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.”