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Word to reach out to us and offer Watch your us wholeness. language And although what he says to us is supremely significant, the Master Words. They're just a collection Communicator rarely ever raises of squiggly lines on the page, or a his voice. He doesn't stampede us series of sound waves bouncing off into a comer to give us a piece of an eardrum. And yet words are his mind. His is the "still small central to all we know as life in a voice" that is detected in the civilized world. emptiness of a lonely moment or Words came into being out of a the hush of a quiet experience. God profound human need to be in is gentle and does not force himself touch with others. They are the upon an unwilling listener. soul's way of reaching out to is too critical for games which Our words with one another are, another. We created words because block understanding and prevent or should be, the reflection of the cliche is true - no man is an vital discourse. God's great desire to share with us. island. We are created for one As one might expect, God is the As he has spoken in Christ (and another. Life is meant to be shared. master communicator. He fused continues to speak through his Unfortunately, our use of words action and word. In the fullness of Word) we speak with one another. has gone awry. Instead of using time he spoke and the Word, Jesus The same power that encourages language to reach out and to help Christ, came and dwelt among us. our communication with God others, we often use it to He is the Word in the sense that he draws us to communicate with one manipulate and exploit them for is what God wanted to say to us. another as well. So when you feel our own ends. We've taken a great Through Jesus, God says to all like talking, thank God for the gift gift from God, the ability to people everywhere, Ilove you and of language and the' inner pressure exchange thoughts and ideas, and want you for my own. Through to share your heart thoughts co-opted it for purposes far less Jesus, God says that there is now a with another. As we rem this noble. Our use of language needs way to return from our sinful self- "third dimension," our words un'r-... re~emption. The words of God's centeredness to a renewed and attain a new clarity and reach out _~~'!iI'~~~~~~~~~!!!,_.liI'liI• .f.IiI~lIiiIilia.wilQ,ill.a..Iiiii... __ ~·~~ilJID.';g an genuine affection. onest and any en en to imply one thing while intending something else. Truth calls for clarity. Clarity demands both Dr. Mounce's Preaching/Speaking Engagements precision and integrity. Someone November once warned that ambiguity may 8 Speaking, Chapel, Bethel College, Minneapolis, Minn. be a screen for a power play. Jesus 9 Speaking, Chapel, North Park Seminary Chicago. Ill. said, "Let your 'yes' be yes and 21 Preaching, Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, Spokane, Wash. your 'no' be no." 26-27 Teaching. Lutheran Church of America, youth gathering Tri-Cities, Wash. Iam not suggesting, of course, December that we are to simplify everything 5 Preaching, Fairchild Air Force Base Chapel, Spokane, Wash. regardless of its complexity or state January of completeness. Life is full of 9 Preaching, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach, Calif. mysteries which defy rational 16 Preaching. Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church, San Diego, Calif. analysis. What Iam saying is that, 23 Preaching, Community Presbyterian Church, Laguna Beach, Calif: 28-30 Preaching/Teaching, Bel Air Presbyterian Church, 105 Angeles, Calif. in the area where we share our common thoughts and convictions, March we should school ourselves in the 6 ~ Preaching. First Presbyterian Church, Moses Lake, Wash. discipline of communication. We April should say what we mean and 10 Preaching. Pasco Presbyterian Church, Pasco, Wash. (especially) mean what we say. Life Inside Today

3 Remembering Ed Lindaman Today's Mail I 11 Faculty Focus I 1I Alumni Notebook 112 8 Answer to a dull question Today in Sports I 15 Calendar 116 15 Nation's leading passer

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EDWARD B. LINDAMAN, A PERSONAL PORTRAIT

He was magnetic. No matter how large the crowd nor how distinguished, when element of urgency. It was important to him he entered, his presence riveted attention. The that you opened your mind - grasped the height. The easy grace. The silver hair, novel . significance - caught the vision. His foil for a boyish face. The hands, fluent in enthusiasm, his eagerness to include you could gesture, always in tandem with the voice. And lift you above the mundane to soar, at least the frequent, hearty laugh. temporarily, into his realm, the ever-expanding It's easy to picture Ed Lindaman in a crowd. future. He was at ease with people. Even in great Caught up in his subject, he'd move to the numbers, they felt individually touched by him. edge of his chair, long knees thrust forward, to They flocked to him and he loved them and make room for the gestures, which grew larger gave himself to them. to fit the scope of the ideas. In those times, as he moved through the Fingers outstretched, curving upward, he'd crowds, at gatherings of national and pull his forearms toward each other, elbows in, international importance, the reflected light of a visual metaphor for diverse factors converging his celebrity illuminated the shaded Whitworth around a new development - the tie-in of campus so that many saw it for the first time. homes to computer networks; the effect of our And he lighted the campus from within, as food choices on world hunger or the well. His new perspective, the "non- manufacturing possibilities of zero-gravity space. professional" educator, asking "why not?" led His mind was like a net, catching connections scholars to see their disciplines afresh and to from all directions and pulling them together teach in new ways. He brought 'world view', into a whole. 'future tense' and 'responsible lifestyle' to the Ordinary language was too confining for his academic lexicon and we saw a new level of concepts. He stretched words, juxtaposed them, connections and interrelationships among realigned them. He mined the language for new seemingly discrete ideas. combinations and more precise choices. And He strolled the campus, one hand in a pocket, sometimes, he simply invented what he needed. the other always ready to emphasize a point, He gave us 'paradigm shift' and 'mid-course greeting students by name, referring accurately correction', 'macro-world', 'micro-world' and to some earlier conversation stored in his 'meta-world'. He searched for quotes of depth prodigious memory. Sometimes students would and beauty from the Bible to Emily Dickenson rush to hug him and their spontaneity delighted to Buckminster Fuller. And, when he needed a him. He was earnest with them, too, anxious to word to express his idea of the study of God in open their minds to unimagined new change, he created 'theonetics.' possibilities. They dubbed him "Cap'n Eddy" His hyperbole, a suitable match for his and worked at seeing his vision for themselves. enthusiasm, knew no bounds, especially in his But quieter interludes glow in my memory. A compliments to other people. He found much to late afternoon - an appointment long-delayed rate as "super" and "really super." When that by a dozen demands and long-distance calls. paled, he progressed to "just ... unreal!" And Finally, when the approach of quitting time when he was pleased and impressed beyond brought calm, we'd talk. Really talk. super and unreal, he'd resort to a big, arms-wide by Linda Sharman His dark-panelled office was lit by a lamp in "Wow!!" the bay window overlooking the campus, 'and It would be dark outside when our talk we'd sit in the pool of its light, facing each other ended, but a filament lit by new discoveries in a pair of swivel arm-chairs. The original burned brightly in my mind all the way home. purpose of the meeting was soon forgotten. The The two swivel chairs are still around. day's traffic would have sparked new ideas, They're in another office where I see them igniting in his mind, and there you were, the almost every day. one person he'd most like to share them with. They seem smaller now, dull in color and a (He made everyone feel like that.] little shabby: He'd talk quietly at first, leaning back in his So does the world. chair, crossed legs stretched in front of him. But soon, as the concepts caught fire, the tempo increased. There was in his voice and words an 3 A ,I grew up, I had a P'P'" route with 22 customers, in a country town in Iowa. I " had a new responsibility. Every night I had to be out delivering those papers, and it gave me a new sense of responsibility. Then came ambition: What did I want to do? What did I want to be? And then came love, when I married my wife. Address, Whitworth CoUege Chapel, Oct. 8, 1969.M Yassociation with the military-industrial complex began in 1939 when Hitler seemed well on his way to enslaving Europe and exterminating the Jews. In that year

A COLLAGE I helped get the B-25 Bomber into production at North American Aviation. In following years I was in the thick of North American's military aircraft and missile work. I personally super- vised planning and production of electronics for the Minuteman Intercontinental Missiles that are now in place as prime deterrents to aggressors. From 1962 to 1970 I held manage- ment positions in the design and development of the Apollo spacecraft for exploration of the moon. With this background, what sort of college president would I be? Unpublished article, 1971."lAT VVhitworth ... now was down to 900 students and had generated an awesome indebtedness. The student body seemed listless, the faculty discouraged and looking for other jobs, the administration uncertain. In common with many other private colleges, Whitworth seemed on the way out. Some gave it two years to die. Articleon Lindaman, Los Angeles Times, July I, 1973·1I"lAT VV hen Dr. Lindaman came into the committee's thinking it seemed as though all

4 the pieces fell into place ... we are convinced impossible. Address before the National Science that divine leading took us to him." Dr. William Teacher Association, Chicago, May, R. Lindsay, chairman of the Whitworth Presidential 1974'A Search Committee (quoted by college news release, November 1969). lthough plainly space-oriented, Dr. III Lindaman's conclusions about children's needs 'd say my taking it was today from the education field were quite darn near a miracle." Lindaman, quoted by The Los provocative. He concluded that children today Angeles Times, July 1,1973.rp have "fundamentally had a different childhood ~he board of trustees than their parents." Report, Garden Grove Unified School District, Garden Grove, CA, Feb, 18, of Whitworth College in Spokane, Wash., today 1970'11 rp declared the institution to be officially launched into the space age with the appointment of ~he liberal arts Christian college Apollo Project programmer Dr. Edward B. should bring to education a view of the world as Lindaman of Fullerton, Calif., as its fourteenth a created whole, and man as a child of God in president." College news release, Nov. 5, it, but also responsible for it." Lindaman, press 1969,rp conference, Spokane Press Club, Nov. 7, 1969.w: ~ here's a handsome new man on campus. One is immediately impressed with his e are innately more creative than friendliness, wit and natural charm. Then, the we think. We are made in the image of God, intellect and forthright honesty and genuine We need never to underestimate this truth. concern. Spokane Daily Chronicle, Nov. 9, Interview, Spokane Magazine, June, 1980.w: 1969'IIH e can discuss theology with don't want to'be thought of as a teenage ghetto theologians, philosophy with philosophers, or a four-year summer camp ... Unlike some science with scientists ... he reads more and church' founded colleges which have played better things than any man I know." National down their religious connections, we are serious Presbyterian lay official, to the Whitworth College Presidential Search Committee, 1969.D r. Lindaman's only earned degree is an associate of arts from a Minnesota junior college ... self- 1 I education has been through an extensive and varied reading program - 50 books a year in all , fields from theology to science. Report, Whitworth College Presidential Search Committee, 1969'111 'm a hopeful person. I think many persons who believe that God is at work in their lives often seem to have animage of the future which at the moment seems impossible to achieve, but which nevertheless empowers their present." Interview, Spokane Magazine, June, 198O.S ince he took over the presidency, the student body has increased to 1,300, its budget has been brought compiled by Paul Bunning into balance, a start has been made into reduc- ing its debt, and a whole skein of innovative programs has been adopted or is under study. about making the Christian faith central in the Spokane; Dec. 18-University of Puget Sound Los Angeles Times, July 1,1973A life of the college, Quoted in Seottle Times, Jan. 7, commencement; Dec. 26-Alumni Party, few days ago I 1973'IIH Seattle; Jan. ll-Keystone School Dedication, Spokane; Jan. 13-Spokane College Women's was visiting with Dr. Ed Lindaman ... I noticed ow much Ed enjoyed occasions Association; Jan. 14-Spokane Downtown a sign on his desk that said EXPECT A with rooms full of people, and how he would Kiwanis; Jan. 18-Fort Wright College, Spokane; MIRACLE. I was especially impressed that a have been the last one to leave, and he would Jan. 19-Telephone lecture, Houston, Texas. person as prominent as a college president have tried to talk with every one of us, and how would encourage his staff to expect a miracle ... his energy would have sustained him over the "Lindaman's Log," Whitworth Today, February, by the way, miracles are happening at Whit- evening long after I would have been in bed, 1971.11 I worth College, instead of burning the place That was Ed Lindaman ... He worked hard 've literally talked around the world." down, students are clamoring to get in. Earl night and day giving himself to the cause of this Quoted in Seattle Times, Jan. 7, 1973'11 w: Cooper, in Deaconess Hospital newsletter, early college . . . he fatigued the best of us . , , 1'd 1970.,rp come in at night, or on Saturday, and there he'd e are concerned to know you ... we have learned by ~ wenty-seven years in high-technology be . . ." Duncan Ferguson, Lindaman Memorial Service, September 1982,D bitter experience and repeated betrayal, industry had taught me that virtually impossible profound distrust of the thinking exemplified in goals can be achieved when numerous' highiy ec. l-U. of Idaho the military-industrial complex .. ." Letter from motivated people work closely together, contin- Senior Seminar; Dec. 4-Millwood Presbyterian; the greater New York chapter, Whitworth Alumni, uously updating and adjusting their agreed-upon Dec. 6-First Presbyterian, Yakima; Dec, 1970'lAt plans for accomplishing a given mission. 8-Washington State Horticulture Union, hat is needed now is the combining Lindaman, in unpublished 1971 Yakima; Dec. 9-National Sugar Beet VV r»: of the liberal arts tradition with the potential Association, Richland; Dec. 10- Greater IIof us output of technology and the prophetic inquiry Spokane Science Teachers Association; Dec. can invent the future with confidence. After all, born of a faith in Christ. That will ultimately 16-Women of Washington Water Power Co., everything that is now possible was at one time save us, The sheer quantity and interrelatedness

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6P G g e of men on earth now demands the application helping individuals and groups to use the of those things learned in the industrial centers highest values and most positive images derived of the world" Lindaman's answer, Whitworth from the great religious truths of Christian Today, Sept. 1970'0 civilization . . . letter to Whitworth Students, April 23,1979'D ur society is designed to teach us to deal with facts - the whole Lesident Edward B. Lindaman began educational system is fact-oriented. Well, there his futurist-in-residence role a month early - in are no future facts, so we don't know how to January - when he was invited to the White deal with it, SO we just ignore it. The future is House to help implement President Carter's very philosophical, very intuitive, very National Cambodia Crisis Committee. Whitworth subjective, very visionary, very mythical, and Today, March, 1980'A people aren't taught to think in those terms. s he looked out at the Interview, Everett {Wash.' Herald, Aug. 3, landscape of human challenge, over the plains 1974'L of poverty, beneath the mushroom clouds, indaman's contributions to Whitworth Lindaman decided that men shouldn't simply include: an enhanced national identity and surrender their lives to fate or the cycles of stature of the college; upgrading of enrollment; history ... in towns where talk ran to wheat creating an integrated student life program; futures, Ed Lindaman's references to 'preferred increasing support for students' scholarship futures' often sailed overhead like a supersonic needs; establishing estate planning programs; jet. Reactionary minds, anchored in the past and inclusion of cross-cultural experiences into believing that the future was in someone else's academic programs; instituting the Center for hands, often found his futurist lingo annoying. Economic Education; developing continuing Spokane Spokesman-Review, Aug. 29,1982.S education for adults and senior citizens through orne the college's lifelong learning and senior scholar people, in their expressions of faith, are seeking programs . . . During Lindaman's administration to hold back change. They are a psychological the campus has enlarged and 11 buildings were phenomenon, people who are uncomfortable constructed ... other innovations include with change, telling us we are moving too fast. I pioneering Nutrition '85, an eating-education feel we are not moving fast enough. Remarks to plan of the future focusing on world hunger and the Chicago Tribune, Oct. 13,1973'1 Christian responsibility. News release, September 20,1979'0 visit Palm Springs and I see the end of the culture, where n Friday, April 20, I submitted to mone and high-energy use abound. Golf e board of trus ees ~esigpatiml from courses usmg up energy, water and resources. I presidency of Whitworth, effective Feb. I, 1980. come back to the Pacific Northwest, to a city On that date I will have spent ten years in this role, and I feel I have given my best effort . . . like Boise, and I see people riding to work on bikes, using wood stoves, organic gardens - Just as I felt' called' ten years ago to leave completely the other side of the spectrum. The aerospace management ... I again have a culture is dividing into two camps - people feeling of urgency that is compelling me to who are denying the death of growth and spend more time and energy in the futures field people who accept it and trigger others to ... I want to spend the next part of my life will understand. Interview, Spokane Magazine, June 1980.

During the mid-1980s, the United of a sudden here we were on this 747 and Ed, States will fall to its lowest ebb in terms of his usual energetic self, was busily sharing the international respect. This will happen for two newest book he had read, with everybody basic reasons: I} an unrealistic and inappropriate around him, and was also talking with me and armaments orgy, and 2) failure to help meet the intellectualizing about what it was going to be - needs of developing Third World countries ... to be in search of the China Miracle. Here was The United States will also fail significantly to the foremost nation in terms of broad social reduce over-use of finite resources. Letter to the economic political experiment, foremost in the citizens of Spokane 2006 A.D., sent during Spokane's 20th century - and it was fitting Ed wanted to Centennial, November 1981.A see China with his own eyes, and very quickly s a boy staring like a whirlwind we were thrown in Beijing and he shared with us a stunned feeling ... t t Dr. Dan out at the flatlands of Iowa, Ed Lindaman Sanford, memorial service, Sept. 1982. dreamed of going to China. He couldn't explain lIS exactly why. Except China was as far from Iowa hortly as he could imagine - and that's where Ed after they got there, he was feeling a little bit out Lindaman wanted to be ... Spokesman-Review, of it," David Lindaman said. "He had to sit Aug. 29,1982·1J l AT down, get his bearings. That had never VVhat a privilege it was to happened before." Spokesman-Review, Aug. 24, -be with Ed traveling in China ... Twelve years 1982'N ago when I first met Ed, we shared a promise inety-two people sat with bowed we were going to travel in China together and to heads and closed eyes in Whitworth College's lead a group. It took a long time to come, but all Seeley G. Mudd Chapel this morning. They

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_were praying for Edward B. Lindaman, Spokane futurist and former Whitworth president who Introduction to the reading of: Memorial Service for Ed Lindaman 1 has been in a coma and on a life-support When the Leaves First Whitworth College On the Hillside Turn September 10, 1982 machine in Shanghai, China, since Thursday. Lindaman, 62, was struck with encephalitis, a I have written a poem for my lost friend, Ed words here that can help us in our communal viral infection causing inflammation of the Lindaman. I began working on parts of this grief. We were Ed's community, though his . brain, during a tour of China led by Whitworth poem the night Ed died. I guess it was my way world was certainly larger than Whitworth. He political science professor Dan Sanford. Spolw.ne of somehow getting at the grief. I thought if I was part of our community. Twelve years Daily Chroni£le,Aug. 24, 1982'L could find words for my sadness, my have made it irrevocably and wonderfully so. frustration and anger, my emptiness, I could Perhaps even in this grief some of the scars ast Friday . . . I begin the slow process of carrying on with of those years can be healed. Through grief we dreamed Ed was somewhere above me ... he hope. might find the language of love. Ithink that was speaking to me, and he said, "You can do I had no idea I would be reading what has would be Ed's kind of forgiveness. That would it." I thought, "Great," and said, "Do what?" come to be this poem for a service such as this. be Ed's vision of the Christ working among us. He said, "Don't worry - you can do it." Glen But I think it is appropriate, because I believe And if it can happen, grief turned to love, that Heimstra, Lindaman memorial service, Sept. poetry at its best is communal. It is an will be one of the meanings of resurrection. 1982'0 individual's voice speaking out of community. Philip Eaton My hope tonight is that I have found some ne of life's most fulfilling moments occurs in that split-second when the familiar suddenly is transformed into the dazzling aura of the profoundly new. These are the mountaintop experiences of life, the 'come-to- When The Leaves First On The Hillside Tum life' precious times when we discover a truth, for Ed Lindaman (1920-1982) when the lightbulbs of the mind suddenly glow, illuminating unexpected treasure-filled rooms ... Thinking in the Future Tense, 1979'E Of whom shall we speak?For every day they die dward B. Among us, those who were doing us some good, Lindaman, Spokane's futurist-in-residence and And knew it was never enough but president emeritus of Whitworth College, died Hoped to improve a little by living. Thursday in a Chinese hospital ... His wife W.H.Auden Gerrie was at his side when he died at He disappeared at the peak of summer. It's all over, Ed. The future is all yours now. approximately 2 p.m. PDT Thursday. Spokesman- Our corn, swaddled in silk, readied for the Review, page one, Aug. 27,1982'1 Does complexity lift like night feast. before an unobstructed sun? Is everything had been away The long evenings lulled us in this comfort, clear as.noon? When you laid from the little Iowa town forty years before I melons your long body down for the last time, your knocked on the door of the house I had lived in lounged in beds of vine. No sign dazzling wrestle, your magnificent from age five to fifteen. What a surprise! The of autumn chill on their hearty skins. struggle, I hope bedroom that had seemed so large to me then the peace beyond time was yours at last. was really just a small cubicle, and the old And then the night's skull cracked open. When that virus burrowed at your brain water tower that I remembered as being about Midnight calls. China. Ed. A sudden rupture. like confusion, I pray twenty stories high was little taller than our It was snowing in his brain. The seasons lost your vision stayed clear, your hope house. No, it had not shrunk, I had grown. their names. held firm until Thinking in the Future Tense, 1979. Then came winter, sweeping a darkened field. the last light broke through.

I remember the crew-cut when he came - I /mow some birch, some maple on the hillside clean-elipped as an astronaut. This was '69. will break out soon in the colors He brought the fifties in his hair. I was of your death. Sadness amazed. But then he wrapped his tongue is the burden we must pay for time, for around the verve of words and time memory. The long winter ahead is ours. dropped its guard. He could leap across I wish you well, old thinker, teacher, the generations. as you slip behind the last veil where your dream of the future The Edward B. Lindaman Imagination was his key: time and the world fades into light. Memorial Fund gave way. Some went on to say he lost May we hold your vision like a healing hand. his practicality. I think at Whitworth College May imagination blaze a way for us he touched a holy earth. into a darkened, saddened world. I think the world let go its sacred fire May new light be ours in the silence beyond his words. I remember because we grieve. During his years as president, Dr. Lindaman walking in a field made new, amazed. developed a vision for enriching the faculty through I remember being changed. Stay with us, Ed, show us interaction with people and ideas from off the God-with-us, here, now, and evermore. the path of forgiveness campus and around the world. The Lindaman That was his vision, that that we may /mow in love family has established a memorial fund to fulfill this was where his words would stray, the breath of resurrection. vision. It will be used to support a systematic We need you now. program of faculty development through interchange I think a mad world hurt him into speech. with thought leaders from many disciplines. The He was called into vision and followed. fund has received donations totaling $8,000 to date. His sight was keen in a blinded world. Contributions may be sent to Whitworth College, His voice sang out in a land of noise. by Philip Eaton Attention: Lindaman Memorial Fund, Spokane, Well, the world has her madness still. Wash. 99251 And we our practicality, I wish we had him back. I would tell him I love him. I would tell him we need him.

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Vague assignments and the agony quotient

hitworth people they're getting from their families; or Ceil C. Waldrip is editor-in-chief of are still terrific about participatory management in cor- Columbia, the Magazine of Columbia teachers. I dis- porations or gypsy scholars in univer- University, which has been named one of covered this phen- sities; or about the wonders - and hor- the top ten university magazines in the omenon recently rors - implicit in gene manipulation; or nation by the Council for Advancement when I was given about why the nuclear family appears and Support of Education (CASE) in an assignment to be exploding in a nuclear age; or - Washington, D.C. The magazine, which with a due date. about what plate tectonics tells us of she founded four years ago, has won thir- Would I, the note our geographic origins; or about laser teen national awards for excellence. Ms. on Whitworth let- surgery; or about how the consumption Waldrip, nee Slack, was recently elected to terhead asked, write an essay for this of chocolate has been shown to affect the Board of Trustees of CASE and will publication about how my Whitworth the sex drive. oversee periodicals publishing for the education had prepared me for what I Or how about the no-win decisions Council. do today? often faced by physicians and scien- After graduating from Whitworth Col- My first reaction was: Oh boy. That tists; or about the scorching ideologies lege in 1969, she moved back to her native topic sets the blood astir about as much juxtaposed in John Pielmeier's Broad- Texas where she was awarded a master's as "What I Did on My Summer Vaca- way drama, "Agnes of God," or about degree in English at Midwestern Univer- tion." But I read on. Actually, the note the comic profundities of Calvin Trillin sity and was a member of the English facu - continued, Ic1itln'tha~to'Write on that in his new book, Uncivil Liberties, or ty for three years. She has done post- subject. I could write about anything about why Susan Sontag thinks "Fan- graduate work at Southern Methodist that interested me. tasia" is a fascist film. University, the University of Cincinnati, As an inveterate writer of excessive All of these things interest me might- and continues to do so at Columbia. She essays, I find that lots of things interest ily, and since I've written about all of has taught English literature and writing me. So I said okay. Then I began to con- them recently, I could, I thought, easily at Xavier University and at the University sider: Maybe I'll write an anecdote knock off an essay about anyone of of Cincinnati. She now lives in Manhattan about being among the million or so them, and maybe even squeeze another where, in addition to her work at Colum- peaceful marchers in the recent nuclear IA)out of myoid college. bia, she is a freelance book editor and disarmament demonstration in New Then it occurred to me: The subject of media consultant. Her articles and short York City, or about the tensermons on my essay would not be a recycling of stories have appeared in a number of that subject (by Admiral Rickover, anyone of them. It would be about why publications, and her work has been Helen Caldicott, Kurt Vonnegut, Coret- they all interest me, and about why I published as instructional material for the ta Scott King, Barry Goldwater, Henry can, and do, write fairly penetrable Aspen Institute Executive Seminars. Steel Cornmager, and others) at my ro~ prose about all of them. In short, it Her latest book, New Tapes, a collec- local neighborhood church - the would be about - surprise! - how my tion of the creative writings of academic Cathedral Church of Saint John the fessors, in my Whitworth education prepared me for women, will be published by Wayne State Divine - and about the music, poetry, day, were what I do today. All I needed was a ter- University Press next year. and dramatized readings from Walt rific teacher to help me discover what I She has three children - a daughter Whitman following the services. notorious for already know. who manages a ranch in Montana, a son Or maybe I'll write about other things giving vague, Whitworth professors, in my day, who is a psychology major at the Univer- that interest me - why the ERA wasn't were notorious for giving vague, broad sity of Cincinnati, and a son who is a ratified, or the compelling comments broad and and tiresome assignments that left you Broadway stage and film actor in New Stephen Jay Gould made about the anti- tiresome out there flapping intellectually for York City. scientific mentality of the days, and then, after complaining, "creationists"; or why football coaches assignments chewing your pencil, and mulling it at West Point and Notre Dame are hir- that left you out over - voila! - something emerged. [In ing ballet dancers to train their athletes; the privacy of our rooms we called it or how the new impulse toward fun- there flapping Kairos, epiphany, or Deus ex Machina, damentalist religions exhibited by ac- intellectually for depending on what were reading at the tors at the recent Tony Awards in New moment.] It took us awhile to learn that York is probably prompted by a need days... the professors simply wanted us to do for a new "fix" by those who have the limiting ourselves - to think, that's abandoned drugs and alcohol; or why all. cults are attractive to young people who When I was forced to think by the need more security, boundaries, struc- Whitworth person who gave me the ture, and sense of community than writing assignment recently, what I BY CEIL CLEVELAND WALDRIP

8 . finally thought was: Almost everything build, stone by stone, a foundation for a direct an art school for inner city I now do has its roots in what I learned world view that may not be "right" or children, write TV scripts about Indian as an undergraduate English major at "correct' or "conventional" or univer- legends and athletic teams, teach com- Whitworth College - from the human- sally "true," but one that is mine. I am munications skills to corporate ex- ities, from the liberal arts, from having comfortable with it because I built it, ecutives, or publish a literary magazine. a solid backboard off which to bounce and I las well as some of my professors) I had no idea that I would work my flaccid ideas. suffered through every chink and layer earnestly and long for civil rights in the First, that education produced, as my of mortar. Another plus this education South, would be asked to adjust to liv- friend Fred Friendly, a teacher in the gave me was a world view subject to ing in the homogeneous Dallas best sense of the word, and the Edward revision when evidence warrants it. suburbs, a baroque 27-room mansion in R. Murrow Professor of Journalism at Intellectual refinement, mental flex- a block-busted neighborhood in Cincin- Columbia says, "an agony quotient so ibility, the ability to live with ambiguity nati, or a quaintly tacky New York high that you can escape only by think- - these, in short, are what a liberal studio. I could not predict that I would ing." Second, it gave me the freedom to education gives; plus curiosity, a will- sometimes spend my mornings in the express myself on any subject and ingness to listen and weigh, and the Harlem slums and my evenings in the know that my opinions would be knowledge that nothing important was Waldorf. I did not know that I would respected as long as I could create a am ever accomplished in an individual life mother a family and watch three in- reasonably good argument for them in grateful that my or in the history of the world that did dividual children with individual needs literate prose. Third, it helped me ques- not involve a dreadful risk. (I reckon with the world and grow from tion all assumptions, sometimes even - education has remember that it was at Whitworth that their reckoning. I did not know my per- to my discomfort - those of the pro- been liberal, I first read Kierkegaard; that there I first sonal and professional lives would fessor. Fourth, it tolerated, and even on considered Pascal's wager and con- place me in the company of U.S. occasion rewarded, the qualities I general, and fronted Ivan Karamazov's awful ques- presidents, of governors, mayors, possessed: the tendency to immoderate generous, and tion.] distinguished scholars and journalists, and unselective reading, to excessively Of course, I had no idea what I was and Nobel Laureates, as well as jazz discursive writing, to off-the-wall ques- that it still doing at the time. I knew only that I was musicians, troubled teenagers, right tion raising; the capacity for making continues. trying desperately to divest myself of and left-wing politicians, gays both in wildly creative analogies and debating some terrible inhibitions and ingrained and out of closets, and "Moonie" the finest, most intricate point to ex- assumptions that made no sense even children of bewildered Presbyterian haustion (we called it the "angels on to me, and that the agony quotient was parents. It would be insane to assume pinhead syndrome"], and a stubborn so high I was willing to hear whatever that one can prepare for such a life. insistence on synthesizing everything I anyone had to offer. I debated endlessly And yet, as my life has evolved in its knew, believed, and thought to be the on any subject - no matter how lofty or wobbly way, I have almost always felt case into a mighty, muzzy, all- esoteric, or how ill-equipped I was to do prepared to cope with it. I have con- encompassing whole. so - in the coffee houses we had then. I tinually used all the smatterings of Beyond that, this education offered sat up many nights

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NET._NEWS AmDGMENTK AI Kaul was on a story about the Cambodian "boat people:' who were locked in detention camps in Thailand. He was horrified by what he saw: sick children, often dressed in rags and playing on a ground strewn with feces. It was an important story, a story the world needed to see. But then the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was sacked. Kaul and his television news colleagues were disptached to Iran, and the boat people were left behind. "It was an incredibly poignant story:' Kaul remembers. "But news is a series of judgment calls. We can't get it all on - we're limited by time, resources, logistics." Kaul, '64 graduate of Whitworth, is West Coast producer for NBC Nightly News, based in Los Angeles. He visited Whitworth recently to speak with journalism students. He admits there's truth to the common criticism that television news is a headline service - but, he adds, there are special

"Walter Cronkite said for years that TV is a referral, a headline service, and he hoped people would read their newspapers. But there are some things you won't find out as well from a newspaper as from television, because television has sound and sight. In a story on squallor, for instance, you see more vividly what it would be like to live under such conditions than you ever would from a newspaper story." Ironically, Kaul is in some degree responsible for painting an especially negative picture of television news in the film "The China Syndrome:' the prophetic Jane Fonda and Jack [Above) In this scene from the movie "The China Syndrome", Kaul, second from left, portrayed the Lemmon film about a runaway nuclear reactor station manager. He was technical consultant for and a television station squelching news of the the production to assure accuracy about television story. Kaul was technical advisor to the film, news practice. wrote all the "news" stories read in the film, (Left) On a chilly January day in 1980, Kaul and and even played a bit part. an NBC technician were photographed at the gate "The artistic premise of 'China Syndrome' of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. was actually contradicting what happens at a TV station," Kaul explains. "If you get the goods, you probably go on the air with them. In 'China Syndrome' they didn't. Out of 10 different stations, you'd get 10 different reactions, so the 'China Syndrome' was not out with the rise of cable television. "It used to be Already, technology bas had a dramatic of the realm of possibility. But it's more likely to that 90 percent of the audience was tuned to impact on news. During the hostage crisis in be the other way - we tend to err on the side one of the three major network newscasts. Now Iran, Kaul and other reporters broadcast live to of commission. We over-react." surveys show 60 to 70 percent are tuned to the American television sets, in full action color. Kaul also contradicts the "conspiracy" view of networks, and the other 30 to 40 percent are "When I started at KREM (in Spokane) we television news, that news is controlled by a tuned to something else. Now there are more used 35mm black and white slides reversed into secretive clique in New York or Los Angeles. options:' he says. positive images - and we concentrated on "With every news director, news is a subjective He believes diversification will continue as crimes and fender benders," he says. thing. What's important to me might not be technology advances. With the advent of the He foresees more and longer network news important to you:' he says. But the criticism of space shuttle, he explains, communications programs in the future (they were only 15 television news keeps coming in. "Every time satellites will be able to sprout gigantic antennae minutes long when he worked at KREM-TV in we do a story about something unusual or (which would not fit on a traditional rocket) - the 196Os) and, with continued advancement of weird, we get calls telling us we shouldn't have and if the antennae are very large in space, technology, increasing access to the far-flung done it, we should do news only about good receivers can be made very small on earth. Soon events of the world. things." every home may have a little three-foot dish "Technology has mushroomed - and the Television news is growing even more diverse tuned in to any of hundreds of channels. sky's the limit:' he says. 10

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I want to thank you for the concerned professors - like finely fme articles on three of my good sharpened tools - to bridge the friends - Margaret Ott, Lillian Lyle void with their pensive insight. A and Harry Dixon - in the June dialectic - a learning process - is issue. I do not know (author) Paul allowed to be born to the students Bunning. Will you please pass on at Whitworth . . . It is used over my commendation to him? and over again as a tool to cope, to I hope that the one on Margie question, to probe and to be aware May will be reprinted in other of the stuff which makes life so places. Her personality is well challenging and fulfilling. r. known but I am afraid that only ... These tools, coupled with a Banks Hicks her students and her other friends conviction to obey God, nurture a .New Assistant Professor of called "Repeats, Returns and get in touch with her wisdom. That whole, responsibly free person who Education David Albert was a Estimated Flight Ranges of Some should be shared more widely. can genuinely contribute as a reading instructor at Northern North American Migrants in Cordially yours, leader outside the college walls. Michigan University. New in Guatemala." The article was based ClarenceJ. Simpson . . . I want to thank the college geology-physics is Gary Paukert, on work in Guatemala in 1979 and Des Moines, Wash. for giving me the tools to carry on native of San Antonio, Texas, and 1980. beyond graduation, as an adult and, {Thanks for your comment. You 1980 graduate of Whitworth. .Summa cum laude graduate now, as a wife and mother. may be interested to know that Kathleen Harrell working Valeri, '76, is teaching Thank you, Storm, Mark articles based on recent Today stories on her doctorate from Fuller, history. He recently co-authored Daphne Browne Lewis have appeared in the Everett jWash.! brings both teaching and Spokane, Wash. with John F. Wilson an article on Herald and Boston Sunday Globe. professional experience to the the role of the Bible and politics in But placing Today articles in other psychology department. American history. Also returning to media is often a matter of chance and We are excited about .Margo Long. director of the Whitworth is summa cum laude happenstance, always difficult to pre- Whitworth College as an institution Center of Gifted Education, is graduate Bill Woolum, instructor dict. Nonetheless, we agree the world that is concerned for the whole author of Teaching the Gifted Student in English. Other new instructors should know more about the fine person. In the Regu r crassroom: 11 Program include Philip Thayer, in physics. people we have at Whitworth! - Ed. We also are pleased that the Option for Rural Districts. The work Experienced in industry, he has grounding of this personhood is in was sponsored by Educational taught in Denver and at Western Christ and that Whitworth Service District No. 101 and field- Washington University. Art Enclosed is a bulletin of my proclaims this. I can't truly say tested by the Oakesdale, Wash. Cosgrove, native of Evansville, recent installation service at how much my experience at School District. Ind. is new in recreation. He has Winnetka Covenant Church. Whitworth gave me and I pray that .The Hong Kong-based magazine directed several YMCA's Former Whitworth Chaplain Ron Joan and I can continue to help Asiaweek recently excerpted a throughout the United States. Lara White, was the preacher and Rev. support such a vital tool for the major portion of Political Science Hollingshead, of S.D. is teaching Don Njaa, Whitworth class of 1953, Lord. Chairman Daniel Sanford's book, dance. was the officiating representative In Him, The Future Association of Taiwan .Deane Arganbright, associate for the Evangelical Convenant Randy McGrady-Beach '74 with the People's Republic of China professor of mathematics, spoke on Church. Sunnyvale, Calif. .Library Associate Professor Doris the uses of a scientific computer I am an alum of the 1977 class Banks traveled in Spain last program called visicalc at the and my wife Kathleen L. graduated summer, taking in the history of Pacific Northwest Section of the in 1978. Santiago de Compostela, where Mathematical Association of We were deeply saddened at the I wish to take this opportunity James the Apostle is buried. America in June. In January, he untimely death of Dr. Lindaman. It to say how much I have .Dave Hicks, professor of will speak at the annual meeting of is my hope that the next issue of appreciated Whitworth and those biology, is co-author of an article in the association in Denver. Whitworth Today will devote who have made it what it is today. the Journal of Field Ornithology .Attending an exclusive workshop considerable space to Ed's memory It is something to be proud of! As a in Tacoma on stained glass in and accomplishments. I also hope Whitworthian it is difficult to September was Associate Professor that some sort of memorial fund is express just how much my two Today's Mail continued. of Art Walter B. Grosvenor. The set up in his memory. years here have meant in terms of may seek the answers elsewhere workshop featured Richard Millard Fraternally, intellectual and social growth, as where the support may not be as and James Perry, recognized Robert P. Peterson '77 well as growth as an individual in strong or as sympathetic to the national experts. Winnetka, Ill. Christ. commandments of Christ. mIle new associate director of Not only is there a deep concern There are other schools which 'Whitworth's health science for Christ and His precepts, but are strong in academics and church programs is Teri Merry. She has a I feel compelled to respond to also a strong commitment to ministry . . . or strong in the Bible doctorate from Texas A & M. your dialogue with President knowledge and academic and conservativism ... but very Carole Hanaway is the Mounce in the September 1982 excellence. It is an institution with few which provide academic coordinator of the learning issue. I am a 1977 graduate of the strength to allow freedom of excellence, evangelical support as improvement program, and has a Whitworth. discovery even within the realm of well as intellectual freedom and master's degree from Central . . . There is a beauty at Christianity, realizing that these are social world awareness. Washington University. Whitworth: students possess the the years when students strengthen Sincerely, .Lorraine Robertson, instructor freedom to search for life's essential their values, and that if we cannot Laurie Bowers in religion and associate chaplain, answers. And when they run into a honestly ask questions here, where Covina, Calif. was ordained by the Inland Empire stopgap in the thought process, there is Christ-centeredness, we Presbytery in a ceremony in the there are readily available wise and Continued next column. Chapel last October. 11 Alumni Notebook

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Eugene W. Muench retired July 1982 After 26 years in the U.S. Navy Don Cowan is educational data Ron and Helene (Kelly) Schrag live in after 39 years in the ministry. Thirty- Chaplaincy, Bob and Genece systems manager for Seattle Public Beaverton, Ore., with sons Braden and seven of those years were with the Oshanyk Warren have retired and Schools. Don and Carolyn (Bower) Nathan. Ron works for General United Methodist Church, serving moved to Virginia Beach, Va. where have three children, Susan 1161,David Electric and Helen has a smaIl business churches in Tacoma, North Richland, Bob is Director of the National lIS) and Sharon 16). at home, as well as being foster Seattle and Spokane. For the past six Counseling Center of the Christian parents. years he was district superintendent of Broadcasting Network. Tom and Jeanette (Nago '75) the Vancouver District. He and 1966 Wellman live in Anchorage, Alaska. Marion (Minnich '30) make their Tom is a senior engineer for ARCO home in Vancouver, Wash. 1958 Le and Carol Perry are living in Alaska and Jeanette is now working in Denver, Colo. Le assumed command the home after teaching in Anchorage After 20 years in the pastorate, Don of the Naval Air Reserve Center in for six years. 1948 Ball resigned his position at the Denver, the second largest Naval Air Nancy (Bly) Hustad lives in Ephrata, Presbyterian Church of Fremont, Neb. .Reserve Center with nearly 400 Wash. with her husband, Greg, and John C. and Martha (Dunlop) In January 1982 he became co-owner officers and enlisted personnel their 2V, year-old son, James. Nancy is Peterson left July 15 for Sierra Leone, of a gift shop in downtown Fremont. assigned. a chiropractic assistant for a doctor in Africa where they will be serving for Arlene (Joy '55x) is the administrator Ephrata. two years in the Peace Corps. of the skilled care facility of Memorial Hospital of Dodge County. Marlene (Medefind) and Gary Van 1968 Brooklin are with the Latin America Juanita (Ward) Rolph has been Mission in Lima, Peru. They a have a 1950 promoted to district manager for Tom McClure was promoted to two year-old daughter. American Family Life Assurance Co. territory manager for Southern Willis H. Newton, Jr. is the minister Her territory covers Klickitat and California Southland Sod Farms of of visitation for Carlsbad Union Yakima counties. The Rolphs have two Camarillo, Calif. Tom and Barhara live Church in Carlshad, Calif. daughters, Lenda, who's graduated in Irvine, Calif. 1976 from college and Lenette, who Tedd Lyons is pastor of Orange Cove graduated from high school this year. Steve Hites is with the White Pass & Presbyterian Church in California. Yukon Route railroad in Skagway, 1952 Tedd and Trish have three children, Alaska. Diran 15).Jamie (2) & Alysia (2 Flossie Jones married the Rev. Glen 1960 months], David Pascoe is beginning his last A. Holman on February 14, 1982. After year of studies at Fuller Theological Dale O. Butterfield has been Seminary and is doing an internship at a couple years of "up-dating" herself at Carol (Steven) and Don Campbell promoted to senior vice president at California State University, she took have moved from Cody, Wyo. to La Canada Presbyterian Church, Calif. the Old National Bank of Washington Deborah (Snow '75) Pascoe is an the position of church secretary at Beuver ~hete "Wi 1m3a liC" job at in Spokane. Northrninster Presbyterian Church of the United States Forest Service apartment manager for Fuller, allowing Sacramento. Regional Office. her to be home full-time with David Edward who is 2'/Z and Marie j------1970 Elizabeth (5 months). i , Robin (Fenton) Schweitzer is , What's News With You Nancy (Turner) Sanborn has returning to her second year of , "retired" from a ten-year career as an teaching at Gordon College in ,i Please use the space below to send airline hostess and is working in a Wenham, Mass., after receiving her , news about you or your Whitworth friends. o Check, if new address fabric store in Bellevue. doctorate in math/statistics at the ,i Keith and Debbie (Morrissey) University of California at Santa Name ______Classof: _ Stennes are raising 60 acres of apples Barhara on July 27th. in Methow, Wash., and are involved in Name of Spouse _ Bible studies and 4-H. Keith recently spent time in India on mission work (Include maiden name if Whitworth alum) Class of: _ 1978 and church planting. Address Wendi (Krieg) and Steve Brown are Paul Grubb graduated from the operating a "bed and breakfast" inn in University of Washington Medical City Phone 1 ____ State Zip, _ Leavenworth, Wash., called Brown's School. He started pediatric residency Farm. Steve is a carpenter and they in Portland in June. Phone I built their country farmhouse Beverly Brown completed her themselves several years ago. News Information: bachelor's degree in elementary Linda (Robertson) Johnson recently education in March 1982 at Central began teaching a 3 year-old preschool Washington University. She started a class at a private church-related new job in San Bruno, Calif., in August preschool in Dallas Tex. Her husband, as librarian for Highlands Christian Ray, is an area supervisor for a retail Schools. organization called "For Peanuts." Carol (prentice) Walz is a state-wide Linda and Ray have two sons, Nathan organizer and legislative liaison for the 16)and Samuel (41. National Abortion Rights Action League. Robin ('79) is beginning his fourth year as a history teacher at a 1972 private high school in Bellevue, Wash. He is also attending Cornish Arts Eufemia T. Munn is employed by Institute, pursuing music 1cello & Children, ages: the Lakeland Village School in Medical brassJ. Lake, Wash., as program coordinator Kim (Nisker) Zieger has taught fourth Return to: Alumni Office, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA 99251 and special education teacher. ~ grade in the Puyallup School District Rob Starrett has resigned from the for three years. Her husband, Walt, D Please change your records. The preferred class is Air Force and is taking pre-law at the sells land for a real estate company. University of Texas in Austin. for marne]: I I ______------1, 12 Jill (Straty) Atlas teaches aerobic Dale C. Moore is now working full- dance/fitness classes and also works time in Portland, Ore., at the part-time at a financial services University of Oregon Health Sciences Marriages marketing company, A.L. Williams Center in neurology & ear, nose and Co., in Tucson, Ariz. throat cancer. '70 Nancy Turner and Lawrence Sanborn in May, 1981. They live in Bellevue, Wash. Ed and Renee (Gumb '81) Riley are living in Edmonton, Alberta. Ed is '75 Gene M. Grose and Barbara Downing in July, 1981. They live in Big Hom, Wyo. 1980 working oil.his master's in limnology at the University of Alberta and Renee '75 Ned Cannon and Kate Murphy ('77), August 14, 1982, in Lewiston, Ken Pecka is teaching mathematics is taking leave from Princeton Idaho. and computer science at Clarkston Theological Seminary. '78 Carol Prentice and Robin Waiz ('79), August, 1982. They live in Seattle. High School. He also coaches football Lyman and Kirsten(Thompson) '78 Kim (Nisker) and Walt Zieger, June 27, 1982. They reside in Puyallup, and sophomore basketball. Tammie Miller live in Portland where Lyman Wash. (McCloskey '82x) is home raising is planning to attend Portland State '79 Margaret Meriwether and Robert Bohart Faye. They plan to live in Santa their little boy, Stephen. University in a master's program in Barbara, Calif. Dean E. Warner is living in geographical economics. Kirsten is '79 Randy and Karen Schock, Aprll 3, 1982. They reside in Los Angeles, Calif. Anchorage, Alaska. He has been beginning her second year at the Lewis '79 Joe Dinnison and Mary Zimmer, June 12, 1982. They live in Spokane. framing new houses, but has started & Clark Law School. '80 Lynn Heath and Brian Beaumont, Sept. 11, 1982. They live in Los his own business cleaning carpets and Shaun and Susan (Underwood '79) Angeles, Calif. is finding that to be a full-time job. Kastellic are the youth directors at the '80 Ed Riley and Renee Gumb ('81), August 28, 1982 in Laguna Beach, Calif. Leo Trusclair received his Master of First Presbyterian Church of Renton, '80 Bethany Parker and Brian Keith Tacker, May 23, 1981 in Mount Vernon, Science degree in education from Wash. Wash. Indiana University in spring, 1982, Cecilia Johnston graduated last June with an area of study in college student '82 Debbie Reinwand and Clint Rose on December 19, 1981. They live in from the University of Oregon with a Juneau, Alaska. personnel administration. He is now bachelor's degree in theatre arts. She's director of minority student now living in Sacramento while '82 Randy Working and Evelyne Marie-Catherine Maillard on June 20, 1982. programming at the University of attending McGeorge School of Law. '82 Kelly Gehrmann and Bruce I. Jennings, Sept. 19, 1982. They reside in Vermont. Vancouver, Wash. Bethany (parker) Tacker is apparel Tim and Leisa (Haynes) Carrick are manager for the South Salem K-Mart '82 Nancy Griese and Bob Cass ('831,August 21, 1982. They live in Spokane. living in San Anselmo, Calif. Both are store in Salem, Ore. Her husband, '82 Kristina Bachman and Paul Paylor, July 31, 1982. They live in Kirkland, attending San Francisco Theological Keith, is a student at Portland Com- Wash. Seminary and have one more year till munity College working toward his they graduate. Following graduation associate of arts degree in machine they hope to enter into the ministry as teclmology . Births a clergy couple in the Presbyterian '69 Janice (Graber) and Dennis Chase, girl, Lori Alisa, born April I, 1982. church. Ted V. Cununings is teaching junior high science and coaching volleyball '70 Debbie (Morrissey) and Keith Stennes, twin boys, Kevin Andrew and Gary Paukert is filling in for Dr. Ed and tennis at Garrison, Wash. He lives Mark Daniel, bom on October 16, 1981. Olson for one year as earth science in Walla Walla. '72 Gordon and Barbara Donnelly, girl, Elizabeth Anne, bom March 20, 1982. professor at Whitworth. He finished his master of science degree at the '72 Sally Ann (Wade) and Rick Magnussen, girl, Andrea Renee, born March University of Calgary, Alberta, in 13, 1982. August. 1982 '73 Richard Mulcahy and Pamela Storro, girl, Shannon Arminta-Marie, bom Aprll 13, 1982. Tony and Kay (Riviere) Mohr J uIie Jensen is attending the doctorate moved in Aprll from Richland, Wash., '75 Steven F. andJill (Gambill) Olson, boy, Ryan Michael, bom August 24, bio-chemistry program at Washington 1982. to Dallas, Texas. Tony has made a State University. career change from the genetic '75 Joel Robert and Joyce (Hanavan) Larsen, boy, Aaron Louis, born Dec. engineering research he was involved Jeffrey M. Whaley is a teaching 25, 1980. in to computer programming for a assistant in the department of '75 Warren and Nancy (Greve) Herman, girl, Jessica Lorin, born August 12, nationally known firm. Kay is working accounting and a master of accounting- 1982. as an insurance analyst for a major science degree candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana- '76 David and Deborah (Snow '75) Pascoe, girl, Marie Elizabeth, born June Texas bank holding company. Mer 25,1982. the suprising discovery of thyroid Champaign. He is also a CPA '77 Betty (Matthews) and Tom Truscott, boy, Ryan Matthew, born Sept. 8, cancer, successful surgery and the candidate in Illinois. 1981. following radiation therapy, is Kay Diane Kuki is now teaching special recovering steadily. education K-12 at the Clark County '79 Jay and Kathleen "Kipper" (Wheeler '80) Henderson, boy, Kyle John, born August 1, 1982. Valerie Romero is living in Juneau, Public Schools, Dubois, Idaho. '79 Terry and Kerry (Taylor) Cooper, boy, Austin Taylor, born March 1, Alaska, working for an Alaskan tour Karen Cornwell is working at 1982. and cruise company. Whitworth College as a chaplains' assistant. '79 Keith and Jennifer (Shaver '82x) Devries, girl, Kristel, born May 2, J ohn and Lisa Forsyth have started a 1982. three-year term with the Mennonite Kim Henritzy began a two-year '80 Ken and Tammie (McCloskey '82x) Pecka, boy, Kenneth Stephen, born Central Committee in Ouagadougou assignment on August 19, 1982, with Dec. 4, 1981. (the capital city) of Upper Volta, Synapses, Inc., and the Church [Africa]. They will be teaching and Committee on Human Rights in Asia, '80 Dale C. and Clair D. Moore, boy, Ian Matthew, born July 28, 1982. working on community development located in Chicago. '82 Rob and Kathy [James) Novasky, girl, Rebecca Ann, born August 10, projects. 1982. Theresa (Reynolds) and William Cheryl (Brown) Minnick has taken a Kimberly Smith have enrolled at the Deaths new position as office manager of a University of Dubuque (Iowa) large educational department at Walla Theological Seminary to pursue master '14 Bertha Lee, late August in Tacoma, Wash. Walla College. Her husband, Mike, of divinity degrees. '50 George C. Bricka of Sedro Woolley, July 21, 1982 in Superior, Wis. will be teaching biology at the college Kristie (Bachman) Paylor is a nurse next year and will also be working on '72 Debbie Carter, August 25, 1982, in Spokane, Wash. of sickelcell anemia. at Children's Orthopedic Hospital in his master's degree in research biology! '81 Jenifer "jef" Olson, September 12, 1982 in Yosemite National Park, Calif. Seattle. Her husband, Paul is a bacteriology. firefighter for the city of Bellevue. Dennis J. Bowyer has been employed by the City of Twin Falls, Idaho for Leslie Munro is working on her one year. He is the recreation masters degree in psychology at supervisor for the city, running all the Eastern Washington University. Her grade school programs. thesis research involves post-hypnotic amnesia. 13 $1.7 million is record gift Whitworth College has received a hospitalization. Dr. Moody was $1.7 million gift from the estate of pastor of Manito Presbyterian Paul B. Whitten. The gift, in cash Church at the time. and securities, is the largest ever to The gift brings the combined be given to the college, even . assets of the Whitworth surpassing the $1.5 million which endowment and the Whitworth the Cowles family of Spokane Foundation to $13.5 million. These donated in 1978 for the assets are managed by the construction of the Whitworth Whitworth Foundation, a Music Building. IS-member board comprised of "We expect the principal of the trustees and consultants under fund to produce a minimum Chairman Werner Rosenquist. income of $150,000 annually," "This is excellent news," Dr. President Mounce said, "which Mounce said. "The impact of this Curley [Doug Wunsch) and Laurie (Ruthanne LeLaCheur) singing "People Will will help enable us to hold down gift on the financial health of the Say We're in Love." All three performances of the musical "Oklahoma" were annual tuition increases. The college is very significant. It caps sold out. Vocal and choral director was Thomas T. Tavener. Milton Johnson was increases we've had to make in the off some encouraging strides we've musical director. Albert C. Gunderson was the director. past several years have worked a already made in Whitworth's hardship on our students and we're financial picture. Prior to this gift, anxious to provide some relief." our endowment had doubled in the Whitten, who owned past two years, and we've been 'Streetcar' Alumni China, Germany property in downtown Spokane, able to balance the budget every drama fare tour destinations established a trust with Whitworth year since 1976-77. With inflation The Spokane Chapter of the The Rev. Leigh Taylor I'51' of the leveling off, we had already as a beneficiary in his 1958 will, Whitworth Alumni Association has First Presbyterian Church of determined that our 1983-84 tuition with the stipulation that income reserved the Spokane Civic Theatre Vancouver, Wash. is leading a increase would be much smaller from the trust would be used to for Sunday evening, February 20, 2a-day tour to China April 23 than in recent years. Now this gift provide for him and his wife 1983. Hors d'oeuvres will be through May 12, 1983. Total cost during their lifetimes. He died in adds a dimension of long-term provided from 6:00 to 6:45 with from Portland, Ore. is $3,666. A financial stability to complement January 1966 and his wife, curtain time at 7:00 p.m. The play descriptive brochure is-available by Florence V. Whitten, died on the short-term gains we've been is "Streetcar Named Desire" by writing him at 4300 Main Street, October 7 of this year. able tQ~e~;.,..." -:-...,,~~,-... __ Tennessee Williams. Tickets are Vancouver, Wash. 98663; or by Whitten's interest in the college Whitworth's tuition this year is $6.00 each, but when you purchase calling 206-694-3363. was generated by visits Whitworth $5120. It has increased an average two, you receive two free to bring Beverly (Fallen '63) Sperry will Trustee Raymond Moody made to of 10.8 percent over the past five other alumni as your guests. If you be leading a tour to Germany in during a lengthy years. him want tickets, call the alumni office the summer of 1984 particularly to at 466-3218. take in the Oberamrnergau Passion Play. For information on this tour FacultY.positions Anderton new write Beverly at 839 North at Whitworth vice-president jenifer Olson Florence, Burbank, Calif. 91505; or call 213-846-9948. The following tenure track Julia Anderton, associate dean of memorial fund faculty positions are open for the students at Westmont College in On September 12, 1982, a rock- 1983-84 school year. Rank and Santa Barbara, Calif., has been climbing accident took the life of salary are commensurate with Scholarship. named named Whitworth's vice president Jenifer "Jef" Olson, '81. A background and experience: for student life. memorial has been established in for Glen Erickson Physics . Ms. Anderton will assume the In honor of physics professor Teach introductory and advanced PhySICS her name at Whitworth College by courses in an undergraduate setting. Ph.D. in a post in January, taking over for her parents, David and Betty Glen P. Erickson, who was killed recognized branch of Physics and experience in William Peterson, who resigned last Olson. "We would like to see jef's in a swinuning accident last June, collegiate teaching. spring but remained at Whitworth special gifts continued through the Glen P. Erickson Physics Physics and Computer Science until a successor could be selected. Joint appointment. Teach upper and lower others by establishing a fund to Scholarship Fund has been division courses in Physics and Computer She has been associate dean at offer educational assistance to established at the college. The aim Science. Ph.D. in Physics or Computer Science or Westmont for six years. Prior to struggling college students," they of the fund is to attract high quality M.s. and appropriate experience in both fields. that she was a member of Young Demonstrated teaching ability. said, "students who are actively students to the physics program. Psychology Life International, and served as pursuing an outreach ministry to Contributions should be designated Teach upper division courses in Social area director in Seattle. She was the the young and old." to "Whitworth College for the Glen Psychology and Theories of Personality and lower only woman on the national division general courses. Ph.D. in Psychology The guidelines of the fund have P. Erickson Fund." required; teaching experience desired. corporate management team. been established to reflect jef's The college held a special service . American History She received her master's degree activities. She was a resident in the Chapel Oct. 18 in memory of Teach 19Ut and 20th Century American in religion from Seattle Pacific History. The ability to teach Russian history also advisor and head resident, serving Erickson. desired. Ph.D. in appropriate area required; University and her bachelor's in in both West Warren and Baldwin teaching experience desired. pyschology from the University of English . resident halls. She was a youth Tennessee. She is awaiting her Teach upper division literature courses, group leader in a Spokane church especially British literature, and lower division doctorate in higher education from and used her music abilities in writing courses. Also, need to be able and willing the University of Southern ministry. Award criteria will favor to teach in interdisciplinary, team teaching CORE California. program. Ph.D. in appropriate area required; students with similar involvements, teaching experience desired. "I am personally grateful to God along with a "vital Christian faith." Search procedures will be closed when a. for bringing Julia onto the team at Contributions to the fund may be sufficient number of qualified applicants have this strategic point in the life of been identified, but no earlier than 2/7/83. Send directed to: Whitworth College for letter of interest, resume, and names and address Whitworth," said President Robert the Jenifer Olson Memorial Fund, of three references to: Bob Armstrong, Director of Mounce. Personnel, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA Whitworth College, Spokane, 99251. Wash. 99251. 14 Tax Advice from the Whitworth Foundation

by Robert Pyle advantageous to have it deferred not already done so in 1982, you method to pass wealth to the next until 1983, when tax rates will be should plan to make a $2,000 generation and avoid estate and gift There is still time for you to lower. Also, distributions from contribution to an individual tax. Additionally, gifts to achieve major tax savings and reap retirement plans may be postponed retirement account. This offers an Whitworth or any charity will other significant benefits by doing until 1983. Select certificates of excellent opportunity to establish result in higher deductions this some basic tax planning. deposit or treasury bill investments an additional savings account to year rather than next year. Although the settling of accounts with a maturity date in early 1983 which additions are tax-deductible, Planned Gifts. A gift that with the federal income tax to postpone recognition of the and earnings compound on a tax- reserves a life income to you or collector need not be done until interest income until maturity. free basis. another person can be especially April 15, 1983, you should take the Capital Gains and Losses. Transfer of Income. You attractive in 1982. Tax savings from first rainy weekend with your 1982 With the reduction in the should also consider transferring this type of gift may be greater this tax records, make a preliminary maximum capital gain rate to 20%, income producing assets to low- year than in the future. It is calculation of your 1982 tax this represents the lowest rate in bracket family members who look advantageous to select property liability, and review the numerous many years and is a relative to you for fmancial support. that has a low basis and a high fair alternatives available to you bargain. The holding period for Excellent examples are elderly market value. This profit escapes between now and the end of the long-term gains is still more than parents and children in college. The tax, and your deduction will be the year. The following ideas could one year, and gain transactions income is then taxed at their low property's full fair market value. save you tax dollars. executed through a broker must rates and not at your higher rates. The Whitworth Foundation could Plan Now. The starting point of have a trade date of no later than This is usually accomplished by assist you and your advisors in the your effort should be to review December 23, 1982. You should transferring income-producing planning process. your 1981 return and list income consider selling loss securities, property on either a temporary or a and expense you expect to occur in especially before the loss becomes permanent basis. A very popular Robert Pyle is a partner with the 1982. The tax rates in effect for long-term, with a view towards recent method has been the national accounting firm of Coopers 1982 are less than in 1981 but will offsetting short-term gains and interest-free loan repayable on and Lybrand and is in charge of the be further reduced in 1983, so using $3,000 of excess loss to demand. tax planning and compliance practice postponement of income and reduce other income. Within this Gifting to Heirs and Charity. in Spokane, Wash. He is a graduate acceleration of deductible expenses planning, you may find it desirable If you have a substantial estate, of the University of Michigan and the are very important. The recently to spread a large capital gain over you should consider establishing a University of Michigan School of Law passed 1982 tax legislation does not several years. You can do this by program to transfer a portion to and is a member of the Oregon Bar change this advice. means of an installment sale, your dependents over a number of and the Oregon and Washington If you expect to receive a year- where you receive principal years. Each child can now receive Society of CPA '5. He is the accounting end bonus or other additional payments over a number of years. $10,000 per year from each parent consultant to the Whitworth compensation, you may find it IRA Planning. Also, if you have ($20,000 total). This is an excellent Foundation. Today in Sports

Football Bucs rank Bucs take district in national stats third in volleyball The Pirate football season ended The 1982 season closed another on a bright note with a win over chapter of success for the Pirate the Lewis and Clark Pioneers, 38-8. volleyball team with a third place The victory gave the Bucs third in NAIA District 1. The Bues won place in the Northwest Conference 31 of 43 matches, and received with a five win, four loss overall individual honors including All- mark, three-two in conference play. District titles for Amy Haydon, a Quarterback Mike Martin, a sophomore from Hazeldell, Wash., senior from Canyon Lake, Calif., and Darlene Cook, a junior from ended his record-breaking year Mount Lake Terrace, Wash. Coach hitting over 57% of his passes for JoAnn Attwell-Scrivner was voted 2759 yards, a school record. He led coach of the year by district the nation in passing and is a coaches. Both Haydon and Cook candidate for All-American honors. are All-American candidates. The Pirates' team passing figures were also highest in the national statistics. Wide receiver Alan Magaway, a senior from Tacoma, Wash., the Bucs' leading receiver, averaged over 100 yards per game and scored nine touchdowns. His performance rated a national sixth place.

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