August 16/96

Good with Figures and Words

Essay Winner Off to Ireland

250-word essay entitled, “Why I
should win a trip to Ireland,” put
Iris Cunningham, staff payroll clerk,
on a plane for that country on July 24.

While there, Iris plans to study Irish
at the Gleann Cholm Cille Scoil in
Donegal, Eire. But she has an even
more important date to keep.

“My mother died in Vancouver in
March ’95,” Iris says. “Her wish was to
be buried in Ireland with her parents. I
had her remains cremated and carried
them to Ireland in August of that year. I
searched for my grandparents’ grave
for five weeks, but I could not locate
iti”

One week after returning home, Iris
received a telephone call from her aunt
in Ireland. Her cousin, who had been in
Spain while she was there, had returned
home and knew where the grave was.
Unable to afford the return airfare for at
least three years, Iris entered the first
Canadian Aer Lingus Living Tradition
Scholarship Essay contest with only

Iris Cunningham

one day to make the deadline. On
December 27, she received a call from
the Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann Regional
Board of Canada, sponsors of the contest,
informing her that she was the winner.
“When I was a small child,” Iris says,
“T remember saying to my mother, “When
everyone else is bigger and stronger than
I am, how can I win?’ and my mother
replied, ‘When you have God on your
side, how can you lose?’ For that divine
comment and for what I consider divine
intervention on my behalf, I will be

eternally grateful.”

You’re Invited...

Join author Marlene LeGates, instructor with Capilano College’s History,
Social Sciences department, at two events to launch her new book: Making
Waves: A History of Feminism in Western Society.

Book Launch and Reception
September 12, 1 to 2 p.m.
Women’s Centre
Capilano College
Library building, room 137

Meet the author and have your copy signed. Coffee and dessert will be served.

Reading and Discussion
September 18, 7:30 p.m.
North Shore Women’s Centre
3093 Lonsdale Avenue
North Vancouver
984-6009

Wine and cheese reception to follow.

For more information, please call 986-1911, local 2643

Three New Faces on
Capilano College —

Foundation Board

he Capilano College Foundation _

- introduced at its June annual
general meeting three new members of
the 1996/97 Board of Directors.

Gregory D. Aasen, chief operating
officer of PMC-Sierra, Inc.; Stan
Feingold, creative director of The
Eyes Multimedia Inc.; and, Claude
LeBlanc, vice-president, Community .
Banking, Bank of Montreal, join the
Board for a two-year term, which can
be renewed to a maximum os Six -
consecutive: years. -

W. Gordon Lancaster. senior vice-
president and chief financial officer of
the Vancouver International Airport _
Authority, i is the incumbent presid t
of the Foundation. Phillip jJ.Armer, _
former senior vice-president of the
Bank of Nova Scotia, B.C. an | Yukon .

Region, also returns as the Foundation .

Board’s vice-president. 8
“This year’s additions to the
Foundation’ ’s Board 0 of Directors
mirror, in part, the changing world that
Capilano College students face in
today’s job market,” ’ Lancaster says.
“Our three new Board members join _
us from business communities that __
reflect the growing and fast-paced
worlds of information, technology, and.
financial services. [thank themin _
advance for their investment in their
communities and their commitment to
supporting Capilano College.”
Foundation directors are
collectively responsible for soliciting,
receiving and managing donations for
Capilano College. They develop
programs and activities to increase
fundraising, volunteer involvement
and financial support.