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Western Washington University Western CEDAR Western Reports and Résumé Western Publications Fall 1982 Résumé, Fall, 1982, Volume 14, 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, 1982, Volume 14, Issue 01" (1982). Western Reports and Résumé. 190. https://cedar.wwu.edu/alumni_reports/190 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]. STUDENTS RETURN—This enterprising fellow who found s “better way” to move his belongings into one of Western’s residence halls was just one of thousands who converged on the campus the weekend of September 18-19. Fall quarter classes began on September 23 with an enrollment of 9,352 students, compared to 10,291 a year ago. VOL. 14, NO. i A Report to Alumni and Other Friends of Western Washington University ‘ ^ ~ Fall 1982 Parents’ Day is Sat Nov. 6 Western rolls out the blue carpet for parents of new stu­ dents on Saturday, Nov. 6, when the University hosts Parents’ Day. A special convocation for parents is set for 10 a.m. in the Performing Arts Center on campus. Immediately afterward, Western’s colleges and schools play host to the visitors at pre­ sentations highlighting cur­ ricula and career options. The afternoon features science lab exhibits; football, with the Vikings taking on Central Washington; and a men’s soccer match with The Evergreen State College. Specially planned residence hall activities, Ingmar Bergman’s classic film The Seventh Seal, and other Viking Union events round out the evening. In between events, new Western Trustee and Presidential Search Committee Chairman Gordon Sandison announced the names of the five students will be able to guide finalists for Western’s presidency at an October 1 press conference held in Old Main. their families around campus. A great day Is planned. □ President: Five candidates survivet The Western Presidential Search sessions with students, faculty, staff administrators. LeCocq, Waldo Committee has recommended five and local community leaders, Sandison said the search process candidates to the University’s Board Sandison said. Is “right on schedule’’ and added that named as of Trustees In the search for He commended members of the the board hopes to make a final Western’s tenth president. search committee, which included decision In early December. □ WWU trustees The committee’s choices, from a faculty, staff, students and field of more than 200 applicants and ynden banker Irwin LeCocq nominees. Include the following and Seattle attorney James individuals; Waldo have been appointed to ■ Hans Brisch Assistant Vice LWestern’s Board of Trustees by Gov. President for Academic Affairs and John Spellman. Executive Assistant to the President, LeCocq is president and chief University of Nebraska, Lincoln, executive officer of People’s State Nebraska. Bank in Lynden. Waldo is a partner ■ Colin Bull — Dean, College of in the Seattle law firm of Gordon, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Thomas, Honeywell, Malanca, The Ohio State University. Peterson and O’Hern. ■ George N. Rainsford — Waldo replaces Robert Fernald President, Kalamazoo College, Kala­ and LeCocq replaces Marven Eggert mazoo, Michigan. on Western’s five-member board. ■ Lorman A. Ratner — Vice Born in Aberdeen, S.D., LeCocq Chancellor and Dean of Faculty, was educated at the University of University of Wisconsin/Parkside, California and Linfield College In Kenosha. Oregon. ■ G. Robert Ross Senior Waldo’s educational background Consultant, American Association of Includes Whitman College and State Colleges and Universities. Willamette University Law School. He earlier worked with the U.S. In announcing the finalists. Attorney General for Western Wash­ Western Trustee and Search Com­ ington and served shortly on the mittee Chairman Gordon Sandison Central Washington University Board said the recommendations will now of Trustees in 1976-77. be forwarded to the Board of Other members of Western’s Trustees for their consideration. board include chairman Curtis The trustees were scheduled to Dalrymple of Bellingham, Gordon conduct further Interviews and Sandison of Olympia and Jerrold arrange for campus Interviews of Manley of Tacoma. □ each candidate, which will Include Rdsum^ / Fall 1982 I - r^v> conmeft carpus Accounting BY STEVE INGE / Director of Alumni Relations Dinner theatre There is an excitement to the first days of falfterm. They reaffirm offering is WWU grads Western’s existence. student’s idea To get to the point the long way around, let me tell a short story. I score high entered the bottom floor of Old Main on Thursday, September 23, Theatre students need slightly before 8 a.m. Two young males, the down of youth still upon opportunities to practice their their cheeks, were talking, both with mildly anxious expressions on art. Western senior J.R. Stanley has taken that requirement and in exam their faces. One approached me. developed what may be one of estern accounting > fii‘Excuse me, " he said, “but I can’t find a classroom. Could you help Bellingham’s best fall entertain­ graduates outscored their me?" ment offerings. peers from Washington’s Wother state-supported Institutions by J.R. likes dinner theatre. As ’’Sure,” I said. ‘‘Where Qre you going?” neither the Main Stage of the a wide margin on last November’s Certified Public Accountants ‘‘To astronomy, and it’s in Old Main 110, and the door’s locked. ff Performing Arts Center nor the Examination. With a knowledge born of many years in Old Main, I recalled that Little Theatre in Old Main lend themselves to dining, J.R. has A statistical comparison compiled door is a custodial closet, which would normally be locked and would gained the use of the Sas- by the National Association of State not be well suited to teaching astronomy. quatch Room in the Viking Boards of Accountancy showed that 27.6 percent of Western’s accounting ‘‘Let’s take a look at your schedule, ” I said. The schedule was Union, arranged for an excel­ lent dinner, and produced Neil grads, taking the exam for the first produced and revealed that he was looking for Bond Hall 110, towards time, passed all four exam sections. which he was pointed. Simon’s The Good Doctor. It will all take place on Saturday, The 2V2-day comprehensive exam The second student, who had been standing nearby throughout the November 13, and Sunday, measures accountants’ mastery of conversation, now approached and asked, “Could you tell me where November 14, with dinner at 6 four areas of accounting practices—. this astronomy class is? It’s supposed to be here [indicating the door to p.m., curtain at 7:30. audit, law, theory and practice. In addition to scoring the best pass rate Lecture Hall 1], but the door’s locked.^’ Sure enough, iTwasrHe, tou;'^ ' Owing to the-intimate size of for the entire exarri, Western ' ■ " V was dispatched due south to Bond Hall. the Sasquatch Room, seating is limited to 70 guests per graduates also posted the top I don’t mean to poke fun at those who are unfamiliar with new evening. Admission is $7.50. passing percentages in three out of territory. Lord knows, I was equally baffled by the size of a coliege 20 Reservations, payment in­ the four Individual sections, years ago. It is rather to recall the heady feeling of embarking on a new cluded, need to be made with according to Western’s Accounting phase of life, of beginning an exploration with not many predictable the Western Theatre Box Office Department chairman, Ronald Savey. outcomes. Majors will change, dreams will change, and some will leave. by November 10. Telephone Western accounting graduates Some will fail. reservations will be accepted also posted the best overall pass rate and can be made by calling for those students taking the exam But for most, those first confusing, frightening days of college are a 676-3873. Checks should be more than one time, with 39.4 time to test yourself, to firm up your belief that you are ready to made payable to the Associated percent of those candidates passing function away from home, to undertake more difficult tasks, to become Students, who are underwriting all four sections. more than you are. J.R.’s enterprising effort. □ “Western’s very favorable show­ ing is enhanced further when it Is Western exists to bring together those who are beginning their noted that Washington is gne of 18 explorations, with those who have been doing it for some time states dubbed an ‘honor roll’ state for (including you). We think we do it well, and revel in our task. □ a high passing percentage of all candidates,” Savey said. An “honor” Edna Lawrence Tjoelker state is one with a pass rate equal to Mrs. Edna May Lawrence Tjoelker or greater than the national average. For all three examinations that of Everson died on Wednesday, comparisons have been made (May, ^ : * September 22, 1982, in Bellingham. V ^ * A 1910 graduate of the Bellingham 1979; November, 1979; and Normal School, she was the first November, 1981), Western’s woman to serve as president of the graduates have consistently been at Associated Students. She had been the top In terms of pass rates, Savey WWU Alumni Association Board of Directors head of the Child Studies Laboratory said. in Seattle, and taught In the Belling­ Other state-supported schools Officers; Hunter NIckell 74, Spokane, president; Dick Walsh ’69, Marysville, president-elect; ham schools for a number of years contained In the comparison Ronald Renard ’73, Everett, secretary-treasurer; Michael Bates ’75, Bellingham, executive-at- prior to her marriage.

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