informer waxes nostalgic - digs up antiquated news from Cap’s past

Looking back through the mists of time to
those by-gone days when Capilano College
was sharing the facilities of West Van.
Secondary, we discover that the Informer
had a number of precursors. There was the
Facadnews (anyone have copies?), which was
followed, starting in January 1972, by
"What's Happening?", edited by Alan Smith.
According to our files in Information
Services, "What's Happening" continued to
the end of 1974 and was followed after a
considerable hiatus by the short-lived
"Hot Flashes", edited by Valerie Giles in
1976. At any rate, we have decided that
for the edification and amusement of our
readers, we will be publishing excerpts
from "What's Happening" of fourteen years
ago all semester. Enjoy.

14 Years Ago...
January 25, 1972

Alan Smith introduces the first issue of
"What's Happening?" which includes a plea
from Bill Schermbrucker for books for an
independent school. Among the items: "The
College Council is meeting on January 31
with the school boards of the three
constituént districts....to be discussed
will be future plans for developing more
permanent structures at Inter-River, for

the establishment of a campus at the North
Vancouver Secondary School site in 1973,
and for eventually developing a site on
the Cypress Bowl Road in West Vancouver."

January 31, 1972

"ENROLMENT: Final gross figures for this
term are now available as late registration
ended on Tuesday. We have 1187 gross total,
814 Academic and 373 Career. 716 of these
are part-time and 471 full-time students."

Also in this issue a welcome was extended
to new faculty who were teaching for the
first time at Cap. Among them: H. Clark-
1 section in Retail Fashions, W.G. Gibson
- 1 section in Biology 200, and K.A.
Kobylansky - 1 section in Music.

CAPILANO REVIEW

"Pierre Coupey, the editor of the new
College literary magazine, informs us that
the first issue should be ready 'by the
beginning of February'. The magazine is
apparently edited by College students and
faculty and includes many writings from
within the College. Mr. Coupey informs us
that also contributing to this edition are
such internationally known writers as
Phyllis Webb, Earle Birney, John Newlove,
George Bowering, and Andrei Voznesensky."

Falls adjudicates

Long time Music faculty member Linda Falls
has been asked to adjudicate the Music
Festival of Mount Royal College in

Calgary from January 28 to February 1.
Linda teaches in all three of our Music
programs.

WAC courses

Among the courses to be offered through
the Women's Access Centre this spring are
"Career Planning" and "Making Friends with
a Computer". The career planning course
will be held Mondays starting February 3
from 6:15 to 8:15 pm in room B135. There
is no fee, but a textbook is required. On
Thursday, Jan. 30 at 10 am the Computer
course starts. It runs Thursdays from 10
am to noon in B135 and there is no fee.
For more information call local 279.

Art Therapy workshop

The Vancouver Art Therapy Institute is
offering an Art Therapy Workshop led by
Dr. Martin Fischer of Toronto on Friday,
February 21, and instructor Terry Adler
highly recommends it to anyone interested.
Adler teaches part of the course work for
the Art Therapy Institute, specifically
Psychoanalytic Theory, Comparative
Psychotherapy, and Human Growth and
Development, and she helped found the
Institute. She said, "I can vouch for the
extraordinary ability of Dr. Fischer whom
I've known and worked with almost half my
life! The workshop will be a rare
opportunity to grow in understanding of
self and others in a fun, non-threatening
way." For more information call 926-9381
or talk to Terry.