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Show - The Thundcrbird Wally Amos gave out three steps for success in business at his Convocation lecture Thursday. The secrets are committment, giving, and believing in what you're doing. Famous I Wally Amos gives out secret recipe Tuesday May 27, 1986 Student Senate audits departments BY KRIS JOHNSON The student senate is auditing all of the ASSUSCs departments, beginning with the Intramurals and Recreation departments. The student senate wants to audit and have inquiries for all of the departments, even the Executive Council, said ASSUSC Academic Vice President Bill Honeck. Intramurals just happen to be at the top of the list, the senate is taking random order for the audits, he said. According to Honeck, the Executive Council wants the ASSUSC to know how its student fees are being spent since it is primarily responsible for allocating all student fees. As the allocater, we want to reassure students that their money from fees is being spent properly, he said. According to ASSUSC Controller Brent Drew, anything that is subject to student fees will have an inquiry. We want to see that the students money is spent most effectively for the benefit of the students, he said. Honeck said that the audit will be an ongoing process which will be continued until the end of the administration. Th is should be a routine function of the senate. Were having a lot of success right now, he said. Once the audit is officially finished, the Executive Council will publish a letter to the studentbody which will tell where its student fees are being spent and how effectively theyre being spent said Honeck. Amos said when he was opening his first store that he could only think about opening the store. He also said that you, Cannot allow failure to come into your With a rousing, Aloha! Wally Amos began his Convocation lecture. At Convocation, Amos played gameplan. Amos also stressed challenges. He said that challenges the kazoo, commented on the beauty of southern Utah also are important in sucess: Without challenges man and SUSCs campus, and gave out samples of Famous would have nothing because man wouldnt be chocolate chip cookies as well as the recipe. Amos was on campus as part of the national Small challenged to have anything better than man has now. Amos said that without challenges we would have no Business Week. In the introduction by Curtis Hunt, cookie Amos was described as being from Florida and New lights, no microphones, and no chocolate-chi- p York. speciality stores, he said. Amos said he was told that he couldnt make a profit Amos has shined shoes, sold newspapers, served time cookies, and that hed in the Air Force in Hawaii and has been a manager for at selling only chocolate-chi- p Saks 5th Avenues supply room. He began his career as have to have 30 different varities. But one thing he noticed in show business is that the agents that make a a talent agent with the William Morris Agency. Later, lot of money represent a few stars whom everyone he began his own agency where he handed out his cookies to those in the office. This led to the idea of wants. Amos decided that if he had one cookie that is He 1974. cookie in his now everone own store wanted, he could make a lot of money. opening You must believe in yourself and your abilities, he working on the Wally Amos Happy Shoe Company. said. Amos believes that perserverance and persistance In his presentation, Amos gave the secret to sucess: is what separates the achievers from the The individual. Each person is special and puts his Amos said he believes that, If you give up you will spirit into his product, Amos said. Amos also gave out the secret recipe to his cookies and anyone can find not make it. ..if you persist you might make it." Amos key to success is giving and loving. Amos said it on the back of a Nestle Semi-Swebag of chocolate that life is a circle and whatever you give out will come chips, but Amos said that he adds more chocolate back to you. chips and pecans. He also stressed the notion that the The bottom line in business is people, when people and will of hold spirit your personality recipe part are happy to work for you they will put out a superior when you make them. AAmos gave three steps to sucess in his lecture: pruduct, he said. Amos believes strongly in the art of loving and that, We gotta learn to respect each other ( committment, believing, and giving. more. Amos also believes that love keeps it all Amos believes that a person will not attain sucess until that person commits himself to the project. He together. Amos commented on intregrity: It goes hand in hand also said that preparing for the project is 75 percent of mo jU y' with loving, Youve got to give the world the best the project. ASSUSC Vice Administrative Bill President less best than your The second step, believing, is very important because, youve got anyway. When giving Honeck says stitdents need to knoiv where their One bad apple can spoil the whole bunch, and, One you cheat yourself, he said. are going. funds Amos then closed with another Aloha! negative thought will ruin the whole plan, he said. BY GRACE E. SNELL 3 Page s. i y c . Clegg says culture shock is a part of the Peace Corps BY KORY ROBERTS Thousands of Peace Corps volunteers are making a difference in isolated villages and city slums in dozens of countries. ..It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can seep down the Robert F. mightiest wall of oppression and resistance. Kennedy, To Seek a New World The Peace Corps is a volunteer organization founded by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to help the underprivilidged people of third world countries. In September of the same year, 124 men and women arrived in Ghana to start what has been described by most return volunteers as The best two years of my life. According to the brochure, Twenty Years of Peace Corps, it takes 8 to 12 weeks of training before a volunteer can officially join the Peace Corps. The minimum amount of time volunteers spend in the Peace Corps is two years. A volunteer is paid a minimum wage equivalent to that earned by a citizen of the host country doing the same work. Usually, volunteers earn just enough money to sustain themselves with the barest of necessities. Blanche Clegg, former assistant cataloguer in SUSCs Library, joined the Peace Corps in 1977 at age 51. Her training lasted 6 weeks. The training involves a total immersion into the language and culture of the host country, said Clegg. While in training, individuals receive additional information for various projects such as building fresh I didn't realize how selfish and wastefid the American people are until I returned from Zaire. The people in Zaire had barely enough food to feed their own families and yet they would invite me into their homes and offer me dinner, said Blanche Clegg, former SUSC Librarian. She was 51 years old in 1977 when she joined the Peace Corps. water fisheries and developing alternatives to chemical pesticides. Clegg was sent to Zaire, where she taught English to college students who wanted to become English teachers themselves. She also worked with other volunteers that taught the local townspeople. The Peace Corps volunteer workers would teach locals English and, at the same time, they would also teach them skills such as how to protect themselves from diseases, Clegg said. Each volunteer has their individual reasons for joining the Peace Corps, Clegg said. She joined because she wanted to help other people. When I first arrived in Zaire it was a culture shock. The people of these poor countries do things differently, she said. During my training, a young boy was caught stealing. To punish him, the villagers beat on him; they actually thought it was funny. This disturbed me, but I had to learn to accept their ways. After returning to the United States, Clegg said that she experienced culture shock once again. Before I left the states I didnt reajize how selfish and wasteful the American people are until I returned from Zaire. The people in Zaire had barely enough food to feed their own families and yet they would invite me into their homes and offer me dinner, she said. I spent 3 years in Zaire helping people I cared deeply about. I learned to work with and understand people from a country with a culture that was far removed from my own. It was the best time of my life, she added. The Peace Corps is looking for individuals with a bachelors degree or a minimum of 2 to 3 years experience in one of the fields listed in the Peace Corps Recruitment manual. The manual and additional information on the Peace Corps can be obtained from SUSCs placement office. i |