Cap coordinates Japanese exchange

23 students and four supervisors from the Koto-Ku
District in Tokyo visited Squamish for a week as part
of a Canadian Cultural and Language Program
arranged by Capilano College. Louise Krohn was
the coordinator of the visit, which featured English
language classes, visits to local attractions such as
Whistler, Shannon Falls, Alice Lake and the B.C.
Museum of Mining, and socializing with counterparts
from Brackendale Secondary School. The Japanese
students were billeted with local families, and the
program wound up with a barbeque where the
families put together a salad buffet, and the
Japanese visitors donned traditional clothes and
performed songs and dances for their hosts.

It seems that everyone was impressed with this
event. Chairman of the Board, Hilda Rizun, was
delighted with the enthusiastic response of the
Squamish community, and the English language
monitors were impressed with the enthusiasm of the
Japanese students. The official tour leader, Mr.
Yamagucci, Principal of a high school in Koto-Ku,
was so impressed with the visit that he is
recommending to Koto-Ku City Hall that they send
two students rather than one from each high school
next year, and that they stay for two weeks.

All of the above are looking forward to a return visit
next summer.

Elizabeth Stockwell,
Food Service Worker
Student (second from

left) accepts her
diploma at the Sechelt
graduation ceremony
from an array of college
dignitaries—from left to
right President Doug
Jardine, Stockwell,
Food Service instructor
Margo Rawsthorne and
Associate Dean of
Careers Bev Harnett.
This summer's gradua-
tion was the last to be
held on the old Sechelt
campus—even as you
read, April and Dianne
are in the not yet
completed new Sechelt
campus building. More
on that later.

D ona

Cap hosts English immersion students

Capilano’s two annual English Language Immersion
programs went off without a hitch this summer. 49
students from Quebec were on campus from May 24
to July 4 and put in a great deal of hard work on their
English as well as playing tourist on the West Coast.
The 22 men and 27 women were from a variety of
faculties, with the bulk in Administration,
Engineering, Health Sciences and Medicine, and
Tourism.

On July 25, 34 students arrived from Capilano’s
sister college in Japan, Aichi Gakusen, for a three
week English program. They spent mornings
studying English and afternoons having a chance to
practise it while visiting local attractions such as the
suspension bridge and Grouse Mountain. They left
July 15.

Any aspiring poets out there?

The Arvon Foundation is holding its fourth
International Poetry Competition, with a first prize of
£5,000 and 15 other cash prizes. Entries are to be
judged by Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of Great
Britain and Seamus Heaney, and must be poems of
any length, previously unpublished, written in the
English language. The fee is $5 US per entry and
the closing date is November 30—for details ask for
a copy of the release from Public Relations.