Informer Page 4

April 27, 1988

FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP

Robert Sherrin (English) has
published two short stories and will
have an article, “Beyond the Lines”
in the next issue of Vanguard.

Gladys Hindmarch (English) has a
new novel out, The Watery Part of
the World, and an article in
Contemporary Literary Criticism.

Sharon Thesen (English) has
published three articles in West
Coast Review, Brick, and Ellipse.
She also been nominated for a
second time for the Governor
General’s Award for Poetry.

John Dixon (Philosophy), as
President of the B.C. Civil Liberties
Association, has presented at 10
symposia before audiences at all
three B.C. universities, and the
provincial government. He most
recently spoke at a conference on
Ethics, Law, and Regulation in
Novel Therapies (NTS) and HIV
Diseases. His work with the Assoc.
directly impinges on his academic
discipline, Political Philosophy.

Pierre Coupey (English) is
currently opening three painting
shows at local galleries — as painter,
and has recently been published in a
new anthology — as poet.

Bill Schermbrucker (English) wil!
soon be publishing a book of
historical fiction, Mimosa, as well as
a review in Event, and a memoir
piece for CBC (airing May 8 on Arts
National, 12:08 p.m. on CBC FM and
8 p.m. on the AM dial.)

Sherry McKay (Fine Art) is giving
a paper on “Domestic Architecture in
Vancouver, 1940-65” at the 1988
Conference of the Society for the
Study of Architecture in Canada.

Reid Gilbert (English) recently
completed adjudicating and revising
the Canadianization of a 400-page
manuscript for a popular writing
text for Holt, Rhinehart, Winston.
He has also been invited to present a
paper at the University of Western
Ontario in May.

Dave ra ll ey

Josephine Jungic (Fine Art) will
publish an article, “Joachimist
Prophecies in Sebastiano del
Piombo’s Borgherini Chapel and
Raphael’s Transfiguration” in the
Journal of the Warburg and
Courtauld Institutes of London
University. Professor Jungic is the
first Canadian scholar ever to be
published in this prestigious
journal. She has also, this spring,
accepted an invitation from Dr.
Marjorie Reeves of Oxford
University to contribute to a new
collection of critical essasys, “On
the Renaissance Papacy and the
significance of Prophecy in the
cultural ambience of Rome during
the first three decades of the
sixteenth century.”

Get Well Soon to Barry Cogswell,
(Studio Art) who recently suffered a
ruptured appendix, and to Carmen
Orton (Word Processing Centre)
recovering from an operation.

Welcome back to Adele Herbert
(Extension) who just returned from
two weeks in Japan visiting her
ESL-teaching daughter.

Joan Acosta (ESL) has won an
Honourable Mention for Innovation
in Teaching through the
Association of Canadian
Community Colleges. The award
will be presented at the ACCC
Annual General Meeting on June 1
in New Brunswick.

Sue Carter will be retiring from
the library at the end of April.

Tanya Cooke, technician in Clay
and Textile Arts, will be going to
France this summer to work with
Paul and Babette Deggan at their
Summer Centre for the Arts.

Marie Crowther (Financial Aid/
Registrar’s Office) has just been
accepted in a new job for the B.C.
College of Teachers at their
Vancouver office. She will be one of
two Evaluation Officers working
along with a Registrar. These three
will build eventually to a staff of 15,
so Marie has the added challenge of
helping to establish a new office.

Jaswinder Kelly, our cleaner from
“Convenience Building Maintenance”
(we contract out our cleaning now),
has just had a baby boy. Nine-pound
Sonny Kelly was born April 16.

Congratulations to Lesley Gillis
(Financial Aid) and Ken who will “tie
the knot” Saturday, May 28.

Board member Nancy Treiber has
been elected to the B.C. Chamber of
Commerce as Regional Director for
North Vancouver, West Vancouver,
Whistler, Squamish, and Pemberton.

Frank Reid (French) helped in
judging “Festival national d’art
oratoire” sponsored by Parents for
French Association. School children
from mixed backgrounds in French
offered short speeches on a subject of
their choice, and were awarded
points for topic, rhetoric, grammar,
and style. The results were very
high. Judges were drawn from a
wide background of community
members connected with French
language and culture.Parents -
interested in placing their children in
any of the programs, please contact a
member of the French Department.

Doug Jardine spoke on “Community
College Consortial approach to
International Education” at the
American Association of Community
and Junior Collegés convention in Las
Vegas April 23 -26. Besides speaking
for the College, Jardine, as their
Secretary, represented the Northwest
International Education Association.

Robert McKee (Central Stores) has
just returned from the Canadian
National Ringette Championships in
Winnipeg where he was coaching
three provincial girls’ teams.