The Centre was established last
year by the B.C. Ministry of
Advanced Education and the B.C.
Ministry of Small Business and
Economic Development and is
currently being supported by
Tourism British Columbia and
other partners.

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Congratulations to administrative

analyst, Balwinder Rai, who
became a Canadian citizen on ~
Thursday, May 26! Balwinder,
who was born in Dehra Dun,
Northern India, moved to Ghana,
West Africa in 1995 where he ©
worked in the stores department |

-of a gold mine. Three weeks after

he left for Ghana, his brother
moved to Vancouver and was ~
soon joined by their mother.
Balwinder's sister also left India
around the same time and today
lives in Seattle, Washington.
“All my immediate family were
over here,” Balwinder said, “so
that was the deciding factor for
me to move to Canada.” Balwinder

has been at Capilano College for

three and a half years. “It was
a touching event,” he said of
the citizenship service held in
Surrey. “The presiding judge said
at the end that he had been —
speaking with Canadian Prime
Minister Paul Martin that
morning. When the judge told
him that he was presiding over —
our citizenship ceremony, the
Prime Minister said to him, —
“Make sure that I'm the first
person to congratulate them
and welcome them to Canada.”

Balwinder Rai is a new Canadian. —

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