The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday October 9, 2002 - B3 Lunch with the Queen requires a royal touch By Paula Henriques OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF So how does one prepare to dine with the Queen? No curtsying needed, 25 Sheridan College students will have the honour of dining with the Queen tomorrow at a luncheon hosted by Premier Ernie Eves at Sheridan College as part of her royal visit. But first, these students received a lesson on coyal etiquette. The instructor, Ron Holgerson, Executive Director of Marketing and Communications at Sheridan, quickly made a few things clear Monday during their mock rehearsal: Gloves are per mitted, no hats after 6 p.m., business attire only, and men, please wear ties. "You'll be seated amongst the lead ing people of Ontario. It will be a very formal affair," he said. The luncheon will take place at the Student Centre Main Hall in the Trafalgar Road Campus after the Queen has visited the Journalism New Media and Computer Animation facilities in the Sheridan Centre for Animation and Emerging Technologies (SCAET). To allow the public to view her visit through the school, her arrival will be streamed live on the Sheridan College Web site (www.sheridanc.on.ca), cour tesy of the Journalism New Media stu dents. Amongst giggles, the students, selected from a variety of academic pro grams and service organizations, learned century old rules and committed them to memory. "When you get to the table touch nothing. The wine is for the toast. The napkin goes on your left thigh, not tucked in your shirt under your chin. When the bread comes around don't grab it with your hand," Holgerson reit erated. The students went through the exhausting procedure of using utensils correctly. "Fork in left hand, knife in right hand, rest fork in forefinger and turn it upside down. Now take a few bites delicately. This is the correct way to place food in your mouth," said Holgerson. "As my mother used to say, the higher you hold the fork, the higher level of sophistication." The students in their nervousness and eagerness asked questions once so trivial, but now of colossal proportions. "What if you have something stuck between your teeth? How do you IC C in ; I 1 U W U U J ' U U chew? U lC W i What if you need to go to the wash room?" they asked. "This is a once in a lifetime chance," said Holgerson, "but really just be your self." The 25 students were chosen to rep resent the broad cross section of Sheridan's various groups, including peer mentors, school leaders, and schol arship winners. Trafalgar Road Student Union presi dent Ben McEvoy, recipient of the Association of Canadian Community Colleges' 2002 Student Leadership Excellence Award, and Davis Campus Student Union president Eric Service will be part of the welcoming party. Andrew Kim, an animation student, devoted his summer to creating a unique animation with approval from the Palace, which will be premiered for the first time before the Queen during her tour. During the luncheon, two students from the third year Music Theatre pro gram will sing for the Queen. Heather McGuigan will sing the Royal Anthem at the beginning and Michael Power will sing the Canadian National Anthem to close the luncheon. "I'm more excited than nervous," said Power. It's not the first time singing solo but it is the first time singing the national anthem. How many people get to say they sang to the Queen? If any thing, it's a good conversation piece." How to prepare for a huge event like this? According to McGuigan, you "just connect with the music and tell your self, `I have something to share'". ` "No matter what you're singing you have to sing with intent. Sing and feel it. These are the two biggest songs that you could ever sing. So just focus and breathe." William Lake, Music Theatre, Svetlana Borrissenko, Business, Jodi Sproule, Early Childhood Education, Nicole Davies, Systems Analyst, and Clayton Hartwell, Architectural Technology, are the five recipients of the Glenna Carr National Entrance scholarships invited to the luncheon. They will be joined by other repre sentatives from Sheridan's academic schools chosen by their Deans and fac ulty: Scott Carpentier, Business Administration Marketing, Andrew Snook, General Arts and Science, Allen Manchur, Computer Science, Kurties V c U lK C U lC li, I C U illlU iU g y , Vankeulen, Architectural Technology, By Liesa Kortmann · Oakville Beaver Dipty Juthani, Sheridan student, is one of 25 students who will dine with the Queen during her luncheon at Sheridan College tomorrow. Here, Juthani gets a quick lesson in etiquette. and Jessica Lertvilai, Crafts and Design, also a Glenna Carr scholarship winner. Sheridan's Bruins Basketball team won the Ontario Championships three years in a row and placed second and third at the nationals. Bruins player Brian Laundry, Financial Planning, will join fellow athletes at lunch: volleyball players Laura Monk, Human Resources * Management, and Glenn Lynch, Computer Programmer, as well as soc cer players Tony Sylvestre, Systems Analyst and Amanda Ferrari, General Arts and Science. Sheridan peer mentors are a special group of students who work throughout the year in various departments as "stu dents helping students". Invited to the w luncheon are Richard Owen, Art Fundamentals, Lexie Bexson, Advertising, Elizabeth Briese, Social Service Worker, Dipty Juthani, Systems Analyst, and Kathryn de Visser, Mechanical Engineering Technology. "I'm totally fascinated by the royal family'" said Bexson, who's from Calgary. "This is not something you get to do everyday. How many people get the chance to do this?" According to Holgerson, several hundred Sheridan students, including 77 Commonwealth students are invited to welcome the Queen from several approved vantage points throughout the Trafalgar campus. "The level of excitement is palpable. The students are honoured and excited by it," he says. "We're very proud of Sheridan and its students." A small delegation of Sheridan's Board of Governors, Executive and fac ulty have also been invited to attend the event. JoAnn Brodey, a General Education teacher at Sheridan has quite a unique reason for wanting to be at the lunch eon. Her grandfather was Nathan Phillip, former mayor of Toronto from 1955 until the 1960's, and met the Queen during her royal visit to Canada in 1957. "The protocol was always to present flowers to the Queen and it was always my cousin who gave them to her. We lived in Sarnia, so we weren't able to be there." This is her chance, she says. "I real ly wanted to go (to the luncheon). Even though I won't be giving her flowers I'm really excited to be able to be there." As part of the autumn Canadian Royal Visit, the Queen arrived in Canada on Oct. 4, starting in Iqaluit, Nunavut, then make her way southeast to Ontario where she is slated to make several stops, including her trip to Sheridan College. The Queen is also scheduled to make other appearances throughout Ontario. She will present Colours to the Arfyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's) in Hamilton, and will accompany the Duke of Edinburgh at the celebration of 50 years of televi sion at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, as well as attend a gala hosted by the Prime Minister at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto. SCAET building one of stops on Queen's Oakville visit Q u e e n E liz a b e th II w ill v is it S h e rid a n C o lle g e 's Jo u rn a lism N ew M e d ia an d C o m p u te r A n im atio n fa c ilitie s in the S h e rid a n C e n tre fo r A n im atio n & E m erg in g T ec h n o lo g ie s (S C A E T ) tom orrow . F o llo w in g th e v isit, T h e H o n o u ra b le E rn ie E v es, P re m ie r o f O n tario , w ill h o st a lu n ch eo n in the T ra fa lg a r R o ad C am p u s S tu d e n t C en tre M ain H all. T h e g en e ral p u b lic is in v ite d to o b se rv e H er M ajesty 's arriv a l an d d e p a rtu re alo n g S h e rid a n 's C e re m o n ia l R o ad , w ith tim e s to be a n n o u n c e d as they are fin a liz e d . S h e rid a n stu d en ts, fa cu lty , a d m in istra tio n , and su p p o rt s ta ff e m p lo y e e s w ill be in v ite d to o b serv e the v isit fro m sev e ral a p p ro v e d v an tag e p o in ts to be an n o u n c e d shortly. A se le c te d n u m b e r o f stu den ts w ill be a m o n g the P re m ie r's in v ite d g u ests for th e lu n ch eo n . T h e C e n tre h o u se s S h e rid a n 's hig h q u a lity p ro g ram s in A d v a n c e d T e le v isio n & F ilm , C o m p u te r A n im a tio n , E n te rp ris e D a ta b a s e M a n a g e m e n t, In fo rm a tio n T ec h n o lo g y P ro fe ssio n a l In te rn sh ip , In te ra c tiv e M u ltim e d ia , Jo u rn a lism - N ew M edia, N ew M e d ia D e sig n , a n d T e le c o m m u n ic a tio n s M an a g em en t as w ell as re se a rc h labs an d hightech re se a rc h and d e v e lo p m e n t fa c ilitie s. S h erid an b e lie v e s th e en h a n c e d fa c ilitie s o f S C A E T en su re th at O a k v ille b e n e fits fro m its p o sitio n as a p re m ie r ce c e n tre o f co m m u n ic a tio n s, d e s ig n a n d te c h n o lo g y tra in in g , a n d a p p lie d re searc h o p p o rtu n itie s. P ro g ra m s o ffe re d at SCA ET in c lu d e : A dvanced T e le v is io n & F ilm , C o m p u te r A n im atio n , In te ra c tiv e M u ltim e d ia , Jo u rn a lism N ew M e d ia and T e le c o m m u n ic a tio n s M an a g em en t. T h e new S h erid an C e n tre fo r A n im a tio n and E m erg in g T ec h n o lo g ie s (S C A E T ), is an 8 5 ,0 0 0 fo o t fa c ility co n ta in in g tea c h in g an d stu d io fa c ili ties. T he b u ild in g 's im ag e is in te n d e d to be op en an d lig h t, w ith large e x p a n ses o f g lass cu rta in w a ll a llo w in g th e in n e r w o rk in g o f the b u ild in g to a n im ate the new hub. M ateria ls are d esig n e d and a sse m b led using le a d in g -e d g e tech n o lo g y , in c lu d in g a p a rtn e rsh ip w ith S h e rid a n 's C A T IA In stitu te and C N C C en tre o f E x c e lle n c e fo r the co m p u te r-a id e d , cu sto m d e sig n e d steel c o m p o n e n ts in the b u ild in g 's in te rio r d eta ilin g . T he p ro c ess is u n iq u e in its u se o f c o m p u te rs as to o ls o f d esig n , a sh ared la n g u ag e b etw e en u sers an d d esig n ers. S in ce its o p en in g in S e p te m b e r 2 0 0 0 , the new S h erid an C en tre fo r A n im atio n and E m erg in g T ec h n o lo g ie s (S C A E T ) has o ffe re d stu d en t, fa c u l ty an d in d u stry p artn e rs an o u tsta n d in g fa c ility d e d ic a te d to e n h a n c e d te a c h in g , le a rn in g and a p p lie d re se a rc h o p p o rtu n itie s. By Barrie Erskine · Oakville Beaver Sheridan College Animation student Andrew Kim works on one of his cre ations in the computer lab that the Queen will visit tomorrow The community of Oakville extends a warm welcome to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. We hopeyour stay with us will be an enjoyable and memorable one! GARY CARR, MEK Oakville Constituency Office: 2330 Lakeshore Rd. 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