41 - Sunday, November 26 , 1989 —- North Shore News

AFFLUENCE ee INFLUENCE

think t’ve proved myself over the | riages: “I had eight of them in
years.” their teens at once. | tell you,

On tearning the hearing business that’s something... It was hard to

2 “ from the ground up: “Some- separate the girls from the boys.”
times I think it’s the only way. Al- SHILDREN
though | would like to have learn-

ed to manage, you learn that as
you go along, too. People are | How did you balance business PAST

what we're dealing with all the | with family? “I used to take EXPERIENCES

time. That's what makes our | Thursdays off. That was my day at

- On being a women in a largely | On raising 10 kids — some born
i ACHIEVEMENTS male-dominated business: ‘‘! | to her and some from other mar-
i

ehind B.C. Bearing | compassionate nature and dedica- | business, the peaple.” home, and that was the day my

Engineers Ltd.'s success lies | tion to her family, which includes Chinese cook would take off.... 1

the determination of one | 10 children and 21 grandchildren. | What personal characteristics | had teams going. Two girls would | Would you have done anything

woman: chairman and CEQ | The following quotes are excerp- | enabled you to achieve? “En- | be on a week, and two boys. The | differently? ‘! don’t think so.
Wendy McDonald. While her | ted from a recent conversation | trepreneurial spirit and a religious | team that was on would have to | Knowing what I know now, and
business philosophies are hard- | with reporter Peggy Trendell- | belief, which was a big help in [cook the meal on Thursday | what | knew then, | don’t think so.
lined, they are backed up by her | Whittaker. getting through three deaths.”’ night.”” You don’t know what you’re going

to do when you're that young, and
with the circumstances, | had to
do it, because we had to eat. } had
to feed the children.”

On surviving the deaths of three
husbands: ‘‘You wonder why
you're still here. But | must be
here for something.”

SOCIETY

On the environment crisis: ‘The
government has to try to solve it.
(in Palm Springs) they have about
three trash deals. You put your
bottles in one, your payer in
another and your garbage in the
other, and everything gets recycl-
ed. That’s what we've got to do
here, we've got to recycle. If Palm
Springs can do it, why can’t we?”

What frustrates you the most?
“People who aren’t thinking, that
don’t have common sense, that
don’t have savvy. Or our own
(company) people who have gone
phatos Cindy Goodman | agains! a policy that was set out.
When you work on your policies,
Although she doesn’t often have a free evesting to spend at her North | you don’t really want them broken

Vancouver home, the indefatiguable Wendy McDonald, and her | because they're representing the
canine companions Blinky and Scooter, made time for a photo shoot. | company.”

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Do something about them!

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