New instructor in Music

The Music department has a new vocal
instructor as of this semester, but he
isn't new to Cap. Lars Kaario is a very
welcome re-addition to the department,
having graduated from the Bachelor of
Music program in 1976. Kaario went on to
complete his Bachelor of Music at UBC and
his Master of Music in Voice at the
University of Western Washington where he
sang the title role in Benjamin Britten's
Albert Herring, and Ferrando in Mozart's
Cosi fan Tutti. Kaario has performed as a
soloist with most of B.C.'s major choral
ensembles including the Vancouver Chamber
Choir, the Vancouver Cantata Singers, the
Vancouver Bach Choir, the New Westminster
Handel Society, the B.C. Choral Festival
Choir, the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra and
Chorus and the Prince George Symphony
Orchestra and Cantata Singers. He-has also
performed as'a soloist for the CBC, is
currently principal tenor with the
Vancouver Cantata Singers, holds the
position of Music Director at Chown
Memorial United Church, and is a private
voice teacher. Oh yes, and he is the
musical director for the Greater Vancouver
Operatic Society's production of My Fair
Lady. Somehow among all this he has found
time to teach at Capilano College, and we
welcome him back warmly.

Sechelt cont..

Elsewhere on the ‘Sechelt front', April
reports that things are going well

despite the aggravations of the coastal
ferry schedule. They are running a Job
Action program with the MHR instructed by
Carol McCandless, and other credit and non
credit courses. The ferry schedule means
that evening courses either have to be
scheduled terribly early, or that our
instructors have to stay overnight in the
area, but a "dedicated core of students"
has made it possible to keep things going.
Also dedicated to keeping things going is
April Struthers, who describes things at
the Sechelt campus as "“frenetically busy"
and "bursting at the seams", but says that
they are feeling "more and more an
important part of the community on the
Sunshine Coast."

Cap hosts Nationals

The members of the Totem College Athletic
Association (who are, if you're interested,
Capilano, VCC, Douglas, Fraser Valley,
Trinity Western, Cariboo, Malaspina,
Selkirk, BCIT, and Royal Roads Military
College) are hosting six national
championships in B.C. from March 19 to 22.
Of greatest interest to us will be the
Men's and Women's Volleyball which Cap is
hosting, and which will be held at SFU.
Sixteen teams, two from each province and
four from BC, will be competing in
Volleyball here—that's 240 athletes in

~ all. Elsewhere, VCC, BCIT and Fraser
Valley will be hosting Men's Basketball,
and Cariboo will be hosting both Women's
Basketball and Men's Hockey.

Incidentally, our Blues Women's teams are
making an impressive showing this year.
According to the Canadian College Athletic
Association National Rankings, our Women's
Basketball team is number five in Canada,
and so is the Women's Volleyball team.

Strings go to Expo

Students in the Extension department's
Suzuki Strings program have been accepted
as an amateur group to perform at Expo on

July 22 and another as yet unscheduled

date. A happy Joy Smith attributes much of
their success to the initiative of the
Suzuki Parents Group aided by a performance
video produced as an auditioning tool by
Edna Sakata in MPC. Congratulations to all
and best of luck with the big performance.

ice seats disappointing, show great

Joyce Fancher would like to assure those
people who bought tickets from her for the
Torvill and Dean performance and were
promised the "best section in the house"
that she was also dissatisfied and has
forwarded a letter to the Vancouver Ticket
Centre recording the complaint. There is a
copy of the letter in Information Services
and in Joyce's office, and to Cap staff
she forwards her apologies. (Ed Note: The
Informer has heard, however, that the ice
show itself was excellent, and much
enjoyed by those in attendance. )