Headlines/Sept. 6, 1991

Coulter delivers free trade lecture in Thailand

Economics instructor Brian Coulter
delivered a major lecture at
Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok
Thailand this summer on the topic
“North American Free Trade Agreement
and its Effects on Canada-Thailand
Trade.”

The lecture was arranged by the
university’s economics department and
the Technical Cooperation Facility, a
Canadian-government funded agency in
Thailand.

The 40 participants included
representatives from the Thai
Department of Foreign Affairs, the
Department of Trade and Commerce,
several major banking institutions,
executives of financial houses, and
members of the university political

science, economics, and business
faculties.

After outlining the existing
Canada-America Free Trade Agreement
(CAFTA), Coulter presented three
aspects of the proposed free trade area
to include Canada, Mexico and the
United States: an overview of the factors
promoting closer international economic
integration; the advantages and
disadvantages of the proposed trilai
North American Free Trade Agreemeni
(NAFTA), and an outline of the rewards
and risks of the NAFTA proposai to less
developed countries (LDC’s) like
Thailand.

The speech was received with great
interest and raised many questions
during a lengthy discussion period.

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Mason off to new pastures

Agriculture Director Steve Mason resigned over the summer and started a new job
with United Grain Growers in Calgary. He will be president of a Pro-Livestock, a new

division of United Grain Growers.

““Steve’s departure is a real loss to the agriculture program and the College,” says
Dean of Career Programs Dick Bate. “In the short time that he was with us he did an
excellent job of developing relationships with the industry and the B.C. Ministry of
Agriculture. He left because he was presented with a great opportunity to use his

technical knowledge.”

Mason had been with the College since1990. Agriculture instructor Norma Senn i is

acting as es director

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Mason says goodbye; Senn fills in

Coulter will be presenting a slide show
and talk on South East Asia in early
October on both campuses and a public
presentation at the Chilliwack library
late in the fall.

Weddings
Andruske-Coulter
merger

ABE instructor Cynthia Andruske and
economics instructor Brian Coulter were
married July 10. Attendants were
Shannon and Sarah Coulter, Amanda
Hall, Darcy Rezac, Dr. Donald Coulter,
Blake Wight and Kent Waugh.

The couple honeymooned in
Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, and
live at Cultus Lake.

Congratulations Brian and Cynthia.

Births
Crazed grandma
on the loose

All College personnel are warned
that C.E. marketing assistant Sandy
Tait is returning from her summer
vacation this week, and will be
wielding photos of and stories about
her first grandchild, Jonas Free
Alexander Froese. Sandy was on hand
for Jonas’s birth in July, and hasn’t
stopped talking about him since. “I’m
not an obnoxious Grandma, really,”
claims Sandy, “But the kid’s crazy
about me. Want to see a picture?”

Congrats Sophamia

NITEP secretary Sophamia
Bisaillon also welcomed a grandchild,
Teresa Lynn Malloway, this summer.

(Ed. note: It says something about
the average age at the College when
we're welcoming more grandchildren
than children in the births column.)