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The Evergreen State College Review Volume 3, Issue 3 (May 1982)
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Facing the Challenges of Cultural Diversity
Dr. Maxine Mimms
From the beginning of
Evergreen's existence, members of the faculty and staff
have worked diligently and
with conviction to build an
academic curriculum that
meets the diverse cultural
components of the students
enrolled at Evergreen. This is
the story of that process and
of one model program which
has implemented these components into the curriculum.
"Life Modeling: A Sense
of Being" is an innovative
program instructed by faculty
members Mary Ellen Hillaire,
David Whitener, Lloyd Colfax,
Gail Tremblay, all Native
Americans, and Rainer
Hasenstab, a Caucasian.
"Life Modeling" examines
the relationship between
jucation and the world, and
endeavors to show students,
according to David Whitener,
"that life experience is viable,
valuable, and credit-worthy
in an educational manner.
'Life Modeling' respects individual values as worthwhile
and we promote an atmosphere of hospitality in the
classroom and as a class,
invite each student to do his
or her best in their chosen
components of study.
"This requires serious
thought on the part of the
student," Whitener continues. "They must take real
responsibility for their own
education. We had one student in 'Life Modeling,' a
young woman, who came to
us two weeks into the quarter
and asked if it were really
true she could study what
she wanted to. She had
already chosen a project, but
when she realized what we
meant, she decided to research her family roots
instead. Because this genealogical study project was
more culturally meaningful to
her, I feel she was more
determined to do the best
job she could."
Whitener's colleague,
Mary Ellen Hillaire, prefers
the term "culturally-referenced studies" when she
talks about her work in
developing programs like
"Life Modeling" or as in her
role as head of another
specialty area, Northwest
Native American Studies.
"These programs are
designed from an Indian
point-of-view, in other words,
culturally referenced," she
explains, "while cultural
literacy is designed from an
academic point-of-view."
"The idea behind cultural
literacy," adds Whitener, "is
that faculty members should
be literate in their own
culture, as well as being
aware of the different cultural
perspectives of their students
when teaching a given
subject."
"Culturally-referenced
education is a reciprocal
process among students,
faculty, Evergreen, and the
home communities and
cultures of the students,"
Hiliaire remarks. "All are
shaped by the interactions
with the others."
As an example of that
reciprocity, Hillaire points to
1980 graduate Patrick Paul,
who left Evergreen to return
to his community with the
knowledge he received
through the "Life Modeling"
program. He has returned to
the college to work with current undergraduate students.
In his work he implements
the philosophy of the "Medicine Wheel, the Circle without end." He uses this way
of life not only pertaining to
his role as an alcoholism
counselor, but to the total
educational process.
This view of life, and its
involvement with the Native
American communities, may
be taking one more step
through the proposed Longhouse project. "Life Modeling" students and faculty, in
collaboration with members
of the "Environmental Design" program, have established the Longhouse Project
Advisory Committee, with
members dedicated to the
planning and development of
a Native American Smokehouse, bordering Eld Inlet.
The project would provide a
place of hospitality for all
peoples interested in learning
more about the philosophy of
Indian life.
Several other culturallyreferenced programs are
developing at Evergreen
using the example given
through Hillaire's "Life
Modeling" and "Northwest
Native American Indian
Studies."
"Third World Wisdom" is
a basic program taught by
faculty members Gail Tremblay and Nancy Allen. This
program covers a broad
sweep of literature, art
history, and political theory
from Third World countries,
Third World descendants in
America, and Native
Americans.
"The program allows students to see Third World
cultures in an academic
perspective," explains Tremblay. "In it, students examine
writings by Third World
people in the same way
students look at European
Mary Ellen Hillaire
David Whitener
Photos by Virginia Treadway
and Euro-American academic
materials of the traditional
Western curriculum."
During Spring Quarter,
visiting faculty member,
Duane Niatum, has been
teaching "Contemporary
Native American Literature,"
which seeks to provide students with a deeper understanding of Native American
art and culture by appreciating its values, images, and
symbols.
Another full-time program at Evergreen dedicated
to cultural diversity, is Dr.
Maxine Mimms' "Hard
Choices." The studies within
this program are tailored to
the individual lives of students, with differing ethnic
backgrounds, most of whom
are over 35 years of age. The
academic component of this
program takes place at the
Opportunities Industrialization Center (QIC) in downtown Tacoma, six days and
three nights weekly.
Dr. Mimms and faculty
associates Joye Hardiman,
Bob Ronzio, Richard Brian,
Sally Reiwald, Marilyn Frasca, Priscilla Bowerman,
Ainara Wilder, and Meg Hunt,
have offered comprehensive
studies to an enrollment with
more than 75% Third World
students.
"We don't teach survival
skills or job improvement,"
says Mimms. '"Hard Choices'
is designed specifically for
people of color, and we try
to use the students' own
lives as textbooks. Bob
Ronzio, for example, had
students do energy audits of
their own homes using math,
physics, and economics. We
want students to think of
this educational process as
theirs, so the legacy will be
'we did this.'"
Dr. Mimms points to five
children of Tacoma program
graduates who are now at
Evergreen, and thr^e sets of
parents and their children
currently in "Hard Choices,"
as evidence of the program's
longevity.
Further confirmation may
be forthcoming this fall,
when it is hoped Evergreen
will be able to declare
Tacoma as an official Outreach Center with the approval of the University of
Puget Sound, Pacific Lutheran University, and the Council for Post Secondary
Education.
Another program which
examines the relationship of
cultural diversity is "Social
Interactions: Problem Youth."
Mary F. Nelson, a Native
American faculty member,
leads the students to a better
understanding of social
services dealing with juvenile
delinquency and justice. She
has experience with both
cultural literacy and culturally-referenced schools of
thought, and uses these
experiences in assigning
texts, leading discussions,
and inviting guest lecturers
to give her students different
perspectives on problem
youth from differing cultures.
"Fifty percent of incarcerated youth in America
today are non-white," emphasizes Nelson, "yet few of the
people in my class could
understand why we studied
black, Chicano, and Native
American cultures. However,
one student, who is working
on an internship at a youth
penal institution this quarter,
has told me she now appreciates the heavy emphasis I
had put on minority perspectives."
The value of programs
such as "Life Modeling,"
"Hard Choices," and "Social
Interactions: Problem Youth"
has enhanced the education
at Evergreen. Academic
Advisor Russ Fox, believes
that these programs and their
academic structures should
be carried on into other fields
of study.
"They're not only regarded as Third World or
Native American Studies, but
as good, strong academic
designs. 'Life Modeling,' for
instance, has an all-day
group meeting one day of the
week and individual or small
group conferences on projects the rest of the week.
That's a good model for restructuring other programs to
make them more accessible
to people who can't be oncampus all day, three or four
days a week," Fox says.
Fox, who is by trade an
urban planner, sees another
good way to incorporate
multicultural components
into the process.
"I'd like to see Evergreen
start a community-based
learning center that would
function like a clearinghouse
to set up and coordinate
projects of value to towns in
Southwest Washington. Such
a center would work like
extension services at other
state universities, except
ours would be run by faculty
and students. It would be a
perfect experiential workshop
for cultural literacy: you only
learn to understand other
people by working with them."
Such a center would be
another example of Evergreen
promoting cultural diversity
by providing, as Hillaire says,
"a resource for culturally
different people to keep faith
with their heritage as they
strive to design their own
academic education to meet
the demands of a plural
society."
Lovern Root King, a
Native American faculty
member presently pursuing a
doctorate in education, believes that one way to meet
those demands is through
implementing cultural literacy
into the curriculum. She
advocates the introduction of
cultural themes and issues in
the classroom, providing
more outside learning resources like the Third World
bibliography now available in
the library, bringing guest
speakers to campus, holding
panel-audience discussions
on cultural issues, promoting
critical scholarship, and encouraging cross-cultural
internships.
King's doctoral dissertaion will research further ways
to implement cultural literacy
at the university level.
Recently, she was named to
be Evergreen's Danforth
visitor for Spring Quarter,
1983. During that time, she
plans to share the fruits of
her labor with the academic
community on an individual
basis and in workshops, as
well as gathering multicultural learning resources
into a catalog.
"Cultural literacy can be
used everywhere on campus,
not just in the curriculum,"
says King. "I believe Evergreen will be a model program for the whole nation."
Lovern Root King
Win! & Lloyd: Faculty Provide Key to Cultural Education
by Judy McNickle
On the surface, Wini Ingram
and Lloyd Colfax don't appear
to have much in common
beyond their service on Evergreen's faculty.
Wini, a black sociologist
who joined Evergreen's
faculty ten years ago, brought
to the college years of experience teaching in the Midwest and service as director
of the psychology department at the Hawthorne Center in Northville, Michigan.
Lloyd, an Evergreen alum
and a Makah Native American,
whose family dates back
several generations on that
northwestern Washington
reservation, joined Evergreen's teaching team last
fall as a visiting professor
following work as an affirmative action officer for Crown
described natives and
descendants of people in
nations which are currently
low on the power scale
though they were once highly
civilized. She didn't see it as
a means for defining all
students of color at Evergreen, including foreign,
native-born, and descendants
of black, Chicano, and Asian
groups.
She had just visited
Harvard University where
there was what she describes
as "a big fight" concerning
the role of black studies at
the Debois Center.
"At that time I was very
much against what I saw as
segregation in education,"
she recalls. "I was for cultural education, but strongly
opposed to separatism."
As a youngster growing
up in Bremerton and later
them become integrated as
they matured."
Lloyd, too, has been
affected by the views of Mary
Ellen, the faculty member
who sponsored his individual
learning contract through
which he finished his Evergreen degree.
After serving in the army
during World War II and
working for three years in the
U.S. War Department in Italy,
Lloyd returned to Washington
state to study finance and
accounting at Seattle University. While there he began to
realize he had chosen the
wrong academic major, but
he didn't want to "cause a
problem" by changing it; so,
when his grandfather became
ill, he dropped out of college,
just a semester shy of graduation, and returned to the
reservation in Neah Bay to
"Third World" had little
meaning for him.
"Native American issues
are confined to their geographic region," he explains.
"Our tribes don't necessarily
interact with those outside
pur area and they don't meet
jointly with other ethnic
groups, nor do they see
themselves as part of a Third
World."
Because of that, Lloyd
feels there remains a "special
need for greater sensitivity
on the part of the college to
understand Indian people and
help them make a transition
to Evergreen."
Pointing out that TESC
has the highest retention and
graduation rate of Native
American students in this
region, Lloyd believes the
college's success so far is
throughout the Northwest,
talking to elders and councils to gain their ideas, determine the degree of support
for such a center, and consider their suggestions.
"We're diagnosing what
we as Indians want and can
do with such a center," he
explains. "Depending on the
kind of support, we'll then
look toward a development
phase, one that could
actually lead to creation of
a structure on campus 'where
the land meets the water.'"
Wini would also like to
see a hospitality center, but
one that is modeled more
after the University of Chicago's International House,
where foreign students and
people of all nations and
cultures share their language,
art, religion and history.
Totem designed to promote a
recent Native American
Conference, "Survival for the
Future."
Dr. Win; Ingram (left) Lloyd Colfax (right)
Zellerbach and years of dedication to his tribe and its
cultural center.
Wini, who has become
Evergreen's first Professor
Emeritus, has never taught in
an exclusive "Third World"
studies program; Lloyd has
taught only in this year's
Native American program.
Wini completed her education
in the 1930s at the University
of Washington, later finishing
her doctorate at Northwestern
University. Lloyd completed
three and a half years of college at Seattle University,
then waited more than 20
years before finishing his
degree at Evergreen through
an independent learning contract which enabled him to
remain on the reservation.
What unites the two, beyond their pedagogical roles
at Evergreen, is an initial
discomfort with the term
"Third World," yet a growing
support for inclusion of Third
World programs, at least as
introductory transitions for
new Third World students at
Evergreen, and a belief that
the success of those students depends in large
measure on faculty willingness to educate themselves
in "cultural literacy" and
share that education with
students of all colors.
When Wini came to Evergreen in 1972, she thought of
"Third World" as a term that
Seattle, Wini says she
"learned about my own world
through living there, participating in church, being
involved in my community.
"I knew I was black," she
says. "I have a black family
and I lived in a community
with all kinds of people.
Nobody had to tell me I was
black nor teach me what that
meant."
But her experiences, she
soon found, were not commonly shared by Evergreen's
Third World students.
"As I watched what was
happening to black and
particularly Native American
students on campus, I began
to modify my thinking," she
remembers. "I found that
many of these students were
worse off than the black students in terms of their being
able to utilize what was
around them, especially if it
had a tinge of white."
After listening to Native
American faculty member
Mary Ellen Hillaire, who
argued strongly for special
programs for Native Americans and other Third World
students, Wini says she
"began to see her point.
"I came to feel there was
a certain group of students
who needed Third World
studies to get them going
here, that we needed to
provide them academic and
emotional support and help
help run the family's restaurant business.
From there he went on to
work for the Oregon State
Employment Service for ten
years, eventually becoming a
state supervisor. He left in
1968 to resume involvement
with his tribal government,
helping to create the Makah
Cultural and Research Center
and working for the federally
funded urban/rural school
development program.
As part of his job with
that program, he helped
diagnose educational issues
and problems facing the
Neah Bay school district,
then developed and implemented a project to overcome
those problems.
In 1974 he decided to go
back to finish his own education, but found he'd have to
spend 20 hours on campus at
Seattle U. to get his degree.
Instead he chose to work
with Mary Ellen at Evergreen,
concentrating on Native
American issues as they
affected his reservation. He
focused on "tribalism versus
individualism," especially as
it related to Indians with a
role to play in the dominant
white society.
When he returned to
Evergreen this fall as a visiting faculty member in the
Native American studies program, he found the term
directly related to its Native
American faculty.
"We have a rich Native
American faculty—one which
collectively represents several
disciplines, including art,
education, business, anthropology and English," he
says. "Besides their academic preparation, each is
actively involved in his or her
own Indian nation and carries
that understanding and
appreciation to their teaching.
"We also have a nonIndian professor in the program who brings academic
quality and personal sensitivity to the classroom, and
provides an effective balance
within the teaching group,"
Lloyd adds.
Their combined expertise,
plus their willingness to provide "a truly alternative
education that has a chance
to have real meaning for
Native Americans on reservations" could make Evergreen,
Lloyd believes, a center for
Indian education in the
Northwest.
Key to that center is the
establishment of what Lloyd,
Mary Ellen and others call
the Longhouse project, a
proposed "center of hospitality" which could be built
on Evergreen's campus as a
"gathering place for people
of the world who are here."
Supporters of the project
are currently visiting tribes
But she and Lloyd both
agree the real solution for
achieving success of Third
World studies lies not in the
setting or the facilities or
even the curriculum per se,
but within the faculty.
Each sees the need for
greater "cultural literacy" so
that, as Wini explains it, "it
becomes natural for every
faculty member to look for
and include in his or her
teaching the viewpoints and
contributions by people of all
races.
"There's still a tendency
here for the predominantly
white faculty to look on nonwhite faculty as being experts on anyone who's nonwhite," she says. "Instead of
learning the basics about
other cultures themselves,
they turn to us. I hope to see
the day when every faculty
member will make a concerted study of what those
other than whites have contributed to each of their
academic disciplines, and
then make sure those contributions are automatically
included in all studies
conducted there."
That will, she and Lloyd
believe, lead to a true integration of cultural education.
Coalition: Helping, Advising, Advocating
More than a dozen years ago,
college planners, community
activists, legislators and
others combined talents,
dreams and skills to create a
new four-year state college—
in a predominately white
culture in a predominately
white community. What
resulted was a predominately
white school—one that
attracted increasing numbers
of Third World students,
faculty and staff.
To help those newcomers
adjust to what was still a
new college, Evergreeners,
particularly those of color,
fought for and created a support program, now called the
Third World Coalition, to
assist all people of color on
campus by identifying and
addressing issues of importance to them and by provid-
carried negative connotations
for people of color, who felt
the term "Third World" more
adequately represented the
historical, political and cultural realities of America's
people of color.
Now that organization
has become active throughout all segments of life at
Evergreen, helping people of
all backgrounds better understand each other.
"We work at all levels of
the college, from the administration on down," says
Baker. "Together, we act as
advocates on Third World
issues and concerns, help
the college meet Third World
needs, and advise Third
World organizations that
seek help in program planning, outreach activities and
leadership skills," Thomas
adds.
student) was black and since
she had instructed other
black students who exhibited
similar behavior."
"She didn't examine any
further reasons for his overdue assignment," says Baker.
"She assumed the student had a writing problem
because he was black, not
that he was a black student
who might have a writing
problem," adds Thomas.
An unaware or culturally
ignorant faculty, staff or student can place Third World
students in uncomfortable
positions, according to Baker
and Thomas.
"Third World students
are sometimes criticized in
seminars because they may
have different perceptions of
the world than their mostly
white peers and faculty,"
Baker says.
On a more personal level,
the Coalition strives to
provide Third World students
with any support they may
need to deal with the realities
of living and studying at
Evergreen.
"Olympia is a predominately white community;
Evergreen is a predominately
white school," explains
Thomas, who believes new
Third World students often
face difficulty finding a
nucleus of social support in
Thurston County which, he
says, lacks the cultural and
ethnic diversity many Third
World students enjoyed in
their home communities.
The Coalition provides
that nucleus of support by
sponsoring cultural activities,
hosting a lounge where new
students can meet other
Third World students, stocking a small library, and offering other information and
referral services, along with a
variety of mini-workshops
that introduce students to
the resources and procedures
of the college.
But Third World students
aren't the only people the
Coalition impacts.
"Almost half the people
who contacted us last quarter
were white," says Baker. "A
lot of white people need and
want to know about Third
World concerns."
In addition to providing
that kind of information,
Baker works with faculty and
students who are having
academic, social or cultural
problems resulting from cultural differences. In the
process of providing that
help, she often has to
confront campus racism.
As an example, she recalls the faculty member who
called in reference to a student who hadn't turned in
some papers. The teacher
told Baker that she understood the student's reluctance to write "since he (the
Students who experience
these types of problems are
encouraged to look to the
Coalition for support.
"We work as advocates
for students who have problems with faculty members
or who fear they're going to
lose credit," explains Baker.
"We try to get communication going between the
student and the faculty
before it's too late, before
harsh words fly or the student transfers out of the
program or put of Evergreen."
Expanding support for
academics is one of the
Coalition's goals for the
future.
Thomas and Baker hope
to improve the mid-quarter
academic progress review
which Baker now compiles.
That process monitors students' academic progress
and provides referrals to the
appropriate campus resources. The two hope this
process will tie in with Evergreen's goal to increase
retention among Third World
students, both at the College
and in certain programs.
They also hope to see an
increase in Third World
participation in science
programs.
"I don't believe the low
retention rate is caused by a
lack of student capability,"
says Thomas. "I think it may
have something to do with
the programs themselves."
Thomas and Baker also
hope that by working with
Evergreen's Development
Office they'll be able to help
create sources for scholarships for Third World students, and to improve community outreach, especially
to students of color from the
Tacoma area.
Ernest "Stone" Thomas, April West-Baker
ing a unified voice on college
concerns.
In ten years, that Coalition has become involved in
virtually all areas of the
campus.
"We don't teach culture
and we don't save lives,"
explains Ernest "Stone"
Thomas, director of Educational Support Programs, an
administrative unit that includes the Third World
Coalition.
"What we do is help
people understand the matrix
they're in. We help some
people become more culturally educated and others
to further develop the skills
to achieve their learning
goals."
Remembering how it all
began, Thomas says in 1972
people of color from all areas
of the campus recognized
they had not been included
in the planning phase of the
college, and that their basic
concerns and interests had
been overlooked.
"By the 1970s, most
schools had a minority affairs
office, but Evergreen had
never perceived the necessity
for such a service," recalls
April West-Baker, coordinator
of the Third World Coalition.
instead, discussion took
place between the appropriate administrators and a
group which began to call
itself the Minority Coalition.
That group gained the support of others on campus
and encouraged creation of a
campus committee to examine ways the college could
become more responsive to
the needs of the Third World
community.
As a result, a Non-White
Coalition Office was created,
limited funding was awarded,
and an executive secretary
was hired.
Three years later, the
name of the organization was
changed because the terms
"non-white" and "minority"
Students Face the Challenges
By Dona DeZube
To a person of color Evergreen can be an intimidating
place to attend college.
Mostly white and middle
class, Evergreen is nestled in
a predominantly white community.
Some students of color,
referred to as Third World
students on campus, have
problems integrating into the
college's mainstream society,
and others do not. The
stories of how four Third
World students, have made
that adjustment to Evergreen
are as unique as their
backgrounds.
Take, for example, Evergreen student Angelina
Nockai, a Native American
Indian/Mexican American,
from Omaha, Nebraska.
Angelina says she grew
up in the ghetto. "Most of
Darrel Mamallo
that helps other students
who seek spiritual awareness.
He also continued to work at
the Information Center, in
the heart of campus activities.
In the future he hopes to
open a bookstore that is
alternatively orientated,
diverse and liberal.
No matter what he does,
Darrel will never forget his
Asian roots. "I've come from
and I have a lot of pride
about being Filipino rather
than some other Asian culture, and I recognize the difference between Filipinos,
Japanese, Chinese, and
Americans," he says.
Two Evergreen students
with very different backgrounds, who now share a
similar life at Evergreen, are
Thomas and Lorraine McInnis-Samuel. As a married
Third World couple they're
unique on two counts.
Lorraine Mclnnis-Samuel and Thomas Samuel.
the people there were black
and some were Indians. The
schools I went to were all
black. Even though I'm a
Native American, I was considered white. They didn't
even know what Indians
were. They thought we all
died at Ouster's last stand,"
she laughs.
"My mother is Mexican
and my father's Indian, but I
think of myself as a person
with a rainbow background.
I'm only the color as one
sees me," she says.
Angelina believes Evergreen can be intimidating to
certain Third World individuals because they are not
used to seeing so many
white people. But, she
emphasizes, she's not among
those who feel that
intimidation.
"I came to Evergreen
because you can change
things here. You can talk to
the instructors head-t>head.
I like the evaluation system,
and I like the fact that there
is a large number of Native
American instructors," she
adds with a smile.
Angelina had no problems adjusting to Evergreen
and neither did Darrel
Mamallo, who was born and
raised in Seattle. Darrel grew
up near Franklin High School
in a neighborhood divided by
race and culture. When he
came to Evergreen, Darrel
vowed never to be a part of
that kind of division again.
"Face it. We live in
America. You can't surround
yourself with only those of
your race or culture and still
grow," he explains.
"There's a need for Third
World organizations. I'm not
speaking out against those
things," he says intently.
"They served their purpose
for me, but I've moved away
from that."
Last year Darrel devoted
his time and energy to'lnnerplace, a student organization
Botn are very active in
student groups. Lorraine
coordinates the Services and
Activities Fees Review Board,
which allocates thousands of
dollars of student fees, while
Thomas has served as coordinator of Vets Activity
Center.
Thomas grew up in
Georgia in an all-black neighborhood, with all black
schools. When integration
began, Thomas was bussed
to a "white" high school in a
"plush" part of town. There
he found it hard to adjust
since he didn't really want to
attend that school.
"At school you had to
put on these facades," he
explains. "You still have to
wear a mask here at Evergreen too," he adds. "But,
going to an all-black school
was more cohesive and
familiar despite the racism
that surrounded me."
Lorraine grew up in a
very different environment in
rural Kansas, surrounded by
farm animals. She says her
family was poor, but since
everyone around her was
living at the same socioeconomic level, she never realized
she was poor until her family
moved from Argentine to a
larger, mostly black city.
Since she had already
gone to schools with a white
majority, Lorraine has had
few problems adapting to
Evergreen. Instead, finding
time, with Thomas, to raise
her two children, and still
complete their studies and
participate in campus activities has proved to be the
real challenge.
Options Northwest Conference Opens June 17
Futurist Dr. Edward Lindaman, former president of
Whitworth College, will kick
off a unique four-day conference June 17-20 at Evergreen
designed to "explore options
for the future of the Pacific
Northwest."
Dr. Lindaman, an independent futures consultant,
television host and author of
Thinking in the Future Tense,
opens the session Thursday
night with his projections for
the future and his argument
for developing "the capacity
to think in future tense," a
crucial skill heijelieves
Northwesterners need to "act
responsibly and with hope."
Organized by Net Works,
an Evergreen student group,
the conference will enlist the
aid of more than three dozen
national and regional leaders
who'll conduct and participate in workshops, lectures
and topic "tracks" designed
to help participants develop
positive visions for the future
of Northwest communities,
clarify strategies for achieving objectives and improve
skills for implementing
strategies.
Each day of the Options
Northwest Conference will
feature a major address by a
guest speaker. Following Dr.
Lindaman's talk Thursday,
Evergreen president Dan
Evans, who also chairs the
Pacific Northwest Power
Planning Council, will offer
"a new vision for the Northwest" in a talk slated Friday
morning.
"Survival Tomorrow"
editor Karl Hess, author of
Neighborhood Power and
Community Technology, will
discuss his views on "community self reliance and
world peace" Saturday, and
journalist Stephanie Mills,
assistant editor of "CoEvolution Quarterly" will discuss
"an ecology of issues" at the
concluding session Sunday.
Throughout the sessions
an estimated 400 participants
will focus their attention on
one of six topic tracks related to developing "local
responses to global challenges." Goals will be discussed for Northwest energy
strategies, appropriate
regional agriculture, peace
and military spending, crosscultural coalition building,
job development and local
self reliance, and creation of
"a new world view."
Participants will also
select from among more than
a dozen skill-building workshops ranging from neighborhood organizing to fund
raising, from selecting small
computer systems to recruiting and managing volunteers,
running effective meetings,
and impacting political
decisions.
Preregistration for
Options Northwest costs $45
and must be completed by
mail before May 27. Special
discounts allow a group of
four to bring a fifth person
free and permit persons earning less than $6,000 per year
to register early for $35 or
after May 27 for $40. On-
campus housing, meals and
child care will also be
available.
Persons who prefer to
participate only in Dr. Lindaman's future session may
purchase tickets at the door
June 17 for $5 general or $3
students. Those tickets can
then be applied to the full
conference fee.
To obtain details on
registration and conference
brochures, write: Options
Northwest, c/o Net Works,
CAB 305, The Evergreen
State College, Olympia,
WA 98505, or call 206-8666001 weekdays during regular
business hours.
"Our Summer Repertory
combines the best of summer school and summer
stock," says Palmerlee,
whose productions of
"Voices" and "Stop The
World, I Want to Get Off,"
have drawn rave reviews in the
past two years.
"It provides an opportunity for theater enthusiasts
of all ages to devote an
entjre ten weeks to participating in a wide spectrum of
theatrical work while studying with a team of theatrical
professionals in costume and
set construction, lighting,
props, makeup, publicity,
box office management and,
of course, performing in up
to three shows."
The Evergreen program
has been funded in part by a
$3500 grant from the Gannett
Newspaper Foundation and
a $1250 award from the Evergreen College Foundation.
An additional $5,000 is being
sought to provide advance
money for props, costumes,
royalties and other preproduction expenses.
Details on how to register
for the program by June 10
are available by calling
Palmerlee weekdays at
(206) 866-6077.
Guest Directors to Present Two Summer Plays
Tacoma Little Theater director
Robert Rodriguez and Turnwater High School drama
teacher Michelle McDonnell
have been chosen to direct
two productions in the Evergreen Summer Repertory
Theater, which begins June
21 on campus.
Funded in part by grants
from the Gannett Newspaper
Foundation and the Evergreen Foundation, the tenweek summer program is
open to high school, college
and community students who
apply directly to program
coordinator Ruth Palmerlee
before June 10.
Rodriguez, who has performed and directed extensively in New York as well as
throughout the Pacific Northwest, is currently directing
the Tacoma Little Theater
production of "Who's Afraid
of Virginia Woolf?" At Ever- I
green, he'll direct the popular';
musical, "Cabaret," which |
opens July 22 for eight
performances.
"The Boy Friend," a
1920's musical, will be
directed August 19-29 by
McDonnell, who has performed in Capitol Contemporary Theater productions in
Olympia in addition to serving as Tumwater High drama
director for the past three
years.
Both directors will begin
work June 21 with an anticipated 75 students who will
enroll for half- or full-time
academic credit in theater
production, acting, theater
management, stagecraft and
costuming.
Members of Evergreen's Summer
Repertory Theater staff cavort for
camerawoman Virginia Treadway.
From left: Michelle McDonnell,
Ruth Palmerlee, David Malcolm,
Dale Soules, and Ian Jamison.
Evergreen Gets Classy
Evergreeners in the News
Jovana Brown, faculty librarian, has been awarded a
$5,000 grant by the Council
on Library Resources to
study library and information
science research in Great
Britain this summer. Assistant to the President, Les
Eldridge has launched his
campaign for Thurston
County Commissioner. He
was named "Schemer of the
Year" at the awards dinner
honoring all those who completed ten years of service at
TESC this year. Faculty
member Earle McNeil was
named this year's "Dreamer."
Faculty members
Stephanie Coontz and Peta
Henderson recently returned
from Paris where they met
with a group of scholars who
are working on a book on the
origins of female subordination.
In March student swimmer Austin St. John became
the first Geoduck athlete to
compete in a national tournament. He finished in the top
third of the nation at the
NAIAchampionships. Women
swimmers Evetree Tall man
and Mary Beth Berney also
qualified for the nationals.
Artist-in-residence
ODETTA wowed the Olympia
community last month in a
one-woman concert sponsored by the Evergreen Foundation as a fundraiser for the
Washington Center.
Student Vince Werner's
work as an unpaid intern with
KING-TV helped the station
earn the 1981-82 media award
from the King County Association for Retarded Citizens
for the PSA's he prepared on
Seattle's program for the
developmental Iy disabled.
Karen Kamara-Gose, an
Everett student, was awarded
a $700 grant by the Buckler
News Alliance to present her
findings at a national conference on computers, information systems and sciences in
New York City.
Faculty member Kaye V.
Ladd is directing a special
program beginning this summer for re-entry women in
the sciences with a $3,000
grant from the National
Science Foundation and the
Fund for the Improvement of
Post-secondary Education.
Singing secretary Jan
Stentz has been starring at
many well-known Olympia,
Seattle, and Olympic Peninsula night spots and sharing
her dynamic jazz renditions
with packed audiences.
Faculty member Joye Hardiman's work as guest director
of "Home" at the University
of Washington Ethnic Cultural
Center was termed "brilliant"
by Seattle drama critics.
Computer Services has
just received a $125,000 research grant from the Control
Data Corporation to develop
a self-paced course to teach
the Pascal programming
language. The project will be
headed by Computer Services
Director John Aikin.
Faculty member Susan
Strasser's soon-to-bereleased book Never Done:
A History of American
Housework received high
praise in the May Ms. magazine book reviews.
Faculty member Ron
Woodbury has been named
to a two-year appointment as
assistant academic dean, replacing Richard Alexander,
who returns to the faculty
this fall. Veteran library
staffer Susan Smith has this
month been appointed
of the Library.
Hundreds of antique and
classic cars will adorn the
tree-lined walkways of the
Evergreen campus when the
Rotary Club of Olympia, in
cooperation with The Evergreen State College Foundation, hosts its first Concours
D' Elegance.
Scheduled for Sunday,
July 25, from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m., this event promises
to be an exciting and festive
addition to the summer calendar. Car entries are expected from as far away as
British Columbia and northern California.
Originally proposed by
Evergreen Foundation Board
of Governors member, Fred
Goldberg, president of Goldberg's Furniture, the Concours idea rapidly grew and
captured the imagination of
the Foundation and The
Olympia Horseless Carriage
Club. Sensing the need for
many more volunteers, Goldberg approached his fellow
Rotarians in the Olympia club
and a cooperative venture
ensued.
"Little did we know that
Fred Goldberg's idea would
blossom into such an exciting
community effort and such a
significant regional event,"
says Bob Olson, president of
South Sound National Bank
and chairman of the Evergreen Foundation's program
committee. "The Rotary has
been outstanding in its willingness to take on this project and make Evergreen a
primary beneficiary of the
profits for scholarships."
Admission for the day is
$5 general admission, $1 for
youngsters 6-16, children
under 6, free.
Individuals interested in entering vehicles may contact
Frank Moffett, Concours
Chairman, P.O. Box 7323,
Olympia, WA 98507
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The Evergreen State College
Newsletter of the Alumni Association
Volume 4, Number 3
May, 1982
Spotlight on Third World Alums
By Lisa Fleming, Alumni
Association Board Member
Editor's Note: This issue of
the Review seeks to identify,
define, and personify what
"Third World" means to Evergreen students, faculty, and
graduates. Reporter Lisa
Fleming has focused on the
experiences of four Evergreen
graduates—each of whom
brought a different heritage
and educational background
to their collegiate career.
Perry Newell 75
Perry Newell, Elena
Perez, Janet McCloud and
Nam Chun Pearl share below
candid recollections of their
years at Evergreen and their
advice to future Third World
students.
Perry Newell, 75, is a selfproclaimed "real greener."
He attended Evergreen fulltime when the college was
brand new. Among his fields
of study were business,
organizational psychology,
and student personnel.
Today, he wears three-piece
suits to his job as an
occupational information
specialist, counseling students at Lakes High School
in Tacoma.
Perry chose Evergreen
because "I was an older
student (22) seeking academic discipline," he said.
"I didn't want to hang out
with 17 and 18 year olds.%
Janet McCloud 77
lis
"At Evergreen, I was able
to utilize skills and abilities
that I had already acquired,
and was allowed to try those
skills and interests while
engaged in full-time study."
Perry came to Evergreen
with a variety of experience.
He worked in an anti-poverty
program in Tacoma, served
in the military for two years,
aided emotionally disturbed
children, and worked for the
Tacoma Urban League.
He describes himself as
a high-energy person, and
his background proves it.
While a student, Perry
worked in Evergreen's Office
of Financial Aid, helped write
a federal financial aid grant,
represented TESC in the
Pacific Northwest Office of
Education, and was the college's representative for the
Higher Education Personnel
Board.
Perry had a unique perspective as a student, because of his involvement in
the school's administration.
When asked about racism at
Evergreen, he answers from
that perspective.
"We were a small community, and had nowhere to
hide, so we had to stick
together," he explained, "At
that time, the community
was against Evergreen. Interracial dating? In Olympia?
They weren't ready for that.
Yeah, we heard the word
nigger from the community.
"But we had good faculty, Rudy Martin and Cruz
Esquivel. We had the program Contemporary World
Minorities. We had direct
access to President (Charles)
McCann. We had the opportunity to be people with
other people."
As a student counselor,
and alum, Perry recommends
Evergreen but with these
qualifications:
i
"I would recommend that
fstudents be serious," he
|said. "That they are ready to
Jaccept experimentation as a
way of life, that they are
ready to challenge, and
accept a responsible role in
government. They should
develop a network while
there, and do as many
external activities as they
can."
In fact, many students
could use Perry's Evergreen
career as a model for a
successful education, for he
accepted that experimentation, challenged the system,
and yet worked with it, to
gain his college education.
Elena Perez, 75, came to
Evergreen looking for a
"more individual approach"
than what she had experienced during two quarters at
what was then Western
Washington State College.
"Evergreen was a definite
improvement over Western,"
remembers the Tacoma
native. "At that time Western
had much more stringent
requirements. For example, if
you couldn't swim two laps
of the pool, you had to take
"bonehead" PE. And I had to
take remedial English, even
though I had scored higher
on my entrance exams than
the other freshmen from my
high school. They looked at
my last name and put me in
there.
"My first year at Evergreen, I took a coordinated
studies program that every
Third World student took. I
took it because I wanted to,
but at the end of the year,
all of us recommended that
the college not repeat the
program, because it made it
too easy for people to say
that Third World students
never apply for art, for
instance, but just take Third
World studies.
The remainder of her
time at Evergreen, Elena
studied counseling and psychology through coordinated
studies, group contracts, and
individual contracts, with a
variety of faculty members.
This background lead to her
current job as an interviewer
with the state Department of
Employment Security.
Elena lived both UN- and
off-campus, including a
period as a resident aid in
the dorms. She doesn't recall
any racial problems in the
dorms at that time.
"Things were usually
worked out among ourselves," remembers Elena.
"We comprised a lot of
separate groups living there.
We stuck to ourselves, but
not to the exclusion of
others. Also, at that time,
there weren't many Third
World students living oncampus. They usually lived
off-campus."
Elena was active in
organizing the Third World
Bicentennial Forum.
"The idea that prompted
the forum was that nobody
seemed to recognize there
were people here prior to
1776. We wanted to recognize
contributions of Third World
people at a national
conference."
Elena Perez 75
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ill
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The forum spawned an
area of controversy when a
mural was planned to recognize the contributions of
Third World people, and the
Bicentennial Forum.
"We got money for the
mural, but the trustees
wouldn't approve having the
mural painted on the outside
of their campus activities
building," she recalls.
Overall, Elena sees her
Evergreen experience as a
good one. Her message to
prospective students is, "I
learned, and people should
know, if you don't know what
you want, you're not going to
get it. Evergreen demands
you know how the system
works."
"I don't think of myself as an
alumna, but as a student of
faculty member Mary Ellen
Hillaire," says Janet McCloud, 77. "I'm grateful to
Evergreen for the opportunities it gave me. It took me to
see and appreciate my unique
experiences, of which Evergreen is just one. She says
she "doesn't fit into any
mold very well," but one
possible label for her is
social activist. She has done
grass roots organizing with
Indian people, working with
the fishing rights struggle,
the "Vietnam catastrophe,"
and with education in
prisons.
"What's wrong with most
education," opines Janet, "is
that in this country it's been
taken over by the militaryindustrial complex, and
teaches kids to play into
that. They don't learn how to
learn. Evergreen started out
different than that. We were
taught to appreciate and
value ourselves.
"I'm doing the same
work as I was in the '60s—
it's just that I've expanded
my world view," she adds.
Along with being the mother
of eight children, some of
whom are Evergreen graduates, she is active in the
Northwest Indian Women's
Circle, a group she helped
organize in 1979.
ill
"I do my greatest work in
my own region, with women
my own age, and sharing our
lives with the next generation
of Indian wome;n, so they
can be stronger.
"One thing I learned at
Evergreen was how to take
what I know and bring it
out," said Janet. "Mary
Hillaire was always trying to
get us to outline things. For
example, we wrote a paper
on "who am I." both the
public and private image.
When you find out what you
know, you can bring it out to
help others."
Janet has actively recruited Indian students for
Evergreen. But she has run
into resistance.
"Most tribal leaders are
like the majority of white
leaders," she said. "Evergreen isn't for everyone, but
many people need it. But the
tribal councils want businessmen. The tribes won't
give grants for students to
go to Evergreen. For Evergreen to get Indian students,
the school will have to provide financial support.
"The tribes think it's a
school for hippies," she concludes. "But I've traveled all
over Europe and the United
States, and I think Evergreen
is one of the best colleges in
the world."
Nam Chuh Pearl, 79, was a
busy person during her years
at Evergreen. While attending
TESC nights and weekends,
she continued working fulltime at the state Department
of Employment Security, and
raising her young child.
Before Evergreen, Nam
Chuh attended Centralia
College, and Olympia Technical Community College. In
order to complete her college
degree, Evergreen was the
logical choice for this working mother.
"St. Martin's was too
expensive, and (the schools
in) Seattle were too far
away," said Nam Chuh. She
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liked it," said Nam
Chuh. "When you go piecemeal at other night schools,
the students are so different
from each other. When I took The next time you're on
campus, stop by and meet
the State and Contemporary
El lie Dornan 79. El lie is
Society, we had six faculty,
Evergreen's newly-appointed
all from different backAlumni Coordinator and
grounds.
As a Third World stuDevelopment Assistant following Bonnie Marie's
dent, Nam Chuh said the
resignation.
teachers were really supportive of her, and that "it
For those of you who
was a really friendly
don't already know her, Ellie
situation."
brings with her ten years'
.Nam Chuh has lived in
experience as an Evergreen
Olympia since 1967, when
staffer. She came to the
she came to the United
college in 1972 as secretary
States from her native Korea. to the director of Cooperative
She noted that the lack of
Education and was quickly
resources for Third World
bitten by the education bug.
students on campus might
Enrolling in a course taught
make Evergreen difficult for
by faculty member Dave
some students, since the
Hitchens, she continued partcampus is six miles out of
time studies in business and
town. Because of these
management until deciding
factors, "support from the
to become a degree-seeking
Evergreener in 1975.
faculty is really important,"
said Nam Chuh.
Ellie continued to work
"I frequently encourage
full-time, and in March 1979
my staff to go to Evergreen," took a leave from her job in
said Nam Chuh, now a fiscal Co-op Ed to assume the
management analyst at
duties of Administrative
Employment Security. "I
Secretary to former Academic
would encourage people to
Dean Will Humphreys. After
go there, but to make sure
graduation, she decided to
they have enough personal
continue her career at Evermotivation. Evergreen
green and soon thereafter
depends on what you make
accepted the position of
out of it."
Administrative Coordinator to
Elite Dornan Named Alumni Coordinator
Nam Chuh Pearl 79
enrolled in programs specifically geared for working
people—"The State and
Contemporary Society," and
"Management and the Public
Interest."
"They were good programs," said Nam Chuh. "In
MPI, I designed some of my
own curriculum, because I
already had a lot of
accounting."
Although she originally
selected Evergreen because
of its location, rather than
its unique educational
system, she soon came to
enjoy the coordinated studies
system of study.
Director of College Relations
Chuck Fowler for whom she
worked until moving to her
present position in the
Alumni and Development
Office.
So, if you're in the area,
stop by and let Ellie know
how life after Evergreen is
treating you. Or, feel free to
Ellie Dornan reviews AlumNotes with
Maria Tsao.
write or call if she can be of
any assistance in helping
you contact other alums,
answer questions, get information, change your address,
or just get updated on
Evergreen happenings.
'A Maze in Music": Third Student Album Now Available
More than 100 Evergreen students have a special reason
to celebrate the coming of
spring this year, as May
marks the completion of their
year-long effort to produce
the College's third longplaying record album.
Called, "A Maze in
Music," the album is expected
to arrive back on campus by
mid-May and culminate efforts students began last
September to write, perform,
record, engineer, produce,
and market their own collection of entirely original music.
A student organized and
directed effort, this year's
album features 14 songs
ranging from rhythm and
blues to rock and roll, from
jazz and folk to classical and
avant-garde styles that, says
co-producer Drew Canulette,
a Lake Oswego senior, "truly
represents Evergreen's diverse
musical community."
More than a hundred original compositions were submitted iast fall by students
for inclusion in this year's
album. A student selection
committee devoted 30 hours
to determing the final album
songs, which were then recorded Winter Quarter in
Admissions
Assistants
Wanted!
If you live in Los Angeles,
San Francisco, San Diego,
Boston, or New York City,
the Admissions Office needs
your help!
Every year Evergreen is
invited to participate in college nights in the abovementioned cities. The College
depends on alums to be the
local Evergreen experts, since
tight budgets won't permit
out-of-state travel.
If you'd be willing to
work a night or two each
year for your alma mater, call
or write: Ellie Dornan, Alumni Coordinator, The Evergreen
State College, Olympia,
WA 98505, (206) 866-6565.
Thanks!
Album project workers (from left):
Ben Goldfarb, Cathie Clifford, Peter
Randlett, Ken Wilhelm, and Drew
Canulette.
Evergreen's four and 16-track
studios and spliced together
for the master copy.
During the same period,
student artwork was solicited
and selected for the cover,
label and album sleeve, then
made camera ready through
the efforts of student cover
artist Keith Davidson and
Graphics Designer Brad
Clemmons.
Once the music and artwork were finished, they were
shipped off to Los Angeles,
where KM records has been
handling the final manufacturing process.
"We expect the albums
to arrive back on campus by
May 15," reports co-producer
Ben Goldfarb, "Then we'll get
to work on the final phase of
this year's project—promotion, distribution and sales."
But he, Canulette and their
student colleagues are already way ahead of the fiscal
game, with their expenses
covered through several
campus fundraisers and album presales.
"We hosted two dances
earlier this year and special
film showings, which has
has enabled us to keep our
budget in the black," Goldfarb says. "Now we're hoping
our sales will generate a net
profit of about $2500, which
will be used to update campus recording facilities so
students continue to have the
With "A Maze in Music"
almost off the lathe, plans
for next year's album are already well underway which,
chance to work with state-of- opines Goldfarb, "indicates
the-art equipment.
the high degree of interest
The project is the third
our students have in this
completed in as many years
kind of academic and practiand follows the successful
cal project.
release of a two-record effort
"Each year the album efin 1980, called "Collaborafort has given an increasing
tions" and last year's album,
number of students the
titled "E = MC2+ 1 db."
chance to gain a unique eduAcademic support for the cation in arts management,
project this year has come
audio production, multi-track
through individual contracts
composition, performance,
and through two coordinated graphic arts and promotion
studies programs, the Making work," he adds. "Because we
of Music and Foundations of have had no fulltime regular
Performing Arts.
faculty assigned to work
Key academic and techni- directly with us, students
cal support also came from
have assumed the leadership
Evergreen staff members Ken role, gained the cooperation
Wilhelm, electronic media
of faculty and staff, and proproducer, and Peter Randlett, duced materials that rival the
Library media technician,
technical standards of comwho worked closely with
mercial records."
Goldfarb and Canulette all
Copies of "A Maze in
year "helping us steer our
Music" are on sale now at
way through the complex
the college Bookstore for a
administrative processes as
bargain price of $6.35. To
well as advising us on techni- order a copy, please write to:
cal, financial and organizaEvergreen Album Project, c/o
Library 2300, The Evergreen
tional matters," explains
Canulette.
fete College, Olympia, WA
98505.
Hello Dali!
Galleries
Welcome
Donation
Galleries Director Sid White,
President Dan Evans, and
LeeAnn and Norman DeShon
flank the Salvador Dali lithograph "Lincoln in Dalivision"
which the DeShons recently
donated to Evergreen. Mrs.
DeShon is a 1976 graduate.
AlumNotes
James Adams 78, Muncie, IN, is
finishing his masters at Indiana University at Bloomington and works as
an intern at Burroughs Labs designing
curriculum for a new environmental
studies program.
Doug Anderson '81, Shelton, WA, is
looking for an appointment as a flight
officer in the Navy.
Susan Bartlett '80, Concord, MA, is
teaching high school biology.
Patricia Beckmann 78, Tucson, AZ, is
studying at the University of Arizona
for the Ph.D. in biochemistry.
Mary K. Bensen 78, Olympia, is supervising budget analyst for the Washington State Hospital Commission. She
recently passed her CPA exam and was
eiected to the Auditing Committee of
the Washington State Employees
Credit Union.
Tim Blair '80, Kirkland, WA, is driving
a school bus for Bellevue Public
Schools, and saving money for a
motorcycle adventure throughout the
Kenneth Coffin 76, Naches, WA, is
head of the Citizens' Housing Department.
to Olympia, including hunting and
fishing expeditions, boxing, and sports
activities."
Daniel Cohen 77, Hoboken, NJ, wrote
and coproduced a video documentary
on illegal immigration which won
second place in a national competition
sponsored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Kris Lenke 76, Gig Harbor, WA,
teaches special education at Mt.
Tahoma High School in Tacoma. In
May he will be taking nine children on
an eight-day Northwest Outward Bound
trip.
Carl Cook 76, Olympia, is production
manager for KGY radio and is coordinating KGY's 60th anniversary activities
this spring. Carl has become widely
known for his "golden oldies" radio
show on Sundays, and is a "regular"
broadcaster at Evergreen's Super Saturday celebration. He and wife Jadine
are the proud parents of two sons.
Barry Martin 78, Hoquiam, WA,
recently completed the YMCA requirements to become a Certified Senior
YMCA Director.
Jenny Matkin 74, Sonora, CA, is office
manager for Mother Lode Women's
Crisis Center, a costume designer for a
local repertory theater, and free-lance
graphic designer.
Kay Boyd 76, Olympia, administers
part of the Washington State CETA
program, was nominated for Thurston
County Citizen of the year, and has
been elected to the Lacey City Council.
Marjorie Brazier '81, Tacoma, WA, is
now working for the Tacoma Park
District.
Steve Briggs 77, Moretown, VT, is
setting up a small community with a
group of former Evergreeners, that will
involve a pottery business, home renovation, building a preschool, and
possibly establishing a small publishing company.
Mariel Brockway 74, Seattle, is a firstyear medical student at the University
of Washington.
Volunteers
Sought for m
Super Saturday
Super Saturday is just around
the corner. The college's
annual spring festival is
June 5 from 11 a.m. to
7 p.m. and that means it's
Chicken Barbecue time! The
Alumni Association will once
again cook its celebrated
chicken to tantalize your
tastebuds and raise funds for
associated activities. But if
we're to serve up these tasty
birds, we need your help.
Specifically, we need volunteers to help cook chicken,
serve as cashiers, and act as
"gophers," assisting our
hardworking cooks.
It's a great opportunity to
get together with old friends,
make new friends, and help
the Alumni Association at
the same time.
For you wonderful volunteers from last year, we need
your experience to ensure a
successful sale. For those of
you who missed out on this
opportunity, we want you,
we need you, we'll train you,
and we'll even give you free
chicken. Now, how can you
turn down such a deal?
We'd like to know as
early as possible how many
volunteers we can count on.
You need only work a few
hours. We'll leave you plenty
of time to enjoy the rest of
Super Saturday. Please call
or write Alumni Coordinator
El lie Dornan, 866-6565.
Thank you!
Claudia Brown 75, Portland, OR, was
recently promoted from reporter to
reporter/Saturday news anchor on
KPTV Channel 12.
As part of Black History Week, February 5 was proclaimed Rev. Leo
Charles Brown Jr. Day by the State of
Washington, Pierce County and the
City of Tacoma. Leo Charles Brown
Jr. 77 was cited for his "meritorious
contributions" to his community and
for his dedication to "solving problems
associated with poverty, the criminal
justice system, and where burdens
have been placed upon humankind."
Rev. Brown is the founder-pastor of
True V i n e C o m m u n i t y Church in
Tacoma and president/executive director of the Progress House Association,
a work-release halfway house for exoffenders. He is also co-founder and
director of First Christian youth camp
called Operation Long Thrust for black
and other low-income youth in Pierce
County.
Andrew Buchanan 77, Seattle, is
attending the University of Washington, studying for his masters in music.
He completed a composition last fall
which has been performed by the
Seattle symphony.
Dorothy De Matteo 78, Fayettesville,
AR, is a first-year law student at the
University of Arkansas.
Rodney McLean 74, San Rafael, CA,
received his MA in psychology from
Antioch University and is now employed by Easter Seals of Marin County
working with the handicapped.
Lisa Sampson '81, Boulder, CO, is
attending the Rocky Mountain Healing
Arts Institute and studying preventive
medicine.
Sean McLin 78, Tacoma, WA, is
attending the American Film Institute,
Cinematography Division, in Hollywood.
Carolyn Savage 73, Olympia, is working as a commercial pilot and waiting
to land a job with a major airline.
Daniel Montgomery 74, Boulder, CO,
is married to Johanna Lunn and working on his MBA from the University of
Colorado. He has a masters in
Buddhist and Western Psychology
from the Naropa Institute.
Leslie Schneider 77, Cosmopolis, WA.
recently married Greg Goheen. The
newlyweds are self-employed in a
precision marine business which sells
autboard motors and boat accessories.
Deborah Dethier 77, San Francisco,
CA, is waiting table, studying massage, and finding herself.
Steven Diddy 74, Olympia, has started
a new business called Sunwest
Associates.
Peter Dobbins 74, Brier, WA, was just
promoted to personal banking manager
of Seattle First Bank, Overlake Park
Branch.
Patti Dobrowolski '80. Olympia, just
completed her artist-in-residence program teaching theater in the Tacoma
Public Schools and is presently working for Livewires, a Seattle-based live
theatrical message service.
Chris Dupree '80, Washington, D.C., is
still working as a biologist for E.P.A.
in the Office of Marine Discharge
Evaluation.
Lisa Fleming '81, Olympia, serves on
the Evergreen Alumni Board and
married Steven Moore March 21 at the
University Unitarian Church in Seattle.
Moore will graduate from Evergreen in
August with a concentration in art and
sociology.
Robert Foster '80, Portland, OR, has
been working for two years at KATOTV in Portland as a news cameraman.
Amy Fowkes '81, Portland, OR, is
opening her own theater in the Portland area.
Victoria Fritzinger 77, Seattle, is the
first woman foreman at Lockheed Shipbuilding and is starting a woman's
association there.
Jann Gilbertson 77, Seattle, has a new
job with SeaFirst as a financial
development officer in the Profitability
Measurement Department.
Daniel Glavin 75, Seattle, is working
as a consulting psychologist in the
Seattle area.
Ross Carey 76, Cleveland Heights, OH,
is a second-year medical student at
Case University.
John Hennessey 77, Tacoma, WA, is a
part-time lecturer at the University of
Puget Sound in the nutrition and
textile departments.
Mathew Clark 79, New Haven, CT, is
attending Yale Medical School.
Nancy Cochran 76, Eugene, OR, is
busy with a private practice in psychology and volunteer work for Women's
Place, a shelter for battered women.
Dorothea Morgan '80, Guanajuato,
Mexico, has recently completed her
MFA at the Institute Allende, Incorporado, University Guanajuato, where she
has presented several major art shows.
She hopes to return home to Port
Angeles in June.
Kay Morgan 77, Bremerton, is careers
librarian for Olympia College and is
pursuing a masters degree at Pacific
Lutheran University.
Erin Morita 78, Seattle, is an instructor
of English as a Second Language for
foreign exchange students.
Roland Morris '80, Milwaukie, OR, is
currently working on his music teaching certification.
David Mozer 74, Bellevue, WA, has
just completed a six-month contract
with the State Department at the
American Embassy in Monrovia.
Suzanne Mulligan 78, San Francisco,
CA, works for the Human Resource
Group as an employee assistance
counselor.
James Murphy 75, Olympia, is currently working for the U.S. Postal
Service and is on the Board of Directors for the Olympia Parents Without
Partners.
Martin Oppenheimer 74, Seattle, is
working as a commercial cameraman
and has recently completed a commercial involving the Seattle Mariners.
Karen Goldman 76, Philadelphia, PA,
recently began working at Heannes
Hospital as a pathology lab technician.
Jon Halper 77, Seattle, is a first-year
medical student at the University of
Washington.
Claudia Chotzen 77, Honolulu, HI, is
now "on sabbatical" after serving as a
law clerk for a justice on the Hawaii
Supreme Court.
Gail Rhodes 77, Port Orchard, WA, is
attending graduate school at Pacific
Lutheran University for a masters in
social science/human relations.
Thomas McLaughlin 77, Santa Fe, NM,
graduated in '81 from the University of
New Mexico with a masters in political
science.
Drew Carey 76, Baraboo, Wl, is finishing his thesis for a Ph.D. in marine
biology.
Lincoln Chayes 75, Olympia, is working for the Employment Security
Department.
Kay Rawlings '80, Dillingham, AK, is
the regional director of Senior Services
at the Bristol Bay Native Association.
Kathy Davis '81, Olympia, works for
Washington State's House of Representatives Democratic Communications
Office.
Jean Haakenson 74, Onalaska, WA,
was appointed as a trustee to the
Timberland Regional Library in January.
Jerry Chapman 78, Olympia, has completed his MPA and MBA at the
University of Puget Sound in Tacoma.
Neil Pritz 78, Chicago, IL, is currently
enrolled in the Chicago Graduate
School of Business and working fulltime with the Chicago Office of
Development.
Daniel McDonald '81, Boston, MA, is
now doing graduate work at the
Harvard University Kennedy School.
John Canaris 76, Pocatello, ID, received his certification in electromechanical drafting and integrated
circuit design from the University of
Idaho.
Charles Cauchy 77, Traverse City, Ml,
is president of Photoc Corp., and
married to Pat Sparks, a former Evergreen admissions counselor.
Katherine Preston 74, Mt. Rainier, MD,
is working on a Ph.D. in music history
at the Graduate Center, City University
of New York and is working as a
research assistant for the Institute for
Studies in American Music.
Stephen Creager 77, New Haven, CT,
was married to "an old high school
heart throb" last summer and is still
plugging away on his Ph.D. at Yale.
U.S.
Bernard BOrman 76, Olympia, is working for the U.S. Postal Service and will
receive his Ph.D. this June.
Michael Price 79, Yokohama, Japan, is
teaching at a Catholic School in Japan.
Phil Jones '80, Olympia, is working for
the International Union of Operating
Engineers, Local 302 of Seattle. He's
currently working through the union at
the Port of Tacoma as a technical
engineer for Wright, Schucardt and
Harber on the 1983 Prudhoe Bay Seal if t
operation. In his spare time, Jones is
also running a small entertainment
business in Olympia, working on
public service announcements and
striving to "bring decent entertainment
Marie Russo 76, New York, NY, is a
word processing supervisor for Rogers
and Wells in the Pan-Am Building.
Susan Shinn 78, Seattle, is teaching
assertiveness training at Edmonds
Community College and working full
time as a personnel employment
consultant.
Stan Shore 77, Olympia, is working for
js a communications officer for the
A/ashington State Senate Republican
caucus. He and his wife, Andrea 78.
nave a 20-month-old son, Benjamin.
Cyndia Siendentop 76, Santa Monica.
CA, has won an audition with the New
York Metropolitan Opera Company.
C. Reginald Taschereau 72, Olympia.
has a new job as personnel program
development manager with the State
Department of Corrections.
Barbara Taylor 78, and fellow Greener
Pierre Dawson 79 are in Alaska working as free-lance scientists doing
research on harbor seals, polar bears,
and whales in their natural habitats.
Ann Thomas 78, Santa Rosa, CA. is in
the Peace Corps in Swaziland.
Margaret Thompson 78. Venice. CA. is
working at Oregon Aqua Goods, a
salmon ocean ranching company as
information systems coordinator
Mary Ann Verme 72, Olympia. is
assistant state registrar for Washington
State Vital Records.
Kathy Wanda '81, Olympia, is working
as a research analyst on energy issues
for the Washington State House of
Representatives and recently published
an article in The Nation on the
tampons and toxic shock syndrome.
William Ward 79, Cupertino, CA, has
been employed by Apple Computer and
has recently accepted a new position
as inventor and designer of software
and microprocessor-based games with
Sirius Software in Sacramento.
George Werich '80, Bellevue, WA, is
working for Washington State Developmental Disabilities.
Nanette Westerman 77, Seattle, has
been appointed interim director of New
Beginnings, a shelter for battered
women.
Bill Hucks 79, Seattle, is a merchant
marine for Atlantic Richfield.
Ernie Jones '80, Seattle, is completing
his second year in the masters in
social work program at the University
of Washington. Jones has just won a
Rotary Foundation Scholarship for
1982-83, which will fund his education
overseas for one full academic year.
He hopes to spend that year studying
agricultural and social development at
the University of Nairobi in Kenya.
Kathleen Roseto '80, Olympia, just had
a baby girl.
Lise Petrich 79, Bloomington, IN, has
been appointed a fellow in hospital
policy and planning for the Indiana
University Hospitals and the I.U. graduate program in health administration
for 1982. Lise recently completed a
masters degree in health administration at the University of Washington,
where she worked as a research
assistant for the Department of Health
Services. While attending Evergreen,
Lise served as an administration
planning assistant for St. Peter
Hospital.
Victoria Poyser '80, Flushing, NY, has
attracted interest in the Big Apple in
her science fiction/fantasy art work.
The art director at Doubleday has given
her a book jacket assignment for three
Piers Anthony novels and for future
historical romance covers.
Theresa (Terry) Wright 77, Salem, OR,
graduated from Willamette Law School
and is now employed by an independent labor union representing nonteaching public school employees.
Vicki Yeager 76, Fort Defiance, AZ,
is presently working as a labor and
delivery nurse on the Navajo Reservation.
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Upcoming Evergreen Events
June
1-2-3
"An Evening of Theater,"
presented by students in the
artists-in-residence theater
studies directed by Broadway
actress Dale Soules,
8:30 p.m., Experimental
Theatre, Communications
Building. Tickets: $2.50 students and senior citizens,
$3.50 others.
June
4-5-6
"Student Affairs," a musical
comedy written, directed, and
produced by students in the
Foundations of Performing
Arts academic program,
7:30 p.m., Communications
Building, room 110.
Tickets: $1.
5
SUPER SATURDAY, Evergreen's annual spring festival,
offers live entertainment on
five stages, children's
activities, recreational and
sports events, more than 70
arts and crafts booths, plus
displays, horse rides, skateboard competition, antique
car and wooden boat shows,
cartoon film festival, and
more, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., central
campus plaza.. .free...
5
Broadway actress Dale
Soules, artist-in-residence,
presents a one-woman show
of film, video, and live performance entitled "The Ambidextrous, Dual-Powered
Magic Maid Review, 6-7 p.m.,
Experimental Theatre, Communications Building. Free.
6
Graduation exercises for the
Class of 1982, featuring talk
by commencement speaker
Dr. Giovanni Costigan, University of Washington professor emeritus of history,
1 p.m., Recreation Pavillion
oc
CONCOURS D'ELEGANCE,"
a classic car show featuring
both vintage and rare automobiles, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.,
central campus. Sponsored
by the Downtown Olympia
Rotary and the Evergreen
Foundation. Tickets: $5
general, $1 for youngsters
six to 16, free for children
under six.
August
19-22; 26-29
"The Boy Friend," a delightfully charming 1920s musical
directed by Turn water High
teacher Michelle McDonnell
and performed by Summer
Repertory Theater, 8 p.m.,
Experimental Theater, Communications Building. Ticket
price to be announced.
Map of Super Saturday Events by
student Eric Martin
September
25
OCTOBERFEST, a fall celebration dance featuring
music by Seattle's toetapping Steiermark Band.
Sponsored by Evergreen
College Community Organization, 8 p.m. to midnight,
Hotel Olympian ballroom,
Tickets: $5.
October
9
Evergreen Alumni Reunion.
Watch your mail in early
September for details.
July
22-25-29-August 1
"Cabaret," a vibrant musical
portrait of pre-war Germany,
performed by cast from Summer Repertory Theater under
direction of Robert Rodriguez,
8 p.m., Experimental Theater,
Communications Building.
Ticket price to be announced.
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