Barton Community College - Spoke Yearbook (Great Bend, KS)

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AND THE COLLEGE. The college affects the surrounding communities in many different ways. Each year hundreds of students help bring in additional revenue to many area businesses, mainly the bars, fast food restaurants and the discount stores. Steven Black, manager of the McDonald’s in Great Bend said, “Ball games help bring in additional customers such as the spectators, students and even occassionally the visiting teams.” BCCC also provides jobs for many people of the surrounding communities. The adminstrators, instructors, secretaries, librarians, maintenance and the cafeteria employees fulfill the major portion of jobs offered. Of the 221 employees at the college, 30 percent commute from other towns. Another service the college offers to the communities is the Outreach program. Outreach brings the intructors to the people who cannot come on campus. Janice Shifter, Ellsworth said, “Outreach allows me to just commute on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and to take the courses 1 otherwise could not have.” Classes are held from Kinsley to Junction City, and courses such as accounting, woodworking, ceramics and English are offered. Also, BCCC provides workshops and conferences to aid many individuals of the surrounding communities. These primarily benefit people of the business world but are also attended by traditional students. Workshops and conferences may cover a two or three day period and go into detail in many different skills. In addition, BCCC offers an Adult Basic Education ( A.B.E.) program which allows adults to improve their basic skills in reading, arithmetic, and English. The program benefits the people who have less than an eighth grade education. Another added feature the college offers the community is the General Education Development Examination (G.E.D.). After a person has successfully completed this examination, he is issued the High School Equivalency Diploma by the Kansas State Department of Education. The G.E.D. classes cover five subjects including math, English grammar and reading comprehension, social studies, natural sciences and literature. Indeed, BCCC does affect the surrounding communites and will continue in further helping the area toward a better tomorrow. BCCC serves the old and young alike by creating an atmosphere for higher education at the lowest possible cost. Also, BCCC continues to Sheila Hubert participates in the “Fun in the Sun Daze” barbeque, an annual fall event which allows the students and faculty to become acquainted. Student Senate kicks off a year of activities with this mixer. 10

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til The annual all-school picnic is just one of the many events sponsored by the Student Senate. David Stor«bralj Da ee. Shelly Keitel, Sherry Zweifel and Janet Oswald enjoy themselves while filling their plates with food and waiting for the music of Slim r s Computers are becoming a big part of today’s society. At BCCC the enrollment of the computer program is growing yearly. Though the courses are not always easy, some students like Shellie Seeman and Lisa Blixt find that working together can be beneficial when programming.

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Microbiology offers students like Joe Burke the opportunity to deal with the microoganisms in the world around us. The snack bar, a popular place for many students who have their cravings for a snack, is usually quite busy. Pauline Halfhill is one of several employees who help make a student’s day more leisurely. thrive with quality instructors and coaches who do their best to improve education in central Kansas.