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CITY CENTRE

Update From
the Principal
Joan Horsley

Acting Principall

in taking the first run at the 1992/93 budget. So if you
see them looking worn out, haggard and harassed,

please give them a warm smile to keep them going.
would like to tell you first of all, how privileged I

feel to be the Acting Principal of City Centre and King

Vice-Principal Admin. & Student Services

Edward Campuses. For the nine months that I shall be
with you let me assure you that I will do my utmost to
represent your interests. Although I have been at my
new post for less that a month I am beginning to feel at
home!

John Vandenakker has agreed to add administrative
services to his portfolio and as of now he is the VicePrincipal of Administrative and Student Services for

I regret that I have not yet found the time to meet very
many of you, but in the weeks to come I hope to do a
lot more walking about and invite you to visit me in
my office with your ideas and concerns. Meanwhile,
here is a short commentary on what has been going on
recently.

Vice-Principal of Instruction
Jindra Repa, who has been the Acting Vice-Principal,
Instruction for the last six months has left City Centre/
King Edward Campus to return to International Educa¬
tion on April 1. Many thanks Jindra for all your work.
We have enjoyed having you with us. We shall not be
replacing the positions of Vice-Principal of Instruction
at either City Centre and King Edward Campus during
this interim period and the Division chairs will there¬
fore be reporting directly to me.

Budget 1992/1993
The Department Heads, Division Chairs, Brant
Wasney, and John Vandenakker are busily engaged

both campuses.

In-Party Discussions
The Elton Report will not be issued until the 1992/
1993 Budget has been formally approved, but the
principals will be reconvening later this month.

Drafting Program Advisory Committee
With the Division Chair and Program Faculty, I met
with the above Advisory Committee. Again, a very
enthusiastic and concerned committee.

Open House
Everyone who attended Open House must agree with
me when I say that it was a most professional and
exciting event. Congratulations to all faculty, staff and
students who so enthusiastically promoted City Centre.
And a special vote of thanks to the committee respon¬
sible for organizing Open House, 1992.

Joan Horsley,

Acting Principal
City Centre & King Edward Campuses

Stephanie Jewell, Editor (443-8317)

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City Centre fs Heart
Beats Strong!

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City Centre Day
Feb.14.1992

Thanks to everyone who participated in the City Centre
Day Activities. YOU made it a Success! It was a day
for learning, relaxing, socializing, lau; ";b<T, eating,

drinking, meeting new people and just plain ENJOY¬
ING! What a great feeling it gave us to hear many
people say, "Thank you...I really enjoyed my day."

(Why are these people having such a good time?^

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Watch for City Centre Day next year when it will be on
February 11,1993.
Your City Centre Day Committee

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people...
Age & Treachery Will
Overcome Youth & Skill

Happy Belated & Happy Birthday
LeahSproston Admissions
Gail Cryer Food Service Careers
Muriel Wittal Nursing
Kamal Bachana Food Service Support
Mary Parrish Counselling

Onward & Upward
Appointments at

City Centre
Congratulations to Settimio Sicoli, who has been
appointed Assistant Department Head, Culinary Arts
Department effective April 01,1992. Mr. Sicoli has
been with the Culinary Arts Department since 1987. He
has instructed in all levels of the program and has been
involved with the ESL/Core & Short Order Program
since its inception. Mr. Sicoli will take over duties from
Mr. Gabriel Ferron, who has elected to take a one-year
Leave of Excellence. Our best wishes and thanks to Mr.
Ferron for all of this hard work, diligence and service to
the Culinary Arts Department and to the Tourism and
Hospitality Centre.

More New Faces in

Hospitality & A dmininstration
The Tourism & Hospitality Centre welcomes to its
faculty Mr. Bob Feist, who will be instructing the skills
component for the latest stream of ESL/Core and Short
Order cooking combined Skills Program. Bob is newlyarrived at Tourism & Hospitality. Bob comes to us
from his position as sous-chef at the Pan Pacific Hotel.
Welcome also to Ms. Zeporah Richards, who is our
newest ESL instructor. Ms. Richards, who comes to us

from KEC, taught an introductory month of English
Language instruction for the ESL Food Services Assis¬
tant and is currently teaching ESL Baking Assistant.

Peripatetic People
(They move around a lot)
Well, last month we reported that Chris Stephens, the
former Word Processing Supervisor for City Centre and
deserted us for a position at Central Administration.
Well, I guess it wasn't far away enough! She has
accepted a new position with Kwantlen College as of the
end of April. Since Chris lives in Langley she not only
is leaving behind all our sparkling personalities but a
grinding 2 hr daily commute! Best of luck in the new
job, Chris, we'll miss you!
A smiling face will be missing from the ranks of the
Admissions Department as of April 16,1992. Joanne
Granger will be leaving to have a baby. Congratula¬
tions to Joanne and her family.
There is new voice saying hello when you call the main
office of Public Relations and Development at 8717168. His name is Dale Rasmussen and he has just
been appointed Departmental Secretary II in Public
Relations and Development. Welcome to VCC Dale!

Thank-you! Thank-you! Thank-you!
From George & Christine Clark:
"Please accept this note of thanks for all of the con¬
siderations that were shown to us during my recent
illness, the flowers, fruit baskets, cards and prayers
and the many good wishes were much appreciated.
/ am now on the road to a full recovery after a
couple of setbacks that required my return to the
hospital twice since we returned to Nelson. At
present things are going well and a full recovery is
expected in a few months. Thanks"

Awards Ceremony
The next awards ceremony to honour students (and
donors) who have been awarded Scholarships, will take
place in Room 240 around noon or in early afternoon.
Faculty and staff whose schedules permit them to attend
are encouraged to do so. Details as to exact times will
follow.

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Blood Donor Clinic
Teeth for Life.

On April 8th VCC-City Centre
folks showed they cared.
Over 78 people gave blood!
Thanks from the Canadian Red
Cross Society!

Calendar of Events

April is Dental Health Month

April/92-August/92
April 16 CC-Coffee Club, J.J.'s 9:30-10:30 a.m.

April 17
April 18

April 20

Good Friday - College Closed
College Closed
Easter
Easter Monday - College Closed
Dental Hygiene Table Clinics
Orientation Lunch for new employees

April 21
April 22
May 6
May 15
May 18
May 22

Victoria Day - College Closed
Financial Aid Awards Ceremony

June 11

VCC-Social Club

CC-Social Club Pub Nite

Inter-Campus Family Bar-b-que

June 26

Graduation Ceremonies
Enterprise Hall Expo Site
Canada Day - College Closed

July 1
July (TBA) CC-Social Club Pitch & Putt Golf
Aug. 3 B.C. Day - College Closed
Aug.(TBA) CC-Social Club Canadians Baseball

Graduation
Further to our last Graduation Com¬
mittee Meeting, I am happy to let
you know that we have bet to
obtain the Enterprise Hall on Hiday,
June 26,1992 for our next graduation ceremony. There¬
fore, the ceremonies will now be held inside on Friday
and not outside on Thursday. Please inform your
department heads in order that they may notify their

Dental Hygiene Wants YOU!
The Dental Hygiene Department and the second year
Dental Hygiene students would like to cordially invite
the dental community to visit their Dental Hygiene
Table Clinics on Wednesday, April 22,1992 6:00-8:00
p.m. VCC-City Centre Main Mall.

Open House Smashing Success!
VCC-City Centre Campus put on its best face and
wowed em* on Thursday, March 26th. There was
something for everyone, from a hot air balloon to draw
in the crowd to an eye-catching rogues gallery of
fantastic shots of the people who are City Centre. The
organization was superb from the hands on displays in
each department to the strikingly attractive banners and
signage.

One big hit among the many was the design your own
letterhead in the Computer Graphics department. This
incorporated a scanned photo of the owner of the
letterhead and that was only one of many excellent
displays - far too numerous to mention. You had to be

there! Congratulations to the hard working organizing
committee! What a fantastic job!
If you missed the day, you can still catch some of the
great spirit in the wall montage still up next to Men's
Hairdressing.

students. Jane Dyton

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Food Service Support
Looks After Mother Earth
April Follows the "Nutrition Month" with another
important environmental theme and features Earth Day
on the 22nd. Last month we thought about our health,
this month we think about the Earth's health. There will
be a "No Purchase Necessary" draw held in the cafeteria
with a first and second prize of a shrub for the lucky

and the hit of the Coffee - Grant Gibson's Surpize Bars!
Not only were these goodies diet busting but each was
accompanied by a copy of the recipe, you had to attend
to get one. Of course this includes all but the Surprise
Bars, the recipe for which is featured below.

entrant to plant as a token towards "Earth Day".

The Coffee Club Hosts For April, 1992
Food Service Careers - Easter Bonnet Fete

The middle of April we host

April 16, 1992- Thursday, 9:30-10:30

Easter and we will offer a
selection of Easter Goodies for
sale in the Bake Shop at a very
reasonable price. If what you would like from the
selection is not available let the cashier know and we
will do our best to get the item in before the Easter

The Food Service Careers department
cordially invites you to join them at their
Easter Bonnet Fete, on Thursday, April
16,1992 in JJ.'s Lounge from 9:30 a.ni.
to 10:30 a.m. Easter Bonnets are op¬

Week-end.

Once again we invite you all to bring forward any
suggestions you have that will assist us in providing you
with the food service you all deserve from the cafeteria.
Thank you for the beverage suggestions already received
and in the near fiiture we look forward to modifying the
range of products offered. John Gillespie

tional! Watch the campus mail for their
flyers. If you'd like to reserve a date for
your instructional area and a copy of the
rules contact David Wiebe at 8459. Book now, the
calendar is rapidly filling up.

GRANT GIBSON^ StmpftrsE BAM
Ingr^Oients:
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Coffee Club goes
Instructional!

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From the Leprechauns on the posters to the shamrocks
on the personalized name tags Printing Production set
new standards with their version of the City Centre
Coffee Club on Tuesday, March 17. The instructional
side of Gty Centre has upped the ante just a tad! The
turnout was impressive, word having got out about

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There was an mouth-watering array of homebaked goods
which included:
Curt & Marny Gislason's Exceptional Poppy Seed Cake
Brian P inker ton's Beautiful Chocolate Chip Cookies

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2S0ml Chocoim Chips
300mi flakes of coconut
2$0mi Nm (mlmts, pecans, almwts)

Preheat oven tc 350 degrees ifusing ametal pan or 325
ifusmg a glass pan. Melt the butter m a 9" x H"

John Basanni's Fabulous Italian Amaretto Cookies.

Bill Lacey's Marvellous Monster Cookies

butter

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the least satisfactory as it does not give students a
chance to see the library.
2. Library Tour:
This takes 20-30 munutes. Students are walked
around the library, shown areas pertaining to their
course, and given information on borrowing privileges
and other services available to them. This is useful for
students who will be on campus for a short period of
time only and will not be required to research essay
topics or use periodical material.
3. Library Tour & Lab:
This takes 1 hour. In addition to being shown the
areas pertaining to their course and given information
on borrowing materials and other services available to
them, students are shown how to use the computer
catalogue, the periodical indices and/or CD-ROM
databases. They complete a hands-on tailor-made lab,
most of which can be finished within the hour. This
tour and lab is most useful for students who will be
attending school for some time and will be required to

BEAT CANCER
Look for the donation boxes at the
Switchboard or the Bookstore. Show
your support and donate generously here or at
home when the neighbourhood canvasser comes to
your door. Each year Hundreds of British Colum¬
bines give generously to door-to-door volunteers

and display daffodils in support of the Canadian
Cancer Society. Invest in life!

VCC Women's Series
These events are for ALL women employees of VCC:
staff, faculty, VMREU, VCCFA, LFA and administra¬
tion - to meet each other; exchange ideas and discuss
areas of common interest.

"Women & Body Image" with Suzanne Bell

Wednesday, April 15,1992
7:00 a.m. King Edward Campus

research essay topics.

Library

Please come and see us or phone us if you are not sure
which kind of tour you want: Phyllis Butler loc 8346;
Eva Sharell loc 8349. Please give us some lead time
when you are booking labs so that we can make the

Saturday Openings
The Library is open on Saturdays from 12 noon to 4:00
p.m. from September to May. Therefore our last

instruction relevant to your students.

Saturday will be May 30,1992, and we will reopen on
Saturday, September 12,1992.

Does the Library Have a Deal For You!
The Library has two superannuated 12-pitch IBM
Selectrics (8.5" line) to give away; the cost for each or
both is a donation to any charity supported by VCC.
Please contact Marnie at local 8345.

Tax Relief When You Need It Most
Do you need help filling out your tax return? The
Library now has a video produced by Revenue Canada
called "Stepping Through Your Tax Return". This is
available in English or French to students and staff on an
overnight loan basis.
Library Tours/Orientations
There are three levels of library tours/orientations that

Hidden Agendas

you can arrange for your classes. Please choose the

one most appropriate for your needs.
1. General Orientation:
A quick 10 minute overview given in conjunction with
the orientations to counselling, financial aid, health,
during the students' first week in school. We find this

Volume 3, Issue 2

New Books

Business and Society
Concepts in Information Processing
Food-Mood Connection
Get Smart! Make Your Money Count in the 1990s
Great European Chefs
On Your Own: A Woman's Guide
Read for Your Life
Say It...Right
10% Solution: Your Key to Financial Success
Background: For Report - Long-Term Financial Viability of VCC

Beyond Feelings: a Guide to Critical Thinking 1

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New Books (Continued)

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New Videos

C-l & C-2 Zoning Study for the City of Vancouver
Communicating at Work
Created in Japan
Effective thinking for Uncommon Success

Education for the Real World

Going to Work
Mind's Eye

Native Learning/Teaching Styles

Enigma of Suicide
Fashion Cycle
Financial Post 100 Best Companies to Work for in Canada

Post-Operative Care
Power Interviewing
WordPerfect Tips and Tricks (ver. 5.1)
Nutrition for Wellness

Fodor's 92 Canada
How to Succeed at College
Learned Optimism

humour
In these trying times of constitutional debate and on going budgetary misery a recipe to make that family dinner go the extra
mile, put a smile on little faces and help us remember that as a famous and now extinct white hunter once said, "Don't worry,
they can kill us but they can't eat us!" Editor's note: The following recipe submitted by a colleague at B.C. Housing &
Management Commission whose nickname is "The Loadmaster" is not intended to encourage the destruction or consumption
of elephants. It's a joke!

Elephant Stew
1 large elephant
1 ton of salt
1 ton of pepper
1000 pounds of potatoes
2000 pounds of carrots

4000 sprigs of parsley
Cut elephant into little pieces. This will take about two
months. Cut veggies into cubes, another two months. Place

the meat in a giant pan and cover with 1000 gallons of gravy.
Simmer for 4 weeks. Shovel in the salt and pepper to taste.
When the meat is tender add veggies (a steam shovel would
be handy here). Simmer for another month. Serves about
3800 people, with no calories at all and keeps well in the
freezer. Today's tip: Don't give the elephant bones to the
dog because they are far to large for him to bury.

Experience the raw'Gut-Wrench'ing Drajvl*

Of Human Conflict Through Accounting
A note of encouragement to all
our accounting personnel who
are putting in gruelling hours of
number crunching to find a way
to balance the 1992/93 budget.

Why they should be so picked
upon when governments can't

or won't do the same thing is
beyond us! Keep on slogging,
the following cartoon is for
you!*
Editor's Note: While the figure
depicted in this cartoon is clearly
masculine this in no way is meant to
imply that all accounting personnel
are of that gender!

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Student Speak

Classified
FOR RENT:Basement Suite
15th & Rupert Streets. 1
Bedroom + Den - Shower Only Small Kitchen - Large Backyard

University students have always had
their own language. A few examples
from a list compiled by students at
the University of California in L.A.:

FOR SALE:
1992 BAYLINER 19' CLASSIC
BOWRIDER with Galvanized

* She's been fake-baking. She's

Escort Trailer almost new less
- Available April 1,1992 - $525/ than 50 hours.
Specs:Centreline length 18'8"
month Contact Steve @879Beam 7'6"
5249.

Fuel Cap. 2000 gals
Length on Trailer 23'
Width on Trailer 8*

Wanted:
A used guitar in wonderful
condition. Needed for young
teen who takes lessons. Please

Buyers only) Contact Allan,

call local 7368 or 736-3147.

local 8446

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been going to a tanning salon
* A party hat. A condom; also
known as a life jacket
* Beer goggles. Blurry vision re¬
sulting from too many drinks, which
makes everyone of the opposite sex

Price:$14I900.00 (Serious

look appealing.
* To go ballistic. To go crazy.
* Let's rage. Lets party.

* Did you over serve? Did you drink too much?
* Hemorrhoid. A person who is painful to be with.
(Source: Pamti's Parade of Fad, Follies, and Manias)
Thanks to David Wiebe

Centricity
Deadline:
Apr. 21
Issue:
Apr. 27

college.

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Thank You!

In Me mo nam
Betsy McDonald - our Betsy - quietly passed away at
Peace Arch Hospital late Saturday afternoon, March

I have been enriched and supported by the many lovely
cards, letters and flowers from friends at KEC and City
Centre. / value and appreciate the caring and want to
thank all of you very much.

Betsy McDonald (posthumously)

21. Her contributions to education and her achieve¬
ments were many. We will long remember her as:

* Founder and instructor of the former program
Employment Orientation for Women at KEC
* Past President of the Faculty Association
* Past Member of the college Board of VCC
* Director of Pacific Association-Continuing

The ACCC Conference 1992
May 24-26th

Education (PACE)
* Chairperson of the Vancouver School Board and of
the Open Learning Institute in the '60's
* & as Betsy, a wonderful, feisty human being fiill of
compassion for others.

Montreal
It is the custom to select one representative to attend the
conference. The College pays the registration fee and
one-half of the return economy air fare for one VMREU
support staff representative. The lucky ^"nteer will be

There was a memorial service at the Unitarian
Church of Vancouver on March 27,1992. In lieu of

required to make their own arrangements for travel and
accomodations. Please contact Wynn Keenan (871-

flowers, donations can be sent to P.A.C.E. for the
Betsy McDonald Bursary. The address for P.A.C.E.

8408) as soon as possible if you would like to submit
your name for consideration.

is 6409 McCleery Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6N 1G5

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