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Part of The Evergreen State College Newsletter (April 22, 1974)

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...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."
...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.
...STUDENTS ARE SEMI-FINALISTS FOR NEW YORK PROGRAM...Two Evergreen students
Rob Simms
of Portland, Oregon, and Lionel Spears of Compton, California
have been selected as
two of 40 semi-finalists in this year's New York City Urban Fellowship competition. Simms
and Spears will join the other semi-finalists in New York City for personal interviews.
A decision on winners of the 20 full-time internships as Urban Fellows for the 1974-75
academic year will be made later this Spring.
The New York City Urban Fellowship is administered through the New York City mayor's
office. Students selected for participation receive $4,000 stipends, plus round-trip expenses from their homes,. They also receive full academic credit for their work. Evergreen
student Teresa Baldwin of Vancouver, Washington is currently completing her internship as
a New York City Urban Fellow.
...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.
...UNSOELD TO SERVE AS CONSULTANT FOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE...Evergreen 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
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...AUTHOR/EDITOR-PROFESSOR TO PRESENT FREE TALK...Robert W. Corrigan, author, editor and
professor of English at the University of Michigan, will discuss "The Transformation of
the Avant Garde" in a free public lecture at Evergreen April 25 at 7 p.m. in Lecture Hall
Three. Corrigan, first president of the California Institute of the Arts, is the editor
of the Dell Classics Series and founder of the Tulane Drama Review.
...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, XSp. 57," by Beethoven. The free, public concert is presented by the American's
Music study program.
..."REFLECTIONS FROM THE ROAD" ON TAP APRIL 22...Unusual aspects of North American landscape
provide the focus for a one-hour twin-screened 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.
...ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TOPIC OF APRIL 25 MEETING. . .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 Marinanne Nelson, who is coordinating alumni activities, says the meeting has been called "to finalize alternatives for an association."
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