A fter six moves library finds home
Gresham. The library was at
home in the N eedlecraft
Building, with most volumes
displayed in various show
cases. Many books were
available for check out from an
old freezer case.
At the close of the college's
first year it was time to move
the library again. This time it
was back to the 2nd floor of the
high school Most of the books
went back to storage in the
boxes in which they had
arrived. Summer school was
light, easing the demand on the
books appreciably.
But when summer days go by
can school be far behind? The
high school students were
coming back soon and the
college library accomodatingly
moved again The next stop
was
perhaps
the
least
pretentious of them all — the
old Lloyd house, later renamed
the Deich Annex.
Staffers spent most of the
summer of 1967 in the old Lloyd
house, sharing the wind and
dust that blew across the field.
With the library books safely
packed away in boxes there
was little growth except by
piling up more boxes. Again,
another move was made From
an old house we moved to a new
trailer. At least it had a red
By Feb. 1, the Mt. Hood
The fir s t lib ra ria n , M rs.
Community College lib ra ry
Eleanoi P ru itt, remembers
expects to be in its new. per how this whole thing started.
manent quarters — finally — "There were three of us,” she
after six temporary locations
recalls, "L o re tta Chang, a
At times, some library staff cataloger, and Mrs. Emma
a
secretary.
members thought they might Magnuson,
not see a permanent facility. Together we started a library
Some even had thoughts that from scratch.”
With a librarian's optimism
MHCC would keep the library
“ on the road” like CBS-TV and enthusiasm, Mrs. Pruitt
correspondent Charles Curalt. wasted little tim e in v itin g
college President Dr. Earl
Klapstein, to examine the book
collection. “ He came and
looked, but saw little that
reminded him of a college
library until I pointed out the
muddy, well used, wax paper
covered 12 foot boards under a
Welches School Menu
window which held our entire
January 25-29
stock — 466 volumes.” That
MONDAY
was the summer of 1966 in a
Scalloped Ground Beed
room on the lower floor of the
and Potatoes
Gresham High School and the
Buttered Carrots
first students were only a few
Peanut Butter Sandwich
months away.
Surprise Cake
As the summer progressed,
TUESDAY
the collection rapidly increased
Weiner Wraps
along with the growing con
Potato salad
fidence that at least the library
Buttered Peas
would be ready.
Orange Wedges
The first move came at the
Milk
end of that summer when the
WEDNESDAY
entire college — trailers — was
Tacos
moved onto the Multnomah
Green Beans
County
F airgrounds
in
Carrot Sticks
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Coconut Pudding
Milk
THURSDAY
Porky-pine Meatballs
Steamed Rice
Cinnamon Roll
F ruit Jello
Milk
FRIDAY
Fish Sticks
Browned Potato
Harvard Beets
Bread and Butter
Prunes
Milk
M E L T I N G S N O W an d h e a v y ra in s in re c e n t days has
b ro u g h t high w a te r to s u rro u n d in g a re a s tre a m s and has
h e lp e d cause w a te r fa lls to fo rm a lo n g H ig h w a y 26 on the
w a y to M t . Ilo o d . N o serio us p ro b le m s h a ve been rep o rted
in th e S a n d v -llo o d la n d a re a as of y e t due to the high
w a te r .
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By NELL HOW E
Hood-Land Reporter
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was gutted. Just too many of
these housefires going on
around here.
Our deepest sympathy to
Juanita Curtis, of Don Pablos,
for the loss of her mother, Mrs.
Della Foster of Lakeview.
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clothing workshops for all 4-H
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attend, says Miss Raymond, to
keep up-to-date on construction
techniques
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'BAKED GOODS of DISTINCTION”
include ideas for making ac
cessories and finishing details
Q D C P I A I Jan. 2 1 - 2 2 23
New fabrics such as the knits,
O r C U I H L Thurs Fri Sat.
vinyls, leathers and piles will
be covered in the workshops.
The first workshop will be
Tuesday, Jan 26 and each
Tuesday thereafter with the
Whip Cream & Custard Filling
last workshop Feb 23
Topped with Plump Red Cherries
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Multnomah County Health and
Reg. ’ 1 .7 5
each
Education Building. 12246 NE
Glisan from 10 to noon
h e a t i n g 62 2 4604
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opportunity to develop better
living conditions for oursleves
by encouraging development of
the available natural resour
ces We’d like to think the day
would come when our cost of
liv in g would be somewhat
below the current 140 percent of
Seattle Costs. End of Quote.
Just thought it was an in
teresting side light on an issue
which we seem to hear only one
sideof, ours Not that this small
bit w ill change anything, but if
enough Alaskans are thinking
the same, it could make a great
deal of difference.
Having visited there, I can
agree with them, especially
about the high cost of living
They have astronomical wage
scales, but their cost of living
takes most of it, and when they
get through, they don't come
out any better then any of the
rest of us.
When the Welches PTA
started organizing the Ski
School idea, they had hopes of
getting at least 25 kids to join
To their great surprise and
pleasure, they have 49 mem
bers now, and lots of grown ups
to help with the chaperoning
Ski classes are on Tuesday, and
as they get back rather late in
the evening, there w ill be no
PTA meeting this month There
w ill be no movie this month,
either. By next month, they
hope to back on a regular
schedule.
Remember, no PTA meeting
this month, and no movie this
month.
w o rk s h o p s
B rightw ood
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JAN. 21-22-5
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munity college collections in
the nation. P a rtic u la r em
phasis is being placed on the
development of Vocational-
Technical references which are
of extreme importance to a
comprehensive com m unity
college as well as to industry in
the Mt. Hood district.
As with the rest of the college
the Mt. Hood Library is moving
from prim itive stages to a final
interim position, but occupancy
of final and permanent quar
ters are becoming a reality
each^ay^oM hiM ota^college.
FRESH - W HOLE
MMM
brought mother home last week
and she is coming along just
fine. I think she just needed to
get back to her own little bed.
Hospitals just don’t seem to
make one too happy. However
our biggest hand to Mrs. Van
Neys, who was in the bed next
to mother. She had a marvelous
sense of humor, and kept
m other on her toes, and
cheerful. Without her, I think
mother would have had a much
longer siege of it. How for
tunate we were to have had a
room partner like her.
Had a most interesting report
from Alaska, and thought you
m ight be interested in it.
Quote: “ It seems, on the sur
face at least, that the local
economy is not suffering as
much as might have been
expected from the delay in
pipeline construction. You
notice I say "delay” since the
feeling seems to be that it w ill
go through eventually—once
the politicians, both pro and
con, have made the most of the
issue.
Alaskans have never been
known for their tolerance of
"outside” experts, expecially
the three-day variety-the ones
who spend about that long here,
then dash home to the tem
perate
zone
expressing
authoriatative opinions left and
right
Imagine, then, the chagrin
with which most of view the
sudden desire of the rest of the
USA to save our home state
from ourselves. Granted other
states have more experience
with pollution of all kinds, but
we'd be pleased if outsiders
would recognize that a large
majority of Alaska residents
came from outside and are
quite conscious of the problem
and extremely interested in
avoiding it here At the same
time, we'd like to have the
carpet!
"This too, shall pass away.”
Moie books simply meant
And pass it has, for soon the
more boxes. But being Mt. Hood Community College
cramped for space had become library w ill move into its new
a way of life which w ill always headquarters. After the last
be remembered by the staff as stop, in a radio and television
the "good old days.”
studio, the new space looks
Better accomodations were very in v itin g The studio's
in sight. Slowly but surely, the space provided about one
General Education B uilding eighth of the permanent space.
was rising from the ground,
Students w ill help make the
even if it was a little behind final move of the library, just
schedule.
as students in the past have
At last, in October 1967, the helped move the books. Ac
library moved to its temporary cording to Dean of Student
location where it has found a Affairs, Dr. C.O. Denney, the
home for nearly three years. students w ill form a human
The book collection meanwhile chain and pass the lib ra ry ’s
had grown to beyond the 4,666 nearly 36,666 volumes the last
mark. Over 206 periodicals 156 yards to their permanent
were now checked in. A home. The students are ex
m icrofilm collection had been pected to move all the books in
started. The A.V. center had just four to five hours on
carved out a niche for itself. January 18
Slides, records, filmstrips and
The M t. Hood collection
transparencies began to ap compares very well to state and
pear. It was a real evolution. northwest community college
Facilities were more than collections. It is expected that
adequate. L ib ra ry workers the collection w ill grow to 46,666
were no longer surrounded by within three years and then to
four w alls w herever they its ultimate capacity of 75,666
looked - only by noise this time. volumes by the sixth year or at
They now had some very noisy the end of a decade of college
neighbors. Both the student b uilding
and
program
center and the music depart development.
ment were heard from daily.
Both the three year and six
However, they were always
year goals w ill compare
comforted by these words -
favorably with the best com
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