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A ‘Dinner’ to remember
The last play in the McLoughlin Theater promises to
be great as cast prepares for upcoming performance
Katie Wilson
The Clackamas Print
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BELOW: (From
left) Students
Jayson
Shanafelt, Annie
Rimmer, Cynthia
Smith-English,
Seth Wrubleski,
Life Science
Instructor Bob
Misley and
student Sarah
Griswold.
he can. He has talked with the stories and the cast is really
music department and a brass good,” said artist in residence
ensemble will play Christmas Amanda Jensen. “It will be a
music at selected showings.
night of fun entertainment and
For those involved with the
show there’s a high level of
excitement surrounding its open
ing— “the kind of excitement
[that goes with] the last show,”
said Smith-English. “But I think
there’ll be some tears
as well. We’ve had a
lot of success in this
“The Man Who Came to Dinner”
building.”
Hopefully “The
Dates: Opens Thursday, Nov. 18. Runs'*’
Man Who Came to
Dinner” will help ease
Nov. 18-20 at 7 p.m., Nov. 21 at 2:30
the transition to the
p.m., Dec. 2-4 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 5 at
new facilities a little.
2:30 p.m.
The play has a lot of
energy and all the cast
Admissions: $8 general admission, and
and crew are quite
$5 for students and senior citizens.
dedicated to it.
“We’ve had a lot
of fun creating these
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LEFT: (From left)
Students Jayson
Shanafelt and
Bob Alsman
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from “The Man
Who Came to
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Karlin Johnson
Clackamas Print
“It’s pretty wild,” said
Annie Rimmer about the
upcoming play in which she
stars. “It’s also the last play in
McLoughlin, so it’s very
exciting too.”
The CCC Communications
and Theater Department
opens “The Man Who Came
to Dinner” Nov. 18, written
by Moss Hart and George
S. Kaufman in 1939.
The play is a crazy
romp into the lives of a
family turned upside down by
an increasingly unwelcome
guest.
“It’s a comedy,” said
director
David
Smith-
English. “I was looking for
something that would give
us a positive sendoff [from
the
old
McLoughlin i|
Theater].”
Among the large cast jH
are Bob Misely, a
Biology instructor
at MH
Clackamas, who plays
the
long-suffering
Richard
Stanley, and artist in residence
Amanda Jensen who plays the
conniving actress Lorraine.
Smith-English hopes to con
vince other faculty from the col
lege to show up as “mystery
guests.” Since it’s the last play in
McLoughlin Theater he wants to
include as much of the college as
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CCC, offering options
for H.S. dropouts
Isaiah Creel
L Editor-in-Chief
Beginning in fall term of 2005,
high school dropouts and those in
danger of dropping out of high
school may benefit from a new pro
gram designed to not only help
them graduate but to prepare them
for higher education.
Developed
by
Portland
Community College, the successful
“Gateway to, College” program
gives students an opportunity to
earn their high school diploma
while simultaneously earning col
lege credit toward their Associate
of Arts Transfer Degree.
CCC is one of eight colleges to everything we value in our democ
replicate PCC’s program and will racy depends upon our ability to
receive $300,000 for planning and educate all children well,”
establishing the Gateway to remarked Melinda Gates at the
College program. Associate Dean National Conference of State
of Extended Learning Services and Legislatures 2003 Annual Meeting.
project coordinator Donna Acord “Public high schools must train not
estimates enrollment of 300 stu only consumers.”
dents over the two years of imple
Clackamas staff will work with
mentation of the grant.
the Clackamas County School
Although developed by PCC, the District to identify potential stu
“Gateway” program is now part of dents of ages ranging from 16 to 20
Bill and Melinda Gates’ Early for the program who will study
College High School Initiative and reading, writing and math in stu
is the only program in the initiative dent groups and with an instructor.
to target high school dropouts.
“As we reach for more options
Funding to replicate the program to further open up college access to
comes through a multi-million-dol- students, we see the Gateway to
lar grant initiative sponsored by the College program as a good fit with
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, our existing array of programs.”
in partnership with the Carnegie Clackamas President Joe Johnson
Corporation of New York, the Ford said, “It will serve as a true gate
Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg way toward which we can point our
Foundation.
students who enter our various high
“The fact is, every public debate school dropout recovery pro
we hold, every campaign we wage, grams.”