The Evergreen State College Review Vol. 7, Issue 2
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Reflections in
the Media Eye
"He was only here for one day," was
the comment of many. In a letter to
The Weekly, Evergreen junior Tracy
Renee Stefan wrote that Brewster
November's chorus of media attention
"gave a very narrow, one-sided view of
contained one voice that did not
life at this college. I know; I've been a
unreservedly sing Evergreen's praises,
student here for three years and I love
but raised "some tough questions
it."
Senior Ellen Peterson wrote that
about the experiment on Mud Bay."
Brewster, too tired to ask really hard
That voice belonged to David
questions, should take a sabbatical,
Brewster, publisher and editor-in-chief
suggesting "Omaha would be a restful
of The Weekly, considered by many to
place."
be the preeminent newsmagazine of
But beneath the indignant reactions,
Seattle and the Northwest.
there was a strong current of reflection
Entitled "Asking the Tougher Quesbrought about by The Weekly article.
tions About Evergreen," Brewster's
"One of the things that the curNovember 13 editorial was set in the
riculum does at Evergreen is produce
broader context of state funding for
students who ask tough questions
higher education. While making many
about their society and environment,"
positive comments about the college,
said President Joseph Olander.
Brewster also stung Greeners on and
"Therefore, I would never be discomoff campus with such lines as:
fited by anybody asking tough ques•• "The place seemed tired, not
tions about Evergreen, because that's
rejuvenated."
•• "The students have to cope with a cam- exactly what we stand for."
On that note, the rest of this article
pus that is both outsized.. .and
blighted (still no gym, a dreary student records the introspective answers from
around campus to several of the quesunion, too few dorms). Campus life is
tions
raised by The Weekly.
dull."
by Mark Clemens and Keith Eisner
Office of Information Services
Almost within a week of each other,
banner stories about Evergreen appeared last November in the Vancouver (Wash.) Columbian, The Weekly
of Seattle and U.S. News & World
Report. At the same time, Seattle's
KCTS-TV was coincidentally airing an
"Evening Edition" segment about
Evergreen and President Joseph
Olander. A number of media stories
were also generated by Evergreen's
appearance in U.S. News and by
November 19, when Vice President for
Student Affairs Gail Martin traveled to
Seattle to make a live appearance on
KING radio's "Jim Althoff Show," the
good news about Evergreen seemed to
be everywhere.
It was not the first time that U.S.
News had something good to report
about the college. Two years ago the
magazine rated Evergreen the "best
regional liberal arts college in the west
and midwest," based on a nationwide
survey of college presidents.
This time, U.S. News also asked the
" I've been frustrated at
presidents to name—without any list to
times about programs
choose from—'an up and coming undergraduate college which is a model of
not being as advanced
excellence for the future." Most often
as I wanted. .
mentioned were Alverno College of
Janine Thome, student
Wisconsin, Trinity University of Texas
and Evergreen. U.S. News featured
the top three as "academic pioneers...
on education's leading edge."
The Vancouver Columbian's feature
on Evergreen filled the front page of a
Sunday section, and then some. "I liked
the more intimate classroom atmosphere and the personal attention from
really good faculty members," the
Columbian quoted '74 Evergreen
graduate Dennis Heck at one point. A
Vancouver native who is now chief
clerk of the Washington State House of
Representatives, Heck said. "I wanted
".. .the classes I observed seemed to " Evergreen's program is
to be challenged, to be in a demanding
rely too much on letting the students
academic environment—and it is."
teach themselves and on team-teaching 'front-loaded' educationally,
The flurry of news coverage even
where the lecture made a virtue of the which means students get
conspired with the weather, or so it
teacher being out of his field."
the best teachers right
seemed. On Thursday, November 21,
• "One science professor, a veteran at
eight inches of snow blanketed the
TESC, noting the equipment shortfrom the first year."
Puget Sound area, closing the college
ages, the bias toward beginning
The Weekly.
for a four-day weekend. But, while the
courses, and the imported deans,
snow vacation ended shortly therewondered exasperatedly if Evergreen
Ostensibly a compliment, Brewster's
after, Evergreen's media recogition
wasn't becoming 'the best damn comobservation about front-loading comes
continued through the holidays.
munity college in America.'"
around to the back door when he
On December 29, the Los Angeles
~ "If the state is unwilling to make the
quotes a faculty member about
Times carried a story about President
place (Evergreen).. .well-enough
Evergreen becoming a high-quality
Olander's climb from near-illiteracy as
funded to become a beacon in the
community college. Is Evergreen
a young man to his present role as
educational darkness, do we really
. lightweight on the flip side of its curEvergreen's president. The story was
benefit from a dim beacon that
riculum? Does front-loading deprive
reprinted widely, notably in the Olymdiscredits these reforms?"
advanced students of advanced
pian, Vancouver Columbian, Fort
-"Can we afford it (Evergreen)?
instruction?
Worth Star-Telegram, Minneapolis
Is it doing a good enough job?"
"Unlike a lot of schools," says Stone
Star-Tribune and Washington Post. It
The obvious answer to the last
Thomas, dean of student development,
also prompted an invitation for Olander question—even Brewster's bottomline
"we don't try to flunk out freshmen,
to appear in Seattle on KING-TV's
seemed to be yes—was heard loud and
but to energize them."
morning program, "Good Company."
clear around campus.
"Front-loading is a good thing," says
As Dennis Heck commented in the
Gail Martin, vice president for student
Columbian about his alma mater: "Its
affaira "Concentrating resources and
day has finally arrived."
faculty expertise on first-year students
is critical to get them moving toward
becoming self-motivated learners."
"If Brewster wanted to be evenhanded," says Thad Curtz, faculty
member in literature, "he should've
spent a day on another campus in a
traditional freshman class of 600 people
and a lecturer. We offer freshmen
education that was reserved for upperdivision majors when I was a student
at Yale."
"One of the consequences of our
philosophy of undergraduate curriculum," says Martin, however, "is that it
can divert resources from upperdivision work. No college our size is
going to be able to meet everyone's
desire for advanced and specialized
study in every field."
Provost Patrick Hill concurs: "There
are many opportunities for juniors and
seniors to do advanced work in group
contracts, individual contracts and internships, but our faculty is not large
enough to offer comprehensive
advanced-level work," he points out.
"If we want to offer advanced organic
chemistry or contemporary French
philosophy, for example, then we need
more chemists and philosophers."
"I think we have a lot of our strength
up front," says Ken Dolbeare, faculty
member in political science who is currently on leave to do research for state
government. "The one place you can be
sure of doing interdisciplinary, coordinated studies that will be exciting is
in the freshman and sophomore programs," he says. "We create expectations in those programs for a quality of
education and naturally it can't continue at that level if students fall back
into ordinary courses.
"As a faculty," Dolbeare continues,
"we may not be turning our imaginations and creativity to how we might
do advanced work. It may get more
mechanical than it needs to be."
"However," says Curtz, "there are
many instances of advanced work that
emerge at Evergreen because our interdisciplinary structure brings
together quite sophisticated expertise
from different disciplines, where such
unified content would be available at
most colleges only by accident."
The prospect of that unique blend of
advanced work is what keeps junior
Janine Thome at Evergreen.
"When I came here, I told myself I
wouldn't stay longer than two years
and then I'd go somewhere else—like
George Washington University—to get
a 'solid' education in international
politics. But here I am three-and-a-half
years later and loving it. Sure," admits
the political science student from Seattle, "I've been frustrated at times
about programs not being as advanced
as I wanted, but you learn how to take
something from here and something
from there. I'm taking my education into my own hands and you can't beat
that."
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"We're not doing
enough to encourage
students to teach
each other."
" The greatest danger
is rigidification."
Ken Dolbeare, faculty member
Bob Sluss, faculty member
" .. .the classes I observed " .. .the classes I observed
seemed to rely too much
seemed to rely too
on letting the students
much.. .on team-teaching
teach themselves..."
"where the lecture made a
The Weekly.
virtue of the teacher being
"Evidently Brewster was in a seminar
out of his field."
and that's what they're all about," comments Gail Martin. "Students learn a
lot from each other, but it's often
frustrating. It's very much like going to
work in the 'real' world."
"If we're at fault anywhere," claims
Faculty Biologist Bob Sluss, "it's that
we're not doing enough to encourage
students to teach each other. It usually
takes a seminar group a long time to
quit addressing the faculty member
and start talking to one another. After
12 years or so of performing for 'the
teacher,' they don't need us to keep
butting our heads in, but to let them
learn to take charge."
"It's important for faculty not to set
themselves up as authority figures in
seminars," says Byron Youtz, faculty
member in physics and former provost.
"I'd love to speak out on my own ideas
sometimes, but instead I try to wait
patiently for a break in the discussion
Then I might point out my views or
perhaps make some suggestions if the
group's headed in a poor direction. We
still hold that students should become
self-perpetuating and independent
learners."
"Seminars provide our freshmen and
sophomores with an experience and
teaching format like they would get in
graduate school at other colleges," says
Academic Dean Barbara Smith. "At
their best, our programs are something
altogether extraordinary. Students and
faculty become involved in a real community of learning."
"A teacher cannot give me an education, I have to earn it," says senior
Welton Nekota from Honolulu. "That's
one of the reasons, I believe, that we
don't use titles here—no doctor this or
professor that. We know that all of us
can teach each other."
The Weekly.
According to Mike Hall, '74, one of the
highlights of his Evergreen education
was working with a faculty member
who was teaching out of his specialty.
Hall, now the college's director of student activities, worked with Faculty
Musician Bill Winden on an individual
contract in slide/tape production.
"There was a faculty member learning
along with me, encouraging me with
his enthusiasm," Hall remembers. "It
demystified higher education for me."
"From the very beginning,
Evergreen has divided my job as a
faculty member into two parts," says
Youtz. "The first is the traditional role
of a teacher: putting my expertise
before the students and hoping they'll
According to Thome, though, many
students have suffered from seminars
led by faculty who were out of their
field. "I was in a seminar with a faculty member who none of us felt confident bouncing ideas off of because that
person just didn't have the expertise
I'm all for Evergreen faculty being
well-rounded, but not at my expense"
"Students should object if faculty
can't help a seminar stay on track, but
I don't think lack of expertise is the
likeliest cause of that problem," says
Thad Curtz, who thinks balance is the
answer. "Ideally, every well-designed
program has faculty members who are
grounded in each of the central fields
involved. Then they can try to make
exciting and useful connections for
themselves and their students."
Consider a lecture given recently by
Sluss, who's teaching this year in the
academic program, "War." While
Sluss's areas of expertise include
ecology, entomology and field biology,
his faculty teammates Rudy Martin,
Mark Papworth and Bob Harmon
(visiting from Seattle University)
represent the disciplines of literature,
" I would commend
our faculty for their
courage to tackle
unfamiliar
disciplines."
Gail Martin, vice president
buy it. But the second role is that of a
guide or example to my students,
where I serve as a model of someone
who is still learning everyday. I often
feel I do my most interesting teaching
as a seminar learner."
How appropriate is it, though, for a
scientist to lead a seminar on Emerson, for instance? Bob Sluss laughs at
the question. "Emerson," he says,
"didn't write just for poets, but for
biologists and physicists, too."
A science faculty member would not
lecture on Emerson, Sluss explains, but
in seminar, where students and faculty
meet to discuss books and topics,
Emerson would become an appropriate
subject of study for the faculty seminar
leader, no matter what her or his field.
anthropology and military science,
respectively. Their perspectives on
the subject of war might be readily
apparent, but what would a biologist
like Sluss have to say?
Sluss answered the question with a
lecture on the subject of wasps. His
analysis of their social patterns and
aggressive instincts reverberated with
rich parallels to the human species.
The hour-long lecture riveted students
and faculty alike and, according to
"War" Coordinator Rudy Martin,
"knocked everbody's socks off."
"The founding faculty's intention in
interdisciplinary, team-taught programs," observes Vice President Gail
Martin, "was to demonstrate on a daily
basis a faculty member's capacity to
learn. Unlike Brewster, I would commend our faculty for their courage to
tackle unfamiliar disciplines."
" Is it doing
a good enough job?"
The Weekly
"We teach our students to be life-long
learners and critical self-evaluators,
and we demand the same of ourselves,"
wrote Provost Patrick Hill in reply to
this last of Brewster's questions. Hill's
letter, which was printed in The
Weekly of December 11, included a list
of the "signs of continued vitality and
self-criticism that have always been
hallmarks of Evergreen: a new model
teacher certification program... the
commitments of almost one-sixth of our
faculty to respond to the crisis in our
public schools; over 20 new persons on
this year's faculty; cooperative arrangements with private industry to address
equipment needs; and a serious examination by the faculty of the effectiveness of its own evaluation system."
Meanwhile, Gail Martin and Ken
Dolbeare took a hard look at both sides
of the complex question, Is Evergreen
doing a good enough job?
"Yes," says Martin, "given our
resources and the decline in enrollment
during our critical developmental
years. We have practiced a model of
education that is responsive to the
social need of our time—the need for
multi-faceted solutions to problems..."
"No," Martin also says, however,
"compared to the vision of what we
wanted to be and the institution's adaptive lifeboat mentality which has
caused us to de-emphasize evaluation,
criticism, correction and planning."
"No," echoes Dolbeare, "we are not
enough of a beacon at this time.
Evergreen is less of an innovator and
leader than it ever has been. You don't
maintain a position of leadership,
unless you are doing things all the time
that are 'out front,' that are different
and better. We've been under seige for
so long that the greatest danger is
rigidification."
"Yes," Dolbeare says also, though,
because he sees "Brewster as half neoconservative and half 1910 Progressive.
What he's looking for is leadership and
programmatic ideas and he's looking
for it—as are many people—from a
handful of brilliant leaders. Evergreen,
on the other hand, has established a
wholly different, non-elite perspective."
"The central issue of Brewster's
piece is authenticity," says President
Olander, "that is, is there any difference between theory and reality?
That question generates a whole series
of issues that Evergreen must continually examine."
"There's always a split between
theory and reality," agrees Mike Hall.
"Theory is our goal at Evergreen, and
we have yet to reach our full potential."
" The Weekly article is very much in
Evergreen's best tradition, which is to
ask the specific questions," concludes
Olander. "As Plato said in his Republic,
'The unexamined life is a life not worth
living,' and I would offer that the unexamined college life is a life not worth
working or learning or studying in."
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Fisher First Unsoeld Speaker
The dream of a Willi
Unsoeld Seminar will
become a reality on May
11-13 when Evergreen's
first Unsoeld Fellow,
Roger Fisher, an
Fisher
internationally-known
scholar on the art of
negotiation, will visit campus to work
with students, faculty and community
members.
"I hope to excite students about the
learning process," says Fisher, who is a
Williston Professor of Law at the Harvard University School of Law. "I want
to give them some new perspectives on
the old cliche that different people
have different views."
Fisher's appearance is the first
presentation of the Unsoeld Seminar,
which is now a permanent memorial to
the ideals of Founding Faculty Member
Willi Unsoeld, who died in 1979. The
Seminar became a reality last summer
when contributions of Evergreen alumni and friends, matched by grants from
the Bullitt Foundation of Seattle and
the National Endowment for the
Humanities, reached a $100,000 goal.
Fisher will work with several academic programs and student groups,
and present a major public lecture during his stay on campus. He will also
meet with local community members
and the Unsoeld Fund Committee.
"My focus is on people," Fisher says.
"I want people to understand negotiation and how they can be optimistic
and have more zest in the process."
Fisher's 1981 book, Getting to Yes:
Negotiating Agreement Without Giving
In, was a national bestseller. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith called the
book "the best thing I've ever read
about negotiation. It is equally relevant for the individual who would like
to keep his or her friends, property and
income, and the statesman who would
like to keep the peace."
As director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, Fisher guides research in
areas such as international and labormanagement relations. "We don't focus
on one person against the world,"
Fisher says, "but on people involved in
a joint activity." Originator of the
award-winning television series, The
Advocates, Fisher met Willi Unsoeld
when he appeared on the program.
"I didn't work with Unsoeld beyond
that," Fisher recalls, "but my son
Elliott climbed with him many times.
Through Elliott, my vicarious vision of
Willi is of a very warm, honest person
who had great leadership abilities and
a tremendous effect on people."
After Seminar on America,
Stenberg Begins Work With Alums
by Keith Eisner, information specialist
Still wearing a tan in
January, former Dean of
Student and Enrollment
Services Larry Stenberg
talks enthusiastically
about his recent trip
Stenberg
across America and his
new horizons as
Evergreen's director of community and
alumni relations.
"I had dreamed about a trip like this
for over 15 years," says Stenberg, who
spent a year of unpaid leave in 1984-85
in a small RV driving down the blueline highways of America. "Previously,
I had seen this country only from airports and cabs on my way to and from
conferences and professional work."
Kicking the trip off in California and
Hawaii in October of 1984, Stenberg
and his copilot, Evergreen grad Mary
Gust, followed weather patterns across
the'Southwest, into Mexico, through
the South, down into Florida, up the
Atlantic coast, around the Midwest,
back to the Rockies and then home.
Stenberg spent a day talking to
Amish people outside an Indiana auction and drove into the West Virginia
backwoods to find the Hatfield Cemetery (of the Hatfield-McCoy feud),
where he spoke with a preacher who
had spent only one day outside his
hometown in 40 years. A one-day side
trip to St. Augustine, Florida, turned
into a week of listening and learning.
"A tremendous diversity has survived the conformity and franchisment
of America," says Stenberg. "There are
communities and regions that have
enormous pride in their ethnic uniqueness. Even though bias and prejudice
are still alive in America, there are so
many people who are developing a
global perspective."
How does Evergreen fit into this
vision of America? "One major underpinning of this country," says Stenberg,
"comes from people who have not had a
formal education and who have,
through living, struggling and being
committed to their families and communities, developed enormous wisdom.
Evergreen is fortunate to have faculty
and staff who are sensitive to this."
Living up to his perception that
"Evergreen is a place you never really
leave, but take with you," Stenberg
visited over 35 high schools on behalf
of the college and ran into alums in
Louisiana, Chicago, California and
Hawaii. Now alums around the world
are Stenberg's concern in his new position as director of community and
alumni relations.
"I see my role as a counsel for alumni, a contact between them and the college. The collective talent and energy
of our more than 7,000 alums is, without question, Evergreen's most significant resource." Stenberg, who has
worked at the college since 1970, wants
to keep "alums informed of events,
developments and opportunities on
campus so they can remain proud of
their education. I also want to provide
them with more activities to interact
with other alums."
Facing the challenge of alumni fundraising head-on, Stenberg says, "If
you're an alum who believes we only
want to communicate with you in order
to get a check, then we've taught you
the lesson of cynical questioning only
too well. If your motivation is positive,
then giving financially is not only
valuable to Evergreen, but gratifying
to you. There are alums who make contributions of time and resources to the
college that are just as important as
monetary donations."
In addition to taking a look at alumni
fees and the structure of the Alumni
Association, Stenberg will work with
alums to build viable regional alumni
groups. He welcomes your questions
care of Library 3103, The Evergreen
State College, Olympia, Washington
98505, or at (206) 866-6000, ext. 6192.
"The college," says Stenberg, "must
be constantly in touch with its alumni,
because—more than any other factor—
the quality of their lives and work
since graduation has been a major
force in keeping the college alive."
Greener Roots
The second in a series about the early
culture of Evergreen drawn from
Elizabeth Diffendal's doctoral research.
Diversity Describes
First Women Faculty
by Elizabeth Diffendal,
faculty member in anthropology
What was happening at Evergreen in
1970? With campus construction underway, Evergreen's first three academic
deans, Merv Cadwallader, Don Humphrey and Charles Teske, and their
secretary, Clair Hess, were sorting
through nearly 9,000 applications for
teaching positions at the Northwest's
newest college. An 18-member planning faculty was hired first, followed by
35 other faculty who were to start
teaching when the campus opened its
doors in the fall of 1971.
In looking back at those years as
part of an Evergreen course I am
teaching this quarter, a panel of six of
the first women faculty hired discussed
their experiences as women at the college and their remembrances of
women's issues at Evergreen during
the early years.
The course, "Feminist Life Concepts," was organized partly as a
tribute to two of Evergreen's women
faculty who have died in recent years.
One was Mary Ellen Hillaire, both the
first woman and first Native American
woman hired as a faculty member. SRe
was instrumental in shaping the
philosophy of the college's "Native
American Studies" program. The
second was Naomi Greenhut (a.k.a.
Bonnie Alvarez) who came in the
second year and taught in the school's
first "Sex Roles" program in 1972-73
with Nancy Allen, Betty Kutter, Larry
Eickstaedt and Ron Woodbury.
No women were among the college's
first academic administrators or
18-member planning faculty. However,
ten women were among the 53 faculty
hired to begin teaching in 1971-72. Of
these original women hired, seven are
still at the college 15 years later:
Nancy Allen (comparative literature),
Carolyn Dobbs (urban planning), Betty
Ruth Estes (history of science), Linda
Kahan (biology), Lynn Patterson
(cultural anthropology), Nancy Taylor
(education), and Ainara Wilder
(theater). The other three "first
women" have left a strong legacy, as
noted by alumni. They were Hillaire
(social work/Native American studies),
Peggy Dickenson (ceramics), and Carol
Olexa (sociology).
Lynn Patterson (a.k.a. Llyn DeDanaan) was the only woman faculty
member appointed as a program coordinator during the first year. She coordinated the "Human Behavior" faculty
team, then went on to become Evergreen's first woman academic dean in
April, 1973. When considering her accomplishments after 12 years of
teaching and nearly three years as a
dean, Patterson felt that her emphasis
on hiring women faculty during her
deanship made a permanent contribution to Evergreen.
During her deanship, Patterson also
supported Faculty Member Maxine
Mimms and Mary Moorehead, a student on individual contract, in the
development of the "Ajax Compact," a
program designed for women returning
to school. Four of the original faculty
women, Patterson, Allen, Dobbs and
Taylor—are among those faculty
women who have taught in "Ajax,"
which has continued under the title,
"Reintroduction to Education."
Evergreen's first women faculty were
very diverse both in terms of their
academic interests, and their personal
backgrounds and priorities. Their contributions to the college and to individual students reflect this diversity.
Those still at Evergreen have something in common, however: they have
each been a role model for several
generations of Evergreen's women and
men students over the past 15 years.
GEONEWS
A compendium of all things Geoduck—past, present and future happenings that concern alumni,
faculty, staff, students, friends and family of The
Evergreen State College.
AlumNews
Joe Hosts Coast to Coast
Hotel rooms, fast food, long lines and bumpy taxi
rides consume much of the time for college
presidents when they're on the road, and President Joseph Olander is no exception. Among the
highpoints of Olander's recent itinerary, however,
were receptions for alumni in New York and Los
Angelea
In November, Sue Washburn, vice president
for development and administrative services,
joined the President in New York for a relaxed
evening with about 40 alumni at the Princeton
Club in mid-town Manhattan. In early December,
Olander and Director of Development John
Gallagher hosted a brunch at the Airport Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles for a group of 45 alums
from as far south as San Diego.
On February 1, Director of Community and
Alumni Relations Larry Stenberg and Vice President for Student Affairs Gail Martin will be in
Palo Alto, California, to host Bay area alumni. On
February 10, President Olander and his predecessor, U.S. Senator Dan Evans, will join
Washington, D.C. alumni at the Washington
Ramada Renaissance.
Plans are underway for regular alumni gettogethers to begin during the next year in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Chicago, Boston, New York and
Washington D.C.
Calling All CAMs
Former students of the program, "Contemporary
American Minorities" (or CAM), are invited to a
reunion at the Organic Farmhouse at Evergreen
on Saturday, June 7 (the same day as the college's
Super Saturday celebration). "Contemporary
American Minorities" was offered during
Evergreen's opening year, 1971. All CAM alums
should send their addresses to either:
Tory Phare
4283 Lummi
Ferndale, Washington 98248
or
Gerrie Lawrence
905 Spring Lane
Centralia, Washington 98531
or
Call Gerrie at (206) 736-7593
If you need other assistance, contact Alumni
Relations (see details below).
Get Your Program Together
Evergreen alums have added a special twist to
college reunions. In addition to the annual Alumni
Reunion (which is now held on Super Saturday
and Graduation Weekend), alums often gather for
reunions of their individual academic programs,
as witnessed by the invitation above.
Faculty Member Nancy Taylor relates that
the "Great Books" program has reunions quite
regularly because students in the current program invite students from the previous year to an
annual get-together in the spring. Often, other
"Great Bookers" from years past show up, too.
Taylor also recalls a reunion several years ago in
Seattle for a 1973 program she taught in,
"Democracy and Tyranny." More than 30 program
alumni showed up and a good time was had by all.
A great time to hold a reunion at Evergreen
with your former program-mates would be during
Super Saturday and Graduation Weekend this
year, June 7 and 8. Make your plans now, and if
you need information, call Director of Community
and Alumni Relations Larry Stenberg at (206)
866-6000, extension 6192, or drop him a note care
of Library 3103 at Evergreen.
Join in the Fun
Evergreen needs alums who live around the country to represent their alma mater at College
Fairs. Held in California, Oregon, Arizona, Ohio
and Hawaii to name a few locations, College Fairs
attract thousands of high schoolers who are looking for the best college to attend. If you are interested in representing Evergreen, or perhaps
joining a group of like-minded alums in your area,
write Larry Stenberg, care of Library 3103 at
Evergreen, or call (206) 866-6000 extension 6192.
Get Your Refund Now
Approximately 2,000 students who worked at
Evergreen in institutional and work study positions from 1979 to 1982 have a OASI refund coming. They are entitled to refunds of Social Security tax that was deducted from their student
paychecks. Notices regarding the refunds were
sent out last fall, but if you believe you have a refund coming and have not yet received a notice,
please write the Payroll Office by February 24 at
Library 1112, The Evergreen State College,
Olympia, Washington 98505, or call (206)
866-6000, ext. 6444.
Central Americans
Thank BSers
Evergreen's Class of '85 received letters of thanks
recently for donations of $857 each it made to two
groups who are helping to rebuild strife-torn
areas of Central America. The Nicaragua Ap'propriate Technology Project said it will buy
equipment for a water quality testing laboratory
which will be used to identify contaminated water
sources in new communities where approximately
180,000 displaced Nicaraguans now live. An
organization named New El Salvador Today will
use the 85ers' gift for agriculture and bee raising
in the village of El Coyolito. New El Salvador Today said it will produce food to replace crops
destroyed by bombing and honey for its value as a
food and as a treatment for white phosphorus
burns.
AlumNotes
Class of 1975
Julie Frederick, Seattle, WA, is a learning
disabilities resource specialist with the Seattle
Public Schools. In 1983, she designed and
developed a peer tutor reading program for use in
kindergarten through third grade, involving mildly handicapped, regular and gifted students.
Paul Jeffrey, Managua, Nicaragua, is working as
a missionary with the United Methodist Church.
Wesley M. Norman, Danbury, CT, is working as
lead engineer with IBM's Semiconductor Applications program. Wesley reports he and his wife,
Ellen, are well and enjoying the New England
countryside.
Jack Douglas Peterson, Spokane, WA, is attending Eastern Washington University to obtain an
elementary school teaching certificate.
Geoffrey Rothwell, Pasadena, CA, completed a
Ph.D. in economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and began a postdoctoral program
at the California Institute of Technology. His current research concerns decision making by electric utility companies, particularly political
energies focused against nuclear power and
weapons.
Steve Simpson, North Bend, WA, is associate
editor for Canoe magazine. He was elected to a
four-year term on the Snoqualmie Valley School
District 410 board of directors in the last general
election. Simpson taught school in the district
before accepting his present job.
Visual Deadline: February 28
The ReView has already received many contributions for the upcoming feature on Geoducks in
Visual Media. If you work in photography,
graphic design, film, video, slide tape or any
other phase of the business, please write us about
it by February 28 for inclusion in the Spring
ReView.
On that Note. ..
Speaking of upcoming features in the ReView,
Geoducks in music are demanding equal (4/4) time
with the visual artists.
If you are a Greener who graduated to become a musician, composer, producer, promoter
or some other occupation in the music field, send
us a letter about your endeavors. If possible, include a picture of yourself. Harmonious entries
will be published in a future issue of the ReView.
Pearl D. Vincent
Pearl D. Vincent, 60, a former employee and '76
graduate of The Evergreen State College, died
December 28, 1985, in Virginia Mason Hospital in
Seattle. Born on September 12, 1925, in
Cumberland, Maryland, she was a resident of
Elma, Washington, where she lived with her husband, Gerald. She worked at Evergreen for more
than ten years, first as a program secretary from
1972 to 1979, and then as an administrative
secretary in the provost's office from 1979 to
1982. Cards may be sent to her family at 5021
Mud Bay Road, Olympia, Washington 98502.
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Alumni Mini-Survey
Clip this survey out and enclose it when you mail in the Geoduck Questionnaire
on page 7. If you send this survey in separately, mail it to AlumNotes, Library
3103, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA 98505.
1. Have you ever attended an Evergreen reunion?
D Yes D No Would you in the future? D Yes D No Is Super Saturday a good
reunion time? D Yes D No
2. Would you be interested in attending a reunion of any of the academic programs you were in while at Evergreen? D Yes D No
Program's title/year:
3. How can the Alumni Association can be more responsive to you?
D Improve communications D Increase activities
D Offer educational programs
.
Other suggestions:
4. Write Your Own Alum Note!
Tell us the latest about yourself, your family, your career for a future issue of the
ReView.
1986 "Washington's Almanac"
Class of 197®
Knute "Skip" Berger, Seattle, WA, former editor
of the Cooper Point Journal, is currently executive editor of Washington Magazine, now in
its second year of publication. Berger recently
spearheaded the creation of the first annual
Washington's Almanac, which contains 226 pages
of prize-winning recipes, gardening tips, weather
records, a seasonal guide to fruits and vegetables,
a celestial calendar, information capsules on each
Washington county and other practical knowledge
for anyone who lives in the state of Washington.
Berger is a likely suspect for including the following fact about Thurston County: "In 1975. Mark
Gottlieb played Handel's 'Water Music' on the
violin while submerged in the swimming pool at
Evergreen."
John Kelley Rinehart, Tacoma, WA, who
graduated from the University of Puget Sound
Law School, recently passed the Washington
State Bar. Rinehart was a member of Evergreen's
first entering class in 1971.
Bruce J. Walkup, Tacoma, WA, has a cable TV
program entitled, "Can We Talk?" The show,
which is seen in the Tacoma/Seattle area, airs at
7:30 p.m. on Tuesday evenings.
Sally (Stevens) Ensing, Tucson, AZ, is working
on her Ph.D. in educational psychology at the
University of Arizona in Tucson.
Shawn Gutshall, Los Olivos, CA, graduated from
the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont, in December with a master's
degree in teaching and English as a second
language and in Spanish. Shawn leaves for Chile
in February where he will teach in Santiago.
Caroline (Todd) Ravines, New York, NY, and her
husband, Patrick, are proud parents of 22-monthold Grace Ana Ravines. After taking one and a
half years off to be a full-time mother, Caroline is
now back at Teacher's College to complete her
M.Ed, in counseling psychology with a specialization in cross-cultural counseling.
Class of 1979
Susan Bartlett, Peterborough, NH, is junior
youth coordinator for the New England Friends
Meeting. She gives environmental workshops and
retreats for New England Quaker boarding and
day schools.
Andrea Mankus, Arlington, MA, and husband,
Sergio Siani, '79 (see below), announce the birth
of their son, Ottavio Alfredo Siani.
Kristin Ockert, Sanvik Kryka, Sweden, is
teaching English as a foreign language. Last
June, she married Hakan Axelsson, who is an
economist in county government.
Timothy Pearce, Berkeley, CA, is at the University of California working on his master's thesis
about California Channel Island land snail evolution. Pearce spent two weeks last summer
helping Rob Fernau '80 collect butterflies for his
thesis on butterfly biogeography.
Sergio Siani, Arlington, MA, is still in the
energy consulting field, but has a new job as a
project engineer and director. He is married to
Andrea Mankus '79 (see above).
Daniel Stein, New York, NY, recently returned
from Israel where he had a successful cookie
business. He is presently enrolled in the Masters
of Public and Private Management Program at
Yale University.
Jonathan Stevens, Cambridge, MA, received his
master's degree in civil engineering and computer
science last August from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Siobhan Sullivan, Bellingham, WA, is working
on a master's of science degree at Huxley College
of Environmental Studies, Western Washington
University, where she has been employed as a
teaching assistant. Sullivan was recently hired
under contract with the Washington State
Department of Game as an environmental consultant to do research on shrubsteppe habitats and
wildlife. Sullivan's pen-and-ink wildlife drawings
have appeared in several publications, most
recently Management of Wildlife and 'Fish
Habitats in Forests of Western Oregon and
Washington, published by the U.S. Forest
Service.
Jeanne Van de Riet, Corvallis, OR, graduated
from the school at the Association of Montessori
International in Portland, Oregon, in June. She is
now teaching in Corvallis.
Louise Williams, Lacey, WA, received the award
of excellence at the Yakima Centennial Juried
Exhibit last September. Her pastel, "Celestial
Family," was chosen for its theme and creative
use of materials. Louise has also received awards
for her work in Ellensburg, Washington, and
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. She received her M.F.A.
from Central Washington University, and is
presently a part-time faculty member at Pacific
Lutheran University in Taeoma, Washington.
Class of 1980
David Mazor, Pelham, MA, has just been named
president of ASA Communications, Inc., a motion
picture production and distribution company
based in Springfield, Massachusetts. The company has two films in production and has acquired
three more for worldwide distribution.
Roland Morris, Milwaukie, OR, is student
teaching in music at Marshall High School in
Portland, Oregon. He also runs a part-time
janitorial business, M and M Enterprisea
Martha West and Dale Favier, New Haven, CT,
are happy to announce the arrival of Victoria
Favier-West on October 10, 1985. In attendance at
the birth of the 8 Ib. 3 oz. baby was alumna
Carolyn Ansel '80.
Class of 1977
Class of 1981
Scott Carpenter, El Portal, CA, is a park archaeologist at Yosemite National Park. He is married
to Barbara Turner '77 (see below).
William R. Fulton, Petersburg, AK, and his wife,
Katy Tichenor, have a baby son, Guy William.
Peggy Gallaher, Austin, TX, earned a B.S. in
psychology from the University of Washington
after leaving Evergreen. She is currently in her
second year at the University of Texas at Austin
where she is working on her Ph.D. in personality
psychology.
Barbara Turner, El Portal, CA, is substitute
teaching for the Mariposa County Unified School
District and working on her M.A. in human
development at Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena.
Turner is married to Scott Carpenter "77 (see
above).
Craig Bartlett, Portland, OR, continues his work
as an animator with Will Vinton Productions. He
showed some of his Vinton films at an Olympia
film festival in November.
Clifford Olin, Mexico City, Mexico, married
Esperanza Orozco Burgoa in October. He is
teaching English to corporate executives and
writing about Mexican rock music (see the
December issue of The Rocket, Seattle). Last
summer, Olin traveled in Central America where
he scaled pyramids, discussed politics with
everybody, and was relieved of his wallet, shoes
and passport in San Salvador.
Class of 1978
Jenneane Dietel, Battle Ground, WA, was
honored with a distinguished service award from
the Washington State Community Education
Association last May when she left her duties to
accept the position of administrative assistant to
the manager of the Multnomah County Expo
Center.
Class of 1983
Kris J. Nelson, Kumamato, Japan, is writing for
an English newspaper, Kumamoto English
Times, and teaching English classes as a tutor.
GEONEWS
Class of 1984
Julie Braybrooks, Cambridge, MA, received her
B.S. last June from the University of Washington.
She is now doing an internship for her master's
degree from Leslie College in Cambridge. In
March, 1984, Braybrooks was married to Dr.
Gregory Simon, a Boston psychiatrist.
Diana Holz, Auburn, WA, is owner and director
of the Green River Learning Center, a
Montessori School in Auburn. She received her
Montessori training from the Spring Valley
Montessori School and the University of Puget
Sound. Holz is married and has two children.
Noah Jacobson, Norwich, VT, acted with the
Walnut Creek Repertory Company of California
in Mister Roberts in June and July, 1985. He is
currently with the Hampstead Repertory Company of New Hampshire, which is performing A
Christmas Carol and Oliver during a tour of
schools and churches.
Peg McAdam, Cambridge, MA, advises fellow
Geoducks that Harvard is keeping her very, very
busy.
Kara Neff, South Bend, WA, is attending Seattle
Midwifery School. She spent two months during
last summer as a medical volunteer at St. Jude's
Hospital on the island of St. Lucia in the West
Indies.
Rudi D. Wetzel, Morton, WA, has completed
basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
Lost Alums
We're out of touch with the alumni who are listed
below. If you know of their whereabouts—by
either address or phone number—please send the
information to Lost Alums, Library 3103, The
Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
98505. Thanks.
A
Marcela Abadi '83
Susan R. Abrams '83
Katherine A. Adair '81
John S. Adams '82
Kristin J. Adams '78
Michael J. Adkison '74
Randy Adolph '79
David S. Ahseln '76
Susan E. Ahseln '73
B
Gerald W. Bachmann '78
Diane K. Bailey '80
Barbara L. Baker '82
Guy Z. Baker '78
Ralph F. Baker '73
Stephen Mallet-Prevost Balch '78
Nancy A. Baldock '76
C
Eugene C. Cade '84
Patrice K. Cammack '79
Thomas A. Campbell '76
Paul L. Cardwell '77
Ross G. Carey 75
Michael J. Carignan '79
D
Vikki E. Dahmen '77
Rodney B. Dalley '84
Gloria P. Dalrymple '75
Gene W. Darling '78
Elizabeth R. Davidson '83
Nathaniel Davis, Sr. '77
Ana K. DeGive '78
E
Carol Ann Elwood '77
Patricia W. Emmons '76
Steven E. Emrick '81
Elena F. Engel '75
Steven J. Engel '82
Ralph G. Engle '76
Sabra N. Ewing '80
F
Patrick S. Fahey '80
Sarah M. Favret '80
Virginia F. Fay '78
Kip W. Fillmore '79
David B. Follett '75
G
Bob C. Gammelin '83
John J. Gardner '82
Ruth E. Garrett '78
Ann A. Geddes '82
Jacqueline Geppert '80
Philip J. Gierman '73
H
James J. Hamilton '77
Charles L. Hamrick '75
Adele A. Hansen '78
Stephen T. Hanson '79
Jeff L. Hardesty '79
J
Anne E. Jacobs '81
Barbara A. Jarvis '78
Lawrence J. Jensen '76
Adrian W. Johnson '79
K
Rachel L. Katz '81
Carol J. Kaufman '78
Karl K. Kirk '81
Barbara C. Knoll '83
Richard G. Kolb '73
Terry Vincent Kraft-Oliver '73
L
Anna L. LaLande '82
Richard R. Landers '83
Kristine E. Larsen '79
Gary E. Lawton '74
Richard S. Lichtenstadter '76
M
Heather A. Macrae '80
Daniel T. Maddox '75
Edward M. Magarian '73
Daniel J. Maguire '82
Darrell M. Mamallo '82
N
Mary L. Nail '74
David E. Nelsen '78
Carl P. Nielsen '78
Rhonda L. Nikula '78
Faculty News
Arney Receives Fellowship for
Book on Early Atomic Experts
The National Endowment for the Humanities has
awarded a Fellowship for College Teachers to
Evergreen Faculty Member William Ray Arney
to write about Robert Oppenheimer and the
scientific testing that led to the creation of the
first atomic bomb. Generally about experts and
expertise, Arney's proposed book will focus
specifically on the whole scene leading up to the
Trinity Test in 1945 at Los Alamos, New Mexico.
The NEH fellowship provides Arney with financial support for his project from this spring
through December, 1987.
Arney
Marshall
Marshall Correction, Plus
The Fall ReView attributed visiting Faculty
Member Ingram Marshall with a master's degree
from Columbia University when in fact he holds a
master of fine arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts. The press for recent performances by Marshall, however, indicates the accomplishments of this talented composer-inresidence deserve even more mention.
Hired to teach composition and electronic
music half-time at Evergreen, Marshall will
continue to compose and perform modern music
at the same time.
An audience of about 200 came to Evergreen's
Recital Hall in December to hear Marshall perform on piano, synthesizer, Gambuh (Galinese
flute) and a live tape delay system. The Olympian
listed Marshall performances in Seattle, Los
Angeles, art galleries and universities around the
world, and at the Aspen Festival, and said he was
"internationally known as a composer of electroacoustic music."
Noting that Marshall's live electronic composition, Fog Tropes, was a hit at a new music concert
in Los Angeles last year, the Seattle Weekly
previewed Marshall's appearance in Seattle by
describing him as "a composer of compellingly
beautiful, quiet music that combines soft, slowmoving taped sounds (like foghorns) and electronic noises drawn from a synthesizer."
Computing Values
Editor's note: The following article, reprinted
from the Christian Science Monitor, is the first
appearance in a national publication for Ron
Woodbury, who is a faculty member in political
economy and acting director of Computer
Services at Evergreen.
by Ronald G. Woodbury
Can you imagine what
our colleges and universities would be like today if 20 years ago we
had made the same commitment to affirmative
action and cultural
literacy as we are making today to computer
literacy?
My institution is
reviewing our policies on
Woodbury
affirmative action and
multi-cultural education. Despite a record among
the best in the country, our accomplishments are
meager. As director of a computer center, it is
more likely that I will be able to bring
widespread computer education to the campus
than that a truly multi-cultural environment will
become a reality.
Make no bones about it, I have a great interest in expanding my college's availability to and
use of computers. But I have serious doubts about
our society's headlong rush into computers, and
even stronger doubts about that mania extending
to the academic world.
Multi-cultural education isn't the only loser to
computer literacy. Scholarships, federal loans, student services and even scientific research have all
suffered while resources have snowballed into
computing. But what seems unique about the
cultural literacy analogy are the coercive aspects
of the computer movement.
At a recent conference on computers one
speaker said that his college tells faculty in certain low enrollment departments that they have
the "choice" of either retraining in computers or
leaving the college. Twenty years ago, when "civil
rights" was the "in" movement on campus, I cannot recall any college or university ever considering firing a faculty member for refusing to bring
issues of concern to women or Third World people
into the curricula. I doubt they ever made
cultural literacy a serious criterion for promotion.
There would have been faculty riots.
The hundreds of millions of dollars spent on
sabbatical retraining, workshops, recruiting,
scholarships, research, and library resources
could have done a great deal for affirmative action and multi-cultural knowledge over a 20-year
period. Computers are wonderful tools, but our
money should be with our priorities, and our
priorities should be with the values which lie at
the foundation of a democratic society.
Campus News
Board Grows to Seven
David K.Y. Tang of Seattle and Allan M. Weinstein of Vancouver are new trustees of The
Evergreen State College. They were appointed by
Governor Booth Gardner thanks to a new law
which added to board memberships at all state
colleges and universities. Tang and Weinstein's appointments increased the size of Evergreen's
board to seven. Gardner also re-appointed Herb
Gelman, Tacoma attorney and two-time board
chairman.
Tang, who received an A.B. magna cum laude
from Harvard and a J.D. from Columbia, is a
partner in the Seattle law firm of Preston,
Thorgrimson, Ellis & Holman. When not practicing his legal specialization of foreign investment
and international trade, Tang is also an adjunct
professor of law at the University of Washington,
general counsel for the Washington State China
Relations Council and a member of the Seattle
Economic Development Commission.
A World War II veteran, Weinstein is the first
Vancouverite to serve as an Evergreen trustee
since Roger Camp in 1967-68. He is the owner of
the Vancouver Furniture Company and an active
member of numerous civic and business organizations such as the Greater Vancouver Chamber of
Commerce and the board of directors of the Community First Federal Savings and Loan
Association.
Evergreen Collaborates on
Interdisciplinary Methods
Well practiced in its own approach to education,
Evergreen is now working to introduce another
interdisciplinary concept to colleges around
Washington state. Evergreen's coordinated
studies programs are similar in design to the
other concept, federated learning communities,
and both are leading models for the movement
toward interdisciplinary education.
Developed by the State University of New
York, federated learning communities immerse
faculty, or "master learners," and students in an
intensive study of an intellectual theme. A recent
study by the National Institute for Education
praised learning communities as a powerful way
to promote student-teacher dialogue and active
learning. The learning community model, now active at a half-dozen colleges including SUNYStonybrook, Rollins College, the University of
Tennessee and Dennison College, was founded
with the assistance of Evergreen's Provost
Patrick Hill when he was at Stonybrook.
Evergreen is working with a increasing
number of two- and four-year colleges to establish
learning community model programs. A framework for this collaboration was provided last year
when the Exxon Foundation provided a seed
grant for the Washington Center for the Improvement in Quality of Undergraduate Education.
Headquartered at Evergreen and directed by
Academic Dean Barbara Smith, the embryonic
organization helps institutions to share information, faculty and resources.
The most advanced of the sharing efforts is an
exchange of faculty and ideas Evergreen and
Seattle Central Community College have participated in since the spring of 1984. Seattle Central's own coordinated studies program is now in
its fifth quarter, and the two-year college is offering a federated learning community this winter
for the first time.
At the same time, Tkcoma Community College and Evergreen are launching a learning community model which is jointly taught at
Evergreen's Tacoma campus (see story below).
Other institutions which are exploring interdisciplinary models are Western Washington
University, North Seattle Community College,
Bellevue Community College, Edmonds Community College, Centralia College and Lower
Columbia Community College.
Evergreen and Community
College Build Bridge
A cooperative educational venture by Evergreen
and Tacoma Community College will soon provide
a stronger link between the two institutions for
students from the Tacoma area. Just underway
this quarter, the Bridge Program is designed for
the returning adult student who wants to pursue
a bachelor's degree at Evergreen's upper division
Tacoma Program after completing his or her
Associate of Arts degree at TCC.
The new program is team-taught (coordinated
by Faculty Member Margaret Gribskov) three
nights a week at Evergreen's Tacoma campus by
faculty from both institutions. Enrolled to its
40-student limit, Winter Quarter's Bridge offering
focuses on cities of the West and Far East. Interdisciplinary in nature, the Bridge Program is
modeled on the federated learning community
concept which Evergreen is helping to develop
with other colleges around the state (see related
story above).
Vancouver and Tacoma Move
Both of Evergreen's outreach programs relocated
to new quarters this winter. A resident of
Officer's Row at Fort Vancouver for seven years,
the Vancouver Program moved into a recentlycompleted building it will share with the
Southwest Washington Joint Center for Education, which is located on the campus of Clark College. Still located near the heart of downtown
Tacoma, Evergreen's Tacoma Program has a new
home in a freshly-remodeled facility at 12th and
South K.
Good Grants News
Evergreen recently received grants from the
Burlington Northern Foundation and Council for
Postsecondary Education which combine for a
total of $51,050.
Burlington Northern's Faculty Achievement
Award Program granted the college $9,000 to
award Evergreen faculty over the next three
years. Each year, Provost Patrick Hill will chair a
committee of faculty, past and present deans,
staff and students who will name two faculty
members to receive $1,500 each. The first pair of
honorees will be selected this June.
The Council for Postsecondary Education
awarded Evergreen $42,050 to assist local high
school math teachers. Evergreen faculty members
began offering coursework on campus in January
for teachers who want to upgrade their math
skills. The program is directed by Faculty
Member Hazel Jo Reed.
Kickers Score Honors
Kevin Schiele and Matt Louy, both sophomores,
and senior Darrell Saxton have received individual honors for their performances on
Evergreen's men's soccer team last fall. Cocaptains Saxton and Schiele were named Most
Valuable Player and Most Valuable Offensive
Player, respectively; while Louy earned the Most
Valuable Defensive Player award.
The women's soccer team voted senior Gayla
Miller as their Most Improved Player, and
freshman Erika Buchanan the Most Valuable. The
award for Most Inspirational Player went to
sophomore Cindy Broadbent.
Enrollment Hits New Highs
Evergreen set new records for enrollment Fall
Quarter by totaling a count of 2,980 students and
2,761 FTE. It was the second year in a row
Evergreen reached a new high, and represented a
5% increase over fall, 1984. The number of
students who enrolled directly from high school
shot up 42.5% from last year. Of the 255 high
school directs (the largest number in that
category since 1973), 200 were in-state residents.
Community college transfers from Washington
state accounted for about half of all new degreeseeking students. The number of non-resident
students dropped slightly for the fifth consecutive
year to 13% of the total student body.
Fall Quarter's high enrollment resulted in
earlier admissions deadlines for Winter and
Spring Quarters. Although final statistics were
not available at press time, the college was expected to set new records for Winter Quarter,
also. The previous high mark came during Winter
Quarter last year, when Evergreen enrolled 2,780
students and 2,503 FTE. Enrollment for Winter
Quarter was expected to be close to a 2,800 student count and 2,600 FTE.
As for the next year—Evergreen's sweet
sixteenth—the record books may have to be revised all over again. Applications for admission to
the college this coming fall are presently 34%
ahead of last year's pace.
Teacher Education Program
Breaks New Ground
Aspiring teachers who enroll in the new Teacher
Education program at Evergreen next fall will encounter some new and exciting ways of learning
their craft. The two-year program is a joint offering of Evergreen and Western Washington
University in Bellingham, which is on a drive of
its own to create "the best teacher education program in America."
In an innovative departure from traditional
teacher certification, the Evergreen-Western
model will be a full-time, integrated program
taught by faculty from both institutions. Students
will work together throughout the program as a
"community of learners." The program will be
taught in a variety of modes, including seminars,
lectures, workshops and field experiences and,
similar to Evergreen programs, the faculty will
teach as a team, complementing each other's
expertise.
Western's faculty representatives will be Helen
Darrow and Sy Schwartz, and Evergreen's will be
Donald Finkel and Yvonne Peterson. Coordinator
of the new program for Evergreen is Academic
Dean Rita Pougiales, while Larry Marrs is Dean
of Western's School of Education.
The program also integrates theory and practice by having a student teacher serve in a public
school in the broader role of an "intern." Instead
of teaching under the supervision of one teacher,
Evergreen-Western interns are observed by other
teachers as well as the principal of the school.
The interns then receive continuous feedback
about their teaching effectiveness and
weaknesses from a team of professionals.
Other highlights include the emphases the new
program places on studying child and adolescent
development and children's learning styles, multicultural education, education in rural and urban
contexts, and the cultural basis of learning and
teaching.
The Evergreen-Western program will welcome
its first class this fall, which is also the last year
of Evergreen's joint teacher education program
with the University of Puget Sound. All coursework will be offered at Evergreen, while either
Elementary or Secondary Initial Certification is
conferred by Western's School of Education. The
deadline for early applications for fall is
March 17, after which applications will be
accepted on a space-available basis until May 15.
Out of Africa, 1986
Editor's note: The letter reprinted
below contains only half of the rich and
thought-provoking experiences of
Ralph and Carol Mason, '78 and '75
graduates, respectively. The Masons
ended their Nigerian sojourn in
November and are now living in Centralia, Washington.
Dear Evergreeners,
If ever we have been called upon to use
such Evergreen skills as mellow flexibility, spontaneous creativity, broadminded understanding and continual
on-the-job study and personal growth,
it has been in this assignment as
missionaries for the Church of the
Brethren in Nigeria.
The Church of the Brethren was
delighted to find someone like Ralph
who is a builder, electrician, plumber,
mechanic, well driller, refrigeration
man, musician and draftsman. The
church came to Garkida, Nigeria, 60
years ago and established schools, a
hospital, a leprosarium, churches and a
mission workshop as well as a rural
health program with dispensaries and
clinics, a well-drilling program (over
700 wells dug in the last four years)
and a theological education system in
an area about the size of Massachusetts.
Our first year in Nigeria we spent
learning the national language—
Hausa—getting the shop in order and
servicing the ten 4-wheel-drive LandRover vehicles, six Peugeots, four
Volkswagens, two Nissan vans, eight
generators and nine water pumps and
four mission station radios. We also
made a home and a school for our boys
(first and third grades), which turned
out to be a school for about 20 kids in
pre-school through second grade.
Ralph teaches theory of mechanics to
postsecondary students for two hours
daily, then I teach English, math and
Bible for two hours. Afterwards, he
takes these students to the shop for
three hours of practical work in the
areas of of study. We make up all our
own lesson plans, assignments, tests
and field trips, and keep studying to
figure out what would be most useful
to teach and how to do it. We teach in
English, although it's the third
language for most kids in this area, but
we keep learning enough Hausa to
make explanations clear.
Some days we feel like we're doing a
pretty good job of pulling "schools" out
of the air, but other days we're sure we
could be doing a lot more and long to
have somebody to help us.
We find that besides the usual
cultural differences in food, climate,
environment and dress, manners/mores
and priorities, none of which we've had '
too much trouble with, there are differences in the institutions here that
test our very definitions of "What is a
school, a hospital, a church or market
place?" There are differences in attitude here that test our understanding
of "What is a reason for being?" And
there are differences in reasoning here
that confound us daily and knock all
my great Piaget training to pieces.
The food is basically starch (a
plateful of guinea corn, semovita or
rice mush or cassava root or mashed
yams) with a little soup (amaranthe
and roselle leaf with ground peanut
butter, okra and tomato or meatchicken or goat, all done with palm oil
and chilies).
We eat this and also make our own
bread, raise chickens for eggs, collect
milk from the Fulani tribe herders for
yogurt and butter, and keep a garden
all year round. There are two seasons,
but to us it's hot year round—80-112°
in the shade of our verandah. We drink
water by the gallons, at least a gallon a
day for each of us, and also enjoy a
drink made from tamarind pods boiled
with sugar.
We live in a savannah grassland river
area with leafy mango trees for shade,
neems for quick-growth foliage and
flowering flame trees for color. The
women wear head ties and a flat piece '
of fabric wrapped firmly around the
torso and fastened with a securing roll
at either waist or breast level. Babies
are carried on the back in another
width of fabric. Western blouses and
men's clothing are common, although
most men still wear the traditional calf
length, flowing, split-open-on-the-side
tunic over matching beltless pants.
When we learned our first Hausa
lessons we were alarmed that one of
the first things you ask a person upon
greeting him is "How's the tiredness?"
The answer in this ritual greeting is
always "No tiredness," but having lived
here in the heat, carried water in
buckets, and hoed a garden with a
short Nigerian fartanya (which puts
your nose about a foot from the
ground), I've come to realize that it's a
ritual "bucking up" of one's neighbor to
greet him or her in this manner so
they can reassure themselves that,
with a new day, tiredness really is gone
in a minute.
All of this seems perfectly normal to
us now, but the questions about the
philosophy of life, system of government and cognitive development continue to baffle us. Two specific examples: (1) Going to the "hospital" has
become equated with getting an injection. As a result, a six-week-old baby
was injected with chloroquin and
valium for fever and constant crying
when it was actually suffering from
malnutrition. (2) Basic concepts such as
letters make sounds and sounds make
words, numbers are amounts of things,
and objects have depth, breadth, size
and shape cannot be taken for granted
in school.
Things were marketed in Nigeria in
the name of progress without any progression having been done first. So we
get operating theaters and equipment
before there is cleanliness; we get
chalkboards and desks before there are
children asking, "Why?" and teachers
answering "Let's find out." There are
tractors broken in the fields beside the
handhoes, but you rarely see an ox and
plow because no one ever marketed
them here.
Given all the Nigerian has seen come
and go—crops in drought, oil boom and
oil bust—it is probably no wonder that
the prevalent attitude is a shrug and
the phrase "No problem." It is hard for
us to accept this as a reality. We had
taken it for granted that innate curiosity, cognitive growth from concrete to
abstract logic, and common sense were
some kind of absolutes which evolve
naturally. Now I think they are learned
so subtly that no one notices it.
Oh well, I've rambled long enough.
Had you asked only what do we do
here, this would have been shorter.
Ralph fixes things, I talk to peoplebut we do that at home. What makes it
different is the rest of this letter.
Sincerely yours,
Carol and Ralph Mason
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