News Release (April 12, 1974) A professor of Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley to serve as a Distinguished Visitor at TESC
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News Release (April 12, 1974) A professor of Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley to serve as a Distinguished Visitor at TESC
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NEWS
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington
98505
for immediate release
April 12, 1974
Norman Jacobson, a professor of political science at the University of
California at Berkeley will serve as a Distinguished Visitor to the Faculty and coordinator for one of the major offerings in The Evergreen State College summer school
program.
Jacobson will direct "The Immigrants," a Coordinated Studies program focusing
on .the peoples who migrated to the United States, and particularly
Northwest, between 1820 and 1920.
to the Pacific
This will be a unique study of the history, ethnic
origins, economic and social factors in the migration and the new settlements
established by these peoples.
A pioneer in the teaching of coordinated studies programs, Jacobson has taught
a similar advanced program at the University of California at Berkeley.
Jacobson obtained his bachelor's degree from St. John's University
Professor
and both his master's
degree and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin.
A former faculty fellow at both the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations,
Jacobson
has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Mills College, and Oregon State University.
Also new to the Evergreem summer faculty will be Painter Larry Gray, an assistant
professor of art at Humboldt State University, California, who will work with Marilyn
Frasca of the regular Evergreen faculty in the "Drawing from the Landscape,"
group
study program.
Gray, who holds a master's degree of fine arts from Yale University, will instruct
part of the program in the Lake Chelan area so that his students may gain optimum
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Nichols. Director
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exposure to the scenic landscapes of that area.
A Seat tle working artis t t Ben Sams
present program work in ceramics.
workshop
t
will return to Evergreen's
The sculptor-ceramicist
summe r school to
conducted a short-term
during the 1973 Summer Quarter.
Later this Spring and prior to the beginning of their summer assignments,
both Gray and Sams will exhibit their works in a joint exhibition
on the Evergreen
campus.
One final newcomer
to the summer faculty will be Calligrapher
Evergreen senior from Spokane, who will direct the program,
Tim Girvin, an
"Calligraphy:
The
Dance of the Pen."
Registration
for the ten-week summer session has already begun.
persons may register through May 31 in person or by mail.
Interested
A final walk-in
registration
will be held June 21 and 24 for those who cannot register early.
Registration
Registrar,
materials may be obtained by writing
to the Office of the
The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
-30-
98505.
