4 Career OpportunitiesTuesday, October 18, 1988
Local personal sties shaire their first job experiences
By ELLEN THORNTON
Staff Writer
What is there after college? The
prospect of getting a job and living
in the "real world" is frightening to
many. College is supposed to prepare
you for your career by directing you
to a field of interest. But what do you
do right out of school to get on the
road to your career? Several
University leaders answered this
question with their own first-job
experiences.
Women's tennis coach Kitty
Harrison started her career as a
secretary. After graduating from the
University of Texas at Austin,
Creative writing professor Doris
Betts played piano in a music store,
sold crystal in a jewelry store and
worked in a dress shop before starting
her writing career.
Harrison decided that she wanted to
"see the world." She moved to New
York City and found a job as a
secretary in a large bank. She
continued secretarial work for about
seven years, traveling to Austin,
Houston and San Francisco
Harrison turned to coaching for a
change in her career.
'Tennis started booming and T
decided it was more my thing," she
said. "I didn't like being a secretary."
Sgt. Ned Comar of the University
police did not foresee his career early
in life either. Comar worked for a
number of years as a printer in South
Carolina, but eventually became
dissatisfied. In the process of doing
printing for customers in the Chapel
. Hill area, Comar became acquainted
with the University and students.
"I liked working with UNC students
so I came back to Chapel Hill," Comar
said. "I feel closer to this age group
than to any other part of society."
. After deciding that he wanted to
. live in Chapel Hill, Comar used his
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experience as a military policeman
in the Korean War to obtain his job
as a crime prevention specialist for
the University police.
Jim Shumaker, a journalism
professor, "fell into" his teaching
career. Shumaker began his career
working for the Associated Press.
"I hated every damn day of that
job," he said.
. After leaving his AP job, Shumaker
returned to Chapel Hill, where he
received his degree, to become the
editor of the Chapel Hill Newspaper.
He also began teaching part-time at
the University.
When he had a "falling out" with
the publisher, Shumaker quit his job
at the paper and stayed in Chapel
Hill to become a full-time professor.
Richard Cole, dean of the journalism
school, began working as a stock boy
in a men's store in Dallas. Later he
worked on motors and waxed
airplanes at an airport. In college at
the University of Texas at Austin,
Cole won a competition that got him
a reporting job at a daily paper in
Mexico City.
Creative writing professor Doris
Betts did not begin her illustrious
career right away either. She played
the piano in a music store, sold crystal
in a jewelry store and worked in a
dress shop before starting her writing
career. Later she worked in classified
ads and proofreading at the Chapel
Hill Weekly. Betts published several
books before coming here to teach.
It's obvious that not everyone starts
out doing what they enjoy. The
successful already mentioned didn't.
But what about those who did?
Football coach Mack Brown started
his career as a full-time assistant coach
at Southern Mississippi University.
Basketball coach Dean Smith began
his legendary career as an assistant
basketball coach and golf coach at
the Air Force Academy.
Chapel Hill Mayor Jonathan
Howes, who teaches classes in
regional planning at the University,
began his career as an urban planner
for the Urban Renewal Administration
in Washington" D.C.
Paul Rizzo, dean of the business :
school, used his -background in
accounting to work as a junior auditor
for Lybrand, Ross Bros. &
Montgomery. ,
Perhaps Dean of Student Affairs
Donald Boulton has the solution to
the problem stay in school. That's
what he did. After receiving his
undergraduate degree in biology,
Boulton did seven years of graduate
work in theology and archaeology,
as well as counseling psychology and
administration. When he finally
finished, he became the assistant dean
for admissions at the Upstate Medical
Center in Syracuse, New York.
I liked being in school so much
that I just kept on going," Boulton
said. "That's why I wanted to go into
administration."
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