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The Evergreen State College Newsletter (May 17, 1973)
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May 17, 1973
THREE NEW FACULTY HIRED, OTHER CONTRACTS ISSUED
Three new persons have agreed to join the Evergreen faculty team next fall, contracts have been offered to an additional three persons and recruitment of more faculty
"in the arts" is underway, according to Associate Dean Oscar Soule.
New to the faculty will be: Linnea Pearson, an associate professor of English at
Norfolk State College, Virginia; George E. Dimitroff, an associate professor of mathematics at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois; and Edward N. Reynolds, assistant professor of
psychology at Boston College.
Ms. Pearson holds both bachelor's and master's degrees in English from the University
of Illinois. She also holds a doctorate in literature from Northern Illinois University.
The 34-year-old professor has been a writer, reporter, book reviewer, public information
officer, editorial assistant for educational television, and a public school teacher.
She has also taught at Northern Illinois University and North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. On leave from Norfolk State College, she currently is a post-doctoral
fellow at the Harvard Divinity School.
REED GRADUATE
Dimitroff, received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Reed College in Portland
in 1960. He earned his master's degree in mathematics from the University of Oregon in
1962, and a doctorate from the U of 0 in 1964. Later that year, he joined the faculty of
Knox College as an assistant professor. The 35-year-old professor is an oboist for the
Galesburg Symphony, has served as an alderman for the City of Galesburg, and has an extensive
knowledge of Russian language.
Reynolds is a 1962 graduate of Oberlin College, where he earned a bachelor's degree
in sociology and psychology. He has earned two master's degrees from Western Reserve
University
one in psychology, the other in psychiatric social work. He holds a doctorate in social psychology from Western Reserve, and has served one year as a post-doctoral
research associate at Brandeis University.
A former assistant professor of sociology at Kent State University, Reynolds, 34,
has also worked as a research associate in Cleveland, Ohio; as a psychologist for VISTA
Training Center, and as a psychology intern at a veteran's hospital.
THREE CONTRACTS ISSUED
Meanwhile, contracts have been offered to three additional persons, Soule reported.
Their areas of academic expertise are languages, economics, business and public administration. Soule said recruitment is not yet complete on additional art faculty (see following
story).
While newcomers are joining the faculty, Soule reported that only two persons are
leaving
Richard Anderson and Francita Lampert. Ida Daum will take a year's leave of
absence and Jose Arguelles will take a two-quarter leave.
GROUP CONTRACTS OFFERED IN THE ARTS
Group study contracts in drama, music, dance and the visual arts are being added to
the Fall Quarter curriculum, according to Academic Dean Charles Teske. Faculty Members
Ainara Wilder, Bud Johansen and Robert Gottlieb will be available for group contracts, as
will one new visual arts faculty member not yet hired. Faculty Member Peggy Dickinson will
offer individual contracts.
The decision to offer additional group contracts was reached after "considerable discussion", Teske said. "Originally representatives of the visual and performing arts met
in March and decided their efforts for the 1973-74 academic year should be concentrated
in Coordinated Studies programs," he explained.
"We had so few artists that they had been
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largely absorbed by advanced and rather highly specialized students, and the artists themselves felt this caused morale problems. Other faculty members had some questions about the
strength of their commitment to interdisciplinary studies. Besides, there was no.;-;opportunity to incorporate artisitic concerns into Coordinated Studies programs."
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After next year's curriculum was announced and faculty assignments made, Teske saia
"it become increasingly clear that there were many legitimate claims for having artists
assigned to both Coordinated Studies programs and advanced learning contracts.
RECRUITMENT IN PROCESS
"As a result, we decided to fill most any "extra" positions there might be available
on next year's faculty with artists," he added. Recruitment for those artists is now in
the process, with emphasis on visual arts, dance, drama and music.
"The artists who have been at Evergreen will be assigned to group contracts. The
newcomers may be assigned to Coordinated Studies programs, even though it means we have
to ask those who have already served on contracts to do so again," he said.
Teske also noted that the new group contracts are not formally organized as yet and
that students who are interested in enrolling in them "should be aware that teamwork will
be encouraged among the artists participating in the group contracts
both faculty
members and students." All questions on the arts faculty and assignments are not answered
as yet, Teske said, and the issue remains an active concern of all of the deans.
STEPHERSON ROTATING INTO FACULTY; SMITH AND PEFFER INTO COUNSELING
Lem Stepherson, director of counseling, will rotate into the faculty next fall and
Faculty Member Leroi Smith will take over as director of the counseling center. "This
action marks the first time faculty and staff have rotated positions in quite this way,"
Dean of Student Services Larry Stenberg reported.
"We've talked about doing this for some time, but this arrangment is unique," he
explained. "Lem will teach for two years. LeRoi will serve as director of counseling
for the first of his two years away from the faculty. He will be assisted by Lou-Ellen
Peffer, currently director of resident activities and slated to become a staff counselor
in the fall. The second year, Lou-Ellen will become director of counseling and LeRoi wi(
assist her."
The Peffer-Smith team offers counseling "a unique combination of talents which will
really complement each other," Stenberg said. "Each of them will have special desk assignments through the entire two-year period, but, for the most part, they'll be changing
roles each year."
DIRECTOR OF COMPUTER SERVICES TO BE NAMED SOON
Four candidates have been interviewed for the long-vacant post of director of computer services. The interviews, which were completed this month, are expected to lead to
an appointment in the next few days by Provost Ed Kormondy. Those being considered are
Robert Duquet, Glenn R. Ingram, Larry Kirkpatrick and York Wong.
STUDENT ORGANIZES SYMPOSIUM FOR OLYMPIANS
Olympia-area residents are invited to a symposium on leadership and group participation Wednesday (May 23) from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at the Olympia
City Hall.
Evergreen student Mike Gilbert has organized the symposium as part of his individual
academic contract on communication and psychology with Faculty Member Will Humphreys.
Four persons will discuss different aspects of leadership, group participation and
problem solving, Gilbert said. Panel members include Ann Hunt, an advertising executive
for Jansen Sportswear; Margaret Connet, a specialist in the Family Day Care Office of
the Department of Social and Health Services; Harry Johnson of the Washington State Department of Education; and Gilbert.
Goal of the symposium is "to help persons learn how best to achieve their own objectives in a group situation," Gilbert said.
EYE-5 AWARDED GRANT FROM STATE ARTS COMMISSION
The Eye-5 continuing artists program, which has doubled in size in the last ye
has received a $5,000 grant from the Washington State Arts Commission for the 197
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fiscal year. Executive Director Adrienne Alexander said the grant represents an important percentage of the total $60,000-budget she is hoping the program will have this year.
"We've doubled the number of artists we've brought in this year,1' Ms. Alexander said.
"We've also doubled the number of locations at which they've performed and have tripled
the size of our audiences. We feel Eye-5 is a growing project which will be able to
expand even more rapidly in the near future."
Almost a dozen new schools are being added to the list of Eye-5 participants, including Western Washington State College, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Highline, Grays
Harbor and Lower Columbia Community Colleges.
"We're also expanding into non-school areas," she said. "We hope to involve military
service clubs at Fort Lewis and possibly, elsewhere."
The new Eye-5 director said, "I am now in the process of compiling a list of approximately 20 artists whose names will be mailed to Eye-5 participants for feedback by July 1.
Then I'll know where the interests lie and I can begin offering firm contracts for next
year." Ms. Alexander said she will also sponsor an all-day Eye-5 workshop October 5 at
Evergreen. "The plan is to bring all the Eye-5 participants together so we can work out
schedules, guidelines and a basic operating philosophy," she added.
Eye-5 is an agency which aims at bringing artists to the Puget Sound area by encouraging cooperation among diverse groups, including schools, libraries, and community organizations. It was originally concentrated along the Interstate Five freeway, but is now
spread across most of Western Washington.
INVITATIONS OUT TO 500 NATIVE AMERICANS
More than 500 Native Americans from throughout Washington State have been invited to
Evergreen this Saturday to help design a Native American Coordinated Studies Program.
Faculty Member Mary Ellen Hillaire said inviations were mailed to persons who represented
emphases on three areas of concern: Youth, Indian education, and Indian traditions.
Ms. Hillaire and Faculty Members Mary Nelson, Cruz Esquivel and Darrell Phare are
sponsoring the all-day conference. "Our purpose is to gain added input to help us develop
an academic program which will be designed, staffed and planned by Indian students and
their communities specifically for Indian students."
"We want to talk to these people and receive their ideas from both their community-based
experiences and their institutional/academic experiences," Ms. Hillaire said. The Native
American academic program will be "specifically designed for Indians but, ultimately, for
the good of society," she added. "We want to help Indians better understand themselves.
A person who understands himself better can contribute more productively to others. We
hope that by benefiting the Indian students we will be benefiting society."
they found an unmet demand
THREE EVERGREENERS ESTABLISH STUDENT SERVICES CORPORATION
If you want to succeed in business, you've got to find a demand that's not being met
and meet it. At least that's the theory behind a new business being established by three
industrious Evergreen students. Employed part-time in the Office of Student Services,
the three discovered that most community and small four-year colleges need help providing
student entertainment and activities, Pete Pugji, an Olympia senior, said. "We also
found that, because of our work at Evergreen, we had the know-how to meet that need
and provide those activities, so we were off and running."
Calling their business Student Developmental Services, Pugh and two Tacomans,
Mark Peterson, a junior, and Ed Doane, a senior who initiated the idea, began offering
their services to community colleges. "We offered them a full slate of student programs
from booking a band for a single dance to staging a week-long crafts fair with demonstrations, exhibits, artists and musicians," he said. "Our ideas have been greeted with
tremendous enthusiasm by the activity directors from these schools, and we've even got
five contracts already."
HAS SERVED FORT STEILACOOM, TCC
The infant business, born winter quarter, has already provided Fort Steilacoom
College with a "Pbtpourri of Arts and Crafts," an evening event which attracted more than
170 visitors to the Lakewood campus, and will provide a similar event for Tacoma Community
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summer activities program," Pugh said. "We've got some really unusual programs in mind
and we'll take care of all the details from bookings to promotion, security and cleanup."
Next fall the trio hopes to expand its business into consultant and management
services in student financial aid for propriety schools such as business colleges and
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vocational schools. "Most of these schools are not aware of the financial aid available '
to their students and don't have the manpower to keep track of aid programs," Pugh said.
"Congress has recently passed new financial aid programs to help students in these kinds
of schools and we're hopeful we can help the schools help the students."
In the meantime, the three, all transfers from community colleges themselves, will
continue their academic study programs and their part-time jobs in Evergreen's Student
Services where they gained the training which enabled them to found their new business.
McCANN AND EIKENBERRY ON VIEWPOINT
President Charles J. McCann and Representative Ken Eikenberry
will appear on KOMO (Channel 4, Seattle) Television's program, "Viewpoint," tomorrow night at 7:30. The program, filmed in Seattle, Tuesday, will also be aired on KOMO radio (1000 on the dail) May 20 at
10 a.m. and again on television May 24 at 7:30 a.m. Eikenberry, a
Republican from the 36th District in Seattle, is described as "Evergreen's most radical critic," by KOMO program moderator, Art McDonald.
NSF TO SEND WRITING TEAM TO EVERGREEN THIS SUMMER
The National Science Foundation will send a writing team to Evergreen this summer
to work on the first major curriculum project directed towards the training of chemical
technicians. Academic Dean Don Humphrey said the team, from the NSF Chemical Technician
Curriculum Project, will aim at instructing students on the use of common laboratory
instruments and developing skills in common laboratory techniques.
"The five-member team will also help acquaint students with the language of chemistry
as well as teach basic chemical principles," Humphrey said. "And, they will try to make V
the skills and information available in self-paced learning packages." The NSF team will
complement the activities of 11 faculty members working on a separate $50,000 NSF grant
awarded to Evergreen for a summer program to develop self-paced learning units in the
natural and social sciences, Humphrey said.
VALUABLE CHEMICAL SAMPLES KIT DONATED
A kit containing more than 1,000 regent grade chemical samples has been donated to
Evergreen by the Chemical Technicians Curriculum Project of the National Science Foundation. Samples in the kit will be used by Evergreen students and faculty as standards
for analyses of various substances on analytical instruments now available in the new
Laboratory Building.
Academic Dean Don Humphrey said the "broad choice of samples made available by this
gift will make it possible for students to examine various characteristics of chemical
systems and will insure the broadest and most professional use of instruments such as infrared, ultraviolet and visible light spectrophotometers." Humphrey said the gift was made
available through the efforts of Faculty Member Robert Barnard T who has been associated
with the Chem Tech project for several years.
COMMISSION ON GOVERNANCE TO REVIEW COG DOCUMENT
A 15-member Commission on Governance is being established by President Charles J.
McCann to review the COG document and prepare a working draft report by the beginning of
Fall Quarter. McCann issued a call this week for volunteers to serve on the commission,
which will hold a series of public hearings during the fall and prepare a final report
and recommendations by December 15.
"The commission will be composed of four students, four faculty, two administrators, (
four staff and one member of the Board of Trustees," McCann said. "Fifty percent of the
representatives in each group are to be selected from among persons who have served on
any of the variety of bodies set up under the present COG document (sounding board,
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appeals boards, DTFs, etc.)- The other 50 percent are to be selected from a list of
persons who volunteer to be on the Commission."
McCann said members of the original Committee on Governance should be excluded from
actual membership on this new Commission "in order that a fresh viewpoint be brought to
the governance question."
Persons interested in serving on the commission can contact McCann's office,
753-3100) Room 3109, by May 30. A DTP chaired by Faculty Member Richard Cellarius will
help McCann select members of the Commission.
PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL RENAMED
The name of the President's Council will be changed to President's Advisory Council
per recommendations of a Disappearing Task Force. Faculty Member Richard Cellarius,
chairman of the DTF on the President's Council, said the new name will "indicate more
clearly its function as an advisory body and not a decision-making body."
The council also recommended that routine business between the president and vice
presidents not be taken up at meetings of the council. "The agenda should be prepared
by the president and consist primarily of matters on which he desires counsel," Cellarius
said. "It should be understood, however, that members of the council could also bring
up items they felt needed attention by the president." Regular meetings of the council will
be held during all four academic quarters and normally not more frequently than biweekly.
The DTF also recommended that the council consist of two faculty, two students and
two staff members selected from the community service list. Members will serve two
quarters with one faculty member, one student and one staff person chosen at the beginning of each quarter to permit overlapping terms.
NEWS BRIEFS
...A Disappearing Task Force will meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday (May 22) in Room 202 of the
College Recreation Center to discuss establishment of Club Sports Guidelines at Evergreen.
Thomas Allen, Coordinator of Competitive Sports, will serve as DTF chairman.
...Applications for editor of The Paper for the 1973-74 academic year have been requested
by the Board of Publications. All interested students are asked to submit their applications to Judy Prentice, Publication Board Secretary, Library room 3114, by 5 p.m., May 23.
Applicants will be interviewed the afternoon of May 24 by members of the Pub Board, The
new editor, whose tenure will begin with publication of the second issue next fall, will
be announced in the May 31 issue of the paper. Andy Ryan, who has edited The Paper
Spring Quarter, will remain in the post through the first issue to provide continuity
between terms.
...The Board of Trustees has established a memorial loan fund in memory of the late Donald
Heard, a faculty member who died in 1971. Heard, a well-known Pacific Northwest artist,
joined the faculty in the summer of 1971 and was killed in an automobile accident that
fall. The loan fund has been established in his memory through contributions of family,
friends, students, and colleagues.
...The Tacoma Youth Symphony will present a complimentary concert at Evergreen Sunday beginning at 3 p.m. in the main lobby of the library.
More than 100 musicians from grades
nine through twelve, including 25 from the Olympia area, will perform under Conductor
C. Irvine Wright, director of the Olympia High School orchestra.
. . .Walter Hamady, a man who writes poems, makes the paper to print them on,- and publishes
them with his own hand-operated printed press, will demonstrate his skills at Evergreen
beginning at 1 p.m. Monday, main lobby of the Library. Hamady, who is owner of the Perishable Press Limited in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, will also appear in the Mondays at Eight series
at 8 p.m. in the reference alcove of the Library.
...Dick Beidleman, chairman of the Biology department at Colorado College in Colorado Spring
will discuss "Early Naturalists on the Western Frontier" tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the Life on
Earth seminar room, second floor of the Laboratory Building. Beidleman will narrow the
geographic focus of his afternoon talk to the drainage areas of the Columbia, Missouri,
and Colorado rivers.
EVERGREENERS IN THE NEWS
...Patricia Sparks, a student in the Mind and Body program, is among the final contestants
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for a lead in the special Expo 1974 movie which will begin production May 28. Announcement of the final leading players is expected soon.
...Administrative Vice President Dean Clabuagh will attend a three-day conference sponsored
by the Public Affairs Council in Washington, D.C. May 22-24. PAC is an association of /
corporate government relations, community affairs and urban affairs officers.
...Faculty Member Will Humphreys has been elected chairman of the Washington Intercollege
Relations Commission, an organization of all public and private two and four-year colleges
within the State of Washington. Humphreys, who was appointed to the commission more than
two years ago by President Charles J. McCann, said the organization is primarily concerned with resolving inter-institutional problems such as transfer of student credits.
...New to the Evergreen staff is Niki Smith a clerk typist in the Purchasing Office. Ms.
Smith joined the forces May 4.
...Les Eldridge, director of financial aid and placement and Bill Smith, financial aid
counselor, attended a three-day program of student financial aid administrators last weekend in Portland. Six Evergreen students also attended and presented a panel on student
paraprofessional activities as financial aid counselors. Panel members were Pete Pugh,
Charles Raynor, Donna Hill, Ed Doane, Mark Peterson and Chad Lewis.
...Eldridge also made the news this week when a trophy was named after him. The former
director of the Seattle Park Department's rowing program said he's been asked to present
the Lester W. Eldridge trophy to the winner of the Northwest Women's Invitational Regatta
in the light-weight, eight-oar race. Eldridge coached women's rowing for three years and
directed five national champions.
Carrie's back
TRIP TO JAPAN PROFITABLE FOR EVERGREENERS
Seventeen Evergreen students from the Japan and The West program will be able to
spend the 1973-74 academic year working on apprenticeships in Japan and living with
Japanese families thanks to the efforts of Faculty Member Carie Cable. Recently returned/
from a five-week trip to Japan, Ms. Cable said she had arranged for each student to havev
a separate apprenticeship. "The jobs are very different and exciting," she said. "Students will be apprenticing in lacquer ware, pottery, weaving, traditional carpentry,
abacus construction, wine making, and in pre-schools. One student, Dave Keller, will be
studying and living with the acolytes of the Grand Shrine of Izumo, one of the two largest
Shinto shrines of Japan."
Ms. Cable will also be spending the year in Japan, and will hold weekly seminars in
a Zen temple of the town of Matuse. All of the students will be based in Shimane Prefecture of southwestern Japan. "It's a very provincial, conservative, agarian area,"
she said. "And, it is one of the rew remaining strongholds of traditional Japanese
folk crafts and folk lore."
Students will pay their own transportation and room and board to live with Japanese
families in their private dwellings. "Loneliness will be our biggest challenge," she
said, "but I think we'll be able to keep busy enough to handle it." Students will use
Ms. Cable's apartment as homebase and as a library. Their group goal will be to develop
a research program on some aspect of folk lore in the area, and they expect to begin that
project about February.
Ms. Cable said arranging the apprenticeships and accommodations was a difficult
task "because 17 young Americans represent quite an imposition on the people of Shimane
who have little contact with foreigners. We had a lot of shuffling and reshuffling to
do to match students' interests and backgrounds with employers and families."
Prime goal of the experience is not development of skills in any one field, she
added. "Our concern is with the process rather than the product. It takes the Japanese
craftsmen years to learn their trade. But, we're hopeful the students' education will
be greatly expanded and enriched by the experience."
Ms. Cable spent 18 months in Japan as an undergraduate studying Japanese language, (
folk religion and folk drama.
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