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PCC celebrates first year of courses offered in Newberg

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Barb VanAmerongen, director of the Newberg Center, thanked attendees at the center’s end-of-the-year celebration on June 2.

It was time to celebrate the historic finale of PCC’s first year in Newberg, and on June 2 the Newberg Center team did just that.

“We’ve made significant progress in our first year here, with more than 400 students walking through our doors and taking courses,” said Barb VanAmerongen, director of the Newberg Center, which, since September 2010, has operated out of the Chehalem Cultural Center while its permanent facility has been under construction.

“In my 27 years with the college, this has been one of the most creative, fun and rewarding projects to be a part of,” VanAmerongen said.

Linda Gerber, president of the Sylvania Campus, chatted with Newberg student Tim Kretzschmer at the end-of-the-year celebration.

Newberg students from classes being held that day attended the party, either after their courses had ended or before their evening classes began. Administrators from the Sylvania Campus attended the celebration, as did members of the college’s Newberg advisory committee.

Over the 2010-2011 academic year, PCC has offered nearly 90 courses in Newberg most of which are general education classes – in math, English, social sciences, computer technology, business, speech, Spanish and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). These kinds of courses will be offered at PCC’s permanent facility, which opens for the fall term on Sept. 26. The new building is one of the first projects stemming from the bond measure passed in November 2008.

Scott Salsberry, a Sylvania graduate and member of the Newberg Center advisory committee, held his son, Zachary – possibly the youngest future PCC student? – while attending the Newberg Center's end-of-the-year celebration.

Before the big move to the new center, however, PCC will offer an eight-week “College and Career Exploration” summer series at the Cultural Center beginning June 20.

For more information about PCC Newberg, visit: www.pcc.edu/newberg.