![]() ![]() “I feel it is a profession that has many positive impacts on our clients’ health,” she said. The joke I always say is, “my kids were born Cosmo.” “Working in cosmetology you build strong friendships with clients,” Zwiebel said. The kids would come to the salon after school and help out. “I always say, ‘it takes a village to raise a child. “Cosmetology was the best career I could have to raise a family,” she said. It also gave her a flexible schedule to take care of her family. ![]() Her new salon had two stations and kept her busy. Managing family and a new business wasn’t easy, but “Morrill is super supportive of their local businesses,” she said. Janet was a great mentor,” Zwiebel said.Īfter a year she opened her own salon in Morrill called Z Total Image in November 1997.Ī month after opening her salon, her second child, Garrett, arrived. “That first year I refined my techniques, slowly built up my clientele, and learned the pace of a salon. “Donna (Charron) and Bill Schmidt were very knowledgeable and I was well prepared for my career.”Īfter graduating Zwiebel started working for Janet Furhman at the Hair Zone in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. “I felt like I got a very good education (at EWC),” Zwiebel said. She started back with classes in the summer of 1995. “I was excited to start a new chapter with my sister, Jan, and classmate Anne Lewis.”īrittany, the Zwiebel’s first child, arrived in January of 1995 and Glenna set out for a semester. “I graduated in May, and got married in July, and started cosmetology classes at Eastern Wyoming College in August,” she said. “I am the youngest of the four girls and I have one younger brother.” In school she enjoyed art, took part in school plays and sports. “My mom was a single mother with five kids,” Zwiebel said. Before that the family lived in the small Colorado town of Eads. ![]() Zwiebel moved to Morrill, Nebraska when she was in ninth-grade when her mother took a job at Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. “I have very fond memories of grandma doing our hair in her kitchen.” “Growing up she (Rubye) was always the one who did our hair,” Zwiebel said. Rubye’s first job as a hairdresser, was with a lady named Glenna (Smith) Arnett. Glenna Zwiebel can trace her cosmetology roots, and her name, back to 1937, when her mother’s grandma, Rubye (Stevenson) Eikner, went through a cosmetology apprenticeship program in New Mexico. EWC’s Glenna Zwiebel, Cosmetology Instructor ![]()
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