Nany Evans oral history.indd - Washington Secretary of State

and put him on the plane for his junior year in college at Williams. Then the next morning
we took Bruce, our youngest son, up to SeaTac and put him on the plane. He went to Yale.
So we came back home. It was August. Beautiful out.
Hughes: Was there some sort of an exchange going where the children of college
presidents got a break on tuition?
Evans: No, no, there was none of that. I can still remember when we were in D.C., and
Bruce was at Yale we paid every month for nine months. I can remember writing the last
check, and saying, “My God, that’s the last check I’m going write to Yale. I’m going to
have” whatever it was “$2,500 more a month to…” Well, that $2,500 just dissolved; I don’t
know where it went.
Hughes: Did you have three in college at the same time?
Evans: No, just always two.
Hughes: Do you know what tuition is at Whitman College now?
Evans: Oh yes, you’re going to pay $40,000 — $41,000 a year.
Hughes: It’s the same as an Ivy League school, and deservedly because it’s a comparable
school.
Evans: Actually, it was always more. But I think Mark and Bruce, although they never said
it, I think they both wanted to go away where nobody knew who they were. Actually, I
know that for a fact.
Hughes: They didn’t want to go to Evergreen
where dad was?
Evans: No, no, that was not an option. I think
even Whitman was too close. Just to get away
because they’d always been the governor’s
son, all of them. And it was particularly hard
on our oldest son, being a “junior,” because he
was always identified as the governor’s son,
and that’s really hard on a kid. I know in grade
The Evans family on the deck at the home of the president of The
Evergreen State College. Evans family album
school he would bring home these papers
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