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Wednesday, December 18, 1996
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A day for Christmas parties
"We're planning on having an open house (coffee and Christmas cookies)
here at the credit union," writes the organization's manager, Peter
Robson. And everybody's welcome. Where? General Services Complex
room 116. When? Today, "from 11 a.m. 'til say mid-afternoon."
The event might provide a chance not just to get outside a couple of
cookies, but to find out what a
credit union is and whether the
Faculty and Staff (Waterloo) Credit Union Ltd., the official name of the
UW organization, might be of help to you.
There are other parties today too -- everything from an open house at
the distance education office, to which people from departments across
campus have been invited, to a University Club lunch for the clients of
the mature student services office.
Renison principal will stay
Gail Cuthbert Brandt, principal of
Renison College
since 1992, is to stay in office into the new millennium. Cuthbert
Brandt's appointment for a second five-year term was announced by the
college yesterday. Said a statement in the name of Michael Carty, chair
of the Renison board of governors: "Her reappointment was
overwhelmingly endorsed by the constituencies of the Renison family and
by the University community." The new five-year term begins July 1, 1997.
About this "Acrobat" thing
Web users trying to take a look at (for example) the report of the
"Smith panel" on Ontario universities, released earlier this week, will
have discovered that they can't read it without a piece of software
called Adobe Acrobat Reader. Other agencies besides the education ministry
also use the Acrobat software to guarantee that their documents will
be delivered across the Web in the pretty format they want.
If you don't have Acrobat on your machine, you can get it by
downloading it
from UW's PC Depot or Mac Depot,
whichever suits your computer.
Carol Vogt, of UW's
information systems and technology crew, has created an information page at
http://www.dcs.uwaterloo.ca/ec/acrobat/acrobat.htm that should help people do that.
Local volunteers are wanted
Current requests from the Volunteer Action Centre:
- Campaign volunteers for Heart and Stroke Month in February --
some with "leadership and organizational skills" to "provide
motivational and administrative support to canvassers", others with
just three hours to go door-to-door requesting donations. Listing
052-455.
- People to help with children's crafts, face-painting, supervising
bonfires, security, setup and take-down for the Festival of the
Night on New Year's Eve in downtown Kitchener. Listing 101-1823.
- A board coordinator ("computer skills, excellent verbal and
written English and knowledge of board procedures") for "an agency
that delivers hot meals to seniors and shut-ins". Listing 042-1087.
For more information, the VAC can be reached at 742-8610. And there
are plenty of tasks going begging besides these; the VAC exists to
mask work that need doing with the skills and interests of people
who'd like to volunteer to make Kitchener-Waterloo a better place.
Thought you'd like to know
The ministry of education and training has a new deputy
minister, former teacher and school board administrator Veronica
Lacey. There's also a new organizational structure in the ministry;
a chart is available on its Web site (but only in Adobe Acrobat format, as noted
above). A key person in the organization, from the university point
of view, is David Trick, assistant deputy minister for the
postsecondary education division.
There will be schoolchildren on campus today for a couple of
performances in the Humanities Theatre, at 10:00 and 1:30. The show
is put on by
Touring Players Theatre
of Canada, and is based on
the adventures of Franklin the Turtle. (If you have kids, you know
all about Franklin; and if you don't, you don't want to.) Today's
gripping dramas are based on such episodes as "Franklin Is Messy"
and "Franklin Is Bossy".
CAR