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From the Tennis Court
to Xerox Office
BY FORREST HUGHES
Note: This article is the
first in a series on graduates
of Guilford College and how
Guilford has affected their
lives, particularly their
careers.
It's a long way from South
Boston, Va. to the office of
Xerox's Marketing Coordina
tor for North Carolina but
Aubrey Forlines has made the
jump. There were a few inter
mediate steps along the way
and Guilford College was one
of them.
For Forlines, Guilford was
not just a place to continue
his education after graduating
from Halifax County High
School. At Guilford the 1974
Management graduate served
on Judicial Board his junior
year, and remembers a case
in which a dorm resident was
almost expelled for dropping
water balloons. He was on the
tennis team for four years, and
was the best player on the
team for two of those years.
He can still be seen on
Guilford's courts on sunny
week-ends. He played intra
murals all four years.
College was not all fun and
games. Or. Caudill's Indus
trial Management class partic
ularly affected Forline's future.
". . . I learned more in his
course than anywhere else,"
Forlines said. "What helped
most was having to stand
behind your own project and
be interrogated about it." The
experience of that class made
him more confident and
accustomed to pressure, and
helped make him able to think
quickly. "It helps me in
talking to my boss now," he
said.
Forlines never used Guilford's
Placement Office, and now he
regrets it. "I hadn't heard of
anyone being successful at
getting a job through them,
and I didn't go down there."
Perhaps he would have started
off in a better job if he had
begun having interviews
earlier. After graduation he
didn't know exactly what he
wanted to do, and, like many
people, he considered graduate
school at UNC-G. In order to
establish residency to qualify
for cheaper tuition, and -to
earn a living he became a
teller with Wachovia Bank.
That position was so depress
ing that he left, with no job
in sight.
A customer from the bank
mentioned to Forlines that
Xerox had an undisclosed
opening for which he might be
qualified. He got the job 18
months ago and it's been up
ever since. He has some
dissatisfactions with his
present position, but he feels
that he has a future and a
choice in the directions he
chooses now.
Although Guilford's only
direct influence on Forlines
was Professor Caudill's class,
there were many idirect influ
ences. "I grew up, learned
how to think, how to be
confident," he said. After a
pause he added with a twinkle
in his eye, "I never really had
a confidence problem."
One important thing Forlines
learned from Guilord was how
to deal with people in all sit
uations. He thinks gaining
this kind of experience would
have been impossible outside
of Guilford, which is the right
size to get to know many
people well.
Another aspect of Guilford
that he appreciates is the
freedom to organize your own
time. "Some people don't
ever learn to spend some time
on play and some on work,
and some on sleep." Self
discipline is evidently another
indirect benefit of Guilford
College.
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Forlines had a few words of
advice to people who will be
graduating soon. First, know
what you want, "... set
your ideals as soon as you
graduate." Second, keep
those ideals, but be willing to
accept a job not as challenging
or financially rewarding as
your ideal. You have to prove
your abilities. As Forlines
said, "The guy who produces
is going up, and you have to
prove tnat you can do it."
Third, "Hang in there. Keep
your direction but don't get
too restricted."
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Education Week
BY ALICE MALONEY
A.C.E. (Association for
Creative Education) will
sponsor Education Week
April 4 through 8. A.C.E. has
conveniently scheduled Educa
tion Week at Guilford to
coincide with the Week for the
Young Child held nationally.
Scheduled events of
Education Week will include
speakers Walter Drew from
Boston University and Charles
Coble, who has received
recognition as an outstanding
professor at East Carolina.
Mr. Coble will speak about
early childhood education,
focusing his lecture on
phonics. Thirdly, Alice
Harrison will speak on the
characteristics of young
children with an emphasis on
the positive behavior of
children.
If you would not prefer to
lend your name to the roster of
unemployed students for this
summer, why not just
continue your student-hood
and attend summer school?
For the first time in years,
Guilford will be the host school
for the Greensboro Regional
Consortium (Guilford,
Greensboro, and Bennett
Colleges) summer school
program.
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In addition to the above
mentioned speakers. Educa
tion Week will include an
exhibition of teacher-made
materials in the library, and
various activities and demon
strations.
Times and dates of scheduled
events will be posted through
out the week.
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The first session will run
from May 23 to June 25 and
the second session will run
from June 27 to July 30.
Admission to the summer
school session is being handled
through Guilford College
Urban Center. If you have any
questions about the program,
call Cathy West at extension
173, or drop by the Urban
Center and she will be glad to
answer your questions.