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6 MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2006 Mary Scroggs employee adds award to the books BY SHATARRA GIBSON STAFF WRITER Not everyone has the luxury of waking up every day and getting paid to do what they love. Linda Fyle does. The secretary and bookkeeper at Mary Scroggs Elementary School says she takes pride in what she does for a living, and Chapel Hill- Carrboro City Schools has rec ognized her work, giving her the honor of district employee of the month for April. Fyle has been in her post at Scroggs Elementary for eight years. She also tutors after school and fills in for the school nurse from time to time. Fyle said she was also teaching a sewing class at one point. “Aside from all these duties, it’s just the way she does them,” Assistant Principal Grace Repass said of the reasons for honoring Fyle. Repass added that Fyle is always patient when helping others even when she has to repeat herself sev eral times. “She does everything with a smile and is always willing to help people,” she said. Fyle considers her work ethic and positive attitude as reasons that helped her to land the employ- 5b Pat 1- WE DELIVER! * • 919.933.4456 • 11 SE. Franklin, Chapel Hill • www.tarheelpita.com *>*>* Recognizing Carolina’s Finest in Academics & Student Activities % I Monday, April 17, 2006 3:00 pm Great Hall, Frank Porter Graham Student Union ({ r A// me mien <■///<■ '//tn m ru/y unify nee tvdremo. . .Menfi/ton tc (<•//< tr | W "^1 jjjnr The University of North (Carolina at (Chapel Mill W and \ (Chancellor James .Moeser Invite you to attend lectures by two of our most distinguished young scholars. Assistant Professor school of “Journalism andj/iass (Communication “Photojournalism: Social Documentary Storytelling” and Dr. Aysenil Belger, Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry “Functional Brain Imaging: A window into the workings of the mind and its deregulation in neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders” Winners of the Phillip df “Pgth jFettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement Wednesday, April ig, zoo 6 2.00 - 4.30 pm Jeorge Watts Mill Alumni Renter (Carolina (flub Alumni Mall "Refreshments will be served / VV PatrickDavison Dr.Aysenil Belger /j wjk Presenting at 1:00 pm Presenting at j.oo pm ‘■v.. RL •> n ft ■ 3 46 By DTH/LEAH GRONNING Linda Fyle, a secretary and bookkeeper at Mary Scroggs Elementary, seen in her office Tuesday, has worked for eight years at the school. ee of the month honor. “I really like the students and staff and the families,” she said. “And I like working with num bers. But if it was just the numbers, I don’t think I’d like it.” Fyle said the people surround ing her that make her job worth while. She and the school administra tors work together in the office, sometimes sharing roles and responsibilities, Fyle said. Though they might not have much knowledge of Fyle’s profes sional qualities, her students hold their tutor in high regard. “We do math and reading, and when we do a good job, she’s proud,” said 9-year-old Moo Kho Paw, a third grader. Paw said she has fun at Fyle’s tutoring sessions, sharing an anecdote of a time that even her tutor didn’t know the right answer. “It was wrong, but Mrs. Fyle said it was right, that was the funny part,” she said. In addition to her professional achievements, Fyle said she is also proud of her three children and her marriage of 23 years. And her children are just as active as their mother. Her son, the oldest of her chil dren, attends Charleston Southern University, double majors in busi ness and physical education and also plays baseball in his spare time. Fyle’s oldest daughter is a senior at Chapel Hill High School and enjoys tennis and backpacking. The youngest daughter is in eighth grade at Grey Culbreth Middle School and plays soccer. Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu. News ‘Cyrano’ celebrates lyricism BY ANDREW CHAN STAFF WRITER Play Makers Repertory Company closes its 2005-06 season with a production of “Cyrano de Bergerac” that will make the TC angle proud of its regional theater. In its staging of the beloved 19th-century French play, which premiered this weekend, the com pany achieves new heights in what it does best: providing talented actors and designers the space to celebrate the pleasures of an expertly mounted drama. It’s appropriate that “Cyrano” is itself about performance, about the illusion of words and the pageantry of courtship. The story follows the title char acter as he tries to disguise his love for a beautiful woman while help ing a friend woo her. Cyrano, brought to life by Ray Dooley, is the kind of man who can compose a poem while in the midst of a sword duel. His eloquence fol lows him through the world like a halo. But in spite of his extravagant gifts, his famously large nose has caused him life-long insecurity. When he musters the courage to tell his cousin, Roxane, that he loves her, he learns of her wish to entertain the advances of an attrac tive but inarticulate suitor. Cyrano befriends that admirer and ghostwrites all his love letters to Roxane. By the time she falls for the soul-baring genius on the page, the two men are whisked off to war. Though playwright Edmond Rostand’s story has been retold numerous times on film, what keeps it appealing as a work of the ater is its recognition of the theatri cal aspects of life. Geoscience job market opens up BY ELIZABETH DEORNELLAS STAFF WRITER As oil becomes more and more difficult to find and extract, the job market for UNC’s geological sci ence majors is producing its own geyser of opportunity. Doug Hazlett,, chief geoscientist at Anadarko Petroleum Corp., an I ' / the Downtown Chapel I till J 1 pump v y ' i'i nip ; hhhhhhhhhhh ' Friday, April 28th . Memorial Hall fHPW 8 pm ■h LEELA www.leelajames.com $5 UNC Student Tickets on sale Tuesday, April 18th 2 Tickets per ONE Card, Limit 2 One Cards per student . '■{ $lO GP Tickets on sale Tuesday, April 25th Memorial Hail Box Office, 10am - 6pm M • F, 843.3333 lpl COURTESY OF JON GARDINER Kate Gleason and Ray Dooley play Roxane and Cyrano in PlayMakers’ production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in the Center for Dramatic Art. THEATER WIEVI CYRANO DE BERGERAC PLAYMAKERS REPERTORY COMPANY SATURDAY ★★★★ The characters are vivid and fun loving, and they make their choices according to the rules of the stage. In their eyes, tragedy seems less a lamentable outcome than a sav ing grace, and Cyrano’s suppres sion of love is more romantic than ridiculous. It’s a refreshing experience to be reintroduced to the conviction that verbal and literary virtuosity are a man’s ultimate gifts. The play enacts the smoke and mirrors of language, and while UNC alumnus Joseph Haj’s new English translation can’t smooth out all the clunky passages, the cast looks committed to rendering Rostand’s wordplay as smooth and musical as possible. oil and gas extraction firm, said the job market in the petroleum indus try, especially for oil exploration, will be strong for the next decade. “I don’t see a competing energy source coming on that’s going to significantly change the market,” he said. About 450 students with gradu (Etjr Daily (Ear Hrri Highlights among the perfor mances include Dooley’s interpre tation of Cyrano, which is unwav eringly captivating and sometimes very moving; Kate Gleason’s Roxane, which becomes sharper and more detailed throughout the show; and, in two smaller roles, Julie Fishell, who has shaped up to be the season’s most crowd-pleas ing supporting actor. The production’s visual elegance can be credited to scene designer McKay Coble and costume design er Marion Williams, whose efforts are sumptuous and surprising, but not distracting. Play Makers and its audience would benefit from better and riskier material than was pro duced this season, but even the oft-staged “Cyrano” feels charged in the hands of artists who clearly express the old-fashioned thrill of collaboration. Contact the ACtE Editor at artsdesk@unc.edu. ate degrees in geology enter the job market each year, Hazlett said. “Basically, there are more jobs needed to fill than there are candi dates right now,” he added. Hazlett said about 10 percent to 15 percent of his company’s new hires within the past 10 years have come from UNC because of its broad-based geoscience programs. “UNC’s been one of our best recruiting grounds,” he said. Broad programs expose stu dents to a breadth of knowledge and ensure that new hires will be able to work across disciplines and remain valuable employees for sev eral decades, he said. Drew Coleman, director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Geological Sciences at UNC, said oil companies, which traditionally recruit graduate stu dents, are beginning to show more interest in hiring undergraduates. Hazlett said the market is such that petroleum engineers with a bachelor’s degree have comparable employment and salary opportu nities to geologists with master’s degrees. Mike Ayling, president of MLA Resources Inc., an energy industry search firm, said there is so much competition for new employees that even the largest oil companies can’t fill staffing needs. Ayling’s company completes an annual survey of geologists’ salaries. He said the average starting sal ary for geologists has risen about $30,000 in the past five years, from about $50,000 to as much as SBO,OOO. Petroleum engineers with bachelor’s degrees are also being offered $5,000 to $15,000 in sign ing bonuses, Ayling said. Coleman said that the petroleum industry saw a hiring blitz in the ’7os but that people hired in the ’Bos gen erally lost their jobs, creating a gen eration gap in the industry. “They recognize that they have a problem: The people working for them are all getting old very fast,” he said of oil companies. Still, Ayling said that many geo science professors are sour on the oil industry and that it can be dif ficult to get students interested in the petroleum field. He said he does not understand the impulse to fonnel students into environmental work. “I don’t know anyone who’s more interested in the environment than petroleum geoscientists.” UNC alumnus Andrew Mehlhop, now a geology team leader for Anadarko, said the oil industry is a good option for young geoscientists. “The money is great,” he said. Mehlhop said that although he did not originally seek out a job in the petroleum field, he has been satisfied with his career. He has spanned the globe, exploring for oil and gas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Canada, the Gulf of Mexico, Nigeria, Mozambique, Indonesia and India. “The opportunity to travel is a great thing about being part of the oil industry,” he said. Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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