Broward Community College - Silver Sands Yearbook (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

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college is just a small part of the artment's work, as a matter of fact, all handicapped people are uraged to go to college. According rs. Eileen Busby, another member the staff of the Rehabilitation artment clients are given a battery tests to see if the path to their tion is on a college campus. ln ition to the tests, the client must see a psychiatrist and a doctor, f which is at state expense. Should department feel that the icapped person is not suited for ge, they will send him to a tional school or through any other ing that will lead to a payingjob. gthe other hand, if the person has lesire to go to college and the rtment feels that he can make a f college work, they will send him ie and pay the tuition as long as maintains at least a c average. In ition to this, the Rehabilitation lartment will try to help with other bnses, should there be a need: and l Busby and her associates have around to local employers and l ed part-time jobs for handicapped lents. E the iandicapped student is out ICC, he can also be assured of help '1 IVlr. Ted Taylor and the Student 'iram to Achieve New Spheres. The 3NS program provides special 'aes for those students that are not e ready for college level work, as as tutoring and financial help. is not a one-way street, however, Vlr. Taylor puts it, This is a ram for the student to develop a er concept of self, and this takes g effort on both sides. t handicapped students do make effort at BCC, and this full effort Jt into learning. This is probably brought out in the person of Jim ieidewend, who at 40 is getting his :ation while confined to a wheel '. Although Jim has been in the al chair since 1956, he has not had ill life and is one of the most 'esting men that I have ever talked A man that has spent fifteen of orty years sitting in a wheel chair then wants to go to college, what fou think? ust be said, however, that Jim has not always been so well motivated. After he was confined to a wheel chair and found that he was suffering from a birth defect, Jim worked as a telephone operator till he was laid off and then did office work for a small business firm. After that he found that the government would give him Social Security benefits for his handicap, and with no encouragement to get out and go to work, he lived off of his benefits for ten years. After moving to Broward County from Wisconsin he was sent to the Opportunity Center of Broward County by the Vocational Rehabilitation Department. I believe that it was there that Jim really found himself. With the full cooperation of the staff, he began helping some of the other clients that were going to the Opportunity Center. Jim explained it when he said, I get a personnal feeling of pride when I help someone. It was his friends on the staff that convinced him that he should go to college and study to be a professional counselor. And that is just what Jim is doing at BCC. Although Jim feels that too many students expect too much from college, he thinks that the students and faculty at BCC are first class. From what he has told me I could not agree with him more. My own experiences with him have shown me that Jim is his own man and likes to do things himself, but he is not so proud as not to accept help when it is needed. I found that in all of Jim's classes one of the students will make an extra set of their notes for him. This is necessary since he does not have the dexterity in his hands needed for writing. I thought to myself that the students at BCC really have it all together as Jim told me, ln addition to everything else I am very appreciative of the way the students have treated me and the help they have given me in my cIasswork. As far as the teachers go, Jim finds that they give plenty of cooperation as long as a little interest is shown. One of the people that Jim speaks most highly of is IVlr. Ray Gover, who has helped Jim immensely with expert counseling. Jim does have a complaint with Broward, but only because he has to cope with it every day he is at school. He finds his main problem is the dip in the walkway between the Library and the Hospitality Center. Getting down to the middle of the dip is no problem, but coming up can be very trying and almost impossible if there is a strong wind. One other problem that I have observed, and which Jim would not complain much about, is the one or more steps that sometimes have to be mounted to get into buildings or onto walkways. Jim would not complain about this because he still has some power in his legs and finds that if he turns his wheel chair around and pushes with his legs, he can manage the step. However, what about the students in wheel chairs that have no power in their legs? Let us start using some foresight for these people. The way the handicapped person is treated by his fellow students at BCC is something that we can all be proud of, but the responsibility does not stop there. We must see that new facilities are installed and that existing facilities are improved. This immediately brings to mind our new North Campus. With the question of what facilities, for handicapped students, have been incorporated into the architects drawings of the new campus, I went to Dr. Harry V. Smith, the Executive Dean of the North Campus. Taking time out of a busy schedule, Dr. Smith told me that the new campus has a one-story interim building, and the two-story building are connected on the second floor by a covered walk way in addition to having an outside elevator. Marked spots in the parking lot are also being provided. I hope that some further thought will be given to this important situation and that the blue prints will be diagnosted as to what is still lacking in the way of facilities for the handicapped. Through first hand observation it is my opinion that the handicapped student has a terriffic desire to live life like everyone else. To maintain themselves, when possible, raise families and assume their rightful place in American life. I consider myself very lucky to be going to a school where the students and teachers do what they can to help the handicapped students while still treating them as individuals, the same as you or I.

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Motivated to Succeed Scurring off to class in a wheel chair, holding a cup of dark hot coffee in their only hand, not paying any attention to a call from across the lawn, only because the person can't hear. Handicapped these people certainly are, but there is still alot of life in those bodies, and it's being used to the fullest. Colleen Sharpe is a young lady on the go, yet she has never known what it is like to have a left arm. Colleen is a prefood and nutrition major, with a class load of 15 hours, which includes one hour physical education. As if this was not enough to keep a young woman busy, Miss Sharpe also spends 30 hours a week working at Memorial Hospital. While Colleen finds that the teachers and students at Broward Community College are nice to her, she has not made any lasting friendships. She tells me that this is mainly because people have to get to know her, and that, of course, takes time. As might be Even the mere act of opening a door is an everyday problem for rhe handicapped. expected, her friends at Broward are students she has known from her high school days at Hollywood Hills. Unlike some of us more fortunate students, Colleen could only think of one complaint with BCC, and I think that most of us will agree with her. She feels that at least a couple of the more popular walkways should be covered so that getting to class could be a little more conventent on some of those wet rainy days. Colleen has been counseled by the Vocational Rehabilitation Department of Broward County, and they are paying her school tuition, although she pays all her other expenses. While talking to Sally J. Chalstrom, a counselor for the Vocational Rehaibilitation Department, l found that there are many handicapped people in the South Florida area that won't let their handicap bog them down. They don't feel that the world owes them anything, but they are out r' ll Q' Igmiiiil f'Q..,g?' fl-f 67rvfS'?5 ' .v.-Q,-,nf .ff--2-ci I Scurrying to class . . . not all ofus walk. to prove to the community themselves, that they can be productive part of society. T dedicated people, such Chalstrom, all the handicapped has to do to receive help assistance, is make himself kn The Vocational Rehabi Department is a state run orgar that provides numerous services persons, who are both mentaly physically handicapped. Chalstrom's own area takes in all Hollywood and she still finds spend every Tuesday at BC spends this time in the 5 Services Building, ready to help handicapped students with special problems. The department been working with a number students since high school, and continue to assist them 1 college and into the working Helping a handicapped person to ,. 1-ii 2335 There are no short cuts for Schniedewent when he goes to the floor.

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o-op E ucation Puts And just how many times have you found yourself sitting in the midst of The Most Boring Classroom Lecture in the World, and asked yourself, what in the name of Floyd Christian am l doing here? Ahhh, this is just one of the countless trials and tribulations in the process of obtaining that ever-elusive college education. True, it often seems so futile to expend two, three, four or more years of continuous classroom study without ever truly applying that knowledge, getting out to where it's definitely at, or in layman's terms, a job. Well, surprise! BCC has had on its campus a program specially designed to give Q, the student, the opportunity to integrate your classroom study with practical work experience in whatever your major field happens to be. Such is the Cooperative Education Program at Broward. Students specializing in every area from aviation to technical education may apply for the Coop Program, and, in fact, the program covers every major field offered at BCC with the exceptions of the paramedical area, Hotel- Motel Management and Food Service Administration which sponsor their own work-study programs. If you are a full-time student with 12 classroom hours to your credit you One part of co-oping for Steve DeStephano Knowled e to Us may apply for the Cooperative Education Program. The only academic requirement is a 2.0 grade point average and good academic standing. If you enter the program you must plan to graduate from Broward while remaining in the Cooperative Program during your time on campus. The program of alternating terms of full-time study with terms of full- time work. lf you are a student you may apply to Cooperative Education just as soon as you have been accepted for enrollment by the College, although you do not receive a work assignment until you have completed one semester of school. You need not be specially trained to apply for the program, but instead interested in working in the field you plan to go into upon graduation. Take Steve. Steve DeStephano went through two long years of college training in business administration. However, his real interests lay in redio-television broadcasting, sports in particular. He had read a great deal of literature on the subject, but had considered it perhaps a bit too elusive and selective a field to pursue. But then about a year ago he read about the radio-television program here at Broward in the handbook, and he heard of the Cooperative Education l Q 1 E-A '-Sl . , '. 4 vias learning the technical set-up of our X 1 .4 V v N-'Q-.-an 4 4 language lab. FE. Q 55,554 '19 . ' 'Q ', , ' 3 0 v'F '5' i- l92.:f1' S ANG: 4 l Program on campus, so he decided inquire. ln no time Steve had switch his major and a job was found for h right here at Broward as an A. Technician for the Learning Ftesour Department. His main function T l i l operating the Video-Tape machin T which feed the tapes into the clos circuit television network controlli the televisions in all of the classroo Not an exceptionally glamorous j i but a good start for Steve 'l m n electronically inc lned bu learning a little of everything Steve s big break came when the Co people came up with another part ti job broadcasting and spotti Plantation High School football gam for the Plantation cable televlsl system TelePrompter He does always broadcast the games but times he doesn t he is able to wat other professional broadcasters work thus learning throu participation and observation all of t hows wheres and whys of puttl together such a broadcast for television audience And thats w they call the nutty gritty Jerry Pasqulno came into the progr as a Pre Law major hoping eventually obtain a position in a pol or security capacity He has spent past term working as a security gu i Ol 'ts-Ss R 'sf Q , l I l l . 1 l . . I I ' ' I' , t I it . . , n 1, I . ' W 6 i . . l 5 . . . l 5 . . . :fl . I . , - L 5 . T l . . . i it I . . . . , lvl n . ' . II ' ll l . - . . V hi . . ' L nl . . . I X l 4. 1' I? l . : j .3 . tp f 1 l Q :nw 1 , Nw- , l I . av- -. '- k 1 at L . y . ' X'-1 ' ' I .,.l l .V iq ' em' 1. ' - xl 16 1 ' h I T X, Q - gy