20 - MANCHEffTER HERALD. Sat.. Nov. 13. 1982 BUSINESS Manchester, Conn. Cold tonight; mild Tuesday Monday, Nov.'15. 1982 — See page 2 25 Cents p in B rie f- Business advice offered HmlB I ' , . 'Old boys' help wome’P •V $•'^11 . A DAYLONG AWED workshop Nov. By Patricia McCormack fabulous, too, Mrs. Fitzpatrick said. training program, conducted in the evening every other week. 13 in Nfew York City w ill tune women into United Press International Male executives on the AWED ad­ V visory board include G.G. Micbelson, one result of this exposip-e to super ad­ opportunities in the fashion and beauty Help’s only a phone call away for a senior vice president of R.H. Macy & vice and training, Mrs. Fitzpatrick said, field'. Some 1,800 from across the country female with a grettt idea for hitting the Co.; Lawrence W- Small, executive vice is that there have been only three have paid the $50 registration feee. There w ill be 48 different workshops run f -■ road to riches via her own business but president. North American Banking bankruptcies among the AW ED alumni. stops walk by a .faculty of 220 from the ^real .jiot knowing a dime’s worth about Group, Citibank, N .A.; and Oscar Dunn, Generally, four out of five businesses fall marketing, raising money or running a former senior vice president of General in the first five years of operation, she world.” Mrs. Fitzpatrick said‘$romen accepted company. Electric and board member of J.S. said. • for the 18-month training program — a EVA, or extravehicular activity, is The help comes via the American Penney Co. and AT& T. By Al Rossiter Jr. SHE W ANTS to start AWED satellite $3,600 value for $350 — have ranged from NrtdA shorthand for a spacewalk. Woman’s Economic Business Develop­ programs in Chicago, Los Angeles, San UPI Science Editor ^ MRS. FITZPATRICK spent six widows in their 60s who have inherited a* ’The original plan was for Lenoir ment Corp. — AWED for short — based Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Washington, m-. months being turned. down by foun­ business to housewives with a bright idea C A PE C AN AV E RAL, Fla. - ’The and Allen to spend 3'A hours in the in New York City and sired five years D.’C., and Philadelphia, cities the Census and ambition. - - shuttle Columbia’s first spacewalk shuttle’s open cargo bay to test the Thomas E. Burton Robert E. Evans ago with seed money from Uncle Sam, dations, government agencies and com­ Bureau says hove the largest concen­ was canceled today because of trou­ new spacesuit cocoons and rehearse businesses and even the Playboy Foun­ panies when she first tried to get AW ED trations of women business owners. “ They come from all socio-economic o ff the ground. ble with the $2 million spacesuits part of the satellite repair mission dation. Some in the New York AWED backgrounds and it is exciting,” she said. AWED’S track record is fabulous when Her pitch for funds finally was two astronauts were to wear, but an scheduled for 1984. Three promoted program, that also serves women in New The spacewalk was the last big job it comes to bolstering the business answered by the U.S. Economic W H A T DOES A woman need to go for outing was not immediately ruled Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, for the astronauts before their acumen of women starting a business on Development Administration at the U.S. it? out for ’Tuesday. HARTFORD — Three Manchester residents have have moved their businesses into seven scheduled landing ' Tuesday at a shoestring or wobbling along, unable to Department of Commerce and others, “ Courage, imagination, talent, skill Shuttle program manager Glynn been promoted at The figures. Edwards Air Force Base in Califor­ take off — to hear Beatrice A. Fitz­ including the Playboy Foundation. and perseverance,” Mrs. Fitzpatrick Lunney said the option to do a Travelers Corp. The ap­ nia’s Mojave Desert. Weather was patrick, AWED’s chief executive officer ■ ' Now the operation is coming full cir­ Patricia Duncanson, president of her said. spacewalk Tuesday was kept open pointments were an­ cle. ’This year’s budget includes $M,000 own electrical contracting firm, grosses If you want to learn to “ Mind Your for a few hours in case “ anybody reported acceptable for an on- nounced by Edward H. 'THE UNUSUAL TW IST to this latest in gifts from AW ED alumni. m ore than $3 miUioh a year. Own Business,” write to AWED, 1270 has any bright ideas" to fix the schedule descent. Budd, chairman of the chapter in the American success saga is Mrs. Fitz|>atrick said James Galanos, Avenue of the Americas, New York, problems. “ This isn’t our day for suits," said W HAT GOT Mrs. Fitzpatrick started board. that AW ED, a non-profit agency to help Mrs. Nancy Reagan’s favorite designer, N .Y . 10020. If a decision was made to attempt Allen, obviously disappointed about Thomas E. Burton women only, has its own “ old boy’s was a statistic: Only 4.8 percent of small recently asked an AWED a spacewalk by astronauts Joseph not being able to go on the stroll in Or call the help liiimber, (212) 397-0880. was named associate network.’’ This consists of retired and American businesses are owned by businesswoman to design some jewelry Allen and William Lenoir Tuesday, space he had practiced months for. actuary in the group women. With her start-up money, Mrs. Mrs. Fitzpatrick said you w ill be told semi-retired male executives, all for the first lady. the mission would be extended one "Y ou know how Monday mornings department. Robert E. volunteers, who draw on their Fitzpatrick got her model en­ how to arrange for 60 to 90 minutes of day with a landing in California are,” Bridges said. Evans was appointed an experience to advise women who are in trepreneurial assistance program for There are hundreds o f success stories, counseling, over the phone, by a someone Wednesday. associate actuary in the business for themselves or itching to get women moving. including one designer who used to work expert at tackling your particular “ M y own opinion is that it is not I’Irnsr lorn 14» pagr. 10 life, health and financial started. So far, 11,000 women have been ad­ for another and now designs and problem. too likely,” Lunney said in Houston, services department. The accountants, merchants, bankers vised, in person or by'telephone. And' manufacturs clothes under her own The fee is $25; Caller pays phone referring to a new spacewalk Thomas. C. Tucker was and other types with business stripes are some 650 have gone through an 18-month label, Janie Pre$s. charges attempt and lengthening the mis­ promoted to assistant sion. Town ready secretary in the Cancellation of the spacewalk casualty-property com­ today was the first major disap­ mercial lines depart­ pointment-in the five-day mission ment. G. Fox&Co. Stocks that achieved its primary -goal to finalize Burton joined the Herald photos by Tarquinlo Thursday and Friday by launching companies in 1975 as an Jhomas C. Tucksr two communications satellites to actuarial analyst and prove the shuttle can serve as a Bennet fund two years later was named actuarial assistant. He Happy mudbath want^,to stay plunge space freighter. has served as assistant actuary since 1979. A ’The next scheduled spacewalk is graduate of Colgate University. Burton is a Fellow East Catholic Football Coach. Jude Kelly Is for the 11th shuttle flight in January By Nancy Thompson in the Society of Actuaries. He is married and lives mud-laden from head to toe after being 1984. Lunney said spacewalks could Herald Reporter at 45 Kent Drive. in city store deposited In a mud puddle by his happy players be tried on an earlier mission next Evans, a Feilow in the Society of Actuaries, at close yggr Financing for the conversion of became associated with The Travelers in 1976 and after they clinched at least a share of the HCC Everything started out smoothly the Bennet Junior High School main championship Saturday with a win over St. in 1977 was named actuarihl analyst. He sub­ HARTFORD (UPI) - New Haven, which closed NEW YORK (UPI) - Quality today until Allen and Lenoir put on building to elderly housing may be Paul. See story and more photos on page 14. sequently served as actuarial assistant and assis­ For Rent: part of an its doors in January. stocks plunged Friday in fairly ac­ their brand new spacesuits and ® T ' tant actuary. A magna cum laude graduate of 8SO,000 - square - foot build­ Features: A cavernous tive trading as professional in­ started pressurizing them in the '^='"«8er Robert B. Weiss Boston College. Evans is a member of the Hartford ing that has served as art-deco structure — vestors sold heavily at the conclu­ •ihin’Q QPAlfMl a irW k today. Actuaries Club. He lives with his wife at 37 a downtown landmark and <‘xpanded 20 3'ears ago in a sion of one of the most volatile Tstav^Ul^^^^^^^^^^ ^Weiss said that Community Alexander St. home to G. Fox & Co., the hurst of optimism cooled weeks in Wall Street history. spacesuit worn by Allen and then a Development Corp., the town s con- Tucker, who received an associate in arts degree city's major shopping at­ by the advent of suburban ' The Dow Jones industrial He's meeting, friends, advisers pressure regulator went on the bHnk for the Bennet Project is from Manchester Community College, a bachelor traction for more than 100 shopping malls.