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THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE
The Evergreen State College
Cr±^J Olympia, Washington 985QK
Calendar-Newsletter,
February, 1971
Volume 3, Number 2
NEWS NOTES
Academic planning has assumed some new dimensions in recent weeks, reports Vice
President and Provost David Barry^ with the creation of ten task forces which
are studying and making recommendations on a wide variety of subjects. Each
task force—composed of both faculty and other college staff—has been assigned
a deadline date for making its final report. A task force studying admissions
matters already has filed its recommendations and has become an ongoing committee which will operate until 1971 admissions activity has ceased. Other
task forces and their reporting deadlines are as follows:
Orientation Week (February 10). Contracted Studies (February 10). Community
College Articulation (February 21). Public Events (March 1). Computer
Systems (February 21). Workshops and Self-Paced Learning (March 1). Overseas and Language Studies (March 1). Faculty Status and Tenure (March 1).
Sabbatical Leaves (March 15).
Meanwhile, faculty members are participating in three ongoing seminar programs
dealing with teacher quality and training. One program provides training for
persons involved in Coordinated Studies efforts, a second concerns workshops and
self-paced learning, and the third is directed toward undergraduate teaching in
sciences and mathematics.
Academic staff also are moving into the arduous task of recruiting additional
faculty to assume operating positions prior to the arrival of students next fall.
The first task is reviewing the 7000 applications now on file so that lists of
first, second and third priority candidates can be compiled. Once that chore
is completed, academic personnel will start interviewing the top choices. The
recruiting process also involves the identification of prime candidates for two
important academic administration posts—deans of Public Affairs and Cooperative
Education.
Selection of students who will be admitted to Evergreen next fall will begin in
the near future—just as soon as the catalog and Supplemental Admissions Form
are off the presses. The initial computer printout, profiling students who
have applied to date, was produced last week end and will be used as the source
document from which mailing labels will be prepared. Material will be sent to
all applicants on the same day so that everyone has an equal chance to respond.
Students will be asked to read the catalog thoroughly and, if choosing to remain
under consideration, to complete the supplemental form, indicating their understanding of Evergreen's programs. Once the completed applications begin arriving, Director of Admissions Dave Brown and a four or five-man faculty committee
will begin reviewing them for student selection. It is hoped that students who
are accepted can be notified within two or three weeks of the time their completed applications arrive in the admissions office.
Admissions inquiries—including letters, phone calls and personal visits—are
coming in at the rate of 75 to 100 per week. Many inquiries have been prompted
by the Preliminary Announcement issued recently and large numbers of students
are seeking information because of visits by Evergreen staff to high schools
and community colleges. Some recent inquiries were in direct response to the
national television coverage afforded Evergreen in the January 22 showing of
the "American Wilderness" program on NBC.
Admissions secretary _Sally__Hunter says inquiries are heaviest from prospective
students in the Olympia, Seattle, Bellevue and Tacoma areas.
Contracts totaling more than $225,000 have been awarded by Evergreen and the
King County Library System to Xerox Bibliographies of Washington, D. C. for
purchase of catalogs and magnetic tape data bases. Another Xerox Bibliographies
bid for a composite magnetic tape data bases of the two systems holdings in the
Library of Congress MARC II format was not accepted by the Washington State
Library. The invitation to bid was issued last December by the three libraries
and was an initial step in a plan to develop a statewide library data bank capable of being handled by modern high-speed computers.
The contract for Evergreen calls for production of a total resource catalog of
100,000 items by college opening day, September, 1971. The form of this catalog
will be conventional three-by-five library cards, which will be printed and will
be similar to Library of Congress cards. After production of cards for the
initial catalog, Xerox Bibliographies will continue to provide both cards and
processing kits to Evergreen. "An unusual feature of Evergreen's library is the
integration of all learning resources," explained Dean of Library Services Jim
Holly. "Thus our collection will range from conventional books and periodicals
through films, filmstrips, audio and video tapes to realia and other three-dimensional representations."
The contract for King County Library calls for provision of a multi-volume book
catalog of 100,000 titles by July 15, 1971. Additional products from both Evergreen and King County will include two magnetic tapes containing full records
of the items held in each system. Both tapes will be in identical format and will
be put together at the State Library in Olympia, forming the nucleus of a statewide bank of library holdings. As additional libraries in Washington develop
machine-prepared catalogs, their holdings will be added to the data bank, making
it possible for issuance of & statewide catalog of library holdings.
Turning to coggaunity affairg efforts:
Heavy snows forced postponement of the January 11 Town Hall Meeting sponsored by
the Evergreen College Community Organization (ECCO), The event now has been
rescheduled for 7:30 p.m., February 8 in the Skokomish Room at the Tyee Motor Inn.
The public, Evergreen employees and their spouses are urged to attend. The meetIng will feature a six-person panel, consisting of college, and community representatives who will discuss Evergreen academic programs, admissions policies, goals and
-3objectives. Dessert, costing 50 cents per person, will be served after the
opening discussion, allowing those in the audience time to write questions,
which will be submitted to panel members for response. Members of the panel
will include three Evergreen staff members—Dean of Humanities and Arts Charles
Teske, Dean of Developmental Services John Finley and Director of Information
Services Dick Nichols—and three community spokesmen—State Representative Floydd
Conway, Olympia Mayor T_om__Al.len and Mary Hilled, re, an educational specialist
for the Vocational Education Coordinating Council. Olympia banker DaveRobinson
will serve as panel moderator and M£S^_J^£S£8_Cl.arkson, housewife and former
special education teacher in the North Thurston School District, will be mistress
of ceremonies.
ECCO also has joined the American Association of University Women, the YWCA, and
League of Women Voters in co-sponsoring a weekly legislative forum for Olympia
residents. Meetings are held at 9:00 a.m., each Tuesday morning at Olympia City
Hall. The non-partisan sessions are designed to present both sides of the most
pressing measures facing the Legislature. Meetings begin with a coffee service
at 9:00 a.m., followed by the weekly program at 9:30. Baby sitting is provided
for a nominal fee by the First Methodist Church.
Evergreen is also participating in the federally funded National Humanities Series
which will be making three visits to the Olympia area this year. A four-member
troupe will make the first appearance, giving a free public program in St. Martin's
Abbey Theater at 7:30 p.m., February 2. The touring artists also will entertain
at Timberline, North Thurston, St. Placid and Olympia High Schools, St. Martin's
and Evergreen Colleges,, several civic groups and at the Shelton Corrections center
during a two~day stop locally. Members of the first group include author William
R. Mueller; actress Jayne Smith; singer and actress Sylvia Lanka; and actor and
musician Richard Mogavero.
The performance atEvergreen is scheduled for 12:00 noon February 1 in the Library
Trailer. Mogavero will present a program entitled "Letting Go", a show about the
problem of leaving home. Material from plays as well as biographies of famous
people will form the core of his 20-minute presentation, which will be followed
by a general discussion..
Vice President for Business Dean__CLabatigh and Olympia business man Fred Goldberg
are co-chairmen of the committee sponsoring the Humanities Series locally. Professor Rudy^Martin is a member of the committee. Arrangements for the Evergreen
performance are being handled by Professor Bill_Aldjridj|e_.
Members of the troupe, legislators and local civic leaders were guests at a
January 31 reception at the home of Evergreen President Charles McGann.
Evergreen and the Olympia Kiwanis Club have joined forces to accomplish a doublepurpose project—getting out the word on the college and boosting interclub
visits by local Kiwanians. The idea, advanced by Interclub Chairman Ed Wack,
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involves visitations to various clubs la Southwest Washington by Olympia Kiwanians and an Evergreen representative, who will present the program for the day.
Director of Information Services Mek__Nic!iol£ kicked off the project with a
morning address to the North Thurston Kiwards Club on January 19 and is scheduled to speak before the Capitol City Kiwanis Club the evening of February 4.
Pesident Charles McCann will speak to the Aberdeen Kiwanis Club on February 16.
Nichols is scheduled for appearances in Pe Ell March 15, Raymond April 14 and
Eliaa May 6. Arrangements are being made to schedule more programs during the
next several months.
Welcome aboard to three new Evergreen employees:
_Sandra___Vibber_ started work January 25 as a clerk-typist-receptionist in the
Probst Building. She had been a medical technologist at Sacred Heart Hospital
in Eugene, Oregon since 1969. Sandy received a bachelor's degree in bacteriology
and public health from Washington State University in 1970.
Kathy Tullis brought her effervescent personality to the academic planning staff
as a clerk-typist on January 25. She has previous experience as a secretary and
stenographer for various Seattle law firms, appraisal companies and Boeing.
jtecaj_Cornish joins Evergreen February 1 as Mechanical Construction Coordinator
for the central utilities plant. He is scheduled to become Utility Production
Supervisor, responsible for operation of the central plant, on July 1. He has
been Assistant Chief Engineer at Providence Hospital in Seattle since 1969. He
holds a First Grade Seattle Operator's License for steam plants.
The proposed design, route and other aspects of the proposed Evergreen Parkway,
a four-lane thoroughfare linking the Aberdeen. Freeway and The Evergreen State
College campus, will be discussed during a public hearing at the Tyee Motor Inn
February 4. The State Highway Commission hearing will begin at 9:00 a.m. Parkway plans call for interchanges at the Aberdeen Freeway and at the Old Shelton
Highway, plus grade separations at Kaiser and Barnes Roads. Evergreen's Board
of Trustees twiee has gone on record in support of the Parkway proposal. Funds
for constructing the Parkway will be requested from the 1971 Legislature. Money
for right-of-way studies and initial property acquisition was provided in 1969.
Three Seattle firms have been awarded contracts for supplying carpeting, draperies
and window shades for the Evergreen library. Named by the Board of Trustees were
Frederick and Nelson, which bid $138,241 to carpet the building; J. K. Gill
Company, which bid $10,468 to supply draperies; and Northwest Interiors, Inc.,
which bid $2,946 to provide window shades. Bids were opened by the Evergreen
Purchasing Office last December 22.
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-5Trustees also:
—Approved change orders on five capital construction projects totaling $22,802.
—Approved a resolution drafted by the State Attorney General's office authorizing Evergreen's presidents vice president for business and director of business
services to initially approve and execute college purchasing contracts on a
day-to-day basis.
—Approved an increase from $40 to $50 the amount of advance deposit required of
students approved for admissions, bringing the figure into conformity with
similar charges made at other four-year colleges and universities in Washington.
—Passed a resolution supporting the State Highway Department's alignment, rightof-way and limited access plans for the proposed Evergreen Parkway, which would
connect the southern edge, of the campus with the Highway 101 Freeway, west of
Olyrapia.
—And set February 25 as the date for the next trustees meeting.
The following article is another in a series of Newsletter features designed to
give the college community a better understanding of the functions of some of its
components. Our guest, editor is Controller Kjan ginkley.
The Office of the Controller is unique in that it has two major functions which
are often self-opposing. On one hand, it is a large, expensive and diverse service
function attempting to make all transactions involving monies as painless as possible for everyone. On. the other hand, it acts as an assistant to management,
both internal and external, imposing its controls and recording and reporting its
transactions in a manner which provides the desired accountability.
Service requirements include the maintenance of flexibility, minimization of red
tape, and timeliness in the processing of accounting transactions. Control requirements include administering laws and regulations and assuring compliance with reporting requirements. As you can see, these functions are in direct conflict; so
the real challenge in the Office of the Controller lies in serving two masters
with opposite objectives. We attempt to meet this challenge by (1) working with
all the methods available to minimize rigid external requirements, and (2) to
the extent that these, controls cannot be removed, imposing internal requirements to
permit compliance.
With these major functions in mind it is easier to categorize the efforts of the
Office of the Controller. External requirements established by federal agencies,
the State Legislature, the Office of Program Planning and Fiscal Management, the
Department of General Administration, and the Council on Higher Education are reviewed, challenged and, negotiated through interinstitutional sub-committees of
the business officers. The Controller regularly serves on three of these committees:
Budget Accounting and Reporting Committee; Indirect Cost Committee; and the Retirement and Insurance Committee. In addition to these efforts, the Controller works
on a continuing basis with many state agencies—providing them with information required to perform their regulatory or information-gathering functions. At the
same time he acts as a consultant to these agencies in helping them understand
their requirements.
Internal requirements are being met with intermediate accounting systems. Future
requirements beyond July 1, 1971 will be met with procedures and systems that are
-6presently under development. This task Is very interesting, challenging and
complex. All systems in use today will be replaced as of July 1, 1971, except
for the payroll system, which also should be replaced. However, the cost involved to make this kind of change is beyond the scope of our budgets so we
will struggle along with the one we have. At this time we are developing (1)
a general accounting system, (2) a daily work processing system which incorporates vendor payments and the cashiering operation, (3) a student accounting
system, (4) a property inventory system, (5) a job order cost system, (6) a
position control system, and (7) to some extent, a library acquisition system.
Development of these systems will provide better service internally and, at the
same time, make the function of external reporting easier.
In addition, to this systems development effort we have a complete on-going
operation, except for student accounting, which must function as completely as
the accounting functions in the other five four-year institutions of this state.
This function is managed by a small staff of five people who work very hard to
insure that the service function of the Office of the Controller really does
appear as a service rather than as a control. Most of you already know all of
us because accounting for the institution's funds has a way of touching everyone.
However, in case you are confused as to our exact duties., I will discuss them
briefly:
Rose Elway—Most of you know Rose, because she makes sure that you are included
in the payroll and delivers your pay check each month. Rose also makes sure
that you are properly enrolled for the fringe benefits you select and makes the
proper deduction. What you might not know is that she also acts as the college's
Cashier.
Dotty O^Neill—With her endless energy, she attempts to keep vendor payments
moving smoothly plus maintain a. property inventory system. In processing vendor
payments,, Dotty pre-audits all transactions making sure that the vendor gets paid
in accordance with the terms of the purchase order. She also checks all travel
vouchers very closely to make sure that you are properly reimbursed and at the
same time, tries to keep us out of trouble with the State Auditors. Dotty has
many other miscellaneous tasks such as opening mail, answering the telephone,
batching encumbrances, and responding to many of the inquiries which a secretary
ordinarily would.
AJL_aji_Spjanc_e—When Alan left Lockheed in California, little did he suspect that
he would wind up being the only accountant for a $38,000,000 project. Particularly
one that was starting out at a level higher than it would ever be again. Alan
works very closely with all contractors, particularly when they are short on cash
and anxious to get their money. So far, Al has kept them happy in spite of the
road blocks set up by the Department of Revenue, the State Building Authority,
and the Office of Program Planning and Fiscal Management.
Helen Spears-—General. Accounting is Helen's forte. Helen spent several years with
the State Auditor ands in her spare time, became involved in a very extensive selfeducation program through accounting correspondence training. When she is not
sailing in the South Pacific, she maintains the General Ledger for the. college,
prepares the financial reports for the many external publics of the college and
at the same time reviews all accounting transactions to make sure that everything
is being properly accounted for.
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-7Jqhn Moss—A professional, without a clientele! John is racing aginst the clock
like many other people I know and is anticipating the arrival of our first
student. John is Student Accounts Supervisor,, responsible for the assessment
and collection of tuition and fees, housing charges, sundry bills, and the distribution of the many and various forms of financial aid. This requires a close
and direct contract with the students and at the same time requires the development and maintenance of accurate accounting systems to insure proper internal
and external reporting. To this point, John has been primarily concerned with
the development of policies related to his areas of primary responsibility.
However, as time marches on he is becoming more and more involved in the development of system capable of handling the thousands of details and documents which
will begin to flow once students are accepted and their advance deposits begin
to arrive. This effort will lead directly to actual, operation of the student
accounting function.
It may appear that there is. a large staff in the Office of the Controller, but
in fact, our crew is really quite small for the tasks to be performed. As things
are now, it seems that we are hardly able to keep up the day-to-day activity of
a growing operation. Despite this, we are attempting to prepare for the future
in planning more efficient and effective ways of doing things. Fortunately, we
are receiving a lot of assistance from Bob Barringer through his systems development staff and also from the Stenographic Service Bureau, which does all of our
typing and other special stenographic services.
The Office of the Controller is not attempting to be innovative in a way that
some of the other operations on campus are because we feel that our functions
have been adequately defined by industry and by some of our more effectively administered institutions of higher education. We hope that by starting out fresh,
we can adopt the new systems on. the leading edge which have been proven as the
best techniques for administering the accounting function, This aspect of Evergreen is unique because change to new and improved ways in on-going institutions
is very difficult, if not impossible, because of the force of the momentum to
retain existing systems for fear that a change may upset the status quo. To
this extent we consider ourselves innovative and fortunate.
Evergreen's Office of Purchasing will open bids February 4 for the supply of
carpeting for the student residence halls and will open estimates March 4 on
residence halls room furniture. These will be the next in a lengthy series of
bid openings in the next few months in which moveable equipment will be sought
for various college buildings. Such items as residence halls lounge furniture
and appliances; carpeting for the large group instructional center; and stacks,
study carrels, chairs, classroom and office furniture, conference tables, etc.,
for the library will be bid in the near future.
The combination of heavy snow and record rainfall during January caused acrossthe-board delays in Evergreen's capital construction program, although progress
is reported on all fronts. Here's a thumbnail look at the various projects:
Library — This project, now employing 139 men, is 55 per cent complete, with
1790 tons of reinforcing steel in place and 17,257 cubic yards of concrete
poured. Workmen have finished the third floor structural slab and have placed
the first section of rooftop-level slab. Electrical work continues and mechanical room activity is almost complete. Other January work included installation
of ceiling grid on the first floor , initial placement of metal stud and drywall
partitions and the beginning of concrete block masonry work. February activity
will include continued roof slab, rooftop and interior work.
Residence Halls — Now 30 per cent complete. Workmen have reached the fifth
floors of the three smaller buildings and the third floor of the ten-story struc
ture,
15
Per cent complete.
Forming and pour-
ing of exterior walls continues.
rSfir~Now ten Per cent finished. ' Workmen still forming
and pouring basement walls,
25 per cent complete.
Crews have completed about
70 per cent of the wall system, continue to pour columns and have begun roof deck
forming work. Major future activity will involve interior mechanical work.
^ll2BS«3S^JiSSSS£Sr'~^ow 9® Per cent finished . Interior finishing remains during
February and the project should be completed before the end of the month.
£—-Now 62 per cent finished, Adversely affected by wet weather,
except for continuing progress on two one-million gallon water storage tanks south
of the main access road .
Facilities planning staff continue to press forward on the three 1969-71 projects
not yet under way. A call for bids for construction of the first section of the
recreation building is expected in mid-February. Artds it's hoped that science
building bids can be advertised in March. Science and recreation buildings are
scheduled for completion by Fall, 1972; site improvements before opening day in
September.
The following item appeared in a recent edition of the University of Washington
Daily and was written, by Associate Editor Bruce Johansen. It is offered here as
an indication of one form that current student activism is. taking—a frontal
approach to the "system". Neither the Newsletter nor Evergreen stands as an advocate of the legislative positions expressed in the article, which is offered for
informational purposes only.
They call themselves: "The student's gateway to The System." "They" are the
Intercollegiate. Political Affairs Commission, a group of students from the
state's five four-year colleges and universities. "The System" is the state
governments wrapped in constitutional marble a quarter mile up a hill from
the IPAC's two-room Olympia office at 1063 Capitol Way. The IPAC can't lobby
because its $4,700 budget comes out of student government funds, which make
make it a "qjasi-stateM-funded organization. But it can tell you the office
number, phone number and secretary's first name of nearly any legislator on
the hill.
The ASUW's Political Action committee, headed by John Britt, a junior in general
studies, supplies $1,500 to IPAC's Olympia office. Student governments of
Western, Central and Eastern Washington State Colleges and Washington State University make up the difference. Frank Morris, a graduate in history from CWSC,
heads the Olympia office. Title: information, co-ordinator. The 1PAC - since
it caa't legally lobby as an organization - deals in information for students
who come to Olympia to lobby as individuals. "The office," said Morris, "is
set up to facilitate student participation in the legislative process." The
P.A.C. of the ASUW will sponsor a legislative workshop for student lobbyists
in the HUB, Jan, 20. Wendy HoIden, a University junior in political psychology,
is IPAC's state wide chairman,
Pete Beltmay of CWSC is also drawing up plans for a state-wide college legislative
"news service" affiliated with 1PAC and its campus branch agencies. Asked what
issues would concern students in general, and IPAC in particular, Morris and
other students who are working with IPAC for academic credit listed:
"REPRESSIVE LEGISLATION/' specifically a bill by Sam Guess, Republican Senator
of Spokane, which lists 19 ways to "immediately suspend" students at state colleges
and universities. The bill would also set.up procedures for cutting off the
salary of faculty members a governing board accuses of "unprofessional conduct."
POSSIBLE TUITION RAISES, including those proposed to the legislature by Governor
Dan Evans in his annual budget message.
The issue of tuition hikes, increasing by about one-third the cost of attending
a public college or university in the state under the Evans proposal, is of
"special interest" to the students at CWSCS said Morris.
Dr. James Brooks, CWSC president, criticized proposed tuition increases Jan. 6
before the. State Council on Higher Education. The hikes, he contended, would
tend to screen low-income students out of the state educational system. Brooks
said some 20 per cent of Central's students come from homes with an annual income
of $6,000 or less.
Staffers at IPAC's Olympia office also expressed interest in ecology bills, .
welfare legislation, laws which may set up day-care centers and resubmission of
the 18-year old vote for state and local elections. The 18-year-old vote campaign was the IPAC's centerpiece at last year's 32-day special session. This
year, the IPAC's first regular session in the Olympia office, the group's legislative focus will spread out. John Peick, a University junior in political
science, will specialise in ecology and environmental legislation for IPAC.
Tammi Fotherinham, also of the University, will specialize in student discipline
proposals. Dale Krueger of CWSC's field will be tuition, fees and budgets for
higher education.
-10Signs of the Times—Gleaned From The Press
Georgia's Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox—prevented by law from running for
another term as governor'—recently offered this analysis of the problems of
rehabilitating prison inmates: "We're doing the best we can, but before we can
do much more, we're going to have to get a better grade of prisoner."
Aranwood, an apartment house for dogs in New Jersey, offers its guests, for as
little as $12.50 a day, a Master Suite featuring a three-inch-thick foam mattress,
wall-to-wall carpeting and color-cootfdinated decor. For $10.50 a day the canine
tenants can get an Executive Suite. An Efficiency Apartment is available for
$7.50 per day, and for the small dog.there are Mini Quarters for just $6.00. Muzak
fills the air with soothing melodies. The dogs are provided with the diet the
owners request. One dog has.scrambled eggs and toast for breakfast. Another gets
a medium-boiled egg and toast. A couple of others insist on a stew Made of sauteed
vegetables and chunks of meat. THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS. The bad news is that recent
surveys now indicated that about 20 million Americans are living below the poverty
level, many suffering from malnutrition.
In Pine Island, Minnesota, it is illegal for a man to pass a cow without tipping
his hat, and in Waterloo, Nebraska, there is a law on the books which prohibits
barbers from eating onions between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Campaign slogan of candidate for mayor of Wrangell, Alaska:
corrupt little town and I intend to keep it that way,"
"This is a diry,
Also from the press—The Longview Daily News to be exact—the following from a
lengthy editorial entitled "The New Revolution": "The one (revolution) just ending
is political and technological. The political part began with a resounding declaration in 1776. It rumbled on with much conflict over slavery, women's suffrage,
prohibition, the initiative and referendum, collective bargaining and civil rights,
to the present when every adult, including at last the blacks, the illiterates
and the 18-year-olds, can vote, and the electoral college is finally dying of
obsolescence.
Meanwhile, the persons who invent and develop and make the hardware of living
reached such levels of attainment that finally there are cries of "enough. (More
trips to the moon? Why? Fly planes 1,600 miles an hour? Really necessary? Pipe
20 or even 60 cahnnels of TV into a home instead of 13? What for?)
This country for its first 195 years has been busy—actually preoccupied—with
growing, expanding, pushing back frontierss amassing riches that? were there for
the amassing.
-11The New Revolution, if that is the right word for it, may have had its real
beginnings in the realization of the youngest citizens that the goals of the
old revolution had really been attained and there was no use pursuing them
further. Here was a country, fully occupied, with enough of the good things of
life to go around if only the right way to make them go around could be found.
The ultimate goal need not be to produce more and more of everything and to
make everything1—schools, cities, businesses, memberships, bank accounts, the
gross national product—grow and continue to grow.
But if not that, what? What are the new goals?
They are to refine and perfect and improve upon what has thus far been achieved.
They are to pause and clean up. They are to take time for matters there was
not time for in the rush of the past.to get where we were sure we wanted to go.
In this rush we dirtied the waters and the air. Time now to stop that sort of
thing. Not long ago it was quite good enough for a city just to have a sewer
system. Now it must treat sewage, not in one way but two, before pumping it
out where fish live and people swim. Previously it was a person's right to do
with his own property whatever he wanted. Now there is agreement that zoning,
in the countryside as well as in cities, is in order.
Cut timber on the slopes of Mt. St. Helens, but always replant. Mine coal at
Centralia, but do not deface the countryside. Build the Trojan atomic power plant
(energy is one commodity not yet in surplus supply) but build it in a park. Use
the shorelines, but use them wisely and keep them open for everyone's enjoyment,"
The editorial goes on to point out that revision of health care—not just in ways
to pay for it, but in making it available to all—is rapidly becoming the Number
One national goal. It also calls for pioneering efforts in welfare reform, suggests
that the need has never been greater to support libraries and colleges, asserts
that barriers blocking women and members of minority groups from professional careers must continue to fall, and that fundamental human rights mast be protected.
"The laws in our times have new meaning because more people are willing to observe
them and to enforce them."
In conclusion: "Despite all this, beware the mirage of utopianism. It is reasonable to conclude that at this point in the 20th Centouy, America .has paused to
tidy up, collect the loose ends, do better with what it has already put together,
and do less shoving and pushing of one another in a race for more and more of
everything. But the pause has really just begun and the accomplishments so far
have been small. The process of refinement should not take another 200 years to
.show results, however. It can be expected to proceed, actually, fast enough so
that life in the United States, assuming the guns are stilled, will be infinitely
better in the years ahead than ever before."
PEOPLE POTPOURRI
Three Evergreeners are currently employed by the State Legislature to help keep
things running smoothly during the 1971 session. Pat Baugh, secretary to the Dean
of Library Services, has taken a leave of absence to serve as a secretary in the
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Senate Majority Caucus. Char 1 q 1 1 e^ Wl t hr ow , part-time secretary in the Office
of Facilities Planning, is secretary to Republican Senator led Peterson of
Seattle. And Mo 1 ly _Latigd on , former clerk-typist-recaptionist, is serving in
the office of the House of Representatives Sergeant At Arms. When Molly returns to Evergreen it will probably be as a student who, by then, also will be
a veteran Eureopean traveler. . . .Two Evergreen staff members who serve on the
board of directors of Morningside , Inc., the local activity center and sheltered
workshop for retarded and handicapped persons, also will play major roles in the
organization's forthcoming $75,000 capital fund-raising campaign. Executive
Vice President .E._J^ -Shob_en will head up the drive's College Committee. Director
of Information Services Die k_jJ icho 1 &_ will chair the Publicity Committee. By the
way, Evergreen personnel already have given about $100 to the advance gifts segment of the fund drive. Much more about all this later. . .Director of Admissions
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. doesn't believe in doing his work from behind a desk. On February 11,
he'll participate in an Evergreen presentation to the deans of students of Washington's community colleges and will meet with community college counselors.
Both meetings will be held at Centralia College. Brown also will visit numerous
community college campuses In February to talk with students interested in transferring to Evergreen. Ands on February 17 he travels to Interlake High School
in Bellevue to visit with 60 adult education students. . .Guess who was the father
of the first baby born in 1971 at Shelton General Hospital. Evergreen's own
Jerry__Ma£ejs maintenance man in Plant Operations. Dads mom (Shir ley) and son
Brad are doing nicely, thank you. . .Student Accounts Supervisor John^ Moss has
turned author. He and John P. Fertakis, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Washington State University, recently penned an article entitled "An
Introduction to PERT and PERT/Cost Systems", which appears in the latest issue
°f IIlSSMSSj^££Hy^^_-ISSMl:li£§.' • • • Professor Jack_Webb_ was a recent participant
in 'the grading of College Board examinations at Atlantic City, New Jersey, While
there, Webb also interviewed potential minority faculty applicants and discussed
independent study opportunities with faculty and student representatives from
across the country. . .Photographer Woody^JIirzel^ had a rough day during the recent
snowfall. Arriving at work one morning , he started to lock his car door and
broke off the key. Yes, it was the ignition key. . .Looking for some interesting
reading? Try Bill Movers* article "Listening to America", which appears in the
December issue of 'Harper's. , .Executive Vice President E.^ J. Shobenj, Jr. has been
named chairman of the Task Force on Preventive Intervention, Project on College
Mental Health for the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Eduction. He also
has been named to the Citizens Committee on Cooper Point Development, a group
operating under auspices of the Thurston County Planning Commission.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
(February
1-28)
Monday^February 1
Dean Clabaugh
—
Interinstitutional Committee of Business Officers meeting,
9:30 a.m., Tyee Motor Inn.
Carl Brown
—
Tacoma Community House board meeting, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February_2
Meeting with directors of admissions of state colleges and
universities, Ellensburg.
Dave Brown
Wednesday., February 3
Dean Clabaugh, Dick Nichols, Bob Sethre — Legislative liaison meeting, WEA
Building, Olympia, 1:30 p.m.
Bob Barringer
—•
Attend Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
Data Element Dictionary task force meeting, Albuquerque, New
Mexico (University of New Mexico). (Also February 4).
Dave Carnahan
• Attend "Audio-Video Recording: Implosion of Explosion"
seminar, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. (Also
February 4 and. 5).
Dick Nichols
•
Speech to Hazel Dell Lions Club, Vancouver, Washington,
.6:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 4
Highways Department Hearing on Evergreen Parkway, Tyee Motor Inn, 9:00 a.m.
President's Council meeting, 12:00 noon.
E. J. Shoben, Jr. — • Speech to Olympia Pre-school Playschool annual meeting,
Chuckwagon Restaurant, Lacey, 8:00 p.m.
Dean Clabaugh
Dick Nichols
—
Business Directors Council meeting, 2:00 p.m.
• Speech to Capitol Kiwanis Club, Hotel Olympian, 6:00 p.m.
Friday, February 5
Charles McCann
Meeting with community college presidents, Tyee Motor Inn,
9:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon.
Dean Clabaugh
Ad hoc committee meeting on sabbaticals, University of
Washington, 10:00 a.m.
Ken Winkley
Interinstitutional Budget, Accounting and Reporting Committee
meeting at, Washington State University.
Saturday, February6
Willi Unsoeld
•—• Attend American Alpine Club Council meeting, Denver,
Monday,, February 8
ECCO Town Hall meeting, Tyee Motor Inn, 7:30 p.m. (all staff invited).
Charles McCann
—
Speech to AAUP Chapter, Ellensburg, 7:30 p.m.
E. J. Shoben, Jr. —
In Tennessee to interview personnel, meet with Ford Foundation Master of Arts in College Teaching Program and address
University of Tennessee faculty on undergraduate curricular
change,
Ken Winkley
Review of Washington State University student accounts
system in operation during Spring registration.
-—
Wednesday, February 10
Dean Clabaugh, Dick Nichols, Bob Sethre -- Legislative liaison meeting, WEA
Building, Olympia, 1:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 11
President's Council meeting, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Business Directors Council, 2:00 p.m.
Larry Stenberg
—
Attend Washington Financial Aid Association meeting, North
Seattle. Community College (also Feb. 12).
Dave Brown
—
Attend meetings with community college deans of students
and counselors, Centralia College.
Friday, February J.2
College Holiday
John Moss
—
Attend Washington Financial Aid Association meeting, North
Seattle Community College.
Monday February 15
College Holiday
Council on Higher Education Tour of TESC campus, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon.
Tuesday, February 16
Charles McCann
—
Speech to Aberdeen Kiwanis Club, Nordic Restaurant, 12:00 noon;
speech to Qlympia Chapter AAUW, 8:00 p.m.. Women's Club
Carl Brown
—
Higher Education Personnel Board meeting, Skagit Valley Community College, Mt. Vernon.
-3Wednesday, February 17
Dean Clabaugh, Dick Nichols, Bob Sethre -- Legislative liaison meeting, WEA
Building, 1:30 p.m.
David Barry '
—
Interinstitutional Academic Officers meeting, Sea-Tac
Motor Inn, 9:00 a.m.
Ken Winkley
—
Interinstitutiortal Committee on Indirect Costs meeting,
University of Washington.
Dave Brown
~~ Meeting with adult education students, Interlake High
School, Bellevue.
Helen Spears
—
Council for Management of Forms and Records meeting,
12:00 noon, Panorama City.
—
Attend Community College Conference, University of Washington
(also Feb. 19 and 20); Speech to Olympia High School P.T.A.s
8:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 18
David Barry
President's Council Meeting, 12:00 noon.
Business Directors Council meeting, 2:00 p.m.
E. J. Shoben, Jr. —
Speech to Mason Medical Society, Shelton.
_SaturdayA February 20
Charles Teske
—
Speech about music and arts planning at Evergreen, State
Federation of Music Clubs meeting, Shelton.
—
Lecture at Beaverton, Oregon (for Oregon System of Continuing
Education). Topic: "Changing Faces of Religion".
Tuesday, February 23
Willi Unsoeld
Wednesday, February 24
Dean Clabaugh, Dick Nichols, Bob Sethre — Legislative liaison meeting, WEA Buildings 1:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 25
Board of Trustees meeting, Library Trailer, 2:00 p.m.
Willi Unsoeld
—
Lecture to Olympia Mountaineers' basic climbing course.
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