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The Evergreen State College Newsletter (September 1, 1980)
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... CANDIDATES INVITED TO POLITICAL FAIR & FORUM ..• Candidates for all state-wide offices and all
local elected positions on the November 4 ballot have this week been invited to participate in
a half-day Candidates Fair and Forum organized by the Thurston County League of Women Voters and
Evergreen. The event, scheduled on Saturday, October 25 from noon to 6 p.m. in the Evans Library, seeks to attract candidates for the U.S. Senate, House of Representati~es.(Third Congres- ~.
sional District) and those running for governor, attorney general, land comm1ss1oner and other
state-\'Jide offices. In addition, office seekers for Thurston County CoiTITlissioner, Districts
One and Two, and for Washington State Senate and House, District 22, have been invited to participate in the series of four forums scheduled throughout the day.
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All candidates --- including those on the national ba~lot and those runni~g with ~ino~ity
parties --- are being invited to staff Fair booths from wh1ch to meet the publ1c and d1str1bute
campaign materials .
... CAST NA~1ED FOR TAKE A CARD ...
Sixteen Thurston County residents have been named to the
cast of Take A Card, Any Card, .. a play which premieres in Washington state October 10 in the
first of six performances at Evergreen. \~ritten by Tumwater playwright r~artin Kimeldorf, the
drama, which he calls a .. handicap awareness play, .. depicts the struggles of a family who must
come to grips with the realities of an offspring who is handicapped, in this case with a symbolic
ability called Sel-noy ...
Through 15 short scenes, the cast of 16 portrays more than two dozen characters, all coiTITlOn
to the lives of handicapped citizens and ranging from vocational rehabilitation counselors to
institution directors, disappointed relatives, and reluctant school officials and employers.
Heading the cast are Evergreen students Timothy Streeter as the magical, marvelous Marvini;
Karen Schionning as Pip, the handicapped youngster; Jeff Noyes as her father; Katherine t1ullen
as her mother; Bob Richerson as a doctor, school principal, prospective employer and institution
director; Ben Fliehs as Mr. Jacko, and Amy Fowkes as ~1rs. Koral. Like Richerson, Streeter, Fuchs
and FowkesaTl play multiple parts.
Student Katelyn Cramner-Drumheller leads the chorus as its members, all of whom are local
handicapped citizens, comment on the evaluation of the play in lines of verse in what for many
is their stage debut. Chorus members include Thurston County's Robin White, Don Michaels, Lisa ~
Hunt, Linda Stanley, Bennie Stanley, Paul Johnson, Barbara StellJes and SusanDowns.
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All six performances of the play, which launch the Evergreen Expressions Performing Arts
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Series, are produced in association with the Thurston County Association for Retarded Citizens.
Tickets for the 8 p.m. October 10 opening night show sell for $5 each and are available only
through the Thurston County ARC headquarters at 1703 East State, 357-5596. Tickets for all
other evening performances, slated at 8 o'clock October 11,12,17,18 and 19, are available at
Yenney's Music and the Evergreen Bookstore. Reservations or additional information on Take A
Card, Any Card, .. are available by calling 866-6070 weekdays during regular working hours .
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... COMMUNITY WOMEN INVITED TO WEDNESDAY GET-ACQUAINTED SESSION ... Olympia-area women are invited
to join female students at Evergreen State Wednesday, October 1, for a free get-acquainted evening featuring entertainment, demonstrations, and presentations by representatives of numerous
local women's organizations. Event organizer Sande Sanders, an Evergreen senior, says the Wednesday night program, set from 7 to 10 o'clock on the fourth floor of the library, is designed
• introduce new and returning Evergreen women students to their counterparts in the community
to help both groups become better acquainted with resources available to them in Thurston
County ...
Ca 11 ed ~~~loman space, the event is cosponsored by the Evergreen Women •s Center and Tides of
Change Production Collective. All local women are invited to attend, and to bring a dessert to
share.
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... ADVANCED FIRST AID CLASS OFFERED ... A ten-week course in 11 Advanced First Aid and Emergency
Care 11 will be offered this quarter by Evergreen's Health Services. Instructed by Lon Franz of
the campus fire department, the course begins October 6 at 7:15 p.m. and continues-on Monday
and Thursday evenings. Cost is $25, which includes all required text books. Persons who seek
to earn two hours of academic credit must pay tuition in addition to the $25 and must gain
approval from Assistant Academic Dean York Wong. Complete details, including location of the
evening classes,are available from Health Services, 866-6200 .
... MICA MIME TROUPE SLATES MORNING, EVENING SHOWS ... The Mica Mime Troupe brings its newest production, "Stix N Stones .. to The Evergreen State College October 23-25 for three evening perfonnances and two specia 1 children's morning shows. The three-member troupe, who premiered
Stix N Stones in Seattle's Poncho Theater this summer, presents what its artists call 11 a visual
encounter with the rea 1 and very unreal world of mime ...
Combining social commentary with original comedy, they trace the evaluation of human warfare from rocks to missles. Mimes Michael Long of Olympia and Michael Hutchison of Harstine
Island blend their imaginations and grasp the reality of illusion, aided by the subtle lighting
talents of Jane Hutchison, also of Harstine Island.
The three will appear in 8 p.m. performances October 23, 24, and 25 in the Experimental
Theater of Evergreen's Communications Building . They'
also perform Jwo special one-hour
productions for area junior high and elementary school students beginning at 10 a.m. on Thursday and Friday.
Tickets to their Evergreen evening performances will be sold at the door for $4 general
admission or $3 for students and senior citizens. Tickets for the Thursday and Friday morning
shows will cost $1 per student and will be free to accompanying school teachers and administrators who make advanced reservations by calling 866-6070 weekdays during regular working hours .
. . . TWO EXHIBITS OPEN EVERGREEN GALLERIES ... A mixed media show, featuring works by three senior
arts students, has opened th~ gallery season at TE$C.
The display, to remain on view in
Gallery Two (Library 2300) through October 26, features drawings and paintings by Tucker Petertil, sculpture by Leslie Tose, and fine metal work and ceramics by Deborah Mersky.
Gallery Four (Library 4002) will open October 4 with a two-person, two-dimensional display.
The exhibit, which will also remain on view through October 26, includes prints and photos by
Doug Plummer and drawings and paintings by Elizabeth Hunter.
Both exhibits are free and open to the public.
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EVAN5 ,0UTLINES IMPACT OF POTENTIAL BUDGET CUTS
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By Friday, October 3, Evergreen budget unit heads will have gone through yet another
exercise in budget cutting. This one, President Dan Evans told trustees last week, 11Will be
tougher than the last. 11 At the start of the 1979-81 biennium, he reminded trustees, the Office
of Financial Management warned officials at all the state's colleges and universities that a
three percent cut might be called for. 11 We prepared for that, .. Evans said, and made the cut ,.-~:
without drastic effects.
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This week campus officials began preparations for yet another cut --- one they expect
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OFM to call for by November 1. This second cut will amount to 2% of this year's state support
and will, Evans said last Thursday, 11 be a harder cut to make because we've already cut 3% out
of the budget and because we've only got nine months left in the biennium ... The college, he
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pointed out, is 11 already operating with virtually no reserves, .. and has become increasingly
dependent on monies recaptured from unfilled positions to meet emergency needs.
The president has asked all budget unit heads to develop two plans for meeting the expected
t, one for reducing to a total of $225,247, the other for cutting $140,516. The difference,
rding to Budget Officer Mike Bigelow, is some $85,000 that Evergreen has already paid back
the state out of this biennial budget for not making last year's enrollment target. 11 We're
optimistic that they'll count the $85,000 as part of our payback, 11 Bigelow said. 11 But, in case
they don't, we have to be prepared to cut the total $225,000. 11
Before .cuts are finalized, Evans said he, with the advice of the President's cabinet and
council groups, will seek to make sure the reductions are made in a way that is consistent,
shares the burden, yet prioritizes those things we can do without ... Therefore he and Bigelow
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asked budget heads to prioritize their reductions between the two requested dollar levels
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SO we can gain a perspective of campus-wide priorities, .. Bigelow explained.
Both have asked
budget heads to submit their plans by next Friday and have discouraged budget heads from making the cuts by either raising rates to other college units or cutting staff contracts.
No matter how the cuts are finally determined, Evans said, 11we're going to hurt from
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As if the immediate cut weren't enough, the president told board members to expect more
ominous budget news in the next few months. Last week he and his administrative team presented
two versions of the college's 1981-83 biennial budget to OFM. The first, called the 11 request
level budget, .. seeks $31 ,718,943; while the second, what OFM labeled the 11 target level budget 11
is some six and a half million dollars lower, at $23,442,285.
As Evans sees it, the difference between the two amounts to the difference between Evergreer
continuing to grow and to serve its students in the manner it has traditionally followed or
Evergreen facing major educational quality cutbacks, including a reversal of enrollment growth,
termination of outreach programs and an end to grmoJth in graduate school programs.
The problem, Evans explained to trustees, is the state's revenues have declined, and OFM
projected as much as a seven hundred million shorttall. That has prompted budgeteers to
ask all agencies to submit two plans: their 11 request 11 level and their 11 target 11 level, which
in most cases amounts to 12% less than the current level budgets, plus inflation costs.
Evergreen's request level (which covers current level, inflation and additional growth' "
-2costs) includes 2.5 million for anticipated enrollment growth, as ordered by both the legislature and CPE, plus $441,124 for two new graduate programs (in Environmental Studies and Human
Services), $40,000 in planning money for those programs, and some $456,905 for equipment repl
rrent(which we lost from the current biennial budget in the initial three percent cut). It al
includes $121,203 for additional computer equipment, $108,382 to fully fund the PLATO computer
operation, and $27,7,923 for other primary support services, including an additional academic
dean and computer analyst. The request level also includes $890,049
for library services
and $642,510 for student services, as well as $384,230 for institutional support services (08
budgets). In addition, it adds some $853,000 for plant operations and maintenance. All of
those increases would be lost if the target budgets were approved over the request budgets.
HIGHER ED VS 11 THE BLIND, THE POOR .. _..
The effect of approving only target level budgets could have major impacts on all of higher
education, Evans warned trustees. The impact, he continued, would not be restricted to Evergreen
and the state's other institutions of higher education, but would also hit equally hard social
and health services and other state services. Since the state is commited to funding public
school (k through 12) education, Evans explained, the remaining money must be divided among all
other units of state goverment supported by the general fund. 11 That pits higher education against
the blind, the poor, the disabled, and the reta r ded, 11 he declared, 11 and that's no contest. 11
As chairman of the Council of Presidents this year, Evans promised trustees he would work
hard to 11 demonstrate just what the consequences (to all of higher education) could be. 11 For
this college, he added, 11 the cuts have the potential for changing the very nature of Evergreen. 11
He vowed to fight to protect Evergreen•s current educational quality, including its low facultyto-student ratio, noting 11 all of that which has been innovative about Evergreen 11 depends on
that ratio --- the opportunity for small seminars, individual coursework and interdisciplinary
studies .
.To maintain that ratio at the target level, he said, 11 could only be done by taking some
very drastic steps. 11 Among the steps he said Evergreen would have to consider if target leve
are adopted would be 11 a reversal of our enrollment growth, an end to our outreach programs in
Southwest Washington, an end to the growth of graduate programs, and perhaps the complete closure
of summer school. 11 11 He might even have to close the college itself for one month and ask everyone to take that amount of unpaid leave, 11 he said. Taken overall, the impact on Evergreen, he
continued, 11 could be as destructive as anything I•ve run into. 11
Concluding his report to trustees, Evans noted, 11 I wanted you to know ... just how tough a
job we're going to have in the next legislative session. 11 He'll report back to the board at
the next meeting, On October 16, with a proposal for making the latest two percent cut and plans
for promoting 11 request level 11 budgets for all of higher education during the next legislative
session.
TRUSTEES APPROVE FIRST STEP OF HOUSING PLAN; PLANNER, BOND COUNSEL TO BE HIRED
Trustees last Thursday approved the allocation of $5,000 to hire a campus planner and bond
counsel, thus taking a major step toward what could be a most unusual solution to the college•s
projected housing shortage. Never before tried in this state, the solution, proposed by Housing
Director Ken Jacob, Business t1anager Ken Winkley, and Facilitities Director Dave \~allbom, calls
for Evergreen to contract with a private developer who would construct housing for up to 600
beds on college property. The developer would own the units and lease them back to the college
over a 20-year period. At the end of that time, the housing would become permanent college
property.
Tentative explorations into the world of developers and bankers have already shown 11 a great
deal of interest 11 in such a proposal, Wallbom told trustees. Both groups, he said, believe
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it 1 s an extremely feasible process 11 but one that has 11 SOme pitfalls and problems 11 that need
be thoroughly examined before final arrangements are made .
Projections of a housing shortage first began to be taken seriously last fall when 82
students ended up on a waiting list for on-campus accommodations. Jacob said all but two of
those students were finally housed, but many were overcrowded and greatly inconvenienced in the
process. That ovei·flow prompted him to begin exploring housing alternatives. He first sought
available units off campus and discovered that the Colony Inn was the most logical choice, but
its five-mile distance from campus made it unacceptable to many students. Then he and others
developed a proposal last spring to build more modular housirg units on campus. whicb would
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have prgvided an additional 100 beds, possibly as early as this fall, but,
would have absorbed all of the college's bonding capacity.
NEED 600 BEDS
"We were told we could finance about 1.3 million dollars in bonds," explained Jacob. "That
would have covered the cost of these 100 beds, but it also would have limited our bonding capacity for the next 20 years." Another drawback to that plan, he said, was "it simply didn't provide enough beds to meet our projected long-range needs."
If Evergreen continues to grow at its present rate, and if the college reaches its mandated
goa 1 of 3700 by 1984-85, Jacob said he •s been to 1d "we'll need some 600 addition a1 beds." Compounding the problem, he said, is the continued and widely recognized need for .more social space
in the housing area. "Both the Council for Postsecondary Education and the Accreditation Team
which visited Evergreen last year noted the lack of social space for housing residents and encouraged the college to construct new facilities, Jacob pointed out. A proposal for such a
facility was drafted two years ago by campus architect Jon Collier. His 7600-square-foot onestory structure would cost at least $900,000 --- an amount unavailable if the college spends its
bonds on housing.
The new plan, to have housing built on campus by a private developer, would enable the
college to save its bond monies for construction of social space and other emergency n ~eds. It
would also permit Evergreen to meet long-range housing needs and construct 600 beds, rather than
spending all available resources to build accommodations for only 100 beds and face additional
shortages in the next five to ten years, Jacob said.
President Dan Evans agreed with Jacob, adding that "we don't have all the answers yet;
this is just the beg1nn1ng of the process. 11 What he sought--- and got--- from trustees was
approval to spend $5,000:
"$2500 to investigate fully -the financial and legal aspects of the
prorosal with a bond counselor; and $2,5QG to select a master planner who will advise the college
appropriate site and cost estimates for a complete plan. That investigation is expected to
at least two months and should result in a report back to the board by quarter's end.
12 years service complete
THE t-1AN ~liTH THE QUESTIONS STEPS DmJN
by Judy f·1cNickle, Director of Information Services
Herbert D.. Hadley, the man who became know as the 11 just-a-damn-minute 11 trustee, the one
who could be counted on to ask "just one more question 11 to make sure all projects and proposals
were carefully scrutinized, retired from Evergreen's board last Thursday.
Noted for his deep, rolling chuckle and his constantly probing inquiries, the Longview
native submitted his resignation to the governor after completing two full six-year terms that
enabled him to serve with nine of Evergreen's ten trustees and to participate in most of the
major decisions affecting the growth of the state's only new four-year college this century.
lilt's been thrilling, 11 he told fellow trustees last week. "To have walked along these
grounds 11 before there were any buildings ... and to be able to walk here now ... has been my greatest
thrill.
With only a slight catch in his voice, Hadley said that despite the early difficulties, the
long hours, and the demanding decisions, 11 it's been fun ... to see the things you've helped make
decisions on mesh, fit together and become beautiful.
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He attributes the achievement of both to a team of trustees, staff and faculty 11 Who worked
harder, accomplished more and made lasting contributions 11 to the kind of college 11 1 wish I
could have gone for my four years 11 of higher education .
.. . WHAT I DREAMED OF ...
Evergreen•s become what I dreamed of. 11 he said. 11 It 111 S just the type
would have meant so much to me. I just wish, 11 he paused, there was some way I could better
show and prove to young people that Evergreen can put them ahead of our
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But Hadley says he really has few regrets about his 12 years on the board, the longest
trustee has11 served. 11 I do wish we had done a better job initially with the local community,
he said.
Perhaps we should not have built so far away from downtown so we•d be closer in many
ways to Olympia.
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But:•he quickly pointed 11 out, 11 I•m really pleased that the trustees had the foresight to
buy as much land as they did.
Hhen Hadley accepted appointment to the board from former
Governor Dan Evans in 1968, 700 acres had already been purchased on Cooper Point.
~~~~e negot1ated for nearly 300 more acres, 11 he says, 11 and we got some flack for it. People
thought we were buying too much. Some still think so. But our reasoning at the time was, in
retrospect, sound. As Evergreen has grown, the land values around it have climbed so fast, we
waul d not now or in the future be ab 1e to buy more 1and. I·Je had to consider 1ong-range needs
and buy for the future and I m glad we did. 11
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Remembering those first years on the board, Hadley rumbled his characteristic low chuckle
and said, 11 Can you imagine a more conservative group than we were ... a banker, a vice president of
a major business, a contractor and a Republican national committeewoman ... becoming the parents
of an institution that teaches like Evergreen does? It•s kind of amazing,~~ he adds, 11 and it 1 s
a real tribute to Charles McCann (the founding president). 11
A former Republican legislator, Hadley brought to his tenure at Evergreen years of experience as a partner in an insurance business, training in business gained at Washington State
University, and varied service to an array of Cowlitz County community groups ranging from the
Chamber of Commerce to United Good Neighbors, local church boards and professional organizations, which once earned him the title 11 First Citizen of Longview. 11
During his board service, he retired from the insurance business for three years, which
enabled him to 11 Spend a lot of time at Evergreen, just walking around, talking to folks and
seeing for myself what was going on. 11 In 1972 he 11 retired from retirement, 11 and founded a ne\IJ
business, Hadley Travel in Kelso where he said 11 the bottom line in the office is, .~:Hadley is
King•. 11 That means, according to him 11 I get to travel about every six V!eeks. 11 But, he hastened
to admit, the new business, already one of the most successful of its kind in southwest \·lashington 11 has turned out to be a rea 1 challenge, 11 one that •s i ncreas i ngl y absorbed the time he used
to devote to outside activities.
Honored last week by his fellow trustees for his 11 leadership and guidance 11 during the
creation of Evergreen, Hadley said he now plans to reserve more time for traveling --- he•s
already booked a flight to Manila next month--- and for his family: wife, Dee, four married
children, and three grandchildren.
But, he promised his long-time friends on the campus, 11 I won•t forget this place. You can
bet I 1 11 be back every chance I get. 11
And when he comes back, Evergreeners had best be prepared to answer 11 just one more question,11 from the man the Daily Olympian once labeled 11 the probing member of the Evergreen board. 11
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HARVEST FAIR PROMISES FOOD AND FUN SUNDAY
An afternoon of free outdoor entertainment, coupled with educational workshops and selection of the best in both organically grown vegetables and finely honed Geoduck calling talents
will all be a part of the first Harvest Fair, sponsored September 28 by the Organic Farm. The
fair, scheduled rain or shine from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the eight-acre farm, begins with free
workshops conducted in the two-story wooden farmhouse, a structure open for public inspection
throughout the day.
Evergreen Provost Byron Youtz will launch the workshop session with an 11 a.m. presentation
on alternative energy with students Debbie Miller, Mark Young and Jim Peterson. The hour-long
session will be followed at noon by an introduction to organic gardening, led by farm caretakers,
and at 1 p.m. by a discussion of the Northwest Alternative Food Network, by 8yra Lindquist of
the Olympia Food Cooperative. Also scheduled are workshops at 2:30 p.m. on irect buying from
farmers, at 4 p.m. on herbs, and at 5 p.m. on nutrition by Flora Liesenring, an adjunct member
of Evergreen•s faculty.
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While the workshops continue in the farmhouse, art1sts and craftspersons will display their
reations, farmers will sell their produce, and free entertainment will be offered, including
roaming jugglers and a live scare crow. Also slated to entertain are members of the Theatre
of Transformation, vocalists Sarah Favret, Judy Johnson, and Kim Scanlon; singin~-guitarist
Chris Binaham ; and string musicians Sue Patnude and Rene Bressieux of the Olymp1a-based country·
swing ban , Oly-W~-Ditty.
Judges will take the center stage at 3 p.m. to evaluate the area•s best in organically
grown vegetables. Categories include the best overall vegetable, as well as the best in each
category, the largest and smallest, and the most bizarre among the entries. Strange sounds
will then fill the air as the judges seek to determine the most talented among callers of Evergreen•s mascot, the tough-shelled (hopefully deaf}, bi-valved Geoduck.
Youngsters between four and ten years of age will also have a chance to win judges• favor
--- through their own coloring contest. All young artists will receive a prize for competing
(fresh, hot corn on the cob). In addition, the top entry of each age level will take home a
freshly harvested pumpkin. Color contest forms will be available at the Farmers Market Saturday
September 27.
Throughout the day, tours of the college farm will be available, as will an array of tasty
tidbits, including barbequed and smoked salmon, freshly pressed apple cider, hot vegetable soup,
and Blue Herron Bakery items. Events conclude at 8 p.m. with a public concert of women•s music
by f·1eg Christian, a singer, songwriter and guitarist. Sponsored by Tides of Change Production
Collective, Christian•s show in the second floor lobby of the library costs $4.50.
Free parking for the Harvest Fair is available in Lot B at Evergreen, a short (five-minute)
s-croll through the woods from the farm. Transportation from the lot to the farm will be availab·
from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. for the elderly and the handicapped.
SOCCER SEASON OPENS
..The Evergreen men•s soccer team begins its first ~fficial season of NAIA competition
tomorrow when the 11-member squad takes on Everett Community College in Olympia. The game,
slated for 1 p.m. on campus playfields is the first of ten season games scheduled this fall for
the Geoducks, who will take the field under the direction of Coach Willie Lippman.
The Evergreen women•s team, coached this year by veteran soccer player Jac ues Zimicki,
begins its 13-game season in the Nbrthwest Colle~e Women•s Sports Association NCWSA) with an
away game October 7 at the University of Portland.
Final schedules are available from Athletic Director Pete Steilberg, 866-6530.
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PLANNED WEDNESDAY
Olympia-area women are invited to join female students at Evergreen State Wednesday, Octobe
1, for a free get-acquainted evening featuring entertainment, demonstrations, and presentations
by representatives of numerous local women•s organizations. Event organizer Sande Sanders,
an Evergreen senior, says the Wednesday night program, set from 7 to 10 o•clock on the fourth
floor of the library, is designed to introduce new and returning Evergreen women students to
their counterparts in the community and to help both groups become better acquainted with
resources available to them in Thurston County.
Ca 11 ed ~~womanspace, the event is cosponsored by the Evergreen ~Jomen •s Center and Tides
of Change Production Collective and will include a demonstration by Feminists in Self Defense
Training, musical entertainment by songstress Betty Harris and the Karen Silkwood Memorial Choir
and poetry readings by Ann Erb and others involved in producing the Women•s Journal at Evergreen
A free children•s space will be provided, complete with refreshments, games, toys, and adul
supervision. All local women are invited to attend --- and to bring a dessert to share. Comlete details are available through the Evergreen Women•s Center, 866-6162.
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DANCE SET FRIDAY
The New l·Jomyn •s Poverty Band, an Olympia-based, all-woman country /western and b1ue grass
band, will headline a country/western and folk dance Friday, October 3, beginning at 8:30p.m.
in the Olympia Ballroom of the former Hotel Olympian. Sponsored by Evergreen•s Gay Resource
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Center, the Friday night dance will also feature entertainment by the Seattle duo of Patrick
Haggerty and Sandra ~1ezo of "Songs for Socialist Feminist," and by Tom r,1atthews, an Olympia
folk singer who performs original materials.
Tickets for the dance will be sold at the door for $2 each. Free childcare will be available at the dance. · Refreshments will be provided by the Olympia Homen's Center for Health
and perso~s willing to donate food for OWCH Friday sales are invited to contact Helen at '
943-6924. Further details on the October 3 dance are available from the Gay Resource Center
866-6544.
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Sixteen Thurston County residents have been named to the cast of "Take A Card, Any Card,"
a play which premieres in Washington state October 10 in the first of six performances at
Evergreen. l~ritten by Tumwater playwright Martin Kimeldorf, the drama, which he calls a
"handicap awareness play," depicts the struggles of a family who must come to grips with the
realities of an offspring who is handicapped, in this case with a symbolic disability called
"sel-noy."
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Through 15 short scenes, the cast of 16 portrays more than two dozen characters, all common
to the lives of handicapped citizens and ranging from vocational rehabilitation counselors to
institution directors, disappointed relatives, and reluctant school officials and employers.
Heading the cast are Evergreen students Timothy Streeter as the magical, marvelous Marvini;
Karen Schionning as Pip, the handicapped youngster; Jeff Noyes as her father; Katherine Mullen
as her mother; Bob Richerson as a doctor, school principal, prospective employer and institution
director; Ben Fi:iehs as ~1r. Jacko, and Amy Fowkes as Mrs. Kora 1. Like Richerson, Streeter, Fuchs
and Fowkes all play multiple parts.
Student Katelyn Cramner-Drumheller leads the chorus as its members, all of whom are local
handicapped citizens, comment on the evaluation of the play in lines of verse in what for rna
is their stage debut. Chorus members include Thurston County's Robin White, Don Michaels, L
Hunt, Linda Stanley, Bennie Stanley, Paul Johnson, Barbara Ste111es and SusanDowns.
Their efforts, says playwright Kimeldorf, mark the first fu 1 production of his work in his
native Pacific Northwest. A vocational evaluator for the Thurston County Special Services
Cooperative, Kimeldorf has written numerous plays related to his teaching efforts. His latest,
"Take a Card ...... won the 1980 Grand Prize in a national playwriting contest sponsored this
summer by the Kansas Association for Retarded Citizens.
All six performances of the play, which launch the Evergreen Expressions Performing Arts
Series, are produced in association with the Thurston County Association for Retarded Citizens.
Tickets for the 8 p.m. October 10 opening night show sell for $5 each and are available only
through the Thurston County ARC headquarters at 1703 East State, 357-5596. Tickets for all
other evening performances, slated at 8 o'clock October 11,12,17,18 and 19, are available at
Yenney Is r~us i c and the Evergreen Bookstore.
Reservations or additional information on "Take A Card, Any Card," are available by calling
866-6070 weekdays during regular working hours.
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Candidates for all state-wide offices and all local elected positions on the November 4 ~
ballot have this week been invited to participate in a half-day Candidates Fair and Forum
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organized by the Thurston County League of Women Voters and Evergreen. The event, scheduled ~
on Saturday, October 25 from noon to 6 p.m. in the Evans Library, seeks to attract candidates
for the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives (Third Congressional District) and those running
for governor, attorney general, land commissioner and other state-wide offices. In addition,
office seekers for Thurston County Commissioner, Districts One and Two, and for vJashington
State Senate and House, District 22, have been invited to participate in the series of four
forums scheduled throughout the day.
All candidates --- including those on the national ballot and those running with minority
parties --- are being invited to staff Fair booths from which to meet the public and distribute
campaign materials.
Enriching the Fair/Forum atmosphere will be band music provided by local high school musicians and special activities for children, including free use of the college swimming pool and
a free half-day cartoon film festival.
CAREER PLANNING FOR STARTERS WEDNESDAY
To introduce new and returning students to their services, staff members in the Office of
Career Planning and Placement will host a two-hour workshop Wednesday, October 1, called .. Career
Planning for Starters ... The session begins at 2 p.m. in Library 1213 and is the first of a
series of workshops CP&P will offer this fall, including a six-part series October 13-22 devoted to 11 planning for work 11 a five-day program in November for graduating seniors, and three ,
workshops next month devoted to "investigating your future after Evergreen ...
Details on all CP&P workshops are available in Library 1213, 866-6193. _.,..:~~;:.~~ .~~····~:.~tt'"
ADVANCED FIRST AID CLASS BEGINS OCTOBER 6
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A ten-week course in 11 Advanced First Aid and Emergency Care, .. will be offered this quarter
by Evergreen•s Health Services. Instructed by Lon Franz of the campus fire department, the
course begins October 6 at 7:15 p.m. and continues on Monday and Thursday evenings. Cost is $25
which includes all required text books. Students seeking two hours of academic credit must pay
tuition in addition to the $25 and must gain approval from Assistant Academic Dean York Wong.
Complete details, including location of the evening classes, are available from Health Services,
866-6200,
PARKING PERiUTS DUE
Parking fees go into effect Monday, September 29, according to Security Chief Mac Smith.
arking permits are on sale now in the Payroll Office . in Library 1107 and may be purchased by
the ·month, by the quarter, or by the year. Vehicle owners may instead elect to pay the 25-cent
daily ticket which goes on sale Monday in the ticket booth on McCann Plaza.
Campus residents may obtain their permits, valid for Lot F and the Mod lots, from the
Security Office in Laboratory Building II, room 1254. Those permits are free for residents of
campus housing.
OVERSEAS STUDY APPLICATIONS OPEN
October 31 is the final deadline to apply for grants for graduate study abroad offered
under the Fulbright Program and by foreign governments, corporations, universities and private
donors. Approximately 511 awards are available and most include funds for transportation, tuition and maintenance for one academic year.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens, have a bachelor•s degree before the beginning date of
their grant, and be proficient in the language of the host country. For details, contact
Career Planning and Placement, Library 1213, 866-6193.
EVERGREENERS IN THE NEWS
During the summer four poets were selected as winners of the fourth annual Carol and Herb
Fuller Poetry Contest. Winning the campus competition were Linda Bookey, a Bellevue senior who
took first place, Christine Gilmore, a Spokane junior who won second, and Jessica Treat, a
Northfield, Massachusetts senior who was awarded third place. Ian Challis of Lacey captured
first prize in the high school division of the contest, sponsored each year by Carol and Herb
Fuller to encourage the art and craft of poetry and to recognize the achievement of local studer
poets.
September 19, 1980
"TIME OF REJOICING"
EVANS PREDICTS HIGHEST ENROLLMENT; WARNS OF TIGHT BUDGETS AHEAD
Despite what President Dan Evans lateled "ominous budget news, 11 the beginning of Evergreert' s
tenth academic year this month marks what he calls "a time of rejoicing." In his annual Stateof-the-College Address to faculty and staff Monday morning, Evans predicted that Evergreen
"will welcome the largest enrollment in history" to classes on September 29. That enrollment,
coupled with rave reviews from the accrediting team last year and the college's growing acceptu ·
ance as "an integral, permanent and equal partner in the state's higher education system. ·
enables Evergreeners, said Evans, "to look toward the future with confidence ••• that we are
uniquely prepared to serve the changing and new educational needs of the 1980s.''
Offering a quick review of the college's first decade, Evans cited Evergreen's good
fortune in having "the first and very likely the only opportunity" ·to create a new four-year
institution in the state during this century. He noted that despite "a decade of conflict and
confrontation, joy and despair,"Evergreen has survived its birth and its adolescence, successfully overcome an enrollment slump and steadily gained "greater understanding" through what he
called "the Evergreening of America." The smiling president noted that already more than 1000
urns have settled in Thurston County and, as of last spring, more than 4,000 Greeners have
aduated and begun sharing their education throughout the country. Their success --- and the
continual work of college staff and faculty --- have led "an overwhelming number of those who
serve in the legislature" to view Evergreen as "an equal partner in higher education," said
Evans.
OMINOUS BUDGET PICTURE
Just when the college's fortunes are rising --- in terms of the number of projected
students, the overall public image and the considered view of state lawmakers, Evans said
trouble was appearing on the horizon in the form of an "ominous budget picture."
Since last year, Evans explained, the college has endured a three percent cut of the
current operating budget. At this week's Board of Trustees meeting plans will be discussed
for a requested additional two percent cut, also slated to come out of the 80-81 operating
budget. In addition, the governor's budget office is considering a major (12 percent) cut for
the upcoming biennium. Although that cut would be of the proposed requested "carry forward"
budgets and would not mean a reduction of 12 percent below the current biennial budgets, it
would cause what Evans called "some very serious reductions." Together all the proposed cuts
"add up to a more and more difficult time to continue providing educational excellence ••• while
ensuring a personal education with direct faculty to student contact," Evans said. Noting that
the state may face a seven hundred million dollar shortfall in the next biennium, Evans pointed
out that Evergreen and all of higher education will have to compete for limited fiscal resources
with the common schools, who have first priority, and with all other state agencies. "We'll
be fighting for dollars in competition with the blind, the aged, the retarded and the poor,"
he warned. Nonetheless, the president declared, "we cannot afford to continue to thin the
te's educational soup •.. and still expect to serve more and more students."
In the corning year, Evans said, ''we will have to fight for adequate resources and for
adequate compensation for those who serve higher education." At the same time, Evergreen will
seek to meet its legislatively mandated requirement to grow~
as outlined by the recently
adopted Five Year Plan developed by Provost Byron Youtz (see Page 3). "I am determined and
-2Byron is determined that we will meet these growth goals," Evans declared, "as long as t:J1 ere
are the financial resources to do so." Without those financial resources, Evans said, "I
am not prepared to meet those goals." To aid in the fight for resources, Evans vowed he would
take the college's growth plan down to the state capitol "and wave it in front of the
legislators, saying 'fund it or change it.'"
Concluding his brief morning address, the president urged Greeners to "be of good cheer."
"Our fight," he said, "is well worth fighting. It's one I'm confident we will ultimately win."
ORIENTATION ACTIVITIES BEGIN TODAY
New students officially begin arr1v1ng on campus this morning as they participate in
check-in activities and prepare for Orientation Week, complete with parental receptions, campus
tours, special film showings and an array of activities designed to acquaint them with their
new home.
Highlighting social Orientation Week events will be the first International Food Festival,
slated to begin at 6 p.m. Thursday on the first floor of the College Activities Building.
Faculty, staff and students are invited to purchase tickets now (at $3 for adults and $2 for
children under 12,) at the Information Center for the exotic dinner, which promises to include
such tasty treats as Teriyakichicken, southern style hamhocks and beans, Spanish vegetarian ,
rice, rice pilaf, fresh tropical fruit, and other surprises. Following the dinner, all Evergreeners are invited to the free, annual "Lighter-Than-Air-and-Love-Is-A-Geoduck," Talent Show
on the fourth floor of the Library.
Scholastic activities are focused on the Academic Fairs slated Wednesday. Events get
underway bright and early with an All-Campus Rally at 8:30 a.m. in the second floor library
lobby. That will be quickly followed by a three-hour academic fair for full-time new and
continuing students. Faculty members and academic advisers will be on hand to help students
make final selections, as will be the case for part-time students Wednesday evening in a session
slated from 5:30 to 7 o'clock.
Registration activities continue by appointment only on weekdays September 25 through
October 3, the final deadline for payment of fees and tuition. Evening registration may be
conducted without an appointment September 24, 25, and September 29-0ctober 2, from 5:30 to
7 p.m. on the first floor of the library.
Faculty members will be available to confer with students from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday
and Tuesday and from 1 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday, faculty will host special
orientation sessions for students in basic programs. Precise schedules for those sessions will
be available at Wednesday's Academic Fairs.
Classes begin Monday, September 29 and continue through December 17. Only two holidays
are officially scheduled during that period; Evergreen will be closed November 27 and 28 for
Thanksgiving.
A complete listing of Orientation Week events is printed in the Fall Quarter issue of
Welcome News, available at the Information Center.
NO HOUSING SHORTAGE, STILL TIME TO RENT A ROOM
Housing Director Ken Jacob said Wednesday that "contrary to campus rumors, there is no
shortage of housing spaces on campus this fall." Instead, 85 vacancies are available in the
modular housing units and in the two-person studio apartments for which students may apply
within the next week.
Housing staff will be on hand all weekend to help unhoused students secure new quarters,
said Jacob. He urged faculty and staff to refer students to the Housing Office weekdays
between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. and this weekend between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
The rumor that Jacob fears may have discouraged students from contacting his office no
doubt arose from a seemingly sound historical foundation. Last year at this time the Housing
Office was buried in requests and had a long waiting list. By mid-Spring Quarter the number
applications for housing this fall was more than double what it had been the previous year
Jacob issued warnings to students to sign up for their rooms early· to avoid a housing crunch.
Then unpredictably, the application rate declined. Hence 85 unexpected vacancies remain just
ten days before classes begin. Call Jacob at 866-6194 for further information.
-3STUDENT SUFFERS FATAL FALL
Evergreen student Stephen Hart was found dead earlier this month of an apparent accidental
all in the Olympic National Forest. Hart, who lived in Olympia and was last seen on June 16,
old friends he was going hiking in the mountains to write poetry and gain a change of pace.
The 20-year-old student, who graduated from Oak Park, Illinois High School in 1977, was a
transfer to Evergreen from DePauw University in Indiana. He was the son of Stephen and Rose
Marie Hart of Oak Park.
FIVE-YEAR PLAN APPROVED BY TRUSTEES SETS GOAL OF 3700 BY 1984-85
The college's Five Year Plan, proposed last year by Provost Byron Youtz and discussed at
length during the spring with faculty members, was approved in mid summer by the · Board of
Trustees, despite considerable concern over prospects for adequate funding to meet enrollment
goals mandated by the Council for Postsecondary Education.
Originally, Youtz told Trustees in August, CPE required Evergreen to secure by 1984-85
an enrollment of 3800 full-time equivalent (FTE) students. Already that target has been
reduced by 100 students, so the provost presented to the board a revised plan --- based on a
projected FTE enrollment of 2375 this fall and aimed at reaching 3700 by the magic 1984-85. ·
But, the provost warned, "implementation of this plan is entirely dependent upon the funding
levels provided by the state."
Assuming such levels are provided (see President Evans' comments on proposed state budget
cuts, page 1), Youtz's final draft of the much revised growth plan outlines, as first priority,
"the development and strengthening of our current curricular structure." The most important
task to achieve en route to state enrollment goals is, he said, "full implementation of the
Long-Range Curriculum Plan of 1976." "At present," he explained, "we are simply stretched
too thinly to carry out all of the promises of that curricular structure." To do so, "strong
attention must be given to the improvement and further development of Basic Programs ••. we must
tinue to develop our ability to prepare students in the basic skills of reading, writing
the discussion of ideas within these programs," and "careful attention must be given to
filling certain critical needs within our faculty ranks ••. "
ADD GRAD PROGRAM EACH YEAR
Secondly, Youtz declared, the college must give high priority to graduate planning, and
prepare "to add one new graduate program each year for the next four years." Plans call for
adding a master's degree program in Environmental and Energy Studies next fall, to join this
year's newly opened master's in public administration offering. Proposals have already been
submitted for master's degree programs in human services, humanities and visual arts, women's
studies, and urban and regional planning.
The least controversial means for expanding on-campus programs, Youtz outlined, is "a
proposed expansion of our part-time program through development of special programs for special
audiences." Proposals include providing an integrated interdisciplinary degree for state
employees, and in-service studies for public school teachers. He also suggested a "fairlyeasy-to-achieve" second option of devising "new career preparation pathways for students througl
development of cooperative programs with the two research universities," Of lower priority,
Youtz noted, was developing new programs in a limited number of special degree options, such as
medical technology and registered nursing.
Pierce and Clark Counties become the main targets for any off-campus expansion in the
newly adopted plan. Both areas "have large potential audiences and have expressed interest
and need," he said.
The Youtz plan accommodatesan enrollment increase of up to 300 more students in the next
two academic years. By 1983-84 we would be prepared for 3350 and, by 1984-85 Evergreen would
e geared up for 3700. "Would be," that is, i f funding is provided in upcoming legislative
essions.
-4"PLANNED FALLBACK" THROWN OUT
In his final presentation to the Board last month, Youtz argued that funding for those
targeted amounts appeared less likely than it did a year ago. Talk of major (up to 12 pe
cuts in all state agencies budgets led the provost to propose inclusion in his plan of a
"planned fallback position" that would provide what Youtz called "a desireable intermediate
alternative" between goals set by CPE and those figured by the governor's budget office. The
fallback figures would, Youtz argued, "allow us to maintain the momentum we have already achiev
ed in our enrollment efforts and also to make some new starts as an investment in our future
growth." We would, he stressed, "not have to fall quite so far behind CPE recommendations,"
and would delay "the achievement of that growth by only about one year." He urged the board
to include his fallback figures just in case "full funding is impossible for the 1981-83
biennium." Despite the urging of other administrators who strongly encouraged the inclusion
of Youtz's "fallback plan, Trustees refused to approve it in the plan, arguing that, as Herbert
Gelman explained it, "it is our intention to meet the legislatively mandated goals."
"Let's don't adjust (to any fallback plan) until we have to," agreed Trustee Herb Hadley.
"Let's keep our plan and avoid adjusting to gloom and doom."
Trustees agreed with Hadley and approved the Youtz plan only after deleting his "fallback"
schedule.
TRUSTEES UPDATE
As the Newsletter went to press Thursday morning, the college's five-member Board of
Trustees was scheduled to begin major policy discussions on the fiscal impact of required and
proposed cuts to the current operating budget, as well as a proposed 12 percent cut to the
1981-83 biennial budget. Trustees were also expected to consider proposals for meeting future
on-campus housing needs and for revising the college's admissions/marketing plan.
A full report on the September 18 Trustees meeting --- and on the budget proposals develop·
ed by the college for the next biennium --- will be available in next week's Newsletter.
VICE PRESIDENT, ACADEMIC DEAN HEAD LIST OF NEW TESC ADMINISTRATORS
Richard Schwartz, a former Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs at the University of
Michigan-Dearborn, has assumed his role as Evergreen's Vice President for Business and become
one of six new administrators who will direct activities as the college launches its tenth
academic year. Schwartz, 47, fills the post vacated last winter by the death of founding Vice
President Dean Clabaugh. The new Evergreen vice president brings with him four years experiencE
as the Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs on Michigan's Dearborn campus, and four years as
Vice President for Institutional Planning at Stockton State College in Panama, New Jersey. He
has also served as Director of Campus Planning at Cleveland State University, as the Capital
Program Analyst for the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and as a faculty member at Oakland
Community College in Farmington, Michigan, and at Stockton.
Two new administrators have also been named to the academic side of the campus: Provost
Byron Youtz appointed Dr. John Perkins to a four-year post of senior academic dean, and Dr.
Richard Alexander, to a two-year appointment as an assistant academic dean. Perkins, a former
faculty biologist in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University in Ohio, this
past year served as a visiting research associate in the Division of Biological Control at the
University of California at Berkeley. He replaces Dr. Will Humphreys, who has completed a
four-year term as dean and is returning to the faculty this fall. Alexander was hired in 1970
as a member of Evergreen's original planning faculty in English and literature. Last fall he
returned to campus after completing a six-month assignment as an exchange professor in English
at Kobe University of Commerce in Japan. He replaces Jeanne Hahn, who is also returning to the
faculty this fall.
---Other new administrative appointments at Evergreen this fall include: Dr. Guy Adams,
Evergreen faculty member, named to a one-year term as director of the master's degree pro
in public administration, which begins this month,
Steve Hunter, appointed to head the Office
of Institutional Researchi and Joyce Weston, a former counselor in the Office of Cooperative
Education, who has accepted a two-year appointment as coordinator of the Office of Career
Planning and Placement.
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NEW FACULTY JOIN INSTRUCTIONAL TEAM
Three new full-time faculty members have joined the Evergreen teaching team this fall,
with two exchange professors and ten visiting faculty, according to Academic Vice
ident and Provost Byron Youtz. Named to three-year, full-time contracts are Dr. Gerry
Brown, Jerry Lassen, and Dr. Art Mulka, all of whom have been hired to teach in Evergreen's new
master's degree program in public administration.
Dr. Brown has most recently served as director of the L.P. Cookingham Institute of Public
Affairs at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he has been a member of the faculty
in public administration for 13 years. Lassen comes to Evergreen after six years as revenue
coordinator for the State Office of Financial Management and six years as a professor, one at
the University of Puget Sound and five at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
Dr. Mulka has been a visiting member of Evergreen's faculty for the past year. He formerly
served as a lecturer for the department of Public Administration at California State University,
and as vice president of Saint Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California, while he simultaneously chaired that school's department of Near Eastern Languages and Literature. He has
also served as director of program planning and evaluation for the Office of the Mayor of
San Francisco for eight years.
Also new to the Evergreen faculty for the 1980-81 academic year are two exchange professors:
Seiichi Katayama from the Kobe University of Commerce in Japan, and Gail Tremblay from the
University of Nebraska at Omaha. Katayama will team teach in a full-time Evergreen study
program called "Energy Systems," which will examine the social, economic and political aspects
of the current energy crisis. He brings to his Evergreen assignment eight years of teaching
mathematics and economics at Kobe University of Commerce. Tremblay, an assistant professor in
humanities at the University of Nebraska, will share teaching responsibilities for an academic
program called "Perceptions," which will examine the ways different cultures perceive and create
art, dance and music. She has taught Native American studies, English, art, drama and
humanities at both Nebraska and Kenne State College in New Hampshire.
Also joining the Evergreen faculty for one-year teaching assignments are two new visiting
ofessors and eight continuing visitors. New to the visiting roster are Dr. Julie Andrzejewski
whose academic field is human relations, and Dr. Shelby Sherrod, a chemist. Dr. Andrzejewski
has served as an assistant professor of human relations at Saint Cloud State University in
Minnesota for the past nine years, while Dr. Sherrod has served as an assistant professor in
chemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Continuing visiting professors, who will teach on the Olympia campus during the coming
year, include: Dr. David Englert, music; Jean Mandeberg, fine arts, Thomas Ott, media arts; Dr.
David Paulsen, philosophy; Rita Pougiales, education; and Fred Stone, biogeography;
Also continuing to serve on one-year visiting appointments are three members of the
Evergreen-Vancouver faculty: Virginia Darney, women's studies and American studies; Ronna
Loewen, communications; and Gayle Rothrock, public administration.
In addition, some 30 persons have accepted appointments as adjunct members of the Evergreen
faculty, to assist in teaching part-time courses on a quarter by quarter basis.
HARVEST FAIR LAUNCHES FALL ACTIVITIES
An afternoon of free outdoor entertainment, coupled with educational workshops and
selection of the best in both organically grown vegetables and finely honed Geoduck calling
talents will all be a part of the first Harvest Fair, sponsored September 28 by Evergreen's
Organic Farm. The fair, scheduled rain or shine from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the eight-acre
farm which borders Lewis Road, begins with free workshops conducted in the two-story wooden
farmhouse, a structure open for public inspection throughout the day.
Evergreen Provost Byron Youtz will launch the workshop session with an 11 a.m. presentation
on alternative energy with students Debbie Miller, Mark Young and Jim Peterson. The hour-long
ion will be followed at noon by an introduction to organic gardening, led by farm carers, and at 1 p.m. by a discussion of the Northwest Alternative Food Network, by Tyra
Lindquist of the Olympia Food Cooperative. Also scheduled are workshops at 2:30 p.m. on direct
puying from farmers, at 4 p.m. on herbs, and at 5 p.m. on nutrition by Flora Liesenring, an
adjunct member of Evergreen's faculty.
While the workshops continue in the farmhouse, artists and craftspersons will display their
creations, farmers will sell their produce, and free entertainment will be offered, including
- 6 roaming jugglers and a live scare crow. Also slated to entertain are members of the Theatre
of Transformation; vocalists Sarah Favret, Judy Johnson, and Kim Scanlon; singing-guitarist
Chris Bingham; and string musicians Sue Patnude and Rene Bressieux of the Olympia-based
country-swing band, Oly-Wa-Ditty.
Judges will take the center stage at 3 p.m. to evaluate the area's best in organic
grown vegetables. Categories include the best overall vegetable, as well as the best in
category, the largest and smallest, and the most bizarre among the entries. Strange sounds
will then fill the air as the judges seek to determine the most talented among callers of
Evergreen's mascot, the tough-shelled (hopefully deaf), bi-valved Geoduck.
Youngsters between four and ten years of age will also have a chance to win judges' favor
through their own coloring contest. All young artists will receive a prize for competing
(fresh, hot corn on the cob). In addition, the top entry of each age level will take home a
freshly harvested pumpkin. Color contest forms will be available at the Farmers Market
Saturday, September 27.
Throughout Sunday, tours of the college farm will be available, as will an array of
tasty tidbits, including barbequed and smoked salmon, freshly pressed apple cider, hot vegetab
soup, and Blue Herron Bakery items.
Events conclude at 8 p.m. with a public concert of women's music by Meg Christian, a
singer, songwriter and guitarist. Sponsored by Tides of Change Production Collective,
Christian's show in the second floor lobby of the Evans Library costs $4.50.
Free parking for the Harvest Fair is available in Lot C at Evergreen, a short (five-minutl
stroll through the woods from the farm. Transportation from the lot to the farm will be
available from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. for the elderly and the handicapped.
Complete details on the first Harvest Fair are available from the Organic Farm caretakers 1
866-6161.
EVERGREEN EXPRESSIONS ANNOUNCES FULL SCHEDULE
Seven professional shows, offering 20 performances of music, dance and theater, have been
announced for the 1980-81 Evergreen Expressions, the second annual performing arts series
sponsored by Evergreen and slated to begin next month. Jazz musicians Cal Tjader and Art
headline the series, along with two professional dance companies, two local theatrical tro
and a Canadian theater company, all of whom will present evening performances on campus.
Expressions organizers Richard Nesbitt and Judy McNickle say the 1980-81 season is "desigt
ed to enrich both the learning environment for Evergreen students and the cultural and entert ainment resources available to residents of the southern Puget Sound region."
Funded in part by grants from POSSCA (Patrons of South Sound Cultural Arts) and The
Evergreen Foundation, the series begins October 10 with a six-night run of "Take A Card, Any
Card," an award-winning handicap awareness play by Thurston County's own playwright, Martin
Kimeldorf. The show, codirected by Nesbitt and Jerry West of Portland, will be produced in
cooperation with the Thurston County Association for Retarded Citizens, which will receive all
proceeds from the October 10 premiere production. Tickets for opening night are available
only through the ARC at 1703 State Street.
World renowned vibraharpist and jazz bandleader Cal Tjader brings his sextet to Evergreen
for one concert only, on October 28. Tjader, a former member of the Dave Brubeck Trio and
the George Shearing Quintet, has recorded more than 60 albums in the past 30 years and earned
a reputation as a "captivating, uninhibited, spirited Renaissance man of jazz."
"Charley's Aunt," the Broadway smash show by Brandon Thomas, comes to Olympia in December
f or eight evening shows under the direction of Evergreen faculty member~ ~. The allEvergreen cast will bring to life the popular, humorous tale of two college men who impersonate
a rich aunt and rapidly become entangled in their own deceptions.
Launching the new year will be matinee and evening shows January 24 by the Northwest
Repertory Dance Company, a 12-member modern dance troupe choreographed and directed by V. Keith
Martin. Mixing classical, modern and ethnic styles of dance, the Portland performers have
drawn rave reviews for "their joyful, cheerful airiness, the sense that, at any moment,
all just might levitate in front of our very eyes." Jazz saxophonist Art Pepper brings wh
New York Times reviewers have called "an exceptionally strong quartet" to Evergreen for one
show only February 1. Pepper 1 originally a star of Stan Kenton's band, "plays with controlled
intensity, clean articulation and a command of his instrument that make his virtuosity seem
el os t casual and easy," say music critics.
Five nights later
Tandy Beal and Company present a show the Los Angeles Times says
"c.. ses , mystifies and exhilarates." Led by Baal, whom critics call "the most brilliant
- 7 dancer/choreographer of the West Coast," the dance troupe appears February 6 as part of a twomonth national performance.tour. The series concludes April 4 with one performance of "Piaf!"
The life and loves of the immortal Edith Piaf will be recaptured by a six-member Canadian
theatrical troupe who recreate a Parisian bistro in their show, which broke audience attendance
records at their City Stage Production in Vancouver, British Columbia: last year.
Tickets for each of the seven productions are available now at the Evergreen Bookstore
and at Yenney's Music in downtown Olympia. Reservations may be made by calling 866-6070
weekdays during regular working hours.
arts briefs
SENIOR SHOW OPENS SATURDAY
A mixed media show, featuring works by three senior art students, will open the gallery
season at Evergreen this Saturday. The display, which will be on view through October 26 in
Gallery Two of the Evans Library, will feature drawings and paintings by Tucker Petertil,
sculpture by Leslie Tose, and fine metal work and ceramics by Deborah Mersky.
The exhibit is free and open to the public, and may be viewed during regular library
hours: 8 a.m. to 10:45 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, 1 to 5 p.m.
Saturday, and 1 to 9 p.m. Sunday.
TRAVELING EXHIBITS SELECTED FOR NATIONAL DISPLAY
Two traveling art exhibits, curated and distributed last year by Evergreen Exhibits
Coordinator aid Wbite, have been selected for nation-wide circulation by Visual Arts Resources,
a touring organization within the University of Oregon Museum of Art. During the next two
years, the Oregon group will circulate the Evergreen Regional Photography and Printmaking
ibit, which features the work of 22 artists from the Pacific Northwest and was funded in par
a grant from the Washington State Arts Commission. The group will also circulate an exhibit
of works by Portland muralist and painter Isaac Shamsud-Din, whose display was supported in
part by a grant from the Washington State Humanities Commission.
Both shows were curated by White with the aid of advanced students enrolled in his Arts
Management studies. They opened the exhibits at Evergreen last year and coordinated their
display in colleges, museums and libraries throughout Washington and Oregon during the 1979-80
academic year.
EVERGREENERS IN THE NEWS
Trustee Wes Berglund of Aberdeen has been elected chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Berglund, who was appointed to the board in April of 1977 by Governor Ray, will be assisted by
Jane Sylvester of Seattle as vice chairman and Herbert Gelman of Tacoma as secretary.
New to the Evergreen family over the summer are three faculty offspring: Rob and Helena
Knapp produced twins, born in London on August 28. Emily and Malcolm joined three-year-old
brother Alexander in the Knapp family. And Michael and Ann Beug welcomed their second child,
Benjamin Clayton Beug born July 19 and welcomed by two-year-old brother Christopher.
The Graphics and Editing team have been recognized for their hard work in the past year.
The college's Summer 1980 catalog won an Award of Excellence from the National School Public
~elations Association, while the 1980-81 Catalog received an Award of Merit.
The entries were
among 231 winners selected from a field of 1281 publications in the national contest. Editor
Kip Poyser and head graphics designer Peter Richards steered the summer catalog to press, while
former editor Bill Polfus and assistant graphics head Brad Clemmons finalized the 1980-81
catalog. The 1981-82 catalog went to press this week and will be off the presses by the first
of October, the earliest Evergreen has ever produced the much-sought document.
Degrees are in the news for two Evergreen staffers: Development Director Susan Washburn
this summer completed her master's degree in industrial management from Clarkson College in
Potsdam, New York; Evergreen graduate Krist! Morrish, who also serves as food service design
consultant for the college, has earned her doctorate in humanistic nutrition from Union Graduat
School-West.
Alum Will Rice, former senior fiscal analyst for the Washington State Research Council,
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has been named economic analyst at the Office of Financial Management where he wil1 develop
economic and revenue forecasts to be used in the state budget. Graduate Cyndia Siedentop
this summer gained good reviews for her performance of one of the main roles in Wagner's Ring,
presented by the Seattle Opera. A recent winner of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, Sied
who used to perform with the Evergreen Jazz Ensemble, has been participating in the Seattl
Opera's Singers'Training Program. A third alum, Eve Ann Shaw of the Class of 1973 has receive
-----her master I s degree in education from Rutgers, the
State University of New Jersey. t
The staff has undergone considerable changes since June. Newly hired in the past three
months are: Colleen Bergland, secretary in Cooperative Education; Sarah Pederson, cataloging
librarian in the Library; Charlotte Pinkerton, office assistant in the bookstore; Carol Osier,
office assistant in Campus Recreation; Candace Goodwin, composer and mag tape typist in Word
Processing; Robert Payne, lead custodian; Patricia Zimmerman, telephone services operator;
Carolyn Chapman, cashier; Donavan Gray, half-time grants coordinator for the Development Office
and Toni Holm, development coordinator for KAOS FM under a Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Women's Training Grant and half-time research assistant to the Development Office.
Transfers have been arranged for Audrey Streeter from program secretary to administrative
secretary to the academic deans, replacing Eileen Humphrey who is on a six-month leave; and
Jeannie Chandler, who will move ' from her job as program assistant two in Financial Aid to
administrative assistant to the Vice President for Business.
Gone from the Evergreen staff are: Doreen Parrish, office assistant in the Bookstore;
Ron Riley, composer in Word Processing; David Vineberg, custodian; Karin Anderson, composer
in Word Processing; and Dave Carnahan, former associate dean of the Library.
DEADLINE REMINDER
This issue marks the return of the weekly on-campus Newsletter,
published every Friday by the Office of College Relations. Copy is
due by noon every Wednesday to Newsletter Editor Judy McNickle (Library
?114). Copy for the Happenings, a weekly listing of campus activities,
is also due at noon on Wednesdays to the staff at the Information Center
on the second floor of the College Activities Building. Questions about
either publication may be directed to McNickle at 866-6128,
MEG CHRISTIAN APPEARS SUNDAY, SEPT. 28
Meg Christian, a singer, songwriter and guitarist who has earned a national reputation
as a "bold and joyous pioneer of women's music," comes to Evergreen September 28. Slated to
perform at 8 o'clock Sunday night in the second floor lobby of the libraryJ Christian brings
with her seven years experience in performing music for and by women in a style that encompasses classical, folk, country, mountain and contemporary elements.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Christian gave up a successful night
club career in 1973 to concentrate on women's music. Since then, she has become a founding
member of Olivia Records, a national women's recording company for which she has coproduced and
arranged two of her own albums. She's also appeared at colleges, clubs, festivals and
women's centers throughout the U.S., Canada and Western Europe.
The women's artist has also, say reviewers, gained renown for the "stridency and power
1.n her singing which often resembles that of Odetta" and for her ability to ''work wonders" on
a classical guitar.
Throughout her career, Christian has focused on women's struggles and women's culture,
sharing her politics, her experiences and her visions as she seeks to validate women's eff
f or self 'affirmation and social change.
Christian's Evergreen appearance is sponsored by the Tides of Change Production Collective ,
Tickets, at $4.50 each, are available at Rainy Day Records, Budget Tapes and Records, and
the Evergreen Women's Center, Library 3214. Work exchange and child care are available.
Complete information is available at 866-6162 or 866-6220.
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