THE INFORMER PAGE 7

JANUARY 28, 1992

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forthcoming, but only in part. Letters flew back and
forth between Victoria and the President’s office, and by
late October, official word had been received. The
expansion program was a go, and classes would start at
the beginning of the Spring term, January 1992.

The word now was “scramble!” Get the word out.
Get articles and ads into the local papers. Assemble a
community advisory group, have a community forum,
find out what people want, what people need, what
would be the best things to offer. Find out who at
Lynnmour is available to teach what. Give workshops
and assessments, juggle faculty timetables for the
Spring term, hire new staff, hire additional faculty,
write memos, have meetings, play telephone tag, order
furniture, equipment and supplies, move the black-
boards, move the Library, oops, sorry, meant to have
that done yesterday. Can you give us this course? No?
Okay, we'll offer that instead. Get the brochure out—
good grief! It’s Christmas already!! And we still don’t
have everything settled! We'll just have to go with what
we've got so far.

Somehow, though, it all came together. In just two
months, the Inlet Avenue location became the “North”
campus in Sechelt and the classroom building in the
Band complex became the “South” campus. Phase I,
information gathering and planning, began with a
community forum Oct. 30. Next came educational
assessments by the Achievement Resource Centre and
Career Assessment Workshops by the Counselling
Department. The selection of courses to be part of Phase
II was the most challenging task, resulting from a
highly collaborative effort.

In addition to the offerings set last spring (Art 120,
Paul Deggan; Geog. 108, Chas. Greenberg; and Political
Studies 104, Michelle Carr), Sunshine Coast students
can choose from English 100 with Bob Sherrin, Sociol-
ogy 100 with Gordon Bailey, Psychology 100 with Kim
Dawson, Anthropology 206 with Bob Muckle, and Ted
Bentley's video-based Calculus 100. Complementing
these offerings are two courses specifically designed for
the Sunshine Coast: Business Management 100, Se-
lected Topics in Business Management, which focuses
on items of interest to the local business community;
and ARC 105, which stresses strategies and skills for
success in College.

During the weeks of planning, everyone wondered if
the courses would fill. The students did come, and by
Sechelt standards, in droves! All the new courses are off
and running, and ABE has been swamped. A new word,
wait-list, exists in the Sechelt lexicon.

Faculty and staff at Sechelt are breathing a sigh of
relief. There is also a feeling of gratification. It seems
the efforts of a great many people have been justified,
and what the College is now providing is something the
Sunshine Coast community has been wanting for quite

People

After 11 years of service to the College, Gloria
Poole is leaving for a new life on Vancouver Island.
Gloria worked in Registration for several years, then
moved front and centre to the main switchboard. She
plans to continue her crafts (Gloria has done flower
arrangements for several College events) and will look
for a job. “My husband’s retiring, but I’m not. I’m not
ready for seniors’ card games yet.” Say goodbye to
Gloria at the farewell party on Wednesday, Jan. 29,
from 2:30 to 4:30 in A117.

Congratulations to opera singer Judith Forst
(married to our erstwhile English instructor Graham
Forst) for being named to the Order of Canada.

Stan Persky, philosophy instructor, has received a
highly prized Maclean Hunter journalism scholarship to
spend one month (June) at the Banff Centre for the Arts
working on an essay and attending lectures. Stan is one
of seven scholarship winners, who will receive transpor-
tation, meals and accommodation, as well as $3,000 for
the essay, which may be published afterward.

Robert Cornejo, a graduate of the Bachelor of
Music program, won first prize at the 1991 SOCAN
Composer’s Awards for his composition, “The Ark”. The
awards are sponsored by Canada’s Performing Rights
Society and the Society of Composers, Authors and
Music Publishers of Canada.

Congratulations to the first graduate of the Ethnic
and Cross Cultural Program, Sherri Sommers.
Although the two-year program officially began last
term, Sherri was awarded the certificate because she
had already completed many of the courses. The pro-
gram covers a variety of disciplines, studies the multic-
ultural nature of Canadian society and explores cross-
cultural communications. It can lead to a degree at one
of the provincial universities. SFU has recently devel-
oped a graduate program in the field.

some time. As one enthusiastic registrant remarked,

“It’s wonderful to be able to take all these courses. Now

I really am encouraged to work on a degree program.”

Could be we’ve hit upon an idea whose time has come.
— Julie Southerst