Agnes Scott College - Silhouette Yearbook (Decatur, GA)

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Summer Oddities That ' s My Job! Over the summer, a number of Scotties experienced unusual vaca- tions that one might not consider time off. These brave sorts escaped typical summer routines to explore new career fields. THE EYES HAVE IT Julie Ketchersid joined the staff of the Department of Ophthalmology at Emory University as a Lab Re- search Technician. Her duties in- cluded dissecting animal eyeballs and taking out the lenses. She also tested eyebank lenses from human eyes and cataractous lenses from cataract surgery. Her supervisor is currently researching a cure for cataracts in human eyes. Baby Talk Chris Veal worked in a hospital ' s newborn nursery caring for babies and help- ing new mothers learn to care for them at home. Chris also helped the nurses care for the sick babies and premature infants. Peaches And Cream Marty Wooldridge packed peaches this summer in Ruston, Louisisana, and claims the number-one peach packer position in that orchard! Some specimens, about five inches in diameter, were entered for com- petition in the Peach Festival. Even though she worked outside under a hot tin shed and always came home scraped and bruised, covered with peach fuzz, Marty managed to enjoy the experience. DANCE FOR THOSE WHO CANT Sarah Campbell spent three weeks at Duke University studying Dance Therapy. Then, she travelled back to her home state Arkansas to use newly learned techniques as a dance exercise teacher at a state hos- pital. Says Sarah, Movements express what ' s happening in your mind, and dance therapy can help to direct these tensions in a constructive manner so it is theraputic in nature.

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■• ir ' 1 ir V t ffC ' . On the Road Melodie Johnson, Pam Mynatt and Martha Sheppard joined a group largely composed of Emory under- classmen for a six-week orienta- tion into French culture. Based in Paris, the program offered two classes each day plus field trips into the city, tickets to per- formances at the Come ' die Francaise (France ' s national theatre) and several excursions around northern France. Twenty-one Agnes Scott students toured England and studied Elizabethan Social History under the guidance of Professor and Mrs. Brown. The group toured such places as London, Hever, Dover, Canterbury, Exeter, Oxford, York, and Edinburgh, Scotland. High- lights, besides the museums, cathedrals and palaces, were chas- ing sheep across the moors and swooning over Michael Pennington, who played the title role in Hamlet. Nine Agnes Scott students toured the Great West on the 1980 Desert Biology Trip. The students collect- ed and studied plants and animals native to that habitat and found time to visit Big Bend National Park and Carlsbad Caverns. According to Val Hepburn, they all grew to ap- preciate the wonders of that wide expanse known as the Desert.

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r- MIPP Bartlesville Is Just No Place To Be Lydia Reasor was employed by Philips Petroleum in Oklahoma. She worked in the analysis branch of the research and development center. Day after day she tested the content of plastic styrofoam cups. Lydia ' s summer was profitable because she had been interested in industrial analysis as a career. However, after this summer, she decided that this job might be a bit too tedious. m K iiiiiiMiiii V H IIIIIIIIIMI V %K H f Dmio«« Hi » » J ' k- m :!iii hIH| STEALIN ' THE SHOW AT SIX FLAGS Jeni Giles hosted the Chevy Show at Six Flags; and, according to a friend, the job was so appropriate to her wide-ranging liberal arts education that she found it difficult to unglue the rancid pieces of bubble gum that had gathered on the soles of her tennis shoes after a day of laboring on behalf of the ' American Arts. ' . . . And A Heckuva Engineer Polly Gregory spent the summer surveying land, conducting soil tests, and taking topographical measurements. Later in the summer she did some architectural drafting for an engineering firm in a small Tennessee town. RIVER RAT To Mildred Pinnell, Park Techni- cian for the National Park Service, working at the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area did not mean lazy summer fun. In addition to directing traffic in 100° -I- heat, getting used to abusive language, and taking children on nature walks Mildred also patrolled the areas along the river, wrote tickets, and provided information to visitors. Would she do it again? Sure, it beats 9-5!