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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
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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!
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