>> Today on the Job Man Caravan, an outlook for liberal arts majors We'll profile Evelyn Keene.

We'll take a look at the South Carolina State Teacher of the year.

Dr. Stuart Hamilton will be here with us.

And entertainment from Mickey.

♪ Hi, and welcome to another session of the Job Man Caravan, a show that we've designed with you in mind with plenty of community information, job information, and we've got a great deal of entertainment for you.

One thing that's not entertaining in our society is the rising crime rate.

During this year, approximately 57 million people will become victims of crime.

One out of every six households will be burglarized.

Efforts to prevent this kind of occurrences in your neighborhood, and also, as well as efforts to keep burglars out of your home, can be bolstered by community support and involvement.

Your working with your neighbors and your local police department can maximize your neighborhood's security.

It is impossible to totally protect your home from intrusion, but there are things that you can do to your doors and windows, and with alarm systems and lighting that will minimize the possibility of illegal entry.

If exterior doors in your home have hinges on the outside, an intruder can remove them and lift the door from its frame.

To prevent this.

Have the hinges remounted on the inside of the frame.

The front door of your apartment or home should also have a wide angle peephole to allow you to see people who are directly in front of your door, as well as those standing on the sides.

Every outside door, without exception, should be equipped with a deadbolt lock, and if your door has glass panes or if they are windows within 40 in of the lock, you should consider a double cylinder deadbolt lock.

With this type of lock, you need a key to get out as well as into your home.

You can secure your windows by installing window locks, gates and bars, or by replacing glass with plexiglass or another unbreakable material.

There are burglar alarm systems that protect your home from the inside, called space alarms, which you can install yourself, and there are perimeter alarms that sound off while a burglar is outside of your home, which should be installed by a professional.

Exterior lighting is extremely important to residential security.

Doorways, windows, as well as a yard should be lighted to prevent intruders from hiding in these areas.

There are also timers that automatically regulate the interior lighting of your home to create the impression that you are there.

Protecting your neighborhood should be a group effort that includes neighbors as well as the local police department.

To find out how your neighborhood can start a crime prevention program.

Contact your local police department or write the Crime Prevention Coalition Post Office Box 6600 Department T, Rockville, Maryland 20850.

♪ You're on the Job Man Caravan and coming up, a Caravan look at the teacher of the year for the state of South Carolina.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> We talk a lot on the Caravan about getting prepared to hold this job.

Engineering is in, the health field, businesses and kinds of things like that.

But we like to always remind people that if you don't have a good self-image, if you don't feel good about yourself, then it may be hard to succeed, particularly in things have take a lot of determination.

Self images, how do you form or help children to have good self images about themselves?

Dr. Stuart Hamilton> Self image is, as you said, extremely important and it begins early by simply smiling at the person by saying you're a great baby, you're a wonderful baby.

You've done a great job.

That was a magnificent two steps you did across the floor.

And it's general encouragement.

It's not the scowling look or I'm going to get you, or the boogeyman is going to get you, or the doctor is going to get you when you go to the doctor's office.

It's a general, gentle kind of an encourager, and it's letting the child know from a very early age that they can not totally fail, because you will always be there to back them up.

Terrell> I want you to respond to this young men are taught very early in life, you got to be strong.

You got to be macho.

What could this potentially do to a young man?

Dr. Hamilton> There's like everything else.

There's some truth in it, but it can get to the extreme.

You do have to be strong.

The world is filled with people and influences that would tear you down or take you apart, and it does take a strength to deal with that.

But it takes inner strength.

It takes, a building of the soul, if you will.

It takes a spiritual, uplifting and a feeling that you can do it.

It's not walking around and saying, you know, get me?

I can do it.

It's totally different.

Women want and need sensitivity They don't need too much in the way of being macho, but they need strength.

Strength in knowing that they can be supported by their man.

That takes strength.

That doesn't take macho.

Terrell> Is it possible to be the strongest man in the world and yet to be the gentlest?

Dr. Hamilton> It is.

It is certainly strong and possible.

Terrell> Dr. Stuart Hamilton on the Caravan.

Thank you.

Dr. Hamilton> Thank you.

Terrell> In coming weeks on the Job Man Caravan Ashford and Simpson.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Terrell> This is the Job Man Caravan.

And coming up, an outlook for liberal arts majors.

♪ Coming up on the Job Man Caravan our entertainment profile, which will feature a young lady who was discovered singing while cleaning bathrooms.

Also an outlook for the future of those of you who are liberal arts majors or contemplating on majoring in liberal arts.

When you think of teaching, you'll find a lot of people who are dedicated to motivating young people.

Right now on the Job Man Caravan, we salute a person worthy of emulation on the Caravan.

♪ Stimulating the minds of young people and providing incentives for them to learn is a fulfilling and satisfying task for many teachers.

One such teacher is Catherine Williams.

The Keenan High School Richland School District One, and South Carolina State Teacher of the Year.

Catherine Williams, a native of Summerville, South Carolina, began her teaching career at Keenan High School in 1970.

A graduate of South Carolina State College, Mrs. Williams majored in biology and minored in chemistry and education.

Presently, she is teaching chemistry, primarily to juniors and seniors at Keenan High School.

The success that Catherine Williams has achieved in her teaching career is partially due to her effective teaching methods and philosophies.

>> My main philosophy is this.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

It means that a student has to work hard every day because he does not know what his future holds.

And so every day when my students come to class, it is business as usual.

They have homework every day because they simply have to prepare themselves.

Usually, if a student is not academically motivated, the lesson has to be interesting.

I wish it were so that it didn't have to be all the time, but as a teacher has got to make an effort to keep the class interesting in order to keep those students' attention.

Terrell> It is apparent that Mrs. Williams knows how to motivate her students, as well as keep their attention during class periods, and she gives us some examples of how she manages to accomplish this feat.

>> Well, I do a lot of lab exercises because I do, I am teaching a science course.

Sometimes I do demonstration exercises.

Sometimes we may talk about something that's been in the newspaper or something that's been on the moves.

You might remember the Tylenol incident last month.

We spent some class time talking about that.

And, you see, that's a real opportunity for me because what I did was step into the storage room and got the substance that was put into the Tylenol, you know, to show the class what it was and why a person could take it and not really know.

It looked just like a white powder.

Terrell> A teacher's effectiveness is often measured by the way he or she relates to his or her students, and how he or she conducts his or her classes.

In fact, anyone who wants to be a successful teacher must possess certain qualities.

I'd say it has to be a person who really likes young people.

If it's a person who works with elementary students, he has to really like that age child.

If it's a person who's working with high school students, you have really got to like them and you have got to like your subject matter.

One thing I like about teaching is I have a captive audience every day.

And, you know, if I want to talk about electron configuration, good.

They can't go anywhere until the bell rings.

One of the main things I try to instill in our students is that they can succeed.

Whatever it is they want to try, that they can succeed.

They have to put work into it, of course.

And because of that, I insist on class or I insist on that.

Their attention and glass and I insist that they do their homework every day.

But I think the main thing is that they can succeed, and they only have to put the effort into.

Like most teachers, Mrs. Williams expects her students to meet certain standards as well as perform at an acceptable level.

Well, there are some things that the school insists on as a whole, and there are some things that I insist on also.

Attendance is one.

That is very important.

We insist that our students attend class so many days.

We insist that they attend class on time.

And what we are hoping is that if a student comes to class everyday, he's going to learn something, but that if he comes everyday and comes on time, that carries over to the job market and that when he does get a job, he'll actually go to that job every day.

He'll feel that responsibility and he'll go to that job on time.

Not only that, we expect excellence from our students.

We expect them to do all their lesson and all of their classes and simply prepare themselves.

Hopefully, if they do it here, they'll do it in the job market.

Terrell> On the Job Man Caravan, we salute the South Carolina Teacher of the year, Mrs. Catherine Williams.

At the age of 16, she entered the entertainment field and she was known as Champagne, which described her sparkling, bubbly personality to a tee.

Evelyn Keene, who is now 22 years old, is still delighting audiences with her charismatic on stage performances.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Terrell> Evelyn's rise to stardom started with her debut LP, Smooth Talk, which was released in 1977.

About a year before that, she was literally cleaning bathrooms and the Gamble and Huff Studios in Philadelphia while her mother worked a vacuum cleaner nearby.

It was there that she was discovered by T Life, who was a writer, producer and artist at Philadelphia International Records at the time.

Life, who produced her first three albums, saw potential in Evelyn, and began to bring her songs, coach her voice and educate her about the music field.

Success came to Evelyn King early in her career, with a recording of this million selling single that was certified gold a week after it was released.

("Shame") ♪ ♪ ♪ Terrell> After five years as a recording artist, Evelyn recognizes that she has developed as a person and an artist.

In her own words, and we quote, "I feel I've grown up a lot "as far as my knowledge and maturity are concerned, "and as an artist, I feel I've grown better at what I do."

End of quote Evelyn King ("Love Come Down") ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Terrell> If you are one of many college students who is majoring in liberal arts or any of the non-technical areas, you may be disillusioned by the computer and technical age in which we live.

But don't be because there's still a need for non-technical graduates.

There just aren't as many employment opportunities available in today's market.

Everyone does not possess the ability to be a computer scientist or an engineer.

So do your best to pursue a major in an area of your choice, but be realistic and aware of what is available in the job market.

As a non technical degree candidate, it is essential that you develop marketable skills.

One way to do this is by seeking a double major, with one of those majors being in an area that is high in demand, like computer science or engineering.

One thing about the computer area is that you do not have to have a computer science degree to get a job in this field.

Most companies consider 9 to 12 hours enough to gain at least an entry level position.

Sales is another area where technical as well as non-technical degreed persons will find job openings.

This is a field that depends largely on a person's communication skills, intelligence, and perception of the customer needs.

And a non-technical major can make as much money in sales as he or she is willing to put into it.

Another area where hiring is not based on a person's technical background is the insurance field.

This industry offers opportunities for people with clerical skills, management skills, as well as a sales background.

So if you are a liberal arts major or non-technical major, don't be discouraged by the status of the job market.

Instead, develop skills that are marketable and a kind of proficiency that prospective employers are seeking.

So keep in mind, no matter what your major is, as long as you are determined, you know where you want to go and you stay on that road with the greatest of diligency, you can make it and you can do what you desire to do in life.

We'd like to hear from you.

Matter of fact, write to us about your ideas, your suggestions, and your concerns.

Simply write to us at Job Man, ETV.

Columbia, South Carolina.

That zip code is 29250.

Job Man.

ETV.

Columbia, South Carolina.

29250.

We'd like to thank you for joining us.

Invite you to join us next week.

Until then, Bill Terrell, on behalf of the staff of the Caravan.

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