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Feature THE CLACKAMAS PRINT May 3,1989 Page 9 Wright balances school and police work Dan Fulton Staff Writer Clackamas Community Col lege hasanew policeofficer. Chris Wright, a part-time police officer for Oregon City, is also a part- time student here at Clackamas Community College. Wright was raised in Oregon City and has been an Oregonian all his life. He went to Oregon City High School, where he was in the Explorer Program where students get to ride with real officers of the law. “I really didn't want to be a police-officer when I was young. Then I got into the Explorer Pro gram at Oregon City High School and have stuck with it ever since. It kind of gets into your blood,” said Wright. He is also taking classes here at Clackamas and hopes to earn his Bachelor’s degree in business. Someday he would like to work with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He looks at his job here as a step in his career. “Being a reserve in the Oregon City Police Department and working part-time up here (at CCC) gives me good experience towards reality,” stated Wright "The best part of being a police officer is helping people out.11 The only difference he sees in working up here at the college instead of down at the station is the surroundings. It is much more quiet at the college, which makes his job a little easier. Chris plans to work as a reserveat Clackamas Community College for two to three more years before moving on towards his Bachelor’s degree. “The best part of being a police officer is helping people out When you know you have helped someone, it makes your day go so much easier. The worst part is when you’re in a no-win situation,” commented Wright. Being a reserve at Clacka mas gives him enough time to work at the Oregon City Police Depart ment and also a little time for his work here at school. “I like it here. The.best things about Clackamas are the atmos phere and the students. Most students are close to my age and are easy to get along with,” said Wright. Piller returns bearing new info I’m back! Many of you kind readers out there have asked where I have been and what I have been doing. I went to L.A. and visited Paramount Studios and shook some news from their spiny little bodies. This is what I got. Opening May24,1989rna theaternearyou will be Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The film stars Harrison Ford as Indy and Academy Award winner Sean Connery as his fa ther, Dr. Henry Jones. The gut less whips wouldn’t tell me what it was about, but they did say that they filmed it in England, Spain, Jordan, Venice and the states of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. The movie is set in 1938 two years after the original movie and three after Temple of Doom. I asked them about this and they said that it was the work of George Lucas, it was another one of those out of sequence “Star Wars” kind of thing. As we were speaking about Lucas he walked in. I asked him about the movie and he declared “The style of the Indiana Jones films is very distinctive- inspired by the serials and ‘B-movies’ of the 40’s.” "There are good people up in Oregon that deserve to know what 'Art Gods' like Speilberg do with their time, let me talk to him!" Reprising their roles as mu seum curator Marcus Brody and Sallah are Denhom Elliot and John Rhys-Davies respectively. Though the most important person that is back from the first two is . Steven Speilberg. He di rects the film extravaganza, but he wouldn’t talk to me so he’s not that important. His other films include Empire of the Sun, The Color Purple,E.T. theExtra-Tet- restrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jaws. This they explained to me was pretty im pressive and was the reason that he wouldn’t talk to a punk like, me. I then repeatedly slapped the secretary about the head and neck and yelled “There are good people up in Oregon that deserve to know what ‘Art Gods’ like Speilberg do with their time let me talk to him!” I guess he heard the disturbance because he appeared from around the corner and tweaked me in the nose. I left there crying vowing, only to return when I could buy the town. Try our soups, fresh salad bar, loo percent Beef Hamburgers Good Food at Good Prices photo by Jillian Potter Chris Wright is the newest member of the team In Public Safety Jackson enjoying retire ment, art classes at CCC Roseann Wentworth worth.” Copy Editor Salem’s capital building is the Bob Jackson is a second year latest home of one of Jackson’s Clackamas Community College art paintings on display. Called “A student whose personal place in Fishing Village”, which is oil on the sun is approaching steadily masonite, awarded him an honor able mention. Outstanding as this yet surely. Jackson has officially retired is his first on public display. “It was so fantastic to walk as a glass estimator and is now totally focused on his lifelong love into a building such as the Capitol of art He doesn’t limit himself to and see my work hanging there for just one type of art expression. everybody to see,” stated Jackson Currently he is enrolled in paint humbly yet immeasurably proud. Students at Clackamas Com ing, sculpture and ceramic classes, although he is better known for munity College don’t have to journey that far to behold Jackson’s his paintings. Thought of as the “maverick” as many are proudly on display in his painting class, Jackson en throughout the campus on build joys painting nudes and a safe ing walls and faculty offices. When asked to comment on favorite of seascapes with a ab Jackson’s work, one of his fellow stract twist Jackson has been a “Sunday art students said “It’s all very pairiter” throughout his entire life. imaginative...either people like it Apparently a bit more serious than or they don’t, but one thing’s for this as he took classes at the Port certain, it ALL gets a reaction.” Jackson says about his own land Art Museum 1947-1948, then transferred south to La Jolla work, “When I sit down to do any Academy of Arts in California in type of art, my biggest thing is not to make it boring to the eye.” 1949. He is happily married with Jackson’s main goal for his two grown sons that, he humbly art work is to be able to publicly says, “all support me and give me display his 30 finished paintings feedback...probably more than I’m in an exhibition of his own. 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