Award winner praises volunteer experiences
By Wendy Navratii
Staff Reporter
Tausha Gilbertson never would
have guessed last fall that two of her
most memorable experiences in col
lege would be associated with the
General Motors Corporation.
Gilbertson, a junior majoring in
industrial engineering, began work
ing for GM in Saginaw, Mich., in
January, after being selected to par
ticipate in a co-op program between
the corporation and the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln.
Barely two months after settling
into her new job, she received a phone
call informing her that she had won
the General Motors Volunteer Spirit
Award.
The GM spirit award winners are
chosen on the basis of outstanding
volunteer contributions to their com
munities. The three UNI. recipients
were honored at a reception in March,
but ironically, Gilbertson was unable
to return to Lincoln because of her
GM position.
She submitted an application for
the award last fall—the same semes
ter in which she applied for the GM
co-op, not expecting to receive ei
ther, she said. The selection process
for the spirit award was not connected
with the co-op selection process.
“It was so funny. When they called
me in Michigan (about the GM spirit
award), I just thought someone was
joking with me,” Gilbertson said.
Before going to Michigan,
Gilbertson was a Young Life leader at
Lincoln High School and a mentor in
the Odyssey program through UNL.
She was a counselor at the Nebraska
Human Resources Institute as well as
a participant in the Leadership De
velopment Project through the resource
institute.
“I just really feel like it’s part of
my education. It’s more than just going
to class. That’s where you meet so
many people. It’s the best part of my
activities.” Gilbertson said.
She even extended her volunteer
spirit to the Michigan community
where she will be living until August
— she is a Big Sister in Saginaw.
“I just had to get out there and do
something. Whatever I do, I have to
be with people. I just make it my
priority.”
Having a desire to work closely
with people isn’t as far removed from
typical careers in engineering as people
tend to think, Gilbertson said. She has
applied much of what she learned
while volunteering to the work place.
“Everyone has kind of a stere
otype about what engineers are sup
posed to be like. I love the challenge
of engineering and the technical, but
I love to work with people—working
as a team, commitment. Volunteer
ing has helped me with everything,
from cooperation to dealing with all
different types of people,” Gilbertson
said.
In turn, Gilbertson will draw upon
more than just her technical and prac
tical experience at GM when she re
turns to UNL to finish her degree. The
relationships that have formed be
tween her and the other members of
her “valve,” the group of people with
whom she works on a daily basis at
the Saginaw subdivision of GM, are
not based solely on professional con
cerns.
When her co-workers read about
her being selected as a spirit award
winner in the GM publication, they
chided her for not sharing the news
with them, Gilbertson said.
“They said, ‘You won that award
and you didn’t even tell your valve
family about it’ — They’re just like
my family.
“I just feel that I’m very blessed,
with all the opportunities I’ve had,
people giving so much. I want to give
something back.”
Michelle F'aulmau Daily Nebr a-.kan
Tausha Gilbertson returned to Lincoln this weekend to be in
ducted into Mortar Board during the annual Ivy Day celebra
tion.
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Soviet imitator
teaches students
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By Jean Lass
Staff Reporter
Soviet Union official “Viktor Usti
nov” is teaching students just how
effective the American capitalist
system is by criticizing it.
Usunov is part of the new Young
Entrepreneur Seminars, and has helped
his creators earn the $7,500 Leavcy
Award for Excellence in Private En
terprise Education.
Robin Anderson, director of the
Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship,
and Richard Kimbrough, a Crete
businessman, have given 85 seminars
in more than 100 schools, teaching
high school students the advantages
Americans receive from private en
terprise and a free market economy.
During the seminars, Kimbrough
impersonates the Soviet official Usti
nov, who challenges student assump
tions about American capitalism.
Kimbrough iscffcclive in this role,
Anderson said, because he has spent
time in the Soviet Union and has read
Soviet publications that speak against
America’s free enterprise system.
The students get angry when they
hear and think about the supposed
problems of entrepreneurship, An
derson said, so they start to question
the “Russian” and defend the Ameri
can free enterprise system. The stu
dents start to realize that capital ism is
better than any system in the world,
Anderson said.
Anderson said he developed the
organizational aspects of the entre
preneur seminars, such as the money,
the sponsors and the concept of how
he and Kimbrough were going to give
seminars across Nebraska.
Kimbrough, president of Cretin
Unlimited in Crete, composed the
content of the seminars, Anderson
said.
The seminars arc effective, An
derson said, because they challenge
students to think about the free enter
prise system in America and defend
it.
“Unless students gel inquisitive,
they don’t learn anything," he said.
“The seminars force students to ask
questions so they can learn.”
More importantly, the seminars
help students realize that entrepre
neurship opportunities exist in Ne
braska, he said, by emphasizing suc
cessful Nebraska entrepreneurs, the
“heroes and heroines.”
UNL students also contribute to
and learn from the seminars by help
ing Anderson and Kimbrough sched
ule the seminars in high schools, find
ing Nebraska businesses to sponsor
the seminars and arranging topics.