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The pair were in an office at the Hoosier Hills Career Center, Shah with Lillard’s resume in his hands.Lillard is a student in Hoosier Hills’ automotive technology program and had just completed the employability skills curriculum. The final test: a mock job interview with Shah, a representative from Midas.“I feel that you should hire me because I am a great team member, great problem-solver and I’m willing to try anything — anything it takes to fix a problem,” Lillard said confidently while wringing his hands. “It’s pretty difficult for me to give up on a vehicle that I’m working on, because I feel like I’ve failed the customer. That’s why.”After a few questions from Lillard about Shah’s business, Lillard shook Shah’s hand, thanked him for his time and left. Shah said he nailed the interview.It’s exactly the result Christi McBride, HHCC’s assistant director, was hoping for.“This process is all about knowing how to be professional, how to dress for an interview,” McBride said. “Our goal (at the center) is to provide for all aspects of the student.”The career center, which serves roughly 630 students from five school districts and eight different buildings over the course of a morning and afternoon session, invited 11 employers from the community, such as Shah and Mike Hupp with Harrell-Fish Inc., to conduct mock interviews with 65 to 70 auto tech students.“The kids are very young. A few of them definitely have their career path figured out; they know what they want,” Hupp said. “Several of them have a long way to go in determining what they want, what they think they need.”Hupp said most students demonstrated a willingness to learn and participate. He also said they all had great eye contact, sat up straight and had firm handshakes, all big talking points in the curriculum.“Probably what they need to work on most, in my opinion, is the direction — what it is that they really want to do,” he said.Tony Feller, HHCC’s auto tech instructor, said many of his students were extremely... (The Herald-Times (subscription))

A pioneer in the field of hygiene and the development of sanitary standards used in hospitals, he maintained at the height of his career a scientific and religious dialogue with the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. He became a highly regarded lecturer on Torah and its compatibility with science, and also contributed to NASA’s search for extraterrestrial life.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1928, Greene was raised in a secular, but strongly Zionist, home. His love of the Holy Land led him to study agriculture at the University of Manitoba, a decision he explained in interviews as rooted in an intention to “go to Israel to work the land.”He later served in the Canadian army, and pursued a doctorate in food science at the University of Minnesota.In Minnesota, he met his wife Gail, and the couple remained in Minneapolis until 1956, when events surrounding the civil rights movement led him to take a teaching position at the Southwestern Louisiana Institute in Lafayette. One of many professors to arrive throughout the South after academics resigned their positions in protest of a U.S. Supreme Court decision banning segregation, Greene taught bacteriology while in Lafayette.When a staphylococcus outbreak struck the southern United States, Greene was called upon to assist the authorities in how to curtail the epidemic.“Staph infections were almost a thing of the past,” recalled Greene. “After the development of penicillin, most infections could be wiped out with an injection. But then, the bacteria began to be resistant to penicillin. Infectious diseases of all kinds were taking a toll; babies [and] surgical patients were dying.”Greene pushed for the readoption of classic hygienic practices, a view regarded as groundbreaking at the time. He published a paper on his findings, and returned north to follow the epidemic, joining the University of Minnesota to continue his work.“I wasn’t a physician, but they asked for help,” he said, “so I advocated a return to the... (Chabad.org)