Feature
Wednesday, November 10,1993
The Clackamas Print Pg. 3
Native South African making Clackamas home
by Jeff Kemp
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Zimbabwe isn’texception-
ally far away if you’re just voyaging
to Zaire, but it’s quite a distance if
your college plans include
Clackamas Community.
NativeSouth African Mar­
tin Mabuwa spent three days in a
plane in the spring of 1991, traveling
from his homeland to the United
States, a country he now only tenta­
tively calls home.
“It (the plane ride) was
sad because it was like a three-
person seat and I had to be right by
the window. The two guys beside
me didn’t speak any ofmy languages,
so I didn’t speak to anyone from
London to Chicago,” Mabuwa ex­
plained.
Mabuwa professes his de­
cision to attend college in America
began in high school, where the
dreams of becoming a pilot seemed
more feasible in the United States.
“My mom thought it would
be a good experience for me,”
Mabuwa related.
The 21 -year-old says what
he misses most about living so far
away from home is sharing the holi­
days with his family. A mother and
father, along with five brothers and
sisters, doesn’t seem easy for
Mabuwa to forget. A phone call
every week eases someof Mabuwa’s
home sickness, but AT&T doesn’t
really seem to care.
“They call me about once
a week,” Mabuwa said. “I never call
them. It’s too expensive.”
A noble user of the En­
glish language, Mabuwa has refined
the art since entering the country.
He is currently pursuing a computer
science degree which he plans to con­
tinue at Portland State University be­
ginning Winter Term.
Experiencing the customs
and values of our country for the first
time is a difficult thing formost of us
to understand; unless we’ve been for­
tunate enough to travel to another
country and become educated on the
experience first hand. It must get
confusing at times.
“I can’t vote. I’m not a
citizen but I pay all my taxes. I think
that should be enough,” Mabuwa
rationalized.
The biggest difference
Mabuwa sees between this country
and his own is a noticeable difference
in skin tone.
“The majority of Zimba­
bwe is black and the blacks don’t feel
like they are a minority. I think in the
U.S., where the majority is white, the
blacks feel inferior because they’re
the minority,” Mabuwa said.
Mabuwa’s ambitions in­
clude attaining his degree from PSU
and returning to South Africa by
1995.
“Overall the people have
been really nice to me. CCC is really
a wonderful place to start,” Mabuwa
concluded.
photo by Anjanetta Booth
Martin Mabuwa traveled from South Africa to attend
college in the United States.
Nursing instructor receives award for service
by Jason Eck
Staff Writer
Nursing instructor Pat
Krumm received aprestigious award
in mid-October for her “outstanding
service to improve delivery of health
care and promote quality nursing
education” among her peers.
“I had known a month prior
in September that Pwasbeing norrii-""
nated for an award,” Krumm said.
“In October I was told I was a recipi­
ent.”
The award was given by
the Oregon League for Nursing. She
was theguestof honor at the league’s
Annual Fall Conference and Award
Ceremony held in Portland.
“In professional nursing,
this award is the most prestigious.
It’s real special to be honored by my
peers in my profession,” she said.
*Krumm has~been a nurs­
ing instructor at Clackamas since
1973. She held the position of de­
photo by Anjanette Booth
Pat Krumm was recently awarded for her service in the
nursing field. She is an instructor as well as a nurse.
photo by Heidi Branstator
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partment chair for six years between
1984 and 1990.
“I’ve enjoyed my position
here tremendously. I’ve enjoyed
working with the staff and students.
The faculty here have been terrific to
work with—they’re friends as well as
professional colleagues,” she said.
Krumm received her
bachelor's degree from Oregon Health
Sciences University School of Nurs­
ing in 1964. She completed her gradu­
ate work and received her master's
degree in 1982. She is a registered
nurse, as well as a nurse practitioner,
which is an advanced nurse with spe­
cial skills, requiring graduate-level
education.
Krumm worked in a hospi­
tal as a nurse up until 1973, when she
took the job at Clackamas. “When I
was in school I didn ’ t anticipate being
a nursing educator—I actually evolved
toward nursing education,” she said.
Throughout her career,
Krumm has seen some significant
changes in the nursing profession.
“Technology has changed over the
years, it is the biggest change,” she
said.
Krumm also mentioned the
fact that nursing is now being re­
garded as a separate field of study,
aside from the medical side. “The
education is different,” she said. This
prompts the Nursing Department to
make curriculum changes often, which
they are currently in the process of, to
keep up with the new ideas.
Currently Krumm is, aside
from an instructor, a part-time home
health nurse. This brings Kromm’s
skills right into the home either daily
or on certain days of the week, de­
pending on the patient’s needs. She
sees homebound patients and those
who have recently been sent home
from the hospital who need the atten­
tion and help she can provide.
Krumm is currently the
member of several organizations.
They include the Oregon Nurses As­
sociation and the Oregon League of
Nursing. She was appointed by
Gov. Barbara Roberts to the Or­
egon State Board of Nursing for a
three-year term in April, 1991.
Krumm offers nothing but
praise for the nursing program at
Clackamas.
“This is a good program
and we encourage students to go on,”
she said. “It is well respected by the
health care facilities in the area.”
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