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The Evergreen State College Newsletter (March 27, 1987)
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Next Newsletter—April 10
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Newsletter
The Evergreen State College
March 27, 198?
KAWAGUCHI NAMED EVERGREENER OF THE MONTH
It started with a red-headed kindergarten
teacher in Chicago. Five-year-old Marianne
Kawaguchi drew a picture of her that delighted
the class. "I thought it was pretty good," says
Evergreen's graphic designer with typical softspoken modesty. She reports that, although she
continued to doodle her way through school, she
thought her future career would be in front of a
keyboard as a classical pianist. But in her
senior year, after winning a prize for one of
her watercolors, she chose a career at the light
table, and The Secret Quackers Society is glad
she did. "Not only is she an exquisite artist,"
read the note that was slipped under our door,
"but she always considers
the needs of others. She's
cooperation personified."
"Marianne's got style!"
CHIBI, the
adds Mary Tuominen,
Kawaguchi
wonder
assistant director of
dog, drawn by
Brad Clemmons
graduate programs. "She really made our catalog
come alive. I love her sense of color and she's very
patient. Her work is fabulous!"
That sentiment has been expressed across campus
since late 1982, when Kawaguchi came to Evergreen
just in time to turn out the first of five magnificient Tribute to Japan posters. Other works include
the poster at left for a campus workshop, Catalog
covers and graphics, posters for International
Women's Day (the dancing figure above is a detail
from that poster), Reviews, brochures, invitations
and more. Kawaguchi sees her job as "solving design
problems with creations that are aesthetically
pleasing as well as effective."
Asked about her dreams, she says she liked to
have a family and keep working. She'd also love to
have a store and "sell a bunch of little toys." If
the store is anything like her artwork and her smile,
we're sure it'll be packed with magic. Thanks for
being you, Marianne, and congratulations!
WESTON RECOMMENDED TO HEAD NEW STUDENT ADVISING CENTER
The Academic Advising Advisory Board has enthusiastically recommended Career Development Director Joyce
Weston as the director of the new Student Advising
Center (SAC). The position will oversee the coordination of the new center which will include Academic
Advising, Career Development, Cooperative Education,
KEY—Special Services, and Prior Learning from
Experience.
Weston, a 1976 Evergreen graduate, began working
at the college in 1978 as a counselor in Co-op Ed and
in 1980 moved to Career Development which she has
directed since 1984. The Advisory Board cited Weston's
close interaction with Academic Advising, Key Services
and Admissions, as well as "her honest and direct
management style" in their recommendation.
Academic Dean Rita Pougiales, who chairs the
Advisory Board, says the new center will "provide a
functional core of advising to students." She relates
that fellow board member Jean MacGregor's extensive
research on advising at Evergreen revealed that "many jj
offices do a significant amount of academic advising,j
talking through similar issues and duplicating
services. The new, centralized location will reduce
the burden for students of having to run around all
over campus in order to receive all the academic
advice and counseling they need."
SAC will be located on the first floor corridor of the Library, currently
occupied by the Native American Specialty Area Faculty, who will move to the
second floor. Pougiales cites the new center's proximity to Enrollment Services
and Admissions as another plus for students. "The advising staff can be a great
help to students by being highly visible during registration." The board also
charges the new center to develop better long-range planning for students. The new
center will not just be a collection of various services, but will work, through
close interaction and cross-training, to become a cohesive team.
The new center will open this summer, following remodeling of the location.
Pougiales reports that the Advisory Board, which continued last year's work of the
Academic Advising DTF, will stay in place next year to assist the director in
developing Evergreen's philosophy of academic advising. Members of the board
include: Students Carl Chatfield and Dan Barclay; Staffers Kate Crows, Kitty
Parker, and Ernest "Stone" Thomas, and Faculty Members Burt Guttman, Larry
Eickstaedt, Will Humphreys, Sandy Nisbet and Pete Sinclair.
NEWS AROUND CAMPUS—babies, good ideas, heroics and more
Our appreciation goes out to Media Maintenance Technician Victor Buff whose quick
thinking on March 8 helped save the life of Albert Mohler of Kent. According to
the Olympian, Mohler was driving on 1-5 near Lacey when he had a heart attack and
lost control of the car. While the back-seat passenger grabbed the steering wheel,
Buff, driving his pickup, noticed the swerving vehicle and, pulling in front of
it, helped stop the car by using his truck as a brake. Buff, State Patrol Trooper
Preston Beegle and another motorist administered cardio-pulmonary resuscitation
until the medics arrived. Mohler was released in satisfactory condition from St.
Peter Hospital on March 18.
We welcome Visiting Scholar Raj Laxshmi Phoha, faculty member at Kurukshetra
University in India. Phoha, whose interests are in experimental and cognitive
psychology, will visit faculty and students through Spring Quarter. She is prepared to lecture on a variety of topics, including "Impact of Social Status on
Value Patterns in Indian Society," "Professional Women in India," and "Philosophy
of Hinduism." Phoha can be contacted by calling ext. 6600.
Congratulations to Personnel Representative Judy Johnson who gave birth to Ryan
Dale on Sunday, March 15. Ryan, her third child, weighed in at 7 Ibs., 3 02.
"More Good Ideas, 1986" a publication by the American Association of State
Colleges and Universities, includes a good idea called "Core Programs," described
by Academic Dean David Marr. Marr writes that the core experience prepares students "for advanced study of the world as it more or less is, rather than as it is
decked out in the garb of conventional academic disciplines."
DOBBS
Goodbye and good luck to Secretary Hilda Godwin who leaves Evergreen for a new job
in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Says Godwin, who worked for the
college for five years, "I will miss you all. Evergreen was my first employer in
this country, and it's been really wonderful to work here. Thank you!"
FACULTY RESEARCH, PART II
1 This article is the second in a series that summarizes 24 faculty
research projects based on a report compiled by the Provost's
office and Faculty Member Burt Guttman.
Leo Daugherty is developing new theses about Shakespeare and his
works through meticulous study of his poems and the writings of
his contemporaries. Daugherty's explorations include: a look at
Shakespeare's account of the "life-cycle" as presented in "The
Rape of Lucrece"; Shakespeare's religious beliefs; an investigation of Ben Jonson's Timber, or Discoveries, which contains a
long passage that denigrates Shakespeare's plays; an evaluation
of Apology for Women, a little-known book by Shakespeare's contemporary, William Heale and the significance of the phrase,
"remembrance of things past," that appears in both Shakespeare's
and Heale's work, and the implications of of Sonnet 126, "0 thou,
my lovely boy, who in thy power..."
"Natural Environment and Physical Setting in Selected Children's
Literature," conducted by Carolyn Dobbs, examines the way in
which place is represented in British children's literature.
Her analysis seeks to determine the relation between such
representations and the development during childhood of values
about the environment. In addition to textual study, Dobbs will
conduct photographic studies in England of the physical settings
that appear in several children's books. She will also study
biographical and autobiographical material about several writers.
Larry Eickstaedt is studying the "Freshwater Ecology of Percival
Creek," which is being threatened by increasing urbanization.
Despite draining both Trosper Lake and Black Lake, and its importance as a rearing site for millions of salmon fry, little information is available about Percival Creek's ecological nature.
Working with students, Eickstaedt is identifying the dominant
aquatic invertebrates, and photographically documenting the
creek's flora and fauna. He's also studying the creek's entomology and fish feeding behavior.
TALKS ON CORRECTIONS, LEGISLATURE AND PROGRESS SLATED TOR FIRST WEEK OF QUARTER
The first week of Spring Quarter will be a good one for speeches. Chase Riveland,
secretary of the Washington State Department of Corrections, will discuss "The
Changing Scene in Community Corrections" at a Piece of My Mind noon lecture on
Wednesday, April 1, in the First United Methodist Church, 1224 East Legion Way in
Olympia. Brown bag lunches are welcome and beverages are provided.
That same evening former Representative and Chief Clerk Denny Heck, a 1973
Evergreen graduate, will discuss "The Washington State Legislature, Past, Present
and Future: A 15-year Perspective and a 20-year Projection" at 7:30 p.m. in
Lecture Hall 1. Heck's speech, which is sponsored by the MES Program, is free and
open to the public. The program will also present former U.S. Senator Slade
Gorton, who will speak on "Reflections on a Senate Career" at 7:30 p.m. on
Tuesday, April 14.
"Progress and The Environment: The Redefinition of Progress" will be the subject of a free noon-2 p.m. talk given by Dr. Gilbert LaFreniere of Willamette
University on Friday, April 3, in the First Floor Conference Room of the General
Administration Building on the Capitol Campus. LaFreniere's talk is the second in
the Evergreen Environmental Forum, sponsored by the MES Program. Brown-bag
lunchers are welcome. Complete details are available by calling ext. 6128.
EICKSTAEDT
FINKEL
"Democracy in Education: Education in Democracy" is an analysis
of the Self-Reflective Group (SRG), a teaching mode developed by
Don Finkel. The SRG is an artificial classroom group that enables
students to learn the principles of group functioning by teaching
them how to become a participant-observer, and how to use their
own group as a laboratory for studying such group factors as
leadership, authority and autonomy. Conducting SRG's as part of
his work with several programs, Finkel relates that the teaching
mode has been extremely valuable for most of his students, and is
a vivid, concrete vehicle for interconnecting the political
theories of Hannah Arendt (The Human Condition and On Revolution)
and Freud's psychological theories.
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