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Color it Green
Out on a Limb The things peopl
think arelobyiouslare exaggerated.
while many things that'll have a
real impact are invisible now.
I Of all the future stuff done in the '50s and '60s, nobody foresaw the extent of computers.
Nobody foresaw there would be computers in toasters, telephones and carburetors.
If you asked '60s Sci Fi writers about the '90s, they'd have said there would be manned
space stations and lots of activity in outer space. They would have been shocked if you told
them that economics would nearly shut down the space effort so there would be no manned
space stations in 1990.
I wouldn't bet money on these predictions, but I'll go way out on a few limbs:
— As we approach the millennium there will be an outrageous, quasi-religious lunacy that will
manifest itself in various kinds of cults. It might make the latter part of the '90s really nerve
wracking because there will be all these people around saying very strange things.
— There may be a shift in world power from Western countries to Eastern countries. For instance, it could be that one of the more powerful countries will be Korea.
— As far as the "war on drugs" is concerned, the U.S. will either become a police state or drugs
will be legalized with bizarre results. What we're doing now is so stupid.
— I also expect some extraordinary facts about human biology to surface, along with some very
weird possibilities in regard to changing our biology. For instance, there may be intervention to
change the fetus to prevent disease or to make qualitative change — to affect what comes out.
This won't happen in the next 10 years, but maybe in the next 20 to 50.
— I predict something odd, fantastic, scary, unusual, and extraordinary in South America.
We've forced several generations of children to be raised in conditions of scarcity because of
population pressure. With such a lack of resources, anything that survives will be very tough.
— The world will become much smaller. We'll feel each others' pain, suffering and joy much
more at the end of the century than at the beginning. We can participate in each other's joy and
sorrow in real time, spread all over the world.
— Here's a prediction I will bet money on: If you don't like video games and TV now, you'll
hate what happens next.
Tom Maddox 75
Evergreen s Writing Coordinator and a nationally recognized science fiction writer, Maddox's
stories have been published in Omni. Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine and several anthologies. His
first book will be published, he predicts, in a year by Tor Books.
True History
One, Two and a Lot
of Beds...
There'll be two new buildings on campus by 2000 — a
public service building and
Seminar Phase II, in
addition to facilities for 200
more beds in Housing.
There'll also be a lot
of remodeling. Computer
Services will continue to
expand and I hope we'll be
doing remodeling to create
more dining room space by
1992.
Campus buildings will
be friendlier. They'll be
built on a more personal
scale with more color and
texture. Ivy and other
foilage will soften the
concrete. There'll be more
art, more decoration.
Jon Collier
Campus Architect
And Her Name Will Be..
Evergreen will have a female
president and provost by the year
2000. Both will have a substantive background in and commitment to building a multicultural
campus and fighting racism and
sexism in society.
Lucia Harrison
Faculty Member
12 Big Steps to 2000?
We could be in the midst of an
incredible transition. We're developing more and more awareness of the dynamics of addiction
and addiction treatment. Over
and over again, we're seeing that
the most successful help comes
from the Alcoholics Anonymous
programs. What's really exciting
is to see so many other groups
evolve out of AA's 12-step program. People who go through
this recovery process apply the
process to many areas of their
lives, and that spreads to other
peoples' lives.
Think about it. Fifty years
ago alcoholics died or wound up
in institutions. Now there's hope,
and we could be seeing that hope
create a whole new consciousness for everyone.
Cheryl Thomas '86
Director, Communications/
Development
Recovery Northwest
Vancouver, WA
I prefer not to be referred to as.
"Hispanic." I resist the aggregation of many diverse peoples
from the Spanish-speaking world
into one term. I prefer to be : /
identified as a person whose
folks came from Mexico.
Our history doesn't exist
in the sense that it doesn't reflect
the struggles of all the people
who built this hemisphere. The
Indian and African presence has
been subsumed in our history.
This isn't just an abstract, intellectual issue. It's very close to
the heart. My children struggle
constantly with the effects of a
history that begins with 1492 or
1620 and treats non-Europeans
as a footnote to the story of white
expansionism from the Eastern
Seaboard to the West.
My hope for the '90s is the
growing number of people,
including policy makers, who are
committed to making a change.
The problem, however, is the
underdeveloped ability to train
teachers with other than a Eurocentric orientation. The change
has to start with history departments, with teacher education
programs.
Educators are becoming
increasingly frustrated with the
limitations of an enthocentric
history. If we work with people's
desire to change, there's a lot of
potential for improvement. Or
we can get bogged down in the
politics of constantly changing
terminology instead of the
pursuit of truth.
Tomas Ybarra
Director of Upward Bound
By the year 2000, 20 percent of
our students will be people of
color. We're going to work real
hard toward that goal.
Also, 30 percent of the
faculty will be people of color in
2000, compared to nearly 20
percent today.
We're also going to have
lots of beautiful murals on the
gray walls around here. We're
going to bring someone in from
the University of New Mexico to
help us with that.
Arnaldo Rodriguez
Dean of Enrollment Services
The Current Fashion Hits That
You Won't Be Caught Dead In At
The New Year's Eve Party,
December 31, 1999...
One-hundred-dollar sequined sweatshirts, $185 torn
jeans and lame sports shoes. In other words, tacky
will not be in, but identified.
Rita Cooper
Director of Employee Relations
More Than Marches
I have a lot of hopes, but I don't see this as the decade of Gay Rights. 1
Other issues — the economy, changes in the Eastern bloc — will takej
the forefront.
Gay Rights strategy will be more radical. There'll be more than]
marches. There'll be more anger. There'll be more acts of serious
civil disobedience such as ACT UP's barricading themselves at
Burrough's (makers of AZT) in North Carolina or their blockade of
the FDA building.
As the decade progresses, I think people will stop identifying
AIDS as a gay disease, and 1 hope the media will treat gay pride and
AIDS as separate issues.
The biggest challenge for gay communities will be to avoid
ghettoizing. There are gay travel agencies, gay restaurants, gay bars.
Those things are good and necessary in a way. But it's a Catch-22
situation. Because gay people won't be accepted in the outside
society, they create their own businesses and communities which tend
to isolate them from society.
Intolerance of gay people in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc
eountnes has been terrible, i think there's a good chance it will
impiove now, slowly.
My most optimistic prediction: by 2000, Washington may havj
a ->(ale*ide Gay Rights Bill enacted into law.
Chris Barefoot, Senior
Co-coordinator
LesbianlGav Rights Center
No More Up, Up and Away?
It looks like SUPERMOM will be dead in the '90s, and I'm glad. I
thought it was one of the dumbest concepts around — the woman who
excels at everything. Maybe it'll be the decade of SUPERDAD. I don't
think so. 1 do think "mom" will be more realistic. Convenience businesses will boom — take-home foods, sending laundry out, hired help,
etc.
We'll see a lot more flex time in jobs for parents and a lot more onjob childcare. With the workforce shrinking, employers are going to have
to provide childcare to keep their parent employees.
There'll probably be a return to old-style parenting. Parents will be
more conservative, more moralistic. The '80s were a very confusing time
for parenting. There'll be more "do's" and "don'ts" for kids in the '90s.
"Safe Sex" instructions for teenagers will be "no sex."
Gayle Clemens, senior
Coordinator of the Evergreen Parent Center
Male Birth Control Pill!
End of Sexism!
Hell Freezes Over!
I've been ordering crow pie
from Eagan's ever since.
Sexual mores can go either one of two ways. It's going to become more conservative, where people won't
have as many partners, or it's going to go underground again, as far as people not wanting to discuss sex if
they're having more partners.
Condom use will increase, but I don't think we'll go for the full body wrap. The female condom is
going to be kind of a fad. However, the condom is going to be renovated. They're going to make them
better and do more with them. Right now they have different colors, but maybe they'll start making them
like checks, with mountains and flowers. I think women will continue to use birth control along with a
barrier method, because they're going to be concerned not only about pregnancy but about sexually transmitted disease.
We'll have an effective male birth control pill when there's no longer sexism in society or when hell
freezes over. This is partially because society is male dominated and developing new drugs requires experimentation. Men would rather experiment with the hormones of women than men.
In China there was extensive experimentation with a male birth control drug called glossipol. Some
men died from the drug, but not nearly as many as the number of women who died when we were experimenting with the IUD and birth control pill.
About safe sex? This isn't a prediction, but a hope: The concept of sex will be reversed, so people
have longer foreplay and the act of, quote, actual sexual intercourse, end quote, will be less important.
Wen-Yee Shaw
Evergreen Health Center
Women's Health Care Specialist
Omnia Extares!
Snowboarding, sailing, basketball and volleyball will be
intercollegiate sports at Evergreen in 2000.
Corey Meador '82
Recreation Sports Coordinator
1789...1848... 1989... 2000...
Hegel refers to the phenomena of "world historical moments" as events so complicated that we can't get
our minds around them. The revolutions of 1989 constitute such a moment. The rapidity and almost total
unpredictability of the revolutions in Eastern Europe should teach us all a great deal of humility.
I see what's happening in Eastern Europe as a culmination of the French Revolution of 1789, of the
events of 1848. As in 1848, many of the revolution's leaders are poets and members of the intelligentsia.
The demands are the same: self-determination, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly and democracy.
Gorbachev has proven all the pundits wrong. There are few guideposts to follow in predicting what
will happen next, but I don't believe Gorbachev has a grand design for Eastern Europe. His policy has
been a series of improvisations.
The U.S.S.R. has to be the strangest "empire" in history. Generally, an empire drains its subjects for
the good of the metropolitan center. But the standard of living in the Soviet Union has been the lowest of
the Eastern Bloc countries. The Soviets export raw materials in exchange for shoddy goods.
Most of Eastern Europe is dependent on the U.S.S.R. for raw materials. Now comes the crunch. The
Soviet Union could say to Poland, to Romania, "Okay, you have our blessing to leave, but we're going to
stop subsidizing your economy with cheap energy sources. We'll start charging you the world price."
That'll hurt because currently the Soviet Union sells coal and oil to Eastern Europe at anywhere from 20%
to 75% below world market prices. But now the Soviet Union, in its efforts to refurbish its own economy,
may not be able or willing to offer such discounts. That's the irony of free enterprise: freedom to choose
and freedom to lose.
I don't believe the Soviet Union will be able to recover the kind of influence they have had in
Eastern Europe. The revolutions in those countries are irreversible. Even if Gorbachev is replaced (and
1990 will be the critical year for him), even the hardest of the hardliners can see the futility of reversing
the revolutions of 1989.
I don't think that any Eastern European country will turn to a laissez-faire economy. There's a
strong element in Solidarity, for example, of the Social Democrat that does not envision free enterprise in
the sense of Western or Japanese corporations. Also, there's not an Eastern European country, with the
possible exception of Czechoslovakia, that is not energy dependent. What could emerge is an Eastern
European Common Market.
German reunification is a complicating factor. I don't know of any power that would benefit from
German reunification, which would make Germany the most powerful country on the continent.
I'd suggest that the only possibly acceptable united Germany would be a neutral, partially disarmed
Germany that would not be in any alliance or system.
Thomas Rainey
Faculty Member
Welcome to Lacolytum!
Tick, tick, tick....
Will the Mariners finish above .500
by 2000?
That's putting a lot of pressure on them.
Patrick Hill
Provost
Greener Guesses From The Numbers Man
Number of students enrolled in 2000:
Percentage from Thurston County:
Percentage from other Washington counties:
Average student age in 2000:
Percentage of female students: (56% now)
Percentage of smoking students:
Part-time students: (11% now)
Percentage of Class of 2000 attending Evergreen all four years:
Average length of speeches at 2000 Commencement:
no speeches, just 30-second sound bites.
Steve Hunter ' 79
Director of Institutional Research, Evergreen
4,004
40%
40%
~24~
60%T
10%
20%
30%
Microsoft will
eclipse IBM.
A View From The Kansai
One of the main criticisms of Japan's role in the world is "that it
doesn't get involved." This stems from a cultural/historical prespective, but it also stems from the international political neutering administered to Japan at the end of the war. I don't see Japan assuming
America's "sentimental imperialist" viewpoint anytime soon. An
increase in financial aid, yes; military presence, no.
The Kansai, which is the region where I live, could be poised to
launch itself as a new center for business in the Pacific. This may
sound silly when one realizes that it already has a Gross National
Product greater than that of Great Britain or Australia. But in many
ways the region still acts as a little brother toward Tokyo.
With the completion of the new Kansai International Airport in
1993, Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto-Nara will have access to Japan's only 24hour airport, and its container capacity will be double that of Tokyo's.
In many ways Japan's trade attitude toward other countries is
very "tribal." Yes, most of what you hear about discrimination and
barriers is true. The only sure cure, however, is to stay and fight. In
order for that to happen, many more Americans need to move here
and make the commitment to learn how to do things the Japanese
way.
Japanese women have begun to get more involved and activist.
"Doi" is a power to be reckoned with, and anyone who still considers
Japanese women weak doesn't know what they're talking about. Yes,
the image of high school and college girls is "naibu" (shy and submissive) but I've met many women who are just plain angry. This will be
reflected in future elections.
Politically, the next 10 years should see the end of the dominance by those who were born before the war. This passing of the
torch should enable the Japanese people to become more politically
astute as facts about the past become common knowledge. It's not
enough to say that many Japanese don't care about what's going on in
the world — that's true in any country. But in my three years of
teaching all walks of life, I've been amazed at the apathy toward the
rest of the world that most Japanese show. In the '90s, the Japanese
will learn more than is shown in the game and travel shows. Cable
TV will explode on the scene, as it did in the U.S. This will open up
Japan as perhaps nothing else has.
As for the U.S., its position toward Japan is based on a Japan
that only exists in the minds of lobbyists and the press. I know of very
few "Japan experts" who live here.
My final prediction is that Washington universities and colleges
will make a major commitment to setting up residencies in Japan and
other Asian countries. American education will be a massive growth
industry here.
Brian Finley '87
Brian is opening a consulting firm in Osaka, Japan
By 2000, Lacey, Olympia and Tumwater will have some
kind of consolidated structure in place that will govern the
three cities.
Maybe You Should Use The Phone...
Eric Larson
A quarter to mail a postcard, 50 cents for a letter
Faculty Member
[in 2000].
Kort Jungel
Mailroom Supervisor
Disco Gold?
I hate making music predictions because when I
The Broadmerkel Forecast
first heard "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" (in the back
What happens in fashion will depend on what happens in the world. Whatever positive things happen in
of a Chevy), I said, "Those guys suck" (or whatever
society or international politics will influence fashion. For instance, with all that's happening in Eastern
put-down we used back then), and I've been orderEurope, I think Eastern European style will begin to have an influence.
ing crow pie from Eagan's Drive-In ever since.
What's popular right now is a sort of exotic style, and that will continue. The more exotic, the betYeah, we'll still be playing and listening to
ter. A lot of people will feel more comfortable wearing wilder patterns and jewelry. Clothing that reflects
oldies from the '50s and '60s in 2000, but we'll also
native cultures is popular. For instance, a lot of things look Nepalese or Tibetan—they have a more Eastbe playing Disco oldies, too. That'll be the oldies
ern influence. I think people will be looking for a special individual style of dress that sets them apart.
for people who came of age in the '70s and '80s.
Christine Broadmerkel '88
It's impossible to make predictions because
Owns an Olympia-based clothing manufacturing and retail business to market her own design fashions.
nothing really new is happening in the music world.
Nothing new has happened for a while. It seems
like everything's on hold. When something new
What Intercollegiate
does happen, it'll come from somewhere else,
Sport Will NOT Be
something multinational. I sure hope so.
Featured At Evergreen
Carl Cook ' 76
in
2000?
Meanwhile, Back at the KAOS Ranch...
Host of Brown Bag Dance Party
Football.
By 2000, KAOS will be breaking into the burgeoning Elma, McCleary market. Seriously, by 2000, we'll
KQ92 AM
Ron Cheatham
have five, paid, full-time staffers, a 24-hour-a-day broadcast schedule and 10,000 listeners (up from 2,500
Olympia, WA
Director of Campus Recreation
now). KAOS will also be recognized as one of the leading public radio stations in the country.
and Athletics
Public radio in the '90s will be leaner and meaner. Single-focus jazz or classical stations will suffer
because they'll become so isolated. Stations that do well will have a multicultural approach.
Michael Huntsberger
General Manager
KAOS FM 89.3, Evergreen's Community Radio Station
There'll be more skin.
There'll always be more skin.
Yup, Yuppies in 2000.
They'll drink carrot juice with copper in it because
it takes out the radiation in them.
I think there will always be people who try to
think they're better and are hedonistic. It's just a
matter of what they're called.
Jacinta McKay, former student
Pel forming Arts Assistant
More Than Just A
Building
If Evergreen's Longhouse isn't
built by 2000,1 have a real
concern that not only will we
lose our Indian students, but
cultural diversity on this campus
will come to a standstill.
Some say, "What does a
building have to do with all
this?" Well it's more than just a
building, it's a Longhouse, it's
grassroots, it's a way of learning.
Because of strong tribal roots,
Indian students are looking for
connections between their values
and the places they go to school.
The fact that we don't
have a Longhouse won't prevent
people from coming here as long
as the commitment to it is alive. I
know a lot of people are dedicated to the idea, but that it also
took years for the money to build
the gym to pass through the legislature. It'll take a lot of hard
work, but like Lloyd [Colfax,
former faculty member who
passed away in 1987] used to
say, "We don't have to have a
Longhouse to keep the dream
alive. We are the dream."
The Indians who are in
elementary school now, who will
be college students in 2000 will
have a greater pride in selfidentity. It's been a long time
coming. Boarding schools that
taught the older generations did
not encourage Indian pride and
self-identity. Now Indians are
teaching in those schools. A real
change is coming. And we'll
need it because societal pressures
are mounting every day — drugs,
alcohol, racism. We'll have to
work very hard to keep on the
"red road."
I'd also like to say that
Leonard Peltier (a Sioux spiritual
leader imprisoned for allegedly
murdering two FBI agents) will
be released by 2000.
Gary Wessels Gi/breath '85
Coordinator of First Peoples'
Retention Services
Hermeneutic
Science will start to change in the '90s. In broad, simplistic terms, the
methodology of research will likely switch from a reductionist mode
to a hermeneutic model. We'll gain an understanding of the whole
instead of just the parts. This new way of scientific inquiry requires
an understanding of a subject within its context. It's the kind of
thinking that Evergreen students and faculty already do. In the process of interacting outside my field, I've continually learned a great
deal about the non-objectivity of science.
Janet Ott
Faculty Member
The Glass Ceiling
I don't consider myself a spokesperson for Asian American peoples, particularly in light of the tremendous diversity that exists within this population. I can speak from my own experience, with the understanding that any bias I have is from the perspective of being a Sansei, or third-generation Japanese
American.
The U.S. is becoming more conscious of the importance of relations with Pacific Rim countries;
"multicultural awareness" is a frequently heard expression. Whether this emphasis on awareness is one of
substance or the latest fad is yet to be seen. Regardless, I still have many fears about the year 2000. Less
than 50 years ago Japanese Americans were victims of the "yellow peril" hysteria of WWII, and forced
into concentration camps. The redress movement has been relatively well publicized, but still no payments
have been made as former internees rapidly pass away. Japanese investments in the U.S. have brought out
much racist reactionism, while one rarely hears of the European countries that have even larger investments here.
The most recent Southeast Asian immigrants are often characterized as a continuation of the "model
minority." Some indeed are adapting well and achieving. Still, many are struggling. Immigrants previously
were government subsidized for a three-year adjustment period upon arrival. Now a family of three
receives less than $500 per month for the first year only. I fear many will be exploited as a cheap labor
force, as were Filipinos before them, Japanese before them, and Chinese before them. Another current
issue is characterized by the Pacific Islander Americans' dilemma of being categorized into the broad
"Asian" classificiation, or as "other." Neither of these adequately describes their identity. This will
continue to be an issue as oppressed ethnic groups struggle for self determination.
If Asian Americans who have achieved a degree of success can break through the proverbial "glass
ceiling" that maintains the current Euro-American male power structure, perhaps we can prevent these
issues from escalating. But whether or not this barrier is broken, I believe it to be of critical importance
that young Asian Americans remember the exploitation, racism and suffering that previous generations
have endured. Any success we have or will yet achieve is, to a large degree, due to their strength and
perseverance.
Eugene Fujimoto
Acting Director
'
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First Peoples' Advising Services
I don't think
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wrap
Work
Employers will have to rethink their profit margin. They're going to
have to include training that will teach their people how to think: to
reason, to solve problems and articulate solutions. This training has to
include everyone, not just top-level managers.
We're facing a decreased labor force and jobs that will change
180 degrees. Machinists and manufacturing jobs, for example, are becoming computer-driven operations. Employers will have to take a
good, hard look at the skills they're providing. They'll have to
provide the time and space for employees to develop work-related
skills that will survive.
Worker-owned companies, companies that aren't top-heavy are
good models in this regard.
Julie Grant '79
Grant Associates
Specialists in Vocational Rehabilitation, Olympia, WA
And Yet More Greener Gnostications
The View From The
Beer Garden: June 3,
2000
There'll be 39,816 folks at Super
Saturday XXII. The highlight
will be the appearance of the first
woman president of the United
States floating in on a laser beam
to open the celebration. She'll be
accompanied by music from
what's left of the Who.
PLUS...
At the current rate of over 800
new graduates a year, our alumni
ranks will nearly double to
20,000. Greeners will continue to
infiltrate New York, Boston,
D.C., San Francisco, L.A., Chicago and Denver. The 1-5 strip
from Seattle to Eugene will get
Greener and Greener. But we
still won't have a grad in
Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Larry Stenberg
Mr. Super Saturday
and Director of Alumni and
Community Relations
Maybe It'll Be MacroSoft?
Ready for a wild prediction? Okay, by 2000,
MicroSoft fhome of many Greener alums] will
eclipse IBM as the biggest computer company.
Casey Bakker '81
Alumni Association President
Certified Financial Planner, Olympia, WA
A Sea of Troubles
If things don't change, we're going down the tubes in the next 20
years. We're causing incredible damage to 2/3 of the world's surface:
our oceans. Coastal factories continue to dump waste into our food
supplies.
Despite the governmental objective of zero dolphin kills, we're
killing 125,000 dolphins a year. If changes aren't made, dolphins, at
best, will be an endangered species by the year 2000. At worst, many
species will be extinct.
We have to enact environmental controls immediately. We
need to monitor industrial dumping. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has to stand up and do what they were created to do.
We need better, more thorough observations of aquatic populations.
We need to start thinking along the lines of protecting an endangered
ocean.
Chris Blankenship '80
Marine Biologist
Dolphins Plus, Inc. Marine Mammal Research and Education Center,
Key Largo, FL
Chris is developing an acoustic harrassment device that will be
used to keep dolphins away from tuna nets where thousands die each
year.
Gender issues and multiculturalism will be strong across the curriculum.
1 Fifty, no 51 % of our faculty will be women.
• International studies will have an increasingly significant role in our curriculum.
' Many more opportunities for study abroad will be available for students and faculty.
We'll embrace citizenship as a cornerstone of our studies.
All academic programs will have a community service component, here and abroad.
After the University of Washington tries to put in a branch campus in Tacoma,
they'll realize we have a superior program and turn it over to us.
1 There may not be hard copies of text as we know them.
The Bookstore might consist of no books, but a set of CD ROMs.
$903 or Free?
Assessment will be a Specialty Area.
By the year 2000, tuition for state residents will be $903 per quarter, and $2963 for outCalisthenics will be the first item of business in each seminar.
of-state students. (Today, tuition is $506 for residents, $1775 for non-residents.)
Because so many of our faculty will be older, there'll be a shuttle bus
Or, it could be that tuition will be free because residents of Washington think it's
from the parking lot to the Clocktower.
wonderful that people want to come to school here. That's my dream of course. But I
Carolyn Dobbs
may not be working here then. Can you imagine? The lines for enrollment and registraAcademic Dean
tion would stretch out to the highway!
Judy Huntley
"Be The Change You'd Like To See In Others"
Assistant to the Dean for Registration and Records
American society will recognize the capability of African Americans as creators
Hot Hats and More Skin
as well as healers. African Americans will serve in key and influential positions in the
We're
talking comfort, absolute comfort. And lots of weird, different
infrastructure. We'll see more Norm Rices [newly elected mayor of Seattle], Wilders
materials
you never dreamed of — like fabric that changes color with
and Dinkins in leadership positions at the local, state and federal levels.
changes
in
the temperature, your mood, whether it's wet or dry. The
We'll continue to experience the backsliding on gains made in the '50s and '60s.
Chinese have already come up with a fabric that'll change colors with
But there'll be more confrontation. Because of the push at the federal level to move remoisture. I hear they're going to make swimsuits with it.
sponsibility back to the states, emphasis will be placed at the local, grass roots level.
Hats will be hot, for men and women. They'll be wild. They'll
I see the '90s as a gear-up decade for 2000. Quite frankly, I'm very optimistic.
be
crazy.
There'll be more skin. There'll always be more skin. Of
Despite what you see in the media about drugs, the larger porportion of African
course,
no
one will have tans to show off, not real tans. They'll come
Americans are working for the betterment of our community.
up
with
some
kind of synthetic tan that doesn't cause skin cancer.
We're facing the ultimate challenge in the '90s — continuing to be persistent toPeople
will
change their hair color to match their clothes —
ward the goals of self-determination on a national and global level. This challenge
and
they'll
do
it
often,
because there'll be a way to do it every day.
requires a great deal of discipline and obedience to the truth.
Jill Wyman '88
It's important for people to think of what life could be, instead of distressed about
Jill is a marketing and advertising consultant for an importer of Far
what it is. Be the change you'd like to see in others. That's the bottom line.
Eastern jewelry and for Ac have Productions of Portland, OR.
Stone Thomas
1
Dean of Student Development
Momma Told Me Not To Come
It's clear that the decade of the '90s will be the '70s. Watergate chic, the return of fashionable cynicism,
elephant bell-bottoms, avocado replacing black as the most elegant color and a new Esalan movement will
all be the result of people implementing '70s nostalgia. The best movie phenomona of the '70s will
translate to the small screen, and we will be able to watch 24-hour-a-day, all-disaster television.
Randall Hunting '82
Design Instructor
The Disease
What I hope AIDS means in the year 2000 is history—something
bad that happened—as opposed to a current situation. But I don't
think that's going to be true. Even if no one else gets the disease,
there'll still be people living with AIDS and dying with AIDS. Even
if we develop a cure, families and friends will still be grieving for
those they lost.
What I hope is that after 10 more years of dealing with AIDS
we're a society that will be a lot more tolerant of differences, and
that it won't be a matter of, "Should we spend the money for health
care for these people?"
The other thing I really hope for is that there will be more cooperation between the people dealing with the medical aspects and
those dealing with the psychological and emotional aspects of the
disease — that there's equal attention to both.
Ronni Hacken '82
Hacken works with Maureen Foye Parker '83 as Counseling Consultants of'Olympia. They hold a support group for people who have
tested HIV positive, have ARC or AIDS, and their families and
friends.
Jesse In '92?
I wouldn't be surprised if Jesse
Jackson won the Democratic
nomination in 1992. It's very
important that he run so he can
change the kind of debate we
have in presidential elections.
He's the only one who focuses
on issues of class discrimination.
His biggest problem will be
finding common ground with
feminists and environmentalists.
His other problem is building a
grass roots approach. He's a very
strong leader, but I don't believe
that strength comes from the
grass roots up.
Lucia Harrison
Faculty Member
p
and past Co-chair of the
Thurston County Rainbow
Coalition
We're Working On It
The future? Look, I just want to
be able to fax myself to Venice,
Italy, then to Paris by 2000.
Kate Crowe '80
Prior Learning Experience
Coordinator
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WHAT!!??!!
The most popular Greener
hangout in 2000 will be the University of Washington. Evergreen will cease to exist. By that
time, the U will have absorbed
everything.
Marv Lou O'Neil, senior
1,2,3...Challenges For The Big E
The U.W. will establish a branch campus in Tacoma in 1990. Similar
to our Tacoma program, there'll be a big emphasis on serving
working people and people of color. How will Evergreen define itself
and what it offers as distinct and valuable, not only in Tacoma, but
throughout the state?
We'll face a tough fiscal challenge, both for capital and open
ing funds. The state is very near its limit on capital dollars availa
and there's a lot of demand for new prisons, branch campus buiUm
and other projects. It will be a continually tough task to acqune
enough funds to keep our campus in shape and to add needed It
ties.
The nature of our tax system is such that when the econom^ is
rolling there's more money available for public institutions, and ,
conversely, we face a drought when the economy is.pinched. We have
to find a way of stabilizing the flow of operating dollars. I think the
most likely solution is to turn to more fundraising on the institutional
level.
Finally, the biggest (and oldest) challenge will be maintaining
our unique character in the light of ever-increasing, external demands.
Specifically, I'm thinking of the rising need to serve working, parttime students. Yet, almost all our academic offerings are full-time
programs. I don't have a pat answer for this dilemma. No one does.
Yet, Evergreen will have to strike a delicate balance between responding to public needs and remaining true to itself.
Jennifer Jaech '85
Assistant to the President for Governmental Relations -;••:-.
The World Recolonized?
This summer, Castro said the Third World is worried about recolonization. I think he's right.
With the current situation in Europe, there is no longer any opposition to invasion of South
America.
Drugs are going to be the name of the invasion game. Americans are willing to give up
their civil liberties in the name of the war on drugs. They're willing to give up the civil liberties
of others in this cause. They're willing to invade more than one Latin American country. But
they forget to ask: What is it about our society that makes so many young people in the U.S.
want to run away to drugs?
To the degree you can claim you've reached the end of history, that you've won a war of
ideas (Capitalism over Communism), you can believe we are the zenith of human development
in this country. Not only have you eliminated dissent then, but you've saddled the less advantaged in our country with the notion that no further social transformation is evident. And in the
process, you ignore stepping over the bodies of people who died of starvation, while the nation
builds more prisons until we surpass South Africa as the nation with the most prisons per capita.
This all works together. In essence, it could mean the recolonization of the world and the
re-segregation of the U.S. is coming. This could be the power structure's salvation because if
inequalities continue, and the mediocre continue to rise to the top; if we spend all our education
and R&D monies on projects that can be militarized rather than on civilian-use projects, then we
won't be able to compete with countries like Japan.
To continue spending money on the military, you need an en
rises. I don't see good things fjSMliThirdwortt
Angela Gilliam
Faculty Member
Doing The
Right Thing
By the year 2000, 80% of the U.S. work force will be made up of
women and people of color. Another significant group in the work
force will be people with disabilities.
Affirmative Action will require us to examine where that 80%
is represented in the work force. Will they be spread across all levels
or will they be relegated to the low-paying jobs? Affirmative Action
will emphasize minority options for training and for upward mobility.
The change that will bring about true Affirmative Action will
be largely through external forces. Federal and state offices will
continue to monitor the goals we've set. Employers will have to meet
these goals. There'll also be an internal change. As we get an increase
of people of color and women in management positions, there'll be a
change in attitude. More and more organizations will no longer be
white male clubs.
Folks don't give up power easily. Few of us do. But that
sharing of power comes about because some external force requires
you to do so; or because through enlightened self-interest, you know
you're going to feel better for doing the right thing.
I'm an optimist. While I admit that a lot of people look at
Affirmative Action and multiculturalism as some kind of penance,
many more people are beginning to see the move to a multicultural
society as a way of celebrating life.
Margarita Mendoza de Sugiyama
Special Assistant to the President
^ —-^
for Affirmative Action
Keep Your Trade-offs
Out of My Cart
~ -^^H
the mid-'90s look for the eatThe Baltimore Sun recently surveyed food labs to
hich cat) be eaten like an apple. This should
all melon. Researchers are aiming to
do away with that unsightly rind problem.
Research is moving along on carbonated milk. This is a response to changing American tastes
reflected in increasing pop sales and decreasing sales of milk. For any animal activists out there, you'll
want to know they're planning to add the carbonation after the cow is milked.
What about eating practices? A recent Gallup Foil found that most people watch TV, read, work or
do something else while eating. A scant one-third of adults dine at home with other people and actually
talk. It's no wonder there are so many divorces.
Maybe there's a good reason we're not dawdling over dinner. The frozen or shelf-stabilized entree
has made a big move on the market. And even the manufacturers of these items admit their strength is not
in the flavor arena. The New York Times quotes the research director of Campbell's Soups: "Food today,"
Richard Nelson says, "is more of a maintenance function than pleasurable experience. The word trade-off
is a real clue that people are willing to accept something inferior so long as it is fast."
Remind me to keep his trade-offs out of my shopping cart. But it looks like Campbell's is not alone.
Take-home fast-food, and particularly faster food, like 30-second take-out pizzas, are the food marketing
trends of the '90s. Even the cold sandwich and canned soup are regarded as too slow. So much for the
major trends.
Fortunately, there have been mini-trends. One recent mini-trend borrows from Latin America and
the tropics. Now you can get fresh exotic fruits like passion fruit and papaya and mango even during the
winter. Another mini-trend, the ethnic sections of supermarkets, has expanded.
My hope for food in the '90s is that the mini-trends continue. Here is my greatest hope: real pizza.
What do we have now? Microwave pizza. That's almost an oxymoron. These pizza pretenders are fast
erasing the burger as kids' food of choice. This phenomenon should motivate real pizza makers, from the
pizza cities like Chicago or Rochester, New York, to go national. The 70s and the '80s proved there was a
market for anything that looked like pizza. Wouldn't it be great if in the '90s we had a product that actually
was pizza?
Russ Lidman
Faculty Member and Director of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy.
The above was excerpted from his January 21 commentary on KPLU-FM in Tacoma.
Lettuce Hear More!
I predict that in 10 years, mainstream agriculture will be more in line
with what we call organic agriculture today. There will be much less
use of pesticides. By 2000, you'll see more use of insect-predators
that eat food-eating pests. There is a major lettuce supplier using
vacuums to remove bugs, and many other techniques are being
introduced that alleviate the need for pesticides.
Costs for this organic-like produce can go two ways. It
depends on the marketing people. They can continue to say it costs
more when it really costs less. Also, these methods of farming will
create shifts in where money is spent — away from chemical companies, to the people who assist in the management of farms.
Rural America will be fully integrated into the general economy as computers, telecommunications and related technology open
up new opportunities to regions beyond the shadow of the city.
Highly motivated self-starters will find comfortable refuge in less
populated areas as organizations and the general economy decentralize. "Greenbelts," parks and open spaces will continue to expand as
development pressure is circumvented by zoning and related requirements.
Agriculture will become extremely consumer driven. Domestic
marketers will supply more competitive niche markets while agribusiness seeks larger, international markets. The former will supply low
volume, highly differentiated products that precisely match consumer
demand. Agribusiness will specialize in high volume, low cost and
undifferentiated commodities and products. "Family" farms will have
a strong marketing emphasis by 2000. With new technology and locally sponsored programs, agriculture and rural communities will face
shifts in production and consumption to more local levels. For
example, row cover technology allows season extension for Northern
grown, warm-weather crops. Also farmers' market development
programs will promote the production and consumption of local food
supplies. The result — flourishing central markets with strong
benefits for regional and rural economies.
Durwin Knutson, former student
Statistician
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Bureau of Census
Data Requirements and Outreach Bran in Washington D.C.
Knutson recently published The Direct^ < for Small-scale Agriculture
while interning with the V. S. Secretary
Bigger and Better
The Alumni Association will
offer a lot more services in the
'90s. We'll have a real handle on
regional directories and representatives. Greeners in business will
help each other out. There'll be
an alumni job bank and a bigger,
tighter network.
Janine Thome '87
Alumni Board Member
Wisdom
"No, We're the
Givenchy House. The
Free Box Folks Are Next
Door."
In the year 2000, students will
have more choices for living and
eating as a result of the initiative
of Evergreen entrepreneurs.
These entrepreneurs will form
theme collectives — living arrangements within campus
housing and off campus —
containing people who share
interests that are political,
religious, cross-cultural, linguistic, or maybe in just living with
or without animals. There could
be a sports collective, for
example, a Rugby House. There
could be nutrition and food preference houses, like residences for
people who enjoy red meat, no
red meat, or collectives for pure
or modified vegetarians. There
could be a fashion theme, maybe
a Givenchy designer house or a
Free Box collective. There could
be an apolitical house, or a jazz
8r classical music house. It
should be very interesting.
Gail Martin
Vice President for Student
Affairs
The campus
as seen from
the rear-view
mirror of our
time machine.
Hope you
enjoyed the
ride.
Nature writing (such as the works of Gertrude Erlich, Peter
Matthiessen and Barry Lopez) will be very, very important because it
deals with systems and wisdom. It may be the only place in the '90s
where wisdom will come through.
Our education system has sold out so entirely that wisdom
won't come from there. Even when Americans talk about bettering
education, it isn't for the purpose of wisdom, but in order to make us
better competitors with Japan. And even though there's a return to
religion, it's not dealing with wisdonjbut with dogma.
But nature writing is based orj ^serving, on understanding, a
appreciation, and, probably most ir
:ant of all, on preserving.
Sandra Simon
Faculty Member
Half a Mil Per Year!
earM
Evergreen already has the
highest percentage of alumni/ae
participation of any publicly
supported college or university in
Washington. This trend will
continue. Our participation will
climb to between 13 and 15% by
the middle of the '90s and then
remain stable.
The number of gifts, of
course, will rise dramaticall
Evergreen should receivejffkmt
3,000 alumni/ae gifts sjrcn year
by 1999, or about tWee times the
gifts we receivedffast year.
Because'more and more
Evergreeri^raduates will be
earning the kind of incomes that
allow them to support the causes
they feel strongly about, the
amount of money the Evergreen
Fund generates will increase
significantly. By 2000, the
Evergreen Fund will receive over
$500,000 per year. That's a lot
of student projects, a lot of
scholarships, a lot of money to
support the college.
Forrest Wilcox
Director of Annual Giving
You Don't Miss It Till The Well...
Care
I think the rising cost of health
care as well as increasing
demand from the growing populations of elderly and from
people with AIDS is going to
result in a new way of providing
health care. The federal government will have to step in and
make sure health care is paid for
in a different way than it has
been. We'll be looking at some
kind of national health coverage.
It could be a combination of
continuing health care: using the
employer-paid system, but supplementing it with a governmentpaid system for other employees
and people that aren't working.
At first it could be controversial because it's a different
way of providing health care. But
Medicare and MedicAid were
introduced in the '60s, so I think
in the '90s we'll see that kind of
coverage expanded to include
everybody.
Gail Tanaka '74
Data Analyst and Policy Advisor
CHEF (Comprehensive Health
Education Foundation)
A Non-profit Agency in Seattle
Water will be the issue of the decade for the Intermountain West. We're changing our
values from quantity to quality. It used to be everyone here thought of water in terms of,
"How much can I get to put on my potatoes?" Now, people are asking, "How clean is
it?"
In some areas, it may be too late to save our water, especially groundwater.
Water consciousness will move North. It'll begin in the U.S. Southwest as their water
tables evaporate with increasing population.
A political reality for the Northwest is that California has more votes in Congress
than we do. The issues of reclamation, water transportation and conservation are all
affected by this reality. One need only look at the sale of surplus electricity from the
Northwest to California as a barometer on such issues.
AND
The gap between rich and poor will worsen as we move away from a manufacturing economy to an information/service economy. The key to staying ahead of the curve
is education. Public education is in jeopardy because our system is moving toward a
system of privilege for the privileged.
Our best hope lies in events across the ocean — in the Soviet Union, the Eastern
Bloc. We can learn lessons from these countries about our own political evolution.
People in Romania and China are dying for political freedom and we take it for granted.
We no longer have the Great Bear at our door. The Cold War was such a useless waste
of energy. We have a golden opportunity for Americans to focus on domestic change.
John Stocks '81
Former Idaho State Senator
John begins a new job this spring as political director for the Wisconsin Education
Association Council.
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waterfront d
and i i l l be
cool to live there.
Amy Harris, senior
Planet Fever
There's still some debate as to
whether there is sufficient evidence to say we're going into a
period of global warming.
Despite the controversy, we
should start acting as though it is
happening by focusing on things
like energy conservation and alternative energy sources, particularly solar energy. If it turns out
the consequences are not as
severe as people feared, we'll
still be better off by making the
changes. But if we don't, and we
have global warming, we'll be in
a very serious bind.
In considering a worst case
scenario, I would say by the year
2000 there could be very, very
serious effects — in fact, profound effects. Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) damage to the atmosphere could last for quite some
time. In the Pacific Northwest,
there could be some climactic
shifts, such as changes in temperatures and rainfall that could
have impacts on agriculture and
forests. Water for irrigation in
Eastern Washington could
become scarce, and the warmth
could cause some species of trees
to die out. There would be
impacts on fisheries as flow rates
of rivers and streams change.
Water temperatures in the Puget
Sound and on the coast would
change. A sea-level rise is a real
possibility, and that would have
gigantic impacts here.
Unfortunately, many
people see this as just an
environmental problem with a
scientific solution. We're going
to have to pay equal attention to
solutions and changes in the
realm of political economy. We
have an environmental problem
that needs an interdisciplinary
approach and solution. I don't
see any evidence that'll happen
in the near future.
Larry Eickstaedt
Faculty Member
They're Here!!
The Art Cards have arrived! The final product is of the highest quality
and was definitely worth the effort. The project's objectives are to
increase public awareness of Evergreen artists and to raise money for
Evergreen's Art Education Programs.
The postcards are printed on top grade bond using a four-color
separation printing process. The packet includes a wide variety of
mediums and styles, including ceramic sculpture, mono-type paint,
water color and photography.
Artists are: former student Mike Born, Shawn Ferris '89 and
Bill Schneider '80; students Norman Baum and Bradford Brooks;
and Faculty Members Marilyn Frasca, Bob Haft and Mike Moran.
Cards are available at the Evergreen Bookstore, Evergreen's
Tacoma Campus and Childhood's End. If you wish to purchase cards
by mail send your check of $15.00 to the Alumni Association, The
Evergreen State College, Lecture Hall 10, Olympia, WA 98505.
Special thanks to: the Project's key people, Andrew Stewart
'84, Producer, and Alumni Association Board members, Meg Ann
Gallic, Art Card Originator and Forrest Wilcox, director of Annual
Giving.
Also, applause to: Tomas Black for his photo services work,
and the Selection Committee of Mary Lynn Anderson, Tomas
Black, Mai Pina Chan, Peter Ramsey and Kristin Stewart.
Art Card Order Form
Please send me
Art Card packets
.($15 per packet)
Enclosed is my check/money order for.
Name
Address City
-State.
_ZIP_
Forward to: Alumni Art Card Project, Lecture Hall #10,
The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington 98505
Pakistan!
Are you in a really serious funk because you've never been to
Pakistan, never been to the Boltoro Glacier near Mt. Goodwin Austin
(K-2), the second highest mountain on Earth? Well, alums, now you
can join a genuine Greener Alum "expedition" to trek in that very
place this summer (July), 1990! The plan could include about 14
days of travel time to and from the objective including possible stops
in Japan, Thailand and southern Pakistan. Northern Pakistan activity
could include a week-long trek from Skardu over 15,700 foot-high
Burjila and onto a short section of the Deosai Plain. The herdspeople
of the highlands are wonderfully friendly and cooperative. Maximum
trip cost will be in the neighborhood of $1,500 to $2,000 including
travel, food, lodging and pre-trip preparation. If this appeals to you,
contact trip organizer Pete Steilberg, and request an application
packet.
Write:
Geoducks in Pakistan
CRC210
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, Wa. 98505
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Alumni Board Responds
to Armed Security
Issue
By Janine Thome '87
In 1985, TESC Campus Security officers were reclassified to campus
police officers by the Higher Education Personnel Board because the
board agreed with Security that they were performing daily police
officer duties. This action paved the way for officers to request
handguns for the safety of officers and the campus.
A campus DTP opposed the issuance of handguns at that time.
Security members cite confrontations with knife-wielding suspects,
not necessarily students, and other potentially dangerous situations as
reasons for their request. Security has also filed a complaint with the
Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, citing unsafe
working conditions.
Those opposed to the issuance of handguns feel that the
campus level of crime does not warrant armed security members, that
the presence of guns would diminish Security-campus communication, is not consistent with Evergreen philosophies and would
increase the possibility of a dangerous confrontation.
While the issuance of guns to Security would ordinarily be a
decision by the Board of Trustees, two bills submitted to the State
Legislature by Peter von Reichbauer (R-Dash Point) and Bill Smitherman (D-Bremerton) would, if passed, require all state universities
and colleges to arm security personnel. All presently do, except Evergreen. At a Senate committee hearing on January 16, Gail Martin,
vice president for Student Affairs, represented Evergreen in opposing
the bills. The Student Union, represented by senior Mary Lou O'Neil,
also opposed the bills, a position confirmed through a campuswide
student poll conducted last year.
Majority opinion among Alumni Association Board members is
opposed to an armed security department, but responses vary.
"Guns don't promote peaceable solutions or serve to lessen
tensions in dangerous situation. I think, however, that we will have
guns on campus. America is built on violent solutions," says Board
member Helen Gilmore '88
Our survey struck a nerve for former Board president Val
Thorson, '75. "Although they're not flower children, I think that over
the years TESC Security officers have proven themselves to be
reasonable people who are sensitive to the things that make Evergreen truly special. I don't consider them macho, trigger-happy goons
by any means."
As of this writing, the bills will proceed to the Senate Higher
Education Committee. Evergreen's Trustees stated that they will
examine the issue at their next monthly Board meeting. The Alumni
Association encourages all concerned alums to contact their legislators.
And Finally...
An Alumni Directory
Evergreen's Alumni Board has signed a
contract with Harris Publishing Company
to create an Alumni Directory for
distribution in early 1991. Harris
Publishing specializes exclusively in the
production of Alumni Directories and has
a reputation for high quality work and
sensitive, professional contact with
graduates.
The directory will include an
introduction section and three separate
listings on all graduates for whom Harris
Publishing has current information.
Alumni will be listed alphabetically, by
geographic location and by year of graduation. We also hope to have an identification of profession.
Here's where you come in. When
Harris Publishing contacts you we urge
you to return their questionnaire. We want
to include every graduate in the directory.
If you change your residence or phone
number, please contact us so we can keep
your file up to date. The production
schedule calls for Harris Publishing to
contact you this summer. If you know of
any Greener Grads not on our mailing list
please ask them to contact the Alumni
Office, Lecture Hall 10, The Evergreen
State College, Olympia, Washington,
98505.
Planning a Conference?
Did you know that Evergreen was host to
over 40 educational conferences during
the summer of 1989? From athletes to zymologists, we have the resources and the
flexibility to accommodate the needs of
your group.
Conference planners will
appreciate our staff's flexibility in
administering all your housing, food service, meeting facility, leisure and special
needs because the only things cast in stone
are our buildings. We'll be happy to send
you information on holding your next
conference at Evergreen.
Conference Services
The Evergreen State College
CAB 207F
Olympia, Washington 98505
Telephone (206) 866-6000, ext. 6192
For All You Seattleites
Did you know there are over 1,500 Greeners in the Seattle Area?
It's time, again, to set up weekly,
monthly or once-in-a-while gatherings for
Seattle grads. A few of you have
expressed an interest in this. We need all
the help we can muster to crank things up
again. If you are interested in helping
organize alumni activities in the Seattle
Area please call us at 866-6000, ext. 6190
or write the Alumni Office, Lecture Hall
#10, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington 98505.
Evergreen lost one of^Kufrst friends •January 16 when
Hanna SpielhfJW^^^aff^^ng illness.
As student, hostess, tour guide^^^Hjunity le^Bi and volunteer par excellence, Spielholz gave thous£n^^h£.hol|^Mf her time to
support the college.
That supporfT
for classes. That's when*
tion (ECCO) was founded to open hrles1 ol communication 1
the new college and the Thurston County community. For almost"
years, Spielholz and her husband, Jess, worked tirelessly to bring the
community to Evergreen and Evergreen to the community through
tours, lecture programs, receptions and much more. "Much more"
included speaking out strongly and often to state and local decisionmakers on behalf of the college during its critical early years.
"Hanna and Jess were always available to faculty, students and
staff," says Larry Stenberg, director of Community and Alumni Relations. "They literally spent thousands of hours on the campus in volunteering, in encouraging, in providing advice, counsel and support."
Both Spielholzes have also been enthusiastic students in
programs such as "War" and "The Human Condition," and participants in Elderhostel programs on campus.
Over the years, Evergreen has paid tribute to its "founding
volunteers" by naming them the first recipients of the Super Saturday
Citizen of the Year award in 1981. They also received the Distinguished Service Award from the Board of Trustees, and were named
Honorary Alumni by Evergreen's Alumni Association in 1988.
"Hanna," said President Joe Olander, "has left her mark on
Evergreen and enriched the lives of those of us who had the privilege
to know her. Hanna's presence will be deeply missed by her many
friends."
Those wishing to make a memorial contribution can do so
through the Jess and Hanna Spielholz Scholarship Fund that was established in 1988 by close friends. Contact the Development Office at
(206) 866-6000, ext. 6565 for further information.
Evergreen's New Leaders
New Trustees (I to r) Carol Vipperman,
Lila Girvin and Constance Rice.
Today, three new trustees help decide Evergreen's future: Lila Girvin, Constance Rice and Carol Vipperman. The trio was appointed to Evergreen's Board of Trustees by Governor Booth Gardner on
October 30.
Lila Girvin is a Spokane artist who was appointed to replace David Tang of Seattle, who recently
took a position on the Higher Education Coordinating Board. Girvin, who holds a bachelor of fine arts
degree from the University of Denver, serves on the Spokane Community Development Task Force, the
Spokane Boundary Review Board and the City of Spokane Arts Commission. She is active in the Northwest Regional Foundation Board, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Beyond War and the Hanford
Education Action League. Girvin's oldest son, Tim '75, is a Greener graduate.
Constance Rice is the president of a Seattle public relations and management consulting firm. She
was appointed to replace Bill Robinson whose term expired. Rice holds a doctorate of philosophy in
Higher Education Administration from the University of Washington. Before establishing her own
company, Rice served as the manager of the communications division for METRO. She is a former
chairperson of the Ethnic Studies Division at Shoreline Community College and was the director of the
Center for Urban Studies at Western Washington State University. Rice is a member of the Branch
Campus Selection Advisory Board and the U.W. Vocational Rehabilitation Advisory Board. She is
married to Seattle Mayor Norm Rice.
Carol Vipperman is the president of a consulting firm for businesses and professions in sales,
marketing and communications. She was appointed to replace George Mante whose term expired.
Vipperman is an officer and chair of the Small Business Council of the Greater Seattle Chamber of
Commerce. She is a member of the Health Care Marketing Association, the International Transactional
Analysis Association and was a delegate to the 1986 White House Conference on Small Business.
"The new trustees are exceptionally talented individuals and wise, witty and warm human beings,"
says President Joe Olander. "They will, I am sure, continue the fine tradition of service to the college as
exhibited by former trustees Mante, Robinson and Tang."
Bay Area Tidings
The following excerpts are
letters from Bay Area alums in
response to a letter of concern
sent after last October's
earthquake by Larry Stenberg,
director of Alumni and Community Relations.
D
I'm very moved by the concern
you showed in your letter to Bay
Area Evergreeners. I thought to
myself, "what other college in
the country has sent or would
send such a note to their alumni
because of this disaster?" As for
me, my family, and the community of San Rafael, we made out
very well. Almost no damage
was reported here. But even for
us, this time is a very emotional
and touching drama. We all
know or knew someone who
directly experienced great loss.
Even now, almost a month
after, I weep recounting the
misfortune that occurred or the
bravery and altruism displayed
by everyday people to help
others. Most Bay Area residents
seem to rise above themselves by
giving their time, energy, money
or all these things to those who
lost so much. It is a very human
time here. Even those who
escaped with their lives but lost
all else feel lucky and happy to
be alive. One woman I know
who lost her $1,000,000 home
told me how lucky she and her
husband were compared to
others. She said she was on top
of the world, she'd bounce right
back! People seem to be much
more moved by such attitudes
and heroic acts than by the fear
of another quake.
Steven Pointer 73
Although much less destructive
than hurricane Hugo, our earthquake, without forewarning, was
probably the more frightening of
the two disasters.
As usual, the people most
affected by the disaster are the
people least able to respond: the
non-English speaker, who cannot
understand the FEMA relief
forms, without a safety cushion
of funds, and living in a house
trailer or older masonry structure
that was much more likely to be
damaged.
Luckily, we have drawn
together to make sure everyone
has their basic needs satisfied
and that their Thanksgiving will
be plentiful. Now, if we, as a
country, would only provide for
people's basic needs all the time
without the prompting of a
natural event..
Thanks again for your
encouragement—once again,
Evergreen distinguishes itself.
Grady Ward '86
I was in downtown San Francisco at 5:04, October 17, and
got home about 11 p.m. by bus
across the G.G. Bridge and back
to Alameda where I live. I had
lights, phone, etc. and only a few
broken dishes. However, I think I
had a "personal quake" around
this. I hope to make a move
within the next year, possibly to
Washington D.C. and Howard
University for grad school.
Somehow, I'm convinced that
the Bay Area is not taking the
seriousness of the Quake to
heart.
Jacquelyn Goudeau 76
useless—the main commuting
artery for 30,000 Santa Cruz
residents who work in the Bay
Area. My husband was one of
those who was forced to commute over a dangerous mountain
highway that served as a temporary detour while Highway 17
was rebuilt.
Five days ago he was on
that road when he was in a headon auto accident. I have spent
the last five days in the intensive
care unit and spinal injury department. My husband's vertebrae was fractured. He will be
incapacitated in a body cast and
brace for nearly a year. When
you wrote to say you will "certainly do anything to help," I
was moved. It was no coincidence that I received your letter
the first day I was able to come
home to see our two-year-old,
gather mail and head back to the
hospital. We do need your help
as we cope with this far reaching
consequence of the earthquake.
We need:
—Money to cover the thousands
of dollars of medical care and to
provide basics for our family
who will have no income for one
year.
—Nursing help to provide 24hour, in-home care for my
husband
—Income in the form of homebased work my husband and I
could do during his incapacitation
—Entertainment in the form of
books, crafts that he could use
while in forced bedrest
—Prayers — your good thoughts
will help, too.
—Any amount of assistance will
be gratefully accepted.
Dinah Heide Dring '88
1370 30th Ave# 118
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
(408) 479-8185
The emotional stress created by
the earthquake was compounded
by the sensationalism given to it
by the media. For those of us
who were out of town at 5 p.m.,
October 17, seeing continuous
footage of the Marina fire and
collapsed freeways created much
anxiety. It took me about six
weeks to recover.
At the time, I was in the
sauna at the Biltmore Hotel in
downtown LA resting from a
presentation I'd given that afternoon on nuclear reactor performance to energy economists. There
was a buzz of interest around the
TV in the weight room. I became
nauseous when I saw the collapsed freeways. Immediately, I
tried to call home. Of course, I
was unable to get through. There
were reports of a fire in the
library on the UC Berkeley
campus. Without trying to substantiate these reports, the news
media had us believe that the
East Bay was burning. In fact,
the only fire was at an auto body
shop.
Stanford sustained major
damage. My office was a mess.
Bookshelves had fallen. My
computer table had collapsed,
crushing my diskettes. My
building was closed because of
asbestos dust.
During the next few
weeks, there were three omnipresent questions: (1) Was that
an aftershock? (2) Was that crack
there before the Quake? and (3)
When will the Bay Bridge be
opened? Slowly, the true extent
of the damage was revealed. Libraries at Stanford are still
closed. Two-thirds of my
building is surrounded by high
fences, barbed wire, and yellow
plastic "police-line" ribbon.
Waiting the politically-correct
period, I almost missed viewing
the twisted mass of concrete and
steel rebar that was the hated
Cypress structure on the Nimitz
Freeway. The number of
homeless in SF and Berkeley has
grown; and city officials seem
more tolerant of homeless camps
in very public places.
With the miraculous
opening of the Bay Bridge for
the Christmas shopping season,
the feeling I get is that people
want to deny that it ever
happened. The main opening line
of conversation during the last
two weeks of October and November was "Where were you
during the Quake?" I haven't
been asked since Thanksgiving.
Of course, the problem is that the
damage remains and there is
little preparation for the "Really
Big Quake."
I look forward to seeing
you on your next trip here. But
when you come, bring a flashlight and a gallon of water.
Geoffrey Rothwell, '75
Faculty Member,
Stanford University
Also: From the
Caribbean
Hurricane Hugo swept through
the Virgin Islands September 1718. Its force was amazing. It
blew away or water damaged
many of our material investments. We still have no phone or
electricty and our roof is only
somewhat protective. The
temperature is warm and
beautiful, as always.
The way I figure it, my
education is the only thing that
did not blow away and instead
only increased, tempered by
nature's display.
We are thankful for life!
Jeanne Vonderriet 79
\e Quake rendered Highway 17
is considering
a career change and would like
your help. If you're an alum
working in the computer
graphics/interactive video
field, he'd love to hear from you.
Write him at:
419 N. Williamsburg Dr.
Silver Spring, MD 20901
/
(301)681-8356
\s Dupre '80
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Tuesday, February 27
Quality Inn-Capital Hill
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Alumni Gathering
Wednesday, February 28
Alumnus Bill Ferris'
Photographic Studio
New York City
March
Alumnus John Hennessey's
Alumni Gathering
Saturday, March 10, 8 p.m.
Evergreen Expression Series
in the Experimental Theatre
Boston Area
Penthouse Condo
Alice B. Theatre
"Stages"
April
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Traditional music and step
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Sponsored by KAOS
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The
Last Elvis Sighting Of
the '80s
When: December 30, 1989.
Where: Chautaqua Lodge, Longbeach, WA.
Remarks: "He looked very good and was
carrying a baby."
By: Rita Sevcik (formerly Grace)
Administrative Assistant to the President