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Photo by Ken Barbour

Studio Art students taking
advanced ceramics at Capilano
College are holding a spring
pottery sale from 10 a.m. to

5 p.m. on Friday, April 27,
Saturday, April 28 and Sunday,
April 29 in the Maple building's

At Capilano College our mission is to enable student success.

Congratulations to the Capilano College Blues women’s volleyball team for capturing a

silver medal in the national championships!

_The Blues are anything but

The Capilano College Blues
Athletics’ teams have been busy
this season winning multiple
awards and hosting a national
event. In addition, Capilano College
once again topped the British
Columbia Colleges’ Athletic
Association’s list with the most
awards in the B.C. conference.

In early March, Capilano College
was host to the 2007 Canadian

Colleges’ Athletics Association’s
Women’s National Volleyball

Championship. In a tournament
filled with electrifying matches, the
Blues landed a spot in the finals
and claimed a silver medal after
falling to Grant MacEwan College,
the first western college to win a
gold medal in 29 years. As a matter
of fact, all three medal winners
were from the West: MacEwan
College Griffins from Edmonton,
Capilano College Blues from North
Vancouver, and taking bronze,
Malaspina University-College

First all-College alumni event a success

Capilano College president, Dr. Greg Lee,
and 1972 College grad Larry Dea.

Jim and Anne Easton swap memories with
Capilano College alumni relations officer,
Janis Connolly (far right). Photos courtesy
of Paul McGrath at the North Shore News.

More than 300 alumni and friends of
the College rekindled acquaintances
with former classmates and faculty
members on March 14 at a musical
theatre event coordinated by the
Office of Development and Alumni
Relations.

The event was the very first
College-wide alumni function and
was also part of a broader alumni
relations strategy to encourage
graduates to reconnect with the
institution.

Alumni were invited to a reception
prior to a dress rehearsal of The
Wiz, performed by Capilano College

Jennifer Dickson has been
named the BCCAA Athlete of
the Year Across All Sports.

Mariners from Nanaimo. The
tournament’s Most Valuable Player
Award went to the Blues’ Jennifer
Dickson. Jennifer was also named
the CCAA Player of the Year and the
BCCAA Player of the Year. More
recently, Jennifer was selected as
the BCCAA Athlete of the Year Across
All Sports. On the men’s side, Blue's
badminton player, Kiran Bogavelli,
was named CCAA Player of the Year
and BCCAA Player of the Year.

Theatre Arts students. The foyer
outside the Performing Arts Theatre
buzzed with people reminiscing with
colleagues and former instructors
about their time at the College.

Guests streamed out of the theatre
post performance with words of
praise for the cast and crew. It was
an amazing evening of firsts and
the beginning of a vibrant alumni
relations program for the College.

E-mail alumni relation officer,
Janis Connolly, at jconnoll@
capcollege.bc.ca with event ideas
or with names of alumni who would
like to reconnect with the College.

pottery studio. Potters with a
passion for creating have
produced a vanety of hand-made
vessels using special high-fire
reduction and salt-fring kilns,
which give the pots unique
glazes. Some beautiful majolica
and raku works will also be
available. Everyone is invited to
this sale of unique and lasting
pieces for the home and garden.

Capilano College English
instructor, Dr. Aurelea Mahood,
has a new publication out calle
Modernist Literature: An
Introduction (Edinburgh
University Press, 2007). Co-
authored with Mary Ann Gillies,
an English instructor at Simon
Fraser University, this engaging
work provides a comprehensive
and critical assessment of British
literature from the beginning of
the 20°" century up to the
Second World War.

Another Capilano College English
instructor, Ryan Knighton, has
had his most recent publication,
Cockeyed (Penguin Group,
Canada) shortlisted for the
Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal
Tor Humour. Ryan is one of five
finalists.

Or. Aurelea Mahood _

Ryan Knighton