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Basketball
team pushes
forward
Andrew Millbrooke
Sports Editor
Music Department Chair Professor Tom Wakeling slaps the bass
M u s ic d e p t . lo s e s
- v a |u a | j| e p ro f e s s o r s
Caylee Miller
The Clackamas Print
After the 2012-2013 school
year, the music department will
never be the same. With one
semi-retired professor and two
more on their way to bigger
and less stressful things, foe
Niemeyer Center will be seeing
new feces sooner, rather than
later.
Tostartoff, Music Department
Chair Tom Wakeling will be
leaving his full time position at
the end o f this term.
Some o f his most notable
achievements since the 1980s
spent leaching at Clackamas
Community College include
being a huge proponent o f get
ting Niemeyer built. By being so
involved, he has ensured that the
entire building was created to the
specifications that best suited the
arts programs, rather than being
just another building.
“I was involved totally, both
feet in, for four and a half years;
fell-winter-spring-summer, days-
nights-weekends,” said Wakeling
in an email.
With the foil time faculty posi
tion here being Wakeling’s- first
and only “real job,” he has shown
what true dedication looks like.
In a fast p aced gam e filled
w ith m assive runs, great shoot
ing and an ejection for a double
technical foul, the C lackam as
C om m unity C ollege Cougars
w on th eir first gam e o f the
season, 115-105 ag ain st the
N o rth w est In d ian C o lleg e
E agles o f B ellingham , Wash.
F riday night in R andall Gym.
The gam e w as closer than the
final score indicated.
“I t ’s good fo r us
play in a close gam e
like that w here we
have to m ake plays ,
u n d er p re s s u re ,”
said head coach
C lif Wegner. “That
helps us early in
the season to get
som e confidence.”
C lack am as led
by as m a n y as 20
points in the opening
h a lf as the Cougars
m ade sev en o f 13
th ree-p o in t shots to
ju m p on the visiting
Eagles.
“It starts and ends on
d efen se,” said N W Indian
head coach G reg M ahle. “I f
you d o n ’t p lay defense, you
get dow n by 20.”
W egner w as im pressed
w ith how his team w as hum
m ing along early in the game.
“We w ere ru n n in g w ell,
sh o o tin g real w ell and g et
ting good shots,” said Wegner.
“I guess w e co u ld n ’t stand
prosperity, because w e gave it
aw ay in p retty quick fashion.”
The lead w as short lived
because the E agles had a lot o f
fight in them , alm ost literälly.
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Photo illustration by Andrew Millbrooke The Clackamas Print
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CCC gets Purple Award for
supporting veterens
Felicia Skriver
News Editor
Felicia Skriver The Clackamas Print
Veterans D ay this m onth was
a tim e to appreciate U.S. sol
diers for their service to their
country and fighting for free
dom o f the A m erican people.
Just in tim e for the holiday, the
college’s Veterans prog ram was
thanked w ith an aw ard from the
N ational Guard.
The school w as aw ard
ed the 2012 Fam ily Program
Com m unity Purple Award by
G eneral M ike C aldw ell o f the
O regon M ilitary D epartm ent for
its outstanding w ork in support
ing m ilitary fam ilies and veter
ans during a cerem ony held in school has also been awarded
the E m ployer Support for the
Salem Nov. 10.
R oss Johnston, a veteran G uard and R eserve’s “M y Boss
attending the program here at is a Patriot” aw ard as w ell as
CCC, agrees that C lackam as the “Pro-Patria” aw ard from the
has been a helpful resource for N ational Guard.
The college was a finalist
him to succeed.
“I ’ve been to three differ for the Freedom Award in 2011
ent colleges in m y career, and and for the last three years in a
C lackam as Com m unity College row the school has been nam ed
has one o f the best v eterans’ a G l-Jobs M ilitary Friendly
program s by far,” said Johnston. School.
“F or instance I tried to get into
L inn-B enton’s program and I
Please see VETS, Page 3
called them, four tim es, and they
never called back.”
O ver the last year Clackam as Clackamas Community College
has b een reco g n ized m u l proudly recieves the 2012 Family
tiple tim es for its exception Program Community Purple Award
al hard w ork to support v et fo r its outstanding work in support
erans and their fam ilies. The ing military families and veterens.