University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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BETTY Wi LFT clerks in Stemteld ' s in conneclion with her merchandising course. (Experience Ihat she hopes will lead to Ihe job of buyer for a big store. GEuRGE DICK, permanent salesman m the men ' s department, having obta his job through his experience as a student m the salesmanship course. INTERIOR DECORATING is the job Roger Skini.ei hjids thiough tlie litip ol llu oil campus aid bureau. HOW THEY WORK By MARTHA JEAN KARNOPP DRIVE UP to almost any gas station in Tucson, follow the usher ' s flashlight down the aisle, or eat at any sorority or fraternity house and it ' s more than likely that a university student will wait on you, for 40°i of them, ore job holders. The Off-campus Employment bureau alone, has placed nearly 210 boys and girls in jobs around town, earning between 35 and 50 per cent of their college expenses. Many boys have jobs that moke them completely independent. N. Y. A., which serves a slightly different need, employs 345 students on the campus itself. Dr. Victor Kelley, director of N, Y, A and departmental employment, places students in clerical, stenographic, library, hashing , and paying jobs around the school. Certain requirements have to be met by those earning government wages: The age limit is 25 years and a grade average of three must be maintained. On the other hand, off-campus work, with wages paid by the employers themselves, ha; no such restrictions, and the jobs ore more varied. It is through this department that students find the odd jobs they hold around town. Up until 1939 this service was not distinguished from the work done by Dr. Kelley in N. Y. A. but since then there has been on increase in demand for port time labor around town, the type of work that students look for. To Bob Murless and Don Alldredge go ihe job of directing this new department. Most prospective em. ployers call in at the office, partly as the result of a pamphlet sent out early in the year, telling about the service offered by the bureau. They have also made it a point to call on managers of such large businesses as the Arizona Wholesale Grocery Co., the Santa Rita, and the White House for their cooperation in helping with student employment. Bob says that in finding occasional part time jobs, it is a matter of knowing just who needs help and when.

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iskJ eie EOECAT TED OZANNE and Morlar Boaid lean Hamilton point the way to registration. MARY SHiVVERS ' greets her mother and dad who came from Phoenix for the day. Setting; front steps of the Pi Phi house. GETTING an early start on a tour of the campus were these parents emerging from the Rec hall. By McCALL LOVITT PARENTS ' DAY at a university means a lot to soine proud mothers onid dads, but to others it means no more than receiving a form letter from the student body presi- dent invitmg them to come to see junior, a football gome, and maybe a polo game thrown in. Some ignore the invitation for various reasons; some accept with pleasure. Origin of a mothers ' and dads ' day at Arizona dates back to 1929. That year the senior honorary societies. Bobcats and Mortar Board, decided to inaugurate such a celebration. Mothers and dads of 1929 had a good time looking around the campus end watching the football gome. The gome, with New Mexico Aggies gave parents a chance to see Hank Leiber, Porky Patton, and Bill fHargis run ■ ■ wild. The team won 28-0. The Desert that year wrote up the gome and the Parents ' day on one page. Here ' s the way they describe the day; The Wildcats string of victories continued uninterrupted when the New Mexico Aggies fell 28-0. This was also the Parents ' Day game. Seven words to this celebration! Despite this feeble beginning, the Bobcats and Mortar Board have made it an annual affair. On October 5, 1940, 800 parents accepted student body V p president Carl Berra ' s invitation to come to Mothers ' and Dads ' Day. That night they saw the Wildcat football team outdo its performance of 1929. This year when the final gun went off the scoreboard showed Arizona 41, New Mexico Aggies 0. Earlier in the day 1940 parents had followed a routine similar to that of 1929. In the morning they registered in the recreational hall at the registration table set up by Mortar Board member Gloria Doyle and her assistants. Then they took lours around the campus with Bobcat Jim Cory and his company of guides. At 11;30 weary parents hod a chance to relax and enjoy a program of student entertainment prepared by Flossie Nell Hogan, Mortar Board music major. In the afternoon all went to the Vine street polo field to watch the Southern Arizona Polo Club defeat Major Delmore Wood ' s university team 9-5. THE HISTORY and tradition of Old Ivlain are explained to parents and children by a member of Chain Gang. MOTHER AND DAD being shown through the engineers ' buildi ng as part of the tour of the campii?

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This year the number of jobs is much larger than the number of students wanting them. There are several reasons for this: fewer boys have come bock, perhaps for fear of the draft, per- haps not. There are more part time housekeeping jobs and fewer girls willing to take them. A smaller number of girls wont work because their families can ' t send them to school unless they can give them total support or ore assured of a job before ihey arrive. The number of boys working is five times that of the girls, indicating a higher economic level for girls and a cor- responding lower demand for jobs from them. Child care, part time housework, and clerking in stores ore the most commonly known for girls who seldom earn more than 30°o of their expenses. In a survey mode recently it was found that student wages averaged from $10.00 a month, enough to pay for a room, to self supporting jobs at $30.00 a month. A few have been known to support themselves on as little as $28.00. On the other hand, with a very small number of boys, as much as $60. 00 to $90.00 is earned each month. In this latter class ore many professionals. Beverly Williamson, law student from Illinois, is a licensed barber, Beverly went to a barber school in Illinois for an entire year with the purpose of supporting himself in the work at college. Asked why he chose that particular trade, he said that he hadn ' t known of any other work that would fit in with college demands so well. He does think that anyone working 23 hours a week needs to be a fast reader when he gets around to studying. The amount of time students spend on the job ranges from just a few hours to as many as 50 a week. Nevertheless, no correlation has been found between the hours spent on the jobs and the grade level of the students holding them. George Petty, a professional tile-setter who bids for his own contracts and employs several other students, is planning on going into agricultural chemistry. Tile-setting, a trade he learned from his father, is just a means to this end for him, to support himself while he ' s in school. For Betty Wolff, her job has exactly the opposite value. She clerks in the women ' s wear in Steinfeld ' s in connection with her merchandising course, experience that she hopes will lead to the job of buyer for a big store. Arizona students con be found waiting on tables in res- taurants, doing yard work, construction work ond carpentry, NIGHT WATCHMAN is the posihon Tcm While holds in ihe Vi Bank building. He operates Ihe elevator, and as he is doing ab an hourly inspection of the offices. clerking in hotels, running elevators, on coll at a turkish bath, packing parachutes, and, perhaps the peak of versatility, cleaning poultry! CLYDE MINNEAR, chouffeo JANE BAILLET, food checlier ot Ihe Santa Ril GEORGE PEHY, tile setter Vp RESOLING S BEVERLY WILLIAMSON, barber STUDENT ushers ot the Fox HOLIIDAY, hosher