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City manager announces resignation
■ uty Council says it may wait
until 2003 to appoint a new
person to the position
By Brook Reinhard
Oregon Daily Emerald
After 26 years of working in dif
ferent government jobs, Eugene
City Manager Jim Johnson is ready
to try something new.
Johnson, city manager since
1998, announced his resignation at
a press conference Friday at City
Hall. His announcement comes
within days of a similar announce
ment by Eugene Police Chief Jim
Hill. Johnson will continue serving
Eugene until the end of February.
“It’s been an honor and a privi
lege to work in this job,” Johnson
said. “If I’ve had any success at all
(it’s because) I’ve worked with
some awfully good people.”
Elected officials praised John
son’s work, ethics and integrity.
“He keeps employee morale very
high,” City Councilor Scott Meisner
said. “I trust him implicitly.”
Eugene Mayor Jim Torrey also
spoke highly of the manager.
“You can talk to him about is
sues,” Torrey said. “Once he makes
a commitment, he lives by it.”
Johnson said that he’s been'
thinking about resigning for some
time and feels this is the best point
in his life to do it.
“It’s a time in my life rather than
a time in the job,” he said.
Johnson has recommended that
Torrey appoint Jim Carlson as in
terim city manager until the City
Council can hire a new manager.
He further suggested that the cur
rent City Council wait until 2003
to appoint a new manager, as four
seats will be up for re-election
next year.
Meisner said that there’s a cer
tain advantage to having a new
council hire the city manager. He
added that if he were a candidate
for city manager, “I’d want to be
hired by a council that would be
there for a while.”
Torrey agreed that waiting to se
lect a new manager would result in
a better choice.
“I do not want the council to
rush out and select a new city man
ager,” Torrey said.
While Friday’s press conference
focused on Johnson, he used most
of his time to talk about his em
ployees. Working with teams, car
rying out group projects and en
couraging staff to leave a legacy
were all focuses of Johnson’s an
nouncement. He also repeatedly
acknowledged the importance of
city staff in general.
“The average person out there in
the community,” Johnson said,
“probably doesn’t understand the
quality of city employees.”
Brook Reinhard is a community reporter for
the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be reached
atbrookreinhard@dailyemerald.com.
Kesey
continued from page 1
hospital — found himself the object
of national acclaim.
But his fame came with a price.
Between 1965 and 1967, Kesey was
arrested several times for possession
of marijuana, and his ranch in La
Honda, Calif., became a routine tar
get for local police looking to curb
the growth of the counterculture
movement that Kesey was helping
to shape. In 1968, after touring the
country and pulling off all manner
of mad stunts with his band of Merry
Pranksters — as chronicled in such
books as Tom Wolfe’s “Electric Kool
Aid Acid Test” and Hunter S.
Thompson’s “Hell’s Angels” — Ke
sey returned to Oregon. With his
wife Faye, he bought a farm in Pleas
ant Hill, settled into the community
and raised four children.
In 1987, Kesey returned to the
University to work as an instructor
in the Master of Fine Arts creative
writing program. By June of 1988, he
and 13 graduate students in his class
had completed the novel “Caverns,”
which was published in 1989 under
the pseudonym O. U. Levon.
George Wickes, emeritus profes
sor of English, who first met Kesey
in the mid 1970s, said that his time
as a teacher typified the way Kesey
dealt with his status as a University
alumnus.
“Kesey always had an ambiguous
relationship with the University,”
Wickes said. “He didn’t have much
to do with the University in the last
few years, but I can still remember
some of the hoo-hahs he put on. ”
The 1990s were a time of re
newed creativity for Kesey. He pub
lished “The Further Inquiry,” a
screenplay, in 1990; two children’s
books, “Little Tricker the Squirrel
meets Big Double the Bear” in 1990
and “The Sea Lion” in 1991; and
two novels, “Sailor Song” and “Last
Go Round” — the latter with author
Ken Babbs — in 1992 and 1994, re
spectively. In 1997, he suffered a
small stroke, but continued his in
volvement in the community. On
Halloween 2000, Kesey and the
Merry Pranksters headlined a Green
Party benefit in Agate Hall. Wickes,
who worked as an advisor to the
University’s literary magazine, the
Northwest Review, in 1977, called
Kesey a “great showman.” But he
was quick to add that, in his opin
ion, Kesey will be remembered
more for his landmark early novels
than for his free-wheeling days as a
prankster.
“He kind of personified the ’60s
— which was mostly Tom Wolfe’s
doing,” Wickes said. “But in the
long run, I think he’ll be remem
bered most for ‘Cuckoo’s Nest.’ It’s
one of the great books of the second
half of the 20th century, and I think
it will continue to be taught in liter
ature courses.” For her part, Sun
shine Kesey said she hopes the mes
sage behind the novels is what
people remember about her father.
“He beat the drum of freedom,
pretty much all the time,” she said.
“His message was to be as big as you
have it in you to be. ”
Leon Tovey is a higher education reporter
for the Oregon Daily Emerald. He can be
reached at leontovey@dailyemerald.com.
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