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Page 2B/The Battalion/Thursday, May 3,1984
Job-jumping teacher fulfill^
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United Press International
BOSTON — When Sandi Ser-
kess graduated from college a
decade ago, there were no jobs
open for the teaching training
she was so anxious to use.
Faced with a glutted market
and an oversupply of elemen
tary school teachers, she found
employment and frustration in
one job after another — from
clerk to stand-up comedienne.
Now at age 31 she describes
herself as a "one-woman uni
versity,” teaching 25 different
subjects in a 10-week semester
and qualified to teach 25 more.
She says the ideas all emanate
from her rocky emotional and
professional past.
“My teaching dream has fi
nally come true,” she said.
The classes she teaches in
clude such basics as grammar,
writing skills, vocabulary build
ing and spelling extending
through a huge repertoire deal
ing with psychology, business
skills, preparation for graduate
school exams and the histories
of psychoanalysis, economics,
holidays and humor.
“But I’m always looking out
for new subjects,” she said. ‘Td
try teaching almost anything.”
Serkess, who has written a
book on improving memory,
teaches at the Cambridge and
the Boston Centers for Adult
Education. With a master’s de
gree in counseling, she is often
an instructor of American liter
ature and salesmanship at
Chamberlayne Junior College.
By choice, she hasn’t taken a
vacation in seven years.
“My courses are my autobiog
raphy,” she explains, going
through a list four pages long.
“If you read the list, you’ll know
me.”
“Take Math Anxiety,” she
said. “In order to work as an in
come tax preparer, I had to get
over my apprehensions about
math.”
But the popular class goes far
beyond her success in overcom
ing her trepidations during her
years of jobjumping.
“Sharing anxieties in a sup
portive environment encour
ages adults to tackle what they
fear, whether it be decimals,
fractions or the many problems
found in everyday math.
“Together we balance check
books and learn to get the most
for the money on shopping
trips.”
Citing “Business Strategies"
■ are ti
itil childr
and a selection of re arsliall sa
jects such as “Org, Flic new
Decision Making" an wom<
Writing for BusiruL xubl libei
ref erred to the of! )m l to nou
she encountered from a u uni, y-
clerking position i 0 To their
public relations. 'erydiing
“The class focuses 0 y s ,he aut
behavior, communicanJpS-' w<
terns and sexual haraJI
the workplace,"sht sj! j
Races give doctor a break
United Press International
BEN WHEELER — Like an ap
parition, the lean figure strides,
weapon in hand, before his dog,
the pair silhouetted against the
gathering dawn of a more es
sential American landscape.
The figure is not the spirit of
a Cherokee brave on the heels
of game. It is a Nike-clad coun
try doctor leading his dog
Manfred on their morning
miles.
The feather-dangled cow’s
rib clasped in his right hand is
not an ancient weapon, al-
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though it may be related to one.
But the aura of simplicity, of
life close to the earth and stars,
is real. At 66, Dr. Charles Ogil-
vie has found his spot of earth.
And he has found a new facet to
life — . running. He and
Manfred often run 90 miles per
week on the country roads sur
rounding his Arc Ridge Ranch
near Ben Wheeler.
Ogilvie began running when
he was 59. Today he is a “mas
ter’s runner” ranked second in
the nation in his age bracket in
the marathon and 10-kilometer
races. He ran 10 marathons,
26.2 miles each, in 1983. He
placed first in his class in all but
one.
The three hours or so that
Ogilvie puts in with Manfred
each morning clears his mind,
he says, and gives him time to
chart his day. The osteopathic
physician has a busy practice in
Ben Wheeler, about 30 miles
east of Tyler. He is the only
doctor in a medical district of
4,000 people. He and his staff
of three attend to an average of
27 patients each day, he says.
One day each week, he trav
els to Fort Worth to lecture at
the Texas College of Osteopa
thic Medicine where he
founded the department of
medical humanities before com
ing home to Arc Ridge Ranch in
1981. Once each week he drives
to Mineola to assist the radiol
ogy department at the osteopa
thic hospital there.
For a man who seems to be
running continuoulsy in one
fashion or another, the white-
haired doctor is serene and soft-
spoken. A hand-written phrase
from Thoreau’s “Walden”
pinned to a wall in his study
echoes his demeaner.
“To be a philosopher is not
merely to have subtle thoughts,
nor even to found a school. But
so to love wisdom as to live
according to its dictates is a life
of •simplicity, independence,
magnaminity and trust.”
Every windowsill and shelf in
the Arc Ridge Ranch study is
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lions as, ‘Is it good ioK
eager beaver?’" SM.RAN
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joined Texas College, tcss theme
heir bodies
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enthusiast and read
liked what he read.
“I was ,t little ovenrajl
out of shape,” he recaHtf
Ogilvie entered hisfbj
in 1978. He won. "I real
could wipe out guys my
had been running for
years,” he says.
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