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By Elena Vancil
Of The Print
Some new scheduling ideas
have become effective for win
ter term in thé College’s
Vocational Department. The
availability of two classes,
Evening Auto Body and Fen
der, and AM Welding, will
stretch to the early hours of the
morning.
Offered Tuesdays and
Thursdays, from midnight to 6
a.m., the unusual hours for
auto body and fender were
planned to offer better ac-
cesibility to students who work
graveyard or swing shifts.
“Talking to students in
dicated that some were in
terested in taking the class at
that hour,” said Larry Noonan,
automotive department chair
person and originator of
Evening Auto Body and Fen-
>der. “Also, these were the only
hours left to offer a class.”
Offered on a one to six credit
variable, two terms of the'early
morning class will equal the
regular 22 hour per week cour
se. The course will be instruc
ted by Don Campbell.
AM Welding, offered daily 3
to 7 a.m., is also a new attempt
at better student accessibility,
taking place for the first time,
next term. The instructor for
this nocturnal class is yet
unknown.
“We didn’t expect to fill the
class when we first offered it,”
said Gordon Strieght, a mem
ber of the welding staff. “But
due to the amount of inquiries
we have had about it, it is
possible that it will.”
Industrial Orientation, (IMT-
31) is a new approach to
teaching vocational skills, ac
cording to Larry Noonan. Of
fered Winter term, it is not
listed in the schedule.
This program will touch on
10 interrelated subjects,
ranging from audio visual and
video to agriculture and hor
ticulture. Meeting on Monday,,
Wednesday and Friday, noon
to 4 p.m. in varied classrooms
on campus, it is on a pass, no
pass basis, with a maximum of
10 credits earned.
“This class would be
beneficial to people who are
undecided about what they
want to do. It will orient them
in different areas,” Noonan
said. “For example, in drafting,
they might make a blue print of
a screwdriver. Then later on,
when they are in machine
shop, they will make the
screwdriver.”
Anyone interested in infor
mation about Industrial Orien
tation should contact Larry
Noonan in the auto body
department.
grants available for handicapped
■The Handicapped Resource
■enter at the College is helping
■dicapped students obtain
loans with little or no interest
Bhome repairs in Clackamas
Eolnty and grants for self-help
Egrams.
Moans are not restricted to
Be owner, as renters also
Bill be considered.
■ new booklet, “Circling the
B,” a guide to accessibility of
Bic places in and near Por-
iland. published by The Junior
Bgue of Portland, can be ob-
nineci free at the Handicapped
Resource Center, in trailer D.
■ The book contains infor-
Bon on clubs, education,
■tels, libraries, recreation and
By other places that the
¡Handicapped can go . The
look provides information on
Bssibility for wheelchairs and
Bices for the handicapped,
vocations of parking and en-
trances, telephones, elevator,
rest rooms and drinking foun
tains are listed for the various
places.
The resource center is trying
to organize a buddy system in
which the students that are not
handicapped can assist the
handicapped at the College.
Volunteers would show people
where the resources are and
where the classes are located.
“Buddies” would also aid in
transportation for those that
need it, or take the handicap
ped. out to lunch at nearby
restaurants.
“We want to get people out
of the homes and into ac
tivities,”
said
LoisAnn
Schoonover, receptionist and
researcherfor the resource cen
ter.
“We want them to live in the
world of the living, not in a
world of exile,” Schoonover
said. “The buddy system would munity services but so far we
allow them- to attend sports have had little response,” she
events, clubs and familiarize said.
them with the school.
“We want to get away from
“We
have
advertised the stereotyped image that has
through agencies arid com been given to the handicap
ped. It has taken 50 years to
get to the stage we are at now
and will probably take another
50 years to get where we want
to be,” Schoonover said.
Board seeks nominees
The Board Awards commit special acheivement plaques,
tee is seeking nominees. The certificates of achievement, let
purpose of this committee is to ters of commendation, and
recognize achievements, con also special recognition awar
tributions-and accomplishmen ds.
ts in reference to the college.
Nominations should be sub
Staff members, students and
community members are mitted to'one of the following
board members before Dec. 7.
eligible to participate.
Dr. Fryett, college adminstrator
The awards consist of and board chairperson; JoAn-
honorary associate degrees, ne McCauley, ASG secretary;
Mayo Roy, faculty member;
Joe Durland, faculty member;
Buck Monroe, counselor;
Jeanie McLean, secretary;
Carolyn Ritter, secretary or
Mary Sharp, Dick Conrad,
Zella Eyler, community mem
bers.
For more information, call
JoAnn McCauley in Student
Government, ext. 247.