Making Waves: A History of Feminism
in Western Society, by Marlene LeGates,
has just been published by Copp Clark. A
few copies are available in the bookstore
for $30. The book is a survey of feminism
in both North America and Europe from
the early Christians to the 1970s.

Patty and Robert McKee had their
baby order filled on Sunday, April 14.
Arriving “special delivery” was
daughter Jessica Sarah McKee, 7 Ibs.
6 oz. Cost centre to be determined.

Mathematics instructor, Rick
Brewster, was recently awarded an
NSERC grant of $11,000 per year for
four years. This grant will enable
Rick, who holds an adjunct
professorship at SFU, to continue his
research in the area of the
computational complexity of
combinatorial problems.

Optimal exam scheduling is an
example of a combinatorial problem.
The total number of combinations of
schedules is so enormous that an
exhaustive search (even by a high
speed computer)
for the optimal
schedule is
impossible. Some

Olga Kempo, an instructor in
Humanities, just received a B.C. Asia
Pacific College Scholars’ Award. She will
be teaching ESL, French, and Women’s
Studies at the Foreign Language Centre for
Economics, National Economics
University, Hanoi, Vietnam, from April 1
to June 30.

Beverley Reid, Media Resources and
Communications instructor, has received a
$10,000 Canada Heritage Award for her

Lana Robinson

Criane College has a
new director of

Resource Development.
Lana Robinson joined the

College Relations combinatorial
department on Tuesday, problems contain
mathematical

April 9, replacing Lynn
Jest, who is acting director
of Contract Services and
Extension Division. Born
in Ontario, Lana moved to
British Columbia two and one half
years ago and joins her daughter,
Kristen, who lives in Whistler. The
former senior consultant with Navion, a
national fundraising company, has also
had careers in teaching, journalism and
public relations.

structure that can
be exploited in
order to realize a
fast algorithm for
solving the problem while others, such
as exam scheduling, seem to lack such
structure. Determining to which of
these two classes a particular
combinatorial problem belongs is
called determining the computational
complexity of the problem.

new documentary, “She Makes Mountain
Calls.” The film tells the story of Dr. Joan
Ford, a New Westminster physician who
has worked in co-operation with Sir
Edmund Hillary to bring health care to the
Sherpas of Nepal. “She Makes Mountain
Calls” is slated for broadcast in the fall on
VISION-TYV, the Knowledge Network, and

On Friday, March 29, David Jones, | the Women’s Television Network.

a longtime Capilano College
counsellor, successfully defended his
dissertation and received a Ph.D. from
Simon Fraser University’s Faculty of
Education.

The title of his thesis was Cognitive
Development and its Relationship to
Expectations and Preferences for
Counselling — a Test of Two Models.
Although Dave is already a registered
psychologist, we can now call him Dr.
Dave.

There should be quite a family
celebration in the Jones’ household as
his daughter, Nina, is graduating this

Printmaking instructor, Wayne
Eastcott, has been granted the statute as a
specially invited artist at the 4th Biennial
of Graphic Art Beograd ’96. The exhibit
will be held from November 23 to
December 23, 1996 in Beograd,
Yugoslavia. The receipt of the invitation to
this major international art exhibition
means that Wayne’s work will be accepted
without jury selection.

After three and one half years as
College registrar, Dianna Larsen has
submitted her resignation effective June 7.

spring with a Bachelor degree from
Simon Fraser University!

She is leaving to assume management
responsibilities with her family business.

Rick Brewster

@nformer