F eature
[L 28, 2004
T he C lackamas P rint • 7
New club digs up
mystery on campus
United States.
“It originally started over in
England, but it moved over
here,” said Neuhauser.
An article in Smithsonian
Magazine about English letter
boxing
inspired
several
Bethany Monroe
Americans to organize the activ
T he C lackamas P rint
ity in the United States. Oregon
A strange request at the ASG was one of the first three states
office led to the founding of a to have letterboxes and now the
new
campus
club,
CCC Portland area alone is home to
Letterboxers of North America, 349 letterboxes, according to the
which consists of a group of website.
students interested in the nation
After retrieving clues from
wide recreation of hunting for the website, letterboxers—-
boxes hidden in scenic places.
armed with their logbook,
Stephanie Neuhauser, a inkpad and a personal rubber
Clackamas student, started the stamp—set out to track down
club with the help of faculty the hidden container. When a
adviser Ann
box is found,
Goldade.
lette rboxers
“It’s sort of
use their own
a roundabout
stamp to mark
story of how
the container’s
Oregon was one of
logbook.
As
me and my
tbe first three states
friends
got
their
reward
for discovering
ùnto it,” said
to have letterboxes
Neuhauser. “I
the box, letter
was sitting in
boxers use the
and now the
unique stamp
the . student
found inside
Portland area alone
government
each container
office one day
is home to 349.
to mark their
and a woman
own logbook,
came in want
creating
a
ing to know if
record of their
she could dig up
www.letterboxing.org
the campus.”
finds.
The
The woman
stamp and -log
claimed to be
book are- then
searching for
returned to the
letterboxes-—waterproof contain container and left for the next
ers holding a stamp and note letterboxer to locate. | *
“Letterboxing is a combina--
book—-and gave the ASG a web
site listing thè clues needed to find tion of a scavenger hunt mixed
with mystery,” said Goldade.
the letterboxes.
--The students found the
The
letterboxes
hidden
woman’s request rather strange around ‘ campus have been
but promised to look into it. removed temporarily, due to the
They visited the website and college’s concern about property
found clues for six or seven let being dug up in order to find the
However, the CCC
terboxes that had been hidden boxes.
around campus. Neuhauser and Letterboxer’s club eventually
a few friends set out to find plans to re-hide the containers
these mysterious boxes, but they since they do not need to be
buried.
remained skeptical^
“Part of [the club’s] goal is to
“We were like, ‘Who would
do this? Why would you do increase awareness of letterbox
this?”’ said Neuhauser. “But ing,” said Goldade. “[We’re]
after we found the first one, we always interested in having more
thought, ‘This is pretty fun. We [members].”
Students interested in joining
should start a club.’”
According
to
the the CCC Letterboxers of North
Letterboxers of North America America can contact adviser
website (www.letterboxing.org), Anri Goldade at ext. 2556, or e-
there arc over 8,471 registered mail Stephanie Neuhauser at
letterboxes hidden across the stephn@clackamas.edu.
Student finds bid
den boxes and starts
Letterboxers Club
ANGELA GERHART C lackamas P rint
icare director Sue Kemp enjoys lunchtime with preschoolers Jaden McKinnis (LEFT)
Matthew Pavey. Kemp took over position of retired director Judy Kling on March 29.
Ifenevolence breeds
pportunity for Kemp
’ Kemp assumes
ition as director
YMCA cbild-
e center
Karen Hill
F eature E ditor
e Kemp loves children.
£Jspgan working; at the
\ childcare center, currently
d in,.the Family Resource
r on campus, 15 years ago.
ortly after being hired, she
teaching classes for the
and five-year-olds. Five
ago, she was promoted to
mt inanagcr, and on March
1041 she assumed the posi-
of Retired Judy Kling, as
’or ®f childcare.
:’s a joy to watch [kids]
and change,” said Kemp,
never know what kids arc
to tell you ... we used to
a notebook of cute things
ised to say. It’d just knock
socksloff.”
c YMCA childcare center,
d infthe Family Resource
Center (FRC), has a long history
of change and development.
fThe center opened in 1965 as a
lab school for the Early
Childhood Education program at
CCC.
In 1989, Mt. Hood Campfire
assumed management In 1990, the
center was licensed for 44 children
and Judy Kling was hired as the
director. The following year the
IRC was built and 2 years later,
the center employed 18 staff
members, and was licensed for
88 kids.
During the late ‘90s, YMCA
assumed management, begin
ning kindergarten and school
age programs. A series of
growth and development proj
ects carried the center to the
place it is now: a staff of 32
members serving 170 children
(with a waiting list of over 200.)
Kemp secs her newly
obtained position as a challenge
... but one she’ll enjoy.
“(They’re] big shoes to fill,”
Kemp said of former director
Kling, who has been a familiar
face at the center for 14 years,
when she was hired as director.
“She’s so well known in the
childcare community ... she’s
built a lot of successful pro
grams. It’s going to be a tough
act to follow.”
Aside from her children at
the center, Kemp has spent
many years raising four children
of her own.
“They have all at one time or
another worked here,” said
Kemp, who has a daughter
Kristy, 19, and a son Kevin, 25,
who are currently employed.
Many of the children at the
center have been members for a
very long time.
“There are kids who started
here as infants, and they’re still
coming back for summer day
Camp,” she said. “We actually
have a couple of girls who’ll be
too old soon and they’re like,
‘You better hire me!’ ”
Kemp looks forward to being
able to work with kids of all
ages.
“It’s just fun being able to be
with all the different age groups
... you’re not really assigned to
just one specific one,” Kemp
said.
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