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THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE<br />
OLYMP1A, WASHINGTON<br />
THE EVERGREEN MAGAZINE<br />
FORALUMNI AND FRIENDS<br />
Vol. 23, No. 2<br />
Summer <strong>2002</strong><br />
Vice President for <strong>College</strong> Advancement<br />
Francis C, McGovern<br />
Director of <strong>College</strong> Relations<br />
Stanley Bernstein ;<br />
Director of A!umni Affairs<br />
Jackie Barry '89<br />
Publications Manager/ Executive Editor<br />
Esme Ran '95<br />
Managing Editor<br />
Char Simons<br />
Contributing Writers<br />
Kate Lykins Brown<br />
Hannah Currey<br />
Linda Hohman<br />
Michael Huntsbcrger<br />
Chuck McKinney<br />
Mike Segawa<br />
Contributing Photographers<br />
Colin Berg<br />
Stephen Cifka<br />
Steve Davis<br />
Martin Kane<br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong> Photo Services • -<br />
Graphic Design<br />
Brian Mathis '88<br />
Judy Nunez-Pinedo<br />
Copy Editing<br />
PatBarte'91<br />
Additional Thanks<br />
ThunderbirJ carved by<br />
Greg Colfax (Makah)<br />
Andy Wilbur '88 (Skokomish)<br />
Obrador CD supplied by<br />
Tim Russell '89/Ramy Day Records<br />
Numerous photos, text and guidance:<br />
Randy Stilson '74/<strong>Evergreen</strong> <strong>Archives</strong><br />
To submit items for Alum Notes,<br />
contact the Office of Alumni Affairs<br />
(360) 867-7751 ortescalum@evergreen.edu<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Evergreen</strong> Magazine accepts<br />
paid advertising. For more information<br />
about advertising or other items contact<br />
Char Simons at (360)867-6710<br />
or email simonsc@evergreen.edu.<br />
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RUDY MARTIN<br />
TEACHING GUI<br />
During the last of three group contracts in<br />
African-American Literature I offered between<br />
1997 and 2000 as part of my post-retirement<br />
activities, it occurred to me that I had gone<br />
through a complete cycle here: I was teaching<br />
the children of former <strong>Evergreen</strong><br />
students. Not just figuratively, but<br />
literally. Wow! Maybe I'm slow,<br />
but I thought I had made a<br />
powerful realization. Perhaps<br />
other faculty members and<br />
students were less struck by the<br />
same insight than I was.<br />
Regardless of the variations in<br />
particular people's recognitions,<br />
however, they all funnel back to<br />
those first groups of students who<br />
joined us here in the earliest years<br />
of the college's life. I think of them<br />
as "pioneer" students—pioneer<br />
students meeting up with similarly<br />
pioneering faculty and staff.<br />
<strong>The</strong> students were everything<br />
from everywhere, and I knew<br />
a lot of them. <strong>The</strong>re were black<br />
students from Seattle and Tacoma,<br />
Native Americans from reservations<br />
and cities, Chicanos from<br />
the Yakima valley, Jews from both<br />
coasts, Asians from the islands<br />
as well as the mainland, pink kids<br />
from Bellevue and California.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was a grandmother from<br />
Centralia, shot-up Vietnam<br />
veterans from different places,<br />
some of Olympia's "old-growth"<br />
hippies (to quote Paul Sparks),<br />
military brats who had lived photo: Stephen<br />
everywhere, timid mama's babies<br />
leaving home for the first time. <strong>The</strong>y came with<br />
their backpacks and sleeping bags, their<br />
slicked-back hair and unshaven chins and<br />
underarms, their recycled outfits and doubleknit<br />
clothes, their suits and briefcases, their<br />
guitars and totem animals, their beads and<br />
incense. Innocence too. <strong>The</strong>y came like<br />
a gathering of tribes.<br />
Over the intervening decades, I've seen those<br />
student pioneers doing all kinds of things<br />
in all kinds of places. A few have<br />
returned to <strong>Evergreen</strong> as faculty members—<br />
would there were more. Doctors and lawyers,<br />
teachers and techies, environmentalists and<br />
writers, and multiple brands of activists have<br />
abounded among them; business and corporate<br />
types large and small, government workers,<br />
officials and agency personnel of every stripe<br />
have popped up; artists, musicians, performers<br />
and other creative people have flourished; and,<br />
sadly, some have died. I have run into them in<br />
all sorts of places, from an old inn in a tiny<br />
New England village, to Little Italy in<br />
New York City, to a hotel in Atlanta, to<br />
Picadilly Circus in London, to a Moroccan<br />
restaurant in Paris. An especially noteworthy<br />
case: In the college's very first year, one fellow<br />
from back East had to return because of<br />
a sudden family death after he had been here<br />
only a few weeks, but he has maintained<br />
annual contact with me ever since. I'm no<br />
longer surprised wherever I am to hear,<br />
"Hey, Rudy," yelled at me by a Greener from<br />
what would seem to be the unlikeliest of places.<br />
Some have made life-long friendships and<br />
others have married and produced some of the<br />
current generation of <strong>Evergreen</strong> students, the<br />
latter-day pioneers.<br />
Some parents and family members of that first<br />
student generation shook their heads in<br />
confused resignation, others were uptight and<br />
afraid, still others cheered and wished<br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong> had been around when they went<br />
to college. Those pioneer students showed<br />
courage and conviction. <strong>The</strong>y signed on for<br />
some of the same reasons many of us faculty<br />
members came here. As scary and unformed<br />
as it was, <strong>Evergreen</strong> was a new start,<br />
<strong>The</strong>f<br />
another chance (sometimes a last<br />
one), a different turning, an<br />
opportunity to "do it right this<br />
time." It was a situation in which<br />
to build something—a farmhouse,<br />
an organic garden, a sailboat,<br />
a small Columbia River town,<br />
a degree program, a college. Indeed,<br />
I think it not too extreme to say<br />
that much as Thomas Paine saw<br />
the founding period of this nation,<br />
those pioneer Greeners saw here<br />
a chance to "make the world<br />
over again."<br />
Slowly, fitfully and often painfully,<br />
the values, expectations and<br />
aspirations of those pioneering<br />
students, faculty and staff members<br />
were realized, changed, truncated,<br />
abandoned or refined. <strong>The</strong>y melded<br />
and coalesced into what we can<br />
articulate today as that rocksolid<br />
core of an <strong>Evergreen</strong><br />
education—interdisciplinary study,<br />
collaborative learning, learning<br />
across significant differences,<br />
personal engagement, linkages<br />
between theory and practice. Those<br />
focal points keep appearing and reappearing in<br />
all the various forms and permutations that we<br />
today recognize as being "of this place."<br />
So when I met those students who were the<br />
children of former <strong>Evergreen</strong> students, I felt<br />
comfortable knowing that they would come<br />
here and likely experience much of what their<br />
parents did. <strong>The</strong>re are more bricks and mortar<br />
on these thousand acres than there were in<br />
1971, more people, more cars, more of most<br />
things. But like their predecessors, the next<br />
generation of <strong>Evergreen</strong> student pioneers, and<br />
the faculty and staff serving them, will still find<br />
an opportunity to try something new, the<br />
likelihood of adventure, a chance to build their<br />
individual worlds, and in some measure our<br />
shared world, over again.<br />
S. R. "Rudy" Martin, Jr.<br />
Faculty Emeritus<br />
American/African'American Studies<br />
1970-1997<br />
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NOTES & NEWS<br />
Survey Says ...<br />
Thanks to the more than 30 Greeners who<br />
responded to our readership survey in the last<br />
issue of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Evergreen</strong> Magazine. Praise was<br />
heavy, and like any productive seminar, you<br />
critically examined the publication and gave<br />
us great ideas and approaches we hadn't<br />
thought of, including:<br />
"In-depth profiling of old faculty and<br />
alumni."<br />
"Keep the focus on interdisciplinary articles,<br />
keep humor in it."<br />
"Take a risk. Explore <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s role in<br />
supporting or not supporting the Afghanistan<br />
issue or how <strong>Evergreen</strong> people are helping<br />
victim relief."<br />
Of course, readers didn't hesitate to let us know<br />
when we messed up. "More detail! We are not<br />
an ignorant audience!" and...<br />
"Where's the information on the sailing team,<br />
you incompetent morons?!"<br />
Feel free to keep sending us story ideas, fodder<br />
for the Letters column, alumni updates and<br />
other suggestions for the magazine to<br />
tescalum@evergreen.edu.<br />
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college<br />
Tacoma Chapter Board<br />
Welcomes New Leadership<br />
New York Gathering<br />
Thank you to the <strong>2002</strong> alumni team and<br />
TESC President Les Puree for gathering a<br />
bunch of us Greener grads to the Williams<br />
Club in New York City. <strong>The</strong> evening was<br />
filled with smiles, tears and joy in sharing<br />
in the company of one another's presence.<br />
<strong>The</strong> future ahead looks bright because I have<br />
the entire <strong>Evergreen</strong> community with me,<br />
each day as I grow. You are in my thoughts<br />
and good things come to those who wait.<br />
I trust summer session will run smoothly.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Wellness Center is a good place to<br />
keep clear of big bands and athletic camps.<br />
I love you guys!<br />
Kate Tanenbaum '94<br />
New York City, NY<br />
Errata<br />
Chris "Sandman" Sand ["Music by Men,<br />
for Men," Winter <strong>2002</strong>] is a 1995<br />
Greener grad.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first incarnation of the <strong>Evergreen</strong><br />
crew team existed from 1971 to at least<br />
1975. <strong>The</strong> team competed in the Collegiate<br />
Yacht Racing Association, and won at least<br />
one regatta.<br />
association<br />
Donna Wilson '01 moved from board member to chapter president<br />
at the Tacoma Chapter's March meeting. Board members also elected<br />
Kitty Scott '01 to their ranks.<br />
Alumni-Sponsored Root Beer Garden<br />
Returns to Super Saturday<br />
<strong>The</strong> Alumni Association Board again will sponsor a Root Beer<br />
Garden at Super Saturday on June 15. Last year, board members<br />
and other volunteers dished up more than 400 floats before selling<br />
out at 4 p.m. Campus food service Bon Appetit adds a hot dog bar<br />
to this year's menu<br />
Elizabeth She '99 will host a literary lounge at 2:30 p.m. that will<br />
feature other writers including including Paul Barlin '81, author of<br />
From Andrew, With Love.<br />
Contact tescalum@evetgreen.edu for more information.<br />
Better than Newsprint<br />
Thanks for the great mag. It's really come up<br />
from the newsprint newsletter I remember.<br />
I especially enjoyed the article about Dr. Zita.<br />
Wish she'd been there when I was, but then<br />
I had other excellent faculty. <strong>The</strong> article<br />
["Some Like it Hot," Winter <strong>2002</strong>] took me<br />
back some 26 (choke!) years to Foundations of<br />
Natural Science, and how exciting <strong>Evergreen</strong><br />
made learning! I kinda wish I could afford to<br />
uproot and come back now, just for fun. I really<br />
enjoyed reading Zita's journal entries, with their<br />
poetical discussions of science.<br />
I hope my daughter chooses to attend<br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong> in 10 years!<br />
Kathy Johnson, '79, DVM<br />
Lake Stevens, Wash.<br />
E-mail us your e-mail address!<br />
Write to tescalum@evergreen.edu to become part of our<br />
e-mail mailing list.<br />
McClure Creates New Geoduck Emblem<br />
Fans of Nikki McClure '91 and her artwork will recognize the<br />
hand behind <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s new geoduck emblem. McClure worked<br />
with a campus committee from <strong>College</strong> Relations, the Bookstore,<br />
<strong>College</strong> Recreation and Alumni<br />
Services to create the design.<br />
Alumni Association Annual<br />
Meeting to Include Bylaws<br />
Change Vote<br />
<strong>The</strong> Alumni Association holds its annual meeting on Super Saturday,<br />
June 15 at 9:30 a.m. <strong>The</strong> meeting will include votes on changes to<br />
the bylaws, as well as board member and officer elections and a<br />
continental breakfast.<br />
Visit www.evergreen.edu/alumni to view proposed changes to<br />
the Alumni Association bylaws.<br />
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1972<br />
* * students, in<br />
hiking<br />
to<br />
Amid Vietnam War protests,<br />
college dedicated to citizens<br />
of Washington<br />
in the<br />
in the<br />
21 receive diplomas at<br />
first graduation<br />
Maxine Mimms and two<br />
Chuck McKinney came to <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s student housing in 1974.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> whole place was so new. Colors in the dorms were so '70s, too."<br />
Long-haired students, clad in flannel shirts and hiking boots, were<br />
welcomed to avocado green appliances, blazing super-graphics in the<br />
hallways and orange shag carpeting in the Mods. "A-Building was the<br />
place to be. <strong>The</strong> pool table on the first floor was active from early<br />
afternoon until 2, 3 or 4 a.m." Some students constructed elaborate lofts<br />
in their apartments. Others were simply content to get together in the<br />
shared kitchens of A-Building. "<strong>The</strong> seventh<br />
floor community kitchen was great in that we<br />
had no real pigs living on the floor. People<br />
generally cleaned up after themselves. <strong>The</strong><br />
community kitchen was a wonderful place to<br />
talk about your program." Parties were stocked<br />
with provisions from Peterson's Food Town.<br />
Inconvenient spills were whisked away by the<br />
Midnight Sponge. And high above it all,<br />
hanging from the bough of a lone fir, a<br />
handpainted wood placard extolled its cryptic<br />
message—"More Sugar."<br />
students begin a seminar<br />
that evolves into the<br />
Tacoma campus<br />
McKinney is now <strong>Evergreen</strong> Housing's<br />
assistant director for residential life.<br />
Mary Ellen Hillaire establishes<br />
Native American Studies<br />
Dragon mural painted on<br />
library stairwell<br />
Rita Sevcik is <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s<br />
institutional memory. In<br />
1969, she was among the<br />
first dozen employees hired<br />
by the college. Come this<br />
summer, she'll close the door<br />
to her office for the last time<br />
after having served all five<br />
of <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s presidents.<br />
"I never dreamed I'd stay<br />
this long, and I never expected to be accepted<br />
by all the presidents. But the change of<br />
presidents energized me. It was like changing<br />
jobs. It's been a marvelous opportunity and<br />
vantage point, being at the top but not in the<br />
spotlight, and privy to the thinking of<br />
presidents and trustees.<br />
"In the early years, there was intense<br />
camaraderie. We were small and in this<br />
together. Malcolm [Stilson, retired reference<br />
librarian] wrote plays performed by the vice<br />
presidents and support staff.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> '70s were about planning, construction,<br />
groundbreaking, opening and dedication<br />
ceremonies. <strong>The</strong>re was a high level of<br />
adrenaline. People felt they were contributing<br />
to something important.<br />
"<strong>The</strong>re were calls for the college's closure from<br />
the beginning. In 1973, 40 people were cut,<br />
including an executive vice president. <strong>The</strong><br />
crisis was budget-driven, and it was the biggest<br />
one we've ever faced.<br />
Dorms A and D, CAB and<br />
Lecture Halls open<br />
1973<br />
KAOS-FM goes on the air at<br />
10 watts. First song is "Success"<br />
by Dan Hicks<br />
"<strong>The</strong> '80s were a time of growth and struggle.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re were still calls for <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s closure,<br />
but we began to get national recognition for<br />
our education system. <strong>The</strong> small but vocal local<br />
opposition to <strong>Evergreen</strong> was endemic to being<br />
in the state capital and having a philosophy<br />
different from the rest of higher-education.<br />
<strong>The</strong> '60s had been a time of unrest, but people<br />
in Olympia had been insulated to some extent.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was constant criticism of our being<br />
so different, and yet we had been charged<br />
to be different.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> '90s were a period of growth,<br />
acceptance and stability. <strong>Evergreen</strong> came into<br />
its own with the 25th anniversary of the<br />
college. It was also the beginning of a transition,<br />
with waves of retirements and an influx of<br />
new people. Of the 18 founding faculty,<br />
only Dave Hitchens is left."<br />
"We'll see a tremendous change in the current<br />
decade. We won't have people who remember<br />
the beginning. And if this year is any<br />
indication, we'll have financial struggles. It will<br />
be a hard time, I think. But <strong>Evergreen</strong> is<br />
resilient and creative, and people pull together<br />
when times are tough."<br />
From Drawing Board to Chalk Board<br />
Gov. Dan Evans signs into law legislation in 1967<br />
establishing <strong>Evergreen</strong>. <strong>The</strong> college was in high<br />
demand by Yakima, Snohomish County, Olympia<br />
and other jurisdictions. "A number of places wanted<br />
the college, and those legislators worked hard to<br />
bring it to their area," recalls Don Brazier, former<br />
Republican Yakima state legislator and co-sponsor<br />
of the bill that created <strong>Evergreen</strong>.<br />
CRC opens with Gov.<br />
Dan Evans rappelling down<br />
clock tower; Arts and Science<br />
Annex dedicated<br />
t<br />
Come<br />
close the to her<br />
for the<br />
having all of<br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong>'s • •<br />
Rita Sevcik, administrative assistant to the president.<br />
Her first office was in the current Twin County Credit<br />
Union offices on Fourth and Eastside. She's ending her<br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong> career in the small office on the third floor of the<br />
Library formerly used by President Charles McCann. For<br />
a brief history of the college's early days, see Rita's homepage<br />
athttp -.//academic. evergreen. edu/individuals/sevcikrl<br />
<strong>State</strong> Senator Brad Owen<br />
proposes converting TESC to<br />
police academy<br />
1974<br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong> granted full<br />
accreditation a year ahead<br />
of schedule; Seminar I<br />
completed
That's Agribusiness U<br />
I arrived at <strong>Evergreen</strong> in September 1973, having been to the Northwest<br />
on only one previous occasion. I was privileged to have great teachers,<br />
such as Tom Rainey, and a cohort of 10-20 other students who shared<br />
my passion for history, political economy and social change. <strong>The</strong> seminar<br />
structure allowed for intense debate. <strong>The</strong> early- and mid-seventies were<br />
good times to be a serious intellectual, though pretty confusing times<br />
otherwise. Nightlife was boisterous. I made friends I kept for decades,<br />
and a few I remain in touch with to this day.<br />
No single anecdote can possibly convey the maddening beauty, absurdity<br />
and complexity of <strong>Evergreen</strong> at that time, but here is a memory from my<br />
last summer, 1976.<br />
A number of talented people, mostly<br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong> students—Don Martin, Grace Cox<br />
and Beth Harris come to mind—started<br />
a theater group in Olympia called the<br />
<strong>The</strong>ater of the Unemployed and<br />
put on a couple of shows a ;»; :<br />
year. I was in the production of<br />
"That's Agribusiness," a musical<br />
comedy. It was a tremendous show,<br />
and we performed across Eastern<br />
Washington and in Seattle before<br />
coming home to <strong>Evergreen</strong> for our<br />
final performance. It was outdoors,<br />
in front of the Library, on one of<br />
those perfect blue-sky afternoons<br />
that makes you think there could never be a more beautiful<br />
place on earth.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was a terrific crowd. People were picnicking and<br />
sharing food and drink. What I remember more than<br />
anything was the warmth of all the people and their<br />
enthusiasm. When it was over, people just hung around and<br />
talked and played under the brilliant sun. I think for everyone<br />
there it was one of the loveliest days of our lives.<br />
After graduation, I moved to Seattle where I was the<br />
founding publisher of <strong>The</strong> Rocket magazine. I went on to earn :<br />
a Ph.D. in communication, and taught in Madison, Wis.,<br />
for 11 years. Now, I'm a research professor at the Institute of<br />
Communications Research at the University of Illinois at<br />
UrbanaChampaign( www.robertmcchesney.com).<br />
McChesny writes extensively about the media for publications such as<br />
<strong>The</strong> Nation. His books include Rich Media, Poor Democracy, which have<br />
been used in programs at <strong>Evergreen</strong>.<br />
Robert W. McChesney, '76<br />
1975<br />
400-student graduating class<br />
includes 118 four-year "pioneers"<br />
Students explore feasibility<br />
of alternative energy sources;<br />
1946 Ford pick-up runs on<br />
scrap wood; Lab II opens<br />
1976<br />
Vancouver branch campus<br />
inaugurated in cooperation with<br />
Clark Community <strong>College</strong><br />
• • What I remember<br />
more than anything<br />
the warmth of<br />
ail the people and<br />
their enthusiasm.<br />
As always, Red Square remains a lively and<br />
popular place to gather on a beautiful day.<br />
Skirts with leotards, trench<br />
coats, overalls and daypacks<br />
top fashions; Experimental<br />
structure burns<br />
IS!<br />
2.1-mile Karl Marx Run<br />
along Driftwood Road and<br />
Marine Drive celebrates<br />
Marx's birthday<br />
THAT YOSSARIAr- 4AN<br />
MEMORIES C<br />
By David L. Kitchens,<br />
founding faculty member<br />
So, why not open a brand new college with none of the<br />
buildings ready? Planks were lying in mud across what is<br />
now Red Square, and it would be another full month<br />
before the dorms were livable. No problem. Just ask the<br />
already nervous surrounding community to house<br />
students in their basements and spare rooms, and rent<br />
a bunch of flats for students at Villa Capri. As far<br />
as founding President Charles McCann was concerned,<br />
delay was unthinkable. We would be operative by<br />
October 1971.<br />
We could imagine doing it that way because of our faith<br />
in coordinated studies. As each program set its own<br />
schedule and took care of its own logistics—like a college<br />
in miniature—we were sure we could beat the problem<br />
on the program level. My program, <strong>The</strong> Individual, <strong>The</strong><br />
Citizen and <strong>The</strong> <strong>State</strong>, held large group meetings in the<br />
basement of the First United Methodist Church.<br />
Seminars met in the living rooms of faculty Betty Ruth<br />
Estes, Kirk Thompson, David Marr, Paul Marsh and mine.<br />
Programs, such as Space, Time and Form, went on<br />
camping retreats for the first few weeks. Richard Jones'<br />
program, Human Development, grabbed the state Senate<br />
chambers in the Capitol building. We "convened" across<br />
the county and in various parts of the state.<br />
As we prepared for our first class meeting, students began<br />
to show up. <strong>The</strong> first student I had contact with was Craig<br />
Ridenour. He was from Enumclaw, and drove a blackand-<br />
yellow Gremlin. I got to know Craig right away and<br />
before too long, he and David Marr helped me put a new<br />
clutch in my 1964 Dodge Dart station wagon.<br />
1977<br />
Construction of the SeaWulff<br />
begins; Carnal Knowledge,<br />
<strong>The</strong>m and Dr. Jekyll and Mr.<br />
Hyde screened on campus<br />
1978<br />
Communications Lab opens;<br />
Clock tower faces tell different<br />
times; Undercover agents make<br />
drug busts on campus<br />
Other students in my program were<br />
Michael Baker, Andrew Daly, Rita<br />
Pougiales (see page 8), Christina Meserve<br />
and Helen Bourgeoisie. Chris Meserve<br />
served as a member of <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s board<br />
of trustees, while Helen Bourgeois (now<br />
Wolf) was the first female <strong>Evergreen</strong><br />
graduate accepted at the University of<br />
Puget Sound Law School. Both women are<br />
now successful practicing attorneys.<br />
Michael is a businessman in Seattle. Craig<br />
joined the U.S. Coast Guard following<br />
graduation, along with Andrew. At the<br />
beginning of fall 1994, Jay Sternoff—another member of<br />
that beginning seminar group—stopped by to see me<br />
when he brought his daughter to begin school here.<br />
We had our first book seminar in the living room of my<br />
house in Tanglewilde. Our book was Joseph Heller's<br />
Catch-22. We chose the novel for what we felt were<br />
obvious reasons: the protagonist, Yossarian, was trapped<br />
in the U.S. Army Air Corps at the mercy of bureaucratic<br />
and military regulations, and sent off to fight a war by a<br />
modern nation-state. We felt Yossarian and the world of<br />
the novel were an obvious beginning point for discussion<br />
of the thematic elements embedded in the title of the<br />
program: <strong>The</strong> Individual, <strong>The</strong> Citizen and <strong>The</strong> <strong>State</strong>.<br />
I was positive this novel would spark an intense series of<br />
discussions and get us off to a wonderful start—setting<br />
up the Iliad, Aristotle's Politics, Hobbes' Leviathan and<br />
other challenging reading which was to follow. I could<br />
not have foreseen what really happened:<br />
"That Yossarian, man. What a heavy cat."<br />
"Yeah, man. Heavy." . . ,,,;:,;,.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> novel's heavy,"<br />
"Yeah, i hear you. But it's far out, too."<br />
"FAR out."<br />
Recycling underway-<br />
"Heller is a far out writer,"<br />
"Yeah, far out."<br />
¥': "But the action is heavy."<br />
"Yeah man, heavy duty,<br />
"Yeah, just too much. Too far out."<br />
"Heavy man. Real heavy beginning for<br />
a first book at this school."<br />
Tuborg, Hamms and 13 other<br />
brands of beer bottles require<br />
special handling<br />
"Around Town" student show<br />
debuts on local-access TV. First<br />
show highlights Head Start, Mima<br />
Mounds and the Brown Derby<br />
1979<br />
Founding faculty member<br />
Wiili Unsoeld and student<br />
Janie Diepenbrock die in<br />
avalanche on Mount Rainier
RITA POUGIALES<br />
THE BEGINNING: REFLI<br />
1979<br />
• • 1 I<br />
It<br />
i<br />
we to<br />
be the<br />
S & A Women's Center proposed Geoduck becomes official<br />
college mascot<br />
As a member of <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s first graduating class in 1972, Rita Pougiales<br />
spent some of her time in a church, a crowded rental house and<br />
having epiphanies.<br />
Ijj "<strong>The</strong> early part of the academic<br />
• year was wild because we were<br />
jjj| spread out all over town. We got<br />
• our books at the building where<br />
• the Motor Pool is now. My<br />
• program, <strong>The</strong> Individual, the<br />
JJJ Citizen and the <strong>State</strong>, met at the<br />
• First United Methodist Church<br />
H on Legion Way," recalls<br />
• Pougiales who returned to the<br />
• college in 1979 as a faculty<br />
• member and this year was<br />
• named academic dean for the<br />
• second time.<br />
|j| Pougiales rented a house<br />
• on Division Street across from<br />
• the Handy Pantry, as dorms<br />
jiff were still under construction.<br />
• While waiting for student<br />
j|| housing at Villa Capri to open,<br />
ill her house was knee-deep with<br />
• classmates, a half-dozen of<br />
JJ| -A horn slept on the floor.<br />
• Her first seminar included ice-<br />
• breaking activities, which left<br />
| Pougiales, who had studied three<br />
•I years at the University of<br />
Minnesota, a bit befuddled.<br />
"It made me more nervous<br />
because I wasn't quite sure how<br />
the reading fit in. I don't know that I said more than one sentence that<br />
first quarter. It wasn't shyness. I just wasn't sure what we were supposed<br />
to be doing with the books," she says.<br />
As the academic year developed, Pougiales came to understand how to<br />
entertain an idea and probe it. She chose David Marr as her seminar<br />
leader in spring quarter because of his demanding reputation. After doing<br />
a project on Ghandi and the origins of his philosophy on nonviolence,<br />
Pougiales had a poignant conference with Marr about her writing.<br />
"He said I'd learned to write in such a way that I wasn't saying anything<br />
important and that I hadn't learned to go beyond the text. That was the<br />
moment I began to come to terms with what it meant to have an<br />
intellectual life. And Dave said it in a way that I could hear it and learn<br />
from it. I felt like his words were an invitation to go deeper, not<br />
as a critique that would stop me."<br />
First intercollegiate swim and<br />
soccer teams<br />
CPJ headline: "Why Do We<br />
Get All <strong>The</strong> Weirdos?"<br />
Three Mile Island nuclear<br />
accident occurs near<br />
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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HOUSING<br />
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1980<br />
Death of Dean Clabaugh, vice<br />
president for administration,<br />
and college's first employee<br />
—or<br />
to be,<br />
Master in Public Administration<br />
launched; Re-accreditation<br />
report gives <strong>Evergreen</strong> highest<br />
possible evaluation<br />
<strong>The</strong> 1980s were "effervescent," according to Linda Hohman, associate<br />
director of housing. "We almost had to make rules about how to slam<br />
dance." Residential life programming was coordinated by student<br />
; : .,_ managers—SMOOS, at the ratio of<br />
; about 1 to every 100 students. Students<br />
were politically outspoken and active<br />
during the Reagan/Bush years, but<br />
streaking continued on campus, too.<br />
"Many students wore Birkenstocks and<br />
wool socks, just like in the '70s. Potlucks<br />
were the thing no matter where you<br />
went. It seemed like most students were<br />
vegetarian—or pretended to be."<br />
Vegetarian food service came to housing<br />
when the Corner Cafe opened in A-<br />
Building. <strong>The</strong> 1980s also saw explosive<br />
growth in the demand for on-campus<br />
housing. "We double- and triple-bunked<br />
people when they arrived in the fall."<br />
To relieve the crunch, buildings<br />
E through K were opened in 1987,<br />
"but we still ended up double-bunking."<br />
<strong>The</strong> Housing Community Center was<br />
also added. Space problems were finally<br />
resolved when buildings N through U<br />
opened in 1989.<br />
Organic Farmhouse dedicated;<br />
Plans scrapped for Bangor<br />
campus; Facilities halts use of<br />
highly toxic pesticides 2-, 4-D<br />
Tipi dwellers face eviction;<br />
Roller skaters threatened with<br />
suspension; Mt. St. Helens<br />
erupts, rains ash on campus<br />
Washington <strong>State</strong> Gov. Dixie<br />
Lee Ray defeated in primary;<br />
Intercollegiate tennis and<br />
cross country begin<br />
" STUDENT •<br />
TAKIN' IT TO THE<br />
Whether protesting against apartheid in South Africa, U.S. intervention<br />
in El Salvador, supertankers in the Strait of Juan de Fuca or the WTO,<br />
students and social activism are part of the <strong>Evergreen</strong> fabric.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> issues have changed, but the level of interest has remained fairly<br />
constant," says Peter Bohmer, member of the faculty since 1987.<br />
Perhaps no issue galvanized students like the Gulf War of 1990-91.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> march from <strong>Evergreen</strong> to Sylvester Park in downtown Olympia<br />
was by far the biggest I'd witnessed here," Bohmer says. <strong>The</strong> march<br />
brought together more than 2,500 protesters, including students from<br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong>, South Puget Sound Community <strong>College</strong> and local high<br />
schools, along with <strong>Evergreen</strong> alumni, faculty, staff and community<br />
members. More than 700 students and faculty were involved in the 1999<br />
World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, the first broad-based<br />
student movement since Vietnam.<br />
Students have taken on other international causes, for places like<br />
Nicaragua, El Salvador and Tibet, and issues close to home as well.<br />
Student governance has been a perennial issue, and students challenged<br />
a master plan from what is now the state Higher Education Coordinating<br />
Board, calling for standardized tests.<br />
Student activism brought success on some fronts. Students helped<br />
organize food-service workers on campus, and brought together a broad<br />
coalition of people interested in organic food. Student concerns about<br />
food quality and labor relations were a determining factor in choosing<br />
the college's current food service provider. <strong>The</strong>y also were the catalyst<br />
for student workers to get paid twice a month instead of monthly.<br />
In the early 1980s, students<br />
pressured the college to divest from<br />
doing business with firms that<br />
had ties to South Africa. <strong>The</strong><br />
Washington state legislature<br />
restricted oil transport on Puget<br />
Sound as a result of pressure from<br />
students working with Greenpeace.<br />
In 1995, logging was stalled near<br />
campus after a group of Greeners<br />
chained themselves to trees along<br />
Overhulse Road.<br />
As long as there is injustice, chances<br />
are that Greeners will be a part of<br />
helping to right the world's wrongs.<br />
1981<br />
Draft registration resumes for<br />
18- to 24-year-old men after<br />
hiatus of fewer than 10 years;<br />
No more white sugar at Co-op<br />
Sea Wulff launched;<br />
Legislative committee passes bill to<br />
close <strong>Evergreen</strong>. Issue never<br />
comes to full vote<br />
' "<br />
1982<br />
Seventeen magazine honors<br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong> as a "hidden gem" -<br />
one of 16 colleges that made<br />
the cut<br />
<strong>College</strong> awards first masters<br />
degrees to 26 students;<br />
Prophetic CPJ review: "U2<br />
Has Not Reached its Peak"<br />
New York Times lists <strong>Evergreen</strong><br />
as one of nation's best colleges;<br />
Super Saturday becomes biggest<br />
event in Thurston County
12<br />
Slightly West<br />
Slightly West, <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s literary magazine, was launched late in<br />
1985 by a Jewish student group called Maarava ("westward" in Hebrew).<br />
In a recent issue, editor Jon-Mikel Gates muses on the magazine's quirky<br />
title. "Why west?" he asks. "Why slight? Clearly, a great deal of thought<br />
went into this name."<br />
Well, actually, no. In the mid-1980s, an earlier effort called Rhetoric ceased<br />
publication, and Maarava stepped in to fill the gap. <strong>The</strong> director, Brian<br />
Seidman, simply intended to name the new magazine after the organization.<br />
Someone told him in passing that Maarava didn't mean "west" exactly, but<br />
rather something more like "slightly west." Accurate or not, the title stuck.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first issue, dated winter 1986, was really just a stapled stack of paper,<br />
printed on one side only and scattered with drawings of turtles. Shortly after<br />
its release, and convinced by Brian's commitment, a half-dozen students,<br />
including me, came forward, eager to help.<br />
For the spring issue, we sifted through a huge stack of new submissions and developed a more<br />
sophisticated format. <strong>The</strong> final product was classy and compact. To celebrate, we hosted a long<br />
and memorable reading, with topics ranging from Sri Chinmoy to a goat named<br />
Jim Bob Davis. You could feel the excitement in the room, as if we had uncovered a great secret:<br />
the power of words to bring us other worlds, the power that belongs to everyone.<br />
Launching the SeaWulff<br />
1982<br />
Before Enron and WTO: Students<br />
debate draining domestic economy<br />
by U.S. multinationals; Rudy Martin<br />
defines secular humanism<br />
—Steve Blakeslee '86,<br />
Adj unct faculty<br />
<strong>The</strong> Tacoma program,<br />
which began unofficially<br />
in 1972, becomes an<br />
official part of <strong>Evergreen</strong><br />
1983<br />
Fire claims home of Mud Bay<br />
Greeners, staging area for<br />
annual mud races<br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong> President Dan Evans<br />
leaves to fill unexpired term of<br />
Henry Jackson in U.S. Senate;<br />
Start of MES graduate program<br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong> named best regional<br />
liberal arts college in the West<br />
for the first time by U.S. News<br />
& World Report<br />
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Falling in Love<br />
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Super Saturday continues its tradition of being the largest one day festival in Washington state.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first Super Saturday celebration took place in 1979 and drew about 4,000 people.<br />
From the first day I set foot on the <strong>Evergreen</strong> campus, I was struck by the philosophy of the place. <strong>The</strong> attitude was not "Welcome to <strong>Evergreen</strong>,<br />
here's the rulebook," but rather "Welcome to <strong>Evergreen</strong>, what would you like to accomplish here? You decide!" What I experienced at <strong>Evergreen</strong><br />
was the ideal balance between personal freedom and personal mentoring from faculty.<br />
In my first year, I opted for an upper-level class in philosophy, technically "off limits" to freshmen. Nothing special about me, that was simply the<br />
modus operandi of the college (may it ever be so!). <strong>The</strong> prof warned me, "It'll be tough. I'm not cutting you any slack. You probably won't finish."<br />
1984<br />
Student Elissa Tissot shot and<br />
killed in the Greenery by<br />
despondent ex-boyfriend;<br />
Enrollment reaches 2,800<br />
<strong>The</strong> class was tough. But it was also terrific, and I did manage to squeak through. At the end,<br />
he gave me some advice: "Your thinking is sloppy. You hide behind your prose. My advice is to<br />
\ take some hard-core science courses. You either know the stuff or you don't—there's no place<br />
to hide. You may discover that you're not as smart as you think."<br />
John McKinney with his mom, Jo Stowell<br />
Computer DTP sees electronic<br />
campus by 1989; Faculty propose<br />
several initiatives to bring diversity<br />
to curriculum and college<br />
I took his advice (thanks, Mark Levensky), and it changed my life. I fell passionately, hopelessly<br />
in love—with science (thanks, Betty Kutter). I'm now on the faculty at Rockefeller University<br />
in Manhattan. My laboratory (www.rockefeller.edu/labheads/mckinney/mckinney.html)<br />
studies tuberculosis (TB), a leading cause of death worldwide. Rivaled only by HIV-AIDS<br />
as an infectious killer, TB gets scant attention because 99 percent of its victims live in the<br />
developing world. My research team's goal is to develop new tools for TB control that are<br />
effective, affordable and applicable, even in the poorest countries. Our work takes us to every<br />
corner of the globe, but wherever we go, I find that "you decide!" is a philosophy that invites<br />
mutual respect and goodwill.<br />
John McKinney, '82<br />
1985<br />
C Dorm burns; Led by Paul<br />
Gallegos, students collaborate<br />
with St. Martin's and SPSCC to<br />
bring Jesse Jackson to town<br />
Tropicana, Olympia's first punk<br />
rock club, closes; U.S. Wews &<br />
World Report profiles <strong>Evergreen</strong> as<br />
one of three "academic pioneers"<br />
Washington Center for<br />
Improving the Quality of<br />
Undergraduate Education<br />
created, housed at <strong>Evergreen</strong><br />
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14<br />
TOP GIVERS<br />
THROUGH THE DECADES<br />
C-3<br />
CM<br />
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CO<br />
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1986<br />
Tacoma program moves to 12th<br />
and South K; Student art gallery<br />
opens; Labor Center proposed;<br />
Grad placement reaches 94%<br />
TOP FIVE DONORS<br />
Robert Durham<br />
Helen Halvorson<br />
Caroline Kinnear<br />
Mary Hoyt Stevenson Foundation<br />
Seattle Northwest Securities<br />
TOP FIVE DONORS<br />
Puget Sound Power and Light<br />
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust<br />
John F. Koons<br />
Ford Foundation<br />
Washington Commission<br />
TOP FIVE DONORS<br />
Ford Foundation<br />
Thayer Raymond Charitable Foundation<br />
Pew Charitable Trusts<br />
Anonymous<br />
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust<br />
1987<br />
Founding Festival commemorates<br />
20th anniversary of college's<br />
establishment by the Legislature;<br />
Funny sex therapist workshops<br />
USED FOR<br />
Annual Fund<br />
Annual Fund, Will! Unsoeld<br />
Lecture Series, McCann Scholarship Fund<br />
Annual Fund, President's Discretionary Fund<br />
President's Club<br />
Scholarships<br />
USED FOR<br />
Energy conservation<br />
Science<br />
Annual Fund, President's Discretionary Fund,<br />
Founder's Festival, Alumni Association<br />
Washington Center for Undergraduate Education<br />
Academic programs, education grant<br />
USED FOR<br />
Diversity, minority doctoral fellowship<br />
Scholarships<br />
Teacher education<br />
Science<br />
1988<br />
First Lesbian/Gay Film Festival;<br />
Peoples of Washington Exhibit<br />
kicks off state centennial<br />
celebration<br />
AMOUNT<br />
$10,000<br />
$6,955<br />
$5,991<br />
$5,000<br />
$4,000<br />
AMOUNT<br />
$377,510<br />
$187,000<br />
$130,500<br />
$75,000<br />
$58,075<br />
AMOUNT<br />
$794,400<br />
$458,767<br />
$389,000<br />
$281,600<br />
$226,000<br />
1989<br />
Richard Moll, author of <strong>The</strong><br />
Public Ivys, identifies <strong>Evergreen</strong><br />
as one of nine "up-and-coming"<br />
small public institutions<br />
Styrofoam banned from<br />
campus; Vancouver campus<br />
turned over to WSU<br />
<strong>The</strong> entrance to <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s Longhouse<br />
Education and Cultural Center<br />
with a traditional Thunderbirc; car-rug<br />
•:.. .<br />
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16<br />
HOUSING<br />
THE '90S: TECHNO-PIZZA<br />
1990<br />
Populist speaker Jim Hightower a<br />
hit on campus; Master in Teaching<br />
graduate program begins;<br />
Resolute ready to sail<br />
<strong>The</strong> 1990s were a time of change. "<strong>The</strong> Mods were remodeled with white appliances and<br />
blue, gray and off-white counters, carpets and linoleum. <strong>The</strong> Housing Community Center<br />
became the hub of activity, though <strong>The</strong> Edge in A-Building was still popular for games<br />
and video nights," remembers Linda Hohman, associate director of housing. Disco nights<br />
gave way to techno-electronica and jam bands. <strong>The</strong> student population changed, too.<br />
By the end of the decade "most on-campus students were traditional-age freshmen<br />
and sophomores, and they looked more traditional as well—like they could go to<br />
any other school."<br />
1991<br />
Gulf War begins despite efforts of<br />
protesters who take over state<br />
legislative chamber; African<br />
National Congress leader visits<br />
<strong>The</strong> Corner Cafe morphed into Subterranean Pizza, and potlucks faded<br />
as younger students became the majority on campus. "When we started<br />
talking about computer use and wiring rooms for computers in the<br />
mid-'90s, a lot of students were anti-computer and other technology.<br />
By the end of the '90s, almost everyone was computer literate and<br />
dependent on computers for school work."<br />
End of an era: Gail Martin leaves;<br />
Freebox fire fills CAB wtih smoke;<br />
Student Lisa Leigh participates in<br />
BioSphere II<br />
1992<br />
Rally against music censorship;<br />
Protestors outraged at national<br />
parks clear-cutting; Olympia<br />
hosts Rock the Vote<br />
•<br />
Disco nights gave way<br />
to techno-electronica<br />
and jam bands. 1 V<br />
1993<br />
Toxic fumes force Library<br />
evacuation; beginning of .<br />
air quality issue<br />
<strong>The</strong> annual Mud Races on Mud Bay.<br />
Going Backstage<br />
Enthusiastic students prepare for the<br />
opening of the Organic Farmhouse in 1970.<br />
Today the Organic Farm continues to provide<br />
a great place to gather and a valuable resource<br />
to students involved in sustainable agriculture.<br />
How you teach depends a lot on how you learned. When I graduated from <strong>Evergreen</strong> in 1990 and started a Ph.D. program at the University<br />
of California, Irvine, I went from small classes and a wide variety of teaching styles to a very traditional institution. <strong>The</strong>re, undergraduate<br />
classes might have up to 400 students and everything a student does is given a number that counts toward his or her grade. Being an undergraduate<br />
at <strong>Evergreen</strong> was much more similar to being a graduate student than it was to the undergraduate experience where<br />
I was teaching. When I graduated and became a professor at East Carolina University in North Carolina,<br />
I continued to try to bring some of the things I had learned at <strong>Evergreen</strong> to my teaching but it was not<br />
very satisfying. <strong>The</strong>n, one day, I saw an advertisement in the journal Science—<strong>Evergreen</strong> was looking for<br />
a fish biologist.<br />
1994<br />
Arsonist burns Red Square<br />
trailer that supported Thurston<br />
County resident Paul Ingram,<br />
convicted child abuser<br />
And here I am. People often ask me what it is like teaching at <strong>Evergreen</strong> when you have been a student<br />
here. <strong>The</strong> best description I can give is that it is like going backstage at a play that you watched for four<br />
years. You see that those labs and field trips that just seemed to happen when you were a student take a<br />
huge amount of preparation and planning. You see how much thought goes into choosing seminar books<br />
that both lend themselves to a group discussion and teach students something. In coming back to<br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong>, I have gained both a greater satisfaction in my teaching and a new appreciation for what my<br />
instructors at <strong>Evergreen</strong> had to do to make my time here as a student so rewarding. Now, when I am<br />
driving along the Parkway and pass <strong>The</strong> <strong>Evergreen</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> sign, the thought that most often<br />
crosses my mind is "I'm home."<br />
Amy Cook, '90<br />
Kurt Cobain dead at 27;<br />
Faculty vote to move to a<br />
semester system, but trustees<br />
vote against change<br />
1995<br />
Longhouse dedicated;<br />
Greeners chain selves to trees<br />
along Overhulse Road, stall<br />
logging near campus<br />
Social critic Noam Chomsky<br />
comes to <strong>Evergreen</strong>;<br />
Inter-collegiate basketball<br />
and tennis planned<br />
1996<br />
Proposal to arm campus police<br />
stirs controversy; Tim Wise,<br />
Dinesh D'Souza debate<br />
affirmative action<br />
17
18<br />
OBRADOR<br />
LIVE IN HAVANA GEODUC 3ASK<br />
GOLDEN GEODUCK SEASON<br />
Who would have thought in 1976 that a small cattle barn on<br />
Kaiser Road in rural Olympia would germinate into a musical life form<br />
spanning four decades?<br />
That year, a group of <strong>Evergreen</strong> students and alumni, along with two<br />
Berkeley, California musicians, joined to form the music group Obrador.<br />
It was in that old cattle barn, with an audience of bats and barn swallows,<br />
that the first notes of Obrador's style of Afro-Caribbean and rhythm<br />
and blues were born.<br />
|f<br />
From the beginning, the band was a collective with two guiding<br />
principles: the integrity of the music and a profound desire to<br />
make a difference in the community. <strong>The</strong> first performance was a benefit<br />
fundraiser for the Olympia Community School.<br />
+ f As the band grew and<br />
• • 111 Old<br />
an of<br />
first notes of<br />
of<br />
changed over the years,<br />
we received success and<br />
recognition outside the local<br />
area. Our most exciting<br />
community involvement<br />
happened in 1998 when we<br />
were invited to Cuba.<br />
_ _ In the old African-<br />
Abakua community of<br />
Guanabacoa, we were<br />
introduced to a children's music school, Guillermo Tomas. <strong>The</strong> school<br />
was in dire need of musical instruments. Moved by the plight of the<br />
young students, we started a gift program called the Obrador Guanabacoa<br />
project. With the help of numerous people in Olympia, Obrador has<br />
provided more than $60,000 worth of instruments and technical support<br />
to the school.<br />
Currently, Obrador and our nonprofit fundraising arm, the Jefferson<br />
Street Foundation, are engaged in a cross-cultural education<br />
program between Cuba and South Puget Sound area middle schools.<br />
We participate in workshops in Cuban music, history and geography,<br />
performing at school assemblies and have started an e-mail pen-pal<br />
program between local students and those in Guillermo Tomas.<br />
Sales of our CD, Obrador Live in Havana, help fund the Cuban<br />
students' education.<br />
—Michael Olson, '73<br />
<strong>The</strong> Voice of Pulitzer<br />
On my return to New York after graduation, I got an internship at <strong>The</strong> Village Voice as the editorial<br />
assistant to the executive editor, helped, I'm sure, by my <strong>Evergreen</strong> and KAOS<br />
credentials. <strong>The</strong> position was mainly research-focused and work took me all around the city. Toward<br />
the end of the internship, a staff writer, Mark Schoofs, returned from Africa and needed a research<br />
assistant. He had heard about my work, and requested that I work with him. I, of course, agreed and got to do extensive follow-up research<br />
for Schoofs' series,"AIDS: <strong>The</strong> Agony of Africa" (part one of eight parts was published November 9, 1999. www.villagevoice.com).<br />
I worked in libraries and on the Internet, conducting interviews over the phone with officials in several African nations, and generally<br />
learning a lot about how the craft of journalism is practiced.<br />
As the series progressed, the feedback from both general readers and public health professionals was uniformly positive. It seemed that the<br />
articles were truly filling a need and educating people about the desperate situation in many parts of Africa. I left <strong>The</strong> Voice in December<br />
1999 with no idea of how big the series had become until I was woken up by an early morning call from Schoofs the following April with the<br />
news that the series had won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.<br />
Jason Schwartzberg, '99<br />
1996<br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong> is the only public<br />
liberal arts college among 40<br />
schools featured in <strong>College</strong>s<br />
.-'. ".. •-<br />
that Change Lives.<br />
,<br />
Author Loren Pope writes,<br />
"Taxpayers everywhere<br />
should demand colleges like<br />
this one."<br />
1997<br />
Campus cleans up for months<br />
after winter ice storm; Limited<br />
arming of campus police begins<br />
Bigfoot sighting: Student<br />
sees elusive creature near<br />
Organic Farm<br />
1998<br />
Death of Wyoming student<br />
Matthew Shepard, killed<br />
because he was gay. affects<br />
community for entire year<br />
Corner Cafe closes after<br />
20 years of operation and<br />
perpetual financial trouble<br />
In only its fifth season,<br />
the men's basketball team<br />
earned a trip to the NAIA<br />
Division II championships.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Geoducks traveled to<br />
Branson, Missouri, where<br />
they ended the<br />
with a sixth place<br />
national ranking.<br />
Newsweek's "How to Get Into<br />
<strong>College</strong>" edition features <strong>Evergreen</strong><br />
under "Schools With a Mission"<br />
and "Hot Schools, Cool Spots"<br />
<strong>The</strong> team's stellar 24-5 overall<br />
record included several games<br />
where the Geoducks scored<br />
more than 100 points, defeating<br />
by double digits.<br />
Free rides: Intercity Transit<br />
bus pass approved<br />
,<br />
1999<br />
Gov. Gary Locke refuses to<br />
share commencement stage<br />
with Mumia Abu-Jamal's<br />
taped speech<br />
U.S. News & World Report<br />
says <strong>Evergreen</strong> is tops in<br />
its class in the nation for the<br />
third straight year<br />
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20<br />
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1972-<strong>Evergreen</strong> bestowed 21 diplomas upon its first graduating class.<br />
1996-ShermanAlexie, Native<br />
American author, poet, filmmaker<br />
and Daniel J. Evans scholar, fall<br />
quarter 1995. His books include<br />
<strong>The</strong> Lone Ranger and Tonto<br />
Fistfight in Heaven and<br />
Reservation Blues.<br />
Across the years, Greeners have selected graduation speakers who embody the values<br />
als of the college. In 1995, Lynda Barry dispensed practical, highly entertaining<br />
| |U I advice to her "tribe," telling them to "take care of your<br />
teeth, get a job and don't think you can change evil<br />
people with your hippie love." In 2000, Matt Greening<br />
said that in a world where life was more like the TV<br />
show "Survivor" than like life at <strong>Evergreen</strong>, grads should<br />
spread their love around because that would be what<br />
matters most 100 years from now. Below is a sampling<br />
of other graduation speakers.<br />
1998-bell hooks, feminist scholar,<br />
African American activist, poet and<br />
social critic.<br />
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1991-Robert Fulghum, author of All I<br />
Really Needed to Know I Learned in<br />
Kindergarten.<br />
BBBB<br />
Beryl Crowe, one of <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s<br />
founding fathers, presented<br />
diplomas in the mid-'80s.<br />
1987-Shirley Chisholm, former<br />
Congresswoman from New York,<br />
candidate for the Democratic<br />
Presidential nomination, author<br />
and teacher.<br />
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HOI ;ING<br />
TODAY: TECHN A LITTI KAO<br />
A<br />
2000<br />
Elwha retires, new e-mail<br />
system installed; UW football<br />
• •<br />
team stages summer practices<br />
on Geoduck field<br />
in<br />
<strong>The</strong> Association of American<br />
<strong>College</strong>s and Universities<br />
selects <strong>Evergreen</strong> as one<br />
of 16 leadership institutions<br />
1 i<br />
"Perhaps nothing has changed in campus living more than technology,"<br />
says Mike Segawa, <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s director of housing. "Almost all students<br />
own computers and have e-mail accounts. Web use has increased<br />
dramatically in the early years of this decade to the point that campus<br />
resources are already straining to meet the demand. This technology<br />
has led to new kinds of interactions, different ways of doing business<br />
and ever changing ways of being entertained."<br />
Housing is also working proactively to support<br />
students who are new to college. "Special<br />
attention is now given to freshmen through<br />
the First Year Experience Program. Academic<br />
Advising staff are available in A-Building<br />
most evenings to provide advising, workshops<br />
and tutoring. Services like this have helped<br />
make A-Building the most popular living<br />
option on campus."<br />
Vegan cookie contest, naked<br />
dancing man grace the CAB;<br />
Food service workers demand<br />
collective bargaining rights<br />
2001<br />
Tacoma program makes fifth<br />
move in 26 years to a new<br />
campus on 6th Avenue<br />
Earthquake! 6.8 temblor knocks<br />
60 percent of library's books off<br />
shelves; Swing Club and Queer<br />
Alliance popular on campus<br />
KAOS FM 89.3 has been a part of <strong>Evergreen</strong> almost from<br />
the beginning. In 1972, Dean Katz and a group of fellow<br />
students persuaded the college to provide a 10-watt station<br />
to broadcast news and entertainment programs to oncampus<br />
listeners.<br />
KAOS' first transmitter was a lot less powerful than a<br />
microwave oven, but student initiatives led to a pair of<br />
power boosts—to 250 watts in 1977, which allowed the<br />
station to reach west Olympia. Concurrently, KAOS<br />
became one of the first college broadcasters to open its<br />
doors to non-student community volunteers. A second<br />
increase to 1,500 watts in 1981 pushed the signal out to<br />
the greater Olympia area and southern Mason County.<br />
More recently, a grant from the U.S. Department of<br />
Commerce helped KAOS build a new transmission facility<br />
on Tumwater Hill. Now, KAOS airs loud and clear to<br />
150,000 people from east of the Black Hills to the slopes<br />
of Mt. Rainier and from Issaquah (75 miles north) to<br />
Morton (75 miles south).<br />
Thousands of students and community volunteers have<br />
put their energy to work at KAOS. More than 2,000 people<br />
have participated in the Radio for Everyone training<br />
classes, which has served as the model<br />
for programs at colleges and community<br />
stations around the United <strong>State</strong>s.<br />
More than 300 students from <strong>Evergreen</strong><br />
and other schools have gained<br />
academic credit as management and<br />
production interns, and dozens of<br />
KAOS alumni have gone on to careers<br />
in broadcasting and related media<br />
fields. Turn on your radio today, and<br />
you'll hear former KAOS voices in<br />
Olympia, Seattle, Tacoma, San<br />
Francisco, New York, Washington,<br />
D.C. and nationwide over National<br />
Public Radio. ^<br />
According to U.S. News & World<br />
Report, <strong>Evergreen</strong> is one of the<br />
top five public liberal arts<br />
colleges in the nation<br />
1<br />
Student <strong>The</strong>resa Nation discovers<br />
new species of bacteriophage;<br />
On-line registration: sign up for<br />
classes in your underwear<br />
KAOS' programming has addressed<br />
almost every conceivable subject in nearly every conceivable style.<br />
"<strong>The</strong> American Guitar Philosophy Show," "<strong>The</strong> Classic Hick,"<br />
"Summa Musica," "Boy Meets Girl" and "Prickly Heat Radio" are just<br />
a few of the thousands of homegrown shows that have brought rock,<br />
jazz, blues, classical, Cajun and every other music style to Olympia<br />
listeners over the years. Local news and public affairs have been equally<br />
prominent in the schedule from the earliest days of "<strong>The</strong> People's News<br />
Service" to "Town Talk" to "<strong>The</strong> Greener Side." And some shows have<br />
simply defied description, like "<strong>The</strong> Johnny Staccato Show," the film<br />
soundtrack program hosted by the eponymous retired show biz<br />
powerhouse and man of the world.<br />
—Michael Huntsberger '78, KAOS general manager 1981-2000<br />
<strong>2002</strong><br />
Seminar II construction begins<br />
again after halt during state<br />
budget crisis; Campus rave<br />
comes with safety concerns<br />
,<br />
Library lobby banners: Join the<br />
Freaks of Nature, Grassroots<br />
Organizing Training, Explore<br />
Nicaragua, Got WashPIRG?<br />
Men's basketball has best-ever<br />
season, plays at nationals;<br />
Vagina Monologues staged;<br />
Drummers still on Red Square<br />
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24<br />
THE PRESIDENTS<br />
Charles McCann,<br />
"I figured that with a new college 11| || | •._ ^jjgiy.<br />
in a place like Olympia, so many<br />
people would be applying [for<br />
president] that I'd have the<br />
chance of a snowball in hell.<br />
So I thought, well, I'll just tell<br />
them what I think," recalled<br />
Charles McCann in 20 Years<br />
of Making A. Difference, the<br />
college's 1987 commemorative<br />
publication. Appointed in 1968,<br />
McCann led <strong>Evergreen</strong> through<br />
its formative years, including<br />
selection of the planning faculty,<br />
the construction of the campus<br />
on Cooper Point and the first<br />
years of classes and graduations,<br />
before leaving the president's<br />
office in 1977. McCann recalls<br />
four events in particular: First,<br />
"the Legislature's funding our<br />
planning faculty for a year before<br />
opening. Seventeen of the<br />
country's most imaginative<br />
thinkers about undergraduate<br />
education improved upon my<br />
ideas. <strong>The</strong> result was a curriculum designed for students eager to<br />
take responsibility for learning." Next, "the opening of the college<br />
to students—the beginning of teaching and learning at <strong>Evergreen</strong>."<br />
<strong>The</strong>n, "the installation of Daniel J. Evans as <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s second<br />
president." And finally, "the day I began working with <strong>Evergreen</strong> students<br />
as a facultv member."<br />
Dan Evans,<br />
Five distinctive presidents have come to symbolize <strong>Evergreen</strong> during the college's first<br />
four decades. Each came with a unique vision, style and energy, and each faced a<br />
particular set of issues, personalities, challenges and opportunities. Each one remembers<br />
special moments in the college's history.<br />
1<br />
Joe Olander, 1985-1<br />
A science fiction writer, speaker of Japanese,<br />
Chinese, German and Spanish, and former vice<br />
president for academic affairs at the University<br />
of Texas, El Paso, Joe Olander was <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s<br />
third president. On his first day on the job —<br />
which was also the first day the state legislature<br />
was in session - Olander was the only college<br />
president of a four-year state institution able to<br />
coax lawmakers into boosting enrollment. <strong>The</strong><br />
other five state schools stayed even or had funds<br />
cut. During dander's tenure, <strong>Evergreen</strong><br />
continued to receive national accolades from<br />
U.S. News & World Report, Money, <strong>The</strong> Wall<br />
Street Journal and several college guides. Olander<br />
resigned in 1990.<br />
Former Washington Gov. Daniel Evans assumed <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s<br />
presidency in 1977, leading the college through some of its most<br />
difficult times. <strong>The</strong> college was under scrutiny from all quarters,<br />
and public criticism was often negative. Evans recalls: "Three events<br />
combined to change outside attitudes and put <strong>Evergreen</strong> on the<br />
road to its current recognition. We discovered that more than<br />
90 percent of all <strong>Evergreen</strong> applicants were admitted to some of<br />
the most prestigious schools in the nation—a record far beyond<br />
that of other institutions." <strong>The</strong>n, "two <strong>Evergreen</strong> graduates from<br />
those early days were elected to the Washington state Legislature.<br />
Eleanor Lee served as a Republican senator and Denny Heck as a<br />
Democratic representative. <strong>The</strong>y acted as inside voices of reason<br />
to help moderate some of the most vociferous opponents." Finally,<br />
"U.S. News & World Report issued its first rankings of colleges and universities. <strong>Evergreen</strong> was listed among<br />
the top small liberal arts colleges. This convinced even the most conservative opponents that <strong>Evergreen</strong> was<br />
an asset to Washington and higher education." Appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill the unexpired term of<br />
the late Sen. Henry Jackson, Evans left <strong>Evergreen</strong> in 1983.<br />
Les Puree,<br />
Jane Jervis,<br />
Les Puree was named president in 2000. While <strong>Evergreen</strong><br />
is even more firmly established as an innovative educational<br />
leader, budget challenges have become a significant issue.<br />
"In many ways, the college in <strong>2002</strong> is the same college<br />
that the pioneering class of 1972 knew. <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s<br />
faculty and staff remain extraordinarily dedicated to<br />
teaching. <strong>The</strong> college remains committed to<br />
academically rigorous, student-centered, interdisciplinary<br />
education with an emphasis on public service.<br />
At the same time, much has changed. <strong>Evergreen</strong> alumni<br />
work in our community, across the country and around the<br />
world-. Thirty years ago, <strong>Evergreen</strong> might have been<br />
dismissed as an eccentric and (probably short-lived)<br />
experimental college. Today, it is widely recognized that,<br />
if we have sometimes seemed eccentric, it is because we<br />
have been in the vanguard of higher education reform.<br />
Programs that were once dismissed as experimental are<br />
now embraced as innovative. Today, <strong>Evergreen</strong> is<br />
a recognized leader in shaping the future of teaching and<br />
learning nationally."<br />
Jane Jervis, who assumed the presidency in 1992,<br />
found an institution that was different from its<br />
early days. "[One] that thought it was plenty big<br />
enough, maybe too big; that saw itself as<br />
an unappreciated educational treasure, not as a<br />
public resource; that would really prefer to be<br />
a private college with very low tuition, so that it<br />
could be elite but democratic at the same time;<br />
and that deeply resented claims by the state<br />
that it should be responsive to enrollment<br />
and workforce demands. <strong>The</strong>re was deep<br />
ambivalence about graduate and outreach<br />
programs. Some of those things are still true, but<br />
we managed to embrace structured growth,<br />
embrace and build the Tacoma and reservationbased<br />
programs, build and support our public<br />
service centers, build alliances with community<br />
colleges, begin to reform the curriculum and<br />
begin to turn our face outward to the community,<br />
the state and the nation."<br />
Two capital construction efforts also illustrate<br />
changes that occurred during Jervis'<br />
administration. "<strong>The</strong> Longhouse. We put this 20year<br />
dream at the top of our institutional budget<br />
request, ahead of leaky roofs and earthquake<br />
preparedness. We then lobbied hard, and,<br />
astonishingly, got it funded. <strong>The</strong> Longhouse symbolized bringing people together, especially people<br />
of color, and its perpetual deferral symbolized their marginalization. Building the Longhouse was<br />
a powerful affirmation of community and an act of healing." <strong>The</strong> other is "Seminar II.<br />
Now under construction, the planning we did was a result of the college's growth and turning<br />
outward." Jane Jervis retired from <strong>Evergreen</strong> in 2000.<br />
Despite securing funding from the Legislature for Seminar<br />
II and its subsequent construction now under way, and a<br />
new building for the Tacoma program, <strong>Evergreen</strong> will<br />
undoubtedly face fiscal challenges in the years ahead. "Public colleges nationally will continue to see a<br />
decline in public funding. With the growing financial support of our alumni, the dedication of our faculty<br />
and staff, and the commitment and support of our students and their families, <strong>Evergreen</strong> is sure to enjoy<br />
continued success for many years to come."<br />
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ALUM NOTES<br />
Alum Notes is compiled by the Office of Alumni Affairs and edited for length and content.<br />
To submit information, call the office at (360) 867-6551 or e-mail tescalum@evergreen.edu.<br />
Marsha Morse, '73, Vashon, received a<br />
graduate degree in whole systems design from<br />
Antioch University.<br />
John Manley, '74, Canby, OR, works as a<br />
team developer for the Multnomah County<br />
Library. He is also finishing a master's thesis.<br />
Tim Girvin, '75, Seattle, principal of Girvin<br />
Strategic Branding and Design, created the titling<br />
and graphics for the CBS documentary on 9/11<br />
shot by French brothers Jules and Gedeon<br />
Naudet, and narrated by Robert DeNiro. Girvin's<br />
firm also designed the Web site portal for the<br />
Gere Foundation, founded by actor Richard Gere<br />
to award humanitarian grants mainly to assist<br />
the people of Tibet.<br />
Christina Meserve, '75, Olympia, is board<br />
certified as a trial advocate by the National Board<br />
of Trial Advocacy, the only national board<br />
certification for trial attorneys. Requirements<br />
include extensive documentation, including<br />
independent peer review from judges and<br />
attorneys, as well as successful completion of<br />
a day-long examination.<br />
Raymond Pavelko, '75, West Salem, Wl,<br />
is president of Partners in Empowerment, Inc.,<br />
a nonprofit organization providing resources to<br />
mental health consumers in western Wisconsin.<br />
In 1999, Pavelko formed a company to conduct<br />
mental health research.<br />
A Greener Emmy<br />
I.<br />
Jacqueline Harris, '76, Battle Ground, is<br />
completing her master's thesis in interdisciplinary<br />
studies at Marylhurst <strong>College</strong> with a focus in<br />
comunication/organizational development.<br />
jharris103@aol.com.<br />
Scott Baker, '77, Seattle, a founder of<br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong>'s Alumni Association, is happily doing<br />
what he likes best, messing with trees.<br />
Chuck Cauchy, '77, Traverse City, Ml,<br />
has a large family and loves northern Michigan.<br />
He founded and is president of Tellurex<br />
Corporation, hse@traverse.com.<br />
Michael Mills, '77, Portland, OR, started<br />
an ombudsman office for the city of Portland.<br />
Michael Huntsberger, '78, Olympia, and<br />
former KAOS general manager, has been<br />
awarded a graduate teaching fellowship at the<br />
University of Oregon, Eugene where he will<br />
pursue a graduate degree in communications.<br />
He will continue as head of Media & Communications<br />
Consulting, providing organizational<br />
support and development services to noncommercial<br />
broadcasters, www.theradiosite.com.<br />
Andrea Osborn (Dashe Roy), '78,<br />
Olympia, married Thamas Osborn '77 last<br />
December. <strong>The</strong>y live on Cedar Flats Road with<br />
Andrea's daughter Annika, 18, and their huge<br />
dog, Cody. Andrea's son, Benjamin, attends<br />
Ringling School of Arts Design in Sarasota, FL.<br />
I won an Emmy in 2001 for sound design on "Civil War to Civil Rights," a PBS show. <strong>The</strong><br />
previous year, I was nominated for an Emmy for "All We Want is Make Us Free," a TV special<br />
about the Amistad story. On the radio front, <strong>The</strong> Traveling Radio Show, which started in<br />
1977 at KAOS with fellow Greeners Torn Hood, Franklin Ruetz and David Gordon, is likely<br />
to be launched nationally after a very successful run on regional National Public Radio affiliates.<br />
Look for broadcasts and Webcasts this fall or see our Web site at www.travelingradio.com.<br />
I've also managed to fit in directing<br />
"Big World," a national news and<br />
entertainment radio program distributed<br />
to college stations, and I've recently<br />
accepted an adjunct faculty position at<br />
Quinnipiac University, teaching radio,<br />
audio and video production. I'm constantly<br />
"greening" students with techniques and<br />
philosophies I learned at <strong>Evergreen</strong>, and<br />
while the students don't quite know what<br />
to make of me, they love the hands-on<br />
learning. Work continues at my studio,<br />
Living Sound Productions in Bethany,<br />
Conn, and I've been happily together for<br />
22 years with Sharon Steuer, a well-known<br />
artist and author.<br />
Jeff Jacoby, '78<br />
Diane Selden, '78, Portland, OR, has a<br />
14-year-old daughter, Zoe, and is a master's<br />
level psychologist who coordinates programs<br />
for low income and immigrant clients through<br />
Schools Uniting Neighborhoods.<br />
Thomas Ghormley, '79, Seattle, has a<br />
6-year-old daughter, Ariahna, who is bilingual<br />
and well traveled.<br />
Patricia Ritter, '79, Ridgefield, started<br />
her own counseling practice after receiving<br />
a master's of social work degree from the<br />
University of Portland. She also wrote and<br />
Doubleday published her first mystery novel,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Nursing Home Murders.<br />
Eric Buck, '80, Chicago, is an architect with<br />
Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates,<br />
which just won the American Institute of<br />
Architects Firm of the Year Award, a high honor<br />
in architectural circles.<br />
Scott Dethlefs, '80, Spokane, received a<br />
master's in teaching from Whitworth <strong>College</strong> and<br />
now teaches high school media production.<br />
Ingrid Fabianson (Bauer), '80, Richmond,<br />
IN, graduated from a seminary studies program<br />
with a master's in divinity.<br />
Thorn Farris, '80, Port Angeles, brokers<br />
Baseball NW Sports Training Facility, complete<br />
with batting cages.<br />
Larry Gourley, '80, Goldendale, is deputy<br />
auditor and clerk of the court for the Klickitat<br />
County Commissioners Office. He is also a parttime<br />
news reporter for KMCQ (Q-104) in the<br />
Dalles, Ore.<br />
Karen La Verne (Rogers), '80, Bellingham,<br />
moved to the country and lives on a little farm<br />
with lots of animals. She became a grandmother<br />
in 2000.<br />
Connie Monaghan, '80, Los Angeles,<br />
is perpetually unemployed and making pottery.<br />
If things work out, she looks forward to owning<br />
a gas station.<br />
Ralph Wallin, '80, Seattle, operates a small<br />
custom furniture and restoration shop.<br />
Dennis Carey, '81, Brighton, CO, is<br />
raising and training American paint horses in<br />
Scotts Bluff, Neb.<br />
Carol Ellick, '81, Tucson, AZ, visited<br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong> in June 2001, and says it felt oddly<br />
comfortable. With her 14-year-old daughter in<br />
tow, she wandered toward the Mods where,<br />
with a smile, her daughter said, "Mom, can I<br />
go here?"<br />
John McLaren, '81, Seattle, is an architect<br />
and received the 1999 Victor Steinbrueck chair<br />
from the University of Washington <strong>College</strong> of<br />
Architecture and Urban Planning for his<br />
housing advocacy work.<br />
Mark Olson, '81, Mount Vernon, works for<br />
the Washington <strong>State</strong> Department of Ecology<br />
and has two beautiful daughters.<br />
Patrick Sheahan, '81, Berkeley, CA, is<br />
an architect and just completed a new live/work<br />
building for his wife and himself.<br />
Shelby Sheffield, '81, Santa Fe, NM,<br />
married in 1993 and has two wonderful children,<br />
ages 5 and 1. She is studying graphic design.<br />
Robert Weinapple, '81, Richmond, CA,<br />
is directing the main stage show for the Tahoe<br />
Shakespeare Festival this summer.<br />
Steven Engel, '82, Portland, OR, founded the<br />
Animal Tracks Literacy Project in 2000 to teach<br />
all ages how to identify animal tracks and read<br />
the stories they hold. Last fall, he helped<br />
students at a Raymond, Wash., elementary<br />
school create and write 23 stories about local<br />
wildlife by making tracks in the new cement<br />
sidewalks along five blocks of downtown<br />
Raymond.<br />
Patrick McManus, '82, Vashon, lives with<br />
his 8-year-old daughter and is working as a<br />
Feldenkrais practitioner.<br />
Timothy O'Connor, '82, Portland, OR, works<br />
as vice president of finance for Healthworks, Inc.,<br />
a health information software company. His<br />
youngest son, Colin O'Brady, will be attending<br />
college this fall. Tim and his wife, Catherine<br />
Downey, plan to relocate to their<br />
three-acre farm on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.<br />
Patrick Atkinson, '83, Ethel, is retired and<br />
wrote his first children's novel, <strong>The</strong> School of<br />
Magic Animal Quest.<br />
Jennifer Boehm (Morrissey), '83, Ojai,<br />
CA, has taken up surfing after seven years<br />
of ski life in Sun Valley, Idaho. This year, she<br />
and Stephen celebrated their 10th anniversary.<br />
Daughter Kayla is 9 and son Ian is 6. <strong>The</strong>y are<br />
hard at work developing and marketing herbal<br />
formulas for their company, Botanica BioScience.<br />
Chris Chappell, '83, Olympia, lives with<br />
partner, Julia Lippert, and dog, Sasha. He has<br />
worked for the Washington Natural Heritage<br />
Program as an ecologist for 10 years and still<br />
loves it. Before that, he received a master's<br />
degree and traveled Asia and Latin America.<br />
Yasmine Galenorn (Corbally), '83,<br />
Bellevue. Crossing Press published her fifth<br />
book, Crafting <strong>The</strong> Body Divine, last fall.<br />
Three more books will be released this year:<br />
Meditations on the Wheel of the Year, Sexual<br />
Ecstasy & <strong>The</strong> Divine and Totem Magic.<br />
Linda Livingston, '83, Lakewood, is a<br />
family counselor.<br />
Wilmer W. Melendez, '83, Lakewood,<br />
conducts psychiatric mental health evaluations<br />
for people with chronic mental illness who have<br />
been involuntarily committed.<br />
Bruce Ostermann, '83, Worland, WY,<br />
is still living the good life in the wilds.<br />
Jordan David Pollack, '83, PortTownsend,<br />
spent the past 18 years as a firefighter, including<br />
the last three as chief. He teaches and consults<br />
about fire and emergency topics around the<br />
West.<br />
Virginia Sabatier (Lowery), '83, Baton<br />
Rouge, LA, retired last fall from Louisiana <strong>State</strong><br />
University. She and her husband have been<br />
traveling and visiting their children since then.<br />
Chiyuki Shannon, '83, Roy, received a<br />
doctorate from the Union Institute with a<br />
dissertation titled Stalking <strong>The</strong> Multicentric Ego:<br />
A Collage of Folk Improvisational Self-Work.<br />
Christopher Stearns, '83, Portland, OR,<br />
works on salmon habitat enhancement and also<br />
human rights in Burma.<br />
Amy Wales, '83, Charlemont, MA, left her job<br />
at Franklin County Solid Waste Management to<br />
become a graduate student.<br />
Steven Whalen, '83, Olympia, has been<br />
working at South Puget Sound Community<br />
<strong>College</strong> in media production and library network<br />
resources for 10 years.<br />
Ona Harding-Ahrens, '84, Chehalis, and<br />
Richard Ahrens '89 have seven children and<br />
enjoy working together. Ona is a nutritional and<br />
psychological counselor. Richard is a movement<br />
therapist and licensed massage therapist.<br />
Eric Kessler, '84, Friday Harbor, and Sharon,<br />
had a daughter, Addi, in January 2001. <strong>The</strong>y live<br />
in the home they moved 12 miles across San<br />
Juan Island.<br />
Peter Moser, '84, Seattle, teaches fourth<br />
grade.<br />
Janice Richards, '84, Greenbank, owns<br />
and runs Harbor House, a bed-and-breakfast<br />
at the Pleasant Harbor Marina.<br />
Riede Wyatt, '84, Ranches De Taos, NM,<br />
works at Blossoms Garden Center and Nursery.<br />
Debbie Barrett, '85, Maple Valley, received<br />
an M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix.<br />
Martha Hurwitz, '85, Seattle, is working on<br />
a novel and expecting a child in July.<br />
Jerome Johnson, '85, Olympia, is semiretired<br />
and has been a juvenile counselor with<br />
a private organization in Olympia for the past<br />
few years. He is also an active civil rights<br />
advocate and enjoys practicing kung fu.<br />
Lee La Croix, '85, Seattle, owns a collectively<br />
run bakery in Freemont, has three children and<br />
a great husband.<br />
Stacy Sheldon, '85, Fairfax, CA, practices<br />
Feldenkrais holistic healing. She has 2-year-old<br />
twin daughters.<br />
Hugh Watson, '85, Tacoma, lost his<br />
significant other, Richard Watson, last spring.<br />
Kurt Batdorf, '86, Anacortes, is a copy editor<br />
for the Everett Herald.<br />
Curt Charnell Bondurant, '86, Bainbridge<br />
Island, will soon publish his first novel, <strong>The</strong>re's<br />
A Gold Mine in the Sky.<br />
Becky Burton, '86, Milwaukee, Wl, is a<br />
faculty member in biology at Alverno <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Whitney Cochran (Petersen), '86,<br />
Olympia, celebrated her 15th anniversary of<br />
employment with the Washington <strong>State</strong> Attorney<br />
General's office. She has two daughters, ages<br />
10 and 13.<br />
Alan Rose, '86, Olympia, has two children,<br />
Shayna, 12, and Dylan, 8. Alan enjoys his<br />
landscaping job.<br />
Chris Tolfree, '86, Seattle, is finishing his<br />
second master's degree at Seattle University.<br />
Kathryn Absten, '87, Vaughn, works for the<br />
Olympic Education Service District as a math/<br />
technology specialist.<br />
Bob Basanich, '87, Berwyn, IL, and<br />
Amy Moon '91 live near Chicago with their<br />
18-month-old son, Leland Basanich. Amy works<br />
part time as a senior biologist with an environmental<br />
consulting firm doing environmental<br />
impact statements for road and railroad projects<br />
and conducting stream surveys to evaluate fish<br />
and benthics for wastewater treatment plants.<br />
Bob is a media systems technician, traveling<br />
all over the country setting up video walls and<br />
video conference equipment.<br />
River Bean, '87, Palmer, AK, is an<br />
organic farmer.<br />
Victor Bourque, '87, Olympia, has been a<br />
lieutenant for the Bellevue Fire Deptartment for<br />
15 years. He is married with two kids, ages 3<br />
and 6 months.<br />
Robert Brown, '87, Brighton, MA, works<br />
in Woburn and wonders what happened to all<br />
the cool people he met at a previous Boston<br />
Greener gathering.<br />
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Julie Gamewell, '87, Randle, teaches<br />
special education to children from preschool<br />
through sixth grade in the White Pass School<br />
District.<br />
Mary Higgins, '87, DuPont, is the division<br />
chair for the Health and Science Department<br />
at South Puget Sound Community <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Dolores Kelley (Robertson), '87, Olympia,<br />
married David Kelley last fall. Her daughter,<br />
Maggie, is 12.<br />
Julie Moore, '87, Olympia, married<br />
Brady Anderson '89, and they have both<br />
retired from social work. Julie is doing fabric art<br />
and Brady is a luthier. www.thefretdoctor.cjb.net.<br />
Richard Rodrigues, Jr., '87, Eugene, OR,<br />
is a program associate for the McKenzie River<br />
Gathering Foundation, www.MRGfoundation.org,<br />
where he is starting the progressive social<br />
change organization's technology grantwriting<br />
program for organizers in Oregon.<br />
Scott Roy Saunders, '87, Olympia,<br />
facilitates rhythm and drumming groups. He<br />
received his M.A. in human development from<br />
Pacific Oaks.<br />
Sally Triebs Waite, '87, Friday Harbor, and<br />
Gordy work and volunteer in the Friday Harbor<br />
School District. <strong>The</strong>y have a daughter, 10, and<br />
a son, 7. <strong>The</strong>y are sailing and gardening away.<br />
Kathleen Anderson, '88, Shelton, teaches<br />
fifth and sixth grade.<br />
Tracy Anderson, '88, Seattle, studies<br />
furniture design at Cornish <strong>College</strong> of the Arts.<br />
She has a furniture and home accessories store<br />
in Seattle called MIA VEP. She is the parent of<br />
Ava, her 2-year-old daughter.<br />
Denise Crowe and Bret Lunsford '88,<br />
Anacortes, own a music and bookstore called<br />
<strong>The</strong> Business. Denise works as a naturalist in<br />
the Anacortes Wilderness. <strong>The</strong>y are doing work<br />
on a music label, No Know Your Own, and<br />
publish a daily newspaper, anacortesonline.com.<br />
Richard Dorsett, '88, Tacoma, is the<br />
executive director of the Washington <strong>State</strong><br />
Association of Area Agencies on Aging. He also<br />
just completed production of a second CD of<br />
Jordanian folk music.<br />
Jerry Fugich, '88, Yelm, works as a site<br />
supervisor with Habitat For Humanity and owns<br />
a company called <strong>The</strong> Watchmaker's Shop.<br />
Christine Goodale, '88, Vashon, lives with<br />
her husband and 3-year-old daughter. She is<br />
a Waldorf teacher and a runs a nursery school<br />
in her home.<br />
Diane Gruver, '88, Yachats, OR, is seeking<br />
a tattoo license, dgrvrer3@yahoo.com.<br />
Janis Hunter, '88, Shelton, was promoted<br />
to investment representative at Edward Jones<br />
Investments.<br />
Brian E. Mathis, '88, Olympia, is<br />
typing this text and designing this magazine.<br />
His partner, Jordan Pedersen, is finishing his<br />
first year at <strong>Evergreen</strong>.<br />
Ursula Shea-Borneo, '88, Shutesbury,<br />
and her husband, Paul Borneo, recently bought<br />
their first home and are raising their 3-year-old<br />
daughter.<br />
Russell Bennett-Cumming, '89, Olympia,<br />
is a Spanish teacher and world language<br />
department chair for Capital High School.<br />
Pam Bennett-Cumming '88 is an<br />
environmental planner for Mason County.<br />
Valerie Manion Courtney, '89, Seattle,<br />
and John Courtney had a son, Kevin Richard,<br />
last December.<br />
Bruce Elzinga, '89, Seattle, received<br />
his master of education degree and is<br />
student teaching.<br />
Sheila Freehill, '89, Boulder, CO, earned<br />
a master's in bilingual education from Pacific<br />
Oaks <strong>College</strong>. She lived in Costa Rica to learn<br />
Spanish, and works as an English as a Second<br />
Language and reading teacher at Longspeak<br />
Middle School.<br />
Dianna Holden, '89, Longview, works as<br />
a chemist.<br />
William Kaniuka, '89, Farmington Falls, ME,<br />
works for <strong>Evergreen</strong> Outfit Services.<br />
He received a master's degree in theological<br />
studies from Bangor <strong>The</strong>ological Seminary<br />
and is finishing his second master's degree<br />
in counseling at Antioch New England<br />
Graduate School.<br />
Doug Mercer, '89, Seattle, teaches<br />
geography and environmental health at the<br />
University of Washington.<br />
Miguel Perez-Gibson, '89, Olympia,<br />
is a senior research analyst for the House<br />
of Representatives Democratic Caucus.<br />
Rena Rea, '89, Sumner, works for the<br />
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department as<br />
a substance abuse counselor. She is also<br />
working on her second master's, this one<br />
in teaching, from Antioch University.<br />
Kelly Quilici, '89, Ashland, Wl, is doing odds<br />
and ends work for the Black Cat Coffee House.<br />
She still writes and does photography along<br />
with her music. Her son Dyami is 19 and 6'4".<br />
Veronica Maria Tomasic, '89, Hamden,<br />
CT, received a Ph.D in American Studies<br />
from Yale University. Her dissertation is titled<br />
To <strong>The</strong>ir Own Rooms: Representations of the<br />
Inner Life in an Age of Transition, Late Thirties<br />
to Early Fifties.At the same time, she received<br />
a law degree from Quinnipiac University and<br />
was admitted to the Connecticut Bar Association<br />
last fall. She currently works as a lawyer for the<br />
state and is preparing her dissertation for<br />
publication. Veronica lives with her son,<br />
Clement, 15, and husband, Ingram Marshall,<br />
who taught at <strong>Evergreen</strong> from 1985 to 1989.<br />
Jennifer Whitewing (Unterseher), '89,<br />
Leavenworth, is a licensed massage practitioner<br />
at Simple Kneads Massage <strong>The</strong>rapy at the Best<br />
Western Icicle Inn, as well as a phone operator<br />
at the Sleeping Lady Mountain Retreat. She lives<br />
with her grandparents, husband and son in a<br />
cooperative, extended family household, and<br />
writes books for children that she hopes to get<br />
published. Jen joined the Baha'i' Faith and prays<br />
for world peace and global unity.<br />
William Gordon Wolf (Mahler), '89,<br />
PortTownsend, practices naturopathic medicine<br />
and acupuncture, and is the proud father of a<br />
5-year-old.<br />
Shelley Arenas, '90, Lake Forest Park,<br />
founded a nonprofit organization to help parents<br />
in the Northwest (www.parentcafe.org). She<br />
co-authored a book called <strong>The</strong> Lobster Kids<br />
Guide to Seattle.<br />
Sue Blair (Boyer), '90, Newport, writes<br />
reading instruction training material for the<br />
California Professional Development Institute.<br />
She commutes to California regularly to train<br />
and work with public school teachers.<br />
Micah Bowers '90 and Andrea '91, Seattle,<br />
had twin sons, Connor and Gavin, last spring.<br />
Micah also started Bluefire Production, which<br />
specializes in video, DVD and interactive<br />
television production.<br />
Linda Boyle, '90, Eagle, ID, is a water quality<br />
science officer for the state.<br />
Marilyn Brisbane, '90, Olympia, started<br />
a nonprofit adoption agency, IBSEN Adoption<br />
Network, that raises funds to help with the<br />
adoption of special needs children, and to<br />
provide them with emotional and financial<br />
support. (360) 866-7036.<br />
Lucretia Krebs, '90, Woodland, is<br />
a licensed clinical psychologist.<br />
Sherry Lynch, '90, La Center, teaches at the<br />
Iconography Institute in Portland. Her class just<br />
finished a four-foot-wide by three-foot-tall icon,<br />
which is installed in a Portland church in memory<br />
of World Trade Center victims.<br />
Jo Anshutz, '91, Woodland, is superintendent<br />
of the Vader School District.<br />
Susan James, '91, Carson, works as a<br />
biology teacher at Stevenson High School.<br />
Duffie Johnson, '91, Portland, OR, joined<br />
Reed <strong>College</strong> as the annual fund director.<br />
Hank Lentfer, '91, Gustavus, AK, edited the<br />
book Arctic Refuge: A Circle of Testimony with<br />
Carolyn Servid. He has traveled the country<br />
speaking and raising awareness about the<br />
Alaskan refuge.<br />
Nita Mehnert, '91, <strong>Spring</strong> Hill, FL, won<br />
first place in the Annual Black and White Show<br />
in Tampa.<br />
Elizabeth Miller, '91, Comstock Park, Ml,<br />
would like to say, "Hi from snowy Michigan" to<br />
Mary Deraitus.<br />
Stephen Nicholson, '91, Walla Walla, owns<br />
a car dealership.<br />
Bruce Siqueland, and Tani Lindquist, '91,<br />
Seattle, have a daughter, Harriet Louise<br />
Siqueland, born last spring.<br />
Kirsten Spainhower, '91, New Haven, CT,<br />
worked in agricultural forestry in the Peace Corps<br />
in Benin, West Africa, 1994-96. She is now<br />
working on a master's degree at the Yale School<br />
of Forestry and Environmental Studies,<br />
specializing in international community forestry.<br />
Kenneth White, '91, Gig Harbor, has grown<br />
a white beard and become the master of the<br />
universe in a non-violent coup.<br />
Joanne Wieser, '91, Elma, has two<br />
daughters who have graduated from <strong>Evergreen</strong>.<br />
Another daughter is graduating this June.<br />
Steven Yunker, '91, Wenatchee, and his wife,<br />
Susan, have four sons, ages 9, 6, 3 and 8 months.<br />
Bruce Baldwin, '92, Tenino, went back to<br />
school to get teaching credentials and a master<br />
in teaching, and is now substitue teaching high<br />
school biology.<br />
Thomas Begnal, '92, Okanogan, is an office<br />
manager for a farm that has the largest garlic<br />
collection in North America, with 150 different<br />
kinds of garlic.<br />
Jennifer Bruner, '91, Seattle, lives with her<br />
new husband, Ben Trissel, in their messy<br />
craftsman home. She works as a software test<br />
engineer at Microsoft and runs marathons to<br />
keep herself sane. Jennifer also collects wine<br />
with her husband, reads obsessively, is<br />
published in several online publications, and<br />
occupies her dwindling free time with too many<br />
pets and not enough sleep.<br />
Matthew Green, '91, Olympia, was elected<br />
to the Olympia City Council for a term that began<br />
in January. Matthew joins Curt Pavola '95<br />
who was re-elected to the council during the<br />
same race.<br />
Nicole Masters, '91, San Francisco, CA,<br />
says to get in touch with her at<br />
schmasters@earthlink.net.<br />
Jennifer Rosen, '91, and her partner,<br />
Sharon Holley '99, Olympia, announce the<br />
home birth of Noah Benjamin Rosen-Holley last<br />
fall with the help of Around the Circle Midwifery.<br />
Proud and happy grandmom is Betsy Gail<br />
Rosen '92 of Mercer Island. Jena is on leave<br />
from the Olympia Timberland Library as assistant<br />
circulation supervisor. Sharon is employed by the<br />
Washington <strong>State</strong> Department of Natural<br />
Resources as a tidelands manager.<br />
Glenhelen Smither, '91, Shelton, is<br />
expecting her second baby and making a lot of<br />
ceramic art.<br />
Marnie Valenta, '91, Seattle, works as a<br />
massage therapist and birth doula.<br />
Saed Hindash, '92, is a photographer at<br />
the Star-Ledger in Newark, NJ. Saed was the<br />
co-recipient of a $10,000 award for excellence in<br />
reporting on victims of violence by the University<br />
of Washington School of Communications<br />
Journalism & Trauma Program. <strong>The</strong> article took<br />
Saed to Siberia to do a story about a boy<br />
adopted by a New Jersey couple only to die<br />
from their abuse.<br />
Ethan Delavan, '93, Seattle, teaches drama<br />
and video. He is also making a documentary<br />
about recovering from boyhood sexual abuse,<br />
which he hopes will air on public television.<br />
www.delavandramaworks.com.<br />
Not Just Fiddling Arounc<br />
Patrick Gillan, '93, Broaddus, TX, retired and<br />
went on a road trip from Texas to Fairbanks,<br />
Alaska, with a stop in Seattle.<br />
Nelson Hallgren, '93, Seattle, was the video<br />
editor for an award-winning documentary about<br />
Dale Chihuly's glasswork.<br />
Bruce Haveri, '93, Kealakekua, HI, says that<br />
after almost 10 years in the field as a wildlife<br />
biologist, he changed his life and career and<br />
enrolled in the Hawaiian Islands School of Body<br />
<strong>The</strong>rapy. Some time in 2003 he'll be a licensed<br />
massage therapist.<br />
Monique Jordan, '93, Tacoma, formed a<br />
nonprofit organization called Family Restoration<br />
and Empowerment Enterprises, which does crisis<br />
counseling, IEP meetings, school counseling and<br />
interventions.<br />
Margot Kimball, '93, Concord, MA., has<br />
three children, Claire, 6, Adele, 4, and Iris, 2.<br />
Samantha Nelson, '93, Ellensburg, and her<br />
husband have a son, Michael.<br />
Gwen Orwiler, '93, Sumner, works in real<br />
estate, globug1013@aol.com.<br />
Jay Shumway, '93, Tucson, AZ, teaches<br />
physics at a charter high school in Tucson.<br />
Yee Thao (Steve), '93, Saint Paul, MN, is<br />
now known as Steve so that his name, its history<br />
and proper pronunciation won't be a major topic<br />
of discussion every time he meets someone new<br />
or calls to order pizza. Steve has been the<br />
publisher of a small Asian newpaper, a webmaster,<br />
a concert promoter and a television<br />
producer. He is working on a PBS documentary<br />
about South Asian men in prison. His next<br />
project is an Asian fairytale about love, dragons,<br />
bad acne and difficult choices. He misses having<br />
a real governor, the rain, the buck Bambi that<br />
lived behind the <strong>Evergreen</strong> parking lot and the<br />
great <strong>Evergreen</strong> gymnasium that was used by<br />
about a dozen people during his stay in Olympia.<br />
Erwin Vidallon, '93, Lacey, has been<br />
married for eight years, has three kids and is<br />
working as a chief financial officer for Western<br />
<strong>State</strong> Hospital.<br />
;ate a music program for the elderly entitled "<strong>The</strong><br />
3ut the Northwest in hundreds of special £are facilities.<br />
i in Celtic music, traditional music of varying genres, and composing<br />
my own contemporary cross-over music. <strong>The</strong> Journey is my third CD, released on my own<br />
label, Raven Fiddle Productions. I have performed throughout the United <strong>State</strong>s as well as<br />
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland .and Ireland.<br />
; • At <strong>Evergreen</strong>, I began a life of self-directed study and work and, as a result, was able to create<br />
an extremely rewarding career in contemporary music. I enjoy a rich life of private teaching,<br />
composing, recording, session work and performing. I especially value my ability to positively<br />
ire them to develop self-discipline and to pursue music and the arts with persistence and passion.<br />
Jvergreen to my students: creating a life out of ones' own head and heart is very much like creating<br />
your own custom curriculum. Anna Schaad, '92<br />
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Brad Watkins, '93, Bainbridge Island, works<br />
on his own independent film project.<br />
Wayne Au, '94 and MIT '96, is a<br />
history teacher at Berkeley High School and<br />
recently won an early career award from the<br />
American Association of <strong>College</strong>s for Teacher<br />
Education Advocate for Justice. <strong>The</strong> award<br />
honors individuals in teacher education who<br />
support equity issues, are involved with social<br />
justice issues and whose work is expected to<br />
have a lasting impact. Au is also a steering<br />
committee member of the National Coalition<br />
of Education Activists.<br />
Elizabeth Dinkins, '94, Louisville, KY,<br />
completed her master of education degree<br />
at Peabody <strong>College</strong> of Vanderbilt University.<br />
She teaches seventh grade language arts<br />
in Louisville.<br />
Constance Frey, '94, Olympia, graduated<br />
from Seattle Midwifery School and is open<br />
for practice.<br />
Steve Garrison, '94, Olympia, returned from<br />
the cross-Australian World Solar Cycle Challenge<br />
last year having successfully endured shipping,<br />
mechanical and logistical disasters. His team<br />
took home two awards and tested a solar electric<br />
cycle that will serve as a model for future races,<br />
including the 2001-02 World Solar Cycle Racing<br />
Circuit. www.SolarBoy.org.<br />
Scott Le Due, '94, Olympia, teaches media/<br />
audio/photography at Capital High School.<br />
Students learn through contracts/projects<br />
including journaling online. His program, called<br />
learning mastery, was named in the top 20 tech<br />
programs in the country because of the contract<br />
learning, www.learningmastery.org.<br />
Jennifer Mechem, '94, Washington, DC, has<br />
a 2-year-old daughter named Naomi. Jennifer<br />
works for the Federal Department of Education<br />
in a disability access program.<br />
Michael Neely, '94, Recently opened<br />
a chiropractic practice in Tumwater.<br />
Amanda Ray, '94, San Francisco, married<br />
Jeffery Mann and has a baby girl, Mirabella.<br />
jdmann@sfsu.edu.<br />
George Stankevich '94, received a master<br />
of fine arts in computer animation from the<br />
Rochester Institute of Technology and works in<br />
New York City.<br />
Sara Steffens (Kepka), '94, Oakland, CA,<br />
is among five nominees for a national Gay and<br />
Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation award for<br />
excellence in journalism for her article, "<strong>The</strong><br />
Outsiders." <strong>The</strong> story is also among the Contra<br />
Costa Times' nominees for this year's Pultizer<br />
Prize in feature writing. "<strong>The</strong> Outsiders" tells the<br />
story of the struggles that a teenage boy and his<br />
transgender mother faced in Antioch, Calif.<br />
Craig Tanner, '94, Olympia, works at the<br />
Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.<br />
Anne deMarcken, '94, Olympia, is cofounder<br />
and creative director of the new media<br />
studio, Wovie (www.wovie.com). Recent online<br />
credits include the animated series, A Word With<br />
Index & the Bird, Stick Figures, Cat Couch and<br />
Civil Enough, and a number of award-winning<br />
Web sites. She launched One Horse Productions,<br />
and was a producer for Washington<br />
Interactive Television, director of development for<br />
Cupid & Psyche Studios, development director<br />
for KAOS radio and art director for the feature<br />
film, Truth.<br />
Traci Friedl, '94, Olympia, began her legal<br />
career with the Washington <strong>State</strong> Attorney<br />
General's Office, where she focuses on<br />
municipal law.<br />
Cordelia Wheelock, '94, Brooklyn, NY,<br />
and Lantz are proud to announce the birth of<br />
their son Willem Edward Wheelock Hawthorne,<br />
born February <strong>2002</strong>.<br />
Heleen Young, '94, Sierra Vista, AZ, works<br />
for Cochise <strong>College</strong> where she runs workshops<br />
for welfare recipients. She won an award for<br />
excellence for her job readiness workshop.<br />
Stuart Iritz, '96, Seattle, is employment<br />
coordinator with Eastside Employment Services,<br />
a nonprofit that helps people with disabilities<br />
locate jobs and provides on-the-job training.<br />
He works part-time with King County's<br />
specialized recreation department providing<br />
assistance at events for people with diabilities.<br />
Marie (Barker) Singer, '96, Trabuco<br />
Canyon, CA, gave birth to a daughter, Amber<br />
Victoria Singer, last December. Mom, dad and<br />
Amber are all doing well and trying to adjust to<br />
sleeping in two-hour increments.<br />
Laurie Bowman, '97, Ames, IA, is a day<br />
manager at Wheatsfield Grocery, a natural food<br />
co-op. At night, she plays guitar and fiddle in the<br />
Porch Stampers Old-Time Band.<br />
Lori Hajdu, '97, Portland, OR, and<br />
Jonny Fink '98 celebrated five years together<br />
by getting married in February <strong>2002</strong>. Lori<br />
recently graduated from the National <strong>College</strong><br />
of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, and Jonny<br />
plans to pursue a library science degree this fall.<br />
Greetings from <strong>Evergreen</strong> East<br />
Carol Johnson, '97, Moline, IL., returned<br />
to government service last June as an army<br />
outstanding scholar intern. She serves at the<br />
North Central Civilian Personnel Operations<br />
Center, training in human resource management<br />
and civilian personnel administration. Throughout<br />
her 10-year military career, Carol has received<br />
numerous commendations and awards. She<br />
worked for the Department of Social and Health<br />
Services, Western <strong>State</strong> Hospital in Lakewood,<br />
Wash., as a mental health licensed practical<br />
nurse shift charge. She is a member of the<br />
Urban League and the National Association for<br />
the Advancement of Colored People. She is<br />
married and has one son, Jibri, and is the<br />
caregiver for her 90-year-young father.<br />
Reb Pearl, '97, Brooklyn, NY, is a program<br />
associate for sustainable development at the<br />
Women's Environment and Development<br />
Organization. <strong>The</strong> group is working toward<br />
mobilization of the global women's movement<br />
leading up to the World Summit on Sustainable<br />
Development in Johannesberg, South Africa,<br />
this year, and coordination of women as a major<br />
group for the United Nations Commission on<br />
Sustainable Development.<br />
Tiffany Tolley (Terry), '97, Portland, ME,<br />
got married last summer and is expecting her<br />
first baby this summer.<br />
Angelina Zontine, '97, Pittsburgh, PA,<br />
worked as a costume designer on an original<br />
rock opera, <strong>The</strong> Transfused, produced in<br />
Olympia last year.<br />
Sherrie Sibbett, '98, Olympia, is putting<br />
together a project to get master's in public<br />
administration students involved with the<br />
Washington <strong>State</strong> Department of Transportation.<br />
Genevieve Bouchard, '99, Montreal,<br />
Quebec, is involved in the music industry<br />
and works as a marketing coordinator for<br />
a record label.<br />
Erin Boyle, '99, Tucson, AZ, married<br />
Ian Ream '99 on December 26, 2000.<br />
Kimberley Carter, '99, Sherman Oaks, CA,<br />
is employed as a union representative.<br />
lat four years have passed since I graduated from <strong>Evergreen</strong> as<br />
rom Miyazaki University in Japan. I especially remember a seminar<br />
in which a student came out that she was a lesbian. I was shocked by that, as I come from<br />
a conservative country. I, however, found and will never forget a certain beauty and strength<br />
in her revelation. And I always remember those days when I sang songs, composed poems,<br />
drew pictures and shared agonies and sufferings with friends.<br />
I long to see them again and am convinced of doing so in<br />
the near future. I am now studying American literature,<br />
especially Saul Bellow, and about to enter a Ph.D. program<br />
at Hiroshima University in Japan this spring. I am trying<br />
to become a scholar in American literature and culture,<br />
though the reality is very hard. But the precious experiences<br />
in <strong>Evergreen</strong> encourage me greatly.<br />
Nozomi Hiejima, '98<br />
Shane Humphrey, '99, Farmington, NM,<br />
works at Four Corners Public Radio. He finished<br />
a one-year contract with Americorps and recently<br />
returned from a transcontinental railroad trip.<br />
Joselynn Plank, '99, Petersburg, AK,<br />
is assistant director of the Herman Institute of<br />
Biological Studies, which she co-founded with<br />
Drew Wheelan '96. <strong>The</strong> institute is located<br />
in Costa Rica and is named in honor of retired<br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong> faculty member Steve Herman.<br />
www.hermaninstitute.org.<br />
Anthony Aquilante, '00, San Diego, CA,<br />
started a business called Art America, which<br />
contracts out cooperative learning space, a<br />
gallery, a digital studio and a reference library<br />
to artists.<br />
Katie Burt, '00, Port Orchard, is teaching<br />
Sumari dance and owns a studio called Cultural<br />
Renaissance Studio.<br />
Robin Campbell, '00, Olympia, was recently<br />
promoted to budget assistant to the governor of<br />
Washington state.<br />
Tammie Cresto, '00, Olympia, is a wildlife<br />
rehabilitator working at the Progressive Animal<br />
Welfare Society's Olympic Wildlife Center.<br />
Claire Fields, '00, Lacey, says her daughter<br />
will soon be graduating from high school.<br />
PASSINGS<br />
David Henry Smart, '83, Washington, DC.,<br />
theater artist, builder and fisherman. He worked<br />
as scenic designer and technical director at a<br />
number of the nation's top innovative stages,<br />
including New York's Circle Repertory <strong>The</strong>ater and<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre J in Washington. David has also built<br />
libraries, guest houses and constructed a native<br />
palapa in Mexico. As a sailor, he crewed ships from<br />
Alaska to the Puget Sound and Mexico.<br />
Contributions in his name can be made to local<br />
drug treatment programs.<br />
Sera Bilezikyan, '01, died in Baltimore this past<br />
winter. Sera loved to write and was involved with<br />
various social justice issues, including the Condega<br />
Homemakers Project in Nicaragua and the Navajo<br />
Nation resisters against relocation from Big<br />
Mountain in Arizona. Sera's family is establishing<br />
a graduate fellowship in environmental science<br />
in her memory. Contributions can be made to <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Evergreen</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong> Foundation in her name.<br />
Amanda Greene-Chacon, '00, Walnut<br />
Creek, CA, works at Planned Parenthood in<br />
reproductive and prenatal health. She is getting<br />
married in July and is planning to go back to<br />
school next year to become a nurse practitioner.<br />
Benjamin Hamilton, '00, Olympia, works<br />
at the Washington <strong>State</strong> Department of Health<br />
as a research analyst. He has a 2-year-old son.<br />
Nicole Julien, '00, Olympia, is making and<br />
selling visual art at craft fairs. She is also<br />
working on a novel she began at <strong>Evergreen</strong>.<br />
Benjamin Kinkade, '00, Shelton, is<br />
a seasonal biotech at Pinnacles National<br />
Monument, Calif., where he is the raptor monitor<br />
studying the effects of rock climbing on nesting<br />
raptors, such as prairie falcons and golden<br />
eagles. poet_09@yahoo.com.<br />
Katherine Kirkham, '00, Portland, OR,<br />
is furthering her studies in natural medicine.<br />
She got married in August and bought a house.<br />
Kerry Loewen, '00, San Francisco, CA,<br />
is in her second year of a three-year master of<br />
fine arts studio art program at San Francisco<br />
<strong>State</strong> University. "Without the guidance of Hugh<br />
Lentz and Steve Davis, I wouldn't be here."<br />
Harold Mahan, '00, Port Orchard, is a<br />
manager of the Pierce Conservation District,<br />
instituting performance measures in response<br />
to legislation.<br />
Louise Herr, '00, University Place, was<br />
recently promoted to educational planner at<br />
Tacoma Community <strong>College</strong> Work First.<br />
Arclancia Montgomery, '00, Tacoma,<br />
volunteers for Pierce County Juvenile Court and<br />
serves on the community accountability board.<br />
Phoebe Muth, '00, Seattle, continues to<br />
pursue a career as a children's book illustrator<br />
and plans to return to school for a master's<br />
degree.<br />
Bryan Nielsen, '00, Mason, Ml, says<br />
e-mail him at audubon@voyager.net.<br />
Darrel Pickett, '00, Hoquiam, became the<br />
program manager of the Quinault Indian Nation's<br />
TANF program.<br />
Luke Rhodes, '00, Huntingdon Valley, PA,<br />
works as a park ranger and wrestling coach.<br />
Naomi Walchak, '00, Thompson, OR,<br />
works in film production in Portland.<br />
CRAIG CARLSON<br />
Michael Wheeler, '00, Woodacre, CA,<br />
relocated from Seattle. He plans to travel<br />
overseas before going back to school to study<br />
energy policy.<br />
Brian Blacklow, '01, Marks, MS, teaches<br />
second grade for Teach For America.<br />
To get here, follow great blue heron<br />
Past Deepwater Point until salt air slaps you awake.<br />
Begin to chant: weather tells you what you are—<br />
Everything dies, spins, rekindles itself into stars.<br />
To live here, find an edge and hold on<br />
for as long as you can. Time weathers everything.<br />
Stare into the silver blur of the horizon.<br />
Let your sails fill with wind. Begin to sing.<br />
Craig Carlson, from "Totten Inlet"<br />
30 31<br />
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HANGOUTS<br />
Here Yesterday, Gone Today<br />
Spud and Elma's Two-Mile House<br />
Ron's Natural Foods<br />
Captain Coyote's<br />
Rainbow Restaurant<br />
Artichoke Mode<br />
Cafe Intermezzo<br />
<strong>The</strong> Smithfield Cafe<br />
Gnu Deli<br />
Brown Derby<br />
Why Not Tavern<br />
Asterisk Cheese Library<br />
<strong>The</strong> Seven Gables Restaurant<br />
Pizza Haven<br />
Olympic <strong>The</strong>ater<br />
(morphed into the<br />
HfcJVashington Center<br />
DT the Performing Arts)<br />
Street<br />
Olympia<br />
(became Miller<br />
IjrSpng Company)<br />
Skippers^iji<br />
Yardbirds v<br />
Harvey's Pet Store<br />
Rowland Lumber<br />
Western Auto<br />
Cracker's<br />
Sunset Drive In<br />
Shakey's Pizza<br />
Value Village<br />
Peterson's food Town<br />
Hardel Lumber Mill<br />
<strong>The</strong> Port Cafe<br />
Jo Mama's<br />
THEKLA<br />
IfteiW the Limelight)<br />
<strong>The</strong> post-nuclear buildings of <strong>Evergreen</strong>'s campus remain the same, the state capital<br />
rotunda still oversees downtown Olympia and the 1-5 marker east of Lacey continues to<br />
announce "Mt. Rainier in the distance." But several local landmarks are no more. Here are<br />
some Greener institutions from the 70s and later that have graduated to the great beyond,<br />
plus some enduring and new Greener landmarks.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Greening of Olympia<br />
Roughly 25 percent of <strong>Evergreen</strong> alums remain<br />
in the South Puget Sound area after graduation.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are your kids' teachers and the computer<br />
programmers who keep state government running<br />
electronically. <strong>The</strong>y are the creative energy behind<br />
the following Olympia institutions:<br />
Thurston Women's Health Clinic<br />
(now Eastside Women's Health Clinic)<br />
Rainy Day Records<br />
Childhood's End Gallery<br />
Harlequin Productions/<strong>State</strong> <strong>The</strong>ater<br />
Radiance Herbs and Massage<br />
Olympia Film Society/Capitol <strong>The</strong>ater<br />
Olympia Food Co-op (two locations)<br />
Olympia Farmers' Market<br />
Climate Solutions<br />
Cascadia Research<br />
Enduring Landmarks<br />
Not all of the favorite Greener hangouts are gone.<br />
Here are a few that remain around Oly town.<br />
Dirty Dave's<br />
<strong>The</strong> Spar<br />
Ralph's Thriftway<br />
Bayview Thriftway<br />
Eagan's<br />
King Solomon's Reef<br />
<strong>The</strong> Rib Eye<br />
<strong>The</strong> Martin<br />
<strong>The</strong> Fourth Ave
EVERQREEN<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Evergreen</strong> Magazine<br />
<strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2002</strong>, Vol. 23, No. 2<br />
Published by <strong>The</strong> Office of <strong>College</strong> Advancement<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Evergreen</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Olympia, WA 98505<br />
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