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Who is Linus Pauling anyway
Pauling Center’s name-
sake was a Portland-
bred scientist of rare
caliber and vision
• • • and why is there a building named after him
appointed a Teaching Fellow
in Chemistry. He was awarded
his Ph.D in chemistry with
minors in physics and math
ematics, in 1925.
Pauling is generally recog
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nized as one of the two great
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est scientists of the 20th cen
tury. His major achievements
Many students at Clackamas in science include the concept
Community College are famil of molecular disease and the
iar with the Pauling Center, origin of sickle-cell anemia,
yet most don’t know the story the concepts of hybridisa
of who it’s named after.
tion and resonance
Linus
Carl
to explain cova
Pauling was a
lent bonding and
world renowned,
his studies on the
“Science is
Nobel Prize win
chemical bonds and
the search
ning scientist,
structure of pro
political activ
teins. It was this
for
the
ist and cham
last achievment that
truth, the
pion of alterna
led to him being
tive
medicine
given the Nobel
effort to
from Portland,
Chemistry Prize of
understand
Oregon.
He
1954.
the world.”
was, and still is,
In 1963 Pauling
the only person
was given one of
to receive two
the most presti
unshared Nobel
gious awards in the
Linus
Pauling
world, the Nobel
Prizes.
Scientist
Pauling was
Peace Prize. During
born on Feb.
the late 1950s and
early 1960s Pauling
28,
1901
in
spoke out against
Portland.
In
atmospheric nucle
1917 he enrolled
in Oregon State College (now ar testing. He used scientific
Oregon State University) and data and statistics to show
graduated in 1922 with a B.S. how radioactive fallout would
in chemical engineering. From increase cancer, genetic disor
1919 to 1920, while he was ders and birth defects. His 1958
still going to college, he taught book “No More ^Var!” gave
quantitative analysis courses public attention to the large
as a full-time teacher at the amounts of nuclear weaponry
State College.
being made and the prepara
From 1922 to 1925 Pauling tions for thermonuclear war.
was a graduate student at
At the height of the Cold
the California Institute of War he circulated a world
Technology, where he was wide petition against atmo
spheric nuclear testing and the
unnecessary buildup of nukes.
The petition came out in 1958
and was signed by more than
11,000 scientists.
Pauling’s six-year long
anti-testing campaign proved
successful on Oct. 10, 1963
when the Limited Test Ban
Treaty went into effect. This
was the same day that it was
announced Pauling would be
the recipient of the Nobel
Peace Prize. One of the com
mittee members in Norway
said that the treaty probably
wouldn’t have gone through
if it wasn’t for Pauling’s unre
lenting protests.
After winning the Nobel
Peace Prize, Pauling contin
ued his anti-war efforts by
speaking out against U.S. mili
tary action 'in Vietnam, U.S.
interference in Latin American
nations, and the U.S. waging
war in the Persian Gulf instead
of using sanctions and nego
tiation.
When Pauling retired to the
status of Professor Emeritus at
Stanford in 1973 he co-found-
ed the Linus Pauling Institute
of Science and Medicine (LPI).
LPI is a non-profit biomedical
research organization that was
established to research and
provide education in orthomo
lecular medicine. The assets of
this institute were used to cre
ate the Linus Pauling Institute
at OSU in 1996, which pri
marily investigates alternative
medicine.
On Aug. 19, 1994 Linus
Pauling died at the age of 93
at his ranch near Big Sur on
the California coast. Pauling
Baseball coach sets kids on fire
dents is a quality that Instructor
Robby Robinson possesses.
Elizabeth Hitz
Robinson
has
worked
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for Clackamas as a Physical
Education instructor and
The ancient Greek priest Baseball coach for over 16
Plutarch once said, “The mind years.
is not a vessel to be filled, but
, “I love it at Clackamas,”
Robinson said. “It has a good
a fire to be ignited.”
Igniting fires within his stu family feeling. I’ve been
offered other
opportunities,
but ... I’ve got
a great teaching
job [here].”
Before
teaching
at
Clackamas,
Robinson
coached base
ball at North
Salem
High
School for five
years, followed
by another five
years at Oregon
City
High
School, where
he taught health
and
coached
baseball
and
football.
“We
stole
Robby
from
Oregon
City
High School,”
said
Jim
Jackson, direc
tor of health,
physical educa
tion and athlet
ics. “He does a
little of every
thing in our
department,
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ROBINSON
he’s well skilled . . . [and] has
such a great personality.”
He’s armed with a Master’s
in Physical Education and
Health from Lewis and Clark,
and teaches classes ranging
from weight training and karate
to swing dancing and baseball.
Like any good swing teacher
should, Robinson enjoys blues,
live'music and Fleetwood Mac.
He also enjoys spending time
with his grandson, who has
just turned three and likes
Spiderman Band-Aids.
According to Robinson,
the best sports player in the
world was Brooklyn Dodgers
infielder Jackie Robinson, “and
not because of the last name,
but because he challenged the
world.”
His students say they are
motivated by his innovative and
active teaching style, which,
coupled with his wry humor,
creates an environment that has
his students coming back again
and again.
“People tend not to put up
roadblocks around him,” said
Jackson. “People repeatedly
sign up for his classes because
they like the subject matter.
But more importantly, they like
how he teaches.”
“Robbie is the best dance
teacher I have ever had,” said
Clackamas student Kyndra
Noelle. “He is so enthusias
tic.”
Band-Aids aside, Robinson
is a flexible and talented teach
er who, as student Kevin Ship
put it, “Kicks butt!”
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PAULING
lived his life as TT scientist
with a major commitment to
humanitarianism. He felt that
scientists should be involved
with politics and society.
“It is sometimes said that
science has nothing to do with
morality,” Pauling said. “This
is wrong. Science is the search
for the truth, the effort to J
stand the world; it involve!
rejection of bias, of dognJ
revelation, but not the I
tion of morality. One wa
which scientists work I
observing the world, ml
note of phenomena, and!
lyzing them.”
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