Discover Your
Career
Possibilities
Student Support Services en
courages you to use Discover a
computer based career information
system which is designed to meet the
career and educational planning
needs of students. Using a step by
step approach, Discover leads stu
dents on an entire career journey.
The steps of this career exploration
process include the following:
Step 1. Learn how occupations
can be organized and explored:
Since there are more than 12,000
different occupations, it is necessary
to learn how they can be grouped or
organized.
Step 2. Learn about yourself. In
order to make good career deci
sions, you must understand your
interest, abilities, experiences and
values.
Step 3. Find occupations which
relate to what you have learned
about yourself: Once you better
understand your interests, abilities,
experiences and values, you can find
out which of the 12,000+ occupa
tions require them.
Step 4. Learn a lot about these
occupations and shorten the list
by comparing them: After finding
some likely occupations, you need
to get a lot of information about
each one - especially about the work
tasks, employment outlook, train
ing, and income.
Step 5. Make decisions about
your educational plans: Your selec
tion of courses, majors, and possible
kinds of training should be made on
the basis of your selected occupa
tions.
Step 6. Select a place to go to
school or work: Depending upon
the occupations you have selected,
you will either be making plans to go
on to school or to get a job. So, this
step involves selecting specific
schools for continuing your educa
tion, or learning and using good job-
seeking skills.
For more information about
career planning or to make an appoint
ment to use Discover, see Kim Eth-
ier, Student Support Services Col
lege Transfer Counselor, in Room
1016, Daniel Hall.
Halloweek:
Gambling
Ghouls
Vegas may have more glitter and
glamour, but can you gamble with
2400 cougar bucks? Can you play
craps in Dracula’s bed? Can you play
roulette with Grim Reaper, or Black
jack with Drac? Can you dance with
the dead? On October 28, celebrity
specters opened WCC’s "Haunted
Casino.” Jonathan Parsons enter
tained dancers and kept a steady
flow of music from 8:00 until
midnight.
As always, dance participation
was good. The WCC mocktail
lounge had it’s grand opening and
served non-alcoholic beverages to
offset the cost of this elaborate
affair. Since the local police force
insisted that "real” gambling was
not allowed, gambling patrons were
allowed to bid their winnings for
prizes at the Last Call Auction Hall.
This digression from stock dance
entertainment was the brainchild of
"Duck” Whitten. Three weeks of
promotion, planning and hard work
unofficially attracted an attendance
of over one hundred fifty ghosts,
goblins, cowboys, can-can girls, and
(EEEEK!) people. A special thanks
goes out to the members of Phi
Theta Kappa, SGA, faculty, and
staff who made this a successful and
enjoyable event.
New Center
Thanks to the foresight of Dr. Jim
Randolph in early 1991, the hard
work of the Learning Resource
Facility Committee, Learning Re
sources Advisory Committee,
SACS Committee, the support of
the Board of Trustees and the votes
of Wilkes and North Carolina, we
hope to have a new Learning
Resource/Student Center in 1995.
March 13, 1991 the Learning
Resources Facility Committee sub
mitted its facility plan. A minimum
need of25,000 square feet was indi
cate that includes sufficient storage
for 100,000 titles, hi-tech for cur
rent Information Age, more local
history space, and pulhng all areas of
the Learning Resources together.
The thought of a new Learning
Resources reminds one of our last
new library in 1969 and how 16,000
titles were moved to a library built
for 20,000 titles that now holds
over 51,000 titles. Dr. Thompson
and Dr. Shaw invented pig troughs
that were great for a shelf of books.
Two high school students trans
ported the books on the back of a
pickup. Mrs. Mary Richardson and
Mrs. Margie Canipe may be called
back for supervision. After days of
struggling, college was dismissed
one Friday afternoon and the job
was completed. If the new Learning
Resources is close we might be able
to create a chain. If not, Dr. Shaw
bring out the troughs.
Those who helped us with the
plan were Mr. Tony Randall, Co-
Chairman, Janet Atwood, Sandra
Church, Larry Caudill, Tommy Cau
dill, Sherry Dancy, Dr. Barbara
Holt, Pete Mann, Frank Shuford,
Cathy Sidden, Kathy Tisdale, and
Dr. Jim Knox, Chairman of the
SACS Committee on the library.
—Faye Byrd, Director
of Learning Resources
Dangling
On The
Fringe
Monday, November 22, 1993
6:00, p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Room 209, Thompson Hall
Wilkes Community College
Do you have days when your
nerves are frazzled? Stress in the
office is deadly. Anxiety kills initi
ative, ideas, and creativity. Per
sonally, stress can make you spin
your wheels and get nowhere!
Learn to nip stressors in the bud.
Take charge...not cover!
This seminar is presented by
Bobbie Staten. Bobbie is a power
ful trainer and speaker. She
bases her presentations on a para
doxical foundation: graduate
health degrees and a healthy and
sometimes irreverent sense of
humor about people and the lives
they lead. She is a rare talent with
sponataneous, creative, conta
gious humor. Her timing is su
perb; her message upbeat, fresh
and entertaining.
There is a $5.00 per person
materials fee for this program.
Developing A
Woman’s
Workable
Wardrobe
Tuesday, November 30, 1993
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
or
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Room 209, Thompson Hall
Wilkes Community College
If you would like to learn the
secrets of developing a workable
wardrobe, we invite you to attend
this seminar. Gale Champion will
show participants how to:
*Develop a Career Ward
robe on a Limited Budget
*Build an Extensive Ward
robe from a few Well Chosen
Separates (Gale will bring access
ories and 10 pieces of clothing
to demonstrate)
^Identify and Understand
the Versatility of Neutral
Colors
‘Determine your Figure and
Line
‘Accessories for your best
Look
Participants will complete a per-
sonal data inventory and receive a
computerized printout that will indi
cate the correct line and proportion to
be used in choosing clothing for their
body types.
To register, please make checks payable to Wilkes Community College,
and return with the registration form on the back of this brochure to
Wilkes Community College, Attn: Cozetta Slamp, P.O. Box 120,
Wilkesboro, NC 28697. For additional information, plesae call (910)
651-8694.
PHI THETA KAPPA
Scholarship winners for 1993
Brett Cothren ($iooo)
Sheryl Monks ($2500+)
Total Awarded ($3000+)
For more information contact:
Dr. Josephine Hendrix
Dr. Barbara Holt