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Vol. XVI, No. 10
Clackamas Community College
Wednesday, January 12, 1983
director,actors
Bruce Borquist applies Student
present ‘Restaurant’
anthropological skills from
Ghana to Gladstone
By Doug Vaughan
Of The Print
‘The job description sounded like it was
written about me, so I applied,” Bruce Borquist
said of his new employment as community coor
dinator for the city of Gladstone.
Borquist is one of five community directors
hired by Clackamas Community College to
serve the community as a part of their Continu
ing Education Division. The program is one of
three-part mission of the College’s along with
Community Schools and the Employee/
Management Development projects.
The four-month position-holder replaced
the previous coordinator, Gretchen Anderson,
who has taken a year of educational leave of
absense. At the end of the year Borquist’s
employment will depend of Anderson’s decision
to return.
“In community-related jobs it takes the
whole first year to get acquainted with
everything,” Borquist said. “Not until the second
or third year do things really start to happen. I
hope to continue for two years here if not more.”
Borquist has not set any new programs so
for, but has spent most of his time following up
on Anderson’s projects.
“I am like a teacher, but without a
classroom,” Borquist said, “ft is like I am
teaching them how to fish and not just giving fish
to them;”
Even though employed by the College,
Borquist’s office is located at Gladstone High
School, ft is a cooperative .arrangement in which
the College employs him and the Gladstone
School District provides the office, phone and
supplies.
Before applying for the job Borquist was not
familiar with die Gladstone area. The first month
he researched the city thoroughly to gain the
knowledge he needed. But Borquist is glad that
he did end up in Gladstone.
T applied for the job, not the location,” he
said. “I am pleased I ended up in Gladstone, it is
rewarding. They (Gladstone citizens) have a
sense of being another town, not just another
part of the Portland area.”
Prior to his hiring at the College, Borquist
worked at the Rain Community Resource
Center in Portland. Rain is a non-profit organiza
tion which Borquist describes as like a library.’
Most of his work at the center was with refugees
in the Portland area.
His employment at Rain was after a three
and a half year commitment with the Peace
Corp in Ghana. From 1978 to a year ago
December, Borquist and his wife worked with a
community development program in the West
African country.
During the first part of their stay the couple
served as teacher trainers. They taught a course
that would enable a graduate to teach in a mid
dle or elementary school. The following year
they worked as village development “suf-
filitators,” or teaching the county governments
how to govern. The last half of year was spent
training other volunteers to perform the same
type of work.
“ft (Peace Corp work) is something that I
always wanted to do,” Borquist said. “I first ap
plied in high school but that was in the Nixon
years (you needed a special skill to be
accepted).”
Borquist is proud to be a part of the
College’s program because he feels it is unique.
I
The Theater Projects class
of Clackamas Community Col
lege will soon take a small
space, a table and two chairs,
mix well, and create produc
tion.
Student David Harvey will
direct “The Restaurant,” a one-
act comedy by Dan Greenburg.
It is a three-person show with a
running time of 30 minutes.
The cast consists of students Et
ta Leonard and Patrick Sterl
ing, who play American
tourists traveling in a foreign
country, and Victor Toman, as
a waiter whose understanding
of English is poor, and whose
patience with Americans is
limited.
“The Restaurant’ is about
the wiles of a man caught in a
foreign country and his ploys to
get out,” Harvey said. Original
ly, this show was to run with
one other, the two plays com
bining to make a one hour pro
duction. However, the Projects
class lost some people, making
the second feature impossible.
A dress rehearsal will be
held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday,
Jan. 14 in the McLoughlin
Theater, and the public is in
vited to attend. The Projects
class will then take “The
Restaurant” to a convention at
the Jantzen Beach Red Lion on ;
Saturday.
“The Real Estate group
called the College, looking for
someone to provide entertain
ment for their convention,”
Harvey said.
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“YOU GET A lot of
rewards in this line of
work,” said Com
munity Director/An
thropologist Bruce
Borquist.
Staff photo by
Duane Hiersche
He explained that most other community col
leges across the nation consider themselves as an
intermediate step between high school and a
university, but the College is finding ways to bet
ter serve their community needs.
Most of Borquist’s work in Ghana and at
Rain was with Intermediate Technology. This is
known in Europe as Appropriate Technology, ft
is a compromise between the available
technology and reality. Borquist did not design
systems of this, but researched the possibilities
and helped people select the right method and
apply it. ‘
“You get a lot of rewards in this line of
work,” Borquist said. “When it is good you see a
tot of enthusiasm, and that is why I work~to see
“At Clackamas Community College
approximately 10 percent of its students
have Dyslexia . .
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“Goldie Hawn: ‘I’m smarter than people
give me credit for. ’ ”
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“When a basketball team can dominate
the boards, more often than not they
will win the game. ”