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Prevent
Hypothermia
The body can suffer from hypo
thermia (loss of body warmth in the
body’s core) at temperatures above
freezing. Inner organs can begin to
lose warmth before we are aware of
it. Small children, the elderly, un
usually slender people, dieters, and
alcoholics are especially vunerable.
Activities that tend to put people at
risk include: hiking, climbing, hunt
ing, fishing, bicycling, jogging, boat
ing and swimming.
To prevent hypothermia you
should:
1. Eat properly. Extremely thin
people don’t have the insulation that
fat cells provide, and their bodies
contain less fat to convert into heat.
If exposure is expected to be pr9-
longed, carry a high caiorie snack.
2. Drink extra fluids before out
door activities and take a hot bever
age with you.
3. Avoid alcohol which dilates
blood vessels, bringing a flow of
blood to the skin - away from inner
organs thus lowering the body
temperature.
4. Know side-affects of drugs. Anti
depressants, blood pressure drugs,
and some heart medication influence
the way the body responds to
temperature change.
5. Wear suitable clothes. Layered,
light, loose clothing is recommended.
A thin outer shell, loose multiple lay
ers to trap warm air between the lay
ers. These layers can be shed if the
weather condition changes. A hat
and scarf are a must since up to 1/3
of a body’s heat loss is from the head
and neck. Waterproof mittens are
needed for the hands. Water-
repellent, loose fitting shoes and
thick woolen socks or multi-layers of
socks for feet. Loose fitting under
wear and windproof outerwear for
the groin area.
6. Stay dry. —Outer garment
should be water repellent.
If you do get wet, stay out of the
wind. Shivering and frequent urina
tion are signs of lowered inner body
temperature. They both indicatie the
need for more clothing or warm liq
uids. Other symptoms of moderate
hypothermia include: Bewilderment,
clumsiness and a negative attitude.
Profound hypothermia is recognized
by the cessation of shivering and loss
of consciousness. An unconcious vic
tim of hypothermia shoud be rushed
to the hospital immediately.
By: Phillis Smith
ANSWER: Can You
Identify this Photo?
Photo Identification: The photo
was taken in 1968 during the con
struction of Thompson Hall. This
photo of the rotunda area in Thomp
son Hall may also be seen in the
current Wilkes Magazine on channel
4 TV.
Wilkes
Remembers
Mary Houston
Wilkes Community College hon
ored the memory of Mrs. Mary
Houston on Oct. 18, 1990, with a
memorial service in the school library.
Mrs Houston died on Oct. 11, 1990
at age 60. She was librarian at WCC
from 1974 to 1989. She was also the
first instructor for the college’s adult
high school diploma program. She
taught in the program in various
churches, schools and at Abitibi-
Price and Ronda Furniture Co. for
eight years.
Before working at WCC, she was
teacher at Mulberry Elementary
School and Lansing Elementary
School in Lansing. Prior to that she
worked as a librarian at Cloudland
High School in Roan Mountain, TN.
Mrs. Houston will be missed by all
faculty, students, and staff
Win With Peace
and Justice
Words
Thus spoke Mastiff, King of the
Canines:
Dissenters of the creature world,
arise!
Engage the human enemy in the
battle for verbal superiority.
Condemn! Criticize! Crush!
Our foes are everywhere. And if we
cannot eliminate their power, we will
eventually eliminate them.
First, however, provide the climate
for opposition. Howl your theme of
peace and justice. Over and over and
once more again display your banners
of peace and justice.
Remember that term —peace. It is
your most powerful word.
And stamp justice into your brain.
Then, keep hammering away with
every phrase you possess for peace
and justice, justice and peace.
Never mind about the means of
achieving peace. That’s not impor
tant
And don’t get involved in a dia
logue about the whys and hows of
justice. That’s not our purpose.
Forget about ignorance, poverty,
and disease...no need to mention
animal abuses...steer clear of equal
ity of the opportunity...and don’t get
involved with individual dignity and
freedom and all the magic crud about
ethics and religion.
That’s all past history.
Now it’s our turn.
But we need help; we need funds to
carry the war of words to the human
enemy; we must have the support of
creatures who think we’re fighting
for them.
So get the suckers on our side and
we’ll have it made.
We can do it! Just keep feeding
them peace and justice words.
Eating words has never given me
indigestion.
— Winston Churchill
Like Mark Harmon, Ron
Howard, and Tony Pena,
You Can Spread “Points
of Light” to a Thousand
Places, and Have a Star-
Spangled Christmas
(Christmas, FI) “Mail Call!” ...
those two words are music to the ears
of just about every one who wears
our country’s uniform. Remember
the eager anticipation when Radar or
Klinger passed out the mail on
Ml^A^S^H? Americans from coast
to coast joined together last year in a
program with that name (“Mail
Call!”) and had themselves a Star-
Spangled Christmas while they spread
“points of light” to a thousand places.
Christmas was thus made just a little
better for more than 150,000 of our
servicemen and women, many of
them young people away from home
for the first time.
“Mail Call!” combines greetings
frmon thousands of members, re
sorting all the cards and letters into
more than 1,000 bundles, which are
then sent priority mail to units and
locations in more than 40 states as
well as every corner of the globe
(some participants have received
responses from every continent). The
twin goals are to include mail from
many people and places in each
outgoing bundle, while spreading
each person’s greetings as widely as
possible. While the number of units
and ships receiving mail increased
yet again last year, the highlight was
our ability to quickly send almost
15,000 cards to America’s men and
women who fought in Panama in
“Operation Just Cause” during
Christmas.
A letter from the commander of an
airborne unit stated, “...Mail Call
was a real morale booster and a
pleasant surprise to us all. It made us
proud to be Americans, knowing so
many stood behind us as we fought in
Panama.”
And from a 4-H group leader:
“What an experience! Especially
exciting were replies received from
servicemen and women involved in
’Operation Just Cause’ in Panama.
Letters were read at school during
discussions of world events. ’ Know
ing’ someone who was there made all
the difference!”
Nigara County Community Col-
ege (sponsored by the Vererans
Association) of Sanborn, New York,
was the #1 college nationwide in last
year’s Christmas Mail Call. North
Carolina leader was Pfeiffer College ,
(coordinated by Rob Enloe, Student
Government President), Miseheimer,
#4 nationally. Also taking part: Mark
Harmon, a student at the South Side
Area School District in Hookstown,
Pennsylvania; Ron Howard, a 7th
Grader at West View Middle School
in Morristown, Tennesee; and Tony
Pena, a participant with Amvets
Auxiliary Post #22 in Dallas, Texas.
Founded and directed by a former
Pentagon staffer, “Mail Call!” has
always been a grassroots, member
ship supported program which has
not depended upon celebrities, poli
ticians, or commercial sponsorship.
To learn how you or your campus
group can take part in this exciting
program and help spread “points of
light” to a thousand places while
helping yourself to a Star-Spangled
Christmas, send a stamp (please do
not send a self-addressed envelope,
just the stamp, as an envelope would
require $.45 postage) to “Mail Call!”
— Box 817 — Christinas, FI 32709,
and mention how you learned of this
program. Thank you!
Steps to Effective Textbook Study
(from PSYCHOLOGY, An Introduction-Third Edition)
by: Benjamin B. Lahey
The SQ3R Method — 5 steps in
effective study.
S: Survey. Look ahead at the con
tent of the text before you begin to
read.
Q: Question. Ask yourself ques
tions about the material you are
reading before and as you read.
R: Read. Read through the mater
ial in a normal way.
R: Recite the new information that
you are learning, out loud or silently
to yourself at least three times.
R: Review. Go over the material
that you have learned several times
before test time. The goal of reviewing
is to overlearn the material.
The SQ3R mehtod can improve
your ability to learn information
from textbooks. Several other stra
tegies may help you make even more
efficient use of your study time.
1. When you study, really study.
Don’t fool yourself into thinking that
you are studying when you are not
really making an effort to concentrate
on the material.
2. Study in one Place and ONLY
Study THERE—This helps associ
ate that place only with effective
studying. Choose a spot free from
distractions, and do nothing in that
spot but STUDY!!!
3. Space out your Study time—
Studying new information once a
day for several days results in better
recall than does cramming.
4. Use Mnemonic Devices. (Meth
ods) for storing memories so they are
easy to recall.)
A. Acronyms. In memorizing lists
combine the first letter of each word
in the list to form an acronym. For
example, the 4 stages of alcoholism,
which are Prealcoholic, Prodromal,
Crucial, and Chronic, can be memo
rized using the acronym PPCC. Acro
nyms are even more useful if they
form a real word. Arranging the first
letter of a list of words into a mean
ingful sentence helps spark recall of
the list.
B. The Keyword Method--Use a
meaningful word to associate the
word you are trying to learn. For
example, in memorizing the Spanish
vocabulary, such as the word “Char-
co” (puddle) think of an English
word that sounds like the Spanish
word “charcoal”. Now form a mental
image of the English sound alike
word and the actual English transla
tion (a bag of charcoal sitting in a
puddle.)
C. Method of Loci. Items in a list
are mentally placed in a series of
logically connected places.
Try some of these hints for better
learning and memory. If you are
interested in learning more about
study skills, these three books might
prove helpful.
Annis, L.F. (1983). Study tech
niques. Dubuque, la: Wm. C. Brown
Publishers.
Deese, J., & Deese, E.K. (1979).
How to Study (3rd ed.) New York:
McGraw-Hill.
Langan, J. (1978). Reading and
study skills. New York: McGraw-
Hill.
—Phyllis Smith
Answers to Puzzels
Answers: KNOWN BY THEIR NICKNAMES
1-g (Bernardt). 2—1 (Joan of Arc). 3- i(Martha Jane Burke). 4-a (Mrs.
Rutherford B. Hayes). 5—m (Macy Mallon). 6—b (Clara Barton). 7—k (Mary
Pickfoi'd). 8—d (Jenny Lind). 9—c (Anna Mary Moses). 10—h(Elizabeth 1). 11—f
(Maureen Connolly). 12—e (Florence Nightingale). 13—j (Helen of Troy).
Answers: SOUNDS LIKE...
I-h, prints (prince). 2-o, sticks (Styx). 3-k, wry (rye). 4-s, gored (gourd). 5-y,
weigh (wait). 6—a, chaste (chased). 7—m, maul (mall). 8—d, breaks (brakes).
9—v, thyme (time). 10—q, sealing (ceiling). 11—u, links (lynx). 12—z, dough
(doe). 13—X, rained (reigned). 14—f, carats (carrots). 19—b, tiers (tears). 20—i,
write (right). 21 —p, queue (cue). 22—e, him (hymn). 23—n, ate (eight). 24—t, rose
(rows). 25—r, slay (sleigh). 26—w, hare (hair).
Score: Give yourself 1 point for each correct answer. 23-26 is tops; 19-22 is
very good; 15-18 passes; below 15, ouch!
Quote from middle son, a student at WCC. “Tht first child gets the most, the
middle child does the most, the last child gets away with the most.”
—Phillip Glass
Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.
—Quoted in Guidepost Magazine
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