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Western Washington University Western CEDAR Western Reports and Résumé Western Publications 1-1980 Résumé, January, 1980, Volume 11, Issue 04 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, January, 1980, Volume 11, Issue 04" (1980). Western Reports and Résumé. 174. https://cedar.wwu.edu/alumni_reports/174 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]. VOL. 11. NO. 4 A Report to Alumni and Other Friends of Western Washington University JANUARY. 1980 Lock, stock & barrel “There are about 45 million handguns in this country but long guns are much Western technology professors more plentiful: there are very easily hundreds of millions of those.” sideline as gunsmith faces The estimate is by Malcolm Kenyon, a technology professor at Western. Nor danger of extinction in U.S. mally Kenyon teaches machine shop and welding classes, but this winter quarter he’s teaching an evening course in gunsmithing, the art of repairing firearms. He believes his craft may be in some danger of extinction. “Gunsmithing never has been a plenti ful trade, but it’s even less plentiful now,” said Kenyon, who has been fixing firearms since his teens. The son of an Albuquerque, New Mexico, hunter and gun collector, Kenyon learned to shoot at the age of four. “My father was a rigorous teacher who accepted no nonsense with firearms,” Kenyon said. “I had my own rifle by the time I was eight.” Soon, Kenyon was hanging around a local gun shop “learning the man’s inven tory.” At 15, he went to work there as an apprentice, “the best but rarest way to become a gunsmith,” Kenyon said. There are only four vocational gun smith programs in the United States, he noted. Despite the millions of guns in the country, Kenyon said “there probably are only a few thousand gunsmiths.” He cited several reasons for this scarcity. “It’s a difficult trade to learn because of the diversity of information a person needs,” he explained. “There are tens of thousands of different models of guns and a person must know thousands to be com petent. Gunsmiths learn until they die.” For starters a master gunsmith must be competent both with metal and wood, Kenyon noted. “One of the peculiarities of gunsmith- Shown is late English-style lock with detached C dry”) pan and roller frizzen spring for fast lock time. (Continued on page 4) Fleur de Us decorate and ”finial” behind lock is a traditional Lehigh Valley motif Solomon leads Shakespeare tour abroad this summer The emphasis will be on the famous Bard this spring during a “Shakespeare at Stratford” program offered by Western in conjunction with England’s University of Birmingham. Scheduled for June 13-22, the program will be led by Dr. Arthur L. Solomon, a former Shake spearean actor and director who is a member of Western’s speech department. Solomon said the program, STUDENTS ESCA PE INJUR Y IN EIRE — Two Western students escaped injury in a December which carries two 15 fire that destroyed their Buchanan Towers apartment on south campus. Housing Director Pete academic credits Cov said the blaze was contained to the students' suite, which was damaged an estimated $30,000. through Speech ‘Tt’s an incredibly safe building, ” Coy said. ‘Tnside the apartment the fire got so hot it melted 419S, Advanced Solomon aluminum window frames, but next door the walls weren’t even warm. ”—Photo by Jack Carver of Oral Interpreta The Bellingham Herald. tion, will focus on Shakespeare’s poetry and drama at classes held at Stratford- Upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. Included in the academic/travel Vous etes invite, encore package is round-trip air fare from Seattle or Vancouver, B.C., a brief tour of London and round-trip transportation to Strat Alumni Association sponsoring ford, Shakespeare’s birthplace. Participants also will receive tickets to second French gourmet dinner four productions by the Royal Shake Last summer the Western Alumni The price is $15.75 per person. Checks speare Company. Association announced a French gourmet should be made payable to the WWU “We’ll visit the playwright’s home, dinner to be held at the Chateau Ste. Alumni Association, Western Washington Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Nash’s House Michelle winery in Woodinville and University, Bellingham, Washington and New Place Gardens, Mary Arden’s prepared by Dr. Robert Meade of 98225. House, Hall’s Croft and the Shakespeare Western’s psychology faculty. It was so Institute,” Solomon said. popular that we were unable to serve a Also planned are stops at Warwick, great many people who wished to attend. Dr. Meade is an expert in cross- Sudeley and Kenilworth castles, Blenheim In an attempt to accommodate the cultural psychology and a master of the Palace, a day’s excursion to the Cotswolds, demand, we have prevailed upon Dr. culinary arts. He has studied the Grand eight nights’ lodging at Stratford in the Meade to again collaborate with the Cuisine of France for several years. He has Guest Houses, lectures by staff members of Alumni Association and the Chateau Ste. studied with James Beard, noted food the Shakespeare Institute and membership Michelle to produce another evening of authority, and at the Cordon Bleu. Meade in the Festival Club. fine dining. It will be held at 7 p.m. has taught cooking in France and at his Total cost is $1,075, which includes Thursday, March 27, 1980, at Ste. own Grand Cuisinier Cooking School in breakfast and dinner each day and aca Michelle’s Woodinville facility. Bellingham. He is an elected member of the demic tuition. exclusive Order of the Knights of the Wine “The program is designed for Shake The Menu: of California, the only Washington speare enthusiasts, teachers and students,” Creme Crecy resident to be so honored. He is a member said Solomon, who added that the Public Normandy Seafood Salad with walnut of Sainte Vincent’s Brotherhood of Wine Broadcasting Service will televise seven oil dressing growers of Macon, France. He is a food Shakespearean plays, starting in February. Coq au Vin and wine consultant to a number of Solomon said spaces for the program Seasonal vegetables restaurants. are limited to about 25 persons and sug Selected cheeses gested “an early response” by those Burgundian Peach Gateau Reservations need to be received at the Alumni Office, payment included, by interested. The Wines: March 18. Participation is limited, so early For a brochure and other information Chablis reservations are recommended. No re about “Shakespeare At Stratford,” contact Chenin Blanc funds will be granted after the March 18 Solomon at the Speech Department, White Riesling closing date. We regret that Washington Western Washington University, Belling Grenache Rouge law does not allow minors to attend. □ ham, Washington 98225, or by calling (206) 676-3870. □ 2 Caroline Bird: Don't knock working mothers about time lost from children because of By JAMES A. SCHWARTZ for example—more important than the jobs outside the home. Public Information Director job,” Bird said. At the same time, wives “You can’t keep a child by giving up a interested in achieving outside goals may Rather than a threat to a marriage, job you like to stay with that child,” she become more competitive while their working mothers often provide more explained. husbands may feel less urgency to struggle benefits to their husbands and children Rather, Bird said, the evidence shows up the corporate ladder. than traditional homemakers. that working parents take parenting more “Companies must consider the impact And Caroline Bird, author of The Two- seriously by sharing time with the children, on the family and change their assump Paycheck Marriage and other books about cooperating on housework and by pro tions about today’s family,” Bird said. women in the viding the means to enable the family to The result could be more people doing work force, has live a more interesting life. company work at home, working the statistics to “People often wonder how the house staggered hours and parental leaves for the support her work will get done but studies show work mother or father who wants to spend more views. She spoke ing wives do almost as much as those who time with a child. recently at Wes stay at home—nearly 20 hours a week. Bird predicted the economic power of tern as part of the Husbands don’t help much, but at least working women will create more, rather school’s Artists they have the grace to say they ought to than fewer, jobs and expressed doubts that and Lectures help,” said Bird, drawing laughter from her national daycare programs would alleviate Series. mostly female audience. problems in two-paycheck marriages. Today, Bird While women are enjoying the freedom “In surveys, only 10 percent of the said, only about to pursue careers in higher management, responding parents expressed a need for 7 percent of the Bird many men are reassessing their goals. daycare programs,” Bird said. “That nation’s marriages depend on the husband “Men are finding the world at home as would be an expensive program to serve as the sole breadwinner. Still, she con mysterious and glamorous as women are only one out of every 10 kids.” tends, the wife’s “second paycheck’’ can finding the executive suite,” Bird said. Instead, she suggested, the federal mean life-expanding amenities for the Partially freed by their mate’s extra government should give working spouses family and new options for the husband.