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Keith Wades into lecture

An opportunity to both enjoy yourself and
contribute to a worthy cause is coming up
this Wednesday evening (May 8). An
illustrated lecture on China by Dr. Keith
Wade is being held at West Van. Secondary
and all proceeds from the $3.50 admissions
will go to a scholarship fund for science
students.

This is the first in a series of fund-
raising lectures planned by the science
department for this year, and it will
undoubtedly be one of the best. Wade, who
is a well known ecologist-biologist when
he isn't teaching Biology classes here,
went to China in 1981 as one of a five-
member Canadian Botanical Delegation, and
this slide-show and lecture is a record of
that trip from both the scientific and
human interest points of view.

Although smaller in land area than Canada,
China contains more than five times as
many plant species, and this great wealth
of wild plants has long been of enormous
interest to Western botanists and
horticulturalists. "In horticultural
circles, China is frequently called ‘The
Mother of Gardens''', said Wade. "It is the
ancestral home of literally thousands of
Our most popular and beautiful garden
trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants,
which were mostly introduced to the West
in the last 1800's and first three decades
of this century."

The Canadian delegation visited the
provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan, stopping
at universitites, botanical institutions,

botanic gardens, and visiting the mountain
areas, with their enormous variety of wild
plants. This lecture is your chance to get
a second-hand glimpse of 2800m Mt. Omei, a
spectacular limestone mountain on the
western edge of the Great Red Basin in
Sichuan, the limestone caves of Yunnan,
and the tropical botanic garden in Canton
(now Guangzhou). Things will get underway
at 8 pm in the auditorium at West Van.
Secondary.

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Enrichment workshop upcoming

On Thursday, Mav 16, approximately 90
outstanding senior math/computing science
and science students from the North Shore,
Howe Sound, Sunshine Coast, East Vancouver,
and North Burnaby regions will participate
in the College's 5th Annual Science
Enrichment workshop. Five students from
each school will be able to choose from
workshops in biology, chemistry, math/
computing science, and physics instructed
by Capilano instructors. This will both
provide anopportunity for highly motivated
Students to become acquainted with some
interesting techniques in the different
disciplines, and for them to become
acquainted with the College's laboratory
facilities. This has been a very
successful program, and the Natural
Sciences Division is happy ‘to see it
continue and expand.

Panel open to public

"Teaching Excellence—A Characteristic of
the Community College Phenomenon'' is the
title of a panel to which faculty, staff,
and the general public are invited on May
16. Dr. John Dennison, Grant Kelley,
Shirley Church, and Diane Morrison will be
discussing this topic in the Dynamics Lab
from 9 am to noon.

10th Anniversary for Co-op

Media Resources instructor Peter Thompson
is celebrating an anniversary this month.
It is Vancouver Co-op Radio's tenth
anniversary, and since Peter has been with
them from the beginning, it is also his
tenth anniversary with the station. He has
been the producer and host for all ten
years of Vancouver Extract, a music show
which was one of the station's first
offerings when they went on the air in
April 1975. Vancouver Extract is doing a
special 10th Anniversary Broadcast on
Friday, May 10 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm—tune
in at 102.7 FM or 104.9 cable.

Graduation is Saturday

Don't forget that Cap's Sixteenth Annual Graduation Ceremony will be taking place this
Saturday, May 11 at 3 pm. Photographers from the National School Services will be on
campus to take both group and individual shots. For details contact Marc Rovner, 349.