The Clackamas Print
Wednesday, May 8 1996
Feature
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Club CaJeHbar
©Attention all students: Meet
ings for the Native American stu
dents’ club, Coyote Cirde are
now scheduled for every Thurs.,
at 1 p.m. For more information,
call Laney Fouse at ext. 2309 or
Cori Kargel at ext. 2578.
©Horticulture Club Plant
Sale!!! 12 to 5 p.m. Friday May
10 in front of the greenhouses.
There will be perennials, shrubs,
annuals, herbs and fuchsia bas
kets. Please bring your own
boxes to transport your plants
home. Proceeds go to the Horti
culture Club student scholar
ships.
©Spanish Club meets every Fri
day from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in
Room B237
© Chrysalis Come CEL
EBRATE women writing! Join
other women writers every
Wednesday at 12 p.m. in Bl 14.
No matter how you write, you are
ready to read. ?’s, call Kate Gray
at ext. 2371.
© Phi Theta Kappa Exec
Meetings 12 noon, M204, Tues-
days,5/7, 5/14, 5/21, 5/28, ?’s
call Kate Gray, ext 2371 or Rose
mary at 257-7765. All PTK
members welcome.
©Fellowship of Christian Ath
letes (FCA) has meetings every
Thursday from 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Everyone including non-athletes
is welcome. Meetings are held
in Randal 021.
©GALAB: Treat yourself to a
support group for Gays, Lesbians
and Bisexuals. Meetings are
Thursdays at 4 p.m. at Starbuck’s
.in the Oregon City Fred Meypr’s;;
and Fridays, 12 p.m. in Pl04. ?’s
call ext. 2371.
©All Interested Writers, Po
ets, Playwrights, Readers
Come to B241, each Tue. from
12:30-1:30. We will also have
off-campus meetings from 5:15
to 7 p.m. each Fri. in the old Or
egon City library between 6th
and 7th St. in Oregon City. We
go to readings, plays, & literary
events in Portland. Bring your
work or yourself and join us in a
supportive relaxed environment.
Allen Widerburg, ext. 2359.
©Need a Break on Tuesday
Nights? Come join TNT-Tues-
day Night Together at Barclay
Village, Apt. 404, 7:30 p.m. It’s
a time of open discussion, en
couragement, friendship-build
ing, food (if Carolyn actually
buys some), and FUN. Call Car
olyn for directions, info, or if you
have ?’s at 650-8526 or 497-
3491 (pager). Sponsored by
BSM - Christian Fellowship.
©Baptist Student Ministries
The correct times of the Bible
Studies are:
Mon. 11-11:50 a.m. B112
The. noon-12:50p.m.B113
Wed. 10-10:50 a.m. Bl 14
Wed. noon-12:50 p.m. B112
Studies in the books of Job and
John. Call Carolyn with any
questions at 650-8526 or 497-
3491 (pager). Sponsored by
BSM Fellowship.
©Come Learn About The
Baha’i Faith Every Friday from
10 a.m. to 11 a.m. in B112. Dis
cussions will focus on the basic
beliefs of the Baha’i Faith such
as oneness of God, of religions,
and humanity, and also on apply
ing spiritual solutions to daily
life. All are welcome.
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Long time Art Instructor John to retire
Paul Ulmen
Photography Editor
Full-time Art Instructor
Leland John will retire June 7,
after 25 years of teaching at CCC.
At 57, John wants to dedicate all
his time to painting.
“I love my students and the
people I work with. It’s been a
wonderful job. But I just want to
paint all the time and as long as I
want to. Time goes on and it’s
not going to go on forever. I want
to make something of my art,”
said John.
“I like to paint on the spot,
landscapes mostly, and spend a lot
of time on the water,” he said.
John likes to paint aboard a 27
foot sailboat he built by himself.
“I plan to keep on painting until I
run out of paint.”
John’s paintings are on dis
play starting today in Pauling
Gallery.
Another goal he has is to put
together his notes into pamphlet
form as a guide about all the art
museums he has visited over the
years
John, who is married and has
two sons, grew up in Springfield.
He was a Boy Scout and liked to
spend time in the woods and fields
there. As a hobby he built boats
from scrap lumber from the mills
and liked being on the water.
“My mother was an artsy type
and always had art materials
around. I was interested in draw
ing cars, steam engines and all
things’ mechanichl, as well as;
pretty girls' in strapless ¿vening
gowns,” he said.
While in high school, one
teacher in particular encouraged
him and got him a job as art edi
tor for the student annual year
book. After high school John at
tended the University of Iowa for
awhile, then dropped out of school
to be a film maker and moved to
Seattle. He worked at Boeing to
pay for what proved to be expen
sive film making equipment.
Since he was no longer in
school he received a notice an
nouncing he had been drafted into
the Army. While stationed on
the East Coast he began to visit
art museums. “Ever since then
I’ve gone into art museums every
time I could.”
It was at the museums that he
began to find his way and after
the service went back to school at
the University of Oregon to study
art, taking classes from a former
high school teacher.
“This was encouraging to me
and for other people that weren’t
in the socially acceptable athletic
crowd,” said John.
After graduating from U of
O he taught for a year at Mt. An
gel and part time at several
schools, before finally teaching
full time at CCC in about 1969.
The classroom at that time was a
little farmhouse at the Orchard
Center. It was then transferred to
Clairmont for a year, before mov
ing to its present location.
John hasn’t just been teach
ing over the" years; fid has been
painting as well and several of his
works can be seen in a number of
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Coming to a store
near you: DVDs
Jon Roberts
A&E Editor
The home entertainment
field is about to be shook up. The
newest technological advance
ment hits the stores later this year.
What is this new product that has
all the major movie companies,
and most of Silicon Valley talk
ing about the newest craze in
home entertainment? The answer
is the DVD, not the underwear,
but the Digital Video Disks that
resemble CD’s.
The DVD is a disk that is
about the same size as a CD or a
CDROM disk. The only differ
ence is that the DVD can hold
almost 15 times the information
or entertainment. These disks
will work with music machines,
video and video-game players and
computers of all sizes.
Many of the producers of
these disks say that we cannot at
this time comprehend the effect
these disks might have on our so
ciety and the entertainment indus
try. They back up their point of
view with the fact that before VHS
video cassettes became popular,
no one could ever grasp the mag
nitude of the impact that VHS
would have on our lives. Now
movies are available in the home.
There are also whole industries
developed around the video tape
format, including everything from
video tape rental to video taped
infomercials.
The producers of the DVDs
say this is what will happen with
the Digital Video Disks.
Starting later this year, all
motion picture companies are
slated to begin releasing their old
and new movies on DVD disks.
This means movies which have
not been available for many years
(i.e. the Disney Classics, etc.) will
be available again. These disks
will be half the cost of a video
tapes and have four times the
quality of the VHS format. Since
they are half the size of VHS tapes
they will be easier to store.
DVDs will allow for a film
the length of Braveheart to be
placed on a single disk. The
soundtracks are in Dolby and dia
logue is available in several lan
guages. There’s talk of these
disks having the ability to be
switched from wide-screen ver
sions to normal-screen versions
by the push of a button.
The DVD players could run
anywhere from $400 to $800 de
pending on the quality. The play
ers will range in size from about
the size of the average cable box
to the size of a small VCR.
These DVDs in my opinion
will totally revamp the home en
tertainment industry. So start
planing for your brand new DVD
player and home theater because
they hit stores soon.
Photos by Paul Ulmen
Above, Leland
John helps a
student with his
oil paintings.
Right is an
example of one of
John’s oil
paintings. His
works are on
display in the
Pauling Gallery
starting today.
galleries. His works are displayed
at the Chetwynd-Stapylton Gal
lery in downtown Portland, the
Lawrence Gallery in Sheridan,
the Portland Art Museum and the
Patricia Williams Gallery at
Gleneden Beach on the Oregon
Coast.
Several of his works are also
on display here on campus. A
muraroT the darly pioneer days;
Oregon City, the Willamette
River, Native Americans and
John McLoughlin is displayed on
a wall in the student center caf
eteria. Retiring will not only give
him time to paint but he hopes to
be a student again and take John
Snively’s class in Geology.
“We don’t have some of the
facilities of a big college but we
have some of the best faculty of
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said John.
Midsummer Night s Dream
opens at CCC on May 16
Brian Ray
Staff Writer
The 1996 Clackamas Com
munity College Spring produc
tion of William Shakespeare’s
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
is a fairly elaborate endeavor. As
with all of the plays presented
at CCC, there is strict attention
paid to detail. According to the
ater arts and communications
secretary Barbara Bragg, this
production will be an event not
tc be missed
The story centers on the
Athenians, the Rustics, and the
Fairies, all of who inhabit a fan
tastic forest. In short, the plot in
volves how the fairies interfere
with the humans’ love lives.
The cast includes English
instructor Steve Applebaum as
Theseus and theater arts/com-
munications
chair
Jane
Rickenbaugh as Hyppolyta.
Rounding out the cast as the
Athenians are Scott Nielsen,
Vanessa Medlicott, Aaron
Pfenning, Travis Nodruft, Erin
Covington and Julie Black.
Featured as the Rustics are
Matt
Russell,
Michael
O’Connor, Glenn Russell (father
of Matt Russell), Matt
Bielenberg, Karen Champ, and
Dan Cook
The Fairies are played by
Jim Miller, Mandy Pearce, Debi
Guthery, Michelle Johnston,
Stephanie Grimes and Rae Coo
per. The youngest cast members
are Rahnia Mersereau, 9; Pa
tience Bragg-Fuston, 4; and
Mark Bragg-Fuston, 3. Mark
and Patience are Bragg’s grand
children.
The sets and costuming
promise to be interesting and
eye-catching, full of bright col
ors and earthy tones. “It will take
place in a big, open setting. Col
orful, with a lot of movement,”
Bragg said. “The costumes are
always fabulous.”
Directed by David Smith-
English, “A Midsummer Night’s
Dream” looks to be faithful to
Shakespeare’s original vision.
Rick Adams has created origi
nal music for the play, which
should be lively and festive. The
choregraphy is by Mary Oslund.
The play begins its run on
Thursday May 16, with perfor
mances on the May 17, 18, 31,
and June 1 and 2 . Admission
is $6, $3 for students, and free
for those over 62 who have made
reservations. Get your tickets
early because the opening night
performance is already one-third
reserved.