Who made the salad dressing? Maybe Leadham
By Kristi Blackman
Of The Print
“Everyone has a creative
urge to do something and this
is mine,” said Sales instructor
Jerry Leadham of his Zesty
Salad Dressing and Herb
Marinade for meats.
Leadham’s interest in
cooking grew when he became
single six years ago and he was
faced with the question, “How
can I eat well and eat cheaply?”
“I like salads and a dress
ing that hets spices. About three
years ago I began experimen
ting in the kitchen,” Leadham
said. He developed a salad
dressing that has a sunflower
oil base and is seasoned with
spices, red wine and a form of
JERRY LEADHAM
soy sauce. No salt has been ad
ded and honey serves as a
substitute for sugar.
Thus forming “Jerry’s
Goodie Salad dressing.” “It’s
called ‘Jerry’s Goodie,’ for two
reasons, because it’s good and
good for you,” said Leadham.
Leadham said of his ex
perimenting, “I was always try
ing it out on friends and then it
came to a point that people
said ‘don’t change it.’”
Leadham then thought of bottl
ing and selling it. He went to a
food broker and had his pro
duct analyzed. The process in
volved an analysis of each in
gredient to besure they could
be sold, and to clear Leadham
for a license.
Leadham’s salad dressing
serves a dual purpose of not
only a dressing for greens but
also does wonders for meats as
a marinade. After advice from
a food broker on specialty
I WAS ALWAYS trying it out on friends and then it came to a point people said
items, Leadham ended up with
don t change it.
Staff Photos by Duane Hiersche
two different products and add
ed a few more spices and form
reviewing costs for colorful
hasn’t begun to push the pro has some ingredients like sea
ed an herb marinade.
labels and glass bottles,
ducts due to the fact he may kelp that does not have
Leadham’s product has
Leadham chose a non-
not be able to produce it fast cholesterol and I did not add
met the specified state re
breakable bottle with labels
enough. “I need to be able to any monosodium glutamate (a
quirements. Now all he needs
white with black lettering for save a little bit more money çrystaline salt used for season
to do is send in the money for
the salad dressing and black
before I can be able to get on ing foods).
his license which he refers to as
with white lettering for the
with what I call the ‘getting on
“I have done a lot of
“putting the ribbon on the
marinade.
with it’ stage,” Leadham said.
market research and I teach
package.”
“I have personal feelings that in my class. It is all purely
Bottle and label designs
Because Leadham pro
about unnatural additives. In from experience,” Leadham
were the next step and after
duces ‘Jerry’s Goodie’ solo, he
my dressing and marinade it said.
Board looks at elimination of sports travelling funds
The College Board of
Education approved a non
credit tuition increase and
waived tuition for student
directors of non-credit com
munity performance groups at
last Wednesday’s meeting.
The non-credit class tui
tion increase will raise tuition
from 85 cents to 95 cents per
credit hour for all non-credit
classes.
Referring to the perfor
mance group waiver,'Dr. Ron
Kaiser, administrative dean of
instructional services said, “I
think we’ll get a lot more in
volvement if we do this.” The
waiver will take effect summer
term. It includes music depart
ment non-credit classes.
Following the recognition
of the 11 members of the Col
lege’s track team who will be
competing in the nationals this
weekend, faculty represen
tative to the Board, Les Tipton
brought up the topic of the
discontinuance of sending Col
lege athletes to national com
petitions to save funds. The cut
was proposed at a recent
Oregon Community College
Association
President’s
meeting.
Tipton reminded the
Board that it still isn’t toojate to
revise the proposal, and keep
the revision committee aware
of where the College stands.
College President John Hakan-
son agreed with Tipton that the
College should not discontinue
national competition.
An athletic subcommittee
made up of Board members,
Ralph Groener, Larry Wright
and Roger Rook, has been
looking into the matter. Wright
said if athletes were no longer
permitted national travel, it
wouldn’t be fair for other
departments to have it«” f
Wright also stated, “If you
are real good in one area,
you’ll want to find out how
good.”
Groener said, “People
who are successful are those
who have met a challenge
head on.” Groener feels by
dropping national athletic com
petition, college athletes will
have this opportunity taken
away from them.
In other business, the
Board approved a resolution
creating skills competition
scholarships. The resolution
stated that winners of the skills
competition held by the Col
lege, with high school senior
status, will receive a one-term
tuition waiver.
Sam Crosby attended his
last Board meeting as ASG
president, and introduced his
successor Paul Nastari.
Psychology instructor Marlene Tufts on the need for a nuclear freeze.
Thomas A. Rhodes on the defense of Oregon City.
And Peggy Conrad Haynes arid the definitive work on star dust,
All this and more, in the next issue of Rhapsody.
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