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5 TldE CI ac R amas P rìnt WEdNEsdAy, OcTobER 15, 1999 New Latino services coordinator hired Perez. “It’s very exciting be cause half the students are new and the other half are return Tina Perez, Clackamas’ Coor ing students.” dinator for Latino Student Ser Perez’s other duties include vices, is new to the campus— visiting local high schools to she joined the staff Sept. 15, the recruit students for the Oregon week before school started. Leadership Institute and she is “I received a crash course in advisor for Chatino Club. “With this I hope to get learning what Clackamas was classes grow even more,” about,” she said. Perez graduated added this past Septem Perez. ber with ■ her “Com master’s degree in ing to Coming to Latin American Clackamas Clackamas gives Studies from the gives me the University of Cali opportunity me the opportu fornia Santa Bar to teach and nity to teach and bara, after com be with stu pleting her B.A. in dents, which be with students, history at is what I which is what I Albertson College love,” said love. Perez. Her in Idaho. Perez Tina Perez hopes to maintain long-term Latino Services Director a permanent posi goals include continuing tion at Clackamas her educa Community Col tion and earn lege, close to Vancouver, WA and her brother ing her Ph.D. and traveling to Latin and parents, with whom she America to learn more about her culture and heritage. currently resides. Perez teaches “Latino Lead For more information about ership” (Human Development 190-01) every Wednesday 2-4 Latino services or the Chatino SARAH WELCH / Clackamas Print p.m. in the Dye Learning Cen Club, contact Tina Perez at ext. Tina Perez, who earned a master's degree in Latin American studies from UC-Santa Barbara and ter, room 105. “I currently have 2717 (657-6958), or E-mail her at has a B.A in History from Alberton College, is new to Clackamas as the Latino Student Services 20 students enrolled,” said tinap@clackamas. cc. or. us. Coordinator. She is also the advisor for Latino Leadership class, held Wednesdays from 2-4 p.m. SALENA DE LACRUZ Sports Co-Editor Nueve Coordinadora para servicios Latinos TRANSLATION BY TINA PEREZ Tina Perez, coordinora de servicios para Latinos en Clacka- mas Community College, es nueva en el colegio, empezó a trabajar el 15 de Septiembre, una semana an tes de empezar clases normales y ella dijo. “Yo recebi un courso rapido para intendender todo lo que pasa aqui en Clackamas.” Ella se graduó en Septiembre con una maestría en estudios Latinos en la Universidad de California en Santa Barbara después de terminar sus estudios en Historia del colegio Alberton en Idaho. Ella espera que la posiscion sea permanente cerca de Vancouver donde vive con sus padres y hermano. T/ te CI ac !< amas P rint The student newspaper of Clackamas Community College Perez es la instructora de la clase “Latino Leadership” (Human De- velopment 190-01) cada Miércoles de las 2 asta 4 de la tarde en el edificio de Dye Leaming Center cuarto 105. “Yo tengo 20 estudiantes en laclase,” dice Perez. “Estoy muy emocianada porque la mitad de mis estudiantes son nuevos y los nuevos y los otros son estudiantes que regresaron a la clase otra vez.” Otra responsibilidades de Perez son visitar a escuelas seconaras para la Instituto Liderazgo de Or- egon, y también ella es conserjera del club Chatino. “Con esto quiero que la clase cresca,” dice Perez. “Ensenando aqui me da la oportunidad de ensenar y estar con estudiantes, que es lo que me gusta,” dice Perez. Su meta a largo plazo incluye continuar su educación y obtener su Ph.D. y viajar a Latino America y aprender mas aceerca de su cultura. Para mas información de la oficina de Servicios de Latinos o del Club Chatino puedes llamar a Tina Perez at ext. 2717 o puedes escribir por correo electrónico tinap@clackamas.cc.or.us. Gray wins poetry award, to be published PETE RAMIREZ Staff Writer ¡Ate put the "n" in winner. The second "n," not the first one: That was some other guy. 7< r ) 31 till will die Rockaway c " Neve JU English teacher Kate Gray has won an award for her poetry and will have her poems published in a book. Gray won the Blue Light Poetry Prize—a national contest put on by a small press out of San Fran cisco—over 150 other contestants. “I started to cry and was very excited ... at the same time, stunned,” Gray said about the contest: Gray has been teaching at Clackamas for eight years and has been writing poems all her life. She took a sabbatical leave last year; a part of the' reason for the year away from teaching was to write poetry. What sacrifices and effort did it take to get her poetry published? “It was like having another ca reer, but it was a labor of love,” Gray said. SARAH WELCH / Clackamas Print English instructor Kate Gray won an award for her poetry writing and will be published in a 24-page book entitled "Where She Goes." The poems that Gray wrote were collected into a “chapbook,” a 24- page book entitled “Where She Goes.” Many of the poems in the chapbook are about rowing on the Willamette River; rowing is a sport that Gray enjoys in her spare time. Gray said that her book is sup posed to be out in November - or “if not, then look to see it before the millennium,” she said. Gray'has a goal in mind for her poems. “What I hope to achieve with my poetry is to connect with an audience,” she said.
