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!r RTC SECRETARIAL GRADUATE BOSS RIGHT HAND MAN IEditor's Note: "Alumni Profile" is a re gut/or Robeson Tech feature that focuses on graduates of the coUege. Alumni Profile runs the last week of each month m the space provided here for regular RTC features and news stories.] A good secretary just may be the most underrated professional in the business world. Tanya Register would probably agree with that, but it doesn't make her any less dedicated to her job and the people she works with. " I love my work and I enjoy working with people." she said. " I work with a great group of people. Sometime they' 1) pick on me because they say I keep them in line. I guess I'm a perfectionist I try to keep things going the way they're supposed to. T ve been taught one way and that's the way I do it" Ms. Register is the administrative secretary for Century 21, The Real Estate Center on Fayetteville Road in Lumberton. / Sht haa been working for real estate broker Jane Smith since graduating four yean ago from Robeson Technical College's two-year program in secretarial science. In that time she haa proved herself indispensable to the IS agents who work with her. Ms. Smith realises the importance [ Ms. Register is to the daily operation of her businesa. "Tanya probably is really the only one who knows where some things are," said Ms. Smith. "She's very good and loyal .to the company and helps keep everything coordinated. "She's my memoiy." ? Ms. Register, who is married and makes her home in St. Pauls, was born in Massachusetts and lived there until she was 12. Her family moved to North Carolina and settled in St. Pauis. In high school she was awarded a scholarship and chose to attend RTC, where her mother and sister had been students in the nursing program. Barbara, her sister, completed the program and received her RN license. Her mother, Florence Suggs, died before the final pinning ceremony recognizing her nursing graduates. A memorial fund for nursing students was established in her name. 4'FV?r the first seven years I was in North Carolina 1 didn't like it," said Ms. Register, 23. "Now I have come to love this state and I would never move back. I guess T m one yankee who has been transformed." At RTC. Ms. Register was an excellent student. Business " instructor Helen Ivey recommended her after graduation to the Century 21 office. "She being from the North, it took'a while to get r jF accustomed to the way she talked." said Ms. lvey.-'But she was the kind of person you liked to be around. She was conscientious and had a lot of initiative. She didn't have to be told what to do." Secretarial students are taught typing, word processing and machine transcription. They also cover subjects in office procedures, filing, accounting and business law. "They need a variety of skills," said Ms. Ivey. It's what Ms. Register needed. "I do a little bit of everything, from answering phones, to bookkeeping to all the paper work-closings, listings, contracts." she said. "You*ret continuously meeting new people and coming across new situations; you just can't learn in all. Just when you think you've seen it all, you'll come across a closing arrangement that is entirely unique." The office workload perks up significantly during the summer months, and it's not unusual for Ms. Register to come in early or skip lunch. She isn't required to make such sacrifices, but it's the way she prefers it. "One of the agents will want something done and they'll tell me there's no hurry." she said. "Well, no hurry might mean to me later that morning. I know I'm putting more pressutv on myself when I do that, but I don't like things piling up." Ms. Register is most aware of the trust and responsibility she carries in the office. She also knows how important she is to Ms. Smith. "A secretary is the boss' right hand man." Ms. Register g ?aid "A buM Km so much to beep up wttk, so msny little >:! things and yuu have to be a food awwlii) to haap up wKh ?f The job market for aarraiaitoa ia wida open. According to a: report published by the stale, "Projection* to 1W0: North - It Carolina," the secretarial (laid la the number one oetn portion in the stale with tha greatest number of annual <i?ningi 14.346). Today, there are more 'than 90,000 eec<.<Mariee % employed in North Carolina. "For someone who likes to do this kind of work, it's a vat 4 job." said Ms. Register. "An agent will tell me. 'With a 1 you C have to do, I wouldn't have your ^ib.' Well, 'hen ag in. 1 ? wouldn't have their y>b either. ' ? "It's very important to me to teel like IV ieeded." ? ''}M SWETT BOUND FOR ? CALIFORNIA & NEW JOB OPPORTUNITY i CALIFORNIA BOl'Nfh~ Oicight Swett [rioA/j transfer red to I NC-Chun'otte from Richmond Tech three years ago. He completes his bache lor a degree tn July mid will work for Hughes Aircraft Company in California. While at RTC, his instructor and Meeting Dwight Swett is n real treat. He is an authentic "good ole boy" from Pern broke who played ball in high school and quite college after a year to get married and go to work. Tall and broad shouldered, he has a quick ? grin, and "oh shine, yea" a collection of phrases that make you proud to live in the South. On top of it all, he has a brain like a steel trap. Throughout the time Dwight worked in a factory and fanned, his father encou raged him to go back to school. "I farmed full-lime for four or five years and things got real tough," said I height. "1 have a cousin who kept telling me about Richmond Technical College and Mech Tech. He works for CP A I. at Soulhport and said I'o get a good job, too. Si 1 decided It come get my degree." He enrolled in the Mechan ical Engineering Technology (Mech Tech) curriculum to study mechanical drafting and engineering analysis. He stu died computer aided drafting, heat transfer, electrical sys tems, melallutgv . draulics, machine proce- s and was in the top of his class. "It's a top notch school. If a person wants t<f learn, he's not limited. He can learn as much as he wants. Mr. Byrd (lead instructor for Mech.. Tech) and Mrs. Hull (instruc tor for physics) have the backgrounds to take you beyond the classroom materi . til. They'll help and guide you." After completing (? o years at RTC, Pat Byrd en 'U raged Dwight to transfer ?> UNC Charlotte where h< will re ceive a bachelor's it Vfechan ical Engineering n July. Dwight's modest . (mission that he's "done pretty g?iod there" means he's in the top five percent of his class and a member of the Tau ffc la Phi Engineering Honor Society. Ftwight decided h? wanted to go to graduate s 'tool and "I plied for a IV lowship through Hughes Aircraft Com patty and NASA. Hughes of El fartfn laiimn esm a ? ? i > mentor, hit Hynl, H0 <1UW<1C<I IXriyht to continue his eilaca tion ut CSV-Chariot It. Hynl, ' who <ilso worked for Hui/hes, ? ? is particularly proud of Dwiyht because he will enter the same proymm Hynl w<>rk ed in duriny tin 60's. H'}' Segundo. California decided.', [?wight was tiM> good to pass't* up and called with a job offer, v a salary of over $30,000 and .-? the fellowship. ?> "A* lady called about. >? Hughes rotation program ;, where you have four siv.v* month assignments doing ? ious engineering functions, ?? ?1 said Dwight. "She said I"d be. working with airrraft mdac?-? tracking systems, laser diree-,/;* led optical guidance equip ment, and things like that."., Byrd, who worked for_>; Hughes in a similar program in the 1960 s, said the com pany is on the front line of high tech research. ..In jhis recommendation of Dwight to Hughes, he wn.te, "For my r final six month assignment I . was asked to help the pro gram director in the adminis t nit ion of the Rotation Train ing lYogram. 1 mention , this because 1 feel 1 am in d position to know exactly what ^ Hughes is looking for in terms ^ of young engineering lament. Dwight is one of those Fare. gifted Individuals U> whoii^ _ engineering analysis is sheer recreation. He would be a credit to Hughes Aircraft." Hughes was also impressed with the problem solving''* software package Itwiglit do" veloped while a work stud) student at UNC Charlotte "Hiat plus my technical writ ^ ing ability I got at RTt and ? my grades the scored high 011 * the graduate record exam) got me the job." How does a country boy feol'^' about moving his wife. HI aine, and sons. Joshu'i, Ja son, and Jeremiah, acn?ss this vast land? "Truthfully, that's my only reservation," said Dwight. "I've never been to Califor nia. T ve got some preconcei ved notions about it. but talked with a pastor I know who lived out there for four, years. He reassured 1 ? Til like it. I'm just real 1 cited right now." His friends and insti .rtors at Richmond Tech are 1st as excited. Helping stude s sue ceed is what the College is all ab> M. 1 ^ ^ ^ K'y.' a. a 5 LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU.. monday through Saturday I ? NO. I: 1002 e. ^ 7:00 a.m. til 10:00 p.m. ? is'i: vinritc c!10pf1 ^ sunday 1:00 p.m. til 6:00 p.m. I -NO. 7:1000N. 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