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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1982)
r i EVENTS CALENDARI Wednesday, Dec. 8 grafts Fair 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. I I I I I f Thursday, Dec. 9 I Spècial- Olympics Meeting | 89:00 p m. T 1 I > I “Appointment CC 116 With I Death” | | 8*11:00 p.m. I 10:00 a.m. «1:00 p.m. » I H01 . | j I l CC Mall II Sunday, Dec. 12 I Saturday, Dec. 11 Friday, Dec. 10 ■ CCOSAC I ........>. McLoughlin Theater I Music Dept. I Fall Concert I I 1:30 * 5:00 p.m. I I CC Mall ...................................... Vol. XVI, No. 9 By Shelley Ball Of The Print Mabel Wilson shuns retirement to tutor students For those who think of elderly people as being feeble minded persons residing in rest homes, or staring mindlessly out at life from their rocking chairs, a meeting with Clackamas Community Col lege tutor Mabel Wilson is sure to change one’s mind. Wilson, who recently turned 81, has tutored students for public schools and privately since her gradua tion from the University of California, Berkley, in 1925. She currently tutors students privately at her home in . Redland, where s he has lived since 1948, in addition to spen ding four days a week tutoring at the College. “That’s my life right now. It’s stimulating, in teresting and I can pass along the knowledge I have,” Wilson said in regard to tutoj.- Staff Photo by Troy Maben Shortly after her gradua tion from college in 1925, Wilson married and settled down to raise a family. She in tended to teach at the same time, but found that female teache«§* ¿who were married were not ^allowed to teach in public schools. To get around this obstacle, Wilson started private tutoring to satisfy her love for teaching. At a timedn-society where women were expected to stay home and raise children, Wilson displayed her uni College staff, faculty work for United Way By Kristi Blackman Of The Print “Fewer people gave more this year,” Gloria Tomlin, ex ecutive secretary to the college president, said of the donations for the United Way campaign, which she had been appointed this year. Tomlin collected $4,600 for the campaign, but said it did not match last year’s total of $5,170. “I believe it is a result of the economy, but the people who gave, gave more than the average,” Tomlin said. “This was the first year people could donate the money and specify which one of the 96 agencies they wanted their money to be given to,” Tomlin said. Tomlin said of the total money collected in the cam paign, seven percent is used to pay staff members for each of the individual agencies and 93 percent goes out to agencies. ed how much longer she in tended to teach, she replied with a smile, “probably about 50 years.” As she sits at her tutoring table, hands folded neatly in front of her, Wilson’s character as a spry, determin ed woman comes alive through her direct gaze, the gaze of a woman who is not finished with living just yet. She makes it easy to believe that she could teach another 50 years. With as many years as she has put in tutoring, one would think Wilson would have been content with retirement. So why isn’t she at home watch ing soap operas, baking ^ver the years, Wilson cookies for grandchildren and has had a number of tutoring doing needlepoint? “I can’t think of anything jobs. She officially started teaching in 1964, after the more boring,” Wilson replied death of her husband in 1960. without hesitation. “To live an effective life, She has taught as a home teacher for ill students in one must keep on learning, Oregon City and Clackamas, and to try to broaden one’s as well as teaching for the horizons. I can’t sit idly Redland school system from anyhow. If I have to go to the 1964-72, after which she doctor’s and wait, I always retired. But not for long. bring along a book to read,” In 1974, after traveling to she said. As for tutoring, Wilson Europe and back, Wilson was on campus at the College to listed patience and flexibility watch a film presentation of as two important qualities to “Don Quixote,” when she becoming a good tutor. “I’m noticed an ad in the Today also tolerant,” she added. When asked what she like bulletin concerning the need for tutors. It was not long after most about tutoring, Wilson talking to Tutorial Coordinator said, “To see my students pro Judy Peabody that Wilson was gress, and the self-satisfaction of knowing that I’ve been suc hired. Now, seven years after cessful in broadening my that date, Wilson is tutoring horizons; I feel I’m of use in stronger than ever. When ask this world.” queness through attending school and forming a career for herself in addition to rais ing her two children. “My father didn’t value education for a women, and my friends thought I was quite gn exception,” she said. She credits her mother with giving her the incentive to go to school, mainly because she happened to be the fifth generation descendant of former president John Adams. “My mother told me that the tradition of education in the Adams family must be maintained; but I got by on my own ability,” Wilson said. Print talks to State Q) The Superintendent of 3 Schools Verne Duncan Ç/) & Whodunnit? 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