Dorado Technologies Incorporated
Dorado Technologies Incorporated
501 N. El Camino Real
San Clemente, CA 92672
Ph. 1-949-366-4115
Fax 1-949-366-4137
Distributor for NOVALOG IRDA products.
North American Distributor for TMTech Memory products Memory products for: PDA, Cell Phone and Other devices using Embedded DSP products.
Goldentech (Solomon Technologies) LCM LCD modules.
Company Background
Dorado Technologies brings long term relationships. Relationships developed over 13 years with key fortune 500 companies who demand discretion and have developed a trust with the principals of Dorado Technologies Inc. and their transactions in the open market
Dorado Technologies Inc. great diversity. With a factory direct distribution of Specialized memory (TMTech), Integrated IrDA modules( NOVALOG), LCD modules (SOLOMON), and one of the worlds largest testing facilities. Dorado Technologies Inc. can supply solutions for many challenging situations.
El Dorado Junior College
In Arkansas, three two-year colleges were established as extensions of public schools ? Little Rock Junior College in 1927 (now the University of Arkansas at Little Rock) and, in 1928, Fort Smith Junior College (Now Westark College) and El Dorado Junior College. The curriculum consisted of those classes usually offered in the freshman and sophomore years of four-year colleges. The new (1925) El Dorado High School science laboratories served both the high school and the college, but the majority of the lecture classes were held in the older (1905) El Dorado School building. El Dorado School Board minutes often refer to the 1905 building as the Junior College Building, though that was never its official name. The high school administrators also served as administrative officers of the college and the El Dorado School Board served as the Board for the college. The majority of the college’s faculty was specifically recruited to teach in the college, but some college and high school faculty members served in both institutions. Apparently, no student enrollment data exist, but recollections of students who attended the college would indicate that the largest enrollment was probably less than 250 students.
The college operated until the beginning of the Second World War. The minutes of the El Dorado School Board do not reflect exactly when the college closed; however, in August, 1942, Superintendent McClerkin’s reporting to the Board that all equipment had been returned from the Junior College to the High School would indicate that the college no longer existed.
Modern Community Colleges - In 1965, the modern community college era began in Arkansas. The Arkansas Constitution was amended to allow the establishment of state-supported community or junior colleges. Elections were held in Phillips and Sebastian Counties to establish colleges. The Phillips County election was held a week before the Sebastian County election; however, since the Sebastian County election converted the private Fort Smith Junior College into the state-supported Westark Junior College, the first Junior College classes in the modern era were held in Fort Smith. The 1973 Session of the Arkansas General Assembly liberalized the statutory requirements for establishing community colleges and colleges were established in Blytheville, Forrest City, Harrison, and Hot Springs.
A committee of the El Dorado Chamber of Commerce, with Perrin Jones serving as Chair and LeRoy Beasley as Vice-Chair, started working toward the establishment of a community college in Union County. They completed the state-mandated application process and appeared before the State Board of Higher Education in its fourth quarterly meeting of 1974. The Board approved the application and authorized an election to be held in Union County for the purpose of establishing a community college and providing a millage to construct buildings for the college. The election was not held as anticipated.
Since Southern State College (now Southern Arkansas University) had more students from Union County than any county except Columbia, the administration of Southern State College was concerned about a possible loss of students. The State Board of Education operated the Southwest Technical Institute in Camden but a number of people in the Camden area wanted to have more control over the institution. Representative Julian Streett, of Camden, and ten other South Arkansas members of the House of Representatives introduced legislation to transfer the Southwest Technical Institute from the State Board of Education to Southern State College and to establish a “community college branch” of Southern State College in El Dorado. Representative Streett and Representative Auby Rowe of Magnolia handled the bill (H.B. 481) in the House of Representatives and Senator Dooley Womack of Camden handled the bill in the Senate with the assistance of Senator Clarence Bell of Parkin, the legislative “father” of community colleges in Arkansas. The legislation was signed by Governor David Pryor and became Act 171 of 1975.