Palm Beach Community College - Galleon Yearbook (Lake Worth, FL)

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Data Processing Do not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate If pride is a good motivational force, the Data Processing (DP) Center of JC is certainly well inspired, and with good reason. Dale Washburn, director of DP, told of the seemingly ' unknown ' advances that have taken place since 1964. We have 13 sections covering both majors and non-majors, totalHng some 250 students, Washburn noted. He said that about half the students are DP majors. There is no active club or organization that is affiliated with DP. Washburn feels that another club on campus, just wouldn ' t function. Because we are not a ' living campus ' with dorms and all, many students don ' t have the time to organize. he noted. He instituted the ' learning by doing ' theory in the department. The students have their own computer which is not used by faculty or staff. Washburn feels that the individuality of DP for the student is pre- valent more than any other program avail- able here. Jeff Hunter, Manager of Programs and Systems, noted some of the things DP does outside the classroom. We like to look at ourselves as a service center. We help both students outside DP and the comm- unity. Some of the work DP gives outside the JC campus includes road inventory for Palm Beach County, statistical reports for the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, the Veterans Administration and others. But perhaps more importantly, the DP is one of the most vital work forces on cam- pus. The employees of the DP center are all JC graduates, thus actually helping Wash- burn to better educate his present students. Our registration is a model idea, Wash- burn stated. We receive letters daily con- cerning how we ' ve implemented this system at JC ' i DENNY GLAVIN 23

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The Engineering Technology (ET) dep- artment, despite it ' s lack of the ' limelight ' , has proven to be a dept. worthy of praise. Jennings B. Rader, chairman of the ET dept., has a six-man staff consisting of: Leon Austin, Robert Book, Charles Connell, James Cooper, Leonard Hickley and Micheal McCue. Within the ET dept. there are numerous majors available. They range from air con- ditioning and refrigeration, electronics and drafting design to fire science and land surveying technology. The ET ' s affiliation with the popular club. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) is still strong. IEEE is the world ' s largest professional engineering society with some 180,000 mem- bers, 25,00 of which are students. Club origins date back to 1884, with such distinguished engineers and scientists as Alex- ander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison as charter members. JC ' s chapter of IEEE was one of the first student-run organizations of its kind in the country. The actual start of ET at JC began in the mid 1950 ' S, according to Jim Cooper, who as well as being a ' main cog ' in the teaching end of ET, serves as faculty advisor to IEEE. Despite no ' name ' graduates like the Drama dept ' s. Burt Reynolds, some grads have acheived high honors at schools such as the highly acclaimed Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology (MIT). We now have some 120 students enrolled in our day program, Cooper noted, it certainly has gone up some since it ' s con- ception. The personal attention the student re- ceives at a school the size of JC helps in the actual ' learning process ' of that student. Cooper cited some of the advantages of being an IEEE member included not only the high regard for IEEE members as a whole. The JC student receives valuable pubhc- ations and an opportunity to belong to the overall Palm Beach IEEE chapter. Cooper stated. With membership in the P.B. chapter of IEEE, the student also receives discounts on all IEEE-sponsored events like banquets and conventions. The ET dept. has proven to be a leader in ' taking care ' of students in ET programs. As IEEE student president, Tom Solder noted, It ' s a real bargain. i i, DENNY GLAVIN Mechanical Mind 22

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Voters ' Registration M ' Mobile registration makes it easy to register. Candidates mingle JC is interested in getting the students actively involved in county politics. This past fall JC held a Meet the Can- didates Day , the first of its type. Out of the 120 candidates running for county of- fices, 79 candidates came to JC for the e- vent. They brought pamphlets, speeches, buttons, smiles and signs that were all dif- ferent shapes and sizes. Dean Glynn who originated the idea said that the purpose was to get the stu- dents involved in politics. It was also A chance for the candidates to present them- selves to the students and to pick up some volunteers for their campaigns. The concept was actually a three-phase operation. First, all candidates were invit- ed to come out and campaign. The second phase was when the winners from the prim- ary came out to gather additional support. The third part of the concept was a tent- tative luncheon which was to be held for the winners from the general election. All together, the three phases created a total involvement for JC. Dean Glynn com- mented that the ' Meet the Candidates Day ' was a great sucess and that the college hopes to do it again in the future, ji LINDA DINGMAN ' Raise your right hand and repeat after me.. 24