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WedNEScky, J anuary 16, 2002
ThE CI ac I camas P rint
New term starts without Lesley
DAISY BAIN
A&E Editor
MIKE POLLOCK / Clackamas Print
Craig Lesley, Pulitzer nominee and English instructor, reminisces
about his time at Clackamas Community College.
Cra'ig Lesley, English instruc
tor and award-winning novel
ist, retired Oct. 1 after a 30-year
tenure at Clackamas. The de
partment will hold a retirement
party for Lesley sometime this
spring.
“It’s been a great place to
teach. I love the students. It’s
been a wonderful teaching fac
ulty,” said Lesley.
Lesley started teaching be
cause he liked to work with
people. “I’ve always liked teach
ing. I plan to teach on a part-
time basis,” he said. He espe
cially liked his remedial classes.
“One of the best things about
Clackamas is that you get to
teach older students,” Lesley
said. He also liked his night
classes because the interest was
brought to the class. “The older
students make that true.”
“I’m really proud of the writers
that I’ve brought to the school,”
said Lesley about the authors he
has helped bring to Clackamas for
Authors’ Night.
Besides teaching, Lesley has
hobbies such as spending time
with his family, fishing, playing
basketball with his daughters and
working with Hispanic people by
helping them write letters and fill
out forms. Of course, he also likes
to write.
Lesley grew up in Eastern Or
egon and went to high school in
Walla Walla. This area of Oregon
is where Lesley comes up with
most of the material for his sto
ries.
So far Lesley has four books
that have been published and
have won awards. “Winterkill,”
published in 1984, is about a ro
deo rider and his son. It won the
Best Novel award from the Pacifu
Northwest Booksellers Associatior
in 1985 and has had a lot of follow
ing in colleges around the state.
“The River Song,” published ii
1989, and “The Sky Fisherman,” pub
lished in 1995, also have received th(
Best Novel award.
“Storm Riders,” published in 2000,
is a novel set in Oregon City and ii
based on Lesley’s experience rais
ing a young'American Indian fostet
child with a birth defect. Both “Storm
Riders” and “The Sky Fisherman’
were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize
Lesley says that his favorite par
about writing these novels is thai
people read them and like them.
“That is where the real reward is.
said Lesley.
Lesley is currently working on a
nonfiction book about Eastern Or
egon and the disappearance of ths
Old West.
Chewing gum doesn’t bridge the gender gap
Welcome back—I hope everyone
enjoyed the break. If I remember cor
rectly, you all ran off and didn’t let me
finish my story. Consequently, I lost
interest and took off down a totally
unrelated path that I have to find some
way to segue into, so let’s see how
this works: anti-aircraft gunsights, ra
diation subplot and blondes in
uniform... oh yes, the dentist I’m to
tally convinced that dental personnel,
like women in general, are experts in
subtleties. Add the fact that mine ¿ran
intelligent woman, and I was way out
of my league. One minute she’s dis
cussing the office Xmas party with the
occasional dental reference tossed in:
. .blah, blah, buckle..or “.. .yada,
yada, crown—by the way who’s your
insurance through..then suddenly
“root planing" slips out
Those two words together paint a down while you all were enjoying
really scary picture—involving Home shots on New Year’s Eve. Noteven
Depot and a shop teacher missing sev a great white shark opens its mouth
eral fingers in my case—but by this until the last possible second during
time, who cares! This is a very clever an attack, and then it clams up as
tactic whereby she uses her superior soon as business is handled. That’s
oration skills to keep the patient under what mystifies men about a woman’s
wraps. Jaws
were never
meant to be
apart for that
Marvin G. Baker
long for any
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reason. Ever.
She knows I
don’t have
the strength
to voice a potest by that point And ability (and desire) to talk through
why the hell is she trying to keep up a everything. It has nothing to do with
conversation with me when she’s got emotional predisposition, it’s just
three fingers and a Makita cordless in physiologically unnatural to us.
my mouth? This is the tangent I ran
Many years ago, William Wrigley
tried bridging the gap between moi
and women with chewing gum, and it
failed miserably.
It was supposed to be a way for
men to exercise and develop the
stamina to hold their own in the oral
give-and-take of relationships. It
merely ended up stuck to shoes, un
der desks or in children’s hair. This
left behind a generation of bob-cut,
TMJ-afflicted girls pissed at the insti
tution. This is why science now
strictly focuses on biting pressure.
There’s no awe-inducing study of
jaw-opening power on the horizon.
We already know what the results
would be. My baby sister could hold
an alligator’s mouth shut, but there
isn’t a man on this planet who can
stem the tide that follows the phrase
“Honey, we need to talk.” (Someday
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