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The Evergreen State College Review Volume 10, Issue (February 1989)
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Olympia, WA
Permit No. 65
The Evergreen ReView
Winter, 1989
Februfy, 1989; Vojlrne 10, Number 2
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The Evergreen ReView
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Correction
Due to an editorial error, Evergreen's collaborator in beginning the Washington Center for
Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education was incorrectly identified in the fall ReView
("A Grass-Roots Approach to Improving Education"). That instrumental institution is Seattle
Central Community College.
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SUNDAY
MARCH 12
Tribute to Japan I
Evergreen's
Seventh Annual
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intercultura!
celebration, noon to
6 JXIB. Traditional
Japanese dances,
costumes and singing, dazzling
exhibits, lectures
and panel discussions, children's riiK
activities, food,
drink and fun, fun,
fun. See you there!
MONDAY
MARCH 27
First day of Spring
Quarter
Tentative!
SATURDAY
APRIL 1
April Fool's Dance
The Gig Commission, erypto-entertainment arm of the
Alumni Association,
is comtemplating
the best-ever time
and place to hold an
April Fool's Dance
for the campus and
community. Watch
for a pending
announcement.
SATURDAY
APRILS
Alumni Assocation
Spring Board
Meeting
To be held on campus, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
All alumnae and
alumni welcome.
Those interested in
serving on the
Alumni Board
beginning this summer and fall should
contact the Alumni
Office, (206) 8666000, ext. 6192.
APRIL 6-MAY 5
Earth Month
A month-long celebration of coordinated activities in
observance of the
planet we call home,
highlighted by
Earth Fair on
Saturday, April 22.
VARIOUS DATES
AND PLACES
Alumni Receptions
Evergreen goes
east and west, considering receptions
in New York,
Boston, Washington
D.C., and Chicago;
then in Los
Angeles, San Francisco and Portland.
Watch your mailbox
for details.
iui ut;tans.
APRIL 24-29
Asian-Pacific
Heritage Week
SUNDAY
APRIL 30
Unsoeld
Symposium
This year's Willi
Unsoeld
Symposium
features Martin
Bernal, professor
of government at
Cornell University;
President Johnnetta
Cole of Spelman
College; and John
Mohawk, professor
of American
Studies at SUNYBuffalo. At the
Washington Center
for the Performing
Arts in downtown
Olympia at 7 p.m.
FRIDAY
MAYS
Cinco de Mayo, m
the annual obser- JB
vance of Mexican
independence day
sponsored by
MEChA, Evergreen's organization
for Chicano and
Latino students.
Time and place to
be announced,
JUNES
Super Saturday
Alumni Gathering
Plans are cooking
for the college's
annual community
celebration with
alumni activities, including a breakfast,
election of Alumni
Association officers,
afternoon reception,
and night of food,
song and danca
JUNE 21-24
Olympic Academy
XIII
The USOC's annual
conference for
scholars, trainers
and other participants in the Olympic movement, to be
held on campua
Highlighting the
four-day event will
be ground-breaking
for the permanent
U.S. Olympic
Academy, which is
slated for construction in downtown
Olympia. See story
in GeoNews.
MONDAY
JUNE 26
First day of
Summer Quarter
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Evergreen
Goes for
Academic Gold
An Olympic event will be held at
Evergreen this June 21-24, but no
starter guns, judges' scores or blood
testing will be necessary. Rather, the
main exercise will be intellectual. The
event is United States Olympic
Academy XIII, an annual conference
sanctioned by the United States Olympic Committee to be held on a different
college campus each year.
"More than thirty sessions will cover
a diverse range of topics from sociology
to medicine to economics," says Peter
Dodds, director of Academy XIII.
"The conference is structured so that
scholars and anyone with a keen interest may publicly explore important
issues of the Olympic Movement.
Discussions will focus on such subjects
as the effort to further enfranchise
Third World countries in the Olympics,
to the personal and financial sacrifices
made by individual athletes and their
families, to the controversies that
rocked last summer's Games in Seoul."
A big highlight of the thirteenth annual event will be the ground-breaking
ceremony for the permanent U.S.
Olympic Academy in downtown Olympia. "This ceremony will mark the
beginning of a new era in Olympic
education," says Dodds. Evergreen's
involvement with Olympic education
will continue, as the dean of the permanent Academy will be a member of
Evergreen's faculty. Completion of the
Academy is projected before the next
Olympiad in 1992.
On the Cover
Rising out of the old Lab Annex like a sky-lit
phoenix of concrete, steel and glass, the Arts
Annex opened for business the first week of
Winter Quarter. Upstairs, three art studios and a
critique room hum with creativity, while
downstairs, work continues on the ceramics
studio. Artists are treated overall to more floor,
clean air, high walls and a pearly aura of natural
Northwest light. A dream realized for the faculty
and staff design committee of Susan Aurand, Jon
Collier, Jean Mandeberg, Walter Niemiec and
Darrell Six, the Arts Annex proves itself practical daily as fresh paintings and drawings paper
the studio walls. After years of making art in
spaces designed for lab experiments, faculty and
students in the visual arts now have a place to
call their own.
College Taps Gem
State for New VP
Describing himself as
"very excited at the
prospect of joining the
Evergreen community," Thomas L.
(Les) Puree will soon
embark on a new venture as the college's
Vice President for
College Advancement.
The announcement of
his selection by Evergreen President
Joseph D. Olander caps a successful
nationwide search that began in
September, 1988.
Puree comes to Olympia after a
15-year career in public service and the
private sector in Idaho. "I've had a
chance to view Evergreen from afar
and admire its mission," he says. "I've
been impressed with the energy, commitment and sense of community I've
seen so far."
Puree's previous position was with
Idaho State University in Pocatello,
where he was Special Assistant to the
President for Research Park and
Economic Development. President
Olander notes that Puree, in addition
to academic experience at the university level, has held positions in private
and public life that form the basis for
successful leadership.
He will direct the college's efforts in
development, alumni relations, public
relations and community relations,
areas which were the responsibility of
former Vice President Susan L.
Washburn. He assumes his new duties
on March 8, giving Evergreen its first
vice president with sole responsibility
for the advancement area.
Puree completed all his degrees at
Idaho State, including a bachelor of
arts in psychology, and a master's and
doctorate in education with emphases
in student personnel and counselor
education, respectively. In addition to
working as a faculty member, counseling psychologist and director of
cooperative education at Idaho State
and Washington State University,
Puree has served in state and city
government, and was chief operating
officer for an Idaho engineering firm.
He served as a councilman for, and the
mayor of, Pocatello, which is his
hometown.
Any reservations about leaving the
Gem State? "Some, after all, it's home,"
says Puree, a third-generation Idahoan.
"But Evergreen is a quality school
that's a treasure to the state of
Washington."
Still Open:
Teacher Ed,
MPA, MES
While Evergreen is no longer accepting freshmen and transfer applicatons
for Fall Quarter, admission is still open
for the Teacher Education, Master of
Public Administration and Master of
Environmental Studies programs.
Evergreen reached full enrollment for
undergraduates on January 11.
"When we announce that enrollments
are closed to freshmen and transfer
students," says Arnaldo Rodriguez,
dean of Enrollment Services, "we're
always worried that people interested
in our specialized programs may
receive the wrong message."
Since Teacher Education and the
graduate programs have a more selective admissions process, they are usually open until later in the spring. Freshmen and transfer students may still
apply for Winter and Spring Quarters
of 1990.
Not Fade Away
Resnlk Remembered
Young Student
Leaves Large Legacy
The Class of '81 lost Christopher G. Resnik, on
October 14, 1988, at his home in Stockbridge,
Massachusetts. Resnik, 31, took his life after a
long effort to recover from losing his leg in 1986.
He had moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career
in music when, according to his parents, David
and Elizabeth Resnik of Stockbridge,
"Christopher lost a leg after being run down by a
car while on his motorcycle."
A student of video production at Evergreen,
Resnik was described by his local newspaper as
having "a lifelong passion for the arts." He had
also studied music and dance, and worked as a
free-lance photographer, teacher of photography
and massage therapist.
"Evergreen was important to Chris," his
parents commented. They asked that any contributions made in his memory go to the Suicide
Prevention Program at the Berkshire Mental
Health Center in Stockbridge, or to the performing arts at Evergreen through The Evergreen
State College Foundation.
Readers of the fall ReView may remember the
article that featured freshman Jessica M. Kelso,
"Levers That Move the World—Words from a
Foundation Scholar." On December 15, Kelso was
killed in a one-car accident near Forks, Washington. Kelso, 18, was riding with her companion,
Christopher Pompel, 23, also a new student at
Evergreen last fall, when their vehicle struck ice
and left the road. Pompel, who was driving, survived with bruises to his back and shoulders,
while Kelso died at the scene.
The daughter of Steve and Teresa Kelso, Jessica
was a 1988 graduate of Olympia High School,
where she was active in soccer and international
studies. As a junior, she studied in Brazil as a
Rotary exchange student and last spring traveled
to India as a YMCA Young Leader. She and
Pompel had just completed the first quarter of
the "Classical and Modern" program at
Evergreen.
Kelso's life was celebrated in a community
service on campus on December 21. Contributions in her memory may be made to the Seattle
YMCA or to the Jessica Kelso Fund through The
Evergreen State College Foundation. Her family
established the funds to further Jessica's conviction that, as she stated in her application for an
Evergreen scholarship, "as a global community
we can create a more peaceful, plentiful and
pleasing world."
Racism and bigotry tsave no home at
Evergreen—that wa
more than 503 studi
faculty Joined hands in silence around
Red Square In a Demonstration for
Unity on January 12 . Four Ewergreen
stydent organisations—the Lesbian!
Gay Resource Genter? the Jewistt student group, Maarva; the Evergreen
Political information Center?
the
Lesbian/Gay
festival—
the
rally in response to a year's harrassment that culminated when their
offices were hreken into iast fail. The
powerful vigil lasted lor ten minutes
and was followed by two hoars t
e
Stay Timed for a Final Report
Recently Evergreen questioned its
graduates about the quality of their
educational experience here. Approximately 350 alumni responded to the
survey, which was conducted by the
college's Office of Research and Planning. Many said they'd like to hear
about the results.
A sneak preview indicates these
alumni gave their alma mater a very
positive endorsement. They confirmed
much of what Evergreen claims is
distinctive about its approach to educa-
tion and the resulting effect on its
students. Of equal importance, they
didn't pull punches when asked how
the college could improve.
"We've transcribed more than 100
pages of written responses to this
survey," observes Steve Hunter '79,
who directs Research and Planning at
Evergreen. "I was knocked out by our
alums' perceptiveness and eloquence,
both in criticism and praise."
A final report about both sorts of
alumni responses is coming. Stay tuned
for the spring ReView.
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