Cowley College - Tiger Daze Yearbook (Arkansas City, KS)

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[ Charles Hungerford • Brian Howell Instructor enjoys drafting When classes began Aug. 27, Charles Hungerford began his third job, this time as a drafting instructor at Cowley. Hungerford is pleased with his new job and with the College in general. So far I like the college. It ' s a really fine school, well run and well funded, said Hungerford. Before moving to Arkansas City, he and his wife Ina lived in their hometown, Springfield, Mo. He taught at Linn Technical College for four years, the Monett Missouri Area Vocational School for 1 1 years and in as a part time instructor at Drury College. After graduating from High School in Springfield, he was a draftsman in the Navy for four years. I joined after the Korean War and was out before Vietnam, he said. After the Navy I had 12 years work (drafting) experience before I went back to school. Hungerford will be teaching machine drafting, mechanical, and electrical drafting. His two favorite types of drafting are surveying and architecture. Hungerford ' s students range from high school students to 30-year olds. I have always enjoyed working with adults rather than high school students. It is a real challenge, he said. They are motivated and want to learn and either get a job or attend a four year college. Computers are his hobby as well as his job and he ' s excited about the new computer trend here. I am challenged by the com- puterized drafting machines, he said. Hungerford sees the College ' s Area Vocational-Technical School as a strong institution. NEW MAN ON THE BLOCK- Charles Hunger- ford, the new teacher In the Industrial Technology Department, says he gets to teach his hobby. (Photo by Brian Albertson) I like the schools better in Kansas. There is more funding on the state level of education, and the people I have met are really friendly and make me feel at home, Hungerford I teach my hobby. Its not work, enpy it. said. I am comfortable working with them. He will also be involved with the Vocational Industrial Club here. I have been in VICA for the past 1 1 years and I have always had win- ners, Hungerford said. I think it is a good student organization and I enjoy taking students to the contests. When he finishes teaching, he will continue his drafting business he has started in Arkansas City. I have been drawing house plans for the past 10 or 11 years, he said, I teach my hobby. It ' s not work for me, I enjoy it. He also collects coins and enjoys traveling with his wife Ina. Real Estate in Arkansas City J.O JJorotku uJn REALTY INSURANCE lA e Jjo Stppreciate [Jour Dm ffl justness 442-7851 1 206 North Summit (njp izZUsricfc - Wu man V (ds ne- ' Z zo ( Lo-z w HAROLD L. LAKE President 100 E. Kansas - P.O. Box 756 (316) 442-3210 Arkansas City, Kansas 67005

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STAR WARS continued from page 15 Reagan ' s description sounds good, but is it really a realistic objective? Is it realistic enough to justify a radical change in American defense policies? The statement describing Star Wars might have been published by a representative of a peace movement rather than the Reagan ad- ministration. But it is a Reagan statement and currently he faces criticism in his own ranks as only a few are convinced that Star Wars could work. It appears the problems with a Star Wars system are immense. The earliest a system could be installed would be 1990 and then to install the complete system would take a minimum of 20 years. Political con- ditions, and scientific discoveries may have changed fundamentally by this date and after a 20-year installation period, what guarantee is there that the system wouldn ' t have to be up- dated before being made operational. Finally, if the system were in- stalled and it worked at top capacity, 10 percent of the Soviet missiles would reach their target and that would still mean catastrophe. The situation is made even more catastrophic by the nuclear rain which would be released when the bulk of the Soviet warheads are destroyed in space. That rain would be fatal to cities in the United States. Perhaps equally frightening as the catastrophe Star Wars could bring on the United States, is the computer requirements to control the program. George Church points out in his March 1 1 , 1985 TIME magazine article that humans would not be able to write or check the required programs. This would all be in the hands of computers, some placed in space stations and out of human con- trol. Humans would have to program key decisions and responses years before the actual attack and com- puters would initiate the defensive attack before undisputed knowledge of a Soviet attack could be possible. Should we give the movie version of Wargames a chance to come true? So far, Star Wars renders the climate more hostile than it con- tributes to peace. The question of Star Wars comes at a critical time. The alliance between the United States and the European NATO members has been suffering in the last years and now Star Wars nourishes European fe ars again. I would very much like to see the nuclear bombs removed from my home country, but those bombs are exactly what has kept peace in the last decades. It seems shortsighted to give up all the security of a practiced strategy to plunge head-over-heels into an expensive, perhaps im- possible, and potentially deadly ad- venture. Star Wars is, at this point, an im- mature project and cannnot possibly be supported. It gives reason to worry because it is another symptom of a disease which world politicians have been suffering from for a long time- tine technological progress sets the political stage and strategies are made up to fit technological ad- vancements. Research should not be restricted but there must also be rationality and common sense to han- dle its results. The Arkansas City Chamber of Commerce salutes COWLEY COUNTY COMMMUNITY COLLEGE and its positive impact on the area isle: MID KANSAS FEDERAL 442-6700 MID K ' iNSAS FEDERAL SAVINGS a LOAN ASSOCIATION 125 N SUMMIT ST ARKANSAS CITY. KANSAS 67005-0754

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hoe DaJf -In Love with Letters Suzanna Darby is an avid teacher. That ' s why she ' s exicted about teaching Freshman English and English Literature I, which covers English Literarure from Beowulf to the 18th century. Next semester she ' ll teach English Literature II which is her favorite period because it contains the romantic period. It ' s nice to be back in a college at- mosphere. There is a vast difference between high school and college, Darby said. Here, I have my own lit- tle office. Here, I ' m free to teach the way I want to; to include the things I want to, for example a special author, Darby said. She enjoys the atmosphere of a small college community after teaching speech classes as a graduate asssistant at WSU and English classes at Winfield High School. I think it will be easier to know students individually, to get the basis for friendships here. At WSU, studen- ts just came to class and left. I had a guidebook I had to cling to that prescribed my teaching. Of course, I was only a graduate asssistant then. I still got to know students at that time, because I taught interpersonal con- munication and you can ' t avoid get- ting to know each other in a class like that. Darby lives in Wellington and doesn ' t mind the daily drive back and forth. I really enjoy the ride. If I put myself in the position of a metropolitan worker fighting his way through the traffic jam every day, I ' m glad that the only obstacle I have to fight might be a farmer who ' s driving 20 miles per hour to watch his wheat crops or cattle, she said. She refers to the time she spends in her car as her uptime and downtime. My uptime is the morning drive when I get ready for the day, Darby said. Driving back is my down time, the time to relax. Once I hit the door of my house, my kids will be waiting for me to help them with their homework or bring them to their foot- ball or gymnastics practice. I have to be ready to cope with that. The decision to become a teacher was based on a negative experience during her high school years. I had a wonderful, kind teacher once. But his grammarwas atrocious. From then on I wanted to go out and become a model teacher. Now I realize that when you get up in front of 33 students, you just try to get points through, you don ' t care about your sentence structure or proper grammar. I regard one ' s speech now as a part of one ' s personality, but I don ' t tolerate wrong grammar on paper, Darby said. Born in Kansas City, Ks., Darby moved with her mother to San Fran- cisco, where she spent the majority o f her school time. After 10th grade, she moved back to Kansas to live with her father and graduated from Turner High School in Kansas City. She continued her studies at Em- poria State University as an un- dergraduate. At Wichita State Univer- sity, she worked on her Masters and taught classes there as a graduate asisstant in freshman speech com- munication. After receiving her Masters in communication theory, she stayed home for some time. In 1972, she and her husband moved from Effingham, near Topeka, to Wellington. Her son Josh was born in 1972 and her daughter Leah in 1978. In 1978, she began teaching college English classes for Cowley at Wellington High School and then went to teach at Winfield High School. The desire to become, a good EH1 Hallmark Motor Inn [(JesternJ WORLDWIDE 1 LODGING 1 (316) 442-1400 1617 N. Summit St., (U.S. 77), J Arkansas City, KS 67005 STEINER CARPET CENTER YOUR CARPET HEADQUARTERS CHARLIE CAROL 316-442-1640 8TH KANSAS ARKANSAS CITY, KS 67005