Wednesday, December 2, 1981
Ellis to attend
NCEA meeting
in New Orleans
Bob Ellis, the dean of
community education, will
spend next week in New
Orleans participating in the Na
tional Community Education
Association Conference.
The Region eight board
member will rrieet with other
NCEA members and par
ticipate in various workshops
dealing with “partnerships with
public education. ”
“We want to provide com
munity education for all peo
ple,” Ellis said. “Education is
not strictly for those 6-18 years,
but from birth to death.”
One of the main discus
sion topics is how to get more
for less money. “It is a common
discussion topic among school
principals and presidents,” Ellis
said.
According to Ellis,
representatives of public
schools, private schools, local
businesses and industries, have
to work together. “Industry
spends as much money in
education as education does
itself,” he said, noting that in
dustry pours nearly $60 billion
into education, annually.
Ellis is one of six educators
from Oregon to attend the con
ference. Representatives from
all 50 states will be there for the
week. He will return Friday
night.
The Clackamas Com
munity Education Center,
which is directed by Ellis,
receives funding from the Mott
Foundation. They are paying
for the trip.
Staff photos by Duffy Coffman
TRI-MET DRIVERS use the college’s entry-way to test-drive the new articulated
buses. The new buses will be used starting in January.
‘Handicap Awareness Week’
Student experiences temporary disabilities
By Kristi Blackman
Of the Print
She sits erect, a cane rests
by her leg. Her eyes are
covered with pads preventing
light to enter. Jessica .Andrews
slowly finishes eating the
danish that once sat on her
plate. Monday, Jessica An
drews, 18, was blind.
“I’ve always wondered
what it was like to be blind. It’s
weird,” said Andrews who had
been taped since 9:30 a.m. as
part of handicap awareness
week. “People keep asking me
if I’m O.K. and they ask what
happened,” she said.
“Being blind really tests a
person’s sense of security,”
claimed Andrews who “really
put a lot of trust into other peo
ple^ during her day of blind
ness. .
Andrew’s guide Mary
Krebs described her troubles on
guiding a blind person around
campus as puzzling.
“I didn’t know how to ex
plain doors to Jessica,” Krebs
said. “It took me a long time to
realize she is really , blind and I
had to help her..We learned to
be a team instead of being in
dividuals.”
Andrews claims to have
gained a great insight on blind
ness. “It’s a scary situation.
You have to learn“ to be more
secure with yourself and your
actions,” she said.
Having confidence in
yourself is one way we venture
out to walk and Andrews said
she didn’t have very much con
fidence in the beginning.
“At first I started out slow,
and I was very cautious but
then after awhile I could walk
around and feel very secure,”
she said.
Obstacles during a day for
a student who isn’t handicap
ped could include stairways.
For some it isn’t a pleasant task
to climb the stairs and Andrews
claimed “Going up was easy, I
just hung onto the rail. But go
ing down I used more caution.”
Andrews went 5V2 hours
with her guide before she
regained her sight. Jessica An
drews, will never be the same
now, she has gone into the
darkness and lived as a blind
handicapped person.
She sits hunched forward
and her hands steadily work
the jute and beads. Her head is
erect, and behind the dark
glasses her eyes are transfixed
straight forward as she
macrames in her wheel chair.
Mary Walbert, 63, is really
blind.
After many years of deal
ing with birth defects, Mary
Yule gallery tour slated
The Christmas Gallery
Tour on Dec. 4, will include a
visit to the Oregon Arts and
Craft Society and to Wally
Schwab’s Studio.
' “Arts and Crafts is one of
the best craft galleries in the
area,” said Ceramics Instruc
tor, Nancy Travers, “Their
The group will tour the
galleries . which feature
photography, print-making,
wood-working, ceramics,
drawing, painting and weav
ing.
“Wally Schwab does very
fine functional pottery,”
Travers said. “This is probably
the best of his work he has sav
ed throughout the year.”
Buses leave the College at
Vans will return to thé col
11:30 a.m. on Friday. After lege at 5:30 p.m. For pré
the gallery tour, the group will registration call 657-8400, ext.
go to Wally Schwab’s Studio
facilities are particularly in
teresting, there are many where he will give a talk on 208. There will be a fee of $5,
features incorporated in the ar ceramics and show his pottery which includes transportation
for his annual Christmas sale.
and lunch:
chitecture.
College offers toy lending
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Walbert lost her eyesight in could fix the cleft pallet. But I
1947.
had no money, so there goes
“All my life I’ve had to use the opportunities!” laughs
my brain to do the things nor Walbert.
mal people do,” Walbert said.
“People do. not know
‘‘I do the same things normal enough about the blind,”
people do, but I have to do it Walbert said on the way blind
different.”.
people are treated. “There are
Walbert was born with a books written on blindness that
cleft pallet and a club foot. are written by blind handicap
“When I was 21, I heard that ped people.”
there was an operation that
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‘Monique
’ opens tonight
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