12 - Friday, June 20, 1986

NEWS photo Mike Waketletd

CAPILANO COLLEGE computer instructor Richard Langworth shows
the machine that helped the college win an award for computer program-

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TOURING SCHOOLS
UBC promotes
forestry careers

ALTHOUGH THE attitude may
not be so prevalent today, the
forest industry is still viewed with
blinkered vision.

Forestry graduate students from
the University of British Columbia
(UBC) are setting out to change
this image,

Recently three graduate students
spoke at West Vancouver Second-
ary School — the first school on
their tour.

Don Beckman, Ph.D. candidate
in Forest Marketing: Dave Coop-
ersmith, M.Sc. candidate in Forest
Ecology; and John Donahue,
M.A.Sc. in Remote Sensing (satel-
lite image analysis) talked about
the changes and opportunities for
young people in the forest in-
dustry.

Forestry is B.C.’s number one
industry.

The Faculty of Forestry
Bachelor degree program is four
years in length and is one of the
broadest and most intense pro-
grams at UBC.

It has four options that younger
students can choose from for
specialization.

Forest Resource Management is
the broadest of the options and in-
cludes all aspects of multiple
resource use programs —— eg.
ecology, economics and business
management, fire management,
genetics, remote sensing (satellite
imagery), pest management, forest
soils, fisheries and wildlife
ecology.

Forest’ Harvesting
harvest planning; design of forest
roads; bridges and logging opera-
tions;sengineering; economics;
micro and macro computer ap-

includes”

plications in field forestry,
sawmilling and pulpmilling.

Forest Science includes all fac-
tors that affect forests: genetics,
soils, weather and climate, ecology
insects, diseases and silviculture
(the science of growing trees).

Wood Science and Industry in-
cludes the chemistry and physics of
pulp production and lumber pro-
duction, the use of different wood
fibres, development of more effi-
cient sawmills, and pulpmills.

The forest industry is now highly
technical.

To remain competitive, grow
and prosper, B.C.’s forest com-
panies need young people for the
future.

For further info on the four-year
forestry program, please call the
Faculty of Forestry at 228-2727.

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
Cap College
wins award

ON JUNE 4 Capilano College was
awarded first place in the national
computer competition — Tomor-
row’s: Innovators — sponsored by
the Data’ Processing Management
Association (DPMA).

The competition was open to all
colleges in Canada with the theme to
encourage the development and im-

plementation of innovative computer

hardware/software.

Capilano College’s winning entry
was a software submission utilizing
a 4GL programming language.

The students, from the second
year Computer Systems Manage-
ment program, designed the system

with concepts taken from structured -

system methodologies, data model-

Tee off!

ling for their data base, and a data
dictionary. :

The judges (Ottawa Carleton
Research Institute) felt the ‘superb
documentation won the award for
Cap College.”’

For winning the competition,
DPMA and a number of business
organizations covered the expense of
a student representation to present
the software June 16-18 at the na-
tional conference in Ottawa, where
there was an exhibit booth for
Capilano College to demonstrate the
on-line features of their system.,

“We are honored and proud of
our first place finish,**
said Capilano College spokesman
Richard Longworth.

The 5th Annual Ambleside Pitch & Putt Tournament is set for
Saturday, July 12. Sponsored by the North Shore News and Park Roval
Shopping Centre, this tournament is open to all golfers. regardiess of

club affiliation or membership.

Again this year, there are four divisions: mén,
women, seniors and youth (16 years and under),

each with plenty of prizes.
Qualifying Rounds

May be played on any day from Sunday June 8
through Sunday June 29. Place your scure cards in

the tournament box in the clubhouse.

Entry fee

Is the regular green fee ticket, $4.40 (Seniars and

youth - under 18, $2.50)
Finals

Saturday duly 12, weather permitting.

You can wint

Trophies for the winners in cach of the four
divisions, men, women, seniors and youth, and for

the winner overall.

Gift Certificates, redeemable at stores in Park
Royal. for the top three finishers in each of the four

divisions.

The Ambleside

Pitch & Putt Tournament |__

Sponsored by
the North Shore News

PARK ROYAL

and Park Royal Shopping Centre

Sanctioned by the West Vancouver Parks and

_.Recreation Advisory Committee