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April 19, 1974

SENATE APPROVES COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING
Evergreen's proposed Communications Laboratory Building survived its first test
as the second half of the 1974 split legislative session convened this week in Olympia.
Moving quickly, the Senate Ways and Means Committee and then the full Senate approved
a supplemental state operating budget which included the $6.8 million Evergreen project. As the Newsletter went to press, the supplemental budget bill still was in the
House Ways and Means Committee.
Meanwhile, another bill—this one setting up mechanisms for the floating of state
bonds to finance the Communications Laboratory Building by press time—had been
approved by the Senate Ways and Means Committee and was in the Rules Committee awaiting
movement to the floor for full Senate consideration. If the Communications Laboratory
Building is retained in the House budget and if both chambers approve the bond bill,
Evergreen then will be able to move ahead and call for bids to construct the new facility.
Of the $6.8 million cost, about $1 million would be financed through the sale of
college-generated tuition bonds; the balance would be amortized through the issuance of
state bonds. The building project—though showing up as an appropriation in the supplementary budget—actually doesn't affect 1973-75 biennium state general fund finances
because costs would be paid through bonds and because repayment of the bonds wouldn't
begin coming due until the 1975-77 biennium.
The first half of the 1974 split session saw the Senate trim the building from
its budget. The House included the project in its appropriation package but the building was deleted when the two chambers agreed on a compromise initial supplemental budget.
EVERGREENERS AWARDED THREE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRANTS
Three Evergreen student projects are among -eight from the State of Washington awarded
National Science Foundation grants for studies aimed at exploring environmental problems of the Pacific Northwest. The three project directors
Robert Denison, Corvallis, Oregon; Morton Fabricant, Wilberham, Massachusetts, and Karen Oakley, Bellevue
have initiated and planned their projects in cooperation with other Evergreen students
and under the direction of Evergreen faculty members. They will complete their
research efforts during the 1974 Summer Quarter.
Denison, a junior, was awarded $9,330 to measure the effects of acid rainfall on
nitrogen-fixing organisms in Western Washington Coniferous forests. Fabricant, also a
junior, is project director for a $9,740 grant to study "Flouride Levels in an Ecosystem
and Related Ecosystem Changes," and Ms. Oakley, a sophomore, is project director for the
$12,300 grant to study "Tussock Moth Damage as Related to Forest Management."
Denison, working under the supervision of Faculty Member Oscar Soule, a biologist,
will collect soil, litter and lichens from normal and acid rainfall areas in Washington,
and measure their acidic and buffering capacities.
By so doing, he hopes to thoroughly
investigate the potential for damage to coniferous forests as a result of acid rainfall.
Denison believes that the shortage of petroleum "may well lead to increased use of
high-sulfur coal for power generation," and that the Pacific Northwest will be the site
of an increased number of power plants burning high-sulfur coal. Because of these
factors, the Evergreen scholar feels the "capacity of the environment to absorb large
amounts of acid is a critical and unresolved question"
one for which he hopes to

provide some answers in the coming months.

Fabricant, a member of the Ecology and Chemistry of Pollution study program, has
been working with students David Scoboria of Corbett, Oregon and Susan Southwick of
Seattle and Faculty Member Michael Beug, a chemist. Together they developed the grant
which will enable seven students to spend the summer in the Columbia River Gorge s,
studying the effects of flouride contamination on the diversity and density of plau^
communities. The Evergreeners will conduct an inventory study of the area near an
active aluminum plant at Troutdale, Oregon, sampling plants, insects and acquatic
life.
They will then examine the plant and estuarine communities on the site of the
proposed AMAX aluminum plant at Warrenton, Oregon, near the mouth of the Columbia.
Ms. Oakley, also a member of the Ecology and Chemistry of Pollution program, is
one of five students on the steering committee for the $12,300 grant. Working with
her are Pauline Hessing of Los Alamos, New Mexico, Debbie Lev of Olympia, Judith Hadley
of Seattle and Martin Rousch of San Jose, California, and Faculty Member Steve Herman,
an ecologist. Their grant will allow a total of nine students to spend the summer
conducting field research.
The steering committee is considering the possible, relationship between forest
management practices and Douglas Fir Tussock Moth outbreak intensity. They will
select study plots in each damage class identified by the U.S. Forest Service as infested areas according to visible defoliation. Evaluation of the data may reveal if
relationships exist between the intensity of Tussock Moth damage and the management
of the area.
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEETING PLANNED
Evergreen alumni, who have been meeting informally to discuss development of a formal
association, are inviting all Evergreen graduates
and any other interested students,
staff or faculty
to attend an alumni meeting April 25 at 8 p.m. at the Red Bull
Restaurant, South Sound Shopping Center, in Lacey. Development Officer Marianne Nelson,
who is coordinating alumni activities, says the meeting has been called "to finalize
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alternatives for an association."
"Alumni are developing a list of the alternatives which they will then mail to all
alumns," she said. "Then we'll invite alums to a large general meeting to determine
which alternative best suits their needs. Those who cannot attend such a meeting will
be asked to choose an alternative by mail so that we can finally determine in which
direction we want to move."

PEARSON TO BE ORDAINED
Faculty Member Linnea Pearson will be ordained as a Unitarian Minister Sunday, April
21, at the Olympia Unitarian Fellowship (219 B Steet, Tumwater). The Evergreen instructor will be the first woman to be ordained by another woman
an event which Ms. Pearson
describes as "an appropriate end to the Women's Arts Festival Week." Music for the
ordination will be provided by the Sherburne County Revelers, a group of Evergreen students, Ms. Pearson has invited any interested Evergreeners to attend the 3 p.m. ceremony.
Make your RSVP's with her before April 19.
DTF CALLED TO EVALUATE DAY CARE PROGRAM
A 12-member Disappearing Task Force has been assembled by Director of Student
Services Larry Stenberg and Director of Recreation and Campus Activities Pete Steilberg
to examine the need for day care facilities and review financial support for the campus
program and facility.
Chaired by Faculty Member Carol Spence, the DTF will meet to discuss development
of a comprehensive plan for the two-year old center which currently provides care for
32 youngsters in the old Driftwood House. The study will encompass day care needs of
the current Evergreen community, how those needs are being met with the existing facility,
and the possibility of expanding the facility to make Evergreen enrollment more possible
for parents in the Olympia area. A final report is expected by the end of Spring Quarter.
The first DTF meeting is scheduled for 4 p.m..April 22 in Library 1508.

-3EIGHT FACULTY SIGN ON FOR 74-75 TERM
Five new faculty members have signed three-year contracts for terms beginning with
the 1974-75 academic year and three current faculty members
Abraham Maraire, Susan
Fiksdal, and Jim Martinez
who were hired for one-year terms, have also signed threeyear agreements.
New faculty members and their fields include: William Brown, geography; Rainier
Hasenstab, environmental design; Stephen S.W. Hui, physics; Joye Peskin, communications/
literature; and Lynn Struve, East Asian History.
Brown, husband of Library Dean Jovana Brown, has been an assistant professor at
the University of California, Santa Cruz, since 1969. He has also served as a science
teacher for the Oakland, California Public Schools;as a science/math "master" for the
Scottish Ministry of Education; and as a science teacher for the Alameda County, California Schools System. Brown earned his bachelor of arts degree in geography from
Antioch College, and both his master's and doctorate from the University of California
at Berkeley.
Hasenstab, currently an associate professor at State University of New York at
Buffalo, has served as an instructor and assistant professor of architectural design
at the University of Washington, as an associate professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and as an assistant to the director of Building Program Associates
of Palo Alto, California. He earned both his bachelor of arts and master's degrees in
architecture from the University of California at Berkeley, and has completed graduate
studies in urban planning, sociology and architecture. He speaks both Dutch and German.
CANCER RESEARCHER HIRED
Hui, a physicist, is currently a cancer research scientist for the Rosewell Park
Memorial Institute in Buffalo>New York. He has also served as a special fellow for the
National Institute of Health at Carnegie-Mellon University, as a research physcist at
Carnegie-Mellon University, and as a lecturer at Flinders University in Adelaide, South
Australia. He earned his bachelor of science degree from the University of Western
Australia in Perth, and his doctorate from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
He is currently involved in electron and X-ray diffraction of biological membrances
and speaks and writes Chinese.
Ms. Peskin, an English instructor at SUNY at Buffalo, has also served as an actress
and mimist for the New America Mime Company in Woodstock, New York; as a graduate
assistant at SUNY at Buffalo; and as director of the Buffalo Theater Workshop at SUNY.
She earned her bachelor of art's degree in English literature from SUNY and is pursuing
a master's degree in the same subject area at Buffalo. Ms. Peskin is also a master of
both French and Spanish.
Ms. Struve, the lone native of Washington new to the faculty thus far, is now an
instructor of Chinese History at the University of Maryland Far Eastern division in
Tokyo, Japan. She has served as a research assistant and publication editor for the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where she is completing her dissertation this
spring on the treatment of the Southern Ming loyalist regimes by Ch'ing historians.
Ms. Struve, who speaks and writes both Chinese and Japanese, has spent three years in
the Republic of China and has also lived in Japan.
MARAIRE SIGNS ON
Maraire, who was hired on a one-year appointment last summer, has contracted for
three more years. A member of the Individual in Contemporary Society program, Maraire
was formerly a lecturer in the School of Music, Ethnomusicology Department at the University of Washington. He organized and directed the one-day African Music Festival
in March and has performed throughout the Pacific Northwest with the Mariamba Ensemble
this past year.
Fiksdal, who has served as a half-time faculty appointee this year, has been working with language studies and individual contracts. She has overseen the French and
Spanish studies of more than 60 students, and guided the work of four tutors. Ms.
Fiksdal has also carried contracts in French literature and history, linguistics and
communications. She has a bachelor of arts degree in French from Western Washington
State College and a master's degree, also in French, from Middlebury College in Vermont.

-4She also earned a diploma from the University d'Aix-Marseille during one-year stay in
France.
Martinez, also hired on a one-year contract last fall, has been directing a group
contract in corrections. He was formerly employed as a field instructor for the Washington State Reformatory Case-Aide Project, a counselor for the King County Juvenile
Detention Facility, consultant to the King County Superior Court, research design
specialist for Pierce County District Court Probation Department, and a consultant for
the Division of Probation and Parole. Martinez has also been a clinical investigator
for the King County Work-Release Program and a coordinator for a Corrections Development
Project which involved developing and implementing rehabilitative services for some 200
persons.
Three other persons have been offered three-year contracts including current Faculty
Members Matt Smith and Sandra Simon, both of whom are serving one-year contracts.
TORNADO

RELIEF TOTAL $249; GOAL $2,000

The Evergreen fund raising efforts to provide financial aid to victims of the
tornado disaster which virtually destroyed two Mid-western Colleges are continuing in
their second week. As of Wednesday morning, the total donations were $249.16. The
student fund raisers, collecting donations in the College Activities Building, say
their goal of $2000 can be met easily if every Evergreen student contributes only one
dollar. The goal can easily be surpassed with equal donations from faculty and staff.
The money will provide immediate financial- relief to students at Wilberforce and Central
State Universities in Greene County, Ohio.
Anyone interested in donating to the colleges can take their donations to the CAB
stand or mail them to: TORNADO RELIEF FUND, Evergreen Branch, South Sound National Bank.
For more information on the College Relief Drive, contact the Information Center at
866-6300.
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EVERGREEN BUS SERVICE CONTRACTED WITH INTER-CITY TRANSIT
The Evergreen Bus system, which has been operated by students since its inception
19 months ago, will soon be absorbed by the Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater Inter-City Commission
if final contract details are successfully negotiated between the Commission and the
college.
Director of Auxiliary Services John Moss said that the college "has agreed to
contract with the Transit Commission for bus services next year" and that "final details
in regard to schedules, rates, and stops are still being worked out."
Under the new system, the Commission will provide bus services six days a week
with seven runs each day. The route will begin at Fourth Avenue and Capitol Way, stopping at OVTI, proceeding north on Black Lake Boulevard, Division, Butler Cove Road,
Cooper Point Road and west onto the College Parkway to the station in Parking Lot C.
The college will guarantee 76.5 cents per mile for the 5.5 miles of route outside the
city limits and will receive full credit for all fares from college passengers. The
fare will be 15 cents, a nickel more than the current rate, which has been subsidized
by Services and Activities Pees.
Annual guaranteed cost of the project will be $6,012 for 34 weeks of service,
which Moss said is considerably less expensive than the current system. "In the long
run," Moss added, "the service may be free because there is a strong likelihood that
the Cooper Point area will be annexed by the City of Olympia."
Evergreeners interested in sharing their feelings about the new system are invited
to an all campus meeting Monday, April 22 at 1 p.m. in Lecture Hall Four. Final contract
drafts will be prepared following the Monday meetings.
DTF RECOMMENDS FUNDING FOR THREE SEED GRANT PROPOSALS
Evergreen's Seed Grant Disappearing Task Force has recommended to President Charles
McCann that funding be approved for three proposals. The proposals—submitted by

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\y Members Tom Foote, Mark Papworth and Al Wiedei

created for the express purpose of "beginning or continuing programs or acquiring
resources not accessible through regular budgetary channels." The Seed Grant program,
now in its second year, is also directed toward encouraging continued professional
development of faculty and staff.
Only four proposals were submitted to the DTF for final review. A total of more
than $9,000 in salaries and supplies was awarded compared to $18,000 granted to six
faculty members last year. Foote's proposal, which was funded for one and one-half
month's salary plus $500 for expenses, calls for developing a grant proposal to
establish an Evergreen Archival Project
one which would build a regional collection
of folk, ethnic and country music at Evergreen.
Papworth, granted one month's salary and $500 for expenses, will develop a program
to "investigate the establishment of an on-cainpus program for the elderly from the
greater Olympia area," Papworth said. "It will be an experimental program to see how
we can best utilize Evergreen resources and facilities to help older people," he added.
Wiedemann, granted one month's salary and $900, will seek to develop one or more
proposals to fund a "Nisqually Delta Educational and Research Program," which would
utilize the research laboratory and interpretive center Evergreen has established at
the Luhr House near the mouth of McAllister Creek on the delta.
The DTF, which forwarded its recommendations to McCann April 15, also recommended
announcement of the 1974-75 Seed Grant program be made earlier next year. Members felt
the proposals should be called for "sometime in the middle of Winter Quarter" and that
budgeting of money for the program should precede selection of proposals. The DTF,
chaired by Faculty Member Peter Taylor, also suggested that more specific information
be included in any future proposals.
"REFLECTIONS FROM THE ROAD" ON TAP MONDAY
Unusual aspects of North American landscape provide the focus for a one-hour twinscreened documentary entitled "Reflections From the Road," to be shown at Evergreen
April 22 at 8 p.m. in Lecture Hall Three. Sponsored by Eye-5, the program is the work
of Dana Atchley, printer and graphics designer, who will relate some of his experiences
as a traveler during the past three years.
Atchley, who holds a Master of Fine Arts in graphics design from Yale University,
operated his own press from 1961 to 1965 and has published works in numerous magazines.
He has also won numerous fellowships and awards during the past 12 years, and was recently
presented major grants from the Canada Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The film is based on Atchley's concept of space as the connector of all things.
Atchley has formed his own firm
Ace Space Company: Bridgebuilders
to help
people bridge the gap between fantasy and reality. The one-hour presentation is free
and open to the public.
LAB BUILDING DEDICATION SET MAY 11
The 3.7 million dollar Laboratory Building will be dedicated May 11 as part of an
all day Parents Day-Open House Spring ceremony. Coordinated by Director of Information
Services Dick Nichols, the event will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will feature a
half-hour dedication ceremony beginning at 11 a.m.
Legislative leaders, representatives from the Evergreen Board of Trustees, President
Charles McCann and former Academic Dean Don Humphrey, who has been instrumental in
development of the unique 83,976-square foot facility, will participate in the dedication ceremony.
Parents and members of the general public will be invited to attend the ceremony
and participate in campus tours and other special events still in the planning stages,
according to Nichols.
Students are encouraged to invite their parents and friends to the all-day event,
and special, formal invitations will also be sent to them before the end of the month.
Persons interested in helping with tours or organization of activities are urged to
contact Nichols and volunteer their time, talents and energy.

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FOX TO DIRECT ECUADOR SUMMER STUDY
Evergreen Faculty Member Russ Fox will travel to Ecuador this summer to direct ari
eight-week summer program for Centeral Washington State College. Fox, who has spent
2 1/2 years in Chili and Peru, said he will supervise the activities of ten Central
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students who will work with the Quito (Ecuador's capitol) Municipal Health Department.
The unique program will enable the collegians to gain an insight into the health problems
of the South American country and to do something about the problems they see through
a field experience in community health.
Faculty Member Carolyn Dobbs, Fox's wife, will also make the trip and plans to
study Indian weaving techniques and bone up on her Spanish.
UNSOELD TO SERVE AS CONSULTANT FOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Faculty Member Willi Unsoeld will be retained as a consultant for the National Park
Service for a management seminar to be held at Pt. Reyes National Park in the San Francisco area of California April 29-May 3. Unsoeld will discuss "Spiritual Values of
Wilderness" during the four-day symposium which will be attended by the director of the
National Parks and his immediate staff.
Evergreen's mountain climbing professor also served as keynote speaker at Oregon
State University April 2 and 3. He addressed a two-day symposium on Middle Age at the
Corvalis meeting.
EVERGREENERS IN THE NEWS
...Faculty Member Richard Cellarius is one of five persons recently elected to the
Sierra Club's national Board of Directors for a three-year term. He will attend the
organizational meeting of the board in Clarement, California May 4 and 5. Cellarius
is also presently the chairman of the club's Pacific Northwest Chapter.
...Director of Financial Aid and Placement Les Eldridge has been accepted to the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University. The six-week institute, from
June 16-July 26, will provide training in educational management in such areas as
governance and labor relations.
...Faculty Member Richard Jones and Student Colleen Coleman presented "A Dialogue on
Dream Reflection Seminars" to the annual convention of the American Orthopsychiatric
Association in San Francisco April 12.
...Former Program Secretary Chris Cody, a recent Evergreen graduate, has rejoined the
staff as a full-time secretary for the Washington Commission for the Humanities. She
replaces Lynn Litz. Other newcomers to Evergreen include Carol Bartel, a media operator, and Judy Lindlauf, who replaces former Program Secretary Barbara Thompson.
OLYMPIAN TO PRESENT NOON PIANO CONCERT
Olympia pianist Carol Tamblyn Carlson will present a 40-minute noon concert in
the main lobby of Evergreen Library April 24. Ms. Carlson, an Olympia piano teacher,
has been an active musician, teacher, accompanist and soprano soloist in the Olympia
area for the past 25 years. She will perform: "Menuet Prelude" from Suite Bergamasque
by Debussy; "Moment Musical" by Rachmaninoff, and "Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57,"
by Beethoven.
The free, public concert is presented by the America's Music study program, which
has been sponsoring musical performances each Wednesday noon for the past several
weeks.
MURPHY INJURED IN FALL FROM RESIDENCE HALL
Brian Murphy, a Seattle sophomore and former editor of The Paper, was injured in a
fall from a third story window in Residence Hall B April 17. Murphy, currently at St.
Peter Hospital, suffered two fractures of the right ankle and a badly bruised left heel
in the accident. The 20-year-old student said he was "just climbing out the window"
when he lost his grip and fell the entire three stories to the ground. He expects to be
in a leg cast at least eight weeks.