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PHOENIXPage 12 January 24, 1974New Class He' n _______ .i_ %u201e 1 i _ l . ^I f C ? l J K J U V I J L I I U U IChange is the name of the game in %u201cRe-entry: A New Beginning,%u201d said Joan Harris, the class instructor for the new program that will begin this month at the Brooklyn YWCA. %u201c Last session a woman came to the YW to sign up for golf. She took %u2018Re-entry%u2019 instead, and now she%u2019s going back to college.%u201dRegistration is now open for the Tuesday class which runs for8 weeks at the YW, 30 Third Avenue. The class will meet from 9-12 a.m. Registration fee is $35. Child care is $15 per child.The class instructor, Ms. Harris, is a social worker, currently directing a nutrition program at the New York City Office for the Aging.But working with people is her real love, she says, because she finds her time at the YW %u201ca most delightful change and diversion.Watching changes in people turns me on,%u201d she said.%u201c Re-entry%u201d is aimed at the woman at home, whose children are becoming self-sufficient, who is now thinking about getting a job or going back to school. %u201cIt%u2019s not as easy a decision as it might seem,%u201d Ms. Harris said. %u201cMost of the women have good moral support from their husbands. T hat%u2019s terribly important. Without that, most of them wouldn%u2019t be here. He can take care of himself. It%u2019s the kids. The role of the parent is firmly on the shoulders of the mother.%u201dIt%u2019s when this point is raised in class that Ms. Harris cites her own case. %u201cI had a terrible time with my guilt at first. I had an exam and my son was sick. The doctor came and my son opened the door. %u2018Who%u2019s the patient?%u2019 the doctor asked. %u2018I am,%u2019 my son said. %u2018Mommy%u2019s at school.%u2019 We laugh about it now, but I felt a real conflict at the time.%u201dJoan Harris graduated from Mount Holycke with a degree in political science. She worked for Dun & Bradstreet as a municipal bond analyst. Then two children and motherhood came, and she was very much involved with them, volunteer work and the renovation of a Brooklyn HeightsI union it woodworksthe cab met makers in brooklnn.782 union $t.brownstone with her lawyer husband.Then she took %u201cThe Course,%u201d the Seven College Vocational Workshop at Barnard College. %u201c It turned my life around. It was after that course that I went back to graduate school. I became a different person. I even began buying different clothes, in brighter colors. I felt different about myself as a person.%u201d She went on to receive a master%u2019s degree at Columbia School of Social W'ork in 1967.It was just last year that a friend approached her, asking if she knew of any courses similar to the Barnard W%u2019orkshop being offered in Brooklyn. Curious, Ms. Harris called the YW. %u201cThey didn%u2019t offer such a class,%u201d she says now laughing. %u201cBut I talked to the YW%u2019s program correlator. Before I knew it, I was offering to teach it myself.%u201dThe 8-week course is aimed at a realistic assessm ent of each woman%u2019s capabilities. Each session focuses on the questions that arise on the way to a decision. %u201cI try to get them to focus very heavily on them selves,%u201d Ms. Harris said. %u201cWhich roles they choose, which were dumped on them, which they want to discard. %u2018What do you like to do?%u2019 is a major issue. That%u2019s probably what you do best.%u201dBut the major problem for women thinking of going back to work is a lack of confidence. %u201cAfter a few years at home,%u201d Ms. Harris said, %u201cyou begin to fear a competitive life. You build things up in your mind, say you%u2019re not good enough. But I was surprised,%u201d she said. %u201c I started back to work in government and there is such a crying demand for capable, smart, mellow women.%u201dMangano PraisedFor Foot CopsMrs. M atilda Conovan, President of the Clark Street Block Security Committee in Brooklyn Heights, has commended James V. Mangano, Democratic leader in the 52nd A. 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