FEATURE
THE CLACKAMAS PRINT
October 18,1989
Gold Card student studies at Clackamas
Page 5
Tattoo, or
not tattoo?
and away, we decided to move to
by Helenmarie Nelsen
Redding, California, where I
Staff Writer
worked as an aid in nursing homes.”
“This is both a great chal­
All summer my friend Hat­
While there, her husband became
lenge to me, and I find now that it
quite ill with complications from
tie and I have been debating
is one of the happiest times of my
the heavy work all his life, so he
whether or not to get a tattoo.
life,” says Lois Florita McDowell
retired at the age of 59years, leav­
She made several different
Home, 71 years old. She is only
ing Lois again with an obligation
designs, and we narrowed the
oneof many Gold Card carriers at
to constantly care for him.
spot down to a couple places:
CCC this falL
In 1947, they returned to Port­
around the ankle, around the
Carrying a Gold card means
land to be closer to some of their
thumb, or somewhere on the
that you are 62 years or older and
children and grandchildren. Lois
side of the foot.
are eligible for some Senior Citi­
immediately went back to work in
zen rates in community businesses
the Social Services Dept in down­
in addition to getting your college
town Portland, and also was a
tuition free. Some of these stu­
From the left
caregiver in private homes of sick
dents take the college entrance
by Angela Wilson
elderly
persons,
fortunate
enough
exams to help their counselors
to
stay
in
their
own
homes.
determine which courses would
Today, Lois still has the nine
be best suited to their needs.
children living, their spouses, and
When I mentioned the idea
Home decided she was not
accumulation of 32 grandchildren,
to my parents they didn’t seem
too old to tty for credits and grades
and
26
great-grandchildren.
As
she
too keen on the idea, and Hat­
in her Mathematic and Word Per­
is not one to let the “grass grow
tie’s mom wasn’t either. Of
fect Computer classes. She wants
under
her
feet,
”
(rather
than
play
course my dose friends thought
to get into the employment field
Lois
Horne
has
come
to
Clackamas
to
continue
her
education,
cards or watch T.V.), she would
the idea was a good one, but
again, so started this past summer
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rather go dancing .for relaxation.
other people I mentioned it to
auditinga primary computer class so that she can return to the workplace.
seemed disgusted by it. “ X * (
at Marylhurst college. Her chil­ ing needs. She, her husband Char­ could. In 1964, the family (now She is a member of the Bachelor
dren and grandchildren had all les, and their seven children moved grown to include five boys and and Bachelorette’s square dance
' We figured that since we
told her to “Go for it,” and so she West in search of better employ­ four girls) moved to Portland.
group on SE 50th and Kelly, and
wanted the tattoo and vie were
confidently entered CCC this fall. ment. Charles went to Pendleton,
going to live with it we weren’t
Home kept running between her dances with them at least once a
On the day of registration, she Oregon in 1947 first, awaited his jobs sewing sleeping bags at the week. She recently started to learn
going to worry about what other
“was scared to death. I was over­ family, who arrived by bus with Hirsch Weiss Co. and later at Chase Round Dance at the Oak Grove
people thought
From there we talked a uitje.
whelmed by the throngs of kids their meager assortment of clothes Bag Co. (sewing potato bags), mas­ Community Center, meeting once
and also a little apprehensive about and household supplies in onty tering the huge power sewing ma­ a week with them.
more about it and decided we
what classes I should attempt. I ten smalLboxes! Horne was kept chines, and rushing back to Char­
“Dancing makes me feel so
should just go into a tattoo par­
found myself impressed with the busy the following five years making les and their now remaining four young,” says Home.
lor and take a look. We never
young students, how well they were all their clothes (boy’s trousers,
With the support of her family
did. We drove by the one on
children who were still living. at_
dressed, and their open friendli-
‘and friends/and the supportive ' Bhmsldd between Union’and
neSSto
: ~ vna-lfow r yi
“^nce they were 18 years old, staff and students at CCC, she
Grand, but we never stopped.
curtains and other items).
Horne is no stranger to hard
They moved to Eugene, Ore­
Theother night Hattie and
they were on their own...most of plans to take additional classes
work or supreme effort towards gon in 1955, where Horne re­
I were having coffee at acafe we
them married young,” says Home, next term. She will attempt “any­
keeping her days busy. Married at mained active attending to their
frequent When we left and got
who was always glad when they thing to improve my skills towards
18 in Oklahoma during the 1930 growing family, church and school
into the car we noticed thata
finished high school and were old future employment in an office,”
depression years, she found her­ activities. One of their sons be­ enough to work their way through Home emphasizes.
store had moved into the space
self cooking, sewing, and “scrap­
” I’m a bit slow now, but I’ll
next to the cafe that had been
came, a wheelchair quadriplegic college and become independent.
ing the barrel”, trying to make after a car accident in 1961, so
vacant for quite a while. We
“When the kids were all off leam it," Home added.
time and finances meet their grow- Home also helped him all she
thought wewould^jceiiio^k,:
inside, and when wegotupto
the door we realized that it was
a tattoo parlor.
Well, being as impulsive as
Hattie-is, she decided that we
by Aaron Brown and
communities. He wants to see an
should get the tattoos that we
Julie Merriott
influx of new businesses in his
had been, talking about for the
Staff Writers
homeland.
past four months. I thought for
Most students leam a foreign
“I would like to approach a
a second and decided that it was
language from textbooks and company like Nike to do business
time.
classes, but Bela Belany, 25, got in Hungary..! want to help my
Weentered the tattoo par­
his English from Led Zeppelin country,” Belany emphasized.
lor and the artist was in the
albums.
“The drug problem in Hun­
process of giving a tattoo. So
“I could listen to the record, gary is not even close to that in
we grabbed a book’off the
read the text..and listen to the America,” Belany observed. “In
counter and took a seat and
pronunciation,” stated Belany as the States, people don’t realty care
browsed through it
his beginning motivation for learn­ about others, only themselves...they
Soon after that I started
ing from music. “I was always very are more isolated.” However,
thinking. All I could think about
many foreign students interested in foreign languages,” Belany approves of the many
at Clackamas this year.
was the smell, and how much it
Photo by Lane Scheideman
which is evident in his knowledge American sports.
reminded me of a hospital. At j
of Russian, German, and his na­
“I like volleyball and soccer,
this point Hattie could tell that
tive Hungarian.
even though Americans don’t
I was getting antsy, and she knew
Belany originally from appreciate soccer.” Yet his favor­
that I could change my mind as
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quickly as I made it up.
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I was becoming nauseated
“I like to travel... the nature in highly regarded and followed in
bythe smell. Hattie just looked
Oregon is beautiful,” commented Hungary. Michael Jordan ranks
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Belany, but his motivations high on his list, while Magic
time and left..
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changed. After taking “English as Johnson seems “average.”
Receptions, Reunions, Etc.
So I chickened out. Hattie
a Second Language” course for
Even though Belany enjoys the
was somewhat disappointed, but
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Belany, once a grade school was hard to leave my sister and her
time I won’t chicken out and I’ll
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