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Outlook For
OUTLOOK SUMMARY
Expanding demand and good em
ployment opportunity for graduates
from approved schools and for all
round experienced workers with col
lege background. High school gradu
ates with laboratory experience as
helpers or routine workers will not
have much chance in competition
with well-trained personnel.
NATURE OF WORK
About two-thirds of all medical
laboratory technicians are employed
in hospital laboratories, where they
make blood and urine analyses on all
patients and, as directed by a phy
sician, special analyses and labora
tory tests (metabolism, sputum, ser
ollgy) on particular patients. Others
work in physicians-laboratories, in
public health laboratories, in clinics,
and in medical schools.
TRAINING AND OTHER
QUALIFICATIONS
One may qualify for registration
with the Registry of Medical Tech
nologists of the American Society of
Clinical Pathologists by graduating
from one of the 294 hospital schools
for clinical laboratory technicians
approved by the American Medical
Association. The length of the course
at an approved school ranges upward
from the required minimum of 12
months. For entrance, 2 years of ac
credited college work, which may be
raised to 3 years in the near future,
are required. Certain credits in spe
cified subjects, or graduation from a
Ladies, I surrender! The market is
yours, and I'll never shop for grocer
cies again, so help me! I've always
been a firm believer in letting the
women do the shopping, and as far
as I'm concerned, they can have it.
I don't mind being run over by a
ten-ton truck,. or being kicked by a
mule, but trying to buy groceries
amidst a group of women is my Dun
kirk.
Take the other day for instance.
My family sent me to shop for the
groceries. I should have known bet
ter than to shop on pay day, but I
was determined to bring home the
vittles so I could go back to my nap.
All of the shopping carts were in
use, but one. This "lame duck" only
had three wheels on it. I waited for
a good cart, but a group of ladies had
the same idea I did, and as soon as a
cart was released, they all pounced
on it. Needless to say, this aroused a
bit of a controversy as to who was
legally entitled to use said cart. This
controversy soon led to a bitter arg
ument, that in turn led to a brisk
display of feminine diplomacy. Mod
esty forbids me to divulge the type
of diplomacy employed.
Well, rather than risk my life to
procure a shopping cart, I decided to
use the remaining "lemon." Two of
the three wheels on this cart didn't
turn at all. Those two wheels just
skid along the floor while the third
wheel produced a sound comparable
to that of a heavy gate swinging on
a rusty hinge. Oh well, I at least had
a cart. Now to do my shopping.
I pushed (or skid) my cart down
edical Laborat
recognized school of nursing plus 30
semester hours of college work in
cluding chemistry and biology, are
required. Painstaking accuracy, de
pendability, and ability to follow di
rections are some of the most im
portant personal traits for advance
ment. The advancement opportunity
for even thoroughly trained medical
technicians also depends on the size
of the organization. The demand for
registered technologists and for ade
quately trained technicians will con
tinue to increase with the extension
of hospitals for veterans and for the
civilian population, and of public
health services and clinics. With the
spread of hospitalization insurance,
the number of patients served in hos
pitals will continue to rise. Labora
tories in public-health facilities are
also gradually increasing in number.
Many practicing physicians are
forming small groups, hiring a medi
cal laboratory technician, and main
taining a laboratory to service the
group. Most specialists in internal
medicine employ a full-time techni
cian because of the large number of
routine and special laboratory tests
involved in the diagnosis and treat
ment of diseases of the internal org
ans. Industrial medical labcratories
are also growing in number with the
emphasis on industrial hygiene. The
growing use of powerful drugs such
as the sulfa group, requiring labora
tory checking, also tends to increase
the need for the laboratory techni
cian. Opportunities in research are
IDYLLS OF OSCAR
BY HENRY F. PAULICK
the aisle about twenty feet, until I
ran into a female road block. Here
two women were chatting gaily, and
had the aisle blocked with their load
ed carts. I excused myself and asked
to be allowed to pass, but the ladies
refused to acquiesce to my request.
Each time I asked them to move,
they pretended not to hear me, so
I had to back the cart up, and try
another aisle.
Just as I turned into the next
aisle, another cart came crashing in
to mine. At first the cart appeared
to be without a driver, but I saw the
body of a juvenile come crawling out
to see what obstacle he had run into.
Directly behind the juvenile driver
was a woman trying to control three
other juveniles that resembled the
driver of the cart. When the woman
reached the cart, she gave the juven
ile driver three quick left hooks, and
warned him about his driving.
In the meantime, I abandoned the
hopeless cart, and I proceeded on
foot to shop. My progress on foot
was just as difficult. Women were
everywhere. The meat counter was
jammed, the produce counter was
surrounded, the frozen foods were
occupied by female forces, the whole
store was crawling with women.
Everywhere I went, women were
battling for some type of grocery.
Some of these women formed groups,
and employed guerilla tactics to ob
tain the groceries.
Now you can see what a fat chance
I had against these odds, so I had to
retreat in full defeat. Oh well, I
didn't want to shop anyway.
HAZLETON COLLEGIAN
ry Technicians
usually limited to those who have
degrees in science or medicine. Poor
ly or partially trained technicians
who entered the field because of war
time emergency will have difficulty
in competing with well-trained per
sonnel because of high peacetime
standards of skill and competence.
In 1947 there were approximately
13,000 registered medical-technolo
gists and another group of about
12,000 to 13,000 without approved
training who were working as tech
nicians in medical laboratories. Ac
cording to the American Society of
Medical Technologists, from 1,000 to
2,00 G newly trained medical techno
logists should be available yearly to
keep abreast of the demand for the
next 15 years. About 1,000 were
graduated in 1946 from approved
schools. It is estimated that 45,000
will be needed by 1960. During the
war approved hospitals employed
non-registered technicians, many of
whom had been trained for only a
few weeks or months in schools that
offered substandard courses. But
poorly trained persons cannot obtain
jobs when well-trained persons are
available. The vast majority of med
ical technicians are women. Some of
the men who had received laboratory
training in the Army and Navy, how
ever, may find opportunity as labora
tory workers by acquiring additional
skills required by peacetime stand
ards established in the profession.
Collegian Staff Needs Reporters
The Collegian has a great need for intelligent reporters. However, in
order to apply for a position, a student must fill out the intelligence test
printed below. All replies must be mailed to the Collegian office not earlier
or later than 3 A.M. Thursday, March 1.
Do Not Write Below This Line: Please Scribble
Name, Age, Date, City, Birth, Race, Schooling_
(May all be omitted)
NOTE: Persons getting all wrong are perfectly normal. Those reading cor•
rect solution may never fear the draft, because of mental deficiency
I Right I Wrong I Omit I
1. do not mark this sheet.
Imbecile I 1 i 1 2. Do not stop. Go on to the
next question.
Moron 1
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Lunatic
1. What color is a horse of a different color?
2. Why is a duck?
3. Do you walk to school or carry your lunch ?
4. What is the difference between a chicken?
5. Which do you like best, the summer or the country ?
6. What would you rather do, or go fishing?
7. If 2 ergs cost 1 dyne, then what will 1 torque sandwich cost? *
* 1 joule
You can't wear overhead . . .
GEORGE'S RESTAURANT
Why pay for it?
A FRIEND MOODY'S MEN SHOP Home of Good Food
OPEN 24 HOURS
Open Evenings
30 E. Broad St. West Hazleton, Pa
Broad 6 4th Sts., West Hazleton, Pa.
Collegian Moves
If by chance you happened to see
members of the "Collegian" staff
ducking in and out of the trees car
rying supplies, desks, chairs, etc.,
don't jump to conclusions; they were
not throwing in the sponge, but
merely moving to their new and
present office in B-103.
In a previous issue, a plea wa•
made for the installation of a win
dow in the old Collegian office:
evidently some consideration was
given for we now occupy a room with
two exceptionally beautiful windows
If you should happen to be in a posi
tion whereby you find yourself look
ing upon our windows, we'll wash
them as soon as we get this issue out.
Filbert Elected
Math.-Eng. President
Harold Filbert, the Collegian's new
photographer, was unanimously elec
ted president of the Math.-Engineer
ing Club at the first meeting of that
club on February 12.
Filbert is enrolled in the Electrical
Engineering curriculum and is a Ist
lieutenant in the Air-R.O.T.C.
He replaces John Zamba, who re
signed the presidency upon trans
ferring to the campus.
WANTED
Cheerleader for tournament games
GENETTI'S
Hazleton's Largest
Food Establishment
SUPER-MARKET
TYROLEAN ROOM
Restaurant
20-30 N. Laurel St.
HAZLETON, PA.
Friday, March 2, 1951
Lehigh Drops
36 Students
Thirty-six students have been drop
ped from Lehigh University, Bethle
hem, for poor scholastic work, Dr.
Wray H. Congdon, dean of students,
announced in issuing a report of stu
dents on scholastic probation. Anoth
er 23 undergraduates were suspended
from the university for the spring
semester for excessive absences from
classes during the last term.
Of 99 undergraduates on probation
during the fall semester, 58 cleared
themselves of probation and were re
stored to good academic standing by
the committee on the standing of
students. Four others who did not
complete all work for the past sem
ester will have their status determin
ed by committee action at a later
date.
Those dropped from the university
included three seniors, three juniors,
14 sophomores, and 16 freshmen.
Dean Congdon also announced that
99 other students have received pen
alties of additional hours because of
excessive absences.
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Hazleton, Pa.
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LOUIS ANDREUZZI
Wholesale Confectionary
and Foods Vending Machines
Phone 2619-R
52 S. Wyoming St. Hazleton, Pa