The Ranger

              New nursing building
THE ftANGER - AUtu•t 21, 1972 • 3
Three educators begin
administrative duties
Three new adm in,slrators have
joined the staff here. They are
Or Bc,m,e z,m, mathematics
department chairman; Hector
Gon:telez. chairman of nursing,
and Lloyd Christley, en,stant
director of operations.
z,m received h,s 8.8.A from
Texas A&M Un1vers1ty on 1951
Ho receovod hos M.A. from the
University of the South, Suwan­nee,
T&nn., tn 1969. and received
his doctorate from Texas A&M
Univers,ty,
Ho hu laugh! at Robert 8 Green
Hospital, Bex,r County Hospital
Oislroct, and was an instructor
on the medical assishngprogram
here from 1967 to 1968.
Among other auoc,etoons,
Gonzalez belongs to the Ameri
can Assoc,at,on of Un,vers,ty
Professors (AAUP) and the
American Nurses Assoc1at1on
(ANA). He ,s a member of the
ANA Sub-comm,ttee on Com­mun1~
tions
Gonzalez has been assistant
professor of nursing et Incar­nate
Word College from 1968 lo
now.
A new two-story structure on the south edge of the 300 stud<!nts are up• cted to b• •nrolled in nursing
campus which is 1cheduled to open this week will class this fall. Other than a new building, tho nur­pnvide
facilities for the nursing cht>•rlm•nt. About sing department ,tso hes a now chairman.
z,nn has taught In high schools
in H0<1ston and Bryan. He also
taught at Texas A&M. He worlr.ed
,n the General Motors Acceptance
Corporation (GMAC) from 1954-
1960
Gonulez received hos nursing
diploma at the Robert 8. Green
Hosp,lal ,n 1962. Ho got • bache­lor
of science in nursing from
Incarnate Word College in 1963,
and a master or science In nur­sing
from The Catholic Univer­sity
of America in Washington,
O.C. (1966). Ho is a doctoral
c.ndidate at Texas University.
Christley has had 17 years
experience on the computer l1eld
He has been employed by IBM,
end worked for the T OJ<aS Educ a ·
t,onat Agency's Region XX and a
savings and loan 1$Sociat,on In
a computer-related capacity Classes to begin in new nursing building In his new position as assist-
• anl directorofoperations, Chris­tley
will use his experience with
computers to help the director
of operations and r,nance.
Nursing students w,11 attend
c,.l.n,.s.n ,n their own buoldmgthis
About 200 freshmen -,,d 100
..-,ores w,11 be enrolled in
lit nursingdepartmom, formerly
llluMd ,n lhe Nail Totehn,cat
Center
The MWbuoldong istwostoroes,
will! faculty offices on the first
noor and classrooms on the
~
To go wolh the now building ••
111 IMOvat,ve program for the
frethmon
Hector Gonzalet, new nursing
departmMt cha,rmen, said "This
year, the freshmen will beperti­c1p11hng
on Leaming Experience
Gu,cltt for Nursing Students, or
LEGS for ahort Each sluden1
will have a pach ge of instruction
papers, exercises end disctJs·
sioM, which he goes through
al hos own speed,"
"Each LEGS package isacom·
plele semester of work," Gon·
:talez said. After 24 months, the
student rec:eivu an associate
degree in nursing, and is quali­fied
lo lake the slate exemina­tiO<'
ls IHding to cla.sif,cation as
a registered nurse.
Gonulez said there is no
"intemship" progrem h<>re,
How.ver, all nursing students
must spend some time working
in • hospit,1.
"We consider-the hospital work
our students do as the "lab"
part of nursing lecture," Gon·
zalu said. Eight a r ea hospitals
are used for this practical train­ing.
There are many opportunities
for someone who chooses a
Cour•• aclclltlon• lnclucle
new clegree program•
Two new degree programs
h1i,.l1it,t acadomic additions for
1h11 47th .a,demic year which
apenwMond.Jy
Home building technology and
mental health are the degroo
plan adchltons to the currictJlum.
Home buoldong 301 and 303 ere
lle1119 initiated this fall as the
first part or the two-year home
bu1ld1ng technology program
Tho forst course CO<'lcenlrat&s
on tho use of hand toots end pow·
or tool, used in constnichon
trades, whole 303 1s designed to
allow the student lo lake part
and observe the actual process
ol lebor and consln,cloon.
Both courses are ,n coo,,era·
lion wolh the San Antonio Homo
Bu1lc1oro Assoc,,tion.
Ttlt mental health program 1n1 -
t11tn two courses this fall , so·
c11I welfare 601a lll'ld 303
DHn Peul R Culwell saod
both of t/19 now courses are on
cooperahon w,th the Mex,c•n·
Am.r1cen Un,ty Council
HI> •IM> sa,d th<> council has
I fedc,ral grant for use ,n paying
lllpt!nses of students entering the
program. Ha sa,d 23 students
hav, bffn referred to the pro·
9nm so far
Another now course is English
319. The course deals with liter•
alure of Mexico in translation.
English 319 will include major
literary genres and traditions,
writers and masterworks.
Consumer economics 310, an
addition to the socoal sc,onc;es
department, ,s an explanation of
tho role of the consumer- ,n a
free economy, consumer demand
and retai I pricing. The course 11
• concentntion on problems that
face the da, ly consumar.
Anothor new course is real es­late
management 301. Now offered
u a part of a lwo-yoar acce­lerated
program, th<> class de·
velops tho fundamental stills?'
men end women lo function ,n
real estate m1nagemenl pos,­toons.
Principles of audio and visual
production 311 is also • now
course offering.
The radio - telov1s1on • film
course deals with the lheorins
and basic ski lls of production
appl ,ed to teltv1s1"'1 and film.
Color photography, a n,ght d, ­vos,
on offering ,n lhe past, os
an addition to the day d1v1s1on
schedule.
career In nursing, Gonzalez sa,d.
"Despite the fact that lherewere
more applicants than places In
the nursing program here, ther-e
is • shortage of nurses," the
new nursing chairman uid.
Gonzalez_ has been • ataff
nurse. head nurse, intens,v• care
nurse and operating room nurse.
Both Christley and Zinn have
hid eerlier assignment here be­fore
assuming their new admin·
istralive DQsts.
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