x & & *& & FEBRUARY 23, 1981 * * & *& x News! There's plenty of it now, but we can always use more--éall our loc. or send it to Information Services. * o* & * VOLUME III, No.5 * * * * Announcing the new Chairman(person?) of the Board, Mrs. Hilda Rizun. Long-time Board member, Mrs. Rizun is a government appointee from Squamish. GOT * NEWS? Not only have we a new Board Chairman, but two new members, both government appoint- ees. Mrs. Marion Reeves from Sechelt is married with 3 children and is completing her final year in Education at U.B.C. She plans to start working towards a Master's degree in Educational Psychology. Mrs. Lynne Connel has taught elementary and secondary school and works as a teacher -librarian for the Vancouver School Board. She has 2 children. Dr. Eric Paetkau from Sechelt has left our Board, bringing the total membership to 12--6 govt. appointees and 6 school board representatives. aT Cex For all of you who haven't realized it yet DAN DOLPHIN, IRIS PIDDUCK, THE TRAINING FOR BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT, TWO DESKS, TWO CHAIRS, ONE TABLE AND ASSORTED PLANTS HAVE MOVED to the new Downtown Edu- cation Centre at 549 Howe Street, seventh floor. Their new phone number is 682-0301 which you will please note in your phone directory. Currently answering their for- mer locals 323 and 324 is the illustrious Information Services department. Dan, in- cidentally is reported to be as happy with his new computer as a five year old with a five pound Chocolate Easter egg. If you'd like to learn more about his new set-up, call him -- he should be delighted to show it off. By the way, don't get worried re Easter eggs--there's still 8 weeks to go. | «1 Ca Regarding last week's Editorial - comments are pouring in. We'll do a summary in the next edition of the Informer: meanwhile, thanks for the response. * Good luck! CALL bs 323 Dr. D. Chitty, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Zoology at UBC, will be on campus Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the Lounge to speak on ''Behavioral Regulation of Popula- tion Density in Various Mammals.'' Dr. Chitty has a reputation as an_ excellent speaker (he received the Master Teacher Award at UBC) and he is an extremely well- known ecologist. This lecture, by the way, is the second in the series of spring sem- inars sponsored by the Biology department. The third, and last, seminar will be March 26 with Dr. Philip Townsley, Head of the department of Food Science. 7p ca drudgery of proofreading Even the’ sheer the College Calendar is occasionally re- lieved. | discovered that not only do we offer a Wood Processing course through BOT but the English department has a course on "Poetry and Politics". 7S Caa Creativity in Curriculum Planning: Strate- gies for Maximizing Student Potential is a conference taking place February 27-28 at the Holiday Inn on West Broadway. Some of the subjects will be: Strategies for En- countering Stress and Burn-out in the Classroom with Sid Simon, PhD, The Gifted Potential in All Students with Barbara Clark, PhD, Humanizing the Classroom--Per- sonal Approaches to Learning with Arthur Combs PhD, and Brain-Mind Research Applied to Teaching and Learning with Beverly Galyean, PhD. For more information on this contact The Association of Wholistic Edu- cation, Mel Kaushansky, 734-2221. The cost is $65 both days, $35 one day, with stu- dent rates of $35 and $25.