Newspapers / Fieldcrest mill whistle. / July 27, 1970, edition 1 / Page 4
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Joe Rowe, Though Handicapped, Makes Perfect Grade Scor Joseph Sidney Rowe graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington recently with a perfect grade average (all straight “A’s”) and was honored by Delta Sigma Pi, national business fraternity, as the highest ranking business administration stu dent ever to earn perfect grades at UTA. Known to his friends as “Joe”, he is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney E. Rowe, of Arlington, Texas. Mr. Rowe is manager of Fieldcrest’s Dallas Service Center. Joe was named outstanding sophomore, jrmior and senior stu dent in the school of business and was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma business honorary and Alpha Chi national scholastic honorary society. He was listed in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Uni versities for two years. He is now assisting two UTA professors in writing a statistics textbook and will be working with a pub lishing company this summer as a technical reviewer on man agement science books. These would be remarkable achievements lor any young man. They are doubly so for Joe Rowe who, since the age of five, has been immobilized from the waist up by paralytic polio and is dependent on an iron lung and a portable respirator. He has attended classes in an electric wheelchair equipped with a portable respirator and takes notes, types, operates a computer and paints landscapes in oil — with his toes. He sleeps in an iron lung. In addition to his own personal courage Joe has had the con tinued aid and encouragement of his mother and father. Mrs. Rowe each day drove her son to the University in a panel truck, wheeled him to class where his respirator was plugged in. She waited to repeat this routine for each class. Her patience and dedication were not forgotten. Dean W. B. Nelson of the School of Business presented Mrs. Rowe a resolu tion of his department’s faculty commending her for helping her son attain his bachelor’s degree in business administration. Joe Rowe with oil painting which he painted with toeS' Already busy with several projects, Joe is looking towa’^^ career in data processing and management information syst®J Work toward a master’s degree in business administration gins next fall under a scholarship given him by the Zeta chapter of Delta Sigma Pi, the national business fraternity' Joe Rowe, an amazing young man with an amazing atti^. said, “Almost any problem can be solved if you have the tude to solve it. Physical handicaps can be overcome es' than most others.” Joe’s done it, but surely it wasn’t easy. ,st ■ {rtHM I 'S'Wi.f, "T|* I Mobile Health Unit (Continued from Page One) health in the best possible state. long-range idea is to detect and f vent health problems before they come serious enough to cause troui bl' The mobile unit presently is if' General Offices parking area at ! ‘ ' i Bedspread Weave Room Gets where various finishing touches being put on. . Following this, the unit will introductory visits to the various On each such visit, “open house” be held in the medical van, with ployees and members of the profession invited to see the new h®‘ facilities. Canteen A modern, new canteen located in the new section of the Bedspread Mill Weave Room has been in operation for several weeks. The air-conditioned room is paneled, has tile flooring, modern fluorescent lighting, and is furnished with tables and chairs. The new canteen has three soft drink machines, three machines for coffee and two for milk, along with the usual bat tery of machines for vending pastry, sandwiches, hot canned foods (soups and stews), candy and cigarettes. Equipment also includes a dollar bill changer, microwave oven and food serv ice counter. The picture above shows some of the Bedspread Mill employees as they enjoy the new facilities. Absenteeism Costs You and Costs the Company WORK EVERY SCHEDULED DAY THE MILL WHISI'I rft;'
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