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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
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Superintendent of
3 Schools Verne Duncan
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& Whodunnit? The College
Theatre Dept., and quite
well
and Women’s
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US basketball fast-break into
the new year
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