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“The Restaurant”
Theater widens horizons
The Clackamas Com
munity College Theater depart
ment has expanded its horizons
this term. The Theater Projects
class performed a one-act com
edy, “The Restaurant,” before
a realtors convention and at the
Open Mike Night at Harry’s
Mustache.
The show was directed by
student David Harvey who has
acted at the College in such
shows as “Not Any More” and
is co-stage managing the cur
rent production of “Androcles
and the Lion.”
The cast for the 20-minute
comedy consisted of Victor
Toman (“Not Any More” and
“The Physicists”), Patrick Sterl
ing (“Appointment With
Death”) and Etta Leonard
(“The Physicists” and “Ap
pointment With Death”).
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Staff photos by Joel Miller
Video covers campus
A serious news program
for broadcast over the cable
system channel nine is being
readied by the Clackamas
Community College video
department in conjunction with
the College’s Public Informa
tion Office.
The segmentized show will
feature mostly news with some
taped interviews and will be
aired for the Portland
metropolitan area.
“We plan on a talk show
format with more community
emphasis than in-College
stories,” said Carlos Ricketson,
video technology instructor,
who is organizing the show.
“We’ll do some features on the
College, different departments
and people. Bob Wynia (assis-
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vices) will do the news.”
The show is tentatively
slated as a weekly or bi-weekly
program and will be produced
by public relations/information
officer Kevin McMurdo. It will
be taped by video technology
students as an independent
study program titled “Advanc
ed T.V. Productions.” Ricket
son is still looking for students
interested in helping out with
the project.
“Anybody who has in
terest in T.V. production is
welcome.”
The show will combine
graphics, live news and pre
taped segments. Recent
meetings of the production staff
have resulted in the choosing
of a name for the show as well
as a set design. The show, titl
ed “Clackamas In Review” will
be done in a regular news for
mat from behind desks or a
table. This will require exten
sive carpeting. Flats for the set
are being acquired from chan
nel 10.
The first taping is slated for
February and will be an inter
view with a business manager
for the Bagwan Shri Rajneesh,
the founder of Rajneesh
Puram.
The two off-campus per
formances Were vastly dif
ferent, Harvey said. The Jan.
15 performance before approx
imately 65 realtors at the Jant-
zen Beach Red Lion was
“. . . a good learning ex
perience,” but presented to a
not particularly responsive au
dience, Harvey said.
“We had to fight with a
band that was setting up their
instruments directly behind the
actors,” he said. “It just wasn’t
the right atmosphere for the
show.”
The Jan. 23 show at
Harry’s Mustache, less than a
mile from the College, went
much better. “It was terrific,
considering we performed in a
bar,” Harvey said. Approx
imately 40 people attended the
performance.
This is the first Projects
class production to play at
Harry’s Mustache, but not
necessarily the last. The next
show, an excerpt from Neil
Simon’s “Plaza Suite” also
hopes to get some off-campus
Sigs.
This is not the end of the
run for “The Restaurant,”
however. Harvey has just an
nounced that his show will play
matinee performances in the
McLoughlin Hall Theater for
one month. The showings will
be on Fridays, at 2 p.m., and
will begin Feb. 4.
Harvey also hopes to ar
range for a couple evening
showings of the one-act at the
College. However, no definite
dates have been set up.
The Projects class will do
“The Restaurant” on Tuesday,
Feb. 22, in the McLoughlin
Hall Library for the Friends of
the Library Association.
Fiddling for fun
Are your weekends bor
ing? Anyone wishing to spend
time fiddling about at
Clackamas Community Col
lege can join Greg Baker’s
beginning or intermediate fiddl
ing classes.
The beginner’s group
meets from 9-11 .m. on Satur
days, and is followed by the in
termediate class from 11 a.m. -
1 D.m.
Baker, who plays fiddle
with “Gold Rush,” a local
bluegrass band, has been
teaching the non-credit class
for three terms now. The
beginning class is for anyone
who would like to learn how to
play the fiddle, and class
members range from ages 8 to
78. The intermediate class is
for those who already have
some fiddling experience. Both
clashes are open to anyone
who cares to try something
new.
Next term, Baker will offer
credit classes held on
weekdays, as well as the
weekend non-credit classes.
These will supplement the
classes already being taught by
fellow-fiddler Bob Misley. “Bob
and 1 are catapulting a move
ment to get a Bluegrass
graduates degree program at
the College,” Baker said.
As well as teaching and
playing with “Gold Rush,”
Baker also offers private
lessons at his studio, repairs fid
dles, and collects, buys and
sells the instruments. On top of
that, he was recently elected
chairperson for the Old Time
Fiddlers Association, District
#7, which serves the Portland
Metroplex.
Baker has been playing
the violin and fiddle since
fourth grade. Originally, he
played the violin. “After a
while,” he explains, “I started
fooling around with the music,
doing things like adding ‘Shave
and a Haircut-Two Bits’ to the
end of some classical pieces.
All this got me dirty looks from
the professors.”
However, it took more
than dirty looks to disuade
Baker. He eventually abandon
ed classical violin music
altogether to concentrate on
the fiddle.—
“The differences between
fiddles and violins are in how
you play the notes and the kind
of music you choose to play,
Baker said. There are minor
differences in the bridges and
strings, he added, but pointed
out that virtually every violinist
could be a closet fiddler.
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COMPUTER DESIGN: ONE of
the computer designs made by Roger
and Foster Nuffer. The brothers use a
cross of art and computer science to
produce dynamic symmetry designs.
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