"Spike" Magelsson shows off electrical donation

It was Saturday morning and I was sleeping in when Dan Harshman called from Chinook asking me if I was a part of the new Electrical Technology program at Northern. I sleepily stammered that, "yes, I am." Dan says, "I have a little bit of stuff to donate, then, to the program in memory of my father, Maurice Harshman (Harshman Electric); would I be willing to drive down with my pickup truck and pick some stuff up?"

When I got over to Chinook, I found Dan inside an old wooden garage that was jam packed with electrical materials, parts, supplies, boxes, bins, and shelves stocked and bustin' the seams of the building. He, just so matter of factly, said, "Take whatever you want."

Harshman's donated well over 37,500 dollars worth of electrical parts, materials, etc.; light fixtures, boxes of all types, screws, motors and motor control parts, thermostats, conduit of all sizes, panels, breakers, fuses, switches and receptacles of all kinds, various tools, wire and cables; whatever you can think of seeing in a parts warehouse. It took seven truckloads to get it all to the college. I cannot express how much the donation has helped the Electrical Technology program and how much gratitude the personnel and students of the College of Technical Sciences, as well as the rest of the campus appreciate the very generous donation in memory of a loving member of the Chinook community, Harshman family, and the area; we have materials to work with, to build stuff with, to use for building the program around.

Thanks!