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Secretaries with know-how can get ahead
United Press International
NEW YORK — The secre
tarial route to management is
becoming more common, but
being a secretary can be a re
warding career in itself — if it’s
approached in the right way,
the author of a book for secre
taries says.
“A good secretary has an ex
traordinary range of skills but
she often doesn’t know how to
capitalize on them and translate
them to higher pay and a more
interesting job,” Jodie Berlin
Morrow said. She has translated
her experience giving seminars
to secretaries into “Not Just A
Secretary” (Wiley Press $8.95),
a book she co-authored with
Myrna Lebow on how to get
ahead in the field.
“Secretaries have all the lead
ership skills,” Morrow said.
“Demand far outstrips supply
and if a secretary is smart she
can carve out an administrative
job for herself.”
Morrow uses the “she” gen
der throughout the book with
reason. More than 99 percent
of the almost 4 million people
employed as secretaries are
If you're using the secretarial route to manage
ment, learn everything you can about the com
pany and industry you are in. The knowledge
can lead to lucrative careers in sales or market-
mg.
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women. She never has been a
secretary but her co-author has.
Secretaries have become
more assertive. They have orga
nized to some extent and even
have a “National Secretaries
Week” this week.
But there’s a long way to go.
“Society still underrates her job,
her boss underrates it, her com
pany underrates it, and she un
derrates it,” Morrow said.
She said she prefers to go be
yond the traditional “don’t” ap
proach and concentrate on
“do’s.” The book touches all
bases on how a secretary can
move up, or, if she likes her job.
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enhance it, beginning with as
sessing her skills.
“Skills go far beyond typing
and steno,” she said. Secretaries
have to deal with people on
many levels, act as a public rela
tions representative, be able to
handle information, make deci
sions on the spot and be famil
iar with office procedures.
“The first step in our semi
nars is to have the women hon
estly assess their skills,” she said.
“We have them keep a time log.
It’s a pain but it’s an eyeopener.
Many are amazed at what they
do.”
The next step is approaching
the boss with the new knowl
edge. Morrow said the most im
portant thing is to be “direct
and non-conIrontational.”
Here’s what she advises a sec
retary to do with her future:
If you are in a dead-end job
she recommends looking for
another one, but not just any
secretarial job.
“Find a field you are inter
ested in,” she said. "If you have
no interest in insurance, you
shouldn’t look for a job as secre
tary with an insurance compa
ny.”
Look beyond the “job” atti
tude and toward a career. Find
out the educational require
ments or knowledge in the field
you are interested in and get
additional education if nec-
thef
essary.
Be honest about your abili
ties. If' you are intert
home decorating,
have the talent to b
signer, for example,
can find a job in
sales.
Look at your whole
how you like to dress,i
of people you aremosio
able with. If you liketod
up-to-the-minute
example, you might bell
working at an advert
agency than at a banfi
more conservative appatt
vo red.
“Interview your pros
employer,” Morrow
why the former secreianj
what the firm’s policy is J
motions.”
Government narrows lis
for nuclear waste dump
Vol 79
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The gov
ernment plans to cut the list of
potential sites for the nation’s
first high-level radioactive waste
dump to five or six by this sum
mer, the Energy Department’s
top nuclear waste official said
Tuesday.
The government has nine
sites in six stales under study as
possible locations for the under
ground nuclear dump —
Texas, Nevada, Louisiana, Mis
sissippi, Utah and Washington.
Michael Lawrence, acting di
rector of the Office of Civilian
Radioactive Waste Manage
ment, said the department will
release a detailed “mission
plan” next month that will es
tablish a schedule for partially
opening the first nuclear waste
storage site by 1998.
But the program has been
struggling and falling behind
schedule as it encounters scien
tific problems and major public
opposition in every state under
consideration.
Lawrence said at a briefing
he views the mission plan as a
document that will lay out a rea
listic schedule for developing a
site to store 70,000 metric tons
of waste material f rom commer
cial nuclear power plants. The
waste remains dangerously ra
dioactive for thousands of
years.
“We will still end up with a
1998 (opening) date because
Congress was specific and our
contracts with utilities call for
acceptance of waste by then,”
said Lawrence.
The rest of this year is critical
to the program, he said, be
cause the department intends to
release reports by Aug. 1 that
will drop three or four sites
from consideration.
After that, the department
intends to nominate three sites
by November or December,
Lawrence said. Under the Nu
clear Waste Policy Act, three lo
cations must be nominated by
Jan. 1, 1985.
Those three sites will receive
“detailed site characterization”
to determine their suitability for
the waste storage.
The department reported to
Congress late last year it will not
be able to recommend a single
site by 1990. although the law
calls for the president n
mend one sue to Con
1987.
Under the new pi
lection still will not
1990.
“We’ve got to be cen
technical basis for the
lie,” La’
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waste site. ■Durit
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Astronauts foiled by p
in capture of Solar Max
future
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SPACE CENTER, Houston
— A 1-inch long fiberglass pin
used to hold a thermal blanket
on a sun-watching satellite al
most doomed the rescue of the
$245 million satellite earlier this
month, astronauts said Tues
day.
Astronaut George “Pinky”
Nelson said his initial efforts to
capture the Solar Max satellite
were foiled by the small pin that
protruded near a steel docking
pin.
Nelson, using a jet backpack,
flew 200 feet from the shuttle to
Solar Max and planned to use a
specially designed docking tool
called a Trunnion Pin Attach
ment Device to snap on the sa
tellite and hold it steady until it
could be grabbed by the
tie’s robot arm.
The fiberglass pin, however,
prevented the I PAD from lock
ing its mousetrap-like jaws onto
the docking pin.
“With that configuration,
there was no way the TPAD
would have triggered on the
trunnion pin,” Nelson said dur
ing a crew news conference at
the Johnson Space Center.
He said an investigation re
vealed that drawings used by
engineers to design, the TPAD
failed to show the small fiberg
lass pin.
Nelson and fellow crewmates
— Robert Crippen, Terry Hart,
Dick Scobee and James “Ox”
van Hoften — eventually
snared the satellite with Chal
lenger’s 50-foot robot arm and
the crew earned its nidus
the “Ace Satellite Repai
pany” by repairing the
and putting it back int
during their six-dayfliglu
Scientists said the fa
satellite repair job in
vaged the $245 mil
Max satellite and paved
lor future satellite re|
space.
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mission showed off
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that they took during'
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