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

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other Daughter Team »rry Eaton works with Louise Hagan through le English as a Second Language program, hoto by Pat Pruitt) me down here. Some of the students have dropped out of gh school, and think that it will be both isier and quicker to take their GED. But aton emphasized that they usually find it i be considerably more difficult than they iticipate. We do have a lot of younger ones. Many : the really young ones who come in won ' t nish. They come down and discover that ' s harder than they thought it was going i be, and they ' ll either give up or go back t high school, which is what they should o, she explained. Eaton is strongly opposed to the use of a ED as a shortcut for people who want to uit going to school. I would never encourage anyone to ;ave high school. They need to be there, le said. We don ' t have pep assemblies r any fun things here. And you can ' t give our parents the satisfaction of seeing you o across the stage in a cap and gown. Many people who complete the program nd receive their GED go on to attend lasses at Cowley. Eaton is un- ( Continued on page 25) A family affair Mother, daughter team Provides service to College, community Often times we hear about husband and wife teams working together, but very seldom do we hear about mothers and daughters working together. At Cowley, we have our very own mother-and- daughter team of teachers. Terry Eaton and her daughter LeAnn Sturd work together in the GED ABE ESL lab. Sturd says that working with her mother is an advantage because they know each other. The two have a sort of mental link. I have to know what she ' s thinking before she says it, Sturd said. This telepathy helps Sturd and Eaton Family work There ' s always time for a laugh and a good- natured hug when Terry Eaton and daughter LeAnn Sturd team up. Eaton and Sturd have become a winning combination for the hun- dreds of students who use the ABE GED ESL lab. (Photo by Pat Pruitt) sometimes when working with certain students. Because of the age difference between the two, Sturd and Eaton are able to help students in different ways. If one student is uncomfortable with Eaton, then Sturd can help them and vice-versa. Probably the biggest advantage of the Eaton and Sturd team is they can help each other when things are rough. If one person is discouraged then the other is there to help them through it. Sturd said that she and her mother have the same basic philosophy of life. They both want to help people. Sturd has her degree in elementary education and Eaton, a degree in secondary education. The only problem with us working together is if we both want to go to the same family function, saidSturd. All in all, the two work together well, Sturd thinks. Growing up with her mother as a teacher really had no infuence on Sturd going into the education. I just decided to be a teacher, Sturd said. She did say, however; that working with her mother part time in the GED ABE ESL lab affected her coming to work at Cowley. Eaton and Sturd had worked together previously and when the opportunity for a full-time job opened up, Sturd decided to go ahead and take it full-time rather than remain part-time. I was interested in the job, so I took it, she said. Sturd attended Cowley for three and a half semesters but never graduated. Other members of the Eaton family have, and are presently, attending Cowley. Stacy Eaton, Sturd ' s younger sister is currently attending Cowley, her father Lyle has been on the Board of Trustees and her mother graduated in 1954. This makes Cowley a kind of family affair. by Stephanie Bruner

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Second chance lab gets students Once they get down here, they ' re hooked. And that ' s always my goal. Terry Eaton, the woman who said that, is the body and soul of the Adult Basic Education, English as a Second Language, and General Education Diploma atCowley County Community College. Eaton runs a program designed to help people acheive their goals. Some want a high school equivalency diploma, others are working towards American citizen- ship, and some are learning the English language. There are also a number of students who aren ' t working towards any particular goal, but simply want to im- prove themselves. The program was quite small when it originated, but the number of students going through the program has increased ever since. Chris Vollweider, who runs the Learning Skills Lab in the rooms adjoining Eaton ' s program in the Renn Memorial Building, said that the growth of the ABE ESL GED program can largely be attributed to the hard work of Eaton. She ' s one of those people who is kind of behind the scenes, but she does a lot for the colllege. And she doesn ' t really get a lot of recognition. She puts in a lot of additional hours, not only here at school but at home. People are constantly calling her, and she tries to help them in any way that she can, she is a very giving person, she gives a lot of her time to her students, Vollweider said. Eaton would never accept that much credit, but she can ' t help but admit how much the program has grown. It ' s probably at least tripled, or more than that, Eaton said. It was a very small program, we had a little tiny room on the second floor of Galle-Johnson, and that was my classroom the first year. So it had like two tables, and six carrels, and my desk, and one shelf of books. And that ' s what we started with. Now it ' s kind of grown. We started out with one room, and I was here a very limited number of hours. Now I live here, she laughed. Eaton said that the program had ap- proximately 100 people in it ' s first year. It seems like the first year we hit close to 100, and then this year it was 361, Eaton said. Last year the GED lab had 246 students who actually took the equivalency testing. But Eaton explained that she has many more pupils. That ' s not reflective of the total num- ber of people who come here, because not all of them test. I ' m probably seeing at least half again as many as their figures show, at the very least, Eaton said. That ' s because not everyone who enrolls in the program wants to receive a GED diploma. Some people come in because they want to work on spelling or math or reading. And this year, with all the media coverage, they are really coming to work on their reading, because they ' ve found that there is a place to come. Some of them just didn ' t know about it, Eaton said. Adult basic education, in my estimation, is to help people brush up on whatever we can help them with. We try to help them with any thing we have to meet their needs. •• I ' ve never known of any studeni who left because they were frustrated or upset or because they didn ' t get help. -Chris Vollweider 9 Master teacher The reason the program draws mort students than some of the other schools o; its kind is because of the advancec facilities at Cowley, Eaton said. People like to come here because of tht association with the college, and 311 th equipment that we have down here. Being housed in the basement of the library let; us use any thing the library has. So w | have controlled readers and computers! and the people like that. If people go t | other classes, they get a text book, sh | explained. Eaton said that the people who do tes| for their GED are almost equally divided between those who need the certificate t | work, and those who do it for their owi gratification. A lot of them are here for personal satisfaction, because for very valk reasons they missed out on a high schoo diploma, Eaton said. And especially th older ones, because a few years ago diploma wasn ' t neccesary for a job, peopk didn ' t care. But now it ' s almost impossible to ge very much of a job without a diploma. S the GED is more neccesary than it was and I have a lot of unemployed people tha

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Cosmetology Students learn beauty magic in... A day in the life of a Cowley person usually starts with a pretty scary ex- periences glance in the mirror. Cosmetology students are anxious to make that first glance in the morning a little easier. Part of their training to make people look better includes hands-on experience, and their rates for the service are com- petitive. Regular rates for haircuts, per- ms, shampoos, manicures and everything else are about half the cost of a public salon. Senior citizens receive a 20 percent discount, as do Cowley students who bring along their I.D. card. Vice President of the College and Dean of Administration Sid Regnier has been getting his hair cut by the Cosmotology students ever since they moved into their current building, and he seems to like it. I really enjoy going over there. First of all I ' ve never been to a barber that many times in my life anyway. My dad cut my hair for 16 years and through a lot of other years I ' ve had friends who cut my hair. I enjoy going over and visiting with the studen- ts and it gives me the opportunity to observe the program. I think it probably makes the students more nervous than it does me. One of the students that we had a few years ago really caused some excitement when I ' d come over. I enjoy it. I ' ve always had good haircuts. According to Pat Mauzey, in- structor, there ' s no reason to be hesitant about letting a student cut your hair. ' They have to perform at a certain level before they are allowed to work in the lab. The only thing they don ' t have is the ex- perience behind them, ' she said. It takes 10 months to go through Cosmetology School, which translates into 1500 clock hours. All cosmetology students punch a time clock every day, and Mauzey says they soon learn to be punctual. Students complete eight weeks, or 320 hours of training before they are allowed to work on clients. It takes a lot of time on both the studen- ts ' and teacher ' s part, ' said Mauzey. Cheryl McCully is also a supervisor for the department. She is kept busy doing grading, office work, and spending a great amount of her time in the lab overseeing LOOKING GOOD-College Vice-President Sid Regnier i a regular patron of the cosmotology school. In addition to haircuts . he ' s considering getting a perm. (Photo by Pat Pruitt) the class as they work on clients. In the lab the students have a variety of supervision that can intervene at any time. Fifty per- cent of a student ' s grade comes from his or her performance in the lab. Mauzey says a lot of the students ' lear- ning, from watching her demonstrate and then doing the task themselves. Students also spend time working on slip-ons, man- nequin heads, which they style, color an( perm. They are graded on the work they di on the slip-ons. If, for any reason, patrons are nc satisfied with the services received, n charge is made. Regnier has a very positive attitude about the Cosomotology depart merit. „ , „ . if Well, it s a good program. really encourage all our student and staff to go over there. On« thing you have to remember i when the students are on the floo practicing a portion of thei program, they have a lot of goo« They have to perform at a certain level before they are allowed to work in the lab. -Pat Mauzey supervisors that know wh they ' re doing. You don ' t have 1 be afraid that you ' re going to g« a bad job. In fact they ' ve final! convinced me to go over this wii ter and get a perm, Reign said. According to Mauzey, taking advantag of the good prices and the services of fere makes sense because, in a matter of moi ths, Mauzey said, they are going to b professionals. by Jan Herrmann