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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.
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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
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Staff Writer
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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.