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Evergreen and the Open University:
Getting a Fair Rate of Exchange

Faculty Come
and Go, But
Teaching's All
the Better

by Mark E. Clemens,
Acting Director of Information Services

by Mark E. Clemens,
Acting Director of Information Services

When Andy Northedge, Ellie
Chambers, and their daughters,
Charlotte, 5, and Laura, 4, arrived at
Sea-Tac International Airport in early
January it was only the beginning of
their trip.
Behind them lay a nine-and-a-half
hour flight over the North Pole that
had been preceded by a six-hour delay
at London's Heathrow Airport.
Behind them lay their life in Great
Britain and for Ellie and Andy that
meant the development of new course
materials for the Open University
(within the OU's Institute of Educational Technology)—their full-time
work of more than ten years—and the
weekly tutorials (seminars) for OU
students in London, all that was on
the back burner for a year.
Before them lay a number of
changes: the new year, 1984, which
they would spend as visiting faculty
members at The Evergreen State College; the new climate of Puget Sound
(where, Northedge says, "the weather
is much wetter. At home, people say
'rain before 7, fine before 11.' We
don't hear that here"); new money;
new food; and no news of runner
Sebastian Coe.
That was January, and the
Chambers and Northedge family has
long since settled in at Evergreen.
Charlotte is happy in school and
Laura looks forward to Driftwood
aycare and her Leisure Education
junior gymnastics class. Both
Chambers and Northedge are teaching
in Core Programs, which are similar
to the OU's Foundation Courses.
A major educational innovation, the
Open University has received international attention for its use of mass
communications to reach large
numbers of students in their homes.
Unlike traditional British universities,
there are no entrance requirements at
the OU—anyone from any walk of life
may enroll.
OU students study part-time at
home, receiving printed materials by
mail and other information by TV,
radio, cassettes, home experiment kits,
etc. This year some 65,000 students
were enrolled at the OU.

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"Each course requires a minimum
of 12 hours study," explains Northedge, "for 32 weeks from February
through October."
"Students must pass six of these
courses to get a B.A.," Chambers
says, "and the first two of them must
be Foundation Courses, which like
your Core Programs serve as an introduction to our method of study."
Chambers teaches literature in the
Core Program, "Language, Logic and
Western Civilization" with Evergreen
faculty members Richard Brian and
David Hitchens. She finds that, "The
OU's Foundation Courses are rather
more structured for beginners than
Core Programs, which expect more
from students in terms of reading. In
Foundation, students often read only
short bits of a page, while whole
books are assigned in Core
Programs."
Northedge, a social scientist, is
teaching in "Human Development"
with Evergreen faculty Rita Pougiales
and Nancy Allen. For him, the most
marked contrast is between
Evergreen's "intensive face-to-face"

style and the Open University's individual study and mass media
delivery.
Some more facts about OU: it
opened in 1969 and, in 1984, more
than 40,500 people applied to begin
study. The OU offers 134 undergraduate courses, mails out about
three million course packages, and
marks about 700,000 student assignments every year. Students submit
their written assignments by mail and,
in addition, have the option of taking
weekly seminars at the nearest OU
study center. There are 288 study
centers in England, Scotland, Wales,
Northern Ireland, Cyprus, and West
Germany. There are about 5,000
part- and full-time teachers around
England, mostly part-time as they
teach full-time at other universities.
Obviously there are some wide
divergences between Evergreen and
the OU in delivering educational
messages, but striking similarities in
philosophy and pedagogic theory. And
therein lies the value of faculty exchanges: to learn about different
methods and points-of-view, and to
get a fair rate of exchange.

Northedge listens as Nancy Smith, a freshman
from Wenatchee, Washington, and Chris
Campbell, a freshman from Lacey, Washington,
make a presentation during a "Human Development" seminar. "It's great to be on campus and
have students all around you instead of sitting at

home at the other end of a mailing system," says
Northedge. The Open University in England,
where Northedge teaches, delivers educational
materials to its 65,000 students in their homes
largely by mail and the media.

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With four exchange faculty on campus
and two Evergreen faculty visiting
other campuses, Evergreen has faculty
coming and going this quarter, but its
education is only getting better for it.
Visiting for the quarter are Jim
Baenen and Valerie Ann Bystrom,
faculty from Seattle Central Community College, while visiting for all
of 1984 are Ellie Chambers and Andy
Northedge, a faculty twosome from
the Open University in England (see
related story). Visiting in the other
direction are Evergreen's Alan Nasser,
faculty member in philosophy, who is
teaching upper- and graduate-level
courses at the University of Washington this spring, and faculty Gerry
Lassen, who is teaching economics at
Kobe University of Commerce in
Japan through the summer.
Baenen, an anthropologist, and
Bystrom, who teaches English, came
here to learn more about Core Programs, which Evergreen uses to provide newer students with a solid foundation of knowledge and skills for
more advanced studies. Core Programs also serve as an introduction to
the interdisciplinary mode of study,
where faculty from different disciplines
teach around a central theme or issue.
Seattle Central is developing a
special integrated approach to the
Associate of Arts degree which is
modeled on Core Programs. Next fall,
Bystrom and Baenen will use what
they've learned at Evergreen to
establish a pilot interdisciplinary program at Seattle Central, and they'll
have the help of Evergreen's York
Wong and Susan Aurand, faculty in
political economy and art, respectively.
After fall, two more Seattle Central
faculty will visit Evergreen.
Alan Nasser's stint in the philosophy department at the University of
Washington is just the first exchange
in what could be an exciting relationship for Evergreen and the largest
educational institution in the state.
Evergreen's Academic Dean Barbara
Smith explains the trade-off.
continued on page 3

Out for a Sunday stroll on Evergreen's new
running track are visiting faculty members Andy
Northedge and Ellie Chambers with daughters
Laura (left rear) and Charlotte (right rear), plus
two visitors for the afternoon, Malcolm and Emily
Knapp (in front), children of Evergreen faculty
member Rob Knapp and his wife, Helena.

Evergreen and
Three Area High
Schools Unite in
Cooperative
Teaching Project
by Judy McNickle,
Former Director of Information Services

The Northwest Area Foundation has
awarded Evergreen and three local
high schools a $9,990 grant to
establish a "Cooperatives for Quality
Teaching Program." Only two such
grants were awarded to Washington
state projects out of a total of 215
proposals.
Designed to improve the quality of
instruction through cooperative efforts
between secondary and postsecondary
institutions, the new program will
allow faculty from Evergreen, Turnwater, North Thurston and Capital
High Schools to expand collaborative
efforts originally started under a grant
from the National Endowment for the
Humanities.

Dr. Lowell Kuehn

Mandelbaum to
Resign Public
Policy Institute

"The NEH grant to Evergreen and
other area universities was one of the
largest projects of its kind ever
funded," according to Academic Dean
Barbara Leigh Smith, who will coordinate the new project. "That NEH
effort funded the Pacific Northwest
Writing Consortium which promoted
writing throughout the curriculum
through programs at the University of
Oregon, University of Washington,
Lewis and Clark College, Pacific
Lutheran University, the University of
Puget Sound, and Evergreen."
The new project will expand that
emphasis on writing skills to the high
school level. It will also, Smith
reported, promote faculty development
and encourage creation of interdisciplinary approaches to learning in
the high schools.
"Our project will address the
serious lack of communication between high schools and colleges by
pairing six high school teachers in
humanities and science with six
Evergreen faculty from equivalent
fields," Smith said.
Each of the high school teachers will
spend a week observing classes at
Evergreen, and Evergreen faculty will
do the same in the high schools.
"We have a great deal to learn from
each other," Smith emphasized. "This
will provide us a means to help each

Dr. Kenneth Dolbeare

Leonard Mandelbaum, director of the
Public Policy Institute based at
Evergreen, has announced his intention to resign that post the end of
June and return to his former faculty
post at Seattle University.
His responsibilities will be temporarily assumed by Lowell "Duke"
Kuehn, former director of the masters
degree program in public administration (MPA), who has already begun a
six-month appointment as acting
associate director of the institute. His
former role as director of MPA has
been assumed by Dr. Kenneth
Dolbeare, who has taught political
science at the graduate and
undergraduate levels at Evergreen
since 1981. Dr. Dolbeare was selected
by the MPA faculty to serve out the
remainder of Kuehn's three-year
directorship.
Kuehn, a faculty member in
sociology at Evergreen for the past
nine years, has been a member of the
Institute's Board of Directors since last
summer. Following his work with the
Institute, Kuehn plans to return to the
faculty.

other improve—and to promote better
communications between and among
our schools."
The project is also intended to
capitalize on Evergreen's long-standing
work in interdisciplinary curriculum
development and writing in all areas
of study.
At Tumwater High, for example,
teachers from American literature and
American history might explore ways
their two courses can be "linked," according to Chris Mahlum, Tumwater
project coordinator. "Through this effort we think students will gain an interdisciplinary perspective and better
understand connections between what
they're reading in literature and what
period of history they're studying."
Evergreen faculty member and
former academic dean Will Humphreys will work with high school
faculty to help them forge those links
between courses and disciplines.
Another Evergreen faculty member,
Thad Curtz, will help area teachers
find ways to integrate writing into
their courses.
Curtz will direct a two-day
workshop for all participating teachers
next fall in which he'll emphasize,
Smith said, "various approaches to including writing in all subject areas.
He'll also explore ways teachers can
avoid becoming overwhelmed by the
workload additional writing exercises
may impose."

That emphasis on writing appeals to
Marianne Larson, coordinator for
North Thurston High School. She and
Smith agree that teaching of writing is
now too narrowly confined to English
classes.
"It almost represents writing
without context," Larson said. "We
want to encourage students to write in
every discipline, to put their writing
into a subject context, like science or
humanities—and then to get lots and
lots of practice doing it."
Throughout the year-long project
Smith, Humphreys and Curtz will
meet regularly with Larson, Mahlum
and Capital High School coordinator
Joe Heikkila to coordinate and
evaluate their efforts.
"We'll bring in an outside evaluator
to help us assess what we've accomplished next spring," Smith added.
"But we already know this grant has
enabled us to establish a major link
between our schools and Evergreen—
and to take significant strides toward
improving the quality of education in
all four of our schools."

Smith & Jones
Publish Against
the Current

Evergreen
Re-Opens
Presidential
Search

A book described as Evergreen's "tenyear report" has been published this
spring after more than three years
work by Academic Dean Barbara
Smith and faculty member Richard
Jones. Entitled Against the Current:
Reform and Experimentation in Higher
Education, the book arose from a conference the two hosted on alternative
education at Evergreen in September,
1981.
Appropriately, the book opens with
the conference keynote address,
delivered by Dr. Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching, former
U.S. Commissioner of Education, and
an early advisor to former Evergeen
president Charles McCann and his
founding faculty team. Included
among the more than 20 papers
presented at that conference are those
authored by faculty members Jeanne
Hahn, Virginia Ingersoll, Byron
Youtz, Rob Knapp and Jones, and by
Academic Dean John Perkins, Provost
Patrick Hill, and former Academic
Dean Mervyn Cadwallader.
Their contributions comprise, say
reviewers, "voices of continuing hope
that the lessons of great innovators like
John Dewey and Alexander Meiklejohn will be preserved for the record."
The book, now available at the college bookstore, was published by
Schenkman Publishing Company, Inc.,
with support from the Alexander
Meiklejohn Experimental College
Foundation, the Koppers Foundation
and the Metropolitan Life Foundation.
Royalties from book sales will go to
the Evergreen Foundation.

Evergreen is beginning anew the
search to fill its top office after the
final candidate produced by an initial
hunt was unable to accept an offer for
the presidency.
Thelma Jackson, chairperson of The
Evergreen State College Bcterd of
Trustees, made the announcement of
the search re-opening on April 16, ending a seven-month process that began
with the departure of then-president
Dan Evans to fill the Senate seat left
vacant by the death of Henry Jackson.
"After we received the recommendations from our hard-working Presidential Search Committee," Jackson said,
"the trustees spent many, many hours
reviewing the files of candidates,
checking references, and conducting
additional interviews.
"We offered the position to Dr.
Thomas Feld, president of Mount
Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
With deep regret, he chose not to accept the offer due to unanticipated circumstances which developed recently
at his school."
Jackson noted that all six of the
semi-final candidates for the presidency had high praise for Evergreen's
dedicated students, faculty and staff.
Dr. Feld especially remarked that he
regretted not being a part of the college's future.
Dr. S. Rudolph Martin, faculty
chairman of the Presidential Research
Committee, commented, "I feel that
we conducted an intelligent and open
search and that we had a number of
highly-qualified candidates. I know
that we all learned a great deal. I'm
confident that we can pursue another
search with vigor."

Proud To Be a
Greener

Judy McNickle.
Photo by student Shannon O'Neill

Faculty Come and Go
continued from page 1

"The University of Washington is
departmental and research-oriented,"
she says. "UW faculty would like a
chance to be immersed in a different
institutional setting with the emphasis
on interdisciplinary programs and
teaching. TESC faculty, on the other
hand, would benefit from the opportunity to do more research and focus
on teaching in one discipline. This exchange let's them do that."
Evergreen's exchange program with
Kobe University of Commerce in
Japan always draws a large number of
faculty applicants. Gerry Lassen's
Evergreen predecessors have been
Richard Alexander, faculty in
literature and English, and Tom
Rainey, who teaches history and Russian studies. Planning ahead are faculty members Lucia Harrison (public
administration), Stephanie Coontz
(history and women's studies), and
Lowell "Duke" Kuehn (sociology and
public administration), who'll go to
Kobe in 1985, 1986 and 1987,
respectively.
Evergreen's next visitor from Kobe
University of Commerce will be Keni-chi Yasumuro, faculty member in
business administration. Yasumoro,
who will bring his wife, son and
daughter with him, will teach in
"Management and the Public Interest" and the MPA program next
Fall and Winter Quarters.
Evergreen values faculty exchanges
well enough that work is underway to
establish programs with other institutions. Present possibilities include the
University of the Pacific in California;
Empire State in New York; Hampshire
College in Massachusetts; and,
perhaps someday, corporations like
Weyerhaeuser and Boeing.
Evergreen has a different kind of
exchange worked out with three area
high schools (see story, page 2). What
Academic Dean Smith says of that
relationship applies to faculty exchanges at all levels of education: "We
have a great deal," she emphasizes,
"to learn from each other."

After nearly 12 years, 400 newsletters,
4,000 press releases and an amount of
good relations with Evergreen's
various publics that will never be
measured, Judy McNickle left the college April 30 for a new job with the
Washington State Senate. Originally
hired by then-Director of Information
Dick Nichols to run the Information
Center, McNickle began work as a
research analyst for the Senate Education Committee, where she'll be working under Evergreen grad Dwayne
Slate '73. Assuming her duties as
Director of Information Services and
Publications on an acting basis will be
Mark Clemens, formerly publications
editor. Evergreen grad Keith Eisner
'79, has been promoted from within to
acting Information Specialist.
In a parting letter to the campus
community published in the Cooper
Point Journal, McNickle had this to
say: "While I carry with me no
Evergreen degree, I will always be
proud to be called a "Greener'1—and
grateful to each of you for helping me
grow into that prestigious title."

Faculty Historian Phone-A-Thon
Tops $25,500
Receives
Fellowship
Evergreen faculty historian Dr. Susan
Strasser has been awarded a $10,000
fellowship by the American Council of
Learned Societies for the 1984-85
academic year. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,
the fellowship will enable Strasser to
research what she describes as "the
creation of modern consumption."
The study, she says, "will provide a
business history of the transformation
by which Americans became converted
from making their own products and
using make-shift products by local
craftspeople to purchasing nationally
marketed goods made by large
corporations."
Strasser's new research will follow
her critically acclaimed 1982 book,
Never Done: A History of American
Housework.

The 1984 Phone-A-Thon was the most
successful in Evergreen history. The
annual event received over $25,500 in
commitments for scholarships, student
projects, and other needs. This is, by
far, the largest sum ever pledged in an
Evergreen Phone-A-Thon.
More than 130 volunteers spent 12
evenings in late February and early
March calling Evergreen alumni,
parents, and friends all around the
country. The Phone-A-Thon allows the
college to confirm the location of its
supporters, to bring everyone up-todate on recent events here, and to ask
for financial support for campus
programs.
This year's financial goal sought
$25,000 in actual income. To reach
that total before the Annual Fund
closes in June, those who made pledges
on the phone need to mail in their
checks. If you were among the many
Evergreen supporters pledged this year,
please remember that your check needs
to arrive at Evergreen by June 30,
1984.

Unsoeld Seminar
Fund Contributions Growing

Marr Named
Dean

More than $5,000 has been received
in recent weeks toward the Willi
Unsoeld Seminar Fund, the endowment in memory of Evergreen's
faculty member who was killed in a
mountaineering accident five years ago.
These contributions will be matched,
dollar for dollar, by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by
the Bullitt Foundation of Seattle, each
of which has provided Evergreen with
a $25,000 matching grant for the
Fund.
The Seminar Fund will be used to
bring prominent individuals to the
Evergreen campus each year to discuss
issues of critical national importance.
The questions raised in the seminars
will be those about which Willi was
deeply concerned, such as the use of
wilderness, personal ethics, philosophies
of education, and the relationship between thought and action.
The College has also received
numerous letters outlining personal
memories of Willi, as well as some
remarkable photographs of "Willi in
action."
The Unsoeld Seminar Fund must
raise a total of $12,500 by July 31,
1984, in order to take maximum advantage of the two large matching
grants this fiscal year. Alumni of
Evergreen, students in Willi's programs, and his many friends are being
contacted this spring about this
memorial fund. A fund-raising committee, chaired by former Sierra Club
president Nick Clinch, hopes to reach
the overall fund goal of $100,000 by
June 30, 1985.

Dr. David Marr, an Evergreen faculty
member since 1971, will begin a new
two-year term as an academic dean
next month. Named to the post by
Academic Vice President and Provost
Dr. Patrick Hill, Marr has taught
literature and American studies and
directed or participated in a number
of Evergreen's coordinated studies programs since the day the college opened 13 years ago.
"David will bring to the deanery a
clear sense of Evergreen's history,"
Hill said in announcing the appointment. "As our enrollment growth continues, David also offers us a determination to preserve and strengthen
those innovative elements which have
helped us achieve national recognition.
His proven record as a successful
teacher in all our study modes and the
high regard in which he is held by
faculty and students make him an
ideal addition to the dean's team,"
added Hill.
Marr's educational background includes a bachelor's degree in English
and a master's degree in American
civilization, both from the University
of Iowa, and a doctorate in American
studies from Washington State
University.
In his new role, Marr will replace
outgoing academic dean Dr. Ron
Woodbury, who has accepted a twoyear appointment as director of
Evergreen's Computer Services, a post
now held by Dr. John Aikin, who has
agreed to serve on the faculty for the
next two years.

Dr. David Marr

When Words and
Things Were Free
Last February and March, Evergreen's
Gallery Four was transformed by the
complex, mystical, and uniquely personal vision of Olympia artist and
Evergreen alum Candace Lee Street
'81. Entitled "Parasite Station:
An Environmental Installation," the
exhibit was comprised of more than
50 "assemblages" made up of
thousands of parts and pieces and
complemented by Street's poetry and
prose.
The exhibit—three years in the
making—marked the first time Street
had presented all her work together in
one place. "It's kind of terrifying and
exhilarating," she said during the six,
twelve-hour days of installation prior
to her February 18 opening.

Selected as an artist-in-residence for
1983-84 by the Washington State Arts
Commission, Street used only black,
white and gray in her sculpture. Her
"assemblages," as she calls them,
range from hundreds of minute objects in tightly choreographed arrangements to the 22-foot long "SeeBird Wall-O-Matic Music Machine"
inspired by the juke box at that
favorite Geoduck haunt, the Two-Mile
House, in which Street happens to
hold quarter ownership.
"Parasite Station is a reflection of a
drinking world, that tavern, and its

cast of regular customers, things and
words," Street said. "On a more
abstract level, it's a form of writing in
objects, not mirroring words, but
releasing their reflections," she continued, "and, on still a third level, it
is a privileged space for the profoundly serious 'under-see' world where
perception's path habits are broken
and reordered again on a higher
plane."
Street borrowed the term parasite
station from ocean reef ecology, where
it describes a place where normal
predator/prey relationships are in a
state of suspension.
"This installation is meant to suspend the limiting laws of what we so
casually call reality," said Street, "to
free word and thing from their
predatorship of one another."

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More than 50 students new to
Evergreen joined with alumni for an
evening of pizza, bowling and
camaraderie during Winter Quarter.
"We were a little overwhelmed by
the numbers," said Alumni Coordinator Ellie Dornan, with a smile.
"We hadn't quite expected such a
wonderful crowd." The pizza parlor
was full to overflowing with hungry
'Evergreeners' while the waiters tried
their best to keep up with the
demand.
Led by alums Mary Bergstrom,
Gerry McLaughlin, Irene Christy,
Margo Hertlein, Susan Slate, George
Baitinger, and Keith Goehner, the
next stop was the bowling alley across
the street where some 40 students
donned bowling shoes, picked out a
favorite bowling ball, and headed for
their respective lanes.
As the evening progressed, "there
wasn't a single doubt in the minds of
the host alums that the event was a
rousing success," Dornan remarked.
"So many students expressed their
thanks for being invited out, away
from campus, and said how delighted
they were to learn that all their fellow
revelers were once new students like
themselves."

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Several students told of how they
had been feeling lonely, but now they
had met some new friends.
The Alumni Mentors Program, conceived by Provost Patrick Hill, was
designed to help new students adjust
to the college. The program was
launched Fall Quarter when a panel of
five graduates, including Stan
Marshburn, Karen Gose, Nam Chu
Pearl, David Brumsickle and Steve
Charak, led a discussion with 23 new
students concerning the crisis in
education. After that discussion, two
small social sessions were hosted by
students, Joey Silver and Greg
Williamson. From these informal gettogethers arose the suggestion to offer
help to the students with their first
upcoming self-evaluations. The alums
were pleased with student interest in
the evaluation workshop that ensued
later that quarter, and students accepted the offer of help with a sense of
relief that now they were sure to get
through their first big evaluation
hurdle.
"Plans are being formulated for a
spring activity," Dornan confided.
"Several good ideas are in the
works—possibly a barbecue picnic in
late May."
Dornan invites interested graduates
who'd like to get involved in the
Alumni Mentors Program to contact
her in Library 3103 or call, 866-6000,
ext. 6565.

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Class of 1973
Glenn Tucker, Danbury, CT, recently received his
professional engineering license. He has his own
engineering consulting firm, which specializes in
solar and energy conservation. Glenn and his wife,
Judith, have an 8 Vi -year-old son, Michael, and are
expecting another child soon.

Class of 1974
Annette M. Klapsteln, Seattle, WA, received a
degree from the Franklin Pierce School of Law in
Concord, New Hampshire. She has been working
for the past two years as a public defender in Seattle, and has recently accepted a position as tribal
attorney for the Puyallup Tribe.

Class of 1975
Robert A. Gregory, Omak, WA, teaches special
education at Omak Elementary School and teaches
photography at Wenatchee Valley Community
College-North.
Brandith Irwin, Seattle, WA, will graduate magna
cum laude from the University of Washington
Medical School this June, then do her internship at
that medical school. Brandith plans to marry Brad
Keller in June.
Jeffrey Charles Irwin, Athens, Greece, is living
half an hour from the center of Athens, where he
says he has a "beautiful view, nearby athletic
facilities, peace and quiet." Jeff is representing
Harcourt, Brace, and Tovanovich, traveling
throughout the Mediterranean area, including Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Algeria.
Sandy McCullOCh, Seattle, WA, is a special
education teacher in Everett, Washington. She married Jim Duncan on March 31. Last summer
Sandy and Jim chartered a boat and sailed in the
Aegean, visiting Greece and Turkey.

Class of 1976
Jill Fleming and Bill Freeburg, Seattle, WA. Bill
has his own computer software business. Jill is
teaching business administration part-time at Central Washington University's extension campuses in
Edmonds and Normandy Park. Both admit to enjoying being parents to Emily, 3^>, and
Alexander, 1.
Daniel J. (Dan) Mahoney, Spokane, WA, is currently working for School District #81 at a residential treatment facility for emotionally and
behaviorally disturbed adolescents. He is also working on a master's degree at Gonzaga University in
Spokane. Dan's wife, Scooter, is enrolled at
Evergreen, working through an independent study
program, and love.s it.
Anne Pflug, Springfield, OR, has a new position
as finance director for the City of Springfield. She
reports she is looking forward to the challenge.
Roger A. Price,Seattle, WA, reports a change in
careers that has brought him back to
Washington state. While in Boston, Roger was
head social worker and was accepted into Boston
College Graduate School of Social Work. He was
also accepted into Virginia Commonwealth University's NSW program. Instead, he preferred to
return to the Pacific Northwest for a position as
sales agent with Alaska Airlines. Welcome home,
Roger!
Andrea (Dashe) Shore and Stan Shore '77,
Olympia, WA, were married while still at
Evergreen. Stan is currently working at the
Washington State Senate as a research analyst
specializing in Natural Resources. Andrea is a fulltime mother of Benjamin, 3/2 years, and Annika, 5
months old.
Jerald (Jerry) Weiner, Bellevue, WA, is working
for Rainbow Communication in south Seattle as a
sales manager, selling re-manufactured telephone
equipment.

Class of 1977
Michael E. Corrigan, Lake Stevens, WA, is
employed as vice president of Institutional
Marketing by Great Northern Insured Annuity
Corp. and doing his best to enhance Evergreen's
reputation in the business community.
David Allen Jones, Madison, WI, is presently
administrative assistant at the Waisman Center on
Mental Retardation and Human Development,
University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is completing
his masters degree in Human Development
through Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena, California.
Michael Mills, Anchorage, AK, is an executive
with the Anchorage Community Planning Department. He reports that with Anchorage's rapid
growth, there is plenty to keep him busy.
Marion (Morf) Morford, Tacoma, WA, has had a
very busy life since leaving Evergreen. In 1980 he
was married and has one daughter. He completed
one year of Evergreen/UPS Teachers' Certification
program, taught Fathering at Tacoma Community
College. He is currently teaching Introduction to
Business at Knapp College of Business on the
Auburn campus. Morf has had poems, articles and
book reviews published. He'd like to hear from
other local Evergreeners.
Daniel Tishman, Lubec, MA, has recently
developed a traveling environmental education program that will use the Northwest as its classroom.
The program is being run in conjunction with
Lesley College and the National Audubon Society
Expedition Institute.

More Geoducks
Abroad

Class of 1978
Patricia G. GibbS, Oroville, CA, is a registered
sanitarian with the State of California. Patricia has
begun her own business, Western Planning and Environmental Services.
Michael Hansen, Clinton, WA, has been living
on Whidbey Island for the past five years with his
wife, Maribeth. They are both active members of
the Chinook Learning Community, a spiritually
focused educational center, which explains the
values of the emerging planetary culture. Michael
is presently employed as a carpenter. He says he
still swears when he hits his thumb.
Suzanne Mulligan Morris, Stockton, CA, where
she is running her own business with husband,
Leon Morris, whom she married on December 17,
1983. Their business, Life Quality Products,
markets travel rescue kits. Their first big ad will
apear in the summer issue of National Geographies
new Traveler magazine.
John F. Pohl, Kansas City, MO, received a
masters in education degree with a major in
counseling from Eastern Illinois University in
December, 1981. John is now doing outpatient
therapy at Renaissance West Drug/Alcohol Clinic in
Kansas City.
Richard Warner, Petaluma, CA, is married to
Julia Pickering 78. They have a daughter, Nellie
Amelia, born December 4, 1982. Richard has two
businesses; one, a retail wine trade doing mostly
mail order sales, and a wholesale wine license,
through which he sells only California wines to
restaurants. He also oversees shipping of 600 acres
of melons in July from Bakersfield, CA. Julia is
self-employed as a potter.

Ralph '78 and Carol Mason 75,
found Jos, Nigeria "not as appealing
or frightening as we'd thought. The
fact that we adapted so quickly is a
continual joy and surprise to us."
From September 'til December 1983,
they studied languages and participated in Adult Bible school and
choir. At Christmas, they left for "our
spacious home in Garkida, Gongola
State, seven hours from Jos" where
Ralph oversees the Mission and
Hospital's maintenance workshop.
Carol opened a special grade school
for six nationalities. They'll be there
through 1985.

Ernie Jones '80, is studying for his
masters degree at Victoria University
in Wellington, the capitol of New
Zealand. Jones finds "the landscape in
New Zealand is even more gorgeous
than everyone says and the people just
as friendly." He'll take four classes in
the sociology dept. during his first
year. He lives with a family of five
who've provided him with a bedroom
"with a great view of the harbor and
hills north of town." He hopes to work
with the Outward Bound School there
during summer vacations. He
welcomes news from home at this address: Ernie Jones, c/o Buxton, 106
Weld Street, Wadestown, Wellington,
1, New Zealand.

Call Issued for
Alumni
Performers!

How Does Peru Grab You?

Your Reunion Committee is hard at
work planning the best ever All Alumni Reunion for October 5, 6 and 7,
1984. Chaired by alumnus, Ken
Balsley '77, your committee has
decided this year to stage a cabaretstyle program during the Reunion
dinner hour on Saturday night.
Are you a performer? Do you sing,
dance, play a musical instrument?
And would you be willing to donate
your talents to make this the biggest
and best reunion ever?
Please write to:
Ellie Dornan, Alumni Coordinator
Library 3103
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505
You'll be contacted about auditions,
to be held during the summer months.

A hike down the romantic old Royal
Inca road from Cuzo to Macchu Picchu, exciting rafting down jungle
rivers, sightseeing in Lima and other
historic colonial cities. Intrigued?
Evergreen faculty economist, Russ
Lidman, presently a Fulbright Fellow
in Peru, has offered to organize a twoweek travel package next summer for
an estimated $1,700 to $1,800, including air fare from Seattle to Lima
and home.

Class of 1979
George F. Baitinger III, St. Louis, MO, has just
accepted a transfer to the National Park Service
from the U.S. Forest Service. For the past three
years, George has been working as an information
assistant at the Mt. St. Helens Visitor Center in
Washington state. He left the West Coast in midAprii to assume his new duties as a park technician
at the Museum of Westward Expansion, located
under the Gateway Arch at Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri. He urges
all his fellow Evergreeners to come by and pay him
a visit soon.
Justin Dick, Denver, CO, is administrative director of the Recording and Research Center of The
Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Justin tells
us the center features a brand-new |5 million
audio/video recording studio with a voice
laboratory connected to it.
Bjom Edvard Loftfield, Albuquerque, NM, and
his wife, Cheryl, have two sons, Rok, 3 years and
Roy, 6 months. Bjorn is completing training in
nuclear medicine at the University of New Mexico '"'•
School of Medicine. Bjorn and Cheryl anticipate
settling in the New York or New England area.

Class of 1980
Linda Bookey and David Gerstenberger,
Bellevue, WA, took a business trip to Finland last
October. Fortunately, they were also able to visit
Stockholm, Copenhagen and Paris before returning
home. David is working as a systems design leader
for Valmet, a Finnish Company with a subsidiary
in Redmond, Washington.
Perry S. Spring, Santa Cruz, CA is conducting
research on initial algal succession within a kelp
forest of Carmel Bay, CA. He also has begun
classes in solar energy through Cabrillo Community College, where he hopes to complete an associate
degree. Certainly not the least important event in
Perry's life right now is his anticipated marriage to
Kathy M. Hammond, of Washington state
sometime this summer.

Calvin Johnson, an Evergreen
sophomore, is currently "writing a lot
and drinking tea" while on individual
contract in Tokyo, Japan. A delicious
Japanese meal with a Japanese exchange student at the college last
spring convinced him "that I must
visit their country." He and fellow
Greener Bret Lunsford "were unprepared for the welcome given us."
They stayed at the exchange student's
home where "they bent over
backwards to accommodate our
American-ness. During our first night,
our hosts made a trip to a convenience
store at midnight. The next morning
we learned why. We're Americans,
right? So we must love hamburgers,
and two awaited us at the breakfast
table. We explained we're vegetarians,
and I think they were a bit relieved.
We then met up with many new
vegetables and dishes. Their kindness
and generosity has taught us much
about the Japanese way of life. We
plan to return the favor when they
visit the United States."

All "true Evergreeners"—those interested in excitement and adventure—are welcome to join Russ and
other alumni for the time of your life.
If you're interested, contact us as soon
as possible. Russ would like to begin
pinning down prices and working out
details. He estimates he'll need at least
20 people to share this exotic
adventure.
Write:
Peru in '85
Alumni Office
Library 3103
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505

Class of 1982
Kari K. AndHkOpOUlOS, Denver, CO, and her
husband Jean Bergeron became parents on July 4,
1983, when son Alex! arrived. Kari and Jean have
a business called LArc Natural Therapy and currently practice in Denver. They have plans to build
a solar house with Bioshelter in 1984.
Robert Campbell, Normal, IL, is a claims examiner for State Farm Health Insurance Company
at corporate headquarters in Bloomington,
Illinois. Bob may be transferring to San Francisco
or Salem, Oregon, within the next two years.
Jean D. Lundgren, Orinda, CA, plans to complete a masters degree in transpersonal counseling
psychology at the John F. Kennedy University this
August. She will then begin working on her doctorate in psychology in September at Cal Institute
of Integral Studies.
•

Class of 1981

Class of 1983
Craig Bartlett, Portland, OR, reports he's still
working for Will Vinton Productions. Work on
their first feature-length claymation film is almost
complete.

Mary DeraitUS, Seattle, WA, married Evergreener
Jim Walters, in August of 1982, but is keeping
her own last name. Mary is working as word processor at the University of Washington's Office of
Development and Jim is a programmer at Continental Computer in Bellevue.
Donna Dezube, Columbia, MO, is working as a
theater reviewer and attending the University of
Maryland to complete a masters degree in theater
management.
Deborah K. (Jeffries) Sulke, Castle Rock, WA,
is currently teaching first grade in the Longview
School District. Deborah has found the Children's
Literature Program she took in fall of 1982 at
Evergreen has been a valuable experience which
she is now able to share with her young students.

Attention All
Geoduck
Entrepreneurs!

Prospective Evergreen Students
Alumni Admissions Referral

For Greeners, having one's own
business is a natural. Do you operate
a business somewhere out there in the
"real world" near or far? If so, we'd
like to hear about it for a feature in
an upcoming issue of this ReView.
Send us a letter describing what
kind of business you operate, how
long you've been in business, where
you're located, and the year of your
graduation. If you have a picture
you'd be willing to part with, please
include it.
The Alumni Office is also on the
lookout for alumni business cards to
decorate our bulletin boards. If you
have one, please send it along also.
Write:
Geoduck Entrepreneurs
Library 3114
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505

Know any potential Evergreeners, be
they high school students or older?
Then do them the favor of having a
chance to consider the "Best in the
West'—The Evergreen State College!

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Seattle Area
Alums—This is
for You
Here's your chance to renew old
Evergreen friendships and make some
brand new ones.
Seattle area alums are hereby officially invited to mark your calendars
for June 15 and June 30, when the
Alumni Association will sponsor two
very special activities in the Emerald
City just for you.
The first event, set for 8 p.m. Friday, June 15, features a social gettogether at the Aquarium hosted by
Alumni Board Member Rob Fellows,
who assures us he has an exciting
evening planned. Watch your mail for
complete details or call Rob at
524-5679 evenings.
Then, hold your hats for a real
zinger! Alumni Board Member Meg
Imrie is planning an afternoon at the
Empty Space Theater on Saturday,
June 30. The play, entitled "K-2,"
tells the story of the grueling struggle
endured by a group of climbers while
attempting to reach the summit of this
perilous peak. You're invited to attend
the play, and a special champagne
reception hosted from 1:30-2:45 p.m.
Saturday, just before the 3 p.m.
matinee performance.
Seats are limited, and at the
nominal cost of $6 each (a. $3.50 savings), tickets will go fast. If you're interested, please write to Meg at the
address below. Let her know how
many seats you'd like and enclose $6
for each:
Empty Space Theater Event
c/o Meg Imrie
Box 5222
Redondo, WA 98504

Please send your suggestions to:
Geoduck Prospects
Library 3103
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505

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May
17-20

Original danceworks performed by
students under the direction of
Evergreen faculty member Bernard
Johansen, 8 p.m., Experimental
Theater, Communications
Building. . .Tickets: $4 general, $3
students & senior citizens.
18
Jose Arguelles, author, artist and art
historian, directs workshop on "Warriorship Without War: Art as a Foundation for Global Peace," 11:30 a.m.6 p.m., Olympia Community Center,
1314 E. 4th Ave.. . .presented as part
of Evergreen Expressions performing
arts series. . . Free.
25

Evergreen faculty artist Jean
Mandeberg and her students discuss
Communications Towers Project,
which has led to installation of two
temporary sculptures in Olympia at
Evergreen, noon, room 110, Communications Building. . . free. . . follow'ed by tours of the sculptures.
June

Piano/vocal recital by Evergreen
graduate Julie Stewart, 3 p.m., Recital
Hall, Communications
Building. . . Free.

Evergreen Jazz Ensemble performs
under direction of adjunct faculty
member Dave McCrary, 8 p.m.,
Recital Hall, Communications
Building. . .Free.

9

Evergreen Chamber Singers perform
in concert under direction of adjunct
faculty member Ron Jones, 8 p.m.,
Recital Hall, Communications
Building. . . Free.

Piano recital by Evergreen student
Wendy Knutsen, 8 p.m., Recital Hall,
Communications Building. . .Free.
6-9
"Long to Live," an original allegory
about freedom, written by Evergreen
student Ian Pounds and performed by
Evergreen Student Theatre Group,
8 p.m., Experimental Theater, Communications Building. . .Tickets: $3.

The "Communications Towers" face each other
across town to link TESC and the Olympia community through public art. The sculpture at
Capitol Lake reflects the angular forms seen at
Evergreen, while the Olympia sculpture at the

SUPER SATURDAY, Evergreen's
sixth annual spring festival, features
live entertainment on four stages, arts
and crafts booths, athletic and recreational events, children's activities and
more, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., throughout the
campus. . . Free.
9

An Evening of American Music
Theater performed by students and
community members under direction
of faculty musician Dr. William
Winden, 8 p.m., Recital Hall, Communications Building. . .Free.
10

Commencement exercises for the Class
of 1984, 1 p.m., central campus
plaza. . . Free.

college presents round forms reminiscent of the
lake's shoreline and the Capitol Dome. Both were
made by 14 students with faculty artist Jean
Mandeberg directing the design and construction. Photograph by student Teresa K. Luke.

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