THE PRINT
Vol. XX, No. 11
Clackamas Community College
Oregon City, OR 97045
Motorcycle safety offered in March
kept,
modified
by Marie Stoppelmoor .
Staff Writer
Team Oregon representative Bill Spencer instructs potential riders how to ride safely.
equipped for a comprehensive
test of basic and emergency ac­
celerating, shifting, turning,
and braking skills.
January 28, Spencer was here
at Clackamas Community Col­
lege holding an orientation for
possible instructors, to teach the
Motorcycle Rider Course here
at the college. There will be two
classes offered in March.
The Motorcycle Rider Course
is for beginning riders and will
teach “from mounting the
motorcycle to the critical skills
of emergency swerving, brak­
ing, and cornering.” The class
supplies motorcycles or scooters
and the helmets. It is a five day
class, and will meet March
11-14-15-18-21. The Experienc­
ed Rider Course is an eight hour
course which discusses new
riding techniques and on range
drills are held to practice
emergency skills. Students pro­
vide their own bikes. Exact
times and location can be found
in the winter schedule of classes.
The good news: after com­
pleting a course many insurance
companies will reduce rates.
McMurdo leaves CCC for law firm position
by Gerry Adams
J Reporting II Class
2 ■ Clackamas Community Col­
lige will be losing a key member
ql of its staff when Kevin McMurdo
leaves his post as Assistant to the
President for Institutional Ad-
- Vancement this month.
-
McMurdo will be joining the
J staff of Schawbe, Williamson,
Wyatt, Moose and Roberts law
firm as their Director of Client
relations.
1
“It was not a total decision on
e . my part,” said McMurdo.
“After graduating from Lewis
and Clark School of Law in 1985
and pasing the bar exam in ’86,1
wanted to find something where I
could use the experience I have
gained here at the college, and ex­
pand my career in law at the same
time.”
■ McMurdo joined the staff at
CCC in November of 1979 as its
Public Information Officer, and
over the years the position has ex-
panded into its current title.
■ “In the time I have been here
the position I hold has expanded
to the point where I am involved
with community relations, plann­
ing for the goals of the school,
director of resources and market­
ing activities,” said McMurdo.
■ Although McMurdo could not
put his finger on what was his
biggest accomplishment here at
the college, he did feel that with
Women’s
program
by Marie Stoppelmoor
i Staff Writer
¡3“ 90% of people who have
motorcycle accidents are self
i taught,” Bill Spencer reported
to this trainees.
Bill Spencer is a represen­
tative of Team Oregon, a
; motorcycle safety program
i which is based at Oregon State
University. The program stress­
ed! the importance of learning
I motorcycle skills through
lessons, not close call ex-
i periences. Mr. Spencer finds it
“incredibly dangerous that so
rmany riders are self taught.
Riding a motorcycle requires
s learned skills, just like flying an
a airplane but, no one would ever
r try and fly an airplane without
i lessons.”
? When Mr. Spencer moved
here a year ago from
Washington, the Oregon DMV
>1 was known for its half-hearted
- approach to skills testing in ob­
taining amotorcycle endorse­
ment. “From what I unders-
f tad,” Spencer said, “an in-
ci structor watched you drive
* around the block and if you
■ came back alive you got a
license.” Spencer and Team
' Oregon have done a lot of coax­
ing to change this procedure.
Motorcycle endorsements are
ndw only issued at the three ma­
jor DM Vs because they are
e
February 4, 1987
McMurdo will become Director of client relations for a law firm.
the help of President John Key­
ser, he was able to play a big
part in selecting some of the best
people in the field to fill positions
at the college
“I was given pretty much a
free hand in selecting Bill Symes
as the head of Public information
and Beverly Fulmore in the foun­
dation department. We have
some of the best qualified people
to run the depciunents which
make my job much easier,” said
McMurdo. “When Dave Dick­
son was put in charge of planning
and development, the school was
heading in the right direction for
grant proposals at both the state
and federal level.”
Instead of working to keep the
community involved with educa­
tion, McMurdo will now have to
look at the profit line in his new
position.
“At the college we were always-
concerned with community in­
volvement,” said McMurdo.
“Now I will have to look at the
bottom line because of working
for a private corporation.”
“There is no question that I am
going to miss the people here at
the college,” said McMurdo.
“You have to leave to realize how
happy, helping and caring the
people are you have been
associated with.”
The highlight of McMurdo’s
career at Clackamas Communi­
ty College came last fall when
separate celebrations were held
for the college’s 20th anniver­
sary.
“We put on a big party for
the staff to celebrate the 20th
anniversary, then a separate
gathering at the Monarch
Motor Inn to acknowledge the
citizens of the county that
helped get the college started
and gave a lot of their free time
to help keep the college on the
right path,” said McMurdo.
The founding of women’s pro­
grams here at Clackamas Com­
munity College began in the 70’s
with a woman named Buzz
Evans. During this period of
transition for women (ERA,
returning to work because of in­
flation) the programs were a
necessity. As the 70’s gave way to
the 80’s, Buzz Evans retired and
Bernie Nolan took over as
“mother hen” of the programs;
and the women’s programs began
a transition of their own.
According to Bernie Nolan,
participation in the Focus on
Women program began to “fade
in and out.” She and ad­
ministrator Caroline Knutson
called a meeting of interested
staff member for an objective
evaluation of the program to
decide if they should “keep it,
modify it or bag it.”
With the help of twelve con­
cerned staff members, it was
decided to keep and modify the
program with the goal of more
consistant participation in mind.
Some facts that influenced the
decision to deep the programs: 1.
Women still earn $.60 for every
$1 earned by men. 2. After
divorce a woman’s standard of
living will decrease while a man’s
will increase. 3. Women make up
56% of our student body.
To improve organization and
participation in the renewed pro­
gram, there will be a more exten­
sive use of publicity and a single
coordinator will be appointed on
a yearly basis. In the past a com­
mittee approach was used to
organize the events. As Bernie
Nolan put it “everyone would get
excited (over planning) and then
say we’ll let Mickey do it.” The
coordinator will be a volunteer
staff member and will get 20%
release time from their regular
schedule to plan events.
Officially, the new ar­
rangements begin in September,
but Nolan and Knutson are trying
to find some extra money in the
budget for a summer outdoor
event and a spring term class to
“kick things off.” The summer
event is, as yet unknown, but the
class will be taught by Bernie; it
will focus on women returning to
work or school and help them
with goal setting and value
clarification. It is a credit class.
Unofficially, Bernie hopes to
be the new coordinator and is
negotiating with Buzz Evans for
her assistance. After all, “the
program is her baby, she’s the
one who infused the energy to
get it all started in the first
place,” Nolan said.