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Located in San Marcos, Texas, the Gary Job Corps is the oldest and largest Job Corps in the nation, and was commissioned personally by President Johnson, who's autographed portrait has hung in the campus library since it's commission in 1965. Currently, there are only 2 remaining employees who were part of the original staff, Non-resident Counselor Isidoro Delgado, and Security Chief Bell.
The Gary Job Corps is named in honor of Edward Gary, who was the first WW2 soldier from San Marcos to be killed in combat.
The Gary Job Corps offers free residence to anyone between the ages of 16-24, granted there are no felonies on their adult record, no current warrants out for their arrest, and an individuals income for the past 6 months does not exceed $6,000. On campus residence is not a requirment to attend.
The Gary Job Corps has a full service cafeteria, which provides scheduled meals 3 times per day in a buffet style manner, food to the Gary center is provided by Sysco foods, based in San Antonio.
The Gary center also has the Ladybird Johnson Medical Clinic, which houses a skeleton crew staff of doctors, nurses, and dentists. The medical facility notoriably has a flower garden that Ladybird Johnson was personally responsible for planting, by the entrance.
The student population is usually in the area of 2,000 students, mostly male and primarily black/hispanic, with a small percentage being white or asian. To date, Security Chief Bell reads a list of anonymous recently expelled students, during the weekly general assembly, naming only their offense, whether it be drugs, violence, sexual misconduct, or other. The average expulsion rate since 2002 has remained at roughly 12 per week.
The Gary Job Corps Fitness Center boasts a fully equipped weight room, basketball court, 4 raquetball courts, basic necessary boxing equipment, foosball tables, and a rockclimbing wall, which was off-limits in 2004 due to safety interests. There is also a swimming pool which is open during the summer months. The athletic sports teams include: basketball, raquetball, baseball, and track. Their mascot is the panther, the teams colors are dark purple contrasted with light purple.
The Gary center also has an art studio containing oil and acrylic paints, canvass paper, brushes, and wood carving tools.
The trades offered at the school are: Machinist, Welding, Electrician, Carpentry, Apartment Maintenance, HVAC, Basic Office Technology, CNA training, Security officer training, Computer repair, Culinary Arts, Auto Mechanic, Auto Body repair, and oil changing, which is sponsored by Jiffy Lube. The Gary Job Corps is also home to a U.S. Army recruitment post. GED and Highschool equivalent diplomas are also offered through education classes, which are required if a student does not already have one.
Though the Gary Job Corps advertises student graduate placement into the workforce, with the exception of Jiffy Lube and the U.S. Army, there is less than a 30% success rate of immediate graduate placement into the trade of choice, and only a 12% success rate of continued employment after 6 months. Even though trades such as HVAC offer the required licensing as a prerequisite of graduation, the San Marcos chamber of commerce does not recognize Gary graduates as having received qualified training and experience. Many local employers refuse to hire Gary Job Corps students, thus the need for further training and usually placement elsewhere in the country. The Machinist trade is the only trade offered which does not include the required licensing and certification, though sponsorship and grants for further education is offered.
The Gary Job Corps is not without it's legal battles, the most recent notable one occurred in 2004 by John Kainer, a 20yr old caucasian student from Pelzner, South Carolina, who was expelled for the public disturbances and physical assaults that were inflicted upon him due to the display of his Confederate Battle Flag tattoo. After threats of legal action by his attorneys through a company called Prepaid Legal, Kainer was allowed to return to campus and continue his education in the electrical field until graduation later that year.
The Gary Job Corps center has also had a rising number of deaths and murders on campus through the 90's and 2000's, including the suicidal hanging of homosexual, Benjamin Flouroy in April of 2003. The center placed a memorial plaque in his name for approximately 1 year at the site of his death.
Former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman is a graduate of the Gary Job Corps.
This Wikipedia article needs serious expansion work, I only intended to start it. Information comes from the Job Corps website itself, and the San Marcos Daily Record newspaper. 66.203.226.73 (talk) 12:19, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
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