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B&B offers homey accommodations
By Holly Blanchard
Of the Emarald
It may be the smallest bed-and
breakfast (B&B) in the Northwest, but
what really distinguishes this pro
prietary from others is its proprietor
— Ursula Bates.
In less than an hour one Saturday
afternoon, the energetic innkeeper
answered six telephone calls, loaned
garden tools to a fraternity next door,
chatted with two teenagers she affec
tionately referred to as "my girls,"
exchanged ideas and experiences
with a fellow B&B owner visiting
from Portland — all while carrying on
an impromptu interview.
"In this business, flexibility has
become my middle name,” Bates
says. Maybe that accounts for the suc
cess of the Campus Cottage, a home
the former decorating consultant con
verted into an English-style bed-and
breakfast inn with a country at
mosphere in 1981.
The exterior is painted blue with
cream trim, set off by large Cape Cod
windows lavishly covered with em
broidered lace. Flowers border the
walkway. The inside resembles the
setting in an Agatha Christie movie.
The walls are covered with a flower
print, and the over-stuffed reading
chairs and furniture are situated
around a large fireplace crackling
with burning logs.
Not a single detail has been forgot
ten. The two-bedroom inn boasts
brass beds with down comforters, an
tique wash basins, embroidered hand
towels and English tea biscuits stuff
ed in silver jars.
Guests can shower in a cedar
bathroom with brass-and-porcelain
fixtures or relax in a turn-of-the
century bathtub with a good English
mystery novel.
“You have to offer people
something different and unique they
can’t get at a hotel or motel, and that
something is service with all the
finishing touches,” Bates says. “Ser
vice will be the deciding factor of
whether other bed-and-breakfast inns
survive,” she adds.
Bates makes a real commitment to
the cottage, which is conveniently
located on East 19th Avenue, one
block from the University campus and
easily accessible for out-of-towners.
"I’m booked solid through March
17 and literally have to turn business
away,” Bates says. She still has open
ings for her busy summer months, but
she's already booked for part of
September. Not all of the 50 to 60
B&Bs in the Northwest have been so
fortunate.
Bates attributes much of her success
to long hours; some days last 16
hours. “I sleep out on the porch that
also serves as my office while new
innkeepers quarters are being built,
and I’m alwasy the last to bed and the
first to get up.” She cooks breakfast
for her guests every day.
However, Bates cautions that the
Photo by Michael Clapp
The Campus Cottage, located near campus on East 19th Street, provides
guests with a cozy room and breakfast to boot.
key to a successful B&B is to “run it
like a business, but don’t let it look or
feel like one.”
Bates says it’s vital for innkeepers
to have high energy levels and lots of
perseverance, and to be well
organized — and not forget their
sense of humor. “Multiply all these
things three times, and you’ve got the
formula,” she says. “You also have to
be a little bit crazy ”
It may sound crazy, but Bates can
make you feel like you've known her
for years. She’s the epitome of
English charm and hospitality. The
Campus Cottage atmosphere is just
what the brochure promises — warm
and friendly.
Her guest book testifies to her suc
cess. Last year’s visitors included a
U.S. senator’s wife, a state attorney
general, an internationally known ar
chitect, a Japanese ambassador for the
United Nations and professional
entertainers performing at the Hult
Center for the Performing Arts.
Bates' interests go beyond 1136 E.
19th Ave.. though. She’s an active
member of Unique Northwest Coun
try Inns and gives seminars on how to
open and run B&Bs around the coun
try. At a recent seminar she said, “An
innkeeper must be sensitive, tolerant,
like people and have a lot of
patience.”
When asked by a participant what
she meant by being patient. Bates
gave an example. “I came home one
day to find my guests had moved a
vase of flowers, a plant and furniture
from their bedroom into my living
room. 1 took a deep breath and said to
myself, ‘Patience.’
Occasionally, Bates takes a night off
from her . duties at- the inn, but she
speaks well of her answering service.
“They’re so reliable they even tracked
me down at the movie theater, right at
the best part of .‘Ghost Busters'
Bates wants Eugene to be perceived
as a stopping point for travelers. She's
active with the Eugene/Springfield
Visitors and Convention Center,
"Business people in a small com
munity like ours need to be creative in
their endeavors, and networking is
vitally important.”
“The idea of a bed-and-breakfast
inn was a primitive concept whep I
started mine in 1981, "but now it has
really caught on.”
Bates offers her customers a choice
between suite accommodations, at
$65 a night, and guestroom ar
rangements, for $55 a night. For more
information, call the Campus Cottage,
342-5346.
Show honors instructor
Nixon's '.inspirational*
teaching praised by
his students in exhibit
By Kim Carlson
Of the Emerald
Max Nixon has been teaching art at the
University since 1956, long before most
students here were born.
To pay tribute to Nixon and to convey a
sense of how he has inspired art students
over the years, three of his former students
recently organized an exhibit that features
the works of Nixon and several of his pupils.
The result is "28 years: Metalsmithing
With Max Nixon,” a University art museum
exhibit that opens March 24 with a public
reception from 2-4 p.m.
The exhibit, which runs through May 5,
features jewelry and metalwork by more than
45 of Nixon's former students from
throughout the United States, along with
selected works created by Nixon during his
tenure at the University.
Nixon taught jewelry, metalsmithing
and weaving at the University between 1956
and 1973. He retired from the faculty in
1981, but still teaches occasional studio
courses as a fine arts professor emeritus.
"As an artist who is consistently
creating work himself, Max has inspired
hundreds of students," says Ken O’Connell,
head of the University's fine and applied arts
department. "This exhibit is the result of the
strong feelings of alumni about his
teaching.”
Planning for the exhibit began about 18
months ago, when the three former students
of Nixon's decided that showing how he has
inspired students over the years would be
the most fitting tribute they could give to the
artist.
The three, Jerry Harpster and Lin Cook
Harpster of Monroe, and Greg Wilbur of
Eugene, are all working professional artists.
They have put in "bunches of time getting
the show ready,” Cook Harpster says.
"We do shows around the country,’ ’ she
says, “and this is going to be a really terrific
show.. .It’s huge.”
O'Connell describes Nixon as being a
shy person who has always shunned self
promotion.
“Max has devoted most of his life to the
classroom workshop," O’Connell says. "His
teaching emphasizes freedom to seek one's
own artistic identity. A new interpretation of
an old technique or-design is always a thrill
to Max, and he worked to. instill this excite
ment in others."
Cook Harpster agrees, saying that she
feels Nixon’s method of teaching allows
each student to "experiment with and ex
perience the metal." She expects there to be
a pervading style of "freedom of expres
sion” in the show that reflects that method.
The piece Cook Harpster created ex
clusively for the exhibit is a huge metal kite.
Max Nixon
She describes it as “playful,” and says it ex
emplifies for her “the way Max is.”
“He’s not a real intense teacher,” she
says, adding that Nixon allowed his students
to “kind of play with the metal.”
The exhibit is the cooperative effort of
the University's fine and applied arts depart
ment, interested alumni • and the art
museum: v
“Max’s contributions have affected
everyone who has become associated with
him,” O'Connell says. “He is an artist of
metal, paint and fibers, and perhaps also of
life, for his generosity, and endless devotion
to his teaching,', the University and his
countless friends have woven a tapestry
wonderfully rich in spirit and unique in
style.”
Nixon has forged numerous presenta
tion. pieces for . retiring members of the
University’s architecture and allied arts
school, some of which will be displayed in
the exhibit. In .1981, Nixori designed and
constructed the University Mace, which is
carried by the president on ceremonial
occasions.. '
In reflecting on his career, Nixon says
that the Great Depression had a major impact
on his development.
“I "enjoy making things out of scrap
materials, saving my expensive materials for
some day when the muse will direct me into
making that object commensurate with what
I feel is- acceptable,” Nixon says. “My
diverse interests have earned'me the reputa
tion as an irrepressible junk collector whose
garage sale will be an event much looked for
ward to by many of my students.”
Nixon and his wife, Hattie May, live in
Eugene.
For more information about the exhibit,
contact designer Tommy Griffin at the art
museum, 686-3027.
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