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The Evergreen State College Newsletter (July 14, 1987)
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Office of Information Services
Library 3122
Photos by TESC Photo Services
Alligator by Mike Wark
Newsletter
The Evergreen State College
EVERGREENERS IN THE NEWS
Bill Arney, faculty sociologist, received a Rockefeller Foundation Grant to reside
for five weeks at the Bellagio Conference and Study Center near Milan, Italy.
Arney will be researching his book "Experts and Expertise," about the intra- and
interpersonal dynamics that contributed to the birth of the atomic bomb. Ingram
Marshall, faculty musician, also received a Rockefeller grant. Barbara Hammer,
faculty filmmaker, received a residency grant to the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. MacDowell has provided artists Thornton Wilder, Studs
Terkel, Aaron Copland and many others with an atmosphere for creativity.
Frank Motley, reference librarian and faculty member, is recuperating from a
heart attack he suffered July 3> and doctors expect a full recovery. Motley won't
be back for a course on the 1960's he was to have team-taught at the Vancouver
Campus, but he's expected to return this fall. Get-well messages may be sent to
Frank care of the Library Administration, Library 2300.
Bob Bottoms, long-time Greener staffer and self-proclaimed "campus grouch,"
passed away June 30. Bottoms was originally employed at Evergreen as a temporary
laborer in 1971, hired permanently as a custodian in 1972, and retired as as maintenance mechanic II in May, 1986. George Leago, grounds and maintenance supervisor,
recalls "If you ever needed help, Bob was the best resource. He knew where everything was stashed and he could tell you where something was used four years ago."
The President's Advisory Board has six new members. Representing the staff are
Walter Niemiec and Wen Shaw (alternate). New faculty reps are David Hitchens and
Judy Bayard. New student reps are Scott Buckley and Jackie Dettman. Members at
large are Faculty Members Joye Hardiman, Willie
Parson (alternate) and Yvonne Peterson.
Bookstore Manager Denis Snyder is coordinating
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Hade a qrea-tcampus this week. Faculty Member Betty Kutter will
host the seventh bi-annual Bacteriophage T-4 Conference at Evergreen, August 1-6. Approximately
100 scientists and researchers who work with the
T-4 virus will be in attendance.
Hello and Good-bye—A warm welcome to new
Greener staffers Alexander Mar, a systems programmer in Computer Services; Steve Rettke, custodian;
and Tina Sweeney, a data entry operator I in Daily
Operations. Good-bye and best wishes to former
Director of Cooperative Education Barbara Cooley.
Lost Dog Report: Information Specialist Keith
Eisner and Campus Architect Jon Collier found four
Labrador retriever-mix puppies while they were
walking to work July 2. They brought the pups to
campus and put out a call for dog owners. Security
reports that all four now have happy homes.
July 14, 1987
GREENER FINDS OLYMPIC SPIRIT ALIVE AND WELL IN GREECE
"Humbling is not quite the right word," says Evergreen's
Director of Recreation and Athletics Jan Lambertz as she
describes her recent experience in that other Olympia—
Olympia, Greece. Lambertz was part of a four-member U.S.
delegation that joined more than 50 people from 43 countries at the annual International Olympic Academy, June 26
to July 3, where they studied the Olympic Movement at a
"beautiful retreat facility" in the hills overlooking the
original site of the ancient Olympic games.
"Feeling humbled was just the first step," she says.
|l "I came to realize there were bigger outcomes than what
III i originally went to Greece for. It was an incredible
expansion of my frame of reference about life and people."
Lambertz's trip came about through her involvement with the Olympic Academy
Committee, which is chaired by President Joseph Olander, and its parent organization, the Pacific Northwest Amateur Sports Foundation. She was instrumental in
working with both groups to formulate proposals to (1) bring the United States'
annual Olympic Academy—a week-long conference of study and training for Olympic
athletes, trainers and other proponents—to Evergreen in June, 1989; and (2) build
a permanent home for the itinerant Academy here in Olympia, Washington.
Lambertz and local businessman Howard Primer made the proposals at a June 24
meeting of the Education Council of the United States Olympic Committee in
Indianapolis, Indiana. The Council approved Evergreen as the site for the '89
Olympic Academy, and strongly recommended that a permanent Academy in Olympia be
given serious consideration by the USOC at its annual meeting in October. When
she left Indiana to travel to Greece, Lambertz expected to learn a great deal
about the Olympics, but she ended up learning more about the spirit of Olympism.
"The study of the Movement became secondary to the relationships I developed
with the other delegates," says Lambertz. "I learned far more about intercultural
communication because I had never experienced people from other cultures at such
a primary level. With the language barrier, our discussions focused on getting
basic ideas across, rather than casual conversation. I learned to speak clearly
and be a very good listener. The interaction I had with people who had been
strangers just a few days before was amazingly open and honest."
Some of the lessons Lambertz learned will come home to roost in the long
run. "I'm now better able to understand how sport can be an effective tool for
teaching and applying humanistic values," she says. "If a permanent Olympic
Academy is built here and Evergreen maintains its ties, then I have an expanded
concept of what it means for the college. We could link studies in sports to the
social sciences and promote intercultural exchanges, for instance. The Academy
and Olympism would provide Evergreen students more significant experiential
learning environments, both nationally and internationally."
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN DEVELOPMENT TOP LIST OF BOARD BUSINESS
Action taken by the Board of Trustees at their July 8 meeting included approval of
plans for 1987-89 budget enhancements, highlighted by funds to hire an additional 17
faculty, and increasing tuition and fees for the coming academic year from $1,212 to
$1,272 and for 1988-89 from $1,272 to $1,317. The Trustees also approved some significant organizational changes proposed by President Joseph Olander.
First among these was the addition of a college legal counsel, Shawn Newman (see
story below), who will report to the President. The change that affected the most
people occurred in the Development Office, which was realigned to increase efficiency
and visibility, and in preparation for the possibility of a future capital campaign.
The result of recommendations made to Olander by a New York-based consulting firm,
Brakeley, John Price Jones, Inc., the Development reorganization's primary impact is
that Development staff members report directly to Susan L. Washburn, vice president
for Development and Administrative Services, who will now devote a major portion of
her time and effort to development work. Within the Development Office, John Gallagher
has shifted from director to the postion of capital campaign director and director of
gift planning, and Don Chalmers, formerly associate director, is now director of corporate and foundation relations, as well as executive director of the Evergreen
Foundation. Development staffers Eleanor Dornan and Forrest Wilcox essentially switch
functions, with Dornan becoming director of Development Research and Records and
Wilcox director of Annual Giving. Meanwhile, Brakeley, John Price Jones, Inc. continues studying the prospects for a capital campaign sometime in the next few years by
examining Evergreen's potential for volunteer and financial support in various areas
of need at the college. A final report is expected in September.
The Board meeting was the first presided over by new officers David K.Y. Tang,
chairman; Herb Gelman, vice chairman; and Allan M. Weinstein, secretary. In succeeding Richard S._ Page_, Tang becomes the 21st person to chair the Board since 1967.
OTHER NEW ROLES AND NEW PEOPLE AROUND CAMPUS
Congratulations to Carolyn Dobbs and Matt Smith, selected from the faculty last month
to become the college's newest academic deans, beginning September 1. One replaces
outgoing David Marr, who will return to teaching, while the other will occupy a fifth
dean's position, newly created to meet the demands of enrollment growth.
Shawn Newman, who was recently hired as Evergreen's new College Legal Counsel,
comes from the state Attorney General's Office where he served as assistant attorney
general. He is a 1983 graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School and,
locally, is president of the Olympic Wildlife Rescue Project, serves on the Olympia
Urban League Advisory Board, and has been treasurer for local political campaigns.
Ellen Grant, who began work July 1 as Coordinator of Media Services, has a diverse
background in financial consulting, law and TV news photography. She earned numerous
awards in the latter field for her work at television stations in Seattle and Los
Angeles. She was admitted to the Washington State Bar in 1977 and was partner in a
Seattle law firm, 1980-82. She has also been a financial specialist for Shearson
Lehman and E.F. Hutton in the Seattle area and, most recently, worked on making a
video documentary on women judges in Washington state.
Welcome to Information Specialist Mike Wark, who replaces Keith Eisner in the
Office of Information Services and Publications. Wark graduated from Lacey's Timberline High School in 1979 and Central Washington University in 1983, and comes to
Evergreen from South Puget Sound Community College. Eisner will postpone his year's
leave, however, when he returns this fall to direct the office for current Information
Director Mark Clemens, who begins a temporary faculty assignment in the group
contract, "The Experience of Fiction." And there's more: Graphic Designer Marianne
Kawaguchi will step in for Senior Designer Brad Clemmons this October when he begins a
year's leave of absence to attend school in Switzerland.
FACILITIES BUSY, BUSY, BUSY
Facilities is sizzling with activity this summer as it wraps up, continues, or is
about to begin more than 300 remodeling, maintenance and repair projects, both
major and minor. Waiting in the wings are 15 projects funded by the $13.1 million
1987-89 Capital Budget, the largest appropriation for Evergreen in a decade.
Heading the list is the construction of the Campus Recreation Center, phase II,
also known as the Multipurpose Facility and Gymnasium. A fast-track timeline calls
for the project to be bid out early this fall, begin construction in November or
December, and be completed by June, 1989. While the final design—including
working drawings—was completed during the 1981-83 biennium, Facilities is working
with consultants to incorporate new code requirements and minor program changes
into the plans by the time the project goes out for bid in September.
Also in the wings: the $1 million addition of four art studios, a critique
room and office to the Lab Annex will begin in October and be completed next June;
the Student Advising Center remodeling project has begun and will be finished for
Fall Quarter; and other capital projects, including the installation of energyefficient lighting around campus, construction of a storage building for hazardous
materials, installation and repair of new and old chairs in the Lecture Halls, and
beginning of a consultant's survey of campus structures for asbestos materials
that will eventually be sealed or removed. Lest you forget: the Business Office is
99 percent complete and "Wonderful!" says Controller Becky Gallagher, who adds,
"The remodel is making business so much easier for the people who use us and
easier for us to help them." Housing's 200-bed, seven-building residence complex
is on schedule for occupancy in early September, and the community center
and landscaping will be completed by mid-October.
Director of Facilities Ken Jacob invites the campus community to review
plans for any of the above projects in Facilities' conference room. Recreation
and Athletics Director Jan Lambertz and Performing Arts Manager Ed Trujillo
also have plans of the Multipurpose Gym for inspection. An all-campus memo
detailing the status of Facilities projects will be out later this summer.
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EVERGREEN INVOLVED IN TWO SUMMER EFFORTS TO IMPROVE TEACHING
Evergreen's Northwest Regional Center for the National Faculty of Humanities
Arts and Sciences will host its first official function for nearly 50 secondary
English and language arts teachers from across the state, July 20-31. The
two-week Summer Institute, "Thinking, Reading and Writing About Literature
and Life," will be taught by six faculty scholars (including Evergreen's own
Pete Sinclair) and include work in curricular development and interdisciplinary team teaching. The Center's co-coordinators, Karen Munro and Faculty
Member Rudy Martin made a special effort to attract teachers from rural school
districts and schools with high minority enrollments. With funding from the
state Legislature and national parent organization, the Center is offering the
Institute for no charge, as well as giving each participant a $250 stipend.
Deep discussions will abound when approximately 300 fellows of the Society
for Values in Higher Education gather for their annual meeting at Evergreen,
August 8-13- The morning group sessions, which are the Society's central activity, will cover topics such as struggling with religious tradition, how
family members learn from each other, images and strategies for planetary survival, rituals and values in graduate education, and nurturing alternative
education. Evergreen Faculty Members Helena Knapp, Rita Pougiales, David
Hitchens and David Marr are scheduled to make presentations. Recognizing the
complex possibilities and problems in teaching values, the Society works to
develop the ethical and religious dimensions of higher education.
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