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4_________ News WEdNEsdAy, J anuary 12, 2000 TI- ie CbxckAMAs P rínt Endowment founded by students in honor of Holley ______ SANDY LUPO_____ News Editor PHOTOGRAPHER / Clackamas Print The Cariota P. Holley/Spanish Club Endowment was founded by students in honor of the former instructor. The spirit of Señora Carlota Holley, who recently retired as Spanish instructor and foreign language department advisor, remains alive and well at CCC. In fact, it will continue to be remembered and honored as the “Carlota P. Holley/Spanish Club Endowment,” founded by the Spanish club students, and presented to Holley at the staff retirees’ party December 8. According to John Keyser, college president, the occasion marked two firsts for the school. The new endowment is the first ever directed to the emergency grant program, and the presentation of the honor to Holley was the first time stu dents have spoken at the retir ees’ reception. Spanish club officers Kirsten Blair, president, and Becky Russell, co-vice-president, made the presentation to Holley. Russell spoke to the Print about the Spanish club’s choice to honor their former teacher: “Anyone who has had any sort of contact with Sra. Holley at home, where she is busy with knows that she was on fire for her Costa Rica exchange pro her students. She was inter gram, also plans to work to ested in our lives as people, grow the endowment. She said not just students. She did not she misses her students very just teach us the Spanish lan much and, “I was so moved by guage (and culture)..... but was the honor. And coming from my a mentor in our lives as students, and seeing their faces of love, well....... she =========== tears came to will always me. ” hold a special I wsso moved by place in our To contribute the honor. And to the Cariota P. hearts because Holley/Span she is a special Boming from my ish Club En lady.” tudents, and see dowment, also The endow ment, upon ma ing their faces of called the CCC Spanish Club turity, will ben love, tears came to Entre Amigos efit the campus Endowment, or wide Student me. Cariota Holley for Foundation Emergency former instructor information, Grant Program contact Karen funds for stu Martini, direc dents who with tor of develop out financial assistance would be unable to ment for the Foundation, at ext. 2580. continue their education. To join the Spanish club, or It was begun with $2,000 raised by the Spanish club, for information, contact David who will hold fundraisers Miller, foreign languages de throughout the school year to partment advisor, at ext. 2257. keep the endowment growing, The Spanish club meets the as well as to continue their second-and fourth Wednesdays of each month, beginning TO other assistance programs. Holley, reached by the Print DAY. Y2K: new year produces no problems for Clackamas preparing to spend the New Year with family. “I was watching what was hap Clackamas went into the new pening in the rest of the world. year without any Y2K-related Power was the main concern I problems, due to the hard work had. The New Year was rolling by various departments and staff around the world and no one else members in making all systems was having power problems,” compliant in rolling over from said Paul Rothi, associate dean of information technology services. 1999 to 2000. The college staff worked hard “No, I really wasn’t worried.” Clackamas’ laidback attitude throughout vacation to the morn ing of Dec. 31. Systems and serv wasn’t due to a lack of hard work. ers were checked and rechecked They did everything neccessary to ensure system compliance for to ensure all systems were Y2K compliant. Y2K. “A lot of people invested a lot While everyone around the world was preparing for complete of time and money to make things system failure, Clackamas was Y2Kcomliant. We didn’t invest a SALENA DE LA CRUZ Opinion Editor lot of money, but we invested a lot of time,” said Rothi. On Dec. 31, everyone was in- structed to shut down all the servers and un plug the PCs be fore they left. The next morn ing, Jan. 1,2000, the staff arrived to make sure ev erything was up and running. When every thing was re connected and turned on, all systems were go by noon. “We made sure all our systems would run for the year 2000. We got our homework done,” said Rothi. “Y2K came, it was a non-event. Ev erything started up fine on the first.” There were no problems related to Y2K. The phone registra tion had prob lems not affili ated with Y2K. All software, in computers that was supported or not, survived the New Year. SUBMIT FOB POWEB C C vm Á5 .osi.w Fair riM.-k-j w-itiw lot »si Power of the Press may be available Printfior vour.favofit^^mDus club, pi or other informgtife] informatifaflJyoij^Kve needs to be published: IF you tell usrsefves full righpo use or not but our purpose is to provide relevant, informative and interesting news on behalf of the e/O/Ye student body and campus, | «Submit your storv ■r,r mai^^ccpriiiW and ask to Sub® “I haven’t heard of anyone having any Y2K related software problems,” said Rothi. No problems are foreseen for the actual Millennium, which is 2001. “The issue as far as computers was concerned was how it handled the 99 versus the double zero and that issue is a this year issue. After we crossed that, next year is just another year,” said Rothi. 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