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April 5, 1973

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300 ADMISSIONS OFFICERS AND COUNSELORS HERE FRIDAY
More than 300 college and university admissions officers and high school counselors
from Washington, Oregon and Alaska will gather at Evergreen Friday (April 6) for the
Spring meeting of the Pacific Northwest Association of College Admissions Counselors.
Admissions Director David Brown said keynote speaker for the all-day event will
be Frank Newman, Director of University Relations at Stanford University and former
chairman of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Task Force on Higher
Education. Newman will discuss "Innovative Education," in his 9:30 morning address. It
will provide the topic for discussions by a panel of educational experts including Dr.
James Furman, Executive Coordinator of the Washington Council on Higher Education; Dr.
David Winter, Vice President and Academic Dean at Spokane's Whitworth College; Mrs.
Elizabeth Johnson, member of the Oregon State Board of Higher Education; and Mrs. Sarah
Knox, counselor at Catlin Gabel High School in Portland.
Evergreen is also scheduled to play host to more than 250 members of the American
Association of University Women, who will hold their Washington State convention in
Olympia April 6-8. Members will gather on campus Saturday afternoon to hear a formal
presentation about the college's goals, objectives and academic programs. Featured
speakers will be President Charles J. McCann, Academic Dean Charles Teske, and five
students who will make a panel presentation to the delegates.
Some 30 members of the American College Public Relations Association were also
scheduled to meet at Evergreen Thursday for a mini-conference on the use of electronic
media in PR work.
SPRING QUARTER ENROLLMENT: 1778
Registrar Perrin Smith reports a
Spring Quarter enrollment of approximately 1778 students, a figure which
includes 28 part-time students who
completed registration April 2. The
count will not be official until the
tenth class day, April 13. _
final project an $185,000 apartment complex
MARCH GRADUATE BOWS OUT IN A BIG WAY
Graduating seniors often prepare some kind of final term project during their last
quarter in college. Gary Foreman of Tacoma, who completed his bachelor's degree at
Evergreen March 23, bowed out in a big way. Foreman tackled the mammoth job of helping
with the design, construction and renting of a $185,000 22-unit apartment complex in
Federal Way.
The native of Mead, Washington began his studies at Evergreen like many other students. He enrolled in a Coordinated Studies program with 100 other students for one
quarter, then spent half a quarter in a smaller group helping design a city park for
Lacey. The 20-acre park was planned totally by Evergreen students and eventually received complete funding to the tune of $101,816 from federal, state, and local governments.
RECEIVED A GOOD FOUNDATION FIRST
"That project gave me a good foundation in environmental planning," Foreman said.
"I studied governmental regulations, urban planning, budget preparation
all aspects
of creating a park from surveying the property to final submission of the request for
funding." Foreman has always been interested in real estate work, so he decided to

-2consult with academic advisers to determine what other training he needed. Following
their recommendations, he secured a full-time internship through the Office of Cooperative Education with Pierce County Assessor Ken Johnson.
"Working under him, I earned state certification as an appraiser of real estate,"
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he said. "I graduated from a commercial appraiser to a new construction cost estimater
and began to develop expertise in cost analysis of apartments." To become certified as
an appraiser, Foreman took three four-to-five hour state exams and passed all with flying colors. He was then hired as a full-time employee of the Assessor's office with a
Commercial IV rating.
"But I wanted to learn more about the real estate business," he said. So, for
his final quarter, Foreman maintained his 40-hour per week job with Johnson and entered
into a partnership to build a 22-unit apartment complex in Federal Way. In addition to
his academic work at Evergreen, the young businessman took courses in construction labor
laws, real estate law, organization and planning, and career salesmanship "so I could
learn how best to sell our project to investors and banking institutions."
HAD TO THOROUGHLY RESEARCH APARTMENT MARKET
He also had to thoroughly research the apartment market in the Federal Way area,
study alternative kinds of construction materials, estimate costs for construction and
keep those costs low enough so the rental prices would be saleable. "The estimating of
costs has to be done very tightly," he explained. "Two dollars off on the cost of roofing or flooring or wiring or any key item would not mean we'd lose money. We just wouldn't
make any." Foreman said he constantly strives for "ball park figures
within a penny
on smaller items, within a quarter on the larger ones."
The father of two children, Foreman said he worked throughout his college career,
usually holding down a full-time job in addition to running a part-time janitorial
business with his wife, Karen. This past quarter he has worked 40 hours a week with
Johnson, 30 hours a week with the academic and business demands of the construction partnership, and up to 15 hours a week with his janitorial business.
"Now that I've finished college, I will continue working at the Assessor's Office
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and with the construction project, and I hope to expand our janitorial business," he
said. "I can handle all of these because I was able to carefully tailor my academic
studies at Evergreen to fit my exact career goals."
The Tacoman is a graduate of Mead, Washington High School and attended three colleges
his first two years. Had he to plan his college career over again, Foreman concludes:
"I'd follow the same pattern
from two years of general studies, to upper division
specialized studies, to an internship and finally, to an individual study project. It's
not only prepared me for a good career
but the final project hopefully will be highly
profitable as well."

TWO MARCH GRADUATES LAND JOBS IN PLANNING
Rich Scheffel and Phil Bridges, both March graduates from Evergreen, have landed
jobs through the Lewis County Regional Planning Commission.
Scheffel, who has worked for
the Commission the past two years, has been named director of the Lewis County Parks and
Recreation Board, a new organization which he will create and direct. Bridges has been
hired as a planner by the Commission. Both students were members of the Urban Planning
group contract under direction of Faculty Member Russell Fox. Both men provide,
according to Kevin King, Director of the Lewis County Commission, "very good examples"
of what can be done with an Evergreen degree in the job market.
JOURNALISM WORKSHOP SLATED APRIL 10
Students interested in working on the campus newspaper are invited to participate
in a three-hour journalism workshop April 10 from 1 to 4 p.m. in room 3121 of the Library.
Directed by Faculty Member Will Humphreys and Information Services Director Dick Nichols,
the workshop will cover basic elements in news writing, the differences between 'straight'
news and features, commentary or analysis and editorials; objectively in reporting; free- (
dom of the press; organization of a newsroom; coverage of beats; and organization of
publications. An exercise in news writing also will be offered. Interested students are
asked to bring paper, pencils and an example of their own writing which can be shared
with the group.

-3EVERGREENER FINALIST IN NEW YORK FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Teresa Baldwin, a fourth-year student from Vancouver, has been chosen as one of
40 finalists in nationwide competition for 20 positions in the City of New York's Urban
Fellowship Program. Ms. Baldwin, a 1969 graduate of Columbia River High School and a
transfer from the University of Washington, will join the other finalists in New York
City April 7 for personal interviews. A decision on winners of the 20 full-time internships as Urban Fellows for the 1973-74 academic year will be made by April 30.
The New York City Urban Fellowship, the first of its kind in the country, offers
students $4,000 stipends plus round-trip expenses from their homes. The program provides
work experience in city government and fellows are assigned responsibilies in administrative problem-solving, research, policy planning and related management areas.
SEARCH FOR DIRECTOR OF COMPUTER SERVICES CONTINUES
More than 100 applicants for the position of director of computer services have been
scanned by a DTF and narrowed down to 21 final applicants, according to Controller Ken
.Winkley. Each of the finalists has been asked to complete an application file by April
19 so the Computer Director's DTF can review the information and narrow down the
field from 21 to three or four candidates. Those persons will then be invited to Evergreen for interviews. Final appointment of the director will be made by Provost Ed
Kormondy.
APRIL SYMPOSIUM AVAILABLE
Editors Ida Daum, Dave Marr and Sid White report that copies of the April issue of
The Evergreen Symposium are now on sale for $1 each in the college bookstore. Pre-paid
subscribers should receive their copies in the campus mail. Any subscriber who doesn't
\e a copy should contact Program Secretary Pearl Vincent in Library Office 2114.
The theme of the latest Symposium is "Community" at Evergreen. The publication features
articles by faculty members Dave Kitchens, Matt Smith and Richard Alexander and students
Kaslon Zoller, John Foster, David Ettinger and Bob Thomsen.
The tri-editors also report that copies of the March issue still are available in
the bookstore for $1 apiece. And, planning has begun for the May edition, which will
deal with Evergreen's "Public Image." Contributions to the May issue should reach the
editors (through Library Office 2114) by April 15.
KAOS RECEIVES FINAL LICENSE
Evergreen's campus FM radio station, KAOS, was awarded its final license by the
Federal Communication Commission March 13, according to student station manager Dean
Katz. The license is subject to renewal after three years. Prior to granting of the
license, the station was operating under FCC program testing authority.
DISCOUNTED SCRIPT OFFERED BY SAGA FOOD SERVICES
Evergreeners have the opportunity to purchase discounted scripts redeemable for
all items sold through Campus Food Services. The script, which will be honored throughout the quarter, may be purchased from SAGA at a 10 per cent discount in $10, $25 and
$100 demoninations, which means, for example, that $10 scripts will sell for $9 plus tax.
Students Accounts Supervisor John Moss said the script was offered as one means of
"easing the impact of higher food costs for meat items as well as for some pastry and
beverage items." The script is not refundable, Moss said said, but "it is fully transferrable. This means you can let your friends use it whenever you wish."
SAGA began its first full quarter of operation April 2 under the direction of
( Manager Craig McCarty. He has announced the following schedule for operation of Food
Services: Breakfast, 7:30 to 10 a.m., Lunch, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Dinner, 5 to 6 p.m.,
and Grill, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

-4CINEMARCHIVES SERIES TAKING ON AN INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR
The Cinemarchives Series will take on an international flavor Spring Quarter,
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according to Faculty Member Gordon Beck, who is sponsoring the program. "We'll be
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stressing the international aspects of post-war cinema," Beck said. Lectures will deal
with movies that are similar in style and content to the films being shown. The series,
which is free and open to the public, is held every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Lecture
Hall One. Scheduled for Spring Quarter are:
April 12
"Spellbound," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1945.
April 19
"La Terra Trema," directed by Luchino Visconti, 1948 (Italian).
April 26
""I Vitelloni," directed by Federico Fellini, 1953 (Italian).
May 3
"Ordet," directed by Carl Theodore Dreyer, 1955 (Danish).
May 10
"Vivre Sa Vie," directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1962 (French).
May 17
"Eclipse," directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962 (Italian).
May 24
"The Servant," directed by Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter, 1964 (English).
May 31
"The Report on the Party and the Guests," directed by Jan Nemec, 1966
(Czechoslovakian).
POETRY AWARD COMPETITION SPONSORED BY EVERGREEN AND OLYMPIA ATTORNEYS
Residents of Thurston, Mason and Lewis Counties have been invited to submit entries
for the Annual Carol and Herbert Fuller Poetry Award competition, jointly sponsored
by two Olympia attorneys and Evergreen in connection with the Governor's Festival of the
Arts. Awards will be presented during a poetry gala in the Evergreen Library, starting
at 7:30 p.m., May 6.
Attorneys Carol and Herb Fuller of Olympia created the poetry award program in
conjunction with the college. Any resident of the three counties is eligible to participate in the contest, with entries due by April 16. Awards will be made in two categories: a junior award for the best poem submitted by a person prior to his or her 18th
birthday, and a senior award for the best poem submitted by a person 18 years of age or (
older. Entries can be submitted to the Fuller Poetry Award, Library Group, Evergreen.
Each entry must be accompanied by a brief statement identifying the poet by name, address
and age and any additional biographical information the entrant may wish to include.
LEATHER WORKSHOPS BEGIN MONDAY
Six three-hour leather workshops will begin Monday (April 9) at 7 p.m. in Building
211. McKenzie Musick will instruct the workshops on construction of sandals, moccasins,
belts, purses, and "whatever else anyone may wish to try." Tools and supplies will be
available, but interested persons will have to pay for the leather they use. The workshops, which cost $10, will be held every Monday for six weeks.
URBAN PLANNING STUDENTS CONTRACT WITH THURSTON COUNTY PARKS
Students in the Urban Planning Group Contract have signed an agreement with the
Thurston County Parks Board to provide general recreational research and to complete
topographical and biological surveys on a 19-acre park site near Boston Harbor. Faculty
Member Russell Fox said three students will carry primary responsibility for the project.
They will produce a recreational history of the Thurston County area, a survey of public
recreational facilities and a statement of philosophy and general guidelines for recreational development within the county.
"They'll also be involved with development of the Burfoot property near Boston
Harbor," Fox said. The 19-acre site, which is located on Budd Inlet, has been purchased
by the Board for future development as a park. Students will conduct a topographical
survey under the direction and supervision of county engineers and will also complete a
study of its geology, soils, drainage patterns, and water quality, as well as its
vegetation and wildlife.
The three students, Bob Grochow, Becky Liebman and Marjori Yung, will be working
with 12 other members of the Urban Planning contract "as they are needed for different
aspects of the project," Fox said. They expect to work throughout Spring Quarter and
possibly throughout the summer on the project, which will involve preparing preliminary
alternative development proposals for the Burfoot property in its final stages, Fox said.
The Park Board has allocated $800 to the students to cover their travel expenses and supplies,