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Six West Vancouver women nominated
ior annual women of distinction awards

OF THE 56 women nominated for the Sixth Annual YWCA
Women of Distinction awards, six were from West Van-
couver, and one came out a winner.

Judi Korbin, vice-president, labor relations, for Canadian
Airlines, received the award at a Thursday night banquet in
the category of Management and the Professions.

The 56 women were nominated by groups or individuals
for their outstanding contribution to the community in one
or more of the following categories: Arts and Culture;
Communications and Public Affairs; Community and Hu-
manitarian Service; Entrepreneur/Innovator; Health and
Education; Management and the Professions; and Sports,

Recreation and Fitness.

This month, the West Vancouver Villager salutes the five
local nominees, who are all truly women of distinction.
Next month, look for a profile of Judi Korbin.

Ann Sturrock,
volunteer

Ann Sturrock was nominated in the category of Community and Hu-

manitarian Services.

ANN STURROCK is quick to point out that she is one of
three members of the Junior League who have been
nominated for a YWCA Women of Distinction award.

“The Junior League really docs
show the effectiveness 0% volun-
teering,’’ she states with pride for
the organization she joined 11
years ago and has since served in
five executive positions.

A compelling public speaker,
Sturrock likes to encourage women
to volunteer as a viable way of
moving into leadership positions or
developing new skills and areas of
interest.

She is currently president of the
Junior League, a group for women

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ANN STURROCK ... president
the Junior League.

ages 21 to 39. who are interested in
learning to become good = volun-
teers.

At age 45 (that’s three years
away for Sturrock) members tend
to become invoived in pet projects
and interests they have developed
during their years with the League.

Volunteering has been a com-
mon thread in Sturrock’s life since
she was 19 and finishing her
Bacnelor of Sociology degree at
U.B.C,

When her family moved out of
town, she was left with some
unstructured time and a desire to
find out more about the needs in
her community.

Answering an ad for volunteers
for the Children’s Aid Society,
Sturrock soon became one of the
community’s most active workers
and a person enchanted with the
concept of volunteerism. .

“I believe, like a lot of other

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By MAUREEN CURTIS
: Villager Reporter.

people, that when you have a good
life it is important to give some-
thing back to the community. Giv-
ing of yourself is part of being a
well-rounded person,’ says Stur-
rock.

She has also since served on the
boards of Family Services of
Greater Vancouver and Science
World British Columbia.

Sturrock names three projects
that she has found particularly
rewarding, starting with her work
with the Junior League and the
training of volunteers, most
recently for the group's new
Substance Abuse Program.

‘“*We are most interested in get-
ting involved with groups on the
North Shore that are interested in
preventing substance abuse. Our
volunteers would be happy to meet
with these groups and talk about
the kinds of things that can be
done and how they can be done,’’
says Sturrock.

Another highlight for her has
been sitting for three years on the
Canadian Cancer Society commit-
tee that got the children’s Camp
Good Times going, after which she
wrote a draft’ manual for the
future operation of the camp for
kids with cancer.

“I alsc got a lot of gratification
out of my involvement, with my
daughter, in the film No Fears No
Tears, which was produced when
my daughter was a patient at
Chiidren's Hospital,’’ says Stur-
rock.

Sturrock and her daughter (now
12 and doing fine) happened to
appear in the film after which
Sturrock helped develop a manual
that goes with the film.

Although her life is a busy one,
Sturrock believes it is important to
be home after school to be with
her daughter and 15-year-old son.

‘‘The last two years have been
hectic, but they have been really
cooperative. "’

Sturrock also gives good grades
for supportiveness to her husband,
a Vancouver tax lawyer.

Raised in Kerrisdale, Sturrock
has been a West Varcouverite for
16 years.

Science World's Barbara Brink

Barbara Brink was nominated in the category of Community and probably be moving on to another

Humanitarian Service.

ALTHOUGH MANY people

have been involved in devel-

oping the concept and bringing to reality Vancouver’s
Science World at Expo Centre, West Vancouver’s Barbara
Brink is acknowledged as a major catalyst, key leader and

inspiration behind the project.

It’s this work and practically a
lifetime of volunteerism that
won Brink a nomination for the
YWCA’s Women of Distinction
award.

Brink, 47, became interested in
the science centre concept over 10
years ago when she visited similar
centres on the cast coast with her
three children.

“We really enjoy:d our visits
and | realized how much the
children of Vancouver needed
something similar,’’ Brink said
recently,

Thus began a lengthy campaign
to get a facility going, originally as
the Arts, Sciences and Technology
Centre at 600 Granville Street in
1982, followed by negotiations to
obtain the use of the Expo Centre.

“If I had known it was going to
take 12 years, | don’t know if I
would have been so enthusiastic at
the beginning,” laughed Brink,

The project has been very much
a partnership between the City of
Vancouver Planning Department
and the Junior League, a volunteer
group for women of which Brink is
a longtime member and past presi-
dent.

Her involvement in lobbying for
Expo Centre included putting
together an extensive business plan
detailing the tourism, marketing
and socio-demographical aspects.

“Part of the problem was that a
science centre is a difficult concept |
to sell to people who don’t have
children or grandchildren,’ said
Brink, who had to deal with deci-
sion makers who had little idea of
what a science centre was or could

‘*We also came on stream when
the economy was very slow,’’ she
added.

Looking back — from the plan’s
conception up uatil its completion
— Brink says she now feels a great

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BARBARA BRINK driving
force behind recently opencd
Science World.

sense of relief.

“I’m also proud that we've
given the people of B.C. something
that will be of benefit for a tong
time to come,"’ she said.

Now that Science World is an
undisputed success, Brink plans to
complete her four years as presi-
dent of the Board of Governors
this fall.

“There are builders and there
are managers, and I’m not one to
sit back,” said Brink, who will

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“impossible dream.’

As a former director of the B.C.
Heart Foundation, recipient of the
Melitta Achievement Award for
outstanding Canadian women, and
a trainer for the United Way vol-
unteer leadership program, Brink
believes she was inspired by her
parents, who she recalls were very
much involved in their community.

Her own children have bsen
supportive of the considerable
volunteer work she has done since
joining the Junior Leaguc in 1971,
and she hopes they have inherited
a sense of wanting to give back to
their community when they have
the time to do so.

‘*T think they also have learned
that even when something looks
impossible, through hard work and-
diligence you can make it hap-
pen,”’ said Brink.

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