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New President
the "Luckiest Guy
in the World"
By Mark E. Clemens,
Director of Information Services

Be prepared when your chance comes
to meet the new president of The Evergreen State College, for to meet Joe
Olander is to know him.
Almost immediately, even intimately.
Upon introduction, Olander often
takes the hand of a new person into
both of his own for a handshake that
seems to last for minutes. Epitomizing
his Sicilian heritage, he is open and
warm in conversation, his gaze direct
yet friendly as he listens closely, then
responds with sincerity to someone who
only moments ago was a stranger.
After a search that lasted more than a
year, Evergreen's Board of Trustees on
November 26 embraced Dr. Joseph D.
Olander of the University of Texas at El
Paso as their unanimous selection to
become the college's third president.
Olander was a good match for the
criteria required of Evergreen's next
leader by the Board, especially those of
"superb communicative ability," "commitment to the liberal arts," "ability to
work with the legislature," and "commitment to multicultural values."

And make no mistake about it, even
though he just arrived on the job
January 14, Joe Olander is also a
popular choice for president.
Just ask the faculty, staff and students
who heard Olander speak when he
visited campus as a presidential candidate in November—they left the
Library lobby buzzing with excitement.
Just ask the kids at the college's Driftwood Daycare Center, whose eyes
widened when Olander presented them
with a real pinata from his "adopted"
orphanage in Juarez, Mexico, across the
river from El Paso.
The words most often uttered by people who have just met the tall, dark and
slim Olander are "dynamic," "energetic" and "enthusiastic," and they all
fit the man as well as one of his navy
blue pin-striped suits.
Olander, 45, was a professor of
English and director of the graduate
program in creative writing at El Paso
where he also had served for five years
as the vice president for academic affairs. He resigned that position last year
to seek, he announced, the presidency
of an institution "congruent with my
commitment to innovative education
and the liberal arts tradition."
Previous to El Paso, Olander served
at Florida International University in
Miami until 1979 as chairman of the
political science department, as associate dean of the college of arts and
sciences, and finally as executive vice
president. He began there as a professor
of political science in 1971.
Between his roles as vice president
and dean at Florida International,
Olander was special assistant for higher
education to the state Commissioner of
Education from 1975 to 1977, where he
learned about Florida's system of higher
education and the legislative process.
Olander's first job in higher education in 1969 was as an assistant professor of politics and public affairs at the
University of Miami. While there, he
was asked to develop a curriculum for
Black and Carribbean students who
found a lack of offerings relevant to
their experience. This was Olander's
baptism in multicultural education,
leading to further work with multicultural centers at Florida International
and El Paso.
Olander's other intercultural credentials include living in Japan for three
years while in the Air Force (he lived
off-base in a house he bought for $300
and spent two months in a Zen Buddhist monastary). From that experience, he has a working knowledge of
Japanese to go with similar linguistic
skills in Chinese, German and Spanish.

>• Olander takes a mid-afternoon jaunt
on Red Square. Still settling Into an
Olympla routine, the former Texan
decided on a 6 a.m. daily jogging time.

Olander earned a doctorate in the
comparative politics of Pacific Rim
countries from Indiana University in
1969. He graduted summa cum laude in
English from the University of
Maryland and has a master's in English
from Rollins College in Florida.
Olander has been anxious to work
somewhere like Evergreen for a long
time. "I have tried very hard to do
something that is taken for normal at
Evergreen," he says. "That is, encourage interdisciplinary, team-taught
and multicultural education."
Disappointed by the response to those
teaching strategies at other institutions,
Olander waxes enthusiastic at the prospect of heading an institution with a
national reputation for innovative
education.
\bu never would have guessed Joe
Olander would become a college president if you had, however, known him in
high school. "People in my hometown,"
he says, "would not believe I even went
to college."
When he left his home of Hazelton,
Pennsylvania, at the age of 17 to join
the Air Force, Olander was a poor student, the product of a life spent scraping by in school while he earned extra
money for his family; in his own words,
a "functional illiterate."
Instead of flying off into the wild blue
yonder, however, Olander found that
the Air Force had landed him at a lonely, isolated base on Baffin Island. Yet,
that first tour of duty in the frozen
north turned out to be where Joe
Olander's mind caught fire.
"I was there for a year—they
wouldn't allow people to stay there any
longer—and there were 378 books in
the library," Olander remembers. "I
read all of them."
Olander entered upon a life of the
mind and never looked back. "Everywhere I went, I took a dictionary and a
book—I knew I was going to learn how
to read. I became an aggressive
academic achiever," he says. "Teaching
myself to read was the most important
thing I ever did in my life."

"I have never given up a book I've
bought, ever, ever," he adds proudly. "I
have thousands of books. When I took a
college course, I never sold the book
back to the bookstore. That was sinful.
That book became part of me."
In addition to becoming a good student, Olander entered a realm of the
fantastic, for most of the 378-volume
library happened to be science fiction
anthologies. "They took me out of the
world in which I lived and into another
world, the world of possibilities. They
gave me a sense of wonder and—people
think I'm corny when I say this, but I'm
dead serious—the basis for all learning
is a sense of wonder."
Olander's interests include cooking,
diving and snorkeling, running and
karate. His intellectual pursuits are
popular culture, philosophical anthropology, and—the legacy of Baffin
Island—editing, writing and developing
critical literature about science fiction
and fantasy. In fact, the student who
had trouble with 12th grade math and
English in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, has
now written and edited—on his own
and with others—more than 50 popular
and scholarly books and articles on
science fiction and fantasy.
"The world of science fiction/fantasy
and the world of the college have at
least one important thing in common,"
Olander said when applying for the
presidency of Evergreen, "they are both
worlds where a sense of wonder
abounds—or should abound. And it is
the ability to maintain, preserve, and
transmit a sense of wonder in the
culture of my workplace that is one of
my major abilities."
"If Evergreen stands for anything, it
is as a little citadel for the value of life
and learning, and learning for the sake
of learning," says Olander.
"I want the people of the college community to know they have honored me
by asking me to be a part of them," he
says. "I am the luckiest guy in the world
to be at Evergreen."

*• The long green line (I. to r.): U.S.
Senator Daniel J. Evans (second president), Faculty Member Charles J.
McCann (first president), Vice President for Business Richard N. Schwartz
(acting president, June 1983-Jan.
1985), and (third) President Joseph D.
Olander.
*• Alumni Association president Scott
Baker, former Alumni Association
president Julie Grant and Olander
discuss the Association's long-range
goals for alums and their alma mater.

"I am the luckiest guy in the world.

Staffers Practice
What They
Preach
you say life after
Evergreen is full
of challenges,
disappointments
and successes?
Well, so it is—
even if you
happen to be
spending life
after Evergreen
at Evergreen.
The lesson is
that you can go
home again,
especially if
learning is what
you're after.

If your image of student life is a slowmotion movie of good times, sleeping
until noon and tossing the ol' frisbee
around, prepare to have your myth
dismissed from class.
So say two Evergreen staff members
who returned to the classroom here on
campus last fall. Alumnus Doug
Scrima, who's worked at the college as
an admissions counselor and coordinator of high school relations since
1979, began part-time studies in
Evergreen's Master of Environmental
and Energy Studies program; while
Betsy Bridwell left her position as
educational outreach coordinator to
enroll in the full-time, five quarter program, "Russia/USSR."

While the books used are globally
oriented, MES field study is local and
regional, and divided up among threestudent groups called the "Circuit
Breakers." Fall Quarter, Scrima's team
analyzed how wood waste management
affects water quality. This quarter,
Scrima is working on a research paper
on the effectiveness of environmental
organizations, a subject that taps his interest in environment and politics.
Sometime in the future, Scrima says
he would like to teach again, or perhaps
go into environmental consulting. Until
then, he finds that his role as an Evergreen student naturally gives new insight and energy to his work as an admissions counselor.

Alumni Faculty
View Evergreen
Before and After
It wasn't too long ago that there was
only one person teaching at Evergreen
who also could lay claim to the distinction of having graduated from Evergreen. Rita Pougiales '72 (pronounced
poo-gal-es) returned to teach outdoor
education at Evergreen in 1979 and
became a full-time faculty member
when she inked a three-year contract in
1981.
Last fall, however, Victor Shames
(shaw-mez), member of the class of '81
who was just out of graduate school at
the University of California at Santa
Cruz, arrived to teach introductory
chemistry as an adjunct faculty
member. This quarter, the number of
alumni faculty climbed to three when
John Bellamy Foster '75, joined the
fray as a visiting faculty member in
political economy.

>• Betsy Bridwell (right) and fellow
students contemplate war and peace
and Russia.

Doug Scrim

Originally from California, Scrima
first heard about Evergreen in 1975
when he was checking out the Northwest for opportunities in forestry education. "I found out that learning really
takes place here," says Scrima.
Scrima graduated and taught for a
year at the Vershire School, a college
prep school in Vermont. A 1979 conversation with Evergreen's Director of Admissions Arnaldo Rodriguez, however,
turned Doug's career back in the direction of his alma mater.
"With what Evergreen offered," he
says, "I was amazed that the doors
weren't being knocked down by potential students." Scrima's belief eventually
led to a job as counselor in the Admissions Office, and the rest is history.
"Working in higher education
naturally motivates you to improve
yourself," he says, explaining why he's
subjected himself to a triple load. Between work, studies and life with his
wife, Ingrid, and daughter, Kiersten, 3,
Scrima finds the balancing act exhausting, especially since he spends a
lot of time on the road visiting schools.
But there's the pleasure of studying
with the "most remarkable group of
students I've met since coming to
Evergreen."
In its first year, the MES program is
made up of nearly 30 full- and parttime students who are studying issues of
land use, population, and resource
management under the guidance of
Director and Faculty Member Oscar
Soule and Faculty Member Greg Weeks
who "are perfect," Scrima says, "at
meeting the needs of full-time students
as well as us working part-timers."
Those of Scrima's MES classmates
who have been to traditional schools
have high praise for Geoduck U, he
says. They are impressed with the time
they have with faculty and with the
evaluation process.

"I knew students at Evergreen
worked hard," says Betsy Bridwell, a
three-year veteran of marketing the college to older returning students, "but I
didn't know they worked this hard."
Victor Shames
Actually a Geoduck by association
since she had never attended Evergreen
before last summer, Bridwell figures
Shames, who entered Evergreen in
she's working every bit as hard as she
the fall of 1979 after two years at the
did in her full-time position for EverUniversity of Washington, recalls he
green, and "loving every minute of it."
and his fellow students at that time were
What makes the long hours worthall "looking for something we weren't
while, she says, is the panoramic view of getting somewhere else."
"Somewhere along the line I had lost
another culture she's receiving from her
control of my education," he says. "I
studies under Faculty Members Tom
felt I was going through the motions,
Rainey and Andrew Hanfman in
just being directed." Not really knowing
"Russia/USSR." The program is truly
what his field of study was as a freshunique because it is the only Russian
studies program in the country, accord- man, Shames remembers starting
through the UW catalog at the begining to Rainey, that immerses its
students full-time in a totally-integrated ning of the alphabet, looking for substudy of language, literature, history,
jects that might be interesting.
"You have to try a little bit qf
art, culture, politics and economics. Offered every three years, "Russia/USSR" everything," he states. "I don't limit
myself to chemistry, that's only a point
began last summer and runs through
this summer when for nearly half of the from which to dive into other fields.
From chemistry, it's a smooth transition
44 students enrolled the big payoff
from biology to ecology to sociology to
comes: a six-week trip to Russia.
political science to economics and
Recalling previous history courses
history and on and on."
she took emphasized dates, deaths and
Shames, who cites Faculty Members
"important" dynasties, Bridwell points
to the Russian program where "the em- Don Humphrey, Fred Tabbutt and
Byron Youtz as his Evergreen mentors,
phasis is on understanding the context
went on to earn his master's while
of a civilization. We're reading
studying applied microbiology at UCDostoyevsky and Tolstoy not just
Santa Cruz. While there, he developed
because they wrote great literature, but
a piece of field equipment that made
to relate them to the entire picture of
testing water for bacterial pollution
Russian society."
practical and simple enough to be used
The program tackled Dostoyevsky's
The Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy's War by people around the world. "In terms
of volume," he says, "the biggest proband Peace in consecutive two-week
periods, over 100 pages of daily reading lem worldwide with drinking water is
not chemical, but biological."
for students to work in with seminars,
As this example shows, what was suclectures and a paper on Turgenev. All
cessful about Evergreen for Shames
this prompts Bridwell to say: " What
was, its "approach to problem-solving."
social life?"
"As an alum," he says, "I feel strongOne of Bridwell's last acts as an
ly about what an Evergreen education is
employee was to address a group of
all about, that students make The Everworking women interested in the colgreen State College," that is that educalege. She told them "I've spent the last
tion "comes from the self, fromjwu. "
three years talking to adults about
"Students need to realize," Shames
returning to school, and finally I've
continues, "that more than their
convinced myself."
becoming a part of Evergreen, EverAs she already holds a bachelor's
green is a part of them. I feel like
degree from Otterbein College in Ohio
Evergreen is imbedded in me, part of
and a master's from Pacific Lutheran
my personality."
University, Bridwell is now "learning
Due to end his assignment Winter
for learning's sake," she says.
Quarter, Shames holds out hope for
"All the good things I said about
continuing at Evergreen. "Before I
Evergreen as part of my job are true,"
leave Evergreen," he says, "I want to
she smiles. "I'm not surpised, just
team-teach at least once."
delighted."

Evergreen
Building toward
Cultural Literacy
"Students need
to realize that
Evergreen is a
part of them.
Passing the torch; Rita Pougiales and Evergreen's Teacher Certification students.
• feel like
"I've always wanted to teach at
"I'd like to see my students take a
Evergreen is
Evergreen," echoes John Bellamy
more active role," he says. "I remember
I first got interested in Evergreen when
Foster. "It seems to be a far better place
to teach than most institutions."
someone from the college came to our
imbedded in me,
Foster, who spent the past seven years class in high school. They were just
studying for his master's and doctorate
building the college then and they asked
part of my
in political science while writing for
us how the rooms should be designed.
publication at York University in
"Imagine. . ." he says, still with a
trace of wonder, "actually asking high
Toronto, is teaming up with Faculty
personality."
Members Betty Estes and Pris Bowerschool students what they thought."
man to teach the program, "Political
Economy and Social Change" Winter
and Spring Quarters. A graduate of
Olympia High School, he entered Evergreen as a freshman in the fall of 1971,
the year the college opened.
"In the beginning it was total chaos,"
he says. "We held class in people's
homes; there were a lot of veterans back
from the Vietnam War; it felt like
anything was okay." Along with Estes,
he counts David Marr, Tom Rainey and
Chuck Nisbet as faculty members who
influenced him most. Asked how it really was back then, Foster quotes Rainey's
ironic description of the original
Evergreen as "Plato's Republic with
electricity."

John Bellamy Foster

After completing four straight years
at Evergreen, Foster became the fifth
Geoduck to go to \brk, which had a
reputation for interdisciplinary studies.
"It was still a pretty conventional institution, though," Foster says.
Undergraduate students were expected
to get by."
Foster, however, had been educated in
the Evergreen tradition, as quickly
became apparent during his first course
at York. "It was about comparative
communism, the difference between the
USSR and China, but it was mediocre." Accustomed to redesigning programs at Evergreen even while they
were in progress, he spoke up to offer a
few proposals for changing the course.
"Everyone started screaming all at
once," Foster recalls with a smile. "I
was as surprised as anyone." He eventually managed to adjust, however, so
much so his writing efforts led to the recent publication of The Faltering
Economy: The Problem of Accumulation
Under Monopoly Capitalism, a book he coedited with Polish economist Henryk
Szlajfer.

Foster no doubt was asked what he
thought in his first Evergreen program,
"Individual, Citizen and the State,"
where one of his classmates was Rita
Pougiales, a fourth-year transfer from
the University of Minnesota. Drawn
here by a friendship through the Outward Bound Program with founding
faculty member Willi Unsoeld,
Pougiales was a bit unnerved by her
initial contact with Evergreen.
"I was so surprised at how much fun
learning could be," says Pougiales, who
had dropped out of Minnesota after
three years thinking she'd never return
to college. "There was nothing negative
about it and seminars, though difficult
for me at first, became a major source
of learning for me by the end of the
year."
Rita taught for three years after
graduation, then entered the University
of Oregon where she received her
master's in the philosophy of education
in 1977 and a doctorate in anthropology
and education in 1981.
"Students during the first year of
Evergreen were very committed to
philosophical priniciples about education," Pougiales remembers. "The college has a wider impact today; it's
reaching a broader range of people."
"There are more students from both
ends of the spectrum," agrees Victor
Shames. "There's still students with an
individualistic approach to Evergreen
education, but more students who are
looking for a formalized, structured approach, a career orientation."
"Students seem quiescient, perhaps
to a dissatisfactory degree," says Foster
of his first observations on returning to
campus. "They don't seem to realize
it's their education."
For the moment, perhaps it comes
down to something the veteran of the
alumni faculty trio says about the situation: "I'm less concerned with what
students are like when they come to
Evergreen," says Pougiales, "than what
they learn while they're here and what
they're like when they leave."

Victor Shames

The Evergreen State College has embarked upon a project to promote
cooperative learning about different
cultures. By the time the Intercultural
Curricular Development project concludes its first phase three years from
now, Evergreen will have made a good
start toward incorporating intercultural
education throughout its entire
curriculum.
That in itself keeps Evergreen abreast
of the pack in higher education—not
because it is the only college pursuing
cultural literacy, but because it's one of
the few to do it so thoroughly. The longrange plan, which began this fall, calls
for all faculty members to design their
programs to include cultural perspectives other than the traditional Western
European points of view.
"Most colleges take a postage stamp
or band-aid approach to cultural
literacy," says Gail Tremblay, a faculty
member in literature and convener of
Evergreen's Native American Studies
program, as well as an Onondaga Indian, a poet and a weaver. "They create
a course in each deparment," she notes,
"and maybe a separate department
itself. But Evergreen doesn't have
departments and, as a result, curricular
development has to take place
throughout the entire college. That
makes the possibilities for cultural
literacy here very exciting."
To support the new academic venture, Evergreen's Board of Trustees gave
$20,000 to fund faculty development
and multicultural enrichment. Projects
already underway include:
*-A lecture series on Latin American
issues such as agricultural development,
land use and immigration policy.
»-Three days of demonstrations and
workshops for Core Program students
and faculty with members of Olympia's
Southeast Asian community, including
Laotian and Hmong performance
rituals, seminars with local Cambodian,
Lao and Vietnamese guests, and a
banquet.
*-A similar meeting between faculty
and students at Evergreen's Vancouver
campus and members of that city's
Southeast Asian community.
^•Another Core Program project featuring a common reading and a film
and/or speaker followed by seminars, all
focused on Black America.
^•Hiring a cultural media specialist to
help Evergreen's Tacoma campus use
college audio resources in academic
projects.
>• Weekly seminars where MPA faculty
and guest experts assess public policy
implications of changing ethnic
demographics in Washington.
*-The development of an internship
program with agencies that serve
minority communities.
"We consider ourselves engaged in an
experiment in which we have a lot to
learn," says Academic Dean Elizabeth
Diffendal, who helped draw up the plan
for Intercultural Curricular Development. "We are living in a pluralistic
democracy in an increasingly interdependent world and America has
been slow to respond to these changing
realities. Coming to grips with different
cultural perspectives in the classroom is
a major challenge for education at all
levels."

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Grad Programs
Enjoy First
and Fifth Years

Third Annual
Tribute Attracts
Droves

At the same time Evergreen's initial
venture into graduate studies—the
Master of Public Adminstration
program—entered its fifth academic
year, the second program, the Master of
Environmental Studies, welcomed its
very first class to campus and quickly
got down to work.
Applications to the MPA program
were up almost 40% over last year,
resulting in a full class of 40 students,
the highest level since the program's
first year. High on the list of objectives
for Director Ken Dolbeare and the
MPA faculty is developing a greater integration between the various full- and
part- time programs offered, and improving the intellectual and professional
community among MPA students,
faculty and staff.

The MES program began its first
year of existence with an enrollment of
28 students, 16 of whom were full-time.
MES Director Oscar Soule and the
faculty divided the students into threeperson teams called "Circuit Breakers,"
which immediately started researching
such topics as erosion, wood waste problems and water quality. The Breakers'
assignment was to report back on their
findings and then rewrite the results for
release to the media.
Both the MES and MPA welcome
new Assistant Director of Graduate
Programs Mary Tuominen, who will be
in charge of recruitment, student services and graduate relations. As such,
she'll be keeping Dolbeare and Soule
posted on the status of the MPA and
MES entering classes for 1985, applications for which are already arriving in
the mail. Interested alumni should
direct their inquiries to Dolbeare or
Soule, The Evergreen State College,
Olympia, WA 98505.

Over 1500 people came to the
Evergreen campus to celebrate the third
annual Tribute to Japan on Sunday,
January 27. Those who attended were
delighted with President Joseph
Olander's welcoming remarks in both
English and Japanese. Also welcoming
the audience was the C&rtSut tj<?ne_ral of
Japan in Seattkr^
Tribute with

An afternoon of free entertainment
included dancers, musicians, a kimono
fashion show, Taiko drummers and a
kendo demonstration. The Evans
Library was also host to authentic tea
ceremonies, Japanese films, and art exhibit, and flower arrangements, and
origami, poetry and calligraphy
demonstrations. There were also lecttyres on Japanese culture and
Japanese/U.S. relations, and the
Japanese-American Citizens League
served up yakitori chicken, sushi, tempura and noodles.
With a new president who is experienced in multicultural education,
and an initiative to establish an institute
for Pacific Rim Studies under consideration by the Legislature, The
Tribute to Japan should continue to
grow. If you missed the Tribute this
year, be sure to come next year.
Sayanora!

Tribute
to Japan

Fuller Backs Evergreen from Family Experience
By Keith Eisner
Information Specialist
"I've only written one letter to the
editor in my whole life," says Evergreen
Foundation Board Member Herb
Fuller, "and that was in praise of this
college." The Olympia attorney wrote
that he didn't know of "a better educational bargain, dollar for dollar, than
Evergreen, where a student can benefit
from Ivy League calibre professors at a
public school price."
Fuller, who grew up in Centralia and
has lived in Olympia since 1958, has a
life-long appreciation of books and
great educational "bargains." "We had
three books in our house when I was
growing up," he relates, " The Bible,
Audel's Plumbing I and Audel's Plumbing
II. My dad, who went to work after the
eighth grade, was a little surprised
when I asked him to buy a dictionary—
my first book—when I entered high
school, but he was pleased, too, and got
one for me."
The West Seattle High School grad
apparently made good use of his dictionary while serving as president of the
student body and playing halfback and
running guard on the football team. He
earned a baccalaureate degree from
Harvard in 1951 and a J.D. from the
University of Washington in 1954.
Fuller gained more from college than
his degrees. At Harvard, he met his

wife, Carol ("We fell in love in Contracts class.") and developed an appreciation of poetry.
That appreciation has been anything
but casual. Learning that the late
Kenneth Rexroth hiked and camped
along the Pacific Coast, Fuller
backpacked to several of the poet's
campsites. During his stay in
Nuremberg, Germany, as a legal advisor with the U.S. Defense Department, Fuller found time to translate
some works of Rilke.
In 1973, this love of poetry led the
Fullers to create the Fuller Poetry
Award, which presents a cash prize to
high school and college students who
win a poetry contest sponsored by
Evergreen. "For the little we've given,"
he says, "I can't think of anything that's
given us so much satisfaction, and
helped so many people."
In addition to their ties to Evergreen
through the poetry contest, the Evergreen College Community Organization, the Friends of the Galleries and
the Friends of the Library, the Fullers
have a "family" connection with the
college. All three of their children—Jay,
Marya, and Nina—attended Evergreen.
Jay, the oldest, went on to the University of Puget Sound Law School and
became a partner with his father in
Fuller and Fuller, Attorneys at Law.
The younger Fullers graduated from
Evergreen and are planning to take
their bar examinations this year.

Herb Fuller

Seminar Fund
Almost Halfway
Up the Mountain
Evergreen is making great progress in
the effort to establish its first-ever endowed seminar series. The Unsoeld
Seminar Fund is named in honor of
Willi Unsoeld, member of the planning
faculty who was killed in a mountaineering accident in 1979. The campaign
goal is $100,000.
The college was able to secure two
$25,000 challenge grants for the project,
one from the National Endowment for
the Humanities and the other from the
Bullitt Foundation of Seattle. Evergreen
will get an additional $50,000 from
these grants when it successfully raises
the first $50,000.
So far, hundreds of Willi's friends
and students have contributed to the
campaign. As of the end of 1984,
$24,295 of the $50,000 has been raised.

P. Will) Unsoeld
Each year, the Unsoeld Seminar
Series will bring to campus individuals
who embody Willi's concern for ethics,
wilderness, culture, and education. The
series provides a way to perpetuate
Willi's spirit and his commitment to
humanity. The individuals who visit
Evergreen will lecture, take part in
workshops and colloquia, and lead
seminars and field trips. They will
challenge students, faculty, alumni and
friends to think and to act consistently.
The Seminar series will be an important extension of the Evergreen approach to education, and a high-quality
addition to the intellectual life of the
college.
Your support for the fund is important. You can help make the Unsoeld
Seminar Series possible by sending your
contribution to The Unsoeld Fund,
L3103, The Evergreen State College,
Olympia, WA 98505.
The Unsoeld Fund
The Evergreen State College Foundation
Library 3103
Olympia, Washington 98505

The senior Fuller relates that an
Evergreen education provided great
preparation for graduate school and
work for his children as well as for
Evergreen interns who have worked in
his firm. "They weren't terrified, like so
many undergraduates, when called
upon to speak and think on their own.
They have a big advantage."
Fuller, who wrote his only letter-tothe-editor on behalf of Evergreen, will
take on yet another new challenge in
advancing the college. "I've never done
much fundraising in the past," he says,
"but I'm looking forward to it." Elected
to the 26-member Foundation Board
last summer, Fuller says he's particularly interested in encouraging lawyers of
potentially large donors to consider
Evergreen for "how much good they
will get out of their money."
The "good" that Fuller argues individual and corporate donors will get
is supporting a school that turns out
graduates "who really know something
about the world around them.
"When an Evergreen program is hitting on all cylinders," Herb Fuller concludes, "there's nothing like it."

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AlumNews
*- Scenes from Super Weekends past:
Graduation ceremonies (far left); painting faces at Super Saturday (middle);
and the Alumni barbeque crew (near
left). Peddling Super Saturday chicken
are Janice Wood, Neil Shamberg,
Michael Hall, and Pat Seaton.

1984 Retreat a
Part of History
By Christina Koons and Scott Baker
Alderbrook Inn on Hood Canal was
once again the site for the Alumni
Association Board retreat during a
rainy weekend in November. Board
members met in a cozy cabin with a
fireplace and view of the water where
they set several long-range goals, including acquiring an Alumni house for
Olympia, maintaining a strong political
action committee, creating a data base
for the networking system, maintaining
cultural diversity and increasing
regional alumni events and clubs.
After pausing for some acrobatic
tricks from president Scott Baker, the
board decided on a set of achievable
1985 goals. They are lobbying for an
alum appointment to the Board of
Trustees, a 25% increase in membership, sponsorship of on-campus and
Seattle events, continued fundraising
with the chicken booth, planning the
Alumni Reunion around the weekend
of Super Saturday, involving the
business community in the sponsorship
of a Seattle art exhibit and collaboration with Vancouver alumni in a fundraising effort to purchase a piece of art
for the new Vancouver campus.
An alumni appointment to the Board
of Trustees will enable the Association
to be directly involved in the college
policy-making decisions. After discussing this ambitious goal, the eternal
question of big-time sports at Evergreen
hit the floor. Members in favor of bigtime sports were thinking of the
monetary benefits to the Association.
Those worried about the effect of sports
on Evergreen also happened to be the
same ones who were miffed about missing a Huskies big game and tuned in
the action via a Walkman.
Fellow alums welcomed Ursula
Harvey, Claudia Shobert and Dolores
Zschomler from the Vancouver area.
The southwest Washington alums are
hoping to add 100 new Vancouver-area
Association members in 1985. This contingent is also planning several fundraising efforts to acquire a piece of art
for the new Vancouver campus.
The twelve-hour meeting passed too
quickly and everyone was left with more
to say. At the end, thoughts quickly
turned to the fun to be had checking
out the night life in Union. Things were
slow, so the board dined at the Robin
Hood restaurant; then retreated to the
Alderbrook lounge.
The Alumni Association is looking
forward to a year of growth in the
Evergreen tradition. "Process makes
progress?" Omnia Extares.

Phone-a-thon'85: Evergreen Calling
The Evergreen State College Foundation will be calling you during Phone-athon '85, the annual event which gives
friends and alumni the chance to catch
up with happenings at the college. This
year, over 150 students and other
volunteers will call for 12 evenings,
beginning February 10. By the time the
dust settles on February 26, more than
6,000 phone calls will have been dialed.
The Phone-a-thon, which is entirely
self-supporting, has three purposes.
First, it gives people a chance to ask
questions about the college, to find out
what is new, or to check up on faculty
members or others at Evergreen. It offers an important way to "stay in

touch." Second, it allows people who
have complaints to voice their concerns.
Quite often, comments made during
the Phone-a-thon point to problems the
college would never hear about from
other sources.
And finally, the Phone-a-thon allows
the Foundation to ask for the financial
support it needs to provide scholarships
and other services for Evergreen
students. Last year, over $25,000 was
pledged during this event. This year's
goal'is $27,500.
So when your phone rings in
February, get ready to say "Hello,
Evergreen!"

Open Letter from a Donor
"When my good parents were starting
their family and trying to get their feet
on the ground financially, they began a
tradition of buying a $100 U.S. savings
bond for each child's birthday. The idea
was that someday this money would
help pay for a college education. As
time went by, my parents acquired
more resources than they needed and I
never had to use my bonds for school.
Recently, my dad gave the bonds to
me. The first ones of the series look so
old and, simple, typed on a manual
typewriter at our local bank over 30
years ago. Perhaps my parents had
some anxious feelings about their
children's futures as they annually
socked away this money, but these old
and yellowed bonds have a strangely optimistic quality about them. The bonds
themselves almost look self-confident,
believing without question that they will
do something good.
I think they will, too. They were
bought for the purpose of higher educa-

tion, and with that intention in mind, I
am directing them to two efforts important to me. The first is scholarship programs for minority students. Hopefully,
students of all colors will figure out a
way to redistribute the wealth.
The second is to the Willi Unsoeld
Seminar Fund. I never had Willi as a
teacher, but he had "stirred up my
thinking" many, many times from his
public presentations, his contributions
to meetings, on a climb with him up
Mount Rainier and, indirectly, from his
work with Outward Bound and The
Evergreen State College.
In fact, he continues to stir up my
thinking.
I am giving this donation anonymously for several reasons, some good
and some poor. Willi had a keen sense
of timing and I'm hoping he'd understand my decision at this point in my
own education. In the meantime, I'm
very excited about the Seminar. Let's
get it up and running!"

Alumni Mentors Branching Out
The Alumni Mentors Program, now
well into its second year of activity, is
expanding to include several other offices on campus.
Originally the idea of Provost Patrick
Hill, the Program was intitiated in 1983
with the help of the Alumni Association
so new students and past sudents could
share something they held in common:
an Evergreen education. Now the offices of Career Planning and Placement, Cooperative Education and
Financial Aid are joining with the
Association to provide new students
with help in exploring career options,
securing internships and landing parttime jobs.
Career Planning and Placement is
designing a new program called Alumni
Career Educators (ACE), which will
give students the opportunity to talk
with Evergreen grads who are professionals in the students' fields of interest.
The Office of Cooperative Education
is interested in designing internship
positions for advanced students with the

cooperation of alumni and faculty in
academic programs. Interested alums
could serve simultaneously as field
supervisors and mentors for student
interns.
The JobBank, a service of the Office
of Financial Aid, matches students with
available part-time jobs throughout
Olympia, Lacey and Tumwater, serving
as a resource to students as well as to
local employers. Since JobBank began
three years ago, many Evergreen alumni have hired students.
Alumni in Thurston County will be
contacted during February and March
about participating in these programs.
Interested graduates are urged to get involved in any or all of these programs
by calling: Ellie Dornan, Alumni Coordinator, 866-6000, ext. 6565; Christine
Wagner, Career Planning and Placement, ext. 6193; Barbara Cooley, Office
of Cooperative Education, ext. 6391; or
Rick Rodriguez, Financial Aid Office,
ext. 6205.
The Evergreen connection is alive
and networking.

The
Evergreen
State
College

Alumni Reunion
to be Held on
Super Weekend
For the past six years, the second
weekend in June has been a time of
revelry and celebration because of
Super Saturday and Graduation—two
show-stoppers back-to-back.
Now, on behalf of the Alumni
Association, you are invited to this
special weekend for another special: the
Alumni Reunion!
Super Saturday begins the festivities
with a full day of carnival. There are
handicrafts, food booths galore, three
stages set up on campus where dozens
of acts entertain young and old, and,
of course, the famous Beer Garden.
More than 25,000 Olympians and
alums meander through campus in the
course of the day, and Graduation Day
follows on Sunday.
Be sure to mark your calendar for
June 8 and 9, and if you're interested in
being involved in the planning, the
Alumni Association Board members
would welcome your help. Please call
Ellie Dornan, alumni coordinator, at
866-6000, ext. 6565.
See you on that Super Weekend in
June!

Peru Night
a Smash
Under sponsorship of the Alumni
Association and the Evergreen Foundation, "A Night in Peru" became "a
night of fantasy" for the many Evergreen faculty, staff and alumni and
other members of the community who
came to campus in November to hear a
slide/talk by faculty members Russ Lidman and Peta Henderson.
Lidman spent a year in Lima, Peru,
as a Fulbright Fellow in 1983-84, while
Henderson traveled through Peru last
summer.
Lidman gave a brief introduction to
600 years of Peruvian civilization from
the time of the Incas up to the present.
He talked about the current problems
of unemployment, absence of social services, and the huge external debt. With
the help of a large map of Peru, Lidman
and Henderson pointed out the incredible geographic contrasts of this small
country where there is desert, high
Andes mountains and steaming jungle.
An excursion down the coast revealed
mammoth designs in the desert drawn
by Nazco Indians over a thousand years
ago. These designs are still very clear
today, Lidman explained, because of
the lack of rainfall.
With slides, Henderson took the audience on a hiking trek through the
Andes to the Incan cities of Machu
Picchu and Cuzco. Then the journey
plunged down from the mountains into
the jungle and the city of Iquitos and
after passing through several other urban areas, ended back in historic Lima.
To those who had expressed interest
in the trip to Peru he was planning for
next summer, Lidman reports the
political situation is extremely unstable
now. As he doesn't anticipate a change
in the near future, he suggests postponing any trip to Peru until 1986.

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IWo Geoducks for the Road
Do Geoducks speak Spanish? Well,
maybe "un poco." But a couple of
Evergreen alumni discovered that all it
takes is a willingness to communicate
with the people of Spain and everything
falls into place.
Peggy Valenti '83 and Michael Hall
'74 recently returned from a threemonth sojourn in the Iberian Peninsula.
While there, they traveled by bicycle
and train in central Spain (Madrid,
Toledo, Segovia and Medina), the east
coast (Barcelona and the Costa Brava),
and southern Spain, known as Andalusia (Sevilla, Granada and Cordoba).
There was also time for sidetrips to
France, Italy and Portugal.
"Andalusia has to be one of the most
interesting places in the world," says
Hall, "The mix of Spanish, Gypsy and
Arabic cultures there has created what
Spaniards call el duende, or the spirit of
flamenco. Bullfights and flamenco songs
and dance are the most obvious
manifestations of el duende, but the feeling is everywhere."
Along with the city of Sevilla, Valenti
and Hall most enjoyed visiting the
Alhambra, a Moorish castle-estate in
Granada, Spain. Above: Granada as
seen from inside the Alhambra. At left:
a view of a small portion of the Alhambra's gardens.

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Class of 1973
Peter Lawson, Pocatello, ID, is a doctoral candidate in aquatic ecology at Idaho Stale University.
He is s t u d y i n g predatory response behavior to see
how animals keep from gelling eaten. Peter
received his master's degree in aqualie ecology at
I.S.U. in 1984

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Class of 1974
Kathy McCormick, Olympia, WA, has written a
cookbook called Lean and Hungry, A Food-Lover's
Guide. Look for it at your favorite bookstore:
Tim Moffatt, Aniak, AK, is the media coordinator
for the Kuspuk School District. Tim reports (hat
his job will be a challenge as he is the first professional librarian that the area has ever had and t h a t
his district covers a geographical area of 1T>() miles.
Lyda Pierce, Managua, Nicaragua, and Paul
Jeffrey ('75), are both United Methodist minister;,
doing interpretive work for an ecumenical develop- 1
mem group.

Class of 1975
Mary (Hester) Bley, Arlington, VA, is working for
the Congressional Research Service of the Library
of Congress and also a t t e n d i n g library school at
Catholic University. She married David Bley (who
was a student at Evergreen) in 1980. David is
working for Representative Mike Lowry of
Washington State's 7th District.
Susan F. Feiner, Williamsburg, VA, delivered invited papers at the Brookings I n s t i t u t e in Washington, D.C. and at the annual meeting of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis. She has
had an essay co-authored with Bruce B. Roberts
accepted for publication. The essay, "Slave Exploitation in Neo-CIassica! Economics: Criticism
and Alternative Directions" will appear in the
forthcoming volume The Present Value and Real
Kent-fits t)j Slavery and Discrimination,
Charles J. Heffernan, Seattle, WA, has recently
accepted a position with Yates, Wood & MacDonald, a commercial real estate company.
Paul Jeffrey, is w i t h Lyda Pierce ('74). See (he
Class of 1974, above.
Leslie Wilson Rasor, Eugene, OR, has the distinction of being mentioned in the I9th edition of
Who\o in the West. Leslie is employed as a
counselor in non-traditional occupations for women
at Lane Community College.
Elizabeth Zime, Iowa City, IA, Is a freelance
writer working towards a second degree in Spanish
at the University of Iowa.

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Class of 1976
Donald Case, Los Angeles, CA, has obtained his
Ph.D. and has joined UCLA's Graduate School of
Library and I n f o r m a l i o n Science as an assistant
professor.
David Current, Seattle, WA, is an audio-visual
producer specializing in the creation of recruitment
and fund-raising slide/tape presentations for colleges and universities. In addition, In; is involved in
oral history and had developed a series ol shows on
Seattle's early hislory, as well as about the role of
women in Washington history.
Larry J. Uribe, Olympia, WA, has just moved
back after four years in Walla Walla, Washington,
where he worked as a classification counselor and
then a u n i t supervisor at the slate penitentiary.
Since his return to Olympia last November, Larry
has primary responsibility for the Department of
Correction's statewide I n m a t e Grievance Procedun
as a correctional program manager.

Class off 1977
Shcllie (Bloom) Black, Los Angeles, CA, is a
graduate s t u d e n t at U.S.C. School ol Social Work
and will receive a M.S.W. in May 1986. She met
her husband of five years while she was working in
Israel.
Claudia Chotzen, Honolulu, HI, is working at the
CBS affiliate television station in Hawaii. After
working as an attorney for Chief Justice Herman
Lum she became involved in television production
and recently won two national awards for one of
her shows.
Alyson Garland, Seattle, WA, has performed w i t h
La IVnsee Discovery Theatre, completed the
Emerald C i t y Marathon and joined the RainbowSchwinn Cycling Club to t r a i n for bicycle racing.
Larry Mauksch, Seattle, WA, has been in private
practice in Seattle as a family counselor and educational consultant for two years. He received a
master's in education from the University of
Washington.
Pamela A. Miller, Fairbanks, AK, is presently
employed by the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as
\\e biologist.
Michael P. Mills, Anchorage, AK, moved to
Alaska in 1981 where he worked for three years in
the C o m m u n i t y Planning Department. In March,
1984, he was appointed by the municipal assembly
to fill the position of Ombudsman. He says that
handling complaints for Anchorage has few dull
moments. Michael married Sherry Colbourn of
Syracuse, N.Y. in May, 1984.

Shops and businesses often don't
open until 10 or 11 a.m., and they say,
don't bother trying to conduct business
between 1 and 3 in the afternoon: the
midday meal and siesta comprise an
important part of the Andalusian day.
It's not surprising that the evening meal
is eaten around 9 or 10 p.m. Spanish
delicacies such as squid, octopus, sea
snails and cactus fruit were new taste
treats for the two alums.
The people of Andalusia are proud
and somewhat formal, but still very
friendly and helpful. "The couple that
managed the hotel where we stayed,"
says Valenti, "felt like family by the
time we left."
When asked if there were difficult
times along with the good ones, Valenti
and Hall smile. "Ever bicycle a narrow
road without shoulders that's a truck
route?" is all Hall has to ask.
They made it through their trip
unscathed, however, and are back working in Olympia, Hall as Evergreen's
director of campus activities and
Valenti at the Washington Commission
for the Humanities. Do they miss
Spain? "Si, you betcha!"

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Class of 1978
Chris Holz, Olympia, WA, and Tim Ball ('80),
completed a contract to design/supply/install the
largest photovoltaic (solar electric) generating
system to date in the Pacific Northwest. They are
c u r r e n t l y working on a similar project for Alaska
and Idaho.
Charles McEwan, Santa Monica, CA,, is production stage manager w i t h the Los Angeles Actors'
Theater.
Cindy and Russell Pfeiffer-Hoyt, Acme, WA,
were married in 1975 and have three children.
They built their home from trees on their own
property—land t h a t once belonged to Russ's
grandfather.

Class of 1979
Sandra Revesz, Olympia, WA, is currently working
f u l l - t i m e as a massage therapist after switching
from working in various occupations from alternative energy projects to assistant director of the
Olympia Energy Outreach Center.
Robert Stierhoff, Towson, MD, is working for The
Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, PA.
Grady Ward, Pullman, WA. Since graduation,
Grady has worked as a Systems Programmer for
Apple Computer, Inc., in California and as a
Video Game Designer for Twentieth-Century Fox.
After travelling in West Africa, he is now in
Pullman supporting his wife emotionally while she
goes to graduate school, reading Pliny and learning
to write.

Class of 1981
Nina Carter, Olympia, WA, completed her
coursework in Evergreen's MPA program in June
of 1984. She married faculty member Tom Rainey
in August, 1984, and is currently a management
analyst for the state Department of Ecology.
Laura Suslick, Olympia, WA, has been working
for the past two years for Washington State Department of Fisheries. She has also spent some time at
sea as a foreign observer.
Tom Womeldorff, Arlington, VA, is currently attending American University in Washington, D.C.
in his first year of the doctoral program in
economics.

Class of 1982
Larry Bucks, Burlington, VT, and Jane Moulton
have a new son, Travis James. Larry is building
post and beam houses and barns and Jane i.s
fanning.
Becky Cubbage, Cambridge, MA, and Randy
Weeks are both involved in projects in the greater
Boston region. Becky is doing social work for the
state of Massachusetts and Randy is renovating
historic homes.
Mary A. Hart, Kennewick, WA, has completed
her master's of librarianship at the University of
Washington and is now employed part-time as a
reference librarian in the Mid-Columbia Public
Library.

Class of 1983

Class of 1980
Lillian R. Schauer, Port Orchard, WA, is attending law school at the University ol' Puget Sound.
Mark T. Handley, Tacnina, WA, is in his third
year of law at the University of Puget Sound
School of Law. After graduation in May of 1985 he
intends to return to Fairbanks, Alaska and work for
the season in wildland fire suppression. He will- be
t a k i n g the Alaska State Bar Exam in February,
1986.

Rena Shawver, Seattle, WA, has accepted a position as the editor of the employee newsletter at the
Virginia Ma.son Hospital.

Neill Kramer, Brooklyn, NY, is employed as the
Rochester Museum & Science Center's coordinator
of special programs. He received his master's
degree at the University of Oregon.
Doug Plummer, Seattle, WA, and Patsy Christgau
("81), are pleased to be back in the Pacific
Northwest after a couple of winters in Kansas and
summers in Ontario, Canada. While in Canada,
Patsy and Doug were chasing sandhill cranes and
sharptailed sparrows for the Ontario Breeding Bird
Atlas. Doug is now working as a free-lance
photographer's assistant to commercial
photographers in Seattle and continuing to sell
magazine articles. Look for his pieces in Modern
Maturity and Kansas! Magazine.

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"The new
gymnasium will
fill a void,
providing for the
joy of playing
together in
groups and
assembling
together as
a community."
Jan Lambertz
Director of Recreation and Athletics

Evergreen's
Gymnasium:
On the Verge of
a Dream
"We only have half the picture," says
Evergreen Director of Recreation and
Athletics Jan Lambertz, speaking of the
college's present recreational facilities.
"Excellent as they are, our facilities are
designed for individual, noncompetitive
sports and do not, for the most part,
allow people to re-create in groups."
The second half of the picture is an
$8.5 million multipurpose gymnasium
and physical education center, a dream
that's already on the drawing boards,
and now up for approval by the state
legislature as the topmost priority in
Evergreen's 1985-87 Capital Budget request. Part of the college's original
building plan, the new gymnasium is
the last major structure needed to make
The Evergreen State College a complete
educational entity.
Lambertz emphasizes the root word
create when she speaks of how
Evergreen's proposed gymnasium
would fill a void in campus life.
"I totally support philosopher Joseph
Pfeiffer's theory," she says, "that the
basis of a culture is the quality of its
leisure time. The time when we do our
most creative thinking is when we're not
working. When we've had a chance to
really 're-create,' then we take that invaluable creativity back to our work
and studies."

Athletic Feast
Honors All
By Cath Johnson,
Sports Information Director

Immediately adjacent to the present
Campus Recreation Center, the 49,322
square-foot, two-story structure will
house three basketball courts, three
dance studios, two classrooms, expanded locker rooms, a physiology lab,
facilities for volleyball, badminton and
team handball, and multipurpose
rooms for martial arts, movement
classes, gymnastics and other Leisure
Education classes. The gymnasium will
enhance Evergreen's intercollegiate
athletics program and give an added
dimension to intramural sports including men's and women's basketball
and volleyball. It will also be completely
outfitted for major theatrical and musical productions. Lambertz points out
that there is no place on campus for the
entire college community to convene for
graduations, convocations and other
large assemblies.
"The gymnasium," Lambertz emphasizes, "will be a community
resource, available to all the people of
the greater Thurston County area. It
will also be a significant stimulant to
the county's economy."
Lambertz urges all Evergreen alums,
students, faculty, staff and community
supporters to write their representatives
to endorse this very important facility.
If you agree, call Lambertz at (206)
866-6000, ext. 6530, for complete
details. We can make it happen!

Seven Evergreen soccer players received
recognition for their performance this
fall when they were selected to the
NAIA All-District team. These players,
along with the other members of the
men's and women's soccer teams and
the cross-country team, were all guests
of honor at Evergreen's annual Athletic
Banquet in December.
Chosen to the AllrDistrict women's
team were Maria Gonzales, freshman
on the offense; and Patti Anderson,
junior on defense. Receiving honorable
mention were Lynn Schneider, junior,
and Sherry Jenkins, freshman.
Honorable mention on the men's AllDistrict team were John Purteman,
senior; Darrell Saxton, junior; and John
Small, freshman.
The men's soccer team finished their
season with an 8-2-5 mark—the best
ever achieved by an Evergreen team—
and came within one game of the
District playoffs. In two seasons, Coach
Arno Zoske has constructed a strong
and respected soccer program.
The 2-14-2 record of Evergreen's
women's team belies the success they
had playing together and building a
solid foundation for years to come.
Coach Tamar Chotzen noted dramatic
individual improvements among her
players this fall, and that they always
played hard, earning the respect of their
opponents.

Cross-country running is Evergreen's
little-known fall sport since all of the
meets are away from Olympia, but
every one of Coach Pete Steilberg's harriers have improved and two new school
records were established. Todd Denny's
36:27 is the new 10-kilometer mark for
men and Katie Brown's 19:48 is the
women's 5-kilometer time to beat.
There is much more to the spirit of
Evergreen athletics than win-loss
records or faster times and the banquet
captures a bit of that, too. Held in comfortable Evergreen style with just the
right amount of tradition and pomp
thrown in it's a fun and memorable
evening for all who take part. CAB 110
is transformed into a dining room complete with linen, crystal and flowers on
the tables. A hearty dinner (with at
least one meatless entree) is served by
aproned program administrators.
Coaches give the ususal long-winded
anecdotal speeches and the athletes
receive their awards. The evening closes
with a slide show of Geoduck athletes in
action. Like the slides, the banquet captures the season and frames it for a moment. The evening is an occasion for
laughter, for recognition, and for saying
"thank you" to the athletes for their
hard work and a job well done.
While the fall athletes have hung up
their spikes and cleats, the sailors and
swimmers are still going strong. With
two wins behind them this fall, the sail
team is eager, confident, and practicing
on Budd Inlet. Meanwhile, the swim
team tuned up for the winter with a
couple of fall meet. The highlight was a
56-51 win at Portland Community College by the Geoduck men who pulled
into first in the final event.
In its fifth year, intercollegiate
athletics at Evergreen is a stable and
strong program and the Geoduck, a
once-maligned mascot, is proving to be
a very tough mollusk on the field and in
the water.

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Volume 6, Number 2
February 1985

Published by the
Alumni/Development Office
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington 98505

February
Through February 17
"Point of Departure," a group exhibition of prints by Wisconsin MFA
graduates, Evans Library, Gallery 4.

6, 13, 20, 27
Sherlock Holmes Film and Lecture
Series features cinema classics about the
sleuth whom Dr. Moriarity loves to
hate. Complemented on alternate
Wednesdays with lectures by faculty
members on hitherto unrevealed aspects
of the genre. 7 p.m., Lecture Hall One,
$2.50. Details at 866-6833.

Through March 10
"Tribute to Japan Exhibit," a twoperson show ty regional artists Mariko
Marrs and Haruko Moniz, Evans
Library, Gallery 2.

Calling All Cars
A stroll through Evergreen's parking
lots has always revealed a wide range of
eccentric automotive characters such as
"Sam," "Julie," "Betsie" and, of
course, the ancient Step Van owned by
Housing Maintenance employee and
former student Richard Johnson. If you
own, or know of, a classic commuter—
any sort of GeoCar, GeoCart, GeoAuto,
GeoRod, Hot'Duck, 'DuckTruck,
GeoWheels, GeoBug or 'DuckBuggy,
GeoDragster, AutomoDuck, Geojunker
or BivalveBanger—drop us a line and a
photo (preferably with you and your
vehicle together). Just send it to:
ClamCars
Library 3114
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Washington 98505

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Forwarding and Return
Postage Guaranteed

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March

Evergreen Expressions presents Cleo
Robinson Dance Ensemble in a highly
acclaimed performance featuring
powerful blend of modern, jazz and
African dance, movement and music.
8 p.m., Experimental Theatre. Tickets
$4 students and senior citizens; $6
general. Call 866-6833, weekdays.

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February 23-March 17
"Young Harvill/Linda Rockwood,"
monotypes and holograms by former
Evergreen staff and adjunct faculty
member Harvill; photograms by former
visiting faculty member Rockwood.

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China Tour informational meeting.
Students of the 4-8 credit course will
leave Seattle on June 19 for 16 days in
China and three in Hong Kong. Call
Faculty Member Lovern King at
866-6000, ext. 6368, for details on
meeting time and place.

7-10 and 14-17
A veteran cast of Evergreen and community entertainers perform two works:
"Gallantry," a parody of TV hospital
soap operas and the classic "The Devil
and Daniel Webster." Tickets $6 general
and $4 for students and senior citizens.
Reservations at 866-6833 weekdays.

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Evergreen Expressions presents
MuSign, the only hearing-impaired
professional troupe of its kind. The San
Francisco trio uses an innovative blend
of dance, mime and sign language to
bring music to life for the hearing and
hearing-impaired alike. 8 p.m., Recital
Hall. Tickets $4 for students and senior
citizens; $6 general. Reservations at
866-6833 weekdays.

President, The Evergreen State College

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