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Reunion dinner to commemorate
International College anniversary

OVER 1,200 have been invited, and they'll be
coming to dinner from all over the world.

For those who can’t make
it Aug. 26 for the reunion
dinner to celebrate the 15th
anniversary of the Van-
couver YMCA's Interna-
tional College in West Van-
couver, a reunion dinner is
also planned Sept. 7 in Hong
Kong.

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Many of the invitations
have been sent to Hong
Kong, where the majority of
the YMCA College gradu-
ates are from, and though
these are old addresses, the

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graduates appear to be
receiving them, says Jim
Clark, YMCA College prin-
cipal. Chinese families,
observes Clark, don’i move
as much as North
Americans,

The response to come to
dinner so far is ‘very en-
couraging"’ says Clark. The
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Aug. 25 there will be open
house at the Vancouver
YMCA College, located in
the former Inglewood High
School.

The Vancouver YMCA
International College in
West Vancouver is the only
one of its kind run by the
YMCA in Canada.

Started here on the North

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FIFTEEN IS the magic number for the YMCA’s International College in West Vancouver. Principat Jim Clarke holds up a
sign of the Chinese number 15 indicating the number of years the insititution has been operating.

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Shore in 1970 by Christine
and Geoff Benny, the Col-
lege offers a university
preparation program for in-
ternational students. The
need for such a college arose
15 years ago because of the
number of students from
Hong Kong wishing to con-
tinue their university educa-
tion in North America. At
that time there were only
two universities in Hong
Kong.

By way of precedent, the
YMCA does have a very
large English-language
school in Hong Kong which
has a very high reputation.
Though English is taught in
both Honz Kong's English
and Chinese-speaking
schools, the teachers are
Chinese so that students still
cannot speak English well,
explains Clark, and so are
turned down by North
American post-secondary in-
stitutions,

But many Chinese-speak-
ing families from the middle
and upper classes want their
children to have a_ better
background in English
because of business and
trade links with North
America.

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YMCA College students
get a dose of Englisit immer-
sion, as all their grade 1}
and 12 courses are taught in
English. They pay $3,000 for
Grade 12 taken in two
semesters, or $4,000 for
three semesters covering
grades 1! and 12.

All students interested are
first interviewed by the
Heng Kong YMCA and out
of the many applications,
between 60 to 90 are finally
chosen, half from each sex,
with the average ages rang-
ing between 17 and 25.

To attend, applicants must
have a student visa, a level
of English proficiency, and
have taken out private medi-
cal insurance.

The YMCA is trying to
broaden its recruitment base
to South America, India and
Iran, and advertises its col-
lege in international maga-
zines, says Clark,

The terms ‘visa’ schoo!
and ‘visa students’ are used
by the public with reference
to the YMCA College, but
College staff see what they
are doing in a broader light.
It’s an international college

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