Evergreen Field Studies

The Evergreen State College Magazine Winter 2005

Outside Evergreen Field Studies

Another Side of Paradise • Geoducks Head to Nationals The students rallied and found a way to get warm, The academic topics were geology and Washington history dry, and fed. After we got settled, we hiked in the rain but the main goal was for faculty to experience fi rst hand the y fondest memory of taking students into the forest in some serious rain. I still chuckle whenever joys and benefi ts of natural history fi eld studies and to learn I see the picture of us on that hike soaking wet, yet methods to incorporate it into their academic programs. fi eld was a frosh core program in the Olympics happy. That trip bonded us as a true community for I had the pleasure of attending that institute and it was soon in January. We had reserved a Forest Service the remainder of the academic program and beyond. thereafter that I took those frosh students into the Olympics. camp but a falling tree knocked out the kitchen/ M When I “enter the fi eld” as a social scientist, my venue is Hope to see you in the fi eld soon! community center just before we arrived, forcing us to improvise often a community or an organization. Historically, fi eld shelter and cooking arrangements. study experiences have been an important part of Evergreen’s learning community experience and take many forms, like a few years ago when Paul Butler organized a faculty Don Bantz summer institute around backpacking in the Olympics. Academic Vice President and Provost THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON EVERGREEN MAGAZINE Greener News FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS Inside Vol. 26, No. 01 Winter 2005 Hip-Hop Science Hits Evergreen Published twice annually by the Written by Nalini M. Nadkarni, Peter Epperson, and Todd Denny, The Evergreen State College Offi ce of College Advancement The Evergreen State College LIB 3122, Olympia, WA 98505 Teachers use pop culture to make science fun.

Member, Council for Advancement Evergreen ow can scientists make Gerardo Chin-Leo inspired the students and Support of Education Hscience exciting to urban kids? to explore the hidden worlds exposed Traditionally, researchers have tried at low tide on the Evergreen beach. Vice President textbooks and laboratory studies The yells of excitement at discovering for Advancement to engage urban and at-risk youth. squirting clams, elegant starfi sh, and Francis C. McGovern Often the results are poor, since translucent jellyfi sh assured the staff children who grow up in a landscape that the students were enthusiastically Director of College Relations of concrete and cars are not usually digging into places they had never seen. Jim Beaver p10 interested in bugs and trees. Features developed aspects of scientifi c inquiry. Buses from the south side of Tacoma Evergreen In the Field But, for a week in mid-July, a unique arrived each day with highly energized Editor Natural History Studies Take Students mixture of academic scientists, rap Dr. Nadkarni, a researcher in forest middle school students who had Jim Beaver Beyond the Classroom artists, and sound engineers inspired a canopies, recruited two other Evergreen limited exposure to college learning group of 40 middle school students from faculty scientists to provide a solid or the natural sciences. At the end Associate Editor p16 the Evergreen State College’s GEAR scientifi c basis for the program. The fi rst of each day of exploration, students Anthony Sermonti, ’04 UP program — a project to promote day, Dr. Nadkarni focused the students’ were challenged to write and record Another Side of Paradise energy and excitement on hidden Jon Huey, ’06, Experienced Fiji Culture lifelong learning funded by the US original lyrics inspired by the scientifi c Contributing Photographers worlds in the forest canopy, giving Martin Kane through Evergreen’s Island Studies Program Department of Education — to open discoveries they made during their their eyes and spirits to the many hidden them a tree-climbing demonstration to fi eld experiences. The last two days worlds that the natural world presents. a 70-foot-high canopy platform. She were fi lled with writing, editing, Contributing Writers p18 taught a professional rap artist named Steve Herman rehearsing, recording and partnering Jim Beaver Artifacts Get Makeover The concept of using popular culture “Caution” to climb with ropes and with professional sound engineers. On Scott Pinkston Shelly Smith, ’94, Is Preserving American — specifi cally, rap music — to engage harnesses. After he descended back the fi nal day, twelve tracks were laid, History, One Book at a Time Anthony Sermonti, ’04 and teach students was developed to the forest fl oor, Caution created an mixed and compiled onto a custom Rachel Schleif, ’04 by Todd Denny, ’85, a musician and energetic rap song about his treetop music CD that the students, GEAR UP youth counselor. Peter Epperson, ’81 experience for the students. On Tuesday, staff, and scientists can use to promote Art Director / Design organized logistics and coordinated the the students, along with Research further learning and scientifi c inquiry. Tony Kirkland many partners. Dr. Nalini Nadkarni, Ambassador Dr. Jack Longino, carried Judy Nuñez-Piñedo Departments Greener News p01 faculty member and founder of the out experiments on the hidden worlds As one of the kids said in the Research Ambassador Program, funded of thatch mound ants that dwell in the fi nal talking circle, “I didn’t know Copy Editing College parking lots. On Wednesday, Dr. Pat Barte ’91 Geoduck Sports p07 by the National Science Foundation, science could be fun — but it is!”

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Written by John Dodge, up nicely with the fuel needs of the The oil is transferred at the farm The Olympian, Monday, Nov. 29, 2004 two diesel tractors, Stout said. into a 55-gallon insulated drum and Organic Farm heated to 140 degrees Fahrenheit, “Biodiesel is a niche that could be using an electric heating strip. makes biodiesel filled here,” Bray-Hoagland, 24, said. Lye and methanol are mixed in another Biodiesel will replace the diesel burned barrel and then introduced to the Student–built plant changes kitchen waste oil into fuel. in the tractors, reducing chemical vegetable oil in a reactor vessel where emissions that are toxic to humans the ingredients are mixed for an hour. he Organic Farm at The the beginning,” said college science and curbing carbon dioxide releases Glycerin — a by-product of the TEvergreen State College has operations manager Marty Beagle, who that contribute to global warming. mixing — is allowed to settle out its own biodiesel production plant, worked with the students on the project. The nontoxic fuel is in use in several of the fuel for 24 hours, then the thanks to the creativity and hard “It’s clearly one of the more successful other venues in South Sound. biodiesel is washed with water to work of three students. Beginning last student projects out of hundreds Intercity Transit, school buses and eliminate any residue soaps. spring, the waste oil generated in the I’ve been involved with.” John Dodge, a 1978 Evergreen city of Olympia garbage trucks use campus cafeteria kitchen will end up Then the water is filtered out of the oil alumnus and environmental a blend of diesel and biodiesel. as nonpetroleum-based fuel for the Sustainability to achieve a neutral pH reading of 7. reporter for The Olympian, And Acme Fuel Co. opened the recently received the 2004 Dolly two tractors at the student-run farm. Farm manager Melissa Barker first commercial biodiesel fuel Connelly award for excellence said the efforts of the three While the project has been Sam Stout, Kolby Bray-Hoagland pumps in South Sound about a in environmental journalism. students fit in perfectly with the challenging and rewarding, none and David Rack designed and built year ago at the intersection of Lilly Dodge received the award for sustainability goals of the farm. of the students wants to make the biodiesel processing plant at the and Stoll roads in Olympia. diesel production into a career. his series “Tracking Hazardous farm as a school project that began “We are already turning food waste into “I see biodiesel starting to get a foothold “I don’t want to be in the grease Waste,” a two-part series on in last year’s Practices of Sustainable farm compost and supplying produce to as an alternative fuel,” Stout said. business,” Bray-Hoagland said. toxic waste sites in Thurston Agriculture program and continued the kitchen,” she said. “By recycling the County. The first two-time Sam Stout (left) and Kolby Bray-Hoagland into this year’s fall quarter. “The cooking oil, we’re closing the loop.” Oil, lye, methanol Reprinted with permission winner of the award, Dodge Photo: Tony Overman hours that went into this project Processing biodiesel at the Organic from The Olympian. was also praised for his depth are unbelievable,” Stout, 24, said. The used vegetable oil is blended Farm is a fairly straightforward process. of knowledge and research. with lye and methanol in a biodiesel The waste oil is placed in collection The students also developed training, reactor the students custom-built on barrels with screens to filter out safety and maintenance manuals so campus and assembled at the farm. food particles and other solids. the system can be safely operated and maintained long after they graduate. The 8 to 10 gallons of oil generated “These guys were professionals from each week at the kitchen matches

Evergreen Housing Design Project 1st Bilezikian Fellow

Garners National Award fter the tragic loss of their daughter Sara, Drs. John and ASophie Bilezikian wanted to honor her memory by supporting The Evergreen Sustainable Home Project, a collaborative project of The Evergreen State College and causes that were important to her. This led to the creation of an South Puget Sound Habitat for Humanity has won a national leadership award. endowed fellowship award that would enable a promising young person to study the integral relationships between the responsible preservation and conservation of the natural environment and the he Healthy Building Network efficient single-family home in West Association, and was featured on their ultimate well-being of humanity. The generosity of the Bilezikians, Leadership Award is dedicated to Olympia. Students in Evergreen’s “Eco “Parade of Homes” during the summer T their family and friends will ensure that the Sara Ann Bilezikian one organization each year for efforts Design” program designed the house. of 2004. The house exceeds a “Three Fellowship for Masters in Environmental Studies will make a made to advance the use of building Star Built Green” rating by over 400 profound difference in a student’s life for generations to come. materials that protect human health Evergreen student Luke Howard and points, and the state Department of local green building activist Tom St. and promote environmental integrity Natural Resources uses the home to The first recipient of the Bilezikian Fellowship is Laura Ritter Louis took key roles in the project. throughout their lifecycle. The show the public how to build houses in of Prairie Village, KS, a UW graduate and former Peace Corps The home has received high praise Evergreen and Habitat for Humanity urban areas that are wildfire resistant. volunteer in Ghana. “I feel honored to be this year’s recipient from the Olympia Master Builders project designed an affordable and of the Bilezikian Fellowship,” said Laura, “and I look forward to Dr. Sophie Bilezikian with the first student recipient beginning my two-year journey as an MES student at Evergreen. “ 2 of the Sara Ann Bilezikian Fellowship, Laura Ritter. Greener News Greener News

Environmental Advocate New Book Chronicles Named Evans Chair History of Lynching Betsy Damon’s work in China has garnered international acclaim. Evergreen faculty member Michael Pfeifer analyzes nvironmental advocate Betsy in China and the United States. created in 1991 to enrich academic EDamon has been selected as programs and intensively support the relationship between lynching and criminal justice. Evergreen’s 2005 Daniel J. Evans Chair. Damon will be based in the Core entry-level, or Core programs. The program, “Interrogating American endowment honors former Evergreen ough Justice: Lynching and American “It was an amazing sensation Damon’s 6.5-acre park in Chengdu, Cultures through the Arts,” taught president, U.S. Senator, and Washington RSociety, 1874-1947 is the first book to unwind the folder clasp Peoples’ Republic of China, cleans by Evergreen faculty Ratna Roy, Gail State Governor Dan Evans. by Michael Pfeifer, a member of the on a coroner’s inquest part of the water of the Fu-Nan Tremblay and Marge Brown. Damon Evergreen faculty and, according to that hadn’t been looked at since it River. It is also an art center, will also work with other programs Past Evans Chairs include writers Pfeifer, the book is the first national was filed. I posted Web pages of all environmental education center, during her five-week tenure. Sherman Alexie and bell hooks; and recreation area that has won zoologist Louis Guillette, Jr.; and analysis of lynching and criminal justice. the lynchings that I documented in Funded by a State grant and matching Pfeifer argues that lynching was not the seven states — Washington, several international awards. She is composers Rick Burkhardt, Andy currently working on other projects gifts from private donors, the Daniel Gricevich, and Gerhard Staebler. eradicated, but instead institutionalized. California, Iowa, Wyoming, J. Evans Chair in Liberal Arts was As states banned lynching, they replaced Louisiana, Wisconsin and New it with a revitalized death penalty. York--that I studied. Descendants, In Washington state, execution including grandchildren, of by hanging is still an option. victims and perpetrators began emailing me. Through their Pfeifer uncovered a lost and dark history correspondence, I learned details Rough Justice: Lynching and American in a century-old heap of coroner’s about the mob killings that never Society, 1874-1947 was published by National Science Foundation Awards inquests, court reports, personal were published before,” Pfeifer said. correspondence and news articles. the University of Illinois Press. Evergreen Faculty Project $877,099 Faculty will collaborate to compare forest structures around the world.

he National Science Foundation the whole thing together. That is what between computer T[NSF] has awarded Evergreen faculty Judy and I are trying to do, to describe science and forest Evergreen Counselor Named members Judy Cushing and Nalini the whole from the parts by bringing ecology,” NSF Nadkarni $877,099 to build a Web-based in computer tools to help individual official Gerald Best in Region fleet of data and imaging software to researchers synthesize what the forest Guala said. “The compare the many types of forests that structure really is,” said Nadkarni, a broader impacts Jason Kilmer recognized for effectively connecting with students. exist at different locations on our globe. forest ecologist. of their projects make this a very “Each researcher has measured one “While the work on this grant focuses ason Kilmer, an addictive behaviors The association cited Kilmer’s unique Kilmer said receiving the award is good proposal part of the forest, but no one has put only on the forest canopy, the findings specialist at The Evergreen State ability to connect with students on a a real honor. “I work with a great to fund. The J and tools will be applicable more College, has been named the “mid- personal level and effectively provide group of people, and appreciate educational broadly within the field of ecology,” level student affairs professional of them with information they need to all the support I have received aspects are strong Cushing said. “This is the kind the year” at a regional conference, make informed decisions. “It is Jason’s from my colleagues,” he said. and the use of of project where interdisciplinary and represented Evergreen at a incredible combination of research Kilmer has been employed at The undergraduates is collaboration is required so Nalini national student affairs conference skills, presentation ability, personal Evergreen State College since 1999, unique.” and I are thankful to be at Evergreen, as a nominee for the national award. traits, and commitment that make and graduated from the University of which so encourages that ideal.” The three-year him such an effective educator and an Washington with a Ph.D. in Clinical grant is one Kilmer was honored October 29 in outstanding mid-level professional,” Psychology. In addition to being a “The grant process is very competitive, of the largest Boise, ID, at the regional conference said Elizabeth McHugh, director of member of the counseling center Nalini Nadkarni it speaks very highly of Judy and Nalini research awards of the National Association of Evergreen’s Health and Counseling staff, he also teaches in the part- to come out on top. They’re a very the College has ever received. Student Personnel Administrators. Services, in a letter to the association. time studies program as an adjunct high-caliber team, a neat collaboration member of the faculty at Evergreen. Judy Cushing 4 5 Greener News Greener News Sports

Written by Dave Weber, Geoduck Men’s Soccer Director of Athletics Goes to the Nationals Never. James McDonnell using his head in the Geoducks’ That’s when The Evergreen State 2-1 overtime win over Ohio’s University of Rio Grande. Photo: ASI College men’s soccer team had a season as good as its 16-7 fi nish in 2004. Never. That’s when an Evergreen team had advanced as far in a national championship tournament as men’s soccer did when it reached the third round of the 2004 NAIA National Championship in Kansas during November. Evergreen Appoints New Provost There had been high hopes right from the season’s start — the Geoducks had familiar face has been appointed Administration program, where he Evergreen’s unique and nationally- three offensive-minded seniors, Joe Aas Evergreen’s new academic taught political and economic context of known teaching and learning style. Gjertsen, Nate Ford and Jason Gjertsen, vice president and provost. public administration, research methods, “We can’t lose our pedagogy,” he said. to go with a strong defense anchored understanding public organizations by four-year starting goalkeeper Tom Don Bantz moved into the top academic and a number of other offerings. An In an academic environment like post full time last summer after having Evergreen, Bantz says his new job Kneeshaw. Early on, Evergreen defeated accomplished public administrator, visiting Chico State 2-1. The Wildcats served for a year on an interim basis. Bantz’s experience includes positions isn’t as much about managing as He previously served for three years as it is about working with faculty had fi nished as the #2 team in the in Snohomish County, where he was NCAA Division II ranks in 2003. an academic dean for budget and as a the administrator of the Community and students. “You can’t manage member of the faculty for 17 years. Services Division, and Alaska, it…you have to enable it,” he says. The magic began in the Region I Bantz was selected from three fi nalists where he was executive director of Bantz earned a bachelor’s degree tournament. In the semi-fi nal, Kneeshaw in a competitive process that attracted several health-care programs. He has in management and marketing shut out Cascade Conference power applicants from across the country. extensive experience working with from Fullerton State University, Concordia University for 110 minutes, Evergreen President Thomas L. “Les” diverse populations, including more and a master’s and doctoral degree but Evergreen couldn’t score a goal Purce said Bantz “brings to the position than 50 Indian tribes throughout in public administration from the either, so the match was decided by a passion and deep understanding of Washington, California and Alaska. University of Southern California. a shootout from the penalty kick mark. With Kneeshaw stopping two all that makes teaching and learning Bantz says Evergreen hasn’t at Evergreen extraordinary.” Cavalier shots, Evergreen prevailed fundamentally changed since he 4-2. In the next night’s championship Bantz began his career at Evergreen arrived here in 1988, and he says one game, with Evergreen’s new all-time in 1988 in the Master of Public of his top priorities is safeguarding scoring leader Joe Gjertsen fi nding the net twice, Warner Pacifi c went

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tourney. But unlike even the other Ford was given NAIA honorable two homegrown squads, the Geoducks mention honors. Both Gjertsen and featured 16 players, all but one, from Ford were named to both the Evergreen Junior Runner Selected their home state, Washington. All-Region I and All-Cascade Conference teams. Defensive wizards as All-American Scholar-Athlete, Standing in their way in the second round was the University of Rio Grande Written by Dave Weber, from Ohio. All but a handful of Rio’s Goes to Nationals. Director of Athletics players were imports from the United ...newfound fans or the first time since its return Representative, Paul Sparks, must while Megan Mower led a women’s team Kingdom: tall, fit Englishmen, Scots Fto Evergreen four years ago, the read through each quarter’s evaluation that also included Liesl Plomski, Rachel and Welshmen who had put together joined ... in chants Geoducks’ cross-country team qualified to be certain the student-athlete’s Williams, Sara Aikin and Megan Longo. a mind-boggling 66-game unbeaten a runner for the National Association performance is comparable to a 3.5 GPA. string and came into the tournament of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Then the NAIA’s selection committee Josh Klimek was named an NAIA as the defending NAIA champions. of “Geo-DUCKS! National Championships. In addition, repeats the process. That challenge All-American Scholar-Athlete. When Jason Gjertsen pounded a free the cross-country team boasted an makes Klimek’s double accomplishment kick just under the crossbar in the Geo-DUCKS!” NAIA All-American Scholar-Athlete. of a national-caliber season on the course and academic recognition away final minute of the first half to give Both were the same man, junior Josh Klimek. Evergreen a 1-0 lead, newfound fans from running all the more impressive. joined 30 or so supporters who had made Klimek, who qualified for the NAIA Evergreen’s head coach Craig the trip from the Northwest in chants Greg Preciado, Zephyr Titus and Dan Championships in Louisville, KY, with Jones received all-conference honors. Dickson has also done an impressive of “Geo-DUCKS! Geo-DUCKS!” a fine individual performance at the job in quietly, patiently turning the Other members of the team were Sean Region I meet in Portland, was well back Twenty-five minutes into the second Oliver, Alex Swanson, Nick Mancaruso, Geoducks into strong competitors. in the pack at nationals. However, his In his fourth season of reviving the half, though, the glass slipper seemed Tom Arndt, Lucas Arthur, Matt Welling, academic performance put him at the Photo: Jessica Thorne to shatter when Rio’s Mike McManus Cameron Bell, James McDonnell, sport once coached by Evergreen head of the class among NAIA runners. coaching and recreation legend Senior Joe Gjertsen was named evened the score. Order had been redshirt Jeff Bader and assistant Pete Steilberg, Dickson has created a 2004 NAIA All-American. restored, it seemed, and when the coaches Steve Zimmerman (another The NAIA requires a 3.5 grade point Redmen sent five fresh frontline players Evergreen alumnus) and Will Leiste. average for consideration for Scholar- competitive men’s and women’s programs and brought other colleges down 2-0 and the Geoducks booked into the game in the final minutes Athlete selection. Evergreen has had against an injury-plagued and fatigued a number of athletes selected, but to campus for an invitational meet their flight to the NAIA Nationals. named in honor of Steilberg. band of Geoducks most thought All-American Alisha White led the Evergreen’s unique narrative evaluation No one would have predicted the streak was about to reach 67. women’s soccer team with 14 goals. process makes it more difficult for a In addition to Klimek, Sean Gaskill, what Evergreen, making its first Geoduck athlete to be recognized. Jason McConnell, James Hudson and appearance at the national level, Didn’t happen. Evergreen held on to Evergreen’s Faculty Athletics force overtime, and seven minutes in Kyle Skaggs scored in the regional meet would do next, or imagine the flair Photo: Jessica Thorne with which they would do it. Joe Gjertsen slid a pass to a wide-open Ford on the right side. Ford blasted In the featured game of the tournament’s home a crossing shot from 18 yards opening day, the Geoducks rode out to win it for the Geoducks. Written by Dave Weber, two Kyle Andrews’ goals to a 2-1 Women’s Soccer Catches Fire Director of Athletics overtime victory over the host school, Alas, two days later against William Jewell University of Missouri. Berry College, Evergreen was lthough the Geoducks got off to a Gibson-Snyder and the team continued Junior transfer Alisha White was Andrews’ second goal came on a set eliminated 4-2 despite goals by A0-8-1 start, the team’s demeanor to follow his plan, though, and finally, selected as Evergreen’s second NAIA play just 38 seconds into overtime. Joe Gjertsen and Jeff Wruck. was positive and steady, reflecting Evergreen caught fire, winning seven All-American. White, from Bremerton the quiet confidence of new coach of their final eight Cascade Conference and Walla Walla Community College, Neutral fans at the Activity Center in But, the accomplishments weren’t over Erik Gibson-Snyder. Formerly the top regular season games and tying the was also selected as the Cascade the Kansas City suburb of Olathe, KS, for the Geoducks. The honors began to assistant coach in the University of eighth against Concordia, the nation’s Conference newcomer of the year swayed by Evergreen’s explosive style of roll in. Head coach Tom Boatright, Montana’s successful women’s soccer third-ranked team. Some bad breaks in after scoring a team-leading 14 goals. play and a fascination with the Geoduck a 1989 Evergreen grad, was named program, Gibson-Snyder played soccer the Cascade Conference tournament Sophomore Kimberley Force was named Region I Coach of the Year. Joe mascot, jumped on the bandwagon. at Evergreen for Arno Zoske who, kept the Evergreen women from having to the All-CCC second team. Gjertsen was selected a third-team until current men’s basketball coach a chance to go as deep into the post- Evergreen suited up 17 players for the All-America, one of just five John Barbee recently achieved his season as the men’s team, but they still Gibson-Snyder and the Geoducks tournament. All were from the United of the NAIA’s top 33 players 100th victory, was Evergreen’s all time had several positive accomplishments. should continue to see success, as States, making the Geoducks one of from the United States. winningest coach for all sports. they only lose one senior and 10 of 11 just three all-American teams in the starters are expected to return in 2005. Photo: Jessica Thorne 8 9 For the past 25 years, Drs. Steve Herman and Al Wiedemann have worked together teaching natural history – the scientifi c study of plants and animals in their natural habitats. In a program unique in its scope, not only do students develop reading, writing, journaling and research skills, but they experience the subject fi rsthand through long, meaningful fi eld trips across the Western Hemisphere. In the following essay, Dr. Herman offers his insights into what makes this uniquely Evergreen program so special.

Written by Steven G. Herman Evergreen Photos by Martin Kane in the Field Natural History Studies Take Students Beyond the Classroom

n his brilliant introduction to not earning credit for their studies. At Evergreen we have done it The Secret Forest (1993), the And as is usual with fi eld trips of differently. We have done it in ways Idistinguished naturalist and this kind, the participants were “on that have been hugely benefi cial to a paleoecologist Paul S. Martin describes their own time”; in short, they had to huge number of students, students who the wonders of spring fi eld trips to take vacation time to engage natural have found themselves, careers, and parts of the tropical deciduous forest history at a serious, committed level. lifelong passions in the process of being in Sonora, Mexico. His exposed to wild landscapes descriptions of these on extended, academically excursions are enthusiastic, serious and otherwise and his text is full of rich meaningful natural history description that praises programs based in the fi eld. the landscapes, the people, the organisms, and the The unique curricular value of extended natural structure put together history fi eld trips to students by Evergreen’sEvergreen’s founders and faculty alike. For all enabled faculty to spend their value, however, these protracted times in the fi eld trips were confi ned fi eld. Students, obligated to to spring semester breaks; a single coordinated study they were limited in time program, group contract, and scope, and the students or independent learning A Sage Thrasher, newly outfi tted with a who participated were contract (these names uniquely numbered aluminum band, is released by an Evergreen natural history student. In many respects, Evergreen natural history programs harken back to the early days of exploration. A newly caught bird is carefully removed from the net so it can be processed, banded and released.

Dr. Steve Herman helps Melanie Pischalko ’04 with a ﬁ ne point of identiﬁ cation. A male MacGillivray’s Warbler, wearing his new band, is ready to be released.

have evolved over the years) about 1980, and served students yellow school bus that took us so were heady, rich, wonderful are free to spend long periods well for nearly two decades. many places during those years. days, and those of us who were of time afi eld, because in part It went by many names, but there remember them well. they are not obligated to be at It was common to spend 20- mostly it was called “The Beagle” “Psych 101, 2:00 P.M. MWF”. 25 days in the fi eld during the or “Beagle II,” after the famous In the more than three decades spring quarter, and the academic Jeff Roelke and Jacob since the Evergreen Experiment Patchen ’05 set up one ship that took Darwin around Al Wiedemann, a plant ecologist, year regularly ended with a the world on his famous voyage. was launched, fi eld studies in and I, a zoologist, pioneered two-week fi eld trip that always of the mist nets used natural history have taken these natural history programs included southeast Oregon, to capture birds. With the two rear seats removed many turns. My students at Evergreen. The fi rst one where I (in the early eighties) to accommodate duffl es, we have spent time in dozens ran in 1972, the year after the purchased and developed an could fi t a regular sized group of countries studying under college opened (we called it eighty acre parcel of shrubsteppe contract student body in that individual learning contracts, “Evergreen Environment,” in to accommodate students in old bus and head down the but most, perhaps, have been the spirit of those early days), a landscape of remarkable road as a self-contained unit. participants in various group and there were programs of a biodiversity and beauty. When it rained some of us slept contracts with titles like “Natural similar sort until recent years. in the bus, while others slept History and Conservation in We tried all kinds of variations: A good number of alumni who under the tarp we set up at Latin America,” “Ecology and two quarters, three quarters, spent time in the fi eld from the the side of the bus, and under Natural History of the Tropical two faculty, three faculty, but a early eighties until the early which we cooked our meals, Deciduous Forest,” simply consistent pattern of two quarters nineties will remember with had our seminars, and prepared “Ornithology,” or “Mammalogy,” – winter and spring – emerged considerable warmth the old scientifi c study specimens. Those or “ Ecuador Natural History.”

The Beagle II, Steve Herman’s Photo: Courtesy of Steve Herman school bus, carried students and faculty aﬁ eld for a decade.

13 A Paciﬁ c-slope Flycatcher A Brewer’s Sparrow with its characteristic is checked against teardrop eyering. the detailed guide.

The hundreds of students who plenty of years! 2004 (when current students, to tend the go well beyond the subject took these programs retain Martin Kane’sKane’s extraordinary nets and handle and band a few material, and often include strong and positive memories photographs that accompany more birds, to share the warm lessons about getting along of those times, those wild places, this article were taken) The processing table is ambiance of the camp, and to with other people, sharing the the birds, the mammals, the marked the twenty-third a busy place. Birds are re-experience the incredible camp work load, doing dishes. plants, the landscapes and, consecutive year this program usually only held for a few beauty of one of the largest yes, the hard work they made has been taught on the wild pieces of public land in the The legacy of Evergreen natural minutes while they are history programs of the sort part of their studies. All this and beautiful Hart Mountain identifi ed, sexed, measured American West and a part of our was underlined when some National Antelope Refuge. National Wildlife Refuge system. described here has a life spanning and banded, then released a third of a century. In some ways 300 mostly ex-students showed as soon as possible. up at my retirement party in About 250 students have Living in the fi eld together for it was nothing new — naturalists September of 2001. What a participated in that program, weeks at a time builds strong had lived and studied these great reunion it was for these and the recidivism rate is bonds and makes plenty of good ways for centuries — but in students, and for myself and my high. Every summer several stories, whether the class is on a another it is new, because it has old friend Al Wiedemann. students from previous years tributary of the Amazon River in made these experiences — this visit our elaborate camp in Ecuador or camped out in some kind of knowledge — available In many ways, though, the our private aspen-fi lled draw old-growth sagebrush in eastern to generations of students for “Summer Ornithology: Birds in on the mountain. They come Washington. Everyone gets to whom this kind of learning was the Hand” group contract has back to enjoy again the three know their fellow students and previously inaccessible. It has been the consistent centerpiece gourmet meals that our cook faculty pretty well — far better been a great run. Let’s hope of the fi eld natural history (and Evergreen mail supervisor) than they do in a classroom this is only the beginning. teaching that I’ve done over Kort Jungel prepares daily, to setting. The lessons learned the years. And there have been mingle with and tell stories to But Kort doesn’t do the dishes!

Kort Jungel, Evergreen’s mail supervisor, has cooked for summer ornithology students since 1989.

15 Photos by Jonathan Huey, ’06

Jon Huey, ’06, Experienced Fiji Culture through Evergreen’s Island Studies Program. When Jon Huey, ’06, ﬁ rst planned his trip to Fiji, he thought he was heading to an island paradise where he would be greeted at the airport with a lei for his neck. But when he arrived in Taveuni, one of Fiji’s smaller islands, his image was altered — forever. Another Side Huey went to Taveuni by himself for eight weeks as part of the “Islands” program, led by faculty members Sally Cloninger and Virginia Darney. The program sent 36 students to different islands around the world — from the Aleutians to Sardinia, from New Zealand to the Canaries to Hawaii. Students examined the culture, history and ecology of islands through different media. A native of Bismarck, N.D., Huey studies photography at Evergreen — a topic he was able to pursue during his study abroad. “I wanted to use the perfect opportunity to go to an exotic location and get photos no one else can get,” he explains. He also studied the use of plants for food, fuel and shelter on the island.

For more information on the Islands Program and to see photos and blogs of Paradise from Jon and other students’ experiences, visit http://blogs.evergreen.edu

Island shot of Taveuni with the black volcanic rock beach.

Above Overview of Lavena, one of the most isolated villages on the island. The village is in the Bouma National Heritage Host mother Nana with Jon in the One of the few sections of paved road on Park, which comprises eighty village of Welagi after a dinner. the island. Most roads are dirt or gravel. percent of the island.

Right Jon’s host mother Mary splits strands from coconut fronds to make a broom. No one in Taveuni purchases brooms, and it takes four to ﬁ ve hours to make one. Inset: The ﬁ nished broom.

17 Other objects in the exhibit include where the Almanack usually resides in a ready to be used anew, reminding a the bifocals that Franklin invented, humidity-controlled archives room. “It much-changed Philadelphia that, as a chest of his Leyden jars (primitive helped make him a celebrity, as opposed Franklin said, “a fi ne genius in his own electrical batteries), and his armonica, to a scientist and a public fi gure.” country is like gold in the mine.” or glass harmonica, a musical instrument of variously sized glass bowls spun on Scribbled in the margins are farming an axle and played with a wet fi nger, notes, such as “Carry 256 loads of Dung as one does a wine glass. Repairs to its in Young Orchard,” made by the fellow mahogany case are needed, as is a new who fi rst owned pedal mechanism to spin the bowls. it, Isaac Norris, Artifacts By Matthew P. Blanchard the 1724 mayor Inquirer Staff Writer All repairs are being directed by the of Philadelphia, Conservation Center for Art and for whom Historic Artifacts, where Smith works, Norristown in an old ice cream factory on South is named. 23d Street in Center City. The effort is fi nanced by a grant from Pew Charitable So it was with Trusts and the federally funded Save reverence that America’s Treasures program. Smith carried the Almanack Get Makeover The Almanack itself is the size of a toward two playbill, just 24 pages, and a curious read. plastic basins Weather and astrological charts for each fi lled with a larming but essential, the techniques include soaking priceless books in water and electrocuting month make up half the booklet. The pH-balanced Acolonial artifacts for months at a stretch. witty sayings are tucked into these charts mixture of water simply as fi ller for days with uneventful and calcium In preparation for Benjamin Franklin’s are hard to know” — and where, in a tub of water — by reputation weather. Many of these aphorisms are carbonate. 300th birthday on Jan. 17, 2006, historians say, Franklin established a wrecker of books and wrinkler rarely mentioned today, such as “Love a vast effort is underway around the homespun witty style that would of paper. Not for nothing is water well, whip well,” (an apparent reference “If we’re lucky, Philadelphia to preserve the physical infl uence American humor from called “the universal solvent.” to child rearing) and “Never mind it, we’ll get some evidence of Franklin’s life. More than Mark Twain to Garrison Keillor. she’ll be sober after the Holidays.” stuff out of it 200 books, papers, paintings and And not for nothing did Smith and the water peculiar contraptions will eventually The proposed procedure sounds like a sit up wide-eyed the night before, Franklin was 27 in 1733 and already will turn nice and yellow,” she said. Shelly Smith, ’94, focused on appear in a fi ve-city exhibition titled recipe for disaster: Smith will dismember considering her approach. “It can be ruffl ing feathers. As told in Walter American Studies at Evergreen, Lowering the Almanack into the “B. Franklin 300,” set to open in the Almanack and bathe its pages pretty shocking when you have to Isaacson’s recent biography, Franklin and decided she wanted to be a basin, she gently stroked each Philadelphia in October 2005 and to do something like this,” she said. faced competition from six other conservator after an internship at almanac publishers in Philadelphia, page, sandwiched for protection by visit Boston, Paris, Denver and Atlanta. But after 271 years, the Almanack’s rag the Washington State Archives and so in his introduction he brazenly layers of soft mesh. With each hand paper is laced with smoke, sulfur and her senior year. After graduation, Before exhibition, however, comes predicted the “inexorable death” of stroke, clouds of tobacco-colored other damaging acidic pollutants that, she studied at the Graduate restoration — a $600,000 effort his most popular rival, Titan Leeds: particles billowed into the water. she says, a nice bath should draw out. School for Library and Information with methods both painstaking and “He dies, by my Calculation made at Nibbled spots near the spine suggest In her nightmares, ink might be Science at the University of Texas. arcane. The work has delivered items his Request, on Oct. 17. 1733. 3 ho. to Smith “varmint damage,” which streaking down the pages right now. “My Evergreen experience was of awesome historic importance into 29 m. P.M.” she will address if the bath goes well. But it is known that Franklin printed fantastic,” she says. “I learned more the hands of such people as Shelly at Evergreen about the ways you Leeds was irate, and lived until 1738. with iron-gall ink, a pigment made with Smith, 35, a paper conservator who on Similar scenes are under way in Kory inspire people to learn new things Franklin, under the pseudonym Poor the bulbous tumor-like galls of an oak a recent night lay awake into the wee Berrett’s Chester County workshop, than anywhere else.” Smith has Richard Saunders, went on writing tree, which is durable and waterproof. hours, thinking through the critical where a large iron slab from a 1760 worked at the Conservation Center the Almanack for 25 years. In 1753, After a controlled drying, the paper moments of her next repair job. Franklin stove will spend 18 months for Art and Historic Artifacts in it would carry the full report of his is clean and supple, free of acids and, in a tub of distilled water electrifi ed by Philadelphia for more than two years. The patient dates to 1733: the only kite-and-key electricity experiments. therefore, more likely to endure. surviving copy of the fi rst printing DC current in an antirust process called Smith then spent hours fi lling in the of Poor Richard’s Almanack, in which electrolytic reduction. The stove plate “The Almanack helped create rodent bites with Japanese paper. Republished with permission from Americans fi rst encountered Franklin’s was unearthed not long ago at a Quaker Franklin’s public persona as a sort of Philadelphia Inquirer, July 11, 2004 Like a newspaper, the Almanack famous sayings — “Fish & visitors stink homestead called Bartram’s Garden, pithy sage, and shrewdly humorous,” Distributed by Knight Ridder Digital. was printed to be used and tossed in in three days” and “Men and melons crumbling from a century of corrosion. said Elizabeth E. Fuller, librarian of the trash. Three centuries later, it is Photos courtesy of Conservation Center the Rosenbach Museum and Library, for Art and Historic Artifacts. Paper conservator Shelly Smith works on numerous historical books and papers for Philadelphia’s 19 Conservation Center for Art and Historical Artifacts. Alumni Matters Alumni Matters

Evergreen. David has worked in radio, species technician with the Siuslaw concert production, cable television National Forest, and an avian ecologist engineering and as a high-speed Internet with Willamette Industries. He has three technical support person for a national children, ages 1, 7, and 8 years, and is Alumni Matters provider. He is a founding member of The engaged to Ann Marie Southey. Alumni Matters is compiled by the Office of Alumni Affairs and edited for length and content. Traveling Radio Show along with three To submit information, call the office at (360) 867-6551 or e-mail [email protected]. other Greeners, and invites all to visit 1983 Photos submitted unless otherwise indicated. them at www.travelingradio.com. Russell Colon, Kenmore, recently Ana Rockwell (O’Callaghan), Vashon, Mickey Morris, Roxbury, CT, married 1973 1976 perfected a method to create teaches special education for Seattle Public Laura Berger in 1993. Mickey and Laura Leon Werdinger, Joseph, OR, is photographic images in candy and Steven Pointer, Novato, CA, and his wife, Lawton Case, Enumclaw, is director of Schools. are the owners and directors of Buck’s a freelance photographer and a other translucent materials. Peg, have been married 17 years. He is the the Enumclaw Food Bank and recently Rock Performing and Creative Arts Camp professional guide on rivers from father of 12-year-old Andrea and director finished his fourth year as a trustee for in New Milford, Connecticut. Alaska to the Grand Canyon. Last 1978 Charles Tubbs, Buda, TX, attended the of technical sales for Avaya, Inc. Green River Community College. year he married noted organic Evergreen Vancouver campus in the TaRessa Stovall (Stone), Mount Laurel, farmer Beth Gibans. See his work at Kenneth Shulman, Seattle, is executive early 1980s. He would love to hear from Eric Krieger, Stone Ridge, NY, is the NJ, a graduate of the Tacoma campus, has leonwerdingerphotography.com. 1974 director of Lambert House, one of the anyone else who attended at that time, or executive photo editor for the Albany written several books, including Catching country’s largest social service agencies from anyone who knew him. His email is Times-Union. Good Health: A Guide to Homeopathic Annette Klapstein, Bainbridge Island, a for gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans- [email protected]. Medicine (1986); The Buffalo Soldiers staff attorney at the Puyallup Tribe for 20 gendered (GLBT) youth. Ken served Steven is deeply involved in meditation (1997); A Love Supreme: Real-Life Stories years, is thinking about retiring next year. six years as an appointee of two Seattle and Advaita Vedanta, remains political of Black Love (2000); and was co-editor She and her husband, Rich Gile, live at mayors and is among those primarily and active in programs serving the poor of Proverbs for the People: Contemporary Winslow Cohousing on Bainbridge Island, responsible for the passage of three GLBT and hungry. African-American Literature. She has a but plan to sell their home and live on his civil rights ordinances. teenage son and daughter and is working sailboat when they’re both retired. Gavin Lakin, San Rafael, CA, recently Robert Zindel, Port Angeles, retired from on her first novel while teaching public received an honorable mention award speaking at Temple University in Barry Rodrigue (Roderick), Bath, the Department of Social and Health for the prestigious CMT.com/NSAI 4th Philadelphia. ME, is an assistant professor of arts and Services after 16 years as a social worker Annual Song Contest. His song, “Promised humanities at the University of Southern and counselor. He also worked for the Land,” was featured on the NBC-TV Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College, a new Employment Security Department, the 1981 daytime series Passions and he has signed school modeled, in part, after Evergreen. Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, publishing deals with Transition Music in Barry also serves as the scholar attached and served in Vietnam. Following a traffic Michelle Cornell (Frenzer), Columbus, Los Angeles and Access Music in the San to the university’s Franco-American accident last April, he was forced to leave OH, has been working with children as a Francisco area. Collection, coordinates their French his post as president at the Olympic Labor storyteller and drama teacher. North American Studies program and Robert McChesney, Urbana, IL, Council and Local 1463. Happily, Robert 1982 is faculty advisor to the International published two new books in 2004: is back on his feet and currently remains Eric Dott, Saint Paul, MN, lives with his Students of Lewiston-Auburn (ISOLA). The Problem of the Media: U.S. active with the Kiwanis, serves as vice- wife, Deborah DeLuca, and two children: Gretchen Christopher (Matzen), He and his 13-year-old son, Kenai, often Communication Politics in the 21st president of Cal Ripkin Youth Baseball 6-year-old Collin, and 3-year-old Helena. Olympia, is in the midst of completing do field work and travel to conferences Century (Monthly Review Press) and also umpires baseball for boys ages Eric spent nearly three years working, her first solo CD, Gretchen’s together. Their work may be seen at http:// (www.mediaproblem.org); and, with 9-12. He has been happily married for 35 Nordic ski racing and studying geology SWEET SIXTEEN! The album, an years and has three grown children. francomaine.org and www.usm.maine.edu/ Ben Scott, Our Unfree Press: 100 at the University of Minnesota-Duluth autobiographical collection of music Quentin King, Seattle, (left) lac/francoamericanstudies. Years of Radical Media Criticism (New in the mid 1980s. He completed master’s and lyrics, includes the former number-one and Glen Kriekenbeck ’89, Press). In 2003, Bob co-founded 1980 degrees in water resources management hit, “Come Softly To Me,” which earned were married at their home in 1975 the Northampton, Massachusetts- and geology at the University of Gretchen and her group, The Fleetwoods, Somerville, Massachusetts on May based media activist group, Free Leonard Carr, Portland, OR, is in his Wisconsin-Madison. Eric now manages a gold record—the first produced on a 20, 2004 after 17 years together. Press (www.freepress.net), devoted environmental investigations, assessments Adele Berg-Layton, Bainbridge Island, has fifteenth year at The Catlin Gabel School, Northwest label (Dolton). Her first two They were among the first ten to increasing public participation in and redevelopment of former commercial been a self-employed musician for 25 years. where he has taught fifth grade and middle gold records and tour costume are now same-sex couples in Somerville to media policy debates. A professor of and industrial properties for Barr Adele earned her teaching certificate in school history, served one year as the exhibited at the Experience Music Project receive a marriage license on the communication at the University of Engineering Company. He still finds time the spring of 2003 and now teaches in the Lower School Head and, most recently as in Seattle. For more information, show day the Massachusetts Supreme Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Bob for camping, Nordic ski racing and other public school system. the interim Middle School Head. He has times, CD release news, and order forms, Judicial Court declared it a basic hosts a weekly talk show on the local three daughters: 20-year-old Emily, 17- adventures. please visit www.GretchenChristopher.com. civil right. Having spent the past NPR affiliate, WILL-AM. The show, Tika Esler (Hernandez), Kenmore, is a year-old Julia, and 15-year-old Hannah. 15 years on the East Coast, Quentin Media Matters, airs Sundays at 1:00 Santa Cruz, CA, made his dean at Bellevue Community College, Steven Doyle, John Mullen, Edelstein, IL, is assistant and Glen have recently moved back p.m., Central, and is web-cast at: living as a practicing psychologist for 12 where she enjoys working on the other David Gordon, Everett, has remained in chief naturalist for the Peoria Park District. home to the Puget Sound area. www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/ years, but was compelled to retire after side of higher education and helping the media field, both on the East Coast Previously, he was an avian researcher at default.htm. becoming disabled. Back on his feet again, students succeed. and now in Washington, since he left Oregon State University, an endangered

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- Martha Gipson, West Lafayette, IN, edits 1985 of Business and Technology, while a quarterly newsletter and assists in public pursuing his master in education degree Greeners Gather for Night of Great Art and Photos by Amy Petsch ‘97 health research at Purdue University. Betsy Bridwell, Seattle, worked in instructional systems at Penn State Martha has two daughters: 20-year-old at Evergreen for three years before University. Hal welcomes visits to his Web Fine Dining-Chicago Style River, and 17-year-old Gaia Rose, a senior completing the Russia/USSR program site, www.halmedrano.com. in high school. Visit Martha’s Web site at in 1985. She followed her passion for More than 40 Chicago-area alumni, parents and friends recently joined Evergreen’s www.cfs.purdue.edu/safefood international studies by serving as director Wendy Mintiero, Seattle, completed a Vice President for Advancement, Frank McGovern, for a guided tour of The Art Institute of Chicago Museum’s permanent collection, followed by dinner at Vivere, in of Student Life aboard Semester at Sea in craniosacral therapy certification program the Italian Village. Alyx Fier, Seattle, heads the backpack the fall of 1988, before leading two tours in 2003, and is incorporating this modality manufacturing company True North to Russia. She has since worked at the into her acupuncture and acutonics (formerly Treknology). Check out some Henry M. Jackson School of International practice in Seattle. of his gear at www.truenorthgear.com. Studies at the University of Washington Married to Sally Ketcham, Alyx is the and currently assists students as director 1986 father of 4-year-old twins Spencer and of Career Services/Alumni Relations. Her Tessa. They live in the Columbia City recent personal travels have included Bali, Beth Batali (Leggett), La Crescenta, CA, neighborhood of South Seattle. Tibet, Turkey, and Peru. is married to Dean Batali ’85, a producer Robin Cline ‘94 and Melissa Walker of Fox Television’s That ’70s Show. They ’01 take a break during dessert to Laurel Schwisow, Shelton, runs her own swap stories during the Chicagoland Susan Dolan (Arnold), Bend, OR, lives have two daughters: 9-year-old Erin, and private psychotherapy practice, which Greener Gathering. on a ranch with her husband of 10 years 5-year-old Kate. affords her the freedom to enjoy her other and their two children. She previously Chicago Greener parent David Puszkiewicz passions. She’s performed volunteer work explains the ﬁ ner points of the split-ﬁ nger earned her master’s degree in elementary William Blodgett, Wellington, FL, has in Africa with Global Citizens Network Chicagoland Greener Reading Circle pitch to Cheryl Pacheco ‘99. education and plans to return to teaching. been involved in the manufacture of water devotees Sören Petsch ‘98 and Martin and would enjoy hearing from old friends. Veveris ‘80 were all smiles before dinner at pumps and water management for the Chicago Alumni can join the Chicagoland Greeners at Her email is [email protected] Kent Kleinsasser, Richland, has been Vivere in the Italian Village. past five years. He is currently president of http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chicagoland_Greeners/ managing senior retirement and assisted Holland Pump’s Manufacturing Division in Peg Wortman (Clark), Olympia, living facilities for the last eight years. West Palm Beach, FL. William divorced in remains highly involved in community 2003 and has three children: 16-year-old entertainment programs. Her singing Hal Medrano, State College, PA, spent Orianah, 12-year-old Madeline and 9-year- group, Off Our Rockers, performs for several years traveling around Latin old Liam. retirement homes. She belongs to a America and Asia and teaching English dancing troupe, Arabian Nights, which as a second language before the dot- Wendy Giles Ellis, Millersville, PA, lives tours retirement homes with the hope of com boom of the ’90s called him back in Lancaster County with her husband, broadening appreciation of Middle Eastern to Seattle. When that ran its course, he three daughters and a menagerie of cultures and music. Peg is also active with returned to his first love: teaching. Hal animals. She works as a fiber artist and Head Start. teaches in the Computer Information gardener and runs a small family business. Systems program at South Hills School Patricia Schock, Philadelphia, PA, serves Share great times with your fellow as director of student services for the Michael McKenzie, Tacoma, and his Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. alumni, and show your Evergreen dog, the Good Boy Blue, wow audiences pride with alumni gear from the throughout North America with a world- 1987 class freestyle canine disc routine. Having Evergreen bookstore. qualified for the Skyhoundz World Canine Steven Brewster, Würzburg, Germany, Disc Championships in each of the last is serving as an Army physician. He three years, McKenzie and the Good Boy completed his master in public health Proceeds from alumni gear directly are attaining national status as one of the degree at Harvard School of Public Health best canine/trainer disc teams in the sport. and recently returned from Iraq, where provide for student scholarships They have appeared on television news he worked as a public health physician programs, were featured in a book entitled, with the 82nd Airborne Division in Ar and alumni grants. “Do You Look Like Your Dog?” and have Ramadi. He, his fellow-Greener wife Ellen sold a tape to Animal Planet Television’s Brewster, and his two youngest daughters Planet’s Funniest Animals. When not out moved this past July to Germany, where he playing, they reside in Tacoma with Mike’s took over as chief of primary care for the Shop online at www.tescbookstore.com wife, Caryl Zenker ’84, their two children outlying health clinics. and a border collie named T-Bone Red. 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Polly Trout, Seattle, is executive director 1989 Jennifer Whitewing, Boise, ID, is a self- the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, she’s of Seattle Education Access, a non-profit employed certified massage therapist at been working in community mental health organization that provides tutoring, Cynthia Gaub, Everett, continues to teach Serenity Retreat Therapeutic Spa in Boise, centers and making art with people who mentoring and scholarships for homeless middle school art, drama and English and where she lives with her husband and son. have amazing stories to tell. In January students who wish to attend college. Please create her own artwork. Her small fabric Jennifer says she’s “still a Baha’i’ striving 2004, Rebecca and her partner, Beth, visit www.seattleeducationaccess.org. collages were published in a book, Art in for world peace and an ever-advancing welcomed their cute and spunky son into Your Pocket, a collaborative effort by more civilization.” the world. 1988 than thirty ATC (Artist Trading Cards) Andrew Brown, Portland, OR, is an artists from around the globe. She has won 1990 assistant analyst for Standard Insurance. Corwin Bell, El Dorado, CO, helped the Purchase Award two summers in a row He is also playing keyboards and doing develop an interactive computer adventure at Kent’s Canterbury Faire for her unusual Anita Clark, Islandia, NY, married Jerry video work in the bands Fontanelle and game that uses bio-feedback technology window collages, which are now part of the Combs on April 13, 2002 and gave birth to Jessamine. to key into the player’s body. Physical city’s public art collection. These artworks a daughter, Elizabeth Marie, on September Kay Cooke, Albany, OR, serves as variables such as pulse rate, breath can be seen on her Web site, 25, 2003. Anita still works as a part-time the director of external relations Holly Gwinn Graham, Olympia, released frequency, and overall stress levels affect www.sheba-kitty-productions.com. pediatric occupational therapist. and marketing for the College of a new CD titled “Outsource This!” that’s the game’s outcome. The publications Pharmacy at Oregon State University receiving airplay and great reviews all over Discover, Wired, The New York Times Jennifer Gray, Hoodsport, just finished Wanda Cromartie-White, Tacoma, in Corvallis, OR. She also stays busy the country. A longtime performer for and London Times all have had articles a book of poetry and photography, Poetic is working as a chemical dependency Julie Bonsteel (Anderson), Tacoma, with photography, media work and peace, justice and the environment, Holly featuring this game. Find more at Zen. Chairman of the Shelton Arts professional at the Metropolitan has earned a spot on the Tacoma City writing publications for alumni affairs has been touring for various organizations www.wilddivine.com. Commission, Jeni also runs five web Development Council. Council (www.Position7Tacoma.org) and public relations at the college. and writing songs for rallies, events and sites and enjoys photographing the where she is the vice-chair of the educational outreach during the last six Kelly Le Baron, Centralia, has taught for Hood Canal, gardening and planning Elyssa Gersen, Brooklyn, NY, is Government Performance and years. The songs on her newest albums 16 years and received her National Board her next book. beginning her fourth year as the director of Finance Committee and serves on were composed for these events, telling Certification in 2003. vocational services at Samaritan Village, also working toward establishing a private the Association of Washington Cities true stories about some of today’s urgent Rita Stein-Grollman, New York, NY, a not-for-profit drug treatment agency in practice that will focus on play and sand Legislative Committee. Julie is a fellow issues. Holly performs solo and with The Michael Nath, Lacey, plans to work in and her husband David have a 1-year-old New York City. She resides in Park Slope, tray therapy. Reach her at [email protected]. of the American Leadership Forum Carlysle Group and continues to back up civil rights law after retiring from the daughter, Ilana. Rita is a school librarian Brooklyn and was married last July. and was recently elected to the Board her career by being a substitute teacher. state of Washington in 2005. Mike’s wife, while David works as a stay-at-home dad Camille Falor (Beatty), Lakewood, OH, of Directors of City Club of Tacoma, Reach her at [email protected] or visit Kathryn Le Pome ’94, works as a civil and musician. Melody Younglove, Olympia, has started a has been happily married for 11 years to as well as the Tacoma PTA Board. www.HollyGwinnGraham.com. rights investigator, an affirmative action new job with the attorney general’s office, Derrek Falor, who is the women’s soccer She worked with emotionally disturbed officer and as an ADA coordinator. thanks to her Evergreen education, which, coach at Cleveland State University. youth in crisis residential and group Louise Kornreich, Seattle, is still riding Mike and Kathryn wish to announce the along with her contacts, was very helpful. Camille is the regional vice president care settings before earning her Master her bike everywhere and is heavily October marriage of son Charlie to their And, she’s a new grandma! for SCA Personal Care in the Midwest. of Science degree in Criminal Justice. involved with the Bicycle Alliance of new daughter-in-law, Joanna. Additionally, she and her husband She served as executive director of Washington, an advocate for cyclists’ welcomed their first son, Mason Allen, in the YWCA of Pierce County, then 1991 rights statewide. The highlight of her labor Ellynne Plotnick, Stamford, CT, has been June 2003. started a consulting business, Athena is the annual auction. Louise has become performing as a jazz vocalist in the New Concepts, specializing in non-proﬁt Ramona Abbott, Bellingham, is an more grounded after buying a condo, but York metro area for the past four years and Sonja May, Ilwaco, opened a co-op/ management. artist and interior designer and runs a she is trying to enjoy the trade-off by has also been teaching public school at the commissions gallery in Columbia River management-consulting firm that helps spending time in her deck garden. elementary level. She just released a CD, Artist’s Gallery. Their gallery, which businesses run more effectively and Daydream, and invites Greeners to visit opened last July in Chinook, Washington, efficiently. Learn more about Ramona’s Bobbie Lavender, Seattle, has a new book her Web site, www.ellynne.com. features original works from Northwest Kurt Kirstein, Monroe, recently work at www.EssentiallyProfessional.com coming out, Mamaphonic, that deals with artists. completed his doctorate in organizational and www.EssentiallyWhimsical.com. creativity and motherhood. Visit www. Mark Sciscenti, Santa Fe, NM, is the leadership at Nova Southeastern Phoenix, AZ, married softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1- proud owner of Kakawa Chocolate Kory Merkel, Elizabeth Stanton, Olympia, is earning University. He is currently the director her partner, Francine Ambrosich, Cher Beard, Mountlake Terrace, earned a 932360-64-6. House in Santa Fe. A chocolate historian her master’s degree in applied behavioral of training for a bio-technical division of in Vancouver, BC on June 21, 2004. master of social work degree from Portland and chocolate connoisseur, he gives science from the Leadership Institute a Seattle pharmaceutical company and It was a beautiful garden wedding State University in 1999 and is now a Heather McPherson, Olympia, is a educational presentations on the history of Seattle. She is also a self-employed taught adjunct courses this past fall. with their 2-year-old daughter, geriatric mental health licensed clinical wildlife biologist for Washington State of chocolate. Mark says he’s taken to massage therapist and yoga teacher. Eleanor, serving as flower girl, and social worker at Northwest Hospital Department of Natural Resources. She is heart the commitment to conscious and Brent McManigal, Riverside, CA, has attended by family and friends. They in Seattle. She became a mother to married and has a 2-year-old daughter. ecological action he learned from his changed career directions with a move to married on the five-year anniversary Mackenzie Anna in June. 1992 Evergreen experience. Visit his Web site at a local law firm in Southern California of their relationship, and dream of Amelia Romoff, Olympia, owns her own www.kakawachocolatehouse.com. Rebecca Bloom (Felsenfeld), Seattle, after 12 years in the organics recycling the day they can have their marriage Lisa Bottomley, Chimacum, received her psychic counseling business after working began teaching as adjunct faculty for industry. He now balances his schedule legally recognized by their home state master’s in counseling degree from Pacifica in social services for nine years. Antioch Seattle’s master in art therapy between work, law school and his wife of Arizona! Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA. Visit www.ameliastree.com. and three children. 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Avesa Rockwell, Duluth, MN, married farms in Marin County, California, and is Jeremy Kershaw ’97 in summer 2004 and Frances Long (Gransbery), Roy, is a grant an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center is coordinating the Writers Corps for the management analyst with Washington for the Arts in Sausalito. San Francisco Arts commission. State Parks and Recreation. Her passion is breeding thoroughbred horses. Ingrid Johnson, Modesto, CA, received You Helped Me . . . Libya Taylor Vogt, Vancouver, B.C., her master of fine arts degree in creative and her partner, Joe, are enjoying life as Caitlin Ochse (Mooney), Santa Barbara, writing from Eastern Washington Stacey Gonia says an Evergreen scholarship gave her back some ex-patriots after moving to Vancouver in CA, helped found Santa Barbara Body University in 2000 and is now teaching independence after a major car accident left her physically challenged. February 2003. Their son, Charlie, was Works, a school of massage therapy, English at Modesto Junior College in Stacey is now in her second semester studying health and human born in March 2003, and he has really in 2000. California. She married Dimitri Keriotis, development at The Evergreen State College. brightened their lives. who also teaches English at the college, in the summer of 2003. You can make a difference for students like Stacey with your gift to the 1996 1995 Kimberly Kinchen, New York, NY, fell Evergreen Annual Fund. Stacy Dow, Mountain View, CA, is in love with New York City the minute For more information or to make a gift, visit our website at Georgia Armstrong-Cezar, Lacey, retired living in the San Francisco Bay Area she stepped off the train in October www.evergreen.edu/give or contact: as a technical sergeant from the United with her partner and their dog, Baxter. 2001. She is now starting the part-time States Air Force, then went on to work for She graduated from San Francisco State The Evergreen State College Annual Fund master in science degree program at a number of state agencies, including the University with a master of fine arts degree 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW Columbia University’s Graduate School of Department of Corrections, Department in cinema in 2003 and, after a two-year Olympia, Washington 98505 Journalism. Kimberly is also the program (360) 867-6190 of Labor and Industries, Department of stint as the media center manager at the coordinator at the Institute for Not-For- Natural Resources and the Department of California College of Arts and Crafts, she Profit Management at Columbia. Health Services. In September 2003 she has gone back to writing.

was promoted to senior human resource Mark Mueller, Washington, DC, manager for the Department of Social May Farnsworth, Chapel Hill, NC, is Brian Bothwell, Boise, ID, and his wife fisheries biologist with Deschutes National worked with Dr. Betty Kutter in the 1993 and Health Services at McNeil Island pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Latin American Pauline Bothwell, a fellow Greener, moved Forest. Meghan received her master of Bacteriophage Lab before moving on to Corrections Center’s Special Offender literature at University of North Carolina- back to Boise after nearly 10 years in social work degree several years ago and is a biotech start-up company developing Mark Anderson, Vancouver, does seasonal Commitment Center. Chapel Hill. This March she leaves for Bloomington, IN. He says he’s “Glad to be a therapist working with at-risk teens in a phage for pharmaceutical use. After four work for the Parks Service. Argentina for one academic year under a back in the Northwest!” He still works for wilderness program. years of doing project management for Tina Cook, Hilo, HI, and her husband and Fulbright grant. the small-but-mighty e-learning company the company in DC, he was sent to the business partner, Bud Cook ’78, founded WisdomTools, where he was recently Vickie Era, Rochester, has worked for Netherlands to head up projects testing Ka Maluhia Learning Center in 2003. Karrie Halbur, Watkins, MN, has been Jennifer Scott (Weed), Seattle, promoted to vice president of systems and State Senator Dan Swecker ’73 since phage as alternatives to antibiotics for Tina continues to practice massage and recruiting foster and adoptive families and her husband, Casey, welcomed development. January 1995 and loves her job. She says, use in agriculture, medicine and the food bodywork in her native state, as well as for the state of Minnesota for more than their first child, Katarina Anne, “It’s like being in perpetual school with industry. Mark has since moved back to teach children’s Heart Warrior & Peace two years. in January. They celebrated their Samantha Nelson (Swain), Ellensburg, all that I am constantly learning and can our nation’s capital to work as a senior Education classes through Aikido at Ka 2-year wedding anniversary in July and her husband have a young son, participate and have some influence in.” clinical coordinator at the Bethesda, MD, Maluhia or [email protected]. Lisa Hamilton, Mill Valley, CA, is a writer 2004. Jennifer is primarily a stay- Michael. They both teach at Ellensburg office of University of California-San and photographer in the San Francisco at-home mom, but she still works High School. Amy Kiser, Midlothian, VA, married Francisco’s Immune Tolerance Network. Julie Fagan (Croman), Newbury, VT, is a Bay area. Following straight from the days a few swing shifts at the King Allan Sanders in 2003, and they had a Reach him at [email protected]. school nurse and childbirth educator, and of community development with Russ Fox, County Crisis Clinic. Paul Slusher, Kirkland, returned to his baby girl, Eve Sanders, on June 1, 2004. has two children, 8-year-old Evan and 5- her work focuses on food and farming. Lisa primary love, exercise and fitness training, year-old Gabe. is currently working on a book about small after a long stint of post-graduate work Dylan Martens, North Hollywood, CA, and is currently running his own personal works for Beth Frank Industries. His work training program, Paul Slusher Personal as a production designer can be seen in Training, in Kirkland. The Works, and his work as a props painter can be viewed in The Alamo. Quilcene Alumni Make Fine Music Dione Thompson, Redmond, recently married Mario Garcia and is a national Peter Risse, Eagle River, AK, is the board certified teacher with the director of the University of Alaska Northshore School District. Fisheries Observer Training Center and is pursuing a master in public administration degree at University of Alaska-Anchorage. 1994 His daughter, Kylie Ann Risse, was

born on January 18, 2004, when the Nathaniel Dachtler, Bend, OR, and temperature hit 23 degrees below zero! Meghan Flaherty ’95 met while at

Evergreen and married in 1999. Nate is a North Sound alums enjoyed music and fellowship with hosts Barbara 26 Leigh Smith and David Paulsen at their home in Quilcene, Washington. Alumni Matters Alumni Matters

Barbara Whitener (Greene), Shelton, of Oregon. She is an active member of Baruch Cahn, Zurich, Switzerland, 1999 Nathan will be joining the resilience and is a contract employee with the Squaxin Meeting Professionals International (MPI) is working on a Ph.D. degree in Frederick Okamura, Portland, OR, adaptation program, using interdisciplinary Island Tribe, helping people in the and is in the process of applying for a neurosciences at the University of joined the law firm of Kirkpatrick, Elisabeth Diem, Albuquerque, NM, is approaches to tackle conservation issues. community learn their ancestral language. Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) California-San Diego, conducting research Zeitz and Okamura, LLP as a pursuing a master in special education Field work will be on the Arctic coastal She had the opportunity to begin learning designation. Additionally, she has worked at the Psychiatric University Hospital of partner. He and his wife, Chanpone degree at the University of New Mexico. plain around the town of Barrow. Any the language through a contract and for three years as the corporate event the University of Zurich. He’s studying Sinlapasai-Okamura, have two Alaskan or Alaska-oriented Greeners can internship at Evergreen. planner for Miller Nash, LLP. the neural correlates to experiences of beautiful daughters, Arianna and Sean Harris, Lacey, received his master’s reach him at [email protected] expanded states of self with psilocybin, Gwendolyn. He would like to degree in filmmaking at Columbia meditation and EEG. connect with other PDX Greeners University in New York. Dianne Dupuis, Tumwater, is an RN 1997 1998 practice team manager at Group Health thinking of a Portland alumni Marcia De Geer (Bjerrum), Brooklyn, Cooperative in Olympia where she Julie Bass, Durham, NC, graduated Aurora Brackett, Oakland, CA, is chapter or club. Linda Lee, Kent, graduated from Seattle NY, married Derek De Geer ’98 in 2000. manages pediatrics and a Family from Emory University with a master of working for her master of fine arts University Law School in May 2003 Marcia graduated from the New England Practice Clinic. medical science degree and will be starting degree in creative writing at San Francisco and is currently working at ACCION School of Law in 2003 and published a new position as a physician’s assistant State University. New Mexico, as the director of outreach two articles: Biopiracy: The Appropriation Justin McKaughan, Olympia, produced in Durham. She is married to Matthew and operations. She is responsible for of Indigenous Peoples’ Cultural Knowledge “Dance O’Dance” on KCTV last Ransom. Kristin Budinich, Pipersville, PA, developing and maintaining partnerships and Restraining Genetic Drift through season and recently received a teaching is attending graduate school at the with local communities, and managing Criminal Sanction. She is currently a certificate. He is also in a psychedelic Miguel Castanha, Maputo, Mozambique, University of Pennsylvania, where she is ACCION’s participation in the member of the Association for the City of band called Acid and can be reached at after graduating went to Cambodia, pursuing her veterinary degree. She plans AmeriCorps VISTA program. Visit New York’s Committee on International [email protected]. where he taught English for more than to graduate in 2006. www.accionnm.org. two years. He returned to school to work Diana Redwood, Anchorage, AK, moved on a master’s degree in Environment, Shannon Mayorga, Miami, FL, is working back to Alaska after receiving a master in Development and Policy, then went to with the National Audubon Society as a Josh Horton ’98 comes from a family that has science degree in nutrition and a master of Mozambique, where he has been since conservation coordinator for Audubon’s called Southold Town, NY, its home for twelve public health degree from Tufts University January 2002, working for the United Florida state office. In addition to being generations. He hails from a long line of elected in Boston. She is now a nutrition research Nations Development Program. Miguel’s engaged in environmental policy work, he public officials who have held office locally, specialist working at the Alaska Tribal portfolio includes work in environment is a resident artist at Tu Tu Tango, a South statewide and nationally—including a grandfather, Health Consortium. and natural resources, rural development, Environmental Law, and now works Florida artist loft and restaurant. Since Schuyler Wentworth Horton, who served as New private sector development, and municipal York State Senator for this district for several for ArtCrating, Inc. in Manhattan, an moving to Florida in 1999, Shannon splits Ann Rider, Phoenix, AZ, earned her and general elections. artist-owned company that installs, travel time between eastern Europe and terms. Josh himself assumed the family mantle of master of social work degree in May 2004. crates and ships art. Reach them at Latin America to fulfill alpine and other public service in January of 2002, when he was She is now working as an advocate for Kelly Latimer, Tacoma, is a graduate [email protected] outdoor adventure yearnings. elected supervisor of the Town of Southold at persons with serious mental illnesses. student at Antioch University, working the age of 29, the youngest in New York State. toward her K-8 teaching certificate and Essentially the CEO/CFO of the town, Josh Jeanne Doherty, Seattle, is pursuing her Kathryn Mejaski (Michaelis), Nashville, Lucia Silva, Los Angeles, CA, owns her master in education degree. She is master in library and information science IN, is pursuing her Ph.D. in public affairs oversees the fiscal management of a $60 million and operates First Cut Books, an online also recently engaged to Harold Dodd and degree at the University of Washington degree at Indiana University. budget and 250 employees. independent bookstore and literary review. plans to marry in the summer of 2005. while working in the libraries and writing First Cut Books plans to open a brick-and- reviews and other essays in her spare Dan Powell, Chiang Mai, Thailand, In addition to local legislation and policy, Josh worked with Senator Hillary mortar store in Los Angeles this year. Visit Diana Rak, Vancouver, is the human time. Her short pieces can be found at is pursuing his master in sustainable Clinton (D-NY) on a federal farm bill to ensure funding for conservation, a www.firstcutbooks.com. resources and safety manager for Franz successful effort that resulted in Southold Town receiving millions in federal princessbookworm.blogspot.com. development degree at Chiang Mai Family Bakeries in Portland, OR. She has aid dollars. He also helped to institute a preservation program that has to date University. He can be reached at: Regional been invited by other organizations and protected nearly 8,000 acres of farmland and open space. Talia Fernos, Chicago, IL, is in the Center for Social Science and Sustainable 2001 businesses to train their management, staff, Ph.D. program at the University of Development, Faculty of Social Sciences, employees and/or community members His progressive efforts toward development rights, affordable housing and Illinois-Chicago. Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Kenyatto Amen Allah (McThomas), throughout the Northwest. enhanced public safety through community patrol programs are recognized around Thailand 50200. Seattle, has put out two albums: H20six, the state as models for other townships and have garnered Josh considerable Sarah Kilgour, Madison, WI, just a movie soundtrack, and Guerillahscrillah. Kathleen Sims (Ewell), Olympia, helped accolades. When asked about his most gratifying accomplishment since taking returned from three years in Japan. She 2000 In November 2003 he won the Tough create the water quality program on the office, Josh fairly beams when recounting the story of one particularly hard-fought is now a special education assistant at an Man contest in Seattle with the help Highway 18 Project. She says, “the world is battle that drew national coverage. elementary school in Madison and Nathanael Coutsoubos, Olympia, of his trainer Qadir Muhammad. a much different place than it was; the best working toward her teaching certificate continued his work as a contract biologist Kenyatto also created an energy drink thing one can do is work the system from “Church Lane, a long-standing African American community that houses the at Edgewood College. last summer. His latest project was a survey called Guerillahscrillah. Reach him at the inside.” oldest African American church congregation in town, came under siege by for marbled murrelets on Washington’s [email protected] commercial development,” Josh remembers. “We preserved the community, Susan Petreye (Blinder), Olympia, has outer coast, from Sekiu to Naselle. This Elaina Spring, Portland, OR, earned protected its residential integrity, redirected the commercial interests to an been a social worker for more than five fall he moved to tropical Fairbanks, Barbara (BJ) Bosch, Olympia, is a supplemental business certificate in appropriate non-residential area and have worked with the residents to promote years and is currently working with the AK, to pursue a Ph.D. degree at the employed at Children Administration in event management from the University the revitalization of the neighborhood through infrastructure and home elderly in a care facility. University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Though Tumwater and is working toward a master’s improvements. Today, the Church Lane community flourishes.” his home department will be biology, degree in psychology at City University.

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Anne Jindra, Oberlin, OH, and Patrick Chomchay Siboliban, Los Angeles, CA, of Art, and later accepted a position McPherron ’01 married on October 16 at is a master of public health candidate at as the chief assistant to the director of Ash Cave State Park, Ohio, in a ceremony the Keck School of Medicine, department development. He also began showing In Memoriam conducted by Mike Merrifield ’01 and of prevention medicine at the University his own paintings in galleries throughout Emily Jindra ’01. Anne is employed as of Southern California. Chomchay can be Los Angeles, New Orleans, Burlington, Ansel Vizcaya, ’01 lost his life in mid- She eventually became a master composter Rev. Laurie Alan Tockey, ’77 died a caseworker at the Oberlin Community reached at [email protected] Portland, San Diego and Seattle. Joshua’s June after being caught in an avalanche trainer and spent time educating the public November 24, 2004, in Adams County, Services Center, and Patrick is the work is now represented in San Francisco while climbing Mt. Rainier. about the importance of that form of waste Ill. Rev. Tockey was chaplain at Lincoln Web programmer for Oberlin College’s Tammie Wilson, Anchorage, AK, had a by Varnish Gallery. For the latest on Josh, reduction. She also was a Shaddhilayya Correctional Center for 20 years. In 2002, office of career services. Reach them at baby this year, Mance Woodrow Wilson. visit www.joshuapetker.com, and Ansel worked as a botanist and seasonal Sufi, or a healer, in the Sufi path of Islam. Tockey founded the prison’s Mom and [email protected] Tammie is a graduate student at the www.roqlarue.com. fire effects monitor at North Cascades Me Camp, which he called “God’s vision University of Alaska-Anchorage, studying National Park. He was 29. In July, she was diagnosed with an to me.”

Portland, OR, received environmental quality engineering. inoperable brain tumor. She was buried Cara Kozma, Ansel and his longtime partner Michelle her master’s degree from Portland State 2003 facing east, towards Mecca. He recruited volunteers and raised Poveromo graduated from Evergreen University in the winter of 2004 and has money to help bring children to their Shultzie MacDonald, San Francisco, together in 2001. He graduated with a been accepted to the Ph.D. program for 2002 Steve Charak, ’81 passed away in Olympia incarcerated mothers for a three- CA, interned at The Puppet Showplace bachelor of science with emphasis in on December 18, 2004, after a battle day camp. Rev. Tockey was beloved English literature. Richard Bailey, Arlington, VA, is Theatre in Brookline, MA, and at WNET- botany, and held a special interest for with brain cancer. Steve was married among both staff and residents of the volunteering with AmeriCorps, mapping NY and RCNE (a family and children’s native plants used for medicinal purposes. to Katie Charak. correctional center. Julian Leveton, Sausalito, CA, is a caves in West Virginia. production company) in New York City. supported living counselor for Life House, At the time of his death, Ansel and After working for a year, he moved to He earned his bachelor of arts degree from His wife, Suzanne; two sons, Malachi and which provides in-home services for people Michelle lived in Missoula, MT. Scott Chichester, Sequim, WA, is working Washington for a few months, where he Evergreen and recently received his master Silas; his mother Leona Tockey; sister with disabilities. toward his master in teaching degree. He worked on a local children’s television of arts degree from Antioch University. Leslie Tockey; and brother Bryan Tockey, Andrea Friedrichsen, ’88 died Nov. 9, Steve was an author and teacher, and survive him. hopes to teach language arts and social program. He is now doing a graduate Patricia Lignoski, Raymond, worked 2004. Andrea jumped into everything was founder and publisher of Young Voices studies while aiming for a career in school program at Ohio University on a full at the Welfare to Work program and from running a sandwich shop in magazine, devoted to publishing art, administration. scholarship and assistantship, after working Dislocated Workers in Grays Harbor Portland, OR., to developing recycling, photographs and stories created by children. in San Francisco as an office administrator County and taught a class at Grays composting, and waste reduction He was also a former elementary school Alissa Fountain, Minneapolis, MN, at a television development company Harbor College called Steps for Success programs for Clark County and other teacher in Lacey, WA. is a development director at a syringe called Q-Media Partners. after leaving Evergreen. She is now an government agencies. exchange program. She also works as a employment consultant for Morningside doula, or birth assistant, through two Lilia Nieto Torres (Fernandez), Olympia, and was elected as a port commissioner for different programs serving low-income has been a political media advisor with the Port of Willapa Harbor. women, women of color and women living the House of Representatives Democratic

with HIV. Caucus since September 2003. She handles Joshua Morgan, Corrales, NM, began all media communications for six members working for Governor Bill Richardson of Jennifer Moore, Portland, OR, is an office of the House of Representatives, which New Mexico immediately after graduation. manager with Limbo Films, which hires includes writing speeches, press releases, Joshua is now a financial analyst and small crews to make commercials. newsletters, talking points, columns for cap fund manager for an institutional local papers, and radio feeds. The fast- money manager. Joshua Petker, Los Angeles, CA, was moving pace of the political arena keeps hired to be the graphic design coordinator Lilia busy and happy.

with the Los Angeles County Museum What’s Your Legacy? When I wrote my will, I decided to leave a considerable portion of my estate in a bequest to Evergreen, as a way to further the reach and impact of this tremendous community. Janice King, ‘80 The Evergreen State College Foundation “No. 13 Over the Wynoochee” by Robert Chamberlain 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW Olympia, WA 98505 (360) 867-6300 [email protected] A mural at the Mason County Historical Society Museum in Shelton, Washington Nonproﬁt Org. U.S. Postage The Evergreen Magazine PAID Winter 2005, Vol. 26, No. 1 Olympia, WA Published by The Ofﬁce of College Advancement Permit No. 65 The Evergreen State College Olympia, WA 98505

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Photographer Sonja Tachell, ’01, captured her fellow students studying salmon habitat on the Olympic Peninsula during one of Evergreen’s ﬁeld studies programs. Since its founding, the College has emphasized ﬁeld study as an integral part of the learning process.