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

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Special style adds spice to BIG MAC ATTACK as new College president serves up his own recipe for success ATTACK PLANNING-At the celebrity softball game, College President Pat McAtee and art instructor Doug Hunter look for weak points in their opponents. The game raised money to pay electric and heating bills for senior citizens during winter months. (Photo by Wayne Gottstine) Style is important to Dr. Patrick . McAtee, College president. The style McAtee is most concen with is not that of his clothes or his cai even his house. Cowley ' s new presiden proud of his own special style management. You ' ve got to be an effective mana if you ' re going to get a position sucli this, McAtee said. Management something that develops over the ye with experience. McAtee identifies different management styles which seen in the work force. There are those managers who xti want a great deal of control, he sa They want to control everything th; being done or said. They have a strong on the organization. McAtee ' s style of management considerably different. The opposite of that (style of m agement) is someone who delega responsibility, he said. That ' s wha like to do. I like to deleg; responsibility. McAtee finds there is a secret to | management success. You have to surround yourself w people who are good, he said. You ne to hire people who you really feel li ' mesh ' with your philosophy and style management. Those individuals that Cowley ' s n president is looking for must fit wit! this framework. I want people who are ' self-starte and who will take their own initiative get things done, he said. They will : goals for themselves and take pride what they do. McAtee admits that the hardest part fulfilling his goal is finding just the rig people he can work with. That ' s probably the most difficult p; of the job-to find those good people. Th( are a lot of people for jobs, but there £ very few good people for jobs, he said. McAtee says there will always be a ji for those few good people in the wo force. There will always be room f someone who is really good. It starts wi somebody who is very positive about lil They have a positive outlook, McAt Fall ' 87

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ONTENTS Page 2 Page 6 Pulse is produced by the azine Production class at ' ley County Community ege, 125 S. Second, Arkansas , KS 67005. The Pulse is fid by Josten ' s of Topeka, KS times per year and has a ilation of 1,200. Fall ' 87 FEATURES BIG MAC ATTACK by Kathy Gann 2 A look at Cowley ' s new president and his plans for the college. COWLEY BENEFITS by Julie Reed 4 If you ' ve been having doubts about your choice of a junior college over other secondary education, a visit with some of the faculty and staff might change your mind. FAMILY DAY by Liz Riley 6 The annual celebration to honor all Cowley families in appreciation for all they do. CRABTREE CONVOCATION by Kristi Adams 8 The close of Cowley ' s Family Day brought the special Eleanor: A Play to the Cowley families. COWLEY COUPLES by Andria Drongoski 12 Married couples share an inside view of life and love while they attend classes together. COSMO MAKEOVERS by Andria Drongoski 14 The Pulse spends a day in Cowley ' s cosmetology department during the cosmetology makeovers of four Cowley students. WALNUT VALLEY FESTIVAL by Mark Patrick 24 The 17th annual Walnut Valley Festival brought record crowds and Bluegrass music to the Cowley County campgrounds PROFILES KEVIN PENNINGTON by Tonya Rudolph 16 There ' s a new physics teacher at Cowley and he makes the formula for learning equal fun. DEBBIE DAVIS by Laura Moore 38 The new women ' s volleyball coach shares her secrets for success in a winning season. DAVE BURROUGHS by Rob Glenn 42 This recent addition to the Cowley staff juggles baseball, intra- murals and fatherhood with interesting results. IN EVERY ISSUE ABOUT TOWN 22 GALLERY 44 Page 24 Page 28 Page 29 OP 4 L V IB I 1 Pulse 1

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They are not negative and do not plain. They are not always looking for s or excuses. McAtee has a name for people like I call them ' dirt-getters ' because they le ground running. That ' s the kind of le I like, he said. They feel they can mplish anything. They can set goals want, and attain them, look for people who have those quali- ibove people who have said they have nany years of experience, he said. If cher has taught for 15 years and has dead from the neck up, then he ' s not 2, to do me a lot of good. cAtee figures that type of instructor t do the students much good either. f this teacher ' s information passes lgh his notes and into the notes of the :nts without passing through the mind ther, then I don ' t care is he has had 20 years of experience, he ' s not doing me any good, he said. McAtee feels an obligation to his employees. Once you get these people, then you have an obligation to articulate the vision of where you want to go, he said. We need to come to grips with articulating what we ' re all about and where we should go. Deciding where to go is a decision he ' ll make by himself. McAtee says a good manager will include others in the decision-making process. A good manager gets input from the organization but, ultimately, he has to decide what we are going to do, he said. Once you articulate the vision, you hold people accountable. You measure whether we ' ve got that done. McAtee sees a good manager as a sup- port giver. I ' ll give them all the support they need to get the job done. I won ' t just give them a bunch of jobs to do and then not support them as far as getting it done. McAtee says a college president has an obligation to keep up with what is going on in the classroom. I think a president needs to know what is happening instructionally and about the quality of instructors he has. He needs to find out what their strengths are, too. McAtee does not want teachers to think that he is on a seek-and-destroy mission. I think we have an obligation to try to encourage and help them get whatever training they feel would help them-whether it be teaching techniques or particular subject matter. We have an obligation to get them that. BY KATHY GANN f The most important thing is when they get out and seek a job and get a job. That is when their real education takes place any way. 9 9 Dr. McAtee ' s philosophy of :ducation is just as important o him as his style of nanagement. Access to educational pportunity is a big part of ny philosophy, he said. I think we should do iverything possible to mcourage the masses to btain as much education as hey possibly can. McAtee says the voca- ional courses have been reated unjustly by some )eople. I think all education is valuable and should be treated is valuable. It should count ©wards something and should lpply toward something, he aid. Some people think that if i student is participating in something vocational or termed ' terminal ' (as opposed to transfer), that somehow it is something less than the transfer education. McAtee wants these stu- dents to stay in the College program. We should do everything we can to keep students in the process, he said. The most important thing is when they get out and seek a job and get a job. That is when their real education takes place anyway. McAtee identifies a prob- lem many students meet when they try to transfer their hours to some four-year colleges 6 r universities. I don ' t like the Ivory- towered philosophy of edu- cation that all the masses must come to the Mecca to take education, so that it can be blessed by the holy instructors, he said. According to McAtee, alternative teaching methods and techniques should be considered I think education can be in an office building, an industry, or a recreation center. It doesn ' t have to be on the holy land for it to be called education, he said. McAtee believes students can learn from each other. I don ' t think all the knowledge of the world is in the head of the teacher, he said. Students bring all kinds of experiences to the class- room. He thinks teachers should seek the untapped sources of their students. They should be able to explore their ideas, share those ideas, and have somebody respond to those ideas, he said. They don ' t want to just be filled up with information. McAtee thinks that teach- ers should be considerate of their students. Students like some humor and some enthusiasm so they will feel important, he said. McAtee says instructors are obligated to their students. A classroom should be exciting. If a teacher can ' t make his students feel the hour they are spending with him is the most exciting time in their lives, then they have no business being there, concluded McAtee. BY KATHY GANN Pulse