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SPRING 2022
Ready to Hold Court
“Holden Court” in our nearly completed Student Recreation Center is named in honor of legendary women’s basketball coach and CBC’s Vice President for Student Services, Cheryl Holden.
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The 1959-1960 Team
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Jerry Streeter #45 – stands 6-3, weighs 198 and rates as one of the strongest men on squad … good shooter and top-notch rebounder … figures strongly in plans at CBC … majoring in engineering, reads the 1959-1960 Columbia Basin College Hawks basketball team press brochure. Jerry, or Streeter as his teammates called him, played for CBC for two seasons from 1959 to 1962. The bonds created among the players during those years stuck.
‘59ers Group Members Teammates of Jerry Streeter:
Jerry Streeter
“We were a tight-knit group,” said Dallas Barnes, who played with Jerry on the 1961 team. “We were rated a top team in the nation in those days and the first to bring a state championship to CBC.”
Back Together Decades Later
In 2005, Jerry organized a reunion at his Idaho home for some players and CBC-connected pals to memorialize former team member Bob Maulsby. That weekend was the first of many get-togethers, rotating to different homes in various states. At each gathering, the group – which some dubbed the ‘59ers to signify their first year at CBC – remembers friends who have passed. They also relive the highlights of their college days. Over the years, the tales have grown taller and accomplishments grander.
Dallas Barnes, Pasco Rich Beck, Spokane C W Brown, Richland Dan Browning, Deceased Fred Farrell, Spokane Larry Gunn, Colfax Richard Hannan, Spokane Jerry Skaife, Spokane Jerry Votendahl, Walla Walla
Others With Ties to CBC: Dick Carstens, Richland Dale Gier, Deceased Mike Guajardo, Pasco Byrne Haskins, Richland Larry Hattemer, Edwall John Howard, Deceased Jerry Martin, Spokane Len Pyne, Deceased Jim Rodgers, Westminster, CO Fritz Strankman, Richland
Shirley Simmons CG Public House Tracy Walker CBC Faculty Representative Bernie Walter Northwest CPA Group Tayler Welch Monte Nail, CPA
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Why I Give “Giving to CBC is a way of supporting the place that has given so much to me. I started donating as an employee and still give today because I know everything the college does for the community and the range of people CBC serves: from high school students to retirees getting GEDs to bachelor’s degrees.”
Frank Murray
RETIRED CBC EMPLOYEE & VOICE OF THE HAWKS SOCCER TEAM
NEWS “We become boys again and escape back to a time we all enjoyed,” Dallas shared. “Sometimes we play a round or two of basketball. Of course, now we have to shoot the ball with two hands instead of one.”
Scholarship Honors Number 45
Group members and friends reunite at CBC on July 7, 2017. Back row, from left Byrne Haskins, Larry Gunn, Byron Beck, Fred Farrell, Fritz Strankman, Larry Hattemer, Dallas Barnes, Richard Hannan, Scott Rogers (CBC Athletic Director). Front row, from left Dale Gier, Jerry Skaife, Jim Rodgers, Mike Guajardo, Dick Carstens.
DID YOU KNOW?
After Jerry died in 2011, the group decided to start an annual scholarship as a lasting tribute.
“We wanted to honor Jerry. He was a leader in the locker room and on the court. And I can tell you many Jerry Streeter stories, but most of them you can’t repeat,” teammate Larry Gunn said with a laugh. Although the reunions are smaller, and the pandemic has kept them apart, the ‘59ers hope to come together at CBC this fall. “We’ve kept in contact for more than 60 years now,” said teammate Richard Hannan, who also taught and coached basketball at CBC from 1967 to 1974. “Jerry was important to all of us – just as important, CBC was great to us.” So far, five students have received the Jerry Streeter Memorial Scholarship. Richard shared the group’s goal is to “keep the scholarship going to support Hawks for generations to come.”
Give to the Jerry Streeter Memorial Scholarship at columbiabasin.edu/donate
CBC HAS BEEN SELECTED AS AN
ASPEN PRIZE
TOP 150 US COMMUNITY COLLEGE
CBC Earns National Recognition The Aspen Institute has named Columbia Basin College an “Aspen Prize Top 150 U.S. Community College.” This recognition places CBC in the top 15% of community colleges in the nation based on publicly available data surrounding student outcomes in key areas such as retention, completion, transfer and equity. CBC is now eligible to compete for the 2023 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence.
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