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Show I I; . 1 1 ' I BUSINESS PROGRAM Donna Mitchell of Kaysville, right, is among adults turning to Davis Area Vocational Center's business program for job training. She completes shorthand short-hand test given by Linda Rae Adams. A co-operative education class where faculty works closely with industry to determine deter-mine areas where instruction can be improved, has been started this year, as well. It enables en-ables an employer to get school help in correcting a problem an employee might have in proper telephone etiquette, eti-quette, for example, Ms. Adams says. EMPLOYERS are responding respond-ing "very positively" to students stu-dents graduating from the program with a generally like response about classes coming from students. Audrey Harper, Har-per, a student living on base, says she's "learned a lot" in the time she's been involved, since last February, and notes students help one another to succeed. Sonja Fitzgerald and Teresa Benson, both of Bountiful, say classes are realistic, helping train them for the job world and add they enjoy the classes more than regular high school sessions. Both plan on secretarial secreta-rial careers. AND DONNA Mitchell, a Kaysville mother whose family fami-ly is now raised, optimistically looks to a future in the job market mar-ket thanks to training she's now receiving. Further information about the classes is available by calling call-ing the vocational center in Kaysville at 766-2441. perserverance to get a skill, and stick to it untU it's done." The term shortftand has expanded ex-panded to include many related re-lated areas.such as high school longhand and alphabet longhand, lon-ghand, a form that's easy to learn with students often reaching 80 words a minute within six months, Ms. Adams says. ALTHOUGH THE job market mar-ket is tight, students are obtaining jobs to the tune of four out of every five seeking them, she says. Like all vocational voca-tional center programs, students stu-dents enter and leave on an open exist-entry system, according to their needs. That means some students stay a year while others may leave in a matter of weeks. Classes are offered during the day and evening with all but shorthand offered at night, she explains, noting, "The student stu-dent load has been very heavy. We absolutely need more room" with more than 100 students stu-dents enrolled. "OUR GOAL is to take students stu-dents from zero to being job ready within six months," Ms. Adams explains, indicating many have been placed recently recent-ly at Hill AFB. Although pay is not always as high as some jobs, advantages she lists are not having to stand on your feet all day, a variety of tasks and no necessity for a long training period. "I really feel my students really become intrinsically involved, in-volved, comparing to themselves them-selves and progressing on their own. There's nothing like doing something on your own," she says. MANY STUDENTS are displaced dis-placed homemakers or mothers whose families are now raised. By TOM BUSSELBERG KAYSVILLE The day of the computer appears to be here, but so it continues to be the day of good old fashioned shorthand and typewriting. AT LEAST that's the feedback feed-back received by instructors and students at the Davis Area Vocational Center's office occupations classes, where the old and the new are both in vogue. In fact, department chairperson Linda Rae Adams says businesses notably American Express preparing to move into Salt Lake City still require a knowledge in some form of shorthand and typewriting. But on top of that, computer training in the use of terminals termin-als and the so-called computer language is becoming more important as prices drop to levels where even small firms can afford a computer hookup including a terminal at secretaries' secre-taries' desks, she explains. STUDENTS BOTH high school and adults having completed com-pleted high school are enrolled enrol-led in accounting, typing, shor-thand, shor-thand, filing, business machines and bookkeeping classes along with word processing, pro-cessing, the newest area related re-lated to computers. Noting the center uses the WANG computer, she called it "the Cadillac of computers" and notes several students have already been placed in jobs, although, full-time classes clas-ses won't start until Jan. I. By fall, that should be expanded to a data-entry computerized accounting class, as well. STUDENTS wishing entrance entr-ance into the computer classes will need to meet certain prere-quisates, prere-quisates, however, she emphasizes, including a typing speed of 45 words a minute or more, an English class and concurrent typing class. About Ab-out 30 students can be given instruction each day under the current set-up with 12 stations and classes in two hour blocks. Applications are still available avail-able for the class and college credit will also be offered for selected classes for Weber State College and USU. BUT THE more traditional skills are also heavily emphasized, empha-sized, she says, with employers em-ployers still placing emphasis on knowledge of shorthand, for instance. "Even if there's no shorthand required in a job, to get a better-paying job, employers em-ployers can see a person has |