6 • T he C lackamas P rint
F eature
F ebruary 18, 2004
Grade A student leaves time
for music and 'Mario Kart'
where she puts her life on the line
20 hours a week. Just last week, a
customer pulled a knife and held
What if Wonder Woman went it to her throat, claiming if he did
to community college? As a stu n’t have a table in five minutes,
dent who juggles a job, grades, he’d be forced to take “dr. stic
friends, rehearsals and perform measures.” Wonder Woman sur
ances, it’s a wonder Morgana vived
without
a
scratch.
Williams never developed super Supposedly, the man was “only
powers of her own.
joking.”
Just getting from Randall Hall
When she’s not studying music
to the cafeteria for lunch took or fighting crime, Williams still
roughly ten minutes. Her luggage makes time in a mere 24-hour day
in tow, Williams was stopped or to hang out with her friends. Their
called to by no less than 80 per current favorite pastime can be
cent of the people she walked summed up in one word: “Mario
past. This only shows that to say Kart.”
“Williams has friends” is equiva
In spite of all of this, Williams
lent to saying “the Pacific is is still humble enough to admit
damp.”
that she’s not perfect.
Entering
the
cafeteria,
“I hate things that are spelled
Williams walks right past the grill, wrong "bn purpose to look cute,”
claiming she never eats beef, and she said. Her biggest pet peeve:
that she’s not a “big fan of meat
Krispy
Kreme.
in
general.”
She can never find
Instead, she settles
it in a phone book.
on a nice, healthy
Williams plans
“Performing is
sandwich.
to move on to
Even
more
the best [experi study piano at
impressive than her
Portland
State
ence] ever.”
attention to her
University or study
friends and her
music therapy’ at
Morgana Williams
health, though, is
Marylhurst
CCC student
the
fact
that
University.
She
Williams is main
eventually wants
taining a 3.8 GPA.
to get a teaching
“I took most of my [required degree to help pay for her big,
classes] last year, and biology is pink dream house with a white
[the only requirement] I have left grand piano in the front room
... and speech,” she said.
window.
As a result, Williams is working
Williams is a girl that definitely
hard to keep on top of her biolo knows what she wants, and as
gy class in addition to juggling a long as she doesn’t have to do
full schedule of classes as an anything illegal or immoral to get
actively performing music major. it, she’s willing to do what it takes.
Just talking about being a musi But it’s that ambition and dedica
cian between bites of her sand tion to herself and her peers that
wich, makes her eyes light up.
makes all of those people want
“Performing is the best [expe stop and say hello to the next
rience] ever,” she said.
Her Wonder Woman.
favorite thing in the world,
though, is practicing her piano in
the middle of the night. “It’s so
much quieter and easier to write.”'
Williams’ other passion in life
is jewelry.
“Everything I wore last year
[were things] I made. I don’t do
much with metal, but [there are]
lots of beads,” she said.
Aside from making her own
jewelry, Williams also loves to
shop at Express and Nordstrom
on an almost daily basis.
“I don’t know what I need
[today], maybe a new shirt ...
something cute,” she jokes.
In order to pay for her pas
sions in life, Williams works as a
hostess at The Olive Garden,
Jeff Sorensen
T he C lackamas P rint
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
(Left to right) Matt Zak, Bob Alsman, Tom Cavanaugh, Michael Gerber, Matt Morrison,
and Tony Marcellino will perform in ‘The Odd Couple’ which opens Thursday, February 26.
Future department chair to
present 'The Odd Couple'
Karen Hill
F eature E ditor
David Smith-English, director of
the upcoming production “The
Odd Couple,” looks forward to the
new Communication Arts building,
prospective musical theater, position
of department chair and of course,
a really great show
Smith-English began his college
studies as a music major with skills
in piano, trombone and predomi
nately voice. Although he occasion
ally still plunks out a note or two on
the piano, Smith-English has found
his niche in theater arts.
• After completing two years at
Lewis and Clark College as a music
major, he began to question his
desire to pursue music.
“I felt I had more interest some
place else—and I found theater,” he
said.
Smith-English graduated from
Lewis and Clark College with a
bachelor’s and a master’s degree,
both in theater arts. Shortly after
graduation^ he began working in
any theater-related job he could get
his hands on, including musical the
ater, where he found his former
training usefill.
“I did dam-near anything to
support myself,” said Smith-
English. ‘You can’t always make a
living doing what you like to do. So
I did anything that came along.”
Ten years ago, Smith-English
joined the theater department at
CCC as a theater director and
instructor, taking the position of
the retired Jack Shields. Since then,
he has directed all but one main-
stage production at Clackamas.
“(During winter 2001] I got a
new knee,” said Smith-English.
Former student John Renner direct
ed the show that term. “He did a
very good job.”
This term, Smith-English looks
forward to the fast-approaching
production of “The Odd Couple,”
featuring six men and two women.
Although the cast missed impor
tant rehearsal hours due to the col
lege closure at the beginning of the
term, Smith-English is confident
they will pull off the show with
success.
“I was a little concerned—but it’s
been okay,” he said., “The [cast] has
worked really hard and even put in
some extra time on the weekends.”
Smith-English comments on the
unusual number of men acting this
term. Theater departments usually
contain more women and fewer
men, said Smith-English.
“This year we have a lot of really
good men,” he said, and is quick to
add that the women are good as well
“There just happens to be mote men
right now than women, which is
quite unusual.”
The cast of “The Odd Couple”
contains some familiar faces as well
as some new ones.
“The two leads [Michael Gerber
and Tom Cavanaugh] have a lot of
experience, and the two women have
been here a couple years,” said
Smith-English. “There’s a couple
new guys I haven’t worked with
before; it’s been fun. The new guys
have a lot of. talent and they’re get
ting it very quickly.”
Smith-English enjoys seeing the
talent and skill of cast members
shaped and developed in rehearsal.
“There are specific tools and
techniques you need as an actor and
[the cast] has a lot of that in place,”
he said. .
Spring term, Smith-English will
be taking the
position
of
Communications and Theater
department chair, as current chair
Frank Hadow takes a one-year sab
batical.
“One of the reasons I wanted to
get more involved as a department
chair was because we’re moving into
the new building,” he said. “This is a
big change; it’s a big project.”
Smith-English has been closely
involved in the architectural design
-of the building, attending meetings
discussing the project for the past
five years.
“I have very specific ideas,” he
said. “The music department and I
were both very dear about what we
ultimately had to have in this build
ing.”
As a thank-you to the construc
tion company, Skanska, the cast is
putting on a special production of
“The Odd Couple,” March 6, at 2
p.m. for the workers, contractors and
their families.
“I look forward to saying “Thank
you’ to those guys,” said Smith-
English. “Getting to know them was
really nice.”
Next week's issue will include profiles
featuring each of the eight cast members in
The Odd Couple'.
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