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Spelman Spotlight March 12, 1980
BPW Foundation Offers Student
Loans To Women In Engineering
Engineering is the most
promising career path for
women, according to one recent
employer survey. Opportunities
are a result of projected overall
employment growth in the field,
plus a shortage of women
qualified for the iobs available.
Women in undergraduate,
refresher and conversion
programs, or graduate
engineering studies can get finan
cial assistance from the Business
and Professional Women’s Foun
dation through a special loan
fund expected to total more than
$75,000 this year. Available
Special encouragement is offered
to women with work experience
in engineering or related
technical fields but are qualified
through past study for training in
engineering or engineering
technology. Available to either
full-time or part-time students,
loans are made for tuition, fees,
and for related expenses such as
child care or transportation.
To be eligible for the BPW
Foundation loan program, you
must have written acceptance for
study in a program accredited by
the Engineers Council for
Professional Development, be a
U.S. citizen, show financial need
and carry at least six semester
hours during the term for which
the loan is requested. Both work
experience and academic
achievement will be considered.
Completed applications for the
fall 1980 semester are due by
May 15, 1980. For applications
and/or further information, write
to Loan Fund for Women in
Engineering Studies, BPW Foun
dation, 2012 Massachusetts
Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C.
20036.
Summer Jobs Available
For Minority Engineers
Mike Wolf oik and Gabriel
Grimes are well-educated minor
ity engineering students with ex
tensive on-the-job experience.
Wolfolk, an electrical
engineering major at the Univer
sity of Arkansas-Fayetteville,
spent his second summer on the
engineering staff at International
Paper Company’s (IP) Pine Bluff,
Ark., mill in 1979. Grimes, an
electrical engineering student
from the City University of New
York, spent his second summer
at IP at the Ticonderoga, N.Y.,
mill.
“My two summer internships at
IP have been a valuable part of
my engineering education,”
Wolfolk said. “In addition to ap
plying academic knowledge to
real-world manufacturing, I also
have had a chance to work with
experienced engineers, and to
see the kind of pressures they
face day in, day out, on the job.
You don’t get that out of a book.”
At Pine Bluff, Wolfolk was
assigned the job of linking up the
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Wolfolk also worked on a project
to upgrade equipment used in
monitoring sulphur dioxide
emission and on analysis of Pine
Bluffs sewer system.
“One especially valuable thing
I’ve learned working with
engineers,” observed Wolfolk, “is
that in manufacturing,
engineering also means
management. And that’s okay
with me because my goal is to
develop both technical and
managerial skills in a business
career.
At Ticonderoga, Grimes
worked on developing design
layouts and cost estimates for
electrical projects. “The work I
Newspaper Scholarships
The Ralph McGill Scholarship
Fund offers scholarships for the
1980-81 school year of up to
$1,500 each to students with
southern backgrounds who have
completed at least two years of
college, J ack Tarver, chairman
of the Scholarship Fund said
recently.
Tarver said May 1st is the
deadline for applications. He said
a number of scholarships are
awarded each year to students
who have demonstrated a long
time interest in the news and
editorial phase of newspapering.
Scholarships, he said, are
limited to those young men and
women who roots lie in the south. *
Applicants must also convince
the Awards Committee that they
firmly intend to pursue a career
in daily or weekly newspapering.
Traver said the Awards Com
mittee wants to give scholarships
to those who are likely to become
leaders in the newspaper field.
Successful applicants will be
required to maintain a “B”
average in order to keep the
scholarship.
A letter of not more than 500
words telling why the applicant
wants a scholarship, together
with a photograph of the ap
plicant, must accompany each
application. Applicants also must
have a letter of recommendation
from a college authority.
Application blanks may be ob
tained from: The Ralph McGill
Scholarship Fund; Box 4689;
Atlanta, Georgia 30302.
did on me mill’s new paging
system and a study of the short
circuit network opened my eyes
to the electrical complexity of a
paper mill,” he said.
Bob Henderson, employee
relations manager at IP’s Ticon
deroga mill, summed up the value
of the student employment
programs; “IP’s support of the
minority engineering effort
provides minority students a real
opportunity to familiarize them
selves with the work of industrial
professional life.”
Students interested in more in
formation may contact the
National Fund for Minority
Engineering Students at 220 East
42nd St., New York, NY 10017.
Don’t be discouraged if things don’t go right when you first
attempt to get an internship!
Summer Study
In Spain
The modern foreign languages
department at Valdosta State
College is again offering a sum
mer program of study in Spain.
This year’s enrollment limit
has raised to 200 as opposed to
120 of last year. Students who
participate will spend 4 weeks
at the Ciudad Universitaria in
Madrid from July 10 to August
7. While there, they will be able
to take courses in elementary,
intermediate, and advanced
Spanish.
“In addition to the Spanish
courses,” said Dr. Jose B. Fer
nandez, director of the program,
“we are also offering for the
first time courses in art at the
Prado Museum, radio, tele
vision, and cinematography in
English. For the education stu
dent and teachers, there will be
a course on contemporary ed
ucation in Spain which will give
them exposure to working with
bilingual children.”
According to Fernandez, any
student, including qualified high
school seniors graduating in
June 1980, who participates in
the program will receive full
college credit (up to 10 quarter
hours) from Valdosta State Col
lege.
“The program package will in
clude round-trip, trans-Atlantic
plane fare from New York,”
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said Fernandez, “transportation
between Barajas International
Airport and the Ciudad Univer
sitaria upon arrival and depar
ture, 4 weeks’ room and board
and swimming pool priviledges,
"In addition," continued Fer
nandez, “there will be an option
for a Miami departure for those
who prefer it over New York.
We also have a 2-week, cultural
program for those who do not
wish to spend a whole month in
Spain. Persons interested should
act promptly, because available
spaces are limited.”
For more information and
prices, contact Dr. Jose B. Fer
nandez, Director, VSC Summer
Program in Spain, Valdosta
State College, Valdosta, GA
31601
Third Annual
Career Forum
The Third Annual Career
Forum for Liberal Arts Majors
was held during February. The
morning session in Sisters Chapel
included a keynote address,
“Special Concerns for Liberal Ar
ts Majors for the 1980’s,” by Mrs.
Eleanor Cox, assistant dean of
the Graduate Faculities at the
University of Pennsylvania. A
panel discussion, “Special
Challenges - Focus on Majors and
Related Careers,” was also held
in Howe Hall and included par
ticipation by a number of
distinguished consultants.
The Career Forum is spon
sored annually by the Offices of
Counseling Services and Career
Planning and Placement in order
to provide students with firsthand
information about the v world of
work that will assist them in their
career planning. Students are
urged to attend both sessions of
this activity as a vital part of their
career development.
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