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EVENTS CALENDAR Wednesday, Nov. 17 Jazz Night 7-11 p.m. CC Mall Thursday, Nov. 18 Friday, Nov. 19 Saturday, Nov. 20 Sunday, Nov. 21 ELC Board Meeting Fun Fly Barnstormers Special Olympics Dance 6-8 p.m. 7:30-10 p.m. 12-6 p.m. Wrestling Class for Police officers. 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Environmental Learning Center Gym CC Mall Gym Cougar cross country number two in nation By Tracy M. Sumner Of The Print The Clackamas Com munity College men’s cross country team proved Saturday that the lofty national ranking enjoyed by the team this season was no fluke by taking second place in the National Junior College Athletic Association Championship meet in Utica, New York. The second place finish was the highest ever for a Cougar team. Clackamas went into the meet ranked third nationally. The team began the season as the top-ranked junior college in the country, but slipped slightly in ranking due mostly to in juries and illnesses. The Cougars braved miserable weather conditions, a tough course and awesome competition to total 68 points, just 11 points behind National Champion Brevard (North Carolina). Coach Kelly Sullivan was ecstatic with his team’s perfor mance and was in no mood to hide his feelings. “The kids were pleased and proud of the way they per formed and so was I. They handled the weather, the com petition, the course, everything very well. I think the school should be very proud of this,” Sullivan said. “They were proud of themselves but they respected the competition,” he con tinued. “They knew they’d have to run their best to do well.” The 26 teams competing in the meet all had to brave severe weather conditions for the meet. The temperature at meet time was a chilly 28 degrees with a 20-30 miles per hour headwind. “We woke up the morning of the race and it was hailing and I mean it was cold!” The course was “awesome” Sullivan said. “It was the hilliest course we’ve run in three years, but the at titude of the team was that whatever they had to run on was great?’ The weather and the tough course were not the only obstacles facing the team on the way to their runner-up finish. The competition at the meet may have been the best ever for nationals competition. “Talent-wise, from top to bottom, it was tremendous. Nationally, this was probably the most depth I’ve seen in the top 30-35 runners,” Sullivan said. “I put a lot of pressure on the guys last week at practice,” he continued. “I told them that if we ran at nationals the way we did at regionals, we were going to get our butts kicked. That helped them to realize that they would have to run their very best to place well.” “I thought that was a rbal plus for us. I was really excited and confident,” he said. “This was the calmest I’d ever been before any meet. I was confi dent we’d run as well as we were capable of.” HEAD COACH KELLY Sullivan: “The kids were pleased and proud of the way they performed and so was I. . . the school should be very proud of this.” “Tony ran very well,” Tony Macey led a trio of top-ten finishers for Clackamas Sullivan said. “He went into with a 26:04 finish for the five the meet hoping to be national mile course for a sixth place champion. Into the race he finish. Brian Abshire and Steve realized the the national cham Gogl weren’t far behind Macey pionship was out of reach, but and finished seventh and he hung on to-sixth place very eighth, respectively. Abshire well. Tony and Brian hung on finished the run in 26:07 with to sixth and seventh very Gogl on his heels with a 26:08 gallantly,” he continued. “They could have been in the high time. teens easily, but they hung on really well.” Despite finishing behind Macey and Abshire, Gogl was very impressive in running his eighth place finish. “Steve Gogl definitely ran the best cross country race since he’s been at Clackamas,” Sullivan stated. Gogl had plac ed eleventh at the Region 18 meet before nationals. Gogl’s high finish was valuable, Sullivan explained. “Tony (Macey) and Brian (Abshire) ran just about where they should have,” he said. “What we needed was one of our other guys to break loose and Steve responded to that challenge.” The Cougar’s fourth and fifth runners, Ken Velasquez and John Hanson finished 30th and 33rd, respectively and were also instrumental in the team finishing second. “Ken and John ran very competitively where they were,” Sullivan explained, “They passed people in the last mile. That made a difference between us getting second or third. I was very pleased with that.”. Other finishers for the Cougar team were Jeff Franklin who finished 65th in a time of 27:19, and Kevin MacDermott at 142nd in 28:32. Individually, Masong Agapious of Ranger Junior College (Texas) took the na tional championship followed by last year’s champion Christy Davids of North Idaho. Dr. John Hakanson: a natural educator War II in the Army. He was He left it in 1953 with the inten By T. Jeffries Of The Print A graduate of the Oakland, Oregon, High School class of 1937, Dr. John W. Hakanson, president of Clackamas Community Col lege, is as much a native Oregonian and born educator as anyone can be. After graduating from high school,. Hakanson worked in a variety of general labor occupa tions including logging, road construction and farming until 1942,. when he entered World -38.91 1 .30.77 Colors by Munsell Color Services Lab honorably discharged four years later as a captain in the field artillery having served 30 months in the Pacific theater. From the army Hakanson enrolled in Vanport College (now Portland State) and Willamette University, and emerged in 1950 with a bachelor of arts degree in political science/economics. It was then that he went to work for the United States Bureau of Reclamation as an ad ministrative trainee/assistant. tion of continuing his educa tion. “I was going to the U of O at the time,” Hakanson, 62, said. “And it dawned on me that I’d have to start earning a living. So, I changed my course of study and went into educa tion.” Hakanson became a teacher, teacher-principal and finally superintendent-principal at three Oregon high schools from 1954 to 1963. In 1964 he (Please turn to page 4)
