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, ' WHIT\XtORTH COLLEGE 1890-1990 WHI1WORTH TODAY

Staff FEATURES

Editor Linda Sharman

Associate Editor John Carter

Contributing Editors Bob Coleman Glen Hiemstra Ann Kennaly Paul Viren Charles Wait

Research Assistant Karen Gruber 7 When You Wish 10 Capital Editorial Assistant Nancy Bentz Upon a Star Campaign Why is this man smiling? Takes Off! Art Director If you worked for Walt Don Woodward $15 million can buy a lot Disney and had just won of bricks. Take a tour of Graphic Designer an Emmy, you would too. Whitworth in the not-too- Steve Merryman distant future.

Administration

President Arthur J. De long

Vice President of Development Brad Hunter

Director of Alumni Relations Paul Viren

Director of Admissions John Reed 14 The Next 23 The Light Age Century A Whitworth futurist What does the future hold shares his vision of the for Whitworth and the next 100years.

On the Cover: world? Our experts spell it Two students take an early morning out. stroll near Harriet Cheney Cowles Library. Photograph by Bob Barros. DEPARTMENTS 4 Editor's Comment Whitworth Today is published twice annually by Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington. 4 Calendar

Fall 1989, Vol 59, No.1 5 Letters 6 In the World Published twice annually by Whitworth College. Second class postage paid at Spokane, 7 Whitworth News Washington, 99218. USPS 087200. Read About Send address changes to Whitworth College, 26 Alumni Bulletin Board West 300 Hawthorne Road, George's Spokane, Washington 99218 27 Alumni Notebook 32 Pirate Sports Dream! Whitworth College is an equal opportunity employer and educational institution. 34 President's Journal Page 35

TH TODAY 3 Editor's Comment

rom the day an early ancestor required to create a new civilization dence that a Whitworth education, F struck one rock against another that is worthy of our dignity as royal with its Christian values and liberal and made fire, humankind has been persons and our responsibility as arts bread th, will continue to be rele- intervening in the evolution of our divine co-creators. If we do not. . we vant to the global challenges of the planet. But for centuries, the effect have no one to blame but ourselves. next century. was easy to overlook. Whatever al- For we do choose the religious and "Society becomes a partnership ..." terations humans chose to impose social structures we prefer, and we wrote 18th Century political philoso- upon the natural order, time and na- . choose the gods and idols we wor- pher Edmund Burke, "between those ture seemed to mend. No more. ship." who are living, those who are dead, "We are now moving into an age," In our Whitworth Today feature on and those who are to be born." With writes political scientist Walter Truett the future, you'll find reflections on wisdom from the past, those living in Anderson, "dominated bythediscov- conditions around our globe by Whit- the present are responsible for the ery that science and industry, by worth experts, each giving a closeup well-being of the future. It's time to achieving an unprecedented degree section of the larger whole. Their stop playing with fire. of human power over the workings of thoughts interconnect in many ways: nature, have created an entirely new Alice Deakins' Third World "sweat order of problems." That power has capital", Bob Wauzzinski's North- fused human society and the bio- South friction and Frank Houser's sphere into a single interactive whole. economic-political influence, for in- In his book, To Govern Evolution, stance. Most of all they connect in a Anderson lays out a dizzying range of concern for meaning, and in confi- - Linda Sharman, Editor evidence. Species are becoming ex- tinct at a rate of one a day. We are The Centennial Year losing the genetic diversity of our food sources. Deforestation and deserti- faction are proceeding at an alarming CALENDAR rate. The ocean and air cannot continue to absorb the pollutants we're Mark Russell- Sept. 6,8 p.m. at Spokane Opera The Whitworth Players' Tour - late [an.. pouring into them. Genetic engineer- House, co-sponsored with KSPS Public "Christ in the Concrete City" by Turner ing and human reproductive technolo- Television Spring Convocation - Feb. 9, 11:15 a.m. at gies have developed faster than poli- Convocation - Sept. 8, 11:15 a.m. at Cowles Cowles Aud., Darrell Cuder, academic vice cies and ethics to deal with them. Aud., President Arthur De [eng. "Making a president, "Making a World of Difference" World of Difference" Founder's Day - Feb. 20 on campus and at Anderson describes two typical at- Launching the Centennial Campaign - Sept. Spokane Trade Center, Dr.Clarence Simpson titudes toward the effects of human 15,11:15 a.m. at Cowles Aud.. Campus pic- Woodrow Wilson Scholar - Feb. 25 - Mar. 2 on intervention. The first is refusal to nic following in the Loop campus, Ceil Cleveland, writer and editor know, a human arrogance that pro- Spokane Symphony and Greg Slag - Oct. 2 & Centennial Lectureship - Mar. 15-16 on campus, Dr. Martin Marty, theologian at Uni- duces such bumpers tickers as SIERRA 3, 8 p.m. at Spokane's Metropolitan Per- forming Arts Center versity of Chicago Divinity School CLUB KISS MY AXE. The second is Undaman Distinguished Scholar lecture- Wind & Jazz Ensemble Tour - Mar. 26-30 in knowing but being blameless, a smug ship - Oct. 10-12 on campus, Robert Western Washington innocence that views others' activi- Coudzwaard, economist at Free University, The Whitworth Choir with Orchestra - Apr. 8, ties with alarm, while seeing oneself Amsterdam 4 p.m. and Apr. 9, 7:30 p.m. at St. John's Homecoming Weekend - Oct. 13-15 on cam- Cathedral, Spokane, "The Passion of St. as having no more impact on the world pus John" by ).5. Bach than a butterfly. Both are forms of Louie Bellson Drum Clinic - Oct. 20, 2 p.m. at Spring Drama Production - Apr. 20-22 at refusal to take responsibility. Cowles Aud. Cowles Aud.. "As You Like It" by . "We can choose to know many dif- Fall Drama Production - Oct. 27-29 at Cowles Shakespeare Centennial Celebration Banquet - Apr. 27 at ferent things," Anderson contends, Aud., "God's Favorite" by Neil Simon Simpson-Duvall Lectureship - Nov. 7-8 on Fieldhouse, Speaker of the House Thomas "and we can choose to act in many campus, Robert McAfee Brown and Sydney S. Foley (invited, not confirmed) different ways. But we cannot choose Thomson Brown, scholars Whitworth College at the Met - Apr. 28 at not to know, or not to act." Wind Ensemble Fall Concert -Nov.12,4p.m. Spokane's Metropolitan Performing Arts Like Rachel Carson, Jona than Schell at Cowles Aud. Center Staley Lectureship - Nov. 12-15 on campus, Service of Worship - Apr. 29 at Fieldhouse, J. and Paul Ehrlich, whose warnings Tom Sine, futurist Randolph Taylor, president of San Fran- about pollution, nuc1earweapons and The Music of Duke Ellington -Nov 17,8p.m. cisco Theological Seminary overpopulation also pointed to a fi- at Cowles Aud., trumpeter Bill Berry and The Whitworth Ballet - May 4 & 5, 8 p.m. and nite planet, Anderson calls for a reor- Whitworth Jazz Ensemble May 6, 7 p.m. at Cowles Aud.. "Giselle" Centennial Conference - May 11-13 on cam- dering of values. Christmas Choir Concerts- Dec. 2 in Everett, Wash., Dec. 3 in Seattle, Wash. pus, "Ethics in Athletics" Dominican scholar Matthew Fox Christmas Choir Concerts - Dec. 8,8 p.m. and Commencement - May 19 & 20 at Spokane proposes such a reordering in his book Dec. 9,4& 8p.m.at Whitworth Presbyterian Opera House, Sharon D. Parks, Harvard Original Blessing. God's creation of Church Univ. the world is on-going, Fox says, and Centennial on the Road - Jan. 6 in Portland, Jan.20in LosAngeles.jan. 27 in Seattle, Feb. For more information about centennial events, humans "for whom the planet has 3 in San Francisco call (509) 466-1000. indeed become a global village, are

4 WHITWORTH TODAY F Letters

The Providers

As director of the House of Charity, I have worked closely with Jim Raskell (See Spring '89) for the past several years. Jim's life has been one of service to the poor and needy of this community. His modeling of service to others is both an inspiration to his fellow volunteers and a challenge to the non-involved. He is one of those special people whose example moti- vates others to examine their attitudes toward the less fortunate among us. Best in her class: Mary Sliger, '81, and Spokane School District 81 Superintendent Gerald OUf community is richer because Hester announce her "Distinguished Teacher" award to her students. of people like Jim. He truly does "make a world of difference." Top Teachers Wow! I was greatly impressed by the new format and layout of Whit- Dan Hutchinson It was my pleasure recently to worth Today. What an excellent job House of Charity award the Distinguished Teacher rec- you have done-and whata wonder- Spokane, Wash. ognition to one of your alumni, Mary ful presentation of Whitworth. K. Sliger rBA '81, M.A. '86]. Mary teaches a second/ third grade combi- Rev. Ben Lindstrom, '63 "Mr. Habitat" Speaks nation class at Holmes Elementary Southminster Presbyterian Church School where she has taught for the Seattle, Wash. I was very impressed with the fine past six years. article (Spring '89) and excellent pic- Mary truly makes a difference in ture of several of your graduates who her classroom, in her school, and in P.S. Thank You are active in Habitat for Humanity. our district where she served on the The Campus Chapter at Whitworth language arts steering committee. You I know you've probably already College was one of the first in the can be extremely proud of her as a written your article (see page 8. Ed.) nation. And your folks "hittheground graduate of your education depart- but I would really appreciate it if you funning!" ...Your talented and comment. could make mention of how grateful I mitted students are an inspiration to Mary's is not the first Distinguished am to the faculty and staff of Whit- other students and to countless thou- Teacher award received by a Whit- worth for the wonderful education sands of people outside the college. worth graduate. Last Fall.alumni jane they provided me. I am especially We truly thank God for Whitworth Campbell and Kathy Williams shared grateful to Professor Albert C. Gun- College, for the Campus Chapter that honor (Whitworth Today, Spring derson, the head of the Theatre de- there, and for all of the dedicated stu- '89, pp 26 & 28). This community is partment when I was there, for his dents who are making such a tremen- fortunate to encompass excellent support and friendship. dous difference in the growing work higher education institutions such as of Habitat for Humanity throughout yours which provide our schools with Bruce Talkington, '72 the United States and around the teachers of their calibre. Walt Disney Television world. Los Angeles, Calif. Gerald L. Hester Millard Fuller Superintendent Executive Director Spokane School District 81 Hail From the Chief Habitat for Humanity Americus, Ga. Kudos We are thrilled with the "new" look of Whitworth Today - a very worthy CONGRATULATIONS! I have just instrument. Congratulations to all Triple Digits finished reading the new publica tion, who put it together. Whitworth Today, and it is great. Eve- The new President's Journal is a For many years I have sent a check rything about it says "class" - the grand contribution. Of course it re- to Whitworth in an amount equal to layout, the photos, the text... every- minded me of similar experiences of my age that year. This year 1will be thing. It has a prominent place on our another time. It really serves to keep sending a check for $101 which was office waiting room table. the total family informed. Great show! my attained age on April 19th, 1989. Kenneth W. Degerness, '56 Dr. Mark L. Koehler, '37 Hilda Bergman, '09 Degerness & Associates Whitworth President 1964-69 Seattle, Wash. Spokane, Wash. Sun Lakes, Ariz.

WHITWORTH TODAY 5 In the World

the truth would reach the outside world. "Please tell your country that some of our best students died this morning:' one young man pleaded. While the masses had only posters and word of mouth for their news, Anderton and Lee relied on American news broadcasts available at their hotel. "Our appreciation for the American media really went up:' Lee said. "It plays such an important role in terms of free government." "What was interesting for me as a college professor:' Lee added, "was Bikes V5. trucks: Protesters surround a convoy of soldiers on a Beijing boulevard. the Beijing government announce- ment that all colleges and universities A revolution is no tea party, as taking a quick sightseeing trip to the would now have to have a special political science professor Kathy Lee Great Wall. "Passing burned out army civics course which would try to and vice president for student life Julia vehicles as we went it was sort of an counter any pro-democracy thinking Anderton learned when their China eerie drive," Lee said. "What would by college students. That kind of news tour group witnessed the govern- be normally busy streets in Beijing is very sad. Critical thinking is going ment's crackdown on the pro-democ- were deserted." down the drain at this point." racy movement in June. Lee observed the government's Has the dream of democracy dis- The two spoke wi th students in efforts to control newsabouttheevents appeared under the treads of the Shanghai during the demonstrations. around Tiananmen Square. "It's very army's tanks? Lee saw some reason "To see the fervor, life and energy in important that the government 'keep for hope. the pro-democracy movement was face: and one of the ways they do that "China wants to modernize. It can't exciting," Anderton said. "Then we is they rewrite history." afford to close in on itself and lose arrived in Beijing on the day of the Knowing that anything coming what it's achieved up to now. My massacre. It was a very tense situ- from the official news agency would hope is that as economic freedoms ation," be distorted, the people on China's increase, political freedoms will In- A line of troops stationed outside streets went out of their way to ex- crease along with them." their hotel didn't keep them from plain what had happened in hope that

The natives are friendly in Liberia according to political science professor John Yoder who is escorting Whit- worth's first study tour to Africa this fall. The courses at Cuttington Uni- versity range from African literature to tropical medicine, and the seven students should have an easy time absorbing the area's rich culture. In a country founded by former American slaves, everyone speaks English.

You can't tie physics professor Lois Kieffaber down, even when she's studying gravity. She and two physics students, John Wickman and Deborah Knutson, flew to Puerto Rico this spring to join a team of research- ers at the giant Arecibo Observatory. By using the latest in high resolution ""..-~ video systems and all-sky cameras, Passing the flag: Dr. Woong·Kyu Cho (left) of Keimyung University in Taegu, South Korea they hope to get a clearer picture of presented his national and college flags to Janet Yoder and academic dean Darrell Guder. how wind and gravity waves travel Dr. Cho led a contingent of Korean students to Spokane from Whitworth's sister school. Yoder directs the English as a Second Language program. through the atmosphere.

6 WHITWORTH TODAY Whitworth News

have been fun even if I hadn't won," he admits. "But boy I'm glad I did." So how did a fast-talking, aspiring actor end up with a statue in his living room for putting words into Winnie the Pooh's mouth? "After writing kid's plays for Whit- worth's Children's Theater at Expo '74, four of us went to L.A. to break into the movies," Talkington says. Acting didn't pay the bills, so he turned to freelance writing, which in turn led to a job as staff writer for Disney's Ani- mation Unit. He obligingly pounds out dialogue for all of Disney's cartoons, moving from "Winnie the Pooh" and "Duck Tales" to "Cummi Bears" ("Top of its time slot") and "Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers." His latest project is "Tail Spin" which debuts this fall. That show will feature Ballou, the "Jungle "And the winner is": Bruce Talkington, '72, is good at putting words into Winnie the Book's" jovial bear, in an Indiana jones Pooh's mouth, and he has an Emmy to prove it. style adventure series. "The award is a real vindication of When You Wish Upon a Star what we're doing," he says. His fantasy is lito write movie scripts, then be a bestselling novelist ruce Talkington's motto is "It's Emmy Awards was just as he imag- and live anywhere I want with just a B never too late to have a happy ined - the elegant ballroom of the modem and fax machine." childhood." As if to prove his point, Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan. The While Talkington dreams, he also he makes his living writing stories for talk show hosts and stars of the soaps recognizes tha t fame has its limits. Saturday morning cartoons. were all there. After receiving the award, he was And it only adds to the storybook Talkington arrived with two nomi- escorted backstage to face the media. quality of his life to say that Talking- nations in hand. They were both in When the reporters were asked if they ton's work on Walt Disney's new the same category, one for Winnie the had any questions, what followed was Winnie the Pooh Show has won him Pooh and the other for a series of 10 seconds of silence. "I was a minor an Emmy for "Outstanding Animated "Duck Tales" cartoons starring Uncle category," he explains. "They were Series." Scrooge and his obnoxious nephews waiting for the soap opera stars." "I saw these ceremonies while Huey, Dewey, and Louie. He faced That experience hasn't dimmed his growing up and I always imagined stiff competition from two tough, enthusiasm for Disney or his work. being at one," says the Whitworth previous winners: "The Smurfs" and "You have to keep your priorities in Theatre Arts major, who graduated "Muppet Babies." line. I'm doing this because I love it." into the real world in 1972. When his And the envelope please ... "Besides, I can deduct my comic turn came, the setting for the Daytime "It was really, really fun. It would books on my taxes."

More Faculty to Speak in (Foreign) Tongues

ould your history professor ha- the faculty to receive time off to study into their classes and act as role mod- C bla Espanal? Did your music pro- another language over a two-year els for their students. fessor ever sing the Japanese national period. Then the professors will spend FIPSE sponsors projects that em- anthem? Probably not, but thanks to a two summers abroad getting to know ploy new approaches and serve as $132,500 federal grant, Whitworth's another culture and practice the lan- models for other colleges. "Whitworth faculty could sound like the United guage. will become an example of an Ameri- Nations in just a few years. Twenty percent of the faculty are can institution that sets the study of The grant from the Fund for the alread y bilingual. The project's goal is other languages as a priority through- Improvement of Postsecondary Edu- to have even more professors who can out its curriculum:' says Darrell cation (FIPSE) will allow 25 percent of incorporate international perspectives Guder, dean of the faculty.

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Graduate is "Special" Educator

ttook a dedicated teacher to make Iit happen, but now when handicapped preschool students arrive at the Wellpinit School on the Spokane Indian Reservation they go to the same classroom as the other three- and four- year-olds, Teaching handicapped and regu- lar students together so they could learn from each other seemed like a good idea to Kay Wynecoop, '89. Identifying potential problems and getting kids excited about learning were also important goals in a pOOf, rural school district. A member of Wellpinit's special education program "Outstanding Special Education Teacher of the Yea,": Wynecoop, '89, with one of her since 1981, Wynecoop knew money preschoolers. for new ideas was scarce. So she wrote three grant proposals and says. "And the kindergarten teachers ored her as the "Outstanding Special landed enough money to fund her tell me they can see the difference in Education Teacher of the Year." "integrated" preschool. their abilities." While Wynecoop gathers kudos for Social interaction between the stu- Now Wynecoop's good idea has her innova Iive teaching, her dedica ted dents hasn't been a problem. "I don't blossomed into a model for other efforts as a student have also paid off. even think the non-handicapped stu- teachers. For her pioneering efforts, On May 14th, she was awarded a dents realize some of the other kids the Superintendent of Public Instruc- master of arts degree in special educa- have developmental disabilities," she tion of Washington state recently hon- tion from Whitworth College.

Koehlers Fund First Centennial Scholarship

"C lara Belle and I wanted to help L. Koehler has underlined that state- ings and equipment includes a goal of send students to Whitworth ment by giving $25,000 to establish $1.5 million to fund student scholar- College. There's no better place to the first endowed scholarship under ships and academic programs. go." the college's Centennial Campaign. Koehler led Whitworth from 1964- Former Whitworth President Mark The campaign's drive for new build- 69 when the college was celebrating its 75th anniversary. The Core curriculum and January Term are lega- cies of his administration, along with the Johnston Science Center, an expanded Cowles library, and Stewart and Baldwin-Jenkins Halls. The first two Koehler Centennial Scholarships of $1,000 each were given out at the campaign's kickoff event on September 15. The recipi- ents were Kelley Strawn, a junior international studies major from East Wenatchee, Wash. who works as a SOAR volunteer for the Admissions Office, and Sally Hammarstrom, a senior education major from Yakima, Wash. who sings with the concert and chapel choirs. In coming years, one scholarship will be awarded each year to an upperclass student from the interest earned by the Koehlers' gift. Clarabelle and Mark Koehler

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Mortar"bard": Kristin Stoverrud, '89, straightens out Shakespeare for a fellow English department grad at commencement.

Head Games at Commencement A New Way to Cut College Costs s the largest undergraduate class Myers, a professor at Hope College in A in Whitworth's history paraded Michigan. f the rising price of higher educa- across the Spokane Opera House stage "I congratulate you secondly for Ition has you down, things are look- to receive their diplomas, some of them choosing a caring community," coming up. Whitworth's Business Office had other things on their minds. Like mented the author of several widely reports that Uncle Sam is about to gigantic molecules or William used college textbooks on social psy- offer u.s. Savings Bonds with a spe- Shakespeare. chology. cial feature. Cash them in to pay for In an annual display of individual- "I congratulate you thirdly for college expenses and the interest they ity.dozens ofgraduating seniors deco- having chosen a college that is un- earn is tax-free. rated the tops of their mortarboards apologetic about its Christian iden- The idea is to make it easier to save with symbols of their accomplish- tity." Myers has written two books for children's tuition bills or to afford ments. Jeff Mullaney received de- dealing with psychology and Chris- the cost of an advanced degree. grees in chemistry and biology to go tian faith. Like anything the government of- with the molecular model on his head. Myers and Samuel N. Stroum, a fers, this proposal has a few strings Another student wore a senior art Seattle businessman and philanthro- attached. The Series EE Bonds aren't project, while the "Immortal Bard" pist, received honorary degrees at the available until next year and buyers watched over the English department college's 99thCommencement. Myers must be at least 24 years old. The graduates. was honored with a doctor of hu- money can only be spent on the pur- The exotic headdresses added to manities degree for his contributions chaser, spouse or children. And if the the atmosphere of celebration for the to the field of psychology. Stroum, fullamount isn't spen ton collegecosts, 352 undergraduates and 85 graduate past owner of Schuck's Auto Supply or if the couple earns more than $60,000 students preparing to head out into and founder of Almac/Stroum Elec- a year, only part of the interest is tax- the world. Commencement speaker tronics, received a doctor of laws free. David Myers, himself a Whitworth degree. He ischairman of the board of Talk to your bank or financial graduate from 25 years ago, honored the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and advisor to see if tax-free bonds are them for their wise choices. active in a variety of religious and right for you. With a little planning, "I congratulate you first for having cultural organizations. they could cut the high cost of an chosen a liberal arts education," said education down to size.

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Centennial Campaign Takes Off!

ith fireworks, banners and bal- the college had already raised $7.5 and enter the world of high-tech. A W loons, Whitworth College million and was halfway to its goal. new student union building will serve launched its centennial year by an- After Forum there were pyrotech- as the college's living room. And a nouncing the formal start of a $15 nics, he'ium balloons and hoopla in renovated Pine Bowl will expand the million capital campaign. the Centennial Plaza. Then the whole range of sports on campus. The celebration began at Forum on Whitworth community moved to the After all of the Centennial Cam- September 15 with a formal announce- Loop for a picnic surrounded by hot paign's changes are in place, how will ment by Charles Boppel!, '65, chair air balloons and waving banners in the college be different? Just join the of the Centennial Campaign. He was the centennial colors. guided tours that follow for a glimpse joined by Whitworth President Arthur The campaign will transform three of Whitworth in the not-to-distant De Jong and Campaign Director Jon major facets of the college. Cowles future. It's like nothing you've ever Flora, '78, who shared the news that Memorial Library will double in size seen.

Library of the Future: Books Yes, Robots No

by Charles Wait, '88 dows. You step down into the plaza mation packet about the library, en- that leads to the main entrance; some courages you to tour the building, ome sages say the library of the students here are chatting and enjoy- and offers to answer any questions. Sfuture will have no books. Just ing the sunshine. They seem very re- You then proceed to the reference technology. Books converted to elec- laxed. Feeling a little intimidated by department. You need to find sources tronic form will be fed into comput- your first college library, you swing on the economic significance of the ers. And no librarians either, just open one of the large glass-paneled Western migration for an American robots to keep order, dust the few doors. history paper. You look around for remaining volumes, and deal with the After the warm plaza, the cool in- the familiar card catalog. Sensing your few clients who come into the sterile, terior lobby is soothing. To the right, uncertainty, the reference librarian modern build ing. These will be older you notice the periodicals room, with leads you to a nearby compu ter termi- people, rather quirky, who actually its inviting couches and a huge win- nal and quickly teaches you how to want to hold a newspaper or book in dow looking out onto the Loop. The use the library's on-line catalog sys- their hands. Everyone else will sim- extensive display of magazines and tem. You find a couple of titles and the ply call up the information they need newspapers is too tempting to pass computer tells you one is on the shelf. on personal computers and read it at up and you stop for awhile to browse. The other is out.and you puta hold on home or work. Moving on, to your left is the circu- it. You also use the program to search But at the Whitworth library, the lation desk, and behind it, a student the collections of other area libraries, future will mean something else. on duty. He asks if you are a new and insert an interlibrary loan request. Imagine you are a new student, walk- student. When you answer 'yes', he The system also can search for peri- ing across the Loop on a warm Sep- asks your name and puts it into a odical articles, video tapes and audio tember afternoon in the 1990s, about computer terminal. Within seconds, materials. to enter the Harriet Cheney Cowles he hands you your new library card. The book you need is in the core Library for the first time. This card gives you access to the li- collection on the second floor. There The traditional red brick building brary catalog and the college com- you notice that each volume has a bar has a number of elegant bay win- puter system. He hands you an infor- code on its spine, used by the catalog I -~

10 WHITWORTH TODAY "The true university of these days is a collection of books. " - Thomas Carlyle system to check out and track the services area, you meet your history nipulate on-screen images, account- books. When you've located your professor, who is checking out a pro- ing students figure out spreadsheet book, you settle into one of the roomy jector and sound system for a slide applications, and Core 150 students study carrels and begin to read. An show of his recent trip to the nation's write their first papers. One of the lab interesting footnote refers to a book capital. You mention your problem assistants asks ifyou would like some published in the 1800's and you de- with the economic theories. He smiles help and suggests a tutorial on the cide to see if you can get it. On a sympathetically and says you may basics of economics. You sit at one of computer terminal nearby, you learn find help upstairs in the computer the work stations and she helps you that the book is in the special collec- services area. call up the program, and soon you tions. Then your attention is caught by a have a printout on economics in hand. The reference librarian takes you number of students entering a room Leaving the lab,you notice the large to the archives room and unlocks it for labeled "Studio." You follow them number of study rooms along the you. 1nthe special collections reading into a video production studio, with corridor. When the dorm isnoisy the room, you attempt to read the book, sound and video editing booths along night before a test, this will be a good but itseconomic theory istough going. the side. They are taping an interview alternative study area. Now, in the pe- Dazed, you leave the archives and with a local legislator to fulfill a re- riodical backfiles area, you spot a continue down the main hall into the quirement for their political science comfortable chair in a quiet corner music library. Using your new com- course. A schedule on the wall indi- and settle down to read. puter skills, you check out a compact cates that the studio is reserved later There's not a robot in sight. disc of the Whitworth Choir's latest today for a literature class to tape a tour. In one of the listening rooms, a scene from a Shakespeare play. music student is practicing her con- Following your professor's advice, Charles Wait is academic grant writer at ducting skills - reading a score, lis- you find one of the microcomputer Whitworth. An English major, he gradu- tening to the music and conducting, labs. At rows of blinking computer ated magna cum laude in 1988 after serv- all at once. screens, science students learn mo- ing as editor of the literary magazine Passing through the audiovisual lecular structures, art students ma- Script.

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New Student Center: Step Into the Future

by John Carter read their mail or eat lunch feel like Student Life's offices to explore your they are in the middle ofWhitworth's career options after graduation. Just icture this Whitworth scene of pine forest. The whole idea is to bring step out of the game room and ascend P the future. You're sitting on a the outside indoors so it can be en- the free-standing staircase as it curves bench reading the newspaper. Abrick joyed year-round. Light filters down up to a second floor balcony over- path winds past you, bordered by leafy from a strip of skylights running the looking the atrium. Up there the new bushes and trees. A patch of sunlight length of the roof at its peak. The best career research area has the latest in warms your back. in the middle of in lighting and sound systems also interactive software programs to help January helps make this space the living room you define your interests. The Stu- No, the Greenhouse Effect hasn't of the campus. dent Life staff also offers workshops run amok. Youare simply enjoying a Notice the artwork the college com- to get your job search off on the right quiet moment in the glass-walled missioned for the long brick walls track and plenty of encouragement. atrium ofthe new student union build- above either side of the atrium. Im- Down the staircase in the basement ing. This "HUB II" is the second major pressive, huh? you can see the new offices of the project to be funded by the college's The different offices and service yearbook, ASWC and the Whit- $15 million Centennial Campaign. areas open up under these brick fa- worthian. They share a new typeset- If the idea of a tour through this cades like stores at a mall. On one side ter, a link to the newswire services state-of-the-art building (which only of the atrium is the new dining area. It and an outside exit. exists as a scale model right now) serves as a cafeteria during the day Before we finish the tour, look into catches your interest, step right this and converts into a full-fledged res- one of the small lounges spread way. taurant for evening entertaining. A around the building. Each one is From the outside, you can see that video screen on one wall draws quite outfitted with a kitchenette and tele- the atrium is bounded by three-story a crowd during Monday Night Foot- vision. You're welcome to stop by and walls of gold-tinted glass spanning ball games. warm up a bagel or catch your favor- the gap between two rectangular, brick Next to the dining area is an even ite soap opera just like the off-campus structures. The colored panes have a larger multi-purpose space. On any students do between classes. solarized coating to reflect the sun's given evening, this area can be parti- On our way out through the atrium, heat while letting in most of its light. tioned off for student dances, fun- remember to look down at the path Good energy conservation. draising banquets, movies or travel- under foot. Many of those bricks list Built on the site of the old HUB, ing art exhibits. If you look in during the names ofpeople who bought them this new building has two main en- the day, a Core class may be meeting from ASWC salespeople to help pay trances at either end of the atrium. in it or a health fair and blood drive for this building. Raising money with One side opens onto the woodsy Loop, may lure you in. the line "Let future generations walk and the other looks toward the newly Across the atrium you can step into all over you!" was the students' way paved and landscaped perimeter road the college's new bookstore. More of helping make this new center for and its parking lots on the east end of than tripled in size, it now stocks the entire Whitworth community a the campus. almost anything you can think ofthat' s reality. Perhaps we'll find your name As you enter the atrium, an open made of paper or says "Whitworth on one of the bricks. area of greenery and clusters of com- College" on it. Next door is the game fortable chairs spread before you. The room, buzzing with nonstop action. John Carter is Associate editor of Whit- students and staff who come here to Say you are a junior heading to worth Today. .0(' ...... --~ ,,,~ .~~~\~'\~ \11',,":'::'

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Whitworth's New Track: On Your Marks, Get Set, Go!

by Bob Coleman, '87 the oval. other damaged joints. Richardson Just to the west, a full-size practice enjoys showing this hardware, pro- he starter's gun is up. With its football/soccer field stretches across vided by a grant from the Ben B. T "pop", nine sprinters explode out what was once pine trees behind Cheney Foundation, to the groups of of their blocks 100 meters from the Graves Gymnasium. There, intramu- high school student trainers who come finish line. Whitworth's crimson and ral squads enjoy an afternoon scrim- to visit one of the finest sports medi- black leads the pack, breaking the tape mage and a chance to escape from cine clinics in Spokane. in just under 12 seconds. their homework. The men's and After you've seen all of these mod- For the first time since 1976, Whit- women's soccer teams get a kick out ernizations, your look at what's new worth is hosting a track and field meet of this new field, too. You can see won't be complete without taking a - The Whitworth Fall Invitational. them charging up and down the grass step back in time in the college's new While that meet is still several years during their grueling fall workouts. Hall of Fame. It commemorates the away, the college is already raising the Or perhaps football coach Shorty great athletes in Whitworth's past and money to make it a reality. And what Bennett is using the field to put his inspires the next generation. Built in does today's perennially traveling troops through their paces. No longer the fieldhouse, it houses trophies, Pirate track team have to look for- do the Pirates practice behind the field- photos, game balls and memorabilia. ward to? house on what was affectionately re- Taken together, these changes give Picture yourself attending that meet ferred to as the "Moon Bowl," nor do Whitworth's athletes the facilities and in the new Pine Bowl. Even before they tear up the Pine Bowl before the inspiration to do their best. And they you get to the stands, you can see the Saturday game. deserve it. changes. After passing through the A quarterback barks out his calls new covered ticket gate, you cross a and you can hear the pop of pads echo Bob Coleman was editor of the Whit- paved plaza and walk under a press through the Loop. A player limps to worthian and kicker on the Pirate football box which stretches over the top of the the sidelines with an ankle injury. team before graduating in 1987. He works grandstands. Whitworth trainer Russ Richardson, as a sports intern at the Spokesman-Re- Looking down, you see that the with help from his student assistants, view. black cinder track that runners slogged attends to the athlete. After moving through on wet fall days or pounded the student to the spacious new treat- into dust clouds in the summer heat is ment center in the fieldhouse, gone. In its place is a state-of-the-art Richardson can take a closer look at .c<~/:'~~~:~~ all-weather synthetic surface. Not the injury. only is it new and improved, but also The lines which used to clog the / bigger than before - expanded to 400 center subsided after it expanded to meters and nine lanes. Its perimeter is four taping stations and nine treat- flanked by two shot put rings on the ment tables. Its equipment includes south. Outside the backstretch, all- an Orthotron II, which aids in the re- weather runways lead to the long jump habilitation of knees, shoulders and and triple jump pits. Anew pole vault pit parallels the west side of the track. And down at the scoreboard end zone are new discus and javelin rings. You can watch what Whitworth's 25 All-Americans in track and field never experienced: the excitement of running, jumping and throwing in a home track meet. With the new facilities, the Pirates even have what it takes to host the NAJA national cham- pionships. Officials for the The Ath- letic Congress' Junior Olympics also are interested in returning their cham- pionships to Spokane, and Whitworth is a big drawing card. But the track team is only oneof the athletic beneficiaries of the changes at Whitworth. Community groups stage jogging fund raisers, and students and neighbors enjoy a morning run around

WHITWORTH TODAY 13 WHITWORTH EXPERTS ASSESS THE CHANGE AND CHALLENGE OF

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he oft-cited Chinese symbol for 'crisis' "It seems that combines the words 'danger' and 'op- T portunity.' Inour country we have Pogo, we are now Walt Kelly's possum philosopher, who said it confronted with better. The future indeed confronts us, and its opportuni ties seem more insu rmountable tha n a number of usual, perhaps because we are nearing not only the turn of a century, but of a millennium. insurmountable And, because the rate of change continues to accelerate, we feela little dizzy. But the oppor- opportunities." tunities ahead are also exhilarating. Alfred North Whitehead wrote, "On the whole, the - Pogo great ages have been unstable ages." The pos- sibilities for those with knowledge, creativity and skill have never been greater. As Whitworth College celebrates the com- pletion of its first century, it is natural, along with lauding the successes of the past, to consider the potential of the future. President Arthur De long and a faculty committee are engaged this year in developing the college's long range plan. As a prologue, Whitworth Today asked a group of alumni to identify trends in their disciplines and relate those trends to the future of their alma mater. The following are excerpts from their responses. Our thanks to each of our contributors and Edited by Linda Sharman especially to our professional, Futurist Glen and John Carter Hiemstra, for his companion essay.

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It's a Small, Small World hen conversation over coffee turns cause history's first world language is our lan- to how small the world has become, guage, there is tremendous temptation to think W it's usually about technology: com- other countries should adopt our culture as munication satellites, faxmachines and flights well. This is American chauvinistic thinking, of the Concorde. But the bigger news in unexamined, unsupported and un-Christian. smallness is the biosphere. There is a growing All this is a profound challenge to educa- realization that Earth is a single, complex, tors. We have people in our midst and across interrelated whole. Consequences of human the world with whom we have to interact. choices reverberate around the planet with no Their habits, customs and ideas may at times regard for national boundaries: global warm- be difficult and irritating. The challenge is to ing, oilspills, population shifts, species extinc- explore, understand, and celebrate variation tion and acid rain. No international council within the human community; to understand exists that isequal to the task ofbringing order. the world's shrinking as inevitable and en- Yet,we go about business as usual, focused on riching; and to enable people to overcome concerns close to home, unaware or unwilling their fears. These fears lead to quarrels and to acknowledge that our social, economic, misunderstandings in dormitories, neighbor- political and environmental issues, more and hoods and churches and, on a macro level, to more often, are becoming global. Here are the wars, which our planet can no longer afford. reflections of our global thinkers: I see Whitworth College, with its commit- DEAKINS ment to Christian community, and all the his- Alice Deakins, linguist: torical and contemporary variation that im- "The challenge is to understand plies, in the vanguard of the kind of education "English is now, I am talking about. the world's shrinking as inevitable de facto, the and enriching" Alice Simpson Deakins, Ph.D., '59, is professor of English at William Patterson College of New Jer- world language. Marshall McLuhan's "global village" has sey. She has spoken and written widely on linguis- arrived. World-wide communication allowed tics and feminism. She is co-author of A Minimal It is the language us to view the massacre in Tiananmen Square, Grammar of Written English. a possibility undreamed of by my father, who of business in wept in 1948 when news came by radio that Gary Paukert, geologist: places where it is China had fallen to the Communists. In Kenya, a businessman told me how a fax machine had "The U.S. will find itself without oil no one's first changed his import-export business. Commu- and gas" nication technology is making political events language. " of the world broadly accessible, and allows Energy use increases three percent per year business, which has always been, in some in the U'S; and twice that in many lesser- sense, the backbone of world politics, to be developed countries, which are evolving from conducted more rapidly and inexpensively. relatively "backward" status to energy-con- Many of the goods available in my local suming modern societies. People around the stores are made in the Third World, which is world will be demanding more air condition- busy improving itself by "sweat capital" and ers, gasoline for their cars, and consumer goods the Western consumer appetite. Western capi- manufactured with energy. It is unlikely that talist "Big Bucks Boys" are equally busy form- anything short of a global depression will ing multi-national corporations, mergers and slow this trend, even temporarily. acquisitions, (making many money-smart The energy sources the world has relied people even richer.) upon for the last 100 years will be much less And there is a world-wide population available in the next century. Oil, for example, migration. East Asians are migrating all over is not being found at a rate sufficient to replace the Western world. Central American and the known reserves being pumped. In the Caribbean populations are moving to North U.S., environmental opposition keeps oil ex- America, both the U.S. and Canada. "Worker ploration out of many areas where it is most populations" from Turkey,North Africa, Paki- likely to be found. The Ll.S.will find itself stan and India have entered Europe and re- without oil and gas in the next century. fused to go home. Nuclear energy will not be available to English is now, de facto, the world lan- replace dwindling oil reserves because of guage. It is the language of business in places public safety concerns and opposition. And where it is no one's first language. And, be- coal, because of its suspected contribution to

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Robert Wauzzinski, international scholar: "The South is beginning to demand its share of the action"

At the recent economic summit there were clear indications that a shift in emphasis is underway from competition between Eastern and Western hemispheres to Northern and Southern. The North, with its predominance of developed nations, holds all the economic cards. The South, home of the underdevel- oped Third World, is a feeder system, providing the world's raw materials, like copper, and cheap food from the cash crop banana repub- lics. The South is beginning to demand its share of the action. But market fluctuations are especially hard on these countries because they are so specialized. !fcopper is a country's chiefcommodity, and demand forcopper slips, the whole country sags. For Third World countries to get rid of their economic woes, they have to develop. But when they mimic the First World model of economic development, it causes enormous sociological, religious and cultural upheaval. Their need for development goes beyond economic. They lack institutions to circulate the wealth, so they have pockets of wealth and pockets of poverty. The First World acting as an economic development model is a serious problem for the Third World nations of the South. WAUZZINSKI acid rain and global warming, isalso problematic. Robert Wauzzinski, Ph.D., is Lindaman Professor Somewhere in the next decades, the two of Communication, Technology and Change at lines of demand and supply will cross again, Whitworth College. "Somewhere in leading to shortages, high energy costs and economic dislocation. The world will be forced the next decades, to use energy sources with attendant prob- Dan Sanford, lems, simply to grow food, provide transpor- international scholar: the two lines of tation and manufacture goods. Drilling will "National borders will be take place in environmentally sensitive areas, supply and nuclear electric generating plants will be built basically irrelevant" and coal will be burned. The need will be People will not be governed so much by the demand (of immediate, but the exploration, production nation-state as by transnational subgrou pings, and construction will take time, so there will some organized and some not. National bor- energy) will cross be years of shortage and economic turmoil. ders will be basically irrelevant. Such inevitable and imposing problems will again, leading to Those units which will influence individu- need highly-educated, technically-sound als so heavily will number in the thousands people to design cars that use alternate fuels shortages, high and will include global associations of labor- such as electricity and compressed natural ers, environmentalists, religious fundamen- gas; to determine how to dispose of nuclear energy costs talists, private business conglomerates, hu- waste safely; to solve problems of acid rain man rights activists, right-to-wealth lobbists, and economic and global warming. But it will be equally right-to-resource groups and right-to-preserve important that these technologically trained rr ethnicity organizations. Increasingly power- dislocation, people have the ability to see the larger pic- ful movements of people will demand the ture. right to live anywhere and have their fair Gary Paukert, '80, is a geologist with Exxon USA, share of comfort and wealth, even their share Midland, Texas. of "our" university.

16 WHITWORTH TODAY The challenge will be to learn how to re- L. Margaret Sparling, '85, is an international bene- strain and balance these groups. The primary fits representative for Aetna Life and Casualty, pursuit of academia will be to find the means New York. to guarantee that democratic processes pre- vail in the behavior of these groups in the same way that our forefathers struggled for democracy in the nation-state. However, just like 100 Human Path years ago, a premium will be placed on the student's skill in inter-personal relations and Slippery Ahead on the ability to negotiate in the spirit of non- violence and love. geometric rate of change, problems on a global scale, and erosion of tradi- Daniel C. Sanford, Ph.D., '65, is professor of his- A tional values. Can the human spirit tory and political studies at Whitworth Col/ege. find firm footing amidst the shifts and slides Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, he is author of a book ahead? What of the species homo Americanus? on Chinese politics. In 1988, as a Fulbright Scholar Can it adapt to the next century and thrive? in South Korea, he began research on a second book Can it reshape its political and social struc- on Asian political affairs. tures to tomorrow's challenges? The answers require courage - to redefine work, produc- Meg Sparling, tivity, reward, government, community and our role in nature. Here are the views of OUf international businesswoman: people-watchers: "The age of the Super Powers is waning" Frank Houser, sociologist: "Adults will make up the majority of The United States' glory days are fading. Politically and economically, the age of the college students" Super Powers is waning with further industri- alization of the Eastern Bloc and the onset in The median age is advancing five years every two decades, and will reach 45 in 2040. HOUSER 1992 of the European Economic Community. The life expectancy for people born in 1980, The EEC will alleviate many trade barriers who avoid smoking, high blood pressure and and open up the European Market as yet obesity, is 85. These people, because there will another competitive force, joining the Far East, which has already saturated our markets with be fewer young people in society to replace them, may remain in the work force until they affordable, dependable technology. are 75 or 80, and they will be healthier and We do not have enough engineers and sci- entists working in research and development more active for their entire lives than previous to compete. Universities can respond by re- generations. Great-grandparents will be common in extended families. quiring more coursework in scientific and Adults preparing for their second and third quantitative studies. This type of knowledge is indispensible in all sectors of the work envi- careers will make up the majority of college student bodies. Student services will empha- ronment and society at large. size support for the adult student juggling education and family. These people will find the social sciences, ethics and philosophy necessary to their understanding of relation- ships in the changing work world. Marriage with its symmetrical roles will remain difficult, providing another need for relational understanding. This active, health conscious generation will have a great interest in athletics. Preferring to do, not watch, they will favor lifetime sports: swimming, tennis, hiking, dancing, bowling. Football stadia and sports arenas may be converted to these new purposes.

Frank Houser, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of soci- ology, Whitworth College. Dr. Houser spent 1987, his first year of "retirement," teaching English at Nanjing University in China. He plays tennis SPARLING daily.

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conversion from mudslinger to statesman. Recently the "leaks" about such a distinguished man as Rep. Tom Foley (for whose first campaign I worked as a student) shows that the technique has caught on. Whitworth can and must stand for an alternative vision of leadership. What is ethical political action? How does one live a life that inspires others' confidence? What counts and what lasts? Where better to ask such questions than a Christian liberal arts college on the American frontier?

Robert Duvall, Ph.D., '62, is president of Pacific University, Forest Grove, are. Pacific comprises colleges of arts and sciences, optometry and a graduate school of psychology.

Frank Houser: "You can't separate economics and politics" Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell forecasts a DUVALL Robert Wauzzinski: return to a more manageable scale of society, and sees the sometimes overlooked influence "Redefine quality of life" of small business playing a role. Historically, small business has been a factor in the U.S. The "me generation" and the age of the tradition of civility. That is, in order to do "yuppie" are in decline. We're seeing a grow- business, people have to learn to get along ing realization that materialism cannot fulfill with others, whether they like them or not. the human need for a life of satisfaction. An Small business, therefore, has a very democra- example is the number of people who are tizing influence. choosing lower salaries to live in places that We're seeing the effect of that in China. As offer a high quality of life. such as Californians more free enterprise is allowed in that society, migrating to Washington. "When the air is small businesses increase and people who've At a glacially slow rate, quantity is giving learned the lessons of civility and democracy literally eating way to quality. People in insulated, affluent want to extend it into the political order. The suburbs are slowly realizing that their lifestyle Chinese leaders don't seem to understand that away at your decisions contribu te to the degradation of inner you can't separate economics and politics that cities. People are beginning to be willing to easily. lungs, you revise pay more if it means a clean environment. In our colleges, I think we may see a greater When the air is literally eating away at your what 'the good emphasis on the skills of small business, risk lungs, and you're threatened by the cancer- management, entrepreneurship and ethics. life' really is." causing agents in the soil, you revise what "the good life" really is. We have to get beyond our myopic way of Stephen Davis, viewing life in purely economic terms and philosophy professor: enter into a holistic discussion to redefine quality of life. "America will become more like a mission field" Robert Duvall, The forces of secularism will advance. The university president: gap between Christian values and the values "An alternative vision of leadership" of society at large will continue to grow. Christians will become an increasingly iso- It's going to be increasingly difficult to lated minority. Instead of a "Christian na- persuade able youngrnen and women to enter tion," America will become more like a mis- politics. The presidential campaign of 1988 sion field. showed that the game could be played with I have no doubt Christianity can thrive in innuendo and gross distortion - and still be such an environment; it has done so on many won - with the "winner" doing an instant occasions. Every generation, the church must

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"Every generation reapplies the gospel of Christ to its new situation. Christian colleges can be at the cutting edge of this enterprise." DAVIS reinterpret and reapply the gospel of Christ to Robert Duvall: its new situation. Christian colleges can be at "The danger of simple answers is real" the cutting edge of this enterprise. My hope is tha t Whitworth College will lead in this task. Islamic fundamentalism, a force we can If it does, our will retain its status as alma mater barely comprehend, extends from Iran to one of the nation's leading Christian colleges. Indonesia, from Lebanon to Libya. I think we Stephen Davis, PhD., '62, is professor of philoso- can anticipate a Marxist fundamentalistic re- phy at Claremont McKenna College. coil from present reform movements in the Communist world. In the U.S., Christian fun- Robert Wauzzinski: damentalists and political conservatives strike a responsive chord with voters. Consider the "Resurgence of religion in public life is support the Rev. Pat Robertson got in Wash- becoming a worldwide phenomenon" ington state in the 1988 presidential primaries. In a world of increasing change, fearful We're seeing a response to the global trend people, who feel change as threatening, will of secularization. As the dismissal of God seek simplistic certitudes, grasp for dogma. from human affairs grows, movements arise, Thinking is hard work; ambiguity produces '[ ranging from response to reaction to overreac- anxiety. The danger of people trying to come tion, to tackle the effects. to political terms with the world's growing The resurgence of religion in public life is complexity through simple "answers" is real. 1 becoming a worldwide phenomenon. The Whitworth, balancing faith and reason.com- church in Poland is regaining a position of mitment and openness, stands on the precari- influence. Zambian president Kenneth ous cutting edge of dealing with this issue. In Kaunda, who is a Christian, makes no bones the lives, thoughts and debates of its students about opposing apartheid in South Africa from and teachers, and in the community, to affirm a perspective of faith. In our last election we truth and listen to other understandings isn't saw two clergymen as presidential candidates going to be easy. But as the saying goes, some - Pat Robertson representing the religious place has to do it. right and Jesse Jackson representing the religious left. Their presence brought religion from both sides of the spectrum into the public arena.

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technical, quantitative and written skills, yet a large percentage of the labor force is unable to Higher Education: meet these requirements. Thus, the burden of further education is Headed Toward being shifted to the private sector, and we all pay the price in the end. Colleges will have to respond by administering remedial learning the Reefs as well as by producing effective educators in greater numbers who can perform their jobs as he US higher education system has all such and not as police personnel in schools. the power and maneuverability of a T World War II battleship. Minor refitting Art De Jong, Whitworth president: from time to time hasn't essentially changed it. It plows forward, taking a long time to change "Our campus architecture will change to course. Now there are reefs ahead: shifting reflect connectedness" demographics, financial conundrums, defi- ciencies at the preparatory level and global, Education has, for the past two centuries, head-spinning change that requires a com- been based on the notion of separation, that pletely new design. Our panel of observers learning and discovery come from slicing in- cited these hazards: formation into smaller and smaller segments. The scientific and industrial revolutions of the Keith Benson, medical scholar: 19th Century resulted from this approach, in- fluenced by the thought of Rene Descartes and BENSON "The gap between the sciences and Isaac Newton. OUf industry, ethics, and soci- humanities widens" ety are based on this concept. Our ed ucation systems produce specialists. Specialized courses proliferate, especially But that's a mismatch with the basic nature of in science and technology, giving these majors life. We're finding through ecosystems, phys- little opportunity to experience a well-rounded ics, and biology that life isbasically connected. education, balanced with the humanities. We need a new model. Introductory courses for such majors, particu- This has enormous implications for educa- larly in premedicine and engineering, make tion. In the next 50 years, we will be grappling students "literate" in a specialty, rather than in with how to develop curricula and how to conceptual foundations. Non-majors get organize ourselves around this new concept, separate courses, too often "watered-down" often called the "Post-modern paradigm." I versions that teach essentially nothing. Both think our system of departments and our groups suffer and the gap between the sci- campus architecture will change to reflect con- ences and the humanities widens. nectedness instead of isolation. We can no longer allow our science students to be poorly educated in the humanities, Arthur J. De long, S.T.o., is in his second year as nor can we allow our humanities students to president of Whitworth College. His book, New be scientifically illiterate. American colleges Directions for Church-Related Colleges is due and universities must decide what liberally- to be published this year by Eerdmans. educated students must know and' set about ensuring that students obtain this knowledge. Keith Benson, Ph.D., '70, professor of medical history and ethics at the University of Washing- ton; chair-elect of the faculty senate, and co-author of The American Development of Biology. Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. Meg Sparling: "A frightening reality"

Living in New York City, I see daily results of the crisis that our public schools are in - cashiers who cannot make proper change, messengers who cannot read addresses to make deliveries. This is a frightening reality. Businesses grow more and more high-tech and require greater levels of proficiency with DE lONG

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Keith Benson: "The allure of the dollar"

The "ivory tower" has succumbed to the allure of the dollar. Administrators appeal to legislators and philanthropic organizations for additional monies based on market factors. Professors are lured from one university to another by monetary rewards. Academe, unable to compete successfully with the financial rewards of business, medicine, law, engineering and other professions, sees talented individuals drawn away from a creative academic life. Part of the remedy will undoubtedly require additional resources for colleges and universities. But the more problematic remedy involves addressing the entire contemporary value structure. Educators must encour- age students to understand that affluence has SANFORD little relationship to "living well," but that a affiliation in quest of secular support? This is well-prepared mind has a direct relationship one of the most serious challenges of the next to the responsible life. 50 years for the church-related college.

Art De Jong: Dan Sanford: "The future of private higher education "A university will not be funding is cloudy" defined spatially"

After three distinct eras in the US., the When Whitworth College celebrates its bi- funding system for higher education is com- centennial, any university of merit will be ing apart. Prior to 1865,all colleges and uni- totally global in its mission and its constitu- versities were private, and the church was the ency. Its professors will move from one coun- main source of financial support. With the try to another. Its campuses and departments creation of the land grant college system, state will function from diverse locations through- funding began, and the public and private out the world. Auniversity will not be defined systems lived side by side. After World War 11, spatially. All students will reside in at least "Any university federal financial aid, spawned by the national three or four countries during their study for conviction that every American has a right to a degree. The majority of the university's of merit will be higher education, was made available to stu- telephone calls, fax messages and memos will totally global in dents of public and private institutions. Now, be those which travel trans-oceanic routes. the state insitutions. no longer satisfied with When a professor looks out over a class, 90 its mission ... their tax-based funding, are appealing to pri- per cent of the students will be tied ethnically vate sources. to non-Caucasian and non-European groups. Its campuses and With the rising cost of all education, stu- Half of these darker-faced students will be dents can no longer earn enough to pay their East Indian or Chinese. departments will own way, and the portion choosing public From childhood we will learn at least sev- over private institutions has risen to 82 per eral foreign languages. Wewill travel to New function from cent. The church, in the meantime, has essen- Delhi asoften as we travel to New York. In our tially abandoned its colleges (although Whit- grade schools, rather than teaching our chil- diverse locations worth has been faithfully supported by many dren "reading, writing and arithmetic," we throughout Presbyterian churches.) In the growing com- will teach them Chinese, cross-cultural rela- petition between public and private for chari- tions and information technology. the world," table support, it is obvious that the future of The thrust of our education will be how to private higher education funding is cloudy. maintain human rights and sustain quality of How can colleges like Whitworth plead life on a planet with a population that has their case in the face of the state institutions' leveled at 10billion. Students will desperately greater numerical clout? How will society need mentoring by their professors as they respond? Will churches renew their commit- struggle to weave together some orderly net- ment to the colleges of their denominations? work of values and goals in the face of sur- How many colleges will drop their church passingly complex ethical challenges.

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to integrate what they have learned. "If Whit- Whitworth's Future: worth can satisfy the market need for career training for tomorrow' 5 professionals and continue to produce B.A.swho have been not just trained but educated, then its future will be Life in Paradox bright." For society to make the right choices, Gary hitworth College has never taken Paukert calls for graduates who are capable of the easy road. From the beginning making a balanced, informed assessment of W it has taken 'on what Professor risks, costs, and benefits. "That takes educa- Emeritus Fenton Duvall calls "creative ten- tion, objectivity and a willingness to defend sions" - being Christian and liberal arts, Pres- one's values as a Christian. I have a lot of "Can Whitworth byterian and diverse, small and global. The confidence that Whitworth will provide many future, as sketched by our panel of observers, of these types of graduates in the next 100 maintain its firm adds another, perhaps the most demanding of years." all: holding firm and changing. Whitworth, by virtue of its traditions, center as changes Alice Deakins writes, "The college, as al- commitments and character as a Christian ways, seems to maintain its cutting intellec- liberal arts college "is just the right place to swirl in all tual and educational edge while retaining its develop a cadre of new leaders in a multicul- Christian commitment. Quite an accomplish- tural world," writes Robert Duvall. directions? rr ment in today's world!" The future, according to Deakins, Paukert, Stephen Davis expects that Whitworth will Duvall and Davis, needs the Whitworth of have to "strive mightily" to retain its emphasis today. It also needs something new and differ- on producing broadly educated graduates, ent. who have studied a wide variety of disci- Frank Houser sees a new student body of plines, been exposed to the classics and the older students, returning to education cycli- great concepts of our civilization, know how cally for career change and enrichment. Art to reason and express themselves, and are able Delong envisions new interdisciplinary align- ments transforming the departmental system and the architecture of the campus. He sees ethnic groups becoming a collective majority, creating pervasive change in the campus ethos. And he sees financial challenges of serious proportions. Dan Sanford describes a campus spread throughout the world, its geographically dynamic faculty tied together by interconti- nental communication. He sees students moving from country to country to receive a truly intercultural and multi-lingual education. Will Whitworth's tradition of holding di- vergent concepts in tension endure in the next century? Can it maintain its firm center as changes swirl in all directions? President De long is confident it can. To make a difference in our shrinking world, people will have to bedifferent, he says. "The mission of Whitworth College is to produce servant leaders, firmly grounded in the Christian faith and in intellectual knowledge and skills. They must place themselves in the painful points of human experience, as agents of understanding and reconciliation, beginning at home and reaching throughout the world. And they must lead the way in caring for our fragile physical environment. Our society and our world desperately need this kind of person to face the challenges ahead." These are, as Pogo so deftly said, insurmountable opportunities."

22 WHITWORTH TODAY 001. A new millennium. A year made of modern science, to centuries. "Now," writes mythical by Arthur C. Clarke and his Thompson, "with the appearance of micro- 2 movie. What does 2001 and the new electronics and genetic engineering ... the rate century portend for the people of planet Earth? of change shifts to decades, even years ... We What opportunities will confront education, should expect that the acceleration of history will fire imagination at Whitworth College? will shortly bring about a situation in which As a futurist, I have consciously walked in major transforrnativeevents will begin to occur the footsteps of Edward Lindaman, Whitworth all at once, or within months and weeks." president in the 19705, friend, mentor and I pondered these words as, on a single colleague. From him, llearned that the critical evening in June 1989, I watched the news question about the future is not what is going coverage of events in China, elections in Po- to happen, but rather, what do we want? The land, Soviet legislative deba tes, rumors of cold future is not something that just happens to us. fusion, news about warm superconductivity, The future is something we do. the latest on genetic engineering, and more. We are busy doing the future, perhaps more Where are we? Where are we going? than ever before. In his book Pacific Shift, Wil- I think we can guess at a destination. We liam Irwin Thompson points out that in the have heard the terms agricultural age, indus- evolution of the universe, major change at first trial age, information age. We may call the 21st took billions of years. With the formation of century the "light age." the planets and then life, transformative change In the light age, light-based technology will be began to happen in millions of years. With the increasingly dominant. Lasers for communi- appearance of human culture, the rate gradu- ally shifted to millenia, and with the invention by Glen Hiemstra, '71

WHITWORTH TODAY 23 • cation, medicine, and industry; light-based computers, moving photons rather than elec- trons; photonic switches to replace electronic, which replaced mechanical; and vastly increased use of solar energy, are all examples. Living lightly will be a watchword. In all hurnanendeavors, we will try to rninimize our impact on the earth. We will use lighter and fewer materials in our products. We will decrease and eventually eliminate the use of chemical pesticides. We will shift transporta- tion toward light rail, magnetic rail, and air- planes that are 50 to 100 percent more efficient than those of today. In the U'S; we will begin to rebuild our cities for walking, as we literally attempt to tread lightly. Enlightenment will be both a personal goal and a business philosophy. Individuals will seek enlightenment, a connection with their spiritual nature, choosing many paths for this search. Old dichotomies in spiritual life as well as politics will recede. We will rediscover "In all human endeavors, we will try to minimize the enchantment of nature and our intimate connection with mother earth and its plants our impact on the earth ... In the U.S., we will and creatures. Businesses, too, will seek to begin to rebuild our cities for walking, as we literally follow enlightened paths. Already they are discovering that the worker of today wants attempt to tread lightly." meaning as well as money, thrives on participation and liberty. but withers when fed nothing but commands without context. Individuals, businesses and colleges will see that they must be light on their feet. Re- search and development cycles have short- ened dramatically in recent years. Half of what an engineer knows becomes obsolete every five years. Businesses need to move fast, adapt, change and reorganize. The use of flexible, computer-integrated manufacturing systems by the mid-21 st century means that a factory may produce washing machines one month, rail car galleys the next. Only the flexible will thrive. Colleges and universities are unlikely to become this flexible. The tie to tradition is too strong. But clearly those that make it will be changing more rapidly than ever, and more important, will be teaching change successfully. Light-based technologies, enlightenment, living lightly and being light on our feet form a partial picture, a glimpse of the 21st century light age. What forces point in that direction? There are many. I will limit myself to five, an incomplete list of my own megatrends. We are in the fifth technological reuolution. Four previous revolutions took us from nothing to hand tools, then to wheels and levers, then mechanical tools, and, finally, to electro- mechanical tools. Each of these four revolutions had one central goal, the amplification or replacement of human muscle power. Now we are in the fifth revolution, focused on elec-

24 WHITWORTH TODAY tronics, optics and genetics. The central goal is with is asking these questions. Individuals are different. In fact, it is a quantum shift. The asking these questions. Even the nations of new goal is the amplification or replacement the world are asking these questions. Wres- of human brain power. The consequences are tling with such questions eventually leads one already enormous, yet they are only baby to spirit, but I do not believe it will take us to steps compared to what is coming. Nanotech- a single religious system. It can take us to a nologies, the creation of machines on a mo- greater understanding of the spiritual nature lecular scale may be the next wave, and could of life, and to a renewed sense of compassion lead to self-constructing buildings and tiny for others, respect for ourselves, and awe at motors that travel in your bloodstream to creation. perform diagnostics or repairs. As they combine and vibrate with each Demographically we are growing older and other, I think these forces will make the 1990s more colorful in the United States. As the baby the intentional decade. At every level of human boom matures, the approaching "age wave" endeavor, from the global efforts to deal with towers. By 2020, one in every five persons will environmental problems, to community ef- be over 65. Ofthe youth population in 2010,38 HIEMSTRA forts to create a preferred future, to business percent under 18 will be black, Hispanic or efforts to develop a vision, to individual ef- Asian. On a global scale, Caucasians (Ameri- forts to make better choices in life, I see people can and European) will comprise only about attempting to become more intentional about 12 percent of the population, down from 19 "The future is the future. No longer, people will say. can we percent today. just let things happen and figure that we will Other change is more subtle. The emer- not something adapt. We need to get a vision of what we gence of a Gaia consciousness is one such force. want, and take active steps to move toward The name Gaia, the Greek earth mother god- that just happens that vision. Numerous methodologies have dess, is now applied to the idea that the earth been developed in the last twenty years to is a single, integrated, living system. At the to us. The future assist people in such efforts. 1989 Economic Summit, when world leaders For Whitworth College, the last decade of gave formal recognition to the threats of global is something the 20th century must also be an intentional warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, deserti- we o. decade. What is the Whitworth vision for the fication and others, it marked the point at d " 21st century? Can it takea position of strategic which policy-makers caught up with futurists leadership? The college must confront rapid and environmentalists. We are all coming to technological change and enable students to recognize that global security depends more adapt. It must cope with a continuing slide of deeply on planetary health than on military college-age youth for six more years, followed might. So we will indeed begin to live more by a resurgence, then another drop. The op- lightly, even as population grows. portunity for ethnic diversity grows every Another emergent force is the rise of the day. A vastly increased sense of global citizen- feminine. There is perhaps no more negative ship is inevitable, but the implications of this element in the world than the abuse of women, for what and how we teach is less clear. from domestic violence in the U.S. to system- Questionsofmeaning, value and spirit seem atic cultural violence in other countries. Re- ideally suited to Whitworth's tradition. But cently, a World Resources Institute study what message between narrow orthodoxy, on documented that, when asked what their the one hand, and a mushy "all belief systems biggest problem was, women allover the world are the same" approach, on the other, will were most likely to answer that their male really speak effectively in the new world? partner beat them. Yet, through this haze, we There are many more such questions. The see the emergence of powerful women's sup- challenge for Whitworth, as it has always been, port networks, of vastly increased life choices is to create its preferred future. Waiting will for women, and an insistence on increased not suffice. * power to determine their own destinies. With- out knowing it, businesses that are shifting from command-based to participation-based Glen Hiemstra, A.BD., is a [uturis! and consult- management systems are shifting from male ant in management of change. Clients of his firm, dominant values to emergent feminine val- Hiemstra International, include the state of Wash- ues. In the rise of the feminine, we see hope for ington, the Boeing Company, the city of Belleoue. the future. We also see, in our own country, a Associated General Contractors and Control Data great responsibility to lead by example. Corporation. He has frequently keynoted economic Finally, I see as an emergent force the rise of summits and other conferences. He is co-author of the spiritual. Times of change lead to a sharp At the Crossroads, and co-director of Future Tense: focus on questions of meaning, value and The Lindaman Group, a non-profit educational or- ultimate purpose. Every institution I work ganization.

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ajar events are M planned for alumni to celebrate Whitworth's centennial. Iencourage you to Paul Vlren, take part in them. The alumni director Alumni Office also wants to hear your ideas for events, reunions and other things you think we should be doing. We even have a toll-free number, so call 1·800-532· 4668.

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The Pirate Crimson Club is off and running after an organizing meeting in June. Led by Les Rurey, '62, as president, the club will help support projects like the new Pine Bowl, the Hall of Fame and athletic lettermen's jackets. Membership dues are $50, so give the athletic depart- Edge of adventure: The members of the Alumni Raft Trip stand by the Salmon River during ment a call at (509)466-3235and join a break in their Whitewater odyssey. the club! The 1979 Central American Study Tour Reunion organized by Ron Frase brought 31 adults and 15 children to on campus. Youwill be hearing from Harry Dixon Night in L.A. will be Ballard Hall for the second weekend them in the near future. November 19at 7p.m. at Dr. Kim, 74, in july, Aspecial section ofthe Alumni Tailgate parties will be offered and Anne (McCulloch, 74) Storm's NoteBook in this issue tells what the before every home football game, with home in Newport Beach. The L.A. study tour participants are doing now. complimentary halftime refreshments Alumni Council is putting on this Rafting the Lower Salmon was a served in the Alumni Tent. The tent casual evening with a special guy. blast. Just ask Dr. Howard Redmond will appear at home basketball games, Call the Storms at (714) 720-0489 or or the alums who spent three days on too. Every Spokane alum will receive Lori Cloninger, '83, at (213) 478-3593 the wild waters in July. We plan to a pair of free basketball tickets. Go, for information. make this an annual event. One- and Bucs' Christmas Choir Concert Sched· five-day trips are planned next year ule: - Dec. 2 at 8 p.m., Everett, First beginning July 21, 1990. Pres. Church - Dec. 3 at 3 p.m., Se- The Alumni Football Team, attle, First Pres. Church - Dec. 8 at 8 coached by Paul Merkel, '44, flocked COMING EVENTS p.m., Spokane, Whitworth Pres. to the Pine Bowl to take on the varsity Church - Dec. 9 at 4 and 8 p.m., under head coach Shorty Bennett, '62, All alums are invited to the Cen- Whitworth Pres. Church with a be- on Sept. 9. Congratulations to all of tennial Homecoming, so plan to at- tween concerts dinner for alumni at 6 you returning Pirates. tend October 13-15. Friday'S events p.m. in the Lindaman Center. include the ten year reunions for the "The Whitworth Centennial on WHAT'S HAPPENING classes of 79 and '80, along with a the Road" is coming to you through special reunion for Arctic Barrens the efforts of the area alumni councils. Alumni Directory Questionnaires participants and an appreciation din- Enjoy dinner and your favorite fac- have been flooding back into the ner for legendary football coach Sam ulty members. The dates to put on Alumni Office's mail box. The new Adams. Then plan on a continental your calendar are: Jan. 6 in Portland, directory is scheduled for release in breakfast and a tailgate lunch before Jan. 20 in Los Angeles, Jan. 27 in Se- January 1990,so this isyour last chance Saturday's football game against PLU. attle, and Feb.3in San Francisco. Look to tell us where you are. Apaymentof You can visit the Alumni Tent at for more information in the mail. $19.90isrequested to help offsetprint- halftime, and finish the day at the Ride the train to Essex, Mont. ing costs, but even if you just return "Homecoming Banquet, Dance and near Glacier Park and cross-country your questionnaire you'll still get a Game Room." The weekend ends ski for three days, Feb. 10-12,1990,for complimentary copy along with your with a chapel service followed by just $250per person. Call the Alumni personalized Whitworth alumni card. brunch Sunday morning. Time is Office for more details. The Alumni Class Ambassador running out, so call the Alumni Office program gears up for action Sept. 30 today. • Paul Viren 26 WHITWORTH TODAY - Alumni Notebook

Bible Translators publication III Gtner Words. Deaths 1987 He and his wife, Nancy, live in Santa Ana, Calif. MarkEatonand VictorlaSmith,]uly8, 1989in 1968 Oklahoma City, Okla. 1955 Ruth Mills, July 9, 1987 in Portland, Ore. Albert and Catherine (Weber) Reasoner are 1988 missionary co-workers in Brazil for the Presby- Dean Bltz and Deborah Crouse, '80, Sept. 16, terian Church (USA). Alberto establishes 1989. churches and matches national pastors to individual congregations and also flies doctors, lawyers and supplies into remote areas. Catar- ina is an English instructor in a Brazilian school and teaches Sunday School as well as nutrition Births and health classes at the local churches.

1976 1956 Scott and Kimbie Shaw, Keizer, Ore., girl, Tom Perrin, a retired English teacher from Val- Shannon Albee, born May 14, 1989. lejo, Calif.. is author of Football: A College His- tory. Hechronicles over 100 years of the Ameri- 1978 can college game from its inception in 1880 with the scrimmage line to the 1980's gridiron ver- David and Mary Pat (Call, '79) Lorente,Mount sion. "Most football books are written by sports- Vernon, Wash., girl, Emily Elizabeth, born Jan. writers who give 70 percent locker-room sto- 30,1989. ries and 30 percent history," Tom says. "My book has 90 percent history and 10 percent Lynn (Stucey) and Randall Azilagyi, Canal stories because I wanted to write an authentic Fulton, Ohio, girl, Wendy Elizabeth, born April history of the game." His collection of big game 15,1989. Theron B. "Ted" Maxon from the play-by-plays and individual anecdotes are 1956 Natsihi 1981 1940·1956 Midy (Miller) and Steven Speich, St. Charles, Rev. Theron B. "Ted" Maxon, Feb. 26, 1989, in Minn., boy, Jacob Franklin, born Aug. 12, 1988. Seattle, Wash. Born in Walla Walla, Wash. in 1910, Ted had a long history with Whitworth 1983 and the Presbyterian Church. He joined the psychology faculty in 1940, became dean of Susan (Heumier) and Robert Aasen, Lacey, men in 1946 and served as academic vice presi- Wash., boy, Darien Sievert, born April 3, 1989. dent for the college from 1953-56. He moved to Philadelphia in 1956 to be the Presbyterian 1988 Church (USA) higher education director and was named president of Hastings College in Steven and Shawnie (Rosenquist, 'S6) Le- wey, Lynnwood, Wash., girl, Amber Marie, Nebraska two years later. During his 15 years at Hastings, he was the force behind that insti- born Feb. 18, 1989. tution's growth and development and held the post of president of the Presbyterian College Union. Class Notes Since his retirement, Ted had served for 17 Whitworth years on the board of Sheldon Jackson College in the 1930's in Sitka, Alaska. He also worked on various 1943 committees for the Inland Empire Presbytery, S. David "Sam" Smith and his wife attended President: Ward Sullivan the Synod of Alaska-Northwest and the na- Sam's 50th high school reunion in Chewelah, Attitudes on campus: love and tional Presbyterian Church. Wash. in August. What makes this so unusual? marriage They bicycled from their home in Morristown, Tenn. Campus activities: homecoming bonfires, class scrap Marriages 1952 Clubs: Cow Hands Club, Brain Trusters, Pirette Club Dixie (Harder) and Thomas Hutson live in 1983 Carson City, Nev. Tom is director of the Tahoe Theater productions: "The Late Christopher Bean", "The Rock" Paul Martin and Eileen McDowell, Sept. 9, Indian Parish consisting of the Stewart Com- 1989 in Tacoma, Wash. munity Baptist Church in Carson City and the Popular music: Duke Ellington, Washoe Baptist Church in Dresslerville. This "Happy Days Are Here Again" Native American ministry is under jurisdiction Popular cars: 1985 of the American Baptist Churches Board of Buick, Pontiac Big Kipp A. Norris and Ann Beth Rowland, '89 National Ministries. Six May 18, 1989 in Whitworth College's Seeley Men's styles: short hair, wool Mudd Chapel. 1953 pants, sweaters, round glasses Women's styles: An excerpt from a letter Larry Clark wrote to short hair, 1986 the editor of U.S. News and World Report was dresses below the knee, skirts, Mark F. Westley and Lisa Marie Newman, printed in the magazine's August 7, 1989 article neck scarves August 12, 1989 at First Presbyterian Church in entitled "The Abortion Decision: Readers Re- Tuition: around $130per year Centralia, Wash. spond." Larry is a staff writer for the Wycliffe

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combined with 101 photographs and indexes highly regarded as one of the most effective in- to 4600 personal names and colleges, to make a structors in the entire institution. He is the valuable reference for sports writers and trivia recipient of the prestigious fellowship from the fanatics as well as the casual reader. Sports National Endowment for the Humanities to buffs, did you know that an 1888 rule intended study at the American Antiquarian Society," to stop slugging made offensive linemen keep commented Clarence Davis, dean of the Col- their hands at their sides and bunch together; lege of Arts and Sciences. Mark resides in Lake the crowding together hindered the center from Oswego. snapping the ball with his foot, so in 1890 it Helen (Tait) and George Paris make their home became legal to snap it with the hands. in Fremont, Calif., where Helen is varsity girls basketball coach at Washington High School. 1960 Leroy Levesque, Edmonds, Wash., has taught 1977 elementary school in Seattle for the past 28 Debi (Klahn) Knight looks forward to visiting years. His youngest 5011, Eric, is a captain and her alma mater during its centennial year. She pilot in the D.S. Marine Corps. and her family will travel from Clevedon.Avon. England to attend festivities planned for April's James and Bonnie Upchurch make their home Whitworth celebration week. Debi's husband, Steve, is in Anchorage, where Jim is the financial aid in the 1940's editor of British Rail's publication, Rail News. director for the University of Alaska. The Knights have three children, David.B, Clare, 6, and Katy, 4. President: Frank Warren Attitudes on campus: crazy, life 1978 on the edge, men at war 1961 David and Mary Pat (Call, '79) Lorente make Campus activities: picnicing, their home in Mount Vernon, Wash. Mary Pat Bob Beach has moved from the Spokane area skiing to Woodinville, Wash. works for the local weekly newspaper and is Clubs: Philadelphians, Sefalo, mom toAndy,5,and Emily, 9 months. David is an electronics test technician for Gretag Sys- 1962 Veterans' Club Theater productions: "Hamlet" tems in Seattle, a company that manufactures photo processing equipment. He is also the Pirate football coach Blaine "Shorty" Ben- PopUlar music: big band era, nett received the Heartsaver Award from the choir director at Trinity Lutheran Church in American Heart Association which recognizes Benny Goodman Mount Vernon. non-medical persons who have saved a life. Popular cars: Chevy, sports Shorty successfully performed cardiopulmon- roadster, touring cars Brad Lunt is manager of the Broadway branch ary resuscitation on a heart attack victim whose of Seafirst Bank in Seattle. He and his wife live Men's styles: tight wavy hair, in the Greenlake area of the city. heart and breathing had stopped. double breasted suits, wide flowered ties 1979 1966 Women's styles: wavy hair, Dennis Sauer is manager of rocket technology knee-length dresses, plaid Laurie (Granath) Adkison, Kirkland, Wash., at Hercules, Inc. in Salt Lake City, Utah. His was featured in an extensive article entitled wife, Charlotte is administrative assistant to skirts, saddle shoes "Seasons of Grief" in the July 10, 1989 issue of the associate edi tor of the Jailrnal of tile American Tuition: around $250per year the Seattle Post-tntcttigencer. Laurie's husband, Clsemicct Society, and is currently assistant to Craig, was one of three climbers killed in a May, the director of the Cold Fusion Research Project 1988 accident as they attempted to climb Mt. at the University of Utah. The Sauers have Rainier. Writer Kerry Codes met with Laurie three sons, ages 11, 10 and 7, and have lived in 1975 periodically during the 12 months following Salt Lake City since 1972. Harry M. Crumbaker, the first male graduate Craig's death, and chronicled Laurie's feelings in Whitworth's senior scholar program, is ac- as she learned to cope with her loss. 1967 tive at age 82 in the Retired Public Employees Council in Spokane. He is a senior league 1980 Vicki Schluneger is art editor of the Yakima bowler and an active member of the Spokane Daily Hemld-Repubtic, Genealogical Society. He and his wife, Audrey, Virginia Ann Carr-Studer received a master of attend St. Andrew's Episcopal Church where divinity degree from San Francisco Theological 1970 Harryis a licensed layreader. As a senior scholar, Seminary this spring. She and her husband, Harry participated in the Model United Na- John, make their home in Redlands, Calif. D. William Mcivor was awarded a Ph.D. from tions meeting in Portland with students of his- San Francisco Theological Seminary last spring. tory /political studies professor Dan Sanford, Todd and Brenda Frimoth moved to Riyadh, Topic of his dissertation was "A Hermeneutical '65, Saudi Arabia in August where they have ac- Commentary on the Kerygma BibleStudy," He cepted two-year elementary teaching positions. and his wife, Merrie (Wallace) live in Todd teaches third grade and Brenda is a first Spokane, where Billis pastor of Millwood Pres- 1976 grade teacher at the Saudi Arabian Interna- byterian Church. Mark Valeri, assistant professor of religious tional School in the American section. Dr.Daryle studies at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Russell, '60, is superintendent of the S.A.I.S. Ore.. is one of four faculty members from that 1974 institution to receive the Burlington Northern Peter and Suzanne (Loyer, '76) Trott live in Foundation Faculty Achievement Awards for 1981 Hillsboro, Ore. Peter, "Stranger" to his Whit- outstanding teaching during the 1988-89 aca- Mary K. Sliger was given Distinguished Teacher worth contemporaries, is senior technical writer demic year. Mark is a specialist in social history recognition by Spokane Superintendent of and editor for FPS Computing in Beaverton. of the Reformation and early American reli- Schools Gerald Hester lastspring. Mary teaches He and Suzanne have a daughter, Kaitlin, 3, a gion. He received a master of divinity degree a second/third grade combination class at son, James, 2, and expect their third child in from Yale University and his PhD. in religion Holmes Elementary School where she has September. from Princeton University. "Professor Valeri is taught for the past six years. Last fall, Jane

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Kris and Madeline, '82, Waid-Jones live in Madison, Wise., where Kris is a substitute teacher and Madeline is in her final year of residency in anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin Hospital. Daughter Emily arrived on August 1.

1986 Nancy (Caulkins) and Mark Boersma make their home in Wenatchee, Wash. Nancy is Christian ed ucation director for Eastmon t Pres- byterian Church in East Wenatchee where Will Mason, '77 is pastor. Will and Nancy's father, Rev. Jim Caulkins, both officiated at the Boersma's wedding on April 9, 1988. Mark is an engineer for the Chelan County Public Utili- Whitworth ties District in Wenatchee. Jan Brandvold, Spokane, has been promoted in the 1950's to local sales manager of KAYU-TV Jan has President: Frank Warren Attitudes on campus: families and careers, counting calories Campus activities: cooking, ice Kevin Sea skating, sing-a-longs, Ugly Man contests, athletics Clubs: Intercollegiate Knights, Writers Club, Cosmopolitan 1983 Club Newlyweds Paul and Eileen Martin reside in Theater productions: Puyallup, Wash., following their Sept. 9 mar- "Messiah" , riage in Tacoma. "The Glass Menagerie" Popular music: Elvis, "Rock 1984 Around the Clock" Margaret Fowler attended the University of Popular cars: Oregon Institute of Linguistics in Eugene this summer. A field assignment with Wycliffe Bible Whitworth MGB, Triumph Translators will follow further study at the Men's styles: University of Texas-Arlington. in the 1960's greased back hair, letterjackets, 1985 Presidents: Frank Warren, Mark hornrimmed glasses LeAnne Iverson is enjoying success as a jew- Koehler Women's styles: short hair, elry designer in New York City. Combining her Attitudes on campus: challenge sweaters, long skirts, pearls, academic fields - business and art - LeAnne the system, social change hornrimmed glasses now heads a small company called Ear Effects Campus activities: Silk & Satin which produces 30 to 40 new designs each Co-ed Fashion Show, roller Tuition: around $500per year season. She combines contrasting materials such as paper clips and pearls to create her skating, athletics attention-getting earrings. The initial staff of Clubs: Greek clubs, quartets for two has doubled and LeAnne's designs sell in men & women, Black Student Manhattan boutiques and in a few department Campbell, '76 and Kathy Williams shared Union stores in Southern California, including Nord- Distinguished Teacher honors from District 81. Theater productions: "As You strom's. Ear Effects are sold in Spokane at The Kathy received her standard secondary teach- Jeweler's Bench in Riverperk Square. Like It", "Barber of Seville" ing certificate from Whitworth in 1986 and is Popular music: The Beatles. currently enrolled in the M.Ed. program at the Classmates Kurt Dale and Delene Deforest, college. Jefferson Airplane, Peter, Paul are engaged. "It took us awhile but we finally & Mary, The Beach Boys did it," writes Delene from Seattle. Kurt will be Kevin W. Sea has been promoted to audit moving from Carmel, Calif., to Seattle in the Popular cars: VoIkswagon bugs manager in the San Francisco office of Deloitte fall. and vans Haskins and Sells, an international accounting and consulting firm. Kevin specializes in serv- Men's styles: greased back hair, Susan R. Insko, Pilot Rock, Ore., teaches sixth ing manufacturing and distributive companies. leather jackets with collar up, grade in the Pendleton school district. She is skinny ties, V-necks taking graduate courses in guidance and coun- seling at Whitworth, and is a Sunday School Women's styles: bouffant hair, 1982 teacher and junior high youth group leader at strapless gowns, short coats Karen Jean Cornwell was awarded a master of Peace Lutheran Church in Pendleton. Susan's and skirts, turtlenecks divinity degree from San Francisco Theological also winging her way towards a single engine Tuition: around $ 800 per year Seminary in San Anselmo this spring. aircraft pilot's license.

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been an account executive with the station since glad Iam a Christian because I can have hope in she graduated from Whitworth. 1988 the midst of this situation. So far nothing has Melissa (Mudge) and Michael A. Sweeney endangered us here at Amity. Fortunately, the Cliff Feigenbaum is a payroll specialist for make their home in Cortland, N.V. Melissa is a governor of our province looks kindly on the Empire Health Services in Spokane. graduate of Whitworth's master's program, Christian church in Nanjing and is a friend of Bishop Ding's. I have talked with Lilly and Joy Roger and Patty (Pearson, '85) Capron are Phillip and Mary Mauldingmake their home in (two other students who attended Whitworth) fulfilling a three-year commitment with Habi- Twin Falls, Idaho, where Phillip is director of at Nanjing University. They are quite worried tat for Humanity in Guatemala. food services for Marriott Corp. at the College because government soldiers are expected to of Southern Idaho. come to their campus ... Pray for us in China as I we pray for peace and justice in our country." Former student Guangiie Yang, who studied at Whitworth in 1987-88, is currently employed by the Amity Foundation in Nanjing. People's 1989 Republic of China The following message Jon and Bonnie (Hein) Reeves are living in from Cuangjiewasdelivered by telephone from Spokane following their summer wedding and an American who left China on June 10: honeymoon trip to Maine. Bonnie is a com- "I returned from a world conference of puter programmer for Whitworth's adminis- churches in Europe just one week ago. Iam so trative computing center.

1979 Central America Study Lyman and Kirsten (Thompson) Miller, '80 live in Portland, Ore.. where Lyman teaches Tour Reunion junior high and Kirsten is an attorney who often works on behalf of Central American Ron Frase shares the following updates for refugees. They have taken several busloads those attending the ten year Central America from their church to service projects in Mexico. Reunion July 21-23. Thirty-one adults and The Millers have a daughter and are expecting fifteen children stayed in Ballard Hall. had their second child. meals at Leavitt and ended their time together with a communion service. They reviewed Whitworth Gayle (Donnell) Moir, '81 is married to a phy- slides of their trip and many found themselves sician. They work at the Mayo Clinic and spent in the 1970's reminiscing until the wee hours of the morning. their honeymoon in Ahaus, Honduras super- Already plans are underway for another reunion in 1994. vising a clinic where they treated wounded President: Edward Lindaman Contra soldiers. Attitudes on campus: intro- Albert Cahueque, '80 teaches in a bilingual spective, "Honk if you love school in Los Angeles. Corinne (Parkinson) Thompson, '79 is a bi- Jesus" lingual educator in Yakima, Wa.sh. She and her Campus activities: Rob Campbell works with two group homes husband, Darrell, are parents of a son. Mac Haunted House, for handicapped adults in Port Angeles, Wash. He and his wife, Laura, have adopted two Carol (Prentice) and Robin Walz, '79 and streaking, Korean children. their daughter live in Davis, Calif. Robin is con- "The Weekend", tinuing doctoral studies at Davis, while Carol Mac Hall in Concert Cindy (Chapman, '81) and Steve Weber have directs two Planned Parenthood clinics in Sac- three children. Steve, '79, pastors two Native ramento. Clubs: Hawaiian Club, theme American congregations in Kamiah and dorms, KWRS, Diakonia Kooskia, Idaho. Theater productions: "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail", "Jesus Christ Superstar", Expo '74 Children's Thea ter Popular music: John Denver, James Taylor, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, "Saturday Night Fever" PopUlar cars: Pinto, Plymouth Duster, AMC Pacer Men's styles: long hair and sideburns, army fatigues, silk shirts, wool and navy pants, wide paisley ties Women's styles: pigtails and long hair parted in the middle, halter tops, overalls, long dresses Tuition: $2,000to $4,000per year North of the border: Members of the 1979 Central America Study Tour and their families reunited at Ballard Hall this summer.

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Adriana (Schilperoort, '78) Havnaer is a full time homemaker in Wapato, wash.. after teaching elementary school for several years. She and her husband, Doug, a pilot for American Airlines, have two children.

Dana, '81, and Patti Schilperoort live in West Linn, Ore. Dana recently finished his student teaching and is busy interviewing for a teaching position. The Schilperoorts have two sons.

Following graduation from Princeton Theo- logical Seminary three years ago, Susan Schil- peroort, 'SO spent a year in Central and South America. She has just accepted a position as chaplain on an ecumenical team at the Univer- sity of Washington. Whitworth Rebecca Staebler, '81 brought her fiance, in the 1980's Mark, to the reunion. They will be married next May. Rebecca received her master's degree from the University of Maryland in American Presidents: Robert Mounce, Art Studies and is managing editor for two publica- De Jong tions of the National Association for Home A«itudes on campus: Care in Washington, D.C. achievement oriented,

Sharon Stratton '79 and her daughter make computer literate their home in Wenatchee. Campus activities: Hawaiian Luau, intramural sports, Leslie Argueta~Vogel, '79, and her husband, Moron- a-then Thea, live in San Miguel, £1 Salvador with their Clubs: International Club, daughter. Thea is a student at the university, and both he and Leslie work with a local Roman Circle K, Amnesty International THE WHITWORTH CHOIR SINGS Catholic parish. Leslie shows slides of their Theater productions: work and shared the plight of the people of El "Oklahoma!", "The Music Salvador during the reunion. Man", "Taming of the Shrew" , SONGS The Players Five OF Julie (Weinman) Lays, 'SO lives in Denver with her husband and son. Julie works for an Popular music: Michael Jackson, CHRISTMAS, organization that publishes for the Association Madonna, U-2, Amy Grant of National States Legislations. Popular cars: BMW, SONGS Mazda RX7, Lincoln Limos Debora (Youmans, 'SO) and Kris Hanssen OF and their son live in Seattle. Debby received her Men's styles: short hair, jeans, master's degree in nutrition from the Univer- T-shirts and sweatshirts, FAITH sity of Chicago. She and Julie (Weinman) Lays sunglasses, dark jackets, traveled together in Africa and Europe before "power" ties their marriages. Women's styles: curly hair, Linda (Zenger) and Larry O'Brien, '7Slive in sweatshirts, knee length and The Whitworth Choir, directed by Prosser, Wash. Linda is involved with bilingual strapless dresses, bold colors Randi Von Ellefson, and the Chamber education and Larry teaches junior high. They Tuition: $4,000to $9,000per year have two daughters. Singers, directed hy Deborah ]. Ellefson. perform an inspiring program of 18 sacred works including "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming." "Hodie Chris- The President's Journal tus notus est." "My Cod, How Wun- Continued from Page 34 derful Thall Art," and "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel." note its faculty retreat from my book September 15, on campus - The of- on church-related colleges. In the ficial kick-off of the Centennial Cam- Cassette tape, $8.00 future, I hope Whitworth can enlist paign to raise $15 million for campus Shipping $1.00 schools like Concordia to help clarify improvements. Balloons, speeches, the church-related college role in the hoopla and a big picnic in the Loop higher education mix. will mark this Whitworth milestone. To order, send check for $9.00. payable to Whitworth College. to Book- Coming dates: September 20, preaching in mid- store. Station 41. Whitworth College, week worship at the Chapel. September 8, on campus - Opening Spokane, WA 99251. Rcconlcd. Spring. 1989 Convocation. I will speak on our October 13, several lectures on Chris- hI' The S'liind Preservers.Inc. Centennial Theme, "Making a World tian Higher Education at Central Olympia, Wibhingtllt1 of Difference." Washington Presbytery.

WHITWORTH TODAY 31 Pirate Sports •

Happy birthday!: Pirate teammates congratulate Paul Reyes (2) after he belted two home runs on his 21st birthday. Outfielder Mike Nyquist also wielded a hot bat, setting a new Whitworth record of 19 home runs as the Pirates captured the NAtA District I playoffs In May. Whitworth played host to the area tournament, but was knocked out of a NAIA World Series berth by losses to Hawaii-Hila and Linfield Colleges.

Pirate Preview 23 Simon Fraser University at Burnaby, "Red shirting" is more than a fash- S.c. ion statement for Volleyball Coach 30 Eastern Oregon State College at Whit- "S horty" Bennett has larceny Alice Hardin. Borrowing a tactic from worth in his heart. Whitworth's head the men's teams, she will be keeping football coach has spent the off-sea- several of her incoming freshman October son recruiting hot players from other 7 PacificUniversity at ForestGrove, Ore. players off the court this year. While 14 Pacific Lutheran University at whit- four-year and junior college teams. the young team will add experienced worth "We're excited; these guys can play players next year, the women on the 21 Lewis and Clark College at Portland, right away and they're talented," he sideline will get more out of it than are. 28 Linfield College at Whitworth says. A jump in freshmen recruits has just time to practice their skills. "It lets swollen summer practices and sig- them concentrate on their academics November nals a growing respect for the team by and settle into college life without 4 Central Washington University at high school players, according to adding the pressure of competition," Ellensburg, Wash. Bennett. And as he's quick to point Hardin explains. 11 University of Puget Sound at Tacoma, out, "if the numbers are growing and Wash.

the quality of the athletes is up, then Randy Malikowski knows how to VOLLEYBALL we're doing something right." start from scratch. A member of the September original varsity men's soccer team in 15-16 Whitworth Invitational 21 Willamette University, 7 p.m., at Sa- The men's and women's cross 1981, he played for the squad's first country squads are chasing a dream lem, are. five years. Now after several seasons 22 Linfield College, 7 p.m., at this fall. Coached for the second year of high school coaching, he's back on McMinnville, are. by Andy Sonneland, both teams want campus again with a new challenge 23 Western Oregon State College, 2 p.m., to end their season with an invitation - to direct Whitworth's first women's Monmouth, Ore. to nationals. For the men, that means 27 Central Washington University, 7p.m., soccer team this fall. at Whitworth placing first or second in district, while 30 Lewis-Clark State College, 2 p.m., at the women need to finish in the top Lewiston, Idaho three. An impossible dream? "We Sports Calendar have the best recruits for both men October and women Whitworth has had in a 6-7 UniversityoiPugetSound Tournament FOOTBALL at Tacoma, Wash. September long time," says Sonneland. "Both 10 Lewis and Clark College, 5 p.m., at teams promise to be among the best 16 Western Washington University at Whitworth ever." Whitworth

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13 Eastern Washington University, 7:30 24 Whitman College, 1p.m.,atWhitworth p.m., at Cheney, Wash. 30 Pacific University, l l p.m., at Forest 14 Pacific University, 10 a.m., at Whit- Grove, Ore. worth 17 Whitman College, 6p.m.,at Whitworth October 19 Lewis-Clark State College, 7:30 p.m., 1 Linfield College, 10 a.rn.. at at Whitworth McMinnville, Ore. 21-22 N.C.J.C. Tournament at Walla Walla, 7 Lewis and Clark College, 1 p.m., at Wash. Whitworth 25 Central Washington University, 7p.m., 14 Linfield College, 10 a.m., at Whitworth at Ellensburg, Wash. 15 Central Washington University, 1p.m., 28 Pacific Lutheran University, 11a.m., at at Whitworth Tacoma, Wash. 21 Pacific Lutheran University, 11 a.m.,at Tacoma, Wash. November 29 The Evergreen State College, 1p.m., at 3-4 NAJA District Tournament Olympia, Wash. 10-11 NAJA Bi-District Tournament 16-18 NAJA National Tournament SWIMMING November 2 Willamette University, 7:30 p.m., at 3 Pacific Lutheran Univ./ Whitman Whitworth CROSS COUNTRY College, 7 p.m., at Walla Walla, Wash. 8 Lewis and Clark College, 7:30 p.m., at September 4 Pentathlon, 10 a.m., at Walla Walla, Whitworth 23 University of Washington Wash. 9 Pacific University, 7:30 p.m., at Whit- 30 Washington State University 11 Willamette Univ./ Whitman College, worth 1 p.m., at Walla Walla, Wash. 21-23 Hawaii Loa Tournament at Kaneohe, October 18 Central Washington University, 1p.m., Hi. 14 University of ldaho at Whitworth 21 Boise State University WOMEN'S BASKETBALL December November November 1-2 Pacific Lutheran Invitational at Ta- 17-18 Whitworth Invitational 4 District I at Western Washington Uni- coma, Wash. 25 Sheldon Jackson College at Sitka, versity Alaska 18 Nationals at University of Wisconsin- 26 University of Alaska at juneau, Alaska Perkside MEN'S BASKETBALL November December 17-18 Lewis-Clark State Tournament at 1 Lewis-Clark State College at Lewis- MEN'S SOCCER Lewiston, Idaho ton, Ida. September 27 Northern Montana College, 7:30 p-m.. 8 Seattle University, 7 p.m., at Seattle, 23 Warner Pacific University, 7:30p.m., at at Havre, Mont. Wash. Portland, Ore. 9 Pacific Lutheran University atTacoma, 24 Portland University, 2 p.m., at Port- December Wash. land, Ore. 1 Linfield College, 7:30 p.m., at Whit- 15 Eastern Oregon State College, 7:30 27 Whitman College, 1p.m.,atWhitworth worth p.m., at Whitworth 30 Pacific University, 1 p.m., at Forest Grove, Ore.

October 1 Linfield College, p.m., at McMinnville, Ore. 7 Central Washington University, 1p.m., at Ellensburg, Wash. 8 University of Washington, 1 p.m., at Seattle, Wash. 14 Willamette University, 1 p.m., at Sa- lem, Ore. 15 Lewis and Clark College, 1 p.m., at Portland, Ore. 22 Pacific Lutheran University, 1 p.m., at Whitworth 25 Gonzaga University, 3 p.m., at Whit- worth 28 Seattle Pacific University, 1 p.m., at Whitworth

November 4-5 District I Playoffs

WOMEN'S SOCCER September 16 Lewis and Clark College, ll a.m., at Portland, Ore. 17 Willamette University, 1 p.m., at Sa- In the swing: A beginning tennis class challenged economically disadvantaged lem, Ore. youngsters at the National Youth Sports Program camp hosted by Whitworth this summer. 23 Pacific Lutheran University, 1 p.m., at Other activities included swimming, basketball, volleyball and soccer, along with instruction Whitworth in nutrition and health, college opportunities, and the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse.

WHITWORTH TODAY 33 The Presidents Journal

ay 14, 1989, Commencement at General Assembly reminded me of Evelyn Smith. She has served the M - We gave honorary degrees to our rich history. Friday night, I en- church at every level, and Synod was Dr. David Myers, '64, Hope College joyed a gathering with many Whit- an appropriate occasion to honor her. psychology professor, and Samuel worth alumni who were there. Craig Stroum, Seattle businessman- philan- Dykstra, Lilly Foundation director, June 24-26, Baltimore, Md. - Agrant thropist. was also at GA. He liked our new from the Council for the Advance- mentofPrivate Higher Education will May 15-17, at my word processor- design for campus religious life, "Ecclesia," which an ad hoc commit- help us improve students' writing It took three days to hammer the Long skills across the curriculum. Prof. Range Plan Task Force reports into a tee on campus is working to flesh out. Dykstrais response bodes well for Linda Hunt heads the project. She single-sty le, comprehensive firstdraft and I attended the CAPHE meeting. for faculty, cabinet and trustee review. funding. On Sunday, I preached at First Presbyterian Church, Ardmore, A bonus for me was catching up on May 18, Washington, D.C. - My as- Pa., David and Grace Yeaworth's news of my former college, Muskin- signmenton the National Association church, and spent time with their gum, from my successor. of Independent Colleges and Univer- church youth. June 27, Youngstown, Ohio - I sities Minorities Task Force is to help June 12·13, Washington, D.C. - At stopped off to see new trustee John improve K-12 minority preparation Scotford, '51. His duties begin this for college. After the centennial, I the board meeting of the Council for Independent Colleges. I'm on a pro- fall. plan to convene a campus-wide con- gram committee that oversees all gress on minority issues. June 28-July 5, Pella, Iowa - All five program activities. of our children wereatourdaughter's May 26, on campus - Eerdmans farm for a family reunion. Living in Publishing Company accepted the June 14, Des Moines and Spokane - Coming home from Washington, I Spokane, how quickly one forgets the third draft of my book, "New Direc- stopped to pick up my 88-year-old heat and humidity of the Midwest! tions for the Church-Related College." Publishing is a slow process. mother for her first trip to the North- July 11·25, on vacation - Seeing Mt. west. Joyce showed her the Spokane St. Helens and Mt. Rainier, volcanos June 1-4, Western Washington - environs and I joined them for eve- at two stages, were high points for From the Independent Colleges of ning and weekend sightseeing. The this fledgling photographer. I titled a Washington presidents' meeting, I region's beauty impressed Mother. shot of flowers blooming in volcanic drove to Sound view, the new Presby- ash, "Death and Resurrection." Dean terian camp, where I spoke to Olym- June 18, Pullman - On Father's Day, Darrell Guder and his wife Judy joined pia Presbytery. After spending the I preached on fathers and sons at First us for a tour through the Canadian night with Trustee Art and Glenna Presbyterian Church. Rockies, which are magnificent. We Symons, I preached at the centennial ended OUf vacation with an exciting June 18-22, on campus - The Wash- service of Centralia First Presbyterian white water boat ride through Hell's ington-Alaska Synod highlight for me Church. Canyon on the Idaho-Oregon border. was preaching on Wednesday night June 5-11, Philadelphia, Pa. - The and presenting the Whitworth Distin- The Northwest wonders are inex- haustible. 200th Anniversary worship services guished Lay Leader Award toourown July 18, Downtown Spokane - A brief vacation interruption was the gala opening celebration of our downtown Centennial Headquarters. For one year, thanks to the generosity of Riverpark Square management firm, R.W. Robideaux, Whitworth will literally be part of the central business core. Some 200 friends turned out to help us celebrate. July 29, on campus - I returned to campus from the Canadian Rockies to find pastors and families enjoying a mountaintop experience with Lewis Smedes and others at the Institute of Ministry.

August 24-25, Moorehead, Minn. - Concordia College asked me to key-

Distinguished: Former professor Evelyn A. Smith receives the Lay Leader Award. Continued on Page 31

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