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August 1972 The Gas Light VETERANS OUTREACH — Four Gaston veterans and counselor Dein Jones, also a vet, are shown above as they make plans to reach more and more returning veterans. Their goal is to help these ex-servicemen find a better way of life through education. The workers ^e, left to right, Gary Greene, Sam Jamison, Larry Smith, and Jeff Mullinax. Seated it center is Jones, who is coordinating the program. Veterans^ Outreach Program Is Formed Gaston College has joined 125 other colleges throughout the country in sponsoring a Veteran’s Outreach Program. The program, which is a joint effort of the American Association of Junior Colleges and the American Legion, is already underway. The purpose of Veteran’s Outreach is to recruit returning appointments, veterans from all branches of Thus far At the end of the first two weeks of operation, the workers had written 179 letters. While many of the veternas had changed addresses or could not be reached for various reasons, the workers succeeded ir making 49 telephone contfcts. These calls resulted in 28 personal a number of military service and encourage veterans have committed them to enroll in educational themselves to return to college institutions in order tocreate or to begin their college education. Jones pointed out that the program is not of the Gaston oriented towsrd any particular area of colege work. We are not concerned vith for themselves a better life. Counselor Dean Jones is coordinator program. Assisting Jones are four Gaston students: Sam Jamison what approaci to his educrtion from the Technical Division, the veteran makes,” >ones and Larry Smith, Jeff Mullinax, Commented. ‘We want to aid and Maynard Greene, all of the all veterans in securing for Academic Division. themselves and for their The procedures of the families a better life. And we program are threefold; first, the think that in {.cquirinj a better program workers secure the education they wiU be better names of returning veterans and prepared to find «at better write them a personal letter second, the workers follow up life.” The Jour veterais who are the letter with a telephone call now wo king in the Outreach o the veteran; the final step is proeram have a /aried military f V IT • to arrange a personal meeting, preferably on the Gaston backgrouid. JamiSon and Smith are Arny viterans, while campus, where the veteran will Mullinax served in the Navy, be given information concerning Greene is an Air Force veteran, many years in the Madne Corps. Before beginning work, he four studentts were given in eight-hour training progran, which included conferencts with Dean George McSwain, Horace Cline, dean of studem personnel. Dr. Jimmie Babb, dean of the Bocational Division, and Bruce Trammell, Gyston College registar. In addition, the workers became 'amiliar with all facets of the college physical facilities and read and studied the college bulletin so that they could give accurate responses to questions from the veteran contacted. Thus far the group has received a list of 500 names. All of these people will be contacted if they are stiU in the Gaston College area, and when the Outreaci. Program work is concluded. Dean Jones and the Veterans’ Club will continue the efforts. Jones, who pointed out ihat the workers are college employees and in no way connected with the Veteran’s Administration, asks that any veteran in the area who disires additional information concerning the college contact him at Room C-101 at the College. Adult Education Enrolls 13,072 In 93 classes conducted at 19 different locations during the fiscal year ending June 30,1 972, the Continuing Education Division of Gaston College enrolled more than 13,000 students. Of these, nearly 11,000 were served in Gaston County, and slightly over 2,000 were from Lincoln County. Dr. Mike Latta, Dean of the Continuing Education Division, in releasing the information, pointed out that 477 students were enrolled in Adult Basic Education; 985 studied in the Learning Lab; and 9,318 took one or more classes in Avocational and Vocational classes in Gaston County. In Lincoln County, thery were 197 Adult Basic Education students, 229 Learning Lab students, and 1,866 enrolled in the Avocational and Vocational classes. There were 289 different instructors for the classes in Continuing Education, and 19 of these were full-time staff members at Gaston College. The enrollment was the largest in the history of Gaston College. Fall Journalism Class Is Planned Plans have been completed for another Journalism Workshop for the FaE Quarter at Gaston College. As usual, the workshop will be held at the 11:00 hour in Room C-206. All students interested in learning the basics of newspaper writing are invited to join the group as soon as the Fall Quarter begins. The workshop does not carry credit and no grades are given. Students who take part in the workshop are invited to work on the college paper as well, but this is not a requirement. It should be noted too that students who do not enroll in the workshop are invited to work on the college paper. Williams noted that anyone interested in helping the GAS LIGHT is invited to contact liim at any time during the remainder of the summer or in the fall. the various curricula at Gaston, and Dean Jones is a veteran of ^ The Best Route From Dirty Ankle To Gaston Is Through Argentina College to either. When asked why sho chose Gason instead of the Page 3 ‘Go, Gaston Gals’ Workshop Planned A workshop directed toward opportunities for women in the Gaston area has been scheduled for 9:30 to 12:30 Tuesday morning, August 29, Mrs. Helen Bryant has announced. The opportunity is open for all women from Gaston and Lincoln Counties. Site of the workshop is the Gaston College Industrial Building. The session will open with a coffee hour and registration starting at 9:15 a.m. and concluding at ten o'clock. Dr. Woody Sugg, college president, will greet participants in the program. Dr. Mike Latta, Dean of the Continuing Education Division, will introduce the speaker, Mrs. Jean Eason, who will center her remarks around the topic of Responsible Women: Challenge for Growth. Mrs. Eason is the director of Life Span Counseling Center for Women at Salem College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is also director of the Office of Adult Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and counselor- director for Vega Services, a private agency in Greensboro. The purpose of the workshop is to help women in this area know what opportunities are available for then in the areas of education, employment, and volunteer services. Educational institutions represented at the workshop will include Appalachian State University, Belmont Abbey College, Gaston College, Lenoir Rhyne College, Queens College, Sacred Heart College, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Winthrop College. The employment agencies represent will be Dunhill of r'Viarlntte Gastonia„ Branch, and Employment Security Commission. Volunteer agencies to be represented include FISH, Gaston Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, Gastonia Junior Service League, North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital, and Resources on Volunteer Work to Fit the Individual. A question and answer session will follow the address. For further information, interested persons may call Mrs. Helen Bryant or the Office of Contiiming Educafion at Gaston College. When a girl form a the rest of this part of the reasonable large city like world is like. So she studied in Charlotte attends a large Argentina and learned that university like UNC and makes school in America is a snap good and enjoys her education, after one look at what an no one notices. But when a eleventh-g ade student there girl from Dirty Ankle, North must study Carolina, attends high school in “We had twelve subjects Mendoza, Argentina, and a there,” she laments. We had to Mexican university in Saltillo take physics, chemistry, before transferring to Gaston geometry, Spanish hterature, College, it’s news, particularly English or French, phsical when the student falls in love education, music, psychology, at first sight with the college, zoology, anotomy, western Such is the case with Rachel geography, and political science. Brackett, who explanis that All of these are required Dirty Ankle is in the suburbs courses; the only elective was of Toluca, which is not far that we could study either from Casar, which in turn is a French or English.” neighbor of Flay (or Flea, as The bright point in aU of some of the natives call it) and this was the Mendoza is the Belwood. Her reasons for chief wine-making city in attending Gaston College are Argnetina, and Miss Brackett worth reading, so don’t stop points out that the managers now. Or if you can’t take the of the wineries are always time to read the entire article, delighted to have visitors, read the last couple of “They are crazy about paragraphs. Americans in particular,” she It wasn’t that Miss Brackett says, could not get into a larger Another bright spot was the school; she was accepted by presence of teen-age night the North Carohna Governor’s clubs. Miss Brackett explains School to study drama. Then that these night spots were she was accepted by a large modern ski-lodge types, colege not far from Gaston, carpeted luxuriously and But before she fimshed high ^jgcorated beautifully, school she wanted to see what Rachel Brackett Argentina,” she says, seven, you have coffee milk. At noon you have soup, spaghetti, salad, meat, vegetables, and dessert. At tliree o’clock you have fruit and coffee. At five it’s time for tea and pastry. At nine you eat again before going to Governor’s School or a large university, Miss Brackett replied, “Do you want the truth or the story I give when someone asks me why I came to Gaston?” Actually she has two reasons that she gives for coming here. One is that while she was serving as cheerleader in West Mecklenburg High School she tore a vocal cord and gave up on a drama “At career, voice and I can’t and be depended upon,” she says. The other story is that she wanted to attend a college that was near her home and one that would permit her to continue working at her job in a child-care center. She enjoys her work with children so the night club. It was awful! It much that she is now planning was great! I gained twenty-five to maior in elementary pounds.” She found Mexico to be enjoyable but less aesthetic than Argentina. The poverty was depressing, she learned, and the people were and are stiU to major education. The truth about her coming here is better than either of the two versions above. As she tells it, “I really didn’t know where I wanted to go to oppressed. The dating customs „^y rnother called a were more liberal and there school. She had to call were more Americans, but she ^ numbers and later was sent still perferred Argentina to campus to try to Mexico and she perfers Gaston get a little information about entrance requirements. Then one day my parents were driving past Gaston College and my father stopped in to find out what kind of school it really was. A lady at the switchboard was so very nice and helpful and made them feel as if she really wanted to help, and she directed then to the office of Mr. Ray Medford. Then a group of students can by and offered to show them around the campus. Everybody was so helpful that my father was totally convinced. And when something impresses my father, it has to be good!” When asked if she has found Gaston to be as impressive as her parents did. Miss Dirty Ankle of 1972 answered, “1 love everything I’ve seen here. The students have made me feel at home and the college pleases me so much that I’ve told all of my high school friends^ and now a lot of them are making plans to come to Gaston.” We just thought you’d like to know how one gets from Dirty Ankle to Gaston College by was of Argentina and Mexico.
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