PSU Magazine Spring 1995

Brenda Lee Gale Chapa is an English language in tructor for foreign mili tary personnel at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Eileen Clark is a teacher at Homer High School in Homer, Ala ka. C lark also is co-owner of a fishing and sight eeing business called Fairweather Fi hing and Guide Charter operating out of Gustavus, Alaska. Patricia Parrish is executive a sistant to the pres ident at Huntington Library and Art Collections in San Marino, Calif. Charles "Chuck" Wright, a member of the Snohomish-King Counties Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire Arms, Arson Respon c Team, was instrumenta l in the team's efforts lead ing to the con– viction of arsonist Paul Keller. Keller was responsible for the destruction of 30 million worth of property in the eattle area. Wright is a supervisor fo r the Washington Department of Cor– rections and an adjunct instruc- BILL PLYMPTON'S FEATURE FlLM tor in the C riminal Justice deparrment of both Centra l Washington and Seattle univer– sities. '71 Marie Barton i a computer– aided drafting and design tech– nician with the city of Portland. Barton also has been participat– ing in Portland Public Schools' teen parent mentoring project. ln her spare time, Barton tudie Renaissance, ensemble-style re– corder playing at the Com– munity Music Center. Rose Bond MS '76 completed a 20-minute animated film based on a tory from early Irish litera– ture. The project was fund ed by the National Endowment for the Arts. Bond lives in Portland. Jay Cox is the regional vice president of ale with Westport Company, a women's fashion acces ory business based in Santa C larita, Calif. Cox has worked for Westport for 15 years, living in both Lo Angeles and New York C ity. Owen Dailey-Cespedes MS '73 opened a private school in San Jose, osta Rica. Dailey writes that the chool will initially edu– cate students from four to nine years of age and gradually expand through high chool. Sarah Edelson-Rodgers is managing di rector of Sunshine Book and Pickle Outlet in Antigua, Guatemala. Edelson wa PSU tudent body pre ident in 197 1 and is married to P U's second library director, Frank Rodgers, who is presently the director of the University of Miami libraries. Georgia Ann Strong i a hematology supervisor at Portland Adventist Med ical Center. Gary Tash MST '77 teaches physical education in the Bend– La Pine School District. Stephen Tennent is pre ident of Buckeye Pacific Corporation, a whole ale lumber company in Portland. Maija Yasui was the recipient of the Klahre Award at the Mi<l– Columbia ympo ium held in The Dalle during November. The award recognized Ya-ui 's efforts helping children in her community. Yasui resides in Hood Ri ver. Nellie Zook MS published a children's book, Thank You , Daddy for Ratty, an illustrated story of life on a home read in Wheeler County. Zook formerly taught in the PSU School of Education. '72 Michael G. Jordan MS was one of fi ve exemplary educators in the state to receive a 1994 Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award. Jordan is the principal at Sabin Elementary school in Portland. says Plympton, "but it ended up being funny. Every time Harlow was in a scene, a box or something blocked the . " view. Plympton, who move<l to New York immediately upon graduation, saw his first success with the animated short, Your Face. It won numerous awards and was nominated for the 1988 Academy Award for the best animated short film. Plympton' latest project, Guns on rhe Clackamas, i about a documentary filmmaker trying to make a movie about some people trying to make a We tern movie. But everything is going wrong. The lead actress has a severe stutter, but she is the executive producer's mistress. Ca t members are dropping from bad food and bizarre B ill Plympton '69, a well-known animator, ha produced and directed his second live-action feature, Guns on the Clackamas. The movie, which was shot in Oregon and New York, will premiere in Portland on April 27. It is a behin<l-the-scene look at a fictional disastrous Westem. "Suddenly people began returning my phone call ,"remembers Plympton. His work started appearing with more frequency on MTV and in touring animation fe rivals. His oblique, off-center -en e of the ridiculous in everyday life also brought him television commercial work for Nutrasweet and Trivial Pursuit. After a string of highly successful short films-One of Those Day , How to Kiss, 25 Wa)'S to Quir making, and Plymptoons-Plympton made a full-length animated film, The Tune. From there he went on to a live-action movie,). Lyle , release<l in 1993. "My hand needed a rest after <lrawing The Tune," he says. "Live action i so much quicker." accidents. But the movie goes on with often startling and hilarious re ult . Appearing in the cast are some local Portland actors, including a handful that have Portland State connections. They are Leigh Clark, Katherine Ker ey, Keith Scales, Will Weigler, and William Tate '69, PSU profe sor of theater art . Guns on the Clackamas premiers at Plympton says the i<lea came from the 1937 movie" aratoga," in which star Jean Harlow died during the filming anJ a stand-in was u eJ to finish. "It was supposed to be a drama," 7 and 9 p.m. at the Berg Swann Auditorium, .W. Film Center, Portland Art Museum. A reception i scheduled for 8:30 to 9 p.m. Cost is $6. For more information call 221-1156. SPRING 1995 23