The Evergreen State College Review Volume 6, Issue 3 (May 1985)

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The Evergreen State College Review Volume 6, Issue 3 (May 1985)

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May 1985

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At The Core:
An Inside Peek at "Paradox"
by Mark Clemens
Director of Information Services,
and Keith Eisner, Information Specialist

*• A "new student" In the "Society and the Computer" program was President
Joe Olander, who also took his turn as a teacher during his visit of the Core
Program during Winter Quarter. Seen in seminar with freshman Mark Flynn,
Olander read the assigned texts, attended program meetings including faculty
seminars, and lectured on Japanese culture as a finale to his two-week study
visit.

Core Report!
Mid-Stream Update Finds New
Greeners Doing Well
Serving as an academic introduction to
Evergreen, Core Programs are where
students and faculty meet for the first
time in the learning process that's come
to be known as education Evergreenstyle. Taken collectively, the programs
listed above might be entitled "foundations of thinking straight," for they provide new students with a core of skills
that they will use in their succeeding
years at Evergreen and the world at
large.
Those skills include writing and reading well, critical reasoning, using the
library effectively, problem-solving and
working collaboratively, and the faculty
coordinators (also listed above) of this
year's Core Programs report Evergreen's new students are learning them
well.
"Very good," "excellent" and "extremely successful," exclaim Core coordinators when asked about their
students' progress. Perhaps the most
telling remarks come from Sandi Nisbet
of "Reintroduction to Education," not a
typical Core Program in that it caters to
older adults who are returning to college. Nisbet says her students' "primary
problems are lack of confidence and
rusty academic skills," but that as
future Evergreeners their "prognosis is
excellent. These students will take
longer to graduate because many of
them work full-time. But most of them
should succeed because they are
motivated to get a degree."
The balance of Core Programs are
enrolled mostly with freshmen straight
out of high school and community college transfers. How are these younger
students, whose numbers have increased proportionately in recent years,
faring in their first year at Evergreen?

"They're well prepared on the
whole," says George Dimitroff, "to continue on to advanced programs. The
median age has dropped. Otherwise,
(they're) about the same or better intellectually." Mark Papworth and Dave
Kitchens both see good things for their
proteges as future Geoducks. "The
Evergreen State College will retain
more of these students than usual,"
predicts Hitchens; while Papworth says
"an unusally high percentage of
students will continue."
"Similar to last year," says Pete
Taylor of his program, "there are more
students directly from high school.
They are quite able and enthusiastic
about their learning."
Unusual and innovative projects
abound in the Core Programs. As part
of the college's Intercultural Literacy
Program, "Foundations of Human Expression" spent a week in retreat at Fort
Flagler State Park near Port Townsend.
Students and faculty read a list of books
to prepare for the week, when they
studied with a series of guest artists including Ghanaese drummers and
dancers Obo Addy and Idrael Anno;
Native American storytellers, weavers
and maskmakers George and Elaine
David; Oregon storyteller and puppeteer Mara Stahl; and an AsianAmerican theater company led by Bea
Kiohara.
Nancy Taylor reports "Great Books"
students took on one of the great ones
in its entirety: the Bible. "They felt
quite pleased with themselves for having done it," she says. "It was hard going and they didn't realize how much
they'd learned until later when they
started making references back to it." A
Methodist minister and a rabbi, both
from Seattle, visited the program as
guest speakers on the New and Old
Testaments, respectively. This quarter
"Great Books" has moved on to study
texts translated from Hebrew, Greek
and Japanese.
continued on page 4

Core Programs 1984-85

Faculty
Coordinators

Quarters Offered

Foundations of Human Expression
Political Ecology
Great Questions and Great Books
The Paradox of Progress
Reintroduction to Education
Society and the Computer
Issues, Tradition and Change
Growth and Form
Thinking Straight

Dave Hitchens
Pete Taylor
Nancy Taylor
Jeanne Hahn
Sandi Nisbet
George Dimitroff
Mark Papworth
Sandra Simon
Leo Daugherty

Fall, Winter
Fall, Winter
Fall, Winter, Spring
Fall, Winter, Spring
Fall, Winter, Spring
Fall, Winter, Spring
Winter, Spring
Spring
Spring

par-a-dox
(<para-, beyond
+ doxa, opinion
<dofcein, to think, suppose)
It's Friday. The book seminar has been
over for a good ten minutes and Faculty
Member Rudy Martin has left for an
appointment. But students in groups of
twos and threes still linger in the
classroom, and in the hall just outside
the door. The topic of discussion is still
Mark Twain's The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn.
Like many Evergreen seminars, the
last hour-and-a-half has been reminiscent of Twain's river—broad, sometimes
slow and meandering, then suddenly
swift and strong on a central current.
The question under discussion was
"Does social change come about most
effectively through mass movements
that alter the structure of institutions
and society or through individuals affecting the hearts of other individuals?"
After drifting down several lines of
inquiry—Does Huck really reject
racism? Is he really an outsider?—the
seminar seemed to round a sharp bend
and pick up speed and depth when
seminar leader Rudy Martin said
"Look, folks, this isn't an abstract, irrelevant question. There are more black
people living in poverty and segregation
than there were before the civil rights

This kind of thinking—the kind that
keeps students in a classroom voluntarily at the beginning of a weekend—is
prevalent in and out of the seminar
rooms, lecture halls and faculty offices
of "The Paradox of Progress" Core
Program.
According to students of the program, it's not just inquiries into such
topics as food and the green revolution,
"lifeboat ethics" or genetic engineering
(see box on next page for complete list of
program themes) that keeps them interested but the manner in which the
paradoxes are approached. The speculation has been anything but idle. Tackling a reading list of over 200 pages a
week since the beginning of the year,
"Paradox" students have taken the long
view of the history of Western progress
by studying Aristotle, Hobbes and
Locke; Newtonian mechanics and
astronomy; thermodynamics and the
steam engine; evolution, genetics and
relativity; as well as Marx, Melville,
Darwin, Thoreau, Emerson and others.
The input has been matched by output. Students have kept a natural
history notebook, a major research
paper, an abstract of each book they've
read, and developed their own writing,
math, computer and science skills in
weekly workshops. Spring Quarter
culminates with research projects on
20th Century dilemmas and the test of
skills in community work (see box on
next page).

"The question is
how do we
„,
"Paradox" Faculty Member Rudy Martin

movement. This is a fact. Despite all the
change and confrontation of the civil
rights movement of the 1960's—and
some say because of it—the situation for
black people today is worse, not better."
There is a stunned silence as twentytwo students ponder the paradoxical
implications of sweeping change
without apparent progress. "The question," Martin concludes "is how do we
progress?"
As with most good questions, this one
produces no quick or right answer, but
a great deal of thought—not so many
opinions as ideas. The energy is greater,
students make more statements that
begin with "I," and one feels the difference between thinking as an
academic exercise and thinking as a
part of life.

Photo credits:
Unless otherwise noted, all photos by Woody Hirzel,
TESC Photo Services.

It is fitting that the interdisciplinary
depth of this Core Program is the product of an Evergreen teaching team that
includes three founding faculty
members—Byron Youtz, a former provost; Rudy Martin, a former academic
dean; and Larry Eickstaedt, a former
academic advisor. Program Coordinator Jeanne Hahn, also a former
dean, has been at Evergreen for 13
years.
"This is by far the most integrated
course of study I have ever experienced," says Youtz. "It is more clearly
evident to me than ever before the absolute and complete connectedness of
everything." The fact that each faculty
member—Youtz as a physicist,
Eickstaedt as a biologist, Hahn as a
political scientist, and Martin as a
writer and humanities scholar—
contributes to that "connectedness" is
evident during the weekly faculty
seminars.
continued on page 2

An Inside Peek at "Paradox"
continued from page 1
"So what's our focus?" Hahn asks the
members of her faculty team at one of
their Tuesday seminars. It's 7:30 a.m.
and they're already at work shaping the
day's book seminars around the subject
of the morning's lecture which will be
delivered by Eickstaedt on Darwin and
his theory of evolution. In response to
Hahn's question Eickstaedt observes
that Darwin's life and thought are closely related to earlier work by the Christians and Greeks. Then Youtz discusses
two notions of progress—one, that it
levels out to a plateau and two, that it
keeps going up the scale. What does
Darwin take?
"Here's a quote," says Hahn, opening a copy of Darwin's The Origin of
Speies, ". . . progress toward perfection."
\es, Martin agrees, getting man to a
plateau.
But Darwin doesn't go that far,
argues %utz. "Right here on page 132,
Darwin says life evolves complexly."
"That's why I don't think there's a
plateau," adds Eickstaedt.
"Okay," says Martin, "okay, but on
page 131 Darwin says the result of
perfection is domination."
"But like all organisms," says
Eickstaedt, "man will continue to
evolve."

Paradox Goes to Main Street
This spring, "Paradox" students will
apply what they've been studying by
working on a community project. Instead of working individually or in
small groups, however, the program
made arrangements through Evergreen's Center for Community
Development to spend one week working en masse with the Main Street Project, which has just begun efforts to
revitalize downtown Olympia. During
May 6-10, 80 "Paradox" students will
survey owners and tenants of more than
200 downtown buildings to ferret out
information, such as, what each structure is used for, its square footage, age
and present condition, parking status,
historical and architectural significance,
and whether or not it is eligible for inclusion on historic registers. These facts
will serve Main Street Director
Suzanne McCurley as an invaluable
data base that she and merchants will
use time and time again as they implement a five-year plan to breathe new life
into the heart of Olympia's ailing
downtown. Of benefit for the students
will be involvement in a vital, complex
and high-energy project, extensive contact with community members, and
concrete experience with a real world
paradox: Olympia's flagging business
district happens to be, ironically, in the
very center of one of the fastest growing
counties in the entire nation.

"This perspective (of the "Paradox"
program) will undoubtedly influence
our students' future work, both
academically and beyond."
"We began Fall Quarter," explains
Youtz, "with a careful examination of
the historical and cultural roots of today's paradoxes, continued that examination into Winter Quarter, and
now this quarter we're covering the
paradoxes of the 20th Century."
Youtz details the central paradoxes
brought about by developments in
science and technology—an improved
quality of life contradicted by the threat
of nuclear war and environmental
poisoning. "If we're going to find solutions to these problems," he says, "It'll
be on these students' shoulders. The
most important thing 'The Paradox of
Progress' program can do for them is to
help them rethink their values and accept personal responsibility for their
role in society."

"Paradox" Faculty Member Jeanne Hahn

Students Shawn Powell, Sandra Davis and Faculty Member Jeanne Hahn
trade perspectives In seminar.
"Here it is," Hahn concludes. "First
we've got to emphasize the importance
of the scientific method and its relationship between observation and theory,"
she says, "but the controversy over
evolutionary progress, whether it
climaxes at a plateau or attains perfection, will be the fuel that heats up the
seminars."
Throughout the course of the
seminar, each faculty member exhibits
an almost student-like eagerness to
reach the heart of the matter. What
emerges is the freshness of their inquiries and a teaching committment to
present ideas and events not in tidy,
preconceived packages but in the complex context of life and change. As a
result of the free exchange of ideas at
this faculty session, their enthusiasm
carries over into their indivdual
seminars later in the day.
*• Dont be alarmed. The drawings of
creatures scattered over these two
pages are not new viruses discovered
by "Paradox" students, but hypothetical animals created by University of
Kansas biology professor Joseph
Camln. "Camlnalcules" first made their
appearance In a "Scientific American"
article on taxonomy theory. "Paradox"
students used the 27 critters last fall to
work out the principles of a taxonomlc
key. The menagerie was reopened during the program's study of evolution as
students worked on a genetic tree.
"Paradox" Faculty Member Larry
Elekstaedt reports that there was a lot
of spirited argument about which
animal preceded which on the evolutionary scale.

Eickstaedt delivers a masterful lecture
on Darwin's theory of evolution,
presenting not so much the history of
one man's work, but the history of an
idea before and after Darwin. The affable faculty biologist reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the program
when he speaks of Darwin's work in
terms one would expect to hear in a
literature course.
"I like to look at the theory of evolution the way (Faculty Member) Bob
Sluss does," Eickstaedt says, "that each
theory—whether it be Genesis or evolution—is a story. Darwin told an excellent story that holds together well.
His story doesn't say that there is or
isn't a God. The story does not say 'this
is the truth'; it's just a very good story
that, for the time being, works very
well."
With the study of evolution, genetics,
Emerson and Marx at the close of
Winter Quarter, the program approaches the 20th Century which will
be the focus of Spring Quarter.

*•• Student Paul Jeurls from Tacoma and Faculty Member Larry Elekstaedt

Paradox Themes/
Supporting Material
Population
Food and the Green Revolution
Birth Control
Personal Freedom
Age and Aging
Resources—oil, minerals, water
Land/Space-desertification
Lifeboat Ethics
Chemistry and Environment
Bio-Medicine
Genetic Engineering
Organ Transplants
Euthanasia
Bio-technology
Nuclear Issues
War and Armaments
Nuclear Energy and Waste
Management
Nuclear Winter
Proliferation—Government and
Terrorists
Crises of World Political Economy
Crises of Capitalism
Crises of Socialism
The Information Crises
Computers and Privacy
Robotics "Spy in The Sky" vs. Worldwide
Telecommunications
"Artificial Intelligence," Fifth Generation
Computers, and the Human Mind
Star Wars and World Peace
Civility, Morality and Consciousness
Narcissism
Generation Gap
Vigilantism
Interpersonal and Domestic Violence
Racism and Sexism
Advanced Technological Society

"Being able to understand how we
arrived at the paradox has helped
bring us closer to solving the
problem."
Responsibility—eighteen-year-old
Doug Prichard, a freshman from Oak
Harbor, Washington, welcomes the
challenge to find solutions to today's
paradoxes. "The program had encouraged a lot of problem-solving," he
says, "although we may not have been
able to reach a solution, being able to
understand how we arrived at the
paradox has helped bring us closer to
solving the problem."
First-year student Maria Gonzales
feels that her experience in the
"Paradox" program has provided her
with a base for future studies that she
couldn't have received at another
school. She lists the training she's
received in library research, math and
writing as a solid foundation for her
work next year in the program,
"Human Health and Behavior."

Paradox Reading List
Fall
American Dreams: Lost and Found, Terkel
What is History?, Carr
The Birds, Aristophanes
Antigone, Sophocles
Politics, Aristotole
King Lear, Shakespeare
The New Atlantis, Bacon
The Tempest, Shakespeare
Leviathan, Hobbes
The Second Treatise on Government, Locke
Robinson Crusoe, Defoe
The Copermcan Revolution, Kuhn
The Watershed, Koestler

"Paradox" freshman Doug Prichard

>• "Paradox" freshmen Maria Gonzales and Doug Prichard discuss inherent
problems of progress with Evergreen President Joe Olander.
"Understanding some of the
philosophies that formed Western
Civilization's ideology," says freshman
Pete Russell, "has given me an insight
of where society is headed.
"Learning to express my ideas in a
logical order and supporting them so
they can be understood," has been the
most important benefit of the
"Paradox" program for 32-year-old
returning student Celeste Dodd. A
single mother of three children all
under the age of 10, Dodd has found
new confidence in her own abilities as
well as personal connections in researching "Paradox" themes. "Before the
Industrial Revolution," she relates,
"there were women whalers, plantation
owners, merchants, and tavern
keepers—every kind of work there was
in colonial America.
Another freshman, Karen Clifford of
Federal Way, Washington, relates that
she's enjoyed seeing the growth in her
abilities and the corresponding growth
in her fellow students' ability to
communicate.
"It's like a. bowl of spaghetti," she
says of her seminars, "we work on a lot
of loose ends until we get to the center.

Getting to the center. What emerges
from the heart of this program is not
"the answer," but finding out how to get
there. Using the tools of investigation,
reasoning and communication they
have developed this year, "Paradox"
students have begun a life-time pursuit
of learning about the problems and joys
of the real world.
"We designed 'The Paradox of Progress' to provide students with a solid
foundation for further work in any of
Evergreen's Specialty Areas," says
Hahn. "Moreover they've had a good
introduction to the historical, interdisciplinary and complexly multifaceted
dimensions of contemporary problems.
This perspective will undoubtedly influence our students' future work, both
academically and beyond."
"These students are generally
younger than the ones in the last Core
Program I taught in 1982," observes
Eickstaedt, "The majority of 'Paradox'
students are straight out of high school,
while in '82 there was more of a mix of
community college transfers, Vietnam
veterans and older returning students.
Students a few years ago were more in
tune with what Evergreen meant, but
this time it really feels like we have
more students here who thought
Evergreen was just another college, that
our mode of learning was not significant to them.

Winter
Plymouth Plantation and Essays on Colonial
America, Bradford
Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
Declaration of Independence, Articles
of Confederation, U.S. Constitution,
Federalist Papers (selected), Iroquois
Constitution
Tom Paine and Revolutionary America,
Foner
The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848,
Hobsbawm
The German Ideology, Marx and Engles
Benito Cereno, Melville
Puttin' on OleMassa', Osofsky
Darwin, Appleman (ed.)
Walden, Thoreau, and Essay on Nature,
Emerson
The Concept of Energy, Mott-Smith

Spring
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain
Drylongso, Gwaltney
On Human Nature, Wilson
Labor and Monopoly Capital, Braverman
Feminism and Sexual Equality: Crisis in
Liberal America, Eisenstein
A 20th century novel to be selected

*• Faculty Member Byron Youtz and
student Karen Clifford, a Foundation
Scholar from Federal Way, in an
evaluation session

Although they may have begun the
year thinking of Evergreen as "just
another" college, after more than 20
books, 60 lectures, 25 reports and
abstracts, and 100 hours of seminaring,
that impression has obviously changed.
After an enthusiastic, hard-thinking session on Melville's Benito Cereno and
Osofsky's Puttin' on Ole Massa', a student
looks around at her seminar mates and
says, "You know we've really had a
great discussion!"
Another student, a freshman in
Eickstaedt's seminar, points out that
last quarter when their faculty member
and seminar leader was absent, "we just
fell apart, but now. . ." he says, finishing
by nodding thoughtfully.
"Yeah," Eickstaedt agrees, "when I
was ill last month, I had no concerns
about you folks being able to carry a
seminar by yourselves. It's good to see."
Several transfer students talk about
the differences between Evergreen and
their former colleges. Then a freshman
says, "You know at my high school, the
school 'spirit' was always coming from
the outside going in, but here in this
program it's your own growth that
counts. It's the first time I've ever seen
'spirit' coming from inside people and
going out."

Paradox Projects
To do their major projects for the year,
students of "Paradox" split into four
research groups Spring Quarter that
covered broad and overlapping
categories of issues. Hahn is leading a
group that will research politics and
economics; Eickstaedt, a group on biomedical concerns; Martin, a group on
social and cultural subjects; and Youtz,
a group on technological developments.
Twenty-seven students appeared for
the initial meeting of Martin's group,
for instance. "Three hours of discussion," Martin says, "showed them to be
considering a wide range of potential
research topics—what high school
students see as important questions,
stories and concerns senior citizens
want to pass on, how Southeast Asian
women are coping with life in the U.S.,
the causes of homosexuality and its attendant problems, how language and
culture influence each other, what
trends in the fine arts reveal about contemporary conciousness and etcetera—
all issues arising out of a concern for the
nature and quality of life in 21st Century America."

Core Report
continued from page 1
Editor's Note: Even though projections for fall
are 30 percent ahead of last year's enrollment
pace, the college's Admissions Office never lets
up because their job is letting the world know
about the opportunity to get an education,
Evergreen-style.

Social science projects by "Political
Ecology" students involved interviewing people from Washington's resource
industries Fall Quarter, followed by a
Winter Quarter analysis of proceedings
in resource-oriented committees in the
state Legislature.
Students in "Issues, Traditions and
Change" spent the first part of Spring
Quarter working in small groups on
current affairs in Central America.
Each group studied a topic in that
region, such as the role of women, student life, military intervention and a
comparison to Vietnam, and the sanctuary movement in Thurston County.
The program is finishing the quarter by
doing the same kind of study on issues
in the Near East.
All of the Core Programs, as well as
Evergreen's Vancouver Campus, participated in another Intereultural
Literacy Project centered around the
peoples and customs of Southeast Asia.
Dwight Conquergood, a visiting anthropologist from Northwestern University, led off activities with his performance of stories he collected during four
years among Southeast Asian refugees.
Students and faculty of the Cores then
participated in workshops with Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian guests
from the local community, and concluded the three-day event with a feast
featuring Southeast Asian delicacies.
While some Core Programs, such as
"Society and the Computer," "Reintroduction to Education," "Political
Ecology" and "Great Books and Great
Questions," are so successful and fundamental that they repeat annually or
every other year; others of this year's
Core line-up may not be offered again
in the foreseeable future. But it's not for
wanting.
"We all would like to teach this program again," says Jeanne Hahn for
herself and the others on the faculty
team of "The Paradox of Progress." (secrelated story). "A lot of people have told
me there have to be more programs like
this one."
But then, maybe there should be
more programs like Evergreen's Core
Programs everywhere. "Students have
gotten something very significant from
this program," says Pete Taylor, the
recipient of a Ph.D. in marine biology
from the University of California at San
Diego who studied at Cornell University as an undergraduate. "It. has
widened the students' view of the world
with regard to environmental and
moral issues," he goes on to say of his
program, "Political Ecology." "I wish
I'd had a similar exposure as I began
undergraduate work."

»- (Left to Right): Doug Scrima, admissions counselor and coordinator of high
school relations; Arnaldo Rodriguez, director of Admissions; Christine Kerlln,
admissions counselor and coordinator of community college relations.

On the Road and at Home:
Admissions Team Spreads Evergreen Flame Afarl
Ry Mark E. Clemens,
Director of Information Services

Fred McKay is the counselor at
Quilcene High School, 71 miles north of
Olympia on Hood Canal. Folder in
hand, he greets Deborah Stansbury,
Evergreen admssions counselor and
coordinator of minority recruitment,
and explains that he has arranged for
her to talk with a group of students in
the school library. A town of 900,
Quilcene sends 250 of its progeny to the
sprawling brick edifice by Highway 101,
approximately 100 of whom are in high
school. Of those, only 18 are seniors,
but Stansbury is here anyway, having
left Evergreen's motor pool at 6:30 a.m.
to make this 8:30 appointment.
She is not really alone, however,
because the Admissions Office staff has
paved the way for, and will follow up
on, her trip. Sally Carlin, who answers
phone calls and student inquiries at Admissions' front desk, confirmed
Stansbury's appointment the previous
week, while Office Manager Laura
Allen mailed a poster announcing
Stansbury's visit to the high school in
advance. Carol Perrussel sent postcards
to any Quilcene students who might
have inquired about Evergreen as
juniors, and she'll follow up the visit
with a thank-you note to Fred McKay.
Any applications that result from
Stansbury's visit will go to Thelma
Stamey and Kay Sowers for computer
coding and filing while Perrussel will
scrutinize the accompanying transcripts. Lending their many hands to
this process are six "fantastic" workstudy students without whom Admissions, claims Stamey, "couldn't survive." No admissions counselor walks
alone.

The students assemble slowly in the
Quilcene school library. There are47 of
them, only some of whom will be
members of the graduating class. With
quiet authority, Stansbury gathers them
around a table and invites each to tell
what they are thinking of studying in
college.
"Business administration, architecture, engineering, secretarial work. . ."
The future occupations are uttered with
varying degrees of hesitation and
assurance. Nodding her head,
Stansbury walks around the table handing out catalogs, viewbooks and prospective student cards as she listens to
each student's half-formed dreams.
She begins her presentation with a
quick run-through of Evergreen's admissions criteria and graduation requirements. "Now, it's very important,
seniors," Stansbury says next, "to read
the first 20 pages of this catalog when
you get home." What she says next is a
departure from any other presentations
these students will hear. "It is possible
to study many subjects at Evergreen like
psychology, for instance," she says, "but
don't look for the p's in this catalog."
Seventeen blank expressions. Not
missing a beat, Stansbury asks the
students to turn to page 32 of the
catalog for a sample of what she's talking about.

+• Riding the Green Wave: Thelma
Stamey (left) and Carol Perrussel are
just two members of several on the
staff in Admissions who have been
working hard all year to keep a
stream of Evergreen publications
(below) going out in reply to a 30 percent increase in applications. Still
open for Fall Quarter, Evergreen is
nevertheless encouraging Interested
students to apply early just in case
the September 1 deadline for application is moved up to limit enrollment.

Director of Admissions Arnaldo
Rodriguez declares flatly that his present staff of three counselors and five
clerical staff is "the best we've ever
had." Laura Allen agrees things are
good: "It sounds corny," says Allen,
"but we're a team here, a family."
But there's a paradox at work in the
Admissions Office. At last report, applications for admission to the college in
the fall had increased 30 percent over
the same time a year ago, while applications from students who wi]] graduate
from high school this spring were up
more than 40 percent.
Although morale is high and there's a
"great satisfaction in seeing enrolment
rise," the staff has to work even harder.
There have been 700 inquiries since
January, and Fall Quarter inquiries, up
1,300 from a year ago, totaled 6,339.
Multiply that by the five pieces in Admissions' mailing series and you get
35,000 pieces of mail that have been
handled already this year. Add in factors such as 50 to 75 visitors a month
who need a campus tour and covering
the office 9 hours every day, and the
result is, according to Carlin, that "you
can't go home on Friday with a clean
desk."
Something else you might not have
realized is how much time Evergreen
counselors spend on the road. Calculations by Laura Allen reveal that the
team drove 24,729 motor pool miles Fall
Quarter alone. They talk to thousands
of high school, community college and

»• Food and talk greet President Joseph D. Olander at a library staffers'
potluck luncheon. Olander enjoyed a series of luncheon get-togethers with
departments across campus In his getting-to-know-you program. Pictured with
Olander is Administrative Assistant Al Warber (left) and Media Production
Center Director Wyatt Gates.

«W.***i»

Deborah Stansbury at Quilcene High School
*• President Olander shares parting words of thanks with Ken-lchi Yasumuro,
who taught at Evergreen Fall and Winter Quarters on exchange from Japan's
Kobe University of Commerce, and his wife, Hisayo.

returning students, as well as hundreds
of people in professional networks
across the state and region, functioning
as Evergreen's ambassadors to the external world.
"My overall goal is do everything I
can," says Kerlin, "to reach out to every
student. I get the greatest pleasure in
talking to students about Evergreen
because invariably the light comes on
and I see heads nodding at the end of a
session."
"On page 32 you'll find Core Programs," says Deborah Stansbury to her
Quilcene audience. "It says Core Programs are unique and they are. Take a
look at the program, 'Human Development.' on the next page," she says.
"You'll see this program is worth 48
credits in biology, sociology, anthropology, literature and psychology at
Evergreen."
Stansbury gives more distinctions of
Evergreen programs: field trips don't
conflict with classtime, assignments
rarely overlap because they are coordinated by program faculty, and a
20-to-l student faculty ratio. "As a
freshman at UCLA," she points out, "I
was in a lecture with 750 other students.
In Evergreen seminars, 22 students and
one faculty member meet to discuss
what they're studying. It makes a big
difference, all the difference."
Lights on. Out of 17 students, several
heads are nodding: sparks kindled by
her introduction to the concept of
Evergreen.

The students file out to their next
class, but two young women remain
behind. The first has already applied to
several small colleges, but this is the
first she's heard about Evergreen. "I'm
so confused," says the second, who's
also trying to decide where to go. "I
know," Stansbury nods, "It's hard."
It's 9:30 a.m. and Stansbury heads
for her car. It's times like these she
remembers her high school counselor.
Responsible for 550 kids, he would
work with the top and the bottom, leaving the middle kids on their own. "I
want students," Stansbury has been
known to say, "to know what their options are."
She has appointments at tribal
centers outside Port Angeles and in
Neah Bay. Then a four-hour drive to
Olympia and, after picking up her son,
Matthew, she'll be home around 7:30
p.m. She pulls on to Highway 101 and
turns north. The Evergreen Admissions
team is on the road again. Lights on.

+- Pushing for the top: Staff members of KAOS-FM radio—inveterate fundraisers themselves—make the pitch for Evergreen at Phone-A-Thon '85. From
left to right: Julie Kelin, Lorian Weiser, Corliss Prong and Michael Huntsberger,
station manager.

*

»- President Olander toasts "Greeners in Government," a gathering of over 30
alums who work in Washington State government. The March evening of sharing memories and new experiences took place at Johnny's Night Train in Lacey.

Phone-A-Thon Sets New Record—
$100,000 Annual Fund in
Amid the clatter of noisemakers and the
steady hum of animated conversations,
Phone-A-Thon '85 wrapped up the last
of 13 productive evenings in February
after having raised a grand total of
$26,082—the highest total yet for an
Evergreen telephone blitz.
An annual event put on by The
Evergreen State College Foundation,
the Phone-A-Thon raises funds for student scholarships and other urgent
needs of the college. This year, more
than 140 volunteers made a record
3,271 calls to alumni, parents and
friends, producing 874 pledges and 729
additional promises to consider making
a gift. The average pledge this year was
$30, up a bit from last year.

The bottom line? The $26,082
pledged during Phone-A-Thon '85 by
Geoduck supporters will go a long way
toward the 1984-85 Annual Fund goal
of $100,000—by far the most ambitous
goal ever at Evergreen. Response from
supporters nationwide has been
outstanding this year, and with two
months to go until the end of the fund
year, the goal is within reach.
If you made a pledge during PhoneA-Thon '85, be sure to send your contribution by June 30. If you are considering a gift, now is the time to commit your support for 1984-85. The
benefits of your kindness and consideration give Evergreen that vital margin of
excellence.

Evergreen Faculty Member
Reconstructs the Violent Past

Mark Papworth

By Barbara Howell, student reporter
Human Identification, Forensic Anthropology
and The Human Skeleton in Forensic
Medicine top a stack of books on the corner of Mark Papworth's desk. On a
nearby counter in his office are bones,
bone fragments and skulls. One of the
skulls is suspended on a stand. It is the
skull of an unidentified murder victim.
Papworth will apply his skills and expertise to identify this person.
If you have seen the recent movie
Gorky Park, then you have an idea of
what Papworth does to reconstruct the
face and identity of a faceless victim.
He points to another case he is presently working on: "A body of a woman
who had been murdered ten years ago
was found by hunters. It is up to me to
find out who she was."
Through metric dimensions and
development of the skull, it is possible
to determine the sex, race and age of
the victim. With the long bones of the
legs and arms, it is possible to know the
stature. Once the sex, race and age of
the victim have been determined, standard blocks proportional to tissue depth
are attached to the skull using fixed
points, such as the bridge of the nose
and eyebrows, as starting places. By
connecting the blocks with plastiline,
the surface is built up and, ultimately,
facial features are modeled in.
A faculty member in anthropology at
Evergreen since 1972, Papworth is often
asked to work in his spare time as an
advisor and consultant to detectives
who are investigating homicide and
death cases, such as the Green River
murders. To do so, Papworth volunteers
his time as a public service to be a
deputy coroner with the Thurston
County Sheriffs Office.
Currently, Papworth has been called
in as advisor on a case from California
where completely skeletized remains
were found and appeared to match the
dental records of a girl missing for four
days. "But the body does not go with
the facts," he says. The area in which
the body was found during wintertime
was 45 feet above sea level on a low
glacial till. In those conditions, the body
could not decompose in four days.
"Ninety percent of decay is caused by
insect larva," Papworth explains. "A
body under a sheet of steel in New
Orleans in August, with 90 to 100
degree temperatures, produced an explosion of insect activity. The body was
reduced to nothing in eleven days."
Papworth uses deductive reasoning
but does not consider himself a
Sherlock Holmes. "I don't leap," he
says, "I plod. I crawl on all fours."

His primary tools in field investigation are a sharpened trowel and a paintbrush he uses to take the top off the soil
to look for discolorations underneath.
When he comes on to the scene of a
crime, Papworth marks it off. Nearby he
marks off a neutral zone. "Everything I
find in the neutral zone, I use as a standard. Anything in the crime zone not
also found in the neutral zone is
important."
Soil from the crime zone is sifted
through a mesh screen. Items found
may be evidence that has fallen out of a
pocket, such as matches, coins, a piece
of plastic, a thread or torn fabric.
Papworth started doing volunteer
body identification in 1959 when he was
working for the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He
worked in the Sudan in 1963-64 identifying the human remains in graves that
lay in the path of the Aswan Dam Project. "Some of those individuals," he
remembers, "had been buried as long
ago as 22,000 B.C."
Following that work, Papworth taught
at Oberlin College in Ohio until he
came to Evergreen. This winter and
spring, he is the coordinating faculty
member for the Evergreen program,
"Issues, Traditions and Change," but
this summer, he will team-teach a
definitive death investigation course at
Evergreen for all levels of law enforcement officers.
"I want to teach what I have learned
to law enforcement agencies to provide
some way to prohibit future episodes of
serial homicide," he says. "You can call
it my contribution to society."
Placed side-by-side, Papworth's contributions to his vocation of teaching
and his avocation of death investigation
add up to a sizeable contribution to
society, and The Evergreen State
College.
Reprinted courtesy of The Cooper Point
Journal, The Evergreen State College

*• Down on the farm: Things are
hopping at the Organic Farm and
Farmhouse (above) where one Improvement Is a new solar greenhouse
(right).

Farm Puts on a
New Face
"Things are really cooking down here
right now," says Pat Labine, Evergreen
faculty member in environmental
studies since 1981. Rather than an
experiment that's just beginning to percolate, Labine is talking about the college's Organic Farm, where springtime
has been more of an accompaniment
than a catalyst to a flurry of activity.
Sunshine, and lots of it, is the most
miraculous effect of the recent changes.
Two acres of trees that stood on the
south side of the Farm's garden beds
were cleared away in April to make way
for more light. Although logging the
trees had been proposed as early as
1972, debate amongst the college community postponed the project until this
year. Now the Farm's greenhouses,
which used to stand in shade through
the winter months, will have sunlight
year round.
The tree removal is just one of many
improvements outlined in a five-year
Organic Farm development plan, submitted last September by Labine, fellow
Faculty Member Mike Beug and Jean
MacGregor, assistant director of the
college's Center for Community
Development. The plan calls for
strengthening academic offerings and
research opportunities, developing a
Summer Farm Program, possibly a 3-2
double degree program with Washington State University, and upgrading the
farm to make it a public showplace for
alternative agriculture.
"You can't have a farm without a
farmer," says Labine, referring to Susan
Moser who was named manager of the
Organic Farm last fall as one of the first
implementations of the new plan. Other
additions include a six-foot fence
erected by Beug and a greenhouse built
by students of the "Ecological
Agriculture" program, taught by
Labine and Faculty Member Russ Fox.
While the fence is intended to keep
Cooper Point deer out, humans will
find access easier by way of new truck
paths through, and around, the garden.
Also new are 200 dwarf fruit trees, including apple, pear, cherry, plum and
kiwi, which are still in the process of
being planted.
While Labine will be on leave next
year to finish her book on gardening for
nutrition and self-sufficiency, the
"Ecological Agriculture" program will
continue under the guidance of Beug
and Faculty Member Larry Eickstaedt.
The Organic Farm will continue, too,
under the guidance of Moser and the
wise provisions of the five-year plan,
which aims to further Evergreen's national reputation as one of the few
undergraduate colleges that offer smallscale, organic agriculture as a permanent part of its curriculum.

+• Richard S. Page

Evergreen
Borrows a Page
from
Washington's
Roundtable
A new face joined the roundtable at
The Evergreen State College in January
when Governor Booth Gardner named
Richard S. Page, 47, to the college's
Board of Trustees. Page is from Seattle
where he's currently president of the
Washington Roundtable, a statewide
organization of business executives and
civic leaders.
"Richard Page's expertise in public
management," commented Evergreen's
President Joseph Olander, "his academic experience, and his values and
attitudes are going to be significant
resources for the college."
Page describes the Roundtable, which
was formed in 1983, as an effort by the
chief executive officers of Washington
corporations to study issues that are
crucial to the state. "It's not a lobby to
help business," he says, "but a business
organization designed to help state
government."
Previous to the Roundtable, Page
worked for the Washington (D.C.)
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
from 1979-83, the Urban Mass
Transportation Administration in the
U.S. Department of Transportation
from 1977-79, and for Seattle Metro,
which operates that city's transit and
water pollution control systems. He
received a bachelor's degree from
Oberlin College and master's degrees in
the arts, and public and international
affairs, and a Ph.D. in politics from
Princeton.
Page replaces Trustee Jane Sylvester,
also of Seattle, who has served on the
board since 1978. "Evergreen's established now," he observed, "and accomplishing important things in the
state as one of the few new colleges in
the country that rates attention. I hope
to help sustain and improve that
record."

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Newsletter
of the
Alumni
Association

AlumNews

What's the Diff?:
Library's Unique
Approach Leads
Alums into the
Stacks
By Mark Clemens,
Director of Information Services
People who are really aware of how
things operate in Evergreen's Daniel J.
Evans Library know that it isn't like too
many other libraries at small liberal arts
colleges in the country. That includes
students who study and do research
there, faculty members whose academic

then, Frank Motley. Pat MathenyWhite, Debbie Huerta and Mary
Huston have all rotated into faculty
postions, while faculty members
Richard Alexander, Gordon Beck,
Judith Espinola, Betty Estes, Tom
Foote, Hiro Kawasaki, Charles
McCann, Art Mulka, Matt Smith, Pete
Taylor and Al Weidemann have worked
as staff librarians.
At traditional colleges, most of the
budget for library acquisitions is meted
out to departments. There aren't any
departments at Evergreen, so acquisitions are decided upon by the Library's
Resource Selection Committee, which
works with Evergreen faculty members
to order tests and supporting materials
for academic programs.

*• Faith Hagenhofer (left), an '82
graduate of Evergreen who is currently working in circulation, and Dean of
Library Services Susan Perry tap into
one of the Library's on-line data base
systems.

Photo by Ann Polanco

programs need ready access to information, Library staff members themselves,
and more than a few Evergreen alumni
who, their appetites whetted on information access while they were here as
undergraduates, have continued on in
the field of library science.
"We may not seem unusual to a lot of
people in this community, even on this
campus," says Susan Perry, dean of
Library Services, "but to other
librarians we seem real unusual."
A measure of the success of the
Library's approach is the high proportion of Evergreen students who choose
to do their graduate work in the library
sciences. To name a few, Tim Moffatt
'74, Donald Case '76, Mary Woempner '76, Mary Patricia Youngman '76,
Susan Beck '78, Pam Searles '77,
Mary Hart '82, Sarah Loken '82, and
Evetree Tallman '83 have all received,
or are working toward, master's degrees
in library science. Faith Hagenhofer
'82, who is currently working at the
Evans Library in circulation, also is
planning to go to graduate school. The
aforementioned Donald Case went on
to study at Syracuse University and is
now a member of the Library Sciences
faculty at UCLA.
"The Evergreen Library is a very exciting place," he says. "Not just to
work, but to be." Like most Library
alums, Case points to a favorite staff
member who helped kindle his interest.
In this instance, Case cites Phoebe
Walker, former acquisitions librarian,
as the "most influential personality on
my career decision."
Like a tour-guide to the seven
wonders of the world, Perry points to
seven features that set the Evans
Library apart from its counterparts:

Evergreen faculty rotation system is the
envy of college librarians and faculty
members everywhere, says Perry. She
was the first Evergreen librarian to
rotate into the faculty in 1977-78. Since

Instructional materials the Library has
produced such as the Hands On Guide,
the Library Insider and the Annuary—are
heralded in the library world, according
to Perry. "They think we're either very
imaginative or completely crazy," she
says. Either way, the materials do an excellent job of informing library users
what's available.
"No other college library operate
Media Loan and Media Services the
way we do," Perry says with pride. All
kinds of equipment to make information—35mm, movie and video cameras,
and tape recorders—are available at
Media Loan, which Media Services
complements by providing the "how to"
of production. The Library offers more
than 250 workshops every year on
media production, reference resources,
media loan procedures and general
Library orientation.
Donald Case says the "very revolutionary" concept of loaning media
equipment and providing access to to
media production had "a great deal to
do with my decision to go into library

The Library's integration of print and
non-print media into one collection is
unique, says Perry. Non-print resources
have been classified and shelved with
print material so books about bluegrass
music, for example, are with bluegrass
cassettes. Most libraries, reports
Matheny-White, have a "book side"
and a "media side," but many have
become interested in Evergreen's
development of media integration.
At other colleges and universities, study
rooms are usually only for graduate
students and faculty members, but
Evergreen's study rooms are used by
300-400 undergrad students annually.
"We show our clients how to find and
assess information so they can use it,"
Susan Perry concludes. "We want information to liberate the individual."

The
Evergreen
State
College

Unsoeld Fund
Needs Boost to
Reach Summit

Unsoeld Story
Takes a Step
Closer to Film

Time is closing in on Evergreen as it
seeks to endow its first-ever lectureship
series, the Unsoeld Seminar Fund. The
deadline for the college to raise the
$50,000 necessary to receive another
$50,000 in challenge grants is July 31,
1985. If the challenges are not met by
this time, the college may lose these two
marvelous grants.
Named in honor of Willi Unsoeld, a
member of the planning faculty who
was killed in a 1979 mountaineering accident, the Unsoeld Seminar Fund will
bring dynamic individuals to campus
each year to work with students, faculty,
and members of the community on subjects of pressing national and international importance. Evergreen was able
to secure two $25,000 challenge grants
for the project, one from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the
other from the Bullitt Foundation of
Seattle. Evergreen will get the $50,000
from these grants when it successfully
raises the first $50,000.
So far, hundreds of supporters have
contributed towards making the Unsoeld Fund a reality. As of April 15, the
donations from alumni, parents, corporations and foundations, and many of
Willi's friends totaled $31,000 of the
$50,000 goal.
Your support for the fund is very important right now. It could even be the
difference, the final effort that puts the
Seminar Fund over the top. You can
help make the Unsoeld Seminar Series
possible by sending your contribution to
The Unsoeld Fund, Library 3103, The
Evergreen State College, Olympia,
Washington 98505. Your gift or pledge
must be received at Evergreen by
July 31, 1985.

The family of Willi Unsoeld has approved the outline of a screenplay that
may lead to the making of a movie
about the mountaineer and Evergreen
faculty member.
The agreement is between the Unsoeld family and two giants of the film
industry: Columbia Pictures and actor
Robert Redford. Columbia would
finance the venture, while Redford and
his company, Wildwood Enterprises,
would produce the movie in tandem
with American Film Works.
Under the terms of the agreement,
according to a January 30 story in The
Olympian, the movie will be based on
original research. Jolene Unsoeld, who
was elected last fall to the Washington
state House of Representatives, will be
able to participate in its production,
although she has no veto rights. Andy
Harvard, companion climber to Willi
Unsoeld and friend of the family, also
will be associated with the film as an
associate producer and technical advisor. "If it (a movie) was going to happen," Jolene Unsoeld was quoted as
saying, "I can't think of a better crew of
people or set of circumstances to be
involved."
Of prime concern to Jolene Unsoeld
and the rest of the family during two
years of negotiations, The Olympian
stated, was "building a sense of trust
that her husband's life story would be
told fairly."
"I don't have a high regard for the
film industry," she said, "but Mr. Redford is a person with considerably more
integrity than I expected."
Redford could cast himself as Willi
Unsoeld, depending on the quality of
the script for the prospective film,
which—after a final decision is made to
proceed—could take anywhere from
one to five years to produce.

*• The Greening of Everest: This picture represents in green the $31,000 that
has actually been raised for the Unsoeld Seminar Fund. The gray area at the
bottom of the peak represents the $50,000 in matching grants Evergreen will
receive when Willl's supporters donate another $19,000 to turn Everest's white o
o
cap green, too.

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AlumNews
Mural Still Brightens Library
from Top to Bottom

m '

+• Tom Anderson 73 (left) revisits the
scene of his, and others', stairwell
handiwork from Evergreen's early
days.

By Calvin Johnson, student intern

No visit to Evergreen is quite complete
without a stroll up the front stairwell inside the Library Building where a winding ribbon of multi-colored images stretches from floor one to floor four. But the
origin of this "serpent mural" is
unknown to most present-day passers-by.
The mural was created in the misty
days of early college history during
Winter Quarter of Evergreen's first
academic year, 1971-72. It was done by
members of the program, "Man and
Art," which was taught by Faculty
Members Jose Argueles, Cruz Esquivel
and Don Chan.
According to one of the collaborators,
Nancy Messenger (who completed her
degree at the University of Washington),
many students were outraged at the time
because the college had spent a "considerable sum" on geometric fabric print
wallhangings for the Library when
Evergreen had so many talented individuals within its midst. Several
students approached the administration
with the idea of doing a mural on one of
the Library's outer walls. The plan was
approved with a slight revision: the
mural had to be painted inside and the
students could choose any stairwell as
the location.
The mural's theme of four elements—
earth, water, air and fire—was borrowed
from the theme of the "Man and Art"
program. Much of the imagery was
derived from Mandala, a just-published
book by Miriam and Jose Argueles. Influences also came from art forms of the
Navajo, Pueblo, Aztec, Maori and other
indigenous peoples around the globe.
The dragon that winds its way up three
flights of stairs, beginning with the tip of
its tail on the First Floor, was designed
by Eve Shaw '74, who's now a Seattle
portrait painter.
The group of a more than a dozen
"Man and Art" students met periodically to plan the mural and discuss its progress. There was no master plan other
than using the four elements and dragon
themes, and such diverse images as
ships, dolphins, fish, shells, butterflies,
totems, snakes, doves, and a phoenix rising out of a nuclear mushroom cloud
found their way into the final product.
Images were penciled in, then painted
with acrylics. For the most part, the
paint crew did not use any ladders, but
8 stood on the stairs or railings.

"Everything started to get more
minimal as we started to get tired,"
recalls Tom Anderson '73, now a partner in Olympia's Mansion Glass.
The main coordinators of the project
were Miriam Argueles and Shaw, who
went on to coordinate four other murals
in hospitals and institutional homes.
Shaw was the only person who had any
experience with a brush. "I was one of
the few technicians," she says. "I filled
the art teacher role."
Shaw painted the Chariot-driving
Apollo using fellow student Gary
Feuerstein '73 as a model. Messenger
chose three quotations from an
anonymous author, William Blake and
the Maori which were calligraphed by
Drew Elicker.
Since the Library was the only completed building on campus, the stairwell
was used daily by most students, faculty
and staff members, who contributed
their suggestions and comments as work
on the mural progressed. Shaw
remembers this was one of the ideas
behind the project: to involve the whole
college in brightening up a drab institutional setting.
The mural has sustained its share of
wear over the years, including scuff
marks, chipped paint, dust and a thrown
egg or two; but surprisingly little graffitti. There is interest in a restoration project which would involve cleaning the
mural, doing some touch-up work, and
coating it with varnish. According to
Facilities Engineer Darrell Six, the eight
weeks of work would cost an estimated
$2300.
Contacted 13 years after the serpent
mural's completion, Nancy Messenger
said, "It's pretty hokey now that I think
about it." More than one of the original
creators expressed their surprise that the
mural still exists.
Will the mural still be here in 1998?
Most likely, because it's now a deeply
entrenched landmark. Whether one's
fancy is to compliment it, complain
about it, or just to stare, the serpent
mural is generally recognized as a vital
link to Evergreen's cherished early
history.

Will Power
By Walker Allen, Planned Giving Officer.
Registrar at Evergreen since 1974, Walker
Allen recently took on additional duties in the
Development Office to help alumni and friends
of the college who want to plan their contributions to Evergreen. This article is thefirst in a
series about different aspects of planned giving.

Your Will is the cornerstone of your
overall estate and financial planning
program. Making out your Will enables
you to:
—specify to whom, how and when your
property and assets are to be
distributed,
—avoid misunderstandings among your
heirs,
—name guardians for your dependents,
—help your family avoid a maze of
legalities which requires their time and
may reduce what you leave them,
—reduce or eliminate taxes on your
estate,
—create trusts for protection of your
estate, and
—make gifts to charitable organizations
in a specific amount or as a percentage
of the estate.
As you plan your Will, you should first
determine your goals and objectives.
These might include:
—provison for your dependents,
—provision for your security during
periods of disability,
—provision for your retirement,
—minimizing taxes (income, capital
gains, estate and inheritance), and
—provisions for organizations which
you support.
It takes will power to draw your Will.
Over half of the population hasn't had
the will power to take care of their heirs
properly. Why have so few of us failed
to execute our Wills? Certainly death is
something we'd rather not think about.
Some of us feel we have so few possessions that a Will is not necessary.
Others just don't have the will power to
make the decisions that exercise the
power off their Will.

But think about the alternatives.
Wherever you live, your state has a
generic Will that would be used if you
don't have one of your own. It will
decide such matters as who would care
for your children, when and how your
estate would be settled, and how your
estate would be taxed. The question is,
would you agree with the decisions
made by a generic Will?
If you don't have a Will and don't like
all the aspects of a generic Will, then
see an attorney to draw your Will your
way. Of course, we urge you to include
The Evergreen State College Foundation in your Will. In this way, you can
continue to support the students and
programs of Evergreen.
Please return the form below if you're
concerned about your Will. Your
response will be held in the strictest
confidence. Also, feel free to call us
about your Will. Our phone number is
(206)866-6000, ext. 6565.

D Yes, The Evergreen State College
Foundation is, or will be, included in
my Will.
D I am considering including The
Evergreen State College Foundation in
my Will and would like to discuss this
with you.
Name.
Address
City
State

Zip

Return to:
The Evergreen State College Foundation
Library 3103
Olympia, Washington 98505

AiumNews

u
Class of 1973
Douglas Kahn, Seattle, WA, has been accepted by
the World Music Program at Wesleyan University,
CT, in composition and theory. Douglas has written
a book which will be released this fall by Tanam
Press, NYC John Heartfield: Art & the Mass Media.
Cultures in Contention which he co-edited with Diane
Neumaier will be released this May from Real Comet
Press, Seattle.

Class of 1974
Michael Mobley, Breckenridge, CO, has just
become the Director of the Breckenridge Outdoor
Education Center after finishing a Master's in Experiential Education and an MBA and two years of
business consulting.
Gary Norton, Norwich, VT is employed as Director
of Field Services with Enertech Wind Systems, a
manufacturer of wind-driven electrical generators.

Ciass of 1975
Claudia D. Hampton (Brown), Portland, OR was
married this summer to Kerry Hampton on the
fourth floor of the Dan Evans Library; Oscar Soule
performed the service. Claudia has recently switched
jobs from "the political beat at KPTV news to the
business beat at KOIN, Portland's CBS affiliate."
Charles A. Heffernan, Seattle, WA was accepted as
a partner in the commercial real estate firm of Yates,
Wood & McDonald, Inc. in February 1985.
Libby Hunter (Lastrapes), Phoenix, AZ, is in the
Masters of Arts in Management (M.A.M.) program
at the University of Phoenix. Libby has been working for the Arizona Attorney General Civil Rights
Division as an Equal Opportunity Specialist for three
years. Libby and her husband Tye have a beautiful
2 }^2-year-old daughter.
Carol E. O. Mason together with her husband,
Ralph I. Mason, '78, are living in Jos, Nigeria,
where they have set up a mechanics school. They
would love to hear from their former classmates.
Please get in touch with the Alumni Office, L3103,
TESC, Olympia, WA 98505 for their address.
Michael D. Mason, Coeur D'Alene, ID, is a member
of the Idaho Bar representing Indians and Indian
Tribes for Idaho Legal Aid Services Indian Law
Unit. He adds, "It's a great job and Evergreen was
great prep for it."
Tiare Mathison-Bowie, Flintridge, CA, is in her second year in a Masters of Divinity program. Tiare's
goaJ is to be ordained in the Presbyterian denomination along with her husband, Stephen, and then
return to the Northwest to share a pastorate.
Brian Murphy, Olympia, WA, graduated from the
University of Puget Sound Law School last year and
took the Washington State Bar examinations this past
February. He is currently connected with the firm,
Interaction Research involved in a new legal
concept—illustrative evidence.
Carolyn Servid, Juneau, AK is an instructor at
Islands Community College where two other faculty
members have begun team teaching a sophomore
level humanities class. The idea came from
Evergreen's approach to teaching, Carolyn revealed.
Susan Slate (Nitsche), Olympia, WA is the new sales
manager at Olympia7 s Westwater Inn and she just
concluded a highly acclaimed run in the starring role
of the Little Olympia Theater's version of "Claudia."
Valeric Thorson, Seattle, WA has joined the
management consulting firm of Donworth, Taylor &
Co. as a personnel consultant in January of 1985.
Chcrc Dill Weiss, Kelso, AK is busy with two young
boys and is into her second year as an area representative for a foreign student exchange program.

Class of 1976
Stephen F. Agnew, Los Alamos, NM, is a physical
chemist employed by the Los Alamos National
Laboratory. Aside from working he helps out with his
kid's sports activities and is a cub scout committee
member in charge of pack publicity.
Joseph A. Dear, Seattle, WA, has been appointed
Deputy Director of the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries in Olympia.
Robert Denison, Davis, CA, is teaching crop
ecology at U.C. Davis and is living in a solar-heated
cooperative house.
Jasper Hunt, Mankato, MN, is currently an assistant professor in the department of Experiential
Education at Mankato State University.

Class of 1977
Scott W. Cubberly, Olympia, WA, is starting work
with the O.K. Boys Ranch group home as a live-in
counselor. Scott plans on returning to school for a
Master's of Social Work degree.
Frankie Foster and Ben Moore, Santa Monica, CA,
(both '77 grads) have recently started their own software business.
John Hennessey III, New York, NY is working as a
mangement consultant (information systems) for the
New York office of Arthur Young. John is currently
working on a six-month engagement at Morgan
Stanley on computer systems design and
development.

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Thomas McLaughlin, Sante Fc, NM, is selfemployed as a contractor. He and his wife own a
solar home building company in Sante Fe, NM.
They are expecting their first child in July.
Carol Pedersen Moorehead, Sisters, OR, is taking a
leave of absence from her position at Central Oregon
Community College to finish a M. Ed. in Adult
Education at O.S.U. Carol plans to return to COCC ./
in August to expanded duties as Associate Director ' '••
of Field Operations for Community Education.
Patricia Simon, Seattle, WA, is completing her
Master's in Public Affairs thesis at the U. of
Washington. She works at Health Plus a health
maintenance organization.
Jeffrey Steinhardt, Winters, CA, married Patricia
Holihan last year. He is presently completing his second year at U.C. Davis School of Law where he
received the "Corpus Juris Secundum" award for
"greatest overall contribution to legal scholarship" in
the first year class. Additionally, Jeffrey placed first in
three first-year classes, receiving the "Am Jur"
awards for Torts and for contracts. He continues to
work part-time consulting with The National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health to develop
clinic programs for management of Spanish-speaking
farmworkers suffering pesticide-related illness.
Theresa L. Wright, Portland, OR, has been working
since December as a staff attorney with Hyatt Legal
Services in Portland.

Class of 1978
Annamarie Beckman, Seattle, WA received her
Ph.D. from the Department of Pathobiology at Johns
Hopkins University. She is now involved in clinical
research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center in Seattle.
William Bradshaw and Michelle LaGory are living
in Baton Rouge, LA. Bill is finishing a M.S. degree
in Fisheries at Lousianna State University. Michelle
is working as a Research Associate at L.S.U. where
she prepares fisheries manuscripts for publication—
writing, editing, and illustrating. She is also doing
freelance biological art/illustration.
Sally Stevens Ensing, Tucson, AZ is Clinical Director at the Menninger Foundation.
Juanice C. Esquivel, completed basic training at
Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
Kathleen Gerrald, Richland, WA, is working for
Boeing Computer Services.
Toni Holm, Olympia, WA and David Rauh '79,
founders of Three Cities FM Inc., were granted a
construction permit by the FCC to build a 100
killowatt FM stereo radio station to serve Thurston
County. After the appeal process is completed, Three
Cities expects to begin building.
Karen Jacobs, New York, NY, is a free lance writer
with several articles appearing in The Village Voice.
She moved within the year from Phoenix where she
was an editor for the New Times.
Ralph I. Mason and Carol E. O. Mason, Jos,
Nigeria. See Class of 1975.
Israel Mendoza, Olympia, WA has been appointed
to the position of Assistant Commissioner for the
Employment Security Department, Training Program Service Division. Israel administers the Job
Training Partnership Act for the State of
Washington.
Margaret M. Thompson, Sunnyvale, CA received
an MBA from UCLA in June 1983. Since then she
has been employed by Hewlett-Packard as a
marketing engineer in the Computer Support Division. Margaret was recently promoted to product
marketing manager for Field Support Systems.
Patricia L. Walker, Olympia, WA, has left her job
of six years as a labor market analyst to begin work
on a book, a photo essay called "Vital Interests." The
focus is on the nuclear weapons train that brings the
missiles to the Trident submarines at Naval Base
Bangor, WA. It'll be about the resistance, Ground
Zero, the Agape community along the rails, the legal
system, supporters, pros, cons. A 360-degree
perspective.
Annette B. Woolsey and James T. Shiflett, Lyman,
WA, are expecting their second child this August.
Margaret Youtz, MIA, Philipines, is a Peace Corps
volunteer working to increase local development and
planning activities. Margaret has a Master's in
Regional and Urban Planning.

Class of 1979
William E. Cleland, Olympia, WA, is in the
Masters of Environmental Science program at TESC
after working five years as shellfish inspector at
D.S.H.S.
Justin Dick, Denver, CO, is employed by the Denver
Center for the Performing Arts as an Administrative
Director for the Recording and Research Center.
Katherine McCarthy, Seattle, WA is a movement
analyst in the dance department at the U. of
Washington. She studied dance at the New York
Technical School of American Ballet.
Mea Alexander Moore, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin
Islands, was married to Cliff Moore November, 1984.
They are both teachers on St. Thomas. Mea will be
finishing graduate studies in Education at College of
the Virgin Islands.
Timothy Pearce, Berkeley, CA, is a Masters student
in the Paleontology Dept. at UC Berkeley studying
land snail evolution on San Nicolas Island in
southern CA. Timothy has found a dead specimen of
a very rare snail never found live in the Bay area and
plans to return to search for living ones. Recently enjoyed a four-day bike trip up the California coast.

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David Rauh, Olympia, WA, see Toni Holm Class of •;
1978.
Pat Williams, New York, NY, is doing geologic field
work. Earned a Master of Philosophy degree in 1984.
Pat is marrying Martha Hudson in June.

Class of 1980
Richard Bever, Lacey, WA, is serving his fifth year
on the Lacey City Council, his fourth year as Deputy
Mayor and this year as the president of Lacey
MADFEST. Since 1982, he has been president of
Bever Enterprises, Inc., doing legislative consulting
work on contract basis to clients.
The Fall ReView mistakenly reported that Pamela
James operates Pamela James Originals in Olympia,
Washington, specializing in handpainted eggs.
Pamela James Corwin '80 and her husband, Bruce
Clifton '80, run the Pamela James Originals
business, which has been written up (correctly) in
House Beautiful and Seventeen magazines. The ReView
regrets its error, and its failure to rectify the situation
in its Winter edition.
Mark Handley, Tacoma, WA, will graduate from
University of Puget Sound Law School this May and
plans to work in Alaska.
Ernie Jones just returned from a year in New
Zealand. He earned a Master's of Social Work
degree at the U. of Washington in 1982 and plans to
continue working in the field oi outdoor and experiential education,
Mark and Heather Meredith, Belgrade, MT. Mark
is working as the first full-time athletic trainer for all
sports at Bozeman Senior High School and is "enjoying it to the max!"

Class of 1981
Craig Bartlett, Portland, OR, is still working as an
animator for Will Vinton Productions. They just
completed work on Walt Disney Productions
"Return to Oz" which will be released in June. He
recommends that we go see it and watch for the
gnomes.
Marion Erickson, Olympia, WA, had her work
"images of rock and mountains in mixed media"
featured during the month of April at Gallery 2101/2
in downtown Olympia. Marion has won numerous
awards and has held many one-person shows. She has
taught clay sculpture classes to the vision impaired
and art at The Evergreen State College.
Paul Fink, New Galloway, Scotland is working with
Interhelp—a network of individuals and groups helping people deal with the dangers of nuclear
holocaust, environmental destruction and human oppression. From its origins in the U.S., Interhelp has
expanded throughout Great Britain and Europe.
Lisa Fleming and husband Steven Moore '82,
Woodinville, WA, are proud to announce the birth of
their daughter, Allison Fleming Moore, born
January 12, 1985.

; . s ' Class of 1982
Chris Gibson, Rochester, WA, spent part of
February in Norway and Scotland studying saltwater
fish management and growing techniques.
Tom Gill, Tacoma, WA, is in his third year of law
school at UPS.
LeeAnn McGarity, Olympia, WA, and former student Tom Leonard, x8l, are tying the knot May 12
in Orting, WA. McGarity, a commercial artist at The
Olympian, and Leonard, an arctic bush pilot and
part-time helicopter mechanic, plan to make their
home in Olympia.
Steven Moore and Lisa Fleming, Woodinville, WA,
see Class of 1981.
Chance Pell is living in Bucoda, WA, and working as
an Emergency Medical Technician. Chance is taking
courses to become a paramedic.
David L. Ranals, Denver, CO, is working with Buff
Silver Hughes and Assoc. Architects as interior architect and department head. David is also a candidate for M.A. program in interior architecture and
social research at the University of Colorado.
Katherine M. Slice, Seattle, WA received an M.S.
degree from Columbia University in human nutrition last fall. Currently, she is attempting to publish
articles on nutrition and working toward setting up a
private counseling practice in prenatal and pediatric
nutrition. Meanwhile, Kathy is supporting herself by
working as a secretary at Children's Orthopedic
Hospital in Seattle.
Lisa Valburg, Pullman, WA, is currently at
Washington State University studying for her Ph.D.
in Zoology and has a teaching assistantship there.
Vincent Werner, Seattle, WA, has joined the staff of
Kostov & Associates, a Seattle-based communications consulting firm specializing in the development
of audio-visual presentations and audio recording.
Vince will be responsible for audio production and
engineering.
Gabrielle Woolf Geraghty, Bedford, MA, married
Michael T. Geraghty in February.

Class of 1983
Jutta Riediger, Olympia, WA, has received a grant
from the Goethe Institute, Passau, Germany to study
interpretation of modern literature at the University
of Passau. Jutta is currently working as a Community Educator for Planned Parenthood and teaches
beginning and advanced German language classes at
Evergreen. She also teaches G.E.D. classes on the
Skokomish Reservation.
Victoria Smith, Clayton, CA, is alive and well at
U.C. Berkeley in a Plant and Soil Biology graduate
program. Victoria tells us that Nicholas Rampino
'82 completed a Master's in Mathematics at UC Santa Cruz and is now in a Ph.D. Biophysics program at
UC. Berkeley.

Class of 1984

Kathryn M. Hinsch, Olympia, WA, recently took a
position in public relations at Safeco where she is
responsible for corporate communication and issues
management. She married Jeff Carey in March and
they are moving to Seattle in May.

Gerald Bradley Bodine, Olympia, WA, is in his first
year of Graduate School at Pacific Lutheran
University.

Amy B. Hunter, New Haven, CT, is in an M.A.R.
program at Yale Divinity School and plans to finish
her degree in May 1986.

W. Jean Jenkins, Second LtM is an ambulance platoon leader with the 8th Infantry Division in Manz,
West Germany.

Mathew A. Jacobson, is currently in the American
Studies Program at Boston College.

Johanna Pemble, Rockford, IL, is interviewing for
internship positions with the National Audubon
Society and announces that she's finished paying her
student!

Melissa Parker, Seattle, WA, is an art director for
NACO WEST, a campground/resort company.
Betsy Lou Wolf, Boston, MA, received the Juris
Doctor degree from Northeastern University School
of Law in Boston in May of 1984. She is currently
working at Fine & Ambrogne, a general practice law
firm in downtown Boston.

Rodd A. Pemble, Rockford, IL, is an instructor at
the Atwood Outdoor Education Center in Rockford.
Rodd is marrying Jonie Hauschild of Texas this June
and then plans on returning to the Pacific Northwest.

Alumni Gathering Coming Up
Move over Super Saturday and
Commencement—Evergreen alums are
going to join in the festivities on June 8
and 9!
For the first time ever, the second
weekend of June has been officially
designated as Alumni Weekend. Traditionally reserved for Super Saturday,
the college's annual community celebration, and graduation ceremonies on
Sunday, the fun-packed weekend will
now include a Saturday night alumni
dance and special recognition for
members of the Class of 1975, who were
the first group of four-year students to
graduate from Evergreen.
This year's Super Saturday, the college's seventh annual observance of the
end of the school year, is expected to
lure in excess of 25,000 people to campus where they can sample exotic foods
served up by more than 50 vendors,
shop the handmade wares of some 65
craftspeople, and listen to non-stop
entertainment all day from three out-

door stages. The beer garden will again
return to the fourth floor of the Library,
a big draw for people with tired feet and
a need to wet their whistles.
As Super Saturday winds down, the
Olympia Ballroom will warm up as
alumni, graduating students, and their
parents and friends boogie the evening
away to the rocking and rollicking
music of The Ducks of Bellingham.
Commencement dominates the next
day, when more than 600 students will
become Evergreen's newest alumni.
Planned to take place on Red Square,
the ceremonies will begin at 1 p.m. on
Sunday, and a special invitation is extended to the Class of '75 as honored
guests.
Make your plans now to be a part of
Alumni Weekend '85. For more information, contact Alumni Coordinator
Ellie Dornan at Library 3103, The
Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
98505 or (206) 866-6000, ext. 6565.

Evergree
on the Air

•"• Out of the gate for the Evergreen
track and field team is junior Becky
Burton, while freshman javelin
thrower Jeff Barker (left) backs her up
in the blocks.

*»• Tennis coach, player and student
Bob Reed

Evergreen "ftrack Geoducks Get
Team Off and
Renaissance
Running
Tennis Coach
Byjuanita Clemente, student intern

"There is an excellent commitment this
season," says Evergreen Track and Field
Coach, Pete Steilberg. His two-year-old
team has a roster of 23 athletes whose
enthusiasm and determination have
resulted in competitive performances
with other colleges at meets in the NAIA
conference.
"The change in attitude is an important factor in the improvement of the
team this year," Coach Steilberg comments. "We have a lot of excellent
athletes who are working hard on their
distances and times. They're really
pushing themselves to beat district qualifying standards."
David Henderson in the 100 meters,
Alexis Borrero in the 200 meters and
John Kaiser will be contenders at the
May 11 district championships at Simon
Fraser University in Burnaby, British
Columbia.
The women on the squad have had
good fortune in the marathon event.
Mary Applewhite ran a 3:56:55 in one
marathon that brought Evergreen a
third place finish. Growing stronger and
closing in on district qualifying times are
Becky Burto in the 100 meters and
Dawn Rorvik.
The track team, which welcomes prospective athletes in all events, practices
twice a week. Individual routines vary
according to the event. "The turnouts
have been consistent this season, partially because of our new calender," says
Steilberg. Last year, cross-country ended
in December and runners broke training
for two months until spring track. This
season, however, the coaching staff and
athletes kept working out straight
through, preserving team enthusiasm
and conditioning.
In addition to performance, the team
also works on image-building. "I want
our athletes to be remembered for their
good sportmanship and politeness," says
Steilberg. "I want them to remember
what wearing a green jersey represents."

"The more people involved with tennis,
the better our team will be," says Bob
Reed, 28, Evergreen's new and enthusiastic tennis coach. The team now
consists of 11 men and one woman, and
Reed hopes to expand the ranks. He
holds open practices and invites all
members of the college's extended community to join in the fun.
Reed's priorities as a coach are enjoyment, developing concentration skills,
and improvement. He also strives for
flexibility, the same thing he finds appealing in Evergreen's curriculum as a
student in the program, "Political
Economy and Social Change." In fact,
says team member Rocke Klockner,
tennis practices are scheduled twice daily to accommodate student/players'
academic pursuits.
Being a student and coach is not
enough, because Reed is also a player
on the tennis team. With 13 years of
teaching and coaching, and nine years
of tennis competition under his belt,
Reed is well qualified for his multiple
roles.

For the past six months some of the best
of Evergreen talent has played to enthusiastic living rooms from Tacoma to
Portland. Featuring films produced by
Evergreen students, faculty and staff,
the program appears regularly on
Channel 43 of Cox Cable TV in Vancouver and station KTPS-TV of
Tacoma and Chehalis.
The "Evergreen Hour" began in
December with a documentary on
*- The following Evergreen staff and
Odetta, the "first lady of folksinging"
faculty members were honored this
who was an artist-in-residence at the
quarter for their tenth year of service
college. Other shows have included
to the college (I. to r.): Judy Johnson,
"Going to My House" by Faculty
Peta Henderson, Walker Allen, Judy
Member Sally Cloninger, "Last Call for
Lindlauf, Russ Lidman, Bill Brown, and
Union Station" by Visiting Faculty
Eddie Batacan. Not pictured are
Member Doris Loeser, "Old Time LogGeorgette Chun, Mary Johnson, Mary
ging in Southwestern Washington" by
Schaffer, Susan Aurand, Jovana
Faculty Member Judith Espinola and
Brown, and Rainer Hasenstab.
"Cuts" by former student Charles
Gustafson. Another "Evergreen Hour"
concludes with "Fish," a short mood
piece by Kent Wakeford and Electronic
.
Media Producer Doug Cox, who coproduces the "Evergreen Hour" with
Espinola.
During May, Vancouver viewers can
watch "We Never Forget: Southeast
Asian Refugee Stories." "We Never
Forget. . ." documents the visit to
Evergreen by Dwight Conquergood,
ethnographer and professor from
Northwestern University in Chicago, as
part of an Intercultural Literacy Project
with the college's Core Programs. The
program captures his compelling per»- Hard hat portrait of students and
faculty from Evergreen's graduate proformances of oral narratives he's collected from Laotian refugees living in
grams In Environmental Studies and
Public Administration on a Winter
the Chicago ghetto. The narratives
Quarter tour of WPPSS power plants 3
recreate the narrow, often heartand 5 at nearby Satsop. The cooling
breaking escapes of the refugees as well
tower of plant 3 rises in the background. as the difficulties of acculturation in
America.
Meanwhile, viewers in the Tacoma,
Olympia and Chehalis areas can enjoy
"We Never Forget. . ." on Saturday,
June 2, at 6:30 p.m on KTPS-TV
(Channel 12 in Olympia). For more
details on program times, check your
local television guide, or call Espinola at
Evergreen, (206) 866-6000, or Anne
Turner at the Vancouver campus, (206)
696-6011.

Evergreen Student Primes Wellspring
While news of the world's food supply,
or lack of it, makes headlines daily, Cliff
Missen is an Evergreen student who is
concerned about the world's water
supply. He's doing something about it,
too, as director of Wellspring Africa, an
Olympia-based, non-profit organization
that was founded in cooperation with
Liberia's Christ Pentecostal Church to
bring drinkable water to rural villages
in that west African country.
Eighty percent of all illness in the
developing world can be linked to inadequate water or poor sanitation.
Liberia's wet season brings torrents of
rain, swelled rivers and seas of mud,
providing ideal breeding conditions for
waterborne disease. During the dry
season, however, villagers must travel
great distances to find water.
Wellspring Africa's goal for 1985 is to
sink wells and install hand pumps in 12
Liberian villages, as well as conduct
classes in sanitation and appropriate
technology. Most importantly, Wellspring will provide the equipment and

training necessary for villagers to drill
more wells and keep their new pumps in
good repair.
Missen learned there was a need for
clean, safe, drinking water in Liberia
when he helped set up clinics there as a
volunteer with Crossroads Africa in
1982. Since then, he's spent two years at
the University of Washington and two
years at Evergreen. After he graduates
in June, Missen will leave for Liberia as
soon as Wellspring Africa is within 80
percent of its fundraising goal.
The estimated cost of the well-drilling
and educational programs is just under
$18,000, a small sum compared to what
larger organizations would spend on a
similar project. Part of the funding will
be from grants, but the majority will
come from private contributions. To
raise donations, representatives of
Wellspring Africa are giving slide

presentations to church and civic
groups in the Olympia area. Missen
hopes that when his project is successfully completed, other organizations
will emulate its inexpensive approach.
Inquiries and donations may be
directed to Wellspring Africa, 3138
Overhulse Rd., #136, Olympia, WA
98502.
+• Cliff Missen in Liberia, 1982:
Missen, the visiting teacher, gets a
drumming lesson during recess at a
bush school.

King Leads
Summer Study
THp to China
A 21-day trip to the People's Republic of
China is being offered by Evergreen as
part of its academic opportunities this
summer. Scheduled for June 19-July 9,
the course includes pre-trip seminars
and readings, as well as on-site studies
and lectures. According to Faculty
Member Lovern King, who will lead
the two- to eight-credit course, the
itinerary includes 16 days in China and
three days in Hong Kong and "offers a
unique combination of destinations that
reveal China's vast wealth of history and
people." As space is limited, King advises all interested student-travelers to
register early. Further details are
available by calling King at Evergreen,
(206) 866-6000, ext. 6368, or in Seattle,
(206) 362-5182.

Join a Classical
Jaunt to Europe
Faculty Member Gordon Beck will
teach and lead his eleventh annual
traveling seminar to Europe this summer from June 17 to July 31. A 16
quarter hour program on wings, wheels
and water, "The Classical World:
Museums and Monuments," is an immersion into the art, architecture, archaeology, mythology, literature and
history of the classical worlds of Greece
and Rome. Stops along the way range
from the Parthenon Frieze in London's
British Museum to the lonely Greek
temple atop a windswept hill in Sicily's
Segesta. The trip covers Britain, Italy
and France, including a cruise from
Palermo to Genoa, and leaves the
month of August free for independent
travel. For more information, call Beck
at (206) 866-6000, ext. 6704.

>• Visiting high school senior
Meredith Powell views bust of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., by Seattle
sculptor Jeff Day. The bust is part of
the Evergreen showing of the
nationally-acclaimed exhibit, "Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Peacemaker."
Other local contributions to the exhibit include a limited edition poster
of Dr. King by Portland artist Isaac

*- Helping to prepare for International
Women's Day in March are Darlene
Williams (left) and Muriel Davis of the
Third World Women student organization. The poster they're laying out in
Media Services publicized the Day's
theme: "New Directions for the 80s."

»- Bienvenido! Evergreen celebrated
El Cinco De Mayo, the Mexican national holiday, with a special program
of folklorico dancing by Isaac and
Cathy Schultz-Reyes, children's dance
performances, tortilla-making
demonstrations and a pinata bust.
Speakers were Tomas Ybarra, director
of Evergreen's KEY-Special Services,
and Dr. Frederic Romero,
executive secretary of the Washington
State Commission on MexicanAmerican affairs, followed by Mexican
music played by Jose Valadez and
Jose Pineda of KAOS-FM radio.

+• Faculty Member Carolyn Dobbs
poses during a pause in her trip to
China.

Greeners Prepare Washington State for Centennial
Tom Costantini, '82, and Shanna
Stevenson, who is currently enrolled in
Evergreen's MPA Program, are engaged in a eight-month survey of
historically and architecturally significant properties in Thurston County.
Constantini, an architectural
designer, and Stevenson, a local
historian and writer, are photographing
and mapping pre-1945 buildings, including barns, old schoolhouses, factories, stone quarries, parks, bridges,
monuments, and pioneer farmhouses.
Thomas House in Tenino

Photos courtesy Tom Consta

Shamsud-Din, who was on hand to
sign 100 prints of the poster at the
April 19 opening. "Peacemaker," which
depicts key events in King's career in
the civil rights and peace movements,
is displayed In Gallery Two of the
Evans Library through May 12 and in
Tacoma, May 20-June 3. The exhibit
was made possible by a grant from
the Evergreen Foundation.

From this list, they'll compile a select
inventory of structures and sites which
may be eligible for State and National
Registers of Historic Places.
Because Washington and Thurston
County were settled later than other
areas of the country, local residents
don't always realize the historical importance of their houses, local buildings
and parks. Constantini and Stevenson's
research has unearthed, however, a
wealth of information about these artifacts of the past and the lives of the

early citizens who occupied them.
Funded by the State Office of Archaelogy and Historic Preservation, the
survey is a pilot project of a statewide
effort to identify landmark properties
for preservation, enhance local schools
history programs and, generally, increase historical awareness in
Washington communities as the state
heads toward its Centennial in 1989.
For further details about the project,
call Costantini at (206) 753-1998 or
Stevenson at (206) 943-4212.

+• Delphi Schoolhouse in Delphi Valley
west of Olympla

*• Smith Homestead on Yelm Highway
outside Olympia

Dobbs Checks
Out Far East
Farming
Faculty Member Carolyn Dobbs spent
three weeks this winter touring the
farms and and forests of China, Japan,
Hong Kong and Malaysia. Dobbs was
selected for the tour along with 30 other
foresters and agriculturalists out of 200
applicants by the Washington
Agriculture and Forestry Education
Foundation (WAFEC), a privatelyfunded organization. The party visited
farms and forest operations, discovering, says Dobbs, similar problems of urbanization and young people leaving
the farms in all four countries. She also
reports feeling overwhelmed by the
realization "we were on lands that had
been farmed continuously for over
4,000 years." Another delight, she says,
was the "warmth, openness and
hospitality everywhere we went. We
were never served anything in a
styrofoam cup!" Dobbs, who is conducting case studies in the MES Program
this spring, is preparing a slide/lecture
on her travels.

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May 1985

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Test Your "Gee
Whiz!95 IQ
Evergreen has received much national
and regional recognition over the years.
In fact, the kudos list has become quite
extensive. Frequently, when one or
more of these "gee whizzers" are
delivered in a speech or included in a
report, publication or proposal, the
response (even among Evergreen community members) is, "Gee, I didn't
know that!"
So, we thought we'd test your
G.W.I.Q. and have you test ours. Below
are just a few gee whizzers from the
College's brag sheet. Do you know
more—either of an individual or institutional nature? If so, send them to:
Whizzers, c/o College Relations, The
Evergreen State College, Olympia,
WA 98505.
For instance, maybe you didn't know
that. . .
*• Evergreen opened its doors in 1971
and was fully accredited in 1974. In
1979, the college received the highest reaccreditation possible: a full ten years.
The Evaluation Committee praised
Evergreen for "dedication to a liberal
arts education which pervades the life of
the college at every perceivable level to
an extent virtually unknown in any
academic community in the United
States."
*• Evergreen was ranked in U.S. News
& World Report as the "best regional
liberal arts college in the West and
Midwest."
*• 85% of Evergreen's graduates who
have applied to law and medical school
have been accepted and almost 50% of
Evergreen graduates overall have pursued graduate and professional studies.

^ New York Times Education Editor Edward Fiske called Evergreen a "hidden
gem" in higher education. . .and named the college one of the 16 lesserknown, but best small colleges in the
country.
*• Evergreen's student/faculty ratio
from the freshman year through the
senior year is 20:1.
*• Parade magazine recently featured
Evergreen as one of "The Ten BestKept Secrets Among American Colleges." Included because of its educational excellence and rich liberal arts
curriculum, Evergreen was the only
public college selected as well as the
"youngest."
+• Evergreen boasts a 93% placement
rate of all graduates.
+• Time magazine praised Evergreen for
being "one of the few institutions which
have tried to keep the faith with liberal
arts education which truly liberates the
individual."
*• Students' use of Evergreen's library
facilities is higher than at any of the
other public universities in Washington.
Also, over 6,000 community members
use the Evans Library each year.
*• Evergreen appears in the New York
Times Selective Guide to Colleges and the
Peterson's Guide to Competitive Colleges.
>• Evergreen's junior- and senior-level
students provide more than 33,000 internship hours annually to local
businesses, state and local government
agencies, associations and non-profit
organizations.
Send Us Your Gee Whizzers!

Jacqueline Delahunt of Olga.
Washington (on Orcas Island), writes:
"I very much enjoy each ReView—read
each article and save the copies for my
friends who have an interest in TESC.
However, the article "Alumni Faculty
View Evergreen Before and After"
(Winter, 1985) was of special interest to
me because 1 was graduated from Evergreen in December 1974 and returned
to teach there in 1977-78. I wasn't sure
of it, but believed that I might have had
the distinction of being the first alumni
to be asked to teach at TESC. My program was "A Third World Perspective
of Early Childhood Development,"
which I taught with Jeanne Royer. . .
felt my 'success' in the program was
enhanced by my being an Evergreen
graduate."
According to college records,
Delahunt is correct in surmising she
was the first TESC grad to also teach
here. Sally Mendoza '74 also taught at
Evergreen, but not until Spring
Quarter, 1978. A visiting faculty
member in the program, "Biological
Bases of Human Social Behavior,"
Mendoza at last word was doing
research at UC-Davis.
The article in question, which was
about TESC alums currently teaching
at Evergreen (Rita Pougiales '72, John
Bellamy Foster '75, and Victor
Shames '81), also neglected to mention
'74 grad Lloyd Colfax, who has been
teaching in Native American Studies at
Evergreen since 1981. The ReView
regrets having missed Colfax, Delahunt
and Mendoza, and would like to hear
about any other "alumni faculty" who
have been left out. Drop us a card if
that's the case and, while you're at it,
tell us what you're up to now.

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Core Report
New students' first experience with
coordinated study at Evergreen is in
Core Programs. An update on this
year's Core Programs—including "The
Paradox of Progress" (below)—leads off
the ReView for spring.

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