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THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE
Calendar-Newsletter
January 2, 1970
Volume 2, Number 1
NEWS NOTES
Time marches on, signified not only by the dawning of a new year and decade but also
by the ever-nearing start of construction on Evergreen's first building—the library.
Roughly, this is how the project stands now: Contract documents are being reviewed
by the federal government, which has allocated $564,000 in construction funds. Pending approval at that level, bids should be advertised within the next few days and a
contract awarded late in February. Construction should begin on or about March 1.
The timetable allows 535 working days to complete the job, or by August 15, 1971,
about one month prior to the opening of classes.
Three more construction contracts will be awarded in late April or early May. One
is for the college heating plant. Another is for college shops and garages. The
third is a mammoth project involving a variety of jobs: development of the college
utilities tunnel; construction of campus water and sanitary and storm sewer systems;
building a 5,000 foot section of roadway connecting the main campus entryway to
Kaiser Road; development of parking lots; installation of outdoor lighting; and
construction of service roads.
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And, there's more scheduled. Bids for construction of the Lecture Hall Building
will be called in April, with work scheduled to begin in May. Bids for Student
Residence Halls will be advertised in May and construction should begin in June.
College Activities Building bids will be issued in June, with work expected to
commence in July. The Science Building and Recreation Building (Gymnasium) are
scheduled for construction by next fall. Meanwhile, off campus, the City of
Olympia will be busy extending water and sanitary sewer facilities to the site
to tie in with the development of college utilities systems. (See last page for
a construction synopsis).
Meanwhile, planning already has started for facilities which must be built during
the 1971-73 biennium to keep the physical plant in pace with expected enrollments.
Since funding for those projects must come from the 1971 legislature following
review by the Governor's Office, preliminary designs and cost figures must be
submitted by July, 1970.
All of which helps explain why dull moments are few, brows are furrowed and paper
is flying around here.
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Controller Ken Winkley advises everyone to take a good look at the January 31 paycheck
because the figures will be different primarily because of ths tax bill recently approved by Congress and signed by President Nixon. For one thing, the 10 percent surtax has been cut to 5 percent, effective January 1 (it is scheduled to expire July 1).
Secondly, other changes in exemptions, deductions, rates, etc. will affect taxpayers
in various ways over a three-year period.
Social Security taxes again will amount to 4.8 percent, collectable against the first
$7,800 of annual income (the rate will rise to 5.2 percent in 1971). The college and
employees each kick in 4.8 percent, by the way. If you earn more than $7,800 and
haven't been paying Social Security taxes the last few months, get set to have the
federal hand begin digging in your pocketbook again. If you don't make $7,800, your
Social Security "contribution" will be the same as in 1969.
All the new tax information will be supplied by the feds and tha state during the
next few weeks. If your paycheck total befuddles you, check with the Controller.
But, be nice to Ken. He only implements the laws; he doesn't write them!
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Some interesting information from Dean of Library Services, Jim Holly, who is working hard to build Evergreen's initial library collection for opening day, 1971.
Things are moving right along, he notes.
The big job of screening the thousands of items contributed to Evergreen during the
last couple of years by the Washington State Library, other colleges and universities
and private donors has been completed. Handling this job as a temporary employee
was Malcolm Stilson, former Assistant Librarian and Associate Professor at Stabley
Library, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Faced with 1,094 cartons of material
and coordinating his efforts with the State Library to avoid unnecessary duplication
and gaps in coverage, Stilson screened 4,668 books, 7,523 federal and state documents and 45,172 issues of journals in 463 titles. Some books—2,451—were selected
for inclusion in the library collection and the rest were disposed of—most of them
donated for a Tumwater Boy Scout fund-raising project. The number of documents
selected for the collection totaled 5,549; the others discarded. The screening of
journals was a highly selective process because broken runs and the high cost of
binding make it advantageous for the college to maintain these voluaes in microform.
Meanwhile, Richard Abel and Company of Portland—contracted to purchase, process
and store Evergreen's library materials—is making rtuch headway handling volumes
shipped by Stilson and readying other parts of the collection. Abel and Company,
retained because Evergreen has limited staff and storage facilities during these
developmental years, already has processed more than 2,700 titles, which are now
"shelf ready". By the opening of classes in 1971, the firm will have prepared an
initial collection of 109,000 itemss including books, periodicals, films, filmstrips, microforms, transparencies, etc.
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You may be noticing that the number of campus visitors is increasing, partly because
those with whom we do business are "rediscovering" the location of our offices and
partly because of ongoing faculty and administrative staff recruiting efforts.
Candidates for college positions will continue their visits as part of Evergreen's
nationwide search for deans to spearhead development of academic programs, senior
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faculty members who will help plan instruction programs and senior personnel to help
plan student services and develop admissions policies and programs.
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The long- threatened closure of a section of Overhulse Road — just south of the college
offices — has materialized (which isn't news since we're all detouring now) and will
be in effect for about two months. Reason for the closure is to allow contractors
to continue work on developing a section of a ring road which eventually will encircle
the campus — the section connecting Kaiser Road with the main entryway leading to the
first group of college buildings.
President Charles J. McCann has been appointed to the Planning Committee of the Council
and Commission on Higher Education, the coordinating board established by the 1969
Legislature. The Committee's first meeting was held December 17 in Seattle.
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Welcome aboard to a couple of new employees. William A. Phipps joining the Facilities Planning staff as a college architect January 5. He hails from Yakima. And
Norm Jacobs on of Olympia was hired as a college maintenance man December 23, working
with Frank Shaver and for Director of Plant Operations Don Parry.
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And, on the personal side, the Lakewood home of Pat Baugh, secretary for the Dean of
Library Services, may be bulging with family company this month. Her mother and
father (80 and 79 years old) and a sister plan to fly in from Ormond Beach, Florida.
They may be joined by two other sisters who live in Columbus and Toledo, Ohio. It
will mark the relatives' first visit to Washington.
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PUBLICATIONS
Executive Vice President E. J. Shoben, Jr. reports the following additions to his
list of publications:
"Comment: Some Stray Thoughts on Eclecticism Revisited." Personnel and
Guidance Journal, 1969 (Nov.), 48 (No. 3), pp. 198-200.
"The Climate of Protest." In J. Foster and D. Long (editors) Student
Activism in America. New York: Morrow, 1969, pp. 554-581.
"Radical Student Organizations" (with Philip Werdell and Durward Long).
In J. Foster and D. Long (editors) Student Activism in America.
New York: Morrow, 1969, pp. 202-222.
"Response to Richard Hoggart." In W. R. Niblett (editor) Higher Education; Demand and Response. London: Tavistock, 1969, pp. 231-239.
Dean of Library Services Jim Holly will have an article entitled "The Evergreen State
College: Basic Assumptions" appearing in the next issue of the Pacific Northwest
Library Association Quarterly.
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And, Denis Curry, Director of the Office of Interinstitutional Business Studies, has
just published a new study entitled "How the State of Washington Ranks in Support of
Public Higher Education".
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POTPOURRI
Executive Vice President E. J. Shoben, Jr. has been invited to participate as a
speaker at the annual meeting of the American Association for Higher Education in
Chicago on March 2....He also will be a speaker during the annual meeting of the
American Association of Colleges January 12 and 13 in Houston, Texas....Vice President and Provost David G. Barry will speak to the Phi Delta Kappa chapter in Tacoma
January 14 and to the Southwest Chapter of the Society of American Foresters in
Aberdeen February 6....President Charles J. McCann will address the March 14 annual
meeting of the Cowlitz County branch of the American Association of University Women
in Longview....Director of Information Services Dick Nichols will speak to the
Thurston County Legal Secretaries Association January 19 in Olympia....And
June Kisler, secretary to the Vice President and Provost, will attend the January 30
and 31 Washington Association of Legal Secretaries board meeting in Vancouver. She
is president of the Thurston County chapter.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
(January 3-31)
Saturday, January 3 and Sunday, January 4
Charles J. McCann — Meeting with Presidents Brooks (Central), Shuck
(Eastern) and Flora (Western) in Bellingham.
Monday, January 5
Phase Two Facilities Planning meeting (McCann, Barry, Shoben, Clabaugh,
Schillinger), office conference room, 1:30-5:00 p.m.
Denis Curry
— Personnel Systems Task Force meeting, University of
Washington, 10:00 a.m.
Tuesday, January 6
Denis Curry
— Advisory Committee on Enrollment Projections meeting, Hilton Inns Seattle-Tacoma Airport, 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday, January7
Charles McCann and Dean Clabaugh — Council on Higher Education meeting,
Hilton Inn, Seattle-Tacoma Airport, 11:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
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In-house Seminar for entire staff, ll:30a.m.-l:30 p.m., conducted by
Vice President and Provost David G. Barry. Title:
"Academic Planning: Objectives and Progress".
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Monday, January 12 and Tuesday, January 13
E. J. Shoben, Jr., — American Association of Colleges annual meeting,
Houston, Texas (conference speaker January 13).
Denis Curry
— Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education
management information systems committee meeting,
San Francisco.
Wednesday, January 14
In-house seminar for entire staff, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., conducted by
President Charles J. McCann. Title: "Evergreen
and the Legislature: 1970 and After".
Thursday, January 15
Board of Trustees meeting, college offices, 1:30 p.m.
Friday, January 16
Dean Clabaugh and Buel Brodin — Higher Education Personnel Board Meeting,
Olympia College (Bremerton), all day.
Saturday^ January 17
Dean Clabaugh and Denis Curry — Interinstitutional Committee of Business
Officers meeting, Western Washington State College
(Bellinghan), 9:30 a.m.
Monday, January 19
Dick Nichols
— Speech to Thurston County Legal Secretaries Association, 6:00 p.m., Barb Restaurant, Lacey.
Sunday^ January 18 to Saturday, January 24
Jim Holly
— American Library Association mid-winter meeting,
Chicago.
Wednesday, January 21
In-house Seminar for entire staff, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., conducted by
Vice President for Business, Dean Clabaugh. Title:
"Money and Ideas: Evergreen's Financial Status".
Wednesday, January 28
In-house Seminar for entire staff, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., conducted by
Executive Vice President E. J. Shoben, Jr.
Subject: "Law and Order" (speaker and film to
be announced).
Saturday, January 31
Jim Holly
— Luncheon speaker for Beta Phi Mu meeting, Johnny's
Dock, Tacoma.
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THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE
Capital Construction Projects - 1969-71
ARCHITECT/
PROJECT
ENGINEER
APPROXIMATE
GROSS SQ. FT.
APPROXIMATE DATE 0!
ADVERTISING FOR BII
Library
Durham. Anderson and
Freed - Seattle
Activities Bldg.
Kirk, Wallace and
McKinley - Seattle
62,000
June, 1970
Lecture Hell
Harris, Reed and
Litzenberger » Tacosaa
15,000
April, 1970
Science Building
Marramore, Bain, Brady
and Johanson *- Seattle
75,000
October, 1970
Gywnasiua
Robert B. Price - Tacoma
58,000
Septeaber, 1970
Student* Residences
A* 0. Bumgardner - Seattle
Beating Plant
Bouillon, Christ off eraon
and Schairer (Bag.)
Seattle
Garages and Shops
Bennett and Johnson Olyatpia
Phase I on-site
roads, utilities
Quinton-Budlong ~
Seattle
Not Applicable
Offsite utilities
Quinton-Budlong Seattle
Not Applicable
Landscaping
Quinton-Budlong ~
Seattle
Not Applicable
City of Olympia project
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To be determined later
337,000
January, 1970
107,000
May, 1970
25,000
May, 1970
8,100
May, 1970
April, 1970
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