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June 27, 1975

SUMMER ENROLLMENT HIGHER THAN EXPECTED
More than 830 students had enrolled for Summer Quarter as the Newsletter went
to Press Wednesday. Academic Dean Willie Parson estimated the final total student enrollment would tally around 866 with a full-time equivalent (FTE) of 753, which is somewhat
higher than was planned for earlier this year.
Parson said the college's original budget request from the legislature requested
funds for exactly those figures, but that later in the year the projections for summer
enrollment were reduced. Forty-three faculty members, including two who are assigned to
the Learning Services Center, are contracted for the ten-week summer session, but many
of them are not full-time. He said the faculty student ratio
of about 1 faculty member
per 20 students
would remain fairly constant during the summer session even though
the enrollment is "about 100 more than we had originally hoped for." The "overload," he
added, is being absorbed in part by a few faculty who are not on summer contract and a
few staff persons who are taking student contracts without compensation.
"BLUE RIBBON" BUSINESS ADVISORY PANEL NAMED
Formation of a 13-member blue ribbon Business Advisory Committee to assist faculty
members and academic officers plan for the establishment of business administration study
programs at Evergreen was announced today by Academic Dean Rudy Martin. The committee,
composed of executives from Washington business and industrial concerns, will meet periodically with Evergreen academic planners in hopes of launching pilot business studies
during Fall Quarter, 1975, followed by the development of a more comprehensive academic
program by Fall, 1976, Martin said.
"Planning for business studies has been underway for several months and is now
nearing a point where we think we can begin matching Evergreen's particular study programs
with the needs of business and industry for graduates who are academic generalists but
who have strong career interests in those areas," Martin added. "The idea is to develop
the kinds of studies that fit Evergreen's academic programs while taking the needs of
business into account. This requires interchange between academic planners and businessmen so that we can gain an awareness of each other's needs and problems and plan the kinds
of study programs that make practical sense in today's society. We think the advisory
committee will fill that need and help Evergreen develop unique but very effective business
curricula that takes students far beyond merely theoretical approaches to solving difficult
management problems."
Lawrence E. Hall, Executive Vice President of Puget Sound Power and Light Company
in Seattle serves as chairman of the advisory committee. Other members include David Gordon,
President of the Association of Washington Business; Stanley Little, Vice President of The
Boeing Company; Lowry Wyatt, Executive Vice President of Weyerhauser Company; James Stubner,
Pacific Northwest Bell; Howard 0. Scott, President, United Mutual Savings and Loan; James
Senna, Vice President, Olympia Brewing Company; Morley Petersen, President, Precision Wood
Products Company of Vancouver, Washington; Orville Melby, Vice President, Rainier National
Bank in Seattle; William Casterline, regional director for public relations, Sears-Roebuck,
Co.; Michael McGowan, President, Klauser Corporation of Tacoma; Eric Van of Peat, Marwick
and Mitchell, Certified Public Accountants, Seattle; and George Kinnear, attorney and
former Director of the State Department of Revenue.
Kinnear, working on a consulting basis for several months, and Martin spearheaded
formation of the Business Advisory Committee.

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MOSS CASE DISMISSED BY JUDGE DORAN
Thurston County Superior Court Judge Robert Doran issued a memorandum opinion
June 17 granting Evergreen's motion to dismiss the John Moss case from further court
review.
The case arose last November when Administrative Vice President Dean Clabaugh
appointed Moss to the dual directorship of Personnel and Auxiliary Services. Several
members of the faculty, staff and student body appealed Clabaugh's decision to an AllCampus Hearing Board which on Jan. 27 reversed Clabaugh's action. A month later the
Board of Trustees, following an appeal by Clabaugh of the Hearing Board's decision, declared the action was "within his authority" and that "nothing illegal was involved in
the management decision made."
Petitioners,counseled by attorney Hap Freund, an Evergreen faculty member, on March
26 filed a petition for Superior Court review, contending that Clabaugh's appointment process violated several sections of Evergreen's Human Rights document.
In his memorandum opinion, Judge Doran ruled that the dispute did not qualify as
a "contested case;" that the petitioners were "not aggrieved parties" within the legal
definition; and that the petitioners did not have the right to "appeal from the decision
of the Board (of Trustees) approving the manner in which the dual position was filled."
"The combining and filling the dual position is not a judicial or quasi judicial
function of the administrators of the College," he ruled. "Accordingly the decision is
not subject to review by the courts..."
The complete text of Judge Doran's decision is available at the Information Center.
TODAY LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR SUMMER WORKSHOPS
Registration for 19 summer workshops
ranging in topics from belly dancing
to underwater marine
appreciation, horse back riding to fencing
will conclude today \t 6
Ed King, director of Leisure Education programming, said the non-credit generating
workshops will be held during the weekday and early evenings and will cost from $5 to $40
each. "Enrollment will be on a first-come, first-served basis," he added, "and workshop
fees, which must be paid in advance, will not be refunded."
TWO GRANTS AWARDED FOR FURTHER DDT-RELATED STUDIES
The U.S. Forest Service has awarded Evergreen a $41,000 contract to continue
research into the effects of DDT applications on non-target organisms, and the Washington
State Game Department has presented Evergreen a $5,500 contract for similar studies on
the effects of the new pesticide Fenitrothion.
Steve Herman, Evergreen faculty ecologist and director of both grant projects,
says the Forest Service award will enable students to continue studies originally funded
in May of 1974 by a $29,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA
grant sent students, all members of the Ecology and Chemistry of Pollution Coordinated
Studies program, to fields and the laboratory to examine effects of DDT applications on
small birds, shrews and insects.
"The new Forest Service grant will enable us to spend another six months examining
the long range effects of those DDT applications in test areas near Enterprise, Oregon,"
Herman said. The Game Department grant will finance studies by three students in an
area near Twisp, Washington on the effects of Fenitrothion, which, Herman said, may prove
to be a replacement for DDT.
ADDITIONAL LEEP FUNDS GRANTED

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Evergreen has received an additional $1,214 from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's Law Enforcement Education Program, according to Financial Aid Director
Kay Atwood. The additional grant brings Evergreen's total LEEP award for the 1974-75
academic year to $27,973. Atwood said the money has already been allocated to Summer
Quarter students.

SIX NEW FACULTY TO JOIN FALL STAFF

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Four full-time and two visiting appointments to Evergreen's faculty have been
announced by Provost Ed Kormondy. All six appointments become effective Sept. 15, 1975.
Named to three-year faculty posts are: Therese Bonin, language and literature;
Lowell Kuehn, sociology and criminology; Alan Nasser, philosophy; and Greg Steinke. music.
Visiting appointments have been contracted with Kathleen Lebo and Dale Noyd. both in the
field of psychology.
Dr. Bonin, an assistant professor of languages at Ohio State University, has
taught in her homeland of France and at the University of Florida. A Fulbright scholar,
she has recently published a basic reader on language instruction. Dr. Kuehn has most
recently served as an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California at
Riverside where he has also directed U.C.'s graduate program in sociology.
Another
sociologist, Dr. Nassar has taught at the University of Oregon and has published numerous
articles dealing with philosophy, a subject in which he has his doctorate.
Steinke is currently on the music faculty at California State University at
Northridge. He has authored more than two dozen musical compositions and is an accomplished
musician. Dr. Lebo, who will be a visiting faculty member for one year, is currently a
counselor and assistant professor of psychology at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.
She has also accumulated more than two years of clinical experience in a variety of medical facilities, including veterans' hospitals, a youth center and a state hospital. Also
on the staff of Earlham College, Noyd has accepted a half-time appointment at Evergreen
for the coming year. He is currently coordinator for Earlham's Center for Human Development and Social Relations and is a former captain in the U.S. Air Force where he taught
psychology at the Air Force Academy in Colorado.
EVERGREENERS IN THE NEWS
David Imanaka, a former art director from Seattle, has been named to a one-year
appointment as graphics designer at Evergreen, replacing Connie Hubbard who has taken a
year's leave of absence. The appointment is effective July 1...Susan Smith, head of
circulation in the library since 1972 has been promoted to coordinator of user services.
The promotion is also effective July 1. Smith served as acting coordinator of user
services last fall. In her new post, she will be responsible for the library functions of
circulation and inter-library loan and will coordinate activities in acquisitions, cataloging and reference areas. She will also be responsible for developing and implementing
library liaison with Evergreen academic programs...
Fred Tabbutt, faculty member in physical chemistry, is one of 93 educators from
throughout the nation to receive a 1975 National Science Foundation Faculty Fellowship
Award. Tabbutt received the fellowship to fund additional studies aimed at "broadening
his perspective in the applications of science to societal problems." He will spend his
nine-month fellowship at the University of Warwick in England studying simulation and
ecological modeling...
Faculty Memer Jeff Kelly, a bio-physical chemist, will attend the Gordon Research
Conference on the PhysTcal/Chemical Aspects of Photosynthesis July 21-25 in Tilton, New
Hampshire. The invitational conference, sponsored by the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, is aimed at providing working scientists a chance to share their
ideas and information on the research they're currently undertaking...
Affirmative Action Officer Rindy Jones has been named to the board -of directors of
the American Association for Affirmative Action Officers. She is also Region X (ten) representative to the national association...Doris McDonald joined Evergreen's staff June 9
as a statistical typist. She replaces Sally Prouty who is working part-time temporarily
filling in for Pat Spears....Gabrielle Duverglas has begun a leave of absence to study in
Europe...And Dick Nichols, known as Super Coach by a select circle in Tumwater, led his
girls' Softball team, the Turkeys, to a third place win for the season. He's showing
the trophy to all interested passersby...
And, Gary Norton, a June 1974 grad from New York, has been accepted into Radcliffe
College's Publishing Procedures Course, sponsored by Harvard University. The intensive
professional program is designed for those who are seriously considering a career in book
or magazine publishing and enrollment in the program is limited and highly competitive.

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OPERA COMES TO EVERGREEN JULY 7
Opera will come to Evergreen next month with the beginning of Ring Cycle
Coordinated Studies program being offered in conjunction with the Seattle Opera Association's Northwest Festival production of Richard Wagner's "Der Ring Der Nibelungen."
Academic Dean Charles Teske will coordinate the unique summer program in cooperation with
Evergreen Faculty Member Bill Winden and Visiting Faculty Member Walter Aschaffenburg,
professor of composition and music theory at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.
Aschaffenburg, a highly active composer in his own right, was born in Germany
and educated at Oberlin and the Eastman School of Music. His works include "Ozymandias:
Symphonic Reflections for Orchestra," which has been performed by the Eastman-Rochester
Symphony Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra; and "Three Dances," also performed
by the Cleveland Orchestra. He has also composed and had produced a full-length opera,
"Bartleby."
The study program will run July 7-28 and include workshops, lectures, seminars and
critique sessions for discussion of the music of the Ring, and has been scheduled so
that all participants receive a week of instruction prior to actual productions of the
Ring in Seattle. The German version of the cycle
which is some 14 hours long and spans
four complete operas given within six days
will be presented July 15 to July 20.
The English version will run from July 22 to July 27.
Opportunities for auditing the program are still available, according to Teske.
In addition, Evergreeners and community members will have a chance to attend free lectures
July 7-11 beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall Five, and to view films relating to
Wagner's Ring furnished by the Embassy and the (Seattle) General Consulate of the Federal
Republic of Germany. An exact schedule of program lectures and films will be available
at a later date. Watch the Newsletter and/or the Happenings for it.
DEVELOPMENT BROCHURE WINS AWARD

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The "Challenge of Change," a brochure published by Evergreen's Development
Office, has received an award of merit from the Council for Advancement and Support of
Education (CASE). The brochure, produced under the supervision of former Development
Director Marianne Nelson Godwin, was written by Barnes and Roche, a New York consulting
firm. Photographs were taken by Ari Cowan, a professional photographer from Bellevue,
and design work was done by Connie Hubbard, Evergreen graphics designer.

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Special announcements
Because there are so few Happenings items, we've included them in with the
Newsletter this week. If you have items for publication, submit them to the Information
Center by noon on Wednesdays and we'll publish according to need.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 2
weekly repeats
* Body awareness
hatha, jnana and prana Yoga, polarity therapy; 2-3:30 p.m.,
CRC multipurpose room. Cost $15 for eight weeks.
THURSDAY, JULY 3
Friday Night Film Series presents "The Rain People," starring Shirley Knight
and James Caan, 7 and 9:30 p.m., Lecture Hall One...50$ admission.
FRIDAY, JULY 4
Official Employee Holiday....nobody works at Evergreen today!