EDUCATION
(Posted 8/31/2008)
This Spring 2008, we, the Advisory Board, received an inquiry about our scholarship. The young lady sent an interesting resume. When we visited the Costume Department at the Asolo Theater on June 28th, Dave Covack, the costume director, introduced us to one of his associates, Amanda Newman. Surprise! She was our applicant. Some of you met and talked to her. She is very charming.
At the July CAB meeting, she showed us her portfolio, some hats that she had designed and made, and a dress she had recently made from an 1940’s pattern.
This pattern she had enlarged and sewn from bias-cut material. It was a fabulous summer dress!
We have decided to give her a $1000 scholarship for the year 2008 - 2009. Amanda Newman of Sarasota has a lot of energy, talent and drive. Her goal is to be a costume designer on Broadway. She hopes to get to New York this fall to see the pants that she had designed and had sewn for characters in the “Tale of Two Cities”, while she worked at the Asolo in the summer of 2007. This play opens in September on Broadway, New York.
You will hear more about Amanda during her Sophomore year at Cornel College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa.
Marie Gartley
OUR FIRST SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT UPDATE
(Posted 12/19/2007)
Greetings ladies!
It’s hard to imagine that I’ve only had my B.A. in Fashion for three years. Life has been fast paced and full of things to teach and challenge me.
I am still currently employed with Speedline Athletic Wear as the sole pattern drafter/maker. Speedline has been an established uniform manufacturer since 1936. They are considered an in house company, meaning they do everything in one building, the product is 100% American made. I’ve learned/learning so much about manufacturing, production, and pattern making in general. The job continues to show me new ways of creating patterns, and solidifies in my mind that I was born to be a pattern drafter.
Recently, I’ve been getting my feet wet with freelancing. Freelancing is definitely a direction I see myself going in the future. My current project is quite exciting. It’s a revolutionary idea for children’s sportswear, for an up and coming product line called Skateboy. I can’t go into much detail because its top secret! I've never been part of a project so hush-hush that I needed to sign a confidentiality waiver. I really can’t wait to see it on the shelves in the near future!
Now, for the juicy news, I've become a teacher at the International Academy of Design and Technology! This is the same school I received my degree from! Being asked to teach is one of the biggest compliments anyone could have paid me. I find teaching to be just as challenging as it is rewarding. Being a professor, I am responsible for sharing my knowledge of the Gerber Cad System with students who have never used any sort of program like this before .Its amazing to realize that I teach the same system I fell in love with while I was still a student.
The Gerber Cad System (as we call it in the industry) is the combination of two very interesting programs. The first of the two is Accumark Explorer. This program allows someone like myself to organize all the patterns that I work on in a nice little machine that sits neatly on my desk, my computer (boy how I love my computer!!!). Imagine never having to sort through drawers of paper patterns again, never having to wish that you ‘d saved that one piece or that one size. The beauty about this system…it keeps it all in place for you! I’ve become so spoiled. Now, in addition to Accumark Explorer (the Queen of organization!), there is the “sister program” known as Pattern Design Silhouette, or as we call it, PDS. This program allows one to digitally/electronically create and modify patterns. It even allows you to import pre-existing patterns you may already have on paper, for example, into the system. With these two systems, I am able to keep track of and modify over seventy years of patterns!
Although my life is still moving forward, I still can’t get over how far I’ve come and how much I have grown. It can’t go without being said that I am very thankful to all of you for the honor of the scholarship, the enrichment of your wisdom, and the thoughtfulness of your support. I often smile to myself when I think back to my four years at the Academy and realize how lucky I was. Not only was I blessed to have a Grandmother and a Mother to go to for advice, but unlike most of my classmates, I had the ASG to back me up. I lucked out, hands down.
Forever Thankful,
Barbara Fuller
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Ginny Jahnke Educational Outreach Fund
Virginia H. Jahnke 1928 -
1998
Ginny was a member of the Sarasota/Gulf Coast Chapter until her death in January 1998. She was a great teacher and a dear friend to many members and missed by the ones who knew her.
Her family offered her accumulated yards of material, books and notions to the Chapter. Many of her books were added the Chapter’s Library in memory of her. Members and some of their husbands prepared everything for a sale. The proceeds of this sale established “The Ginny Jahnke Educational Outreach Fund”. Items not sold were donated to the Boys and Girls Club of Manatee County and St. Martha’s Church in Sarasota.
Monies from this fund have been used to supplement educational programs and fund scholarships.
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Scholarship
We had six girls from Sarasota county high schools apply for the ASG Sarasota/ Gulf Coast Chapter scholarship. The committee selected Savanah “Sally” Perry from Venice. She graduated from Venice High May 20th, and will be studying Fashion and Interior Design at Florida State. She already sews for herself, family and friends> hopefully, her schedule will be such you all can meet her at the Annual Meeting.
Marie Gartley
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Barbara Fuller, our scholarship recipient has graduated from the International Academy of Design and Technology.
Congratulations, Barbara!!
