University Daily Kansan, September 23, 1982
Page 9
Program helps homemakers adjust
By DAN PARELMAN Staff Reporter
People who have been homemakers but now need to find work because of the death of a spouse, divorce, separation or for other reasons, have a source of guidance to turn to at the University of Kansas.
The Adult Life Program and Resource Center's displaced homemaker program, "The Turning Point," offers counseling and training programs for ex-homemakers, such as widows.
"There's a lot of mythology about how well off widows are." Sandy Moore, director of the center, said yesterday. "It's not so."
SHE ALSO SAID alimony was awarded in only 14 percent of divorces, and money was collected in only half the alimony cases. Social security benefits are paid on age, so many widows do not qualify until they are older, Moore said.
Therefore, many of women, and some men, who have not worked for pay in years, need to re-enter the job market, be paid, and many of them need guidance.
The homemaker program, which began Sept. 1, includes eight workshops that deal with "life-coping."
said Andrea Welborn, director of "The Turning Point."
THE WORKSHIPS include stress management, assertiveness training and financial management sessions. They teach deep-muscle relaxation, the use of yoga for areas of life, financial management and consumer rights. Wellborn said.
Additional workshops help job seekers discover their job interests, needs and skills and research career interests. Final sessions deal with writing resumes and being interviewed.
The program used a Comprehensive Employment and Training Act grant in 1980 and 1981 to help it with its job exploration services. Moore said. In this, its third year, the program has been sustained by various grants from the Kansas Department of Education, Welborn said.
In 1980-1981 the homemaker program interviewed 100 Douglas County employers, 80 of whom employed more than 25 people and represented 40 percent of employees who hired more than 25 workers. Moore said.
THE SURVEY revealed that the majority of employers wanted potential employees with good work habits, responsibility and dependability. Moore said
expected to find a lot of needed skills." she said.
"It was very interesting. We
Many of the employers interviewed had businesses that required few skills or wanted to train employees themselves, Moore said.
The resource center now keeps files on the information taken from the employer survey, Moore said.
Many of the interviewed employers have worked with the homemaker program to design internships, mock interviews and field trips, such as trips to factories to see the machinery and industrial worker would operate, she said.
RECENTLY, MOORE, Welborn and others who designed and conducted the employer interviews, helped the Council on Community Services of Douglas County, a network of Lawrence guidance organizations, wrote a letter to Douglas County land trust to help unemployed people find work, Moore said.
The council applied Sep. 1 to the state for a grant and hopes to hear from the state by the end of this month. Moore said.
Moore said a follow-up of the employee survey found that about 75 percent of the women and men who took part in the homemaker program either had found a job or had gone back to school.
Calendars featuring KU males not selling as fast as expected
By CAROL LICHTI Staff Reporter
Every month KU women can swoover one of 13 men featured in the Men of Courage series.
The calendar, designed for KU women, has been on sale since Aug. 20 from Delta Delta Delta sorority memorial event. It will be as large as the house expected.
Only 450 of the 1,000 calendars made have been sold, said Beth Anne Craig, Topeka junior, yesterday. She is in charge of the project.
"There's nothing nudity-wise in the calendar," Craig said. "We never considered driving for a Playboy type friend, because the picture good looking, handsome men."
THE IDEA for the calendar was not inspired by Playboy's Women of the Big Eight issue, she said. The idea came from the popularity of the Men of the Week series and was distributed at KU last year and the success of a calendar made by the
Kansas State University's chapter of Delta Delta Delta
The calendar contains 13 black and white photographs of men who attended KU last year. Craig said the only restriction for being included in the calendar was that the man had to be a member of KU. But two of the men did not return.
In May, Craig and a committee sent applications to KU sororities requesting they each nominate three men.
Only half of the sororites returned the applications, Craig said. From the list of men returned by sororites and a list compiled by the committee, applied to the number of sororites returned the applications. From those 30, 13 were selected for the calendar.
"Some of them were kind of shy." Craig said. She said she tried to talk to the men and help them relax while the pictures were being taken.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER, Ginny Weathers, Topeka, took eight shots of each man. Craig picked the pictures in the calendar.
What the men wore in the pictures
was left up to them, Craig said, but she and the committee made some suggestions.
"We told them we'd like to have somebody in a tux and one volunteer," she said.
All of the pictures except two were taken at Potter Lake.
Craig said the pictures were taken in black and white because of cost and personal preference. Craig, an art major, said she preferred black and white pictures because the men's features could be seen better.
"Right now it's not a success," Craig said, referring to the slow sales. "We've sold them at the dorms, on campus and at sororites."
Craig said she would try the project again, but would advertise for men to wear it.
"We'D HAVE a better group of guys who would be excited about it — more aggressive," she said.
Since the calendar has come out, Craig said she has been approached by a number of men who said they would like to be included in a calendar.
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