Image provided by: Clackamas Community College; Oregon City, OR
About Cougar print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1976-1977 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1976)
Trend leans to smaller buildings Architects discuss phase plans Representatives of Reddaway Associates and ROMA, two architectural firms, were at Clackamas Community College Wednes day, Dec. 1, to discuss their plans for the second and third phases of construction at the college. Reddaway Associates is a local archi tectural firm and the contract for construc tion at CCC is through them. ROMA is a San Francisco-based operation that has wor ked on a number of California colleges and has been hired by Reddaway Associates as a consultant. The architects gave three presentations showing what they had come up with based on the information and space requirements Machine shop provides opportunity for blind Clackamas Community College is the only college in the United States which handles a machine shop program for blind and handicapped people. Rusty Harris, a machine shop teacher, established this program for the blind and handicapped. Mark Smith and Ernest Whise nant are also participating in the program as qualified teachers. Charles Orto was chosen by the Canadian government to bring the machine shop pro gram to Canada after completing required courses here at CCC. Orto came to CCC on Sept. 26, 1975, and will be returning home Saturday. His classes were paid for through vocational rehabilitation services run by the federal given them by the five sub-planning groups set up by the college's Long Range Planning committee. One of the architects' main concerns is softening the hardness of the campus; a complaint that many college and community members have voiced over the years. "We want to emphasize that we're getting away from large buildings," said Richard Bonniksen, a representative of ROMA. The new buildings, with few exceptions, will be one-story in height. According to Bonniksen, the main advantage of one- story buildings are lowered costs of con struction and easy accessibility of facilities to handicapped students. government and the Canadian National In stitute for the Blind. "I plan to sell this machine shop program to the Canadian government and the peo ple. This is an excellent program for the blind and handicapped, in that they may be employed in machine shop jobs all over the country," said Orto when asked what he plans to do when he returns home to Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. Besides taking four terms of machine shop, Orto was also enrolled in psychology, health, English, music, physics, and math. Orto is now a qualified machine operator. He took 13 credit hours his first term, 19 his second, 24his third, and 27 credit hours this fall. "I'm happy that the courses have finally finished, it has been a lucky year for me, and I'll always remember the pleasant times that I had here," said Orto. "I thank every one here at CCC. If it wasn't for the kindness and help from my fellow students and teachers, I don't think I could have made it through the courses," said Orto. "I'm not too proud to take the hand of a fellow student in order to make my way over to another building so as to be to my class on time," said Orto who has been blind for several years. "I will be coming back to school this summer in order to visit my friends and find out how the fishing is in Oregon. I haven't even fished for sardines," said Orto. The architects showed a number of representing different landscape ide implemented by other colleges and st the importance of landscaping in a construction. Bonniksen criticized the work o! first architectural firm saying thei yard between the Community Center ding and Barlow Hall was "not active, he feels that the lack of life in ther yard is due to its size. The architec vision much smaller areas to study j lax in. Copies of the architects' final plans si soon be available as they brought their before the college's Board of Educatio night. JEWELER Engraving * Watches * Clocks GARY H. RU Sales & Rep. 656-1333 812% Maini Oregon City 97045 smessi MOM IS OVERJOYED/ ■ £ PORTRAIT GIFT - BURSTSII TO TEARS. - IV This could happen at f:0 house, try it. Your portrait a the most appreciated gift you® give. h 232-5104 Photography by Fudge I 2607 SE Hawthorne Blvd. nj- Home - Outdoors - Studio Clackamas Community fl