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NEW SCULPTURE INSTALLED - Shortly after its installation, “India, ” Western‘s newest piece of contemporary sculpture, was treated to a dusting of snow. The artwork, by internationally acclaimed sculptor Anthony Caro, was donated to the University by the Virginia Wright Foundation. The piece was placed on the small brick plaza between the Humanities Building and Old Main.. Mitford visit highiight for journaiists

By JIM SCHWARTZ Director of Public information

Jessica Mitford is a delightful person who speaks in cultured tones about her five books and her unconventional life. But the “Queen of Muckrakers/’ as Time magazine has called her, keeps a sense of controlled outrage against society’s real and imagined ills simmer­ ing near the surface. Mitford, whose most famous book. The American Way of Death, shook the funeral industry in the 1960s, was at Western in February to talk with journalism students and others about her writing techniques and experiences. Born in England in 1917 and part of a family rich in authors, radicals. Fascists and titled gentry. Miss Mitford soon proved herself an individualist. At 19, she ran away with her second cousin, a Communist sympathizer, and even a British destroyer dispatched to retrieve the couple proved ineffective. She later lived a Bohemian lifestyle In the U.S., flirted with Communism, became active in civil rights issues, held Jessica Mitford relaxes during visit to Western. a string of jobs—from classified ad- College, she was asked if she has a “My best work comes when I get taklng to selling clothes and eventually cantankerous nature. absolutely besotted with a subject,’’ she settled In California with her second “Actually, I have a sweet tempera­ said. “During the funeral book. I’d find husband, lawyer Robert Treuhaft. ment,’’ Miss Mitford said, articulating myself in cocktail conversations about “Because of my Communist back­ the words precisely. “I’m only crossed the relative strength of embalming ground, the FBI chased me out of every by people like prosecutors, draft re­ fluid.’’ conceivable employment,’’ said Miss sisters, funeral home directors and She still subscribes to “Mortuary Mitford In a recent interview. prison officials.’’ Management’’ and “Casket & Sunny- That even included losing a job as a She took Canadian customs officials side.’’ telephone salesperson for the San to task at the Vancouver International What next for Mitford? She currently Francisco Chronicle's classified section. Airport, where her progress to Western is incensed over a Supreme Court “My husband claims it’s because I was briefly delayed. Last November, she decision which she believes gives prose­ was in highly classified work,’’ she reopened her attack on the funeral cutors too much power over defendants quipped, smiling. industry in a McCall's magazine article. who refuse to plea-bargain. Her irreverent look at the funeral She’s especially proud that her book Industry, prison systems [Kind and and resulting media pressures helped And as she left Western, she was Usual Punishment) and other institu­ prod the Federal Trade Commission to preparing to check out some archeo­ tions made her a controversial figure- insist that funeral prices be itemized and logical digs in Egypt for a German one that shows no sign of mellowing. that cremation—rather than expensive magazine, mentally roughing out notes During a talk at Western’s Fairhaven burial—is on the rise In numerous states. for a future book on her muckraking “I thought that, with luck, my experiences and mildly considering an funeral industry book would sell 2,000 acting career. RESUME is the monthly to 3,000 copies,’’ Miss Mitford said. “It The former teacher at California came out in 1963 and is still selling State College at San Jose and Yale publication of the Western University obviously likes to play to an Aiumni Association and is 1,000 copies a year In hardbound and more in paperback.’’ audience. produced in cooperation Miss Mitford, who didn’t start “In my golden years, which I’m In, with the Public Information writing until age 38, gets many of her I’d enjoy being a character actor,’’ she Office and the Office of book ideas from her husband’s civil said. Publications. rights cases. Once turned on by a “I think that would be tremendous subject, she is a tenacious fact-finder. fun.’’ □ 2 Stan Kincaid of McBeath Giass Co, in Beiiingham checks the polished wire plate glass skylight in the new home economics rooms on the fifth floor of Old Main on the WWU campus. This new section overlooking Bellingham Bay and the city is part of the $2,6 million remodeling work being handled by prime contractor Dawson Construction of Bellingham, The work is to be completed this spring, (Photo by Jack Carver of the Bellingham Herald,) Four named to hall of fame

Three former athletes and a former He also played professional football William Tomaras was the Viking athletic director have been named to the for the Multnomah Athletic Club and director of athletics for eight years Western Washington University Hall of had signed a baseball contract with (1963-72). Fame. They are Dick Bruland, Dan Portland of the Pacific Coast League Known as the “Father of Wrestling” Gagnon, Roger Repoz and William before his accidental death in 1925 at in the state of Washington, Tomaras “Biir’Tomaras, age 25. began that sport at Western in 1962 and The four join 12 other members, Dan Gagnon was a three-sport coached It for four years. He also was including Norman Bright, Sam Carver, letterman for the Vikings, participating named to the Helm’s Foundation Norm Dahl, Fred Emerson, Chuck In basketball, football and track. wrestling Hall of Fame. Erickson, Norm Hash, Charles Lappen- As a sprinter on the Western cinder As president of the Evergreen Con­ busch, C. W. “Bill” McDonald, Bruce squad in 1939, Gagnon set a school ference in 1970, Tomaras was respon­ Randall, Boyd Staggs, Bob Tisdale and record of 9.6 in the 100-yard dash sible for expanding the league from four Bill Wright. which still stands. He also established a to seven schools in 1970. Washington Intercollegiate Conference The WWU Athletic Hall of Fame Induction ceremonies for the newest record (9.7) in that event and a selection committee consisted of jack members will take place at the Whatcom Tri-Normal mark In the 220-yard dash Carver, Bellingham Herald newswriter County Sportsman of the Year banquet, (21.6). and photographer; Haines Fay, news set for March 20 at Bellingham’s new Roger Repoz was selected the Most director of radio station KGMI; Steve Holiday Inn. Valuable Player at the NAIA national Inge, WWU alumni director; Steve Dick Bruland was tabbed by former baseball tournament in 1959, leading Kurtz, WWU publications director; Viking football mentor Sam Carver as the Vikings to the quarterfinals. Wallle Lindsley, former Bellingham his best player during his 14-year A two-time All-Evergreen Conference Herald sports editor; Boyde Long, WWU coaching career. choice as a pitcher at Western, Repoz director of athletics; Paul Madison, A genuine triple-threat with his played professionally In the major WWU sports information director; Bob kicking, passing and running ability, leagues for seven years as an outfielder Pastin, Bellingham Herald sports editor; Bruland played football for two years for the New York Yankees, Kansas City Pat Rowe, KISM radio; and Dick Stark, (1923-24) at Western. Athletics and California Angels. sports director at KPUG radio. □ 3 Music students of Cole Biasini ‘plug into’ modern sounds

“We live in an electronic age. There’s no such thing as formless music. If you can perceive it, It has a form. ’’

When students of Cole Biasini talk about plugging in to modern sounds, they aren’t exaggerating. Biasini, music professor at Western, teaches a course in electronic music in which students are encouraged to create their own sounds with modern circuitry. Hub of the course are two electronic synthesizers. One is in an early modern ARP model purchased in the late 1960s, the other an even more sophisticated $16,000 EMU. The latter, received in December through a grant, has more than 1,000 Individual controls and features multi-tracks, a mixing board and quad speaker arrangement. The equipment Is based in modern music laboratories in the recently expanded Performing Arts Center, which also houses a library of hundreds of electronic music titles. Biasini, In his eighth year at Western, concedes that electronic music isn’t for everyone. One problem, he said. Is that many music lovers don’t realize how many sounds are “manufactured” by electronic devices. “Few of us listen to live music with any kind of frequency,” he explained. “Most is recorded, electronically ampli­ fied and has sounds and tones that can’t be produced by the traditional acous­ tical instruments.” He said synthesizers can better reproduce the sounds of nature such as waterfalls, waves, birds and animals, and winds. Such sounds as steam escaping, Music professor Cole Biasini works before a tapestry created by projecting and painting the sound cannon fire and similar effects can be waves made by an electronic music composition. realistically created on an electronic synthesizer. On the University’s ARP 2500 He said his four credit-hour course Analog synthesizers also have other modular synthesizer, students have been averages 30 students a quarter. Many are advantages, Biasini said. creating their own instruments and non-music majors, who spend three “Take a piano,” he noted. “You sound patterns for years. hours a week on the synthesizer and can’t crescendo—reach a pitch, hold it “Our electronic music course covers four hours in laboratory sessions. and overlap the sounds with tones of such areas as composition, instrument “We have a backup of prospective maximum intensity. The sound dis­ creation, performing and critical listen­ students and our labs are open from integrates. You can do these things on a ing,” Biasini said. “We also can recreate 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week,” synthesizer, which has 21 octaves. It’s classical masterpieces through a tech­ Biasini said. like having three pianos end to end.” nique called ‘switched-on Bach.’ ” Still, students of traditional sounds 4 Ken Bayfield, a senior major in theatre, works out an original composition on Western’s A RP 2500 modular synthesizer.. Such devices enable students to create their own instruments to produce unusual musical and other sounds. may tend to dislike electronic concepts, mainly because they seem to represent a departure from string, percussion or wind-made music. “There’s a lot of learning within idiomatic frames—people tend to like music they understand and are used to. Aaron Copland once said, ‘Music is ever in the state of becoming,’ ’’ Biasini said. He has uncovered documents show­ ing that a French Jesuit priest, jean Baptiste Delaborde, hooked up a harpsi­ chord with low-voltage electricity as early as 1761. Since then, the medium has grown until it began blossoming in the mid-1960s at such institutions as the Princeton-Columbia Electronic Music Center in New York City. Though not mechanically or elec­ tronically minded himself, Biasini eventually would like to see Western’s computers linked to analog synthesizers. Among advantages, said the former specialist in the U.S. Office of Educa­ tion, would be compositions with virtually unlimited ascending and de­ scending tonal ranges. Biasini also is working on patents for a holder which permits several sheets of music to be placed on a conventional music stand and, with his son, a high school student, has designed a water sport game he claims could be as “popular as the hula hoop.’’ Meanwhile, he smiles at the sug­ gestion that he sounds like the Marshall McLuhan of electronic music. “We live in the electronic age,’’ Biasini replies. “There’s no such thing as Curtis DuBois (left), associate to Coie Biasini, and Biasini pose before new $16,000 EMU synthe­ formless music. If you can perceive it, it sizer which Western received last December through a grant. The instrument, one of the most has a form.” □ sophisticated available, has more than 1,000 individual controls. 5 study tours planned

Northwest residents with a travel bug theater, religion, lectures and dis­ can find a sure-fire remedy this summer cussions during their travel. The through two month-long study tours to itinerary includes visits to Japan’s most Japan and Greece being offered by famous monuments in the Kansai Western. (Kyoto, Nara) and Kanto (Tokyo) A Greek Study Tour, j une 28 to J uly regions and short excursions to 27, will focus on ancient and modern Hiroshima and MIyashima, the Ise Greece. Participants will be based in shrine, Nikko and National Parks. Athens and trek to Drepanon, Mycenae, An optional two-day background Nemea and Olympia, cross the Corin­ study will be held at Western July 2-3, thian Gulf to Arachova and return to with the tour leaving San Francisco July Athens via Thebes. 5. Students may register for up to nine Cost of the Japan Study Tour is credits with lower-division credits avail­ $2,320 including tuition, twin bed TOWN HALL SPEAKER - Dr. Bea Medicine, able for high school seniors and college rooms at first-class hotels, round-trip noted Indian anthropologist and activist, was freshmen. The tour includes a five-day the lead speaker of the Town Hall Speakers transfers between airports, hotels, Symposium at Western. The program is break for travelers to explore Greece on stations and piers, and an English- sponsored by Western '5 Office of Minority their own. speaking guide throughout Japan. Affairs and the College of Arts and Sciences. Cost is $1,550, which covers tuition, Also Included are service charges, Medicine is a Sioux and was born and raised air and ground travel, bed and breakfast on the Standing Rock Reservation in South gratuities, local taxes on meals and Dakota. She told an audience of about 175 in the tour’s rented Athens house, hotels, American breakfast each that Indian women are one of the strongest double occupancy in C class hotels, morning, nine lunches and three special factors in the survival of Indian cultures. The some meals and transportation to the dinners. A valid passport and Japanese Town Hall program will continue through Vancouver, B.C., airport from the visa are required. May. Other speakers include Mervyn Dymally, Western campus. Lt. Gov. of California, Feb. 22; Washington The tour, limited to 35 persons, will State Rep. Peggy Maxie, March 6; Congress­ Interested persons should contact be led by Dr. James Jarrett, professor man Louis Stokes, March 30 and Indian Nita Clothier In Western’s Liberal and dean of the School of Education, Leadership Seminar Director David Grant, Studies Department or phone (206) University of California at Berkeley, and April 72. The lectures are free and open to 676-3032. the public and are held in Lecture Hall Four by Dr. Ulrich Mammitzsch, associate on campus. The japan Study Tour is scheduled professor of liberal studies at Western. for July 1 to July 28 with up to 12 credits available. For further Information, contact Dr. Participants will combine academic Mammitzsch at the Department of Winter study of Japanese art, literature. Liberal Studies. □ enrollment second highest Winter quarter enrollment at Western is 9,213, second highest reported winter enrollment in the school’s history. University Registrar Eugene Omey said the winter quarter total represents 98.4 percent of Western’s fall enroll­ ment of 9,359. “The only higher winter enrollment came in 1975-76 when the total reached 9,311,’’ Omey said. Dr. Paul J. Olscamp, Western’s president, said the University’s diverse liberal arts, career-oriented and graduate programs are responsible for maintain­ ing the student population at high levels. Males outnumber females at Western by a 4,614 to 4,599 count at the start of winter quarter. Full-time students- check for CHILCfREN - Members of Soroptimist International of Bellingham, Theresa Oibrantz those taking 10 or more credit hours— (left) and Shirley Friesen, present a $300 check to Western Foundation President David Tork (left) and Technology Professor Marvin Southcott. The money, to be followed in June by another $200 number 7,892 and part-time students donation, will help fund Southcott’s design students, who make toys and appliances for crippled taking nine or fewer hours total 1,321. and handicapped children. 6 WWU experiencing increased demand for history courses

While colleges around the country ciplines such as business, the arts, the seem to be dropping many history humanities and education. courses from their curricula because of Education once stood as the largest declining enrollments, Western is ex­ and sometimes only employer of the periencing increased demand for the history major. Then, 10 or 20 graduates subject. could pick from 30 available teaching And at the bread and butter end of jobs. Now a new employment market education—landing a job after has emerged for the historian, DeLorme grad nation — said. Western history Today, government and private in­ dustry are competing for history and majors are look­ Sandra Zuanich, director of the City of ing at a marked­ other liberal arts graduates. Bellingham’s Records Center, received part of ly different em­ Demand is so strong for history her training through Western’s Department ployment scene courses at Western this year, the of History. She helps coordinate off-campus than their coun­ department has added extra classes to records management workshops for Western's programs and has worked with several terparts of ten its normal offerings, especially in the archival students during their internships. years ago. area of American history. History en­ “The Bicentennial, I suspect, has numbers,” said Mariz. something to do with the increased rollments began “I’ve tried to rid students of a climbing three DeLorme interest,” DeLorme said. “I think common idea that there is only one job years ago at Western, said history students today are also becoming more out there for them, and that if they miss department chairman Dr. Roland practical in their outlook for employ­ it, their lives are ruined. I say get your DeLorme. ment on graduation,” he added. foot in the door. It’s careers versus The University now has about 200 Since about 1969, DeLorme said, specific jobs.” history majors. Interest also is on the students enrolling with the idea of one Western history graduates have been upswing from students in other dis- day teaching history did so with a placed in almost every level of govern­ “hope and a prayer.” Such jobs are ment. They also have gone into sales, becoming scarce. management, personnel, small Now, more and more students are businesses, and again, education. going on to graduate school. At University Placement Director Louis Western, part of that interest is coupled Lallas said the first bad employment with the history department’s Archival year for liberal arts majors was 1969. Training Program, which since 1972 has But last year, he added, seemed to be a been training graduate students in turning point. archival science and records manage­ Of nine recent history grads who ment. used the placement service, eight landed Job placement for archival graduates jobs or went on for further education. has been “phenomenal,” said program Of the eight, five took jobs in director and department placement education, two entered graduate school, officer Dr. George Mariz. one was hired by private industry and “All of our archival graduates (35 one was still looking, Lallas reported. since the program began) get jobs before DeLorme credits the archival training their certificates,” he explained. program with opening new job oppor­ Four years ago, when Mariz took tunities for Western’s other history over as history’s placement officer, he graduates. sent out 500 letters to business and “Through our working relationships government agencies seeking infor­ with government agencies in the archival mation on employment needs and job program, we are made aware of other markets. jobs which require' only a bachelor’s “We were surprised by the number of degree,” he said. “This kind of feedback responses from private business saying pays off for our students.” they preferred to hire liberal arts majors Both Mariz and DeLorme expect rather than specialists for their middle history enrollment to increase gradually management positions,” Mariz said. during the next few years and then level One of the first students to complete the “We found an expanding need In off. For now, job opportunities for Archival Training Program was Jim Moore, government for people with liberal arts history graduates are described as Now a regional state archivist^ Moore is director of the Washington State Regional education—those who understand that “promising, not overconfident but look­ Archives located at Western. the world is full of people and not just ing good.” □ 7 trustees at Skagit Valley College in Mount employed by Sears Roebuck and Company Vernon. and he by Ellison Enterprises ... DENISE WENNER and Frank Baker were married in November in Bellingham and are living in Port ’72 PAUL H. KING graduated from the Townsend. University of Puget Sound Law School in 1976 and Is practicing law in South Unclassified DAVE BISSET Is a designer ’63 GERALD R. GJOVAAG was elected Snohomish County and Seattle ... TERESA for Sportscaster Company, Inc. in Seattle__ vice president and manager of the Probate FOUCAULT and Charles Sherling were PAUL BOYINGTON was presented with a Section, Trust Division, of Seattle-First married in December in Lubbock, Texas. CINE Eagle award by the Council on National Bank in Seattle . . . WILLIAM International Non-theatrical Events in Wash­ ZAGELOW, a farmer in the Odessa area, has ’73 JOEL EAGERNESS has joined the ington, D.C., for the film “Crude” which been elected president of the Washington staff of the Lewis County Medical Service depicts one man’s lonely battle with an oil Association of Wheat Growers ... R. E. Corporation in Chehalls. He is involved with tanker . . . CYNTHIA CORDOVA, an elemen­ (GENE) DUNBAR has been named sales public relations and sales . . . DUANE tary teacher at Briarcrest Elementary School manager of the Larson Division of American SETTEE teaches at the Packwood Elementary in Seattle, was a contributor to the December Forest Products Corporation. School. issue of Instructor Magazine, a nationally circulated magazine used by elementary teachers and educators ... DEAN ’74 RONNI GILBOA is co-director of ’64 BILL WILLIAMS has recorded “The FELTHOUS is a trust officer at Pacific Two Sides of Christmas,” an album com­ WashPIRG at the University of Washington- based public interest research group in Seattle National Bank of Washington’s Central bining the religious and the mythical songs of Yakima trust office . . . GAIL JEAN BERTO the season. . . . JOAN HAUSER is the recreation supervisor for the Olympia Parks and and Douglas Cowan were married on the Recreation Department. University of Puget Sound campus in Tacoma where they are living. She Is a home and ’65 USAF Captain ALLAN R. LAMB is a family life instructor in the Clover Park senior intelligence staff officer stationed at ’75 LEONITA WESTERN is employed by School District . . . JOAN FREAD, employed Ramstein Air Base in Germany. the Clallam County Alcohol Center as a senior by a Washington, D.C., law firm, placed first citizen counselor . . . JOANNE KRUEGER is in the Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition employed by the Education Service District at Yale Law School, which she attended. She ’66 FLORENCE ANN WINSOR and No. 114 out of Port Townsend as a won a $250 prize for her essay on copyright Henry Helliesen were married in December in communication disorders specialist. law revision in the songwriting and publishing Seattle where they are living. industries . . . JOAN MANNING is employed by the Cowlitz County Juvenile Department ’76 RONDA ANN BALL and DALE ’70 KATHERINE DONNER is living In ROBERT PETERSON were married at ROBERT D. MALDE, director of Whitman College’s Career Planning and London where she is working in a specialized McChord Air Force Base and are living in Placement Center, was elected to the post of adoption agency and is completing her MSW Chehalis. She is a special education teacher president of the Northwest Association of . . . JOANNA SMITH received her master’s and he is in restaurant management . . . School, College and University Staffing. degree in education in August from Seattle ELIZABETH GREENE and DOUGLAS University and is teaching at West Seattle RIGGIN were married in Bellingham where High School ... JOHN C. VERNON they are living ... LAURALEE V. T. graduated from the University of Puget Sound MASTROPOALO has a research fellowship at IN MEMORIAM Law School in 1976 and is presently an the Population Studies Center at the Uni­ attorney in Tacoma ... WILLIAM C. versity of Michigan and is working toward her ’15 ETHEL MULLINS HARRIS, October (“WOODY”) HERON is a sales representative Ph.D. in sociology ... JANIE HART and 15, in Tumwater, Washington. with the Chevron Chemical Company in Ronald Smigielski were married in December ’16 RUTH STRAND, July 29, of leu­ Spokane in Bothell and are living in Kenmore . . . kemia, in Seattle. JOHN MANLY is advertising manager of the ’18 ELSIE HARTMAN SCHILLING, Ketchikan Daily News ... DAVID NEFF is April 11, in Hemet, California ... REUBEN '71 CHARLES HARVEY is a sales the sports editor and advertising assistant with A. ALM, May 8, in Puyallup. associate for First Equity, Inc. Realtors, an the Pacific Tribune in llwaco . . . DAN ’20 EDITH ESTERGRUN JOHNSON, Anchorage brokerage firm of which he is part NEWMAN is teaching junior high school and March 27, 1977, in Orange, California. owner. He also maintains a business in the coaching seventh grade basketball in Sitka, ’22 RALPH H. MILLER, December 20, Anchorage-Matunuska-Susitaa area of a Alaska. in Sedro Woolley. general contractor building custom homes . . . ’37 CLARENCE SOUKUP, January 24, WILLIAM F. JOHNSTON, president of the in Seattle. Retail Clerks Union, Local 240, covering ’77 KAREN GIESA and KIM SHER­ Unclassified JOSEPH STRITMATTER, WOOD (’72) were married in November in Whatcom, Skagit and Island counties, has November 19, in Kirkland. been elected chairman of the board of Bellevue and are living in Bellingham. She is

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