Mt. Hood Community College
We are a community of approximately 28,000 students and 1,800+ dedicated employees. Our motto: It's Time to Elevate. Our mascot is Barney the St. Bernard. Our mission statement is: Transforming lives and building communities. Its core themes are (1) teaching and learning, (2) community engagement and (3) resource development. MHCC has been serving students, local businesses and the community in the Portland, Ore., metropolitan area since 1966. MHCC provides students the education needed for the careers of their choice. The college offers more than 80 associate degrees and certificate programs, as well as 35 areas of study that transfer to four-year colleges and universities. A few of our programs include Nursing, Funeral Service, Automotive Technology and Adult Basic Skills. Classes are offered at three sites: the main Gresham Campus, the Bruning Center for Allied Health, the Maywood Park Center, as well as at more than a dozen satellite locations throughout the district. MHCC is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU). At MHCC, you will find dedicated employees who are committed to guiding, informing, serving and supporting students. MHCC has a distinguished history of providing accessible, affordable, quality programs and services to our communities. MHCC graduates have succeeded wherever they have gone – other colleges and universities and the private, public and nonprofit sectors.www.mhcc.edu
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Search complete. 14 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Mt. Hood Community College".
Oct 12, 2026
ScottHOST
Is it...
ScottHOST
Not Mount Hood Community College, right?
RyanHOST
No.
ScottHOST
Ooh, I got some stories about that place.
Michael ConveryCORRESPONDENT
This is reportedly a car versus a pedestrian.
Michael ConveryCORRESPONDENT
That's right over near Mount Hood Community College.
Michael ConveryCORRESPONDENT
Watch out for that.
Michael ConveryCORRESPONDENT
Our freeways are pretty slow.
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On the evening of January fifteenth, nineteen eighty, a young woman came running out of the tree line near Mount Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon.
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She was waving her arms at passing cars on Northeast Kane Drive.
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There was blood on her face and mud on her clothes.
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Nobody stopped.
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And then a man stepped out of the bushes, grabbed her by the arm, and pulled her back into the darkness.
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The next morning, students walking to class at Mount Hood Community College found the body of nineteen-year-old Barbara Mae Tucker in a grove of bushes between the road and a campus parking lot.
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She had been beaten to death.
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For forty-four years, nobody knew who killed her.
Michael RussellHOST
We'll talk about that in a future chapter.
Michael RussellHOST
But the important part here is that, like say here at Mount Hood Community College, we don't usually go around creating or destroying atoms.
Michael RussellHOST
So most of the time what he stated here was correct, even though there are some fine-tuning kind of things to do.
Michael RussellHOST
We'll talk about that in a future chapter.
Michael RussellHOST
But the important part here is that, like say here at Mount Hood Community College, we don't usually go around creating or destroying atoms.
Michael RussellHOST
So most of the time, what he stated here was correct, even though there are some fine-tuning kind of things to do.
Michael RussellHOST
Through the work of lots of scientists, including people like J.J. Thompson, who had an initial idea for the atom, which was later debunked, as well as Marie Curie, who did a lot of work with radioactivity, they came up with this kind of model of the atom.