Business program students honored 10 At the Sheridan College annual awards tat on Accent on Achievement Paul Hceg was given the Canada Packers Award as top thirdyear marketing student Paul a very active person par in sports has played Junior Hockey Tor Cooks is on the varsity tennis team and plays soccer for Marquis Carticville In addition he plays hockey in the Sheridan Intramural league for the third year business team and is known for his fighting spirit Paul is majoring in marketing and is Sheridan resident expert Quebecois market He Is also business manager for the student senate Second year accounting student Hank received the Gulf Oil of Canada Award He was born in the Netherlands emigrated to Canada in 1962 and now lives in Burlington where he attended Nelson Hank is in his second ycarat Sheridan and next year plans to major in finance and accounting He would like lo become an I A Secretarial awards The secretarial award winners in the School Business and Secretarial Studies are as follows Dorothy Clements won the top award in the Medical Secretarial course presented by In tcrnational The Medical Secretarial Advisory Committee Award was presented by committee chairman Bar ban Skinner to Judy Peterson Judy is from where she was employed as secretary to the University Registrar before coming lo Sheridan Shirley was winner of the Ontario Medical Secretaries Award Shirley is from Port Credit and is in the Medical Secretarial course The award for the Medical Secretarial Course in Brampton was presented by Flower City Kiwams Club lo Valerie McCandleu a native of Brampton The top award in the Legal Secretarial program presented by Wholesale was awarded to Linda Nicholson a graduate of Heights dary School Nancy Kelly won the Halton County Law Association award Nancy a native of Burlington now in the graduating year of the Legal Secretarial program The Morro and Barristers Award was presented of Nella will become a Legal Secretary upon graduation The award to a Legal Secretarial student taking the course in Brampton presented by Bottling Company Limited was won by Diane Quit- tenton of Brampton The top award in the Executive Secretarial program presented by Guir Oil Canada Limited was won by Teresa of Port Credit also in the Executive Secretarial Program received the American Motors Award a in Economics The 1 B M Award for the best student in the In tensive Secretarial course was awarded to Peggy a name of Pictou Nova Scotia now living in Hamilton Outside school he is a part time accountant for a company in Burlington and financial administrator of the Canadian Reformed Young People Magazine Toronto Dominion Bank Award for a marketing student in a second year of the three year program went to Dave Morgan or Milton student with a first semester grade point average of 75 His sports activities Include ihc Sheridan Curling Club and have included basketball curling volleyball and lootball On a part time and summer basis Dave has worked in retailing and is looking for a job this summer which ill help him his goal of industrial sales Lindsay Rama tars 1 came to Canada two and a half years ago from Trinidad Last year he graduated from the twoyear program in marketing with high honors This year he enrolled again at Sheridan in Co op Retailing and has won an award from the and District Personnel Association He holds the distinction of being the top pingpong player In Ihc college during 1 J72 Lindsay has set his sights on a in management with a large retail chain Ibido is winner of the American Motors He was born and educated in Nigeria and came to Canada in to take the twoyear business program at Sheridan He enjoys watching Canadian hockey while at home in Nigeria he was on soccer player Sllva has ravelled widely in Europe and S intends to become an accountant Dive worked for five years after coming to Canada in from Belfast Northern Inland It was the experience that convinced him to get back into education and enrol in Sheridan business program After completing his first two years at tht Brampton Campus he enrolled at the Campus for his third year One of his achievements includes winning the personnel award donated by the and District Personnel Association Dave gives credit to his wife for helping support him during his studies as he pursues his career in marketing management Medical Sec re larial student Dorothy Clements right of receives the Club Word processing course or some time now we have realized that is no longer required in many office positions We have alio become aware of the rapidly expanding held of word processing where secretaries are highly skilled in the operation transcription equipment and automatic typewriters such as the I M Mag Card II In order to meet the needs of a changing business world we will in September be teaching Word Processing and Machine Transcription in our General Secretarial Program Sheridan will be the first college in Ontario to offer lbs option in a Secretarial program rhis will be another option available in our courses Other subjects include general and executive practice English and media studies correspondence and two Direct entry lo the second year of this program may be obtained by passing our typing pretest details which may be obtained from Murg Samuel at Sheridan General Secretarial eliminates shorthand Sheridan College will introduce a General Secretarial next fall as an alternant to the Medic il and Secretarial now be offered This dec as a result of the great interest students demonstrated in the Medical Secretarial program which excludes shorthand as a required course rom this the Business and Secretarial Division concluded shorthand was not popular with many students Tht Ceneral Secretarial Program is a variation of the Executive program The same subjects will be offered with the exception of shorthand The program is suitably adapted to meet the changing needs of a challenging business world Instead of studying shorthand which is no longer required in office positions students will con centrate on machine transcription and word processing using vinous types of tnnscnb Direct entry to the of the program is available on the basis as direct Ho the second of the Med Secretarial Program with successful on a typewriting test required to pass it The tests will 10indScpt In iddit ion lo the typing pre- test applicants will be required to write an English test this test will have no bearing on admission However it should enable program instructors to suggest the course in and Media Studies which will best suit the applicant particular needs preferring this program to Medical Secretarial may contact in order to have an application form altered Graduates of the program will be able to find employment in offices where no shorthand is required or in the rapidly expanding field of word processing Coop Retailing Theory and experience combined Coop Retailing a new program Ihts year combines theory with practical retail The students spend the first half of each week in the classroom and the last half of each week employed with pay by one of the large mass merchandisers This year ihc following retailers are in volved in Ihc program T Eaton Co K Mart Simpsons Sears The Bay and Woolco Students are enjoying many practical ex from basic retail clerking to behind merchandise control Some students have been given special management trainee courses and exposure to other management responsibilities The progrim has been designed to prepare students or entry into the management training schedule of any one of these leading merchandisers The course offers a oneyear certificate and twovear diploma Those wishing to enter he directly from school are en to take the twoyear program which a simplified first year business then entering ihc work experience tom in the second ye Those who have business course from college or its arc considered for immediate into the second Students should be retail oriented and self motivating with the objective of eventually joining the management team of a large mass merchandiser Self motivation is needed to cope with this intense study work program as trainees they must possess drive and initiative to cope with many onthespot decisions continual expansion and diversification in the retail industry the opportunities are unlimited for ambitious dedicated young mcr lUff perform Free tax help Sheridan annual tax consulting service offered killer part of March and early April received overwhelming response from farmers Sole proprietors individuals and small business concerns The objective of this free consulting service was to help prepare their own lax returns under the new tax reform legislation Special attention was given to investment income capital gains income business activities property rental and lax deductible registered retirement savings plan premiums In most cases students did not prepare the tax returns thtmsclv but answered questions and assisted preparation Many of those learned how to change the structure of their business tax liabilities in years The college did not assume responsibility for participants own work In preparation for their tax returns and emphasued that the consulting service was not a substitute for tax consultation