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Salt Lake Community College Salt Lake Community College Library Digital Archives Administrative Newsletters SLCC History 1981-04-18 SLCC Administrative Newsletters 1981-04-18 Utah Technical College at Salt Lake Follow this and additional works at: https://libarchive.slcc.edu/adminnewsletters  Part of the Adult and Continuing Education Commons, Community College Education Administration Commons, and the Vocational Education Commons SPOTli<Jitlll ttr"UTAH TECHNICAL COLLEGE AT SALT LAKE No. 9 For Employees of the College April 18, 1981 EARLY RETIREMENT OPTION APPROVED At its monthly meeting on April 15th, the Utah Tech Institutional Council unanimously approved an Early Ret.i rement program for UTC employees. The program, which consists of two major voluntary options, is considered one of the top ret i rement benefit packages among educational institutions in the State. It allows - at the discretion of the employee - for an individual no younger than 58 and with a minimum of 17 years continuous full-time service, to have options of working half-time or retiring totally with up to 5 years' proportionate salary. The Early Retirement program i s not a requirement by the administration to be placed upon any individ-ual. It is a new opportunity for persons desirous of reducing their work-load (if a part-time position can be negotiated at the college), or terminating at an age earlier than traditional retirement. Individuals who think they may qualify and are desirous of participating in the program should, in the first instance, confer with the Personnel Office. The Standing Committee on Early Retirement has had representatives from each of the three employee associations on campus, plus the vice-president for business affairs of the college. As the program was hammered out it was presented to the associations' members for their approval. Presidents of the three organizations affirmed their members' overwhelming endorsement of the plan. SHORTER NOTES ... Utah State Board of Regents have directed that the technical colleges bring their tenure in line with other postsecondary institutions. Dr . Max Lowe has headed a committee which has prepared a Tenure document which was presented to the Admin-istrative Council and, more recently, submi tted to the Institutional Council. .. . Reminder that caps and gowns need to be ordered immediately, both for employees and students, through the College Store. Graduation is set for Friday, June 5th at 6:00 p.m. in the open quad area of the Redwood Road campus. . .. Utah State Building Board has appropriaied $30,000.00 for UTC campuses to repair cracks, seal and replace some parking lots. ... It is hoped that part of the roofing on the east end of the Technology Building will be removed and replaced. Likewise to the west wing roof of the Automotive Building. Additionally, there are plans for the Downtown Campus to have roofing replaced in the Auto Paint and Heavy Duty Mechani cs areas. Profile Secretary and personal assistant to three Utah Tech college presidents, Amy Tomita has the nervous energy and efficiency of a gal who really knows her job. Joining the institution in January 1954, Amy began her Utah Tech career first by serving as the evening school receptionist, then working for Burton Talmage in the book store . She became secretary to Jay L. Nelson, long-time pres ident of the college, in 1957. A native of Ogden, Utah, Amy remembers her parents as a loving couple with a strong sense of warmth toward their children. They emphasized the need for education in the lives of their two sons and one daughter. Both sons (one now deceased) received college degrees. Amy is proud of her professorial brother who also is the computer center director at Kentucky State Uni-ve rs ity. Education continues to be important, too, for Mrs . Tomita. A few years ago she passed the difficult 6-part examination which qualified her as a Certi-fied Professional Secretary. And, as she contem-plates the future, she plans taking classes "for-ever." Amy is a memb.er of Profes s i anal Secretaries Inter-national, serving currently as chairman of the scholarship committee. She is also a member of Certified Professional Secretaries Association -West; and serves as a member of the Board of Direc-tors of the Mount Olympus chapter of the Japanese-American Citizens League. Married to Johnny Tomita, a respected professional operating his own dry cleaning business , Amy has two beautiful daughters. There is Linda Mana (mother of 4 children) whose husband is president of the Dai Ichi branch of the L.D.S. ~hurch; and Barbara Hansen, a first grade teacher at Brookwood Elementary, who serves as president of Jordan Education Association and is also an officer of N.E.A . Among her 'fun' activities Amy includes golf (" I dream of a hole-in-one"), bowling (she often attends the National Bowling Tour), and shopping ("I am an expert at spending Johnny's income") . As Amy resumes her bustling life she notes that her position is a challenging one but "very excitin.g. It keeps you constantly on your toes, with no day being totally routine." She has apprec i ated the presidents for whom she has worked, commenting "Each has his different methods and style." Amy Tomita looks to the future as absorbing and still challenging and, when she has a rare idle mome nt, sti ll dreams of that elusive hole-in-one. II •I UTC PEOPLE-HAPPENINGS *GARY McBRIDE and BILL WAIT, L.D.S. instructors associated with the Utah Tech Institute of Religion, both have new books being published by Noble Pub-lishing of Orem. Gary's volume, intended as the first in a series, is titled "A Gold Me.dal Family" {7.95). Bill's book, due about May lOth, is "Reverence for Life." Another upcoming volume from Mr. Wait will be "Depression: How to Enjoy It." *MIKE HOMER will be in Boston next week to present a paper before the National Cooperative Conference. His presentati on is a study on issues facing coop-erative education in institutions of higher educa-tion . * JERRY GILES recently returned from New York where he attended a conference on Remedial and Developmental Mathematics in College. * KARL SEAMAN and DAVE WEBB will be participating in the 21st annual convention of the American Institute of Design and Drafting in Los Angeles, the last week of the month. Karl is a member of the Board of Directors and will be conducting a business section on election of new officers. * RITA ROD! and GARY COLE are joining other Utah col-lege administrators in Las Vegas later in the month for two-fold purposes: to discuss articulation of distributive education classes between colleges, and to attend the awards ceremony of the national D.E.C.A. convention. * CURTIS SMOUT has been attending the annual national meeting of the American College Unions-International in San Francisco, along with JOHN WIEMER. * Both CURTIS YOUNGMAN and BOYD WARNICK will be tra-veling to the national Distributive Education Clubs of America convention in Las Vegas later this month . These advisors are confident several Utah Tech stu-dents will receive national honors in the various contests. * We hear DAVE WESTON has been recuperating from a severe back problem. We wish him a speedy recovery. *JOHN FULLMER, Building Construction instructor on the Downtown Campus, is attending a conference in Cedar City on Passive Solar Energy. * PAT LATHAM is making a flying visit 'tiome' (Texas) , apparently to brush up on speaking Southern! * MARJ BRADLEY will be making tracks for New Orleans to attend the International Reading Association's conve'ntion at the end of the month. *LINDA SABEY recently joined the Veterans Affairs office in Student Services as a clerk-typist. *Jerry Fullmer 's operation has added GRANT WEILER as a programmer/analyst . *MAUREEN AYLETT and AMY TOMITA will be participating in the Secretaries Week get-together. It is antici-pated that some 800 people will be gathering at the Salt Lake Hilton for the kick-off breakfast April 20th, at which both Maureen and Amy are slated to make award presentations. * Automotive instructor IVAN DICKSON is among those who belong to a motorcycle group known as the "Re-treads." You have to be 40-years-old or more to join. Donations of blood will be provided in the auditorium of the Nelson Administration Building, April 20th and 21st. UTAH TECH AIDS NON-PROFIT TV NETWORK Media technician Kelly Weldon reports that for about the past three months Utah Tech has aided Neighbor-hood Television Network. NTN, based at Brickyard Plaza, produces a one-hour closed-circuit commercial and public service video-tape. The tape is hooked up to (currently) about 15 TV receivers at Harmon's Shopping Center at that Plaza. The sets are located next to outgoing check-stands, so customers can watch while their purchases are being bagged, etc. Commercials generally run 15- to 20-seconds apiece. Kelly reports that about two-thirds of all Brick-yard Plaza merchants are participating. Addition-ally, a number of non-profit organizations through-out the valley are having public service messages produced through the Kearns High School TV studio set-up. Each month the total program is revised, and that's where UTC's media center comes in. Kelly puts together the scores of different segments onto one master videotape ... a process which is quite tedious and time consuming. Utah Tech has participated among the public service announcements, both for the main campus and Skills Center offerings. There is a possibility that the closed-circuit net-work will expand to other shopping areas in the future . UTC DRAFTING DAY COMING UP SOON Richard Ninow, chairman of the planning committee, announces that May lst will be Drafting Day for high school students being bussed in to Utah Tech . Purpose of the event is to demonstrate to interested secondary school students the quality of both Arch-itectural Technology and Engineering Drafting and Design programs . The exposure becomes a valuable recruitment tool for those courses. The morning assembly will include a film, and moti-vational remarks by William Wait. Tours of the school and department will follow, as well as a luncheon hosted by the institution. At the noon banquet a number of trophies will be presented. STUDENT SERVICES TO UNDERGO PHYSICAL REORGANIZATION Monday, April 27th, the entire Student Services area will be closed for business while the division re-shuffles. Purpose of the rearrangement is to more effectively use the space available, and to enlarge the registration area. Students should find the new design of existing components more beneficial. For example, the entire counseling staff will be grouped in offices in one portion of the area, rather than - as at present -spread throughout the northwest quadrant of the College Center's main level . Judd Morgan, Dean of Students, anticipates the move will only affect one day's business, and that Stu-dent Services will re-open on Tuesday the 28th. ..lllllf- TECHNICAL COt.l.EGE -- AT SAU'LAKE 

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