November 13, 2002
The Clackamas Print
Misley: mein of many marvels
A&E Editor
“I’m a 25-hour guy in a 24-hour
world,” states Bob Misley, a Life
Science instructor here at Clackamas.
He says this because he is involved
with everything from scuba diving to
the fall main stage play. Many of you
may know him, many of you may
not. All of you should.
Who knew that one person could
be so passionate about so many dif
ferent things?
“I can’t go very far without talk
ing about scuba diving,” says Misley.
It’s one of the many delights he car
ries over into the classroom. Diving
allows him to further his interest and
enhances his dedication to the class
room. He exemplifies this by spitting
out a list of about 15 exotic areas in
which he has descended. into the
depths of the sea.
And if that weren’t enough, he is
also a certified habitat diver and a
volunteer at the Newport Marine
Aquarium. Here he dives in the
aquarium in order to do maintenance
for them and cleaning. “It’s like a
giant fish tank,” Misley said. He
helps to make it look good for its
many spectators.
Along with this, he now enjoys
underwater photography. Sometime
this year he hopes to present a slide
show (on campus) of his findings.
Another one of Misley’s favorite
pastimes is music. In college, he was
extremely interested in the banjo.
This led him to play in a bluegrass
band for 10 years. He then went on to
love swing, classic rock, and rocka
billy. However, for the past few
years, he has grown extremely fond
of surf music. He has worked with
his band, High Desert Surf, on some
recording projects and performances.
But lately Misley has found himself
passing up opportunities to play with
his band. Why, you ask? His most
recent project is the school play,
“Crimes of the Heart.” Misley plays
Doc Porter, the “oldest person” in the
story. He plays a longtime friend of
the main family in the story.
He got involved with David
Smith-English, the head of the
Theatre department, years back when
he suggested that the school put on
“Inherit the Wind,” and later was in
this play (along with a long list of
other faculty members).
Acting helps him to teach in what
he likes to call an “interdisciplinary
model.” He loves to teach biology
majors, but he equally enjoys teach
ing liberal arts majors.
Misley attended Lewis and Clark
College and received his master’s
degree in Biology. This led him to
Clackamas in 1981, where he got a
job teaching obviously... music.
After four years of the music depart
ment, he then switched over to sci-
LUKE MAHAN Clackamas Print
Making his mark as a musician, scuba diver, teacher and actor, Bob Misley emphasizes
a point about his favorite fungus. He has been teaching at Clackamas for 21 years.
ence. ■
This year he is teaching a class
entitled
“Lewis
and
Clark:
Pioneering Naturalists.” For this
class he received a mini-grant and
funding to go to Montana to do
research at historic sites in order to
develop the course. “The whole
theme of the course,” Misley
explains, “is to introduce students to
the scientific achievements and
observations [that came from the
expedition].”
So how does Misley manage all
of his time? “You cannot be in two
places at once. I read that in a physics
book.” Misley jokingly says. So he
reads a lot “about consciousness,” he
smirks. Personally, I think that his
overwhelming good spirit and sense
of humor keeps him sane. Don’t for
get to see him in action on Nov. 14-
16 in McLoughlin Theater at the per
formances of “Crimes of the Heart.”
Rainbow Club seeks to raise attendance
News Editor
“The Rainbow Club has been
around for at least 10 years,” said
Kandie Starr, the club’s current
advisor. “I remember going to meet
ings when I was a student.”
Starr has worked as a records
specialist in the Registrar’s office
for six-and-a-half years. During her
role as advisor of the Rainbow Club
she has tried many different tactics
in attempt to raise attendance.
“I’m experimenting with calling
it the Gay-Straight Alliance to see if
more people will come,” Starr said.
The club is rapidly beginning to be
referred to by this name around
campus. Starr wants students to
know that anyone is welcome to
come.
Because attendance has been so
low, the club is currently meeting
only once a month. At the first meet
ing this term the five people in
“Oor pojiteit
seem to be
tom down o
game nights and potluck dinners.
“Our community needs to reach
out,” Starr said. “There aren’t many
places for the GLBT (Gay, Lesbian,
Bi-sexual, Transgender) community,
and this is a safe place for them to
go.”
In the future, Starr would like to
attempt to set up a student leader for
the club. She’d also like to see the
club go back to meeting as often as
it did last year, which was weekly.
However, she is leaving to promo
tion of the group up to the members.
She has put up posters notifying stu
dents of National Coming Out Day,
but she hasn’t put up anything
directly advertising the club.
“Our posters seem to be tom
down a lot,” Starr said. “They don’t
seem to stay up as long as everyone
else’s.” The few posters that she has
put up this year have stayed up so
far.
The club will meet Nov. 20 and
Dec. 4 in M251. Starr invited any
one who is interested in learning
about the club or in seeing coming
out literature to call her at ext. 2504
or stop by her office in CC144.
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Kandie Starr
Rainbow Club Advisor
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and planned some activities for the
future. According to Starr, some of
the ideas they came up with were
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