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Sports Scores Inside Clackamas' indoor sculputure show is on display in the Pauling Gallery. Read more about it on Page 4 and 5. Softball Clackamas splits 1 n 4 4 n 4 with S WOCC U" 1 5 11 Quick Stats: The Native Garden near the Pauling Center is starting to bloom. Read more about it on Page 6. Wednesday, April 15, 1998 Game 2: Stacey Peacock: 3-3, 2B, 2 runs Game 2: Marissa Smith: 2-4,3 RBI, HR [3] Clackamas Community College Baseball Clackamas loses 1 4 ft 4 4 to Linn-Benton 1 ' ** 1 Quick Stats: Adam Edwards: 2-3, HR, 2 RBI, 2BB Jeff Berard: 1-4, HR, 2 RBI, 2 runs Volume XXXI, Issue 18 Qregon City, Oregor Davis CHRISTINA MUELL Co-Editor-in-Chief Davis resigns after 26 years I •Davis has already started her new job at the Northwest Region Educa tional Lab. • Her last day at Clackamas is still to be announced. Kay Davis, Associat ean of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, announce er resignation last Thursday after accepting a position at the Northwest Regional Edu cational Lab in downtown Portland. Davis will be the program director for this community and education volunteer services center. The center con ducts regional and national conferences in many areas with an emphasis on reading and literacy. The center has been involved in programs such as America Reads and Americore technical assistance. The mission of the lab is to improve education results for children, youths and adults by providing high-quality educational programs. Davis started part-time work at the Northwest Regional Lab on Monday, April 13. She has been looking on and off for other jobs. "I always keep my eyes open for things," Davis explained. "Jobs at a certain level are very difficult to come by and I also have interest in some and not in others. In this one I do have an interest." Davis has quite a bit of education under her belt: She has earned a bachelor's degree in English from Portland State University, a TESL certificate from PSU, an MAT in Liberal studies and reading from Lewis and Clark College, See Davis, page 2 TIMOTHY BELL I Clackamas Print Associate Dean of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Kay Davis officially announced her resignation last Thursday. The announcement came as a surprise to other college staff and administrators. YMCA awarded child-care contract Clackamas's speech team recently competed in the Phi Rho Pi National Speech Competition in Atlanta. All five students from Clackamas who competed got a bronze medal or better. ROBERT SCHOENBERG Staff Writer I Speech team 3rd in nation CHRISTINA MUELLER Co-Editor-in-Chief The Clackamas speech team brought home six awards from the Phi Rho Pi National Speech Competition which took place April 2-12 in At lanta, Ga. "We had five people go and five national cham pions return," Speech Advisor Kelly Brennan said of the competition. "It was the longest 10 days of my life," he con tinued, "but it was the most rewarding." Scott Clegg received a bronze medal in Prose Interpretation, Regina Godfrey received a silver medal in Parliamentary Debate, Ty Peterson re ceived a bronze medal in Persuasive Speaking, Clackamas awarded the YMCA a three year contract to provide child care management services to the Elizabeth McClung Brod Family Resource Child Care Center, starting July 1, 1998 and continuing for three years. The contract was awarded after proposals were submitted by the YMCA and the former service pro vider, the Mt. Hood Council of Vte view this Campfire, which has been the ser vice provider since 1989. as an A committee made up of college exceptional staff, student parents and childhood way to education experts developed the cri teria for evaluating the proposals expand our submitted by the service providers. services. Of nine service providers invited to submit proposals, only the two re sponded. Bob Hall, executive vice president Bob Hall of the YMCA, said, “We view this YMCA Executive as an exceptional way to expand our Vice President services. This will be the first time we have had an opportunity to pro vide services to college students. We are delighted to have been selected and believe we can add some dimensions to the program to improve the quality.” The evaluating committee after careful review scored the YMCA with 93 points out of 100 for meeting the assigned criteria, such as being able to develop a smooth transition, developing a plan to increase service to a larger amount of student families and being qualified and experienced as su pervisors of the child care staff. Hall said that they will have a Discovery Day Camp pro gram for school-age children during summer break. Shaun Read received a silver medal in Parlia mentary Debate and Tarah Wheeler received a bronze medal in Extemporaneous Speaking as well as a gold medal in Persuasive Speaking. In addition to the six individual awards Clackamas received the Bronze Sweepstakes Award in Par liamentary Debate. "It was quite an accomplishment; I think it's the best that we've ever done and overall every single one of the students has come back as a national champion," Brennan said. "Most of all I enjoy the way that our team works together. We work as a team so incredibly well, and I think at nationals is where the fine See Speech, page 2 Speech team wins •Tarah Wheeler gold in Persuasive Speaking, bronze in Extemporaneous Speaking • Shaun Read: silver in Parliamen tary Debate • Regina Godfrey: silver in Parliamen tary Debate • Ty Peterson: bronze in Persua sive Speaking •Scott Clegg: bronze in Prose Interpretation J5
