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February 11, 2004 • page 5
Former student reflects on 20-year book effort
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Individuals who dream of owning their
own business but do not know how to do so
may be interested in an upcoming business
exposition seminar.
The Entrepreneur Expo will be at the
Fort Worth Convention Center Friday, March
12, and will provide information on becom-
ing involved in the business world.
TCC’s Women in New Roles (WIN-R)
program on all TCC campuses will partici-
pate in the event by sponsoring a booth.
(KRT) Roses are red.
What does this matter to you?
Plenty—with Valentine’s Day
just around the corner, people
should know the importance of
flowers.
The importance of flowers?
one might ask.
Well, to be politically correct,
the flower giver should understand
the message he or she is sending
with each bunch of poseys.
For instance, in case you were
wondering, the color and type of
flower can express certain feelings
one person has for another.
Roses are the most popular
flower on Valentine’s Day; howev-
er, the color will express a person’s
true feelings. Even the receiver of
the flower may not know the
meaning but subconsciously will
get the real meaning.
As an example, red roses can
convey feelings of deep affection.
Other colors of roses mean
something altogether different.
White and yellow roses gener-
ally signify friendship and appreci-
ation.
Cream roses express pleasure
and peacefulness.
The price of cut roses often
skyrockets around Valentine’s Day.
If a person’s budget cannot
handle a dozen long-stem roses, or
for those who don’t want to pro-
claim undying love, don’t despair.
The theme for this expo is Follow the
Yellow Brick Road to Success.
The expo will feature seminars on topics
such as how to receive funding, how to rec-
ognize an entrepreneurial personality and
how to write a business plan.
Various organizations will have booths
to distribute information.
As with any endeavor such as this, orga-
nizers need volunteers.
Volunteers must be available to work a
and contains double agents, assas-
sins, underwater adventure and
sub-orbital dogfights and delves
There are many other types of
flowers that can help a person con-
vey a special Valentine’s Day mes-
sage.
For those not opting for roses, a
person can still say it with flowers.
Here are some suggestions
from the California Cut Flower
Commission:
Pink carnations: I’ll never for-
get you
Gardenias: You’re lovely
Orchids: You’re beautiful
Red tulips: My perfect lover
Ivy: I’ll never betray you
Chrysanthemums: May you
have a long life
Source: California Cut Flower
Commission: www.ccfc. org.
readers who liked what I wrote, so
this was a great thing for me.”
this man, and the story ended up
winning an award because she sub-
mitted it for competition,” he said.
Tolleson said Turner also had
everything you save.
“Print on demand is a vanity
press,” he said. “I was able to put
a copy of the novel in the hands of
my mother, who was suffering
understand things. It made her
happy to see my finished product.”
“However, the bad side to this
is that print on demand has a bad
tion piece and
“Fitzgeraldesque” pieces.
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“This is going to be about how to focus on strengths rather than
weaknesses, and also it will focus on goals rather than past failures,” she
said.
The South Campus STARS program is sponsoring the seminar.
For further information, call Miller at 817-515-4082.
Speech on stress relief
Having to deal with the pressures that come from school, work and
family can cause some people more stress than they are ready to deal
with.
A seminar on the South Campus is designed for such students and
will help students understand the importance controlling stress plays in a
person’s life.
Counselor Sandra Johnson will present Stress: Coping With the
Pressures of School, Work, and Family Tuesday, Feb. 17, from 12:30 to
1:30 p.m. in SSTU Texas'Room.
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College students can win up to
$3,000 in the 17th annual
Christopher Video contest.
The Christopher’s, a non-prof-
it organization founded in 1945,
will offer cash prizes of $3,000,
$2,000 and $1,000 for the top three
entries.
The winners will also have
their work featured on the
Christopher Close-up television
series.
To enter, students must inter-r
pret the theme One Person Can
Make a Difference.
Part of College Student Success Seminars, this presentation will help
participants have a less-stressed life.
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Friday afternoon.
Volunteers will receive a free ticket to
the expo, including a luncheon and a T-shirt.
Volunteers are asked to contact Toni Booth
at tbooth@fwbac.com for more details.
Catherine Simpson, director of Women’s
Business Center of Fort Worth, will hold a
seminar as a promotional effort leading up to
the expo in the South Campus SSTU Living
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More than ever, the world will be       Cynthia Miller, instructor of special projects, will present Identifying
shaped by their positive creative the Real You 2-3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, in the Texas Room of the Student
vision.”                           Center on South Campus.
Official entry forms are avail- Miller will address issues such as identifying strengths, persevering
able by writing to College Video and solidifying goals while motivating oneself.
Contest, The Christopher’s, 12
East 48th St., New York, NY
10017, calling 212-759-4050 or
visiting www.christophers.org/con-
test.html on the Web.
Students can enter more than
once, but an official entry form
must accompany each video. The
deadline for entries is June 11.
ended up on the newspaper. I
learned creative writing in high
school, but I learned dispassionate
editing from Ms. Turner,” he said.
Tolleson remembered one in-
terview in particular.
“Turner sent me back three
times to get more information from graders. The first hour will focus
on how to prepare for their
statewide test and the second on
creative writing.
Currently, he is writing a se-
an impact on helping him develop quel to his first book, a science fic-
my book,” he said. “When my an editorial point of view.           tion piece and one or two
publishing company, The Tolleson said he would often
Lighthouse Press, was releasing go to the newsroom after hours and
my book, I told them that I didn’t work on his story.
want to promote or advertise it. I Since his TCC graduation,
wanted it to be promoted by the Tolleson spent 14 years doing liti-
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by Katie Johnson
reporter
South Campus students
last week learned that saying
no to one thing could mean
saying yes to another.
“To say I have multiple
roles here at TCC South
Campus is an understatement,”
Flo Stanton, campus nurse,
said.
$ Stanton, coordinator of
health services, presented
Balancing Multiple Roles at the
Women in New Roles Health
Forum Wednesday.
WIN-R is a program for
women returning to school
while dealing with obligations.
“Recognizing that we have
these roles, we prioritize them,”
she said.
Stanton listed examples of
important roles such as mother,
wife, employee, student and
friend. She had audience mem-
bers graph the percentage of
time they give to each role.
“We cannot be all things to
all people all of the time,” she
said.
Stanton emphasized the
importance of saying “no” to
lesser priorities on occasion,
encouraging women with anec-
dotes of her experience of
going back to school with a
husband and two children.
Stanton reminded her audi-
ence that taking care of them-
selves should be a high priority.
Women in particular, are
responsible for their own hap-
piness and contentment, Stan-
ton said, assuring the group that
taking time to pamper them-
selves is not selfish. It will
keep life in balance, she said,
and increase effectiveness in all
other roles one must fulfill.
“I need to be in the right
relationship with me to be in
the right relationship with oth-
ers,” she said.
She closed her presentation
with a reminder to the women
to keep priorities in line.
This speech was the first in
a three-part series by Stanton
designed specifically for WIN-
R because it directly relates to
the curriculum the group fol-
lows.
Positive Self-Talk will be
Wednesday, March 3, 6-6:45
p.m. on South Campus.
Laughing Your Way Through
Stress, geared toward making
finals less stressful, will be
Wednesday, April 7, 6-6:45
p.m. on South Campus.
Both presentations are
open to other TCC students and
the general public.
Entries may be created using
film or video, but must be submit-
ted in NTSC format on standard
VHS tape and must be five minutes
or less in length.
The Christopher’s organiza-
tion uses print and electronic
media to encourage all individuals
to raise the standard of public life
throughout the country.
In a press release, Dennis W.
Heaney, president of The
Christopher’s, said, “In these trou-
bled times, it’s important to listen
to and encourage the idealism and
Flowers work for Valentine's
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12:15 p.m. She will discuss the entrepreneur-
ial personality, business plan and questions
someone should ask before starting a busi-
ness.
For questions about the expo or more
details, visit the Entrepreneur Expo’s Web
site at www.fwbac.com and click on the
Entrepreneur Expo link.
For further information about the semi-
nar may call Triesha Light, South Campus
WIN-R coordinator, at 817-515-4740.
Cash offered with contest Esteem South topic
by Shannon Harrison        readers who liked what I wrote, so gation support for a law firm in
feature editor                         this was a great thing for me.” Hurst. He also does photography
A former TCC graduate has Tolleson attended a few of the on the side, stock trading and writ-
kept busy trying to write his way to TCC campuses and received an
the top.                              A.A. and an A.A.S. as well as jour-
DL Tolleson has released a nalism and photography recogni-
novel that he has been writing for tion while he was a student.
21 years.                             On the South Campus, he was
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When Tolleson was looking to
get his book published, he went
with a new technology called print
on demand, which allows a book to
photography editor for The be printed on a computer leaving
eight times,” he said. “I started Reflector, the student newspaper,
when I was 13, and I wanted to do when each campus had its own
a $6 million man type of novel, but paper.
as it evolved, it was much more.” On NE Campus, Tolleson took
The novel, The Gray Stopgap, classes for his legal assistant de-
is about a government agent gree, which he received before his from Alzheimer’s while she could
plagued by wartime memories and A.A. degree. He also received var-
betrayal.                            ious awards for stories that he
It spans more than 20 years wrote for the newspaper.
“TCC certainly influenced me
to write,” he said. “One instructor reputation in the book publishing
in particular is Diane Turner. I industry because they allow any-
into a tragic love story woven be- took several of her classes and thing in, so I wasn’t getting any-
tween flashbacks and reality, ended up on the newspaper. I where,” he said.
Everything in the book is based on learned creative writing in high A writer friend then recom-
truth.                              school, but I learned dispassionate mended Tolleson to Lighthouse
“The science used in the novel editing from Ms. Turner,” he said. Press in Florida. When he sent his
already existed or was on the draw- Tolleson remembered one in- book, the company accepted him.
ing board,” he said. “I keep a terview in particular.                    Tolleson will begin teaching
number of reference materials “Turner sent me back three an after-school program for fifth
handy for just such reasons.”
The book has also had three
staff recommendations at various
Barnes & Noble bookstores.
“I was excited when the staff
at Barnes & Noble recommended
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