1. Saturday, September 13, 2014 Valley Courier Page 9
Education
Retired teacher learns
something new at TSJC
By MARGARET
SANDERSON
ALAMOSA — Riding up
on her scooter with her legs
draped over her cosmetology
case, Jill Wasinger arrives
at school.
Each day she has to take
her nail case home and bring
it back the next day. She
tried walking and pulling it
along behind her but while
it has wheels, it’s heavy, the
route is bumpy and it took
too much time.
“I had to get creative about
saving time and money,” she
said. “My scooter gets 100
miles per gallon and I only
have to drive four blocks.”
So, what is this retired
teacher and mother of two
grown children doing back
in school?
“I’ve wanted to do cosme-tology
since I was in high
school,” Wasinger said, “but I
got married early and moved
from Denver to Alamosa. My
husband convinced me to
start college at Adams State
with him. We both became
teachers and I taught for 30
years right here in Alamosa.”
Wasinger will fi nish the
nail portion of her studies in
December. She wants to take
her board exams (required
testing for certifi cation) right
away and work in a salon on
weekends while she fi nishes
school. She will learn hair
and make-up next.
“I’ve always been good
with hair,” said Wasinger.
“I did my daughter’s hair
and make-up for proms and
for three years while she
was competing in the Miss
Colorado Pageant. I got to
hang with the big dogs (hired
beauticians). That’s when I
really knew I should pursue
cosmetology.”
At first, Trinidad State
Cosmetology Director Gayle
Pepper was a little nervous
about having a retired teach-er
in her class.
“I was worried about be-
Note Wasinger’s legs draped over her nail case - creative
transportation indeed!
Janelle Santullano gets some special attention from Jill Wasinger while Nicolette Silva-
Gunther looks on. All three students are currently taking the nail tech training at TSJC.
ing critiqued,” said Pepper,
“but when Jill pulled up on
a scooter on the second day
of class with her nail case
between her legs, I knew the
fun was on!”
The two had to sort out who
was older, but it only took
a day for them to adjust to
each other.
For 22 years Wasinger
taught fifth grade. Then
for another eight years she
taught art in grades three
through fi ve.
“I’ve always been creative,”
said Wasinger, “but I can see
that teaching art has helped
me with my nail art. I’m at a
happy, really good place right
Photos courtesy of Margaret Sanderson
Archaeology class offered
STILLWATER, Okla. —
Oklahoma State University’s
College of Agricultural Sci-ences
and Natural Resources
has selected 102 incoming
freshmen from 19 states to
participate in the Freshmen
in Transition (FIT) program
for the 2014-2015 school year.
FIT is a residential living-learning
community where
students live in a suite-style
dorm alongside other fresh-men
enrolled in CASNR. Par-ticipants
are provided with
opportunities and activities
that foster autonomy, inde-pendence,
an intellectual
disposition to learning and
interest in new experiences.
“FIT’s overall goal is help
students transition into
college by providing an at-mosphere
for personal and
academic growth through
engagement, service and
networking,” said Katie
Smithson, FIT coordinator.
Eleven FIT Student Aca-demic
Mentors (SAMs),
former members of the pro-gram
selected by an applica-tion
process, will live in the
CASNR Village and serve
as mentors for participants.
“We are here to make
sure the FIT members feel
comfortable and become
adjusted to college life,” said
Ricki Schroeder, 2014-2015
mentor. “
FIT participants are de-termined
by a competitive
process based on a compre-hensive
review of a submitted
application.
Members of the 2014-
2015 FIT program include
Del Norte resident Jordyn
McMaster-Neely who is ma-joring
in Animal Science/Ag-ricultural
Communications.
FORT GARLAND —
Basic Site Surveying Tech-niques
will be the title of
the next class offered in the
Program for Avocational Ar-chaeological
Certifi cation of-fered
by Colorado Historical
Society in cooperation with
San Luis Valley Archaeologi-cal
Network.
Taught by the Assistant
Colorado State Archaeolo-gist,
Kevin Black, the class
will begin Friday evening,
September 19 through Mon-day
evening, September 22
at Fort Garland. This class
will review the history of
archaeological survey, how to
identify a site, site formation
processes, recording proce-dures,
use of archeological
equipment, and how to read
a USGS topographic map.
Goals and problems encoun-tered
in surveying as well as
curation and report writing
will be included. Class par-ticipants
will survey a site at
Fort Garland.
Anyone over the age of 15
who is interested in learning
more about the archaeology of
Colorado is invited to attend.
Cost of the class is $12 plus a
$10 donation to Fort Garland.
Graduate level college credit
is also available through the
Offi ce of Extended Studies
at Adams State College. For
more information or to sign
up contact: Loretta Mitson
at 719-843-5328 or at mit-son53@
yahoo.com. More
information about the PAAC
program can be found at:
http://www.historycolorado.
org/archaeologists/program-avocational-
archaeological-certifi
cation-paac
Del Norter in FIT program
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