The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, February 3, 1989 Page: 7 of 10
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Feb. 3, 1989
"This is such a rewarding program,
retiring, I said, 'Sure you will.' Then
She is a good person to be with. She
welcomed the challenge. It is always
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Jean Longwith
"I have a work ethic. I believe you get great satisfac-
Lillian Taubert
10,000 viewers in San Antonio took advantage of a
plains what a camera operator chooses to include may
information on mammography.
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WOMEN S HALL OF FAME
Taubert designs
hectic schedule
Longwith long on
awards, honors
"One day they called me into ex-
ecutive session and asked if I
wanted the job. I never hesitated. I
welcomed the challenge."
By Raul Dominguez Jr.
Associate Editor
By Nancy Bergman
Staff Writer
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Cynthia Guyon
Baumberger Endowment Director
By Nancy Bergman
Staff Writer
One of Longwith's ongoing projects is a book she
hopes will make readers more aware of the media. She
the teaching expertise, they often lack the knowledge
to transfer it to television.
She advises the businesses on technical aspects of
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Their 27-year working relation-
ship has translated to a 27-year
Although retired from teaching here, she keeps an
active schedule of meetings, business activities and
travel.
"I'm doing the things I really want to do," she says.
Later this month she will go to Austin to take part in
state-level meetings of the A AUW and in the two-day
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dowment fund that same year.
Guyon followed shortly; however,
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"He was always thoughtful
enough to say I want you to come
with me," Guyon said of Weynand, point average, but some students
named as a distinguished alumnus fail to meet the requirement. Guyon
nicest people they have ever met.
"I think one of her better traits is
studentssay'Gee, thank you for your getting along with people," the for-
of the endowment's trustees placed
in her helped her confidence.
"Mr. (Stanley M.) Schmidt knew I taking classes in the business de-
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out and looked or put an ad in the
paper. It started to sink in, but I was
still not sure if they would get some- became registrar, Guyon
pointed his secretary. She moved
with Weynand when he became
dean of students, vice president and students helped lure her away,
eventually president of the district.
Guyon was later elevated to ad-
A private elevator stops at the top
• of a three-floor office building at the
northern edge of Alamo Heights.
Upon disembarking, one is con-
fronted by a well-dressed gentle-
man whose "May I help you?" bor-
ders on "Do you belong here?"
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you enter thelushofficeof theBaum-
bergcr Endowment and await its
director, Cynthia Guyon, an alumna
of this college.
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m on the telephone in the adjoining
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| ever, it is not said with any hint of
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Guyon walks into the room with a
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shake. One gets the feeling that
paying a return visit would turn the
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Her warm greeting and "How are
you doing?" are as genuine as the
Scholarship fund Charles Baum-
berger Jr. established in his last will
3nd testament.
Baumberger was president and
chairman of the board of the San
Antonio Portland Cement Co. be-
fore hedied in 1968. After providing
for his wife Gene in his will, Baum-
berger established the endowment
fund to assist Bexar County high
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Professor Emeritus Jean Longwith flips through the
pages of a three-inch notebook filled with letters of
appreciation, awards and records of her achievements
in the communications industry.
The founder and former chairman of the radio-
television-film department here is about to add her
inclusion in the 1988 San Antonio Women's Celebra-
tion and Hall of Fame to her collection of honors.
The San Antonio branch of the American Associa-
tion of University Women nominated Longwith for
the award, citing her service as an educator, writer
and television producer.
Speaking thoughtfully and precisely, Longwith says
of the award, "The joy comes in learning somebody
approves of what I've done and recognizes the time
and effort that go into it."
Longwith has devoted a large part of that time and
effort to keeping people informed about women's
issues.
Her hall of fame nomination cited Longwith's work
in producing for cable television a series of 30-minute
programs focusing on women's issues.
She is being honored for her work in communica-
tions including her achievements in education.
Longwith says her philosophy is to be true to her
own values. She has encouraged students to learn tion out of doing a job well."
about the power they carry as members of the media
and to develop and follow their own set of values.
She keeps track of some of her students' achieve- believes visual presentations in particular can influ-
ments, regardless if they go into broadcasting.
"I get such a bang out of watching them learn and
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Her appointment calendar is booked with meetings,
television station visits and now an interview, but
Lillian Taubert seems to find room for more.
"You have time to do anything and everything you
want to do," she says with a gracious smile. And she
does it all, from nursing to cancer awareness work to
her interior design business.
Taubert, since 1972 professor and assistant chair-
man of the department of nursing education here, is
being recognized for her achievements as a health
professional by the 1988 San Antonio Women's Cele-
bration and Hall of Fame.
Her career in nursing has spanned four decades and
has included clinical nursing, education and extensive
volunteer work for which she has received numerous
awards.
She has been a tireless campaigner for the American
Cancer Society since 1959 when she developed San
Antonio's first public program on Pap smears and
uterine cancer.
"My whole goal was to teach people to know their
body," she said.
Students here have benefited from lectures and
seminars on cancer awareness Taubert has given.
Her recent work as chairman of the Public Educa-
tion Committee and Breast Health Awareness Task
Force was devoted to educating women about early associate degree programs are flourishing, she says,
detection and mammograms. Students realize they can earn their nursing creden-
The program included a week-long television news bals in two years rather than four, so they flock to the
series on breast cancer and mammograms. About associate degree programs.
10,000 viewers in San Antonio took advantage of a She suggests nursing students should not assume
hotline number given during the series and called for the associate degree will be the end of their training,
information on mammography. "You're going to find more education is in demand,"
Taubert, who received her nursing diploma from she says.
Robert B. Green School of Nursing, says nursing has
changed dramatically since she graduated.
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her. We sit side by side so we can
stay away from the authority figure
with students."
So instead, Guyon, like Weynand, students made her the logical, and
her business behind a small office
table in front of a drawn window on
a rainy Friday afternoon.
Guyon said she never imagined
she would succeed Weynand as
director.
"When he said he was thinking of named was a pleasant surprise,
retiring, I said,'Sure you will.'Then "One day they called me into
he told me that he thought I should executive session and asked if I
succeed him. I told him they would wanted the job. I never hesitated. I
never go for that." welcomed the challenge. It is always
Guyon said the faith the chairman a challenge."
Guyon worked as a student assis-
tant in the registrar's office while
could do the work. They never went partment.
When Weynand left his career as
a reporter at the Express-News and
was ap-
Former student provides sincere devotion
You have been secretary to the presi- their own trying to make it in the
dent.' "
But Guyon convinced the board
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Longwith says she required some academic courses
in the two-year program, including English and his- the American Association of University Women,
tory, so students would have a good academic back-
ground.
Longwith says people should understand more
about the media.
"My feeling is, it doesn't matter if you go into that
career or not, you still need to know."
She feels strongly about "old fashioned" values: Women's Legislative Days, adding more pages to her
memory book about her career in communications.
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Hall nf Fame ■ u° XT cncei VCrly S LaFunenAKudl.tonUfP- 1984 to honor the achievements of communities throughout the state Honorees represent different ar-
nail OT Fame is the theme for the fifth annual The event will begin with a re- women who contributed to the to honor local women. eas of community achievement.
J/J "", .--Z~■ - - .' G. Hall of Fame members will be pre-
tion and Hall of Fame. awards program at 7 p.m. ’ vice chairman of the commission, sented withplaquesattheceremony
l««ol Thirteen women will be added TicketsareSWand willbeavail- The Governor's Commission on helped set up a community Hall andwillhavetheirpicturesaddedto
local women totheHallofFameJncludingtwo able at the door. Women initiated the Texas of Fame. The first celebration drew the Hall of Fame gallery in the VIP
- - from the college, at an induction Former Gov. Mark White estab- Women's Hall of Fame to recog- 300 nominations from local groups Room at the Henry B. Gonzalez Con-
in ceremony ceremony Monday in Trinity Uni- lished "Women in Texas" week in nize the women and encouraged and individuals. vention Center.
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school seniors in their education.
The fund has awarded $13 million
to 1,400 students since 1979.
Baumberger also set up a board
of trustees and a director to oversee
the endowment fund. Guyon suc-
ceeded Dr. Jerome Weynand, who
retired Dec. 31 as director.
Guyon's office is filled with a
never-ending bookshelf and a gran-
diosedesk thatappearsa mileaway.
The desk and the office are slightly
imposing to anyone, even Guyon
and Weynand.
"I think I may have rubbed off on one with more experience or some-
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Weynand said Guyon's back-
ground and ability to work well with
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chooses to conduct the majority of only, candidate to succeed him.
"I strongly recommended to the
board privately that they need not
look any further and I don't believe
they did."
Guyon said she never approached
the board about the job, so being
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"She cares about people," Adri-
enne Weynand said. "Whenever I
of this college in 1988. said the fund allows the student to have to talk to someone, I call her.
Weynand left the district in 1981 fall behind in their studies one se-
mester, but a second sub 2.0 GPA is always there."
disqualifies the student. Once the interview is completed,
"You would think that in a schol- Guyoninquiresaboutone'spersonal
she said leaving the college and con- arship program that would not life. She hangs on each answer as if
vincing the fund's board of trustees happen, but we do have to counsel she is getting reacquainted with an
some. Sometimes they just need a
little encouragement."
"Sometimes they have personal bringsagoodbyethatisasrealasthe
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ence the viewer's understanding of an event.
"The way you see it may have been influenced by
grow," she says. "Wherever they are, I bet what they the person holding the camera," she says. She ex-
learned with us has been an advantage to them." | ’
Longwith spent 19 years on this campus, beginning not represent the entire event.
in 1964 when she arrived with the intent to teach Since her 1983 retirement from this college, Long-
speech. with has operated a communications consulting busi-
She soon was encouraged by college administra- ness from her home, primarily doing workshops and
tors to offer courses in broadcasting, so she conducted seminars for businesses.
a survey of communications firms to determine if jobs She says more and more companies are producing
would be available for students and what kind of in-house training videotapes, and though they have
training the industry wanted.
She developed the RTF department here on two
levels, one stressing academics for the transfer cur-
riculum, the other on a more technical level for two- production and demonstrates how to make an educa-
year students. tional program work on videotape.
Longwith says she required some academic courses The San Antonio native is active at the state level of
world. They have the potential to
move on.They just need encourage-
she was suited for the job, which sat ment. Most of them come around."
well with Weynand. As with any promotion, Guyon
"She was interested in the job, and faces new challenges.
she told me she was interested in the "I'm not afraid of the work, just
joband that she applied to the board thechallengethatitisdoneontime."
chairman. She asked me if it would Weynand knows Guyon is capable
be all right and I said it was fine, but of handling the job.
I didn't want to lure her away from "I never had any doubts. I am now
the college, because of her senior- a so-called consultant, but I know
ity." she can do the job. I have no ques-
Guyon said she believing it was tion about that. The time was right
time to leave the district and the for her to do it," Weynand said,
opportunity to work closely with
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"I love it. I started out working friendship. Weynand and his wife
with students, and I have sort of Adrienne said Guyon is one of the
ministrative secretrary to the presi- gone full-circle.
dent of the colleges of the the San
Antonio Community College Dis-
trict, now the Alamo Community help.' And you get rewarding let- mer college president said. "A lot of
punctuality, hard work and quality performance.
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that she was the right personwere
not easy.
"The board thought, 'You're
probably too high-powered for us. problems. They're just out there on. person from whence it came.
old friend.
The departure from the office
Taubert has been educating and organizing since
1954, when she co-founded the Texas Association of
Nurses in the 1940s did not work independently, Future Nurse Clubs for high school students.
Taubert says. "We did whatever the doctor wrote." Nursing students then almost entirely were women,
She says she has always been very vocal "I haven't but today's demographics have changed. Taubert
been an activist, but I've t>een very strong. My philoso- says almost 20 percent of the students in a current class
phy has always been, 'The patient comes first.' " are men.
Taubert sees her role as that of community advocate Taubert says the nursing shortage in hospitals and
with an obligation to use her training to help others. "I care facilities is in part because of the great variety of
have the knowledge, so let me use it." opportunities open to nurses now. They work in the
The nursing education department gets a boost legal field, in insurance and government agencies.
from Taubert's public relations skills, too. Taubert stressed high school students consider
To promote the nursing program, Taubert is active nursing as an independent profession.
in a long list of community organizations. Taubert leans back in her office chair beneath a
"If I am going to promote the program, I need to go painting of bluebonnets and mentions she would like
to these groups," she says, noting she pays all the or- to retire soon and go full time into interior design,
ganizational dues out of her own pocket. But for now the professor who finds time for every-
"In return, many groups offer scholarships." thing has a full schedule of teaching, promoting
Economic pressures have led to a decrease in enroll- nursing education and giving her4ime and talents to
ment in some four-year nursing programs, but the the community.
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