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December 13, 1974

GOVERNOR'S BUDGET TOPIC OF ALL-CAMPUS MEETING DEC. 23
Governor Daniel J. Evans' proposed Evergreen operating budget for the 1975-77
biennium will be discussed in a campus-wide meeting starting at 9 a.m. Dec. 23 in the Board
of Trustees meeting room (Library 3112). President Charles McCann and Vice Presidents Ed
Kormondy and Dean Clabaugh will conduct the meeting, during which all Evergreen deans and
directors will present projections of what the governor's budget request will mean in terms
of college services during the 1975-77 biennium.
The governor's budget will be released to the public next week, although state agencies
including Evergreen
have received advance totals so that they may begin preliminary
allocation planning for the new biennium. The governor has directed that no figures be
released until he presents his budget on Dec. 20.
IMPACT OF BUDGET OUTLINED
Evergreen's Dec. 23 meeting is designed to air the governor's request for college
funding and
on a unit-by-unit basis
outline its impact. After presentation by the
governor, the state budget will be referred for legislative consideration during the 1975
session, which starts in January. Historically, the governor's request level generally has
amounted to an appropriations ceiling for various agencies. Thus, figures aired at Evergreen
Dec. 23 are tentative at best, with subsequent legislative action a big question mark.
The meeting is open to all interested Evergreeners.
tacoma based
MIMMS' PROGRAM EXAMINES ALTERNATIVES FOR NON-WHITES
They meet twice a month at the Tacoma Community Center on South- M Street. Over the
constant drone of a laboring heating system and the creaking of the old structure, 30 men
and women, mostly non-white, all well over 21, question and cajole their instructors, eager
to clarify any issues or expose any carelessly offered comments.
Representing professional backgrounds in politics, government service, business,
health care and social service agencies, the men and women are all Evergreen students. But
most of them never get to campus and they don't intend to.
Taught by Tacoman Maxine Mimms
a full-time Evergreen faculty member, former public
school teacher and social case worker
the group was organized to "expand the students'
occupational outlook," she says. "These students are nearly all working in the real world,"
she comments. "Most have at least two years of college and are determined to earn a college
degree. But because of distance and the demands of their present occupations, they can't
travel to Olympia for their education.
MIMMS TOOK EVERGREEN TO THEM
So, Mrs. Mimms explains, "we took Evergreen to them."
It all started two years ago when two Tacoma women, Pat Baines and Mary Harper visited
Evergreen to find out how they could earn their bachelor's degrees. Mrs. Mimms began working with the two women at her home in Tacoma. Word spread and soon she had a score of
students interested in studying with her on their jobs or at her home, but not on campus.
She spent last summer coordinating a program in Community Organization, working with
23 black Tacomans charged with the task of pinpointing six placements each for Evergreen
interns. "We were working through the Office of Cooperative Education to locate businesses,
industries and public and private agencies willing to accept non-white student interns who
could earn academic credit
and a salary
while working for them," she says. "The

program was so successful it backfired. We ended up not only securing all the internships
we aimed for, but in recruiting additional students."
So, she designed another program for them
this one called Life Styles and Occupations
and created to serve the needs of three dozen non-white, mature students who wanted to
look at alternative life styles and, as Mrs. Mimms says, "not just stick to occupations tn
are restricted to non-whites."
The program is "hard core academic," she adds. "It's strictly a lecture program
with emphasis on writing, public speaking and facilitative listening. It offers those
theories and skills which these students need to further their professional and personal
development.
RECRUITED FIVE OTHER INSTRUCTORS
Mrs. Mimms recruited five other Evergreen instructors (Richard Brian, Thad Curts,
Margaret Gribskov, Charlie Lyons and Niels Skov) to offer their expertise to the program.
On Tuesdays her group works with a journalist/educator on creative writing; Fridays they
listen to lectures which span academic disciplines from public speaking to mathematics,
earth science to literature; and Wednesdays they polish basic skills, aided by Mrs. Mimms
and members of the Evergreen Learning Services Center staff.
"The structure of the program is definitely not give and take," she says. "It's
organized for students to take from our faculty resources what they need. They listen.
After all, you can't ask students to ask questions when they don't have the information to
ask questions with."
But, she adds, just because it's not designed for a lot of student input doesn't mean
it's a quiet class. Far from it. Mrs. Mimms says she and her Evergreen colleagues have
found it to be "the liveliest class we've instructed for a long time." "These students
are motivated," she says. "They want to learn, to glean every bit of information they can
from our faculty members. Sometimes," she adds with a grin, "they really intimidate our
professors with all their questions and comments."
She says the program's been so successful that she's working with the Tacoma Urban
League, examining the possibility of designing a future Evergreen off-campus program for
its staff. In the meantime, she's continuing work on the Alternative Life Styles group
contract, outlining topics and recruiting faculty for what promises to be a lively Winterl
and Spring at the Tacoma Community House.
EVERGREEN JUNIOR TRAFFIC FATALITY
Sharon Henderson, a 22-year-old Evergreen junior,was killed in a one-car traffic
accident early Sunday morning (Dec. 8) on East Bay Drive in Olympia. Henderson, a graduate
of Yelm High School, was a transfer student from Centralia College and Western Washington
State College. The daughter of Russell Stancil of Olympia, she was enrolled in the "On
Knowing" Coordinated Studies program. She died on her twenty-second birthday.
NEW MEMBERS APPOINTED TO PROFESSIONAL LEAVES DTF
Provost Edward J_. Kormondy has announced the appointment of three new members to the
Professional Leaves Disappearing Task Force. Faculty Members Linda Kahan and Bill Winden
and Director of Computer Services York Wong have been named to replace Faculty Members
Betty Kutter and Jake Romero and Admissions Director Ken Mayer, whose terms have expired.
Three other persons
Faculty Members Margaret Gribskov and Ed Reynolds and student
Jill Fleming
are now serving the second year of their two-year term on the continuing
DTF.
FABRICANT NAMED TO NORCUS INTERNSHIP
Mortan Fabricant. a Newton, Massachusetts senior, has been selected by the Northwest
College and University Association for Science CNORCUS) Consortium to work on a competitive
research project at Battelle Northwest in Richland. Fabricant, who last year directed a /
National Science Foundation student grant for a study on flouride contamination in the
Columbia River Gorge, will spent the month of January in Richland working with the
Hanford Environmental Health Foundation.
NORCUS is a consortium of 40 colleges and universities working together to administer
funds provided by the Atomic Energy Commission for education and research.

TWENTY-THREE SENIORS COMPLETE DEGREES TODAY
Twenty-three Evergreen students are scheduled to complete graduation requirements
at the end of Fall Quarter (Dec. 13). Scheduled to graduate are 11 Washingtonians and 12
out-of-staters.
Graduates from Thurston County are expected to include Jimmy Pruske, Olympia; Jacqueline
Ferro Delahunt, Tumwater; and Penny Spute, Lacey. Other Washingtonians graduating today
are Stephen Wiggins, Napavine; Alan White, Forks; Crystal Ashley, Mead; Lee Vandegrift,
Mercer Island; Colleen Christensen, Bellevue; David Kucklick, Puyallup; and Mary Harper
and Helen Anderson, both of Tacoma.
Scheduled out-of-state graduates include: Karen Core, Lake Oswego, Oregon; Susan
Noves. Salem, Oregon; Lindell Eldred, San Marino, California; Jenny Matkin, Sonora,
California; Paul Rabin. North Hollywood, California; Carol Schutt, San Francisco, California;
John Anderson, Jr., Reading, Massachusetts; Elizabeth Zima, Iowa City, Iowa; Katherine
Willcox Burger. New York City, New York; Robert Sheldon, Madison, Ohio; Ronald Alpert,
Englewood, Colorado? and Cynthia Stewart, Dallas, Texas.
Three of the Fall Quarter graduates
Vandegrift, Noyes and Ashley
are Evergreen
pioneers , and Vandegrift is also the first student officially admitted to Evergreen in
1971.
SENIOR CITIZENS SOUGHT FOR ENCOUNTERING AMERICA

PROGRAM

Evergreen is recruiting senior citizens
not to enlarge its enrollment, but
to bridge the generation gap through a Spring Quarter study on the "Wisdom of the Elderly."
"We're inviting Thurston County senior citizens to work with us now to plan the
Spring study," Faculty Member Russ Fox explains. "And, we're looking for others who'll be
willing to participate in the actual program, which will run from March 31 to June 13." Fox
says his students, all members of the Encountering America Coordinated Studies Program, are
holding a series of meetings for all interested senior citizens. The first one was held
Dec. 11, he says, and additional meetings are scheduled Winter Quarter.
Goal of the one-quarter program is, Fox says, "partly to bridge the generation gap."
"We want to involve senior citizens in Evergreen, both academically and socially," he
says. "We want to share their perceptions, ideas and experiences, and work with them in
solving the problems of the aged in our society."
The Evergreen faculty member says there's no age limit for the program. "No one's
too old." He adds that "no academic degrees are necessary. We're just looking for people
willing and able to teach the skills, trades, crafts and knowledge of history they've
accumulated through their years of living." He says he and his students will help resolve
transporation difficulties for program participants if necessary.
RECREATION CENTER AND UTILITIES PLANT WIN AWARDS
Two Evergreen buildings have won recognition in the 1974 Honor Awards Program of the
Southwest Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. One structure
the College Recreation Center designed by the Tacoma architectural firm of Robert Price
and Associates
received an Honor Award for distinguished accomplishment in architecture.
The other
the college's Central Utilities Plant designed by Bennett, Johnson, Slenes
and Smith, Architects of Olympia
received a Merit Award.
Program entries were not only judged on the basis of competition but also on the
architect's solution to the design problem presented, as well as a project's worthiness
for an architectural award of excellence.
The Evergreen building project work
from design to construction and operation
is coordinated by Evergreen Director of Facilities Jerry Schillinger.
ENVIRONMENTAL WORKSHOPS DEVELOPED
Environmentalists en campus are now organizing bi-monthly workshops designed to help
concerned individuals understand effective methods of acting on environmental concerns, or,
just how to go about "getting involved," according to Cindy Swanberg,a Seattle junior.

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Caring about the earth is the most important first step in protecting it," Swanberg
says. "But by never acting on those concerns, a person too often finds that what he has
cared most about has been destroyed. For this reason we have organized these workshops anr
hope that they will provide a forum for the discussion of vital issues and experiences." \s w
Martin Baker, Executive Director of the Washington Environmental Council, will discuss the
upcoming legislative session, specific environmental bills that will be introduced and
methods by which individuals can affect the course of those bills. Jan. 21 the group will
investigate effective methods of letter writing, concentrating on such things as
communication of concern, who to write to, proper forms, etc. Feb. 4 Paul Mitchell from
the Consumer's Lobby for Refillable Beverage Containers, will talk about the future of the
bottle bill in Washington State.
Subsequent workshop topics are open to suggestion, but may include: how to appeal
a timber sale, the National Forest Planning Unit Process, and responding to environmental
impact statements.
Students organizing these workshops are Swanberg (491-6350) and Liz Keeny (866-1019).
Notice of all workshops will be posted on the Environmental Action Board at the Outdoor
Kiosk on the main mall of the CAB.
EVERGREENERS IN THE NEWS
Faculty Member Dave Hitchens will leave in mid-January to serve as a senior lecturer
in the School of Social Inquiry at a brand new univeristy in Perth, Australia. Hitchens
says his new position at Murdoch University in Western Australia is for one year only,
and he plans to return to Evergreen by Winter Quarter 1976...Faculty Member Bob Filmer
has been named chairman of the Disappearing Task Force charged with responsibility for
nominating an academic dean to replace Charles Teske. Teske, the last of the three original
deans, will finish his term of service the end of June and rotate into the faculty.
Students Kathy Rich of Morton and Brent Ingram of Victoria, British Columbia, have / N
been named to the Publications Board for the remainder of the 1974-75 academic year by
President Charles J_. McCann.
New to the Evergreen staff this past month are: Ed Evans, program secretary; Robert
Selin, programmer in Computer Services, and Melanie Feuerstein, library technician.
CO-OP HELPING THURSTON COUNTY PROBATION OFFICE
Evergreen has been placing students in private businesses, governmental agencies and
social service organizations for credit-generating internships since the college opened
in the fall of 1971. Now, in a cooperative effort between the Office of Cooperative Education and the Thurston County Probation Office, TESC will help place persons found guilty
of minor legal offenses in those same agencies to work out their sentences
not to
earn college credit but to provide a community service.
Ken Donohue, director of Evergreen Co-op program, said his office is contacting more
than 300 public and private agencies throughout the state to gather names of those
organizations which are willing to cooperate in the newly created Thurston County Minor
Offender Program.
"The idea," Donohue says, "is for those persons found guilty of a minor offense to
serve their time helping their local community, rather than behind bars. Co-op is helping
locate those agencies which are willing to accept the unpaid aid of the offenders for an
amount of time determined at their sentencing."
The offenders
often youthful violators of laws regulating marijuana, alcoholism
or traffic
serve at the agencies in lieu of a short jail term. Their service has to
be in their home area, which is often outside of Thurston County, so agencies need to be
identified throughout the state.
"We sometimes have offenders from as far away as Spokane County," Valerie Shewp,
(
Thurston County probation of ficer, explains. "Our office doesn't have the resources to
locate positions that far away, so we looked to Evergreen for help."
TESC has placed more than 1800 interns in 800 agencies in the past three and a half
years, Donohue adds.