Western Washington University Western CEDAR Western Reports and Résumé Western Publications Fall 1984 Résumé, Fall, 1984, Volume 16, Issue 01 Alumni Association, WWU Follow this and additional works at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/alumni_reports Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Alumni Association, WWU, "Résumé, Fall, 1984, Volume 16, Issue 01" (1984). Western Reports and Résumé. 197. https://cedar.wwu.edu/alumni_reports/197 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Western Publications at Western CEDAR. It has been accepted for inclusion in Western Reports and Résumé by an authorized administrator of Western CEDAR. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 4k ■ “ ■V* A’ r# l;iI^ I'. ^1 ”vi»- ■ X ■i' t-^'A Fall 1984 r*f f .T-^ •4; Hope Grimm making an offensive move on goal against a Whitman player. (See story on page 4.) A. A Vol. 16, No. 1 A Report to Alumni and Other Friends of Western Washington University Fall 1984 Trustees send budget requests to Governor n a special August meeting, geared toward achieving seven major more than 1,000 Individuals were of planning objectives were Western’s Board of Trustees University goals during the two-year held. developed and adopted by WWU’s approved and sent to the period. Those goals Include: During winter and spring of 1983, Board of Trustees at Its June, 1984, IGovernor a $99,446,917 1985-87 the Board of Trustees studied the meeting. Those objectives serve as operating budget request along with • Increasing student access to reviews and their recommendations the focus of the University’s 1985-87 a $17,700,600 1985-87 capital budget quality instruction. and directed the administration to biennial operating budget request request. • Increasing faculty opportunity carry out certain recommendations. and its capital budget request. for professional growth and In the 1983-84 academic year. The decision packages Included Budget requests are now research. President G. Robert Ross worked In the budget request are a new scheduled for hearings before the • Strengthening academic and approach. Governor and the Office of Financial administrative computing. Management (OFM) before being • Improving library and educa­ considered by the Legislature. Full text of budget may be tional media capabilities. 1985-87 Capital Budget Request • Improving student services. obtained by writing the • Improving administrative Alumni Office, Western support for Instruction. 1985-87 Operating Budget Request • Strengthening plant operations Washington University, The 1985-87 capital budget re­ quest includes only one major con­ and maintenance. Bellingham, WA 98225. The budget request, which repre­ struction project—$9,977,000 for sents a $17 million or 20.9 percent construction for an addition to and increase over current service levels, Western’s 1985-87 operating remodeling of an existing building assumes that WWU will be allowed to budget request is the result of more for art and technology. This project increase its enrollment to about than two years of planning by ail Is the number one priority within the 9,400 students (headcount) In the fall segments of the University. with appropriate University con­ biennial capital request. of 1985 and to about 9,500 students The University’s Board of stituencies and members of In association with the project, an (headcount) in the fall of 1986. Trustees in 1982 charged the^,,^. corporate, legislative and social____ alternate plan calling for an addi­ administration with reviewing all agencies to develop the institution’s tional story to a new wing for tech­ WWU’s budget request document academic programs and the planning priorities. The president nology also was included at an details a budget of $82,271,553 University’s entire non-academic then conducted more than 70 hours additional cost of $3,650,000. which would be required to provide administrative structure. Those of hearings, involving every campus The remaining 1985-87 capital the current level of service for the reviews were conducted by com­ unit in program and budget planning budget request priorities call for pre­ 1985-86 and 1986-87 academic mittees representing faculty, staff, relevant to University objectives for planning or design funds for a years. students and administrators during 1984-87 and to the 1985-87 biennial number of projects. If approved by In addition, the budget request the 1982-83 academic year. Written operating budget request. the Legislature, WWU would request Includes five “decision packages” data was collected from every As a result of these two years of construction funds for the projects In which total $17,175,364 and are campus unit, and hearings involving review, analysis and planning, a set later years. Western alumnus Richard Harder smitten by acting bug By Don Jenkins and their three-year-old daughter. Contributing Writer “San Francisco is a good area in terms of shooting films, and there’s a ix years ago Richard Harder, lot of minor-type work,” he said. “But after bouncing from job to job if you want to make a strong career, Sin New York City for seven Los Angeles or New York is where years, moved West and took up you have to be. acting. “Some people are afraid to take “I’ve always had major career the step because it’s a jungle out aspirations,” said the 1970 Western there,” said Harder, who plans to graduate. “I decided I was going to move down to Los Angeles early go for the whole ball of wax, but I’ve next year. taken it a step at a time. One of these He recently visited Western after days. I’ll be a 20-year overnight not seeing the campus for ten years: sensation.” “It was a memorable experience. I Since 1978, Harder slowly has became very nostalgic.” Harder carved out an acting career in San remembered being a “fencerlder” Francisco. He has acted mostly in " during the tumultuous ’60s. He theaters, industrial films and com­ wanted to go to class, play sports mercials. He appeared in a car and party. ' commercial shown nationwide as Harder played baseball for two “kind of like a college preppy kid . years and was a wide receiver bn the having a good time around the football team for three. During his Chevy.” senior year in 1969, he caught seven The 37-year-old Harder said time passes for 94 yards and two touch­ has been kind to his apperance — downs, as Western tied for the Ever- “Most people think I’m 27.” He lives In San Francisco with his wife, Anna, (Continued on page 4) ^ - * J 'r- C =“>_ £* •* -tk. r..v, .* corrmert V- aluTHii 'i."■%}.-ir:.7, it" - =--'"v- r *'' '^•^\ “■ " -i" *- V' -^^4 Edge of Inge K. •;. -*v^' . > - '• V. .-f- ■■ - BY STEVE INGE/ Director of Alumni Relations ou will read elsewhere in this issue that Western is full. Our fall term enrollment of 9,144 is all that we can have if we are to have an annual average, full-time equivalent enrollment of 8,250. I Ythink Thomas Jefferson would be worried if he knew that we were full. Why would Jefferson be worried? I think for the same reasons that I am. Western is no longer allowed to provide an education for those citizens who are qualified, show promise for success and have the financial resources to attend. Something over 200 years ago, Jefferson and others designed a system of self-government, a primary premise of which was having an electorate SPOKANE MEETING — These Spokane parents and alumni are listening to President G. sufficiently educated that it could competently direct its affairs. On the Robert Ross talk about Western. Ross and members of a University Advancement team also obelisk that stands over Jefferson’s grave at Monticello, he had listed three visited the Tri-Cities during the October swing east of the mountains. The president was achievements in his life that he felt worthy of mention. They included the interviewed by members of the print and electronic media and talked to legislators in the Declaration of Independence, the Virginia statute on religious freedom, and founding the University of Virginia. To Jefferson, freedom and learning — Chris Goldsmith photo. were inseparable and paramountly important to a free people. The tradition of access to public education pre-dates Jefferson, and is Western seeking distinguished alum underscored in the Washington State Constitution, which declares public education to be the paramount duty of the state. eginning in 1984, the Western Washington University (or its A bit of history is in order. During 1983-84, owing to some anomolous Alumni Association decided predecessors) at either the behavior by students that messed up our statistical projections. Western to honor annually one baccalaureate or graduate level. had more students than the Legislature intended us to have. Not being Bindividual as a distinguished disdainful of legislative intent, Western’s Advisory Committee on Enrollment The award will be presented Inr Management, the Admissions Office staff and a lot of other people worked alumnus/alumna. William Zagelow, the spring of 1985. Nomination diligently to manage a fall term enrollment of not greater than 9,150, which of Odessa, Washington, was so should be by letter from any would yield that limit of 8,250. As we have said, 9,144 enrolled. We can take honored this past spring. interested individual or group and some pride in our achivement. It was hard work, and in many respects Tfie¥ssoc fation^^ai iT¥eekF~ should include whatever supporting unpleasant, but we did what we had to do. nominations. Persons to be honored The fall figure was reached by denying admission to about 500 students Information or documentation that who were probably able to do college work, but who were not qualified to must have: might be helpful (additional letters, enroll for technical reasons.