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ESL program prepares Indochinese
students with language skills
By Lee Jeffries
have been held since
1978 and night classes
have been offered at
In the last year there
Canby and Clackamas
has been quite a bit of
High starting this year.
news on the southeast
The number of southeast
Asian refugee’s search
Asians taking classes
for a place to live.
here fluctuates because
Thousands
of
such
some move to different
refugees
have
I ’
ta»
parts of Oregon {poking
migrated to different
for jobs while others are
places in the United I just being relocated to
States. Oregon is one of
this area.”
those places.
-
Kay - Davis,
director of
In order to help
Asian
ESL
special
relocate and educate
project, said that of the
these people, the state
94 ESL students, 71 are
received a federal grant
Indochinese. Davis said
earmarked specifically
this number Is much
for
Indochinese
larger than expected.
refugees. The College’s
“In the fall we were
“English as a Second
expecting
20
In­
Language”
program
dochinese students and
(ESL) is one of the
we received 65. Last
places that the money
term we served 77, and
goes.
45 of them were new.”
Night classes for the
The refugees come
Indochinese have been
from
a
variety
of
available here at CCC
educational backgroun­
since 1975. Day classes
ds. Most of them have
Of The Print
Kermit Shafer: “What
stage makeup will do
is bring back the
natural color that was
lost, or it can be used
to change the charac­
ter of the face com­
pletely.”
had at least a sixth*
grade education in their
< own country.
-
-
To some,
English will be their third
or fourth language, while
others are illiterate in
their own language. The
Indochinese
students
range In age from 16 to
60.
“The Idea of the
program,” Davis said, “Is
to get the people ready
to work or upgrade them
in present employment.”
Besides
learning
English in the ESL
classes, the Indochinese
students also study the
Western system of math.
They learn about job ap­
plications and
inter­
views.
This term, the studen­
ts are offered an ac­
culturai segment, which
is basically a class
aimed at making them
aware of cultural dif­
ferences.
After almost a half century’s involvement in scenery.,
lighting, design and stage makeup, Kermit Shafer knows how
things should look onstage.
Teaching College students how to create characters with just
the right mixture of rouge, eye shadow and tints, is, however,
secondary to Shafer’s purpose in the “Beginning. Stage Makeup”
course here on campus.
Said Shafer, “Basics are the key to good makeup design,” and
continued that while many students have a good knowledge of
“street” makeup techniques, they have to practically relearn how
their faces really look, before going onstage.
“People, women especially, are used to making their face up so
they look like themselves, but stage lighting takes all the color out
of the skin. What stage makeup will do is bring back the natural
color that was lost, or it can be used to change the character of the
- face completely,” Shafer said.
A facial analysis'is necessary to help the student determine what
parts of the face look better than others. Corrective makeup helps
the student to strengthen weak portions and accent strong por­
tions to equalize the face,” said Shafer. “Really, what we’re trying
to do is make the person look as real as we can with what they
have,” he said.
Joette Rose, the secretary of the theater arts department, who’s
taking the course for “personal enrichment,” said she’s learned a
lot about her own face. “Just in my everyday making up before I
go to school, I’ve learned how to accent the good things and
deaccent the'not-so-good-things, the different ways you can use
an eyebrow pencil, and that rouge doesn’t always have to be used
on jiist the cheeks.”
Debbie Reinbe, a freshman at the College and a theater major
_ said, “I know what to do with my face now when it’s not being so
Kay Davis, director, Asian ESL special project.
Davis emphasized the
fact
that
the
In­
dochinese want to make
it on their own In the U.S.
“They are all very
anxious to get off
welfare. They want to get
a job and become self-
supporting,” she said.
Course offers
basics in street,
stage makeup
use
Photos by Duffy Coffman
Story by Kelly Laughlin
obedient. Ultimately, I want to be secure in my knowledge about
makeup: If I play the part of Godzilla someday, I’ll know how to
go about doing it.”
Although npt exactly Godzilla, students will get a chance near
the end of the term to characterize Shakespeare fantasy charac-l
ters. “There’ll be some strange looking people on campus,” said
Shafer, “people with blue and green faces and sequins in the!j
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