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UNICEF GREETING cards. are
synonymous with the holiday
season, and UNICEF volunteers
work hard to ensure a wide selec-
tion of cards, calendars and sta-
tionery is available.

For the first time in North Van-
couver, volunteers are staffing a
UNICEF greeting card booth in
the Lynn Valley Library, 1280 East
27th Street.

Coordinated by local resident
Charlotte Terry, volunteers staff
the booth Monday to Friday from
10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday
from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

49 ~ Wednesday, November 25, 1987 - North Shore News

ICEF cards

Van

Cards will be on sale until Dec. 19,

Canadian artists John Harvie of
Calgary and Madeleine Longo
Shileds of Toronto are among the
international artists whose works
have been chosen for this year's
card selection.

Proceeds from sales of cards
help immunize children against the
leading child-killing diseases:
measles, typhoid, diptheria,
whooping cough and tetanus. Sales
also support other UNICEF pro-
jects in the fields of nutrition,
health and education in 119 coun-
tries in the developing world.

UNICEF VOLUNTEER Nell Smith puts the finishing touches on a

UNICEF card display. For the first time in North: Vancouver, volun-

* Steers Wilk be ‘staffing a UNICEF reemee card. booth in the Lynn

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

New Sentinel
principal named

‘SALL KINDS of wonderful things are happening in educa-
tion,’”? comments Rick Mark, new principal of West Van-
couver’s largest high school, Sentinel Secondary.

Mark makes this observation

from. first-hand experience. He |

came to Sentinel this summer after
having worked for the Ministry of
Education in the curriculum and
Program Effectiveness Branch for
three years. At the ministry, he
worked for a former Sentine! prin-
cipal, the then Deputy Minister of
Education, Jim Carter.

As part of his job, Mark travel-

led the province ‘‘to find out
where exciting things were happen-
ing to education,’’ then set up a
networking system to connect
teachers, schools and districts.

He also ‘developed new cur-
riculum in Science & Technology
11. and Physical Education 11 and
12, and offered workshops for
hundreds of teachers in B.C

Mark...new principal of
‘nel Secondary. .

During the course of his work,
he spoke to a lot of teachers and
administrators.’ ‘‘It was a terrific
opportunity,” he observes.

Despite some of the good things
that are happening in the
classroom, Mark feels that teaci-
ers diia’t receive enough recogni-
tion tor their work. ‘‘We need,”
he say's. ‘‘to recognize the value of
what they. are doing, but how do
we reward them?’

By OLGA RUSKIN
Contributing Writer

At Sentinel, he is . going to
“support teachers and foster
teacher initiatives.”

Mark also points out that the
trend now in education, which he

-has seen used by West Van teach-

ers, is towards the development of
higher level thinking in the student
and issue-related, rather than fac-
tual, learning.

“We're reaching in different .

ways to challenge students to
think,’? Mark says.

Mark also believes that students
try harder when there is a warm
and caring environment in the
school.

“*Kids,"? he says, ‘can pick up
on how you feel.”

As part of his personal ‘style and
belief in the accessibility of a prin-
cipal, he’s been taking every op-
portunity to meet Sentinel’s 1,020
students, in the hallways between
classes and in assemblies. He has
also held six evening meetings with
Sentinel’s 1,000 parents.

Born in Victoria, Mark spent his
school years in North Vancouver
and enjoy‘d his own high school
years at Delbrook Secondary.

He attended Western
Washington University on a
baseball scholarship, and received
his BA in education there. He later
received his MA in educational
administration from the University
of Victoria.

His teaching background in
Vancouver and Victoria includes
five years as principal of Shoreline
Community School in the Victoria
school district.

As to the reasons he was at-
tracted to Sentinel, ‘tone was the
size and complexity of the school,
which will allow me to grow
educationally. As time goes on, I
will offer new ideas and we can
expect changes, but I’m workirg
hard not to rush."*

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