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Page 6/THE J-TAC/Thursday, February 1, 1990
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OUTSTANDING CHAPTER— The Tau Phi Epsilon
Chapter at Tarleton State University was selected as the
"Outstanding Student Chapter" in Texas by the Texas
Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation,
and Dance (TAHPERD). The university's physical educa-
tion club received the award at the annual TAHPERD
convention. Among those representing TPE at the
meeting were (from left) Dr. Steve Simpson, Melinda
Richburg, Dr. Joe Gillespie, Chapter President Jill
Thackerson, Chad Heath, Julie Etheredge, and Penny
Wright.
Velma Scott has helped to protect the vulnerable
funate for many years, Now she's teaching at
m hile others her age,
WW were out playing
Wl IV childhood games in
the local neighborhood Yazoo
City, Mississippi, Velma Scott,
TSU instructor of Social Work,
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was out individually helping the
vulnerable people of the
community.
"I have always worked in
social work," said Scott.
Scott, who has been a member
of the Tarleton faculty since the
Spring of 1988, is the sixth of
twelve children. All of her sibl-
ings, she says, are employed in
some form of humanitarian work
where Jhey are making contribu-
tions to society.
Prior to her position on the
TSU staff, Scott taught for five
years at Southern University in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where
she was advisor to that school's
Social Work Action Club.
"We provided community ser-
vices to the children, elderly,
handicapped and battered women
of Baton Rouge," she said.
• Scott also taught in the
Graduate School of Social Work
and unfor- =
Tarlefon.,
at the University of Southern
Mississippi.
Throughout her career, she has
worked with varied — but always
interesting — groups of people.
Scott has, in the' past, been
employed as a psychiatric social
worker, adolescent family
therapist for behaviorly and emo-
tionally disturbed teenagers, and
has worked with terminally ill
children.
While pursuing her Master's
Degree at the University of
Chicago, she faced one her most
emotionally stressful employ-
ment opportunities; She worked
directly with terminally ill
children.
"Working with the terminal-
ly ill children was one of the most
stressful and heartbreaking things
I have worked with. I would go
into the hospital one day and a
child would greet me and the
next day I would come and the
child may have died," she said.
As part of her position as a
counselor, Scott said she would
help the children to accept life as
it is and live each day to the
fullest.
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"We worked not only with the
child, but with the family to help
them put their own grief into
perspective," she said.
She worked as an adolescent
therapist with emotionally
disturbed teenagers who had
been excluded from the public
school system.
Problems she worked with in-
cluded runaways, teen pro-
stitutes, teen pregnancy, eating
"disorders, chronic asthmatics and
troubled teens who had been in
trouble with authority figures, in-
cluding one youth who shot a
police officer.
"Teenagers are ambivalent
about themselves," she said,
"They want all the privileges of
adults without adult respon-
sibilities. At the same time they
want to be adolescents. If you can
help them put that into perspec-
tive and help them respect
themselves then they can function
better."
Scott has travelled extensive-
ly throughout the United States,
but says she has to make ad-
justments wherever she lives.
"Living in the South, I grew
up sheltered. I had not seen
homeless individuals. We were
poor, but not dirt poor. The first
time I saw a homeless individual,
I saw someone eating out of the
trash cans in Chicago. My
friends aqd I would look for this
man en route to school everyday
to see if he was all right," Scott
said.
Raised during a time when
segregation was the order of the
day in the South, Scott says her
family unit was extremely close
knit. Living with eleven brothers
and sisters taught her how to
share because there was no room
for selfishness or rigidity, she
said.
"We are still that way today.
Ma Bell is probably getting rich
off of us, " said Scott.
As a family member she learn-
ed to understand and deal with
basic human needs. Through this
she learned how to appreciate
many different personality types
that helps her in her present
career.
"My parents were not formal-
ly educated but all education is
not formal," said Scoti "They
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Editor In Chief
Once again, students at Tarleton have the opportunity to meet
a fellow classmate. A chance to make a friend, share a smile,
make a memory, borrow money...
This week 1 would like to introduce you to Kimberly Powell, a
Biology major, who plans to eventually go on to become a zoologist.
Once upon a time, Kimberly was a drummer in a band. She drumm-
ed her little heart out and reached for stardom.
Well, OI£. It was a group of friends who didn't even think of a
name and played their music at clubs with open mikes.
She admits that those wilder days are much behind her and that
she has settled down quite a bit.
Kimberly described the group as a wild variation of 10,000 Maniacs
(10,000 Idiots as I prefer to call them).
She says she has fond memories of playing drums with the group,
but her favorite memories are of going clubbing in San Francisco
(Home of the team that's going to win the Superbowl), Los Angeles,
and Portland.
Speaking of Portland, she has red hair, just like the girl from
Portland who broke my heart, BUT that's another story entirely.
She also dresses very nicely. Differently from one day to the next,
but nicely.
Some days she wears cowboy boots, and others she tosses on her
loafers. She definitely shows a variety of interests and does not limit
herself.
I anxiously wait to see her famous Hippy Dance. Before I met
Kimberly, Julie Grider, Notorious News Editor, told me about this
dance she does to music by The Mommas and the Poppas. Granted,
The Momma and the Poppas is the sexiest music known to man, but
I just can't visualize the steps. Perhaps someday Stephenville's own
Paula Abdul will devestate us all with her steps, but until then, we'll
have to wait.
Socially
conscious
were self reliant and they taught
their children to be self reliant.''
She says her parents saw to it that
all of their twelve children
graduated from high school and
all twelve have college
experience.!
"My family depends on each
other for moral, emotional,
social and spititual support," she
said.
At TSU, Scott is one of the
faculty advisors of the United
Student Social Club. (USSC) She
has been involved with the
organization for two years which
she calls an informal network
where students can come to learn
about different cultures and ac-
cept people for their unique dif-
ferences. She also says that the
students involved in USSC learn
valuable leadership skills.
USSC's purpose is to bring
people together in understanding,
she said. Scott speaks of a
societal apathy that is present
throughout the world's
communities.
"I'm not sure what causes it.
Some people are ignorant of the
social changes that have occur-
red in relation to the civil rights
act or movements, the Vietnam
War and many other social con-
cerns. As long as we remain ig-
norant, we will continue to op-
press people who are different,"
she said.
Scott says that the education
provided by USSC is very
valuable because the members
will eventually become leaders in
society. She said that people
should take notice of those who
are not as fortunate as
themselves.
Between her careers in school,
Scott said that she worked in the
labor force and found that with
education she was more apt to
deal with society.
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