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Portland Observer
Thursday* December 8, 1977
Vocational teachers needed
OREGON BOYS CHOIR
Choir Boys schedule concerts
The Oregon Boys Choir has been
invited to join the L’.S.A delegation to
the Ninth International Boychoir F esti
val. to be held on December 28th to
January 1st in Monterrey, Mexico.
Joseph L. Correa, their Founder-Di
rector, said that the choir has been
invited also to participate in four major
concerts and in a network television
broadcast from Monterrey. The boys of
the choir are invited to join the massed
choir of boy singers from Mexico. Canada.
U.S.A. and various parts of Central
America for some selections, and they
will sing independently of the massed
group at various concerts. A special
invitation has been received from the
singing Boys of Monterrey. Mexico's
most famous boychoir, to study the art
and choreography of bull fighting and of
the corrida, a Mexican-type rodeo. The
local boys are invited also to various
parties and piñata celebration and to a
fireworks display and gala on New Year's
Eve.
According to Mr. Correa, the boys are
anxious to make another international
concert debut and to join with the boy
singers from various parts of the U.S.A..
Canada and Mexico in the New Year's
Celebrations, but that the choir board
must first secure financial help for niak
ing the trip possible. The total cost for
each boy will be approximately $400
dollars. The boys have been involved in
various fund raising projects since last
summer to raise the needed funds, but
some of them still need sponsors to meet
their financial obligations.
Anyone wishing to help can mail
contributions to the Oregon Boys Choir.
Inc., Mexico Tour Fund. P .0. Box 20392.
Portland. Oregon 97220; or call 281 8393.
The following dates are concerts of the
Oregon Boys Choir for the month of
December.
Thursday. December 15th. 7:30 p.m.,
Schrunk Tower, 8832 N. Syracuse; Satur
day, December 17th. 8:00 a.m., Hilton
Hotel at Downtown, Pavillion Room.
Nordstrom Annual Christmas Party;
Monday, December 19th, 7:30 p.m.,
Hollywood East. 4400 N.E. Broadway;
Tuesday. December 20th, 8:00 p.m., OBC
A nnual C hristm as C oncert, King
Neighborhood Facilities Auditorium.
4906 N.E. 6th; and Wednesday, Decern
her 21st, 8:00 p.m., OBC Annual Christ
mas Party. Hughs Memorial Church. I l l
N.E. Failing Street.
Persistent reports of a teacher glut and
the difficulty of getting a job do not apply
to those interested in teaching vocational
classes in junior high, high school or
community college.
Gaylon Huff, Portland Community Col
lege education department chairman,
reported a "severe increasing shortrge"
of people qualified to teach young people
such marketable skills as clerical work,
mechanics, electronics, food service, eon
struction and child care.
If a person has business or industrial
experience in one of these fields, or
teaching experience, the addition of
PCC's Associate of Applied Science de
gree in vocational education is a good way
to qualify for these jobs. Huff indicated.
The education chairman said nearly all
of the 200 graduates since 1973 are now
teachers. “I know of only two people who
are not." he continued.
Half of the PCC graduates have been
placed in Oregon positions. Huff said,
with others in New York, Alaska. Ameri
can Samoa and across the country.
Starting salaries range from $11,000-
$13,000, according to Clifton York, per
sonnel specialist for Portland Public
Schools. Seniority, journeyman exper
ience or additional college credits can
cause salaries to rise to $19,000, Huff
said.
The vocational education program at
PCC is designed for people already
employed as teachers and for those with
three or more years experience in a
technical trade.
All classes are evening ones with stu
dents working at individual paces. Huff
said that most students work full time
taking one or two education classes per
quarter. Many take five or six years to
complete the degree.
Most of the fifty some students com
pleting the program each year go to work
at once.
Others transfer their PCC
degree to Oregon State University to
finish a Bachelor's degree in vocational
education. The four year accreditation
gives the person the capability of work
ing in vocational administration, where
Huff said there is also a shortage of
qualified workers.
To get the PCC degree, students
complete courses in the methods, philo
sophy and psychology of teaching, as well
as student teaching for those without
classroom experience.
Froven work experience in the trade to
be taught may count toward completion
of the Associate of Arts degree. Those
without the experience take appropriate
vocational courses at PCC.
"Whan our integrity declines,
o u r ta s te does a ls o .”
La Rochefoucauld
"Be in general virtuous,
and you w ill be happy."
Benjamin Franklin
"There is always room at the
top."
Daniel Webster
COOKIE TREE CENTERPIECE
Material« needed tor two trooe:
1 roll refrigerated sugar slice and bake
cookies
4 inch, 3-inch and 2-inch star shaped
cookie cutters or patterns cut from
paper
Butter cream frosting, tinted green
(about 1 cup)
Red hots or other decorator candies
2 round styrofoam bases, each 1-inch
thick and 4-inches in diameter
2/3 yard 1-inch satin ribbon (to trim base)
2 8-inch bamboo skewers (from a craft
shop)
3 packages Life Savers*1 candies
2 large gumdrops for top stars
TO MAKE THE TREES:
1. Soften cookie dough at room tern
perature. (For easiest handling, roll out
half the dough at a time.) On lightly
floured surface or between wax paper,
roll dough 1/4-inch thick. For each tree
cut out three 4-inch stars, three 3-inch
stars and two 2-inch stars. (If dough
becomes too soft to handle, refrigerate
Friends hold annual reunion
Many Portland homes began the Holi
day Season with the last two weeks of
November. This is true of the James
Heffner. Charles Rawlins, and the George
W. Jordan families. They began celebrat
ing November 13th with out of town
guests arriving through the 20th of
November. These families have made it
an annual affair to celebrate The Thanks
giving Season together with their friends
they have known since childhood. The
meeting place is in a different City each
year The Oregonians were hosts and
hostesses this year.
The out-of-town guests were: Mr. and
Mrs James Davis. Gary. Indiana; Mr.
and Mrs. Willie Cheeks, Detroit. Michi
gan: Mrs. Johnnie Rivere, St. Louis,
Missouri; Mrs. Clara Hall, Toledo, Ohio;
and Mr. Charles Heffner, Gary, Indiana.
Helping with the entertainment were:
Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Williams, Sr., Mr. and
Mrs. Vernon Chatman. Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Jordan. Mr. and Mrs. E. Shelton
Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hallmark. Mr.
and Mrs. Vertis Williams. Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Sayles, Mr. Lenard Arnold, and
Mr. Armstead Johnson.
Entertainment consisted of shopping,
sightseeing during the day. dinner par
ties each night with bridge, whist, poke-
na, and dancing as the highlights.
Plans for next year will be Montreal,
Canada.
PCC aids weight reduction
Holidays bring feasts, rich foods and,
for many, unwanted pounds to shed in
January Portland Community College
teaches students how to remove those
pounds safely and keep them off in "The
Psychology of Weight Control.”
Instructor Kitty Wilkinson is offering
the course to fit a need she discovered in
her other psychology classes. “Many
students in the introductory psychology
course had weight problems that severe
ly concerned them," she said.
Ms. Wilkinson added, “One of the
functions of a community college is to
offer a course at reasonable cost where
students can learn psychology and apply
it to a problem of concern to them.”
The course will cover learning theory
and behavior modification. Ms. Wilkin
son said those students who are not obese
will find the class useful “in changing any
kind of habit you wish to change."
Ms. Wilkinson expects to find her class
filled with those wishing to reduce. She
K
said half of all Americans, including
one-fifth of those just out of high school,
are overweight,
Students will set goals for weight loss,
make an agreement to keep that contract,
keep a log on what they eat and learn to
identify problems in their environment or
life which set off overeating.
The course will also teach students
nutrition, the psychology of eating and
fasting, a scientific analysis of popular
diets, how to avoid feelings of deprivation
while on a restricted diet, how to exercise
to control weight and the emotional and
phy>cal damage that obesity causes.
The course offering three hours of
transfer credit in psychology has no
prerequisits. It will be held from noon to
1:00 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and
Friday. Class size is limited to 35.
Ms. Wilkinson graduated from PCC in
1972 and has taught at the college since
1974. She completed her bachelors and
masters degree at Portland State Uni
versity.
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Place stars on
ungreased rookie sheet. Rake at 350° for
8 to 10 minutes, until light golden brown
around edges. (Do not overbake.) Cool
completely on rack.
2. Frost stars with green frosting and
decorate with "red hots." (For added
stability, or if humidity is high, cookies
can be glued to cardboard.)
3. Roll out each gumdrop about 1/4-
inch thick. Cut one small star from each
gumdrop.
4. Carefully make a small hole in
center of each star cookie with toothpick
5. Pin ribbon around edge of each
styrofoam base. Insert skewer in center
of base for "trunk" of tree.
6. Assemble tree by alternating each
star with two Life Saver»* on bamboo
skewer, starting with 4-inch star. Top
tree with gumdrop star.