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About Wallowa County chieftain. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1943-current | View Entire Issue (June 13, 2018)
A8 News wallowa.com THREE minutes with ... ROLAND JOHNSON Attorney Roland Johnson was born in Enterprise in 1945 to C. Ray- mond and Laura Johnson, descendants of Joseph Johnson who was among the first white settlers in Wallowa County. June 13, 2018 Roland’s folks were ranchers and although no younger Johnsons took to it, the 500-acre home ranch out Prairie Creek is still in the family. Roland graduated from Enterprise High in 1963 and went to the University of Oregon to study economics. After earning his bachelor’s degree, he went on to study the law at the Uni- versity of Washington, graduating with a Juris Doctor in 1970. He didn’t come home right away, spending the next seven years with a downtown Seattle law firm. His practice included bankruptcy, municipal work, estate planning, workers comp, civil litigation and more. He met Donna (McPhearson) from Enumclaw, Wash., while living in Seattle and the couple married in 1975. They have three children who live in Portland, Seattle and Gig Harbor. Roland came back to Wallowa in 1977 and has practiced in the county for nearly 41 years. Although he was a trial lawyer earlier in his career in both Seattle and Wallowa County, he began to feel the court sched- ule was in charge of his life and began turning down opportuni- ties to litigate and moving toward what he enjoys the most: cor- porate and business law. “I like putting together complex transactions,” he said. He and Donna enjoy dinner with friends, traveling to visit their children and RVing. They are active in their political party and contribute to the Wallowa County Health Care Foundation. Q. Why live in Wallowa County? A. It’s beautiful, my family is from here and I have roots HYDE TO VISIT Wallowa County Chieftain here — the family connection is probably most of it. Q. What has Wallowa County taught you? A. Wallowa County is a place, and its people that teach you something. The one thing I learned when I went away and practiced law in an urban area is that people are peo- ple and people are pretty much the same here as they are everywhere. People always said it would be different prac- ticing law in a rural area than in a city, but it was no differ- ent. There were dishonest people and honest people, ethical people and unethical people. I got a different lesson than a lot of (other) people. Q. Can you recall a book you read when you were young that made an impression and can you rec- ommend one you read recently? A. I’ve got two for you: When I went to grade school, I went to a two-room school called Pratt School right across from our ranch. One of the teachers, after lunch, would read us a book. One she read that made an impres- sion on me was (Pulitzer Prize Winning) Pearl S. Buck’s “The Good Earth.” I would never have read that myself at that stage in my life, but she read it to us, and I can still remember a lot of detail. In high school I remember read- ing (National Book Award winning) William Shirer’s “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.” This was just 15 years or so after the Second World War. A recently read: Craig Symonds “World War II at Sea: A Global History.” I was and still am a WWII history buff. Chamber augments its new barn tour guide Courtesy photo/Les Stukenberg Doug Hyde was recently chosen by the Josephy Center for its “Plateau Indian Art on Main Street” project. Doug will be in Joseph and at the center Thursday, June 14, for a public re- ception at 7 p.m. Wallowa Chamber of Commerce has upgraded its Wallowa Barn Tour guide by inserting a list of lodging options, din- ers, breweries, distillery and local products and antique and farm boutique stores. The flip side of the insert also gives contact information for products grown naturally in Wal- lowa County and farmers markets. The full-color updated guide is available at the Wallowa County Visitors Center. Self-guided tours of the 36 barns featured are mapped in the guide so that visitors and photographers can find them easily. Many of the barns are located on working ranches in the Wallowa Valley against the backdrop of the Wal- lowa Mountains and are a favorite target for profes- sional and amateur pho- tographers alike. To expand the enjoy- ment of Wallowa’s his- toric barns, a barn-related art exhibit at Josephy Cen- ter in Joseph is planned for this fall. Anyone can enter the show by submitting barn-tour related art in any medium. The exhibit will run Oct. 6 through Dec. 4. Art- work must be submitted by Sept. 1 to Megan at coordi- nator@josephy.org. Two special evenings to enjoy the artwork at Jose- phy are also planned: Oct. 6 and 13 at 7 p.m. Other special events include a self-guided driv- ing tour for the “Turning of the Tamaracks” on Oct. 20 and an encore showing at Sunrise Iron Museum on Oct. 27. 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