The Clackamas Print
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Clackamas student named Oregon Scholar
Amy Ku’uipo Hanson
Managing Editor
Cindy Hines Kurfman is not
only one of this year’s Oregon
Scholars representing CCC, but
one of the many other Clackamas
students with interesting stories
to tell.
After starting here last fall,
Kurfman was chosen as one of
two students to represent Clacka
mas as an Oregon Scholar, the
other was Shane Bassett. Last
month, Kurfman and Bassett
joined other Oregon Scholars for
a banquet with Governor
Kitzhaber in Salem.
A member of Phi Theta
Kappa, Kurfman has received a
full tuition Rotary scholarship for
the 1996-97 school year. She has
also been nominated for a num
ber of other scholarships, includ
ing Datatei.
On May 20 at the Phi Theta
Kappa Awards Banquet and Rec
ognition Ceremony, Kurfman
will be recognized as an Oregon
Scholar. She will be awarded the
Rotary scholarship on May 21.
Kurfman is after her Asso
ciate of Arts in Education Trans
fer Degree which will enable her
to transfer to either Pacific Uni-
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versity or Lewis and Clark, as the
next step in her master plan.
“I want to be an elementary
school teacher and keep doing
freelance writing on the side,”
said Kurfman.
Did someone say freelance?
Fostering her love of poetry and
writing, Kurfman has been
freelance writing for the past nine
years published in church publi
cations and in publications at
Purdue University where she
worked as secretary to the direc
tor of the Black Cultural Center.
“It was a good experience for
me, growing up in Gladstone
there was only one family that was
black,” said Kurfman.
It was at Purdue that
Kurfman joined a group called
Haraka Writers that helped to
expand her confidence in her
writing abilities.
“Haraka helped me feel more
confident and was very accepting
of me,” she said. The Haraka
Writers group also helped
Kurfman overcome shyness.
“I read in front of an audi
ence of 200 people,” she said.
“That was really a coming out of
my shell.”
Kurfman landed her first
writing job when she flew back
to Oregon for a writing workshop.
A church historian helped to get
her first feature article published.
“I had a lot of people believe
in me and my. writing,” said
Kurrman. "Th'át makes the differ
ence, having people that believe
in me.”
Kurfman’s interest in work
ing with kids began when she
helped with Kindergarten classes
while attending Gladstone High
School. She has also been a Sun
day School teacher for a number
of years and when her oldest
daughter, Abigail, now nine,
started kindergarten she helped in
her class. It wasn’t until she ini
tiated a poetry class to first grad
ers that she realized she could
combine her interests.
Contributed photo
Oregon Scholar Cindy Hines Kurfman receives 1996
Student Scholar Award from Governor John Kitzhaber.
After living most of her life
in Clackamas County, Kurfman
moved about the continental U.S.
ending up in a conservative
county in Pennsylvania.
“It was a totally different cul
ture,” said Kurfman. “It was a lot
easier to fit in to the Black Cul
tural Center. It was hard for me
to be in a place where women
were
expected
to
be
submissiveand follow a strict code
of dress. At the same timé, I got
more involved in women’s issues
at church.” Native to Oregon,
Kurfman moved back to the
Northwest last year driving a U-
Haul cross country from Pennsyl
vania with her three kids and her
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“I ré'aTízecr i riéeded the sup
port of my family to make it
through school,” said Kurfman
Now. a single mother,
Kurfman has decided that it is
important to put emphasis on her
own career goals.
“I was following my
husband’s career, putting him
through school,” said Kurfman.
“It’s time to put myself first.”
Kurfman returned to college
because she realized that without
a degree there was only so far she
could go.
“I can’t be an editor, {or}
teacher and I don’t want to be a
secretary,” she said.
Kurfman has kept herself
busy this year by taking a full load
of classes, being a single mother,
tutoring psychology, participating
in Chrysalis and Phi Theta
Kappa, leading a Writer’s and
Artist’s group at church and re
ceiving a Poetry Honorable Men
tion in the college’s Writer’s Club
Contest. And she did all this
while maintaining a 4.0 GPA.
Kurfman has had a lot of help
from friends and family.
“When I decided to come
here, one of my writing mentors
gave me $200 and said, ‘Here is
-your first scholarship,’” said
Kurfman.
’ She (Currently has a grant
from PEO Sisterhood who wants
to continue to sponsor her next
year. With a partial child care
scholarship, her two-year-old son
attends the Campfire Daycare
Center here on campus.
“I think I’m going to make
it, reach my dream of working
with kids and keep writing,”
saidKurfman. “Someday I hope I
can help other people make their
dreams come true. People should
think about what they want to do
and not what others want them
to.”
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