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Part of The Evergreen State College Newsletter (February 22, 1973)

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February 22, 1973

old ship becoming new museum
EVERGREEN INTERN CAPTAIN OF RESTORATION CREW
The last wooden sailing vessel in Seattle is becoming the city's first maritime
museum. At the helm of the restoration crew is Mary Stiles of Pasco, a second-year
student intern at Evergreen. Acting as curator of Northwest Seaport --- a non-profit
organization which is establishing the lumber schooner Wawona as an historical museum
--- Ms. Stiles is working under the direction of the organization's president, Robert
D. Ashley, and Evergreen Faculty Member Mary Ellen Hillaire.
Ms. Stiles, whose internship was arranged through Evergreen's Office of Cooperative Education, spends about 30 hours each week handling a wide variety of duties in
connection with her unique academic program. "We're hoping to have the ship open on
the Seattle waterfront by May," she said. "We are currently restoring the old ship,
recruiting volunteer work parties, designing displays, researching specimens, and
organizing fund drives, as well as keeping up with all the duties associated with operating an office."
The Pasco student said her research duties have taken her into the history of the
ship, which was built in 1897 and which sailed under eight different captains. "We
found that her name, Wawona, came from a Yosemite Indian legend," she said. The Yosemites believe the owl has special, magical qualities. Wawona mimicks the hoot of an
owl."
As the last wooden sailing ship in Seattle, the Wawona escaped the fate of more
than 30 of her sister vessels which formerly sailed on Lake Union. "All the rest have
since been junked, destroyed or sold to other states as maritime museums," Ms. Stiles
said.
The demand for maritime museums --- and experienced curators --- is increasing,
Ms. Stiles said. "Since I hope to be a curator myself, I have found my internship to
be a most educationally valuable experience. I feel fortunate to have found this internship because undergraduate studies in the fields of museology are limited. Yet,
there is a growing need for professionals to run these museums because many are organized by retired seamen who are inexperienced in that field."
The Evergreen intern is tackling other jobs while restoration of the Wawona is
under way. Her plans include development of educational programs which emphasize slide
shows and nautical seminars. She will also conduct tours of the Wawona and will teach
sailing courses through Northwest Seaport.
DARK OF THE MOON PREMIERES FEBRUARY 28
Four afternoon and evening performances of "Dark of the Moon," the major Winter Quarter dramatic production by the Evergreen Group Contract in Drama and Theater Arts, are
scheduled for Feb. 28 through Mar. 3. Performances will be held at 2 and 8 p.m. on the
fourth floor of the Evans Library. Admission is free and the public is invited.
Written by Howard Richardson and William Berney, the play is under the direction of
Faculty Member Ainara Wilder and is based on the "Ballad of Barbara Allen." "It tells
a very moving story," Ms. Wilder said, "about a witch boy who arrives in a community hoping to become human so that he can marry Barbara. It involves every aspect of drama --including dance and song."
Choreography for the production will be directed by Debbi Gilbert, a Spokane student
under the guidance of Bud Johanson, part-time faculty member and director of Ballet Northwest. Electronic music and sound sequences will be provided by members of the Image and

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Idea Coordinated Studies program. Invitations to attend the matinee performances have
gone out to all Olympia area high school drama departments, Ms. Wilder said. Groups

NISBET SELECTED TO REPRESENT STATE DEPARTMENT

interested in attending the afternoon performances should make reservations by calling

Ms. Wilderfs office, 753-3972.

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CHAMBER ORCHESTRA TO PERFORM AT ST. MARTIN'S SUNDAY

A concert of baroque music will be presented by Evergreen's Chamber Orchestra Feb.
25 at 4 p.m. in the St. Martin's Chapel.

Directed by Evergreen Faculty Member Robert

Gottlieb, the Chamber Orchestra will present musical compositions by Corelli, Handel,
Buxtehude and Bach.
Featured soloists include Helen Pagels and Mary Ann Lundberg, violin; Christy
Brewsaugh, violoncello; Eleanor Hite, oboe; Jane Edge, organ; Mary Zamora, soprano; and
Meg Imrie and Dianne Hanne, flute.

The concert is free and the public is invited.

SIMULATION/COMPUTER WORKSHOP HERE MARCH 2
An all-day conference to examine the use of models and computers as tools for understanding complex environmental interaction will be held on campus Mar. 2. Sponsored by
Evergreen and the Northwest Regional Council of Simulation Councils, Inc., the conference will begin at 9 a.m. in Lecture Hall One with
welcoming remarks by Faculty Member
Fred Tabbutt.
Purpose of the all-day meeting is to "talk about the use of computers as simulation
tools," Tabbutt said. "We want to use layman's language to present a representative
cross section of simulation environmental studies now being undertaken throughout the
Pacific Northwest."
Papers will range from "complex team projects to modest undergraduate efforts,"
Tabbutt said. Those scheduled to present papers are: Alan A. Berryman, Washington State
University; David Milne, Evergreen; James Albers, Western Washington State College; Brian
Mar, University of Washington; and Paul Dionne and Robert Burnett of Battelle Northwest.
Oregon State University representatives will also present a paper developed by the Willa/
mette Simulation Unit.
Admission to the conference is $1 for non-students. Students will be admitted free.
Interested persons may contact Tabbutt at 753-3945.
FINANCIAL AID CRISIS LOOMING?
The Federal Administration's recent budget requests which propose to eliminate two
of five financial aid programs may have some deep and long-lasting effects on student
ability to afford attendance at institutions of higher learning, according to an analysis
by Evergreen's Director of Financial Aid and Placement, Les Eldridge. "Access of middle
and low-income students to higher education would be severely curtailed," reported
Eldridge in a position paper written for distribution through the Washington Financial
Aid Officers Association.
Summarizing his detailed paper, Eldridge points out that "a comprehensive family of
student financial aid programs was authorized by the passage of the Higher Education
Amendments of 1972. The Federal Administration's recent budget requests that two of these
five programs (National Direct Student Loan and Supplementary Educational Opportunity
Grant) not be funded. This would force students to assume staggering burdens of high
interest debt and wait months for responses to applications or requests for revision in
aid. Without these two college-administered programs, the flexibility of financial aid
officers in meeting the changing needs of low-income students would be ended."
Eldridge said this, plus growing trends "toward full-cost pricing in tuition would
further widen the gap between available resources and need." "The Supplementary Educational Opportunity Grant and National Direct Student Loan must be funded if equal educational
opportunity is to remain a realistic goal of American society," Eldridge concluded.
"Congress is the only body which can bring this about."
BULLETIN
Jim Johnson, a Systems Analyst, was passing out cigars
in pairs this week.
His wife, Nancy, gave birth to Michael and David, twin boys, Feb. 16. The
Johnsons have one other child, Jimmy, seven.

Faculty Member Chuck Nisbet is one of two academicians selected from throughout the
United States to represent the State Department in a spring tour of three continents.
Nisbet, an economist, is scheduled to leave for Costa Rica Mar. 4 to begin a trip which
will take him to Ecuador, Philippines, Bangladesh, Turkey, Kenya, Tanzania, Ivory Coast,
Nigeria and Ghana.
The Evergreen instructor was selected for the trip by the Agency for International
Development (AID), a branch of the State Department. AID promotes development in third
world or underdeveloped countries. His task will be to deliver and explain recentlycompleted AID research to governmental officials and technologists. The research is the
result of an annual review by AID of its programs relating to small-farmer development,
Nisbet said. He has studied small-farmer development in Latin America for the past eight
years and was asked by AID to complete a review of the programs in Chile.
About 150 other persons were involved in the first phase of report writing which
covered all small development programs sponsored by AID throughout the world, Nisbet added,
"Then the agency asked 15 of us to summarize and synthesize all the reports, involving
the thousands of pages of work." Following completion of the summaries, Nisbet and Dale
Adams of Ohio State University were selected to present reports to the countries studied
and conduct workshops to update local officials and techologists on the research.
Nisbet is currently part of an Evergreen faculty team directing the American Studies
Coordinated Studies program. During his absence, Paul Wolman, an historian from the University of Buffalo who is now living in Olympia, will serve as a visiting faculty member
in the study program.
MORE FOLK AND BLUES MUSIC COMING FEB. 26
Folk and blues music "with an occasional pinch of good-time rock and roll" will come
to Evergreen Feb. 26 with the appearance of the Deep Root Trio. The show will begin at
8 p.m. in the reference alcove of the Evans Library. Composed of J.B. White, Frank
Leidt and Jody Calcara, the trio has been playing on the West Coast for the past three
years. Deep Root's repertoire includes three-part vocal harmony and acoustic six- and
12-string guitars, electric base, banjo, harmonica and mandolin. The trio is being
brought to Evergreen by Eye-5 and admission to the performance is free.
EXPO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS TO BE DEMONSTRATED HERE MARCH 2 & 3
A two-day conference to discuss and demonstrate the communication and information
systems being designed for use in Spokane's Expo 74 World's Fair will be held on campus
Mar. 2 and 3. Called The Global Village, the communications system is designed to help
Expo achieve its goal of providing information on the environment. It will also focus
on the multiple efforts that are underway to insure its protection and restoration,
according to Dan Youra, director of the Information Delivery Experiment for the Washington State Library and one of the coordinators of the two-day conference.
"The concept of The Global Village, which was developed through cooperation of private industry, research organizations and governmental agencies, goes far beyond its
use at Expo," Youra said. "It provides a means of integrating available communications
technologies for future implementation which can be of great value to all citizens in
all aspects of their lives."
Highlighting the conference will be a discussion of communications and change by
Robert Theobald, futurist and socio-economist, who is also the author of numerous works
dealing with man's transition from The Industrial Era to The Communications Era. He will
outline the problems and possibilities of The Global Village. Check with the Information
Center for exact time and place of his talk.
Demonstration of communications equipment and techniques will be offered from 11 a.m.
to 3 p.m. both days in the first floor foyer of the Library. The conference will end
Mar. 3 with a special joint meeting of Northwest chapters of the World Future Society.
RESULTS OF ACADEMIC STRAW BALLOT PONDERED
Evergreen's academic deans met with Provost Ed Kormondy this week to ponder results

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programs. "The results are still being analyzed," Academic Dean Merv Cadwallader
reported, "but we hope to have tentative program selections
and faculty assignments
made by the first of next week."
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Of the 1,000 students who returned their ballots, 600 indicated they plan to return
to Evergreen next fall; 300 said they may or may not return, and 100 said they will not
be back. More than 40 per cent indicated a preference for a social science emphasis.
Art and natural science each polled 22 per cent of the students as their academic preference, and 16 per cent indicated preference for a humanities emphasis.
Group contracts were the most favored mode of study, appealing to 45 per cent of
the students. Thirty-one per cent favored coordinated studies and 24 per cent wanted to
do individual contracts. Based on a predicted return of 1,200 presently-enrolled students,
580 would be assigned to group contracts, 340 to coordinated studies and 280 to individual contracts. Extending the predictions for a total enrollment of 2,400 students,
approximately 1,260 would participate in coordinated studies, 800 in group contracts and
340 in individual contracts.
While the straw ballot was being analyzed, Academic Dean Oscar Soule reported that
faculty recruitment continues for next year. Letters offering appointments were issued
this week and Soule expected to have final word on most of next's year's new faculty
approximately 25-35 persons
within three weeks.
SMALLER CHECKS, BIGGER CHUNK FOR SOCIAL SECURITY
Controller Ken Winkley, reported this week that the "social security bite" is on
again, and has been in effect since January. "Social Security deductions this calendar
year will be at the rate of 5.85 per cent of gross earnings up to a maximum of $10,800,"
Winkley said. "When deductions accumulate to $631=80 in calendar year 1973, the bite
will be off again until January, 1974."
Deductions will be the same in January of 1974, he added. "However, that rate will
be applied until gross earnings reach $12,000 and deductions total $702. The rate for f
1974 may be changed by Congress, and probably will."
EVALUATION TIME FOR SHOBEN'S STAFF
The process of administration evaluation is on in Executive Vice President E. J.
Shoben, Jr.'s area. All Evergreeners are invited to submit evaluation of Shoben or any
of the deans or directors in his division. Those persons involved include Library Dean
Jim Holly; Computer Services staff Jim Johnson, Don Nicholaus, and John Munro; Director
of Information Services Dick Nichols; Dean of Developmental Services Larry Stenberg;
Registrar Perrin Smith; Admissions Director Dave Brown; and Security Superviser Rod Marrom.
"Any evaluation of me will be shared with President Charles J. McCann," Shoben said.
"Any evaluations of the other persons named will be shared with them. Evaluations must
be signed; they will be most helpful to the extent that their writer bears in mind the
primary purpose of the evaluative enterprise
to provide persons evaluated with the
information and insights needed to permit his doing a better job.
Shoben added that evaluation will prove most useful if they are received soon. Portfolios will be closed Mar. 9 for this year's consideration.
LOCK THE DOOR

The custodial staff has reported a large number of unlocked office doors, primarily
in the Evans Library. Known losses to date appear relatively minor, "but there is much
evidence of rifled desks and examined files," Executive Vice President E. J. Shoben, Jr.
reported. "It is a good idea to make a habit of locking your office door whenever it is
necessary to leave it untended," he added. "And, handbags, wallets and personal valuables of any sort should never be left in offices."
In an attempt to insure safety of personal property, Shoben said Security Superviser
Rod Marrom will send reminder notes to those persons whose office door is reported un- \d by t
superviser.