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Part of The Evergreen State College Newsletter (December 16, 1974)

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December 16, 1974

...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's Co-Op program, said his office is contacting more
than 300 public and private agencies throught the state to gather names of those organizations 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, alchoholism
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 officer 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. And, Donohue says,
"we're delighted to have this chance to share our resources with the county in this way."

...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.

...TWENTY-THREE SENIORS COMPLETE DEGREES DEC. 13...Twenty-three Evergreen students were
scheduled to complete graduation requirements at the end of Fall Quarter. Scheduled to
graduate were 11 Washingtonians and 12 out-of-staters.
Graduates from Thurston County were expected to include Jimmy Pruske, Olympia; Jacqueline
Ferro Delahunt, Tumwater; and Penny Spute, Lacey. Other Washingtonians graduating were
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.
Three Fall Quarter graduates Vandegrift, Susan Noyes of Salem, Oregon and Ashley
are
Evergreen pioneers, and Vandegrift is also the first student officially admitted to Evergreen
in 1971.

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...TACOMANS STUDYING ALTERNATIVE LIFE STYLES OFF CAMPUS...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 Minims
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. So, Mrs. Mimms explains, "we took Evergreen to them."
She and five other Evergreen faculty members meet with the students three times a week,
concentrating on public speaking, creative writing, theoretical lectures on a wide variety
of topics, and basic skills development. So far the program has proved to be "one of the
liveliest classes we've ever instructed^"
she says. "These students are motivated.
They
want to learn everything, to glean every bit of information they can from our faculty members.
She says the program has 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.
...SOLOMON NAMED NEWSPAPER EDITOR...Samuel Solomon, a first-year Evergreener , has been
named editor of the Cooper Point Journal. Solomon, whose appointment is effective from
first of January through the end of Spring Quarter, was named to the post by the Evergreen
Publications Board. He has served as special editor of the weekly student newspaper during
Fall Quarter.
A graduate of Long, Beach, California Polytechnic High School, Solomon, 19, will be
assisted by John Foster, an Evergreen senior from Olympia, who has been appointed business
manager for Winter Quarter.

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