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| Welder Girls |
For a woman who used to work full light and supple, not possible if it can do something that feels like a heavy weld .. The following description. On a recent morning, Los Angeles Trade Technical College appeared abandoned but for the light to shine through the open door on the northwest side of the downtown campus.
Inside, several dozen students, all men, leaning against their lockers and shoot the breeze, welding helmet in hand.
At 6:50 sharp, in front of the room door open, and Lisa Legohn up, hair tied back, thick plastic glasses over his eyes, his name stitched in gold jacket.
"Okay, you guys!" he shouted, waving a can of welding rods. "Those who came yesterday, you get your first choice remaining, you get the rest of the food .."
He smiled.
"Except for Gerald," he said. "He was in the hospital We thank God he's OK .."
The class laughed, then slip on a helmet and welding guns excited.
"I love this woman and I almost do not know," said student Josh Hidalgo, 40, former superintendent terminal operations from Los Angeles International Airport is hoping to start a new career as a welder. "I would go to war with this woman .... And now, I know how to weld."
A veteran in the field with relatively few women, Legohn, 50, is a non-traditional teacher in a college full of non-traditional students. A Trade Tech alum, he was known for his honesty, toughness and uncompromising approach to trades as he urged his disciples together, cheering their success.
His welding skills have been featured on the TV show "Monster Garage," and he helped build a giant toaster, blender and other objects on the "BIG" Discovery Channel show.
"He really is a remarkable man, and he's really part of our fabric," said Leticia Barajas, a vice president of Trade Tech who oversees the department's Legohn.
More than half of Trade Tech students come from families with annual incomes less than $ 25,000. Only 37% complete the certificate program, associate degree or get a transfer to a four-year university, according to the 2009 accountability report for higher education in California.
Las college student, meanwhile, complete their program in the clip closer to 82%, and about half of the students who succeed are the Legohn.
"Like the best teachers of trade, Lisa combines technical knowledge is really strong with a deep concern about the growth of her students as human beings," said UCLA education professor Mike Rose, who observed that Legohn class for 2004 book, "The Mind At Work: Workers assess the Feeding America. "
Like many of his students, Legohn have known some hard times.
After bouncing between Los Angeles and New Orleans as a child, she graduated from Hollywood High School and completed a certificate program in welding at Trade Tech. With 18 years, he has a full-time welding job, which turned out to be the first of many.
adapted from http://articles.latimes.com
Inside, several dozen students, all men, leaning against their lockers and shoot the breeze, welding helmet in hand.
At 6:50 sharp, in front of the room door open, and Lisa Legohn up, hair tied back, thick plastic glasses over his eyes, his name stitched in gold jacket.
"Okay, you guys!" he shouted, waving a can of welding rods. "Those who came yesterday, you get your first choice remaining, you get the rest of the food .."
He smiled.
"Except for Gerald," he said. "He was in the hospital We thank God he's OK .."
The class laughed, then slip on a helmet and welding guns excited.
"I love this woman and I almost do not know," said student Josh Hidalgo, 40, former superintendent terminal operations from Los Angeles International Airport is hoping to start a new career as a welder. "I would go to war with this woman .... And now, I know how to weld."
A veteran in the field with relatively few women, Legohn, 50, is a non-traditional teacher in a college full of non-traditional students. A Trade Tech alum, he was known for his honesty, toughness and uncompromising approach to trades as he urged his disciples together, cheering their success.
His welding skills have been featured on the TV show "Monster Garage," and he helped build a giant toaster, blender and other objects on the "BIG" Discovery Channel show.
"He really is a remarkable man, and he's really part of our fabric," said Leticia Barajas, a vice president of Trade Tech who oversees the department's Legohn.
More than half of Trade Tech students come from families with annual incomes less than $ 25,000. Only 37% complete the certificate program, associate degree or get a transfer to a four-year university, according to the 2009 accountability report for higher education in California.
Las college student, meanwhile, complete their program in the clip closer to 82%, and about half of the students who succeed are the Legohn.
"Like the best teachers of trade, Lisa combines technical knowledge is really strong with a deep concern about the growth of her students as human beings," said UCLA education professor Mike Rose, who observed that Legohn class for 2004 book, "The Mind At Work: Workers assess the Feeding America. "
Like many of his students, Legohn have known some hard times.
After bouncing between Los Angeles and New Orleans as a child, she graduated from Hollywood High School and completed a certificate program in welding at Trade Tech. With 18 years, he has a full-time welding job, which turned out to be the first of many.
adapted from http://articles.latimes.com
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