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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Western Publications at Western CEDAR. It has been accepted for inclusion in Western Reports and Résumé by an authorized administrator of Western CEDAR. For more information, please contact [email protected]. VOL. 3, NO. 10 A Report to Alumni and Other Friends of Western Washington State College JUL Y, 1972 Murray is commencement speaker Dr. Keith Murray, professor of history at Western, addressed the 1972 graduates at this year’s commencement ceremony. Speaking on “Zero Growth for Quality,’’ he welcomed the graduates to their new role as Western alumni and asked their continuing involvement with the college and support in meeting the challenges ahead. “We hope that you do not intend to stop your involvement with Western because you are handed a diploma,’’ Dr. Murray said. “Everyone in higher education is facing problems that need the best minds around to solve them.’’ Dr. Murray has been a member of Western’s faculty since 1946, and he drew on this longstanding association as he explained that the college is coming to the end of a 20-year cycle of growth and expansion. Western has eight times as many students and six times as many faculty members as there were 20 years ago. Dr. Murray pointed out. “All of this growth has given us new buildings, new academic programs, new administrative structures, new degrees, a college name change, and allowed for the creation of three new satellite colleges. “These last 20 years have been exciting years, and most of the college com mu n i ty —facu Ity and students alike—have grown used to it. We dodge bulldozers and cement trucks, search for parking spots, lose count of new faculty hirings, expect hordes of freshmen and transfer students each fall and plan for future greatness and enrollments reaching 15,000 students or even more. “Unfortunately, this euphoria has caused us to think the extraordinary is ordinary,’’ Dr. Murray continued. “We fail to see that every cycle must end, and we have completely forgotten what it was like before It began.’’ He noted that few of Western’s faculty and none of the students remember the college’s lean times of the

(Continued on page 2) Nigerian will take knowledge to native land

James Inyang will soon be returning to his native Nigeria, taking with him a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon and a master’s degree in political science from Western Washington State College. Now that the school year is over he is eager to get back to his home, which he has not seen for more than five years. CHECKING THE PROGRAM—Looking over the program prior to commencement proceedings are “When I was very busy I was not from ieft Dr. Marvin Oimstead (partiaiiy hidden), professor of speech and chairman of the Coiiege very homesick, but now that I’m Senate; President Flora; Dr. Herbert C. Taylor, dean for faculty research and grants; Bill McDonald, finished with school and resting on my dean of students; and Dr. Frederick Sargent H, provost. oars. I’m beginning to be bored and anxious to go back to Nigeria,” he says. This year Inyang served as president Commencement of Western’s international student organization, has been active in the (Continued from page 1) Whatcom County United Nations Association and taught a Bible class at early '50s. “As we were unprepared for third alternative, but that Western could Bellingham’s Trinity Lutheran Church. the growth that overwhelmed us then, have a struggle ahead in convincing the Trinity Lutheran has provided some of we are now unprepared for no growth at legislature it is a worthwhile aim and the financial support for his education. all.” adjusting the college’s program for zero He came to Western for his graduate growth plus high quality. Dr. Murray described the current work on the advice of one of his situation of higher education: a leveling “Here we certainly need your help, if professors at the University of Oregon. of enrollmeht growth, fewer new you agree, for the idea is going to take “He knew I wanted peace on campus so faculty members, and reductions in some selling,” he told the new I could concentrate on studying,” programs and appropriations. He graduates. Inyang says, “so he advised me to go to outlined three alternatives Western could choose from in facing this “We need advice from our alumni situation. even more than we do from our students, for they are too close to the “One alternative is to refuse to problem,” Dr. Murray concluded. “In accept zero growth as we struggle everything, unless you choose to desperately for a larger proportion of abandon us once you leave this building, the shrinking number of college-bound keep your interest in what we are doing students. Another is to lower admission high and help us convince the standards, shift to an open admissions tax-paying public that we are worthy of policy and raise our grades until their support.” everyone becomes a B student or better. A third alternative is to learn to live with a stable or very slowly growing Bellingham woman enrollment, meanwhile concentrating on Insuring our students the highest quality education we can give them.” wins scholarship

Dr. Murray said he Is in favor of the Mrs. Diane L. Carlson of Bellingham has been named as recipient of the Murray Scholarship Award for 1972-73 at Western. The award covers the cost of Math prof dies tuition and fees for one year. Mrs. Carlson is a junior majoring in English and plans a career in teaching. Inyang Dr. Tah-Kai Hu, assistant professor She has earned a 3.8 grade-point average of mathematics at Western, died May 26 at Western. a smaller school. He knew about from a cerebral hemorrhage while on Western from some friends here.” leave in Taipei^Taiwan. The Murray Scholarship was Inyang’s plans for the immediate established by Dr. Keith Murray of the future include a few months of badly Dr. Hu had been a member of the history department and is presented needed rest. This fall he will be program faculty at WWSC since 1969. Survivors each year to an English major in coordinator for a group of 24 students include the widow, in Taipei, and two memory of Dr. Murray’s son and wife, from Lewis and Clark College who will sisters, one living in Boston and the who died in 1968 and 1969, other In Hong Kong. respectively. (Continued on page 5, column 2)

2 Western marks cluster college milestone

Commencement, 1972, marked the completion of four years of college education for the first class of students to enroll at Fairhaven College, Western’s first cluster college. Although some students who were involved in early planning of the cluster unit have been graduated during previous quarters, this spring the freshmen who made up Fair- haven’s first full class in 1968 received their degrees. The event was a milestone in the development of the cluster-college concept at Western. The three-fold increase in enrollment during the decade of the ’60s led to Ethnic Studies action adoption of the cluster-college system in offers educational experiences that cut fantasies,” Dr. Elizondo continues. “We hopes that it would enable WWSC to across traditional departmental lines. don’t avoid Issues like race or war or accommodate a large number of crime. But philosophically we are very students while preserving as much as The College of Ethnic Studies American because we teach people to be possible of the personal, friendly well-informed about social problems atmosphere and opportunities for The College of Ethnic Studies, for and to want to go out and do something faculty and student interaction that example, was created in response to the about them.” exist at a small college. As a result. need for American education to recog Western has become, in effect, four nize the social, cultural and political Huxley College smaller undergraduate colleges rather experiences of minority groups. It Is than a single large one. Western’s newest college and began Huxley College of Environmental Sciences was named for Thomas Henry The four undergraduate divisions are offering classes winter quarter, 1969. Ethnic Studies provides an academic Huxley, father of the eminent British the College of Arts and Sciences, family of scientists and writers. A state Fairhaven College, Huxley College of setting for the study of Mexican- American, American Indian, Asian ment by his grandson. Sir Julian Environmental Sciences and the College Huxley, gives the college its philo of Ethnic Studies. Each has its own American and Afro-American cultures. “Although some people still think of us sophical cornerstone: “Sooner, rather faculty and the power to establish its than later, we will be forced to get away as a college for the disadvantaged, this is own curriculum and degree require from a system based on artificially ments within the definition of its not a remedial program,” says Dr. Sergio Elizondo, dean of the College of Increasing the number of human wants, educational mission. However, any and set about constucting one aimed at Western student may take classes in any Ethnic Studies. “The number of minority students enrolled here is in the qualitative satisfaction of real of the four colleges, and they all share human needs—spiritual and mental as facilities, such as the library, counseling creasing, but the majority of our students are Caucasian.” well as material and physiological.” center and student union of the larger The Huxley College program con campus. As of spring quarter, 1972, Ethnic Studies had 111 students enrolled as ceives of environmental studies as a The four undergraduate colleges plus majors or minors, and more than 500 broad range of related disciplines. The the Graduate School make up the students from other divisions of Western faculty includes people trained in archi essence of Western Washington State taking Ethnic Studies classes as tecture, physics, sanitary engineering, College today. electives. The curriculum is inter urban planning, recreation, bio disciplinary, incorporating sociological, chemistry, zoology, education, political, historical and literary per economics, political science, marine The College of Arts & Sciences spectives on minority groups. biology, geography, medicine and Most Ethnic Studies graduates are nutrition. The College of Arts and Sciences Is headed for teaching or service careers, “Our program is based on the junior the new designation for the 23 academic according to Dr. Elizondo. “They will and senior level,” says Dr. Gene Miller, departments that made up WWSC be strongly people-oriented when they dean of Huxley College. “Students before the cluster-college system was leave here,” he says. “They will be normally enter Huxley after their first adopted. As the parent of the other aware of social problems and ready to two years in The College of Arts and divisions of Western, Arts and Sciences serve people and work for social Sciences or as transfers from a com Is not usually thought of as a'Cluster change.” munity college. college but as the “main” college. The basic program for a major in “We encourage them to get in touch While enrollment in the new cluster Ethnic Studies Is 55 credits. “This with us during the freshman year, colleges is counted In tens and allows students to take a double major, though, because we have several areas of hundreds, the College of Arts and which we encourage,” Dr. Elizondo specialization at Huxley and the lower- Sciences enrollment runs into says. “Ethnic Studies is still a new thing division courses a student will need to thousands. It is older, more established and some people aren’t quite convinced take will depend upon whether his and covers a much wider range of we are legitimate. It’s better for the interests are in ecosystems analysis, academic disciplines (Including teacher students to have another major when marine resources or some other education) than the other colleges. they graduate.” concentration.” Each of the new cluster colleges has a “In a sense we are un-American One of the aims of Huxley College is more-or-less specialized function and because we shatter stereotypes and (Continued on page 6)

3 FOUNDERS CLUB PARTICIPANTS—The second annual Founders Club meeting was held following commencement ceremonies this year. In photo at left is Mrs. Elizabeth Boone Van Matre (’22) of OIney, Hi., who traveled the farthest distance to attend the meeting. From left in photo at right are Mrs. Hilda Musgrove Todd (’10), who was Associated Students secretary that year; Mrs. Edna Lawrence Tjoeiker (’10), who was Associated Students president in 1910 and the first woman to hold that post; and Miss Arta Frances Lawrence (’14), Mrs. Tjoeiker’s sister, who was largely responsible for organizing the Founders Club. ^2^persons attencl Founders Club meeting

Founders Club was begun at Western president In that year; Mrs. Hilda “Bill” Radcliffe, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph a year ago to provide an opportunity for Musgrove Todd, who was the Secretary; Miller, Mrs. Gertrude Sennes Elliott, increased communication between the and Mrs. Maude Westcott Peime. The Vivian Gunderson, Ruth M. RIefenberg, college and its earlier graduates, giving latter two traveled from Seal Beach and and Mrs. Elizabeth Boone Van Matre. those graduates a chance to tell the Madera, California, respectively, to Mrs. Van Matre traveled further than college what they think of its changes. attend. any other alumnus at the luncheon, This year’s luncheon was attended by This year’s honored class was 1922, having come from OIney, Illinois. ■82 persons. The earliest graduates in which celebrated its golden anniversary. attendance were from the class of 1910. Those attending from the fifty-year The Founders were welcomed to the They Included Mrs. Edna Lawrence group included Mrs. Edna Hall Neeley, campus by President Flora. The Tjoeiker, who was associated students Mrs. Olga Bjorkland Kropf, W. O. E. featured speaker of the afternoon was Fairhaven College dean. Dr. Kenneth Freeman. Dean Freeman’s topic was “A Campus Retirement,” in which he explained a program under study at Fairhaven which would convert some of the existing dormitories into retirement housing. The reasoning behind this plan is that colleges are overstocked with persons age 18 to 22, and their vision tends to be narrow. It is hoped that senior citizens can bring their many years of living experience to the college, and will improve the learning environment. Alumni relations officer Steve Inge made some remarks about the class of 1922, recalling the deeds and mis-deeds of that year. The last activity of the afternoon was a guided tour of the OESER CEDAR SCHOLARSHIP—Danny Lee Anderson (right), a junior majoring in technology at Western, has received a $750 scholarship award from Oeser Cedar Company of Bellingham. The campus. award is made each year to an outstanding technology student. Previewing the drawings of Next year’s honored class will be that furniture Anderson has designed and built are from left Dr. Sam Porter, chairman of the of 1923. The alumni office will soon be technology department; Dr. Richard Vogel of the department; and Roy Gillespie, president of starting its search for missing members Oeser Cedar Company. of that group.

4 Fairhaven grad assesses cluster program

“Going to Fairhaven has been worth “We still have to have a certain my time,” says Janine Shinkoskey. number of credits to stay in school and “The flexibility of the cluster college get a degree,” she says. “I don’t think curriculum allowed me to do a lot of people are getting credit for just sitting things I probably couldn’t have done at around. The faculty, as a group, has another college.” pretty high standards.” Janine came to Fairhaven in 1968 as a member of the first freshman class of Janine has lately been doing some Western’s first cluster college. During tutoring and recruiting for Western’s her freshman year, and again when she Project Overcome, a federally-funded was a sophomore, she contributed to college preparation program for Resume her impressions of living and promising but educationally studying at a college in the making. disadvantaged high school students. Looking back over four years at “This is something I’ve really enjoyed Fairhaven as a graduating senior, Janine and the experience has been good for sees a lot of changes since the first 200 me, since I’m in social studies students moved into Edens Hall. education. I might not have been able to “Fairhaven has changed, but I’ve work it in if it hadn’t been for the changed too,” she says; “I wouldn’t say flexibility at Fairhaven.” some things about Fairhaven that I said before, but I’m not sure how much of Shinkoskey Would Janine recommend Fairhaven that Is because of the college or because to prospective students? “It depends on I’ve grown up.” charged that the absence of grades and what they want. Fairhaven wouldn’t required classes lets students get by suit everybody. I would recommend it A few years back, Janine and her without working very hard. Janine for students who can do well without a classmates tended to be protective of denies this. lot of structure and authority.” their college, rather like the way parents are protective of an infant. With the passage of time she has acquired a more critical spirit. “Fairhaven is more established now,” she says, “and I don’t feel as if 1 have to defend everything Nigerian will return home about it. It’s not like the first year when (Continued from page 2) we had to create an identity for Fairhaven.” be studying in Nigeria on a cultural dependent and independent within the The first Fairhaven class was a very exchange program. federal system.” close-knit group, but Janine says that His master’s thesis Is entitled “An He says It is also important to element of closeness did not survive the Analysis of the Failure and the Future develop a strong economy and commit growth in enrollment and the move to of Nigerian Federalism.” Inyang says, “I Nigeria’s resources to providing essential the new campus. “A lot of the chose the topic because I wanted to services, “such as roads, water supply, community feeling Is gone now. When discover why Nigeria’s civilian welfare services, medical care, that sort there were only 200 of us and we lived democratic government had failed and of thing,” he says. In Edens Hall, we used to see each other what will be necessary for it to succeed “I see a desire to stay together that is all the time in the hallways and the in the future. stronger than the desire to separate,” he lounge. The new dorms have little “Before 1966 Nigeria had a federal adds. “None of the Nigerian states can self-contained cubicles where you could system of government similar to the afford to be separate. They would not live all quarter without getting to know system in the United States. As a result have the economic and political strength the person next door.” of the civil war in Biafra the federal to survive.” Janine admits that there may still be constitution was suspended and a Whatever long range plans Inyang some sense of community at Fairhaven /nllitary government took over.” will make for his future will come after that she Is not aware of, because she has Inyang says the civilian government he has been home for a while. “I will been living off campus and taking many failed because of a combination of probably go into the civil service or of her classes in Western’s College of factors, including ethnic pluralism, poor teaching,” he says, “but what I need Arts and Sciences, where she Is majoring leadership and the rising expectations of most right now Is a rest.” in social studies education. She also the people in terms of economic growth concedes her impressions may ,be and social services—expectations with colored by a certain nostalgia for the which the country’s economic and political development could not keep high enthusiasm and esprit de corps of In Memoriam the first year. pace. “When any of us who were here that He believes Nigeria can build a '19 CORA WILSON VALDADOA, in first year get together again, it pretty successful democratic system if the Silvana, Wash. often happens that we start talking people can do away with parochial '21 RAYMOND PREVOST, February 2, about the good old days at Edens,” she values. “We need federal nationalism in Everett. '26 VITA McKIDDY, In says. rather than ethnic or regional '31 BASIL ADAMS, April 27, In One thing that hasn’t changed at nationalism,” he says. “We will also Olympia. Fairhaven since Janine arrived is the have to accept a structural modification Unclassified HARRY VAN GILDER, in standard of academic performance. that divides Nigeria into many states, so Lake Placid, Fla. ... HARRY M. STROUD, Some critics of the cluster college have its many ethnic groups can be both in Blaine.

5 Cluster college (Continued from page 3)

to fill a growing need in business, industry and public affairs for people with a broad knowledge of environ mental issues. “We haven’t reached our full enrollment yet,’’ says Dr. Miller. “Next year we expect to have 200-plus students.’’ Huxley students all take a series of core courses designed to give them a common background of environmental concepts. They also participate in seminars each quarter on some topic that brings together students and faculty from different subject concen trations. Many of the Huxley College seminars involve people from industry, government and the local community. Huxley also requires students to enroll in “problem series’’ courses, in which they undertake a project related to some environmental issue with the advice and assistance of a faculty tutor. “We are a problem-oriented college, and our students need to be involved in a Fairhaven campus practical way with some of the real earn a certain number of credits In the environmental problems in the requirement for on-campus residence. humanities, sciences, social sciences and community,’’ Dr. Miller explains. “There is no point in keeping a rule composition, plus elective seminars and Students may earn problem series we can’t enforce,’’ he says. “A lot of independent study. The Fairhaven credit through library or laboratory our students just don’t want to live on faculty represent most of the liberal arts research by working with state, local or campus.’’ Dr. Freeman sees a contra disciplines, so the range of course offer campus organizations on environmental diction between Fairhaven’s philosophy ings in any given quarter encompasses issues, or by forming investigating teams of fostering a maximum of individual all of the academic area requirements. to work on a joint project. This spring responsibility and at the same time quarter, for example, 14 Huxley In practice, most Fairhaven students requiring the students to live in a certain students worked on shoreline inven spend their first two college years taking place. tories being prepared by the Bellingham Fairhaven classes and then declare a The idea of a living and learning and Whatcom County Planning Com major in The College of Arts and community Is still alive at Fairhaven, missions. Sciences. A few have declared majors in however, and in the coming few years The student team collected In the other cluster colleges. the college will likely be caught up in a formation on shoreline landforms, Beyond that general definition, it is search for a more viable kind of com dominant plant and animal species, and difficult to say what Fairhaven is at this munity. “We don’t want to force any the amount of shoreline devoted to point in time. The college is In a one to live here, but we can try to make various uses. The data will be incor transitional period. this a place where people want to live,’’ porated into comprehensive shoreline In a sense change is a built-in feature Dr. Freeman says. plans to be prepared by the city and of Fairhaven because of its flexible Fairhaven is exploring ways to county. program and freedom from conven diversify the college community in tional requirements, but there is also a order to provide the varied experiences Fairhaven College more fundamental shift going on. and contacts with different people that Involving a breakdown of the original attract students to off-campus living. A Fairhaven College, unlike Huxley and concept of a residential living and learn community of people between the ages Ethnic Studies, was built around an ing community. of 18 and 22 is a “youth ghetto’’ says educational philosophy rather than a Fairhaven’s original planners Dr. Freeman, and students today do not field of knowledge. envisioned a school in which the ex want to be Insulated from the outside In place of such traditional institu perience of living and studying together world in such a ghetto. tional trappings as required classes, would remove the artificial barrier Some possibilities for integrating the established curricula and letter grades, between “school’’ and “real life,’’ in ghetto Include recruiting more students Fairhaven emphasizes close cooperation which the process of education would over age 25 and converting some of between faculty and students. Fairhaven not be compartmentalized within the Fairhaven’s dorm space to use as students are selected for their potential hours actually devoted to classes. The housing for retired people. ability to assume a great deal of respon design of Fairhaven’s campus reflects “We usually define education as sibility for their own educations, that plan: an academic-administration preparation for life, but I see it as because the students and faculty building plus 12 student residences having to do with the quality of life,’’ together develop, quarter by quarter, a around a courtyard. Dr. Freeman says. “I’d like to see more schedule of classes, seminars and It hasn’t worked out that way. This emphasis on learning as something that projects. spring Dr. Kenneth Freeman, dean of goes on everywhere, throughout life, Although there are no specific course Fairhaven, asked Western’s Board of and not just in certain times and requirements, Fairhaven students must Trustees to repeal the cluster college’s places.’’

6 Green River CC honors Lindbloom AWS casualty Dr. Melvin Lindbloom, a 1950 football team, a member of the baseball of changing graduate of Western, was recently team and he served as president of W honored for his role in establishing and Club, the athletic lettermen’s guiding the destiny of Green River organization at that time. times at WWSC Community College in Auburn when Lindbloom earned a master of the college dedicated its new Lindbloom By KAREN PLACE education degree from Western, a Student Center. He has been president Staff Writer of GRCC since it opened, seven years superintendent’s credential from the ago. Until this year, all women who When Lindbloom came to Auburn in enrolled at Western automatically 1962 as assistant superintendent of the became members of Associated Women Auburn School District, one of his Students. At the close of the 1970-71 major tasks was to push for a academic year, AWS was laid to rest community college in the area. When following a period of poor health—a Green River Cofnmunity College casualty of the changing times. became a reality Lindbloom became its A clue to the organization’s demise president; as the community colleges can be found in an AWS Handbook of a became part of the state higher few years back. The handbook advises a education system in 1967, he assumed girl to maintain a harmonious an active leadership role at the state relationship with her roommate “until level. the right Mr. Junior Executive whisks Lindbloom is a past chairman of the you off in his white Mercedes.’’ state Council of Community College You just don’t say things like that to Presidents and is currently serving a a female college student these days. second term on the Council on Higher Another clue is that the bulk of the Education as the governor’s appointee handbook is a list of rules on housing, from the community college system. He dress and closing hours for is also a member of the Commission on dormitories—rules which applied only to Administration of the American women and not to Western’s male Association of Junior Colleges. Lindbloom students. “I’m quite sure we couldn’t While he attended Western, University of Washington and the have restrictions like that nowadays Lindbloom was listed in “Who’s Who in doctor of education degree from without inviting a lawsuit by the American Colleges and Universities,’’ a Washington State. He is the father of ACLU,’’ says Mary Robinson, associate^ directory of students chosen for two daughters, Anne, now a student at dean of students. “Discrimination on scholarship and leadership in campus Western, and Lisa, who attends Auburn the basis of sex is illegal.’’ activities. He was captain of the Viking High School. The AWS Standards Board, which published and enforced Western’s for-women-only^ regulations, had been one of the most important functions of the Associated Women Students. The Standards Board lost its reason for being when the college repealed its discriminatory regulations in 1969. Many of the other AWS activities languished as campus social life and extracurricular activities began to reflect students’ changing tastes. There would be very little interest nowadays in the teas, fashion shows and tolos that used to fill the AWS calendar. (A tolo Is a formal or semi-formal dance to which the girls invite the boys.) “The AWS had its last tolo during the 1969-70 school year,’’ Mary Robinson says. “They had planned It to raise a little money, but barely broke even. There hasn’t been one since. That’s unfortunate for the students who still like to get dressed up.’’ If teas and tolos are out, what does Interest Western’s women students today? In the spring of 1971 the Women’s Commission, successor to AWS, was established as a rather loose confederation of campus organizations COMPOSER—Michael Baker (seated), Vancouver, B.C., who earned a master’s degree in music in reflecting women’s concerns and June, is seen here with his professor. Dr. Edwin La Bounty. Baker, a composer, will work with Dr. Interests. Women’s Commission has Malcolm Arnold this summer at Shawnigan Lake Summer School on Vancouver Island. He has been commissioned to compose chamber music for a Yakima program. (Continued on back page)

1 '60 ROLAND QUINN, a sixth grade completed work on an M.A. degree in speech Roll Call band instructor in Shelton, was recently and rhetoric there . . . JANICE IVERSON and named "Teacher of the Month." John Bares were married on June 3 in Gig Harbor where they are now making their '62 KEITH KINGSBURY, assistant home. '23 NYLEPTHA GRANGER FORD, basketball coach at Edmonds Community who retired from teaching in 1967, spends her College, has been named head coach at that '70 Susan Leonard and JOHN time working with driftwood art. school. CRAWLEY were married June 4 in Marysville. He is employed as a counselor for '29 BETTY GRANGER, a remedial '65 DON HUSTON has been hired to the Department of Social and Health Services reading teacher, was named "Teacher of the coach basketball and baseball at Peninsula at Indian Ridge . . . BARBARA LEE and Year" by the Port Townsend Education Community College. Jerold Jacobsen were married last April and Association. are living in Marysville . . . JOHN DONOVAN, '68 DON EILER has completed work on a business agent of Teamsters Local 38 in '51 EVERETT BUNDT was recently a B.S. degree in business and economics at Everett, has been appointed to the board of honored as a retiring teacher after 30 years Pacific University in Forest Grove, Ore., and trustees for Community College District No. 5 with the Arlington School District. his wife JUDITH RAUB EILER has . . . SHERAN FIEDLER has been admitted to graduate studies in music at Northwestern University . . . CAROLE LARSEN and RAYMOND LE GRAE ('72) were married AWS June 10 and are working in Kodiak this (Continued from page 7) summer. sponsored such projects as a calendar Steering Committee, composed of '71 LYNN SKUZA has completed a noting important dates and events students and faculty members, 20-week helicopter pilot course at the U.S. having to do with women in history and successfully petitioned the college to Army primary helicopter school at Ft. featuring artwork by women. adopt a minor in women’s studies as a Wolters, Texas. Women students have been pilot project next year. The proposal promoting the passage of the equal calls for a core of three required courses rights amendment to the U.S. in sociology, psychology and literature Constitution. Still others, both men and plus electives from courses already Unclassified women, have set up a cooperative offered at Western. The women’s studies day-care center on campus for children minor will emphasize self-knowledge EMIT BOYD has accepted a position as of Western students. superintendent of the Wahkiakum School and an understanding of women’s social District in Cathlamet . . . GREGORY PAUS is Last fall there was a week-long role. the new assistant superintendent of symposium on women on campus with Western’s female students are still as instruction for the Kent School District . . . an exhibit of arts and crafts by women Interested as ever in their male RUSSELL E. CLARK, chairman of the and several speakers and panel counterparts, but they have other things math-science division at Tacoma Community College, has been selected to appear in the discussions. on their minds besides Mr. junior 1972 edition of Outstanding Educators in This spring a Women’s Studies Executive in his white Mercedes. America.

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