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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1977)
v. rewards conservation efforts tonservation at Clackamas Com- llege has been given more than pr the past several years and the Paul Roeder, chief engineer for lions, Alf Lair, director of plan- perations and the CCC adminis- finally been rewarded. gust Governor Straub presented mor's Conservation Award" to lent John Hakanson, and CCC ^man,Anne Nickel, in recognition mers crash energy conservation the three month period from May a college saved enough energy to inesfor an entire month. «12,1977 to July 12,1977 the id37 percent fewer killowatt hours during the same period in 1976. ergy saving was accomplished by ting the proposals of an energy initiated by Hakanson last Feb- k force recommended that the iff be put on a four-day work hours per day during the summer ecommendations were that the todial force, during the regular I to clean one building at a time other buildings were blacked out ildings would be blacked out when pied on Friday, Saturday and Sun- Hand parking lot lights would also off. Ition to these measures some hall theoutside soffit lights would be K. Necessary weekend activities Muled as often as possible in build rooftop units for heating and air ingso that the central plant would [to be turned on. All mechanical it was stopped over the three day [with the large saving of killowatt ere was little money saved. Ito the fact that we had an increase Bates it cost us $116 more to run ng the same period last year," said 'but without the conservation mea- Maintaining the boilers at peak efficiency has been one of the keys to the success of CCC's energy conservation program. sures it would have cost approximately $5,000 more than it did." Conservation efforts have not ceased with the beginning of the school year. "We still haven't turned on the lights in the parking lots and hallways that were turned off then," said Hakanson. The night custodian work schedule alone, has meant an estimated 6 per cent saving of electricity, he said. "Even with increase, in number of build ings and amount of night and weekened activi ties, we aren't using any more electricity than we did in 1972," said Roeder. Much of this energy saving is directly due to the efforts of Roeder. When he came to work at CCC in 1973, he rebuilt the burners on the central boilers. This meant that one boiler on low fire could do the same job as two boilers, one on high and the other on low. He also added electric hot water heaters so that the central heating plant could be completely shut down for nearly six months every year and balanced interior and exterior lighting to meet actual needs. "I've been interested in this for a long time, but they didn't used to call it energy conservation," said Roeder, "It used to be called money conservation." New classes offered fall term Community College students jiing this fall to a combination of fd curriculum and a variety of new ms agriculture department, classes in Livestock breeding and forage pro be been added to the curriculum, reproduction, which is the feeding of included studies of pastures, hay .Livestock judging, which has been schedule in the past, will have a new Students will have a chance to parti- |contest judging. Another change in ¡culture curriculum will be a greater variety of day and evening classes. On the horticulture scene, the classes will be more diversified adding nursery manage ment and advanced landscaping, and floral design to the schedule. Mary Lou Adams who has been in re tail management, will be the instructor in floral design. Returning to the horticulture curriculum will be a plant pesticide course, which will allow students to take the state pesticide licensing examination. The video department is offering a new class in the evening, VT-41 Introduction to Video Equipment. The class will introduce the student to various methods used in tele vision production. Oregon State and Community Politics will also be offered tihs fall and will be required for some occupational curriculums. The class will be taught by John Rau. Math 181, Math for Liberal Arts Students, is being offered to help students who are hesitant to take a regular math class to ful fill their transfer requirements in that area. Also being offered this term are classes in interior design and a humanities experience class, which will give students a chance to learn about Oregon history and culture. CCC nursing program a success Mas Community College's regre ssing program has finished its first is already proving to be a success, had a one-year nursing program for k but did not begin the two-year b of science degree for nurses until 8-77 school year. * are numerous success stories in nursing program. Barbara Epidendio the operating room at Dwyer Mem- orial Hospital. The mother of three teenage daughters entered the nursing program at Clackamas in 1975. She received her clinical experience at Dwyer before being hired there. Viola Sherrick passed the state boards at at 62 and is now working for Providence Hospital. "Ninety-five per cent of the people who took the state boards this year passed," said Jean Taylor, nursing instructor. "One of the reasons of this success is highly motivated students," Taylor said. The nursing program at CCC works close ly with Dwyer, Willamette Falls and Wood land Park hospitals in providing clinical ex perience for its nursing students. In addition to working with the hospitals, the nursing program also gives experience in community agencies such as the geriatrics field and Dammasch hospital. Page 3 ■ centimeters I I I |8i I ■ mill I 27 I 28 I I Colors by Muriseli Color Services Lab