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WedNEsdAy, J une 6, 2001
Feature
The CI ac I< amas P rint
Wiseman to ’reinvent self
upon retirement from CCC
MAGGIE JIRASEK
Feature Editor
MAGGIE JIRASEK / Clackamas Print
J.D. Wiseman, program manager and Instructor at the Public Safety Training Center, Is retiring after
11 years working for the Office of Public Safety. Wiseman Is looking forward to retirement as a time
to meet new challenges and "find new things to do."
After teaching at Clackamas for
over a decade, Jim D. Wiseman, pro
gram manager and instructor at the
Public Safety Training Center, is say
ing goodbye to students and staff.
Wiseman, an Oregon City High
School graduate, started working at
Clackamas as Chief of Public Safety
in 1990. Prior to this, Wiseman at
tended Clackamas Community Col
lege as well as Warner Pacific Uni
versity and worked as a business
consultant. While here, he has found
it rewarding seeing many of his stu
dents move on and succeed in life.
“Teachers have a great deal of
power to make wonderful things
happen. I know of about 47 young
men and women I helped get into
criminal justice and it’s a good feel
ing,” said Wiseman.
Helping students get on track
and receive the degree they pursue
is one of his main focuses.
t’s a classic Catch-22. To prepare yourself for life in the
you’ll need to succeed. Gave you the chance to fully-
real world, you head off to college. You work hard.
experience your chosen field before it all becomes
I
You get good grades.
And several years later you emerge in the real world -
only to be rudely awakened by what little resemblance
it bears to college. A place with completely different
rules, different challenges, different demands.
But what if there were a college that really did prepare
you to tackle the real world?
What if it exposed you to the things you’ll really have
to deal with day to day? Taught you the essential skills
“Sometimes you recognize people
who have something special about
them. I had a young man in one of
my classes where I saw that special
something in him. He had a lot of
personal problems so he wanted to
drop out of school. I talked to him
and got him to believe in himself and
stay in school,” said Wiseman.
“Now he works as a police officer
with the California Police Patrol. It
satisfies me to see young people like
him succeed.”
After retiring, Wiseman plans on
“reinventing” himself, taking on
new projects and enjoying life as
much as he can.
“I’ll never really retire. You have
to focus on the positive things of
life and take one step at a time,” he
said. “Yesterday is behind and we
have to learn from it and prepare for
tomorrow. I will miss my co-workers
and the students, but as I move on
with my life, I will meet new people
and find new things to do.”
chiseled in stone.
That, in the simplest possible terms, is the kind of
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An education that delivers all the best the theoretical,
academic world has to offer, but not without thoroughly
immersing you in the practical, relevant world.
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