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AuCoin speaks
ELC pavilion dedication begins May 17
Dedication cermonies for the
recently-completed John In­
skeep Environmental Learning
Center Pavilion are scheduled
for Sunday from 2-5 p.m.
Congressional Represen­
tative Les AuCoin (D-lst
District} will open the festivities
with a keynote address on en­
vironmental issues and the role
of the community. Individuals,
organizations and businesses
who have contributed to the
project will be awarded cer­
tificates in recognition of their
services. In addition, a Native
American Art and Artifacts
Show will be on display and old
time fiddle music will be provid­
ed by “Fiddlesticks” and “Pep­
per Black.” Tours of the
pavilion and project site will be
conducted throughout the day.
Designed by environmental
architect Nan Hage-Herrmann,
the pavilion was constructed in
two and one-half years with
materials either donated or sold
at-cost, monetary donations,
and grants from members of
the Association for En­
vironmental Education Centers
in Clackamas County, private
businesses and the College.
More than 50 companies and
300 individuals including
volunteers, CETA workers and
Clackamas
County
Homebuilder Association
members, participated in the
construction of the pavilion.
“The building represent a
unique accomplishment
because it has brought
resources together to develop a
facility which serves as a model
of appropriate technologies, in­
cluding a solar pre-heat water
tank, a wood-burning furnace,
and compost toilets,” Jerry
Herrmann, ELC director stress­
ed. “It will serve as a model of
community involvement for
years to come.”
Although the pavilion cost
$27,000 to build (excluding the
value of material donations)
the actual value of the building
is estimated at $200,000, Herr­
mann reported. The project
site, which now displays 300
species of trees and plants, was
formerly a waste-water dump
for the nearby Smuckers Jelly
plant. It is currently valued at
$1 million.
“Here’s a perfect example of
how an industrial waste site can
be reclaimed as an urban
wildlife habitat,” Herrmann
said, noting the ELC is home
for ducks, rabbits, muskrats, 72
varieties of birds and more.
Since mid-winter, the
pavilion has been the location
of several environmental
classes and as a meeting place
for community organizations
and clubs.
The ELC is primarily funded
by a 208-member association
and other private donations.
The
College
provides
maintenance services.
Congressional Rep. Les Au­
Coin, (D-lst District) will pre­
sent the keynote address at the
dedication ceremonies for the
John Inskeep Environmental
Learning Center Pavilion Sun­
day.
and fir in the “lintel and post
style,” with donations of
materials, funds and labor from
the cortimunity. ,
Rep. AuCoin was chosen to
address the ceremonies
because of his many efforts to.
Rep. AuCoin will address
current environmental issues
and the role of the community
to help celebrate the comple­
tion of the pavilion which has
been called a “testimony to
community involvement.”
improve the environment. He
has been a leader in the fight
for a national bottle bill, helped
The 1,400 sq. ft. building
was built with rough-cut cedar
homes and businesses ■ with
solar systems, and introduced
legislation providing tax credits
to create solar energy banks
which provide low-interest
loans to individuals who retrofit;
to homebuilders who incor­
porate
passive
solas
technology.
AuCoin has also been the
chief sponsor of legislation for
EnergyBlock Grants which will
help local communities imple­
ment energy conservation]
plans.
Other activities at the dedica­
tion include the recognition of |
those individuals, organizations
and businesses who have par­
ticipated in building the
pavilion. A Native American
Art and Artifacts Show will be
on display and old time fiddle
music will be provided by “Fid-
dlesticks” and “Peppers!
Black."
Secretarial graduates guaranteed employment
The word “secretary" con­
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easy access to sex, while others
believe secretaries’ true value is
aiding and abetting a business
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years, “secretary” has been a
dirty word among many
feminists, because it is con­
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job.”
The truth is, the secretarial
field is in great demand today.
Secretaries with well developed
skills are in special need, accor­
ding to Sue Jacobs, career
development specialist for the
College.
“There are three million
secretaries today,” Jacobs said,
“but by 1985, 250,000 posi­
tions will be left unfilled.” She
explained that another reason
for the demand is because
many secretaries are currently
underpaid, although the
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skilled secretary is $850 to
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Right now, about 23,300
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Portland area alone, Three
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legal secretaries and office
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Medical secretaries are ex­
pected to (among other duties)
do routine typing, preparing
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medical records and scheduling
appointments. Bookkeeping
and billing patients may be in­
cluded in the job. According to
the Development Center,
employers are expecting the
employees to type 50 to 80
words per minute, but accuracy
is considered more important
than speed.
Legal secretaries, who are
expected to type 60 to 70
words per minute, maintain
files and might produce initial
legal documents, recordings of
legal dates, scheduling the ap­
pearance of witnesses, produc-
ing evidence at trials and
delivering
subpoenas.
Familiarity with legal ter­
minology is expected.
Office managers—someone
once called them demigods.
They maintain control over the
office by evaluating and
organizing office procedures.
They must supervise office
operations such as typing,
bookkeeping, filing, coor­
dinating work schedules and
maintaining office records. Ap­
proximately 2,200 of these
leaders occupy the Portland
area with wages ranging from
$800 to $2,000 a month.
There aren’t quite as many
openings in this job, however.
Of all the people in the
secretarial field, 95 percent are
women (with the other 5 per­
cent being you know who!).
Although the statistic is slowly
changing, it isn’t changing
nearly as rapidly as the equip­
ment being used in the
secretarial field. Word process­
ing machines, computers, elec­
tronic filing systems and
magnetic telephone dialing
cards are now being used by
many secretaries. According to
Jacobs, there aren’t enough
graduates of the subject to fill
the positions open.
The secretarial program on
this campus requires its student
to take typing, stenography,
business communications and
an office machines series.
Along with the series, students
are expected to enroll in
records management, office
procedures,, office simulation
and job techniques. That is in *
order to receive a secretarial
science certificate. Those, plus
business math series and ap­
plies stenography series, are
necessary" in order to obtain an
associate degree.
One
secretary . said,
however, “You can get all the
education you need from a
school, but when you get a job
as a secretary, you’ll still start at
the bottom, because the best
experience is on-the-job train­
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