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\ Spring 1991 A Report to Alumni and Other Friends of Western Washington University VOL. 22 NO. 3

Through the path of echoes Spring has a Spanish accent at Western

By Jo Collinge tural Services Center. A film festival exploring the social Spring has a Spanish accent with the and artistic history of modem Mexico exhibit of contemporary Mexican art, ran April 10 through May 2. “Por El Camino de Ecos” (Through Cinco de Mayo, which marks the tri­ the Path of Echoes), at the Western umph of the hastily conscripted Gallery until June and a month-long Mexican people over the French in the celebration of Hispanic culture which 1860s, was celebrated Saturday, May culminated with the Cinco de Mayo 4, beginning with a reception at the gal­ commemoration. May 4. lery from 4:00-5:00 p.m. and followed The evocative exhibition of paint­ by a dinner with keynote speaker Seat­ ing, sculpture. tle Superior Court photography and Judge Richard installation work Martinez and a by 15 Mexican ar­ Latin-style dance tists opened at the at the Viking Western Gallery Union. The eve­ April 8 and will ning was spon­ remain through sored by June 1. According MEChA, the Mul­ to Gallery Direc­ ticultural Services tor Sarah Clark- Center, the What­ Langager, the com Hispanic Or­ works reflect ganization and themes that define the new Ethnic Among 17 contemporary Mexican artists whose works the Mexican char­ Student Center. are currently on view at the Western Gallery are Hours for the Ruben Ortiz (**Power, Corruption and Lies," left) acter: Gerardo Suter C‘Earth, Sky and the Infernos,** above) • the impor­ contemporary and German Venegas (“Triumph of Death,** below). tance and vitality Mexican art ex­ The traveling exhibition, “Through the Path of of the nation’s hibit are Monday- Echoes: Contemporary Art in Mexico** was organized complex history Friday, 10 a.m.-4 and circulated by Independent Curators, Incorporated, New York. Photos by Salvador Lutteroth and Jesus to its contemporary culture; p.m., Saturdays and Sundays, noon-4 Sanchez Uribe. • the uneasy relationship between in­ p.m. It will be closed Memorial Day, digenous Indian and western cultures; May 27. For information about the ex­ • the quest for personal and national hibit, contact the Western Gallery, identity; Fine Arts Complex, 676-3963. • and the role that religion plays in The touring exhibit was organized the lives of the people. and is being circulated by Independent In conjunction with the exhibit and Curators Incorporated, of New York. the Cinco De Mayo celebration, there Founded in 1971, ICI is a non-profit were a series of lectures, films and a organization supported by the Lila Wal- parade of Mexican costumes. lace-Reader’s Digest Fund and the Inaugurating the program, farm Andy Warhol Foundation for theVisual labor leader Caesar Chavez, was on Arts. campus April 10 sponsored by The exhibition, tour, and catalogue MEChA (Movimiento Estudianti are made possible in part, by grants Chicanos de Aztlan). Noon Hour Gal­ from the Nathan Cummings Founda­ lery Discussions were scheduled on tion, the Maidenform Arts Program of four Wednesdays — April 17 and 24 the Ida and William Rosenthal Founda­ and May 8 and 15 — to explore con­ tion, Inc., the National Endowment for temporary Mexican life and its impact the Arts, the Consulate General of on artists. Wednesday, May 1, the gal­ Mexico in New York and contribu­ lery was the site for a pre-Columbian tions from the ICI Exhibitions Patrons fashion show with commentary by Dr. Circle. Luz Maciel Villarroel, of the Multicul- trict after 22 years of teaching in counselor at Burlington-Edison Cann House Bed and Breakfast. called Funtasia ... Scott G. the Chimacum District. High, is one of six finalists for this ’70 — Paul Heaven just finished Woodard married Sue Ellen Vail ’64 — Gary Karlberg — Principal year’s Skagit Women’s Alliance Roll Call his first year of teaching music at June 23 in Olympia and is a self- of Bellingham’s Parkview Elemen­ and Network Professional and Busi­ ’57 — Patti Morton has been in Trout Lake, Washington. Paul has employed contractor. tary for eight years, will retire after ness Woman of the Year Award ... the Foreign Service of the U.S. 11 members in his band and a four ’73 — Elli Harron, who’s been 30 years of teaching in Washington Joseph F. Cheesman is the new State Department since 1965. She girl choir. director of the Parent Support schools. Director of Human Resources for has served in Katmandu, Zaire, ’72 - Minnie Orr is the state Project, a part of the Mason County ’65 — Robert W, Thirsk received North Idaho College (NIC), Coeur Cameroon, Singapore and several champion of the Crisco American Council on Abuse and Neglect, is his doctorate in Educational Leader­ d’Alene, Idaho. Cheesman has other sites worldwide. While work­ Pie Celebration. She will represent moving to a full-time counselor’s ship from Seattle University in June worked in the personnel field for ing in the Bureau of Diplomatic Washington in the national finals in position at Evergreen High School 1990. He is currently completing over 22 years. His new position is Security in the African Region, she New Orleans in March ... Michael in the Shelton School District... his fourth year as Director of the the first of its kind at NIC. was awarded Centralia College’s Kerwin set up and ran a recreation­ Kathleen Waugh and David Hast­ Placement Center at the University ’69 — Barbara Hudson, who was distinguished alumni award for al facility while serving in Viet ings (’74) announce the birth of of Washington. He resides in Mill selected to be on the editorial board 1990. Nam and managed a similar facility two children: Rebecca, in 1987, Creek with Dova, his wife, and son ’61 — Richard Wojt was recently oi Apropos magazine, is an English in Germany. Now in Lynnwood, and Ian, in 1989. Kathleen and Trevor. teacher at Whatcom Community sworn in as the new Jefferson Coun­ Kerwin and his wife Beth (’75) are David both work at the Washington ’67 — Carol Kirkby, a senior College and the owner of the De- ty Commissioner for the Third Dis­ starting an indoor family playland State Archives and live in Shelton. Continued on page 3 2 Grist of Goldsmith Ford family of six Joins by Chris Goldsmith, Director of Alumni Relations T^e Western Washington University Alumni Association is on the move again and all indications show that the direction is definitely “up.” the Alumni Association Beginning this past fall, a decision was made to change the Association s event focus from regional gatherings to one more oriented By Mike Thomsen firm in Portland, Oregon, called Op­ toward majors. timize Technology. Alumni have responded to that change in numbers we haven’t seen James Ford, President of Skagit Val­ Stuart Ford, 30, got his bachelor’s before. ley College, and his entire family — degree in art from Western in 1985. He History grads, some 65 strong, gathered at the Columbia Winery in six people altogether — recently joined is now practicing his art, doing com­ Woodinville, (the day after the Gulf War began). More than 135 geog­ the Western Washington University mercial fishing work, and building a raphy and regional planning alums showed up at their department alumni Alumni Association. It is, so far as house. He is also pondering getting his event at the Columbia Towers Club in Seattle. Upwards of 150 technology Alumni Director Chris Goldsmith master’s in art from Western, accord­ graduates also renewed acquaintances with each other and former faculty knows, the most family members to ing to his father. at the Columbia Towers Club. join the group at one time. Daughter, Jean, 34, took her English grads just had their first gathering in a number of years at the In the span of 40 years. Ford, his bachelor’s degree from Oregon State Columbia Winery. Communications graduates convened in April as did wife, Fran, and their four children University and got her master’s degree biology alums. Doug, Jean, Stuart and Greg, all in 1983 from Western in student per­ Perhaps corresponding to those efforts, membership in the WWU Alum­ graduated from Western with four sonnel. She now works as the director ni Club is running ahead of last year’s^fecord pace. As-of March 12, near­ bachelor’s and two master’s degrees of admissions at Skagit Valley College. ly 3,400 alumni have taken out Alumni Club memberships for the year, in­ among them. ^ Greg Ford, 27, received his cluding 152 Life Members. bachelor’s degree from Whitman Col­ In support of a long-standing goal to increase the number of Alumni Skagit Valley President lege and then got his master’s degree Scholars who attend Western each year, the WWU Alumni Board dedi­ Jim Ford, 63, graduated from in psychology from Western in 1990. ^ cated $5 of each WWU Alumni Club membership to the seven students Western with a bachelor’s degree in He is currently teaching two classes at who received Alumni Scholarships this academic year. That move is allow­ biology and elementary education in Skagit Valley College and is continu­ ing the Scholarship Endowment to retain its earnings for the year, and will 1951. From there, he went on to ing to work toward his PhD. ultimately provide an even higher number of scholarships in coming years. Oregon State University to get his Jim Ford continues to credit This summer, a letter will be going out to alumni who indicated an inter­ master’s and PhD. He became dean of Western’s image and educational est in forming an Alumni Admissions Network and talking with prospec­ instruction at Skagit Valley College in reputation for his family’s choices. “In tive students. Under the leadership of WWU Alumni Association President 1965 and president in 1977. all cases, it was because we knew of Martin Chorba and WWU Admissions Director Karen Copetas, this pro­ Ford says it was Western’s outstand­ good programs there,” he says. gram will cap off an exciting year and will continue a tradition of attract­ ing reputation that convinced him and ing some of this state’s top scholars. his family to attend: “I really believe ‘Pleasure to support’ In addition to updating addresses, we are continuing our efforts to find that was it more than anything.” Ford grew up in the Longview area out what Western alumni do for a living. Many of you have let us know He and his wife transferred to of Washington and his wife, Fran, was where you work at various alumni events. But for the most part, we don’t Western from Lower Columbia Com­ reared in Everett. After graduating have that information on the majority of our graduates. Sometime this sum­ munity College and Central from Western, he took a job at Bel­ mer, we plan to send out the definitive alumni questionnaire to everyone Washington University, respectively. levue High School and she got one at on our database in an effort to develop a better profile on just who you are And it was here that they met and fell Bellevue Elementary. In 1954, they and what you do. Watch for it. Until then, we certainly hope to see you at in love. In addition to the university’s moved to Mount Vernon after the then an alumni event or at this fall’s Homecoming celebration. reputation, Jim also came here to play Skagit Valley Junior College offered football for then coach Charles Ford a job. “Lappy” Lappenbusch. Ultimately In between the Bellevue and Skagit though. Ford insists the main reason Valley jobs, he went to Oregon State WWU AItttttiii Association Board of UirectoRi was “that we all knew Western was for his master’s degree. After spending good.” some time at Skagit Valley, he oma&s: Martin Chorba ’66, Olympia, preaident; Charlas LeWarne '55, Edmonds, prosJ* returned to OSU for his PhD. dent-efect Mark Vandagrift ’85, Seattle, secretary-treasurer; Mark Wolken '79, Everett, Chemistry and art past-president; Mtan Darr '85, Everett, executive-at-targe; Paul GiNie ’52, Olympia, exeou- Despite loyalty to other institutions tive-at-(arge; Don Hardwick Woodinville, executive-at-large. Board Members: Gary Fran got her bachelor’s degree in they have attended - and Ford’s finan­ Anderson ’65, Renton; Alvin Aikilis ’87, Marysville; Mike Bates ’75, Bellingham: Mel elementary education from Western in cial support for the college he now Blackman ’74, Nanaimo, 8.C.; Ruth Clark '86. Seattle; Dick Dixon ’59, Aberdeen; Gary 1950. She taught second grade at Bel­ heads — the family has made its strong Grim '81, Everett; Richard Helke *80, Bellingham; Brad Hultman '71, Beingh«n: Mike levue Elementary and kindergarten in Kettmen ’73, ^llingham; Mike Kimmich '70; BeWngham; Marilyn IGose ’«3, Snohomish; dedication to, and appreciation of, its Sandy Labadie *77, BeHingham; James Leverett '69, Beiiingham; Sandle tucke ‘65, Bell­ Corvalis, Oregon. Currently, she is joint alma mater tangible and official ingham; Roxanne Michael '75, Bellingham; Mark Murphy '84, Seattte; Ron Renard 73, doing volunteer work with elderly and by joining the Alumni Association all Everett; Roberta Riley ’82, Setfte; Robin Ruseeil ’82, Seattle; Chaiiie Ryan ’76, Seattle disabled people. at once. “It’s a pleasure to support Carol Salisbury '72, Bellingham; Joyce Taylor ’84, Seattle. Eldest son, Douglas Ford, 36, at­ your fine university,” Ford wrote Presi­ Begional Coordinmts: Brad Chandler ’7t, Olympia; TerH Echeibarger ’87, San Fran­ tended Western for its chemistry pro­ dent Kenneth P. Mortimer when he cisco Bay area: Kay Hovde mwali; Charles Odell '52, Washington. D.C.; Jack Stark mailed the membership applications. ’59, Shelton; Cart Swanson '84, Southeast Alaska; Patricia Swenson ’73, Pottland/Van- gram. “He went there because he couver, Chet Ullin '37, Kitsap Peninsula; Dean Wttson 75, Southern California; Frank heard they had a good program,” Ford Alumni Director Goldsmith, beam­ Williams '72, Australia: URoy WIssinger '68, Arizona: Gals Th<»npson '86, Austin, says. Douglas, who graduated in 1977, ing, is looking toward the next Ford Texas. • is now the owner of a very successful generation, probably the only way to —------——...... — ______-...... y' chemical equipment manufacturing top the record of the first two. resume/Spring 1991 Lummi Tribal School System ... Scholarship Memorial for R.D. Brown by the state’s Employment Security Kathleen Miller and Albert • Department has been reappointed Tile Department of English has established a scholarship endowment Roll Call Boardman were wed August 24 in by Gov. Booth Gardner to the in memory of R.D. Brown, professor and author who died last Oc­ Poulsbo. Kathleen teaches in the Continued from page 2 board of trustees of Centralia Com­ tober at the age of 66. The fund will award scholarships to outstand- Bainbridge Island School District munity College ... Catherine L. ing junior or transfer English msjors concentrating in creative ’74 - Bernie Thomas has been ... Dwight A. Larson and Diane Pearson and Shawn P. Stevens writing: fiction, poetry or non-fiction. H. Adams were wed in Gig Harbor reappointed by Gov. Booth were married recently in Mt. Ver­ Contributions from alumni and friends should be made to The Gardner to serve on the board of August 26. Dwight is employed as non. Catherine owns Peeps Photog­ a civilian photographer with the Western Foundation with the notation that the gift is to be directed trustees of Whatcom Community raphy in Mount Vernon. U.S. Army at Ft. Lewis. to the R.D. Brown Memorial Scholarship Fund. College. At present, he is chief ex­ ’76 - Dick Milne, press secretary Brown came to Western in 1965 as chair of the English department. ecutive officer of American Indian ’75 — David Goldsmith, who has to Gov. Booth Gardner, announced In the early *70s, he began writing fiction, publishing short stories Business Managers in Ferndale; ser­ been Jefferson County (Port that he is leaving the governor’s of­ and several novels. He had served with the 82nd Airborne Division ves on the board of directors for the Townsend) Planning and Building fice to become director of com­ in Europe during World War II and as an investigator with the War Seabird Construction Com­ Director for 15 years, is on loan to munications for the state’s Crimes Group during the Nuremburg trials. pany/Wick Construction Company the State Department of Commer­ Department of Community joint venture; on the Lummi Sewer cial Development in Olympia... Development. Board; and is vice chairman of the Deanna Cook, who is employed Continued on Page 4 3 Name this publication, win a valuable prize Be creative! Win a valuable prize! Be traditional! Win the same valuable prize! Be helpful and receive no reward except the gratitude of the Alumni Office and the Public Infoimation Office and the joy of seeing your ideas in print. We are considering a change of format, and possibly a change of name, for resume. We invite all those who currently receive the publication to submit sugges­ iiiiiiiiiii tions for a new name, or tell us why you like the present title. -> V*, Complete the form below and give the reason for your choice in 50 words or less

.... and you could win a handsome, elegant WWU sweatshirt. One will be awarded to -y the person proposing the most apt new name and one will also be awarded to the |-|, - person penning the most inspiring reasons for retaining the name, resume. For no reward whatsoever, we are also seeking your views on how the alumni publication should look (tabloid or magazine?) and what topics you most — and least - would like to see covered in it. You can use the form below if you like. The Ford family at Jean 's wedding (left to right) Greg, Jean, Stuart, Fran, Jim and Doug. All SIX have joined the Alumni Association. ° (We hope it is much too short to accommodate all your suggestions.) Or give us a call at (206) 676-3353. We truly would appreciate your comments as we attempt to design a publication that will be an asset to the alumni and friends of Western New Visa card available Washington University. Name That Alumni Publication Contest from U.S. Bank for alumni My proposed name is______The new WWU Alumni Affinity that percentage would simply go to the Never, never change resume______Visa card program through U.S. Bank financial institution issuing the card,” (Your reasons in 50 words or less)______has proven to be extremely popular Goldsmith noted. “U.S. Bank, as part with Western alumni, according to of our agreement, has offered to give Chris Goldsmith, Director of Alumni that back to the Alumni Association.” Relations. Earnings from the program will be Since the new program’s initial mail­ used to expand Alumni Association ^ ing in November, 1990, more than programming and to help increase the 1,300 Western graduates have obtained number of scholarships the Association the WWU Alumni Visa Card. offers each year, among other projects. “We are very pleased with the The WWU Alumni Association response to this program,” Goldsmith launched its initial Affinity Visa card said. “I think it’s providing a win-win program nearly four years ago. How­ situation for both the individual card ever, the program’s first financial in­ holders and the WWU Alumni Associa­ stitution decided to get out of the af­ tion,” he added. Goldsmith said finity card business at the end of the several factors have figured in the three-year contract. program’s popularity, including the card’s low annual interest rate of 14.8 The Association and U.S. Bank then percent, the first year waiver of the nor­ entered into a long-term agreement last mal $18 card fee, and the solid reputa­ spring and began offering the WWU tion of U.S. Bank in the Pacific Alumni Card this past fall. Northwest. Those who are interested in obtain­ Under the program, the WWU Alum­ ing a WWU Alumni Visa Card can do ni Association receives a percentage of so by requesting an application form each charge made on WWU Alumni from the Alumni Office, Old Main Visa cards, each time a card is used. 345, WWU, Bellingham, WA 98225 or “With a normal, standard Visa card. by calling (206) 676-3353. Name Annual meeting held May 4 Address

The annual and spring meeting of the WWU Alumni Association Board of City/State/Zip Code Directors was held at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 4, 1991, in Room 340 of Old Main on the Western campus. Election of officers and new board members were Daytime Telephone^ among the agenda items. Class Year

^esume!Spring 1991 ment of Speech and Communica­ One in Tacoma ... Lori Hulsey tion Studies at Northern Michigan wed Tom Fox August 25 in Roll call Seattle Center Offers Degree Programs University, Marquette. He is cur­ Kirkland. Lori, a CPA, is account­ Alumni have the opportunity to continue their Western education rently planning a national con­ Continued from page 3 ing supervor at PACCAR Inc. and at the Seattle Urban Center. Three degree programs are offered: ference on environmental Tom, also a CPA, is staff account­ ’77 — Craig Cole was a recent • A bachelor of arts in human services advocacy, to be held in Salt Lake ant for Schafer and Husmoe ... recipient of the National Grocers • A post-baccalaureate secondary teacher credential/M.Ed. pro­ City in July ... Stephen Crabtree James P. Jacobsen married Midori Association Spirit of America has joined U.S. Intelco Networks as gram Okazaki recently in Alexandria, Award at the Washington State a Senior Analyst, Office Systems. Virginia, and is employed as a trial Food Dealers Association annual • School Adminstration Master’s and post-Master’s principal credentials ’78 — Lee Ann Lehni has been attorney with the U.S. Department convention in Tacoma ... John selected to be on the editorial board of Justice. Meyer has been Pastoral Assistant These programs are offered on an evening, part-time basis, and of Apropos magazine. ’80 — Victoria Talbott has been for Administration at St. Luke students can take all classes at the center, Seattle Central Com­ ’79 - Eileen A. O’Neill and appointed as coordinator of the In­ parish, Seattle for the last six years. munity College, 108 Broadway. For more information, call 464- Brian D. Ballard were married on tensive English Program here at He is married and has three 6103. September 15. Eileen is currently Western ... Mark J. White an­ children and resides in Everett... working at the Seattle Athletic Club nounced the establishment of his Jim Cantrill is chair of the Depart- and Brian is working for Cellular Continued on Page 5

Winds of Gulf War sweep across Western By Mike Thomsen As it was around the country, the im­ pact of the war was immediate: Yellow As Operation Desert Storm raged ribbons festooned a small leafless tree over the Persian Gulf, its impact swept in front of Old Main. A few yards across Western’s campus. away, students gathered outside the According to a poll taken by the Registration Center where television Washington State University monitors were tuned to CNN war newspaper just after the beginning of coverage. In Viking Union 454, a the air war, 64 percent of Western Stu­ peace center was established. Flags dents supported the decision to begin flew in some dormitory windows; hostilities. A campus protest on the eve peace symbols graced others. of battle, January 15, however, Fears of war-related terrorism caused demonstrated opposition. cancellation of the “Study in Greece” Phrases like “Not the bullet, not the bdmb, we remember Vietnam, “and ^^^^were bombed during a lO-day'period.

Kenneth P, Mortimer

“War is the enemy, not the solution” There was an increase in church at­ bobbed on signs above the crowd of up tendance. to 2,000 protesters. The relentless “Our worship service, our mass, has chanting of “No blood for oil” and been full to the seams every Sunday,” “Hell no, we won’t go, we won’t die said Shalom Center director Shirley for Texaco” accompanied marchers as Osterhaus before the ground war began T f -Photo by Melissa Stevenson, courtesy The Bellingham Hera the rally wound through the campus. in late February. her student-soldier husband, Jack, back from the Gulf at Supporters of U.S. policy also The center also hosted meetings for McLhord Air Force Base, ^ voiced their views. a group hoping to curb any discrimina­ “We need to support collective tion against people of Middle Eastern security, the rule of law, human rights, descent, a position supported by the and innocent civilians in Kuwait,” said Faculty Senate in a resolution adopted Life Member fee to rise October 1 senior James Bailey. “The entire after the ground war had concluded. At its May meeting, the WWU Alumni Association Board of Directors economy of the world is at stake, as And University Extended Services voted to increase Life Membership fees in the Alumni Club to $500 for a are the human rights of Kuwaitis.” began a well-attended series of forums single and $650 for a joint membership. For most, the peace march con­ on Middle Eastern issues which ex­ Since its inception a little less than two years ago, fees for a Life Member­ cluded the afternoon of January 15. tended to mid-April. ship have been $400 for a sin^e and $500 for a joint membership. But for some, it was just beginning. Also looking beyond hostilities, a Those wishing to become Life Members may join at the present rate until Nearly 100 students occupied President student group sponsored a “Day in the October 1 when the new rates go into effect, according to Chris Goldsmith, Kenneth P. Mortimer’s office in a sit- Life Without Oil,” to encourage con­ Director of Alumni Relations and Executive Director of the Association, in that lasted three days. servation and less reliance on imports. ■^ose who are currently on the optional five-year payment plan will con­ Despite cries of anger and distress Thursday, January 31, the campus com­ tinue to fall under the original pricing structure, he adds. when student demonstrators learned munity was urged to carpool, bus, walk “For those thinking of becoming Life Members,” he notes, “it would be that hostilities had begun, the event or bike, rather than using private advantageous to act between now and October 1.” was non-confrontational. vehicles. The WWU Alumni Club currently has more than 155 Life Members who “This is a university,” President Twenty students withdrew from receive a number of benefits including; automatic receipt of each year’s an­ Mortimer said, “where people can be Western because of military activation. nual premium and membership packet, no annual dues solicitation, the very intense about their beliefs while Joe G. Patrick II, Associated Students Alumni Club Gold Card, a personalized Life Member plaque, inclusion on a respecting the rights of others to hold coordinator for special events, re-en- perpetual Life Members Plaque to hang in Old Main and a personalized opposing viewpoints.” listed in the Army. Local armed forces replica in brass of a WWU diploma. “The message we got from the ad­ recruiters noted a “massive increase” ministration was they respected us,” in the number of inquiries they said Anne Martin, a participant in the received, including inquiries about sit-in. “They respected what we did. draft registration. They respected our consensus system.” risumi/Spring 1991 practice as a Certified Public Ac­ wed Kathleen R. Brandt in Oc­ ried October 28 ... Gregory M. Michael D. Hamm wed Janeen E. specializing in residential and com­ countant in Colchester, Connecticut tober and is employed by Schultz Hansen wed Diane J. Harms Oc­ ... John S. Peterson is the Poulsbo Gottschalk in Seattle where they mercial interiors including space Distributing ... George G. Gulick tober 6 and is a loan review officer Municipal Court public defender will make their home. and kitchen planning. She also ser­ and Julie A. Kerans (’83) were with Seafirst National Bank ... Wil­ and has been a practicing attorney ’84 — Jon R. Bradford married ves on the board of the North Puget married October 13 in Kirkland. liam S. Clement and Wendy S. for six years. He is married and has Carolyn E. Hehr in Renton and is Sound Interior Design Association The couple live six months in Lucas were wed September 15. three children ... Bill Pedigo has working in video production for ... Victor Learner and Deborah Kirkland and six months in Sun William is an attorney in Seattle been named public relations assis­ The Boeing Co ... Lauriston Haines Learner (’86) announce Valley, Idaho. where they also reside ... Shirley I. tant for US Marine/Bayliner. Dwight wed Luann Macan the birth of their daughter, Amanda Haskin and Randall K. Carr were ’83 — Dawn Mygatt is an account November 24 in Everett. Lauriston Jean. The Learner family resides in ’81 — Bret Beck has received his married in July. Shirley is an executive for KGMI and has been is a K-12 health curriculum Juneau, Alaska ... Barbara C. degree of Doctor of Philosphy in elementary school teacher for the appointed to the editorial board of specialist for the Everett School Johnson and Jeffrey Grove ex­ Physics from the University of Apropos magazine ... Mark Hegg Seattle Public School District and California, San Diego. District. changed vows in June in Sedro- married Marleen Heuer in Novem­ Randall is employed with Federal Woolley and will live on Camano ’82 — Kurt Fischer married Jen­ ’85 — Jil Davis is teaching at the ber and is employed by Anchor Government... Teri L. Hill and J. Island. Barbara is employed as a nifer Jansen September 15 in Seat­ Christian Deaf Center in Kingston, Savings Bank in Olympia. The Randall McIntyre were wed in first grade teacher at Edison tle and is vice-president of Shake couple live in Lacey ... Robert Cle­ June. Randall is employed as a Jamaica.... Julie Denton has joined the staff of Home Front Inte­ Elementary School... Ronda M. Specialists ... Peter L. Madison ments and Soraya Garcia were mar­ sales manager with Dealer Informa­ tion Systems in Bellingham ... riors as a design associate. Continued on page 8

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Wilders Endow Teaching Excellence Bellingham residents Chuck and Betty Ann Wilder have donated property valued at more than $300,000 to The Western Foundation. Western’s new Strength and Fit­ ness Center (see page 10) will receive $35,000 to complete funding for that project. The remainder will establish an endowment to encourage teaching excellence, par­ ticularly in business and economics, the sciences, computer science, technology and mathematics. “I care deeply about Western and share President (Kenneth P.) Motimer’s com­ mitment to quality undergraduate teaching,” Wilder says. “I especially want to en­ courage excellence in the academic areas that have heavily influenced my life.” Wilder, who was owner and president of a construction company bearing his name until the company’s sale in 1990, has served as a member of the Foundation’s Board of Directors. DeLorme Named Permanent Provost Roland L. DeLorme, who came to Western in 1966 as an assistant professor of history, was named Provost/Vice President Of Academic Affairs March 22. He had been acting in that capacity since the death of Dr. Les A. Karlovitz in April, 1990. A native of Aberdeen, Washington, DeLorme holds a doctorate in American his­ tory from the University of Colorado (1965), a master’s in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania (1960) and a bachelor’s in philosophy and political history from the University of Puget Sound.

’photo by Jeff Wolff A peace rally on the eve of war drew about 2,000 participants to Red Square. Greek Tour Deadline: June 15 WWU’s Retirement Association is offering a 20-day tour of Greece departing Among alumni serving in the Gulf which he graduated. for Athens September 4. Thomas Schlotterback, artist and art history professor, and were Cmdr. Richard Sluys, in charge Many more alumni were, undoubted­ Nita Clothier, professor emeritus of liberal ftudies, will lead the group. The $1,700 of a helicopter squadron aboard the ly, serving in Operation Desert Storm. program fee includes bus, ferry, hotels (double occupancy), some meals and group USS Ranger. Staff Sgt. Brian Presson, “We know that resumd goes to a lot travel fees in Greece but not airfare (about $900). Registration deadline is June 15. of the Air National Guard, was called of APO and FPO addresses,” said For additional information, contact Chappelle Arnett (206) 734-8374. up just four months after graduating Alumni Director Chris Goldsmith, “but from Western with a political science we don’t know how many of our active- Viking XXI On Drawing Boards degree. Specialist Todd Peckham, who duty or reservist alums are actually as­ A commuter car that uses the advantages of both solar power and natural gas is attended Western for two years, was signed in the Gulf.” in the planning stages at the Vehicle Research Institute. Resembling a two-seater deployed to Saudi Arabia in December Support for the troops in the Gulf fre­ sports car, it could be driven short distances at relatively slow speeds under solar with the 1st Armored Division. quently was expressed through letter­ power and longer distances at up to 70 mph using natural gas. One alumnus serving in the Gulf, writing campaigns with, in the case of Viking XXI will be the successor to the solar-powered vehicle which claimed Air Force 1st Lt. Darren T. Hansen, one alumna, surprising results. fifth place in a field of 39 entries in the World Solar Challenge last November in took time to remember his alma mater. Marla Meyer, a Western graduate Australia and earlier finished second in the Sunrayce U.S.A. from Florida to He donated $200 to the geography and dental technician, participated Michigan. department to be used for the urban when her office put together care pack­ VRI Director Michael Seal says the search for an alternative-energy prototype and regional planning program from ages last October to send to the troops. vehicle may take two years. Meyer, 23, included a personal note of resume is produced four times a support. Multimedia Encyclopedia Debuts year by the Alumni Office and Aviation mechanic Brain Avery, 30, Try looking up “tiger” using a new computer program developed jointly by WWU’s Public Information Office. was on the receiving end of the pack­ WWU’s WEST Center, IBM and The National Geographic Society and you’ll not Editor age. He wrote back and since then, the only find the facts that would be in an encyclopedia, you’ll hear the tiger roar and Jo Ann Hardee Collinge two have been exchanging multiple let­ see movies of it dozing, stretching and charging. Contributing Writers ters and photographs and have had a WEST Center, IBM and The National Geographic have jointly developed “Mam­ Kristie Lundstrom least two 90-minute phone conversa­ mals: A Multimedia Encyclopedia,” the first computer program to combine color Mike Thomsen tions. “He’s talking about coming out photographs, slow-motion movies, text and sound on a CD-ROM disk. The original Carole Wiedmeyer here after it’s over,” Meyer said in a target audience for the program was school libraries and classrooms, but it is sell­ Photographers Bellingham Herald interview. ing well for the home market, according to WEST Center director George Gerhold. Royle Johnson Far sooner than many expected, the With assistance of eight undergraduate art students, Gerhold and art professor Jeff Wolff 100-hour ground war ended bringing Bob Urso handled overall visual and technical design and production. A museum Graphic Production relief to the campus community and version is currently on display at the National Geographic Society in Washington, Scott Anderson joy as U.S. troops began arriving home D.C. and will appear soon at the San Diego Zoo and other locations. Veronica Tomaszewski Taylor in the early days of March. On tap is a WWU-IBM-NGS collaboration on the American presidency.

risumi!Spring 1991 Name: Tom Kunesh centration in environmental plan­ Name: Gary Davis ning; recently received master’s de­ Graduated: 1987, B.S. with a con­ Graduated: 1974, B.S. in environ­ gree in education from WWU. Huxley Roll Call centration in environmental health. mental control with a concentration Occupation: Health specialist for Occupation: Environmental Educa­ Name: Paul Schissler plicable academic work.” in marine resources; recently Whatcom County Health Depart­ tion Coordinator for the North Cas­ received master’s degree from Graduated: 1982, B.S. in environ­ Name: Bill McCourt ment cades Institute, a non-profit WWU in environmental science. mental planning and design. Graduated: 1972, B.S. with a con­ .Professional preparation: “The organization specializing in en­ Occupation: Biologist with the Occupation: Program Director for centration in environmental control. vironmental education. very nature of environmental scien­ Washington State Department of Community Services for The Op­ Occupation: Superintendent of ces has to do with knowing a lot Huxley’s most memorable Fisheries. Working with the portunity Council, a non-profit com­ Operations of the wastewater and about a lot of different subjects. In quality: “On Thursdays, they management and regulation of munity service organization in water treatment plants in Bellin­ order to tackle a solid waste issue, didn’t have classes,” she says, marine species. Bellingham. gham. you have to know about chemistry, “and so they (the faculty) really Huxley’s most memorable biology, a little bit about geology Huxley’s most memorable Professional preparation: He emphasized that you got out there quality: “The small class size and quality: “The idealism and en­ credits Huxley for letting him and hydrology, and a little bit about and got practical field experiences, the interaction between students thusiasm shared by the faculty and bridge the gap between the en­ public relations,” he says. internship experiences, and real and faculty members,” he says. students was impressive,” he says, gineering and biological ap­ Name: Wendy Scherrer world encounters in the com­ Name: Sue Blake and “was directed into practical, ap­ proaches to science. Graduated: 1976, B.S. with con­ munity.” Graduated: 1982, B.S. with a con-

Huxley celebrates 20th-year anniversity

By Carole Wiedmeyer July 1968 — Board of Trustees es­ tablishes the college. To look back at Huxley’s 20-year Fall 1969 — Legislature ap­ history is to get a sense of the growth propriates funds. New Dean Gene and development of the environmental Miller begins plans. Huxley named movement. after English biologist Thomas Henry Ever since the first Earth Day in Huxley, father of the eminent British April, 1970, the students, staff and family of scientists and writers, and faculty of Huxley have been among the grandfather of Brave New World nation’s first to define the new dis­ author Aldous. cipline of environmental studies. Fall 1970 — Huxley enrolls 63 stu­ Should the college focus on hard scien­ dents; establishes administrative and ces or social analysis? Should links faculty offices on south campus in tem­ with industry be forged or not? porary quarters — “Mitchell House” An interdisciplinary model began to and “Zimmerman House” — while take shape. A master’s program was awaiting construction of new facility, ^dded, TQtal„.enipMment peal^d^ ^Spring, 1971 Huxley receivesjin ’70s, dipped and leveled off in the con­ academic support grant of $66,000 servative mid-’80s, and rebounded to from the U.S. Office of Education to all-time highs heading into the ’90s. develop a pilot project in environmen­ In fact, overcrowding has led the col­ tal education in the Sedro-Woolley lege to limit new enrollment, beginning School District. in fall quarter 1991, to 170 new stu­ Fall 1971 — Chuckanut District of dents, 150 undergraduates and 20 Garden Clubs establishes first dedi­ graduate students. cated scholarship. Environmental Studies building under construction Through it all, the spirit of innova­ Fall 1972 — Shell Foundation estab­ tion and a willingness to take risks has lishes the first of seven $1,000 under­ paid off, both literally and figuratively. graduate scholarships.

••• A •• • • •• • • Huxley has raised significant private • !•••• • • ...... June 1972 — HERB (Huxley En­ ...... • • • • • • •• •••• *,,• •• •*« dollars despite what some have per­ vironmental Reference Bureau) starts ceived as a radical reputation. A rela­ experimental recycling center later tively high proportion of the college’s students continue to come from out-of- ooking for a Great state, despite tuition increases. Place to Hold Your Graduates, who have experienced a high placement rate from the begin­ Meeting or ning, now face one of the few “growth Conference? industries” left during a nationwide recession. Western Washington University Associations of environmental Conference Services offers a professionals now dot the map. En­ picturesque setting and a wide vironmental planners are sought after range of services, including: by private firms as well as government. I Program development. Environmental education has become a I Financial management. standard component of the K-12 cur­ I Marketing & publications. riculum. I Instructional media assistance. An upcoming A Mt/wbo/i Magazine ar­ I Registration. ticle will feature Huxley. Dean John I Administration. Miles sees the past two decades of I Evaluation. development, and the national recogni­ I Follow-up. tion from the article, as prelude to I Credit option. another major upsurge of interest as Huxley heads for 21. MILESTONES: 1967 to 1991 For information, call Oonference Services, a May 1967 — By a margin of one vote, the creation of a cluster college division of University Extended Programs, at of environmental studies wins approval 647-6820. from Western’s Academic Council.

resumi/Spring 1991 centration in ecosystems and assess­ thusiasm in their students* work ment/management. Professional preparation: Hahn and the time they took to interact says she’s been able to apply what Occupation: Water Resource with the students. she learned in her physics classes to Manager for Whatcom County Name: Jennifer Hahn areas of her work such as studying Health Department. Graduated: 1984, B.S. in social as­ shoreline wave action, currents, wind and land forms under the sea Professional preparation: sessment and policy (a degree com­ think it gave me a fairly broad bining human ecology and that relate to tidal activity. educational base to utilize in trying environmental law and administra­ Huxley’s most memorable to address the huge variety of is­ tion). quality: “The very first time I met sues that are out there, especially in Occupation: Kayaking instructor the faculty was in the wilderness my current position,*' she says. and tour guide for own company, and they spoke to us about what Huxley’s most memorable Elakah! Kayak Tours. Hahn con­ Huxley was, and what their role quality: She liked Huxley’s holis­ ducts classes and tours in Alaska, was, and what their vision was. It tic approach to environmental Washington, and Baja, California. was an introduction like none I’d science and its realistic treatment of Elakah is a Chinook Indian term ever had to a school.” environmental problems, and she meaning “sea otter.” also appreciated the professors’ en­

Reflections on two decades of environmental education inis year marks the 20m anniversary of Huxley College of Environmental Studies, and Huxley Dean John Miles remembers it all. Miles has served on the Huxley faculty since the collegers inception in 1970, becoming dean in 1985. Talk a bit about Huxley’s beginnings. We came on the scene at a time when environmental education first appeared. The National Environmental Policy Act had been passed in 1969, and Earth Day 1970 was the first big public environmental celebration. So the people who first con­ ceived of this college were in the forefront of people thinking about the role of en­ vironmental studies in higher education. What do you consider some of Huxley’s most significant accomplish­ ments? One is having made it through 20 years. Environmental Studies became a big thing in the ’70s, and a lot of schools jumped on the bandwagon. But then a lot of schools faded from the scene because they did not have the degree of institutional commit­ ^around ^ in the Spring Block program learns firsthand about the world ment that Western has. We’ve had the time to develop our curriculum to what I am taken over by Associated Students, laboratory opens. confident is one of the best environmental eventually becoming Western’s June 1983 — Master of science de­ studies curriculums anywhere. The Institute for Watershed Studies has developed over Recycle Center. gree program in environmental studies Spring 1973 — Huxley moves to offered for the first time. the years, as has the Institute for Environ­ new Environmental Studies Building. Fall 1984 - Institute of Wildlife mental Toxicology and Chemistry. We also Fall 1973 — College becomes first Toxicology established as a research played a role in the formation of the Shan­ institution of higher learning in the unit. non Point Marine Center. It’s also little state to offer a permanent course in en­ Spring 1984 — Huxley reports known that Huxley students began the first vironmental impact assessment. State $528,243 in outside-funded research recycling program in Bellingham. It grew Federation of Garden Clubs establishes for 1983-84 academic year. so much we had to turn it over to the As­ the first of its yearly scholarships for Fall 1987 — Institute of Watershed sociated Students. Huxley students. Studies becomes part of Huxley. How does Huxley’s program of study Feb. 1974 — Environmental Studies Spring 1988 ~ Huxley’ s outside- relate to career opportunities? Building completed and formally dedi­ funded research grants reach a level of It’s more and more a professional de- cated. $1,421,314, giving the college second gree, in the sense that students can go right Fall 1974 — 180 students enroll; 2/3 standing in the university among units out of here into an entry-level position in the Dean Miles then ... and now. transfer in; 1/2 of transfers are from receiving outside funding for research environmental professions. When we started, there was no clear definition of what out-of-state. or academic programs. environmental professions were. May 1975 -- Huxley hosts first Fall 1988 — Environmental jour­ How does Huxley fit into the University as a whole? Do students from other meeting of Northwest Association for nalism program established as is programs take classes here? Environmental Studies. cooperative M.A. in environmental We ve very systematically built connections with other parts of the university Fall 1975 — Enrollment shoots up policy with the political science depart­ over the past five years. Throughout the history of the college, there has been a con­ 39% over 1974 to 250. ment. nection with the biology department. But that was virtually it. Now we have Spring 1978 - Spring Block ex­ Spring 1989 - Institute of Wildlife cooperative programs with economics, biology, chemistry, journalism and political perimental education program begins. Toxicology relocates to another univer­ science. In 1983 we began a master’s program in environmental science. It’s un­ Huxley students spend a quarter sity; Institute for Environmental usual, and we get applicants from all over the country. together, developing and teaching an Toxicology and Chemistry founded. Do you see a difference between the current wave of environmentalism and environmental program to middle Fall 1989 — Enrollment shoots up the one in the early ’70s that gave rise to the formation of Huxley? school students during week-long 55 percent over level of 1980s, from Definitely. Environmentalism is much more mature as a social movement now programs in a residential outdoor set­ 139 in 1988 to 215. than it was in 1970. In the 1970s, it came along on the wave of social activism that ting. 1989 — Graduate option in marine started to surge with the civil rights movement of the ’60s and had crested with anti­ May 1982 — Dean Richard Mayer and estuarine science established. war activism. I think this environmental wave is moving on its own momentum forms Environmental Advisory Coun­ Fall 1990 — Enrollment jumps simply because of events that are occurring in the world: Environmental disasters, cil, comprised of business and govern­ again, to more than 300, a 39 percent rapid development of population — and the recognition that we are down to the ment leaders, to bridge gap between increase over 1989. point where we simply cannot ignore a lot of these environmental difficulties. Huxley and community. 1991 — Cooperative M.Ed. in en­ And this particular movement is much more towards what people are thinking of Oct. 1982 — New water research vironmental education approved. as creating a sustainable society on the base of a sustainable environment.

resume!Spring 1991 la obtained a Master of Education The couple will live in Seattle. Spokane Lawyer Is Distinguished Alum ’86 — Navy Lt. Michael A. Swan­ degree from Georgia State Univer­ Kathleen M. Taft, a practicing Spokane attorney with a reputation for son was promoted to his present sity and is a school psychologist in Roll call the Meridian School District and both compassion and shrewdness, has been named Distinguished Alum- rank while serving with Carrier Air­ Continued from page 5 borne Early Warning Squadron- Rone, who received his Masters of nus for 1991. 114. He joined the Navy in July Environmental Studies from In her 54-year career, she was the only “lady lawyer” in the Spokane Goetz married Dale Martinis Oc­ 1986 ... Chuck Cross recently Western, is a research assistant at Office of Price Administration during World War II and a Spokane tober 20 in Mukilteo and is a pre­ joined Security First Mortgage, Inc. the Institute of Wildlife and En­ County Family Court Commissioner from 1950 to 1977 when she school special education teacher at as its vice president and operations vironmental Toxicology in Anacor- returned to full-time private practice. View Ridge Elementary School in manager ... Tom Pearce was ap­ tes ... Tammy Tuttle married Taft was bom Kathleen Mitchell in 1907 in Wilson Creek, Washington. the Everett School District... pointed by publishers Don and David Clarke in a November She earned her teaching credentials at Bellingham Normal School, now Robert B. Palon has been Carol Glockner as editor of the Bal­ ceremony in Redmond ... Kristin WWU, in 1925. She put herself through law school at Gonzaga Univer­ promoted in the U.S. Air Force to lard News-Tr/bM/ie ... Grayson B. L. Levaque and Dale Howard sity and the University of Washington from which she received her de­ the rank of captain ... Bourland wed Josephine L. Ware were married in September. She is gree in 1936. Two years later, she married Willard (Duke) Taft, who Mary E. Kumasaka married Jon August 25 in Marysville ... Marcel­ a dental hygienist for Drs. John later became a state legislator, city councilman, and mayor of Spokane. K. Okada in a July ceremony and la J. Olson and Rone A. Brewer and Jennifer Fischer, of La Conner, is employed as a special education (’88) were married July 14. Marcel­ and Dr. Lawrence Pirkle, of Mt. teacher in the Kent School District. Vernon.

25th is Golden Year for dynamic Western Foun( While silver was the anniversary ning and Development. which The Western Foundation recent­ In late 1986, Gordon H. “Bus” ly celebrated, golden may better charac­ Fraser, and wife, Alice, funded the terize its recent history and outlook for Foundation’s largest single gift to date — $1 million.Now in the third quarter the future. During the previous fiscal year, the of this fiscal year and with assets just Foundation experienced unprecedented over $5 million, the Foundation is private support. The number of con­ eyeing another record. According to tributors more than doubled (from Foundation executive director Jean 1,820 to a record 5,065) while the level Rahn, “Our goal is to raise $2.4 mil­ of giving jumped from $658,000 the lion,” nearly double last year’s total. previous year to $1.3 million to fund scholarships, equipment, academic and phones help needs and faculty enrichment. This con­ Twenty-five phones that, until recent­ trasts sharply with the earliest annual ly, were buzzing with conversations achievement, raising $5,664. with alumni are now dormant on a shelf — until Western’s next phonathon. Student callers recently concluded ■photo by Tore Oftness the spring round of the second annual Western Fund Phonathon which reached nearly 20,000 alumni, a total Alumni scholarship winners announced that topped last year’s contacts by Five of the seven Alumni Scholarship recipients for the current academic year recently got together for this photo. From left are Michole demons, Victoria Canterbury, Amy Webb, 4,959. Julan Spromberg and Erin Middlewood. Not pictured are Hung Trinh and Penny Rahl “I have to credit the increase to the Alumini Scholarships pay tuition and fees for one academic year. Since 1981, Western University advancement information alumni have contributed more than $115,000 to this endowment fund. Beginning this systems personnel who have excelled academic year, $5 of every Alumni Association membership is being earmarked for the at the very challenging task of keeping scholarship program, augmenting private contributions and enhancing the possibility of our database current,” says Sandra increasing the number of awards. Kennedy, Director of Annual Giving. “Keeping up with the many address changes, new phone numbers, mar­ Woodring College receives grant riages, and other pertinent information can be a nearly impossible chore.” HA. ' 'Barney * * Goltz to upgrade vocational training Retired Western administrator and While trying to keep up with Western’s Woodring College of the state’s economic and educational former State Senator H.A. “Barney” thousands of alumni may be challeng­ Education and University Extended development.” Goltz recalls the Foundation’s begin­ ing, the benefits are worthwhile, Ken­ Programs have received a $500,000 The State Board for Vocational nings. In the early ’60s, he remembers, nedy says. “For the institution, annual state grant to improve the quality of Education awarded the grant after an in a prominent California professor asked gifts represent funding for many of the vocational teacher education statewide. dependent 12-member team repre­ Western for three things: an adjunct projects and programs which have little The grant will establish the senting business, labor, education and professorship and research space on or no state support. Washington Center for Vocational the community evaluated proposals campus and a $9,000 grant to build a “And our alumni and friends are Educator Preparation, four regional con­ from a number of institutions. The small facility on one of the San Juan Is­ really coming through for the Univer­ sortia of vocational educators from panel deemed Western’s plan to be lands where he could capture octopi for sity this year.” public institutions as well as the private “exceptionally creative.” his cancer research. With one month of the fiscal year sector and non-profit organizations. Curriculum will include topics such Western, then a state college, could still ahead, annual gifts received have The project will pay special attention as cultural diversity, school-to-work provide the professorship and research already surpassed those during the to increasing involvement of business transition, non-traditional employment space. However, the money for the whole of fiscal year 1989-90, she adds. Over 3,400 alumni have pledged sup­ and labor in vocational education and and upgrading of technical competen­ project posed a problem. Not only cies. Superintendent of Public Instruc­ didn’t Western have the money, Goltz port during this year’s campaign. Cur­ training. “We know that only through tion Judith Billings says: “lam really says, “The resources we did have were rent projections indicate, according to development of a highly skilled work impressed with the indications of sup­ expressly prohibited by law from being Kennedy, that the annual fund may force will Washington be able to port from other institutions and with used for such a purpose.” generate $150,000 by year’s end, a 42 remain a bellwether state,” project the way Western is going to include a The incident spurred President percent increase over last year. director and Woodring Dean Larry multi-cultural activity/sensitivity James Jarrett and his assistant, Goltz, Kennedy offers her thanks to the Marrs comments. “We have made a module, which is extremely important.’ to create the Foundation. Articles of In­ faculty, staff and students who made major commitment to changing the corporation were filed February 15, the phone calls and, most particularly, status quo toward the improvement of 1966, when Harvey Bunke was Presi­ to the alumni and friends who dent and Goltz was Director of Plan­ answered those calls with generosity.

resumelSpring 1991 ’87 — Karla Hemenway married WA 98225 ... Nokkentved recent­ ficer in Mountlake Terrace ... government’s newest position as den. They reside in Bellingham ... Karl Nore in November and is ly won second place in the annual LorrI A. Showalter and Eric V. recycling and hazardous waste coor­ Julie Svenson and Alec Pugh mar­ employed by Holland America C.B. Blethen Memorial Awards for Kredel were married September 8. Line-Westours. The couple lives in dinator ... Steve Finch has been ried in July in Bremerton. Alec is distinguished investigative report­ Lorri is employed by Century Hyatt Kirkland. named principal of Grant Street employed by Better Than Average ing. He is with the Times-News of Hotel and they live in Redondo Elementary School in Port Builders in Kingston and the ’88 — Coleen Majors and Neils Twin Falls, Idaho ... Beach, California ... Navy Ensign Townsend...Gary Dahl conducted couple make their home in Nokkentved, journalism graduates Tam Dixon was recently at Aber­ Brent M. Kelln completed the Of­ the Okanogan Valley Orchestra Poulsbo...Jerry White married of Huxley, have started a fund to ex­ deen High School regaling students ficer Indoctrination School at the recently in a “pops concert” featur­ Karen Pluntze in July. They live in pand offerings in environmental with stories of her life in Botswana, Naval Education and Training Cen­ ing popular music from Gershwin Spokane and Jerry is working for photography, audio visual com­ an undeveloped country in the ter, Newport, R.I. to Rodgers and Hammerstein the U.S. Forest Service ... Myron munications and desktop publish­ southern part of Africa. She ’90 — Brenda Andrew is the new through Henry Mancini... Don ing as well as sponsor guest Egbers married Lori Colley in a showed slides and told stories of Nordic ski director at Bear Moun­ Kentch has been appointed as the lectures and journalism exchange July ceremony in Anacortes. her work in the Peace Corps teach­ tain Ranch in Chelan ... Sandy new manager of Fairhaven Nutri­ students. Interested persons may ing English to junior-high students Myron is presently studying for a Daniels has joined the Goldendale tion and Fitness Center, Inc ... doctorate in psychology at WSU ... contact the Environmental Jour­ at Itekeng Secondary School in School District as a high school Marci M. Patterson married Den­ Amy Sanford and Kevin De- nalism Alumni Fund, Western Ghanzi... Kim Nash was recently English teacher ... Jerry Mingo nis A. WesthofF, Jr., in Kent... Forrest were married in July and Foundation, WWU, Bellingham, sworn in as the newest police of­ has filled Island County Eric Arneson and Ruth E. Car­ they live in Lakewood. penter were married July 21 in Lyn-

Economic expert Solomon sees no quick end to recession

By Carole Wiedmeyer cies, again making it difficult for the Fed to keep domestic rates low. And Quick recovery from the national the trade embargo of Iraqi oil economic recession may not come as eliminated 4.5 million barrels of oil a soon as many would like or as the day from the system, doubling prices Bush Administration has predicted. per barrel. So ventures Ezra Solomon, Stanford These shocks slowed the economies University Dean Witter professor of Germany and Japan to roughly a 3.5 emeritus of finance, who spoke on the percent growth rate, while the U.S. nation’s economic outlook in February economy, already teetering near no­ as part of the 1991 Intalco Distin­ growth, moved into recession. guished Lecture Series. Those who disagree with Solomon, A consulting economist and former including Federal Reserve Chairman member of the President’s Council of Alan Greenspan, say the recession will Economic Advisers, Solomon attributes end fairly shortly: Inflationary condi­ his prediction of sustained slowdown tions have subsided in the foreign capi­ to inability of the banking system to tal markets, the oil markets, and at stimulate the economy. home. The stock market, regarded as a “Financial fragility,” owing to leading economic indicator, is strong. demands by zealous regulators on un­ And the Fed is pumping liquidity into dercapitalized banks, will keep the the system using all the tricks it knows. money being pumped into the system Solomon sees the turnaround taking by the Federal Reserve from having its place at year’s end — or even later. Im­ intended effect, he adds. Wary bankers provement will suffer until Congress are now less likely to make loans with can get the regulators to ease strict increased bank reserves, making it dif­ bank capital requirements that frustrate ficult for the Fed’s loose money supply the Fed’s attempts to get the economic policy to “prime the pump” of the “party” going again. economy. “Regulators are in a quandary,” he In the 1980s, by “taking away the says. While working in the best interest punch bowl” when inflation began to of the taxpayer, he claims, they may be peak and bringing it back out during crippling the mechanism that worked slowdowns, the Fed brought about the to keep the economy afloat during the longest peacetime period of expansion last decade. Instead of premature without significant inflation. Solomon government bank takeovers, Solomon had faith in the central bank’s ability to suggests co-insurance for deposits, ^ ’Photo by Jeff Wolff Stuart Lutzenhiser and Dolores Cejvalo starred in the Mozart opera masterpiece. fine-tune the economy throughout this which shifts some of the responsibility period, and failed to join his colleagues for managing risk to the depositor. The who continually forecast the end of the idea, however, may be too late. party. “We haven’t seen the worst of the New ‘Magic Flute’ debuts But Solomon now finds himself join­ big bank failures,” he predicts. A new English translation of Mozart’s opera of good, evil and the search ing the Cassandras, despite the fact that Solomon predicts a much more con­ for wisdom. The Magic Flute, debuted on the Reforming Arts Center the administration and the usually pes­ servative decade ahead. The cautious Mainstage in May, culminating a year-long celebration of the great simistic Congressional Budget Office national mood, combined with an in­ composer’s life and times. disagree with him. creasingly older population that con­ Canadian playwright/director Kico Gonzalez-Risso created the translation He agrees with their reasoning to a sumes less and saves more, will com­ which is faithful to the original German, even using the same rhyme structure, point. The factors that brought about bine to make the U.S. economy slower a first for an English translation. the current slump — three major, un­ to expand but less dependent on Starring as the prince, Tamino, was Bellevue tenor Stuart Lutzenhiser, a predicted events — have since abated: foreign capital. Government policy Western opera student who has just won a major national competition. The • the cold winter of 1989 in the East­ reinstituting savings incentives lost to prize is six weeks of study with Maestro Walter Baracchi of Milan’s famed ern U.S., tax revisions in 1986, and cutbacks in La Scala Opera. Lutzenhiser’s wife. Tiffany, also a performance major, ap­ • German unification, government spending could take ad­ peared in the production as Papagena, the bird catcher’s sweetheart. • and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. vantage of the conservative mood. Alumnus Gary Jankowski, a bass who won the 1990 regional Metropolitan As crops froze and fuel oil prices In the meantime, more belt-tighten­ Opera competition, portrayed the kidnapper Sarastro. Soprano Dolores Cejal- skyrocketed, inflation picked up, ing is ahead, Solomon says. Western vo, a veteran student performer, was the kidnap victim, Pamina. thwarting the Fed’s easy money policy. states may not get the worst of it, but One of the College of Fine and Performing Arts’ most ambitious produc­ Investment capital fled the U.S. as Ger­ will not be immune. tions, the opera drew media attention throughout the region and played to many raised interest rates in an effort “I’ve never known of a recession packed houses that included participants in Parents’ Weekend and the 50-year to stave off inflation that could result that left large sectors of the country un­ reunion of the class of 1941. from the mingling of the two curren­ touched,” he says.

r^sumitSpring 1991 department in 1953 and was in­ In Dr. Taylor’s honor, an annual lec­ Mary K. Cary (’22) died in strumental in creating the sociol­ ture will be presented on campus by February in Bellingham. She was ogy/anthropology department in a distinguished person connected born in Friday Harbor, graduated In 1960, serving as chair for the next with arts and sciences. from Western Washington Normal School and taught school for 40 five years. “This form of remembrance is par­ years in Friday Harbor. memoriam He also served as director of the ticularly appropriate,” says Dr. Bureau for Faculty Research from Peter Elich, Dean of Arts and Scien­ Faith I. Kroll (’29) died December Dr. Herbert C. Taylor, one of the 1961-65 and as associate dean and ces. “Herb Taylor was a gifted lec­ 6, in Olympia. She received her most popular lecturers in the history dean for research and grants turer and his interests and teaching certificate from Bellin­ of the University, died on January accomplishments covered not just gham Normal School and taught Taylor also was the prime mover in 28 in Hawaii where he and his wife. sociology and anthropology but establishing the Computer Center, Dr. Carol J. Diers, were visiting on other aspects of arts and sciences.” We welcome items for Roll Call an extended trip. Project Catch-Up, Teacher Corps, and In Memoriam. Please ad­ Action Program, Upward Bound Contributions to the lectureship can Taylor, 66, came to Western in dress them to: The Alumni Of­ and the DSHS Training Program. be made to The Western Founda­ 1951 and retired in 1986. It is es­ fice, 345 Old Main, Western His work as liaison with the State tion, 445 Old Main, Bellingham, timated that more than 18,000 stu­ Washington University, Bellin­ Legislature engendered crucial sup­ WA 98225. dents had enrolled in his classes. He gham, WA 98225. port for the University. helped establish the social studies Dr. Herbert C. Taylor 10 NAIA offers post-season possibilities Western will compete in Division I action in the last 20 years. Dolfo be­ of the National Association of Intercol­ came the first basketball coach in legiate Athletics’ (NAIA) new Western’s history to win 20 games in a divisional setup for men’s and debut season. women’s basketball. The new structure The men’s team had a disappointing splits the NAIA competition into two 1990-91 campaign, finishing with a 12- District I divisions based on enrollment 17 record, the first losing season in and the amount of athletic scholarship five years. But coach Brad Jackson money available. says Western may have laid the founda­ Other District I/Division I teams are tion for the future, with three freshmen Central, Lewis-Clark State College, seeing extensive playing time, includ­ University of Puget Sound, St. ing point guard Jeff Dick (Redmond), Martin’s College, Seattle University, who was the team’s only NAIA Dis­ Sheldon Jackson College and Simon trict 1 all-star. Fraser University. In other news. Coach Jackson has Jackson Stewart The new division structure will per­ been named an assistant coach for the mit eight at-large berths in men’s na­ West team in this summer’s U.S. Olym­ tional tourneys and 10 for the women. pic Sports Festival slated for UCLA’s ^-New-fitness center to open soon: f Previously, the tournaments were Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles July 13- Goodrich dubs it a long-term priority limited to district champions. Men’s 16. Head coach for the West is Reggie coach Brad Jackson says this should Minton of the Air Force Academy. Mark Stewart, a former All- team All-American and was named As­ help the Viking hoopsters “if our dis­ In his sixth season at Western, Jack- American linebacker for the sociated Press National Player of the trict is as strong as it has been.” son has compiled a 124-68 record and Washington Huskies and a former Min­ Week when, during a 10-7 victory over For this season, the women’s team was named District Coach of the Year nesota Viking, will supervise UCLA, he had 23 tackles — 18 unas­ posted a 21-7 record under first-year each of the last three seasons. Western’s new 4,100-square foot sisted — and six sacks. coach Carmen Dolfo, winning 20 A WSU graduate, he came to strength and fitness center scheduled to The Lou Parberry Strength and Fit­ games for the fourth consecutive time Western in 1986 after five seasons open in June at Carver Gymnasium. ness Center replaces the inadequate and reaching post-season play for the each as a high school coach and an as­ Stewart, 31, comes to Western from weight room currently used by varsity 12th straight year, the 19th post-season sistant at Seattle Pacific University. Renton High School where he was athletes. Parberry, a Bellingham head football coach for three years. businessman, has been a long-time sup­ Prior to that, he was an assistant coach porter of athletic endeavors throughout Rugby Club assists burn victim at Mercer Island High School, also for Whatcom County and is a major con­ An April 6 concert sponsored by the “It was life or death for the first three seasons. tributor to the project. Director of Athletics Lynda Rugby Club benefited Peter C. Albert, month, but now the prognosis is He graduated from UW in 1987 Goodrich had made such a facility a a club member badly injured in a good,” the senior Albert says. “Pete with a B.S. in chemistry and a second top priority for Western athletics. It January 2 fire. Albert, 23, received continues to improve and we are hope­ education certificate. As a senior in third-degree burns over 50 percent of ful that he can get out of Harborview 1982, Steward was a consensus first- will also be used by physical education classes and, for a nominal membership his body when he and roommate, Kim in about a month. fee, be open to the university com­ Marie Owner, boarded an elevator at “He wants to go back to Western in munity. Fees will pay for staffing and the Mount Baker Apartments in the fall and he seems mentally downtown Bellingham, unaware that a prepared for that.” Roe coaches repair and replacement of equipment. Christmas tree had set the lobby ablaze. John Albert expressed his apprecia­ in Belgium “Our coaches and athletes are over­ tion to the Rugby Club for staging the joyed that we’re realizing this long­ Owner, also a Western student, died Woodring College of benefit. “It was a particularly ap­ time dream,” she says. “It was becom- of cardiac arrest at the scene. Education employee Bill propriate time,” he says. “Pete’s ing a desperate situation.” She notes Funds raised by the concert will go Roe coached and managed birthday was April 7, the day after the that the facility will be the finest in the toward medical expenses and to the junior men’s team that concert.” state outside of the University of replace personal articles lost in the fire. participated in the World At press time, Albert was in stable con­ A 1986 graduate of Garfield High Washington. School in Seattle, Albert attended Cross Country Champion­ Redesign of the space — formerly a dition at Harborview Medical Center, ships on a specially designed Seattle, after completing a series of Wenatchee Junior College where he little-used wrestling and gymnastics played football and transfered to running course in Antwerp, area — was done with state monies. skin-graft operations in early March. Belgium, March 24. He is He was unconscious for five weeks. Western in 1989 as an environmental Goodrich praised a committee, chaired policy major. He joined the Rugby vice president of The Ath­ by Bellingham businessman Ken According to his father, John Albert, letics Congress, the national insurance will cover $300,000 of the Club at Western last September. Graham, for its “tireless work” to Additional contributions for Albert track and field athletics raise private funds to equip the facility. medical expenses which are estimated governing body and an assis­ to be at least double that amount. His can be made through the Western Foun­ Also on the committee were Frank dation. Please mark your check, the tant coach at Western. He “Moose” Zurline, Dick Pedersen, son began physical and psychological has been at Western since therapy in April learning, among other Rugby Club-Peter Albert Fund, to en­ Carol Kuljis, Don Haggen, Dave 1985. things, to walk again. Insurance does sure that it is properly credited. Ennen, Barney Yorkston Jr., Irv Levin not cover the therapy. and Steve Inge.

resume!Spring 1991 the first four grades in the two- Viola Edna Hilfiker (’49) died Oc­ room, eight-grade Hays School in tober 26 in Friday Harbor. She was Olympia. She was employed for ten 69 years old. She graduated from Special Education Fund Honors Higbee years as office manager by the First Dickinson State Teaching College As a memorial to C. Max Higbee, a special education scholarship Christian Church in Olympia. She in North Dakota, and finished her fund has been established through the Western Foundation. Higbee, was 85. education at Western State College, professor emeritus of educational curriculum and instruction, died at Steve N. Turk (’37), died Decem­ teaching in Bellingham for 15 age 68 on February 20. ber 19 at the age of 78. He earned years. Mrs. Hilfiker and her family One of the nation’s most influential professionals in special educa­ his degree from Western then moved to Lx)di, California, tion, he helped to develop the Washington state law that required Washington College in 1937, where she taught high school for 13 free and appropriate public education for all handicpapped children. served in the Army Air Corps years. In 1978, she and her husband It became the model for subsequent federal legislation. Higbee came during World War II as a weather retired to Friday Harbor. to Western in 1962 and retired in 1987. He earned his Ph.D. from the officer in Alaska, and returned to Lucille Strom (’68) of Kingston State University of Iowa and, prior to coming to WWU, was a Aberdeen where he remained as an died December 3. She graduated psychologist and special education consultant for the Iowa State administrator and business manager from Western Washington Univer­ Department of Public Instruction. in the Aberdeen School District for sity then taught at Oak Harbor 27 years, retiring in 1973. Elementary School from 1968 until C. Max Higbee her retirement in in 1984.

For best seats: keep time, keep score or keep on talking By Kevin Jackson WWU Sports Information Office

When most Western fans fill Sam Carver Gymasium to watch a basket­ ball game, they can sit back, relax and enjoy the action. But when John Riseland, Bill Palmer and George Gleason hit the gym, they come to work. Riseland sits down to run the game clock. Palmer finds a microphone in his hand. And Gleason breaks open the scorebook. WWU sports information director Paul Madison says “we’re fortunate to have the best game-day staff of any school wc play. And they must love what they do, because it’s certainly not for the money.” Palmer began his role as public ad­ dress announcer when he was a student in 1971. He moved away after graduat­ ing, but returned to the mike in 1983 and is currently in his ninth year as the Vikings’ announcer. “As a little kid growing up, I would pretend I was an annnouncer,” Palmer -Photo by Jon Brunk says. “It’s always been a fantasy of To get the best seats, you have to work, (Left to right) timekeeper John Riseland and wife Brenda, scorekeeper George Gleason and mine. It gives me a chance to keep in announcer Bill Palmer at hoop event. contact with the sports program at “The young ladies from the Soviet Western.” even the toughest names with ease, but “Absolutely, positively never,” he Union giggled about it, but they were One of his most enjoyable moments he remembers one instance where he says. “I don’t envy that pressure at very gracious and kind to me.” all.” as an announcer came when he encountered some difficulty. “Last Like Palmer, Riseland has also been watched Western make the 1987-88 year”, he recalls, “I announced a Gleason is another man who often a mainstay in Carver Gym since the NAIA National Tournament, as it had game for a Soviet junior women’s team feels the pressure at Western basketball early ’80s. A former basketball coach in his student days of 1971-72. But, he that came here on tour. I wasn’t given games. As the scorekeeper for the past at Bellingham High School and player adds, his relationship with the athletes the names until about 10 minutes four seasons, he says his job is often at Western, he has been close to the ac­ is probably the most rewarding aspect before the game. I sat down with a demanding. tion as timekeeper since 1982. of his job. translator, who tried to help me out, “It makes me follow the action very Riseland is joined for each game by Palmer usually handles announcing but I still botched many of them. closely and I like that,” he says, but his wife, Brenda, who often offers him adds: “When a lot of things happen all some help. at the same time, it’s sometimes hard Riseland remembers one game that to get it straight in the book.” Sign up for summer wasn’t so positive. “One time I was at­ And Western’s fast-break style Summer Session ’91 has a class that ventures in Science and Arts” tacked by a guy out of the stands at a doesn’t make Gleason’s job any easier. will meet your needs! workshop for grades 4-12, the “High game against Central,” he recalls. “The way Western runs on offense and With the emphasis on upper- School Forensic Institute,” and “Western was rolling the ball down plays that pressure defense, things hap­ division and graduate-level courses, selected introductory courses offered the court in the final seconds and no pen fast. If they play another fast team, the academic program starts June 24 for qualified high school students who one had touched it, so the clock it really gets tough,” he says. and includes six- and nine-week cour­ have completed their junior year. shouldn’t have started. He came charg­ The 1989 district playoff with ing down, yelling that the clock should Central, which Western won to ad­ ses, ending August 2 and August 23, Mail-in registration is convenient be running.” vance to the NAIA National Tourna­ respectively. and easy (form located in the back of A wide variety of short courses and The final seconds often offer challen­ ment, is the stand-out in his memory. Summer Bulletin). Summer ’91 ges for Riseland. “I feel the pressure “The gym was packed,” he recalls. workshops begin throughout summer guarantees that no course will be can­ quarter. These include archaeology, toward the end of a close game. No “That atmosphere was something I celled due to low enrollment. doubt about it,” he says. worry won’t soon forget.” ceramics, computer programming, To receive a copy of the 1991 Sum­ educational trends, foreign languages, about making mistakes. My goal is to Gleason, Riseland and Palmer won’t mer Bulletin, write to the Summer Ses­ do a perfect game — never to push the get the opportunity to forget much coaching girls’ and boys’ basketball, sion Office, Western Washington and many others. wrong button.” about Western basketball. They should University, Bellingham, WA 98225- As a former hoop coach, does have the best seats in Carver Gym for To make Western Summer Session 9007, or phone (206) 676-3757. a family affair, investigate the ‘ ‘Ad­ Riseland ever find himself wishing he as long as they want them. were making the decisions on the court? risumelSpring 1991 r

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