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) May 5,1994 ESPN covers Elon's NASCAR racing class Erick GUI Editor-In-Chief Benny Parsons and an ESPN ?*®®era crew appeaned at Elon Col- ,cege Monday to shoot footage and interviews about Elon’s icNascar Racing” class. Janie Brown, professor and ^ofHPEL,taught theNASCAR irflass this past winter term. About 12^ students studied all aspects of b^ASCAR racing, from mariceting o^actu^Iy riding in a race car at the ^lotte Motor Speedway, i Two Elon graduates were the /ocusofboththeclass and the ESPN Chany Sabates and Keith :(|«sons graduated from Elon Col- lr®ge in 1991 and both are involved oW NASCAR racing. Sabates is a business manner for the SABCO Racing Company, which looks after the Mellow Yel low and Kendal Motor Oil racing teams. Since Sabates’s job includes taking care of team sponsOTS, from complaints to travel. He said his political science degree has helped him along the way. “I deal with people everyday and associate that with business,” Sabates said. Sabates said most of the time the sponsors are people “who are mad at you one week and love you the next.” Sabates, from Charlotte, N.C., said that his father was the person who got him interested with racing. “When I was a kid my dad used to drive stunt cars in some of the Elvis movies,” Sabates said. ' of through an interview with Benny Parsons * —-—- •—> uui utit. 1 gui uiuic uuiw>-uii m miu-Augusi or eariy septen '***^ N — Srst woman landscaper adds diversity to Elon College staff „ , . , She said she plans to never leave North Carolina though. Aside from her mom, her horticulture class in I Heatlier Anderson .... niavinc. I haven’t crown un vet.” Gammon school helned foster her Invp. for thp niantc anH nntHnnr Erick Gillie Pendulum Sababes involved himself in racing, befwe he graduated from Elon. “I never had any weekends (at Elon). I was always at the race track,” Sabates said. “From day one I have been into racing.” As of now, Sabates doesn’t have any immediate plans to change his career. “I’m only 25; I’m still young. I think I might stay here (in auto racing) and see what happens,” Sabates said. “I would like to see my son go into racing one day.” Keith Parsons got into racing the same way Sabates did, through his father. Parsons is 24 and grew up in Ellerbe, N.C. watching his father drive race cars. “He got me involved with racing,” Parsons said. Now Parsons watches his fa ther, Benny Parsons, talk about driv ing race cars. Benny has covered auto racing for ESPN since 1988. Parsons graduated from Elon with a degree in journalism in E>e- cember of 1991. Currently, he works in public relations for McLean Marketing. Parsons handles publicity for the Citgo Oil/Morgan Shepherd rac ing team. “I go to all the races and generate publicity,” Parsons said. “It’s the premier job. Well, it’s my premier job.” While Parsons was at Elon, he Erick Gill/The Pendulunn Elon Alumnus, Keith Parsons, goes back to class for an ESPN segment. worked for The Pendulum as a sports writer. “I’ve always loved sports, but doing public relations for racing is great,” Parsons said. Sabates and Parsons both cred ited Elon for preparing them for the real world. “I think Elon’s great,” Parsons said. “It helped me get better pre pared. I went to Chapel Hill for a year, but here I got more hands-on experience. Sabates said Elon has a “fam ily aspect” to it which is much like NASCAR racing. Sabates and Parsons said with NASCAR everyone knows every- c«ie else; it is a close network, much like they had at Elon. The ESPN segment featuring the class and the Elon grads is sched uled to air during a race sometime in mid-August or early September. Heather Anderson Staff Reporter She said she plans to never leave North Carolina though. Aside from her mom, her horticulture class in high “I’m still playing, I haven’t grown up yet,” Gammon school helped foster her love for the plants and outdoors, said. Whenshe’snotlandscapingatElon,shegoestoNASCAR C KM said. whenshe snotlandscapingatElon,sbegoestoNAS( Her mom is one person that got her interested in land- races with her boyfriend, scaping she said. “My mom is a garden nut,” she said. Gammon plans to move to Burlington next month. EwTTT" : Her mom is one person that got hei ® ^ ^ landscapmg crew. ^ ^ coiipn ** y Gammon is the first wc«nen landscaper the has had. her with the college since July and said she likes she loves landscaping . exceil landscape supervisor, said, “It’s been We’rp Slaving her on board. She fits in really well and ®^py that she’s here.” ^3n\ni from Caswell County, North Carolina, Elon '^'orked for Danieley Nursery before coming to ^8 ‘I'd residential and commercial landscap- ^■^Oanieiey Nursery. Cause ^3mmon likes woiking at Elon better, be- «It.^. ^ hours and benefits. because you get a lot of praise Sijg really nice,” Gammon said. ^ **^eat people she works with “try '^sitiess ^®*wnon’s goals is to one day start her own equipment and trying to get her first female staff member of Elon landscaping ^‘•ccnse, whichshewilltakeatestfornextmonth. Wandy Gammon. Erick GillTThe Pendulum
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