-J lino- i 111-, v * » High School Students National Program Provides College Studies To 200.000 Brenda Woods ...Likes traveling David Pankey ...Ma Bell salesman n oocts, r^ankey Join Ma Bell Sales Staff i By Sidney Moore Jr. 0 Post Staff Writer An easing of the once stress ed economy seems to be pro viding better job opportuni ties. Brenda Woods and David Pankey, directory advertising sales representatives for Sout hern Bell, say they are exam ples that opportunity does exist. ' The two are part of a 36 member sales team that can vasses North Carolina selling yellow pages advertising each year. They work in six-person crews and travel nine or 10 months per year over the state. “I like the traveling because 1 like to meet different peo Priorities Set ForNewGty Transit System The City’s Transit Planning Office this week announced priorities in planning, service and capital improvements for the first year of City owner ship of the Charlotte Transit System. Planning for the first year ranks first in importance as short range goals and ob jectives will be set. At the top yww wnwinpriniiUij tmc the completion of a new Transit Development Pro gram (TDP) for the Charlotte area. A TDP is a short-term (5-year) plan, revised and updated annually, which states the goals. Dolicies and budget for the system. U is both a need of City Council and a requirement of the Federal government. During Bus Week many peo ple voiced complaints about existing schedules and sche dule adherence. The Transit Planning Office has been mov ing to solve these top priority service improvement needs. New, easier-to-read schedules will be made available in September. Two new supervi sors will be hired to combat schedule unreliability. The Transit Planning Office will make monthly schedule ad herence checks throughout the year to identify other problem areas. Several capital improve ments are also slated for the neaMutur^^^^^^^^^^ 1 * pie , said woods, a 28-year old divorcee who has two children. A former University of North Carolina at Asheville student, she met members of the Southern Bell sales crew while working part-time in an Asheville motel restaurant where the crew was staying. She was impressed by the people she met and their job. After taking the suggestion of one of the sales representa tives to apply for a sales position, she was hired. Six months later. Woods says she finds the job as exciting as she anticipated it might be. Pankey, 27, of Winston Sa lem has a year's experience to his credit as a yellow pages salesman. He anticipates earning $20,000 his second year on the job and says that salary says a lot about oppor tunities at Southern Bell for qualified applicants. Other than the money, Pan key says the training program for sales personnel is out standing. “The training program we’ve got can turn a sheep into a tiger,' he said. Pankey was referred to Sou thern Bell by a friend who works for the Urban League. “It’s the best thing that has ever happened to me," said display mi tiative. You don’t have any body breathing down your back," he said. A Southern Bell official said the company fills sales repre sentative openings using a selection process that takes about 60 days. He said the company is interested in ap plicants that are seeking a career. The jobs are first bidded for by company employees. If employees perfer to remain in their present jobs, an appli cant is considered. . Such applicants are usually already on file, said the offi cial. He indicated that apply ing for such a position is a long range prospect rather than seeking to fill an immediate opening. The official pegged first year salaries (plus commis sion! for the job within a range of from *13,500 to *16,500. He said no prior sales experience is required. -“-1 AUGUST 10 f ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Free Prizes To The First Fifty People Who Come By r See Our 3 Show Rooms mcuMiala $500,000 Mnw * / Worth Of Merchandise McDonald's Furniture Hut Inc. 1518 Beatties Ford Road If You Don’t See It Please Ask For It a, ■ ■ ■■ — what do these high school students have in common? A New Jersey high school senior studying the Blooms bury poets A high school sophomore in Alaska researching U.S. labor history. A junior performing ad vanced physics experiments in a Florida high school This fall, these and some 200,000 other students in high schools across the nation are beginning college-level stu dies which may qualify them for college credit, advanced standing, and cost savings at more than 1,400 American Colleges and universities. Some may even enter college as sophomores. For the past 20 years, the Advanced Placement (APi Program of the College En trance Examination Board has been helping highly moti vated and talented students like these learn college-level subjects in high school "Advanced Placement is re cognized and widely accepted by the nation's public and private colleges and universi ties, including some of the most prestigious,” said Har lan Hanson, director of the College Board program. "The student who earns three or four AP credits receives im mediate sophomore standing or its equivalent at more than 100 colleges and universities, including Brandeis. Harvard, Northwestern, Princeton, Stanford, Vasser. and Yale, and the state universities of Maryland, North Carolina, and Utah," he said. The program can also save college costs, a crucial factor to most parents and students today, Dr. Hanson said. "We eslimate that the average AP student saves $400, but sav ings can amount to $12,000 or more for the student who uses the program to shorten college time to three years and enter the job market a year ear lier." Research has shown that AP students continue to earn a bove-average grades in col lege and are more likely to graduate with honors than non-AP students. Ninety per cent of them consider their advanced courses as the most valuable of all their high school studies After a year of independent or classroom study in higli school, students take standar dized examinations in May to verify their learning. AP of fers 20 exams in 13 college subjects. American history, art (history and studioi, bio logy. chemistry, English. Eu ropean history, French (lan guage and literature), Ger man, classics (Virgil and ly ric). mathematics (two calcu lus exams), music, physics (three exams), and Spanish (language and literature). The most recent addition, this year, is Spanish language Students may take the e xams as early as tenth grade las over 1,700 did last May), but the greatest number take them in their senior year. Each AP student may take any number of the three-hour, objective, short-answer and essay exams for a fee of $32 each. Even though 3.000 of the nation's 31.500 high schools provide AP courses to their students today, most students who could benefit from the program know nothing about it and discover it too late, in college catalogs. Dr Hanson said "This is particularly unfortunate when you consid er the low cost of providing an - Advanced Placement course for these students." he said "A school'may provide an AP course bv relieving a teacher from study or cafeteria duty, by running classes y smaller than average, hv adding required readings or lab work to existing honors and advanced sections, or by cooperating with other schools. Faculty may also supervise the studies of indm dual students as they prepare for the examinations." The College Board helps schools establish AF pro grams through consultants or teacher conferences in large districts, and. for smaller I ones, lists of experienced Al* teachers from nearby districts for informal consultations "AP is good news for com mutinies that have high aspi rations for their children. Ur Hanson said It increases the students' options, and helps them develop the self-confi donee, independence, and stu d> skills that will help them achieve in college We hope more communities will take ad\ antago ol n i Washington’s Shoe Service Expert Shoe Repair Service Abtary Public ROBERT B. WASHLNGTt > Y < >h r.er 2622 STATESVILLE AVE. Business 332-3723 Home Phone 399-1672 ADVERTISED ITEM POLICY: Each of these advertised items is required to be readily available for sale at or below the advertised price in each A&P Store, except as specifically noted in this ad. 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