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The Clackamas Print Wednesday, April 3,1996 Feature Drafting teacher CCC student succeeds in writes 13th book life through speaking out Brian Ray Staff Writer Spend a few minutes talk ing to David A. Madsen and one thing becomes obvious: he loves drafting. As a member of CCC’s fac ulty since 1972, Madsen has built quite a reputation for him- self. In addition to teaching, he has also written several text books on drafting, particularly computer aided drafting. His 13th, “AutoCAD and its Appli cations for Windows,” co authored by fellow CCC draft ing instructor Terence Shumaker, has just been pub lished. F o r Madsen draft ing is very re warding. “I just love drafting. I took it when I was a freshman in high school, ” Madsen said. His inter est in drafting began when he was a sopho more at Cen tennial High. Continuing his education at OSU where he re ceived his Master’s degree. He joined CCC’s faculty as a part time instructor in 1972. He be gan teaching full time in 1973. In the early 1980’s, Madsen be came full department chair. It was when he began teaching full time at CCC that he became in volved in writing textbooks. “The first book I wrote was a companion book for a series of cassette tapes on drafting,” Madsen said. “It was for Na tional Book Co.” Since then, he has co authored several books on draft ing. “They’re the number one sellers in the AutoCAD market, so we’re really happy with it,” he said. They sell tens of thousands of copies each year. His books are read nationwide, in just about every college level draft ing class which is something Madsen is proud of. “I feel my writing style is a •' conversational style. It’s easy to understand. In general, the stu dents like the books. They’re full exercises. A lot of pictures, drawings and photos,” he said. “They’re used all over the world,” said Rachel Cederdahl, a drafting student who came all the way from Hayward, Calif, to attend Clacka mas ’ drafting program. “If you’re not re ally good at computers, they are good, because it’s layman’s terms. They’re really basic and easy to under- stand,” Cederdahl said. Fellow student Jason Bixler is in agreement. “The books are used region ally. They are detailed, self-ex planatory and very easy to use,” Bixler said. “Anyone can use. them; they can learn the whole AutoCAD program from the book. There are full, step-by-step instructions for installing and using the programs. You can learn all the material by doing the exercises,” said Bixler. As for future projects, Madsen explained that his text books are constantly being re vised. “I have to update the Auto CAD books often,” he said. “I’m always looking for new projects.” Damon Fouts News Co-Editor Jesse Gnehm is a very per suasive man. When the 19-year- old Clackamas Community Col lege student speaks, colleges waive his tuition fees and offer him scholarships. Just a year out of Grants Pass High School, Gnehm is a stand out member of the CCC’s tourna ment-dominating speech team and has won 19 awards in com petition since joining the team last spring. Because of his success, CCC helps him with his tuition each term, and Linfield College in McMinneville has offered Gnehm a four-year scholarship. What makes Gnehm’s suc cess so unusual is that he had never spoken in public at all, let alone in competition, prior to last spring. Yet four weeks after spring term began, he scored sixth place in a regional competition between 20 colleges from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and northern California. Gnehm’s been scoring ever since. Gnehm is strongest in im promptu speaking, one of seven categories in which students com pete. Impromptu speakers are given a subject one or two min utes before they are to speak on that subject. They then have to speak for five or six minutes on that subject. “I have the ability to make the audience take an interest in what I’m saying because it’has an impact on their life,” said Gnehm. “I give them something to walk away with.” Gnehm enjoys the tourna ments, but he admits to some toss ing and turning in bed the night before a competition. “The night before a tourna ment means no sleep and going over the speech over and over again. The anxiety lasts from about two until four in the morn ing,” he said. Thanks to the training of Coach Kelly Brennan, Gnehm and his teammates are well pre pared by tournament time. Brennan has seen his team grow more successful each term. In the last six tournaments, the team has taken 134 awards, and garnered first place three times, second place twice and third place one time. At a tournament at Oregon State University in early March, the team was one of only two com- munity colleges competing against eight four-year colleges, including OSU and Willamette University. CCC took first place and took home 34 awards. Gnehm earned two of them. The size of the team has grown along with the success, from seven members last fall, to its current total of 21. The team’s success has earned them spots in two national tournaments in April. One is a four-year college tournament and the other is for community col leges. Brennan had to choose between the two, and is sending seven CCC members to the com munity college competition in Chicago. The students will com pete against 100 to 125 other col leges and maybe as many as 1,000 students, according to Gnehm. He’ll be one of members attend ing the competition. Gnehm wouldn’t even be on the team if plans he made in third grade had worked out. Gnehm decided then that he would join the Air Force at age 18, but his vision was too poor for Air Force requirements. So he took the ad vice of a high school friend who was wrestling for CCC, and headed north. Soon he was living with three wrestlers in Clackamas. But Gnehm didn’t have enough money to pay his tuition fees, so he took on two jobs at a music store and a: ski shop to raise the money. He was able to enroll the next term. “My first year’s been a real challenge. Finding that balance of time between the speech team, school and work is .very hard at times,” Gnehm said. But he’s not complaining. Gnehm is currently planning on degrees in Mass Communications and Political Science and plans to work in Public Relations after graduating. He credits his suc cess to many at-CCC,- including Brennan and the CCC adminis tration. Most of all, he credits himself for sticking to his goal. LOSE 20 POUNDS IN TWO WEEKS! 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