Volume 2, Issue 1, 1996/1997
Table of Contents

Edith Margaret Punt, a graduate of the Cartography: Digital Mapping program at Nova Scotia's College of Geographic Sciences, has won the prestigious National Geographic Society Award in Cartography for 1996. Competing against the students from the best universities and colleges in North America, Ms. Punt is one of the few Canadian students ever to be selected for the honour.

Jean Madill, Regional College Registrar at Grande Prairie Regional College, will be honoured by the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) in October 1996. An international association, NACADA will be honouring Ms. Madill as the first Canadian to serve on its Executive.

Dr. René Gadacz, of Northern Lights College's Dawson Creek campus, has recently rewritten a series of 49 articles to be published in the 1997 edition of The Canadian Encyclopedia. He was also commissioned to write an additional 23 new articles for the venture which will released on CD-ROM in the fall. Topics for the articles are Canadian archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, topics of Native studies, Native-White relations, and biographies of eminent Canadian anthropologists both living and deceased.

Erin Johnson, a mezzo soprano who was studying at Mount Royal College's Conservatory of Music and Speech, was chosen to receive a four-year scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London, England. The 20-year old Johnson has been involved in MRC Conservatory programs since she enrolled in the choral program at the age of five.

Humber College's Klaus Theyer was recently elected President of The Escoffier Society, an association of professional chefs and cooks dedicated to culinary excellence. A professor in the College's School of Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism since 1981, Mr. Theyer was selected Chef of the Year by the Society in 1990. He will serve as President for two years.

SAIT Alumnus Jeff August has received Emmy recognition for his contribution to the CBS Technical Team Remote at the 1994 Winter Olympic Games at Lillehammer. Mr. August, who works at Spruce Meadows, was also part of the NBC team covering this summer's Atlanta Olympics.

Paul Gilbert, a long-time instructor in part-time photography courses at Georgian College, has launched a new book entitled Wild Colours: Canada's Rocky Mountain Wildflowers. Mr. Gilbert is a nationally renowned photographer who has published several other books of his nature photographs.