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Part of News Release (April 12, 1974) A professor of Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley to serve as a Distinguished Visitor at TESC

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NEWS

The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington

98505

for immediate release
April 12, 1974

Norman Jacobson, a professor of political science at the University of
California at Berkeley will serve as a Distinguished Visitor to the Faculty and coordinator for one of the major offerings in The Evergreen State College summer school
program.
Jacobson will direct "The Immigrants," a Coordinated Studies program focusing
on .the peoples who migrated to the United States, and particularly
Northwest, between 1820 and 1920.

to the Pacific

This will be a unique study of the history, ethnic

origins, economic and social factors in the migration and the new settlements
established by these peoples.
A pioneer in the teaching of coordinated studies programs, Jacobson has taught
a similar advanced program at the University of California at Berkeley.
Jacobson obtained his bachelor's degree from St. John's University

Professor

and both his master's

degree and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin.
A former faculty fellow at both the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations,

Jacobson

has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Mills College, and Oregon State University.
Also new to the Evergreem summer faculty will be Painter Larry Gray, an assistant
professor of art at Humboldt State University, California, who will work with Marilyn
Frasca of the regular Evergreen faculty in the "Drawing from the Landscape,"

group

study program.
Gray, who holds a master's degree of fine arts from Yale University, will instruct
part of the program in the Lake Chelan area so that his students may gain optimum
Dick

Nichols. Director

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exposure to the scenic landscapes of that area.
A Seat tle working artis t t Ben Sams
present program work in ceramics.
workshop

t

will return to Evergreen's

The sculptor-ceramicist

summe r school to

conducted a short-term

during the 1973 Summer Quarter.

Later this Spring and prior to the beginning of their summer assignments,
both Gray and Sams will exhibit their works in a joint exhibition

on the Evergreen

campus.
One final newcomer

to the summer faculty will be Calligrapher

Evergreen senior from Spokane, who will direct the program,

Tim Girvin, an

"Calligraphy:

The

Dance of the Pen."
Registration

for the ten-week summer session has already begun.

persons may register through May 31 in person or by mail.

Interested

A final walk-in

registration

will be held June 21 and 24 for those who cannot register early.
Registration
Registrar,

materials may be obtained by writing

to the Office of the

The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
-30-

98505.