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Hi there,

I figuered that since FSPILOT and FSADV are now floating all
around the country that I might as well advertise our post-
secondary college in AUDIO and TELEVISION RECORDING ARTS.

LINX BBS is just a small part of our total committment to
offer a comprehensive curriculum in communications technologies.
We are actively pursuing research in interactive video-computer
applications with hardware and software development projects
that span the entire spectrum of communications.

    LINCOLN INSTITUTE IS THE MOST UNIQUE SCHOOL IN HOUSTON

It is just past 2 a.m. in the perpetual night of a recording
studio. The sound engineer reaches to the far end of the mixing
board -- a state-of-the-art console of toggle switches, light
emitting diodes and VU meters -- and slowly brings up the
individual music components and voices. As the recording
progresses, the engineer turns the producer's fantasy into
reality with layered voice-overs and special sound effects to
create a soon-to-be chart busting hit.

You get word of a plane crash at the city's main airport just 30
seconds into your station's evening news broadcast. As producer,
it is your job to perform the split second rearrangement of
stories, script and tape to accommodate what could be the year's
biggest story. You oversee the engineering of the microwave link
hook-up with your correspondent at the scene and work closely
with the director to condense the video footage with the greatest
impact into 22 seconds of hard-hitting action and interviews to
be aired just after the next commercial break.

The scenes described above conjure up images of New York or Los
Angeles, of eccentric but brilliant technicians laboring through
the wee hours, midwives to a creative process which seems more
like fun than work to those of us on the outside. To those for
whom the lure of a career in broadcast, sound engineering or
television technologies is irresistible, a trip to the
entertainment industry meccas on either coast is no longer
necessary.

Right here in Houston, within weeks of your high school
graduation, the LINCOLN INSTITUTE will have you sitting behind
those mixing consoles and television cameras. You'll understand
not only how to use them, but by the time you graduate from the
18 month program you will know why they work the way they do, and
chances are, you'll be able to fix them if they break.

Choosing a career and acquiring the requisite skills needed to
succeed have never been more challenging. Past generations
followed the career paths of their fathers, but this is the first
generation to face the prospect of training for jobs not yet
invented, such as building factories and synthesizing new
medicines in space. Some labor experts predict that the worker of
the future will train for and hold several jobs, adapting in each
case to new technologies. The key to the future employability may
or may not lie in a narrowly specialized field of study or a
generalized liberal arts education.

The institute believes that experience is an important and
integral part of the learning process. For this reason, they
offer a unique, "hands-on" approach to education. Students are
given every opportunity to take an active part in their own
education, in the classroom, the studio and in the laboratory.

The school maintains a broadcast quality television studio and a
state-of-the-art multi-track recording studio which allows
students the opportunity to gain maximum "hands-on" instruction,
using sophisticated mixing consoles, music synthesizers,
television switchers, special effects equipment, cameras and
computers.

All students at the LINCOLN INSTITUTE create and record their own
television programs and tapes under the guidance of faculty
members who are professionals in their own right. These
recordings, both audio and video, become the student's own
PORTFOLIO in the form of finished productions. What better way to
show your credentials than to exhibit professional experience.

Summer semester students produced a music video "CLOWN ALLEY
SHUFFLE" for the non-profit organization that brings so much love
and cheer to hospitalized children and the senior citizens.
Another television program featured a rare glimpse into the
"real" world of Rhythm and Blues music that was invented in the
fifth ward of Houston and featured some of Houston's finest
musicians. This "pilot" program is being offered to PBS for a
possible series. The Kiawanis Foundation funded the production
"LEGENDS OF TEXAS" which has been performed on stages throughout
Texas by Karen Stockton. All students are given the opportunity
to participate in these productions giving them excellent "real-
world" production experience. Still other students recorded a
music video being offered to MTV and VH1 for national distribution.

The school is committed to providing the very best educational
opportunities for their students. Their 18 month program prepares
graduates with genuine, marketable skills. The entertainment
industry needs well-rounded technical experts with both audio and
video technical capabilities and their curriculum has been
designed to meet industry requirements.

Television journalism, music television and educational
television are changing their traditional approach. For example,
the music television industry is just now beginning to
demonstrate its powerful mass appeal as entertainers recognize
the importance of graphic presentations of their material.
Educational television media is being paired with the
microcomputer in an interactive, self teaching mode that, experts
agree, will carry over into the turn of the century. Among the
job opportunities open are commercial advertising, music
engineering, stage sound reinforcement, record producer, camera
person, teleconferencing specialist, lighting director, technical
director, film score re-recording engineer and radio and
television engineer.

For the student not yet sure of which direction to take, the
institute's atmosphere of inquiry and discovery will engender
solid motivational and learning skills which can be applied in
any field, nurture a sense of teamwork and cooperation as the
student participates in the execution of full-scale audio and
video productions, and foster the development of management
skills as the student organizes, creates, and polishes his or her
own project.

As parents, you are encouraged to visit the LINCOLN INSTITUTE,
examine the curriculum and tour the studio and classroom
facilities. Many of the students are motivated for the very first
time in their young lives. They automatically become so attracted
to their new surroundings that even those students with a
marginal academic standard in high school are mastering such
subjects as acoustical physics, electronics, audio and video
engineering, artist and entertainment law, MIDI interfacing with
computers like Jean-Michael Jarre's recent extravaganza
"Rendezvous Houston" which reverberated the very heart of
downtown Houston with a sight and sound show. They learn
accounting principles as they apply to operating their own
commercial teleproduction studio and personnel selection and
supervisory skills.

About 20% of the school's students are faced with mid-life career
changes and have chosen the field of television and sound
production realizing the important impact that the medium will
have in our future.

The Institute is located about 35 minutes from downtown Houston
and housing is very inexpensive in this area at present. Plush
one bedroom apartments within 2 blocks of the school only cost
$120.00 per month. The institute is approved by the Texas Education
Agency. If you would like more information, just call [phone].
Free brochures will be mailed on request and tours can be arranged.

                    LINCOLN INSTITUTE
                    7622 Louetta Road
                    Spring, Texas 77379

Thanks for taking the time to read about our facilities and I hope
that you enjoy the programs within this ARCED file.

Very truly yours,

Joe Lincoln
DIRECTOR
LINCOLN INSTITUTE
SYSOP LINX BBS
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