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THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE
Calendar-Newsletter
July, 1970

The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington 98505
Volume 2, Number 7

NEWS NOTES

The Evergreen population explosion continued in June with the appointment of a number
of key administrative personnel, the 17th and 18th faculty members and the addition
of several persons to the ranks of the support staff. Most major positions have been
filled and the intensive business of planning in the year prior to the start of classes
will move full steam ahead as soon as all new personnel move to the campus.

Latest additions to the faculty are 43-year-old William F. Unsoeld and 37-year-old
Frederick 0.Tabbutt. Unsoeld. presently Executive Vice President of Outward Bound*
Inc.t headquartered at Andover, Massachusetts, will become an Associate Professor of
Philosophy at Evergreen. He not only has impressive academic credentials but also
is well known for his mountain climbing exploits, which include membership in the
party that made the first ascent of the West Ridge of Mount Everest in 1963. Tabbutt.
who has been a member of the faculty at Reed College in Portland since 1957, will be
a quarter-time Professor of Chemistry here, starting next September. In addition to
his teaching assignment at Reed, which he will retain during the next year, Tabbutt
also is the holder of a $200,000 National Science Foundation grant for the development of a program for computer assisted instruction at the undergraduate level. He
is a nationally-recognized leader in this field.

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These administrative appointments were announced last month:
Robert A. Sethre. Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent of the Hlghline
School District since 1965, as Director of College Relations, effective July 1.
Larry R. Stenberg. Director of Admissions at University of Puget Sound in Tacoma
since 1965, as Director of Counseling Services, effective August 1.
Nancy Taylor* Program Assistant for the Far West Regional Education Laboratory at
Berkeley, California since 1967, as an Admissions Counselor, effective September 1.
Carl J. Brown, a Personnel Analyst with the State Department of Personnel since 1968,
as Director of Personnel, effective July 15.
John T. Moss. General Accounting Supervisor in the Office of the Controller at Washington State University since 1968, as Student Accounts Supervisor.

Meanwhile, Malcolm Stilson» who has been a special assistant to Dean of Library Services J% Holly since September, 1969, will be with us on a permanent basis as Staff
Librarian, starting July 1. Stilson will be responsible for the development and operation of the college planning library and will continue to serve as faculty and
staff reference librarian.

Also noteworthy in the area of personnel:
David West, a construction superintendent for A. G. Homann Company in Lacey since
1956, has joined the Facilities Planning staff as construction coordinator for the
Central Utility Plant, Shops and Garages and remodeling of the president's residence. Dave, a native of England, became a U. S. citizen in 1954. He's a former
R.A.F. fighter pilot (1944 and 1945) and was a member of England's national champion
four-man rowing teams in 1937 and 1947. The championships were separated by World
War II.
Ellwood J. (you'd better call him Woody) Hirzel will be showing up around here on a
part-time basis, effective July 1, as college staff photographer, with basic assignments in the areas of Media Services and College Relations. Woody will spend the
rest of his working days in his current post as Production Coordinator, Cameraman
and Editor with the federally-funded Migrant Education Programs section of the State
Office of Public Instruction in Olympia. He's a 1959 graduate of Washington State
University, where he received a bachelor's degree in Radio-TV-Speech.
Two of our faculty members—Assistant Professor of Biology Lawrence Eickataedt and
Assistant Professor of History David L. Kitchens—have accepted temporary academic
planning assignments prior to joining staff on a full-time basis next September.
Eickstaedt will conduct marine sciences studies during July and August and Hitchens
will devote the same two months to academic administrative development.
Tim Moffatt. a student and poet who hails from Palo Alto, California by way of San
Francisco State College and Foothills College (Los Altos, Cal.), is another new face
on campus. Employed on a temporary basis, he's helping the library staff screen
Evergreen's initial book collection and hopes to finish work on his college degree
here. He's an English student.
And, lest we forget, a word about the new lovelies. Loretta Welty, a 1970 graduate
of Olympia High School has joined us as a Clerk-Typist I in the library. Marilyn
Larson of Seattle, former secretary to the superintendent of the North Thurston School
District, has been trying to straighten out the chaos in the College Relations Department since she began her secretarial chores in mid-June. And, Dorothy O'Neill
will become an Accounting Assistant II in the controller's office on July 13. Her
primary duties will include preparation of vendor payments and maintenance of property inventory records.

This rapid influx of new people obviously puts quite a strain on available office
quarters. Consequently, four new facilities—a large trailer and three wood-frame
modular buildings-.—are being added to our temporary cluster of administrative
structures. Though things may be a bit cramped, we'll have to maintain this chummy
arrangement until the library building is finished next year.
The new trailer, connected to the unit which has housed the controller's office for
several months, is a 10 by 55-foot leased rig which will provide additional office
space for business and accounting operations.
The modular buildings, one of which is completed (the others will be by mid-month),
were leased from Northwest Homes in Chehalis. One building, measuring 42 by 40 feet,
houses Library and Media Services operations. It includes space for three offices
and a large work area. The second structure—measuring 40 by 112 feet—will provide
room for ten, two-man faculty offices, stenographic space, a conference room, and
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associated work-supply-storage operations. The third modular unit—measuring
40 by 70 feet—will house administrative and support persorinel in five double
offices, five single offices and two general clerical areas.
In total, the new leased units provide an additional 9500 square feet of temporary facilities at a cost of about $33,000 for 15 months' occupancy, which is
some kind of a bargain considering the rental rates for comparable space in the
Olympia area. The arrangement also makes it possible to keep the entire staff
together in this critical planning period.

Grass has not been growing (and never will) under the feet of Evergreen's busy
Facilities Planning group. Three contracts have been let during recent weeks,
two others are under study, two bid openings are on tap, and future campus planning is proceeding full bore.
Lincoln Construction Company of Spanaway is busy with the remodeling of the president's residence. Cascade-Olympic-Crowntree of Olympia will build the college
shops and garages facility and J. D. Dutton and JHW of Olympia have begun a massive
sifce improvement project. Pease and Sons, Inc. of Tacoma has submitted the apparent low bid for construction of the Central Utility Plant, but issuance of a
contract still awaits further study by the college staff and the State Division
of Engineering and Architecture. And, Hoffman Construction Company of Portland,
Oregon has submitted the apparent low base bid of $2,700,000 to construct the
first group of student residence halls. The engineer's estimate was $2,946,890.
Bids on that project also are being studied. Hoffman is the prime contractor
on Evergreen's library.
Bids for work on the College Activities Building will be opened by the Division of
Engineering and Architecture at 3:00 p.m. July 10 and estimates for construction
of the Large Group Instruction Center will be opened either in late July or early
August. That leaves two projects still in the design stage—College Recreation
Center and Science Building, Phase I—both several months from the start of construction.
Facilities, academic and administrative planners also have finished the list of
priority projects which will be submitted to the governor and legislature for
funding in the 1971-73 biennium and the Board of Trustees has approved the proposal. The projects—totaling about 43.5 million dollars—include (in order of
priority) a Seminar Building; Fine Arts Building; Drama-Music-Instructional facility; Information Center in the Library; Emergency Services Building; College Health
Services Building; second phase Shops and Garages; Central Stores and Receiving
facility; site improvement projects; second phase Science Laboratories; second
phase of the College Recreation Center; landscaping work; and a Drama-Music-Auditorium Building. Two other projects on the list—second phase Residence Halls
and second phase of the College Activities Building—ordinarily require collegegenerated funding through issuance of bonds rather than state-assisted financing.
The list also contained a request for funds to finance pre-planning of projects for
for the 1973-75 biennium.

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As far as current construction is concerned, the following might be of interests
LIBRARY — Hoffman Construction Company of Portland reports the big job is now 17
per cent complete, with 87 men on the payroll. Work in June primarily consisted
of placing foundation walls and pouring concrete slab for the first floor of the
building. Foundation work is about 90 per cent finished. Structural slab pouring
for the first floor is about 67 per cent completed. The next big effort will involve placing of columns from the first floor to the second; workmen should be
completely above the first floor level before the end of July. Hoffman reports
that the construction crews have placed 500 tons of reinforcing steel and poured
5,650 cubic yards of concrete supplied by Graystone of Olympia.
SITE IMPROVEMENTS — J. D. Button and J.H.TT., the Olympia combination which recently
submitted the low bid for this project, already has started work. Early activity includes clearing for the south portion of the campus ring road, the college entryway,
roads to the residence halls and shops and garages, utilities right-of-way and recreation fields. Excavation for the utilities tunnel in the academic core has begun.
And, surveying work has started for final positioning of all improvements such as
additional roads, sidewalks, parking lots and electrical sub-station near the utility
plant.

POTPOURRI

Hal Halvorson of Spokane is the new chairman of Evergreen's Board of Trustees following action at the June 17 meeting. He succeeds Trustee Herb Hadley of Longview.
Trueman Schmidt of Olympia was named Vice Chairman and Janet Tourtellotte was again
elected as secretary of the board....Executive Vice President E. J. Shoben, Jr. and
Director of Information Services Dick Nichols have been elected to the Board of
Directors of Morningside, the up-and-coming Olympia organization which operates a
training center for the handicapped....Vice President Shoben1s son, E. J. Shoben, III
received his B. A. degree with honors in psychology during June commencement exercises at Yale University. Graduating Magna Cum Laude, young Shoben was cited for extraordinary distinction as a Yale student. He will begin graduate studies at Stanford University next fall after spending the summer working in the Yale Medical School
....Ken Donohue. Administrative Assistant to Vice President and Provost David G. Barry,
has been cited as a first place honor winner in the Phelan Contest for both 1968 and
1969 in the short story, formal essay and critical essay categories. Donohue, a
student of English at San Jose State College, graduated with great distinction in 1969
....Heartiest congratulations to staff architect Bill Phipps and his wife Bette, x?ho
recently became parents for the fifth time. The newest addition, Molly Phipps,
weighed in at a sturdy seven pounds, 14 ounces when she arrived June 25 at St. Peter
Hospital....Two of our office mates, Systems Analyst Jim Johnson and Director of the
Office of Interinstitutional Business Studies Denis Curry, have joined the local
Eternal Youth Cult. They're members of the Community College Board slow-pitch softball team; Curry is a second sacker and Johnson an outfielder....Doug Brodin, son of
Director of Financial Planning Buel Brodin, is following in dad's footsteps as a
softball player. Quite a prospect, we understand. Dad wasn't too shabby himself....
A belated goodbye is in order for Bernice Freeman, who has left her position as a
Clerk-Typist in the Provost's office. Her husband Gerald's job took the family to
the wilds of Bellevue....Back to sports for a moment. Facilities Planning Secretary
Kris Robinson really has her girls softball team, the Lacey Leaders, rolling along.
Her team tied for second place in league standings and won the runnerup spot with a

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21-2 playoff win against Westside Center. The Leaders then won the six-team city
tournament. Later on they'll head for Longview to play in an invitiational
tournament which includes top teams from Longivew, Kelso and Bremerton. Could
our Kris possibly become the first female big league manager someday?....Finally,
Dean of Social Sciences Merv Cadwallader joins the Evergreen staff July 6 after
spending several weeks on the Island of Hvar, Yugoslavia. If the words and pictures on the stream of postcards he's dispatched to the campus are true indicators of his experiences, Merv may have to be pried off the island and the rest
of us may have to be straight-jacketed to keep us at home.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
(July 1-31)
Wednesday, July 1
In-House Seminar for entire staff, Library Services Trailer, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Conducted by Vice President and Provost David G. Barry.
Subjects Mountaineering (illustrated).
Dean Clabaugh, Denis Curry — Meeting at state Office of Program Planning and
Fiscal Management, 9:30 a.m.
Ken Winkley

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Systems Design Review Committee organizational meeting at
General Administration Building, Olympia.

Friday. July 3
College holiday. A time to be independent.
Monday, July 6
David Barry

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Robert Sethre —

Attend Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education
Conference on "The Minority Student on the Campus",
Berkeley, California (July 6-9).
Participate on faculty of National School Public Relations
Seminar, Los Angeles (also July 7, 8, 9).

Tuesday, July 1
In-House Seminar for entire staff, Library Services Trailer, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Conducted by John Finley, Deputy Director, Office of Economic
Opportunity, Olympia. Subject: "Community Patterns, Minorities, and Higher Education in Olympia".
Wednesday. July 8
Dean Clabaugh, Denis Curry — Interinstitutional Committee of Business Officers
meeting, Sea-Tac Motor Inn, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Ken Donohue

—

Attend Institute of Government seminar, University of Washington, 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Thursday, July 9
E. J. Shoben, Jr. — Luncheon speaker, Lacey Rotary Club, Chuckwagon Restaurant,
12:00 noon.
Dean Clabaugh, Ken Donohue, Denis Curry — ICBO, Academic Officers and Systems
Policy Committee meetings, Sea-Tac Motor Inn.

July Calendar (cont.)
Page two
Friday, July 10
Bid opening, College Activities Building, Department of General Administration
Building, 3:00 p.m.
Monday, Judy 13
Charles McCann — Attend Council on Higher Education and Council of Presidents
meetings, University of Washington.
Tuesday, July 14
Board of Trustees meeting, Library Conference Room, time undetermined.
Denis Curry

— Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education Activity
Analysis Conference, Boston, Massachusetts (also July 15,
16, 17).
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Wednesday, July 15
In-House Seminar for entire staff, Library Conference Room, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Conducted by Father Michael Feeney, President of St. Martin's
College. Subject: "St. Martin's and Evergreen: Two Sides
of a Coin".
Robert Sethre

— Guest lecturer, Graduate Seminar in Public Relations, University of Washington.

Helen Spears

— Council for the Management of Forms and Records meeting,
12:00 noon, Panorama City.

Thursday, July 16
President's Council meeting, 2:00 p.m., Library Conference Room.
Buel Brodin

— Higher Education Personnel Board meeting, Grays Harbor College
10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon.

Wednesday, July 22
In-House Seminar for entire staff, Library Conference Room, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Conducted by Director of College Relations Robert Sethre.
Subject: Washington State Taxes and Evergreen's money'.
Friday, July 24
President's Council meeting, Library Conference Room, 2:00 p.m.
Monday, July 27
Robert Sethre

— Public Relations Roundtable meeting, Seattle.

E. J. Shoben, Jr.—Visit to Washington, D. C. to meet with Commission on Liberal
Learning, Association of American Colleges, U. S. Office of
Education, Department of Labor and Old Dominion Foundation
(also July a?).

July Calendar (cont.)
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Wednesday, July 29
In-House Seminar for entire staff, Library Conference Room, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Conducted by Director of Computer Services Bob Barringer and
Director of the Office of Interinstitutional Business Studies
Denis Curry. Subject: "Is WICHE Watching You?"
E. J. Shoben, Jr.—Visit to New York to meet with Rockefeller Foundation, Stern
Family Fund, Carnegie Corporation, Ellis Phillips Foundation,
and New World Foundation.
Thursday, July 30
E. J. Shoben, Jr.—Visit to Washington D. C. to attend convention of International
Platform Association.