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Horseback riding, a P.E. class offered through Clackamas Goodbye, Charles Schulz Read the tribute on page 9 Wednesday, February 16, 2000 Check out the feature on Pages 6-7 Clackamas Community College A tribute on Page 8 Chris Chatfield touched many li Oregon City, Oregon Volume XXXIII, Issuè 14 Holocaust survivor shares painful past SALENA DE LA CRUZ Opinion Editor ings to interrupt your experience,” said Hoekstra. Hoekstra was bom in the Neth erlands. She was on vacation in Switzerland with her family when World War II broke out and her family was forced to return home. “We were having a lot of fun, then all of the sudden we were told we had to go home,” said Hoekstra. Millions of people were killed during the atrocities of the Holo caust, but many survived to tell their stories. Eline Hoekstra is one of the Holocaust survivors who came to share her experience with Clackamas on Feb. 14. Hoekstra's story As a member of the Oregon Ho The first attack on Holland locaust Resource Center (OHRC), she shares her experiences during happened on May 10, 1940; she and her brother thought it was the Holocaust with colleges and merely a game. high schools throughout Oregon. Holland surrendered quickly— According to Hoekstra the ranks it had no defenses to speak of. Sol of survivors are thinning, people are getting older diers threw down and their health is their weapons. f As the Nazis beginning to de came into town, cline. There are wounds Diana Golden, they were giving you have that just another Holocaust people mis survivor, will speak don't heal. guided notions of protection. After on campus for the Eline Hoekstra last time on Feb. 23. four days, Nazis Holocaust survivor Recently, she had a assured people heart attack that there would be has left her health no problems. Af ter six months her father lost his deteriorating. The OHRC has been taping presentations of the speak job (he was the only Jewish per son working at the town factory). ers to preserve the information. Donald Epstein, social sciences All Jews in high positions were removed from their positions (doc instructor, has arranged the semi nar for years. Upon his retirement tors and lawyers). A few months later she and her in March any other seminars will have to be arranged through the family were forced to leave their home of 14 years. They had to OHRC, said Epstein. In order for Holocaust survivors give it to the Nazi soldiers. They rented another house for to tell their story through the a year and were kicked out of that OHRC they must pass a presenta tion analysis, in which they must house. Then the Jewish rights and free depict their experience in an edu doms were restricted. They were cational style as well as the rec able to shop only during certain ommended style. No hate feelings hours. They also had to comply are allowed to enter their presen with a curfew. tation. “It is very easy to allow hate feel They were taunted, teased, and TONI MCMICHAEL I Clackamas Print Eline Hoekstra shared her experiences of the Holocaust with Clackamas students Monday. As a member of the Oregon Holocaust Resource center she has been sharing her story throughout Oregon for over seven years. At left is History Instructor Donald Epstein who arranged the talk. demoralized by Nazi soldiers. as a full Jew. The two went to the Then to add to their insult they University together. She majored had to wear a “big fat J stamped in medicine while he majored in on I.D. cards,” explained forestry. A year later they were Hoekstra. kicked out after it was exposed She then married her half-Jew they were Jews. high school sweetheart in secret. “Jews weren ’t allowed higher By holding a real ceremony her education of any kind, ” said husband would’ve been identified Hoekstra. Her family was then given 24 hours to vacate their home and remove the furniture. Twenty-four hours iater they were ordered to bring the furniture back for the soldiers. Hoekstra stole a soap tumbler from the house. “ When I took the soap tumbler, See Hoekstra, page 3 Martin and Stivers take third in national speech invitational DIANA SCRIVNER Associate News Editor DIANA SCRIVER I Clackamas Print Melissa Stivers and Sherrie Martin discuss their third place standing ata national community college invitational tournament hosted in Price, Utah last weekend. Sherrie Martin and Melissa Stivers placed third in debate this weekend at a national community college invitational tournament, hosted in Price, Utah. This is the first year for the tour nament, and only the top 10 colleges in the nation were invited to bring one debate team. Clackamas was the only college in Oregon invited to attend. At the tournament, Martin and Stivers competed in seven round robin debates. They won four out of seven, which placed them in third overall. “Melissa and Sherrie did an ex cellent job,” said Kelly Brennan, head coach. “They lost two rounds that could have gone either way. “Melissa and Sherrie represented the college as a whole well,” Brennan added. “They rose to the level of competition.” Stivers and Martin have been competing together as debate part ners since this fall. “We are a team in all sense of the word and that is what you have to be,” said Martin. “You have to work together and support each other... you win as a team and you lose as a team.” Stivers began debating in the fall of 1998 when she came to Clackamas, because a friend urged her to join the team. She competes in many single speech events in cluding after dinner speaking, per suasion, impromptu and communi cation analysis as well as debate. “Learning how to write speeches, learning how to present them, and audience analysis are very impor tant to what I want to do (as a ca reer),” said Stivers. Stivers would like to be a press secretary writing speeches for politicians. “It is an opportunity to expand on my communication skills,” said Martin of one of the things she en joys about debate. Martin joined the debate team last spring after taking Speech 111. Martin joined the team initially to fill a requirement for her communica tions major. She found that at first she was nervous, but once she got over the initial fear she enjoyed what she was doing. “I enjoy the competition of it,” said Martin. “I found my niche where I can be competitive.”
