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Playwright makes March debut
differently,” Burroughs ex
plained.
“It’s good for me to look at
Clackamas Student Rich Bur
roughs of Milwaukie, will make this different side of theatre. I
his debut as a playwright in think I’m pretty lucky in this
March when the college will situation. Josh doesn’t want to
produce “Positions of step on my toes. He always
Dominance,” the title of three listens to my input. Any
short, one act plays by Bur changes in text, I have the final
roughs. All three have the cen say on it. We’re all looking at it
tral theme of power and con as a real growing situation.”
Burroughs will also be one of
trol.
Burroughs wrote them last the actors in the March perfor
term in about a week, but there mance. He said, “We’re short
have beeh several rewrites. on people and I fit one of the
“The third one is now quite dif parts.”
He began acting at the age of •
ferent,” he commented.
When asked what inspired 13, in Jr. high school. He came
him to write them he said, “I’ve to the college last fall from
been looking forward to direc Iowa, on the recommendation
ting something for a long time. I of an Iowa community college
couldn’t find one that I wanted, friend who is familiar with the
so I decided to write work of Jack Shields and the
something.”
Clackamas theatre. Burroughs
But it didn’t work out that said of the Portland area, “I
way. He has since learned that wanted to be where there were
it’s usually not advisable to more professional theatres
direct one’s own play, so around.”
Joshua Collins is the director.
He plans to attend a universi
“Your focus is very narrow. So ty next fall, but hasn’t selected
meone else may see some things one yet. He feels these last 3
by Carolyn Clinkingbeard
Reporting II Class
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Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 16 and 17:
Rich Burroughs
Playwright
N.W. AREA
• Good Samaritan Hospital & Medical Center, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
S.E. AREA
• Firstcare Medical Center (affiliated with Willamette Falls Hospital), Milwaukie,
10 a.m.-6 p.m.
• Portland Adventist Medical Center Health for Life Center, 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
N.E. AREA
• Lloyd Center Auditorium, presented by Emanuel Hospital & Medical Center
and Holladay Park Hospital, MONDAY ONLY, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
• Jantzen Beach Medical Center (affiliated with Southwest Washington
Hospitals), 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Thursday and Friday, Feb. 19 and 20:
S.W. AREA
• Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital, 6:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
• Tuality Community Hospital, Hillsboro, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
• Tuality Immediate Care Center at Tanasbourne Mall, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
S.E. AREA
• Eastmoreland Hospital, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Friday
• Good Samaritan — Gresham Immediate Care Center, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.,
Milwaukie-Oak Grove-Gladstone ICC, 10 a.m; - 2 p.m.
• Mt. Hood Medical Center, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
• Providence Milwaukie Hospital, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
• ReadyCare (affiliated with Mt. Hood Medical Center), 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
• Willamette Falls Hospital, Oregon City, 10a.m.-6p.m.
He explained that actors mu
learn to take a lot of criticisi
not only on their performan;
but as ^person. “You really ha
to have a love for the art to p
ufi with that kind of thing,”
said. “Now, I regard it as an a
form.”
A few weeks ago Burroug
said he went to Portland to au<
tion for the University and Re
dent Theatre Association’s yeai
competition. While sitting on
bench, waiting for a bus to retu
home, a fellow came up behii
him with a knife and demand
his ring. It was almost noon, b
nobody happened to be ne<
Burroughs said he refused, ai
was told, “You can either give
to me or I can knock you dov
and take it away from you
Burroughs decided that he con
indeed, so he gave him the rin
After relating the incident, he a
ded, “But it gave me an idea foi
play. I’ve already started writii
it.”
Retirement brings challenges
bf Marie Stoppelmoor
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• Forest Grove Community Hospital, 9 a.m, - 5 p.m.
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• St. Vincent Hospital & Medical Center Heart Institute, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. Monday;
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tuesday
years at community colleges is
time well spent. He’s been in 5
college productions. He said,
“You get a lot of chance for
personal growth.”
When asked about hobbies,
Burroughs said, “Theatre is
mostly what I do.” He enjoys
reading dramatic literature.
“You see so many things in
classical literature that still ap-
plys to our lives today,” he
said.
He is also a member of the
school speech team. “Debating is
like head-on competition,” he
said. “It’s a lot of fun!” The
topic for this term is drug testing.
Public safety versus personal
rights has made some very in
teresting debates.”
Burroughs recalled a summer
performing arts camp in Iowa
when he taught an acting class to
children in first to seventh grades
for 3 months. He learned to
simplify his instructions and to
implement some discipline. “It
was a neat experience, but I
didn’t think so until after it was
over,” he said, smiling.
Staff Writer
Getting older: To many getting
older means retirement, relaxa
tion, ah, someday...
For Eva Polz, a 63 year old
student here at Clackamas Com
munity College, complete retire
ment at first caused her to lose
her sense of direction. “It can be
like a drug,” Eva assures,
“hours, days can go by without
having accomplished anything.”
Retiring after 20 years as an
Army nurse, Mrs. Polz has an
appreciation for self-direction.
“I love it (retirement)” Eva
goes on, “making my own
choices on how to spend my time.
I was still busy after I retired but,
it didn’t seem to be meaningful
activity. My husband and I would
go out for pie and coffee, just for
something to do. We’d have a
glass of wine with dinner to add
zest to an otherwise exhaustingly
An unforseen aspect of agi
for Mrs. Polz was, “I didn’t i
pect to be like other people;
didn’t expect the disabilities
happen to me. I have a lot 1
energy than I thought I woi
and some arthritis.”
Mrs. Polz has curtailed soi
physical atrophy by beginning
“modified Pritikin diet” a
walking a few miles everyday,
feel better at 63 than I did at 60
she said.
“Getting old is like going fri
childhood to early adulthoi
There are many changes in li
style. It takes adaptability, I
hopefully, I’ll still feel product
and be a little missed when I
put with style at age ninety.”
tranquill existence.”
For a woman with accomp
lishments like a master’s degree in
science, years of experience as a
public health nurse and an Army
career, the sudden lack of direc
tion left herewith a void.
“My only plan for retirement
was to be secure so I wouldn’t
have to work.” Financially, Eva
does not have to work, but since
retiring she has realized, “You
feel you have influence over the
world when you work. As you get
older, people tend to write you
off and you have to protect your
self.”
Attending the college and
working with the Estacada school
district have preserved her and
given her a chance to learn some
basic skills that she “slid by on”
in her earlier schooling. Accoun
ting and English are new chall
enges since “I used to have a
secretary who took care of that.”
EDITORS NOTE: Some
the above quotes are from
essay on aging that Eva P<
wrote for a writing class.
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