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...FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS ANNOUNCED...Twelve Thurston County residents are among 39
winners of the 1978 achievement scholarships offered by the Evergreen Foundation. The $618
scholarships, which cover in-state tuition and fees for the 1978-79 academic year, were
awarded by an Evergreen committee to new student applicants who have made outstanding achievements in academics, community service, the arts, or other areas.
Olympia recipients of the Foundation scholarships include: Judith Johnson Guykema, Rita
Keating, Karl Ken Kirk, Lois Knutson, Mercedes Martin Monte, Mary Lynn Prevost, Wanda Schroeder,
Debra Taylor, and Margaret Vosse.
Tumwater resident Hazel Willmarth received a full scholarship as did Neill Kramer and
Susan Culbertson, both of Lacey.
Other scholarship winners include residents of Prosser, Tacoma, Kalama, Mercer Island,
Bellevue, Gig Harbor, Kirkland, Auburn, Allyn, Seattle, Grayland, Vancouver and Lopez Island,
Washington, as well as nine persons from outside the state.
... SUMMER REGISTRATION REOPENS JUNE 19...Registration for Summer Quarter academic programs at
Evergreen resumes Monday, June 19 and continues weekdays through June 26, the final day to pay
summer tuition and fees.
Offered during Evergreen's Summer Quarter are some four coordinated studies programs, 18
small group study offerings, and the opportunity for individual contracted studies with 14
"acuity members. Coordinated studies programs include: French Culture: Language, Myth and
Reality; Native American Literature and Art; Biography/Autobiography,' and Institute of Western
Black Culture.
Small group study programs offered include: American Folk Music for Teachers; Prehistoric
Civilizations; The Imperial Self: American Writing in the Nineteenth Century; German Studies;
Anthropological, Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Sources; Methods in Field Biology; Poetic
Logic; Organic Gardening; Summer Repertory Theater; Photographs, Museums and Monuments;
Alpine Botany; Plants and Their Uses; Origins of Life; Vancouver and Puget; Basic Mathematics
and Computer Programming; Solar Energy Applications; and Major in Psychology.
In addition, 14 faculty members will be available Summer Quarter to direct individual
student studies in such areas as: education, psychology, management, organizational behavior,
ballet, theater, television, chemistry, general physics, ecology, molecular biology, environmental studies, western philosophy, literature, creative writing, marine coast natural history,
art history, graphics, and political economy.
Persons seeking complete information on Summer Quarter offerings are invited to contact
the Office of Admissions, 866-6170.
...SENIOR WINS SWISS SCHOLARSHIP...Jacques Mowrer, a graduating senior from Phoenix, Arizona,
has received a $4,800 scholarship from Swiss Universities Grants through the Institute of
International Education for a year-long masters-level study at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de
Lausanne on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Mowrer, who studied under faculty scientists Dr. Steven Herman and Dr. Michael Beug in the Ecology and Chemistry of Pollution program,
says he'll conduct studies on PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) pollution in Lake Geneva while
he works toward a graduate degree in environmental studies.
The grant awards Mowrer $400 per month from January through December, 1979.
...UPWARD BOUND SEEKS AREA STUDENTS...More than 60 area high school sophomores and juniors are
expected to participate in an intensive six-week summer school program sponsored by Upward
Bound at Evergreen. The Summer program, which begins June 18, is part of a year-long project
funded by a $160,219 grant from the Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and
Welfare, and is designed to serve the needs of low income youth with "high potential and low
motivation," who are interested in post secondary education.
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...SENIOR CONCERT SET THURSDAY...Graduating students in the various performing arts at Evergreen will present a Senior Portfolio Performance Thursday, June 8, at 8 p.m. in the Experimental Theater of the Communications Building. The concert will feature works in music, dance,
and theater, presented and performed by Sue Ann Roberts, Steven Layton, Ted Roisum, Michael
Mehaffy, Phillip Hertz, and Michael Huntsberger. Assisting the artists will be Glenn Horton
and Jay Leighton (lighting and set design), Aaron Sonego (sound), and Peter Randlett (stage
manager).
The concert, produced by Hertz and Huntsberger, is a total student effort in every aspect.
The Senior Portfolio Performance is sponsored by two Evergreen programs: the Dance Contract
and Twentieth Century Music: A Composer's View; and by the Tuesdays at Eight concert/lecture
series. Admission is $1 for students, senior citizens and children, and $1.50 for others.
...TUESDAYS AT EIGHT PLANS FULL SCHEDULE NEXT YEAR...The Tuesdays at Eight Committee, a group
of campus and community persons devoted to bringing educational and cultural programs to
Evergreen for enjoyment of both "town and gown," has drafted plans for a 26-part concert/lecture series to begin next October and continue through May, 1979. The series will be patterned
after the 1978 program, which brought 11 concerts and nine lectures to the Communications
Building between January and June.
Funds to support the eight-month program next year have been sought from the Services and
Activities Fees Review Board, the Washington State Arts Commission, the Evergreen Foundation
and POSSCA, a local patron of the arts group.
Tuesdays at Eight committee members, who hoped to finalize plans at a meeting on campus
last week, include community members Nancy Evans, Brother Ronald Hurst, Sherman Huffine,
Wendall Allen, Jess Spielholz and Tekla Hertz; Evergreeners Bill Winden, Robert Gottlieb,
Greg Steinke and Judy Annis.
...FINAL ISSUE FOR THIS YEAR...This is the final issue of the Newsletter for the 1977-78
academic year. We'll be back in your mailboxes September 25. Have a great summer!
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SENIORS CELEBRATE GRADUATION SUNDAY
More than 600 seniors are eligible to participate in Evergreen's seventh commencement
exercise Sunday beginning at 2 p.m. on the central campus plaza. Evergreen President Dan
Evans will emcee the afternoon ceremony, which begins with presentation of Evergreen seedlings
to every graduate, courtesy of the Weyerhaeuser Company, and concludes with an all-campus
reception.
Brief graduation speeches will be delivered by three graduating seniors: Marnie Pearce
of Santa Barbara, California; Steve Rabow of Binghampton, New York; and Margaret Greene of
Bellingham; and by Faculty Historian Susie Strasser; Staff Counselor Kathy Jordan, and Director
of Educational Support Programs Ernest "Stone" Thomas.
Names of graduates, which include students who completed their degrees Fall, Winter and
Spring Quarters and those who expect to graduate the end of Summer Quarter, will be read by
one of six faculty members representing a cross section of the instructional staff: Dr. Greg
Steinke, music; Dr. LeRoi Smith, psychology; Dr. Betty Estes, history of science; Dr. Peta
Henderson, anthropology; Lovern King, Native American Studies; and Dr. Russell Lidman, eco''omics. Board of Trustees chairman Herbert Hadley of Longview will combine efforts with
president Evans to confer degrees on the new graduates, who will swell Evergreen's alumni
ranks to more than 3,000.
Entertainment preceding, during and following the Sunday ceremony will be presented by
Gila and the Round Town Girls. All portions of the graduation program are free and open to
the public and, the College Bookstore will be open Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. for the convenience
of graduates and their guests.
TRUSTEES TO CONSIDER 1978-79 BUDGET. PROVOST SELECTION
Trustees convene Thursday, June 8 to consider proposals for the 1978-79 internal budget
and to weigh recommendations from President Dan Evans for appointment of a new Academic Vice
President and Provost. The disappearing task force charged with screening provost nominees
hoped to conclude interviews this week and send recommendations on the top five finalists to
the president by the first of next week.
Trustees are also slated to elect new officers at their meeting, set to begin at 10:30 a.m.
in Library 3112. In addition, they'll hear reports from Provost Ed Kormondy on the graduate
program proposal and from Administrative Vice President Dean Clabaugh on capital budget request.
Trustees will also consider revisions to the Faculty Handbook.
The Thursday morning meeting is open to the public.
WULFF'S BODY FOUND
The body of Evergreen student boatbuilder Reid Wulff was discovered on Manzanita Beach
along the shores of Eld Inlet May 28 by Olympian J.D. Zirkle. Wulff disappeared into the
aters of Eld Inlet April 27 after the canoe in which he and a companion were riding capsized.
A memorial service for Wulff was conducted along Eld Inlet May 1.
Wulff, a native of Norwalk, Connecticut, was enrolled in the Research Vessel Design
program which has been completing the Evergreen '38, a sailing/fishing craft which has been
renamed "Sea Wulff" in his honor.
-2FACULTY TO RETREAT TO FORT FLAGLER
Plans for the 1979-80 curriculum will get off tof
members and academic deans head for Fort Flagler nearr
The end of the quarter effort has been devised as a wf
culum planning," according to the Retreat Planning Coi
prepared June 12 with a "wish" — a preference for whs|
in 1979-80. Those wishes will be posted as faculty hei
to devise a draft of the new curriculums complete with
ment, by the end of the session June 15.
All faculty members are expected to attend the sef
points out, "you are being paid to do... since our contj
The committee hopes the "creative juices might f|
congenial atmosphere at Fort Flagler," and that faculfi
to "during the hectic pace of Fall Quarter."
Ideas proposed in the June session will also, the
gestate in the subconscious during the summer, coming f
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MOWRER WINS SWISS SCHOLARSHIP
Jacques Mowrer , a graduating senior from Phoenix,
ship from Swiss Universities Grants through thej^ftit
year-long masters-level study at Ecole Polyteelmiqulki F
Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Mowrer, who stypfiled under f
Dr. Michaek'-Beug in the Ecology and dieSfstry: of
on PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) pollution in Lake 3e
degree in environmental studies.
The grant awards Mowrer $400 per month from Januar
\e Thurston County residents are among 39 w
FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS ANNOUNCED
offered by the Evergreen Foundation. The $618 scholarship
fees for the 1978-79 academic year, were awarded by an Evl
applicants who have made outstanding achievements in acad(
or other areas.
Olympia recipients of the Foundation scholarships inci|
recognized for her community service; Rita Keating, for her1
Ken Kirk, a National Merit semi-finalist graduating this Ju\s Knutson, founder and president of t
Martin Monte, for community service; Mary Lynn Prevost, acaf
both academic and community service; Debra Taylor, communit
1978 graduate of Olympia High recognized for her achievemen,
Tumwater resident Hazel Willmarth received a full sch<{
ments at Olympia Technical Community College; Neill Kramer/
poetry and community service; and Laceyite Susan Gulbertsor
North Thurston School District.
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Other scholarship winners include residents of Prossei
Bellevue, Gig Harbor, Kirkland, Auburn, Allyn, Seattle, Gr|
Washington, as well as nine persons from outside the state|
INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC DTF REPORT IN
\e ten-member disappearing task force charge
appropriateness of and community reaction to" the developmerl
program at Evergreen has submitted a two-page report to Adm/
Clabaugh which finds that a program of "minor sports partic|
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an expanded Intramural sports program "with the support of and on initiative of the current
recreational staff."
The report, signed by DTP chairman Mark Schmitt. offers no clear conclusions on formation
of an intercollegiate program. Instead, it points to funding difficulties and says that
answers to "major questions" cannot be found without "vast research into who will benefit,
who will participate and to what extent...Evergreen gets involved."
DTP members felt development of an intercollegiate program was the "single most important
question" and recommended that the college aid in development by supporting "a sound intramural
program," encouraging support for those already existent sports clubs. "We encourage," wrote
members, "the college to make a commitment to provide athletic coaching and development of
recreational facilities such as track, field and gymnasium resources."
Committee members polled athletic directors at five Washington colleges and found that
their athletic programs were either partly or entirely self supporting. "Without the facilities for spectators, the large revenue-producing sports cannot provide" that self support at
Evergreen, they concluded.
The report encourages Evergreen to further develop its intramural sports program "to a
degree commensurate with Evergreen philosophy." "Start there," the DTFers wrote, "and build
to the point of minor sports participation in an intercollegiate program."
The report has not yet been answered by Clabaugh.
DTF members included: students Joyce Angell and Martina Guilfoil; staff members Mary
Kalihi and Molly Phillips; faculty members Kaye Ladd, Carol Olexa, and David Gallagher; and
community person Kevin Phillips.
HUMPHREY ELECTED TO NORCUS BOARD
Faculty Biologist Don Humphrey was elected to a two-year term on the Board of Directors
of NORCUS (Northwest College and University Association for Science) at the annual meeting of
he Association, held at the Joint Center for Graduate Studies in Richlaxid May 19. NORCUS
sponsors internships in various Department of Energy laboratories, conducts citizen's workshops
on energy and the environment and promotes joint educational efforts among government,
industry, and institutions of higher education.
Several Evergreen students have won paid internships through the NORCUS program, which
involves Evergreen and other colleges and universities in Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
NORCUS is funded by grants from the Department of Energy and plans to expand its activities
during the next two years, Humphrey says.
upcoming events
KRONOS APPEARS TUESDAY AT EIGHT
The Kronos String Quartet of San Francisco appears in concert at Evergreen June 6, beginning at 8 p.m. in the Experimental Theater of the Communications Building. The dynamic young
foursome, acclaimed for sensitive interpretations of the classics and exciting performances of
new music, will offer audiences a taste of both in the Tuesday at Eight concert, which will
also feature performance of works by two Evergreen faculty members.
SCHICK, STEINKE FEATURED
Kronos, which concentrates on performing contemporary music, will present the premiere
performance of Evergreen Faculty Composer Dr. Greg Steinke's "Music for String Quartet,"
followed by a collaborative piece featuring Evergreen Faculty Dancer Pam Schick. and 14 student
performers from her academic program, "Dance Contract." The versatile San Francisco quartet
will also present Mozart's "Quartet in D Minor" and Arnold Schonberg's "Fourth String Quartet"
in the 90-minute program.
Capping £he concert will be Kronos' interpretation of "Black Angels", a piece written in
4.970 by George Crumb, a nationally recognized modern composer whose works are particularly
appropriate for dance performances. Schick has choreographed the piece, which she will perform for the first time with her dance students. The piece, which Crumb calls a "kind of
parable on our troubled contemporary world," portrays a voyage of the soul in three stages:
departure or fall from grace; absence or spiritual annihilation, and return or redemption.
LAST CONCERT OF THE SERIES
Kronos was formed in 1973 and has since performed throughout the nation, presenting wq
shops on modern music and appearing in festivals from coast to coast. Its members include
David Harrington and Ella Kilian Gray, violinists; Hank Dutt, violist; and Walter Gray, cellis
Their concert, the final event of the Tuesdays at Eight series, is cosponsored by the
Evergreen Foundation, the Washington State Arts Commission, and the Evergreen College Communit
Organization. General admission is $3; students are admitted for $1.50. Tickets are availabl
at the door.
SENIOR PORTFOLIO CONCERT THURSDAY
Graduating students in, the various performing arts at Evergreen will present a Senior
Portfolio Performance Thursday, June 8, at 8 p.m. in the Experimental Theater of the Communications Building. The concert will feature works in music, dance, and theater, presented and
performed by jajje Ann Roberts, Steven Layton, Ted Rpisum, Michael Meha_ffj_j Phill.^ Herjtz_, and
Michael Huntsberger. Assisting the artists will be Glenn Horton and Jav_ Leighton (lighting
and set design), Aaron Sonego (sound), and Peter Randlett (stage manager).
Works to be performed include: the transformation scene from lonesco's RhiH2£SE£S,3 a s°l°
enactment by Roisum; solo piano compositions by Roberts; "Humpty Dumpty", a realization for
quadraphonic electronic tape by Mehaffy; and Sonnet: Lqve-Death_Music:_, for oboe, harp, and
percussion, by Layton, performed by Dr. Greg Steinke (oboe), Rita j>ammoris_ (harp), and Layton
(percussion). Also presented will be Cafe Mysterieux, for electronic tape and percussion,
composed and performed by Hertz, with dance choreographed by Mary Baker; and Free__Fall_, for
electronic tape, live electronics, piano and percussion, composed and performed by Huntsberger
assisted with slides by Lynn Freed and Michael Ross and Laser projection engineered by Robert^
Donker.
The concert, produced by Bertz and Huntsberger, is a total student effort in every asy""
The Senior Portfolio Performance is sponsored by two Evergreen programs? the Dance Central ,^
and Twentieth Century Music: A Composer's View; and by the Tuesdays at Eight concert/lecture
series.
Admission is $1 for students, senior citizens and children, and $1.50 for others.
TUESDAYS AT EIGHT PROPOSES 26-PART SERIES
The Tuesdays at Eight Committee, a group of campus and community persons devoted to
bringing educational and cultural programs to Evergreen for enjoyment of both "town and gown,"
has drafted plans for a 26-part concert/lecture series to begin next October and continue
through May, 1979. The series will be patterned after the 1978 program, which brought 11
concerts and nine lectures to the Communications Building between January and June. The final
performance of the 1978 series is June 6 at 8 p.m. in the Experimental Theater and features
the popular Kronos String Quarter (see page 3).
Funds to support the eight-month program next year have been sought from the Services and
Activities Fees Review Board, the Washington State Arts Commission, the Evergreen Foundation
and POSSCA, a local patron of the arts group. The 1978 series was funded by the Arts Commission, the Foundation and admission fees, which varied depending on the cost of the performing
group.
Tentatively scheduled for the 1978-79 series are performances by the Philadelphia String
Quartet, the Western Wynd Ensemble, Bill Evans Dance Company, harpsichordist Hilda Jonas,
Cornish School of Music faculty members; violinist Charmain Gad; pianist Bela Siki; Mulfelt
Trio; Pacific Lutheran University faculty; Seattle's Reliquary Theatre of Puppets; Stanley
Richey Baroque Ensemble; Doppman Trio; Brother Aelred; Maria Derungs; O'Doan Piano Duet and
Balinese Gamelon Dancers. No contracts have been signed; finalization of the series dependon awards of funding.
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Faculty Member Tom Rainey has volunteered to help coordinate the lectures part of the
^series which next year will involve Evergreen faculty social scientists.
Tuesdays at Eight committee members, who hoped to finalize plans at a meeting on campus
yesterday, include community members Nancy Evans, Brother Ronald Hurst, Sherman Huffing,
Wendall Allen, Jess Spielholz and Tekla Hertz; Evergreeners Bill Winden,' Robert Gottliebs
Gres Steinke and Judv Annis.
-5NINE CONFERENCES BOOKED FOR SUMMER
Nine conferences — ranging from the Association of Humanistic Psychology regional meeting to Camp Murrieta — have been scheduled on the Evergreen campus this summer, according
to conference coordinator Donnagene Eyajas.
An estimated 1,400 persons are expected to attend the summer meetings, which begin with
the Upward Bound program (see below) June 19, followed quickly by the biggest gathering, the
Humanistic Psychology meeting, slated to draw 800 persons to discuss the theme of "Synthesis
In Psychologys Creative Cooperation in the Science and the Species," Evergreen Faculty Member
Dr- LgRoJ- ilsiths Counselor Kathy Jordan and student Rick McKinnon are working on the session,
which will continue through June 27.
Other events scheduled on campus this summer include the Cheerleader Pom Pom Clinic
drawing an estimated 100 persons June 27-30; Camp Murrieta, a weight loss program for up to
60 students July 2 through August 13; a meeting of young adults from the Church of Latter Day
Saints,, July 7 and 8; a Sea Grant Conference August 6, 7 and 8 for up to 40 persons, and a
meeting of the National Marine Education Association for up to 200 persons August 8-11.
Officials from the Evergreen School District in Vancouver, Washington are also expected
to convene on campus August 16-18, as are some 100 members of the YMCA Physical Education
Society, scheduled here August 21-26.
Evans reports that two or three more conferences are tentatively scheduled, and "more are
possible."
UPWARD BOUND EXPECTS TO ENROLL 60 IN SUMMER PROGRAM
More than 60 area high school sophomores and juniors are expected to participate in an
intensive six-week summer school program sponsored by Upward Bound at Evergreen., The Summer
program, which begins June 18, is part of a year-long project funded by a $160,219 grant from
the Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and is designed to serve
the needs of low income youth with "high potential and low motivation," who are interested in
post secondary education.
Upward Bound director Phill Briscoe says sophomores and juniors interested in enrolling
by June 18 may gain complete information on the project through counselors in participating
high schools, including Olympia, North Thurston, Yelm, and Rainier and the Off-Campus School
in Thurston County; Henry Foss, Mount Tahoma and Lincoln in Pierce County; and Oakville.
The six-week summer effort will concentrate on helping students develop basic academic
skills and "learn how to live and work in supervised group situations," Briscoe says. Students
and staff will live in college housing and participate in a variety of activities "designed
to expose students to information on career and educational opportunities beyond high school."
A team of six instructors, five full-time tutors, educational coordinator Thomas Ybarra
and Briscoe will offer students instruction in such basic skills areas as reading, math,
science and communications. A physical education instructor and a career development specialist will also be on hand to work with Upward Bound participants.
Thirty-seven area students participated in a similar program at Evergreen last summer.
Most of them continued throughout the academic year to work with Upward Bound staff on
improving their academic skills and exploring post high school opportunities„ Students in the
Summer '78 program will have a similar chance to continue working in Upward Bound next fall,
while remaining in their own communities.
PLATO TO EXPAND COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION CAPABILITIES
If trustees approve the budget request as submitted June 8 (see story, page 1), Evergreen's computer assisted instruction capabilities will be greatly expanded Fall Quarter
thanks to a grant from the Control Data Corporation, matched with $14,400 from Evergreen.
Together5 those funds will enable Computer Services Director Dr. John Aikin and his staff
to undertake a one-year pilot project to test the contribution PLATO might make to the
college's instructional program.
PLATO, actually PLATO IVs is a version of Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching
Operations developed at the University of Illinois over the past 18 years through support
from the National Science Foundation, the State of Illinois and Control Data Corporation.
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Designed to provide an economical, large-scale, computer-based educational system, PLATO
capable of "performing well" with approximately four thousand lesson hours of computer
assisted instruction already accessible in academic fields ranging from foreign languages
to medicine, psychology to political science, engineering and education.
What Aikin wants to know is how much PLATO can benefit Evergreen's instructional program.
So he's requested $14,400 from the 1978-79 budget to fund the pilot project, which would apply
PLATO to academic programs in natural sciences, basic skills development and computer science.
Evergreen's share of the cost would fund one of the four "full subscriptions" to PLATO needed
to provide what Aikin calls "a fair test of the system's capabilities."
Control Data Corporation has agreed to grant additional funds for the other three subscriptions. Evergreen, in turn, will prepare for the corporation a package of lessons
providing instruction in BASIC programming languages, will permit Control Data personnel to
conduct on-site demonstrations of their program, and will submit a final report analyzing
the educational impact and cost effectiveness of PLATO at TESC.
Part of that analysis will be based on the experience of students and faculty in the
Introduction to Natural Sciences Coordinated Studies program next year, which will use PLATO
lessons to help students master concepts in mathematics, data analysis, physics, and chemistry.
PLATO's skills will also be applied to Evergreen's remedial instruction program, offering what
Aikin calls "an outstanding vehicle for meeting the special needs of remedial students with
an individually tailored program", particularly in writing, reading, and basic mathematics.
PLATO will also provide a screening and measurement tool for early detection of basic skill
deficiencies in new and current students.
PLATO will also offer a big boost to the college's programs in computer sciences, which
are currently limited by the range of computer languages taught and by available computer
resources. PLATO offers instruction in a wide range of languages and techniques which Aikin
believes can be utilized in a self paced program to improve students' knowledge of and use of
computers in other subjects.
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Aikin has had extensive experience with the PLATO system at Cornell University and is
more than eager to share his expertise to implement the new program.
SPRING INTERNS DRAWN TO EDUCATION. GOVERNMENT
A surprisingly high 30 percent of Spring Quarter internships are in the field of education, according to a report completed in May by the Office of Cooperative Education. Of the
288 spring interns, some 87 are gaining field experience in early childhood, elementary,
secondary and higher education.
Government comes in second as the field attracting spring interns, drawing 24 percent
to educational experiences in federal, regional, county, municipal, district and state government, which attracted 39 of the 70 interns in that field. Some 21 percent (63) of spring
internships were contracted with non-profit agencies, organizations and institutions; 11 percent (32) were studying in private business and industry; and five percent (15) were serving
internships in voluntary agencies and organizations.
The vast majority of Evergreen interns last year served west of the Cascades, according
to a second report released by the Co-Op office. Of the 753 internships conducted Summer
and Fall Quarters, 1977 and Winter and Spring Quarters, 1978, 88 percent (666) were in state,
with 37 percent (283) in Olympia (including 8.7 percent at TESC). Other geographic areas
attracting a high percentage of interns were Tacoma, with 12 percent (89); Seattle, 11 percent (80); Vancouver, Washington, 7.5 percent (57); and Chehalis-Centralia-Longview areas
with nearly 4 percent (29). Less than two percent (13) of the past year's internships were
conducted east of the Cascades within state borders, and some 12 percent (81) were contracted
atside of Washington State.
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