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Part of The Evergreen State College Newsletter (July 19, 1974)

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BOARD APPROVES ALUMNI ASSOCIATION; VETOES PARKING
The Board of Trustees formally established and recognized the Evergreen Alumni
Association at its July 10 meeting in Spokane. In a short, quiet meeting, the Trustees
approved a resolution creating the Alumni Association for the purpose of providing "input
and service toward the development of TESC and providing a vehicle for interaction and
information among the members of the Evergreen community."
The Board also defeated a motion to reinstate parking fees for next fall and
adopted a report by the Salary DTF which, in effect, gave raises to five exempt staff
members including: Candy Stamey. administrative secretary to Vice President Dean Clabaugh; Don Meyer, budget offier; Arnold Doerksen. Director of General Services; Dan
Swecker. Cooperative Education Coordinator, and Vice President Clabaugh.
The Board also approved bid awards for installing ceramic tile in the CRC pool
area (award to Pacific Terrazzo, Inc. of Tacoma for $1,681); chain link fencing in the
Library basement (to Southgate Fence, Olympia,for $650) and for addition to the air
filter bank in Phase one of the Seminar Building (to Western Sheet Metal, Olympia for
$720).
Following the meeting, board members were treated to an executive tour of EXPO by
Trustee Halvor Halvorson, a Spokane contractor,
VON VOLKENBURG TO AID ALUMNI, DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS
Don Von yolkenburg, a former publications editor for the University of Washington,
has been named program assistant to the Evergreen Development Office. The appointment,
effective July 17, was announced by Director of Development Marianne Nelson.
Von Volkenburg, a 1973 Evergreen graduate, will assist Ms. Nelson in continuing
development of fund generating programs and in establishing of the newly created Alumni
Association.
The new development assistant has worked as a public information officer for the
Toledo, Ohio Urban Renewal Agency and as an editor and marketing representative for
the Toledo Trust Compnay. Von Volkenburg has also worked in cinematography, participated
in several training sessions for group counseling, and been active in Sierra Club,
Toastmasters and Jaycees. He completed his undergraduate work at Evergreen in June of
1973. He formerly attended the University of Washington and Highline Community College,
SEATTLE STRING QUARTET TO PRESENT FREE CONCERT JULY 22
The Kronos String Quartet of Seattle will present a free public concert
at Evergreen July 22 beginning at noon in the main Library lobby. The musical
group, which will serve as quartet-in-residence for Portland area colleges
during the 1974-75 academic year, will perform a varied string quartet repertoire including works by both classical and modern composers.
WERGREEN AWARDED $29,789 EPA GRANT
Evergreen has received a $29,789 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency for
research on the "Ecological Effects of DDT on Non-Target Organisms." The grant was
awarded to Faculty Member Steve Herman, an ecologist. It enables Herman and ten students
to gather extensive data on the effects of DDT applications being administered to forested
areas of the Pacific Northwest by the U.S. Forest Service in attempts to control
copulations of the Douglas Fir Tussock Moth.
Herman and his students are gathering data ia the area around Enterprise, Oregon, and
hope to complete their field work by the end of the summer. Biological samples are being
collected and sent to laboratories at Evergreen where Faculty Member Mike BeTig, a chemist,
and a team of student analysts will determine DDT residue levels.
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KORMONDY CONSULTING IN VENEZUELA
Vice President and Provost Ed Kormondy is serving as a consultant for the Department of Ecology at the University of Simon Bolivar in Caracus, Venezuela. Kormondy, an
ecologist who joined the Evergreen faculty in 1971, will spend six weeks working with
the ecology staff of the new university, which has a student enrollment approximately
the same size as Evergreen. The university requested his assistance as. a result, of
Kormondy's book, "Concepts of Ecology," which was published in 1969 and later translated
into Spanish.