December 15/00

PMCP faculty member, Roberta

Neault, recently received her
doctorate in Educational Psychology
from Simon Fraser University. The title
of her dissertation was Thriving in the
New Millennium: Career Management
Attitudes and Strategies. Through her
research of the link between career
management attitudes and strategies
(i.e., continuous learning, financial
management, flexibility, networking,
optimism, persistence, planning and
risk-taking) and career success and job
satisfaction, Roberta discovered that
optimism was the only significant
predictor of both career success and

PEOPLE

Roberta Neault

job satisfaction. Flexibility was shown to

be a significant predictor of career
success. Roberta’s research also suggests
that satisfied people don’t put as much
planning into their career management
behaviour as those who are dissatisfied.

Former office manager in the Registrar’s
Office, Cheryl Helm, is the College’s
new associate registrar. Cheryl, who has
a BA with an English major from the
University of British Columbia, brings
22 years of registrar’s office experience
to her new position. Congratulations
Cheryl!

Richard Band remembered

Coe board member, academic,
counselor, smart investor, collector
of trinkets, mentor, methodical and
principled, Richard Band was
remembered as all these things and so
much more at a celebration of his life
on November 9. A member of the
Capilano College Board of Governors
since 1996, Richard passed away on
November 5.

“People like Richard, who commit to
making a difference and poss
intellectual gifts, have many options
available to them,” said his eulogist, one
of Richard’s former students.
“Thankfully, Richard selected education
as the vehicle that he would use to add
value to many lives in his pursuit to
make a difference. And although I am
aware that most of us are here to pay
tribute for his role as an advocate of
education for others, it is necessary to

recall that Richard enjoyed his own
academic career as a student and as an
instructor.”

A graduate of the University of British
Columbia and of Simon Fraser
University, Richard received a bachelor’s
degree with honours and a master’s
degree in Anthropology. He was a
teaching assistant at both SFU and the
University of Santa Barbara in the late
1960s, a research associate and lecturer
at California’s Berkley University in the
early ’70s, and the director and associate
professor of American Indian Studies at
California State University in Long
Beach in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
Equipped with strong skills and his
desire to influence lives with the gift of
education, Richard joined the Squamish
Nation Education department in 1987 as
the post-secondary education career
counselor. He held this position until his

passing.

“Richard had acquired the rare ability
to judge people at face value regardless
of the kind of adversity we were
experiencing,” his eulogist continued.
“He encouraged us to work with what
we were given in life and ignore our
flaws and the fact that others may not
have previously discovered our true
value. And he encouraged us to acquire
and apply what we learn through
education with the hope that we would
add value to both our own lives and the
lives of others — and he did so with
great success.

“Richard, your family, friends, co-
workers and students will all miss you
terribly. You have shared much and you
have shared it with many. The
investments you have made in people
are consistent with your principles and
therefore will remain everlasting.”

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