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i PAGE 19 - f LAINDEALER - FRIDAY, APRIL ». 1W4 Secretary of '80s Computer Pro TROY, Mich. (AP) - "It has gotten to the point now where it's a necessity for a secretary to utilise a word processing system -- it's a matter of survival." So reports a typical 20-year-old secretary from New York who took part in focus groups held across the country before the third of a series <x studies ex­ amining life in the new electronic office was launched. "After six months of extensive research, what we found is that a new breed of secretary is emerging among those under 25," notes T.E. Adderley, presi­ dent of Kelly Services Inc. nere, the project sponsor. "Though still mostly women, this group of young professionals is sophisticated and ambitious, viewing the electronic revolution as their passport to career advancement." The survey of more than 500 corporate secretaries nationwide reveals that an overwhelming 85 percent think they will be ex­ pected to learn basic programm­ ing skills in order to carry out their daily jobs in the future. About a third of the secretaries 24 or younger in the sample presently have these skills. This youthful secretarial seg­ ment is already well integrated into the automated office and devotes much of the work week to operating word processing equipment, the survev shows. In fact, two out of five of those 18 to 24 spend at least 70 percent of their time at such machines, compared with fewer than a third of those in older age groups. Younger secretaries place greater emphasis on the role word processing can play in their career advancement, a con­ fidence supported by the fact that almost half of these 18- to 24-year-olds report their salaries increased as a result of learning word processing. This compares with 31 percent of those 25 to 34; 27 percent of those 35 to 49; and 19 percent of those 50 and over. As for traditional skills such as shorthand, fewer than a fifth of those under 25 rate it as very im­ portant to their jobs, with about a third of those over.- The emergence of a new breed of secretary is also evident in career ambitions. Adderley points out. Sixty-eight percent of those between 18 and 24 think of their secretarial position as a stepping stone, rather than a career, compared with 56 per­ cent of those between 25 and 34 • 33 percent of those between 35 and 49 ; and 23 percent of those 50 and over. "Interestingly, however, only 9 percent of the total sample view secretarial work as just ra job'," Adderley adds. Secretaries are optimistic in forecasting new career oppor­ tunities that could open up for them as a result of word process­ ing, and 87 percent agree that these opportunities exist. The careers most frequently cited are general management, word processing supervision and com­ puter programming. Over half of these secretaries say that their own companies have routes through which they could advance into managerial positions. However, only 38 per­ cent of those who cite career op­ portunities think it likely they, themselves, will advance into one of those positions. And even among those who see it as like­ ly, the most frequently named position is "better secretary." "The contrast between tunities and actual limited int tions to pursue them offers just one of many examples of the con­ flicts between ambition and reality revealed by this study," Adderley says. Another lies in the functions that make up a secretary's day. Although three-quarters say that word processing allows them to less time typing and more le doing work that involves or decision the tasks that occupy most of a secretary's life con­ tinue to include drafting letters, setting up reports, writing their own correspondence and arrang­ ing meetings. Observes FYed John, director of the study project implemented by Research & Forecasts, "Though secretaries have ac­ quired a wide range of advanc­ ed electronic skills and broaden­ ed their aspirations, they are basically performing the same job on different equipment. Their corporate ladder hasn't lengthened--it has lust acquired some intermediary rungs." SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS BOSTON (AP) - or deocolognes as known in Europe, are achieve popularity in and that category of cosmetics could amount to |70 million in retail sales this year, according to an official to tne personal care products industry. Body sprays originated in Scandinavia during the 1960s as an economical alternative to ex­ pensive and heavily taxed per­ fumes. They have grown in Ei i America, Africa, A and Canada, and are flourish in the Uni predicts William J. dent of Gillette's Pei Division. SKIING SAFETY States, BOSTON (AP) - Before you go on a skiing trip, let your friends or family know where you're going and when you ex­ pect to be back, i palachian Mountain -Club. The club, which conducts several search and rescue opera­ tions every winter, says this sim­ ple precaution will help the authorities find you in an emergency, and could save your life. OH Pastime of Roller Skating Gets New Life LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Like clockwork, every Wednesday Carol Vondrak, 40, klatchto tborhood coffee an hour or more way around on at her favorite roller rink on Chicago's northwest side. Mrs. vondrak and a growing number of Americans like her, are getting reacquainted with the vaguely remembered school-age haunts of their past -- the rolleramas, rollerdomes and skate palaces that patchwork the country, reports the Roller Skating Rink Operators Associa­ tion (RSROA) with headquarters in Lincoln. Their interest is hardly nostalgic. Roller skating, they have discovered, is one of the best ways to stay fit and have fun while avoiding the wear and tear of other types of excercising such as jogging, racquetball or tennis, according to the American Heart Association. The AHA recently published a book, "Rollerskate for a Healthy Heart," that deals exclusively with the aerobic and other health benefits of roller skating. It credits roller skating with being an effective aerobic exercise that leads to superior cardiovascular fitness and reduced blood ressure, and with being a way lose weight, cope with stress, and build muscle tone and overall stamina. To learn exactly how much roller skating contributes to superior physical fitness, the U.S. Amateur Confederation of E Roller Skating tested six-time world champion speed skater Tom Peterson at the U.S. Olym- c Training Center, Colorado rings, Colo., and at the ology Lab at UCLA. Dr. Allen Seiner, who con­ ducted both tests with the aid of UCLA physiologists, found that Peterson performed on a par with, and in some instances beyond, the capabilities of other world-class athletes. "Not every runner, obviously, can test as well as Frank Shorter, but everyone who runs can improve their car­ diovascular health," savs Seiner. "The same is true for roller skating." What keeps Mrs. Vondrak gliding regularly on wheels each Wednesday and frequently on weekends is largely tne fun of it all, she says. "I do a program of jogging and stretching exercises, sup- plemented by light workouts with weights. Now I go roller skating to liven up and to balance out my program." Wnat pleased Mrs. Vondrak is also pleasing a growing number of rink operators -- member of the RSROA, who are becoming more sensitive to merchandising their centers' health and exer­ cise appeal. At a rink in East Setauket, N.Y., twice a week on weekday mornings, rink owner Bill Butler puts 20 to 30 men and women of all ages and shapes through his Roller-cise class -- a specially tailored exercise-skate program. The exercise sessions that Butler directs are typical of the programs taking place in other rinks across the country. Stret­ ching and other exercises that concentrate on building muscle strength and overall physical stamina are offered. Some rinks provide formal instructions in aerobics. While all begihning classes perform exercises without skates, more seasoned skaters often go through their ices with skates on for a workout. program attracts people with different skating skills and goals," Butler notes. "Some come to lose weight, build mus­ cle tone or to learn or perfect a house, change their routine or to meet new friends. It's a reasonably inexpensive way to have a good time." Part of the good time is based on roller skating's upscaled move during the disco craze to hi-tech sound systems and polyurethane-based floors that are easier and smoother to glide on than in the past. While the disco sizzle has since cooled, the amenities it helped fuel are an important part of to­ day's roller skating experience. In some instances, skating rinks, in fact, are part of an in­ tegrated recreational sports complex that might include swimming, steam and sauna, weight lifting and other body shaping facilities as well as bowl­ ing, bi tennis ;, racquetball and sr Charles Dickens wrote facing north, aligning himself with the poles of the earth. 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WASrj a«s3775 H0,675 'Fragments' A Powerful Novel FRAGMENTS. By Jack Fuller. Morrow. 211 Pages. $12.95. t Fragments are broken-pieces, but given the proper glue they can be assembled into a whole. And this is the technique Jack Fuller uses to create a powerful novel about the Vietnam War and the men who fought and died in it. The fragments which make iu> this novel are narrated by Bill Morgan, a young Midwesterner who gets drafted into the Army in 1968. During basic training, Morgan teams up with Jim Neumann, largely because Neumann is poised and able to cope with the world in which he finds himself while Morgan is the opposite, unsure of both himself and his surroundings. After training, both young men are sent to Vietnam and briefly separated. Morgan is attached to an infantry unit and his descrip­ tions of combat Vietnam-style are so truly told that the reader's blood often runs cold. Following a particularly brutal ambush in which two of Morgan's buddies are cut down by the enemy, Morgan decides he wants out and volunteers to join an elite airborne unit, call­ ed the Blues, to which Neumann already belongs. Reunited, the two friends go in­ to any number of bloody combat episodes together. And then there is a lull in the fighting. Rather than sit around and go stale, Neumann decides to adopt a small Vietnamese village and help its people by building a medical dispensary for them. Things go well for a while, but Neumann falls in love with one of the Vietnamese women in the village and then everything seems to fall apart. The Viet ing the fighting, Neumann, in a seeming mindless act of violence, kills his lover as well as her family. This bloody act is another of the fragments Morgan must carry home with him, and his ef­ forts -- eventually successful -- to make sense of all that has gone before,bring this very good nov­ el to an emotional conclusion. Phil Thomas AP Books Editor people read classified