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The Evergreen State College
98505

Olympia, Washington

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 12, 1974

Monica
recently

Schwinberg,

as Richland

been named president

sophomore

at The Evergreen

of the Washington

State College,

State Youth Association

has

for Retarded

Children.
The 1972 graduate

of Columbia

High School began working

than five years ago when she served as a volunteer
persons

in the Tri-Cities.

YARC and was appointed
attending

Evergreen,

located

Mental Health

and a volunteer.

Institute

of those agencies

and to be involved

of

after she began

with mental

internship

serve the mentally

with

and conducting
retarded.

in the establishment

health
the Seattle
a survey

She plans

of more group homes

to
for

retarded.

For now, the 20-year-old
Davison,

has been involved

studying psychology

County which

chapter

of Olympia.

She served a two-quarter

and is currently

in Thurston

become a social worker
the mentally

Miss Schwinberg

of the Richland

of the organization

five miles northwest

A former Candy Striper,
both as a student

vice president

more

at a day care camp for retarded

She later served as president

western

with the retarded

is concentrating

daughter

of Mr. and Mrs. Valentine

her off-campus

efforts on recruiting

Schwinberg

new members

of 1735
between

the ages of 13 and 25 for YARC.
"The mentally

retarded

their care and concern,

need the help of young persons,"

and they need their efforts

to increase

them and their problems."

/tll II II
Dick

Nichols.

Infor mation

she says.

Director
Services

public

"They need
awareness

about

NEWS

The Friends of the Olympia Library

for immediate release

for further information

February 8, 1974

Jack Hebb, Paul Jeffrey 866-6413

"lmat if a big dog an swe rs the door?"
That, and other questions
of Evergreen

students

they prepare

to interview

The interviews,

and members

Needs,"

residents.
the project

ization, a group or students

to be interviewed

at home and asked to respond

promised

The Public Librery

cen

Commission
organ-

and many other local citizens,

E. Jackson Webb.
will be selected

at random,

to a series of questions

The process w i.Ll. take about twen ty minutes,
Kathy Haviland,

and the

how libraries

is ~2ing carried out by the Friends

at Evergreen,

as

the middle' of

Funded in part by the Washington

to the project director,

The persons

20 and run through

"Education:

Library

area.

a corrmmnity effort aimed at determining

for the Humanities,

needs.

entitled

of the Olympia

in the Olympia

due to begin February

better serve Olympia

according

of the Friends

800 persons

April, are part of a project
People's

like it, are being faced this week by a group

an Evergreen

about

then contacted

their educational

and Hill be quite painless,

student VIho is coordinating

the inter-

v LewLng .

Hs , Haviland

stated,

to serve as panelists
26 and April

17.

"Of the 800 persons

Lnt erv Lewed , 32

w i Ll. be

in the eight public forums to be held between

The information
-more-

invited

February

wh i ch \ve gat.her during the Lnt erv i.ewi.nz

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will be an important component of the dialogue we hope to facilitate in
the community.

He hope to discover exactly what people wan t in this area,"

"In addition to the Intervf.ev.lng ,

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questionnaire has been mailed

to 1600 residents of north Thurston County, along with a pamphlet describing

the issues

involved in

Haviland explained.

the

project and the series of public forums," Ms.

liTheresponse to the questionnaire, along with the

results of the intervieHing, will give people a voice in defining their own
changing educational needs and the role of the library in serving those needs."
"The public forums, the first of wh i ch ,viII be held at the Olympia
Public Library, February 26 at 8 pm, Hill attempt to stimulate dialogue
about the library and its relationship to the community,!! Hs: Haviland
added.
The first forum, wh Lch w i Ll. :',elead by Dr. Giovanni Costigan, Professor
of History at the University of Hashington, will focus on the topic "'i-my
Libraries?" a look at how librari1es came about and how the goals of the
library in the past relate to our goals today.
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