Wednesday, Feb. 13,2013
P R I N T : News
45* 3
RETIREMENT: Clackamas
teacher moving on
Howley’s teaching, but staff as
well. Loretta Mills has been the
Horticulture Department sec
retary for 10 years. She has
worked with Howley for the
entirety of her career at CCC.
“It’s been a hoot. She’s a
fun, energetic, fantastic person
to work with. One thing that
struck me about Elizabeth and
I ’ve learned and appreciated
over the years is that she is
totally passionate about what
she does and about who she’s
helping. It’s always been very
impressive to me about how
passionate she is and caring she
is towards the students and the
department and the college as a
whole and w e’ll miss her. She’s
been a pleasure to work with,”
said Mills.
In her retirement she plans
on gardening, working with
the Family Food Educators and
tutoring and volunteering for
the Founders Clinic, a local
medical clinic.
“But I know I ’m prob
ably going to wait a couple of
months before I commit to what
I commit to because I know
once I commit, I’m in,” said
Howley.
Different areas o f the greenhouse are home to young plants at various stages o f growth. Horticulture students in
Howley’s Propagation ofEdible Plants class learn how to grow and care fo r thes e plants in the greenhouse next to
Clairmont.
Continued from Page 1
form ing the functions o f my j ob
spending six hours a day sitting
down in front of my PC, so that
part o f the job, the office time
Department has held an event
called Pizza and Plants. For the
past 30 years, alumni and cur
rent students check out what is
going on in the department.
“I’ve watched my students
get hired on the grounds depart
ment at Lewis & Clark, get their
dream job and retire. Every
year I get to see and listen to
students. It’s been wonderful
seeing their bellies swell, or
guys get a wedding ring and the
next thing you know they’re
bringing someone w ith them
and'then they bring kids,” said
Howley.
It’s not only been students
that have benefited from
Photo from “Transforming Lives”
Times have changed with
teaching and academics since
Howley first started at CCC
in 1983. Not all o f it has been
positive, though and you can
tell once again that modernity
is one o f the things that has got
ten in the way of Howley’s pure
unfiltered love for teaching.
“When I began here we had
typewriters, we had secretaries
that answered every call. I can
find m yself now easily in per
o f the job has really changed.
I came to this job wanting to
work w ith the dissemination
o f knowledge, working with
students. Man, the office work
kills me. I hate it. I really do, I
resent it,” said Howley.
The time spent in the class
room for most teachers is the
most that they will ever see
their students. It can be bit
tersweet as a teacher, know
ing that they are essentially
training these students for their
future. Yet a vast majority of
the time they are clueless as to
what happens to them once they
leave the classroom. That is
why every year the Horticulture
During Howley’s career, the Oregon Association o f Nurserymen recognized
Elizabeth with its highest award, Distinguished Educator.
Asteroid passes
c lo s e to Earth
Interested in a career in
education or counseling?
• Coun
According to aNASA press
release, on Friday I ebruary
15, 2013 scientists are getting
a unique opportunity to study
the small near-Earth Asteroid
■ 2012 DA 14 I'he stmill .lsICr-
! «id, approximately 1^0 -feet
across, Will b e ’passing" so
close to I arth it will be closer
than the moon a mere 2.83,900
miles away
In fact, at its closest.. 2012
DA 14 will be closer than geo
synchronous satellites. Il will
whiz past the Earth at 7.8 km s
(17,400 mph) DA14 will
be its closest at 19:24 ( 1MI
(11 24 am PS I ) Despite how
nearby this asteroid will be to
Earth’ it poses no threat to us
or die moon 1 he object won’t
be close enough to sec with
the naked eye. If you happen
to be standing in Australia,
Eastern Europe, or Asia at the
time, you should be able to
It's not too early to plan the next steps in your career. Event is open to grads, undergrads,
community college students, and advisors. For more information, contact 503-725-4619,
or email gseinfo@pdx.edu.
Thursday, March 7, 2013 Noon— 2pm
Room 238, Smith Memorial Student Union
1825 SW Broadway, Portland OR 97207
J j k ofE dS «™ 00'
H !T
OS
get a look with a good pair of
binoculars
On the North American
continent we w on’t be so
lucky By the time we are in
a position to see DA 14, it will
have gone farther from Earth
and will be much harder to
Astronomers will he taking
advantage o f their chance to
take up-close images of the
asteroid using the Goldstone
Antenna, an array of highly
sensitive radio telescopes, to
take detailed radar images of
the surface of the asteroid.
DA 14 won’t be coming
this close to earth for at least
another three decades.
lames Dunean