THINK PROFESSIONAL
Dear Editors:
In an Editors’ Note following a letter from Marilyn Hirsekorn in the June issue
of IHR you say that the “Think Professional” columns that appeared in IHR back
in the 1980s were “authored by homeopath/electrologist Arline Winter(s).” I
believe this is incorrect. I worked with Arline briefly around that time and as
far as I am aware she never practiced homeopathy. As Ms. Hirsekorn says,
homeopathy is “a marvelous healing art,” but what Arline taught (during the
years she practiced electrology) was holism — another “marvelous healing art,”
which I think works very well with electrolysis.
I am retired now, but I still enjoy receiving my Hair Route. Keep up the good
work.
— Katherine Ruggles
North Alton, Illinois
Editors’ Note:
Whoops! one of us here obviously had a memory lapse, as we discovered
shortly after the June issue went to press. As Ms. Ruggles says, the alternative
medicine that Arline Winter (there is no ‘s’ in her name; another goof on our
part) practiced was holism. The Editors apologize for the error.
The good thing about this incident is that it got us looking for the first
article that Arline Winter wrote for Hair Route, back in February 1983. It was
this full-length feature article that resulted in a regular “Think Professional”
column in Hair Route, which lasted until Ms. Winter retired five years later. A
rereading of the article, “The Holistic Approach to Electrolysis Practice,”
convinced us that its content is as pertinent and as motivating today as it was
two decades ago, and we were encouraged to reprint the article in this issue of
IHR (page 30). We think our readers will agree that it as enlightening now as it
ever was.
GETTING STARTED IS A PAIN
Dear Hair Route:
AUG. 17, 2003 – Hi, here’s my sound off: I am a nurse (older) and as such was
able to move to Detroit long enough to attend electrology school. I have three
other friends, also nurses, who because of jobs and families are unable to move
across state, just for school. We live in a very rural district. In Grand Rapids
— which is an hour and a half drive for us — there are only three practicing
electrologists, and they are not interested in providing an apprenticeship
because it is too costly for them, too time-consuming, and a lot of red tape
with the state board.
My girlfriend returned to school and got her teaching degree for electrology,
but was told she could not teach privately: It would have to be at an approved
school (there is only one in Michigan), or wait three years! Meanwhile, in three
years with no degree, experience in the field will allow me to teach an
apprentice. So why should anyone bother getting a teaching degree?
How can electrologists ever be taken seriously as professionals when they
persist in being their own worst enemy? I dare to wonder what would have
happened to nursing schools if they had been run the same way. Nurses are
treated as professionals because we demanded it!
We have stood together for higher pay, professional courtesy, acceptance, and
recognition for our field. I think it’s time for electrologists to take a
similar view of themselves and demand state recognition as professionals, rather
than just service workers. I think it is every bit as important to restore a
positive self-image and create greater self esteem. I only wish all of life’s
problems could be helped so easily.
Allow us to be in on the ground floor with moving this profession to a higher
level.
— Judye Bush, LPN
Grand Rapids, Michigan
QUITTING IS A BIGGER PAIN
Dear Hair Route:
AUG. 21, 2003 – Hi, I’m responding to your August 21 email to me, about printing
my earlier letter to you in the September issue of Hair Route. The bad news is
that at the start of my last week of school I had to quit the course, due to
lack of funds. It’s too expensive keeping two houses and three kids; so I will
be returning to resume being a nurse. Oh, well; if you never try, you never
know. But maybe my experience will open the door for others. Something good
comes of everything, I suppose.
— Judye Bush, LPN
Centreville, Michigan
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