2008 Woodie Awards
UCM Students Find Work at Community Center
Wayne Dean: Muleskinner
Issue date: 3/27/08 Section: Features
The Warrensburg Community Center, located on 445 E. Gay St., employs many UCM students as part-time employees.
Keith Fangman, physical education major, starting working for the Community Center last August, after he came to the stark realization that he needed to make money.
"I had never had a job in college because I've always been on some kind of football scholarship," he said.
Fangman had a brief stint with the UCM football team in spring 2007 before deciding to solely focus on school. Working as a recreation aide, his responsibilities include booking rooms, gazebos and fields for groups, as well as working the front desk.
"We have to be able to answer any questions the public may have about events and facilities," Fangman said. "It isn't hard."
Warrensburg Parks and Recreation also provided Fangman the opportunity to coach a soccer team, made up of eight and nine-year-olds.
He said he enjoys coaching the kids at practice once a week and coaching the games on Saturdays. Juggling school, work and coaching is not that bad, he said, because he looks forward to doing them every day.
Andy Cofer, a first-year master's student, has worked at the Community Center for more than two-and-a-half years.
"I was a sophomore at UCM and needed to get a job," Cofer said. "I knew a girl who worked there, so I decided to check it out."
After previously working for Hidden Pines Country Club, Cofer said he enjoys working at the Community Center for many reasons.
"First off, they have great pay and flexible hours," he said. "Plus, I really enjoy working with the people up there. Everyone is very laid back and fun."
Cofer, from Marshall, Mo., has worked year round for Warrensburg Parks and Recreation as a recreation aide.
On top of his nine hour course load in a master of business administration degree, he normally works between 25 to 30 hours per week, he said. Cofer said his boss, Morris Jones, works with the college students' schedules and tries to rotate shifts, but he normally works a three to six hour shift.
As if being a president of a sorority wasn't enough, Becky Schroeder works 30 hours a week at the Community Center, as well. She starting working there in the winter of 2006, and has since been promoted from recreation aide to senior aide.
"It is a great resume builder for me," she said. "Whenever you can have a good reference from your boss, it is good for your resume."
Schroeder has since finished her term as president of Delta Zeta sorority, but the promotion to senior aide has added responsibilities. She said she has to work longer hours and more often, along with helping out with different events at the Community Center.
On a normal day, aides will open up the facility by 5:30 a.m., they turn on equipment, organize the lobby and head-up the front desk.
Keith Fangman, physical education major, starting working for the Community Center last August, after he came to the stark realization that he needed to make money.
"I had never had a job in college because I've always been on some kind of football scholarship," he said.
Fangman had a brief stint with the UCM football team in spring 2007 before deciding to solely focus on school. Working as a recreation aide, his responsibilities include booking rooms, gazebos and fields for groups, as well as working the front desk.
"We have to be able to answer any questions the public may have about events and facilities," Fangman said. "It isn't hard."
Warrensburg Parks and Recreation also provided Fangman the opportunity to coach a soccer team, made up of eight and nine-year-olds.
He said he enjoys coaching the kids at practice once a week and coaching the games on Saturdays. Juggling school, work and coaching is not that bad, he said, because he looks forward to doing them every day.
Andy Cofer, a first-year master's student, has worked at the Community Center for more than two-and-a-half years.
"I was a sophomore at UCM and needed to get a job," Cofer said. "I knew a girl who worked there, so I decided to check it out."
After previously working for Hidden Pines Country Club, Cofer said he enjoys working at the Community Center for many reasons.
"First off, they have great pay and flexible hours," he said. "Plus, I really enjoy working with the people up there. Everyone is very laid back and fun."
Cofer, from Marshall, Mo., has worked year round for Warrensburg Parks and Recreation as a recreation aide.
On top of his nine hour course load in a master of business administration degree, he normally works between 25 to 30 hours per week, he said. Cofer said his boss, Morris Jones, works with the college students' schedules and tries to rotate shifts, but he normally works a three to six hour shift.
As if being a president of a sorority wasn't enough, Becky Schroeder works 30 hours a week at the Community Center, as well. She starting working there in the winter of 2006, and has since been promoted from recreation aide to senior aide.
"It is a great resume builder for me," she said. "Whenever you can have a good reference from your boss, it is good for your resume."
Schroeder has since finished her term as president of Delta Zeta sorority, but the promotion to senior aide has added responsibilities. She said she has to work longer hours and more often, along with helping out with different events at the Community Center.
On a normal day, aides will open up the facility by 5:30 a.m., they turn on equipment, organize the lobby and head-up the front desk.
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