THE PRINT
Clackamas Community College
Oregon City, OR 97045
October 15, 1986
Music chairman
goes overseas
by Lyn Marie Thompson
Clackamas Community Col
lege’s Music Department Chair
man, LeRoy Anderson, has
taken a year’s leave of absence
in order to teach in England.
Anderson left August 30th for
Heathrow, a small suburb of
London.
There, he teaches
vocal and instrumental music.
He works with students at the
Defense Department Overseas
School. Mr. Anderson is in
charge of any and all music be
ing taught on the base from
grades 7 through 12.
Travel offers benefits
Anderson took the job as a
way of trying something new
and different from our college. •
Mr Anderson was one of the
first music personnel to be hired
at the college back in 1968. In
his new position he is able to
take advantage of the cultural
setting and the proximity of the
European continent for travel.
Clackamas’ music depart
ment is awaiting his return next
fall in time for the beginning of
classes. However, if he should
wish to stay on in Heathrow, he
has been offered permanence of
his position at the overseas
school.
Background extensive
LeRoy Anderson has an ex
tensive background in perform
ing experience as a trombone ar
tist. In the past he has played in
various “big bands”, worked in
Los Angeles studios making re
cordings during the early to mid
50’s and played lead trombone
at the Sand’s Hotel in Las
Vegas. Mt. Anderson later re
turned to Portland where he is
from, and played in the Oregon
Symphony. He also had the ex
perience of having and playing
in a band of his own for a while.
If you have a problem or
question that you feel only the
head of the music department
can answer, Gary Nelson is sit
ting in for LeRoy Anderson un
til Mr. Anderson returns.
Cross country team surrounds 1st place Fort Casey Invitational trophy taken at Whidbey Island
Washington. Pictured left to right: Jim Kissee, Mike Hodges, Mike Smith, Dan Baker, Dan Muse.
Scott Sheldon, Greg Suiter, Jerry Durant, and Mike Noel. Not pictured Todd Larson. Photo by Lyn
Thompson.
College counselors aid student growth
by Alberta Roper
entire staff by being cordial,
available, and somehow
“Counseling Helps People unrushed amid the obvious
Grow.”
press of a multitude of things
This is the slogan that hangs and people requiring his atten
on the wall in Vince Fitzgerald’s tion.
office. Vince is one of eight
counselors who assists students
Hames explained that each
every day in the college counsel staff person covers a specific
ing center.
area of expertise, acting as
A steady flow of students liaison between various depart
comes in for answers concern ments on campus.
He em
ing registration, career goals, phasized that each counselor is
and advice on their future also a generalist in that they can
educational needs.
handle just about anything that
Staff Writer
some years problably accounts
for the sense one gets that you
are dealing with people who
know their stuff.
The at
mosphere in the Counseling
Center is relaxed, settled and
very professional.
The thing she like best is “to see
nursing students graduate in the
spring.” This probably has to
do, in part, to the fact that nurs
ing enrollment has been down in
the last two years although Ford
“talks to five or ten people a
day about the nursing
program.”
Ford: Mighty Mouse
There is no lack of humor
among the Counseling Staff.
Donna Ford calls herself
“Superwoman” or “Mighty
comes up. The fact that the Mouse” and wears a pin that
Art Hames, Director of members of the counseling staff says, “Think Uppity.” She ad
Counseling, sets the tone for the have been with the college for mitted that she thinks “in lines
and dashes.”
Ford acts as liaison to a
number of departments, in
cluding Nursing, Business Ad
ministration, Family/Human
Services, Physical Education,
Small Business Management
and Office Administration.
Like everyone else on the staff,
(each has a Master’s Degree or a
Doctorate), Ford obtained her
Master’s in 1974 at Western
Oregon State (formerly Oregon
College of Education). After
years of in-depth training and
numerous seminars, Ford now
serves as President-elect for the
Oregon College Counseling
Association (a statewide
organization which deals with
all college counselors in both
two-year and four-year
colleges).
Ford sees herself as a “infor
Bernie Nolan and Lee Turpin, two counselors who assist students mation giver to our students.”
with various college-related problems. Photo by Lyn Thompson.
Bonnie Olson is a part-time
counselor (16 hours plus a
week). Since she is part-time,
there is less continuity to her
work compared to those
counselors who are liaison for
various departments on cam
pus. But Olson sees this as a
positive in that she usually
covers the floor at the Center,
and, as she puts it, “touches all
kinds of academic problems so
her work is varied and in
teresting. Olson’s special areas
are Tracking and Progress
Reports.
Fitzerald: Foreign aid
Vince Fitzgerald acts as
liaison to a host of departments:
Art, Comunications, English,
International Education,
Music, Public Service, and
Social Services. He coordinates
faculty advising on campus.
One special area Fitzgerald
deals with is advising seventy
students from some twenty or
more countries whose common
ground is that they all have
English as their second
language. In addition to these
Fitzgerald is the advisor to fif
teen International students who
are studying at the college on
temporary visas or student
visas.
Nolan: true native
Bernie Nolan came to the col
lege in 1973. She acts as liaison
to the Math, Science and
Wastewater departments. One
of her main duties is to “order,
evaluate, put into service tests
useful for students.” Some of
the tests include: Placement,
Career Interests, G.E.D. and
Proctor tests for teachers.
Nolan calls herself the “resi
dent returning woman”
(although Bonnie Olson can
also qualify for the title). A
unique specialty that Nolan has
is “working with people who
are coming back to school after
many years.” She is qualified
to give expert assistance in this
area, as her/dissertation for her
Doctorate was on the subject of
“Returning Women.”
Nolan has another thing to
her credit: she has lived her
whole life in Clackamas Coun
ty. “I am a true native of
Clackamas County,” she
beams.
Next issue! Meet the rest of
the counseling staff!