ard boosts
Carrier funds
.
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rhe Clackamas Community College Board
Education approved $54,275 to be spent
Mediately to remove architectural bar-
s for handicapped students on the CCC
[pus.
Fhe money, which will be taken from the
titingency fund of the Capital Projects
■d, will be spent on toilet facilities,
'■ng doors, trailer ramps, making the
: Ikstorelmore readily available to handi-
ped students and other priority one and
J projects.
Originally, the board had planned to
prove only $10,000 to complete priority
ne projects at this time but after a lengthy
.Iscussion they voted to go ahead and
grove the whole amount.
This action "puts CCC in a leadership
ie among community colleges and is a
tssible legislative incentive," said board
lumber Ralph Groener.
The board also delayed action on the
sue of student participation in collective
»•gaining.
| "My suggestion is to probably not adopt
i [(collective bargaining) tonight without
ring both negotiating teams a chance to
eet and decide what exactly we're going
’ try to do," said CCC President John
Bcanson.
■With considerable pressure from Groener
■make a final decision next month, the
• lard decided to study the matter further.
8 In other action the board:
i I—Approved a continuing scholarship for
wen Sabin Skills Center.
The school
puld feceive a one-year tuition waiver that
ould go to a student of Owen Sabin's
. pice.
.'■-Passed a resolution to purchase the
Robbins property for $58,000.
I —Voted to adopt the college master plan
in its revised form.
—Approved money for paint for a mural
¡to be painted on the wall of a basement
iorrldor of Randall Hall.
Vol. X, No. 17
Clackamas Community College
Thursday, February 17, 1977
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Bummer job
makes
a mint
By Dale Newton
Staff Writer
[Every spring campus bulletin boards are
iced with ads that read "earn $2000 in one
mmer." The fine print goes on to explain
jat applicants must be willing to travel and
ave an interest in sales.
Last year Clackamas Community College
¡UdentiMark Lafarge decided to apply, but
[¡th reservations. "I had a real stereotype,"
ie said, "I had this image of having to get
my hairlslicked back and wearing these shoes
with steel toes from getting doors slammed
in them.”
The job was with
a
company
called
Creative Breadmaking for Men was the subject matter of a three part Community
Education class at CCC recently. Cougar Print News Editor Harry Bielskis, shown
at the back, enrolled and reports inside on pages 6 and 7.
Southwestern, which annually employs more
than 6000 college students in summer door-
to-door book sales. Southwestern, a subsi­
diary of the
Times-Mirror Corporation
(owners of the Los Angeles Times) has been
in business for 108 years. The founders
started by selling Bibles to soldiers in the
Confederate Army.
"My summer started the day after finals
when I met with 50 other students from
around the Northwest at Shattuck Hall
(Portland State University). We carpooled
down to Nashville, Tenn, for sales school."
said Lafarge.
Th. one week school, at Southwestern's
national headquarters,covered the mechanics
of sales, and applied psychology. "It's simi­
lar to a Dale Carnegie course," said Lafarge.
After school Lafarge moved on to Penn­
sylvania, where he spent the next 11 weeks
selling Southwestern's "power line", home
reference libraries and children's diction­
aries. Another CCC student, Nathan Williams
was assigned to Indiana.
Southwestern's employees adopt an un­
usual approach to finding housing. "When
we got into a town we would call a minister
and say, 'Mr. Jones my name is Mark Lafarge
and I'm a college student from Oregon. I'm
going to be working in town for the summer
and I'm looking for a place to stay."
"We worked on the law of averages.
After four ministers or so we could usually
find a place to stay for the summer that
wasn't too expensive," Lafarge said. He and
his two partners found an upstairs apart­
ment for $25 per week.
In Indiana, Williams roomed for $11.00
a week, but that included a swimming pool
and clean laundry every day. "We had it
good," said Williams, a freshman majoring
in business administration.
The salesmen canvassed towns and coun­
trysides neighboring their summer homes.
The hours were long, six days and as many
as 72 hours in a week.
"We worked basically with middle class
families with kids. It's not a high pressure
deal at all - we don't spend longer than
twenty minutes with a person," Lafarge
said.
When the summer was over, Mark had
made $4000 - after expenses. Williams poc­
keted $5000. Southwestern's salesmen oper­
ate on a 43% commission.
"The money is good, but the money is
really secondary. The experience was the
thing that really counted," said Lafarge.
Both Williams and Lafarge say they are
definitely planning on working for South­
western next summer. They will be in the
Community Center Feb. 23, at 3 and 6 p.m.
to talk to other students interested in the
program.
CLACKAMAS COMMUNITY
COLLEGE ARCHIVES