PageS February 26,1961
Spllyay Tym oo
February 26,1961 P ^ e 7
Spllyay Tym oo
Community Education—try it you’ll like it
Learning is an ongoing process throughout a
person’s life Everyone continues to gain knowledge
and understanding by reading, talking and doing new
things. Sometimes however there is a disposition to
learn but no one there to teach. Community Education
is an effort to meet that need.
For the past three and half years Central Oregon
Community College in Bend has been operating a
formal Community Education program in Warm
Springs. The college offers both credit and non-credit
courses.
This winter over 100 people enrolled in classes and
are held throughout the week at the Community
Center and the Warm Spring elementary school. The
classes include everything from Photography to
Geology of the Cascade mountains.
Community Education coordinator Cynthia
Stowell makes an effort to find out what people would
like, to learn and then she tries to follow up by
providing an instructor and facilities. A suggestion for
a saddle repair and maintenance class has resulted in
the class being offered spring term. Any suggestions
are taken seriously.
Without input the Comhiunity Education program
fails to produce what people want. Stowell says, “You
wonder if people care.” Enrollment this term indicates
that many members of the community are very
favorable towards Coiflmunity Education.
The only thing lacking, Stowell feels, is adequate
space to conduct classes. She says, “A nice workshop
area would be good.” Only a few rooms at the
elementary school are suitable for adults due to small
sized furniture, and there are only two available rooms
at the Community Center to hold classes.
All of the Community Education st’*'4 nts asked feel
the Community Education program is well worth
while. One student said, “At least I’m not at home
getting bored.” Another student praised the program
by saying “I think it’s just great.”
Spring term will have many new classes offered.
Some of them are; beadwork, advanced photography,
western swing, vegetable gardening, pilots grounds
school, mathematics, traditional food, corn husk bags
and as previously mentioned saddle repair and
maintenance.
Community Education provides the opportunity to
add to your valuable store of knowledge. A sense of
achievement upon completion of a project is always an
ego-booster. Community Education can only be good
Learning is growing—
A chance to stretch—
and it’s fun.
Shorthand makes your day at work a little simpler
The skills you learn and the objects you create b y tu
. Community education classes are something you have forever.
Photos by
Marsha Shewczyk
and
Donna Behrend
.earning traditional skills such as beadwork requires a teacher who Knows au ine
hortcuts.
Text by Marsha Shewczyk
The silk-screen tranfer method can be used to design your own stationery, T-shirt and wall prints.