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THE BATTALION Page 7 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1978 SHIPLEY’S DONUT SHOP \Greatest Name! InAa-flidz.. \ COf Ml / AFTER STUDYING, STOP IN FOR SOME FRESH DONUTS OR A FLAMEBURGER. Our donuts are made fresh all day long Open 6-11 Mon.-Sat. - Closed Sunday 3310 S. College 822-4096 hi-way fidelity from ©Clarion . Ot!e A"- - me pail Idingvh:’ he dent! that fore ofproppj ter/ ths rt said .'rippled ° s and .rk. o situati i more ll k,” he sale i Amerio: (Mondai ion barai il rate of: the numb the22pe eats of di is and otl* le oilfie sd and 1 that sn tlying an King out! Roseanne Roseannadanna, a 7-week-old spaniel, snoozes next to one of The Battalion's newsroom telephones. ’The puppy ‘Don’t bother me now —Vm busy!’ belongs to junior journalism major Mark Beatty. Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr. Clarion PE666B * vot fWiPBO • , , „ . _ _ ■ t a i 1 L W/\ K&M program Monday, Tuesday Homemakers forced out helped out The group subject to the highest rate of unemployment — dis placed homemakers — is receiving help from a program called New Dimensions, says Pamela Horne, coordinator of the program at Texas A&M University. The program was organized for women who must seek a job outside the home due to an illness, death or divorce of their spouses. Horne says its purpose is to help the displaced homemaker recognize skills she developed as a homemaker and use those skills in a job. An estimated 3 million displaced homemakers are in the United States. Despite different social and ethnic background they have one thing in common: inability to find jobs they need to become finan cially independent. Most of the women are not eligible for unem ployment insurance, group health insurance or pensions. Child sup port and widow pensions are usually insufficient. “We want to help women develop independence and economic security,” says Horne, “and we try to do this in a number of different ways.” New Dimensions provides counseling, training and job placement, Horne says. Through group counseling, homemakers discuss com mon emotional and financial problems. The training programs help develop skills in communication, money management and business. They are assisted in locating jobs and getting interviews through the program’s job placement service. Horne says Texas A&M has been gracious in supporting the pro gram. Each month New Dimensions offers four workshops. Monday and Tuesday a workshop will acquaint participants with employment op portunities on Texas A&M’s campus. Those interested in participat ing should contact Pamela Home. Jane Armstrong, manager of the Texas A&M Personnel Department, will be one of the speakers. “We have 230 vacancies from unskilled jobs to secretarial duties to post doctorate positions,” Armstrong said. “We do have jobs they all could do.” One of the participants said she has already found the program beneficial. “Interacting with other women I am finding that everyone has problems in common,” she said. “It has already helped me find some temporary employment.” Another displaced homemaker gave her reasons for participating. “I have found it emotionally supportive to find that other women are facing the same problems,’’she said. “Career orientations may differ, but the emotional adjustment to think of ourselves as indepen dent units is similar.” Horne says concern for the displaced homemaker is growing, re flected in national legislation that recognizes the plight. She said the U.S. Department of Labor recently pledged to spend $5 million on the program. 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