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Show The Thunderbird Tuesday May 27, 1986 Famous Wally Amos gave out three steps for success in business at his Convocation lecture Thursday. The secrets are committment, giving, and believing in vuhat youre doing. Wally Amos gives out secret recipe BY GRACE E. SNELL With a rousing, Aloha! Wally Amos Began his Convocation lecture. At Convocation, Amos played the kazoo, commented on the beauty of southern Utah and SUSCs campus, and gave out samples of Famous chocolate chip cookies as well as the recipe. Amos was on campus as part of the national Small Business Week. In the introduction by Curtis Hunt, Amos was described as being from Florida and New York. Amos has shined shoes, sold newspapers, served time in the Air Force in Hawaii and has been a manager for Saks 5th Avenues supply room. He began his career as a talent agent with the William Morris Agency. Later, he began his own agency where he handed out his cookies to those in the office. This led to the idea of opening his own cookie store in 1974. He now is working on the Wally Amos Happy Shoe Company. In his presentation, Amos gave the secret to sucess: The individual. Each person is special and puts his spirit into his product, Amos said. Amos also gave out the secret recipe to his cookies and anyone can find it on the back of a Nestle Semi-Swebag of chocolate chips, but Amos said that he adds more chocolate chips and pecans. He also stressed the notion that the recipe will hold part of your personality and spirit when you make them. Amos gave three steps to sucess in his lecture: committment, believing, and giving. ' Amos believes that a person will not attain sucess until that person commits himself to the project. He also said that preparing for the project is 75 percent of the project. The second step, believing, is very important because, One bad apple can spoil the whole bunch, and, One negative thought will ruin the whole plan," lie said. 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 gameplan. Amos also stressed challenges. He said that challenges also are important in sucess: Without challenges man would have nothing because man wouldnt be challenged to have anything better than man has now. Amos said that without challenges we would have no cookie lights, no microphones, and no chocolate-chispeciality stores, he said. Amos said he was told that he couldnt make a profit at selling only chocolate-chi- p cookies, and that hed have to have 30 different varities. But one thing he noticed in show business is that the agents that make a lot of money represent a few stars whom everyone wants. Amos decided that if he had one cookie that everone wanted, he could make a lot of money. You must believe in yourself and your abilities, he said. Amos believes that perserverance and persistance is what separates the achievers from the Amos said he believes that, If you give up you will not make it. ..if you persist you might make it. Amos key to success is giving and loving. Amos said that life is a circle and whatever you give out will come back to you. The bottom line in business is people, when people are happy to work for you they will put out a superior pruduct, he said. Amos believes strongly in the art of loving and that, We gotta learn to respect each other more. Amos also believes that love keeps it all together. Amos commented on intregrity: It goes hand in hand with loving, Youve got to give the world the best youve got anyway. When giving less than your best you cheat yourself, he said. Amos then closed with another Aloha! p Page 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 be5, an ongoing process which will be continued until the end of the administration. This 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. s. V" --4 C" , I 1 1 j --- iiomu' 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 didnt realize 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, said Blanche Clegg, former SUSC Librarian. She was 51 years old in 1977 when she joined the Peace Corps. I water fisheries and developing alternatives to chemical pesticides. Clegg was sent to Zaire, where she taught English to college students who wanted to become Eng'ish teachers themselves. She also worked with othpr volunteers that taught the local townspeople. The Peace Corps volunteer workers would teach '1 ASSUSC Administrative Vice President Bill Honeck says students need to knout where their funds are going. Clegg says culture shock is a part of the Peace Corps BY KORY ROBERTS 3 'locals English and, at the same tjme, 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. |