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Feature The CI ac I camas P rint 5 WedNEsdAy, OctobeR 11, 2000 DeLay reconnects with M-isle 1 MAGGIE JIRASEK Feature Co-Editor » \ One of Portland’s outstanding i i blues musicians, Paul deLay, per formed on campus September 28 ¡for the Associated Student Government’s barbecue to “Get Out the Vote,” and met up with an old friend he hadn’t seen in more than ten years— Bob Misley, life science instructor at Clackamas. “ In sixth grade Paul and me, we were best friends,” Misley stated. “Paul was such an incred ible, unique person, even at an ¡early age. He came from such an artistic background, you could tell right away.” DeLay and Misley attended the same grade [School and ¡shared one big hobby, their mu sic. But they lost touch with each [other when Misley moved to Estacada while deLay went on to Milwaukie High School. I “I ended up moving away in sixth grade, and ¡only was able to keep in touch with Paul as I followed his career in the Portland music scene,” Misley explained. I “I know Paul has played in a blues band culled Brown Sugar, one of the first real blues bands getting a lot of club work done in the Portland area. He then went on to play in numerous other bands and he has recorded and toured Europe.” Playing in various local groups throughout the 70’s, Paul assembled the first version of the Paul deLay Band in 1979. While displaying an affinity for Chicago blues, the deLay Band has always mixed jazz and gos pel into their sound, enhanced by deLay’s amazing skills on the chromatic harmonica. Today, deLay, singer, harp- player and songwriter, is re garded as one of the world’s most outstanding blues har monica players and as a blues artist on the way to his break through. The Memphis-based Blues Foundation nominated him in 1999 for two W.C. Handy Awards- best harmonica player; and best song (“14 Dollars in the Bank,” on deLay’s new CD: “Nice & Strong”). While deLay was building a name in music, Misley, who also plays in a “surf-rock” band, pur sued a career in education. “Now, here is the strange con nection,” Misley mused. “I haven’t seen Paul for over ten years. My son, who is now in sixth grade, found this old pic ture of Paul and me. He was just looking through pictures down at my mom’s house and he picks PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY THE DELAY FAMILY Pau/ deLay, center, celebrates his sixth birthday with friends, including Bob Misley, future life science instructor, left, at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor in Portland. out this picture, he brings it back to me and says ‘Dad, who are all these people?’; I looked at the picture and I just got transported in time. I was able to name every person in the picture. Now what does that say about memory of events in the sixth grade? I can’t even remember names of people that I had in my class a year ago.”; Not knowing that deLay would be playing at Clackamas only a week after the discovery of the picture, Misley kept it, won dering what would have happened if he had not moved away and deLay and he had stayed in touch. “Maybe I would be part of his band today, who knows,” Misley wondered. “But when I found that old picture there and saw that Paul was playing at the college, I took it up to him and, not letting him know who I was, I put the picture down in front of him and he did almost the same thing I had done; he pointed at the picture and said ‘That’s Bobby Misley’.” Although deLay and Misley haven’t seen each other for a long time and have their own lives and careers, they remember the friend ship they once had. “We are still friends,” said Misley, “it’s just that both of us have been so busy and we didn’t really get to see each other a lot. It’s the irony or the timing of my son passing that picture to me and then seeing a poster saying that Paul is playing at the college that has brought us together again.” I Connections program Exchange program brings Costa pians European trip Rican students to Clackamas I_________ TAM OLIVER________ Feature Co-Editor “Connections,” Clackamas’ ■program for women, affiliated ■with the American Association of Women in Community Col- lleges, will meet Monday, Octo ber 16 to plan its fifth European ■trip for women, at noon and 6 p.m. at the Community Center, ■room 217. I The trip will take place around I^mid-June of next summer and will cost approximately $2300. It consists of a 10-day educa tional tour of London, Paris, and the Swiss Alps and is peantjo be introductory in nature. The trip organizers, Linda Vogt and Carol Evans, have led these tours every other summer since 1991. According to Vogt, they are designed to help women “...see and do things they didn’t realize were possible.” Vogt explained, “We’ve dis covered there’s a benefit in cre ating this experience for women. Often women haven’t traveled on their own.” Mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends are encouraged to attend one of the two planning meetings to discover this safe and affordable way for women to travel. Extended travel op tions will be available for those interested. MAGGIE JIRASEK Feature Co-Editor Clackamas will host retired Costa Rican professionals Tues day, October 17, as part of its annual cultural exchange pro gram, coordinated by Cariota Holley, former foreign language department chair and Spanish in structor at the college. Twenty Costa Ricans arrived last Wednesday in Portland for a month’s visit, sponsored by the Oregon chapter of the na tional organization Partners of the Americas, the largest volun teer organization in the western hemisphere to foster and pro mote Inter-American friend ships, cooperation, understand ing and social and economic de velopment. “The program is very impor tant to me because it strength ens our understanding and our relations with South American countries,” Holley explained. classes, will keep them busy. “We get to understand one an “We want to provide the stu other better and we can develop dents an opportunity to meet with our perspective.” the visitors and Within the orga practice the lan nizational frame guage. There will work of Partners ‘ This program is ' be a luncheon for of the Americas, the Costa Ricans each state in the 'verf-^portai^wj'-. on Tuesday, Oc U.S. is paired with me... it strengthens tober 17, at the one of the Latin college, ” Holley our relations with American coun said. “It’s a good tries of Central South American experience for the America, South countries. students as well America, Mexico as the visitors. Cariota Holley and the Carib They have never Former foreign bean. Oregon is seen a community language chair paired with Costa college because it Rica. To date, Or doesn’t exist in egon and Costa Costa Rica.” Rica are the only partners to have Since the inception of the pro pioneered a Retired Persons’ Ex gram, more than 600 individuals change Program. have participated in the cultural ex The visitors will stay with local change. 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