The Ranger

              Aids council
Janet Sublett, professor of speech here, volunteers her ser­vices
for the San Antonio Literacy Council. She teaches En­glish
once a week at the Parkview Senior Citizens Home.
Group names O'Brien
outstanding professor
This city's chapter of the Ad­ministrative
Management Soci­ety
honored a business profes­sor
from this college at Its Edu­cation
Night April 18.
The society named Juanita
O'Brien, chairman of the busi­ness
technology department,
Outstanding Business Teacher
of the Year.
O'Brien received a plaque
and a bouquet of red earn•
lions. She was chosen by a
panel Of judges from teachers
repreeenting about 25 schoola
In the area, Dee Vincent, club
pr•ident, said.
O'Brien att~ the meeting
to repreeent the college for the
-,.:ts program, not auspect·
Ing that she would be honor9d
herself. Each year the society
honors outstanding business
1tudents from local high
achools.
tennpapen
"It was a real shock. It never
occurred to me !hat I was the
one to r-ive the awald. I am
very gratified and humble," she
said, after the presentation.
She Is a former member of the
m~ IOClety and put
president of 1h11 school's Busl­,_
Education Teacherl As­soc:
latlon.
Otri. !Ndl8B from Iha•
panment et the program wwe
..JamN BIIMtt, Jim Bnlne, Ruth
Chadwick, Georgie Evans.
Harold Kohtm,n, Virgie
McHaney, Howard Propes,
Cecil Reynolds. Gaynelle Slm­monll
and Loulle Knodel.
Frank wm,_, 0lrector of
occupational education at St.
Phillp's Cottage, apoke on the
Importance of planning and
doing, b01h for a c.-end for
personal fulfillment.
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THE RANGER· Apnl 25, 1974 • S
Faculty aid enrollees
in city-wide program
Two faculty members from
this college volunteer their ser­vices
for the San Antonio Liter­acy
Council.
Janet Suble11. professor of
speech, teaches English at the
Parkvlew Senior Citizens Cen­ter
once a week. Her students
vary In age lrom 60 to 83.
"They are trying to Improve
their abilities to speak English.
"A lot of them look at English
class not only as a class, but as
11 social occasion. They look
forward to the social aspect as
well as the learning,' she said
During the class, they discuss
such things as how to buy gro­ceries,
go to the bank and ask
for direcltons.
"They are so appreciatrve of
any feet I might throw out 10
them. II mak• II a lot of fun for
me.
"Most of them were t>om ln
Mexico 11nd have spoken
Spanish their entire lives. They
all read and write Spanish," sh•
said.
The purpose of the class Is to
teach basic • .-.ery-day conver·
sational language. she said.
John Homer, English pro­fessor,
also teaches for the
literacy council.
His students range In age
from 20 to 80. They come to
the council twice a week for
periods of from 90 minutes to
two hours.
''The purpose of the hteracy
council Is to teach the funda­mentals
of English to people
who do not have a command of
the language," he said.
Statistics show 300.000 San
Antontans are functional 1111-
terates, Horner said
"Most of the people I work
with, although they speak
Spanish, do not know proper
Spanish. and they cannot wnte
It
"The Idea behind u,e pro­gram
Is to enable them to pass
the General Education De­velopment
Test.
It includes more than Enghsh
"We alao discuss history, civ­ics
and math.
"II is etwaya a pleasure to
teach people who want to be
taught," he aakl.
Council elects Chance
Dr. Truett Chance. social
sciencesdepa11ment chairman.
ls the firat faculty member of a
Junior collega elected to the
Executive Council of the
South-tern Polltlcat Science
As$oclatlon.
Chance allrlbutes his 1tec­tion
to the association's
emphasia on Iunlor year col­legea
and to the report he sub­mitted
to the Executive Council
on the work of the "Comml11ee
on Two-Year Colleges," which
he chalred.
"tam pleased." Ch1nca 111d.
He will serve a two-year term.
The Southwestern Political
Science Aesoclahon was
founded tn 1920 10 promote,
enhance and correlate the to­c111
aeIences problems. parti­cularly
those of the South­westem
states.
To attain these goals. the or­ganization
encourages re•
search, holds meetings. pub­lishes
and dl1simInates
inform1tion ano scholarly opi­nions
concerning the social
sciences.
College ano unrverslty pro­fessors
from Arkansas, Col­orado,
Kansas. Louisiana, Mls­eouri.
New Mexico, Oklahoma
and Texas are members.
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