update
February 22,1990

Pacific Rim mag humming along
Well over a hundred VCC students now

practise canoes on a soggy January Satur¬
day.
The camera clickers are guided by ex¬
cellent sketches produced by the illustra¬
tion and design crew, steered by Consult¬
ant Ron Woodward. Thanks to coopera¬

have a stake in this year's version of Pa¬

cific Rim Magazine. With help and urging
from many instructors, the publication's
writers, editors, photographers, designers,
sales reps, and illustrators are working
toward its successful production.
The content will be varied, ranging from
r- ""les of fascinating people with Pacific
i connections (a Shan nobleman now at
UBC, for one) to fact sheets about coun¬
tries important to B.C. economically and
culturally. These pages will help travell¬
ers, armchair or airborne, learn about the

tion from the City Centre Print Production
Department, Ron is now teaching mem¬
bers of this group the Pagemaker program
to help them in their work.
City Centre also has some researchers
from Terry Mills' Business and Transpor¬
tation course looking into delivery methods~the mag will go overseas to VCC's
International Education outposts, and to
other destinations. Our own mailing list is

part of the world they'll be visiting. Gath¬
ering this useful information are Marilyn
Ming's Library Tech students, who are at
the same time learning some essentials
about their future work.

Topics of other features include drift-net
fishing, dragon-boat racing, Chinese Fes¬
tivals, Thai kick-boxing, the concept of
"face'' and women's status in Japan to list
just a few. And a scoop is in the making:
a group of Ross Johnson's Political Sci¬
ence students from Langara who visited

also a City Centre project, with Terry

Kristle Emsley (left) of Langara's Art In
Merchanising Program and Jacqule Dreher,

Langara Photography, apply makeup to Studio
SB's Manami Hara for a Pacific Rim shot

polished under the supervision of Editor
Brian Campbell and Associate Editor Diane
Quinton.

Moore, one of Brock Elliott's Data Proc¬
essing students, working on a complex
program to make the addresses as useful as
possible.
So with some of its space already sold,
much of its content nearly ready, and most

of its distribution network in place (16,500
go out via The Financial Post), PRM # 2
is shaping up fairly well for its September

Thailand has generated a set of questions

And Director of Photography, Jacquie

appearance. If you know anyone in need

which, thanks to Peter Bailey, an expert on

Dreher, has had her crew out on a variety

that country, will be posed to the Thai

of shoots to illustrate the pieces. Their

of good publicity with a Pac Rim twist,
call us (324-5430); we've got just the right

Prime Minister.
That feature is not yet complete, but a
mass of material is in hand, and being

work is nearly finished, though some awaits
better weather-shots of real dragon boats,
for example, to supplement those taken of

medium.

By Tom Meikle
Publisher
Vancouver Community College

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Dr. McGregor fund

Letters...

Langara Campus invites donations to
endow a scholarship fund in the memory
of Dr. Malcolm Francis McGregor, who
passed away in November.

To the editor:

The scholarships will go to Langara
students in the field of classical studies. Dr
McGregor, who came to VCC in 1977,

helped establish the Classical Studies
Program at Langara.
Donations should be clearly marked "The
Malcolm McGregor Memorial Scholar¬
ship Fund" and may be sent via inter¬

office mail to:
Sheilah Grant
President
VCC Educational Foundation

A recent photo of eight "new faces"

at City Centre's Tourism and Hospitality
Centre (Jan. 30 Update) struck a note of
despair in my heart. Not one woman!
Not one person of colour!
Jo Evans
Langara
(Editor's note: A new female member of
the centre, Jackie Kinnersley, was

unavailable for the photo).

Notable Event
to be

a highlight
of season
One of the season's brightest galas will

be held on March 8th when the second
annual "NOTABLE EVENT" comes to
the New World Harbourside.
Special guests will be Lieutenant Gover¬
nor David Lam, Victoria Symphony Or¬
chestra Director and Notable Event
Honourary Chairman, Peter McCoppin,

and Deputy Mayor Phillip Owen. MC for
the evening will be Brian Brenn, CHQM
Lite's affable morning man.
There'll be glittering entertainment by

All welcome
to join

Ruth Nichol and Jeff Hyslop, who are
currently garnering rave reviews and being
held over again and again in their "Little
Show". Also making a guest appearance
will be VCC's jazz group, "Soundwave''.

campus
celebrations

The NOTABLE EVENT is a fund- raiser
with a wonderful cause: to provide schol¬
arships for the students in the music pro7
gram at KEC.

VCC's 25th Anniversary campus com¬
mittees have begun planning campus-based
activities, with the Langara committee doing
double duty with Langara's 20th anniver¬
sary also occurring in 1990-91.

Come out to the NOTABLE EVENT
and help support the talent that's being
developed through this unique program.

Tickets for NOTABLE EVENT are $100

The following is a list of those involved.
Please give them a call if you have any

per person, with proceeds to Scholarships

ideas-or if you wish to lend a hand.
Langara:

sounding success, and this year the VCC
Educational Foundation hopes to raise even
more money to help music students.

for Music. Last year's event was a re¬

Carol Harrison (chair), Ruth Bromley,

Part of the fund raising this year will

Raoul Grossman, Mike Holmwood, Greg
King, Norm Olenick, Susan Reynolds,

come from sales of raffle tickets for a
Yamaha Disklavier-the modem age pi¬
ano that combines super acoustic crafts¬
manship with advanced electronics. Raffle

Kathryn Shaw, Kay Lukes and Chuck
Poulsen.

City Centre:
Jerome Schatten (chair), Jackie Sandy,
Jackie Gelling, Lizz Lindsay, Sandra Jones

each, or 5 for $20. They are on sale at Park

and Barbara Cameron.

Royal and Lansdowne Shopping Centres

Continuing Education:
Waye Decle (chair), Brenda Pengelly,

until March 4th. Or get them at KEC.
For more information, call the Founda¬

Tickets for this $13,000 piano are just $5

Eve Katan, Gyda Chud, Joanne Bydal,

tion at 875-1131, Local 329, or Monika

Donald Oakes, Roger Schofer and Gayle

Forberger, Publicity Co-ordinator, 987-

Thody.

7377.
By Monika Forberger

KEC
Karen Kelly (chair), Malcolm Cant, Sheila
Singh, Anne McElroy, Sunita Gujral, Terry
Smith, Margaret Mani, Betty Nobel and
Doreen Chui Chai.

Gerson keeps gom' even when it's
snowin'...Langara's Martin Gerson didn't miss a
stride during the recent inclement weather,
skiing to work from his home near 22nd and

Oak