Fire student brightens her fiel
By Don Ives
. Of The Print
Many picture a woman
firefighter as a 6’3”, 200 pound
weightlifter, whose hobbies in
clude marathon running and
passing out petitions to- get
women on pro-football teams.
On the contrary, Tracy
Shelton, the College’s first
female fire science major, is the
complete opposite.
According to Dan Olsen,
College fire science instructor,
the key to a better fire service is
What most people fail to
a better prevention system.
realize is that Tracy doesn’t
Olsen said that fire prevention
plan to become a firefighter.
in the United States is presently
She does plan to make a career
inadequate and unnecessary
in the fire service, but she has
tax dollars are being wasted on
decided to focus on the often
fire suppression. More impor
overlooked but highly impor
tantly, many lives have been
tant field of fire prevention..
wasted, needlessly lost because
of, a lack of proper knowledge
in how to deal with fire, he
said.
Shelton feels that other
women are interested in fire
science knowledge, but she is
determined to do something
about it.
mined to do something about
it.
“Most people don’t even
know the basics, like to drop
and roll when you catch fire,”
Shelton said. “Even if 1 did get
into,' say, inspecting, I’d still
want to do some public
educating.”"
Shelton seems to enjoy her
held throughout Oregon and
fire science curriculum, and so
Washington. Several on-
do her male classmates. Shre
campus debates are planned
plans to continue her education
includina a “Proposition 6-
at the university level in order
versus 11” debate held Oct. 25
to be as qualified as she
in the Community Center Mall.
possibly can in her career.
Other plans include a public
Shelton first became in
forum for community benefit
terested in the fire service while
and the Tri-County Handicap
attending Rex Putnam High
ped Speech Tournament in the
spring. Harlow is confident that
the team will do well, par
ticularly in the individual even
ts. -
“I’m looking forward to this
year,” said Coach Harlow,.
“We have a good schedule of
tournaments and many fine
speakers for individual events.”
Returning from last year’s
The Portland-based Rent-A-
team are:
Thomas,
Grandparent program, which
Milwaukie;
Chitty,
was initiated by Loren Deming
Mulino; -
Kline,
in 1976, will soon have an ex
Estacada; Sherri Montgomery,
tension at the College campus.
Oregon City;'and Carolyn
Rent-A-Grandparent is not a
Gaupo, Milwaukie.
babysitting organization, ac
Newcomers for this year’s cording to Deming. It is
speech team are: Joe Woods,
designed to put people 50
Sellwood; Kathy McMahon,
years-of-age and older back to
work and to provide a sup
West Linn; Mike Cookingham,
West Linn; Linda Idol, Por plemental income to their
tland; Fritz Wenzel, Milwaukie; social security benefits, which,
under most circumstances is
and Phil Boitnott, Oregon City.
“The team is growing and never enough to live by.
Currently, the Portland of
still welcomes new members7;”
fice of Rent-A-Grandparent is
Harlow said.
receiving all the calls from per
“It doesn’t require a lot of sons needing everything from
experience,”he said. “We brick laying to television repair.
believe in educational ex The program has 400 willing
perience first, competition seniors to get the job done.
second.”
The College office of Rent-
“Last year was our first in
A-Grandparent “will provide a
competition. The team is satellite program for work that’s
young, still in its embryotic in demand on the local level,”
stages,” he said. “I feel that
said Larry Forsythe, chairper
son of Human Services. For
we’re winners just getting
sythe could not indicate at what
there.”
Speech team ready
College speech coach, Frank
Harlow, is hoping to build on
last year’s success as his team
begins 1978-79 competition at
the R.D. Mahaffey Invitational
Speech Tournament at Linfield
College, Friday and Saturday.
Although it is only in its
second year of competition,
the team is unquestionably ac
tive. They will compete in nine
college tournaments between
now and May. These will con
tain numerous events and be
Engineering
class expands
By Scott Starnes
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The engineering program
Print News Editor
at the College is a totaly ap
proved two-year tran
The
College's, sferable course to any
engineering program has university, Platt said.
“Respective courses ap
expanded from a one to two
year transferable credit cour plying to the freshman
se due to requests by major through senior years at a
universities to bail them out university have . been, ge
> of
excessjye. -student nerally picked so that the
engineering student at the
enrollment.
College will be able to com
Harrison Platt, College
plete most of his general
math and engineering in
studies here,” Platt said.
structor, said that two of the
First year engineering,
four-year universities in
students will be involved
Oregon (Portland State and
with engineering orientation
Oregon State) are receiving
their first through third quar
more engineering students
ters which will orient them
than their faculty and
with basic engineering prin
facilities can accommodate.
ciples and problems, Platt
“OSU especially couldn’t said.
handle the increase in
.Trignometrical as well as
freshman students,” Platt Calculus principles will be
said. “Evidently, while I was used to solve problems “sin
teaching engineering in ce problem solving is what
Europe, the state school engineering is all about,” he
board
agreed
that said.
engineering would become
Although not employed
available in the community until this year, several
colleges as a two-year tran engineering students from
sferable program.”
last year are now working in
The problem was that the second year studies such
engineering ’ students as Statics, Dynamics and
enrolling in either OSU or Strength of Materials, he
PSU found that the classes, said.
or lecture halls were very
Computer languages, such
large. Students would have as
FORTRAN
and
to pay close attention to the PASCAL, which are used
instructor for this was the frequently in engineering,
only time they consult him, will be touched upon in
Platt said.
some of the later courses at
A burdensome average of the College.
18 credit hours, plus the
“Though many of the
inability to consult with the universities are switching to
professor after classroom PASCAL,
it
will
be
hours, caused, in many beneficial to the student to
cases, a huge amount of learn the principles and ap
student withdrawal, he said.
plication of both,” Platt said.
“By initiating a two-year
The two-year College
engineering’ course at the engineering program was
College, students who need designed mainly to relieve
the extra time with the in university overcrowding, but
structor will have this oppor it will also help the student
tunity and will not become who demands individual at
discouraged as, readily as tention. Also tuition expen
with a major university,” ses will decrease sizeably,
Platt said.
Platt said.
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