Planet of the Arts -Vol 4-No.4-1989. ALUMNI REPORT by PAMELA TAGLE ‘| n December of 1987 a small group of interested graduates got together, and with the help of the ECCAD Administration and The Friends of Emily Carr, managed to develop the long-awaited ECCAD/VSA Alumni Society The fledgling society has, during its short existence ,amassed a mailing list of over 3,000 graduates, ranging from coast-to-coast Cana- dian locations and numerous U.S. outposts to the far reaches of Australia and Europe. Efforts are still under way to locate other alumni, especially those who graduated between “the lost years”,1956-1967,for which virtually no school records exist. As this is the first alumni society to be formed in the school’s 60-year history, the task is formi- dable. A brief history of the College and its various predecessors: The Vancouver School of Applied and Decorative Arts began life 1925. In 1926 Charles H. Scott was appointed Principal and remained with the school until his retirement in 1952. In 1938 the school‘s name was changed to the Vancouver school of Art. In 1952 Fred Amess, a former student, became principal and VSA joined Vancouver Voca- tional Institute in the downtown core to accomodate the growing need for larger facilities. In 1978 under the leadership of principal Robin Mayor the school regained it’s independence and moved to its present waterfront location on Granville Island under the new name of Emily Carr College of Art and Design. In 1986 Alan Barkley was ap- pointed President. Funding for the Society is still under discussion. The ECCAD Administration has provided a small operating budget for ex- penses until a complete proposal can be made to, and approved by, the ECCAD Board of Trustees. Plans are presently in the embryonic stage for such events as a 60th Anniversary retrospective show of alumni work, an art auction and fund-raiser, the development of comprehensive archives, publication of a newsletter, and involvement in large-scale events such as Art After Dark. ; A Board of Executives and Trustees was elected by the society. They are: Fred Deuel: President. (Born 1924, Montreal,Quebec). Fred graduated from the VSA in 1954 (Painting and Drawing),and was the Vice President of the VSA Student Coun- cil. He has been an art teacher at Hillside Secondary in West Van for over 30 years. Pamela Tagle: Vice President and Chair- person of Special Events. (Born 1964, Tokyo, Japan). Pam graduated from the ECCAD Design Department in 1987, when she was Queen of All The Student Society. She has worked at Arts Umbrella, ECCAD, the VAG, and a shoe store. She does volunteer work in the arts (you‘ve seen her Thursday night at the VAG, no doubt). ; Michael Hoffler: Treasurer. (Born not so long ago, on the West Coast). Michael gradu- ated from the Design Department in1986 and has worked for various magazines and pub- lishing houses. He is Art Director of Studio Design Group in Vancouver. Joan Lovett: Corresponding Secretary. Joan began studying painting with Ted Harrison in 1974, and went on to graduate from the ECCAD Painting Department in1986. She has done costume design for the SFU Theatre Dept. and presently does freelance design and fabrication work in set and ward- robe for film and television. Jane Ford: Recording Secretary and Chairperson of Newsletter. (Born 1939, Windsor, Ontario). Jane attended OCA in 1959, and graduated from Toronto Teachers College in 1960. She attended ECCAD in 1979 and1980, and returned to graduate from the Graphic Design Department in 1987. She was the Director of the West Van Community Arts Council for three years and has had a variety of solo and group shows since 1983. Lesleigh Stanford: Trustee (on behalf of ECCAD Board). One of the original board members of the Friends of Emily Carr, Le- sleigh‘s involvement ranged from fund- raising to chairperson of Acquisitions for Endeavor. She has formal training in Educa- tion and was a public school teacher for five years, and is presently taking Fine Arts courses at UBC. Bruce Dwight Rivard: Trustee (2 year term). (Born 1950, Calcutta, India). Bruce has a BA. in Philosophy/Sociology from Trent University, and moved to Vancouver in 1980. He has had a number of solo shows since 1978, and he graduated from the ECCAD Interdisci- plinary Dept. in1987. He is currently working in experimental print and sculpture tech- niques. Tim White: Trustee (lyear term). (Born 1939, England). In 1948 Tim moved to Canada and lived in Prince Rupert. He attended the VSA and graduated with two diplomas, Fine Arts and Design. He has worked in commer- cial design for thirty years and has been a teacher for twelve. He has continued to paint since the age of nine. Judith OKeefe: Trustee (on behalf of ECCAD Board). Judith graduated from the VSA in 1973 and has produced prints and other paperworks for numerous group and solo exhibitions. She has been a gallery manager, curator, and education co-ordina- tor. In 1981 she joined the ECCAD Outreach Programs as the Liaison Officer. She contin- ues to paint in her home studio. The Alumni Society is optimistic and excited about the future development of the group. Their office is room 226 in the College. The Society meets at 7:30 on the first Tuesday of every month, usually in the Faculty Lounge:® ETTERSLETTERSLETTERSLETTERSLETTERSLETTER ve Editor, The Provincial government is keeping a very important issue in limbo - they are threatening to raise annual fees for foreign students to the unsubsidized cost of $7,500. While this is still in committee, it is more than likely to take effect as budgets for this college are already being juggled. The wait for a decision has one advan- tage: students still have time to write letters to the Minister of Education or Alan Barkley. Why should anyone care to write? Well, most students from other countries can’t possibly stay at such costs; the school loses valuable cultural influences (there are approximately 40 foreign students presently at ECCAD); the prestige of the College abroad becomes lessened; and the Socred Government suc- cessfully discriminates against countries within what they consider the “Pacific Rim” through selective subsidization. (The outline for a possible $70,000.00 grant allocates funds to Japan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Sin- gapore and Indonesia, but excludes Australia, New Zealand, the U.S, Mexico, and South America, among others.) “Canada is home to a variety of ethnic groups and is often referred to as a cultural mosaic”. This is just one of the many ironic statements printed on glossy brochures now distributed at the College and promoting “international education” in B.C. Lama Canadian but would feel'a great loss if foreign students had to leave and couldn’t finish their education simply because this issue was never looked at before in this institution. Josh Wapp Dear Planet, San Francisco is wild and extremely expensive to live in. The school looks great on the outside but more like an inner city school on the inside. You definitely would not want to use the toilets. I’m including a poem and my story. Hope everything is fine with you. I’ll drop a note next week. Take care. Dae Planet, Being a foreign student at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, the proposal by the Board to raise the school fees for foreign students deeply affects and concerns me. I am a third year Graphic Design student, which means that I should be graduating next year. Because of the raise in school fees, I won’t be able to complete what I have come here to do. The budget for my 4 years at the College was planned according to the fees that were given previous to my enrollment at Emily Carr. New school fees will push me to go back to Mexico, with almost all my money gone and, what is worse, my education incomplete. It is also a shame that the internationality of our college will be lost and that the pres- ently enrolled foreign students won’t be able to achieve what we have come here to do. We are a small voice so if you know any foreign student or would like to aid our cause, a letter to the school President or Stan Hagen (the Minister of Education) would go a long way to help us. Jerry Stochansky Carolina Becarra letters continued on page 22 D ear Planet, In response to the proposal by the Board to raise the School fees for foreign students to $7500 I wish to make the following statement. Iam from New Zealand and am now in my Srd year at the College. Since coming to Canada, I have brought in a total of $25,00 in overseas funds. This was money saved over a six year period, for the purpose of attending a college in North America. So once I had committed myself to an institution based on many prerequisites, including financial, I feel [had entered into a contract with the school to see me through the whole course. Obvi- ously if I had known in advance of a tuition increase I would have made alternate plans (e.g. San Francisco School of Art offers a $6,000 subsidy and is a B.A. course.) School fees as proposed would mean preparing to leave at the end of this semester and with most of my money gone, abandoning my plans to graduate. Generally it goes without saying that it is an important side to this school to have a foreign input and we will take this experience back with us to further promote internation- alism in British Columbia. We are a very small voice so if you know anybody who is a foreign student or would like to just aid our cause, a letter to the school President or Stan Hagen, the Minister of Education, would go a long way to help our cause. Chris Carey ALUMNI REPORT by PAMELA TAGLE Tn december 01967 « small group of interested graduates got together, and with the help of the ECCAD Administration and ‘The Friends of Emily Carr, managed to develop the long-awaited ECCAD/VSA Alum: Society “The fledgling society has, during its short existence jamavsed a mailing list of over 3,000 graduates, ranging from coast-to-coast Ca dian locations and numerous U.S. outposts to the tar reaches of Australia and Europe. Efforts are still under way to locate other ‘alumni, especialy thove who graduated Between “the lost years” 1956-1967,for wl irtually no school records exist. As thi The first alumni society to be formed in the Schools 60-year history, the task is formi- dable. ‘A brief history of the College and its various predecessors: “The Vancouver School of Applied and Decorative Arts hogan life 1925. In 1926 Charles 1. Scott was appointed Principal and remained with the school until his retirement jn 1952, In192@ the school's name was changed to the Vancouver school of Art. In 1962 Fred Amess, a former student, became principal and VSA joined Vancouver Vace- Tonal Institute inthe downtown core to fccomodate the growing need for larger facilities. In 1978 under the leadership of prineipal Robin Mayor the school regained Wes independence and moved to its present waterfront location on Granville Island under The new name of Emily Carr Collage of Art. land Design. [a 1986 Alan Barkley was ap- pointed President. Funding for the Society is still under discussion. ‘The BCCAD Administration has provided a small operating budget for ex- Penses untila complete proposal can be made {o, nd approved by, the ECCAD Board of Teustee Plans are presently in the embryonte stage for such events as a 60th Anniversary retrospective show of alumni work, an art auction and fund-raiser, the development of ‘comprehensive archives, publication of a newsletter, and involvement in large-scale ‘events such as Art After Dark. ‘A Board of Executives and Trustees was Montreal,Quebec). Fred graduated from the ‘VSA in 1954 (Painting and Drawing),and was the Vice President of the VSA Student Coun- cil. He has been an art teacher at Hillside Secondary in West Van for over 30 Pamela Tagle: Vice President and Chair- person of Special Events. (Born 1964, Tokyo, Japan). Pam graduated from the ECCAD_ Design Department in 1987, when she was Queen of All The Student Society. She has worked at Arts Umbrella, ECCAD, the VAG, and a shoe store. She does volunteer work in. the arts (you've seen her Thursday night at the VAG, no doubt). ‘Michael Hoffler: Treasurer. (Born not so Jong ago, on the West Coast). Michael gradu- ‘ated from the Design Department has worked for various maj lishing houses. He is Design Group in Vancouver. ‘Joan Lovett: Corresponding Secretary. Joan began studying painting with Ted Harrison in 1974, from the ECCAD Painting Department in1986. She has done costume design for the SFU ‘Theatre Dept. and presently does freelance design and fabrication work in sot and ward- robe for film and television. ‘Jane Ford: Recording Secretary and Chairperson of Newsletter. (Born 1939, Windsor, Ontario). Jane attended OCA in 1959, and graduated from Toronto Teachers College in 1960. She attended ECCAD in 1979 ‘and1980, and returned to graduate from the Graphic Design Department in 1987. She was Ef Pe nocMre Penee Res LETTER SebnEnlicliaEouh Jear Editor, ‘The Provincial government is keeping avery important issue in limbo - they are threatening to raise annual fees for foreign students to the unsubsidized cost of $7,500. While this is still in committee, it is more than likely to take effect as budgets for this college are already being juggled. ‘The wait for a decision has one advan- tage: students still have time to write letters to the Minister of Education or Alan Barkley. ‘Why should anyone care to write? Well, most students from other countries can’t possibly stay at such costs; the school loses valuable cultural influences (there are approximately 40 foreign students presently at ECCAD); the prestige of the College abroad becomes lessened; and the Soored Government cessfully discriminates against countric ‘within what they consider the “Pacific Rim” through selective subsidization. (The outline for a possible $70,000.00 grant allocates funds ‘to Japan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Sin- gapore and Indones'a, but excludes Australia, New Zealand, the U.S, Mexico, and South ‘America, among others.) “Canada is home to a variety of ethnic groups and is often referred to as a cultur: mosaic”. This is just one of the many ironic ‘statements printed on glossy brochures now distributed at the College and promoting “international education” in B.C. Tam a Canadian but would feel great loss if foreign students had to leave and couldn't finish their education simply because this issue was never looked at before in this institution. Josh Wapp Doar Planet, ‘San Francisco is wild and extremely expensive to live in. The school looks great fon the outside but more like an inner city school on the inside. You definitely would not want to use the toilets. T'm including a poem and my story. Hope everything is fine with you. Tl drop a note next week. Take care. Dear Pianct, Being a foreign student at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, the proposal by the Board to raise the school fees for foreign students deeply affects and concerns me. Tama third year Graphic Design student, which means that I should be graduating next year, Because of the raise in school fees, I ‘won't be able to complete what I have come here to do. The budget for my 4 years at the College was planned according to the foes that were given previous to my enrollment at Emily Carr. New school fees will push me to go back to Mexico, with almost all my money gone ‘and, what is worse, my education incomplete. Itis also a shame that the internationality of our college will be lost and that the pres- ently enrolled foreign students won't be able to achieve what we have come here to do. We are a small voice so if you know any foreign student or would like to aid our cause, a letter to the school President or Stan Hagen (the Minister of Education) would go a long way to help us. Jerry Stochansky Carolina Becarra the Director of the West Van Community Arts Council for three years and has had a variety of solo and group shows since 1983. Lesleigh Stanford: Trustee (on behalf of ECCAD Board). Ono of the original board members of the Friends of Emily Carr, Le- sleigh's involvement ranged from fund- raising to chairperson of Acquisitions for Endeavor. She has formal training in Educa- tion and was a public school teacher for five years, and is presently taking Fine Arts, courses at UBC. Bruce Dwight Rivard: Trustee (2 year term), (Born 1950, Calcutta, India). Bruce has a BA. in Philosophy/Sociology from Trent University, and moved to Vancouver in 1980. He has had a number of solo shows since 1978, and he graduated from the ECCAD Interdisci- plinary Dept. inl987. He is currently working in experimental print and sculpture tech- niques. ‘Tim White: Trustee (lyear term). (Born 1939, England). In 1948 Tim moved to Canada ‘and lived in Prince Rupert. He attended the ‘YVSA and graduated with two diplomas, Fine Arts and Design. He has worked in commer- cial design for thirty years and has been a teacher for twelve. He has continued to paint since the age of nine. Judith O'Keefe: Trustee (on behalf of ECCAD Board). Judith graduated from the YSA in 1973 and has produced prints and other paperworks for numerous group and solo exhibitions. She has been a gallery manager, curator, and education co-ordina- tor. In 1981 she joined the ECCAD Outreach ues to paint in her home studio. ‘The Alumni Society is optimistic and excited about the future development of the group. Their office is room 226 in the College. ‘The Society meets at 7:30 on the first Tuesday of every month, usually in the Faculty Lounge:@ Sa Edge eniog eect TER letters continued on page 22 Decerianct Tn response to the proposal by the Board to raise the School fees for foreign students to $7500 I wish to make the following statement. Tam from New Zealand and am now in my ‘rd year at the College. Since coming to Canada, I have brought in a total of $25,00 in overseas funds. This was money saved over a six year period, for the purpose of attending a college in North America. So once [had ‘committed myself to an institution based on many prerequisites, including financial, I feel Thad entered into a contract with the school to see me through the whole course. Obvi- ously if I had known in advance of a tuition increase I would have made alternate plans (e.g. San Francisco School of Art offers a ‘$6,000 subsidy and is a B.A. course.) ‘School fees as proposed would mean preparing to leave at the end of this semester ‘and with most of my money gone, abandoning. my plans to graduate. Generally it goos without saying that it is an important side to this school to have foreign input and we will take this experience back with us to further promote internation- lism in British Columbi: ‘We are a very small voice so if you know anybody who is a foreign student or would like to just aid our cause, a letter to the school President or Stan Hagen, the Minister of Education, would go a long way to help our Chris Carey