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Explorers learn both
steelwork and service
when they make,
repair equipment
for community
playground.
(Above) Jason Kin-
neburgh, Advisor Han-
nan, James Dean, and
Tom Paugh take lunch
break. (Right) Explorers
and iron workers get
ready to swing second
side of bridge onto bases.
stop benches. In each
case, the post bid on and
won the jobs just as
though it were a con-
struction company.
However, as Advisor
Hannan is quick to point
out. the jobs were of such
a nature as to be of no
interest to private con-
struction companies, so
the Explorers were not
taking work from Port-
land's breadwinners. But
the experience gained in
preparing estimates and
then doing all the work
from getting permits to
final inspections was in-
valuable in preparing the
Explorers for the "real"
world of construction.
But the post wants to accomplish more than get
its members ready to go to work. In fact, according
to Kevin Weiss, one of the charter members, the
main objective is to .. get our members ready to
enter the State University at Corvallis."
This school has an excellent four-year con-
struction engineering management department
and getting accepted into it is the goal of a
remarkably large number of Post 869's members.
Nine former members are students in the pro-
gram. working toward engineering degrees. One
of them, sophomore Karen Bell, was the post's
first president. These alumni of Post 869 are still
on the roster as active members and turn out to
help on projects, where they share their experience
with newer members, introducing them to the
many skills they have learned.
A particularly effective device used by the post
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to encourage member participation is the "pay-
roll." This is a record kept by the treasurer/secre-
tary of each Explorer's involvement in projects
and post meetings. The payroll takes on meaning
at the times of special events, such as superactivi-
ties. Those post members with good payroll
records, high levels of participation, pay lower fees
than those whose payroll isn't so good. In some
cases, the better members pay nothing.
Superactivities are important parts of the post's
social life. In 1980. the Explorers rented a mobile
home—actually a converted bus—and toured
much of the West, including Yellowstone National
Park, and the states of Wyoming. Montana, and
Idaho. In 1981. they leased a houseboat on
California's Lake Shasta for a week. The superac-
tivity for 1982 will be far more ambitious than any
which preceded it—a cross- (continued on page 56)
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