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6________ Feature WedNEsdAy, M ay 50, 2001 The CI ac I< amas P rint /Krumm retires after 30 years as nursing instructor ELENA BORYSKA Staff Writer LIESL MUGGLI / Clackamas Print Pat Krumm, nursing instructor, will retire in June after 30 years of service at the college. he real world would be so much simpler if only T it worked like the college world. Imagine. The answers to life’s questions could all be found upside-down at the end of a textbook. Missed opportunities could be capitalized upon with a simple make-up exam. ing time for herself and her hus-z band, as well as for family and friends. She plans to do some house and yard work and a bit of traveling. Even with all of these post-retire ment plans, Krumm is not going to retire completely from nursing and teach ing. She still plans to keep her nursing li cense and fill in for ailing instructors. She may even do some home health nursing. But any work that Krumm does will be very limited. “I’m kind of reluctant to com mit myself to very much now be cause I really am just wanting to have that time out and say, ‘You know, I can do whatever I want to do,’” said Krumm. “And I’m go ing to think real hard about what that might be.” That’s why our curriculum focuses not only on books and 'lectures, but on actual real-world experience in your field. So you’re out in the community learning how the real world- operates. Solving problems. Communicating. Collaborating. And problems at work could be instantly remedied by taking the semester off. In short, learning the things you’ll need to know to succeed — not just while you’re going to school, but long At Portland State, we realize that the real world will never be like college. after you graduate. Call us at (503)725-9983 or visit www.pdx.edu to So we’ve tried' to make college a little more real. More practical. More pragmatic. More relevant to life far beyond the ivy-covered halls of academia. I f college is On June 30, after nearly 30 years of teaching at Clackamas, Pat Krumm will retire from her position in the nursing department. Krumm, who is an RN with a de gree in medicine, moved to Oregon City from Astoria in 1969. She worked at Dwyer Hospital, which is now Milwaukie Providence, un til she gave birth and dropped down to part time. At about that time, Krumm re ceived a call from one of the deans at CCC asking if she would be in terested in teaching part-time coursework related to the nursing department. She agreed, but never actually had a chance to teach be cause the course didn’t fill up. Later, after teaching a nurses aid course in the fall of ’73, there was an opening in the Licensed Practi cal Nursing program for a full time faculty member, which Krumm ac cepted. Since then, Krumm has been teaching students the profes sion in which she decided on long ago. Krumm’s choice to be a nurse wasn’t hard; nursing runs in her family. “ I have a family that has a lot of nurses in it. My mother was a nurse, my aunt, my grand mother on my dad’s side, cousins of my parents, we’re all nurses,” says Krumm. “But also, the thing they would always say was, when they were growing up, there weren’t many choices for women. There was nursing and teaching. I had many more choices than that. I just always wanted to be a nurse.” Though she enjoys her job, Krumm is looking forward to hav leam more about Portland State. We’re here every day Just like people who live out there in the real world. supposed to prepare you for the real world , HOW COME THE REAL WORLD.ISN'T MORE LIKE COLLEGE? Taking the Semester Off! Everything Must Go! Clackamas Federal Credit Union ;• 270 Warner Milne Road Oregon City 503-656-0671 10040 SE Main P ortland S tate UNIVERSITY L EARN MORE. Milwaukie 653-7788
