Gary Dirrim Endowed Scholarship

Purpose: To provide scholarships funds for students pursuing an education in Manufacturing. Growing up in Sellwood during the early 1950s, Gary Dirrim often rode his bike out to old Highway 99E and the new Milwaukie gas station landmark, a B17 bomber. Climbing into that plane, Gary and his friends would re-fight World War II. Some 45 years later, and 26 years after Gary went to work for Clackamas Community College, the CCC Manufacturing Department was asked by the Bomber’s owner to help refurbish the familiar landmark. For Gary, this project hit close to home and solidified his long-time admiration for the Manufacturing Department. A machinist before becoming the first member of his family to go to college, Gary went into account and, in 1989, became CCC’s Dean of College Services. Upon his retirement in December 1997, he created the Gary Dirrim Endowment, which offers scholarship to top Manufacturing students who are also first-generation college students.

Requirements:
Applicant must:
-Be a returning CCC student
-Have a 2.5 GPA
-6 or more credits per term