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.
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