October 5,1976
All Stations Stand by to Copy: Reference Captain 10-4
BY RICHARD PHILLIPS
The ideal educational pro
cess certainly must be one
that offers both the academic
pusuit as well as the experien
tial pursuit. The Internship
Program available through Dick
Coe in the Placement Office is
a great opportunity for a
student to gain some practical,
working experience that will
combine with the experience of
the classroom to synthesize
the goals of education.
Bradley Anderson, a senior
Physics major from Durham, is
one such student ot benefit
from both kinds of preparation.
But Brad is not a part of the
Internship Program. Instead,
he is a volunteer member of
the Guilford College Fire
Department. Brad is not sur
prised if his field experience is
arranged on very short notice
at three in the morning. For
him, it is a part of the job
and one that he expects to
live with.
"I want to go into fire pro
tection in some capacity. I'm
interested in training and in
the field of communications.
I'm also interested in the strat
egy and tactics of fire fighting
as well as innovations in equip
ment,
ment."
One doesn't find too many
volunteer firemen among your
average college population.
Last year, Guilford College
Messages From Within:
Creative Therapy
COPING CAN BE FRUITFUL
In the experience of stage
drama, in the world of theatre,
there is besides the activity of
body and voices interacting, a
dynamic embodiment of human
emotion, moral expression, and
often a variety of human
appeal. The appeals are usually
social, political, cultural, and
individual you.
Vinnette CaroH, a black play
wright, and Artistic Director
of the Urban Arts Corps,
addresses you with a special
message in an epitomizing note
to her successful musical,
"Don't Bother Me I Can't
Cope." She calls "Cope" a
hymn, and she wants to share
it with you. You are her
audience. She speaks: "coping
is a basic commitment of a
mature purposeful human
being, that we sometimes laugh
to keep from crying, that life
is not necessarily fair (not only
for Black people but for all
human beings), that happiness
a by-product not an end
product, that the ways we are
similar are far greater than the
was blessed with two such
notables. Brad was accomp
anied in the ranks of the
volunteers by a former full
time student James (Hi-Ho)
Silver "He's my good
buddy," says Brad. This year.
Silver still volunteers with the
Guilford College Fire Depart
ment while working as a
campus policeman at UNC-G
and attending Guilford part
time.
How did he become invol
ved with volunteer fire work?
"I was a Young Democrat
and a political activist in high
school. It came time to vote
on fire tax in Orange County
and registration was at a local
fire station. While I was there,
I happened to notice a pretty
red fire truck. The fire chief
was there and he was a
neighbor of ours, so I moseyed
on over and asked him if they
needed any help. He told me
that they didn't 'realty 7 (looking
at my long hair side-eyed),
but he invited me to come to
a few training sessions on
Sundays and Tuesday nights
I did this and I enjoyed it."
That was in the summer of
1972 when Brad was a recent
high school graduate. "The
Chief made it clear that if I
wanted to join, I would have
to cut my hair for safety's
sake. That was may first
sacrifice to humanity!" So he
ways that we are different
Let the words of sister Caroll
be kept in harvet for some time
of need in patience,
strength, and prayer.
Sharing is a necessary
expression for having received
from others
In Peace,
Eric Jackson
BLIND COMPATABILITY
Touching my face with your
passionate eyes,
Penetrating layers of person
ality, Revealing the true
emotions that I too share
secretly
We blindly see each other's
love myopia?
Seeing the pulsation of my
heart, through transparent
feelings. Reacting to your
reactions,
Responding to the language of
your mind, body, and
soul, I sense that there is
more to share.
A concealed embrace, hidden
by undefined desire,
need love or liking?
The Guilfordian
became a volunteer member
of the Eno Fire Department.
"My name is still on the
roster at Eno, and whenever
I go home I'm subject to res
pond to a call."
"I worked around Durham
for a year and continued with
the Eno Fire Department. I
got progressively more inter
ested as I went along. I
came to Guilford and after I
found out that I could handle
the school work, I volunteered
for the Guilford College Fire
Department. I was like a little
kid at Christmas! This depart
ment was so much larger than
the one back home and in many
ways so much more advanced..
The next summer, I went
home to Eno and discovered
that there was a lot of Mickey
Mouse stuff in the Communic
ations operations. I proposed
that a Standard Operating
Pocedure be devised. I was
made chairman of a committee
which consisted of a represent
ative from each fire department
in Orange County. We did
devise a standard operating
procedure which is still in oper
ation today. But there's a new
communications center being
built in Hillsborough that will
allow for better comunications
and of course greater efficiency
in operations. Com
munications is the lifeling of
the fire service. I have devised
These are not hues of our
blindness, But manifestations
of our Loneliness.
Eric L. Jackson
MESSAGE FOR THE WEEK
POSITIVE EXPRESSIONS
What is Beauty to you? A
Smile, a new born baby, the
act or the process of seeing a
childbirth performed.
Is Beauty the knowing that
life is not always bitter, but
that a smile can light your day.
What is there to hope, faith,
and remembrance, non
material things, that has
brought folks from all gener
ations up from the depths.
Brought up from the depths of
poverty, sickness, fear, be
reavement, from loss ...
I believe there is something
innately real about hope and
faith, that in smiles there
exists beauty. Then, where is
your beauty, it's in your smile.
Where is your hop if s in your
belief. How do you know,
there's hope, when you have
faith?
Peace and prosperity
the whole week through.
Eric L. Jackson
still another standard operating
procedure for communications
which will be coming up for
approval in the near future."
I'm sure a lot of people
around the campus have
noticed the tall fellow hiking
around all the time with an
over-sized transistor radio.
How wrong you are! That
appliance is nothing less than a
plectron. Brad says that it's
"an over-grown pager, or
actually a one-way radio
receiver."
Each station has its own
signal that the dispatcher will
send out when a response from
that station is desired. Each
volunteer has his own plectron
and when his station's tone is
sounded, the plectron will be
activated and the message
received.
"I'm farther away from the
station than most of the
firefighters. I am usually at the
station within three minutes,
but I can hardly ever catch
the first truck out. Whenever
enough men are at the station
to man a truck, that truck will
take off."
Brad says that he usually
sets his plectron to monitor all
the calls that come out from
the dispatcher. He says it
helps him to "learn a lot aobut
what is going on and see what
improvements might be made.
Most of the volunteers do
monitor because it gives them
an idea about whether or not
they might be called."
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Capitan 10-4's Tip of the Week
Ever needed a fire exting
uisher? Sure you havel The
college provides them for the
primary purpose of "gettin"
your friends on Saturday
nights, right?
There is, of course, an
important secondary purpose
of fire extinguishers: the elimin
ation of oxygen from and/or
the reduction of temperature
below the state of flammable
gas production of a material
undergoing combustion.
In fact, it could be argued
that at certain times, namely
when materials are undergoing
undesirable combustion,
that the fire extinguisher's
secondary purpose becomes
primary.
Unfortunately, the fire exting
uisher has limitations. One
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"'Plec' can be a real nuis
ance. All of my roommates
have always gotten along with
'Plec'. They've all wound up
speaking in radio terminology.
Wallace Galloway seriously
considered applying for a job
as a radio dispatcher which
was quite surprising. One
night two years ago, 'Plec'
talked during the night and
Steve Taylor rolled over and
turned off his alarm clock and
slept through his morning class.
Howard Page sleeps through
just about everything."
Brad says that his school
work has suffered at times
because of the time commit
ment involved. "Rex
Adelberger has threatened on
many occasions to throw my
'bleeptron' out of the window,
although he seems quite proud
of the fact that he's got a
physics major who is a fireman.
Sheridan Simon is very good
at imitating 'Plec.'"
Brad is on the volunteei
roster at two fire stations
number seventeen (College
Road and 421) and number
nineteen (Inman Road and Old
Oak Ridge Road). "I'm very
fortunate to have a fire depart
ment here that is as advanced
as it is. The Guilford College
Fire Department is one of the
most advanced departments in
the state of North Carolina and
has one of the most progres
sive chiefs."
Ed. Note The headline
translates as follows: Everyone
tune in for the information to
come it is about Captain
10-4.
limitation is that it cannot per
form its secondary function
after it has been utilized for
its primary function. (For you
laymen who are lost in the
extravaganza of professional
terminology, you can't put out
a fire with an empty exting
uisher.)
In view of the above, I would
like to propose that all
extinguishers on the Guilford
College Campus be utilized
exclusively for their second
ary function. Keep your paws
off that extinguisher, you
turkey.
Authority: Captain 10-4
Next week: The A,B,C,D's
of Fire Extinguishers, or "This
Soda-Acid Won't Wash Out
of My Hair!"