European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes january 1981 modern living shirts t by Iver Peterson new York times he ill wind of recession and High unemployment is blowing fair and Strong for the country Trade and vocational where record num Bers of jobless and underemployed people Are learning new skills and looking to new from Assembly lines and from behind sales counters and office men and women who got by when times were Good Are learning the lesson that americas aging Industrial Plant is also absorb ing the old ways do not pay the Bills our enrolments Are cyclical with the said William executive director of the National association of Trade and technical representing 600 private Trade our enrolments have literally soared during this period of he people who were satisfied with a Job when there working full time Start thinking about moving on when they get Laid about learning a new skill with a better All you have to do is look at the want ads to see where the jobs Are these Days they All require although Trade schools around the country report enrolment increases of 15 to 20 percent since last the increases Are especially Sharp in the Industrial Middle where the automobile makers and steel plants Are going through some of the worst times since world War Ricky Solomon is a typical victim of the automobile Industry he is 30 years with a wife and three children to and was Happy to be making nearly a year at Chrysler Eldon gear and Axle Plant until he was Laid off 15 months now he is in the first week of a course in heating and air conditioning at Detroit engineering learn ing How to work with Copper with a you cant sit around and wait for your benefits to run he and Ive been hearing bad things about the automobile Industry i though it was time to get the Chrysler is in serious financial difficult but one area of unquestioned Success is the company Trade school Molech Auto motive education they Are filled to burst a spokesman with two More planned on the East private Trade schools Are not the Only institutions doing Well while the Economy does College enrol ment is at record Levels this up percent nation wide Over last year and up percent in the Middle for reasons that educators ascribe to the poor Job Community which a decade ago were geared largely to academic programs for students aiming to Transfer to fou year Are rapidly shifting their emphasis to vocational and technical this year 58 percent of the courses offered at Michigan two year colleges Are in occupational but the owners of profit making proprietary vocational schools believe they offer the Best arguing that their schools adapt More quickly to changing technologies and employment the new York state education department last summer criticized publicly financed vocational courses for teaching skills for which demand has we can move quickly when we have said John head of Tampa technical the hot area now is in advanced computer and weve just added new courses to keep up with the in recent years Congress overcame resistance from non profit campuses to extend eligibility for Federal tuition Aid to Trad school where the Cost of a Complete course can Cost we dont see the discrimination against us that there was at one said our people Arent considered delinquents and dropouts for some Trade a Layoff can be a Ken a 24yearold air conditioning student at de troit technical said that losing his Job at Budd wheel was a Welcome Chance to escape a Well paying but Deaden one Day i sat Down in the cafeteria and looked at All the Guys who had 40 years he the moneys half decent but it Burns you not he went in getting my certificate and heading for there going to need a lot of air conditioning in new York times Andrew sacks technical schools Are training record numbers of jobless looking to new at wits end by Erma Bombeck i have no idea who invented living but How come they Arent Ive polled 135 people of varying Ages and not one of them can remember doing anything in a living room but clean in most houses a living room has become u Temple for a shrine for stolen Light bulbs and a lounge for guests connecting with another part of the i didst realize we bad a living room until one Day the realtor was going through the House and How big is your living room where is it i its that Large room with the White sofas that faces the this is quite i walking through touching the Glass table and the Glass bowl of plastic do your draperies go with it its your House she i talked with an architect about the living room Mysti que and he was As vague As anyone As to what they were drawing from personal his Only recollection was that it was a room with the furniture wrapped in plastic or old blankets where you always tripped Over something in the dark on your Way to answering the front i remember ours As a room that was never heated in the had the draperies closed All sheets on the sofa and the cellophane still intact on the there was a sign on the door shown by appointment my Mother always said it was a room to be used for special a visit from Lindbergh or presi Dent Roosevelt might have no one seems to know Why the living room is a protected but it never became a watering Hole for when they got sick of gathering in the some fixed up the basement so they could create More space for their it was called Early water Heater despite a living room full of Comfort Able the family spent the evenings in the base ment on a porch swing watching the condensation drip Down the soon after the second world family rooms were which looked like a living room with i passed by our living room the other Day and smiled in ten it still looked like a recovery the dog ran by me and started to sniff around the White sofa he we made Eye he re turned to my he Felt the mystique c Field enterprises