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| It Randy Lewis: mathematician, athlete, unemployed. If you're a woman and the head of your household and you qualify as economically disadvantaged, Thelma Jackson wants to talk to you. Jackson is the project coordinator for Work Options for Women (WOW), a federally funded program designed to help get women into the work force. "We work with the v oman to make her more employable," said Jackson. "We may get her counseling or tutoring. We may suggest she re-enter school... " Jackson and two others from WOW, Angela Stepherson and Ethel Roesch, set up shop in Shelton's Department of Social and Health Services building each Friday. from 1 to 4 p.m. One of them will be there each week. WOW is run by the Thurston County YWCA, which got a $48,850 grant of Comprehensive Employment Training Act money through the State Office of Community Development. The YWCA got a block grant to fund the program in a three-county area (Lewis, Mason and Thurston) in March and started serving Mason County from the DSHS building last week. "'We focus our attention on getting women jobs they have not traditionally had" said Jackson, "'skilled jobs that pay high wages so that we can get these women off public assistance. We have found that a woman may not take a clerk's job for $350 a month because it's more lucrative to be on assistance than to work for those wages." For that reason, the employment office can't always help a poor woman, said Jackson. There may be jobs open, but nothing a poor woman can "afford to take.'" There are some 1,000 families in the three counties with women heads who are living in poverty, said Jackson. "We're sure they're here, but they don't know we're here, yet," she said. Actually, any woman who wants counseling can talk to the WOW people, but 85 percent of the women WOW deals with must Randy Lewis, our college spotlight who is planning to be an actuary, explained to us why he decided to go into the insurance business: "The day I bought a car and had an insurance agent quote me insurance rates, 1 said to myself, Tm getting into this racket'." Randy finally was graduated from the University of Washington this month with a bachelor of science degree in mathematics after going to four different schools in five years. And he may end up going to school number five this fall. If given a choice between going to school and having a permanent job, Randy would opt for going to school. He really doesn't want to "'grow up" just yet. "I don't like it. I hate it" he responded when we asked him about growing up. "I had a lot of fun going to school." Randy was graduated from Shelton High School in 1970. An outstanding athlete as well as a scholar, he was number six on the basketball team which sported a 14-5 record and frequently won three events in the same day in track meets. His specialties in track were the long jump, triple jump and pole vault; he went to the state meet in the pole vault in his senior year. His first college credits were earned during high school from Olympic College night school. The youngster was planning to study engineering at Washington State University, but he never got into WSU. The school moved its application deadline from July 1 to May 1 because of a high number of freshman applicants that year, but Randy never heard about the change. He sent his application in June and all he got back was a letter saying "sorry." So he started at Columbia Basin Jtmior College. "'1 went to Columbia Basin for a half of a quarter on a track scholarship," said Randy. "I dropped out when ! found out the track coach wanted to make me a choir major. ! was sitting there decidint~ registered within two days. They weren't so much impressed with my acadenlc record as they were in the fact 1 had $1500 in the bank to spend on tuition." Randy lettered in track in his freshman year at SPC, but he got very discouraged with college athletics because of his participation. "They (athletics) were too serious, too much of a business," he said. "No one was doing it for the fun of the sport. 1 was running alongside a guy in turnout one day and he was saying, 'If it weren't for the money, I wouldn't be doing this'." Randy stayed at SPC two years. He transferred to the University of Washington for his last three years of school because it had the classes he wanted and it was cheaper. He got his degree in the statistics option of mathematics. He took the statistics series because he needed it for his career as an actuary .... Ae actuary, basically, d~ who pays how much for what kind of insurance by using probabilities and statistics. If Randy gets a position he likes in Seattle this summer, he'll probably stay there. Otherwise, developments were in several newspapers in the western United States. Within a day after the original story appeared in the UW Daily, rumors, quotes and the Idaho coach's remarks were m papers up and down the coast. "It really snowballed," said Randy. "I enjoyed the publicity. Everybody involved enjoyed the publicity. We were doing it to have a good time and everyone in and criticize a policy of the president and they'd censor the article," said Randy. "It would seem to me a more reasonable approach to instilling Christian ideals in college students at a so-called Christian school would be, instead of arbitrarily setting down the rules and conditioning students to follow behavior patterns that Christians are supposed to follow, to '7 believe God is more interested in why you do something instead of what you actually do. "' the athletic department took it so seriously." A lot of people called him a traitor for organizing the rally, but Randy claimed he had no allegiance to the UW team just because he went to school at the UW. He knew none of the players and felt no attachment to them, he said. ..... ~ ~. , His phone was ringing off the hook with calls from people who wanted to scream at him and calls from others who didn't. "One middle-aged woman called me," said Randy. "She said, 'I'm a "She said, 'I'm a former Miss Washington, and I think what you're doing is disgusting'. "" he'd like to continue schooling at the University of Wisconsin's actuarial school. Randy kept active in sports at the UW and led the school's intramural recreational basketball league in scoring as a junior with 17.6 points per game. There were over 500 ballplayers in the league. He also placed in both the long jump and triple jump in the UW's intramural championship track rr~et in his junior and senior years. One of the most interesting things Randy did while at the University of Washington was to try to organize a pep rally for the "poor little old" Idaho Vandals On growing up: '7 don't like it. I hate it.'" whether to take chemistry or physics and the coach came up to me and said, 'Randy, Fd like you to meet our choir director'." The people at Columbia Basin acted like they were from Mars, he said. "Then 1 enrolled at Seattle Pacific College because it was the only school that would accept me on two days' notice;' said Randy. "I applied, was accepted and • i i football team when it came to Seattle to play a game in 1973. He and a group of others thought it was ridiculous for the UW to schedule patsies like Idaho, so they decided they'd root for the underdog. They planned a pep rally, but it was construed as an anti-Jim Owens rally and the Idaho coach refused to let his team go to the function. The storY and its THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL 426-4302 205 W. Cota Shelton One of These Nights a new album, 8 track and tape of all new Eagle songs (1 Week Only) Off List Price• • 'l I I I I I Ill I 'l former Miss Washington and I think what you're doing is disgusting'." A teacher from Bellevue called him and asked him to lecture in front of her high school class. "Most of the things you learn at college, you learn outside the classroom," said Randy. "You associate with people your own age and those who have the same interests. You learn from the interaction between the people you associate with. "You learn about life. Unless you're going to SPC, which has nothing to do with the real world. "SPC is the most expensive church camp l've ever gone to. The school has its own perception of what a Christian existence should consist of and has incorporated these ideas into rules and behavior patterns that the students are expected to follow. I am of the opinion that the rules are primarily for alumni contributors to the school." The rules include no smoking, no drinking, no dancing and no having someone of the opposite sex in your room except during certain hours. The administrators also censored the school paper. "Someone would come oul were graduated from the UW with grade point averages exceeding 3.9 .) He was asked whai's interesting about math. "There's nothing more satisfying than solving a system of linear homogenous equations that can be represented by a nonsingular matrix with positive eigenvalues," he replied. We didn't ask any more questions about math. encourage students to look deep inside themselves, find Jesus, and from this relationship with Him, determine what is appropriate in their particular situation. I believe God is more interested in why you do something instead of what you actually do. "This is not to say I don't think SPC is a free school. I was glad to have the opportunity to go there." Randy is a rather conservative person politically. He doesn't like George McGovern, the Democrats' candidate for president in 1972. What if McGovem ran against Shelton's dogcatcher tomorrow for president? we asked him. "I'd campaign for the dogcatcher," he said. He voted for Nixon in 1972. "I'd still vote for him against McGovern, knowing what I know now," he said. He feels Henry Gay, Journal editor, is a communist. Randy got interested in mathematics in his early school years and decided on it for a career because he was always Randy doesn't know whether he should be classified as a scholar or something else. "I really don't think in terms of 'scholar' or 'jock' or anything else," he said. "I'm not a scholar in the sense that I can read a story in English literature and then tell my English teacher how Mergatroid's hatred for her mother because she slapped her as a child caused her to buy yellow toilet paper in her adult life." He listed "watching Husky basketball" as one of his favorite experiences at the UW. And he also said his math classes were fascinating. Like so many of the folks who leave Shelton to go to college, Randy has decided he really doesn't want to live here any more. "Shelton is a nice place to grow up, but I don't think I'D want to live here now," he said. "Theie are more things to do in Seattle." Randy is a member of the Emanuel Bible Church in Seattle and works with grade school boys each Wednesday night at the church. He is the son of Mrs. Dixie Burnett of Shelton. Randy is 23. He has a sister, Sandy, 28, and a What if McGovern ran against Shelton's dogcatcher tomorrow for president? "'I'd campaign for the dogcatcher." pretty successful at it. "I was one of three people who got an A in the first semester from Mr. Morton in ninth grade geometry," Randy stated proudly. "The other two people were John Gray and Sue Lemagie." (Gray and Lemagie brother, Mark, 20. He also has a stepsister, Mary Bumett, 19, and three step-brothers, Mark Bumett, 27, Jim Burnett, 25, and Joel Burnett, 22. "And I'm madly in love with a girl named Meribeth," he added. Men's & women's large selection of synthetic stones in 10 kt. gold. Fraternal and birthstone rings. * Free Parking -- * Free Gift Wrap Fifth & Franklin Shelton 426-3283 Page 6 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, July 3, 1975 qualify as economically disadvantaged. The other 15 percent don't have to be disadvantaged. WOW can even refer women to local mental health workers. 'Whis could be for those who are depressed," said Jackson. "A depressed woman has to take care of personal problems. Obviously if she has deep personal problems, she would never produce well on the job." YWCA personnel working in the WOW project work closely with employers, unions, businesses, agencies, contractors and other organizations connected with the employment market in developing the opportunities for women. "This is not from a women's R( ~imb~ Thelma Jackson of WOW liberation point of view," said Jackson, "but to get women out of the poverty situation." "We work with each°u individually, because each is different stage of in Lee Robin Lee Bain, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Bain of Shelton, and Alan Biehl, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Biehl of Cheney, were married in a morning ceremony before 175 guests at the Methodist Church in Shelton on June 14. Pastor Kenneth Robinson from Faith Lutheran performed the double ring ceremony in which the parents of both the bride and groom gave them in marriage. The bride wore a gown of white acetate crepe with a high neck, empire waist, full wrist-length sleeves and a chapel length train and lace trim on the bodice, skirt and hemline. She had a tulle lace-trim veil, held in place by half crown lace and pearl trim, and she carried white rosebuds and yellow daisies. Andria Tibbits of Shelton was the matron of honor. Carolyn Gray, the sister of the groom from Cheney, and Beverly Beckwith of Shelton were the bridesmaids. John Boots of Pomeroy, Washington was the groom's best man. Carl Biehl, brother of the" groom from Cheney; Jim Biehl, cousin of the groom from Tacoma; and Nick Larson, nephew of the bride from Laeey, served as ushers. Angela Jones and Molly Coogan, nieces of the bride, passed reception scrolls. Dee Morton was the musician and Sharon Collins, sister of the bride from Federal Way, was the singer. A reception was held in the church following the ceremony. Judy Coogan, sister of the bride, poured; Sharon Collins, cut the in marr|es Mr. and Mrs. Alan Biehl cake; Anne Biehl, sister-in-law of the groom from Cheney, handled the punch bowl; Carrie Coogan and Diane Collins, nieces of the bride, were in charge of the guest book; and Mary Jones, sister of the bride from I.acey, was charge of the gift table. The couple took a short trip to the Oregon coast for the honeymoon. They plan to live in Cheney this summer while going to summer school at Eastern Washington State College and will permanently reside in Shelton, where the groom is a band instructor at the Shelton Middle School and the bride is elementary school Hood Canal School. The bride is a Sbelton School graduate who Olympic Junior College B r e me r¢o m~aLn d Community College in Way before being graduated Central Washington The groom went to: school in Cheney, Oregon State Eugene and was graduated Eastern Washington He is a member of the Symphony Orchestra and Grays Harbor Symphony. Neil & Hudson help you HISTANAL TABS Same active ingredients as Dristan Hlstanal Tabs 100 tablets Why pay more? Same active ingredients as Anacin Bitrin 100 tablets Why pay more? Same active ingredients as Allerest Allerform 50 tablets Dristan 100 tablets Anacin I O0 tablets 48 Why pay more? Fifth & Franklin FREE PARKING 426-3327