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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Volume 40, Issue 21
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Music from a very enthusiastic marimba
band - Chicamarimba - drifted across cam
pus from the direction of the Niemeyer
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Center last Saturday.
The center itself, all doors thrown open,
hosted a large crowd of faculty, community members, families and the few scattered
’students. Outside was an improvised stage where groups, such as Chicamarimba, ser
enaded visitors. Inside were readings, performances by the jazz band and the chamber
ensemble. In Gregory Forum, the international stage took over with mini-drarrurpei^
formed by Spanish students and a puppet play put together by French students.
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Fromnoon until 5 p.m, the college celebrated its 40 years of existence.
“ “I thought it went wonderfully,” said Shelly Parini. dean of college advancement ;
Ü and foundation executive director.
“ Parini was instrumental in organizing the event
“Everyone rallied together to make it a really memorable day,” she said.
It was a day of food, art, music and memories.
People were ushered into the Osterman Theater later in the afternoon for the only j
formal timeslot of the party.
Former College President Dr. John Hakanson spoke about the beginning years
of the cpltege. One ofthe first ever CCC graduates shared what Clackamas gave to
■" her. The Theatre Department performed a vignette from their upcoming production,
„’tWafto/wa/. .. _ , .
' Dean of Humanities Bill Briare announced the winners ofthe community.
Mystery. The winners, a group dedicated to hunting treasure, decided to give their pffiiF
“ aPefi laptop computer, a year’s tuition waiver, a $10Q bookstore gift certific
‘goodiesaccording to Briare - back to the ctitlegp to award to a s
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“It was fun for me to put together,” said Briare about the Art Mystery. Wh en asked '
• if another art mystery is planned for the future, his only comment was: “Anything is
possible.”
The event officially closed with everyone singing “Happy Birthday” to Clackamas,^
Community College.
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All photos by Lydia Bashaw Clackamas Print
Celebrating the college’s 40 years! TOP: Counseling Chair Ellen Wolfson plays with
her marimba band, Chicamarimba. MIDDLE: Samantha Madison, sitting in the sun
and enjoying the balloons outside the Niemeyer Center. ABOVE: The CCC Chamber
Ensemble performs under the direction of Instructor Gary Nelson. LEFT: The old
Oregon City Trolley gives tours of the campus throughout the afternoon.
Zougs take second in heartbreaker
Frank Jordan
The Clackamas Print
The 2007 softball season ended
Monday at Delta Park for the
lackamas Cougars as they dropped
heartbreaker in the NWAACC
lampionship game to Lower
ilumbia College 3-2, giving the
idy Red Devils their second con-
cutive title and eighth in the last
le years.
The Cougars took on LCC in
CC’s third game of the day and
nped out to a 2-0 lead in the
eond inning on consecutive RBI
ubles by Jessica Slocum and
icey Forbito. The Red Devils tied
: game in the fourth on a two-run
mer by Hayley Ridout.
The Cougars were robbed of
tential home runs by Sam Daline
the fifth and Katie King in the sev-
th by catches by LCC outfielders,
:n the Red Devils pushed across a
D in the bottom of the seventh to
in the game and the title. .
Renee Santos capped a memo
rable freshman season on
the mound for Clackamas,
tossing her third game in
six hours on Monday in the
loss, striking out 12 Red
Devils hitters and only sur
rendering four hits. Santos
added to her school-record
strikeout total during the
tournament, striking out 70
during the weekend, and
finishing the season with
404 K’s, which is believed
to be an NWAACC single
season record. Her total
leaves her only 36 strike
outs short of the Clackamas
career record held by Holly
Marlow.
“It truly was a great
Sam Krause Clackamas Print
softball game, played by
A Highline CC Thunderbird looks astonished as a fastball zooms over home plate strinking her out.
the two best programs in
The Lady Cougs beat the Thunderbirds 7-1 Friday during the NWAACC softball tournament.
the Northwest. We played
great, got great pitch
ing and good defense,” said Head short, but this loss doesn’t take away ment play on Friday with a team earlier in the week,
Coach Jessica Farnsworth. “We got what a great season that we had. Just 7-1 victory over Highline CC. struck out 11 arid allowed
robbed by great Lower Columbia awesome.”
,
Santos, who was named to the only two hits in the victory.
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defense, so we easily could have
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won this game. We just fell a little
Clackamas opened tourna Association’s All-American