A View from the Hill; a History of Humboldt State University

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A View from the Hill

A View from the Hill A History of Humboldt State University

by William R. Tanner, PhD

published by University Graphic Services, Humboldt State University, Areata, California 1993

Genesis Appendices

I 1911-14 1 A Humboldt State Chronology 1 35 A Beginning ... & Almost an End B Major Gifts Since 1985 145 II C HSC Improvement Association 146 1914-21 9 D HSC Advisory Board 146 Roaring Through the 20s E Academic Senate Chair 147 III F Faculty Officers 147 1922-30 21 G Scholar of the Year 148 The Depression Years IV H Outstanding Professor 148 the 1930s 37 I Alumni Who's Who 148 Alumni Association Presidents 149 The War Years J V K Homecoming Royalty 149 1939-46 47 L Student Body Presidents 150 M Lumberjack Editors 150 Peacetime Invasion VI N Athletics Hall of Fame 151 1946-53 59 O Coaching Records 152

Changing Times: Bibliography 155 VII Korea through Kennedy Photo Credits 159 1953-63 71 Index 163 Growing Pains in the Age of Aquarius VIII 1964-73 87

No Cinderella Story IX 1974-87 103

The Spirit Continues X 1987-93 121 This history of Humboldt State

University is dedicated to the memory of "Mr. Humboldt," Homer P. Balabanis (1897-1991). From 1923 until his death, he served this university as faculty member, administrator, and booster of "the Humboldt Spirit." Foreword

This volume is not meant to be a comprehensive Erich Schimps, Lincoln Kilian, and other personnel in the institutional history. Rather, it is an attempt to record a Humboldt Room of the university library. social memory for former students, faculty, staff, and Thanks to Simpson Paper Company for their donation of administrators. Thus the reader will discover an emphasis the cover stock and part of the text paper. Thanks also to on the people of Humboldt State. Brizard Company, Simpson Timber Company and Areata

The creation of this volume was a collective effort. Redwood Company for their financial support in the

Associations and conversations with Homer P. Balabanis production of this book. inspired the book. President Alistair McCrone encouraged Finally, most credit for the making of this book goes to it. A university sabbatical leave of one semester provided Kathleen Heil and her staff in University Graphic Services. the necessary time for most of the research. She and Dar Spain, with assistance from Erich Schimps,

Many people provided information and some provided selected photographs and created an attractive design for photographs, including Gladys Burritt, Connie Carlson, this volume. Jim Toms assisted Dar Spain in making prints

Jean Falor, James Gast, Mary Greta, Paul Hendrickson, of all the photos. Tim Sims, assisted by Julie Steiner,

Vern Henricks, Gayle Karshner, June McCartney, Dan edited and rearranged parts of the manuscript and wrote

Pambianco, Dana Rice, Virginia Rumble, Howard some of the special features for publication.

Seemann, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sorenson, Helen Stover, Without all these people, we would not have a published Bill Sullivan, Tom Trepiak, and Edward Webb. Several history of this institution. students helped with research and conducted oral interviews. Among them were Jeanie Allard, Edie Butler, The reader may find mistakes or may be disappointed by

Joe Coohill, Clark Hatch, and Chris Hopkins. At various the omission of a name, a story, or an event associated stages, portions of the manuscript were typed by Linda with his or her own experiences at Humboldt State. For

Hall-Martin, Judy Kirsch, Kathy Mayer, and Delores that, we apologize. Those names, stories, and events

McBroome. mentioned in this little volume are meant only to be

representative of the larger experience of Humboldt Those who read parts or all of the manuscript, correcting since 1913. Future revisions of this history can correct errors and making suggestions, were Milton Dobkin, Patsy any omissions. Givins, John Hennessy, Gayle Karshner, Alistair McCrone, William R. Tanner and Rod Sievers. Many thanks to all of these, as well as to Professor of History

The effort to establish Humboldt Nor- The committee brought forward many arguments to sway mal School was fraught with uncertain- legislators. Foremost were the area's isolation and the long ty and controversy. Three hundred distance from a teacher-training institution (Southern miles from San Francisco, this area was Oregon Normal in Ashland was closest — 200 miles away). mainly rural during the first decade of Most passenger traffic in and out of Humboldt County the 20th century. The founding of a college on this isolated came by water. The Northwest Pacific Railroad was coming coast presented a number of challenges: limited transporta- from the south, but not until 1914 would Fort Seward resi- tion, lack of facilities, few faculty available, and distance dents witness the driving of the final spike in the line con- from the seat of state government, to name but a few. necting Sausalito and Eureka. The Areata & Mad River The normal first opened its doors in the spring of 1914, in Railroad could bring students from Korbel and Blue Lake. facilities leased from the Areata Grammar School. Probably From Crescent City, however, they had to wait up to six no one of that era envisioned a thriving university such as hours for high tide to make the Klamath River navigable by would exist eight decades later. In those early years, sur- ferry, then progress slowly southward by car or (more like- vival was enough of a concern. ly) horse-drawn wagon. Prior to 1914, only one poor dirt road, the Humboldt and Mendocino Wagon Road, served A national wave of social progressivism had prepared (p 2) these travelers. Roads to Redding stood unimproved. the way. Education had become a national priority around the turn of the century, accenting the need for more, and Sixty-five percent of the teachers in the area were not certi- better trained, schoolteachers. Locally, Humboldt's normal fied. Without a North Coast normal school, they, and any school (a normal trained elementary teachers, primarily) future teachers, would have to bear the expense of attend- owed its existence to months of arduous preparation. Poli- ing school in Oregon or San Francisco. Humboldt County tical maneuvering dominated the effort: in particular, a also shared in the statewide shortage of qualified teachers contest between the cities of Eureka and Areata over the due to increased public school attendance. A 191 1 state school's location. assembly decision to distribute funds according to average daily attendance had had the effect of a compulsory school attendance law. The Politics of a New School The Eureka normal committee mounted these and other Eureka's chamber of commerce apparently made the first arguments. With some reluctance, they left out of their move toward establishing a normal school in Humboldt proposals the controversial matter of a site for the normal County. In late 1911, Eureka appointed a committee school in order to enlist support from other communities. A comprised of George Burchard, Charles Stern, and E.A. new agency, the Federated Commercial Bodies of Humboldt Leach, to mount public support and make overtures to County, headed by Eurekan William Cook, joined the com- Sacramento. Burchard later moved to Areata and headed a mittee in seeking countywide support. chamber of commerce effort to locate the normal school there. Stern was later appointed by Governor Johnson to the In December, 1912, State Senator William Kehoe and newly created state board of education, where he served as Assemblyman Hans Nelson introduced legislation to an important spokesperson for the North Coast. establish a Humboldt County normal school. Rumor has it that the governor was unenthusiastic, but a local Republi- I he foundingof Humboldt The reforms that began California had lived un-

State coincided with an ex- in the cities in the 1 890s, der the thumb of the pow-

citing era of reform, the soon spread to state poli- erful Southern Pacific

Progressive Movement tics and eventually found Railroad, which con- Progressive (roughly 1897-1917), leadership in the admin- trolled the workings of Education which brought education istrations of two presi- government so as to keep researched by dents, the author to new prominence on the Theodore Roose- competitive railroads and national agenda. The Pro- velt and Woodrow Wil- shipping lines from mov-

gressives sought to allevi- son. Reformers regulated ing into the state. But

ate the negative conse- public utilities and big when progressive Repub-

quences of industrialism. business, created safety licans (those breaking

They wanted a nation eco- and sanitation laws, from GOP ranks), and

nomically equitable and fought state and city po- Democrats sent Hiram

socially just with in- litical bosses, and Johnson and other re-

creased political partici- pushed through legisla- formers to Sacramento,

pation by the masses. For tion on women's suffrage, the assembly put into ef-

all of this, education was prohibition, and com- fect many of the afore-

key. Historian Lawrence pulsory school atten- mentioned reforms (in-

Cremin defined progres- dance. cluding regulation of the

sive education as railroads). California experienced

part of a vast humanitar- this reform under the The reform atmosphere

ian effort to apply the principal leadership of created a more receptive

promise of American life Governor Hiram Johnson environment for propos-

— the ideal ofgovernment (later U.S. senator and als to establish new nor-

by, of, and for the people sidekick to President mal schools. (Fresno State

— to the puzzling new ur- Teddy Roosevelt). For a Normal was established

ban industrial civilization quarter century prior to in 1911; Humboldt State

... a many-sided effort to Johnson's governorship, Normal in 1913.)

use schools to improve the

lives of individuals. can politico and friend of provided they could ob- the governor, Ralph Waldo tain a two-year lease, free Bull, lobbied vigorously for of charge, for a suitable passage. Governor Johnson building. The board met signed the law on June 1 6, on November 6, 1913, 1913, establishing "Hum- and determined that the boldt State Normal School, school would open the for the training and edu- following January. Board cation of teachers and oth- secretary Charlotte Gale ers in the art of instructing sent letters to the Areata, and governing the public Eureka, and Fortuna schools of this state." chambers of commerce notifying them of a also appointed Johnson a November 13 meeting local board of trustees and accepting proposals for empowered them to hire the location of the school. The letter read, in part: and fire employees, and to establish admission and curriculum standards. The board reported once a year to the state Those wishing to secure the location must, ac- superintendent of instruction. Local members included cording to the law, bring a two-year lease of William Cook, Henry Bridges, and Charlotte Gale, all of suitable rooms or building, free of charge, for Eureka; Rease Wiley of Areata; and Edward Haight of the housing of said school. Fortuna. The governor and state superintendent served as The Areata Chamber of Commerce, led by J.F. Benton, Wil- ex officio members. liam Preston, W.W. Stone, J.J. Krohn, Henry Brizard, and former Eurekan George Burchard, produced a convincing The Feud: Eureka vs. Areata written proposal. They garnered pledges totaling $12,000 from residents in Areata and as far north as Trinidad. They Thus was achieved stage one of the ultimate goal. The sec- also acquired a two-year lease on the Areata Grammar ond stage, however, would prove more difficult: choosing a School, the cooperation and use of faculty and facilities at location for the school. Areata High School, use of twenty acres of land for agricultural experiments, rooms in local residences to house as Eureka, the county seat, seemed the logical place. It was many as 100 students, and a twelve-and-a-half acre site centrally located and had the largest population in the belonging to William Preston. county (1 1,845). It could offer more facilities for the school and for student housing. Furthermore, the Northwestern They presented this offer to the trustees on November 13. Pacific Railroad would soon reach Eureka, providing trans- The Eureka and Fortuna proposals, presented orally, were portation by land from the south. Since three of five board not as appealing nor as firm. Fortuna offered twenty acres members lived in Eureka, few doubted the location would of land and use of a five-room building. Eureka offered use be there. But while Eurekans assumed they would get the of the Winship building the following July and an indefinite normal school, Arcatans were not conceding anything. sum of money.

Legislation establishing the normal school authorized the To the consternation of her fellow Eurekans, trustee Char- local board to select a site and provide buildings. The state lotte Gale joined Rease Wiley of Areata and Edward Haight assembly had appropriated $10,000 to fund the school, of Fortuna in accepting the Areata proposal (a 3-2 vote). They set January 5, 1914, as the opening day and ap- instance, was a friend of Governor Johnson. Alexander pointed Nelson Blieau Van Matre, then superintendent of Brizard, father of Arcatan Henry Brizard, was a close associ- Eureka public schools, as president of the normal school. ate of Areata native, P.E. Bowles, a University of California regent in Oakland whose daughter married the governor's William Cook and the Eurekans fought back. They chal- son. So it's possible that Governor Johnson could have been lenged the legality of the board's decision on the basis swayed by the Areata connections. that two board members had not been invited, namely, Governor Johnson and Superintendent Edward Hyatt. (Both were in Sacramento and probably unaware of the Reconciliation meeting.) An appeal to the state attorney general resulted in the November 13 meeting being declared invalid, thus Shortly after that February meeting, in reply to a Union negating the decision in favor of Areata. editorial asking Eureka and Areata to "bury the hatchet," the Humboldt Standard affirmed: After informing the governor and superintendent, three other meetings were scheduled for late November and The Standard is pleased to say to the Union and early December. Eurekans busily drew up a more formal Arcatans generally that there is no hatchet to bury. Eureka to written proposal to present at these meetings. The gover- wants the Normal School be a

success . . . Forget the contest and go to work nor and superintendent still could not attend. Areata supporters Wiley and Haight boycotted the meetings on the making the institution a power. Eureka is with presumption that Charlotte Gale would now join her Eure- you. kan colleagues in reversing the earlier decision. Go to work they did. It had taken nearly eight months to A period of bitterness between the two communities en- decide where to locate the school. It would take only two sued. (These communities had been feuding since 1854 months to make it operable. over the series of disputed elections that determined the In early March, Van Matre assumed the presidency and pre- Humboldt County seat.) Editorial battles raged between sented the trustees with acceptable standards for a course of the Humboldt Standard and the Areata Union. The former study. Shortly thereafter, the board issued the first bulletin argued Eureka was the logical place for the normal school. for use by prospective students. The board also made plans The latter maintained Areata had made a legitimate offer for the state's $10,000 and called in the $12,000 in pledges which had been accepted and should not be rescinded. made earlier. As the bickering went on, Wiley and Haight arranged a That first budget for Humboldt State Normal School was February 4 board meeting in Sacramento with Superinten- $17,248. Salaries commanded $10,000, and $3,291 went dent Hyatt and Governor Johnson attending. At that meet- toward constructing an additional building on the grounds ing, Cook and Bridges voted again to rescind the Areata of the grammar school, located on 1 1th and M Streets (now location. Charlotte Gale, who had indeed felt the wrath of the site of Copeland Lumber). The remainder went toward many Eurekans, now switched her vote. The board as a library books, equipment, and labor. whole, however, voted 4-3 to reaffirm the November 13 decision in favor of Areata. The railroads cooperated by arranging schedules so commuters from the Eel River valley (as far away as Scotia) could Perhaps Areata had more than just its offer to recommend make classes and be home for supper. it. Former HSU faculty members Homer Balabanis and Hy- man Palais conjectured that Arcata's political clout in Sac- Humboldt State was to be operable April 6, 1914. ramento influenced the decision. Arcatan Ralph Bull, for

I n 1 850, Union (later Ar- ing railroad in California. Like Humboldt County's lim-

eata) was the major jump- Freight and passengers ited road system, the rails went

off point for the trails to rode four-wheel carts into and out of the mountains,

the gold mines. By 1 856 a pulled by draft horses. The but no line actually went out Transportation major trail crossed Bald wharf, the longest in the of the area. Most goods and and Isolation Mountain to Orleans and country, ran from the site passengers came and went by sources: the Hoopa Valley, and of today's Areata Post Of- ship. Sea passage was slow, The Humboldt Bay Region, 7850-7875, wagon roads reached as fice to a point two miles occasionally dangerous, and by Owen C. Coy; far inland as Weaverville. out into the bay. impossible to schedule with "California Redwood Empire Place Names," any accuracy. Finally in 1914 by Lynwood Carranco Not until 1867 would a This Areata & Mad River and Andrew Cenzoli; the combined efforts of the daily stage connect Areata Railroad soon expanded to The Redwood Country, Santa Fe and Southern Pacific edited by Lynwood and Eureka. Water travel carry the burgeoning tim- Carranco produced a railroad line from was quicker. In 1869, a ber industry's redwood in Sausalito to Eureka. The North- poorly maintained Mattole from the hills. The Black western Pacific Railroad Road connected Petrolia and Diamond became the would be the last major rail Eureka. A new road in 1 875 line's first steam locomo- line built in the country. connected Humboldt Bay tive in 1875.

with Mendocino.

Meanwhile, in 1855 Union had opened a nar-

row-gauge railroad on a

long wooden trestle. It

crossed the muddy shal- lows separating the town from navigable waters.

This was the first operat-

View north across Humboldt Bay to the Areata Wharf.

I he name of the Ger- wrote, "of describing in His New World expedi-

man baron, Alexander one and the same work tion included a trek

von Humboldt (1769- the whole material world through Venezuelan jun-

1859), is affixed to a uni- — all that we know today gles and mountains — an Alexander versity in Berlin, moun- of celestial bodies and of experience that would von Humboldt tains on four continents, life upon the earth —from shed light on his world's

a glacier in Greenland, a the nebular stars to the concepts of geology, ge-

river in Nevada, bays in mosses on the granite ography, biology, and

California and Colombia, rocks." Thus he began his ecology. He also docu-

a South Pacific current, final work, the volumi- mented the oppressive

and a "sea" on the dark nous Kosmos. treatment of Indian slaves 1 H side of the moon. Many under Spanish rule, which r It was precisely that driv- have been the scientists led Simon Bolivar to call i ing curiosity, that desire to V. and explorers to fall un- him "the discoverer of the observe and catalog every- der the spell of the great New World [whose stud- thing, that led Humboldt to 'j man's intellect, including ies] have done more good transform Old World per- members of the 1850 than all the Conquista- W ceptions and becomeone of Laura Virginia expedition dors put together." W 1 the most celebrated scien- who paid their tribute in f tists of his day. Darwin the naming of Humboldt called him "the greatest \ Bay. scientific traveler that J J^^. . ^ "I have an extravagant ever lived." Wm&^ \ idea," Humboldt once

8 A Beginning

... & Almost an End President Van Matre ing day of school. By early May the school had 63 women and 15 men. (All forty-eight states would have compulsory 1914-21 Nelson Blieau Van Matre (1873-1956), education statutes by 1918, so already there was a grow- became the first president of Humboldt ing need for school teachers.) State Normal School in March, 1914. Van Matre had attended Dixon College, Northern Illinois Sarah Davies, author of an early history of Humboldt College of Law, and the University of Chicago, where he State, characterized the admission requirements as judg- earned a doctorate in education. (Chicago, a center for mental. Students had to be at least 16 years of age, "rea- progressive education, had pioneered the laboratory school sonably mature, [having] good health, and a good moral for teacher training in the 1890s.) Van Matre supervised character." They were, after all, training to become teach- and taught in elementary and secondary schools ers of young children. in the Midwest and California for some 15 years, They chose from four programs: then superintended Eureka city schools for a year,

before becoming president of HSNS. He and his 1) a one-year course for experienced teachers, wife moved to Areata to a home still standing on 2) a two-year course for high school graduates, the corner of 10th and I streets. He busied himself immediately with establishing curriculum, recruit- 3) a three-year course for students with two or ing students, and choosing faculty for the opening three years of high school, or of school in April. 4) a four-year course for grammar school Small Beginnings graduates.

By mid-April HSNS operated a grammar school Van Matre worked with a $ 1 7,000 budget that first for five grades. Under the supervision of Eliza- year. (By comparison, the 1992-93 HSU budget beth Rogers, who had performed similar duties exceeded $52 million.) The normal's main build- in Chico and San Diego, HSNS students taught ing, Areata Grammar School, along the railroad tracks at reading, math, grammar, history, and geography to 1 lth and M streets, was "a rather drab and austere two- elementary school children. story frame edifice," in the words of historian Hyman

Palais. Besides offices, it a housed gymnasium, manual Three other faculty members joined Rogers for the first training room, domestic science room, and library. HSNS session: A.J. Davis, who had been president of two normal soon added a temporary building for assemblies. schools in the East; Walter Clayton, a former school district superintendent from Nevada; and Emma Woodman, teach- Student housing in small-town Areata presented a chal- er of manual training, domestic science, and art. Salaries lenge. Brousse Brizard's Normal Home-Finding Committee were $1,800 for men and $1,200 for women. President Van found local homes where students could purchase room Matre's annual salary was $3,200. and board.

Despite all obstacles, 62 students showed up for the open- Progressive Education With such a comprehensive curriculum, the 1915 catalog could claim that HSNS had everything an up-to-date Progressive education reforms (p 2) heavily influenced the normal school needed to train first-rate teachers. philosophy and curriculum of Humboldt State Normal School in its infancy. The nation's transition from an By 1919 vocational training (in agriculture, horticulture, essentially rural agrarian state to urban industrialism had domestic science, manual training, and music) was re- set education and political reformers to thinking about the quired of all students. Those courses were considered both inadequacies of the nation's schools. From centers such as utilitarian and educational. Katherine Asher was brought Columbia University in New York, the University of Chica- in from Areata High School to teach another utilitarian go, and Stanford University came the thinking that public course, physical education. schools should assume the instructional role once filled by agrarian living. Student Life

Thus vocational training rather than classical studies re- For the HSNS student in those early days, room and board ceived increasing emphasis. Manual training and domestic ran $20-27 per month. Two years' books cost $20-25. science, with a community orientation, formed the core of school curricula nationwide. An official report of the Na- Campus life involved far more than books and lectures, tional Education Association listed seven objectives of however. Students quickly established extracurricular education: secondary activities. For instance, the 1915 catalog said HSNS would the promotion of health, command of funda- encourage "clean, wholesome athletics among both the mental processes, worthy home membership, young men and young women." Gym classes included vocation, citizenship, worthy use of leisure, and dancing, gymnastics, calisthenics, and various playground ethical character. games geared toward elementary school teachers of physical education and health education. In effect, public schools took on the socialization and moral — training of youth on behalf of society at large. Many of the men engaged in long distance running several miles out Alliance Road and back — which may The curriculum and philosophy of Humboldt State Normal have had a hand in Humboldt's strong cross-country would vary little from these trends. HSNS was only one of running tradition. many normal schools established to train rural elementary school teachers. Students also competed in intramural basketball, baseball, and track. The 1915 physical education class divided into Humboldt's faculty offered the following courses: two teams and ran races on the gravel in front of the school. The domestic science class served a meal to the agriculture; American literature; arithmetic winners. Women dominated these sports, especially after methods; bookkeeping methods; domestic America entered the war in April, 1917. science; drawing; general science; geography

methods; history methods; history of education; Humboldt played its first football game, of sorts, against manual training; music pedagogy; penmanship Fortuna High School, and lost by an overwhelming margin. and spelling methods; physical culture; psy- Former coach Joseph Forbes, in his history of Humboldt chology; reading and composition methods; athletics, noted that "all male students were shanghaied" teaching. to provide enough members for the football team.

10 I o effectively train teachers so that the results of the training can be measured in terms of efficiency in school work, it is necessary to place particular emphasis upon four phases of the training.

1. A careful content review of all the subjects taught in the Elementary Schools.

2. Thorough and adaptable courses in Educational Psychology, Pedagogy, The Humboldt Methods of Teaching, and School Management. State Normal 3. Complete and comprehensive vocational courses. They should be given School in such a manner that the information and knowledge gained can be applied direct- ly by the teacher for the betterment, contentment, and upbuilding of the commu- from a 1916 nity in which she resides. recruiting brochure 4. A very careful and systematic study of the workings of a school system. This, together with constant observation and the greatest possible amount of successful practice teaching in a well-organized training school, constitutes an important part of the course.

If you are interested in becoming a well-prepared, thorough, and efficient teacher, you can secure a training in the Humboldt State Normal School which will guaran- tee this result.

A very carefully planned course of study with full information concerning the school and its ideals is now ready for distribution.

With the enlarged faculty and the additional buildings and equipment, accommodations are provided for one hundred more students for the year, beginning August 2, 1916. Applications will be considered in the order in which they are received. Any application blank may be used.

Application Blanks and Course of Study can be secured by addressing President N.B. Van Matre, Areata, California.

11 a e r~ 1 •41 c* ^p 1

Humboldt State r Normal in its infancy: the "shanghaied" football team; advanced orchestra, 1916; and (opposite page)

• classes in manual training, folk dancing and sa ^ j,, '-..- agriculture. t

>,- 13 The student body elected its first offi- Gale, daughter of trustee Charlotte cers in April of 1914: Leslie Graham, Gale. The graduates were now qual- president; Joseph Crawford, vice presi- ified to teach elementary school. dent; Rhea Sage, secretary; Chester Carlson, treasurer. Loftus Gray served "Pop" Jenkins as athletic manager.

In the fine arts, students participated As the curriculum and student body in the lyceum (sponsoring public en- expanded, so did the number of fac- tertainment), operas, chorale, glee club, ulty. One new faculty member stands orchestra, and dramatics. out: Horace "Pop" Jenkins, teacher of manual training for 38 years. The curtain rose on the school's first play. Her Own Way, December 3, 1914. Some consider Jenkins the father of Proceeds went to the Belgian Relief Humboldt's industrial arts program Fund in war-torn Europe. That per- (though Emma Woodman actually formance, and many to follow, took preceded him in teaching it). Much of place at the Minor Theatre. Such per- Pop Jenkins' influence came outside formances served as a bridge between the classroom. For years he was the school and the community. known and loved for his doughnut and bean feeds, for taffy pulls after Among drama, music, student gov- pep rallies and sporting events, and for his concern for ernment, and athletics — teacher training still remained the students. school's primary focus. President Van Matre stressed,

The course of study offered in the Humboldt A New Campus State Normal School will make the very best

teacher that it is possible to make out of those The growing school needed a new campus. Susie Baker who enter. Fountain called the grammar school site along the railroad tracks "irksome." As students moved through their probation for that profession, every aspect of their lives came under scrutiny. Whenever the trains switched tracks, or the Men wore blue serge suits and white shirts. Women could locomotives rumbled by, the building trembled

wear no colors. "The greatest possible attention is given to and all classes came to a halt because of the the moral condition of these homes and communities in noise. which the students live," said Van Matre. "Teaching school The opportunity to move came available after the fall of is and should be a very serious business." And so it was. 1914. William Preston and stockholders of the Union Water On May 26, 1915, the first graduating class participated in Company (directors: N.H. Falk, Len Yocum, Arthur Way, commencement ceremonies at the Minor Theatre. Fifteen and Kate Harpst) donated 51 acres of the hilltop east of women received certificates, including Susie Baker Foun- Areata as a permanent site for HSNS. This included the tain who, in December, 1914, became the first graduate. present university site as well as lands east and north of Arcatans in the class included Ana Averill Johnson, Grace today's campus. May Bloomer Christensen, Ruth Mill Foltz, and Alice Jane

14 The HSNS board of trustees accepted the gift and deter- Student teachers, busy all week with the training school, mined to construct temporary buildings on the Preston had to attend classes on Saturdays now. (Until 1919, stu- tract. The state provided $91,285 for the buildings, equip- dents had to practice teach seven different subjects to ment, and salaries. Construction began in June, 1915. seven different grades, for 70 weeks!)

With additional community influence, the state legislature appropriated $245,000 to construct the new administration building. On the day Governor William Stevens signed KJne Areata resident, Ana (Averell) Johnson, began her studies the bill, June 2, 1917, nearly every resident of Areata blew at the normal school in San Jose. She would travel there by some kind of whistle or siren to celebrate. The Areata Union reported a noise so impressive that some residents steamer (aboard the Corona, the Pomona, or the Elder). In 1914 thought the World War had ended. This was not the case, she transferred to the new Humboldt Normal School. By the unfortunately, and because of the war, construction of the permanent building would be delayed until 1920. spring of 1915, she had successfully completed the requirements to run a one-room schoolhouse. In anticipation ofgrad- The War — & Local Battles uation day, each classmate was allotted $4.50 in material to Against Declining Enrollment make her own graduation gown in domestic science class. On the third anniversary of the opening of Humboldt State Normal School, April 6, 1917, the U.S. entered World

from The Lumberjack, 1 988 War I. The war would make a considerable impact on the school, nearly causing its demise.

Temporary buildings were constructed of redwood, with HSNS enrollment, which reached a high of 159 in 1917, pine floors. They were heated individually with wood dropped to a low of 59 in 1920. Military service under- stoves. Built in a quadrangle of 30 rooms, they occupied standably caused a drastic decline in the male student the site of what would become Founders Hall. To the south population. Pop Jenkins complained of his manual arts stood the gymnasium and library. To the east was the class, "The workshop seems to produce nothing but hope training school. chests. Still no men enrolled at Humboldt." Only two men enrolled in the fall of 1918. By January of 1916 the buildings were ready. Movers made the sloshy trek from Areata Grammar School up the hill Other factors contributed to the declining enrollment. A during one of the rainiest periods in history. Recorded rain- 1917 state law stiffened entrance requirements. No student fall that January totaled 13.02 inches, nearly four inches could enter a normal school without a high school diplo- above the norm. ma, an 80 percent grade-point average, and a personal recommendation by her/his school principal. Hardly were the new buildings occupied before the president and others began appealing for a permanent building. Enrollment also declined as the teaching profession be- Van Matre reported that the number of students had grown came less attractive because of higher-paying wartime jobs considerably in the school's two years (from 78 to 156) and in business. A national teacher shortage between 1918 and that 381 students had now attended HSNS. He also report- 1921 suggests that low normal school enrollment occurred ed that demand for student teaching had increased with everywhere, not just at HSNS. the rising number of children attending the training school.

15 Economic hard times, which stretched across the nation in The efforts barely succeeded, however. In 1919, a reported

1920-21, helped continue the downward trend. And locally, 500 schools in California needed teachers. It was not until the fact that Humboldt State's costs for teacher training after 1921, however, that normal school enrollment were higher than the costs at sister institutions in Califor- increased significantly, but that was probably due more to nia ($291 per student at Santa Barbara, for example, com- a return of improved economic conditions. pared with $753 per student at HSNS) only compounded the enrollment problems. A New Name The state board of education considered retracting the money appropriated for the permanent building on the hilltop. They The 1917 law revising admission standards also changed called the establishment of the administrative structure of HSNS "a mistake." The in- state normal schools. Powers of tervention of Senator Hans the local trustees transferred to Nelson helped prevent the the state board of education. nearly fatal retraction. None- Normal school presidents could theless, the board's misgiv- attend state board meetings and ings held up the appropria- make requests, but the final word tion forthepermanentbuild- would now come from Sacramen- ing for nearly three years. to. This represented a nationwide trend to standardize and consoli- Meanwhile both school and date decision making in matters of community mounted strong curriculum, textbooks, and admis- efforts to recruit students. sion and graduation requirements. Extension courses by corre- spondence, introduced in The HSNS board of eight years (in- 1917, allowed teachers in the cluding R.H. Edwards and Anna field to gather units to qualify Porterfield who had joined original for a teaching certificate. members Edward Haight, H.J. Bridges, and Rease Wiley) dissolved HSNS Letter, the school cata- in 1921. log, recruited both for HSNS and for the teaching profes- That was the year California made sion in general. Between its normal schools into teachers col- 1917 and 1919 the Letter leges. San Jose, Chico, San Diego, featured specialty pictures San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Fres- and lesson plans to aid teach- no, and Humboldt became a new ers of geography, spelling, system: the California State Teach- and other courses. The catalog also touted the beauty of ers Colleges. Humboldt State Normal officially became Hum- Areata and the North Coast. boldt State Teachers College and Junior College. (Imagine spelling out HSTCJC across a letter sweater!) To show community support, civic organizations from Ar- eata and surrounding areas subscribed to a loan fund to Humboldt now offered a four-year teacher training course, assist HSNS students who needed financial aid. planting the seed for an eventual bachelor's degree in education. Humboldt also offered a two-year junior college program

16 that would transfer toward a B.A. at the University of Survival Summary California.

The school broadened its Worthwhile (and not-so- course offerings consid- worthwhile) endeavors erably. More and more, sometimes end almost Humboldt's courses were as soon as they've be- oriented toward subject- gun. There are no guar- matter general education. antees. The first seven Manual training, for in- years of Humboldt State stance, was no longer re- were significant if for no quired of every student. other reason than that Economics, biology, and the fledgling school other subjects took its surmounted a number of place. obstacles and survived.

Despite shaky beginnings (and even shakier facilities) at The Swimmin' Hole Areata Grammar School and up on the hilltop, despite a world war, despite institutional reorganization and eco- Athletics and physical education received a small boost in nomic hard times, Humboldt State entered the 20s with the postwar years. Workers began developing a leveled ath- bright prospects for its future. letic field in the canyon east of the temporary buildings on Symbolic of that spirit of optimism and endurance: con- the hilltop (present site of Redwood Bowl). struction had begun on the new administration building, Sometimes they worked on an athletic field. On other occa- the future Founders Hall. sions they developed that area with visions of a picnic and Some attribute Humboldt's survival into the 20s to the recreational area. Either way, most of the visible results leadership of President Van Matre or to the support and would have to wait until the 30s. dedication of faculty members and students. It was the A "swimmin' hole" splashed onto the scene in 1920. While outside community, however, that cemented the structure. an outdoor pool in a North Coast climate did little for stu- Citizens of Areata and outlying communities gave money, dent recruitment, William Preston had specified that a time, moral and political support to ensure the survival of swimming pool be built on the property he granted HSNS. their school. They pledged funds and facilities to get HSNS Workers constructed an eight-foot concrete wall to hold off the ground in 1913-14. They organized to find room back water from a stream above Jolly Giant Canyon just and board for students. Several donated land for a perma- north of today's Redwood Bowl. nent site. They established a loan fund for students. They According to Coach Joseph Forbes, lobbied in Sacramento to ensure support for the normal at the state level. Without such community support, HSNS This pool, fed by spring water from the stream, would have closed its doors before 1920. combined with the freezing temperature of the air, discouraged all but the most (fool)hardy.

17 tie's been described as "al- he and his class constructed a received the surprising news

most Christlike . . . the sweet- boat inside what is now Jenkins that Channing had gotten

est, gentlest man." Ruth Chap- Hall. They either built the married during the war. His

man, a student in the 20s, re- boat too big, or the architects English war bride came to

members, "Everybody loved designed the building too America and presented Pop

him, whether you were in his small because a concrete wall with his new grandson (see

A classes or not." Gayle Karshner had to be removed in order to photo). This was joyous news Tribute remembers him during the get the boat out. to a man so deserving — a to "Pop" World War II years as being man who, himself, had given Pop and his wife Anna were very sensitive to people's so much joy. blessed with two sons. One son, needs, especially those whose Channing, a reconnaissance loved ones had gone overseas. photographer over Normandy

A temporary shack thrown up in World War II, was killed

during World War I became the day before D-Day. Pop

Pop's Shop, the center for his got the news while on a cross-

industrial arts classes and, country train. Later he would

judging by many students' claim it was in that moment

memories, a makeshift kitch- that the Parkinson's disease

en where he often fed his stu- (which eventually crippled

dents. He had a large iron pot him) began invading his body.

like a witch's kettle with an After the war, however, Pop

open fire underneath. In and

after class, he cooked candy, soups, and beans which —

during the Depression — com-

prised the only hot meal of the HUMBOLDT STATE COLLEGE day for some students.

Pop Pop also taught toy-making Jenkins as a young man (left) and with his grandson, Channing, and pottery classes. One of his on the cover of a Humboldt friends remembers the time Hilarities program.

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Like most colleges, Humboldt State authorized construction of a cafeteria south of the main Teachers College experienced growth building. and prosperity in the years just also red tile roof the preceding the Great Depression. The 20s would see a new on main building (1925), a bookstore at its entrance (1923), and Enrollment, faculty, and curriculum land purchases for a future gymnasium and tennis courts. expanded. Extracurricular activities flourished. The physical layout of the campus improved. The 20s roared for Humboldt State. A Growing Enrollment

Humboldt coordinated its efforts to A Permanent Home recruit and retain students. The college catalog, Circular ofInfor- The early months of 1922 saw the mation, stressed the appeal of the campus' first permanent building natural environment: redwoods, completed atop Preston Ridge. It was lumber camps, the coastline, and called the Main Building or Adminis- "a succession of wonderful pano- tration Building until renamed ramas in which Humboldt Bay Founders Hall in 1959. holds the center of the picture." This structure housed classrooms, The school also used new summer faculty and administrative offices, a sessions in its recruiting spiel. library, and an auditorium. The east Both prospective teachers and wing served as the training school employed, noncertified teachers for elementary school teachers. could take advantage of Thirty-nine arches and doorways re- Humboldt's mild summer climate to earn elementary mained open air until 1 927. In her written account, historian teaching certificates and state credentials. To raise money Sarah Davies recalled, "Students found the permanent build- to advertise this fact, Humboldt students presented dra- ing much less comfortable before these arches were enclosed. matic performances of The Arrival of'Kitty in 1925. The When Humboldt joined the California State Teachers Col- play brought in a thousand dollars and, indirectly, a leges system in 1921, the local board lost its official status. number of new students. Before disbanding, however, the trustees and a group of Enrollment tripled during the decade, peaking at 372 in local businesspersons saw to it that the redwood quad- 1930. Men students, still a minority, constituted one third rangle of temporary buildings hastily erected in late 1915 of that total. Nearly three students in four came from the was put to good use. North Coast. Presidential secretary Martha Beer Roscoe witnessed the The physical act of arriving on campus — a city set upon a hill quadrangle's piece-by-piece transportation down the hill — seldom proved easy. Esma Catherine (Duck) Hunt, a 1924 for use in a 50-person dormitory on the site of present-day graduate, testified to the limited transportation facilities. Nelson Hall. Then, as one of their last acts, the trustees

"Four students had cars," she recalled. Her president, registrar, and treasurer in the daily commute from Eureka began "around the early years; Homer Balabanis, who arrived bay by train, to be met by a Model T at the siding in 1923 to teach French, economics, and at the foot of the hill for transporting up the sociology; Fred Telonicher, men's athletic grade." coach; Laura Herron, women's coach; Imogene Piatt, registrar, 1926; Leo Students needing a job obtained part-time em- Schussman, head of the department of ployment on campus. (Room and board for education; Maurice Hicklin, English and dormitory residents cost $24 per month in journalism professor; and Edward and 1 925. Registration and student body fees were Emily Graves, librarians.

$ 1 .50 and $5 , respectively.) At the other end of the educational process, a placement service helped graduates obtain teaching positions. End of the Van Matre Era

President Van Matre served until 1924, and was succeeded New Curriculum, New Faculty by Ralph Swetman. Van Matre is credited with helping Humboldt survive that first difficult and parsimonious The primary academic mission of the college remained decade. By the time he left, Humboldt was a permanent teacher training, but new secondary purposes accompanied fixture in the California State Teachers Colleges system. the transition to teachers college/junior college status. Homer Balabanis attributed the school's heavy stress on A Junior Certificate prepared high school graduates for fur- moral character to Van Matre. His was a noble, purposive ther education through two years of "federal foundation" vision for the teaching profession. By the strength of his courses which would transfer to the University of Califor- convictions, however, he wielded strong control over stu- nia. Humboldt State also offered more vocational training, dent and faculty lives, including their social behavior. He including an auto and tractor mechanics course and a two- could hire and fire faculty members at his discretion. Bala- year commercial course. banis noted:

Academic programs opened up to allow for diversity and It has been alleged that faculty turnover was electives. Foreign languages expanded to include French, high because the president did not want any Spanish, Latin, and German. Lower division offerings ex- faculty member to earn sufficient tenure to panded in the fields of hygiene, physical education, mathe- challenge his authority. matics, natural science, English, philosophy, and the social sciences. So great was the expansion, that by 1926 the Indeed, the popular Pop Jenkins was let go by Van Matre college received authorization to offer a B.A. degree. Four for the 1923-24 academic year. Fortunately for Humboldt years later a bachelor's degree was required of everyone in students, President Swetman rehired Jenkins in 1924. teacher training.

The changes in academic programs meant new faculty. President Swetman While the 1921-22 catalog listed 16 faculty members, with notable contributions to Humboldt Pop Jenkins the senior member, that number would nearly Ralph Swetman made during his six-year tenure. His efforts to repair relations double by the time of the stock market crash in late 1929. succeeded, in large part. Though Several familiar names appear on the faculty and adminis- between Areata and Eureka tration lists: Jessie Turner Woodcock, secretary to the

23 Helen Stover began for instance, involved a had strong instruction (by her schooling in 1925, Japanese tea and an Humboldt's student teachers climbing wooden side- exchange of dolls with and their supervisors) in walks to the College the emperor's daughter. reading, grammar, and Elementary School in Stella Little, from the col- math. Founders Hall. By the lege faculty, taught them Only occasionally did all time she graduated 8th watercolors. Professor this freedom backfire. grade, CES occupied Gist Marie Ostrander taught Professor MacGinitie let The College Hall. Four years later she second graders to two boys (one was Helen Elementary returned, along with sightread music and sing Stover's brother) into his School many of her classmates, parts. After lunch, Mrs. chemistry lab to satisfy this time for a college Ostrander played records their curiosity about mak- education. while students costumed ing gunpowder. When the themselves in theatrical Students of CES were boys were late back to props and free-danced to those who lived in the class, the teacher confis- the music. The kids could area, though some were cated their package and set use the college library. from Eureka and environs. it on the corner of her desk Former student, Jean Falor, Some were children of — which just happened to (Professor Schussman's local educators (Helen's be up against a hot radia- daughter), recalls picking father was Professor tor. You can guess the rest. wild strawberries on the Homer Arnold), while hill. In addition, students still others — the "in- corrigible" and slow learners — were sent from Areata Grammar School to get special at- SRFETY Fl tention. Classes were * small. Most Arcatans sent their children to Areata Grammar, considering CES "too permissive." But Stover believes their school was more enlight- ened, with students' in- dividuality taken seri- ously.

A study unit on Japan,

Second grade in Founders Hall, 1929-30. 24 1

many Eurekans still fostered hard feelings over the location of 2) a major in the discipline taught, with a minor in education the normal school, Swetman cultivated better relations by par- or psychology; ticipating in many service clubs and organizations. He gave 3) a willingness to teach elementary grades or extension cours- speeches, attended city functions, and recruited students. He es for adults; induced the Humboldt Times and the Areata Union to cooper-

ate in promoting better relations between the two cities and 4) a constructive, optimistic, enthusiastic, and kindly attitude; the college. 5) motivation to do some study or investigation Areata businessmen took an important step in in either the major field or in education; promoting college and community relations in a commitment to progressive education found- 1928, when they founded the HSTC Improve- 6) ed on scientific thinking. ment Association. Members of that group in-

cluded H.W. Jackson, S.D. Cerini, Ralph Bull, J.J. The president adhered to the popular idea of Krohn, Vernon Hunt, Henry Brizard, Frank child-centered education touted at Columbia Tooby, and George Averell. Teachers College and Stanford University. As

historian Sarah Davies put it: The association bought land for the site of the College Elementary School (now Gist Hall) and President Swetman was called an apostle — a raised funds to improve the dormitories. An crusader for the child's rights. He approached offspring of that organization, the HSU Founda- the work of training teachers with missionary tion, continues to this day as a symbol of strong zeal. university/community relations. Swetman also loved outdoor recreation and hik- Meanwhile, Swetman raised academic stan- ing. Librarian Edward Graves declared the presi- dards at Humboldt by introducing a grade- dent was so enthusiastic about the redwood forest point average system, an academic probation system, and an east of Humboldt that he "personally took up axe and mattock honor roll. He also raised qualifications for full-time faculty to help make a trail through it." members:

1) possession of an M.A. or Ph.D. from a recognized Athletics university; The president's attitude no doubt promoted greater emphasis on athletics and physical education during the 20s. These were days of national sports heroes such as boxers Jack Dempsey Upon his retirement, Professor Hicklin explained his and Gene Tunney, and football's Four Horsemen of Norte decision "/ to come to Humboldt: was studying at Stan- Dame. At Humboldt, the "household names" were coaches Bert ford University, intending to stay until I got my doctor- Smith, Fred Falkenberg, Fred Telonicher, and Laura Herron; and student athletes Bill Pederson, Leo Sullivan, and (especially) ate, when I was offered the position on HSC's faculty in Elta Cartwright. 1925. 1 came up to visit and found the scenery so beau- Former professor and coach Joseph Forbes and former athlete tiful, and the people in the town and the college so Janet Ferguson have written competent but unpublished his- friendly, that the first thing I knew, I'd been here 3 tories of athletics at Humboldt. These works suggest four years!" highlights in sports during the 20s:

25 1) the ministering of activities which had In speaking of Humboldt's women athletes, the brightest shifted to the student body in 1924; spotlight certainly must fall on track star "Cinder" Elta Cartwright. In 1926 she helped her team win a national the creation of the Women's Athletic Associa- 2) track meet in San Francisco. In 1927 "Cinder" Elta tied the tion in 1925, and the subsequent hiring of women's world record in the 100 yard dash (1 1.4 seconds) Laura Herron; and set a new world record in the women's broad jump. In 1928 she was the first woman selected for America's first 3) the phenomenal success of women's athlet- Olympic Team, which competed in Amsterdam. ics, capped by Elta Cartwright's participation in Women's the 1928 Olympics; Coach Laura Herron had turned around women's athletics at Humboldt. Yet despite her success as coach and promot- 4) the first intercollegiate football contest in 1927. er, her personal habits were not to the liking of President Swetman. He let her go. Homer Balabanis related that she was "too independent for Swetman, and she smoked cigar- Women's Athletics & "Cinder" Elta ettes." Jessie Turner Woodcock, even more explicit, said, "People reported her for having students in her home, Women athletes brought expansion and honor to Hum- drinking, and all kinds of wild parties going on ... I even boldt's athletic programs. Laura Herron, who had taught went to one of the wild parties." physical education at Eureka High School, came to Hum- boldt State in 1925. For the next five years she organized a Whatever the case, from Herron's departure until the 60s, highly successful program for women. women's athletics would exist largely on a local and intramural level at Humboldt. Still, participation and support Herron initiated the campus Women's Athletic Association remained strong. and the Humboldt County branch of the Northern California Athletic Association (1927). Her athletes competed both inside and outside Humboldt County. She achieved a high de- Men's Athletics gree of participation in intramural athletics, fielding teams Men's athletics boasted far less success than the women's in volleyball, field hockey, basketball, softball, track and programs during the 20s. Between 1923 and 1927, coaches field, and tennis. In 1925 she organized Play Day — a day Bert Fred Falkenberg arranged for the baseball, of sports on campus for local high school girls. This Smith and basketball, football to play Northern California became an annual event for many years. and teams high school and amateur teams. The school promoted The 20s roared for women's athletics. At one track and sporting events more as recruiting tools to attract more field practice meet in 1926, Coach Herron's women beat the men to Humboldt State. Humboldt State men 33 to 26! The women's basketball proved persistent hindrance team traveled through Mendocino County, and played The shortage of male students a athletics. For example, the football team disbanded in 1 926 several high school teams. These activities received strong to several players' academic ineligibility decimated the presidential support. (He might have shown less enthusi- when Cabril/o, the yearbook, noted grimly: asm had he known the whole story. Former Humboldt squad. 1927 athlete Bernice Stokes Harpst recalled, "We met many boys For the second time in the history of the school, and girls from these areas, broke training rules, partied Humboldt experimented with football, and for the around after the coach in bed, really was and had a good second time in its history found the game too time.") much for it.

26 In the summer of 1928, sickness, severely limited commerce planned a wel-

Babe Ruth was belting training facilities, and a coming celebration for

homers every few days, distressing incident in Elta and her teammates, Johnny Weismuller which a crew member, anticipating a crowd of

("Tarzan") was breaking thrown in the brig for 2,000. As the Humboldt swimming records, and drunkenness, accidentally Times recorded, "An en-

Herbert Hoover was camp- set himself afire and died. tire county turned out to Elta Cartwright's ing at Bull Creek. But it pay homage to its athletic Olympic In Amsterdam, Elta was a diminutive 20-year heroines and welcomed Summer reached the semifinals in old HSTC graduate, Elta them home with a cel- the 100 meter dash be- Source: Cartwright, who was ebration such as has never TTie Humboldt Times, fore being eliminated. capturing the hearts been equaled in Eureka." July 5 -August 29, 1928 of Gracious in defeat, she Northern Californians and made no alibis. "I gave all As many as 1 5,000 people much of the nation. I could," she wrote home. lined the streets for the

On July 4, coach Laura "I only hope that the parade. Hundreds more

Herron's Northern Cali- people of Humboldt do greeted Elta's bunting- train at fornia Athletic Club dom- not think I was unworthy bedecked every

inated the national track of the trip . . . Miss Herron stop between Sausalito

meet in Newark. Elta won gave me a lovely bunch of and Fields Landing. They the 50 yard dash, 100 pink roses for a consola- waved flags and banners.

meter dash, and broad tion prize. A little note Sirens blew, bands played

jump, leading one nation- tied to the roses read: 'In and children sang. Never

al wire service to proclaim defeat as in victory. before — and perhaps not since — had Humboldt her "the outstanding Laura.' Last night I ran

woman athlete in the US." that race over 50 times in witnessed such a whole- my sleep. Butwhenlwoke hearted outpouring of Seven days later Elta up and saw my consola- love. All for a modest boarded the President tion prize, I realized the young teachers-college Roosevelt, chartered for darn race was really graduate who would, the American team's pas- over." within the week, trade in sage to the Amsterdam her key to the city for a Olympics. The 10-day The hearts of North Coast- key to a small classroom voyage was difficult. Team ers went out to their cham- in Petrolia. members endured sea- pion. Eureka's chamber of 27 (clockwise) Aerial view of 20s campus with women's dorm on left and many private homes; ukulele ensemble,1927;"Kids'" party, 1922; Women's Ath- letic Association, 1927. Basketball teams found create student self- slightly more success. They government, promote competed in the Humboldt athletics, cooperate County Independent League, with faculty, establish composed of local amateur ideals of honesty and teams sporting such color- fair play in every phase ful names as the Samoa of student life, and Bluedevils and the Holland- nurture a feeling of er (Eureka) Sparklers. loyalty to [the] school.

Humboldt played its first The first AS officers were intercollegiate football Howard Trueblood, presi- game in the fall of 1927. dent, and Monroe Spaght, Newly arrived coach and biology professor, Fred Telonicher, vice president. The constitution also provided for athletic took his team of 12 men to play at Southern Oregon Nor- managers for both men and women. For more than two

mal School in Ashland. They lost 33-0. Still, it was a first. decades, the athletic managers helped coaches gain re- Under Telonicher's tutelage, Humboldt continued to engage sources for athletic programs. in intercollegiate play with Southern Oregon, Chico State, and others. The first football victory came in 1929 against The Student San Francisco College of Pharmacy. Community

In many ways the organizations and activities on and off campus created a sense of community and promoted attendance at Humboldt State. To participate in extracurricular Ivlore than just a long-time coach of the football and basket- activities, students had to carry at least ten semester units ball teams, Fred Telonicher was also an excellent teacher. of passing course work, attend classes regularly, and pay student body dues. A five-student board of control moni- Students from his physiology classes went on to excel at Cal tored "standards of proper conduct and honorable scholarship." and various medical schools. Humboldt gained a strong repu- Students lacked no opportunity for participation, especially tation for its pre-med program. in the musical and performing arts. Seventy-five students and faculty put on a 12-act comedy, The College Jinx, in 1924 to raise money for lamps in front of the main building. A 1925 play, Slates, starred Estelle Preston and Mon- roe Spaght. Stars of the men's athletic teams of the 20s included Bill Pederson, Leo Sullivan, Abner Brantley, and basketball cap- The College Lyceum, later called The Collegians, presented tain Ben Feuerwerker. musical and dramatic programs both on campus and in various communities along the North Coast. The Lyceum featured a jazz orchestra, the Melody Men, who performed Associated Students in a radio broadcast from San Francisco in 1930. One of

Associated Students of the Humboldt State Teachers Col- their favorite numbers was "Moonlight and Roses." lege and Junior College was founded in the fall of 1924 to

29 Une of the school's dent of Associated Stu- In his later philanthropic

Monroe distinguished alumni, dents, and acted as toast- efforts, Spaght never for-

Spaght Monroe Spaght, was a master for banquets. got his North Coast alma

local boy who began mater. Most notably, he After three years at Hum- attending HSTC at the established a distinguish- boldt, Spaght transferred age of only 14. (He had ed lecturer series that con- to Stanford where he com- entered Areata Union High tinues to bring prominent pleted his bachelor's,

School at age 1 0.) business leaders to cam- master's and doctoral de- pus. In appreciation, the Despite his youth, Spaght grees. He then joined Shell alumni association hon- was a "big man on cam- Oil Company as a research ored Spaght with the pus" during the mid-20s. chemist, working his way Who's Who award during He appeared in dramatic up the corporate ladder the school's Golden Anni- productions, played trom- until he became president versary celebration in bone solos with the col- in 1 960. Later, he became 1963. lege orchestra (which in managing director of the

those days primarily played Royal Dutch Petroleum

popular dance tunes), Company.

served as the first vice presi-

30 What else? All-college dances, lectures, class parties, a Cos- The yearbook had class photographs, informal snapshots, mopolitan Club, and the Audubon Bird Club. Associated and special sections on extracurricular activities during the Women Students involved students and faculty in a Big 1926-27 school year. Photographs of faculty members in- Sister/Little Sister program through which "better study cluded Homer Arnold, education; Homer Balabanis, social habits were formed, more acquaintances were made, and science; Maurice Hicklin, English and journalism; Laura cliques were eliminated." Herron, physical education; Horace "Pop" Jenkins, industrial arts; Leo Schussman, education; and the president's Work Day, initiated in 1925, quickly became a popular and secretary, Jessie Turner Woodcock. useful activity. With classes called off, all students and faculty cleaned up the campus buildings and grounds. The The first student newspaper, appropriately named The Fog- work gave way to a party and dance in the evening, a tra- horn, went to press during the 1924-25 school year. Edited dition that endured until 1956. by Lee Baird, it featured short stories, special columns, and news notes. Students assessed themselves a $6 fee in the spring of 1925, but their support proved insufficient to Have Alumni Now We keep the paper going.

Indicative of Humboldt State's increasing stability and in- The next effort to publish a student newspaper came in stitutional maturity, 1924 saw the formation of an alumni 1929. Lawrence Morris edited HSTC Rooter (to indicate its association. The first officers were Hugh Stewart, presi- purpose as a booster of the college). One year later students dent; Emily Duprey Murray, vice president; and Jessie renamed it The Lumberjack, which has survived to this day. Turner Woodcock, secretary. At that time, Associated Students, not the journalism department, published the newspaper. The association sponsored the school's first homecoming, honoring the not-so-distant class of 1917. A football game Early issues of the Rooter contained book reviews of current with Areata High (9-0 in favor of Humboldt) preceded a best sellers, poetry, and articles on sports and school spirit. gathering of students, faculty, and alumni at the Areata There were also vigorous debates on prohibition, student Fireman's Hall. government, "100 percent Americanism," proposed fines for class absences, women smoking, world peace, and other issues of local and national interest. The paper featured a Literary Pursuits scandal column and interesting attempts at humor: "I call girl 'gravity' because she is so attractive." Among other "firsts" during the 20s were student publica- my tions. Perhaps the most momentous news for Humboldt Staters in a 1930, banner headline: "DR. SWET- Students published a yearbook, Cabrillo, in 1927. (The appeared January, RESIGNS!" Spanish navigator Cabrillo, blown off course in 1542, was MAN perhaps the first European to set foot on the North Coast.)

31 I he Faculty Wives organiza- Elma Arnold, Bonnie Wilson,

tion began in the days when Ruth Gist, and others — chose

the fish man drove the streets Fridays to have crab lunch of Areata each Friday, together. Calling themselves The Faculty honking his horn and selling the Crab and Culture Society, Wives fresh fish (the crab) to the they'd visit, sew, and enjoy housewives. Some of the book reports or short pro-

faculty wives — Margaret grams. A few years later, the

Telonicher, Frances Balabanis, group would evolve into the Martha Hicklin, Bea Faculty Wives — an organi- Meeting of the Crab and Culture

MacGinitie, Hazel Jeffers, zation that existed up until Society, late 20s (front row l-r) Henrietta the 70s. Schussman, Martha Hicklin, Anna

Jenkins; (back row l-r) Emily Graves, Mrs. Balcomb, and Alice Swetman. The Humboldt Lyceum

Sources: Humboldt State

Normal Bulletin, I he original Lyceum was the ballet and jazz dancers — even Cabrillo, Humboldt Times Athenian gymnasium Aristotle acrobats (brother and sister used as a classroom. By the turn Ronald and lone, The Tumbling of the century, lyceum had Russells). come to signify any association They were a huge success. They providing lectures, concerts, or played the hot spots in Cres- public entertainment. From its cent City, Orick, Crannell, earliest years, HSNS took great Korbel, Blue Lake, Ferndale, pride in the quality of its ly- Fortuna, Scotia, Garberville, ceum programs — five per year Willitts, Lakeport, Ukiah, — at Arcata's Minor Theatre. Sebastopol, Petaluma, Santa From 1925 to 1930, Humboldt Rosa, and Vallejo. They even

took its show on the road, both had a radio appearance on KPO, as a service to outlying com- San Francisco. The 1926 tour munities and as a recruiting reached over 5,000 people. The campaign. The lyceum featured 1929 troupe, now called The small orchestras, vocal and in- Humboldt Collegians, played to strumental soloists, one-act a record 1,675 in two nights at comedies ("Freezing a Mother- the Minor Theatre. in-Law," for instance), opera The lyceum did much to estab- scenes, dramatic monologues lish HSTC's reputation as a (Virginia Herron starred), brass cultural center for the North quartets, ukulele choruses, Coast.

32 The Social Circuit

Source: 1927 Cabrillo

feomr (economics (Era

Residents of Areata and vicinity were invited to a tea given at the college Friday afternoon, August 26, from 3:20 to 5:15 in the new college cafeteria. Dancing was enjoyed and a program was given.

Christmas Bancr

In December, 1926, a Christmas dance was held in the library. The decorations were very attractive and in keeping with the season. A novel feature was the snow- storm showered on the dancers at intervals during the evening. Punch was served during the evening. literati ^Banquet

A dinner and initiation were held in the social unit of the college Thursday, January 27, 1927. A one-act play was presented during the evening and a dance number was given.

&an Jofie banquet

On February 4, the Associated Men Students of the Col- lege gave a banquet for the San Jose basketball team and the firemen team. Monroe Spaght acted as toastmaster. During the banquet a program was given.

Cosmopolitan Club

Thursday, February 17, the Cosmopolitan Club held its first social meeting of the year. Ben Feuerwerker was toastmaster at the banquet, held in the social unit of the college at 6 o'clock. A program was presented after dinner and an interesting talk given by President Ralph W. Swetman.

Jlaroi <@ra£ Bmncr Barter SlSTERVf Love The cafeteria and dormitory entertained the student body at a costume ball February 25, 1927. Dinner was served at 6:30, with dancing between courses. After the dinner, dancing was enjoyed until 12 o'clock. Flenore Yocom Social page from 1927 Cabrillo. reigned as queen and Truman Wood as king.

33 reaching the foot of the to tell you just the style — I have since learned that

stairs leading to the en- one needs the ability to every girl learns to use an

trance, I patiently — a write descriptive prose, ax. What a magnificent

step at a time — counted for it is so "fetching. "Ap- opportunity to develop

to forty-four before I proaching the building, energy — initiative —

found myself within the there came to me sounds poise!! It brought to my

First Letter building. Good fortune at- as of the stroke ofan axe. mind a subject for some Home tended me for there stood You know how poems al- future theme, such as July, 1927 a most efficient-looking ways come to me. Imme- Physical Independence —

lady, of whom I quickly diately I thought of those or Advantages of Dormi-

Uear Adorable Family: inquired my way to the lines — "Woodman, spare tory Life — or — Wood-

Girls' Dormitory. In a that tree." Instinctively pile Anthropology. Such At last myjourney is end- most businesslike manner my steps quickened. Now, a lot of ideas came trip- ed, and I am a student in she replied — "Right what do you suppose it ping along. this far-away College, — down the hill; first detour was: — Only a Dormitory You will want to know / might almost say, this to the right." girl chopping kindling . College in the country. about my room, (I will Isn't that too thrilling! It will strange describe it in detail later) But let me begin at the seem to you

beginning. tha t ha ving just ascended

that hill, I had failed to First to preserve this at- recognize my future mosphere of remoteness, home, but wait — after a long walk from the

stage depot, one arrives / now proceeded to fol-

low directions, the at the foot of a hill, upon made

which the school is lo- detour, and found myself

cated. It is true, is it not, confronted by a low ram-

that gaining an education bling structure, quaint

is "up-hill" work? But andpicturesque. It is hard

34 "

but it is so lofty, making chance, you see, to gain with hay. " The girls would speak for themselves, as one feel tha t here is a place physical prowess. Speak- be so sweet with picture you would agree if you conducive to high thinking in terms of the movies, hats and lovely new rakes. could only hear them.

ing . And the windows one might call it "a contin- Don't I think of more You shall at least hear

open out in most enticing uous performance. things, folks? There is cer- more about them . fashion. Any young man tainly something about And now, — about our There's the whistle from passing by would want to this climate that sharpens lawn. Seldom does one the athletic field. It just step up for a chat. (I was one's wits. There surely see grass grow so luxuri- occurs to me what a so disappointed to find can be no dullards in this antly as it does here. It double opportunity one that this is not allowed.) school. attains such a height that has, with both natural and But it gives one such a it may be dignified by The best comes last — artificial athletics. But I romantic feeling. "Gaily, being called hay. Do you Our dear social room . It must hurry to school. the troubadour" — you know, I mean to tell the does not contain the type Now isn't California won- know. girls what a fine chance offurniture so commonly derful — wonderful! It's

Then the laundry. Keep- for dramatization this will used now. No over- truly unusual, folks! ing up the fire there is furnish. You remember stuffed davenport, and something like a relay that old poem, "Maud such things. Every — Your affectionate and happy race, each one in turn Muller on a summer day/ piece — is — so different. carrying wood. Another Raked the meadowsweet Even the piano has an in-

dividuality of its own, Mary Lou Humboldt being, in color, a cheerful

red. These things, I'm

sure, belong to different

periods, but all border on

the antique. It fairly takes

one back.

Now the girls — they

35 Estelle Preston McDowell 1913. There was a great College Elementary School

and her family are ex- rivalry between Areata on campus. Later she

The Preston tremely important in the and Eureka for the univer- served on the board of Family's history of Humboldt State sity. There was a good directors for the HSU Contributions University. When Estelle deal of lobbying in Sacra- Alumni Association, and Taken from Otis Johnson's halftime was younger, the Preston mento before Humboldt became president of that presentation of

Estelle Preston House was located near State finally was located organization. In 1964 McDowell as 1983 homecoming queen where our library now in Areata. Estelle can re- Estelle and her husband

stands. The Preston or- member the day her dad Robert donated the

chard stood where there came running in the door [three]-acre site for our

is now library parking. yelling, 'We got it! We Redwood Sciences Build-

The Preston House had a got it!' ing [today's Pacific South-

magnificent view of the west Forest and Range "After attending Hum- bay. Experiment Station]. boldt State from 1924-26,

"It was Estelle's father, Estelle taught for 1 2 years "It is with great pride and

William A. Preston, who in Sacramento County. pleasure that I introduce

gave the original land She returned to Hum- to you our 1983 home-

upon which Humboldt boldt to serve as a dem- coming queen, Estelle

." State was founded in onstration teacher in the Preston McDowell. . .

36 The Depression

Years: The 1929 crash of the New York Stock Gist took an avid interest in building good college/commu- Exchange precipitated an unparalleled nity relations. Two examples: he helped found both the national economic crisis — the Great Northern California Guidance Association (made up of Depression — for nearly ten years. At public school administrators and counselors) and the Com- the same time, tensions were rising munity Concert Association (sponsor of musical perform- worldwide. Dictators rose to power in Italy, Germany, and ances in Eureka and other North Coast communities). Japan. Acts of aggression in Manchuria, Ethio- pia, China, and Eastern Europe pointed toward All these attributes would prove invaluable to the world war that would break out in Septem- the college in an age of rising tensions and ber of 1939. dwindling hopes, an age when, as Jessie Turner Woodcock (HSTC comptroller in 1930) recalled,

just couldn't anything. President Gist We have State revenues were reduced, and it was local Guiding Humboldt State through these difficult people — business people — who helped years was new president Arthur Gist, who replaced keep the college afloat. Ralph Swetman in the fall of 1930. (Swetman had accepted the presidency of Arizona State Teachers Hard Times College in Tempe.)

The Depression manifested itself in many ways Gist brought to Humboldt a great enthusiasm for on campus. The initial crunch came in 1932-33, teacher training. He had B.S. and M.A. degrees in with a rise in tuition from $1.50 to $6.50 per education from the University of Washington. He semester. This led spring pre-registration stu- had served as an elementary school principal in dents to submit IOUs in place of fee payments, a practice both Washington and California and as director of teacher eliminated by the state the following fall. education at San Francisco State Teachers College. Although the per-student budget decreased from $371 to Gist viewed schools as prominent agents for improving $314, students, faculty, and community members struggled society: promoting awareness of social issues, for instance. just to keep the doors open. The state threatened to close He allowed faculty and students more say in school gov- down three teachers colleges, including Humboldt, for lack ernance as part of their citizenship training. Gist also pro- of funds. President Gist had to hurry to Sacramento to talk moted the cause of increased professionalism among teach- the board of education out of such a drastic measure. ers, a strong trend during the 30s. Back home, in a scramble to boost enrollment, Senior Day Besides his passion for education, Gist possessed strong brought local high school students to campus. Faculty people skills. The new president proved himself solicitous wives sponsored a Poverty Ball in 1933 and established a of individual students. He would serve informal breakfasts student loan fund. The community helped wherever it and dinners to small groups of students, especially fresh- could. Later in the decade, federal monies from the Federal men. He would help them get jobs. Ugo Giuntini and Oden Emergency Relief Act and the Civil Works Administration Hansen, 30s graduates, credit Gist with arranging their provided campus employment for students and others. first jobs at a time when teaching positions — jobs in general — were scarce. 37 At Home I n the small, "family" days county. She entertained ing room table against with the of HSC, President Gist was constantly, both formally the big window seat in Gists friends with many stu- and informally, in her the living room, to pro-

dents — indeed he knew home on campus (where vide a slide for the tod-

each one. He had lunch the science buildings now dlers.

in the Nelson Hall cafete- stand). At informal parties, guests ria nearly every day. Well- Once a year she brought would gather around the known for his witty sto- together campus and piano to sing songs from ries, he often started col- community by inviting a the teens, 20s, and 30s. lege assemblies with the large number of county Sometimes the guest list line, "I feel like a mum- residents to her home for would include perform- my — pressed for time." a reception to meet the ers from the community

His wife Ruth, who had a new faculty. At an annual concerts in Eureka, in-

delightful sense of humor, Christmas party for fac- cluding one memorable

was well-known as a ulty children, she would evening with Cregor

speaker throughout the lean the leaves of the din- Piatigorsky.

38 .

By December, 1933, the greatest crisis had passed. Presi- Builders completed the new College Elementary School in dent Gist stated: "I feel that the friends of Humboldt State 1933, a favored project of Gist. The school no longer have been successful in their efforts to save the college." functions as he envisioned, but the building still stands Humboldt State celebrated its 20th anniversary on April 6, and rightfully bears his name today. 1934. In 1937 a cooperative bookstore and fountain (the Coop) opened in the temporary buildings south of the main build-

Despite Hard Times . . ing. Technological gadgetry appeared on campus in the forms of a dictaphone in the president's office, and a Frig- Despite the economic shortfall and hard times for faculty idaire and an oil burner range in the college commons and students alike, Humboldt State endured. In fact, enroll- kitchen! ment increased steadily; the curriculum expanded; physical facilities improved; and in 1935 the school underwent a second name change, reflective of a broader sense of pur- Not-So-New Deal Students pose: Humboldt State College. Mock presidential elections in 1932 and 1936 indicated the Enrollment did dip from 372 in 1930-31, to 286 in 1931- student body at Humboldt, contrary to national trends, was 32. But after threat of closure in 1932, the college intro- largely conservative. Republicans Herbert Hoover and Alf duced pre-registration for the fall terms. From then on, Landon carried the campus electorate. At one point in 1939 enrollment grew steadily, reaching 424 in 1939-40. The a campus controversy emerged over whether even to allow increase, in part, accompanied the shortage of jobs for classroom discussion of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal! young people. A rise in University of California admission The world was discussing strategies for world peace, the standards also contributed, as did a renewed emphasis on effectiveness of the League of Nations in restraining the vocational education. A majority of the students came from Japanese in Manchuria and China, responses to the Italian Humboldt County, and more than two-thirds from the invasion of Ethiopia, and the rise of Adolph Hitler in Ger- North Coast. many. Mounting war clouds gave pertinence to Congres- While enrollment increased, the size of the faculty re- sional Nye Committee hearings, which charged undue mained between 28 and 30. To meet curricular needs, in- influence by munitions makers in causing war. structors had to teach quite a variety of courses. Education Humboldt students, however, showed more interest in professor Homer Arnold, during a 12-year period, taught campus life than in military campaigns. If Lumberjack ed- 31 courses, from arithmetic to philosophy (far different itorials and articles are a good measure, prime issues of from our present emphasis on specialization). concern included women smoking, inadequate school spirit, the best method of hitchhiking between Eureka and Campus Changes Areata, and the price of a milk shake (12 cents) at the college commons. As for issues of aggression — an unusually The campus took on a new look during this period. The old heavy snowfall in January, 1932, prompted snowball gymnasium south of the main building (now Founders fights. The result of this local aggression: four broken Hall) gave way to a new gym to the southeast. It was dedi- windows. cated in March of 1931 on the occasion of President Gist's formal inauguration. Social activities tended toward the traditional: the Masked Ball, the Junior Prom, the Senior Banquet and Ball. An All-

39 College Picnic graced each spring. The Associated Students derbolts to three winning seasons, highlighted by a 1936 budget for 1933-34 totaled $4,368. Of that amount, dra- victory over San Jose State, 20-0. Earl Meneweather, Frank matics received $1,092 and athletics $1,120. By the end of Simas, Vernon Thornton, Len Longholm, and Franny the decade, several new organizations supplemented exist- Moore starred on these early teams. In 1939 students ing club life, including a Forestry Club (1938) and a revital- changed the team's nickname to Lumberjacks. ized Associated Women Students (1939). To increase the coverage of campus and community activities, as well as to Community Relations promote advertising, The Lumberjack changed from a bi- weekly to a weekly paper in the fall of 1936. North Coast transportation stood much improved from the Student government broadened in the 30s, especially the school's earliest years. Humboldt grads Eugene Fountain board of control, which sought to monitor student behav- and Paul Hunter drove from Berkeley to Areata in only 14 ior. The board reprimanded students for making "general hours in 1938. Still, 14 hours! The area's isolation may, whoopee" in the library, for unauthorized borrowing from however, have contributed to better college/community lockers, and for stealing the California Bear flag from the relations. auditorium. In 1933 they took away a block H (varsity let- Most students were locals, of course. Nearly all alumni ter) from a football player seen in the early morning hours association activities involved former students originally of game day "in a public dance pavilion in Eureka." from the local community, including presidents Lena Moll Gilmore, Alta McElwain Monroe, Clyde Patenaude, Ethel Athletics Pedrassini Scott, Les Stromberg, and Walter Schocker. The Humboldt Alumnus, first published in 1934, chronicled the Sports represented the major extracurricular activity during strong ties developing between town and gown. these years. Much of this was men's and women's intra- Of particular note was the local support in building a badly mural competition, including archery, golf, and volleyball. needed dormitory. In her history of Humboldt State College, The Women's Athletic Association continued to sponsor written in 1947, Sarah Davies recounted a troubling visit Play Day. by Assemblyman Michael Burns in 1937. Having inspected Intercollegiate tennis and track teams competed for the first Sunset Hall, HSC's only dormitory, he wrote: time in the mid-30s. The Humboldt men played basketball The approach to San Quentin prison is impres- against Civilian Conservation Corps workers from Prairie sive and well kept; the approach to the student Creek and Orleans. dormitory at Humboldt State College is ugly and There was talk of dropping football because of the expense depressing. and the lack of a proper field. In a 1933 election, students He spoke of worn-off paint, foundation problems, missing voted 1 16-74 to keep it. College teams to the south, how- shingles from the roof, windows stuffed with newspapers ever, did not like playing here because of travel and weath- to keep out wind and rain, and the lack of hot water. He er — the same complaints heard today — so Humboldt noted that students had to walk through wind and rain to played mostly local high schools. A 20-member football use the two toilets, one for men and one for women. With team sported a 6-1-6 record in 1935, a good beginning for the help of community appeals to Sacramento, the state the school's first winning football coach, Charles Erb. legislature appropriated funds for a new dormitory (Nelson Fred Telonicher described Erb as "a master at firing a team Hall) in 1939. up prior to each game." Erb coached the Humboldt Thun-

40 (clockwise) The new gymnasium, 1933; Plant Op- erations personnel, 30s; athletic field on the site of Redwood Bowl.

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Scenes from the College Elemen- tary School: (clockwise from top right) east view of Gist Hall in the 30s; close- up of exterior east wall mural; student reenact- ment of the Laura Virginia discover- ing Humboldt 42 Bay; slide beside the south stairs. Humboldt State's relations with the business community were good. Local merchants enjoyed economic benefits from the student population and gladly advertised in The "Baly" Lumberjack. (Daly's, for example, advertised $2.95 cordu- roy skirts in 1935.) The community also patronized the Jince Homer Balabanis advised the student government college plays, musicals, and dramas, thus contributing and taught Econ 1, a required freshman course, he knew monies to the student loan fund. nearly every student. One year Baly gave his class a test just before Christmas vacation. One student read through The campus reciprocated. Even in the worst Depression times, not all the school's attention focused inward. Dra- the test questions, decided he wasn't quite up to answer- mas at the Minor Theatre raised money for a community ing them, and in the spirit of the season wrote on the unemployment relief fund. Special courses and lectures bottom of the test: "Only God knows the answers to these helped explain to the public the various provisions of the questions. Merry Christmas." After the holidays, when Social Security Act, the National Recovery Act, and the the student got back his test paper, he found this message National Labor Relations Act. from Baly: "God gets an A. You get an F. Happy New Year." A Student-Centered Institution

The 1 935 name change from Humboldt State Teachers Col- lege to Humboldt State College acknowledged the changing nature of the school's academic programs. The training of National and world events may have proved depressing, teachers remained primary, but now several nonteaching but morale didn't suffer much at Humboldt. On the eve of and preprofessional programs existed as well. World War II, a burgeoning liberal arts curriculum boosted spirits. The College Elementary School was producing both The lower division liberal arts program (junior college com- well-educated children and student teachers with consider- ponent) and a two-year commerce course continued, as did able teaching experience under competent supervisors. pre-professional programs in agriculture, forestry, nursing, Homer Balabanis would later write: and engineering. Humboldt also offered pre-secondary teaching programs in applied arts, biology, English, and The small faculty and enrollment permitted social science. In 1937 HSC was authorized to offer a B.S. close personal relations between faculty and degree in education. Thereafter the school added liberal students and among faculty and administrators. arts degree programs in economic and business administra- What we could not offer in material goods, we tion, speech, and home economics. tried to offer in human values. The institution was student centered, and the faculty had a President Gist established a chart of duties to promote ad- stake in the survival and reputation of the insti- ministrative efficiency. He appointed Balabanis as Homer tution. Personal advantage was minimized and vice president and director of session. summer Gist gave a high quality of instruction was maintained. professional rank to each instructor and began the rotation of department chairs. He also encouraged faculty to earn the Ph.D. and engage in professional growth activities.

43 (clockwise from top righf) Fred Telonicher, assistant football coach, 1938; Charles Ful- kerson, professor of music; Coach Charley Erb; Sunset Hall, built from part of the old "temporary" buildings.

Everyone needs a vaca- sor, Ed Jeffers, was pulled the east stands of Red-

tion come springtime, across stage in a big wash wood Bowl.

even if that vacation is tub. Unfortunately, when en- called Work Day. Freed Following the show, stu- rollment expanded into from classroom responsi- dents and faculty rolled the thousands, students Spring bilities for a day, Hum- up their sleeves and got just didn't know all the Fever boldt students and fac- to work. The project faculty. The Faculty Show ulty would clean up and might be building a trail lost its punch and was dis- improve the campus. But to Council Crest or wash- continued. The demise of "work" hardly describes ing windows or replant- Work Day soon followed. the atmosphere. ing gardens. One year But for decades to come,

Part of the annual tradi- they built a barbecue as a the campus still found

tion was an 8 a.m. Faculty memorial for students time each spring for All-

Show designed "to pep fighting in World War II. College Picnics, Lumber-

up the student body and In 1 947 the school called jack Days, and salmon

to inspire them to super- two consecutive Work bakes at Camp Bauer.

human work on their Days in order to construct

jobs." The students loved

it. Some years, two shows

were scheduled to accom-

modate the crowds. Per-

formances included a

mock opera, a minstrel

show, a male-faculty hula

dance, and an annual solo

sung by Homer Balabanis.

In yet another perform-

ance, a bathing profes-

46 ". . . then the whole world Men temporarily outnumbered women 203-197 in the fall ." got screwed up . . of 1940. This would reverse dramatically as the U.S. became involved in the war. Of 27 graduates in 1944, only Hitler's blitzkrieg through Poland in Sep- four were men. At one point in 1945, only one male tember, 1939, officially launched World student remained on campus. Faith Adams Dikas, 1945 II. the Selective Service in Sep- War Congress passed Act graduate, remembered HSC being referred to as a "girls' tember, 1940. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed seminary." Pearl Harbor, drawing the U.S. into the war. Work on the new dormitory, As on so many other campus- Nelson Hall, began in 1939. es, the war effort dramatically The name honored Hans affected students and faculty. Nelson, state senator, partly Franny Givins, 1940 gradu- responsible for the founding ate, spoke for many when he of Humboldt State and a said, "We were always dream- supporter throughout the ing about doing something years. Completed in 1940, great. And then the whole Nelson Hall provided an in- world got screwed up, so a lot firmary, a dining hall, a re- of those things didn'thappen." ception room, a lounge, and 76 bed spaces, two students Between national mobilization to a room. Planners intend- for the war effort, rationing, ed one wing for men and the recruiting and drafting of one for women, but during students and faculty, campus World War II women occu- camouflaging, blackouts and pied most of both wings. air raid drills, evacuation plans, USO dances with the sailors, Monica Hadley, dean of and letter writing campaigns to boost the spirits of service women in 1938, recalled that the women did not want to persons — everybody in one way or another felt the effects make their own rules. "They would rather have someone of the war. A student couldn'tjust think about education. else make the rules so they could break them and have all For many of those left behind, the war effort helped this fun." promote a strong sense of community. The faculty and administration expected future teachers — and women in particular — to conduct themselves in a The Girls' Seminary manner reflecting well on Humboldt. In 1940 Hadley chastised her coeds for chewing gum in public: Enrollment varied considerably during the war years: from 436 in 1939, to a low of 159 in the spring of 1945. Nearly Previously those Humboldt women who chewed all came from Humboldt County or the North Coast. gum were the exception, but today it seems to be the rule, particularly with the freshmen.

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{clockwise from top right) Dean of Women, Monica Hadley, 1940; soda fountain in the student Coop; library in Founders Hall; Nelson Hall. 48 But campus life for women consisted of more than study Fees varied little during the war: $25-26 per year, including and rigid discipline. During the war years, Hadley herself yearbook, health, and hospitalization fees. took HSC women to the Naval Air Station in McKinleyville Freshmen got doused in the "fish pond" in the courtyard of to dance with the sailors stationed there. the administration building. The Frosh-Soph Brawl maintained its roughhouse tradition. (Freshmen would build an The Wartime Campus eminently combustible structure, then try to keep the soph-

omores from burning it down.) Pop Jenkins sponsored bean Even before Pearl Harbor, the tone on campus had become feeds, taffy pulls, and Camp Bauer pancake feeds. He also much more serious. The previous decade's debates over made doughnuts for everyone in his big iron pot. school spirit and milk shake prices had given way to student and faculty forums on whether women should have Associated Men and Women Students, Forestry Club, Wom- careers after marriage or whether the U.S. should declare en's Athletic Association, and College "Y" continued. The war on the Axis. After Pearl Harbor, public debate turned to HSC choir and ASB officers made goodwill tours of the Hilarities women's role in the war effort, the post-war shift in North Coast to recruit students. Humboldt con- education bound to occur, and voting and educational tinued until director Don Karshner went to war with the opportunities after the war for Japanese-Americans, seabees in 1943. (This popular tradition resumed upon his African-Americans, and other minorities. return.) Work Day lasted until 1943, when it was abandoned for the duration of the war. Before Pearl Harbor, the Mutsuhito Club had sponsored the campus queen selection and generally promoted school Athletics spirit. After December 7, 1941, however, the club changed its name to Favonians to eliminate connections with any- Men's intercollegiate sports achieved a modicum of success thing Japanese. just before the war's intervention. In 1940 the college affili- The entire campus mobilized for the war effort. An air ob- ated with the Far Western Conference. HSC began compet- servation post, atop Pop Jenkins' industrial arts shop south ing in football that fall but then abolished it "for the of the main building, employed the eyes and ears of faculty duration" in 1942. and their spouses. Campus leaders conducted blackouts Coach Earl Hoos suggested replacing the sport with a Com- and air raid drills. mando Physical Fitness Program to prepare Humboldt men The Lumberjack initiated a column, "With the Armed Forc- for military service. Baseball coach Marty Mathiesen direct- es," to relate news of service persons. Humboldt Hilarities, ed the program, which included an obstacle run across Mad a campus variety show, presented "The War Effort" in 1942 River during the rainy season. to rouse spirits. In 1944 patriots set up a stamp shack in Men's basketball competition was limited mostly to games front of the main building to sell war bonds and stamps for with military service teams from Orick, Eureka, and McKin- the specific purpose of purchasing an army jeep ($1,165). leyville. These teams formed a Hoop League in 1943 with

Still, a semblance of normality endured. Students danced the stipulation, "wins and losses will not count, and [we] away their noon hours in the gym. Alta Fulton, Mary Ache- will not play for a trophy." son, and Gilly Negro reigned as campus queens in the early Athletic stars in this era included Bill Farber, Leo Sullivan, 40s. The Steamboat Shuffle had students dancing on the Frank Simas, Butch Caviness, Fritz Littlejohn, Frank San- decks of the Antelope, a steam ferry on Humboldt Bay. derson, Harry Wineroth, Toy Ferin, Franny Moore, Earl Long Conga lines formed at the yearly Sadie Hawkins hop.

49 In 1942-43, at the start Francisco. Gayle Karsh- In the afternoons, women scrap metals, there was a

of the war," Don Karshner ner recalls, "Faculty wives got together to knit — movement to turn in the

recalled, "Charlie Fulkerson served at the listening either socks for service- Areata Plaza statue of

and I shared a National post. On a foggy day we men or "baby soakers." President McKinley to be

Remembering Defense skywatch in a often heard logging trucks (Since civilians could ob- melted down for arms. the War privy-like addition on top in low gear grinding up tain no rubber or plastic, HSC classes often were Effort of Pop Jenkins' old shop the G Street hill, which wetting babies wore wool disrupted by the deafen- from 2 to 6 a.m. every was Highway 1 01 through panties called "soakers.") ing roar and vibration of week. The wind howled Areata then, and we mis- Meat and gasoline were a blimp hovering low and the rain poured, so takenly called San Fran- rationed, blackouts were over the court of Founders we rarely heard an air- cisco, because the sound enforced, and the high- Hall — mainly to impress plane fly over Areata." was similar to that of an way speed limit was re- the college girls who at- airplane. Defense officials Observers who did hear duced to 35 m.p.h. Wom- tended parties at the were probably amazed at an airplane reported im- en saved kitchen fats for blimp base on the Samoa the amount of air activity mediately to National De- use in making munitions. Peninsula. over Areata." fense headquarters in San In the drive to collect

At each year's fall Barn possibly Maury Ayala or over its unauthorized

Dance, the tiny old gym- Harvey del Fatti, liberated removal. Many had wit- Barn Dance nasium below the a classic two-holer privy nessed the strange cargo

recalled by president's house was from a farm on Dow's in its transport south on Gayle Karshner decorated with bales of Prairie. Though the privy Highway 101, and the

hay, cornstalks, pumpkins, was the star attraction at farmer soon tracked his

farm wagons, buckboards, the dance, the theft did possession to the gym.

harrows, and the like. For not go unchallenged. That President Gist made the

the 1941 Barn Dance, privy had been in current culprits repair and rein-

Howard Goodwin, operation, and the farmer stall the Barn Dance

Leonard Longholm and was understandably irate attraction.

50 The club built its lodge in

in football; 1939 according to plans Meneweather, and Wendel "Windy" Moore Fran- Humboldt's ny Givins, Billy Lee, Vernon Thornton, Lee Seidell, and Ken drawn up by sponsor Will- Ski Club Brantley in basketball. iam Lanphere. The cabin

HSC women participated in only one intercollegiate event site was three miles in on Dr. Bob Bryan ('42), sec- during the war, a Women's Western Intercollegiate Archery Titlow Hill Road. Bob Bryan ond president of Hum- Tournament in 1944. Contestants mailed their results to and some friends were at Los Angeles. Humboldt placed fourth of 24 colleges, and boldt's Ski Club, believes the the ski lodge in 1941 when Anna Babler tied for second individual honors. local winter climate was they got the disturbing colder and wetter in the Skiing became a popular new intramural sport. A ski club news of Pearl Harbor. Sev- Horse in 1939. pre-war days. A minor cli- built Lumberjack Ski Lodge on Mountain eral months later, Bryan matic shift occurred and his wife honeymooned about that time. Allies in the Community in that same cabin. (In those

The Ski Club had as many days, gas rationing made it Friendliness and a cooperative spirit between college and difficult — and unpatriotic community continued during the war years. Arcata's city as 60 members, several to go off some place defense council, for instance, included HSC in their evacua- of whom actually knew — exotic.) lodge tion plans in 1942. Theirs, too, was the suggestion to cam- how to ski. Marianne Lam- more The ouflage the main building (Founders Hall). Local citizens later log- bert Pinches ('42, an officer was rented out to feared its becoming a target for offshore Japanese subs. The of the club who never gers who, while cutting a council made its request in 1942, but the state did not pro- tree for firewood, lost con- skied) remembers that it vide funds for the painting until the spring of 1944, long trol of the tree. It rolled after any real danger existed. Fishing boats soon replaced was all great fun. Their into the cabin and submarines (real or imagined) in the bay, yet those walls February snow carnival downhill it off its foundation. remained a bilious, camouflage green until 1948. was praised in the 1940 shook Eventually the lodge was The HSC Improvement Association continued its strong Sempervirens as "a tum- burned down. support in these years. Local service organizations, in turn, bling success." borrowed campus facilities for their discussions and fund- raisers. One of these public events, Pan American Day, promoted better relations and defense solidarity among the Americas.

Academic Affairs

At the behest of professors William and Hortense Lanphere, Humboldt began a wildlife management program in 1940, reportedly the first such program in California. Facilities included a hatchery (for instructive purposes) and game- rearing pens. Students could sign up for "Conservation of Wildlife," or take "Game Bird Management," a far cry from the destructive events half a world away.

51 But the war dictated many of the curricular changes of this era. HSC offered Letters (and aeronautic meteorology, navigation, to from) the wartime conversational French, Navy Troops V-l and V-5 programs, and "The War Perhaps the most successful and Today." For women, the school offered comprehensive effort to mobilize the radio training, knitting, and sewing. campus was President Gist's crusade Although the total number of faculty to encourage letters and commenda- and staff did not change significantly tions for former Humboldters serving during the war, many took leave to in the armed forces. serve the nation in military or civilian The responding letters from the sol- capacities. diers indicate the success of the cam- Vice president Homer Balabanis served paign. In 1945 Willard Woodcock with the Office of Price Administration reported from New Guinea that he and with the state department in Wash- had received "three boxes and 28 ington, D.C.; professor of education letters during the mail rush!" Ac- Harry Griffith served in the air force in Salinas; drama cording to James Roscoe, Gist wrote instructor John Van Duzer spent a semester in the army, personally to virtually every Humboldt service person. By and his colleague Don Karshner served in the seabees; late 1943 Gist had worked up a list of 275 names and accounting officer Gene Flocchini was stationed in Texas; addresses. biology professor Harry MacGinitie was stationed in New From Christmas of 1943 until Christmas of 1945 the Hum- Mexico; and the president's secretary, Sarah Davies, boldt News Letter delivered news from home to all known worked for Pan American Airlines. military personnel (from the Gist list) who had attended

Several faculty wives filled in as instructors. Hazel Jeffers Humboldt State. An editorial staff of Claire Speier Gustaf- took over her husband Edmund's music classes. Charles son, Edward Graves, Maurice Hicklin, Emmalena Thomson, Fulkerson was joined by his wife Jean, an excellent cellist. Jessie Woodcock, Sarah Davies, and William McMillan put Following the war, she continued teaching string classes out the four-page newsletter. It contained news of the col- for many years. Gayle Karshner taught speech and drama lege, news of service persons' activities, and excerpts from for her husband Don and for John Van Duzer. She also letters. The News Letter undoubtedly provided good cheer directed all the plays. Men were scarce among the stu- to those in the war. The close-knit camaraderie of Hum- dents, so faculty were recruited for male roles. All-women boldt State was thus exported to all parts of the world. casts were common. Nell Murphy took her husband Correspondents included Stanley Roscoe (army air force), George's position in the English department. Donald Falk and Wesley Graham (army), Gene Orlandi The Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher (artillery), Herb Gomes and Walter Schocker (marines), Schools granted accreditation to Humboldt State in 1944. Leno Canclini (navy), and hundreds of others. Bob Oliveira But a shortage of library facilities and low enrollment kept found himself stationed in Hawaii, Reno Orlandi, Italy; a secondary school credential program from being offered. Robert Bonner, Saipan; Ledo Matteoli, China; Joe Rez- zonico, Australia; Paul Hunter, Iran; and Alan Lufkin, the Dutch East Indies.

52 (clockwise from top right)) House moving, a common sight on the 40s campus; Ed Jeffers, assistant professor of music, scrubbing his way through the 1941 Faculty

Show; 1 944 production of Junior

Miss with (l-r) Professor William Lanphere, students Jean

Hardwick, Ellei Peterson, and Professor Charles Fulkerson.

53 Former football coach Charlie Erb held the rank of major, Throughout 1945-46 HSC prepared for the influx of stu- working with combat intelligence in the South Pacific. dents. Repairs and physical improvements were made on Football star-turned-sergeant Earl Meneweather wrote from campus and a new football coach, Joseph Forbes, was Germany in 1945 that he'd gladly settle for one small piece hired so the sport could resume in the fall of 1946. of land under the north goal post on Humboldt's old prac- HSC implemented a new academic organization in the tice field. Mike Chetkovich served as chief engineer on a spring of 1946. Curricular offerings fell into two main cat- ship in the Pacific. Charles Waters sent a Nazi flag to Pres- egories under the leadership of two academic deans: the ident Gist as a war souvenir from Germany. And at least dean of education and the dean of arts and sciences. two heroic Humboldters received the Bronze Star: William Nellist and Joe Walsh. Dean of Education Education courses Humboldt women involved in the war effort included Chris- Teacher-education program tine Jacobsen and June Mair (SPARs); Faith Hope and Geor- gia Williams (navy nurses); Rae Bengston (army); Betty Dean of Arts & Sciences Hess Carter, Marilyn Colney, Dorothy Dillon, and Betty Jean Fine & Applied Arts Abbott (WAVEs); Joyce Abbott (WAACs); and Thais Baldwin Health & Physical Education (navy). Clarice Johnson, an army nurse in the North African Language & Literature and Italian campaigns, wrote from Anzio in 1944: "When Natural Sciences the bombing started, a foxhole was appreciated more than Social Sciences a room in the Palace Hotel." To close out the story of the war: by one report, 585 men One of the newsletter's unstated purposes was to entice who had attended HSC had served in the military. Eighteen military personnel to return to Humboldt and complete were known dead, and five were missing. their degrees. Articles mentioned the "six units of block credit" for military service and gave updates on pending congressional legislation to provide educational benefits for veterans (the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, more commonly referred to as the G.I. Bill).

Many did return to Humboldt. They constituted the early and significant increase in enrollment in the late 40s following the end of the war.

Preparing for Peace

After the defeat of Germany and Japan in 1945, the campus, with the rest of the nation, began its difficult conver- HSC faculty and staff, 1 946: 1 - Kenneth Bailey 2- Roy Bohler 3- Bert sion to peacetime. Wilson 4- "Pop" Jenkins 5-ArthurGist 6- William Lanphere 7- Helen Everett 8- Imogene Piatt 9- Richard Meade 10- Maurice Hicklin 11- A constant teacher shortage had existed during the war. In 4- Michael Chetkovitch 1 2- Harry MacGinitie 1 3- John Van Duzer 1 1944 HSC reported a 97 percent placement rate for its new Belle Dickson 1 5- Elizabeth Brizard 1 6- Homer Balabanis 17- George teachers. This fact encouraged optimism on campus, as did Murphy 1 8- Adella Johnson 1 9- Myrtle McKittrick 20- Don Karshner the new G.I. Bill and prospects for soon offering a B.A. in 21- Eugene Flocchini 22- Dorothy Gentry 23- Frances Yocum 24- secondary education. Hazel Jeffers 25- Stella Little 26- Eugenia Loder

54 —

I n the 30s and 40s, when In the 50s many of these the men students for an many colleges' professors long-time friends formed all-day spring beer bust

still addressed one an- a loose organization down by theVan Duzen

other formally Mister or known as the Buffalo River. Or Bill Johnson — Sir, for example— Hum- Heads. These were "the an institution as chief of boldt State maintained real Humboldters," those maintenance— helping an air of informality and who had arrived before hundreds of students Buffalo Heads friendliness. the dramatic growth and with part-time jobs, help- depersonalization of the ing the faculty with their from the collected It knew its faculty as Pop 50s. office and household re- speeches of (Jenkins), Mac (MacGin- Don Karshner pairs, and taking the lead itie), Baly (Homer Bala- The Buffalo Heads could in the construction of banis), Major (Maurice remember when most Redwood Bowl. Hicklin), Murf (George faculty lived in houses Murphy), Griff (Harry on campus. They could But times changed. Bob

Griffith), and Charlie F. remember Fred Telonicher Gayhart's Varsity Sweet (Fulkerson). With twenty- and his wife Margaret Shop in Areata was no some faculty and a total hatching pheasant eggs longer the student hang-

enrollment under 400, ev- in their oven to help start out. California Barrel was eryone knew everyone, the wildlife program. Or no longer the big em-

and fast friendships were Charlie F. playing Bach ployer in Areata. And the formed. piano sonatas in a col- college itself became so lege assembly by day and large that faculty mem- Boogie Woogie in a bers could pass their col- dance band by night. Or leagues on the sidewalk Major Hicklin walking his and not even know their beautiful elkhound Holly names. One by one the

about the campus. Or all Buffalo Heads went out of them sneaking with to pasture.

55 (clockwise) Aeronautics class, 1940; football fans (Raymond Fisher, professor of history, Gist and Bal- abanis in the front row) at *• ft ** ? Albee Stadium *

H .»>*SS v (clockwise from top right) Botany lab in basement of Founders Hall, 1939; William and Hortense Lan- phere , professors of biology, 1940 (with their dog, "Hec"); temporary classrooms, 1946.

57 In the 40s (with the The 1 947 theme parodied from Puritan days to the

exception of a couple of Life magazine with "ar- future era of rockets and

the war years), Humboldt ticles" such as "Life Pho- atomic energy. Don

Humboldt Hilarities gave students a tographers Lost in Wilds Karshner, John Van Duzer, Hilarities chance to show off their of Northern California," and Ted DeLay managed

talents — or just show off. "Report on Occupational the productions. Don

From 1 50 to 250 students Forces" (in Geisha houses), Karshner recalled daz-

(half, or more, of the "Winter Sports at Ski zling patriotic finishes in

student population) par- Lodge," and "Over the Air the war years and more

ticipated in the produc- Waves Cometh Tripe." sophisticated songs and

tion of farces, satires, The 1948 theme of "Past, scripts after the older, re-

musical numbers, and Paste, & Posterity" was a turning Gl's began han-

dramatic pieces. cavalcade of college life dling the shows.

58 Peacetime

Invasion Postwar Explosion In a complete turnabout from the first half of the decade, men now clearly outnumbered women — three to one in 1946-53 Enrollment averaged 255 in 1945-46, 1946. North Coast residents still made up the majority, but but the fall semester of 1946 would see the percentage of students from San Francisco and the bay that number leap to an astonishing area increased steadily. 650! Growth surged to 751 in 1949-50 before the Korean

conflict began taking away World War II veterans and Especially after Siemens became president, the college college-aged youths. Those early increases, however, pre- looked abroad for new students. By 1952 HSC had small sented great challenges to President Gist and his successor contingents from the Near East, Germany, Yugoslavia, and Cornelius Siemens. the U.S. territories of Samoa, Guam, and Hawaii. The G.I. Bill prompted the influx of students, as did California's Enrollment fell again during population growth and the ac- the Korean War (624 in 1950- companying demand for more 51; 592 in 1951-52; 563 in teachers. In 1948 the state de- 1952-53). A Greater Humboldt partment of education predicted Committee of faculty and stu- Humboldt's student population dents recruited actively in high would reach 1575 by 1965. In schools across Northern Cali-

fact, it reached twice that num- fornia. In 1951 the committee ber before 1960. reinstituted Senior Days on campus. Much of the close-knit camaraderie, informality, and friendli- New Faces ness so characteristic of HSC The faculty jumped from 27 to 63 full-time instructors. since its founding would be lost in the growth. In purely phys- New and soon to be familiar faces on campus included ical terms, increased enrollment would precipitate a critical Leland Barlow (music); Kate Buchanan and Pauley housing and classroom shortage. John (speech/drama); Reese Bullen (art); Joseph Forbes, Louise Kenneth Bailey, dean of students, arranged for a barracks Watson, and Ced Kinzer (physical education); William near the site of today's wildlife building. The barracks Jackson (business); Hyman Palais (history); Roscoe (named Redwood Hall) housed men. Nelson Hall, then, Peithman (physics); Daniel Brant (biology); Charles Bloom became exclusively a women's dorm in 1947. JoAnne (librarian); Kathryn Corbett (sociology); Lawrence Marx Wilson Dale related that women residents grew plants in (psychology); Giles Sinclair (English); Frank Wood (foreign the urinals of what was formerly the men's bathrooms. language); William Raleigh (education); Edwin Pierson HSC also built thirty housing units for married students (forestry); and Mark B. Rhea (agriculture). just southwest of College Elementary School. Named Hum- In 1947 a beginning assistant professor with a master's boldt Village, locals dubbed it G.I. Village because of the degree earned $3,540 per year. (Forty years later, the same many veterans living there. assistant professor, with a doctorate, would earn $27,000.)

59 .

The recruiting of faculty sometimes surprised the recruited. president. The dean of the school of education, Ivan Mil- Joseph Forbes, like so many, pictured HSC just a short dis- hous, oversaw teacher training and credential programs, tance north of San Francisco. He and his family drove up aided by Harry Griffith (elementary education) and Albert from Los Angeles during the 1945 Christmas holidays. Graves (secondary education).

After a leisurely trip north with my family, we The dean of the school of arts and sciences, Homer Bala- suddenly found ourselves stranded in Willits banis, administered five divisions: during a monsoon, with water several feet over Fine & Applied Arts Highway 101. We finally arrived days later . . Don Karshner, division head A tour of the campus (it took ten minutes in Health Physical Education those days) revealed that the stadium was only & Harold Bishop, division head partially completed, with no bleachers and no Language & Literature sign of turf. The track was a mass of sub- Maurice Hicklin, division head surfacing boulders, and the only structure for Natural Sciences physical education was a leaky little gym. Harry MacGinitie, division head Forbes had an alternative offer in San Diego and was Social Science "firmly resolved to flee." But warm student and community Kenneth Bailey, division head support, the wonderful physical surroundings, and "the Eugenia Loder, dean of women: George Murphy, dean of charm of Homer Balabanis and his tales of the potentials" men; and Helen Everett, librarian, looked after students persuaded Forbes to take the position. outside the classroom. Balabanis wrote, "What we could not offer in material The following year, after pressure by Helen Everett and the goods, we tried to offer in human values." Association of California State College Instructors, Gist appointed an advisory council — still in existence — com- Academic & posed of deans, division heads, the registrar, librarian, and Administrative Changes other faculty and staff. This body advised the president on college policies. By 1947 HSC was authorized to offer a credential in sec-

ondary teaching, thus making it a five-year institution. The first graduate courses, in history, met that fall. End of the Gist Era

A new B.A. in wildlife management; a speech/radio major; President Gist suffered a heart attack in November, 1949, a M.A. in the teaching of drama, education, and social and retired the following June. sciences; two-year programs in forestry/lumbering and Arthur Gist had served 20 years as president — through dairying/agriculture — all these changed the face of the the Depression, war, and postwar reconversion. When he Humboldt State College curriculum. By 1953 HSC offered arrived, Humboldt had three credential programs, 27 nearly 30 baccalaureate degrees and was featuring the faculty, and 372 students. When he left two decades later, natural resource areas more and more. HSC had 31 degree programs, 47 faculty, and 751 students. Significant reorganization came under President Gist in Gist had taken pride in fostering a closeness with students 1947. Three deans and the head librarian reported to the and faculty. He also cultivated the relationship between campus and the community. However, as Balabanis noted,

60 When the college grew, problems became more newspaper publisher. Later, that board would perform complicated and relations became less personal. perhaps its most significant action: lobbying the governor The president saw his ideal vanishing. His ideal to veto legislation condemning HSC to "grade B" status for was "our small, friendly college." Especially salary and funding purposes. Humboldt maintained full after 1946, the college was neither small nor as parity with other state schools. friendly. In 1951 President Siemens reorganized and expanded He was perturbed particularly by the growth administrative lines of authority as mandated by the state. of the liberal arts program and at its faculty The president was advised by his own council, Executive which, he feared, undermined the main func- Dean Lawrence Turner, the advisory board, and the HSC tion of Humboldt State College: that is, teacher Improvement Association. Jessie Woodcock served as education — his main interest. business manager. Homer Balabanis, now dean of instruction, oversaw seven academic divisions. The division of education and psychology, Cornelius Siemens Arrives lead by Ivan Milhous, housed the teacher training program. Dean of Students Leonard During Gist's illness, interim president Homer Christensen ministered to student needs Balabanis drew up Humboldt's first master plan and activities. Edward Girard would be (a process now mandated by the state). The plan appointed associate dean of students (guid- called for a half-billion dollar budget and eleven ance) in 1952. major construction projects, including a fine and applied arts building (with auditorium), a stu- Siemens also established the HSC Foundation dent activities building (with cafeteria), a swim- to promote and fund the educational and ming pool and gymnasium, a metal shop, an research goals of the college. administration building, and buildings for wild-

life, science, and health science. Campus Construction After Gist announced his retirement, a search committee hired Cornelius Siemens as his With the postwar surge in enrollment, the successor. Russian-born Siemens had earned campus experienced dramatic physical his Ph.D. from the University of California, change. Six prefabricated buildings south of Berkeley. He had taught mathematics at San Diego State the tennis courts became classrooms. A Quonset hut east of and served as president of Compton College. the gym handled extra physical education classes. Varsity Hall, erected as a temporary dormitory for varsity athletes, Siemens took office on July 1, 1950, and immediately was remodeled in 1950 to become the new Coop (soda launched a vigorous campaign to fulfill the master plan fountain, bookstore, and student offices). aspirations of 1949. He left curricular developments largely to Balabanis, and chose to devote his time to physical In 1950, California's department of public works issued a development of the campus, finances, and public relations. report that nearly all of Humboldt's buildings needed In October, 1950, he announced an ambitious program of "urgent" or "necessary" repair, and every building needed construction: 14 new buildings. painting. A surge of construction in the 50s and 60s would remedy those problems. He also appointed an HSC advisory board of community members headed by Don O'Kane, Humboldt County

61 The developing 50s campus: (clockwise) The Coop and Nelson Hall across a crowded parking lot; the Quonset hut gymnasium; excavation for the new library on the south end of Founders Hall; Jenkins Hall un-. der construction.

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Upon his appointment it, that I don't totally personally planned at HSC, Cornelius Sie- identify myself with menus, cooked, and deco-

mens ("Neil") became Humboldt. One builds a rated for social events in

one of the youngest col- tremendous pride in this the president's home and

lege presidents in the college. I feel hurt when on campus. Her gracious

country. Yet he had al- someone criticizes it. I feel thank you notes and her

ready distinguished him- personally responsible for prompt notes of appre- Remembering self as writer and teacher. interpreting the college ciation to performers, the Siemens He had, for instance, to people on the out- achieving students, and Sources: reminiscences authored a text on aero- side. I explain it, sell it, faculty were prized. She of Cayle Karshner; Michael Corcoran, nautics and helped the and brag about it." sang in college music

'Twenty Years in the Civil Aeronautics Admin- groups and did some solo Presidency," Areata His wife Olga, whom istration set its flight In for Union, April 1970. up work. appreciation 9, he met as a student at training program. her tireless interest and Berkeley, also involved giving, students dedi- At Humboldt he im- herself on campus and in cated the 1958 issue of mersed himself in both the community. An en- Sempervirens to her. campus and community thusiastic hostess, she

life, following interests ranging from baccalaureate degrees to Boy O Scouts to Baptists. He also

grew to be a well-known

figure in the corridors of

the state capitol, where

he lobbied extensively for HSC and served on the California Constitution Revision Commission.

"There isn't a day or an

hour," he said, "whether

I'm on this campus or off fl Km Siemens family: (back) Cornelius, Olga,

(front l-r) Joan, "Belle", and Ronald. 64 Another son, Mark, was born later. Jenkins Hall, an industrial arts building completed in on punctuality for taking exams, then failed to return them 1950, honored Pop Jenkins, who retired in 1953. In spring on time! It was hardly a hotbed of radical social change. of 1953 the library, the biological sciences building (Sci- Registration fees stayed between $25 and $32. Associated ence A today), and the corporation building opened their Student Body fees, however, increased considerably — as doors. high as $25 by 1952. Many students refused to purchase The library building, now Van Matre Hall, occupied only ASB cards and support the nearly $40,000 ASB budget. An half the space of the original design because the state ap- effort to make the cards mandatory failed in a campus elec- propriated only half the necessary money. This explains tion. This led the ASB to reduce prices at the Coop fountain why the front entrance opens to the southwest of the in hopes of increasing their resources. structure: builders anticipated another half of the building ASB Cardholder Others where faculty and staff park today. Coffee .07 .10 Milk Shake .25 .35 Student Life Hamburger .25 .30 Ham Sandwich .30 .45 The late 40s saw a return to more traditional college Potato Salad .15 .35 activities. The influx of older students and several memo- The large numbers of veterans and married students might rable incidents in these years would stretch the bounds of explain the lukewarm student participation in activities. conventional campus activity. Most student life, however, The older students showed more interest in finishing de- tended toward the conservative and predictable. grees and moving on to jobs and "normal" lives. Major issues for students ranged from parking violations The Lumberjack catered to this trend with its "Humboldt (students were being called out of classes to remove illegal- Village" and "Veteran's Corner" columns. Veterans' wives, ly parked cars) to lack of school spirit; from housing short- mostly from Humboldt Village, formed a G.I. Wives Club. ages to students necking on the first date; from conserva- Information circulated about government assistance pro- tion of natural resources to certain instructors who insisted grams such as Cal-Vet and the G.I. Bill. Veterans received counseling, testing, special classes, and vocational guidance as the curriculum moved away from being exclusively teacher-training in orientation.

Though the career-minded veteran presence was not con- f\ book burning took place on campus in the spring of ducive to traditional school spirit, several new clubs did into being in this era: Student Federalists (propo- 1953. Bobbysoxer co-eds and young men in rolled-up come nents of world government and peace), the Knights (pro- service and school spirit), the Wildlife Club, Con- Levi's threw page after page onto the flames in front of moting servation Unlimited (mostly wildlife and fisheries majors, involved in community conservation projects), a Newman the Coop. Actually, these students were only burning Club, and Block H (varsity lettermen). A rally committee decorated for home sporting events, promoted attendance, their textbooks to celebrate the end of final exams. and supported yell leaders and song queens. The campus hosted its first Harvest Ball and its first Sweetheart Ball in 1947.

65 A renewed emphasis on the fine arts led to two special Frances Ward Short tells of a less spectacular, but more events. The Northwestern California Drama Festival (for common, way of living dangerously in those days: to cut high school students) took place on campus in the fall of classes and go to Clam Beach. 1947. The following year HSC hosted its first major art Just for the record, Lumberjack editorials denounced the festival. Art professors Reese Bullen and Melvin Schuler aforementioned activities, characterizing them as "disgust- arranged for Bay Area artists to display their work. ing behavior." Work Day was extended to two days in 1946 for the primary purpose of getting Redwood Bowl into shape for the Redwood Bowl & football season. In later years Work Day linked a faculty the Athletic Programs variety show, a ravioli feed, and a dance with the usual efforts to spruce up the campus. As returning veterans swelled the ranks of men on campus, Homecoming was revitalized in 1946. Returning alumni intercollegiate sports grew accordingly, especially football. joined the campus and community for a bean feed, bonfire, Through the early months of 1946, students, faculty, and pep rally, hayride, parade, football game, and post-game community members prepared Redwood Bowl for the foot- dance. ball season. They built bleachers on both sides, covered the track with redwood bark, seeded the field, and built a press The men's and women's student associations had been box and concession stand. Local lumber companies donat- holding separate picnics. In 1949 both groups joined at ed materials; local carpenters donated time. Camp Bauer to revive the All-College Picnic. The following year — thanks to a $4,000 loan taken out by The Conservation Week tradition began in 1950, coinciding President Gist, Joseph Forbes, and others — lights and a with a greater emphasis on natural resources within the scoreboard made possible the first night games. Local mer- curriculum. chants had been complaining about Saturday afternoon games detracting from business, and the state would not Whistling Pete allow Sunday games.

The postwar years seemed opportune for excessive non- HSC football boasted winning records between 1946-48. In sense and pranks. Joseph Forbes opined that many veter- 1952 coach Phil Sarboe led his Lumberjacks to their first ans had postponed a part of their childhood during the Far Western Conference championship. An estimated 5,000 war. Their extracurricular activities plagued community fans attended one game with UC Davis. Star players of and academe alike. They held beer-drinking sessions in these years — when helmets with face masks still were a Redwood Hall and put cows on the second floor of Nelson rarity — included Gordon Schroeder, Tom Viracola, Tex Hall. (Cows ascend stairs far more willingly than they McKown, Dick Lawitzke, Ray Mechals, Walt Greene, Jerry descend.) Garcia, Bob Dunaway, Jim McAuley, and Rudy Diaz. Chief among these pranks stands the infamous Whistling The relatively successful 1946-47 basketball team featured Pete caper. Whistling Pete was the cadaver used in biology ail-American, Darrell Brown. The team fell on hard times, and anatomy classes. One night a few students carted the however, in subsequent years. corpse to Nelson Hall, the women's dormitory. Propping Pete against the front door, they rang the doorbell, and ran. Track and field got up and running — stumbling, actually Forbes said, "Screams could be heard all over Areata." — with facilities that were marginal. Coach Joseph Forbes

reported, "The track had so many rocks in it that we im- McCarthyism had its impact on the HSC campus. A 1950 mediately started hauling clay to cover the rocks." One star requirement compelled graduates to pass an examination shone in those days: Claude Eshleman in the broad jump in U.S. history and the constitution. The Lumberjack and high hurdles. editorialized against compromising with communism in Korea. In 1952 Areata police came on campus and arrested Women's athletics took place primarily on an intramural a man who identified himself as Mr. Fink of Santa Rosa, level under the sponsorship of the Women's Athletic Asso- for distributing People's World, allegedly "a communist- ciation. inspired newspaper."

A 1950 Lumberjack faculty poll on the issue of loyalty Community Outreach oaths (by then required of all government employees in California) revealed, "The necessity of a livelihood is the The joint effort to improve Redwood Bowl stands as just stronger factor to the alternative of a feeble attempt to be a one of many examples of fine campus/community cooper- martyr." ation in this era. The HSC Improvement Association, the advisory board, and the HSC Foundation continued the As world events drew attention to the Far East and the tradition of partnership. Numerous community-sponsored Korean War, Humboldt students attending an all-college scholarships evidenced a town-and-gown friendliness that assembly discussed the issues of Nationalist versus Com- thrived. munist China, threats of another world war, the spread of communism, and "survival under atomic attack." A war HSC reached out to local schools through music and dra- memorial campaign promoted truth, peace, and justice. The matic festivals, the Women's Athletic Association's Play campus conducted several blood donation drives. As in Day for high school girls, All-Star Day for local baseball en- World War II, the college family participated in a letter- thusiasts, and the like, jointly-sponsored musical offerings writing campaign to military service personnel. as diverse as opera and Bunny Hops took place in Eureka. Charles Fulkerson expanded the Humboldt Symphony Many students and faculty were recalled or drafted into which, by the 50s, numbered 60 musicians, including a military service. Education professor Ted Ingebritson, for strong community contingent. example, was recalled to the Air Force. Potential draftees could, however, take the Selective Service college qual- ification test to earn a deferment. Many did. The Korean The Red Scare War affected enrollment considerably, but not as severely

as World War II (the drop was from 751 to 653 students). However, all was not harmony elsewhere in the world. Barely had the conversion to a peacetime environment After 1953, enrollment would increase every year until commenced when the first hot war of the Cold War era 1975-76. This war, it seems, would only slow a process exploded in Korea. Stateside, Senator Joseph McCarthy's that had gathered considerable momentum since 1945. witch hunts evidenced a new Red Scare.

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(clockwise from top right) Leland Barlow leads caroling Sno-Ball Singers; library in what is now Van Matre Hall; art professors, Mel Schuler and Reese Bullen; calligra- ft I phy class; pottery class supervised f# by Pop Jenkins, 1952. !

69 \r mm. ...» m In the 40s, Imogene (14th & J Streets) was mens Hall). Later the so-

"Maddy" Piatt was head found chained to the rail- ciety would claim credit

resident of Sunset and ing in front of Founders. for the placing of a

Memorable Nelson Halls; and John No one seemed to know Volkswagen in the hall

Pranks Van Duzer, head resident how it had gotten there. in front of President Si-

Throughout of the men's wing of Two days later, just as emens' office, the mov-

the Years Nelson Hall. One Sunday mysteriously, it reappear- ing of a faculty member's

morning, sleepy, conser- ed in its original place. office furniture to the au-

vative, easily scandalized ditorium stage, and the In the early 60s, several Areata awoke to find the publishing ofa false Daily male residents of Red- marquee of the Areata The- Bulletin reporting an all- wood Hall held Moon ater announcing Maddy college assembly at the Nights for the women in and John starring in the same time and place as Sunset Hall. The women movie, Twin Beds. an actual CSC trustees reciprocated with shows meeting. In the 50s, a goat was of their own, beginning

found browsing on the to disrobe in front of Members of the Secret

flowers in the courtyard their windows, then Comb Society revealed

of the old administration pulling the blinds at the themselves to Don

building (Founders). A crucial moment. Karshner, dean of stu-

few years later, a burro dents, just before their Meanwhile the Secret browsed on that same graduation. As he had Comb Society placed the spot. In 1954 a large suspected, the society's teeth of combs in all the Japanese artillery cannon ranks included some of locks to the new admin- from the front lawn of Humboldt's top student istration building (Sie- the Veterans Building leaders.

70 Changing Times: Korea through Kennedy "The times they are a-changin' The Numbers

Following the Korean War, Humboldt The student population increased to 812 in 1953-54. In the State would experience well over two fall of 1954, Don Davis was recognized as the 1,000th stu- decades of consistent growth. That dent to enroll. By 1960 the student body surpassed 2,000. growth would not come without a certain amount of resis- tance, however. Local residents, for decades isolated by the Increased enrollment was attributed, in part, to the con- topography, resented the sudden influx of outsiders. And tinuing effects of war. A few World War II veterans still the campus itself, like all of attended. Korean vet- America, felt the tensions of erans made up much of the Cold War and the budding the late 50s influx. The civil rights movement. Soviet Union's 1957 launching of Sputnik, a These were days of "I Like highly successful or- Ike," of President Kennedy's biting space satellite, New Frontier, of McCarthyite created national insecu- suspicions, of atomic fallout rity. Fears that Ameri- shelters underneath American ca's higher education homes. Civil rights acts of was falling behind led 1957 and 1960 challenged the Cold War govern- long-held racist and segrega- ment to contribute gen- tionist attitudes. Humboldt erously to veterans State College struggled with through the National all that, as well as with social Defense Education Act. problems all its own: the in- terpersonal strains and con- Other sources increased the enrollment: the flicts resulting from unprece- dented growth. maturing baby-boom population reaching On the one hand, President Cornelius Siemens lobbied college age, economic good times, and growth in the state Sacramento for exciting new campus construction projects of California. Five new colleges would join the California to accommodate the ever-swelling ranks of students. On State College system (for a total of 15) during these years. the other hand, Humboldt made concerted efforts to retain School teachers returned to college to meet new, higher a sense of community and keep its reputation for small- credential standards. Locally, the school brought in campus friendliness. Already the school showed signs of students through outreach programs such as the Greater weakening in that area. Segregation questions and Cold Humboldt Committee. War issues would divide the campus community even further. By 1955 campus leaders deemed it necessary to hold a Frosh Camp to orient freshmen before fall classes began. (This would become the Humboldt Orientation Program.)

71 To serve these new students, HSC offered Saturday morn- science, natural science, literature, art (or philosophy), ing classes and, for the first time, noon-hour classes. The health and physical education, oral and written expression, college also called upon technology. In the spring of 1958, and psychology. For those not wishing to specialize at the HSC used IBM punch cards for registration and grades. undergraduate level, a "group major," broadly cultural in character, combined the general education core with 36 The complexion of the student body changed. With an in- upper division units in three academic subjects. crease in the number of students from southern California — some spoke of organizing a Southern California Club — Humboldt kept up with the times with courses in Russian Humboldt was no longer a commuter school. language and television and a 1962 lecture on "Opportu- nities in Computer Programming." CSC international pro- Men students outnumbered women two-to-one in 1955, a grams for overseas study reflected an increasing social and far cry from the "girls' seminary" a decade earlier. Nearly a cultural awareness, as did a federally funded Indian teach- third of HSC's students were over 25 years old. er education program. During the early 60s HSC took steps toward creating a Native American studies program.

HSC Exploits its Uniqueness

California's Master Plan Humboldt State's curriculum expanded with the growing student body, as the school sought to define its niche in the In 1961 the state legislature transferred authority over the CSC system. Historian Hyman Palais said President Sie- California State Colleges from the department of education mens, when he visited Sacramento (and later Long Beach), to a newly formed board of trustees that would manage, took every opportunity to make a case for HSC's unique- administer, and control all 15 colleges, including Humboldt ness. He lobbied for a field house because of Humboldt State. Chancellor Buell Gallagher headed the CSC system. County's excessive rainfall. He argued for special equipment and facilities to support Humboldt's unique programs This change reflected an influential study published the in fisheries, wildlife, and forestry. He requested an ocean- previous year. A Master Planfor Higher Education in Cali- going vessel for instructional purposes. He lobbied for the fornia, 1960-75 made recommendations for coordinating marine laboratory which was eventually built in Trinidad. the state's three tiers of higher education: the University of California, the California State Colleges, and the junior By 1956 HSC had an entire natural resources division colleges. The report directed Humboldt State to emphasize (headed by Charles Yocum) offering B.S. and M.S. degrees "instruction in the liberal arts and sciences and in profes- in fisheries and wildlife management. Within four years sions and applied fields which require more than two years HSC added academic divisions for business (headed by of collegiate education and teacher education." William Jackson), language arts (John Pauley), biological sciences (William Lanphere), and physical sciences (Roscoe This report marked the beginnings of more rigid control Peithman). The school offered new programs in industrial over individual campuses. More structure, more reporting arts, political science, and — with the help of Eureka ob- — and more bureaucracy. stetrician and gynecologist, Ted Loring, MD — nursing. The forestry program, under the direction of Ed Pierson and "Old deans never die, Jerry Partain, expanded from a two- to a four-year profes- they just lose their faculties." sional forestry management curriculum. HSC also offered a master's degree in the liberal arts. Dean of Instruction Homer Balabanis headed a veritable

In 1956 a new general education program required all employment bureau in this era, hiring more and more fac- degree earners to take a minimum of 45 units in social ulty to meet teaching demands and to replace a generation

72 In the late 30sJohn Van room and the parking oped the facilities, and

Duzer, professor of area. When Roscoe John Rawlinson served as speech and drama, gave Peithman and his elec- program manager. Gayle Humboldt On weekly music apprecia- tronics class installed a Karshner threw the switch the Air tion programs for children carrier-current system in 22 years later as KHSU- over KIEM radio. In the 1954, KHSC could be 90.5 frequency, increas-

early 40s Don Karshner heard campus-wide. Its ing its power to 1 00 watts,

taught HSC's first radio first broadcast schedule extending coverage to

classes. His students pre- was under the direction McKinleyville and Eureka. sented drama, interviews, of William Ladd. In the years since, KHSU recitals, and campus news This set the stage for has extended its service reports on KIEM. KHSC-FM, which in 1960 area (northern Mendocino

The programs were popu- became California's first County to southern Ore-

lar in the community. state college radio station. gon) and its reputation for

Eureka's station KHUM, Dale Anderson and diversified programming. coveting the student tal- George Goodrich devel- ent, claimed, "No one T should be blessed with

exclusive use of such a

group." Soon student pro-

gramming crossed the air

over several frequencies.

After the war, Ted DeLay

constructed a studio and wired up a campus sound system. Loudspeakers brought student programs

to the quad, the dining

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(clockwise from top right) The ne\ cafeteria/student activities building; the new men's gymnasium, fieldhouse, and Redwood Bowl; workers at the Coop's fountain, 1960: Vera Wal- ters, Dora Seiber. Lee Kenman, and Blanche Hendrickson.

74 , growing campus: (clockwise from top right) new library; new wildlife building; aerial view, Siemens Hall and Van Duzer Theatre under construction; Forestry Club president Peter Passof helps dedicate forestry building, 1962.

75 reaching retirement age. In 1955 he hired 26 new faculty; arts/auditorium structure (now Van Duzer Theatre), and a in 1958, another 36. By 1961 HSC had over 170 full-time new administration building (now Siemens Hall). and 20 part-time faculty. Upon completion of the new administration building in Pop Jenkins, teacher at Humboldt for 38 years, retired in 1953 1959, the old administration building was renamed Foun- and passed away in 1955. Balabanis commented: ders Hall to recognize the many persons responsible for establishing and operating Humboldt State. A ceremony Professor Jenkins was the most beloved profes- honored those founders, thirty-one of whom found their sor in the history of the institution because of names on a plaque mounted near the entrance. Three hon- his interest in the individual student: not only orees attended the ceremony: Elenore Brizard Holcombe, in teaching them, but in their personal welfare. Bernice Bull, and Len Yocom.

Other respected, long-time faculty and staff retired, includ- The changes on campus kept coming. The Green and Gold ing Homer Arnold, Maurice Hicklin, Imogene Piatt, Harry Room became a lounge and meeting room. A student MacGinitie, and Myrtle McKittrick. health building, student activities center and cafeteria additions. Among the newcomers who would make their mark on were welcome Campus athletic facilities also saw Humboldt State were Milton Dobkin (speech), Ken Hum- great improvements: a new field house with tennis courts phrey (education), Leon Wagner (music), Wilmer Bohlmann to the south, a men's gym (now the East Gym) and an indoor pool. got a roof for the (political science), John Borgerson (physics), Jim Carroll (so- swimming Redwood Bowl west stands, expanded seating (with donated ciology), Winn Chase (industrial arts), Glenda Richter (for- lumber by eign language), Tom Clark (chemistry), Dick Day (English), local companies), and a rubberized track around the football Bob Dickerson (economics), John Gimbel (history), Ford field. Hess (physical education), James Householder (mathemat- The year 1962 saw the science building expanded, the ics), Jack Schaffer (psychology), John Butler (biology), Rob- forestry building and the new library completed, the old ert Kittleson (economics), Richard Ridenhour (fisheries), library (now Van Matre Hall) remodeled into an en- Ralph Hassman (physical education), Bill Thonson (art), gineering building, and a new education and psychology and Rudolph Becking (forestry). building erected (now Harry Griffith Hall).

There were many others, of course, some of whom still teach at Humboldt and some of retired in the 80s. whom Campus/Community Relations Indeed, Humboldt's emeritus faculty now includes 170 members, as opposed to only nine in 1961. A flourishing economy, a growing student body (patroniz- ing local merchants), and winning football teams combined to strengthen relations between campus and community Edifice Complex during these years. The dedication ceremony for Founders Hall, with its recognition of community support for Hum- Naturally, with all the new students on campus, shortages of classroom and laboratory space continued. New and boldt State, also strengthened bonds between town and newly-remodeled structures began to dot the campus. So gown. did new sidewalks and landscaping projects. The Hammond Lumber Company donated a truck to haul the price Early construction projects included the wildlife manage- forestry students to and from the woods. For of the College Improvement ment building, the art/home economics building, a new one dollar, Pacific Lumber granted Association lease land near Freshwater music building, the home management cottage, a speech a twenty-year on for use by the forestry department.

76 Many local merchants sponsored Francis Givins coached the work scholarships for students basketball teams from 1953- and supported campus activities 64. Robert Doornik coached financially. By the early 60s, HSC's first track-and-field Humboldt State had the highest champions in the Far Western number of scholarships per stu- Conference in 1959. Bill Hook dent in the state system. was NAIA champ in the discus. Wrestling coach Gordon Schro- The active HSC alumni associa- eder's team won its first FWC tion sponsored a student loan championship in 1960. fund. President Estelle Preston McDowell opened an association But football boasted the most office in the campus Coop. For success. HSC had already won homecoming festivities in 1 959, alumni came by train from as its first FWC championship in 1952 under coach Phil far away as the Bay Area. The following year a Who's Who Sarboe. The Lumberjacks would have only one losing sea- award for distinguished alumni honored its initial recipient: son in this era. Star players included George Psaros, Jim George Hogan, class of 1933. Ingram, Phil Huff, Earl Barnum, Charles McAnnick, Ceasar Fromma, Zeke Van Deventer, Ed White, Sal Sino, Manny The HSC family helped out in the community during the Simas, Vester Flanagan, Fred Whitmire, Cecil Stephens, and Christmas flood of 1955. The school also produced an Drew Roberts. Many received FWC and NAIA honors. annual community Christmas concert. In 1960 HSC began allowing anyone living within the service area, including The 1960 season (11-1) capped off the Sarboe era. HSC public school students, the privilege of using the campus ranked second nationally in the NAIA at season's end. Sar- library. boe got NAIA coach-of-the-year honors. The defensive line

built its reputation as the Green Chain.

Athletics Games had to be moved to Albee Stadium in Eureka to accommodate the thronging fans. Ten thousand attended the In 1955 a new Sports Hall of Fame inducted 30s football western regional playoff against Whitworth College. Victo- star Earl Meneweather. Four years later the Hall of Fame rious there, the Lumberjacks took their 20-game winning inducted its first woman, 20s track star "Cinder" Elta Cart- streak to St. Petersburg, Florida, to play for the NAIA wright. The glory days of Humboldt athletics would not be championship in the Holiday Bowl. There, a controversial limited to the past, however. As the college grew, so did the late fourth-quarter field goal by Lenoir-Rhyne College strength of its athletic programs. This growth would climax (North Carolina) pulled out a 15-14 victory. in a football bowl game for the small-college national while largely intramural, improved greatly championship in 1960 (see p 83). Women's sports, after the arrival of Louise Watson (1953) and the other HSC's first athletic trainer, Ced Kinzer, arrived during this women's coaches: Kay Gott Chaffey, Elizabeth Stagle An- era. So did Lucky Logger (1958), a nine-foot mascot replica derson Partain, and Leela Zion. Star players in this era of a Lumberjack. The Marching Lumberjacks abandoned included Pat Clark, volleyball; Betty Larsen, badminton; their backwoods garb for more conventional uniforms in and Ann Hitt and Karen Paulsen in basketball. 1959. The first alumni-versus-varsity football game took place that year, with the alumni winning, 21-6.

77 78 1958 for lack of space. The All-College Picnic, held each year until 1959, gave way to Lumberjack Days. Faculty and staff began holding a spring outing separate from the stu- waul Asp recalls that you couldn't get in to the 7:30 dents: a salmon bake at Camp Bauer.

Homecoming continued amid much enthusiasm. Kate Bu- football games if you didn't have your seat by 7:00. chanan, associate dean of students in this era, related an amusing anecdote about one particular homecoming. There Homecoming parades, he remembers, were huge was a lot of rah-rah and competition between the classes in those days. Sophomores had to try to light a bonfire set up events, with elaborate floats and five or six local high by the freshmen. This particular year the freshmen, in col- lusion with the maintenance department, received permis- school marching bands competing for prize money. sion to burn down an entire building, a state-owned house scheduled for demolition. "It was all hush-hush," Buchan- an said. "[But] somehow news got out that the freshmen had a house to burn, so the sophomores burned down the house." Funding for women's sports came largely from proceeds from the Women's Recreation Association's ice cream Trouble was, they burned down the wrong house! Buchan-

machine in the gym (approximately $100 a year). Inter- an feared deep trouble. As it turned out, the house the stu- collegiate sports for women would have to wait several dents burned down was also scheduled to be razed, thus more years. avoiding a major catastrophe.

Campus Life: from Muddy Gras to the Great Potato Rebellion rlyer for the salmon bake at Camp Bauer, 1956: "All Don Karshner became dean of students in 1954, a position

he would hold for 1 7 years. He oversaw counseling, stu- professors and other absent-minded persons get your tick- dent activities, admission and registration, the health pro- ets early per adult. Children 12 years old under gram, student council, the bookstore, and housing. During $1 and his tenure, faithful observance of traditional campus activ- free. (Employees under 4 feet tall admitted free.)" ities continued, but the increasing size of the student body dictated certain changes.

In 1954, out of a fear that HSC's growth would stifle its In special events, a time capsule burial (to be opened Octo- friendliness, the sidewalk west of Founders Hall was desig- ber, 2053) highlighted commemoration of the 40th anni- nated Hello Lane. For several years the proclamation of versary of Humboldt State's founding. Campus Dedication Hello Day meant students and faculty saying "Hi" to every- Week, held in the spring of 1960 in conjunction with the one they passed. annual Festival of Arts, celebrated the new master plan and new campus buildings, particularly Sequoia (now Van Duz- Romance may have been alive and well on campus, but the er) Theatre. One ceremony introduced a new HSC flag. The annual Sweetheart Ball was dropped for lack of interest in presidents of all the state colleges attended. 1957. All-college assemblies had to be discontinued in

79 When Art Dalianes ar- ('60-64). During this era charge of the infamous

rived in 1 955, new semes- he, Kate and Don bonfire that burned down

ters started with freshmen Karshner developed the the wrong house — had

being received in the cam- concept of a campus ac- to go in to face Kate the

Kate Buchanan: pus homes of faculty and tivity center. "Think big," morning after the fire. His Hard Work administrators. He was was Buchanan's motto. heart was pounding be-

& Humor assigned to Kate Buch- "If you think small, you cause he had so much re-

anan, who had come to limit your visions." spect for Kate and felt so

HSC in 1946 as assistant badly about what he had Kate always saw the bright professor of English and done. At first she sat qui- side and turned negatives Speech. Dalianes remem- etly at her desk. Then she into positives with her bers her as a person whose looked up and burst out humor which made any door was always open, laughing. "That's one for assignment fun. She for any student. Follow- the books," she said. helped lay the ground- ing Eugenia Loder, she work for the University And now it is. became dean of women Center where a meeting (a title that would be room is named for her. changed to "associate She organized the Phoe- dean of activities"), and nix Club to support older, helped overturn the rule single women returning that females could not to college. wear slacks. Dalianes remembers Art would eventually be when he and Don Peter- student body president son — they had been in and later Kate's assistant

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Relations Club (with an annual dinner for foreign students). Dramatic and musical productions remained

popular including King Richard //, The Madwoman of

Speaking of Arson . . Chailott, and Humboldt '56.

Fads included holding apple cider chugalug contests at tlomecoming bonfires created one of Don Karshner's Lumberjack Days, gyrating in hula hoop contests, dancing greatest anxieties as dean of students. Freshmen spent all the twist, and sunbathing at College Cove. Faculty members often participated in the merriment. In 1956 Professor Leon day Thursday and Friday collecting wood, old tires, and Wagner quipped on the Elvis Presley rage: other combustibles for the Friday night fire. One year There was a young chap from Tupelo Who caused all the girls loud toyell-o; Karshner got a call from a local community member, an With his lips and his hips, alumnus no less, claiming that students had stolen his privy. He'd no need of quips The teenagers' hearts all to swell-o. Karshner visited the fire site. Sure enough, there was a privy Students elected professors Ralph Roske and Lyn Pauley as on top of the stack, burning brightly. king and queen of "Muddy" Gras in February, 1956. They held an Ugly Professor contest in 1961, nominating James After Dean McCallum's experiment of sprinkling high oc- Gast, Jean Stradley, Ralph Roske, Don Karshner, Ralph Samuelson, Charles Bloom, and Phil Sarboe. tane gas over the woodpile — an experiment which burned The 1958-59 HandbookJor Nelson Hall Women included his the college the called arm and nearly blew up — school these popular song lyrics: a temporary halt to bonfire construction. Having recently We're the girls from Nelson Hall you've heard so much about; acquired property to expand the campus, the school de- Mothers lock their sons up cided instead to let students burn down theold houses. That whenever we go out; You've heard a lot about us is, until the house wrong was burned down. and most of it is true; All the fellows fear us — we hope you fear us too. BOO!

With the 1959 completion of Sunset Hall for women and Wildlife and Conservation Week continued, and other Redwood Hall for men, HSC began requiring unmarried observances joined it: Religious Emphasis Week in 1954 students under 21 to live either on campus or at home. (although by 1963 religious services associated with grad- Enforcement became increasingly difficult, however, with uation would disappear); American Heritage Week, 1957; nearly 2,000 students enrolled in the fall of 1959. and Marriage Education Week, 1958.

With living space harder to come by, fraternity and sorority Students organized for forensics, an annual Business Day, houses made a comeback: Delta Sigma Phi, Tau Kappa Ep- a Veterans Club (with Happy Hours once a month at the silon, and Delta Zeta. Off-campus students took advantage popular restaurant, the Big Four), and an International

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of a Metro Bus Service begun in 1962. Twenty shuttle rides actually provoked a student vote to determine whether between campus and the Areata Post Office cost $4. such "profanity" should continue. An example of Pierre's (a.k.a. Jack Norton) wit: By 1958-59 the Associated Student Body budget topped $80,000. Football receipts and student activity fees (dou- If you have Spaid, you have it made: bled to $10 in 1958) were the chief sources of revenue. In And then there's Pauley, take care not to folly. 1961 ASB built a new student activities center (part of the But look out for "Mac," here you need tact. present University Center), with cafeteria, bookstore, and And Marx who's hard, wait 'til you see the card. ASB offices. The ASB relinquished control over food serv- Oh, you have Smith for lab, ices, the bookstore, and vending machines to Lumberjack take care you'll end upon a slab. Enterprises, a nonprofit corporation of administrators, fac- And Karshner, well, ulty, and students. nothing rhymes with Karshner. Don't be nervous — see you all in the service.

Everything but a Centerfold A more daring discontent soon became apparent. By 1959 students were addressing the alleged opposition of the ad- Several campus publications sprouted during these years. ministration to free student expression. Students demand- Toyon, a literary journal, first appeared in April of 1954 ed participation in campus governance and control over and continues to this day. Hilltopper, a magazine devoted contents of The Lumberjack. This led to an ad hoc commis- to the nonfiction interpretive article, made its appearance sion on student rights and responsibilities. in 1957 under the editorship of Chloe Higgins DeBrunner. In the early 60s, students began wearing beards. By The Forestry Club began publishing Annual Ring in 1959. men 1963 women students were violating the rule that slacks Editor John Bell noted that he and his staff "included just only days of inclement weather. Lumberjack about everything except a Playmate of the Month." be worn on A columnist charged, "The rule is being honored mainly in Forum appeared in 1961, an iconoclastic, off-campus publi- the breeches." cation unauthorized by the administration. Editorial staffer cafeteria tickets increased to per Todd Collins said they aired important contemporary issues In 1963 when meal $250 semester, 1 7 students were disciplined for "The Great Pota- in order to nurture an active concern in the student body. to Rebellion," so named for great quantities of mashed po- Those issues included compulsory student body cards, anti- tatoes around the cafeteria. Faculty spokespersons communism, and racism. Student Statesman, equally con- tossed criticized "the uncalled for, uncitizenlike outburst of stu- troversial but ultraconservative, also circulated on campus. dent behavior."

A Growing Discontent Another incident, involving somewhat more consequential weaponry, prompted President Siemens to ban firearms These latter publications may have represented the begin- (loaded or not) from the dormitories. nings of a growing student discontent. After the shock of the Kennedy assassination in 1963, controversy and activ- Looking Outward ism would increase still more, and discontent would char- acterize the late 60s. The pages of The Lumberjack chronicle Humboldt students' interest in off-campus issues. How times had changed. As recently as 1953, a caustic, growing satirical Lumberjack column, "Pierre the Legionnaire," had

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I n December, 1 960, with The story hit the national to get the same treatment the civil rights movement news wires. Everyone when they were going to

in its infancy and segre- could read about the seg- play on the same field.... gation commonplace in regation controversy. Coach Sarboe met with the the South, an undefeated Stuck in the middle, far entire team and made it Humboldt State football from home, were players clear that if there were a team boarded a plane for who only wanted to cap Tackling single objection, the team St. Petersburg, Florida, to off their perfect season Segregation would not play. They did play for the national with a national cham- play, losing 1 5-1 4 to North excerpts championship . . . Upon pionship. "We felt it was from an article by Carolina's Lenoir-Rhyne landing, its five black 33 guys from Northern Carol Harrison College. members were whisked California against the in Humboldt Stater away to housing quarters world," fullback Ed White "As it turned out, going separate from the rest of said. and the telegram were the the team. best things possible," Ed The ire of St. Petersburg White said. "We had The trip focused nation- came down on the team. earned a shot at the title. I wide attention on the tiny The St. Petersburg Inde- would have been highly North Coast campus, but pendent reminded "dis- upset if we hadn't gone, no it also awakened the con- contented athletes" that doubt But the controversy science of a faculty, a the city maintained the initiated changes that had to community, and a state. same laws for "such highly be made." Thirty-seven faculty mem- paid and extremely re-

bers sent the following spected men as Elston Bill Love, who, with team-

telegram to the superin- Howard and Hector mate Dave Littleton, was

tendent of public instruc- Lopez of the New York active in the civil rights tion: Yankees." At home, the movement, said, "No 37 faculty members were change ever occurs with-

. . . Humboldt State Col- tagged by the Humboldt out some cost. Our sacri- lege, in accepting a bid to Times as "agitators." Pro- fice might have been the appear in the NAIA Holi- fessor Kathryn Corbett end of the world for us, but day Bowl. . . has accepted offered a different per- it's nothing compared to segrega ted housing fa cili- spective. the ultimate sacrifice ties for the football team. people paid for that same were all our kids, We wish to know . . . They cause." whether there is any poli- and you knew them all ... cy relating to state par- I was incensed that boys ticipation in segregated in my class weren't going

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84 During McCarthy's Red Scare, the question arose whether An Activist Faculty instructors should be allowed to discuss communism in the classroom. Students voted in the affirmative. They also ex- Certain faculty members of this era, like their students, pressed concern for world conflicts: Arabs vs. Israelis, the showed signs of increased activism. The local chapter of nuclear arms race, U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, and the Association of California State College Instructors often relations with the Soviet Union and Communist China. In led the way. 1957 they raised funds for the Hungarian Relief Fund. In 1959 ACSCI joined student protests over the loyalty oath The Cold War was heating up. After news of Sputnik, Hum- requirement for NDEA loans. Later that year, when the boldt students debated whether the Soviets led the U.S. in state forced HSC to implement its first parking fee ($13 per science. The Berlin crisis of 1961 caused mobilization of semester), students and faculty alike protested. ACSCI sup- the local National Guard unit, 40 percent of whose mem- ported professor James Householder, who parked behind bers were students. That crisis, plus the 1962 Cuban Founders Hall without a permit. His primary objection was missile crisis, created growing concern over the possibility that fees were not used locally to improve parking facilities. of nuclear war. Industrial arts students designed a home- Householder lost his case in court but received only a sus- style fallout shelter. Throughout the community — pended $25 fine. throughout the country — citizens packed their basements After the 1960 master plan vested more power in the hands and closets with emergency food, water, blankets, and of the chancellor, other organizations became more vocal in flashlights. the interests of faculty rights and work benefits. Chapters Environmental issues cropped up, too. Students com- of the following organizations began to rival ACSCI for plained that dams on Northern California rivers would hurt leadership on campus: the American Federation of Teach- trout and salmon fisheries. The Lumberjack rang with both ers, the California Teacher Association, the California State preservationist and conservationist views — a reflection of Employees Association, the California College and Universi- the growing polarization of politics in Humboldt County. ties Faculty Association, University Professors of California, and the American Association of University Professors. When the Kinsey Report on sexual behavior came out, a faculty the first to poll showed some students feared it would lower moral In 1961 the organized academic senate standards while others looked forward to reading it. In "provide an efficient organization for the fullest participa- other campus polls, students objected to the loyalty oath tion of the faculty in the development and review of local required for an NDEA loan. They petitioned the state legis- educational policy." That first senate consisted of President lature to end the death penalty. One married student, Siemens, faculty president Fred Telonicher, four academic denied access to the delivery room at local hospitals, deans, and 18 elected faculty representatives. Edward chained himself to his pregnant wife. Steele chaired the senate which established committees of faculty-elected members, including one to recommend reappointments and tenure, and another for promotions. In 1963 Humboldt sent faculty delegates Hyman Palais and Roscoe Peithman to the first statewide academic senate for the CSC system.

85 Two controversies in 1960-61 focused attention on HSC A second controversy occurred when members of the faculty. The first involved the petition to boycott the Holi- political science department were charged with being

day Bowl game because of racial segregation (p 83). While communist sympathizers. The accusation followed publi- controversial both in the South and on the North Coast, the cation of Professor Ross Koen's book, The China Lobby, publicity proved effective. The next spring the NAIA which criticized Chinese Nationalists and their U.S. sup- announced that the Holiday Bowl would move from St. porters. A southern California assemblyman stated, Petersburg to Fresno. "Humboldt County is the most subversive county in the state." Assemblyman Frank Belotti from Humboldt County That didn't stop the controversy at home. Lumberjack defended his constituency, and Governor Edmund Brown editorials criticized those faculty members who and President Siemens called the charges irresponsible.

waited virtually to the eve of Humboldt State's That 1960-61 school year appeared to diminish the cordial greatest football game, when the college was in relations between faculty and students. Lumberjack edito- the national limelight for perhaps one of the rials marked the loss of friendliness. They claimed faculty few times in history, to stir up an embarrass- members had stopped attending student social functions as ment for the team, the coaches, the administra- before. In February, 1961, for example, no faculty king or tion, and Humboldt State. queen reigned over Muddy Gras. Editor Hugh Clark wrote further: Perhaps students and faculty could feel small-college We are unhappy and disgusted with 37 mem- friendliness slipping away. These, however, were only the bers of our faculty who we think have done beginnings of disaffection and controversy. The real 60s wrong ... We believe their actions so close to had just begun. game time had a marked effect on the team, and we charge them with hurting HSC's chanc-

es in the Holiday Bowl . . . Never will we forgive them for hurting Humboldt State and a great bunch of guys who deserved considerably better.

86 Growing Pains in the Age of

Aquarius The Times severe growing pains. World and national incidents during the Johnson and Nixon years triggered student and faculty College least, his obit- 1964-73 Joe was dead. At activism far more visible than at any time during the col- uary (p 88) had been written. A new era lege's history. Student government and campus organiza- called for a new kind of student. This tions grew restive. was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. All the old stereotypes, all the old rules and values, were up for grabs. Meanwhile, enrollment increased threefold and the number of faculty fourfold. The As early as 1963, Lumber- close-knit camaraderie jack columnist Rod Mitchell between faculty and stu- had urged HSC students to dents diminished. Rela- tions between campus and Doubt! Dissent! Re- community grew strained. fuse to accept eternal verities! Make fun of Arthur Schlesinger! Vietnam & the Draft Poke holes in Dan Smoot! Read Karl After the shock of the Marx! If you want to Kennedy assassination, make a perfect ass of controversy and activism yourself dancing the increased on campus.

stomp, have at it! While Beatlemania invaded the dorms in 1964, a A 1971 letter to the editor, more substantial contro- however, expressed one versy brewed over estab- alumnus' disgusted reaction lishment of Redwood Na- to all the turmoil on cam- tional Park. This would pus: create a schism to endure

for years. Still, Just Old Fashioned though environmental issues provoked continuing local interest, it When I was a student, I was quiet, would be the draft and the war in Vietnam that would dom-

I didn't protest and didn't riot. inate the late 60s and early 70s.

I wasn't unwashed, I wasn't obscene; Anti-draft sentiment paralleled increased U.S. involvement I made no demands on Prexy or Dean. in Vietnam. Picket signs around an Air Force recruiter in I sat in no sit-ins, I heckled no speaker; read: "Declare War on Poverty, not Peasants." That I'm forced to admit, with some hesitation; 1966 December, campuswide seminars focused on Vietnam. All I got out of school was an education. "Teach-ins" covered draft issues. In 1967, 120 students and The late 60s and early 70s saw both increasing campus professors observed National Stop the Draft Week, spon- activism and increasing polarization. President Siemens, in sored by Students for a Democratic Society. his second decade, watched Humboldt State suffer through

87 I he end of a decade and the ail-American girl next maker. He was content to the beginning of a new to him, who wore his pin. float along the current of one cause people to look After the game Joe went college life, avoiding the back and reflect on the over to the frat house or swirl of controversy, the events that made history. down to the Keg to quaff responsibility of involve- In Memoriam: Perhaps the 60s will be a few beers. ment, the disappointment College Joe remembered as the dec- of self-realization. In student government, editorial by Mike ade of death. John and Joe was the first to com- In the end, though, Joe Stockstill in The Robert Kennedy, Martin plain at the SLC meetings College met his fate. The Lumberjack, Luther King, Lee Harvey January 14, 1970 that school spirit was real- Big Game wasn't so big Oswald, each one mur- ly lagging. Joe was pleased anymore, life at the old dered in a terribly public when student government fraternity house became manner. But one death acted on important mat- little more than beer busts during the 60s went ters like selection of and rank initiations, and largely unnoticed. Per- cheerleaders and new suddenly, life began to haps it was because the uniforms for the band. In blow up all around him — exact time, place, and class, Joe was the typical the bomb, politics, race cause of death is not real- student, going for the riots, Vietnam, the crisis ly known. However, the gentleman's "C" and no of the environment. Joe deceased is gone forever more. He took his notes, died of being irrelevant to — Joe College is dead. read his books occasion- the world around him. Who was Joe, anyway? ally, and crammed relig- Now that Joe has gone, a Most of us would prob- iously for his finals. new generation has come ably have recognized Joe But there was another Joe to take his place. Like all when he was around. He College too, probably new generations, they was the "Big Man On more typical than the one came in with a roar, Campus" leading the just described. This Joe caused some excitement, cheers at the rah-rah pep went to class, studied, made some mistakes, and rally before the Big Game. went to the games, drank learned some lessons. He could be seen glad- some beer now and then, Now they will begin to handing his way around got his degree, and left grow up. Their causes are campus in his flashy college without so much just; their era is begin- clothes. At the Big Game, as a whisper in his four ning. Joe was there with his years of education. This blanket and wineskin, ra- Rest in peace, Joe. Joe College was no wave diant in the innocence of

88 During 1968-69 HSC was conflict-ridden to the point where by the campus chaplain, Father Gary Timmons. No violence some feared the campus would be destroyed. In response to occurred, and students met with a positive reception from faculty/student strikes and rowdiness, Governor Ronald much of Areata. Reagan threatened "expulsion of students or the dismissal That next spring, of teachers who interfered with the educational process." however, President Nixon announced that the U.S. had invaded and bombed Cambodia — in Chancellor Glenn Dumke threatened to take over CSC news- contradiction to his 1968 campaign promises to wind papers because of the use of four-letter words and nude down photographs. the war. A more volatile situation arose. Across the nation, campuses became scenes of mass demonstration, violence, A Student Conduct Program for Humboldt State College, is- and even bloodshed at Kent State and Jackson State. sued in 1968, attempted to "avoid the combat zone atmos- At Humboldt the Student Legislative in phere on many of the nation's campuses." A Smith River Council met special session on May 6, 1970, in the Sequoia Theatre Plaza. retreat in 1970 brought together administrators (including A crowd of more than 1,100 observed the 13-1 SLC vote "to President Siemens), faculty, students, and members of the demonstrate the students' commitment against all war and community. The retreat promoted a sense of community all violence." Suggestions included the banning of Lumber- and addressed issues of mutual concern. All this preceded jack Days (or renaming them "Peace Days"), a boycott of all the Cambodian Incursion in May of 1970 and the resultant student activities, and flying the American flag upside outburst of turmoil. down until the war ended. The high points of anti-Vietnam War protests occurred dur- On 1 1 nearly 3,000 students, faculty, and administra- ing 1969-70: Vietnam Moratorium Day, the Cambodian May tors gathered again on the Sequoia Quad with an open Incursion protest, and the closing of campus in May of mike for speechmaking. Students voted for a voluntary, 1970. Leading up to these events, the Peace and Freedom peaceful, one-week strike. They then canvassed door-to- Party and Students for a Democratic Society had been or- door in Areata and held a teach-in at Areata High to gain ganizing pacifist activities since 1966. At the other end of community support. Students with long hair trimmed their the ideological spectrum, the Two Per Cent Club and the locks so as not to offend local citizens. President Siemens John Birch Society had organized counterdemonstrations called for abolition of the draft system and condemned the and combated communism on campus. Before the fall of Cambodian Incursion. 1969, however, many students remained uninvolved.

Governor Reagan responded to Cambodian protests and Then came Vietnam Moratorium Day, October 15, 1969, strike threats around the state by closing all CSC and Uni- endorsed by President Siemens and the academic senate. versity of California campuses, including Humboldt. Vice president Milt Dobkin cites this as evidence of Sie- mens' ability to adjust to changing conditions while at the President Siemens, professor Tom Jones, and two students, same time keeping things under control. Approximately funded by $8,000 raised on and off campus, traveled to 800 students gathered in the Sequoia Theatre (now Van Washington to speak to the California delegation in Con- Duzer Theatre) to hear speakers protest U.S. involvement gress. The Lumberjack reported, in Vietnam. Participating faculty members included Ken attended the Hallum, Tom Jones, and John Hennessy. Formerly bearded professor Jones rally with face clean-shaven and a military Students decided to communicate their concerns to the haircut to facilitate communication in Wash- community, and the demonstration moved to the Areata ington. Plaza. More antiwar speeches filled the air, including one

89 .

Another rally upon their return allowed Siemens and the Associated Students demanded student participation in others to recount their reception by the California delega- campus policymaking. Students demanded, and received, a tion. They believed their expressed opposition to the Cam- nonsmoking section in the cafeteria. They protested the bodia incursion and the Vietnam War had had an impact. arrests of hippies and the suspension of high school students for wearing long hair. They supported legalization of So while the traditional Lumberjack Days and a miniskirt marijuana and prostitution. They called for enrollment of contest went forward in late May, other HSC students were more ethnic minority students. They balked at computer- sending 600 draft cards to the Princeton Anti-Draft Center ized registration. They criticized faculty members for being to be forwarded to Washington. unwilling to devote more time to them. They lodged protests against letter grades student Antiwar and antidraft activities did not disappear after and demanded membership faculty committees. that, but the intensity died down. Activism on this front on virtually ended in 1971 with suspension of the draft, a The service organizations Circle K, International Knights, significant reduction of American involvement in Vietnam, and Spurs dissolved. Meanwhile students formed a Black and with 18-year-olds receiving the right to vote. Student Union, a chapter of the Sierra Club, Sisters of Sap- pho, Gay Peoples Union, Jewish Student Union, the HSU Other Activism Caucus for Women, a Stop-at-Four committee (four traffic lanes on Highway 101 through Areata), and MEChA. The A change in the celebrities visiting campus reflected the campus began hosting Black Culture Week, Asian-American new political climate. At one point the CSUC board of trus- Awareness Week, Women's Awareness Week, Third World tees reprimanded HSU for engaging in left wing politics Week, and a Safe Hitchhiker's Workshop. Speakers repre- almost exclusively. senting the Student International Meditation Society invited students to "expand the mind without drugs." In the early 60s Humboldt County had welcomed Harry Golden, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and Chuck By 1970 The Lumberjack was calling for "a move away Yeager. But between 1968 and 1971, Robert Kennedy, from campus-centered activities to more community and Ladybird Johnson, Herbert Marcuse, B.F. Skinner, Dick political projects and issues." In that spirit, homecoming Gregory, Dick Tuck, Ralph Nader, Willie Brown, Tom was abandoned. The battle was joined in the controversy Hayden, and James Farmer visited HSC. Oregon senator over Redwood National Park. Environmental Awareness Mark Hatfield spoke against the draft. Representative Week raised student consciousness, as did debates on zero Allard Lowenstein of New York spoke against the war and population growth and women's liberation issues. President Nixon. On the other side of the issue, Ronald Reagan spoke at College of the Redwoods in 1970. Because On the other hand . . of the heckling, Reagan vowed he would never speak on another college campus. The Underground Guide to the College of Your Choice, pub- labeled Humboldt State College as the nicest College students across the nation were growing more ac- lished in 1971, of the California State College campuses. The publication tive politically and more critical of educational institutions is lot hair beards here, but the they attended. The University of Michigan and UC Berkeley stated: "There a of long and straights are the majority." became leading centers of criticism of American society. Humboldt State also felt those trends. By the late 60s, "Straights" and traditional social activities did continue, for conflict abounded between students and administrators/ the most part, right through the stormy 60s. Students faculty. selected a homecoming queen, Delta Sigma Phi Dream Girl,

90 In its first 50 years, Humboldt frustration. He established a Siemens to take the students'

State, like most American free speech stump. He case to Washington. This

colleges, took a paternalistic encouraged a door-to-door helped relieve the confron-

attitude toward students. canvass to break down tational aspect of local protest.

Faculty advisors took over in stereotypes between "long Karshner was not alone in planning student schedules. hairs" and local citizenry. recognizing the changes Dorm directors acted as He fostered Gentle Days — Don Karshner: sweeping across America. Dean of surrogate parents. ASB spon- singing, dancing, joyous With or without the dean, Students sored only administration- human encounter — and students and administrators approved events. community service through might have reached new Youth Educational Services. Sensitive to the changing times, understandings about rights

Dean of Students Don In the protest march to the and responsibilities. But the

Karshner saw students as Areata Plaza, Karshner worked HSC family of that generation

responsible adults. In the 50s, with students and police to gives Don Karshner much of

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student judiciary body. In the He also convinced President positive transition.

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93 and sweethearts for Tau Kappa Epsilon, Sempervirens, and giate Kite Flying Contest (at Clam Beach); a Humboldt the Freshman class. They shelled out from $2.40 to $3 for Honeys club; an oceanography publication, Pacific Oceanic a cafeteria meal ticket. They dropped a quarter in the Olio (1965); the Clam Beach Run (1966); the annual vending machine slot for a Coke. They flew home over the Humboldt Film Festival (1968); an all-male pep band, the breaks (a one-way flight to San Francisco was $31). They Golden Berets (1968); and a culture fair (1969) sponsored planned Sneak Day at College Cove. by the Third World Coalition.

A big celebration in 1963-64 marked HSC's Golden Anni- Associated Students' active Student Legislative Council versary. Distinguished alumnus Monroe Spaght delivered a started a college union fund in 1965 to support construc- special address on "Concern for Character." tion of a new activities center, completed in 1973. They established a Speakers' Stump on the commons and helped sponsor a tutorial program in the local public schools. They Student Life in the Age of Aquarius organized Youth Educational Services (Y.E.S.) in 1968 and in 1970 returned control of The Lumberjack to the journal- However, the times they were a-changin'. Sempervirens ism department. (yearbook) and Hilltopper ceased publication. The porno- graphic film, Behind the Green Door showed at the Univer- In 1964 the SLC threatened to picket academic senate meet- sity Center. The last two fraternities, Delta Sigma Phi and ings unless they got representation on faculty committees. Tau Kappa Epsilon, dissolved for lack of interest. The Two years later they called for more student free choice, Athenaeum on campus began selling beer and wine to self-rule, and "the right to be consulted by administrators students and faculty. on all policies involving students." In 1969 the academic senate and President Siemens officially accepted student In 1970 students elected their first African American ASB representation on 37 campus committees. president, Bill Richardson. The Student Legislative Council eliminated the homecoming queen election, partly due to lack of interest, and partly because in 1972 a goat and a Athletics pig were entered as candidates. A Lumberjack editorial in 1971 called for spending less ASB With the new dorms in the Jolly Giant area (p 99) came money on athletics, spending more on "worthwhile" activ- new ideas for student living. Prompted by student demand, ities, and charging students full price for attendance at Ed Simmons, associate dean for activities, and Dave Mur- sporting events. Two years later, some suggested abandon- ray, assistant director of housing, brought forward the peer ing the Lumberjack as the mascot because it excluded wom- group concept. Students assumed more responsibility for en, conservationists, and Native Americans. Throughout their own living conditions. this era, just a few hours' drive south of the campus, a Beginning in 1968, student Living Group Advisors replaced generation of flower children called for peace and love. adult chaperones. Residents made their own rules and reg- On the other hand, hard-hitting Lumberjack football re- ulations. Some dorms allowed co-ed visitations on Satur- mained one of HSC's most visible and successful extracur- day and Sunday afternoons. In 1969 all dorms became ricular programs in this era, led by the school's two most co-ed. By 1971 the residence halls allowed alcohol for successful coaches, Phil Sarboe (1951-65) and Frank "Bud" those 21 or older. (The two most popular student haunts, Van Deren (1966-85). Sarboe won or shared in five Far however, remained off campus: Flynn's Inn and The Keg.) Western Conference championships before retiring in 1966. Also new to the late 60s: miniskirt contests (Bobby Tracy In 1968 Van Deren's team won the conference and went on won in 1969); Hare Krishnas; the first annual Intercolle-

94 L/avid Phillips, who re- 35mm films: documenta- provides an educational Humboldt International ceived a B.A. at HSU in ries, animation, narra- forum for student and in- Film Festival theatre arts with film em- tives, and experiments. dependent filmmakers.

phasis, established the They entered for the pub- As the festival has grown

Humboldt International lic exposure, but also in prestige, it has brought

Film Festival in 1967 — competed for cash prizes in world renowned

the oldest student-run fes- and a few more dubious judges — Lynn Kirby,

tival of its kind in the awards: the Pavlov's Dog Les Blanc, Marcia Lucas,

world. Award, for instance, or Frank Capra, Bill Nichols,

the Banana Slug and and Jan Krawitz — who Beginning in 1968, stu- Cinematic Disobedience have shared their career dent and independent awards. experiences and insights filmmakers across the into this creative art. planet began submitting More than mere entertain-

super 8mm, 16mm, and ment, the film festival

95 I om Parsons, a social merous commendations gram, agricultural devel-

psychologist and former for recognizing and pre- opment and marketing, a

Preserving a Peace Corps volunteer, serving a national treas- cultural and trade ex-

National spent 19 years (1968-87) ure before its extinction. change with China, de-

Treasure with local tribal elders development of Braille com- CCD (now the Center for veloping an easy-to-learn munity signs (the raised Indian Community Devel- phonetic alphabet, and symbols beside elevator opment) has helped hun- putting the Karuk, Hupa, buttons, for instance), and dreds of programs over Tolowa, and Yurok lan- the Humboldt Bay Brass the years. Parsons and his guages into writing. The Society. successors have facilitat- tribes then compiled text- ed the projects, then got- books documenting their ten out of the way. Proj- history, music, prayers, ects arose from needs felt dances, and craft tech- within the community, niques. rather than being imposed This was the American by outside "experts."

Indian Languages and Lit- Projects have included an erature Regeneration annual symposium on the Project, a joint effort be- status of women, the tween the university, the Northwest Indian Ceme- federally-funded Center tery Protective Project, for Community Develop- the Humboldt Senior Re- ment, and Native Amer- source Center, the Hum- icans. CCD received nu- boldt Recreation Pro-

Student Marian Mooney and Tom Parsons at CCD, 1985.

96 to beat Fresno State in the Ca- Track, coached by Lynn Warner mellia Bowl. Stars of those years and Louise Watson, won first included Carl Overstreet, Tom place in 1964. Warner's 1969 Waters, Carl DelGrande, Ted team won the Women's Recre- Snapp, Mel Oliver, Frank Vulich, ation Association track and field Jim Costello, Jeff Getty, Dan meet in Redwood Bowl. Janet Hook, Danny Walsh, and Len Niece, Janet Ferguson, Georgia Gotshalk. John Burman received Becker, Sheila Perkins, Jacque the Northwestern California Ath- Deaner, Lynn Forson, Barbara lete of the Year award from USC's Perkins, Pat Wold, and Beverly Heisman Trophy winner, O.J. Wasson starred. Simpson. HSC women began competing in the Northern California The Lucky Logger Society — Bill Caldwell, Fred Duerr, Kit Women's Intercollegiate Conference in 1969. For three sea- Freeman, Chuck Moser, Tom Nelson, and Rick Stromberg sons Barbara van Putten's volleyball team won the cham- — cheered them on. So did the Marching Lumberjacks, pionship. By the early 70s, women were organizing for who added hard hats to their uniform after 1968. Maria intercollegiate competition and conference play on a level Johnston became their first female member in 1972. Refer- comparable to men's sports. ring to one of the band's common antics, she said, "I could drop my pants like any guy; I even have a pair of boxer Population Explosion shorts."

In cross-country and track and field, Gary Tuttle, Bill Sco- On the Sequoia Plaza, students may have argued zero- bey, Pete Haggard, Larry Cappel, Mike Bettiga, and Fred population-growth issues, but for the school as a whole, Lioni starred. Trained by coach Jim Hunt, Tuttle and Sco- enrollment exploded — far faster than administrators had bey became NCAA national champs. Three top golfers in anticipated. The major increase came from community col- the late 60s were Larry Babica, Greg Bean, and Bob Clark. lege transfers and students outside the area. In the fall of Wrestling coaches Ralph Hassman, Bud Van Deren, and 1969, enrollment surpassed 5,000. Administrators placed a Bob Kelly tutored several individual champions: Al lid on enrollment because of the lack of facilities and hous- Hagerstrand, Jerry McPherson, Tim Fox, and Ed Johnson. ing. More than 10,000 students applied for admission in In swimming and water polo, coached mostly by James 1970; only 1,600 were accepted. Still, by 1973 enrollment Malone, stars included Mike Morey, Marshall Kane, Eric stood at 7,053. Oyster, Ted Deacon, and Tim and Ken Cissna. The state master plan predicted 10,000 full-time equivalent Ced Kinzer (1954-68) stands out as Humboldt's most suc- students for Humboldt by 1980 and 12,000 by 1990. Areata cessful baseball coach (235 wins against only 146 losses). citizens were concerned that the community could not ab- Dick Niclai (1965-75) coached the basketball team; Larry sorb these numbers. They drew up plans for the college to Kerker (1957-69), tennis. A soccer team began intercolle- expand east and north, so as not to further affect Areata giate competition in 1972 under Robert Kelly. residential patterns. HSC's 1970 master plan called for an elaborate, decentralized student housing complex and Women athletes played intramural sports primarily. They outdoor facilities for the natural resources program in those also competed with two- and four-year colleges in the Ex- locations. As it turned out, Humboldt contained its growth tramural League of College Women. The league sponsored and did not reach the predicted numbers. various Sports Days for hockey, volleyball, and basketball.

97 Campus Expansion The Department of Agriculture extended its food stamp program to low-income college students in 1963. The Federal New buildings sprouted up all over campus. These includ- Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 provided work-study ed the auto mechanics building (1966), a child develop- funds for needy students. In 1966 Upward Bound began ment laboratory (1968), art and music additions (1969), a allowing lower-income high school students to spend sum- new building in the biology complex (1971), a natural re- mers experiencing college life. A Cold War G.I. Bill in 1966 sources sciences building (1972), the Joseph M. Forbes further encouraged enrollment at the college level. Physical Education Complex (1973), the marine laboratory in Trinidad (1966), and, with student funding, a new Uni- The Peace Corps, a Kennedy program, found ripe recruiting versity Center (1973). on campus (and continues to do so). By 1964, twelve former HSC students were serving in Africa and Latin America. Founders Hall, the oldest building on campus, underwent Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), Lyndon Johnson's remodeling in 1969-70. Kerr Tower was added, a medita- program for a domestic peace corps, began recruiting after tion room named for donors William, Dorothy, and Guy 1965. Kerr. The Center for Community Development, established under College Elementary School closed in 1970, marking the end the Higher Education Act of 1965, promoted the use of of on-campus laboratory schools in the CSC system. It sig- college and university resources in the community to direct nified, as well, increased efforts to place teacher credential expert attention at local problem areas. Under first director students in community schools for classroom experience. William Murison, the CCD sponsored programs ranging The CES (now Gist Hall) was remodeled to accommodate from a seminar on concrete technology to a program on nursing, speech and hearing, and media center facilities. preschool children to three Christmas plays for Ferndale and McKinleyville. Several years later, Tom Parsons began In 1973 Humboldt leased the vacant Trinity Hospital on a Native American language restoration program to pre- 14th Street and relocated personnel and payroll offices, the serve the Karuk and Hoopa tongues. post office, HSC Foundation, and other services. This became known as the university annex. Campus/Community Disharmony Student housing shortages plagued the school. Areata Hotel rented student housing at $10 per room per week Community/college relations had been cordial in the early in 1967. Humboldt Village I, a trailer park for men estab- 60s, but tensions interfered near decade's end and into the lished in 1967, was the first new housing since 1959. 70s. According to Milt Dobkin, town and gown relations Eight dormitories and a commons in Giant Canyon Jolly began deteriorating about the same time Humboldt was opened in 1968, as did Humboldt Village II. Cypress Hall celebrating its Golden Anniversary (1964). With HSC sala- followed in 1973. The housing shortage continued, how- ries now larger than those in the local economy, commu- ever. The Lumberjack reported a student living in a teepee nity volunteerism and support diminished. College of the on a ranch on Fickle Hill. Rumor had it that students were Redwoods also drew away some support. living in hollowed-out trunks of redwood trees. The many nonlocal students and faculty coming into the area caused friendliness to drop off, particularly in Eureka. Products of the Great Society Some of these newcomers supported ideas which were un- popular in the local community. In 1965 professors Rudy The mid-60s saw Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society and Becking and Pat McGlyn formed Citizens for a National increased emphasis on federally funded social programs. Redwood Park, which drew the ire of the timber industry. Several of those programs came to the aid of HSC students.

98 New buildings on campus: (clockwise) music building, 1969; University Cent< 1973; Cypress Hall, student housing, 1973.

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l-r) Team captain, juarterback Jim Costello, Areata Tity Councilman rvyl Pigg, and oach Bud V Deren. In the early 70s, much of the HSC community supported a Associated Students helped the community through twelve ban on teepee burners. (Before finding profitable uses for Youth Educational Service programs, such as Big Brothers wood chips, timber companies used teepee-shaped inciner- and Big Sisters, aid for disabled children, and tutoring. The ators for burning scrap material.) One teepee burner was Forestry Club completed a trail through Arcata's Redwood located just north of the campus. The college's opposition Park in 1969. Students cleaned up the highway between provoked antagonism in the timber community. Areata and Eureka. And in 1971, "long hairs" rode with local police on patrol in order to improve relations between Complaints also arose over the excessive noise from a pop- students and law enforcement officers. ular student hangout, The Keg (now Hunan's), where Ar- eata was introduced to the Motown sound. Students didn't endear themselves any further by opposing a new freeway Faculty Matters on Highway 101 which, they charged, would eliminate student housing. They also opposed the Butler Valley Dam While the 1961-62 catalog listed 75 full-time members, ten project and the building of a motel at the Bayside Cutoff. years later 355 full-timers were listed. Prominent among the new members added during that decade: Now that the right to vote extended to 18-year-olds, com- Art Bill Thonson, Bill Anderson, Demetrios munity members feared the college might dictate local pol- — Mitsanas, Stuart Sundet icies and elect its own candidates. Indeed, at ASB president Biology DeMartini, Robert Rasmussen, Arnie Braafladt's urging, six often candidates running for — John Richard Meyer, Brusca Areata city council in 1972 came from campus. Forestry Gary professor Rudolph Becking and student Alexandra Carlin Business — Don Lawson Fairless were elected, presumably through campus voter Chemistry — John Hennings support. The mayor of Areata responded by declaring the Economics — John Grobey Schenler image of HSC "very poor." Engineering — William English — Bob Burroughs But the community probably exaggerated campus influence Forestry — Brooks Sibley in elections. Two campus candidates won, yes, but only a Geography — John Coleman third of the eligible voters on campus had bothered going Geology — Frank Kilmer, John Longshore to the polls. And though the Butler Valley Dam project lost History — John Hennessy, Frank Mahar by two-to-one, analysis of the vote suggested widespread Industrial Arts — Frank Jolly opposition, not just from students. (At least in environmen- Journalism — Mac McClary tal issues, campus and community worked together more Library — George Magladry, Erich Schimps and more for their mutual benefit.) Mathematics — Victor Tang, Roy Ryden Music — Phil Kates, Joe Farruggia Concerned community and campus leaders worked hard to Physical Education — Jim Hunt, Evelyn Deicke, minimize abrasion. A city/college liaison committee dis- Fred Siler cussed shared problems. The North Areata Merchants Asso- Physics — Fred Cranston ciation sponsored HSC Appreciation Day in 1965. In 1967 Political Science — Hie Smultea community members lent substantial financial support to Psychology — Dennis Musselman athletics through Lumberjacks, Incorporated. Speech — Peter Coyne, Lewis Bright

Reaching out to the community, HSC students helped vic- Theatre Arts — Jean Bazemore Wildlife — John Hewston tims of the great 1 964-65 flood. The women's gym housed National Guard and army personnel during that disaster.

100 Father Gary Timmons became college chaplain in 1968. He The college began a lengthy game of musical chairs to find and Ed Simmons, associate dean of activities, would later a permanent successor, culminating in the hiring of Milton launch the popular Simmons-Timmons Think-In for dorm Dobkin in 1969. Dobkin had first come to Humboldt in students. 1955 to teach speech communications before leaving to work in the chancellor's office in 1966. While many new faces came on campus, long-time faculty and staff retired as well, including Homer Balabanis (40 Dobkin's tenure coincided with major changes in HSC's years); Fred Telonicher (40); John Van Duzer (31); William academic organization. The former nine divisions became Lanphere (30); Helen Everett (28); Bill Johnson, chief of five schools and one division: plant operations (27); Kate Buchanan (22); and Ivan School of Behavioral & Social Sciences Milhous (21). Harry Griffith, professor of education since Houston Robison, dean 1939, died of a heart attack in 1966. School of Creative Arts & Humanities This major turnover changed the complexion of Ronald Young, dean the faculty. The increased numbers challenged School of Business & Economics any efforts for all-campus faculty gatherings. Jesse Allen, dean Despite the president's persistent efforts, the School of Natural Resources close-knit familiarity, informality, and friendli- Donald Hedrick, dean ness diminished. School of Science Roscoe Peithman, then Faculty organizations, generally vocal critics of Raymond Barratt, dean CSUC policies, criticized Governor Reagan's Division of Health & Physical Education 1967 budget cuts and proposals to charge stu- Larry Kerker, dean dents tuition. Faculty held teach-ins on Viet- nam, the draft, and CSUC policies. President Siemens established new administrative offices, too: dean of graduate studies Math professor Householder led an un- James (Alba Gillespie); dean for undergraduate successful crusade against campus police carry- studies (Whitney Buck); dean for academic ing guns. He declared: "When peace is main- planning (Richard Ridenhour); dean of ad- tained by force, I say it's a different kind of ministrative affairs (Donald Strahan); dean of peace." students (Don Karshner); business manager (Frank Dev- ery); and ombudsman (Thomas Stipek). HSC football star Another burning issue was student representation on the Earl Meneweather became ombudsman and special assis- 1973 presidential search committee (allowed by the aca- tant to the president in 1971: the college's first African demic senate after an initial negative vote). Professors American administrator. accommodated in the Mai Kai apartments protested deter-

iorating office conditions by wearing hard hats to faculty Other appointments, beginning in 1972, reflected increased meetings. attention to fairness for ethnic minorities and women. Bob- by Lake became ethnic affairs assistant. Jack Norton directed Native American studies. Kathryn Corbett coordinated Administrative Changes the new affirmative action program. Donald Armbrust, Su-

Homer Balabanis retired in 1964, after forty years as pro- san Frances, and Helen Batchelor followed in that position. fessor, dean, and finally vice president for academic affairs.

101 Academic Changes In June, 1972, the school officially became California State University, Humboldt. In the fall of 1974 that cumbersome The number of degree programs remained steady (59 in title was reduced to Humboldt State University. 1961; 65 a decade later) despite the growth in student population. By 1967 the most popular majors were forestry, wildlife management, biology, psychology, and history. A End of the Siemens Era nursing program and Asian studies joined the curriculum University status represented the last major accomplish- in this period. ment of President Siemens. Within a year he announced his As the numbers of school-aged children mushroomed na- retirement, effective September, 1973. Milt Dobkin, vice tionwide, demand for teachers increased. California's Ryan president for academic affairs, served as acting president Act in 1970 replaced elementary and secondary teaching until the next July. John Pauley, professor of theatre arts, credentials with multiple- and single-subject credentials. was acting vice president. This gave an interdisciplinary thrust to the waiver program Siemens' tenure as president had lasted 23 years. He led and created curricular changes in many departments, espe- Humboldt through its major period of growth, both in cially education and English. enrollment and physical facilities. His many accomplish- In other academic changes, commencement ceremonies ments included developing a nationally prominent natural moved to Redwood Bowl in 1966 to accommodate the resources program, great strides in academic freedom, and larger graduating classes. HSC switched from semesters to university status. a quarter system in 1967. Class registration by computer Historian Hyman Palais used numbers in adding up the began in 1968 (though HSC offered no computer classes Siemens years, 1950-73. Siemens arrived at a small college yet). A Ship or Sink committee obtained the R.V. Catalyst, with 57 faculty and 650 students operating on a half- a seaworthy vessel for oceanography, in 1970. Also that million dollar budget. The campus comprised 21 buildings, year, College of the Redwoods took over the junior college only five of which were permanent. He retired from a uni- program, and an HSC Cluster College began fulfilling gen- versity with almost 500 faculty, over 7,000 students, an eral education requirements. operating budget of almost $16 million, and a campus comprising over 70 buildings, approximately 30 of which University Status were permanent.

In 1971 President Siemens accelerated his personal cru- Oden Hansen, former dean of campus development, saw sade to gain university status for Humboldt State. Such a Siemens' major achievement in his promotion of the phys- change, he argued, would give the institution prestige, ical attractiveness of the campus. "The Campus that Cor- would help in recruiting faculty, and would promote the nelius Built" reflected the president's passion for flowers, centerpiece of Humboldt's unique curriculum: natural gardening, and aesthetic landscaping. resources.

102 No Cinderella Story While the early 70s had reflected a con- 1) develop non-state funding to supplement declining fidence and combativeness, Humboldt's budgets; 1974-87 mood gradually took on a more chas- 2) maintain a balance between breadth and depth of tened, conservative tenor. The school curriculum, and retain the liberal arts nature of looked to resolve shrinking budgets, Humboldt State University; declining enrollment, and the remnant social and political 3) improve faculty morale through increased opportunity tumult born of the late 60s. For many, job for research and creative activities, consciousness surpassed social consciousness. faculty exchange, faculty development, Watergate, inflation, the Iranian hostage situ- and funding for undergraduate travel to ation, and a retrenched federal government professional meetings; came to bear. 4) divide the labor when assigning faculty to research, teaching, advising, or governance; President Alistair McCrone 5) improve a sense of community within the campus and between the campus and the A new president would guide the university North Coast community. through these years. Alistair McCrone succeeded Cornelius Siemens in 1974. McCrone The work of the commission reflected the earned a Ph.D. in geology from the University president's intent to serve as a catalyst, of Kansas. (His wife Judy is also a geologist.) releasing existing talents in the faculty and His credentials included teaching at New York staff. UniversityandservingUniversityofthe Pacific as academic vice president, and as acting president. No Cinderella Story President McCrone announced his feelings President Alistair McCrone said, "The about the arts and humanities. He Despite these efforts, Humboldt State, once wanted to liberal arts are the very center of our culture." He labeled by the LA. Times as "the Cinderella of the North," educational experience equivalent to create at Humboldt an for the first time in decades felt more like one of the ugly that of a small liberal arts college. stepsisters. Two decades of steady growth came to a halt in 1974, as applications and enrollment declined. He would become known for his emphasis on academic excellence and his willingness to delegate authority. In an College applications were down statewide. Humboldt's pool of college-aged age of limited growth and a limited dropped by 50 percent. From 7,053 students in 1972-73, toward quality of people, he urged the faculty to work enrollment plunged to 5,843 in 1986-87. The decline par- better education rather than quantity. He also urged ticularly affected sociology, history, and other behavioral community/university relations. and social sciences.

nature poten- A 1977 presidential commission on the and The end of the draft, general uncertainty about employ- tial of HSU, chaired by biology professor Richard Meyer, ment, and a shift from liberal arts to vocational education made five comprehensive recommendations:

103 contributed to the trend. State funding declined, and stu- took advantage of the plan, helping the school avoid lay- dent fees increased accordingly. Annual registration fees offs. Faculty retired in sufficient numbers to spur Kathryn jumped from $348 in 1982 to $699 in 1984, and $910 in Corbett to form a Emeritus Faculty Association in 1985. 1988. These fee hikes, combined with federal government Among the long-time faculty and staff persons retiring cutbacks on NDEA student loans, further aggravated the during these years: William Jackson (36 years), business; declining enrollment. And this, in turn, brought renewed Robert Kittleson (25), economics; Jean Stradley and Joe anxiety over faculty and staff layoffs. (27) Trainor (21), education; Frank Wood (32), French; John Gimbel (24), history; Art Stegman (28), industrial arts; Le- Fighting Back: land Barlow (37), Charles Fulkerson (36), and Dave Smith Recruiting & Retention Efforts (28), music; Kay Chaffey (32), Joseph Forbes (26), Ced Kin- zer (22), Jim Hunt (21), and Ralph Hassman (19), physical Robert Hannigan, dean of admissions, records and school education; Roscoe Peithman (31) and Fred Cranston (23), relations, and Chris Muhoz, director of admissions and physics; Eugene Flocchini (37), accounting officer; Virginia relations, efforts recruit retain school guided new to and Rumble (34), secretary to the president; Don Karshner (35), students. enrollment planning task An and management dean of student services; Joe Noga (25), plant operations; force staff visiting got faculty and high schools around the Frank Devery (23), business manager; and Don Strahan state. Tele-Student sent them to the phones to encourage (22), vice president of administrative affairs. Two others of prospective enrollees. Admissions adopted open enrollment long service died: Larry Kerker (25 years), physical educa- for pri- students over age 30 and gave incoming freshmen tion, and Wilmer Bohlmann (23), political science. ority for dormitory housing. The recruiting of ethnic minority students became — and remains — a priority. Faculty Representation As for retention, the Humboldt Orientation Program, student affirmative action (focusing on retention of ethnic Faculty organized statewide to protect themselves against a minorities), the AIR Center's advising, and spring prereg- variety of threats: layoffs; post-tenure review or an end to istration all contributed positively. Student services spon- tenure altogether; students on appointment, tenure, and sored Club Faire to involve students more deeply in campus promotion committees. The liberal University Professors of life. A new course, Exploring and Developing Goals for Ed- California preferred a systemwide strike, while the conser- ucation (EDGE), helped freshmen without declared majors. vative California Faculty Associations promoted collective bargaining.

Golden Handshakes In 1978 the state legislature authorized collective bargaining. A statewide vote determined CFA would handle that In spite of having fewer students, the university was still bargaining. CFA's first contract with the CSU had minimal

considered overstaffed according to state formulas. By effect on working conditions. It did, however, create $2,500 1977 nearly every new faculty member was hired on a Meritorious and Professional Promise Awards, perceived by temporary basis and assigned a teaching service area (to some as indirect merit pay increases. establish priorities in the event of a layoff). To build local morale and promote faculty research, Presi- The CSU authorized a Golden Handshake in 1980, allow- dent McCrone established the HSU Institute for Research ing a two-year service credit toward retirement. This en- and Creative Projects in 1980. Theodore Ruprecht directed

couraged older faculty and staff to step aside to protect the it. In 1984 the president sponsored a one-day conference, positions of young colleagues. Forty-seven Humboldters "Reflections on the Future." Faculty and administrators

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contributed ideas on HSU's strengths and weaknesses. College of Health, Education & Professional Studies After some mentioned a lack of recognition for faculty Bette Lowery, dean research and scholarship, the Scholar of the Year award Teacher Preparation Programs (appendix G) came into being in 1986. Sheila Webb, assistant dean College of Behavioral & Social Sciences Morale still slipped. Professor Todd Young surveyed 80 fac- Lee Bowker, dean ulty members who perceived themselves overworked and College of Business & Industrial Technology underappreciated. Much of their disgruntlement stemmed Lee Badgett, dean from years of "bean counting" (student enrollment num- College of Science bers). Also, the switch back to semesters, after nearly twen- James Smith, dean ty years on the quarter system, was producing mountains College of Humanities of extra work: curricular revision, new requirements for Ronald Young, dean majors and minors, and the tiresome conversion of quarter College of Visual & Performing Arts units to semester units for all continuing students. The Robert Everding, dean changeover also disrupted personal routines by beginning College of Natural Resources the academic year in late August in order to complete the Richard Ridenhour, dean fall term before Christmas. Concern for social fairness advanced with the 1979 appointment of Linwood Wall to direct special support pro- On the Administrative Side . . grams (Upward Bound, Educational Opportunity Program, veterans services, and the children's center). The next year, Considerable administrative turnover occurred during these disabled student services and a state-funded student affir- difficult years. Chancellor Glenn Dumke, the cornerstone of mative action program began. the California state universities and colleges, retired in 1982 after 20 years (nearly the entire existence of the Cali- A drop-in Academic Information and Referral Center, under fornia master plan). He turned over the reins to Ann Reyn- the leadership of Lolly Haston Quackenbush, improved olds, a biologist and former provost at Ohio State. academic advising. The revamped alumni association was placed under Jim Hamby, director of the HSU Foundation. Milt Dobkin retired in 1983, having served HSU nearly 25 years, first as professor of speech, then as vice president for Edward Del Biaggio replaced Frank Devery as business academic affairs, with a year as interim president. In his manager, then replaced Don Strahan as vice president for tenure, Dobkin promoted the consultative process and administrative affairs. Edward "Buzz" Webb followed Don served as spokesperson for the faculty. He established fac- Karshner as vice president for student affairs. Don Chris- ulty participation on key committees and encouraged inno- tensen replaced Michael Corcoran as director of university vative teaching. relations.

Michael Wartell succeeded Dobkin. President McCrone Lionel Ortiz replaced George Preston directing plant opera- described Wartell as a change agent. To the five existing tions. Athletic director Frank Cheek was followed first by schools (renamed colleges in 1982) Wartell now added two Dick Niclai, then Chuck Lindemenn. Claude Albright took new colleges — the college of health and professional over for Earl Meneweather as ombudsman. Robert Hanni- studies, and the college of visual and performing arts. He gan replaced Robert Anderson as dean of admissions and brought new deans into the academic structure, and he records. Donald Wilson succeeded university librarian eliminated the interdisciplinary studies and special pro- Donald Koepp, then was himself succeeded by David Oyler. grams division. David McMurray became director of student health and

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HWf IQE^^ | M counseling services. Jan Petranek became director of devel- During this era it might have appeared as though any opment. Thomas Nelford, executive assistant to the presi- building not under construction or repair was at least dent, was succeeded first by John Hennessy, then by Alba undergoing a name change. Gillespie. College Elementary School — Arthur S. Gist Hall (1972) Building Projects Faculty Club — Women's Center (1973) Art/music/theatre — Homer P. Balabanis Complex The removal of Humboldt Village and the university take- (1974) over of the Mai Kai apartments for faculty office space Sequoia Theatre — John Van Duzer Theatre (1975) created a serious shortage of student housing despite the Administration — Siemens Hall (1978) declining enrollment. Some students' parents would buy Music recital hall — Charles Fulkerson Recital Hall homes in the community, rent them to other students, then (1978) sell the homes upon their child's graduation. Many stu- Education/psychology — Harry Griffith Hall (1978) dents stayed in local campgrounds or slept in vans. Marine lab — Telonicher Marine Laboratory (1979) Engineering — Van Matre Hall (1980) Tightening budgets restricted campus expansion, but sev- Child development — Swetman Child Develop- eral construction projects did alter Humboldt's appearance. ment Lab (1980) Additions included an all-weather soccer field where Hum- Language arts — Theatre Arts Building (1980) boldt Village had been (1979), an all-weather field in Red- Lounge in the University Center — Karshner wood Bowl (1979), an engineering and biological sciences Lounge (1980) building (1982), and a geodesic greenhouse (1982). Nelson Hall meeting room — Goodwin Forum From 1975-77 Founders Hall, the health center, Gist Hall, (1980) the marine lab, and the library all underwent remodeling or UC all-purpose room — Kate Buchanan Room expansion. Later in this era, geology occupied a remodeled (1981) lower level of Van Matre Hall and the wildlife program re- At a 1973 auction, the president's home (no longer the ceived a new aviary. actual place of residence) sold for $60, a visible end to the In 1976, on the eastern edge of campus, the U.S. Depart- era when presidents lived on campus. ment of Agriculture completed its redwood sciences laboratory of the Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Curricular Trends Station. Since 1963 this station had been conducting silvi- culture, watershed management, and fisheries research in Reflecting the mood of the nation, Humboldt shifted away association with Humboldt's natural resources programs. from its liberal arts toward a more back-to-basics approach. The multidisciplinary Cluster Program, for instance, was An arsonist's fire gutted the forestry building in 1979, lead- dropped for lack of interest in 1980. The CSUC began re- ing to a costly rebuilding. Cypress Hall shut down in 1980 quiring entering students to take a basic Entry Level Math- for repairs on the unstable hillside behind the dorm. When ematics Exam. All graduates had to pass a Graduate Writ- a ceiling collapsed in a Founders Hall classroom during the ing Proficiency Exam. 1981 Thanksgiving holiday, the entire building's ceilings had to be reinforced before classes could resume. Structural By 1976, history had fewer than 100 majors (compared to problems in the new engineering and biological sciences 400 in 1970) but forestry had more than 600. By 1982, building forced closures for repairs over several years. business had the most majors (716) and was offering a Master of Business Administration degree.

107 The natural resource fields showed renewed vigor in not quite meet departmental needs. It was sold and the the mid-70s, reflecting both the job market and funds used to outfit 5. T. 893, an 88-foot vessel once owned society's growing environmental sensitivity. A new by the U.S. government. master's degree emphasized ecology and environ- Other curricular changes during these years included a ment. Humboldt dropped civil engineering in favor of revised general education program; the addition of ethnic environmental engineering. Native American Career studies, women's studies, and Native American emphasis Education in Natural Resources was funded by the programs; a credential in handicapped learning; a M.S. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. degree in multicultural education; a liberal studies degree The College of Natural Resources suffered a setback in child development; and a major in computer information in September of 1978 when the research vessel Cata- systems. lyst sank on a voyage to Crescent City. The crew es- New technologies affected academics. The Center for Appro- caped injury, but oceanography suffered the loss of priate Technology opened shop in Buck House. The library equipment. The next year Harold Sherwood of Marina implemented an automated barricade system. By 1977 over Del Rey gave the university a new vessel, Malaguena. 200 courses used computers, even though the computer in- According to professor James Gast, the new vessel did formation systems major didn't follow until the 80s.

HSU made a trial run of a decimal grading system in 1976 — but abandoned it for a plus/minus letter-grade system. To Arsonist Guts HSU Building fight grade inflation, all activity courses became mandatory Could Take Years to Replace credit/no credit in 1977. lor 17 years the Humboldt State forestry building stood, but In 1982 HSU granted a record 1,174 bachelor's and 144 it only took 45 minutes to reduce it to rubble. And now it could master's degrees. These were conferred at six separate com- take up to three years to rehabilitate the home ofone ofHSU's mencement exercises: one for each college and the division best known and most widely respected programs. The build- of health and physical education. President McCrone had initiated this practice in 1975 to make commencement a ing, which burned early Saturday morning, is being called the more personal affair for graduates and their relatives. victim of arson.

This fire was "man-caused and done on purpose/' said state A Reputation for Academic Excellence arson and bomb squad investigator Monty McGill late Monday after two days of probing through the ashes. In 1982 a national publication listed HSU among the top 31 "lesser known but of high quality" institutions in the Scorch patterns indicate a flammable liquid was spread on the U.S. floor of the building. As of Tuesday, there were no suspects. Estimates of damage range from $1-3 million. Several programs in particular gained recognition far beyond the local community. Political science initiated an internship program with government agencies in 1974.

from an article by David Creenwald, Thirty-one students participated in a Guatemalan interdisci- Areata Union, January 30, 1979 plinary program, "Challenge of Change in Latin America," in 1976, and Career Development began its own cooperative education program in 1977.

108 A theatre major, Haig White, won the American College Yearbooks, published between 1982 and 1985, renewed a Theatre Festival award in 1981 for two plays he wrote. tradition that had ended in 1966. Greeks reappeared on Micki Goldthorpe won a national award for her play, Con- campus: Lambda Sigma Nu sorority sisters joined the frat versations ofMy Mothers. A 1984 production of Getting Out boys of Delta Sigma Phi and Chi Phi. qualified for presentation at the National American Theatre Fads of the era included rock climbing at Patrick's Point Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and Moonstone Beach, skydiving, hang-gliding, jogging, In 1982 both The Lumberjack and radio station KHSU jazzercise, skateboards, frisbees, hacky-sack, punk and gained recognition at the California International Press As- New Wave rock-and-roll, backpacking, health foods, Killer sociation convention. The forensics team, led by Joe Corcor- Elite in the dorms, and mud wrestling. The Keg, a hangout an and Janet Randor, placed 13th at a 1983 national meet since 1958, closed in 1977. in Utah. Forestry students won three straight conclaves in To educate and entertain the student body, various celeb- the early 80s, with Ray McCay chosen best logger in 1983. rities appeared on campus: singers Linda Ronstadt, Ricky Karen Wyatt and Robin Schneider won in the women's Nelson, and Etta James; jazz musician Woody Herman; division. Conservation Unlimited also won first in its film producer Frank Capra; journalists Carl Bernstein and conclave. Tom Wicker; evangelist Jed Smock; writer David Halber- stam; political activists Tom Hayden and Linus Pauling; Trends in Student Life physicist John Cofman; actor William Windom and Native American actor Will Sampson. The nation, including HSU, moved away from the combat- ive political environment of the Nixon years to the more In 1974 two students streaked the library carrying "Im- 1200" conservative, apolitical trend of the Carter and Reagan peach Nixon" and "Free the Dorm banners. The years. The end of selective service, the disillusioning Water- Lumberjack opined: gate scandal, and the energy crisis of the mid-70s had their To demonstrate how advanced our generation impact. Student activism on certain issues continued, but is, we have shunned childish fads and adopted by the end of this era most male Humboldt students were more mature behavior patterns — like trotting clean shaven and short-haired, and men and women were around in the nude. wearing trendy clothes. Many even voted for Reagan. Nos- talgia for the 50s showed in the revival of homecoming, the But even though the sexist nature of bared legs would lead yearbook, and fraternity/sorority traditions. to the demise of Lumberjack Days' miniskirt contest, many deemed streaking (bare everything) socially acceptable as a ASB president Eddie Scher conceived a Great Humboldt unisexual activity. College Cove soon became a nude beach. Spirit Celebration for the 1979 homecoming. He promoted full community involvement in the parade, bonfire, dance, Patterns of social behavior ebbed and flowed. Reports of and beer-bean-and-bread feed. Two 1917 alumni, Jessie alcohol and drug consumption, loneliness, and sexual Turner Woodcock and Harry Wandling, were chosen king activity all on the rise led the dorms to form a Social- and queen. Emotional Climate Committee in 1977. The health center director recommended condoms be sold in the bookstore, Lumberjack Days traditionally had been celebrated in June, and family planning became part of the campus counseling but the 1986 conversion to a semester system meant the services. school year ended in May. To allow this social event to help acclimate new students to the university, Lumberjack Days But at the same time, there was a rise in the popularity of moved to the fall. religion. Christians handed out Bible tracts at the Univer-

109 I he Campus Center for es and were kind to the ing stove with internal heat

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was created in 1 978 when and apothecary; a rainwater Today CCAT is a fully CCAT students retro-fitted a catchment system; wind tur- functioning demonstra- neglected house on cam- bines; a solar thermal water tion household. Visitors pus. They designed and heating system; an office on guided tours see the implemented alternative clock running off the elec- house's thermal curtains; waste, heat, water, food, trical energy of two pota- walls painted with non- and electrical systems. toes; a solar oven; a stove toxic enamel; a 12-volt The new — or sometimes made of clay, sand, flour, refrigerator and Freon- old, but always appropri- and sugar — and more. free cold box; a compost- ate — technologies con- ing toilet; a wood-burn- served precious resourc-

110 (clockwise from top right) Mrs. Judy McCrone and President Alistair McCrone at the President'!

Ball; Librarian David Oyler and retired librarian Helen Addison Everett at the dedication of the Everett Reading Room in the library, 1978; aftermath of forestry building fire,1 979; late 70's May Day celebration. 111 sity Center quad. Almost everyone knew the Reverend Karl The Reagan Redwood Memorial Grove Bietz, who "witnessed" on the quad nearly every day for & Other Student Government Matters more than two years. A 1977 poll by the campus organization for Latter Day Saints reported 62 percent of the stu- This era's Student Legislative Council was less conservative dents had "a definite concept of God." George Walker in than the students it represented. The SLC hesitated in fund- continuing education reported a similar finding two years ing athletics, forensics, and more traditional activities. It later. The Lumberjack remarked, did, however, support nontraditional student services: a day care center for children, a crisis intervention referral The presence of Bible studies, prayer groups, center, a rape crisis center, Humboldt Women's Shelter, car religious speakers, and cultural movies at HSU pooling (when the price of gas went up), and subsidies to appears to be evidence that God is not dead. Arcata-Mad River Transit and Humboldt Transit Authority in return for lower student bus fares. The ASB focused on the needs of disabled students. Youth Educational Services Yuppies & Preppies bought an orange-colored van, "Orangeaid," to chauffeur disabled students around campus. Going into the early 80s, student social life and outlook grew appreciably more conservative, more "yuppie" and In 1976 Governor Ronald Reagan made the statement, "A "preppie" in orientation. tree is a tree. How many do you have to look at? Seen one you've seen them all." The SLC responded by dedicating the Three examples from 1983: 1) a "Dress for Success" workshop claimed clothing can determine how far one Ronald Reagan Redwood Memorial Grove — a lone redwood tree near the Highway 101 off-ramp on 14th Street. goes in a career; 2) professor John Grobey organized a student Republican Club to combat the "liberal, one-sided Environmental issues captured student passions. The SLC treatment of things" (in 1990 they would publish College supported expanding Redwood National Park. Group of Or- Republican newspaper); 3) a Lumberjack column claimed ganic Alternatives to Toxic Sprays (GOATS) formed. Ralph the class of '83, unlike counterparts of the previous two Nader spoke on campus about decommissioning nuclear decades, represented the philosophy "not to do anything power plants. Students observed Sun Day to promote solar that doesn't feel good." power. Others protested the destruction of whales, environmental policies of the Reagan administration (and Secre- Liberal rallies still drew good crowds— as protests against draft registration, South African apartheid, American tary of the Interior James Watt), and offshore oil drilling. involvement in Nicaragua, and the kidnapping of former Meanwhile Native Americans demanded a Native American journalism professor Alann Steen by terrorists in Beirut. studies program and opposed celebration of America's bi- Liberal Lumberjack editor Adam Truitt was suspended in centennial in 1976. Geography and geology students pro- 1986 in an ongoing controversy over whether CSU news- tested faculty hiring procedures. Gays picketed for rights papers could endorse political candidates. And two years and recognition. ASB withdrew from the state associated after the first AIDS Awareness Week condoms were (1986), students organization. sold in cigarette machines. In the main, however, conservative values prevailed in the 80s. ASB president Tom Bergman urged students not to register for the draft, which was reinstated in 1980. Antidraft rallies were less intense than the antiwar rallies a decade before. Ben Sasway, however, made national news as one of the few to refuse to register for the draft. He lost his case in court and received a two-year prison sentence.

112 These examples of activism notwithstanding, the tone of competitive. Men's wrestling, cross-country, and basketball student government began to mellow. Many controversies experienced success. Coverage in The Lumberjack increased. of the early 70s had been resolved. Others needed little in Cheerleaders reappeared at football and basketball games. the way of activism, as they were now mainstream social issues commanding significant public support. Women's Sports As student government mellowed, participation waned. In the 1976 SLC elections, only six candidates ran for eight A new women's gym (as part of the Forbes Complex) and a positions. Of 537 ballots (from more than 7,000 eligible new women's conference boosted women's intercollegiate voters), 180 were invalidated (Donald Duck and Richard sports. The greatest boost, however, came through Title IX Nixon, for instance, received write-in votes). Several SLC of the Federal Educational Amendment of 1972, which members resigned, feeling student government wasted caused a major funding shift in favor of women's athletics.

their time. The Lumberjack opined: "Apathy is once again Humboldt joined the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics running rampant throughout student government." ASB for Women in 1974, competing in the Northern California president Jeff Lincoln proclaimed in 1981 that HSU student Intercollegiate Conference. When Marilyn Taylor qualified government would devote its attention to campus issues for nationals in the two-mile run, she became the first rather than national or international. This so aroused the Humboldt woman to compete in a national event since Elta student body that the 1982 ASB election was postponed for Cartwright in the 20s. lack of candidates. In 1977 the women's teams joined the Golden State Confer- ence. Five years later the Golden State Conference schools Athletics: Belt-Tightening merged with the men's Far Western Conference schools to become the Northern California Athletic Conference. The Intercollegiate sports experienced difficult times. If Lumber- competition level moved from NCAA division III to division jack coverage and attendance figures are accurate indica- II, with league competition in basketball, cross-country, tors, athletics did not command much student attention softball, swimming, track, and volleyball. until the 80s. Declining budgets and increased expenses caused athletics to tight up its organization and drop those Under Barbara van Putten and Lynn Warner, the softball sports considered too expensive: for men, baseball, swim- team fared well, finishing as conference co-champions in ming, water polo, and tennis; for women, tennis. 1983. Warner received coach-of-the-year honors in 1978 and 1983. Star players included Barbara Renaud, Kim Athletic directors Frank Cheek and Chuck Lindemenn pro- Kohlmeier, Sue Harris, Deanna Allen, Debra Hinger Ford, duced a more effective administration and improved HSU's Elaine Frakes, and Cheryl Clark. competitive efforts. Lindemenn established an athletic ad-

visory committee. He also hired Mike McKelvey, Vern The volleyball team, also under van Putten, won first in Henricks, and Tom Trepiak to promote intercollegiate 1973, with a 7-1 record. Debbie Hungerford, Lorraine sports and organize fundraising. A series of sports banquets Schaffer, Alison Child, Jane Eilers, Cheryl Clark, and Kim featuring celebrity speakers drew attention to the program. McCleary starred. Over the years, the celebrity list would include Joe Kapp, Jim Plunkett, Steve Young, Bill Walsh, and George Blanda. Dave Wells' cross-country team placed third in the Golden State Conference two years in a row and second in the Support increased noticeably. Better publicity (and stronger NCAC in 1984. Sheila Moskovich, Claudia Bergsohn, and teams) sold more season tickets and put more of the stu- Kathy Dolan starred. Track teams fared less well, but indi- dent population in the stands. Women's teams became vidual stars emerged: Sue Grigsby, Carrie Grover, Michelle

113 Betham, Liane Guild, Tori Belig, Donna Garrell, Kathy Dol- Conover, Scott Peters, Frank Ebiner, Ramon Morales, Tim an, Joann Poggi, Sheryl Fairchild, Cindy Hicks, and Tammi Gruber, Cris Romero, and Tony Eddings. Callahan. Bud Van Deren's football teams finished second in the Far Betty Partain's swimmers did well individually, with their Western Conference on five occasions. In 1981 they beat best season in 1976-77. Swimming stars included Sue major rival UC Davis for the first time since 1969. Stars of Rodearmel, Grace Brosnahan, Karen Menne, Anna Marie the era included Gary Peterson, R.W. Hicks, Mike Bettiga, Miller, and Anna Chong. Richard Spinas, Russ Henschel, Bill Plant, Dean Diaz, Kurt Garl, Eddie Pate, Lance Hunter, Dave Rush, and John Eh- Women's basketball struggled for respectability under a lers. Bettiga, Garl, Pate, and Hicks went on to play profes- series of coaches, including Diann Laing, Cinda Rankin, and sional football with the NFL. Chris Conway. Laing's 1977 team took second in the confer-

ence . Christi Rosvold, Ticia Ledbetter, But football fell on hard times, with and Lisa Domenichelli starred. seven losing seasons from 1982- 89. Van Deren stepped down as coach after the 1985 season. In 20 Men's Sports years he had coached five conference champions (coach-of-the-year Wrestling and cross-country led the three times). Mike Dolby and his way for men's sports. Coach Frank "'Jack Attack" replaced Van Deren. Cheek's grapplers won the Far West- Dolby would last five disappointing ern Conference five times between seasons.

1977 and 1 98 1 . They ranked second and third nationally in 1977 and Men's basketball, after years of 1978. Star wrestlers included Pat cellar dwelling, took a turn for the Stone, Doug Stone, Brent Wissen- better in the late 70s. In 1977-78, back, Mike Fredenburg, Marty under coach Jim Cosentino, Hum- McNellis, and Eric Woolsey. Woolsey boldt had its first winning record went on to coach the 1 98 1 -82 team, since 1957. The next year they tied receiving coach-of-the-year honors for first in the conference and when his team finished second. competed in postseason play-offs. Star players included Bruce Fernandez, Carl Massey, Steve Frank Cheek resumed coaching in 1983, with his wrestlers Alexander, Daryl Westmoreland, Ray Beer, and Clifford winning the conference title another three times. Eric Tess- Dyson. ley, twice an NCAA division II all-American, won the national title in the 142-pound class in 1985. Steve Meckel, Tom Wood replaced Cosentino as coach in 1981. His teams Dave Navarre, Dale Delaney, Don Dodds, and Rod Prnjak finished second, third, and tied for first in the NCAC from also starred. 1983-85. Named coach of the year in 1983, Wood took his squad to the western regionals. His 1984-85 team boasted Coach Jim Hunt's cross-country team won the conference the best record in school history, 21-8. His stars included meet five times and only once finished lower than second. Cliff Dyson, Jeff Fagan, Steve Meredith, Jerry Bush, and The 1980 team won the NCAA western regional. Familiar Mike Hammond. names in this sport, as well as in track, included Bill Scobey, Danny Grimes, Ken Hammer, Mark Elias, Mark

114 115 The soccer team, coached by established a distinguished Chris Hopper and Alan Exley, lecture series. A 125-acre land placed second once and third donation expanded Lanphere- twice. Chuck Huntington, Jeff Christensen Dunes. The City of Mittner, Mike Mulligan, Kurt Areata initiated a transit serv-

Allen, Mark Asman, Ron La- ice to benefit students. It also Graff, Stefan Lepold, and Mike designated four campus build- Schneider starred in this sport. ings as historic sites. The local newspaper donated a typeset- ting machine to the journalism Campus/Community department. And local retired Relations people, sensitive to the housing shortage, took in student Though campus / community tenants to ease the crunch. relations went through their most trying times in the early As state budgeting decreased, 70s, by the mid-80s the efforts of President McCrone and community members and parents of students responded people of good will, both on and off campus, had repaired positively. The Partnership Campaign, initiated in 1983, most of the damage. represented the most comprehensive of these efforts. The campaign raised funds to recruit students and to purchase The president regularly issued reports citing economic and equipment and instructional materials not provided by the service benefits the community derived from the presence state. of Humboldt State. In 1975 McCrone and the HSU advisory

board raised money for campus projects by sponsoring the That first Partnership Campaign, chaired by local busi- first President's Ball at the Eureka Inn. The campus held nesspersons Art Dalianes, Dick Nicholson, and Dale an open house in 1978. Meanwhile a more elaborate Stanhope, enlisted the help of over 80 volunteers in raising alumni report, Humboldt Stater, began publication in $28,900. (By 1992 the campaign would involve 103 volun- 1975, resulting in a rejuvenated alumni association. teers and raise over $148,000.) Besides the money raised, these annual campaigns produced enrollment increases and President McCrone and local politicians met in a 1980 for- closer campus/community relations. um to promote mutual interests. Any cutbacks on campus would also affect the community negatively. More such NBC sports commentator Dick Enberg headed another fund- meetings followed as enrollment and budgets declined. raising and recruiting effort, the HSU Parent Fund Drive, begun in 1984. One tangible result of this program was a Fisheries professor George Allen had begun a wastewater 25-station computer lab in Founders Hall dubbed the aquaculture project in 1971. He reared salmonids in a mix- "Friendship Lab." ture of treated wastewater and bay water. In 1977 the city

of Areata took over funding of the project and used it to The future for Humboldt may have looked difficult, but meet the city's wastewater treatment needs. The Areata campus and community were a team, determined to face Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary would eventually become a that future together. model for environmentally responsible waste disposal.

The community contributed to the university in a number of significant ways. Noted 20s alumnus Monroe Spaght

116 V-enterArts grew out of the chance to get away found them eviscerating

The Bridge, which in 1 976 from the impersonality of a fish and cooking their

began programming lec- professional stagehands evening meal in huge CenterArts tures and the arts to and huge presenting woks on the loading dock "bridge" campus and organizations. of Van Duzer Theatre. community interests. Humboldt has enjoyed "We've really come off Areata already had a thriv- the artists, too — and not the hill," says Shelley, ing live music scene, but just on stage. Current di- explaining CenterArts' The Bridge brought ma- rector Sarah Shelley re- impact on the commu- jor rock and country per- members an evening with nity. She points to the formers to Redwood aboriginal musicians from local Centro de Informa- Bowl. In 1980 Peter Pen- eight different African cion Bilingue Y Culteral, nekamp organized Cen- tribes. Each tribe insisted which grew out of the terArts in its present form. on eating and dressing Chicano Voices festival. (The early connection to the separately from the oth- Another ethnic festival, University Center explains ers. In the cool evening, Black Visions, led to the CenterArts name.) shortly before the per- weekly interfaith multi- Since the beginning, art- formance, Shelley got an cultural services. And ists have enjoyed making urgent call from an assis- programs for young

the trip to Humboldt. tant: "Bring some space people, notably Artists in

North Coast audiences heaters quick, before they the Schools, will benefit

impress them with the start a fire with the furni- the community for gen-

energy they give back to ture." She remembers, as erations to come. the performers. Artists well, a troupe of Chinese

also appreciate the size of acrobats who wouldn't

the CenterArts operation: eat American food. She

117 (clockwise from top right) Com- munity Forest bordering campus; New Friendship Mac- intosh computer lab; tug of war at Lumberjack Days Days,1985; Founders Hall courtyard. . .

Everyone look out the Walk to the beach. If you where the people have window. In case your stay long enough, the fog fought big fires all over mind has been drifting will roll in, the dunes will the West, fished in Alaska, out there already, don't shift, the kites will hover counseled suicide cases, feel guilty — the red- and carry mice into the built their own green- woods steal the show ev- sky before your eyes. The houses, started their own ery year. Take a walk out sea will pound and pound businesses — and they

in the community forest, and pound; the waves bring it all back to their

and you'll see why. The come in whether any community. Maybe I was The Humboldt trilliums are turning from people are there to see lucky to find a place

Spirit white to purple; the salm- them or not . . . Go out to where I fit in, but I've onberries are turning an your coast and find out found lots of other people excerpts from a 1 979 edible red; the shrews and what it has to teach you. who say the best friends commencement mountain beaver are tun- of their lives have been address by Julie Rechtin, You can go by yourself; neling in the duff; and if made in this county. printed in Forum you can go with friends you sit awhile, the Dou- or family ... At I think the value of the glas fir will start moan- Humboldt, I have found degree I'm receiving has ing, and the banana slugs a community more cohe- just to with will crawl over your as much do sive and caring than any- these friends and this land shoes. place I have ever lived. as it does with this uni-

I've surveyed this forest, People tell me Areata versity. I was lucky to find tested its soils, keyed out does not reflect the real teachers here that recog- its flora, trapped its ro- world, that we are shel- nized that and kept me dents, run for hours on its tered, too much of a Uto- from holing up in my slippery clay trails in the pia, too idealistic — but books — teachers who rain, eaten its Himalaya thank God there are took me to pulp mills and

berries — I come out with places like this so we re- fault scarps and azalea

answers to questions I alize there are alterna- preserves, teachers who didn't know I'd asked, hu- tives, that there are places sponsored my journalis-

mility when I thought my where people know they tic attempts, inspired me problems were impor- have the power to change to spend hours in the

tant, strength when I was something in their town, dunes or in city council

frustrated. The forest is be it just a bike bridge meetings, laid out run- the kindest teacher by over the Mad River, or a ning routes through the having no sympathy with clearinghouse on safe en- woods, people who en- self-pity, jealousy, or self- ergy, or rearing salmon couraged me to take off

importance. . . in our sewage. quarters to work in the Park Service and travel in Walk on down to the This is a place where the desert — people who river, too . . . Stare until people create their own realized that school is not you see a spring salmon culture, where we wind a shelter from the world, or a lamprey or a water Maypoles in the quad, and but a way to keep your the gather at night to pick skimmer. Watch mind open while you ex- rocks move; feel the time and strum our own blue- plore it.

change. . . grass. This is a place

119 Kooted in tradition, Humboldt's botanical Humboldt has a tradition

Humboldt State's land- bounty is apt for a of people who place high

scape emphasizes the painter's palette. Its swirl value on the physical at- three R's — redwoods, holds splashes of scarlet tractiveness of the cam-

rhodies, and the rose maple, red flowering cur- pus. People like the late Humboldt's family — with generous rant, orange marigolds, Cornelius Siemens, who sprays of exotic and com- yellow honeysuckle, the used to introduce him- Botanical mon scents. In a cluster evergreens of more than self as "half-time presi- Bounty of diversity rarely seen 60 conifer species, the dent, half-time gar- excerpts from an beyond the formal bo- "blue gum" eucalyptus, dener"; President Alistair article in Humboldt tanical gardens, the and the perennial purple McCrone, long an advo- Stater by Sean Kearns 160-acre main campus of huckleberry. cate of a naturally beau-

includes representatives tiful, well-maintained The campus rests in a of 107 plant families and Humboldt; Virginia Rum- pocket cut from a swatch more than 400 species. ble, former presidential of coastal redwoods. secretary who established On a slope sandwiched Creeks, one a Jolly Giant, a nativeplants garden; between science build- thread their way through professors such as Den- ings A, B, and C stand — and in some parts un- nis Walker, who prepared three redwood species: der — the grounds. the proverbial bed for an the dawn of China, the Tucked just within the international stand of sempervirens of the coast, forest is Fern Lake. conifers; former grounds and the gigantus of the According to Humboldt supervisor Lyle Ochel- Sierras. Of the 1 3 rhodo- State's grounds supervi- tree, whose visions con- dendron species on cam- sor, Wayne Hawkins, "At tinue to bloom each pus, only two are native most campuses, land- spring; and now Hawkins to the redwood region. scaping is just space be- and his crew of seven Among the 39 Rosaceae tween buildings, long area gardeners, whose members at Humboldt sweeping lawns and rows dedication isapparentin are quince trees, loquat of things, a more insti- everything from dirt to trees, wild strawberry, tutional shape. Humboldt deadwood. apple, blackberry, and an is more the pattern of an evergreen pear. Common "They must maintain high ornamental garden, with scents can be found standards," Hawkins said. considerably more diver- throughout the grounds. "This is not my garden sity, more types of or their garden. It's niches." Humboldt's garden." 120 The Spirit Continues In the years since 1987, Humboldt The university found itself with a new set of problems: in- State has coped with severe budget sufficient funds, insufficient classes and faculty, and a 1987-93 cuts, increased student fees, continued housing crunch. Admissions issued the following state- threats of layoffs, and low morale. On ment: the other hand, academic reorganiza- After May 1, 1989, Humboldt State University tion, new efforts to recruit and retain students, and better will no longer accept applications from new under- relations between campus and community have helped pre- graduate students for the fall, 1989, semester. serve confidence in the future. Not since the early 70s, when Today Humboldt stands braced for Humboldt was known as "the changes in student enrollment, the Cinderella of the North," had the arrival of new faculty members, new school turned away qualified construction projects, and innova- applicants. tive approaches to teaching the liberal arts. Streamlining & What the pseudonymous Mary Lou Administrative Moves Humboldt (p 34) called "this far- away college" remains unique and Manuel Esteban became the new picturesque. These days, of course, provost and vice president for aca- thousands tread where once there demic affairs in 1990. Upon as- were only dozens. The school has suming the position, he said, "I lost some of its small-college cama- want HSU to be the premier CSU raderie. Still, each incoming student, campus." He arrived, however, just like Mary Lou, finds this place in time to cope with serious budget abounding in possibilities: social, questions facing the university. spiritual, and intellectual. In 1990, for example, the univer- As phrased in the theme of Humboldt sity found its budget reduced by State's 75th birthday celebration, $2 million. Acting chancellor Ellis "The spirit continues!" McCune characterized that budget as the worst in CSU history, yet in 1991 HSU's budget was Enrollment Ups & Downs cut by another $7 million. Cuts over the next two years would go even deeper. A turning point in enrollment came in 1987. Despite dra- Student fee increases rose steadily and hard-pressed matically increasing fees (from $910 in 1988 to $1,308 in Humboldt administrators eliminated classes, laid off 1992), and CSU's higher admission standards (fall of faculty, and limited enrollment even further. Entire depart- 1988), the student population began to climb. From 1990- ments were cut, including home economics, speech and 93 HSU had even more students than estimated.

121 ate studies. Lily Owyang succeeded him. She came to HSU after a 30-year affiliation with Emmanuel College in Enrollment Figures Boston. Meanwhile, Manuel Esteban left HSU to become for the Past 10 Years president of CSU, Chico. He was replaced temporarily by "Mr. Interim," John Hennessy, until a permanent successor 8 students FTEs could be selected. 82-83 6876 6442 83-84 6285 5896 At the highest level of the CSU system, chancellor Ann 84-85 6010 5596 Reynolds resigned under fire and Barry Munitz, a business- 85-86 6053 5674 man with close ties to the Pacific Lumber Company, 86-87 5843 5290 replaced her in 1991. 87-88 6221 5637 88-89 6752 6239 89-90 7301 6741 Faculty/Staff Transitions 90-91 7654 7047 With periodic threats of layoffs, the CSU urged university 91-92 7824 7166 personnel to reduce their work time, take unpaid leaves, or 92-93 7851 7326 retire early. Many did retire. Some took advantage of new Golden Handshake plans. Some faculty opted for a plan that allowed them to teach part-time after retirement. hearing, and education. President McCrone reduced the Retirees (and their years of service) included Alwyn vice presidencies from four to three, combining develop- Sessions John Russell Henry Tropp Tom ment and administrative affairs under Vice President Don (37); (36); (35); Knight and Shaffer Stan Harris Christensen. Jack (34); (33); James Gast and Richard Ridenhour (32); Barb van Putten (31); Kathryn In 1991 HSU streamlined operations by combining colleges Corbett and Robert Wallace (30); Frank Jolly, Manuel Ras- to form just four: ter, Farris Roy Meredith, and Janet Spinas (27); Alba Gilles- pie, George Magladry, and John Hennessy (26); Duncan College of Behavioral & Social Sciences Bazemore (25); Gerald Beck, Jeneral Cranston, Herbert Hen- Lee Bowker, dean dricks, Frank Mahar, Stuart Sundet, and Jack Yarnall (24). College of Professional Studies Bette Lowery, dean A milestone was passed when Homer Balabanis, "Mr. Hum- College of Arts & Humanities boldt," died in 1991 after a 68-year association with HSU. Ron Young, dean College of Natural Resources & Sciences With shrinking budgets and little job security, this was an- James Smith, dean other era of pessimism and low faculty morale, particularly when statewide budget cuts threatened the jobs of full-time Curriculum for teacher training became an all-university faculty. President McCrone took action to improve condi- responsibility. The two teacher preparation programs, mul- tions. A task force headed by faculty president Linda Ander- tiple subjects (elementary) and single subjects (secondary), son investigated concerns. The president also held small joined the College of Professional Studies. group meetings with faculty and worked with the academic senate in ranking those complaints to be addressed. Where Not all administrative changes were budget-driven. Brenda specific grievances received attention (improved clerical Aden became affirmative action officer, and Rena Fowler support for research, for example, and renovation of class- replaced David Oyler as librarian. Whitney Buck retired in rooms), the resolution led to improved morale. 1993 after 29 years as professor and dean of undergradu-

122 The McCrone Presidency Spotlight on the Arts

In a 1989 interview in Humboldt Stater commemorating The departments of art, music, and theatre arts, tradition- his first fifteen years as president, Alistair McCrone spoke ally strong on campus, caught the spotlight in the mid-80s. to how he wanted history to remember his tenure: Pop singer Madonna contributed $700,000 worth of equip-

I have no illusions about doing anything other ment to theatre arts in 1987, the same year the campus than helping to add to and to release the talents hosted the American College Theatre Festival.

that are already here. I think you have to see following your role as part of an enduring institution that Beginning the summer, Humboldt hosted CSU's Arts festival. (The awarded the festival to will go on without you. If it's just a little bit Summer CSU Humboldt for an additional three years in 1992.) Summer better than it could have been without you, that's enough. Arts involves students and faculty from the CSU and elsewhere in short-term performance projects. It also features Three characteristics of McCrone's administrative style set performances and master classes by accomplished artists. him apart: first, his willingness to delegate responsibilities; One permanent consequence of Summer Arts' presence was second, his strong advocacy of the academic and scholarly a sculpture, Humboldt Ship, built on the south lawn of the aspects of university life; and third, his strong advocacy of Balabanis Complex by guest artist John Roloff. the university's image and visibility in the community. Meanwhile CenterArts, under directors Peter Pennekamp (1980), Anne Yard (1988), and Sarah Shelley (1989), A Reputation for Excellence brought high profile professional performers to campus, from classical and traditional artists to the contemporary Right through the difficult changes of this era, Humboldt and avant-garde. maintained its standards of academic excellence. From 1990 to 1992, a U.S. News and World Report study ranked Stateline, the official publication of the CSU, recognized Humboldt State among the best universities in the West. Humboldt's excellence in the visual and performing arts.

This was based on five criteria: 1) quality of the student So did the National Endowment for the Arts, calling it "a director body, 2) quality of faculty, 3) reputation for academic ex- model program in the West." (In 1988 CenterArts cellence, 4) financial resources, and 5) ability to recruit and Peter Pennekamp would be lured away by the NEA to direct retain graduate students. their InterArts program in Washington, D.C.)

Members of the forensics team, Laura Aguada and Mindi Golden, qualified for national competition in St. Louis in The Generosity of Friends 1992. Humboldters placed second at a wildlife conclave in Humboldt received several major gifts in this era, each Montana in 1991, with Michele Cardinaux making the out- contributing further to the university's academic excel- standing student presentation. On a faculty level, wildlife's lence. (Appendix B has a more complete list.) Rick Botzler was the CSU's outstanding professor in 1992.

Industrialist Louis Schatz established an endowment and HSU alumni made names for themselves during this era. donated a 385-acre stand of hardwood trees near Maple Robert Detweiler (social science, 1960) became president of Creek for forestry research. He also gave $760,000 to CSU, Dominguez Hills in 1989. In 1990 Jeff Self (fisheries, endow an innovative research project converting sunlight 1971) received a presidential award for teaching excellence into hydrogen gas and, through fuel cells, into electricity. in science and math. Bruce Fisher (multiple subjects, 1975) was named California teacher of the year in 1991.

123 Fortuna native Henry Trione arranged for Wells Fargo In the fall of 1992, students occupied four new residence Bank to donate an abandoned branch building (valued at halls — Creekview Apartments, in the Jolly Giant Creek $435,000) to house a natural history museum. The Kath- area. Accommodating 252 students in groups of five, erine Morningstar Trust gave an additional $150,000 for Creekview offered kitchens, living rooms, lounges, fire- the bank-to-museum conversion, and $58,000 in grants places, and other amenities. from the Humboldt Area Foundation went to purchase showcases. The museum bought its 2,000 piece fossil collection (termed "the finest west of the Mississippi") from The Giving Tradition Hilda and Tom Maloney using $100,000 of private funds and lottery grants. Under the supervision of geology pro- Areata residents pledged to start the fessor John Longshore, the Humboldt State Museum of The $12,000 Natural History opened in May of 1989. school, plus William Preston's gift of land for a campus,

began a tradition of private support that has nurtured

Campus Changes Humboldt State for eight decades. Today, according to director Petranek, more than Talk of a new regional University of California campus development Jan 4,000 titillated local residents for a while, then came to naught. alumni and friends support the school. In the meantime the North Coast's existing university campus kept improving. HSU added a new building to house From 1983-93 alumni, parents, foundations, corpora- student and business services as well as a new complex of tions, and the local community raised their annual giving residence halls. from $175,000 to $1.5 million. Tangible results of this With tight budgets, however, most funds went into remod- support appear throughout the campus: library collec- eling and repair of existing buildings. New elevators aided the handicapped. To aid everyone's breathing, smoking tions, microcomputer laboratories, art collections, was banned in campus buildings. Founders Hall was va- specially-equipped teaching rooms, scientific equipment, cated for two years, beginning in late 1990, for complete numerous scholarships, and several distinguished lecture renovation. series. The Rathskeller, in the University Center, was remodeled and renamed The Depot. The pool tables and game room moved into the old Corner Deli area, replaced by Associated Students offices, meeting rooms, a study area. Food and Academic Matters service and bookstore areas also underwent remodeling in the summers of 1991 and 1992. For much of the 80s, the more popular majors were business, computer information systems, environmental engi- Construction began in 1989 on a student and business neering, geology, and the natural resources. This trend services building at the south end of the Gist Hall parking reflected the more job-conscious student population. By the lot. To compensate for the loss of parking, a new lot was early 90s, however, the humanities, social sciences, and built south of Griffith Hall, and other lots were expanded. visual and performing arts were on the rise. In part, this In November, 1990, most of the offices housed in the reflected increasing nationwide demand for public school university annex (the old Trinity Hospital) moved into the teachers. Teacher credential programs attracted the most new building. So did financial aid, the testing center, majors in the early 90s. extended education, graphics, and public safety.

124 Natural History Museum in Wells Fargo Hall, 1989; Schatz Solar Hydrogen Project at the marine lab in Trinidad.

The sundial in front of the library was donated by Harry S. Kieval, emeritus professor of mathematics; Colleen Mullery, assistant professor of business administration, with a student in a computer lab.

125 Natural resources experienced dramatic declines in the late drinking. In 1989 they began deemphasizing alcohol con- 80s. By 1991 employment in these areas was grim, re- sumption. flecting a Reagan-era decline in spending by governmental Again in this era, a number of celebrities visited campus: agencies. Eventually even the number of business majors jazz musicians "Dizzy" Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, and declined. Herbie Mann; U.S. Senator Alan Cranston; actress Nina New programs on campus included a major in computer Foch; satirist Mark Russell; sports commentator Dick information systems, a biochemistry and toxicology Enberg; Native American flutist Carlos Nakai; and musician emphasis, a religious studies major, and dramatic writing Taj Mahal, to name a few. Another "visit," a rare four-inch and directing emphases in theatre arts. Chancellor Munitz snowfall, closed the campus in February of 1989. also made Humboldt a center for resolution of environmen- Unfortunately, there were bad times too. In 1988 the cam- tal disputes. As a result, by 1992 HSU offered a major in pus was stunned by news that graduate student Danielle environmental studies, combining ethics and technology. Plumb Zumbrum had been murdered while jogging in the With the 90s came a drive to make the curriculum more Areata Community Forest. While the body of her suspected multicultural. In keeping with a national trend, the uni- killer was later found, the incident aroused much fear and versity adopted a three-year program initiated by ITEPP anger on campus. Safety patrols organized, and Students director Lois Risling. HSU encouraged departments in the Against Violent Events (SAVE) promoted safety on campus. social sciences and humanities to promote knowledge of, and appreciation for, the nation's cultural diversity. Cul- Student Attitudes tural Diversity Week, begun in 1991, further celebrated this. Samuel Betances, a popular speaker on multicultur- At every commencement ceremony since 1987, HSU grad- alism, visited campus in 1992. uates have been asked to pledge

to investigate thoroughly and take into account Campus Life the social and environmental consequences of

any job opportunities I consider. In 1990 British filmmakers built cultural bridges through Humboldt-Humboldt, a film comparing and contrasting Known for its socially conscious student body, HSU con- student life at HSU and Humboldt-Universitat in East tinued to rank high among universities in the number of Berlin, Germany. They found a reasonably contented stu- Peace Corps volunteers (37 overseas in 1989). Social and dent body among the California Humboldters. A 1990 sur- political concerns of the late 80s and early 90s, as ex- vey revealed that HSU students liked their institution pressed in The Lumberjack , were abortion, recycling, AIDS, better the than students of any other CSU campus (though rape, sexual harassment, campus crime, and the environ- they rated food service lowest of the 18 campuses sur- ment. The campus observed the 20th anniversary of Earth veyed). Day. Cultural Diversity Week lifted up the ideals of multi- culturalism. The American Sign Language Club held Silent Skateboarding and bicycling regained popularity. The Par Sunday to address the needs of persons with speaking Infinity Club devised flying disc golf, creating an 18-hole disabilities. course in the woods behind the tennis courts.

Youth Educational Services reached out to the Humboldt Greeks continued their comeback. By 1992 HSU had seven County jail and assisted teenage mothers through a family fraternities and sororities, all trying to shun the Animal issues program. A new Adult Re-entry Center helped older House image of yesteryear. Lumberjack Days organizers, students make the transition to college life. too, responded to community complaints over noise and

126 Lang's biology class at Clam each, 1992; ourin Plant, ssistant profes- or of music, conducts a /ocal ensemble.

Track star Denise Walker in 1990 cross-country championships; student field trip on HSU's research vessel equipped to do biological, phys-

ical, geological and chemical sampling.

127 bince the late 60s, Hum- ITEP became the Indian Resource, Science, & En- boldt State has fostered Teacher and Educational gineering Program) — Native several highly successful Personnel Program in was established in 1974. American programs in support of 1979, when it expanded The program uses coun- Programs the local Native Ameri- to include ancillary edu- seling and curriculum

can communities. Besides cational personnel such support services to in-

the CICD (see p 96) two as school counselors, crease Indian and Alaska

ofthemostprominentare psychologists and social native students' chances

ITEPPandNACENR. workers. Now the oldest for success in science and and most successful pro- natural resource disci- The Indian Teacher Edu- gram in the nation, it re- plines. cation Project began in mains active in recruit- 1 969 as an effort to make Students have been ment, orientation, finan- institutional changes in placed in cooperative cial aid and academic the public school system. education assignments advising, advocacy, job ITEP would train quali- with the U.S. Forest Serv- placement and more. fied American Indian edu- ice and the Fish & Wildlife

cators who could teach Native American Career Service, as well as in pri-

"the necessities of life" in Education in Natural Re- vate industry.

the dominant society sources — now called without sacrificing tribal INRSEP (Indian Natural

identitv.

128 Student Government while the Marching Lumberjacks continued to exhibit their special brand of craziness. Student government became more active in this era. The SLC's Otis Johnson became a liaison to the Areata city As described below, some of the athletic teams experienced council. Associated Students established a commissioner remarkable success. Still, as in so many other areas of the for external affairs as a permanent liaison with the off- university, athletics had to confront budgetary concerns. campus community. Wrestling and swimming were dropped. Fundraising took up a greater portion of the total effort. Keeping the North- Former ASB president Bill Crocker served a student term on ern California Athletic Conference together posed yet an- the CSU board of trustees. ASB also rejoined the state asso- other problem. Sacramento State and Notre Dame dropped ciated students organization. In 1988-89, Humboldt's out, and many feared UC Davis might soon bolt to NCAA Allison the first to chair the organi- Weber became woman division I, leaving the conference leaner and posing signif- zation. The next year, Vicki Allen served on it as well. icant scheduling problems.

Associated Students and the University Center occasionally clashed. Sponsorship of certain activities overlapped (intra- Men's Athletics murals, CenterArts). Associated Students wanted more say in running the University Center and Lumberjack Enterpris- In 1989-90 coach Tom Wood's basketball team tied UC es. In 1990 the SLC transferred management responsibility Davis for first, then won the NCAC postseason tournament for the AS business office to the University Center's general over San Francisco State. Wood was named western re- manager, Joan Tyson. Students also accepted a new AS gional coach of the year. Several "building years" followed constitution, streamlining student government by elimi- that season. Star players of this era included Ron Connors, nating unnecessary committees and procedures. Sandy Johnson, Eddie Whitmore, Alan Erickson, Mike Fig- ert, Jack Bainbridge, and Stan Twitchell. An interesting election in 1990 pitted so-called Progressive candidates against Greeks (the fraternity/sorority contin- In wrestling, Frank Cheek became the NCAC's and HSU's gent). Progressives won, with Randy Villa becoming AS most victorious coach. Star wrestlers included Robert president. That election also included a Better Food Initia- Watkins, Tim Monohan, Mike Puzz, and Dean Henderson. tive, calling for expanded menus and healthier foods from Heavyweight Luke Parham won the national title in 1990.

Lumberjack Enterprises. It carried by a smashing 9-1 vote. Unfortunately, due to budget considerations and several conference members dropping the sport, HSU dropped During 1991 and 1992, students sent representatives to intercollegiate wrestling. Sacramento to protest fee hikes, to protest the war against Iraq, and to support cultural diversity and a multicultural Dave Wells' cross-country teams won conference champi- curriculum. onships in 1988, 1990, 1991, and 1992. The 1991 team

finished third in the division II national championships. Wells was named both conference and western regional Athletic Reorganization coach of the year. His star runners included Mike Jekab- sons, Bill Schipper, Bill Frampton, Chris Hobson, Peter In 1989, after a four-year hiatus, cheerleading crews — Oviatt, Chris Mullaney, and Chris Parmer. megaphones, pompoms, and all — returned to the home football and basketball games. Vern Hendricks organized While Wells did not win the conference title in track and the first eight members: Darlene Argentini, Valerie Buss, field, he did coach some outstanding long-distance run- Kellie Coureen, Michelle Dolby, Vesna Grubic, Raylene ners. James Williams became sprint coach beginning with McDowell, Rebecca Melvin, and Anne Rusiewicz. Mean- the Olympic Festival in the summer of 1991 . Track stars

129 included Craig Olson, Dennie Pfeifer, Reed Elmore, Rodney Dan Collen and Julie Ortman took over the coaching the Dickerson, Jim Bowles, and James Olson. next year. They honed the talents of stars such as Abby Ackroyd, Shauna Dada, Angela Erken, and Teresa Walters. Coach Alan Exley's 1989 soccer team had an impressive

15-6 record. It featured Ken Sintchak and Kevin Wiese, Swim teams, first under coach Pam Armold, then Sue both on the all-western regional team. Exley was named Rodearmel, struggled against strong competition. In 1990,

Far West coach of the year for NCAA division II. however, the team boasted its best finish in Other star players during the era were Todd 12 years (third), and Rodearmel was named Keough, Randy Kidd, Scott Power, Mike Taft, NCAC coach of the year. (Not enough, ap- and Kamika Sherwood. parently, as the sport became one of HSU's budget cuts.) Outstanding individual swim- Fred Whitmire, an HSU hall-of-fame athlete mers included Lyn Brock, Kari Irvin, Sue and former College of the Redwoods football Pettit, Melissa Benson, and divers Kirsten

coach, replaced Mike Dolby in 1 99 1 . In his first Keithly and Shannon Speier. two seasons, the Lumberjacks had a combined When softball returned after a six-year ab- 13-9 record. Star football players under the sence, coach Frank Cheek led his team to two head coaches included Pat Johnson, Corny conference championships in 1989, 1990, Ross, Dave Booth, Rodney Dorsett, Richard 1991, and 1993. The latter placed third in Ashe, Dave Harper, Scott Reagan, Freeman the Western regionals. These teams featured Baysinger, and Dave Tullar. all-Americans Cheryl Clark and Jeri Hilde- brand. Other stars included Becky Immel, Women's Athletics Cristi Hulse, and Teresa Cheek (pitcher of the year in the NCAC). Standout pitchers Wendy Becker, selected division II ail-Ameri- Torrie Cababa and Sue Ellen Stallard led the can forher 10,000 meter performance in 1988, 1991 team to a 39-10 record. became Humboldt's first nationally recognized Alumnus Mark Conover wins

track star since Elta Cartwright in 1 928. Other '88 Olympic marathon trials. star runners on coach Dave Wells' teams in- Town & Gown Partnership cluded Lisa Harper, Kimbra Macauley, Denise Several emotionally charged events caused friction between Walker, and Juan Ball. The cross-country teams were competi- campus and community. Timber industry spokespersons tive also. Wendy Becker was a champion again. Track star complained of a lack of support from the campus. They Denise Walker also won cross-country all-American honors at took exception to research on the endangered spotted owl. the 1990 national meet. Summer Ecberg lead the team in 1992. A parking controversy emerged in 1989. The CSU raised Women's basketball fought for respectability under coach Pam parking fees at the same time Humboldt reduced parking Martin. The 1988-89 squad placed third in the conference and space behind Gist Hall to make room for the student and played the first postseason game for Humboldt women. They business services building. When students parked in resi- reached postseason play again in 1992. Among the stars were dential areas near the campus, residents complained. A Dawn Miner, Janay Bainbridge, conference player of the year three-pronged approach helped remedy the situation: Carrie LaBudde, and division II all-American Suzie Farmer.

1) residents received permits and preference for After struggling for several years, the volleyball team, under parking in front of their homes, while parking in Janis Rowe-Grondalski, placed second in the NCAC in 1988. other areas was restricted to two or four hours;

130 I^ince the late 40s, Hum- quake safety booklets, like abutment of the Pacific boldt State has had seis- the recent On Shaky Plate creates a dangerous

mographic reporting sta- Ground, prepare the com- triple junction. Slippage

tions on campus. In 1 962, munity for the next "big along the resulting faults Earthquake amid much local public- one." resulted in some strong Information ity, a new instrument was North Coast earthquakes sources: Historically, the North set up in the basement of (greater than magnitude The Lumberjack Coast accounts for about (various years); Nelson Hall to measure 5.5) in 1906, 1922,1923, one quarter of all earth- On Shaky Ground, surface waves in the 1932, 1954, and 1980. by Lori Dengler quake energy released in earth's crust. and Kathy Moley More than 60 quakes have California. The Gorda caused damage since Today, using ever more (tectonic) Plate subducts 1850. The area shook to sophisticated equipment, beneath the North Ameri- magnitude 7.1, 6.6, and HSU continues to serve can Plate all along the 6.7 quakes in April, 1 992. the region with its earth- coast; and at Cape Men- quake research. Earth- docino, the additional

131 2) to encourage students to ride the bus, the Ar- strive to make Humboldt State University a place eata city council matched HSU subsidies to the where the idea of leaving the world in a condition Arcata-Mad River Transit System; and worthy of the privilege of life itself is both inspi-

ration and commitment . . . May what we today to promote safer bicycling to and from cam- 3) call the "Humboldt Spirit" always be with you. pus, Areata established bike lanes on L.K. Wood Boulevard. The Future Another controversy loomed in January, 1991, when the

city council established Areata as a sanctuary for oppo- Faced with a potential student enrollment explosion in the nents to the Persian Gulf War. The issue proved quite divi- 90s, the university braces itself for change. HSU finds itself sive, and some who opposed the council's move associated in the unusual position of having to lay off faculty and the university with the antiwar sentiments. Later it became staff while the number of students is on the rise. This pre- clear that individuals from both town and gown could be sents a dilemma which may require changes in the state numbered among the supporters and denouncers of the and national economy, particularly in the tax base for high- resolution. er education.

But positive campus/community relations developed as The university has begun considering a proposal by Chan- well. Wells Fargo Bank, as mentioned earlier, donated its cellor Munitz that would make Humboldt a "charter" cam- Areata branch building to HSU for use as a museum of pus. Charter status would exempt the school from certain natural history. restrictive bureauratic measures and encourage experimen- tation and innovation in curriculum, teaching methods, The university linked up with Native American communi- funding, and management. ties with the appointment of Victor Golla to the Center for Community Development. In 1989 students carved red- Meanwhile President McCrone has appointed a commission wood canoes in the Yurok tradition under the tutelage of on future directions and missions to take stock of the uni- artist-in-residence George Blake of Hoopa. One canoe re- versity's situation and recommend goals. The president out- mains on display in the library. lined his own vision for the future in his 1989 State-of-the- University address: The Humboldt Chorale, a joint student/community venture founded in by Lee Barlow 1947, grew to more than 130 1) an enhanced emphasis on teaching members under the energetic direction of Ken Hannaford. 2) maintenance of the liberal arts tradition 3) support for scholarship, especially that involving students "Happy Birthday to You" 4) good faculty/student relations mutual trust and respect between faculty and "The Spirit Continues" was the theme for HSU's 75th anni- 5) administrators versary observance in 1988-89. An open house, a special homecoming celebration, a golf tournament, an Alexander 6) a humanistic environment classics well as current von Humboldt exhibit, and other events celebrated the 7) a return to reading as university's past, present, and future. literature

continue. Stressing cooperation and community, President McCrone If this is the Humboldt Spirit, then may that spirit asked members of the campus community to

132 top right) Sue Lee, professor of biology, (second "" *-'' from right) with z*0:^- members of mini n 4~ — WINS—Wom- :; en in Natural iff tN i III! j lliii Resources and ___ i Ml Sciences; commencement in Redwood Bowl- Student and Business Services Building; students at HSU's observatory on "ickle Hill, 1990.

133

Apr (6th) Humboldt State Normal School be- 1921

gins in Areata Grammar School, 1 1th and L streets • 78 students and 5 faculty by Jun (1st) HSNS renamed Humboldt State Teachers College and College • May 1 Junior (28th) HSNS trustees dissolved • depart- Fall William Preston and Union Water Co. ment of education (Sacramento) designat- Appendix A stockholders donate 51 acres east of Areata ed authority over college for permanent site of HSNS Administration building completed Dec First play performed, Her Own Way

Humboldt State 1923 1915 Chronology Fall Homer Balabanis joins faculty May First graduation, in Minor Theatre: 15

women; first grad is Susie Baker Fountain 1912 1924 Jun Construction of temporary building on the Dec Senator William Kehoe and Assemblyman "Preston Tract" Sum Ralph Swetman becomes new president Hans Nelson introduce legislation to estab- Fall Horace "Pop" Jenkins joins faculty Fall Associated Student Body organized (How- lish a normal school in Humboldt County ard Trueblood first president) • alumni

association formed (Hugh Stewart first 1916 1913 president) • first homecoming • first student newspaper, The Foghorn • comedy Jan HSNS moves into temporary building un (13th) Governor Hiram Johnson signs law performed by students and faculty, The (present site of Founders Hall) • 156 establishing a "Humboldt State Normal Collegejinx students School" to train elementary school teachers

Student loan fund established by commu- Sep Governor appoints board of trustees: five 1925 nity local members, governor and state super-

intendent of instruction ex officio members Fall Laura Herron joins faculty and organizes 1917 Women's Athletic Association Nov (13th) HSNS trustees select Areata as location for the normal school • (19th) state Play Day and Work Day initiated Apr (6th) U.S. enters World War I attorney general declares actions of trustees null and void Jun Legislature appropriates funds to build 1927 new administration building (now Foun- ders Hall) 1914 Humboldt State authorized to offer BA.

Spr First yearbook, Cabrillo Jan Board of trustees names Nelson Van Matre 1920 president of HSNS Fall First intercollegiate football contest: loss to Swimming pool built in the gulch behind Southern Oregon Normal, 33-0 (coach Fred Feb (14th) HSNS trustees, meeting in Sacra- temporary building Telonicher) mento, reaffirm decision to locate normal in Areata

135 1928 1933 1939

Spr Humboldt State Teachers College Improve- Sum California Department of Education threat- Spr Legislature appropriates fund to build new ment Foundation established ens to close HSTC dormitory (now Nelson Hall) and playground for College Elementary School Sum "Cinder" Elta Cartwright, Humboldt track Fall College Elementary School completed (Gist star, participates in first U.S. women's Hall) Fall Library acquires copy of YtiAzfsMein Olympic team in Amsterdam Kamgf Alumni association publishes Humboldt

II • Alumnus, edited by Alta McElwain and J. Sep World War begins Associated Women 1929 Wendell Howe Students organized

Oct Stock market crash on Wall Street 1934 1940 Fall New student newspaper published, HSTC Rooter Apr Humboldt celebrates 20th anniversary Fall Men's sports join Far Western Conference • William and Hortense Lanphere begin Spr Civil Works Administration provides fund two-year wildlife management program • to improve buildings and grounds • first ski club builds lodge on Horse Mountain • intercollegiate tennis team (coach Monica 1930 first annual pancake feed for faculty and Wright) students at Camp Bauer • aeronautics Sum Ralph Swetman leaves Humboldt • Arthur 1935 class trains pilots • faculty council organ- Gist becomes new president ized by the state colleges Fall HSTC renamed Humboldt State College • Fall HSTC Rooter renamed The Lumberjack 275 students, 31 faculty • Football coach 1941 Charles Erb has 6-1-1 record for Thunder- Chi Sigma Epsilon honor society formed, J. bolts Wendell Howe sponsor Fall Queen of the Campus sponsored by Mut- suhito Club (name changed to Favonians 1931 1936 after Dec 7) • enrollment high of 481 students • Gist bans hazing of freshmen • Spr New gymnasium completed and dedicated Spr First intercollegiate track meet, losing to radio training offered for women

• first high school senior day on campus Chico State 103-26 Oct HSC Radio Workshop aired on KIEM

Fall Football star Vernon Thornton is "champion doughnut eater" after eating 24 of 1942 Pop Jenkins' doughnuts in one sitting • 1932 sports mascot changed to Lumberjacks Spr Air observation post built atop college com-

• Fall Enrollment reaches 388 • teacher place- mons Skywatch near Redwood Park, faculty wives • ment bureau established • Little Sympho- 1937 operated by The War Effort ny Orchestra, A Cappella Choir, pep band variety show formed • tuition goes from $1.50 to $6.50 Fall Student-run "cooperative bookstore and Fall Football abolished • commando physical • per semester • HSTC offers AB. degree in fountain" ODensopens HSC offers B.S. in ediedu- fitness offered by phys ed department • biology, English, social sciences, and kin- cation President Gist initiates Humboldt News dergarten — primary education 1938 Letter to send to men and women in the armed services Fall Forestry Club organized

136 1943 1948 1952

Fall With the Armed Forces column featured in Mar California Department of Education estab- Spr HSC Foundation established • Coop has • Lumberjack Humboldt Hilarities proceeds lishes HSC enrollment capacity at 1 ,418 coffee for 7

Spr World War II camouflaging of main build- Peace Carillon dedicated • new faculty: 1944 ing finally painted over Dan Brant, John Pauley, Charles Bloom, Kathryn Corbett • science building and • Fall HSC advisory council established — ad- Spr 23 men, 4 women graduate main build- corporation yard finished ing (now Founders Hall) camouflaged ministrators, faculty, and students Fall Football team, coached by Phil Sarboe, Fall Enrollment drops 1 to 76 wins FWC for first time 1949

1945 Fall HSC offers general secondary teaching cre- 1953 dential, 18 B.A. degrees, five B.S. degrees • Fall HSC organized into five divisions Homer Spr Chas. Bamum endows local history contest • Balabanis dean of arts • Harry Griffith Oct President Gist suffers heart attack Homer dean of education • Charles Fulkerson Balabanis is interim president Mar Bunny Hop held in Eureka reorganizes HSC Symphony, includes 1950 Sep Skywatch ended • Frosh Camp orients community participation new students • 26 new faculty include 1946 May Industrial arts building, Jenkins Hall, com- Milt Dobkin and Leon Wagner • "Pop" pleted • state funding surpasses $500,000 Jenkins dies • Fall HSC accredited by NW Association of Sec- All-College Picnic held at Camp Bauer Oct Wildlife management building finished ondary and Higher Schools • new faculty Jun President Gist retires • Korean War begins include Leland Barlow, Kate Buchanan, Dec Christmas flood Reese Bullen, Joseph Forbes, William Jack- Jul Cornelius Siemens named president son, Hyman Palais, Roscoe Peithman • Fall Siemens appoints HSC advisory board Humboldt Village and Redwood Hall 1954 • house married students and veterans Oct Conservation Unlimited published • MA Feb Faculty members Charles Parke, Ralph students and community build bleachers degree in teaching of drama, education, Roske, and Dan Brant are candidates for • for Redwood Bowl new clubs include and social science Muddy Gras king Knights, Wildlife, Student Federalists Nov Greater Humboldt Committee formed Spr Maurice Hicklin and Homer Arnold retire • 1947 after more than 30 years Adlai Steven- 1951 son attends All-College Picnic • west Spr Far Western Conference reactivated stands in Redwood Bowl covered with roof Apr New Coop built Fall Speech/radio major offered • radio station KHSC established • enrollment reaches Sep Jessie T. Woodcock retires after 3 1 years 1955

750 • G.l. Wives and Rally Committee es- Fall Two-year programs established in dairying Fall Football star Earl Meneweather installed as tablished • first graduate classes offered • and lumbering and logging marching first member of HSC Sports Hall of Fame (History of Economic Thought; U.S. band formed Colonial History) • Sweetheart and Harvest balls held • NW California Dec Conservation Week held 1956 Dramatics Festival for high school students • B.A. in wildlife management established Fall Division of Natural Resources established • lights installed in Redwood Bowl • 89 courses of study offered (41 in 1946)

137 1957 administration building (now Siemens form CSC Student Presidents' Association •

Hall) • new language arts building and Fred Telonicher elected first general faculty Spr Myrtle McKittrick retires as registrar and field house • Sunset and Redwood halls president placement officer • Hilkopper first issued occupied • Lucky Logger adopted as mas- May Ugly Professor contest held • Imogene cot • Elta "Cinder Elta" Cartwright is first buildings include Fall New art-home econom- Piatt retires after 35 years • recruiting for woman in HSC Sports Hall of Fame ics, music, men's gym, home management Peace Corps begins • tennis courts built cottage, outdoor facilities for wildlife man- Nov Main building (old administration build- south of field house • • agement Delta Sigma Phi organized ing) renamed Founders Hall enrollment at 1527 • Green and Gold Mashed Potato Incident Room opened 1960 Fall HSC has 59 degree-granting programs: 39 BA/BS, 20 MA/MS 1958 Jan MA in biology approved Dec Sale of Tropic ofCancer banned in county

Spr IBM punch cards used for registration and Mar HSC chapter of Association of Cal State Col- recording of grades • Tau Kappa Epsilon lege Professors formed

organized • College Cove is popular sun- Apr California master plan for higher education bathing area 1962 Spr All-weather track installed in Redwood Mar Marriage Education Week observed Jan Metro Bus Service of Areata operates from Bowl • alumni association begins Who's post office to campus May Ground broken for two new dormitories: Who award to distinguished alums (first, George Hogan, '33) Redwood and Sunset halls • faculty and Mar CSC trustees predict HSC will have 1 2 ,000 staff hold first salmon bake students by 1990 May Sequoia Theatre (now Van Duzer) dedi-

• Sep Enrollment 1921 • 36 new faculty (total cated new health center and cafeteria Fall Forestry building and new library com- 156) pleted • old library (now Van Matre Hall) Sep Per master plan, authority for 14 colleges remodeled for engineering • enrollment Oct Hula Hoop contest held in Redwood Hall • of CSC system transfened to separate record, 2398 • 30 new faculty • civil de- chartered flight takes team and fans to board of trustees; first chancellor, Dr. Buell fense seeks adequate fallout shelters on football game vs. Hawaii Gallagher • new divisions established for campus • legislature initiates Outstanding biological and physical sciences • new Teacher award • CSC and academic senate coop opens, now called student activities initiate Outstanding Professor award • 1959 center • enrollment over 2,000 HSC terminates junior college program Feb NDEA loans available • indoor swimming Oct Lumberjack Enterprises established for Oct Cuban Missile Crisis pool completed vending and food services, bookstore, etc. • football games played in Albee Stadium, May Track and field wins its first FWC cham- as Redwood Bowl too small for the crowds 1963 pionship (coach Robert Doornik) • Delta Zeta organized • Lumberjack Days replace Dec HSC championship team plays Lenoir- Mar Faculty elects reappointment and tenure All-College Picnic as spring event • B.S. in Rhyne in NAlA's Holiday Bowl committee and promotion committee nursing and A.B. in industrial arts • 45th

commencement is largest ever, 225 grads May Outstanding Alumnus Monroe Spaght 1961 delivers commemorative speech for 50th Fall Student Counseling Center operates in • encour- • anniversary Chancellor Dumke dean of students' offices • parking fees Feb Enrollment fees now $43 per semester ages statewide academic senate • end of • ($13 per semester) instituted for first time academic senate meets for first time As- baccalaureate services • 41 new faculty hired • first issue ofAn- sociated Women Students sponsor Wom- nual Ring, Forestry Club publication • new en's Day • ASB presidents of CSC system

138 Fall Enrollment reaches 2,628 • 25 new faculty 1966 Fall Donald Strahan becomes first dean for ad-

hired • education/psychology building ministrative affairs • Jolly Giant Commons • completed (now Harry Griffith Hall) Jan Harry Griffith dies after 27 years at HSC and eight dormitories completed • March- student athletic committee established ing Lumberjacks return after 10-year ab- Nov President John F. Kennedy assassinated sence • 72 new faculty, 4,604 students • Feb First Clam Beach Run football team wins FWC; defeats Fresno in 1964 Mar Students agree to build new student union Camellia Bowl (coach Bud Van Deren)

Spr Marine laboratory opens in Trinidad • Dec Lady Bird Johnson dedicates Redwood Na- Feb Humboldt County Junior College District • William Lanphere retires after 30 years tional Park • Bill Johnson, chief of plant establishes College of the Redwoods last issue, for now, diSempervirens operations, retires after 27 years Mar New ASB constitution • Barry Goldwater May First graduation held in Redwood Bowl visits to campaign for presidency 1969 Sum Upward Bound program begins Apr Homer Balabanis, first vice president for Jan HSC chapter of Sierra Club organized • art academic affairs, retires after 40 years, Fall 250 faculty, 3,600+ students • auto- and music buildings completed replaced by interim VP Ivan Milhous mechanics building completed • ACSCP • Golden Anniversary of HSC observed • campaigning for collective bargaining Feb Freeway issue heats up • ASB establishes John Gimbel named Outstanding Professor Fall Enrollment reaches 2,893; 34 new faculty student judiciary for CSC system • Center for Community Oct Ronald Reagan visits Development established, Bill Murison Apr Peer group concept adopted for dorm living • • director • Frank "Bud" Van Deren new trustees approve new student union Dec-Jan Humboldt/Del Norte flood isolates cam- head football coach President Siemens approves seating stu- pus; gym facilities used for community re- dents on 37 campus committees • mini- lief efforts skirt contest held 1967 May Women's track wins Women's Recreation 1965 Feb Experimental College organized with 100 Association meet • Humboldt Honeys

students • Vietnam seminar held • first started Jan College of the Redwoods begins operation Intercollegiate Kite Flying Contest held at in Eureka High School Fall 5,100 students • academic reorgan- Clam Beach ization: five schools plus division of Health Feb Pacific Oceanic Olio first published May Retirees include Helen Everett, Ivan Mil- and PE; Milt Dobkin vice president for hous, Fred Telonicher academic affairs; Whitney Buck dean for Mar Federal Economic Opportunity Act of 1 964 studies; provides money for work-study programs undergraduate Richard Ridenhour Fall Change to quarter system • 3,891 students dean for academic planning; Donald • "teach-in" on the draft held • College of Sep James Turner is vice president for academic Strahan vice president for administrative • • the Redwoods moves south of Eureka • affairs enrollment 3, 100 55 new affairs; Thomas Stipek first ombudsman faculty ITEPP begins • co-ed dorms • Vietnam Moratorium Day on Areata Plaza Fall HSC adopts master plan for future campus 1968 development • Areata requests 5,000 FTE Jan First registration by computer limit on students • Fred Telonicher and 1970 Harry Griffith become first Outstanding Apr Carroll Hurd hired as new vice president of Stockstill declares Professor awardees academic affairs Jan Lumberjack's Mike Joe College dead • environmental symposium Oct Chapter of SNCC, Student Nonviolent Coor- Spr First Film Festival • retirement of Kate Bu- dinating Committee, founded chanan and John Van Duzer Spr Third World Coalition promotes interests of minority students • HOP replaces Frosh Dec Speakers Stump established on commons Week for new student orientation • Vietnam committee established 139 May Protest of Cambodian incursion • Kent Jun HSC renamed California State University, Feb Applications down • Frank Devery retires State shooting and bombings across na- Humboldt as business manager after 23 years • gas- tion • vote on Sequoia Quad for volun- oline shortage affects student/faculty travel Fall Natural resources building completed • tary, peaceful, one-week strike • Governor change from civil engineering to environ- Apr Federal law (Title IX) mandates more fund- Reagan orders all CSC campuses closed mental engineering • first female March- ing for women's athletics

Jul College Elementary School closed for re- ing Lumberjack May Black Culture Week and Ac 'an-American modeling Oct Humboldt Students for the Reform of Mari- Awareness Week • Gay People's Union Sep Cluster College pilot program initiated after juana Laws organizes formed • campus chimes heard hourly • Smith River Retreat • 10,000 apply for HEW funds Native American Career Edu- Nov University Center completed admission, only 1 ,600 accepted • enroll- cation in Natural Resources ment at 5,479, with 50 new faculty • R.V. Jul Alistair McCrone becomes president Catalyst is new oceanography vessel

• Ryan Bill creates multiple- and single- subjects credentials 1973 Fall School renamed Humboldt State Univer- • Fall SLC votes to do away with homecoming Jan End of Selective Service ethnic studies sity • Sequoia Theatre renamed John Van • queen • YES has 12 outreach programs begin peace march to protest continued Duzer Theatre (dedicated in Feb) • enroll- involvement in Vietnam ment tops 7,500 (6,700 FTE) • women's sports join Northern California Intercolle- 1971 Spr First issue of HumboldtJournal of'Social giate Conference • "Buzz" Webb named Relations • university leases former Trin- • • dean for student services cross-country Jan Biology complex completed United Na- ity Hospital for administrative offices • team wins Far Western Conference (Jim tive Americans organized Watergate controversy Hunt coaches) Feb State master plan predicts 1 0,000 FTE by Sep President Siemens retires; Milt Dobkin 1980 appointed interim president; John Pauley 1975 interim vice president for academic affairs Spr Earl Meneweather appointed ombudsman: • Cypress Hall completed • Delta Sigma first African American administrator Jan SLC subsidizes Arcata-Mad River Transit Phi dissolves and Humboldt Transit Authority in return Fall Student services reorganized: Karshner re- Oct President's house sold at auction for $60 for lower student bus fares (10(f) tires and Thomas MacFarlane is dean • Ball students 18 and over may now register Fall 358 faculty: 63 women and 295 men • Feb First annual President's at Eureka Inn • to vote meal prices: breakfast $1.10, Forbes Complex completed • CSUH Wom- Spr Alumni publication renamed Humboldt lunch $1.40, dinner $1.65, full day $2.40 en's Association formed; Women's Center Stater • classless Fridays eliminated to displaces Faculty Club in former Balabanis Oct Kerr Tower opened for meditation economize House Apr Women's Awareness Week • Ced Kinzer 1972 retires • Intercollegiate Knights, campus 1974 service organization, ends after 25 years Feb Campus organizations include MEChA, Jan Forbes Complex dedicated; includes Wom- • UNA, and HSU Caucus for Women • ex- May Cinco de Mayo celebrated Salmon Bake en's Gym • new upper division emphasis pansion of Highway 101 to four lanes at Camp Bauer for faculty and staff phase for general education • faculty or- creates controversy ganizations (except UPC) merge to form Jun Six separate commencements held, one for division of Apr HSC adopts affirmative action plan • old Congress on Faculty Associations to pro- each school and HPE CES formally renamed Arthur Gist Hall • mote collective bargaining Fall Jewish Student Union formed controversy over Woodlands Proposal for student housing on 86 acres NE of campus

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1976 May Professor Bobby Lake is "messenger to Spr First issue of Forum, a campus journal mankind" for flying saucer people Feb Lumberjack endorsing candidates (anony- May Marine lab renamed Telonicher Marine Lab mously) for local elections, a violation of Jun Charles Fulkerson, Roscoe Peithman retire Sum Humboldt Village II (37 trailers) closed Title V of the Administrative Code Oct Student member added to CSUC trustees Oct State mandates Graduate Writing Profi- Mar Native Americans protest celebration of Nov Mandatory credit/no credit system in all ciency Examination • 7,582 enrolled bicentennial of the American Revolution activity courses • Areata Drive-in Movie closes • The Apr Battle over building the G-0 road through Great Humboldt Spirit Celebration rejuve- Fall Wooden windows replaced with metal in Native American burial grounds • Earth nates campus and community participa- Founders Hall • AIR Center opens to im- Week celebrated • enrollment crunch and tion in homecoming; alumni king and prove academic advising • expansion of threats of faculty layoffs lead to orderly queen chosen from class of ' 1 library completed • Cooperative Education layoff procedures begun through Career Development Center 1980 Jun Ronald Reagan Redwood Memorial Grove 1978 Jan Oceanography gets research vessel, Mala- dedicated near 101 off ramp to 14th street guena Feb Campus Center for Appropriate Technology Fall Enlarged health center opens • EOP offers housed in Buck House • HSU and Areata Feb Mud slide causes evacuation of Cypress financial and tutoring services agree to cease HSU's physical growth to Hall; repairs not completed until Oct Sep Swine flu epidemic hits campus the north, west, and south Mar Kathryn Corbett retires • intercollegiate Oct TKE dissolves • new chapter of National Mar Campus open house for community • ad- baseball dropped Organization of Women • branch of Hum- ministration building named Siemens Hall Apr Joni Ferris All-Indian Men's and Women's boldt National Bank set up in UC • basketball team in division 111 playoffs Basketball Tournament held in HSU gyms Nov Remodeling of Gist Hall and expansion of Apr Plus/minus grading system replaces trial May College Cove popular for "natural" sun- marine laboratory in Trinidad • SLC ex- decimal system • shortage of funds for bathing cludes at-large representatives intercollegiate athletic programs

Oct Forestry building reopened after 19-month Fall HSU applies to sell beer and wine on cam- May Softball coach Lynn Warner named Coach closure • CFA and UPC compete to be fac- pus • enrollment drops from 1975-76 high of the Year for Golden State Conference ulty and staff representative in collective of 7,706 to 7,611 • ed/psych building renamed Harry Grif- bargaining • Students for Peace organized fith Hall • baseball field is site for new • Phoenix Club rises out of the ashes science building 1977 Nov Engineering building renamed Van Matre Sep Oceanography research vessel Catalyst Hall • child development building named Jan HSU Social-Emotional Climate Committee sinks on way to Crescent City • formed in dormitories for Ralph Swetman UC lounge named Oct Legislature authorizes collective bargaining Karshner Lounge • Nelson Hall meeting • Feb Disabled Students program initiated in CSUC • enrollment declines to 6,735 room named Goodwin Forum • CSUC Humboldt County experiences serious initiates plan for post-tenure review of drought and water shortage • controversy faculty • men's cross-country, under Jim 1979 over expansion of Redwood National Park Hunt, wins regional NCAA division II title • Institute for Research and Creative Proj- Mar Wrestlers, under coach Frank Cheek, win Jan Arsonist sets fire to forestry building; class- ects has Theodore Ruprecht as first director second in NCAA division 111 tournament es relocated by Monday morning

Apr Serious enrollment decline, especially in Feb Frank Cheek's wrestlers win FWC champi- social sciences and humanities onship • men's basketball, under coach Jim Cosentino, ties for first in FWC, first time since 1956

141 1981 Jun Highest number of graduates in HSU his- Sep Nude bathing banned at College Cove • tory: 1,174 bachelor's, 144 master's Cypress Hall reopened • food service's Feb Former dean, Kate Buchanan dies; all-pur- Rathskeller renamed The Depot; Athen- Sum Campus hosts National Women's Studies pose room in University Center named for aeum closed • Bette Lowery heads HPE • her • Frank Cheek's wrestlers win fifth conference Partnership Campaign is launched straight FWC title Fall Men's Far Western Conference and wom- Oct CFA and CSU negotiate first contract Mar Flap over HSU business competition with en's Golden State Conference merge into downtown merchants Northern California Athletic Conference Nov JeDon Emenhiser and Ed Del Biaggio are • third floor of Sunset Hall goes co-ed • new vice presidents Apr Conservation Unlimited wins Tucson Wild- Cypress Hall has unstable hillside • 207 Dec Debate over U.S. invasion of Grenada life Conclave • hacky-sack fad on campus fewer FTEs • Wilmer Bohlmann dies • Disability Awareness Day held Nov Joe Trainor dies in 2 1 st year at Humboldt • university seal features Founders Hall 1984 Dec Draft resisters face cuts in financial aid • Fall Football team defeats UC Davis for first Ken Chaffey retires after 32 years Jan Engineering and biological sciences build- time since 1969 ing closed down by support system flaws Nov Decline in enrollment blamed on increased 1983 Feb HSU draft resister Ben Sasway gets two- fees • cheerleaders reappear, first time year sentence for refusing to register since 1976 Jan Budget cuts by state produce fee hikes

Mar Low enrollment raises talk of faculty lay- Feb M.S. in environmental engineering ap- offs • some faculty receive $2,500 Excep- 1982 proved • wrestlers win sixth conference tional Meritorious and Professional Prom- title in seven years • chancellor Reynolds Business has majors forestry ise awards Jan most (716); visits HSU for first time down to 246 May "Reflections on the Future" held, with Mar First Women's History Week observed • for faculty brainstorming on HSU's strengths Mar Bar code system implemented checking first Peace Week • Tom Wood is NCAC • • and weaknesses • Frank Wood retires out library books A national magazine coach of the year to its lists HSU as one of 31 "lesser known but KHSU receives grant increase watt- of high quality" institutions in the U.S. Apr 1 6th annual film festival includes work- age and double its range shop by actress Nina Foch • forestry stu- Fall Michael Wartell becomes vice president of Apr Lanphere-Christensen Dunes expanded dents win conclave at Northern Arizona U. from 183 to 213 acres academic affairs May Entry level mathematics exam required of Van Hall occupied Spr Five colleges, still Sep Remodeled Matre by schools renamed have all CSU students • Lynn Warner is NCAC • geology and computer center • CIS major HPE and ISSP divisions Larry Kerker, coach of the year for her co-champ softball approved • enrollment declines to 6,1 13 head of HPE, dies in 25th year of service team • Jefferson Starship concert in Red- • • students (5,709 FTE) engineering and Delta Sigma Phi reactivated wood Bowl • Golden Handshake retire- biological sciences building reopened after ment offered to faculty; retirees include May Glenn Dumke, CSUC chancellor for 20 its third closure Milt Dobkin, Don Strahan, Bob Kittleson years, retires; replaced by Ann Reynolds • Oct Donna Zacarro campaigns for her mother, engineering and biological sciences build- Fall Enrollment planning and management • vice presidential candidate Geraldine Fer- ing and geodesic greenhouse completed task force promotes recruiting and reten- raro • student fees reach $684 per year retirees include William Jackson and Dave tion • beginning of Business Administra- Smith • alumni association makes anoth- tion night class program • computerized Nov School's worst football season, 0-10 • er effort at a yearbook (Sempervirens was check-out system in library HSU receives papers of Donald Clausen, published through 1966, The Lamp in 18-year congressman from this district 1977 and 1978)

142 Win Emeritus Faculty Association founded Dec Virginia Rumble retires • Estelle McDowell 1987 dies; daughter of early benefactor William Preston and '37 grad Jan Former journalism instructor Alann Steen 1985 kidnapped by terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon

Feb Wrestlers win NCAC again • basketball 1986 Feb Wells Fargo donates abandoned bank team's 21-8 is best record in Humboldt building for an HSU Museum of Natural history Jan Friendship Lab opens in Founders Hall History • conflict between AS and UC over • Bella Lewitsky dance company visits • raising student fees • Don Christensen Mar Getting Out, theatre arts production, quali- Humboldt Symphony conductor Madeline named vice president of university rela- fies for National American Collegiate The- Schatz resigns • Dave Smith retires tions • Richard Leakey lectures atre Festival at JFK Center in Washington, D.C. • Eugene Flocchini dies • Frank Feb Aviary completed for wildlife • Mike Dolby Mar Theatre arts hosts national event, Ameri-

Devery, who retired in 1974, dies is football coach • Helen Everett, librarian can College Theatre Festival • efforts to

from 1939-67, dies • HSU has telecommu- form an HSU student employee union fail Apr Chi Phi fraternity forms nication capability • HSU commission on intercollegiate ath-

May Students protest South African apartheid letics recommends return to NCAA division Mar Touring evangelist Jed Smock performs on • former ASB president Bill Crocker ap- III status Quad • SLC and Lumberjack Enterprises pointed student member of CSU board of feud over student representation Sep Enrollment grows • Lee Bowker is new trustees • Tom Wicker lectures as part of dean of behavioral and social sciences Hadley Series • NBC sportscaster Dick En- Apr Lumberjack ranked among top 12 college • sale of Coca Cola banned at Lumberjack berg chairs HSU Parent Fund Drive • Don newspapers in nation • skateboarding fad Days as protest against their business with Strahan dies • Stradley retires Jean • Jun Lumberjack editor suspended for making South Africa Vern Henricks becomes Jun Homer Balabanis receives honorary doctor- political endorsements assistant athletic director ate in Fine Arts from HSU for Development re- Sep HSU converts back to semester system • Oct Center Community Fall Academic reorganization: new colleges of Areata Hotel reopens after remodeling • ceives grant to teach science and math to behavioral and social sciences; natural football squad called 'Jack Attack Native Americans at Happy Camp High • resources; health, education, and profes- School jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie per- Oct Lumberjack Days moved to fall • reentry • • sional services; business and technology; forms Jim Hunt retires pop singer students becoming more of a factor: 40% of creative arts and humanities; ISSP abol- Madonna donates $700,000 of equipment student body is over 25; Phoenix Club re- ished • lottery funds aid student education to theatre arts activates, and a Reentry Center is estab- and sponsor special speakers • Art Steg- administra- lished in House 55 • enrollment plunges Nov Todd Young Report criticizes man and Charles Yocum die • Lee Badgett tion • retires after 22 years from 6,220 to 5,865 • CSU admission re- Don Lawson becomes dean for college of business and • 385-acre tree farm given to HSU for for- quirements stiffen: more English, math, technology • temporary athletic director and foreign language • AIDS Awareness estry department to conduct research on Chuck Lindemenn creates assistant athletic task force established • 125 additional hardwoods director position to promote athletics • acres given to Lanphere-Christensen Dunes cost for off-campus student estimated at Dec HSU chosen to host CSU's Summer Arts • rally on Quad protests U.S. involvement $5,500 per year • rape, drugs, and liquor in Nicaragua • David Halberstam speaks cause concern on campus 1988 Oct Linus Pauling speaks on campus Nov Washington Ballet performs • Lambda Feb McCrone delivers "State of the University" Nov Outbreak of AIDS anticipated by health Sigma Nu becomes only campus sorority message to faculty • Janet Spinas and Tom center • Accuracy in Academe to monitor Knight retire • condoms sold in cigarette Dec More budget cuts threaten layoffs "liberal" professors • Bud Van Deren re- machines • SLC proposes commencement signs as football coach after 20 years pledge not to spoil the environment

143 Mar Robert Everding is dean of creative arts 1990 Aug 1 1 .5% of HSU students are from minority groups • Homer Balabanis dies at age 93 • Aug Smoking banned in campus buildings Jan Frank Cheek's wrestlers win NCAC for 9th Allison Weber becomes first woman chair time in 13 years Sep Record enrollment: 7,824 of California State Students' Association Apr Ann Reynolds resigns as CSU chancellor Oct Associated Students establishes "Columbus Oct Jessie Turner Woodcock, 1917 graduate Myth-Free Zone" and last living charter member of Alumni May Master Plan calls for maximum of 8,000 Nov Former student and faculty member Alann Association, dies at age 92 FTEs at Humboldt Steen freed after a hostage for five years in Nov Modern Jazz Quartet performs • cross- Aug Acting chancellor Ellis McCune labels CSU Lebanon country wins NCAC • YES celebrates 20th budget "the worst the California State Uni- anniversary versity system has ever seen" 1992 1989 Nov Student & Business Services Building completed Feb Library gets new computerized catalog sys- Mar Lumberjack observes 60 years of publica- tem • Jesus Christ Awareness Week held Dec Founders Hall vacated for remodeling • tion • satirist Mark Russell appears on HSU has more forestry majors than UC Mar Creekview Apartments completed • Cul- campus • Film Festival celebrates 22 years Berkeley or University of Washington tural Diversity Week celebrated • Chancel- Apr HSU's 75th anniversary • Marching Lum- lor Munitz names HSU the Center for Reso- berjacks' 20th birthday • Gay Awareness lution of Environmental Disputes Week 1991 Apr Major earthquake hits Humboldt County, to "multiculturalize" curriculum May Women's Softball wins NCAC Feb Moves but campus damage is minimal • Rick Botzler of wildlife named CSU's outstand- Aug Summer Arts sculptor John Roloff creates Mar Fred Whitmire, HSU Hall of Fame athlete, ing professor Humboldt Ship named new football coach Aug Newly remodeled bookstore opens Apr Cultural Diversity Week • Barry Munitz is Oct US News & World Report: "HSU 1 2th best • in West" new CSU chancellor women's softball wins 3rd conference crown in a row Nov Time capsule buried on site of Student & Business Services Building, to be opened in May Approval of plan to reduce number of col- 2065 leges from seven to four

144 Appendix B Rumble Award for Excellence in Botany — alum- artifacts donated by alumna Marjorie Harper ni Earl and Virginia Rumble enrich the lives Jensen and former economics instructor Bern- of graduate students going on to doctoral hardt Jensen. A Partial List of work or to become teachers or researchers. Contemporary Art — alumna Nona Crum donat- Major Gifts ed a $1 7,000 painting by Alaskan Sydney Library Laurence. Since 1985 — Salvador Dali's "Crucifixion" alumnus Denby Corrine J. and Gus A. Nordstrom Main Room honoring the McKinleyville couple who gave Lark gave this etching

the university library its first significant trust. Scholarship Trusts Humboldt State Parent Fund — $40,000 for new Classrooms & Laboratories Smullin Trust — from media investor William collections. Smullin, a $150,000 scholarship trust for Watson Case Room — for the school of business undergraduates from Northern California. Pacific Telesis and Pacific Bell — collections for administration from alumnus Po Chung. the school of business administration. Cornelius Siemens Scholarship — a $100,000 Bank of America Case Room — donated to busi- scholarship trust in memory of the universi- ness administration by BankAmerica Foun- ty's former president, established by his wife Distinguished Lecture Series dation. Olga Siemens-Turner. Hadley Distinguished Lecture — lectures by no- Student study lounges — five lounges construct- Latvian Student Exchange Program — $90,000 table journalists funded by the Gordon Hadley ed by the Humboldt State Parent Fund. from alumnus Samuel Chapin and the Lynn Memorial Academic Trust, administered by Enterprise and Information Teaching Lab — 27 R. & Karl E. Prickett Fund allows Latvian stu- Monica Hadley. stations, donated by IBM, Pacific Telesis, Pa- dents to study art at Humboldt for periods of cific Bell, Intel, Simpson Timber, one year. Harry S. Kieval Lectures in Mathematics — fund- Simpson ed by HSU's former math professor. Paper, Louisiana-Pacific, Bank of America, Abdulkadir Al-Oadi Fund — $10,000 from alum- Schmidbauer Lumber, Blue Lake Forest Prod- nus Abdulkadir Al-Oadi assists students from Monroe E. Spaght Distinguished Lecture Series ucts, Cox Cable. the Middle East studying at Humboldt. — lectures by prominent business leaders funded by alumnus Monroe Spaght. Friendship Microcomputer Lab — 25 stations, Maggie Griffin Scholarship Trust — an initial donated by Apple Computer and the Hum- $25,000 gift from Glenna and Robert Cook Frank Watson Memorial Symposium on Ethics boldt State Parent Fund. established this trust to assist students of and Business — established by alumnus Po 24-station lab — donated by Convergent Tech- Yurok descent. Chung in honor of one of his undergraduate professors, Frank Watson. nologies Frank A. and Myrtle M. Fick Memorial Scholar- Macintosh Lab — 25 stations, begun with a ship — an initial $30,000 gift from alumnus $50,000 anonymous donation. Reuel Fick in honor of his parents helps stu- Art & Photographic Collections dents preparing for a teaching career. IBM Lab — 30 stations, 19 printers, donated by Swanlund Collection — Sam Swanlund of Eure- IBM. Bancroft Scholars — retired accountant Lavina ka donated a $55,000 tum-of-the-century Bancroft, whose late husband Dwight was a photographic collection (glass plates, acetate 10-station lab — donated by AT&T and Hum- musician with Lawrence Welk and Bing Cros- negatives). boldt State Parent Fund. by, has given over $2 1 ,000 in scholarships to Humboldt business and music students. West African and Asian Collections — 562 pieces of West African art and over 200 Asian

145 Equipment Teacher Preparation Appendix C

IBM multimedia system — donated to Native Trust fund — alumna Alice Whitson established

American studies. it to benefit the teacher preparation program. HSC Improvement

Sun Microsystems' 410 workstation — donated Grant — AETNA Life & Casualty Foundation Association to chemistry department. provides $2,500 to $5,000 annually for HSU's teacher preparation program to assist NEXT computer — given for academic research. 1940-50 Arthur Gist Native American high school students in the 1940-50 '40-50) Hoopa-Willow Creek area. JJ.Krohn (president, Atomic absorption spectrophotometer chemis- — 1940 George Averell try got this 1 gift Pacific $ 6,500 from Gas & 1940-43 Henry Brizard Electric. Natural History Museum 1940-45, 47-49 S.D. Cerini 1940-50 Vernon Hunt Lighting control console — $15,000 gift to Van More than $600,000 in private support helped in 1940-43 Frank Tooby Duzer Theatre from S.H. Crowell Foundation. constructing HSU's Natural History Museum. 1943-50 Robert Matthews

Cabin cruiser — a $9,100 gift from Dr. and Mrs. Wells Fargo Bank donated the museum building 1943-45 H.L. Ricks John Kramer. ($435,000 value). The Katherine L. Morningstar 1944-50 Chester Connick Trust gave $150,000 for bank-to-museum con- 1945-50 Gordon Manary Two Geographical Information Systems — a gift version. Humboldt Area Foundation's $58,000 1946-50 Charles Barnum of Sierra Pacific Industries. helped purchase showcases. A 2,000 piece fossil collection was bought from Hilda and Tom Ma- loney with $100,000 of private funds and lottery Research grants. Appendix D Schatz Solar Hydrogen Project — L.W. Schatz, founder Plastics, of General contributed Other Gifts $760,000 to this project converting sunlight HSC Advisory Board into hydrogen gas and then, through fuel J.C. Penny Internships — for undergraduates in cells, into electricity. business administration; J.C. Penny also con- 1950-73 Cornelius Siemens tributes $3,000 annually in scholarships. 1950-58 Coors Brewing/ Sea Grant Project — a $3,000 J.J. Krohn 1950-68 Donald O'Kane (chair, '50-68) gift from Coors Brewing/Andrew Rosaia Co. Pacific Gas & Electric — internship in environ- 1950-55 Vernon Hunt sparked a $20,000 grant for a pilot marsh to mental resources engineering and $2,000 1950-71 Robert Matthews capture dairy runoffs. "Minorities in Engineering" scholarships. 1950-68 Chester Connick L.W. Schatz Demonstration Tree Farm — a 385- Artists-in-Schools — Mervyn's grants $7,000 1950-59 Gordon Manary acre tree farm for research plus an endow- annually so Humboldt County school children 1950-53 Charles Barnum ment: total value estimated at $1.6 million. can travel to Van Duzer Theatre to see touring 1950-74 Edward Goodwin (chair, '68-73) artists from the CenterArts season. 1950-56 Harold Robertson Forestry research — annual $2,000 grant from 1950-53 Henry Westbrook Champion International facilitates faculty History Day — Rotary clubs and local donors 1952-55 Elmer Hall research and participation in professional give $3,000 for the history department's an- 1953-57 Waldron Hyatt groups. nual "History Day" for county schoolchildren. 1953-55 Donald Larson 1953-76 Will Patton College Forest — HSU conducts ongoing re- Wills — more than 30 individuals have provided 1954-58 Edwin Fraser search in forest a 310-acre on loan from for the university in their wills, with one gift 1956-74 Frank Gianoni Pacific Lumber. for $500,000. 1956-73 William Lawson

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1956-61 Kirk Cooper Appendix E Appendix F 1958-75 Mai Coombs

1959-71 C.J. "Happy" Hill 1959-75 Thomas McNamara Academic Faculty Officers 1960-63 Gilbert Oswald

1961-69,71-76 Edward Carpenter Senate Chair 1961-62 Fred Telonicher (Pres) 1961-77 Henry Troblitz 1962-63 Homer Balabanis (Pres) 1964-65 William Kerr 1961 Fred Telonicher (pro tern) 1963-64 Ralph Roske (Pres) 1967-76 Walter Dolfini (chair, 73-77) 1961 Roscoe Peithman (pro tern) 1964-65 Milton Dobkin (Pres) 1969-76 Byron Miller 1961-62 Milton Dobkin 1965-66 Robert Dickerson (Pres) 1969-76 Andrew Rosaia 1962-63 Ralph Roske 1966-67 Bob Kittleson (Pres) 1971-72 Michael Johnston 1963-64 Robert Dickerson 1967-68 Louise Watson (Pres) 1971-82 Leslie Westfall 1964-65 Edward Steele 1968-69 William Jackson (Pres) 1973-87 Jack Daly, (chair, '77-81) Jr 1965-66 Bob Kittleson 1969-70 Kathryn Corbett (Pres) 1973-81 Gordon Hadley (chair, '81) 1966-68 Richard Ridenhour 1970-71 George Allen (Pres) 1 9 74-present Alistair McCrone 1968-69 Don Strahan 1971-72 Glenda Richter (Pres) 1 975-83 Jeanne Johnson Nash 1969-70 Alba Gillespie 1972-73 James Householder (Pres) 1975-79 Karen Russ 1970-71 Fred Cranston 1973-74 James Carroll (Pres) 1976-88 William Ashley (chair, '81-83) 1971-72 Andrew Karoly Stephen Littlejohn (Sec) 1976-83 Lawrence Ford 1972-73 Lynn Jackson David Craigie (Treas) 1976-present Lawrence Lazio 1973-74 Charles Parke 1974-75 Janice Erskine (Pres) 1 9 76-80 Charles Motschman, Sr 1974-75 David Craigie Evelyn Deike (Sec) 1 9 76-80 George Schmidbauer 1975-76 Richard Meyer Terry Roelofs (Treas) 1976-present Dolores Vellutini (chair, '83-85) 1976-77 Richard Thompson 1975-76 John Pauley (Pres) 1977-85 Eugene Lucas 1977-78 Charles Myers PatWenger (Sec) 1979-89 Roger Low 1978-80 Jack Yamall Charles Snygg (Treas) 1980-92 Sally Arnot (chair, '89-91) 1980-83 Simon Green 1976-77 Richard Meyer (Pres) 1980-88 Ellen Dusick 1983-85 Ken Lang Stephen Littlejohn (Sec) 1980-88 Frank Peterson 1985-86 Bill Daniel Erich Schimps (Treas) 1981-89 Craig Perrone '85-89) (chair, 1986-87 Sharon Chadwick 1977-78 Robert Dickerson (Pres) 1982-84 Craig Hadley 1987-88 Lloyd Fulton George Maglady (Sec) 1984-88 Richard Hunt 1988-90 Marshelle Thobaben Eleanor Ferguson (Treas) 1984-present RusselPardoe 1990-92 Jack Stoob 1978-79 JohnGimbel (Pres) 1984-89 Henry Sandstrom 1992-93 Michael Goodman William Bivens (Sec) 1985-89 Marilyn Bartlett David Boxer (Treas) 1985-89 William Daly 1979-80 HerschelMack (Pres) 1988-present Pattison Christensen (chair '91-92) Lloyd Fulton (Sec) 1988-present Gerald Cochran James Gaasch (Treas) 1988-92 Robert Thomas 1980-81 RoyRyden (Pres) 1989-present Marilee Hadley Nancy Lamp (Sec) 1989-present Howard Hunt William Wood (Treas) 1989-present James Timmons 1981-82 Janet Spinas (Pres) 1989-present David Somerville (chair, '92- Karen Foss (Sec) 1990-present Beth Schafer Sheila Ross (Treas) 1991 -present Scott Holmes 1982-83 Hal Jackson (Pres) 1992-present David Kaney Thea Martin (Sec) Kathleen Preston (Treas)

147 1983-84 JackYamall (Pres) Appendix H Appendix I Bill Daniel (Sec) James Gaasch (Treas) 1984-85 JohnHennessy (Pres) Outstanding Professor Alumni Who's Who Jane Abernethy (Sec) (Treas) David Campbell 1964-65 Harry Griffith (education) I960 George Hogan ('33) 1985-86 Sherilyn Bennion (Pres) Fred Telonicher (zoology) 1961 Kenneth Cooperrider ('29) Karen Carlton (Sec) 1965-66 JohnGimbel (history) 1962 Jessie Turner Woodcock ('17) Merle Friel (Treas) 1966-67 Reese Bullen (art) 1963 Monroe Spaght ('26) 1986-87 Bill Tanner (Pres) 1967-68 JohnGimbel (history) 1964 James Hemphill ('35) (Sec) Marshelle Thobaben 1968-69 Melvin Schuler (art) 1965 Charles Fulkerson ('39) Lewis Bright (Treas) 1969-70 Theodore Ruprecht (economics) 1966 Oden Hansen ('38) 1987-88 Linda Anderson (Pres) 1970-71 John Pauley (theatre) 1967 Walter Dolfini ('31) Aimee Langlois (Sec) 1971-72 Frederick Cranston (physics) 1968 Virgil Hollis ('38) Merle Friel (Treas) 1972-73 John DeMartini (biology) 1969 Paul Ely ('34) 1988-89 Linda Anderson (Pres) 1973-74 Donald Mahler (education) 1970 Ruth Carroll ('34)

Maryanne Levine (Sec) 1974-75 William Thonson (art) 1971 Everett Watkins ('39) Ben Allen (Treas) 1975-76 Henry Tropp (math) 1972 Sima Jarvinen Baker ('21) 1989-90 (Pres) Ben Allen 1976-77 Yung Park (political science) 1973 Doug Peterson ('59) Maryanne Levine (Sec) 1977-78 William Jackson (business) 1974 EldridgeHunt ('49) Merle Friel (Treas) 1978-79 James Smith, Jr. (botany) 1975 Dorothy King Young ('23) 1990-91 Ben Allen (Pres) 1979-80 Donald Hauxwell (wildlife) 1976 Estelle McDowell ('26)

Susan MacConnie (Sec) 1980-81 David LaPlantz (art) 1977 William Daly ('38) Linda Sievers (Treas) 1981-82 Thomas Clark (chemistry) 1978 Gladys Smith Strope ('44) 1991-92 Wendy Woodward (Pres) 1982-83 Gary Brusca (biology) 1979 Delphine Belotti ('27) Linda Sievers (Sec) 1983-84 John Longshore (geology) 1980 Michael Fielding ('57) Sam Sonntag (Treas) 1984-85 James Welsh (biology) 1981 Lanette Rousseau ('39) 1985-86 Jerneral Cranston (theatre) 1982 William Hale ('27) 1992-93 James GAasch (Pres) 1986-87 John Morgan (psychology) 1983 UgoGiuntini ('34) Simon Green (Sec) 1987-88 (no nominee) 1984 Howard Goodwin ('42) Ann Burroughs (Treas) 1988-89 Timothy Lawlor (biology) Harvey Harper ('38) 1989-90 Phyllis Chinn (math) 1985 Stanley Roscoe ('43) 1990-91 Ronald Fritzsche (fisheries) 1986 James Joseph ('58) Appendix G 1991-92 Richard Botzler (wildlife) 1987 Grant Ferguson ('43) 1992-93 Karen Carlton (English) 1988 Henry Trione ('40) Albert Frakes ('62) Scholar of the Year 1989 Stanley Colwell ('40) Rod Belcher ('42)

1986 Yung Park (political science) Floyd Bettiga ('54) 1987 Kenneth Aalto (geology) PaulCorbin ('67) 1988 Ralph Gutierrez (wildlife) 1990 Frederic Hibler ('40) 1989 Robert Gearhart (engineering) Scott Holmes ('60) 1990 Samuel Oliner (sociology) 1991 Richard Ridenhour ('54) Pearl Oliner (education) Robert Eggers ('55) 1991 Marshelle Thobaben (nursing) 1992 Holly Hosterman (77) 1992 Karen Foss (speech) PaulLubitz (77) 1993 Roland Lambertson (math)

148 1970-72 1970-71 Appendix ) Emmalena Thomson Mary Kay Tyson 1973-74 Ruth Carroll 1971-72 Cydney Clayton 1975-76 George Eue 1979 Jessie Turner Woodcock Alumni Association 1977 Ruth Carroll Harry Wandling 1978 Elinor Jamieson 1980 Marjorie Jensen Presidents 1979-81 Grant Ferguson Homer Spellenberg 1982-83 Margorie Rodgers 1981 Elta Cartwright 1984-85 Karen Bentley Joseph Branstetter 1924-25 Hugh Stewart 1986-87 Joe Castillo 1982 Leo Sullivan 1926 Edna Stevens 1988 Arnie Braafladt Dee Sullivan 1927 Ruth Cartwright Spinas 1989-91 Cindy Stockly 1983 Archie Forson 1928 Ruth Stewart 1992-93 Gwynna Morris Estelle McDowell 1929-30 Carl McDonald 1984 Zdenka McGaraghan 1931 Lena Moll Gillmore Harold Brogan 1932 Mildred Moe Sears 1985 Jim Hemphill 1933 Alta McElwain Monroe Kathryn Stewart 1934 James Spiering 1986 Dorothy Gulliksen 1935 George Monroe Appendix K Leland Cloney 1936 Clyde Patenaude 1987 Everett Watkins 1937 Ethel Pedrassini Scott Kathryn Murray 1938 Denise Wills Homecoming Royalty 1988 Collis Mahan 1939 Les Stromberg Jennie Banducci 1940 Walter Schocker 1946-47 Frances Brizard 1989 Alex & Nathalie Smith 1941-42 William Morehouse 1947-48 Mary Dolf 1990 Carl Owen 1943 Hally Jones Irwing 1948-49 Zala Bralich Marian Howatt 1944 Arthur Bryant 1949-50 Barbara Hackett 1991 Josephine Tyson 1945 Lewis Ehrlich 1950-51 Helen Gross Curtis Wilson 1946 Edward Goodwin 1951-52 Shirley Pitlock 1992 Marianne Lambert Pinches 1947 Carl Owen 1952-53 Donna Martzall Milton Carlson 1948 James Cady 1953-54 Jacki Ambrozini 1949 Forrest Waters 1954-55 Donna Mae Douglas 1950 Mildred Moe Sears 1955-56 Fern Fowler 1951-52 Everett Watkins 1956-57 Tonya Rocha 1953 Estelle Preston McDowell 1957-58 Kris Church 1954 Sylvia Jacobsen Carlson 1958-59 Lynn Cannam 1955 Earl Rumble 1959-60 Donna Cleveland 1956 Margaret More Telonicher 1960-61 Rose Holmquist 1957 Earl Biehn 1961-62 Linda Arvola 1958 James Palmer 1962-63 Lynn Loebner 1959 Richard Blackburn 1963-64 Ann Pirtle 1960 Francis Stebbins 1964-65 Sue Dresser 1961-62 Jon Mitts 1965-66 Louise St. Jean 1963 Larry Mitchell 1966-67 Alice Treutlein 1964-65 Richard Ridenhour 1967-68 Sheryl Carlson 1966-67 Lanette Rousseau 1968-69 Mary Ann McRae 1968 Asta Cullberg 1969-70 Marilyn Moore 1969 Francis Moore

149 Appendix L 1953-54 Earl Rumble Appendix M 1954-55 Dwain Haines 1955-56 Lawrence Flammer Student Body 1956-57 Michael Fielding Lumberjack Editors 1957-58 DaleCallihan

Presidents 1958-59 Don Peterson 1924-25 Lee Baird [The Foghorn) 1959-60 Arthur Dalianes 1929-30 Lawrence Morris [fiSTC Rooter) 1960-61 Dennis Cahill 1914 Leslie Graham 1930-31 Joseph Stringfellow 1961-62 Bill Turner 1922 Allen Otto 1931-32 Buster DeMotte 1962-63 Jack Moore 1923 Hartsel Gray 1932-33 Ruth Carroll 1963-64 Turner 1924 Howard Trueblood Jack 1933-34 Gordon Hadley, Ruth Carroll 1964-65 Charles Freitas 1925-26 Walter Jack 1934-35 John Bauriedel, Grace Schell 1965-67 Robert Henry 1935-36 1926 (F) Alfred Ames (not published) 1967 (S) John Wooley 1927 (S) Monroe Spaght 1936-37 Wesley Wooden, Jayn Harville 1967-68 Thomas Osgood 1927(F) Shirley Cameron Mace 1937-38 Hope Dondero 1968-69 Harold Hartman 1938-39 1928 (S) Glenn Rusk Jack Ellis 1969-70 Waine Benedict 1928-29 Allan McCurdy 1939-40 Frances Nye 1970-71 Bill Richardson 1929-30 Percy Homer Spellenberg 1940-41 Muriel Yale, Helen Hartsook 1971-72 Arnold Braafladt 1930-31 Glenn Waldner 1941-42 Helen Hartsook, Sheldon Reaume 1972-73 Ashford Wood 1931-32 George Gregory 1942-43 Barbara Conoly 1973-74 Becky Aus 1932-33 Wayne Simpson 1943-44 Marjorie Kemper, Leigh Manley, 1974-75 Richard Ramirez 1933-34 James Hemphill Marjorie Briggs 1975-76 David Kalb 1934-35 Charles Timmons 1944-45 LaVerle Morley 1976-77 Dan Falk 1935-36 Eleanor Renfro Jones 1945-46 Donald Ray, Kathie Nuckols 1977-78 1936-37 Oden Hansen Greg Cottrel 1946-47 Charles Peterson 1978-79 Eddie Scher 1937-38 Robert Madsen 1947-48 Paul Gelfman, Vernon Whalen 1979-80 Tom Bergman 1938-39 Nick Barbieri 1948-49 Vernon Whalen, Janet Oppenheimer 1980-81 1939-40 Sherman Washburn Alison Anderson 1949-50 Alfred Braun, Charlotte Marks 1981-82 Jeff Lincoln 1940-41 Milton Earnest "Bud" Villa 1950-51 Charlotte Marks, Carl Jensen, 1982-83 Ross Glen 1941 (F) Forrest Waters Jean Nichols 1983-84 Otis Johnson 1941 (F) Tom Hansen 1951-52 Jean Nichols, Danforth White 1984-85 Bill Crocker 1942 (S) Fred Slack 1952-53 Danforth White, Dale Farris 1985-86 Mark Murray 1942(F) Clarke Nellist 1953-54 John Norton 1986-87 Teri Carbaugh 1943 (S) Jack Piersall 1954-55 Craig Stark 1987-88 Al Elpusan 1943-44 Ralph E. Bryant 1955-56 George Golding, Frances Stark 1988-89 Vicki Allen 1944-45 Katherine Swap 1956-57 Keith Bamhill 1989-91 Randy Villa 1945(F) Marshall Rousseau 1957-58 Jewell Hyman; (issue ed.) Diane 1991-92 Steve Harmon 1946 (S) John Sivert Anderson, Carol Kirkby, Don Neilsen, 1992-93 Emma Young 1946-47 Leonard Conry Stanley McDaniel, Martha Smith, 1947-48 Darrell Brown Tony Vasquez, Bill Wallace 1948 (F) Mark Melendy 1958-59 Diane Anderson

1949 (S) Henry Frank 1959-60 (issue ed.) Keith Barnhill, Don 1949-50 Wilbur Jensen Carlton, Carolyn Caulley, Donna 1950-51 Merwyn Rickey Cleveland, Mary Ann Miner, Betsy 1951-52 Francis Stebbins Joyce, Barbara Oberdorf, Judy Ross, 1952-53 Richard Harmer Lu Vlaardinger, Vicky Williams, Cliff

150 Hawthorne, Bill Guimond, Will Appendix N 1982 Len Gotshalk Ftbl Dublin, Hugh Clark Fred Iten Ftbl, Bsktbl, Trk, Bxng 1960-61 Hugh Clark Barbara Smith FldHky, Bsktbl, Sftbl

1 96 1 -62 Cliff Hawthorne, Duane Oneto Athletics Hall of Fame Fred Telonicher Coach

1 962-63 Duane Oneto, Dale G. Potts 1983 Janet Ferguson Trk 963-64 1 Martha Gabriel, Chuck Freitas 1955 Earl Meneweather Ftbl Bill Scobey Trk, X-cntry 1964-65 Dale Potts, William Huffman, Jr 1956 Dr. Billy Lee Bsktbl, Ftbl, Tns Sal Sino Ftbl 1 965-66 Ken Bryant, Al Brewer 1957 Dobe Harrison Bsbl, Ftbl 1984 Paul Huff Ftbl, Trk 1966-67 Al Brewer, Don Rubin 1958 Leonard Longholm Ftbl, Bsktbl, Trk Karen Muene Swmng 1967-68 Dave Miers, Jim Linn, Abby Abinati 1959 Elta Cartwright Trk Doug Stone Wrsln 1968-69 Ron Harding, Al Steen, Tom Sheets 1960 Francis Moore Ftbl, Bsktbl 1985 Tony Keith Ftbl Stockstill, 1969-70 Tom Sheets, Mike 1961 Cliff Branstetter Ftbl, Bsbl, Bsktbl, Donna Renaud Swmng Lois Esser Tns, Bxng, Glf Felix Rogers Bsktbl 1970-71 Lois Esser, Mike Stockstill, 1962 Darrell Brown Bsktbl, Bsbl, Trk 1986 Jeff Fern Wrsln Richard Larson 1963 Frank Saunderson Ftbl, Bsktbl, Tns George Psaros Ftbl 1971-72 Hatton Kashdan, Valerie Ohanian 1964 Edwin Oliveira Bsktbl, Ftbl, Bsbl Sue Rodearmel Swmng 1972-73 Valerie Ohanian, Paul Brisso 1965 Lee Seidell Bsktbl 1987 Sue Grigsby Trk 1973-74 Brian Alexander, Linda Fjeldsted 1966 Ray Mechals Ftbl, Bsktbl, Bsbl Joe Myers Bsktbl 1974-75 Linda Fjeldsted, Robin Piard 1967 Claude Eshleman Bsktbl, Trk Glenn Wallace Ftbl, Bsktbl 1975-76 Keith Till, Sally Connell 1968 Francis Givins Ftbl, Bsktbl, Trk 1988 Michelle Betham Trk 1976-77 Sally Connell, Katie Shanley 1969 James McAuley Ftbl Alison Child Vllybl 1977-78 Lindsey McWilliams, Andrew Aim 1970 James Thompson Ftbl, Trk Chuck Giannini Ftbl 1 978-79 Andrew Aim, Brian S. Akre 1971 Henry Cooper Ftbl Kris Henry Wrsln 1979-80 Katie Muldoon, Danae Seemann 1972 Leo Sullivan Ftbl, Bsktbl 1989 Grace Brosnahan Swmng Vllybl 1980-81 Danae Seeman, Laura Dominick 1973 Robert Dunaway Ftbl, Bsktbl Jane Eilers 1 98 1 -82 Tad Weber, Chris Crescibene 1974 Fred Whitmire Ftbl Ed White Ftbl 1 Eric Wrsln 982-83 Chris Crescibene, Jennifer McGauley 1975 Vester Flanagan Ftbl, Trk Woolsey Sftbl 1 983-84 Pat Stupek, Adam Truitt 1976 Ken Dunaway Ftbl, Bsktbl, Bsbl 1990 Cheryl Clark 1 984-85 Adam Truitt, Robert Couse-Baker, 1977 Delores Sullivan Henders Trk Chuck Huntington Sccr Joyce Mancini, Cesar Soto George Ibarretta Bsbl Ced Kinser Coach.trainer Bsktbl 1 985-86 Chris Roeckl, Rod Boyce, Tom Verdin Drew Roberts Ftbl, Bsktbl, Bsbl Chris Rosvold 1986-87 Tom Verdin, Mark Anderson, 1978 John Burman Ftbl Chuck Smead Trk Kathy Dolan X-cntry, Trk Steve Salmi Gordon Schroeder Ftbl, Trk 1991 1987-88 David Montesino, David Kirkman, Katie Walsh Sftbl Debbie Hungerford Sftbl, Vllybl Phyllis Quackenbush 1979 Earl Bamum Ftbl, Trk Frank Logan Swmng 1 988-89 Kim Lococo, Vedder McCaustland Gary Turtle Trk Marty Nellis Wrsln Bsktbl 1 989-90 Paul Elias, Andrew Silva Lynn Warner Bdmtn, Trk, Vllybl, 1992 Steve Alexander 1990-91 Kie Relyea, T.S. Heie FldHky, Bsktbl, Sftbl Deanna Allen Sftbl, Vllybl Barbara Culbertson Vllybl, Sftbl 1991-92 Colleen Futch, Leslie Weiss, 1980 Warren Baker Ftbl, Bsktbl, Bsbl, Trk X-cntry, P.J. Johnston Michelle Nance Trk Danny Grimes Trk Ftbl 1992-93 lim Waters Cecil Stephens Ftbl R.W. Hicks Sharon Powers Trk, X-cntry 1981 Bill Hook Ftbl, Trk Bob Lawson Bsbl, Bsktbl Manuel Simas Ftbl Phil Sarboe Coach Pat Susan Bsktbl, Sftbl, Trk, Vllybl, Bdmtn

151 Appendix O 1946-47 Joseph Forbes 9 11 Cross-Country — Women's 1947-48 Warren Conrad 4 8 1948-49 Joseph Forbes 8 10 NCAC Bestjxnish Coaching Records 1949-51 jack Whetstone 2 26 1977 Sandoz (no records) 1951-52 Paul Sarboe 4 13 Joli 1978 Jackie Yapp 4th 1952-53 Joseph Forbes 11 10 1979 Lloyd Wilson 4th 1953-64 Francis Givins 100 140 Archery — Co-ed 1980- David Wells 2nd 1964-65 Henry Cooper 6 13 1965-75 Dick Niclai 70 177 1967-72 Evelyn Deike (no records) 1975-76 Kim Kellenberg 3 21 1976-81 Jim Cosentino 79 56 Field Hockey — Women's 1981- Tom Wood 166 171 Badminton — Women's 1960-68 Leela Zion (no records) 1969-78 Lynn Warner (no records) 1960-78 Leela Zion (no records) Basketball — Women's

Coach Won Lost Football — Men's Baseball — Men's 1973-76 Lynn Warner 6 27 Coach Won Lost Tied Coach Won Lost Tied 1976-78 Diann Laing 16 18 1 1978-79 Marcia Walker 4 1 1924 Bert Smith 1923 Altho Sly 6 1979-80 Mary Hosley 6 11 1925 Cy Falkenberg 1 3 1924-25 Bert Smith 5 5 1980-82 Diann Laing 8 29 1927-34 Fred Telonicher 8 23 2 1926-27 Cy Falkenberg 4 12 1 1983-85 Cinda Rankin 18 58 1935-37 Charley Erb 15 6 1 1928-37 Fred Telonicher 33 11 3 1985-87 Chris Conway 13 39 1938-40 Herb Hart 12 8 1937 Telonicher/Moore 2 1 1987- Pam Martin 72 81 1941 Earl Hoos 2 5 1 1938 Telonicher/Hemphill 2 2 1946-47 Joseph Forbes 10 7 1 1939 Walt Oglesby 2 2 1948 Louis Tsoutsouvas 6 3 1940-41 Harry Griffith 1 1949-50 Ted Staffler 12 2 Boxing — Men's 1947 Larry Pape 8 4 1951-65 Phil Sarboe 104 37 5 1948 Warren Conrad 4 6 1966-85 Bud Van Deren 97 101 4 1947-49 Grady Lawrence lstvsh igh schools, 1949 Louis Tsoutsouvas 3 6 1 1986-90 Mike Dolby 17 34 2 4 th intercollegiate 1950 Ted Staffler 4 8 1990- Fred Whitmire 13 9 1951-53 Phil Sarboe 26 18 12 1954-68 Ced Kinzer 235 146 6 Cross-Country — Men's Golf — Men's

FWC/NCAC Bestjxnish Basketball — Men's Coach Won Lost 1959 Robert Doornik 3rd Coach 1947 Larry Pape 1 'on Lost 1961-62 Ford Hess 5th 1948-49 Harold Bishop 1 1 1923-25 1963 Robert Doornik 5th Bert Smith 6 3 1950-51 Lloyd Whetstone 2 1 1925-27 1964-66 Ford Hess 3rd Fred Falkenberg 2 7 1952 Elwood Studivant 1 3 1927-38 1967-86 Jim Hunt 1st ('74, '77, '79-'81) Fred Telonicher 12 26 1953,55 Phil Sarboe 2 3 1987- David Wells 1st ('88, '90-'92) 1938-39 Herb Hart 5 3 1956 Francis Givins 3 5 1939-42 Harry Griffith 28 23 1957-60 Phil Sarboe 8 12 1942-45 Marty Mathiesen 4 16 1961-63 Ford Hess 5 16 1964-69 Francis Givins 16 17

152 Soccer — Men's Tennis — Men's Track — Women's

Coach Won Lost Tied Coach Won Lost Tied 1960-64 Louise Watson (no records) 1969-75 Lynn Warner (no records) 1971 Mike Szarek 1 3 2 1933-34 Monica Wright (no records) 1976 Jim Peters (no records) 1972-78 Bob Kelly 37 44 12 1935 Carl Owen 5 1980-84 Chris Hopper 29 43 10 1936-39 Laverne Elmore 2 14 NCAC Bestjinish 1985- Alex Exley 82 71 11 1940-47 Ellis Williamson 8 11 1977-78 Joli Sandoz 5th (no team 1943-45) 1979 Jackie Yapp (no records) 1948-49 Hermie Kroeger 3 1980 Lloyd Wilson 5th Softball 1952 Elwood Studivant 6 — Women's 1981-89 David Wells 3rd 1953 Francis Givins 3 3 1 1990- James Williams 4th Coach Won Lost 1954 Birger Johnson 4 1955 Francis Givins 4 1 1973-74 Barb van Putten 6 8 1956 HankYamagata 3 4 1975-76 Bes Chandler 5 11 1957-69 Larry Kerker 47 60 Volleyball — Women's 1977 Barb van Putten 6 14 1978-83 Lynn Warner 66 59 Coach Won Lost 1989- Frank Cheek 162 62 Tennis — Women's 1963-72 Barb van Putten (no records)

1973 Barb van Putten 7 1 1984-88 FredSiler best finish 3rd in NCAC 1974-75 Bes Chandler 9 10 Swimming — Men's 1976-82 Barb van Putten 50 55 1983 Lynn Warner 6 15 Coach Won Lost Track — Men's 1984 Lori Schaffer 6 10 1961-62 Ralph Hassman 5 1985-88 Janis Rowe-Grondalski 53 64 schools 1989 DanCollen 19 13 1963 Henry Cooper 1 3 Versus high 1990-91 Collen/Julie Ortman 64 31 1964-65 Phil Sarboe 1 4 1932-37 Fred Telonicher 7 2 1966-70 James Malone 18 19 1939-42 Herb Hart 3 1 1971-75 Larry Angelel best finish 3rd in FWC FWCINCAC Bestjinish Water Polo — Men's

1947 Joseph Forbes 3rd Swimming Women's 1966-70 James Malone 32 35 — 1948 Birger Johnson 4th 1971-79 Larry Angelel 2nd three times 1949 Jack Norton 4th 1960-66 Leela Zion (no records) 1952-53 Birger Johnson 4th 1967 Betty Partain (no records) 1954 Francis Givins 4th Wrestling — Men's FWCINCAC Bestjinish 1955-57 Robert Doornik 5th 1958 Gordon Schroeder 4th Coach Won Lost Tied 1970-79 Betty Partain 4th 1959-62 Robert Doornik 1st ('59) 1980-89 PamArmold 5th 1963 BudVanDeren 6th 1959-60 Gordon Schroeder 3 3 1989-91 Sue Rodearmel 3rd 1964 Robert Doornik 5th 1960-62 Ralph Hassman 6 11 1 1965 Ralph Hassman 6th 1962-64 Bud Van Deren 7 17 1966 Robert Houston 6th 1964-67 Ralph Hassman 21 14 1967-85 Jim Hunt 3rd 1967-69 Bob Kelly 23 10 2 1986-89 David Wells 3rd 1969-81 Frank Cheek 182 40 4 1990- James Williams 3rd 1981-82 Eric Woolsey 5 11 1983-91 Frank Cheek 77 67 5

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1 HSNS at Areata Grammar School site First Graduates — Susie Baker

— HSU Library / Archives. Fountain Collection, HSU Library

/ Archives. 1 Football team — HSU Library / Minor Theatre (int) — Photographer: Archives. SeelyFoto, HSU Library/ Advanced Orchestra — HSNS Archives. vi Homer Balabanis HSU University Areata, California, 1916 (descrip- Relations. Potato patch — Photographer: Chas. tive pamphlet) HSU Library / Beer; Humboldt County Histori- Archives. cal Society.

20 Preston Hill — HSU Library / Ar- 1 Manual Training — HSNS Areata, Chapter 1 chives. California, 1916 (descriptive Preston Hill in background — HSU 3 Cartoon — HSU Library / Archives. pamphlet) HSU Library /Ar- chives. Library /Archives. construction 5 Areata Plaza — HSU Library / Folk dancing — HSNS Areata, Founders — HSU Library Archives. Archives. California, 1916 (descriptive / H Street — Photographer: A. W. pamphlet) HSU Library/ Ar- Ericson; HSU Library / Archives. chives. Logging Train — Photographer: A. W. Agriculture — HSNS Areata, Chapter 3 Ericson; HSU Library / Archives. California 1916 (descriptive 1 1 th St — HSU Library / Archives. pamphlet) HSU Library /Ar- 2 Founders Hall — HSU Plant Opera- chives. tions. 6 Areata Wharf — Humboldt County Public Works Department. 22 Founders Courtyard — Library 1 4 Susie Baker Fountain HSU HSU / Archives Archives. 7 Pomona — Humboldt County "Temporary" building — HSU Library Historical Society. 16 HSNS family HSU Library/ / Archives. Areata Mad River Railroad Depot — Archives. Founders main entrance — HSU Henry Sorenson Library / Archives. Klamath Ferry — Humboldt County 1 Proposed campus — HSNS Statue in lobby — HSU Library / Historical Society. Areata, California [1915] Archives. (descriptive folder) Library / Road to Trinidad — HSU Library / HSU

Archives. Archives. 23 Homer Balabanis — HSU Library / 8 Alexander von Humboldt — HSU Archives 1 Pop Jenkins — HSU Library /Ar- Library / Archives. chives. 24 Second grade in Founders Hall — Pop Jenkins and grandson — Gayle Jean Falor Karshner, Humboldt Hilarities Chapter 2 program cover. 25 President Swetman — Cabrillo, 1927, HSU Library / Archives.

9 President Van Matre — HSU Library / 1 Minor Theatre (ext) — HSU Library / Archives. Archives.

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2 7 Elta Cartwright — HSU Library / Graphic Services 53 House moving — HSU Library / Archives CES classroom scene — HSU Library Archives.

/ Archives. Professor Jeffers in tub —Semper- 28 Aerial view of Campus — HSU Plant Slide on south side of Gist Hall — virens, 1942, HSU Library/ Operations HSU Library / Archives Archives. Ukulele ensemble — HSU Library / Junior Miss Play — Gayle Karshner Archives. 44 Asistant coach Telonicher —

"Kids" Party — HSU Library / Sempervirens, 1940, HSU Library 55 1946 Faculty — Sempervirens, 1946,

Archives. / Archives HSU Library / Archives. Women's Athletic Association — Professor Fulkerson — Julie 56 Aeronautics class — Sempervirens, HSU Library / Archives. Fulkerson 1940, Library / Archives. Coach Erb — Sempervirens, 1940, HSU 29 HSTC Band — HSU Library / Ar- Albee Stadium — HSU Library/ HSU Library / Archives chives. Archives. Sunset Hall — HSU Library/ Veterans — HSU Library / Archives. 32 Faculty Wives — Helen Stover Archives. Humboldt Lyceum — HSU Library/ 57 Botany lab in Founders Hall — HSU 45 Coeds at courtyard fountain — Archives. Library Archives. Sempervirens, 1938, HSU Library / Professors Lanphere — Semper- Archives. 33 Social page— Cabrillo, 1927, HSU / virens, 1940, HSU Library/ Library Archives. Coeds relaxing in front of cafeteria / Archives. Sempervirens, 1938, HSU Library Temporary classrooms — HSU 34 Dorm shower with stove — HSU / Archives. Library / Archives. Library / Archives. Football stars — Sempervirens,

1940, HSU Library / Archives. 35 Dorm room — HSU Library / Ar- 58 Humboldt Hilarities finale — chives. 46 Work Day — Gayle Karshner Sempervirens, 1943, HSU Library

/ Archives.

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37 President Gist — HSU Library / 47 HSC campus — Helen Stover Chapter 6 Archives. 48 Dean Hadley — Sempervirens, 1940, 59 Humboldt Village — Semper-

4 Gymnasium — HSU Library / HSU Library / Archives. virens, 1949, HSU Library/

Archives. Coop — Sempervirens, HSU Library / Archives. Plant Operations staff — HSU Library Archives. 6 President Siemens — HSU Library / / Archives. Library in Founders — HSU Library / Archives. Redwood Bowl — HSU Library/ Archives. Archives. Nelson Hall — HSU Library / Ar- 62 Coop and Nelson Hall — Semper- chives. virens, 1955, HSU Library/ 42 East view of Gist Hall — HSU Archives. Library /Archives. 5 Ski lodge — Sempervirens, 1 940, Gymnasium — HSU Library / Exterior east wall mural — Photog- 52 V-Mail message — Gayle Karshner Archives. rapher: Dar Spain, University Library — Sempervirens, 1952, HSU

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Library / Archives. 74 Cafeteria — Sempervirens, 1966, 91 Dean and Gayle Karshner — HSU

Jenkins Hall — Sempervirens, 1 950, HSU Library / Archives. Library / Archives.

HSU Library / Archives. Men's gymnasium, fieldhouse and 92 ITEP students — HSU Library / Redwood Bowl — HSU Library / 63 Coop — Sempervirens, 1951, HSU Archives. Archives. Library / Archives. VW stuffing — Sempervirens, 1965, Coop staff Sempervirens, 1960, Business students — Sempervirens, HSU Library / Archives. HSU Library / Archives 1955, HSU Library/ Archives. Professor Griffith — Sempervirens, Bookstore — HSU Library / Archives. 75 Library — HSU Library / Archives. 1965, HSU Library/ Archives.

Wildlife building — HSU Library / JFK memorial — HSU Library/ 64 Siemens family — HSU Library / Archives. Archives. Archives. Siemens Hall and Van Duzer Theatre 93 Marine Lab site dedication — HSU 67 Marching Lumberjacks — Semper- construction — HSU Library / Library /Archives. Archives. virens, 1952, HSU Library/ Professors Allen and Gast — Archives. Forestry building dedication — HSU Sempervirens, 1965, HSU Library Homecoming parade — HSU Library Library / Archives. / Archives. Archives. / 77 Coach Sarboe — Sempervirens, 1961, 1964 Flood — Sempervirens, 1965, Football axe — HSU Library / HSU Library / Archives. HSU Library / Archives. Archives. Fern Lake Sempervirens, 1966, Archery class — Sempervirens, 1953, 78 Sweetheart Ball — Sempervirens, HSU Library / Archives. HSU Library / Archives. 1960, HSU Library/ Archives. TV broadcasting class — Semper- 96 Marian Mooney & Tom Parsons — 69 Pottery class — Sempervirens, 1 952, virens, HSU Library / Archives. University Graphic Services. HSU Library / Archives. Mardi Gras — Sempervirens, 1957, Sno-Ball Singers — Sempervirens, 97 1970 Admissions applications — HSU Library / Archives. 1952, HSU Library/ Archives. HSU Library / Archives.

Library — HSU Library / Archives. 80 Dean Buchanan and Art Dalianes — 99 Music building — University Graphic Professor Schuler — Sempervirens, Sempervirens, 1963, HSU Services. 1948, HSU Library/ Archives. Library / Archives. University Center — HSU Library / Professor Bullen — Sempervirens, 84 Aerial view of campus — HSU Archives. 1948, HSU Library/ Archives. Library / Archives. NCAA Championship recognition — Calligraphy class — Sempervirens, Baccalaureate services — HSU HSU Sports Information. 1952, HSU Library/ Archives. Library / Archives. Cypress Hall dorms — HSU Library /

Registration — HSU Library / Archives. Archives. Chapter 7 101 Professor Dobkin HSU Library/ Archives. 71 Campus master plan — Areata Union, HSC Progress edition, Chapter 8 April 4, 1970. 87 Strike vote — Photographer: Neil Chapter 9 73 Students radio broadcasting HSU Gilchrist, "Areata Strike Senti- 103 President McCrone — HSU Library/ Library / Archives. nel," June 1, 1970. Archives.

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106 Courtyard — University Graphic 118 Community forest — Photographer: 130 Mark Conover — HSU Sports Services. Peter Palmquist, University Information. Presidents Siemens and McCrone — Graphic Services. 131 Professor Young, Roy Kohl and HSU Library / Archives. New computer lab — Photographer: seismograph: Library/ Greenhouse — University Graphic David Maung, University HSU Archives. Services. Relations. Engineering and biological sciences Lumberjack Days, 1985 — HSU 133 Professor Lee and members of WINS building — Photographer: Dar Library / Archives. — Photographer: Dar Spain, Spain, University Graphic Founders Courtyard — HSU Library/ University Graphic Services. Services. Archives. Commencement — Photographer: Sean Kearns, University Rela- 1 10 CCAT — Campus Center for Appropri- tions. ate Technology Chapter 10 Student and business services

1 1 Mrs. and President McCrone — HSU building — Photographer: Dar 121 view — Photographer: Peter Library / Archives. Campus Spain, University Graphic ser- Librarians David Oyler and Helen Palmquist, University Graphic vices. Everett — HSU Library/ Services. Fickle Hill observatory — Photogra- Archives. pher: Dar Spain, University 125 Natural History Museum — Photog- Forestry building fire — University Graphic Services. rapher: Dar Spain, University Graphic Services. Graphic Services. May Day celebration — Photogra- Schatz Solar Hydrogen Project — pher: Peter Palmquist, University Photographer: Dar Spain, Graphic Services. University Graphic Services. 114 Cross-country team HSU Sports Sundial and library — University Information. Graphic Services. Professor Mullery and student — 1 15 Professor Cline and Jazz band — Photographer: Dar Spain, HSU Library / Archives. University Graphic Services. Dick Enberg — Photographer: Brad Job, University Relations. 127 Professor Lang and class — Photog- Coach Cheek — HSU Sports Informa- rapher: Dar Spain, University tion. Graphic Services. Professor Steen — Photographer: Professor Plant and ensemble — Sean Kearns, University Rela- Photographer: Dar Spain, tions. University Graphic Services Denise Walker — HSU Sports 116 HSU view from Areata Marsh — Information. Photographer: Dar Spain, HSU's research vessel — Photogra- University Graphic Services pher: Tim Sims, University Graphic Services.

162 Age of Aquarius, 87 American Sign Language Club, 126 agrarian living, 10 Ames, Alfred, 150 agriculture, 13, 43 Anderson, Alison, 150 Aguada, Laura, 123 Anderson, Bill, 100 AIDS Awareness, 112, 143 Anderson, Cindy, 155 AIR Center, 104, 105, 141 Anderson, Dale, 73 Akre, Brian, 151 Anderson, Diane, 150 Aalto, Kenneth, 148 Albee Stadium, 40, 56, 77 Anderson, Linda, 122, 148 Abbott, Betty Jean, 54 Albright, Claude, 105 Anderson, Mark, 151 Abbott, Joyce, 54 alcohol, 94, 112, 126 Anderson, Robert, 97, 105 Abernethy, Jane, 148 Alexander, Brian, 151 Angelel, Larry, 153 Abinati, Abby, 151 Alexander, Steve, 114, 151 Anker, Jim, 155 academic advising, 105 all-American, 66, 114, 130 annex, university, 98, 124 academic affairs, 101, 105, 121 all-college assemblies, 79 anniversary celebration, 30, 39, 79, 94, academic excellence, 108, 123 all-college picnic, 39, 46, 66, 79 98, 121, 132, 136, 144 academic freedom, 102 All-Star Day, 68 Annual Ring, 82, 138, 155 academic organization, 9, 43, 54, 60, Allen, Ben, 148 Antelope, 49 61, 72, 101, 105, 122, 143, 144 Allen, Deanna, 113, 151 apathy, 113 academic senate, 85, 89, 94, 101, 122, Allen, George, 116, 147 aquaculture, 116 138, 147 Allen, Jesse, 101 Areata, 1, 3, 6, 7, 14, 16, 23, 30, 31, 32, academic standards, 25 Allen, Kurt, 116 36, 39, 50, 51, 55, 70, 91, 97, 100, accreditation, 52, 137 Allen, Vicki, 129, 150 116, 117, 124, 126, 129, 132, 135, Accuracy in Academe, 143 Aim, Andrew, 151 139, 141 Acheson, Mary, 49 Aimer, Torun, 155 Areata & Mad River RR, 6 activism, student, 82, 85, 87, 89, 90, AlOadi, Abdulkadir, 145 Areata Grammar School, 1, 3, 4, 9, 15, 98, 109, 112 alumni, 66, 109, 116, 123 17,24, 135 Aden, Brenda, 122 alumni association, 30, 31, 36, 40, 77, Areata Marsh, 116 administration, 43, 54, 60, 61, 82, 90, 105, 116, 135, 136, 138, 142, 143, Areata plaza, 5, 89 101, 104, 105, 121, 122 148, 149 Areata Union, 4, 15, 25 admission requirements, 3, 9, 15, 121, alumni versus varsity football game, 77 Areata wharf, 6 143 Ambrosini, Jackie, 149 archery, 40, 51, 67, 152 Admissions, 104, 121 American Association of University Argentini, Darlene, 129 Adult Re-entry Center, 126 Professors, 85 Aristotle, 32 advisory board, 61, 68, 116, 137, 146 American College Theatre Festival, 123 Armbrust, Donald, 101 advisory council, 60, 61, 137 American Federation of Teachers, 85 Armold, Pam, 130, 153 aeronautics, 56, 64 American Heritage Week, 81 Arnold, Elma, 32 affirmative action, 101, 104, 105, 140 American Indian Languages & Arnold, Homer, 24, 31, 39, 76, 137 African American, 101, 140 Literature Regeneration Project, 96 Arnot, Sally, 147

163 arson, 80, 81, 107, 108, 111, 141 B Bauriedel, John, 150 arson, accidental, 79 Baysinger, Freeman, 130 art, 66, 69, 98, 117, 123 B.A. degree, 23, 54 Bazemore, Duncan, 122 art/home economics building, 76 B.S. degree, 72 Bazemore, Jean, 100 artist in residence, 132 Babica, Larry, 97 beaches, 119 arts, 103, 123, 124 Babler, Anna, 51 Bean, Greg, 97 Arts & Humanities, 122 baby boom, 71 Beck, Gerald, 122 Arvola, Linda, 149 baccalaureate degree, 16, 43 Becker, Georgia, 97 Ashe, Richard, 130 baccalaureate service, 84 Becker, Wendy, 130 Asher, Katherin, 10 back-to-basics, 107 Becking, Rudolph, 76, 98, 100 Ashley, William, 147 Badgett, Lee, 105, 143 beer bust, 55 Asian studies, 102 badminton, 152 Beer, Ray, 114 Asian-American Awareness Week, 90, Bailey, Kenneth, 54, 59, 60 behavioral & social sciences, 105, 122 140 Bainbridge, Jack, 129 Belcher, Rod, 148 Asman, Mark, 116 Bainbridge, Janay, 130 Belig, Tori, 114 Asp, Paul, 79 Baird, Lee, 31, 150 Bell, John, 82 Associated Men Students, 49 Baker, Sima Jarvinen, 148 Belotti, Delphine, 148 Associated Students (ASB), 29, 30, 31, Baker, Warren, 151 Belotti, Frank, 86 33, 40, 65, 82, 90, 91, 94, 100, 113, Balabanis, 4, 23, 26, 29, 31, 40, 43, 46, Benedict, Waine, 150 124, 129, 135, 144, 150 52, 54, 55, 56, 60, 61, 72, 76, 101, Bengston, Rae, 54 Associated Women Students, 31, 40, 49, 122, 135, 136, 137, 138, 140, 143, Bennett, Dick, 155 136 144, 147, 155 Bennion, Sherilyn, 148 Association of California State College Balabanis Complex, 107, 123 Benson, Melissa, 130 Instructors, 60, 85 Balabanis, Frances, 32 Bentley, Karen, 149

Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Balcomb, Mrs., 32 Benton, J.F., 3 for Women, 113 Baldwin, Thais, 54 Bergman, Tom, 112, 150 Athenaeum, 94, 142 Ball, Juan, 130 Bergsohn, Claudia, 113 Lavina, athletic advisory committee, 1 13 Bancroft, 145 Betham, Michelle, 113, 151 athletics, 10, 12, 17, 25, 26, 27, 28, 40, Banducci, Jennie, 149 Better Food Initiative, 129 41,44,45,49, 60,61,66,94, 99, banquets, 30, 33 Bettiga, Floyd, 148 113, 115, 127, 141, 143 Barbieri, Nick, 150 Bettiga, Mike, 97, 114 Audubon Bird Club, 31 Barlow, Leland, 59, 69, 104, 132, 137 Bible studies, 112 Aus, Becky, 150 Barn Dance, 50 bicentennial protest, 112, 140 auto mechanics building, 98 Barnhill, Keith, 150 Biehn, Earl, 149 Averell, George, 25, 146 Barnum, Charles, 137, 146 Bietz, Rev. Karl, 112 aviary, 107, 143 Barnum, Earl, 77, 151 Big Four, 81 axe (Chico State rivalry), 67 Barratt, Raymond, 101 Big Sister/Little Sister, 31 Ayala, Maury, 50 Bartlett, Marilyn, 147 biological sciences building, 65, 98 baseball, 10, 26, 49, 97, 113, 141, 152 biology, 102, 127 basketball, 10, 26, 29, 33, 40, 49, 66, Bishop, Harold, 60, 152 77, 97, 114, 129, 130, 141, 142, 152 Bivens, William, 147 Batchelor, Helen, 101 Black Culture Week, 90, 140

164 Black Diamond, 6 Brisso, Paul, 151, 155 business, 63, 107, 124, 125, 126, 142 Black Student Union, 90 British filmmakers, 126 business & industrial technology, 105 Blackburn, Richard, 149 Brizard (Holcombe), Elenore, 76 Business Day, 81 Blake, George, 132 Brizard, Alexander, 4 Buss, Valerie, 129 blimp, 50 Brizard, Brousse, 9 Butler Valley Dam, 100 block H, 40, 65 Brizard, Elizabeth, 54 Butler, John, 76 Bloom, Charles, 59, 81, 137 Brizard, Francis, 149

Blue Lake, 1, 32 Brizard, Henry, 3, 4, 25, 146 board of control, 29, 40 Brock, Lyn, 130 board of trustees, 3, 21, 135 Brogan, Harold, 149 bobbysoxers, 65 Brosnahan, Grace, 114, 151 Cababa, Torrie, 130 Bohler, Roy, 54 Brown, Darrell, 66, 150, 151 Cabrillo, 26, 31, 33, 46, 135, 155 Bohlmann, Wilmer, 76, 104, 141 Brusca, Gary, 100, 148 Cabrillo, Spanish navigator, 31 Bolivar, Simon, 8 Bryan, Bob, 51 Cadenhead, Howard, 155 bonfire, 79,80,81, 109 Bryant, Arthur, 149 Cady, James, 149 Bonner, Robert, 52 Bryant, Ken, 151 cafeteria, 21, 33, 61, 74, 82, 94, 138 book burning, 65 Bryant, Ralph, 150 Cahill, Dennis, 150 bookstore, 21, 39, 61, 63, 82, 112, 124, Buchanan, Kate, 59, 72, 79, 80, 101, Caldwell, Bill, 97 144 137, 139, 141 California Barrel, 55 Booth, Dave, 130 Buchanan, Kate, Room, 107 California College & Universities Faculty Borgerson, John, 76 Buck House, 108, 141 Association, 85 botany, campus, 119 Buck, Whitney, 101, 122, 139 California State College (University) Botzler, Richard, 123, 144, 148 Buckley, Susan Beaton, 117 system, 16, 21, 23, 71, 72, 98, 105 Bowker, Lee, 105, 122, 143 budget, 4, 9, 37, 40, 61, 65, 82, 102, California State Employees Association, Bowles, Jim, 130 103, 107, 113, 116, 121, 122, 124, 85 Bowles, P.E., 4 129, 132, 142, 143, 144 California State University, Humboldt, Boxer, David, 147 Buffalo Heads, 55 102 boxing, 152 buildings, 61 74, 75, 76, 79, 98, 99, California Teacher Association, 85 Boyce, Rod, 151 102, 107, 108, 124 Callahan, Tammi, 114, 150 camaraderie, 79, 87, Braafladt, Arnie, 100, 149, 150 buildings as historic sites, 1 16 52, 59, 61, 71, 86, Bralich, Zala, 149 buildings, temporary, 15, 20, 21, 22, 29, 101, 119, 121 Branstetter, Cliff, 151 39, 61 Cambodian Incursion protest, 89 Branstetter, Joseph, 149 Bull Creek, 27 Camellia Bowl, 97, 139 Brant, Daniel, 59, 137 Bull, Bernice, 76 camouflage, 51, 61, 136, 137 Brantley, Abner, 29 Bull, Ralph, 3, 4, 25 Camp Bauer, 46, 49, 66, 79, 136, 137, Brantley, Kenneth, 51 Bullen, Reese, 18, 59, 66, 69, 137, 148 140 Braun, Alfred, 150 Bunny Hop, 68, 137 Campbell, David, 148

Brewer, Al, 151 Burchard, George, 1, 3 campus, 14, 19, 20, 28, 31, 34, 39, 40, Bridge, 117 Burman, John, 97, 151 54, 61, 62, 71, 76, 84, 98, 99, 102, 124, 133, 135 Bridges, Henry, 3, 4, 16 Burroughs, Bob, 100 107, 119, 120, Briggs, Marjorie, 150 bury the hatchet, 4 campus botany, 102, 120 Bright, Lewis, 100, 148 Bush, Jerry, 114

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Campus Center for Appropriate Technol- chamber of commerce, 27 Clark, Thomas, 76, 148 ogy, 110, 141 chancellor ,72, 85, 105, 121, 122, 126, Clayton, Cydney, 149 Campus Dedication Week, 79 132, 138, 142, 144 Clayton, Walter, 9 campus strike, 89 Chandler, Bes, 153 Cleveland, Donna, 149, 150 Canclini, Leno, 52 Chapin, Samuel, 145 Cline, Gil, 115 Cannam, Lynn, 149 chaplain, 101 Cloney, Leland, 149 canvass, 91 Chapman, Ruth, 18 closing of campus, 89 Cappel, Lawrence, 97, 155 charter campus, 132 Club Faire, 104 Carbaugh, Terri, 150 Chase, Winn, 76 Cluster College, 102, 107, 139 Cardinaux, Michele, 123 Cheek, Frank, 105, 113, 114, 115, 129, co-ed dorms, 94, 139, 142 Career Development Center, 108, 141 130, 141, 144, 153 coach of the year, 77, 113, 114, 129, Carlson, Chester, 14 Cheek, Teresa, 130 130 Carlson, Milton, 149 cheerleaders, 113, 129, 142 Cochran, Gerald, 147 Carlson, Sheryl, 149 chemistry, 24 Cold War, 71,85 Carlson, Sylvia Jacobsen, 149 Chetkovich, Michael, 54 Coleman, John, 100 Carlton, Don, 150 Chi Phi, 109, 143 collective bargaining, 104, 140, 141 Carlton, Karen, 148 Chi Sigma Epsilon, 136 College "Y," 49 Carpenter, Edward, 147 child development laboratory, 98 college commons, 39, 98 Carroll, James, 76, 147 Child, Alison, 113, 151 College Cove, 81, 94, 109, 138, 141, 142 Carroll, Ruth, 148, 149, 150 children's center, 105 College Elementary School, 24, 25, 36, Carter, Betty Hess, 54 chimes, 140 39,42, 43, 59, 98, 107, 136, 139 Cartwright, "Cinder" Elta, 25, 26, 27, Chinn, Phyllis, 148 College Forest, 146 77, 113, 130, 135, 138, 149, 151 Chong, Anna, 114 College of the Redwoods, 90, 98, 102, Castillo, Joe, 149 Christensen, Don, 105, 122, 143 130, 138, 139 catalog, 10, 16, 21 Christensen, Grace May Bloomer, 14 College Republican, 112 Catalyst, 102, 108, 139, 141 Christensen, Leonard, 61 Collegians, 32 Caucus for Women, 90, 140 Christensen, Pattison, 147 Cohen, Dan, 130, 153 Caulley, Carolyn, 150 Chung, Po, 145 Collins, Todd, 82 Caviness, Butch, 49 Church, Kris, 149 Colney, Marilyn, 54

celebrity sports banquet, 1 13 Cinderella of the North, 103, 121 Colwell, Stanley, 148

celebrity visitors, 90, 95, 97, 1 12, 113, Circle K, 90 commando physical fitness, 49, 136 115, 116, 123, 126 Circular of Information, 2 commencement, 14, 15, 19, 108, 133, Center for Appropriate Technology, 108 Cissna, Ken, 97 135, 139, 140, 143 Center for Community Development, 96, Cissna, Tim, 97 commerce course, 43 98, 128, 132, 139, 143 civil rights, 71, 83 commission on student rights & respon- Center for Resolution of Environmental Clam Beach, 66, 94, 127, 139 sibilities, 82 Disputes, 144 Clam Beach Run 94, 139 communism, 68, 86 CenterArts, 117, 123, 129 Clancey, Don, 97 community, 14, 16, 17, 23, 25, 37, 38, Cerini, S.D., 25, 146 Clark, Bob, 97 40, 43, 51, 60, 64, 66, 68, 76, 87, 89, Chadwick, Sharon, 147 Clark, Cheryl, 113, 130, 151 98, 100, 103, 109, 116, 123, 124, Chaffey, Kay Gott, 77, 104 Clark, Hugh, 86, 151 129, 130 Chaffey, Ken, 142 Clark, Pat, 77 Community Concert Association, 37

166 commuters, 72 Cosentino, Jim, 114, 141, 152 dances, 13, 24, 31, 32, 33, 49, 66, 78, compulsory education statutes, 1, 9 Cosmopolitan Club, 31, 33 109 computers, 72, 90, 102, 108, 118, 124, Costello, Jim, 97, 99 Daniel, Bill, 147, 148 126, 137, 139, 142, 143, 144 costume ball, 33 Dave Wells, 113 computer information systems, 124 Cottrel, Greg, 150 Davies, Sarah, 9, 21, 25, 40, 52, 155

Congress on Faculty Associations, 104, counseling, 112 Davis, A.J., 9 140 Counseling Center, 138 day care center, 112 Connell, Sally, 151 Coureen, Kellie, 129 Day, Dick, 76 Connick, Chester, 146 Coyne, Peter, 100 Deacon, Ted, 97 Connors, Ron, 129 Crab & Culture Society, 32 Deaner, Jacque, 97 Conoly, Barbara, 150 Craigie, David, 147 deans, 105 Conover, Mark, 114, 130 Crannell, 32 DeBrunner, Chloe Higgins, 82 Conrad, Warren, 152 Cranston, Frederick, 100, 104, 147, 148 Deike, Evelyn, 100, 147, 152 Conry, Leonard, 150 Cranston, Jerneral, 122 148 Del Biaggio, Edward, 105, 142 conservation, 51, 110 Crawford, Joseph, 14 del Fatti, Harv, 50 Conservation Unlimited, 65, 109, 137, credit/no credit, 108, 141 Delaney, Dale, 114 141, 155 Creekview Apartments, 124, 144 DeLay, Ted, 58, 73 Conservation Week, 66, 137 Cremin, Lawrence, 2 DelGrande, Carl, 97 conservatism, 68, 109, 112 Crescent City, 1, 32, 108 Delta Sigma Phi, 81, 90, 94, 109, 137, construction, 20, 61, 62, 71, 74, 75, 76, Crescibene, Chris, 151 140, 142 99, 107, 124, 133 crime, 126 Delta Zeta, 81, 138 continuing education, 112 crisis intervention referral center, 112 DeMartini, John, 100, 148 controversy, 39, 82, 86, 91, 98, 112, Crocker, Bill, 129, 143, 150 DeMotte, Buster, 150 130, 141 cross-country, 10,97, 113, 114, 129, department chairs, 43 Conway, Chris, 114, 152 130, 140, 141, 143, 152 Depot, 124, 142 Cook, Glenna & Robert, 145 Crum, Nona, 145 Depression, 18, 21, 37 Cook, William, 1,3, 4 Culbertson, Barbara, 151 Detweiler, Robert, 123 Coombs, Mai, 147 Cullberg, Asta, 149 development, 107, 116, 124, 142 Coop, 39, 48, 61, 62, 63, 65, 77, 136, Cultural Diversity Week, 126, 144 Devery, Frank, 101, 104, 105, 140, 142 137, 138 curriculum, 3, 10, 11, 16, 17, 23, 39, Diaz, Dean, 114 Cooper, Henry, 151, 152, 153 43, 54, 60, 65, 72, 102, 103, 105, Diaz, Rudy, 66 Cooper, Kirk, 147 107, 108, 122, 126 Dickerson, Robert, 76, 147 cooperative education, 108, 128, 141 Cypress Hall, 98, 99, 107, 140, 141, 142 Dickerson, Rodney, 130 Cooperrider, Kenneth, 148 Dickson, Belle, 54 Corbett, Kathryn, 59, 83, 101, 104, 122, Dikas, Faith Adams, 47 137, 141, 147 D Dillon, Dorothy, 54 Corbin, Paul, 148 Dillon, Richard, 155 Corcoran, Joe, 109 Dada, Shauna, 130 disabled students, 105, 112, 141 Corcoran, Michael, 105 Dale, Joanne Wilson, 59, 61 distinguished lecturer series, 30, 1 16, Corner Deli, 124 Dali, Salvador, 145 124 corporation building, 65 Dalianes, Art, 80, 116, 150 diversity, 126, 129 Corporation Yard, 137 Daly, Jack, Jr, 147 Dobkin, Milton, 76, 89, 98, 101, 102, Daly, William, 147, 148 105, 137, 139, 140, 142, 147

167 Dodds, Don, 114 education, 72 102, 128 Esser, Lois, 151 Dolan, Kathy, 113, 114, 151 Educational Opportunity Program, 105, Esteban, Manuel, 121 Dolby, Michelle, 129 141 ethnic minorities 104, 117 Dolby, Mike, 114, 130, 143, 152 Edwards, R.H., 16 ethnic studies, 101 108, 140 Dolf, Mary, 149 Eel River, 4 Eue, George, 149

Dolfini, Walter, 147, 148 Eggers, Robert, 148 Eureka, 1, 3, 6, 23, 26, 27, 36, 37, 39, Domenichelli, Lisa, 114 Ehlers, John, 114 40,49, 73, 98, 116 domestic science, 10, 15 Ehrlich, Lewis, 149 Everding, Robert, 105, 143 Dominick, Laura, 151 Eilers, Jane, 113, 151 Everett, Helen, 54, 60, 101, 111, 139, donations.14, 30, 36, 66, 76, 98, 116, elections, student, 82, 94, 113, 129 143 123, 132 elevators, 124 Exceptional Meritorious & Professional Dondero, Hope, 150 Elias, Mark, 114 Promise award, 142 donut & bean feeds, 14 Elias, Paul, 151 Exley, Alan, 116, 130, 153 Doornik, Robert, 77, 138, 152, 153 Ellis, Jack, 150 extension courses, 16 dormitories, 25, 33, 34, 40, 44, 47, 59, Elmore, Laverne, 153 extracurricular activities, 10, 29, 31, 33, 61, 66, 81,82, 91,94,98,99, 124, Elmore, Reed, 130 40, 66, 78, 79, 90, 94, 104 138, 139, 144 Elpusan, Al, 150 Extramural League of College Women, Dorsett, Rodney, 130 Ely, Paul, 148 97 Douglas, Donna Mae, 149 Emenhiser, JeDon, 142 draft protest, 87, 89, 112, 142 emeritus faculty, 76, 104 drama, 14, 21, 29, 30, 32, 33, 40, 43, Emeritus Faculty Association, 104, 143 53, 66, 68,81, 117, 137, 142, 143 employment, 37 dress code, 14, 82 Enberg, Dick, 115, 116, 143 faculty, 23, 25, 31, 39, 43, 52, 59, 72, Dresser, Sue, 149 enfranchisement of 18-year-olds, 90, 81, 83, 85, 89, 90, 91, 101, 103, 104, dresses, for graduation, 15, 19 100, 140 105, 122 Dublin, Will, 151 engineering, 43, 108, 124, 140 Faculty Club, 107 Duerr, Fred, 97 engineering & biological sciences Faculty Show, 46, 53 Dumke, Glenn, 89, 105, 138, 142 building, 106, 107, 142 fads, 109 Dunaway, Ken, 151 English, 102 Fagan, Jeff, 114 Dunaway, Robert, 66, 151 enrollment, 9, 15, 16, 39, 47, 59, 61, Fairchild, Sheryl, 114 Dusick, Ellen, 147 68,81, 87,97, 102, 103, 105, 107, Fairless, Alexandra Carlin, 100 Dyson, Clifford, 114 116, 121, 132, 136, 137, 138, 140, Falk, Dan, 150 141, 142, 143, 144 Falk, Donald, 52 Entry Level Mathematics, 142 Falk, N.H., 14 environment, 85, 87, 90, 100, 108, 110, Falkenberg, Fred, 25, 26, 152 126, 139, 143 fallout shelters, 71, 85, 138 Earth Day, 126 Environmental Awareness Week, 90 Falor, Jean, 24 Earth Week, 140 Erb, Charles, 40, 44, 54, 136, 152 Far Western Conference, 49, 77, 94, earthquakes, 124, 131, 144 Erickson, Alan, 129 113, 114, 136, 137, 153 East Gym, 76 Erken, Angela, 130 Farber, Bill, 49 Ebiner, Frank, 114 Erskine, Janice, 147 Farris, Dale, 150 Eddings, Tony, 114 Eshleman, Claude, 68, 151

168 Favonians, 49 food service, 82, 124, 126 Frank, Henry, 150 federal foundation courses, 23 food stamp program, 98 Fraser, Edwin ,146 Federated Commercial Bodies of football, 10, 12, 26, 29, 40, 44, 45, 49, fraternities, 81, 109, 126, 129

Humboldt County, 1 54, 66, 76, 77, 83, 94, 114, 130, 135, Fredenburg, Mike, 114 fees, 23, 65, 82, 104, 121, 138, 142 136, 137, 138, 139, 142, 143, 144, free speech stump ,91 Ferguson, Eleanor, 147 152 Freeman, Kit, 97 Ferguson, Grant, 148, 149 Forbes, Joseph, 10, 17, 25, 54, 59, 60, freeway opposition, 100 Ferguson, Janet, 25, 97, 151, 155 66, 104, 137, 152, 153, 156 Freitas, Charles, 150, 151 Ferin, Toy, 45, 49 Forbes Physical Education Complex, 98, Friel, Merle, 148 Fern Lake, 93, 120 113, 140 friendliness, 55, 71, 79, 86, 87, 98, 101,

Fern, Jeff, 151 Ford, Debra Hinger, 1 13 119 Fernandez, Bruce, 114 Ford, Lawrence, 147 Friendship Lab, 116, 118, 143, 145 Ferndale, 32 foreign languages, 23 Fritszche, Ron, 148 Festival of Arts, 79 foreign students, 59, 81 Fromma, Ceasar, 77 feud, 3, 4, 36 forensics, 81, 109, 123 FroshCamp, 71, 137 Feuerwerker, Ben, 29, 33 forest, 119 Frosh Week, 139 Fick Memorial Scholarship, 145 forestry, 5, 43, 72, 75, 76, 102, 107, Frosh-Soph Brawl, 49, 79 Fick, Reuel, 145 108, 109, 111, 123, 138, 142, 144 Fulkerson, Charles, 44, 50, 52, 55, 68, Fickle Hill, 98, 133 forestry building, 76, 107, 138, 141 104, 136, 141, 148 field hockey, 26, 152 Forestry Club, 40, 49, 82, 100, 136 Fulkerson Recital Hall, 107 field house, 76, 77 Forson, Archie, 149 Fulkerson, Jean, 52 Fielding, Michael, 148, 150 Forson, Lynn, 97 Fulton, Alta, 49 Fields Landing, 27 Fortuna, 3, 10, 32, 124 Fulton, Lloyd, 147 Figert, Mike, 129 Forum, 82, 119, 141, 156 funding, 104 Film Festival, 95, 139, 142, 144 Foss, Karen, 147, 148 fundraising, 113, 116, 129 fine arts, 66, 117 fossil collection, 124 Futch, Colleen, 151 Fink, "Ma," 68 Foundation, HSU, 61, 68, 98, 105, 137 fire, 51 Founders Hall, 15, 17, 20, 21, 22, 24, firearms ban, 82 29, 48, 49, 51, 76, 84, 85, 98, 106, fish pond, 49 107, 116, 118, 135, 136, 138, 141, Fisher, Bruce, 123 142, 143, 144 G-0 road, 140 fisheries, 72, 116 founding, 2 G.I. Bill, 54, 59, 65, 98 Fjeldsted, Linda, 151 fountain, 45 G.I. Village, 59 flag, HSC, 79 Fountain, Eugene, 40 Gaasch, James, 147, 148 Flammer, Lawrence, 150 Fountain, Susie Baker, 14, 135 Gabriel, Martha, 151 Flanagan, Vester, 77, 151 Fowler, Fern, 149 Gale, Alice Jane, 14 Flocchini, Eugene, 52, 54, 104, 142 Fowler, Rena, 122 Gale, Charlotte, 3, 4, 14 flood, 77, 93, 100, 139 Fox, Tim, 97 Gallagher, Buell, 72, 138 flying disc golf, 126 Frakes, Albert, 148 Gallagher, Thomas, 156 Flynn's Inn, 94 Frakes, Elaine, 113 Garberville, 1, 32 Garcia, Foghorn, 31, 135, 150, 156 Frampton, Bill, 129 Jerry, 66 Foltz, Ruth Mill, 14 Frances, Susan, 101 gardens, 102, 120

169 Garl, Kurt, 114 Goodrich, George, 73 Grover, Carrie, 113 Garrell, Donna, 114 goodwill tours, 49 Gruber, Tim, 114 Gast, James, 81, 108, 122 Goodwin Forum, 107, 141 Grubic, Vesna, 129 Gastman, Joy, 3 Goodwin, Edward, 146, 149 Guatemalan interdisciplinary program, Gay Peoples Union, 90, 140 Goodwin, Howard, 50, 148 108 gay rights, 112 Gotshalk, Len, 97, 151 Guild, Liane, 114 Gearhart, Robert, 148 gowns for graduation, 15 Guimond, Bill, 151 Gelfman, Paul, 150 grade inflation, 108 Gulliken, Dorothy, 149 general education, 17, 72, 102, 108, grading system, 25, 90, 108, 141 gunpowder incident, 24 140 graduate classes, 60, 137 guns, for campus police, 101 Gentle Days, 91 Graduate Writing Proficiency Examina- Gustafson, Claire Speier, 52 Gentry, Dorothy, 54 tion, 107, 141 Gutierrez, Ralph, 148 Genzoli, Andrew, 6 graduation, 14, 15, 102, 108 gymnasium, 9, 15, 21, 39, 41, 61, 74, geology, 107, 124 Graham, Leslie, 14, 150 76, 77, 113, 136

Getty, Jeff, 97 Graham, Wesley, 52 Giannini, Chuck, 151 Graves, Albert, 60 Gianoni, Frank, 146 Graves, Edward, 23, 25, 52 H Gillespie, Alba, 101, 107, 122, 147 Graves, Emily, 23, 32 Gilmore, Lena Moll, 40, 149 Gray, Hartsell, 150 Hackett, Barbara, 149 Gimbel, John, 76, 104, 139, 147, 148 Great Humboldt Spirit Celebration, 109, Hadley Series, 143 Girard, Edward, 61 141 Hadley, Craig, 147 girls' seminary, 47, 72 Great Potato Rebellion, 82 Hadley, Gordon, 147, 150 Gist Hall, 24, 25, 42, 98, 107, 124, 130, Great Society, 98 Hadley, Marilee, 147 136, 140, 141 Greater Humboldt Committee, 71, 137 Hadley, Monica, 47, 48, 145 Gist, Arthur, 37, 38, 39, 43, 50, 52, 54, Greeks, 109, 126, 129 Hagerstrand, Al, 97 56,59, 60,66, 136, 137, 146 Green & Gold Room, 76, 137 Haggard, Pete, 97 Gist, Ruth, 32, 38 Green Chain Defense, 77 Haight, Edward, 3, 4, 16 Giuntini, Ugo, 37, 148 Green, Simon, 147 Haines, Dwain, 150 Givins, Francis, 47, 51, 77, 151, 152, Greene, Walt, 66 Hale, William, 148 153 greenhouse, 106, 107, 142 Hall, Elmer, 146 Glen, Ross, 150 Gregory, George, 150 hall of fame, 77, 130, 137, 138 gold mines, 6 Griffin, Maggie, Scholarship, 145 Hallum, Ken, 89 Golden Anniversary, 138 Griffith Hall, 76, 107, 124, 138, 141 Hamby, Jim, 105 Golden Berets, 94 Griffith, Harry, 52, 55, 60, 92, 101, 136, Hammer, Ken, 114 Golden Handshake, 104, 122, 142 139, 148, 152 Hammond Lumber, 76 Golden State Conference, 113 Grigsby, Sue, 113, 151 Hammond, Mike, 114 Golden, Mindi, 123 Grimes, Danny, 114, 151 handicap aids, 124 Golding, George, 150 Grobey, John, 100, 112 handicapped learning, 108 Goldthorpe, Micki, 109 Gross, Helen, 149 Hannaford, Ken, 132 golf, 40,97, 152, 153 group major, 72 Hannigan, Robert, 104, 105 Golla, Victor, 132 Group of Organic Alternatives to Toxic Hansen, Oden, 37, 102, 148, 150 Gomes, Herb, 52 Sprays, 112 Hansen, Tom, 150

170 hard times, 39 Hess, Ford, 76, 152 HSTC Rooter, 31, 150 Harding, Ron, 151 Hewston, John, 100 Huff, Paul, 151 Hardwick, Jean, 53 Hibler, Frederic, 148 Huff, Phil, 77

Harmer, Richard, 150 Hicklin, Martha, 32 Huffman, William, Jr, 151 Harmon, Steve, 150 Hicklin, Maurice, 25, 31, 52, 54, 55, 60, Hugh Stewart, 135 Harper, Dave, 130 76, 137 Hula Hoop contest, 138 Harper, Harvey, 148 Hicks, Cindy, 114 Hulse, Cristi, 130 Harper, Lisa, 130 Hicks, R.W., 114, 151 humanities, 103, 105, 124

Harpst, Bernice Stokes, 14, 26 Hildebrand, Jeri, 130 Humboldt Alumnus, 40, 136, 156

Harris, Stan, 122 Hill, C.J. "Happy," 147 Humboldt Area Foundation, 124 Harris, Sue, 113 Hilltopper, 82, 94, 137, 156 Humboldt Bay, 8 Harrison, Carol, 83, 156 history, 9, 40, 102, 107 Humboldt Chorale, 132 Harrison, Dobe, 151 history contest, 137 Humboldt Film Festival, 94 Hart, Herb, 152, 153 Hitt, Ann, 77 Humboldt Hilarities, 49, 58, 136 Hartman, Harold, 150 Hobson, Chris, 129 Humboldt Honeys, 94, 139 Hartsook, Helen, 150 Hogan, George, 77, 138, 148 Humboldt-Humboldt film, 126 Harvest Ball, 65, 137 Holiday Bowl, 77, 83, 86, 138 Humboldt Journal ojSocial Relations, Harville, Jayn, 150 Hollis, Virgil, 148 140 Hassman, Ralph, 76, 97, 104, 153 Holmes, Scott, 147, 148 Humboldt News Letter, 52, 136, 156 Hauxwell, Donald, 148 Holmquist, Rose, 149 Humboldt Orientation Program (HOP), Hawkins, Wayne, 120 home management, 76 71, 139 Hawthorne, Cliff, 150, 151 homecoming, 31, 36, 67, 79, 80, 81, 90, Humboldt Ship, 123 health & professional services, 105 94, 109, 132, 135, 140, 141, 149 Humboldt Spirit, 119, 121, 132 health center, 107, 112, 138, 141 Hook, Bill, 77, 151 Humboldt Standard, 4 health, education & professional Hook, Dan, 97 Humboldt State College, 39 studies, 105 Hoop League, 49 Humboldt State Teachers College & Hedrick, Donald, 101 Hoopa, 6, 98, 132, 146 Junior College, 16 Heie, T.S., 151 Hoos, Earl, 49, 152 Humboldt State University, 102 Hello Lane, 79 Hope, Faith, 54 Humboldt Stater, 116, 120, 123, 140, Hemphill, James, 148, 149, 150, 152 Hopper, Chris, 116, 153 156 Henders, Delores Sullivan, 151 Horse Mountain, 51 Humboldt Students for the Reform of Henderson, Dean, 129 Hosley, Mary, 152 Marijuana Laws 140 Hendricks, Herbert, 122 hostage, 115 Humboldt Times, 25, 27, 83 Hendrickson, Blanche, 74 Hosterman, Holly, 148 Humboldt Village, 59, 61, 98, 107, 137, Hennessy, John, 89, 100, 122, 148 house moving, 53 141 Hennings, John, 100 Householder, James, 76, 85, 101, 147 Humboldt Women's Shelter, 112 Henricks, Vern, 113, 129, 143 housing, 3, 9, 65, 97, 98, 104, 107, Humboldt, Alexander von, 8 Henry, Kris, 151 116, 121, 124 Humboldt-Universitat in East Berlin, Henry, Robert, 150 Houston, Robert, 153 126 Henschel, Russ, 114 Howatt, Marian, 149 Humphrey, Ken, 76 Hungerford, Debbie, 113, 151 Herron, Laura, 23, 25, 26, 27, 31, 135 Howe, J. Wendell, 136 Herron, Virginia, 32 HSNS Letter, 16 Hunt, Eldridge, 148

171 Hunt, Esma Catherine (Duck), 21 Iten, Fred, 151 Johnson, Pat, 130 Hunt, Howard, 147 ITEP (ITEPP), 72, 92, 128 Johnson, Sandy, 129 Hunt, Jim, 97, 100, 104, 114, 140, 141, Johnston, Maria, 97 143, 152, 153 Johnston, Michael, 147

Hunt, Richard, 147 J Johnston, P.J., 151 Hunt, Vernon, 25, 146 Jolly Giant, 17, 94, 98, 120, 124, 139 Hunter, Lance, 114 Jack Attack, 114, 143 Jolly, Frank, 100, 122 Hunter, Paul, 40, 52 Jack, Walter, 150 Jones, Eleanor Renfro, 150 Huntington, Chuck, 116, 151 Jackson, H.W., 25 Jones, John, 156 Hupa, 96 Jackson, Hal, 147 Jones, Ralph, 158 Hurd, Carroll, 139 Jackson, Lynn, 147 Jones, Tom, 89 Hyatt, Edward, 4 Jackson, William, 59, 72, 104, 137, 142, Joseph, James, 148 Hyatt, Waldron, 146 147, 148 Joyce, Betsy, 150 Hyman, Jewell, 150 Jacobsen, Christine, 54 judiciary, student, 91 Jamieson, Elinor, 149 junior certificate, 23 Jeffers, Edmund, 46, 52, 53 junior college, 16, 43, 138 Jeffers, Hazel, 32, 52, 54 I junior prom, 39 Jekabsons, Mike, 129 Ibarretta, George, 151 Jenkins Hall, 18, 19, 62,65, 137 ice cream machine, 79 Jenkins, Anna, 18, 32 Immel, Becky, 130 Jenkins, Channing, 18 Improvement Association, 25, 51, 61, Jenkins, "Pop," 14, 15, 18, 23, 31, 49, Kalb, David, 150 68, 76, 146 54,55, 65, 69, 76, 135, 136, 137 Kane, Marshall, 97 in loco parentis, 91 Jensen, Bernhardt, 145 Kaney, David, 147 inauguration, 39 Jensen, Carl, 150 Karoly, Andrew, 147 Indian Natural Resource, Science, & Jensen, Marjorie Harper, 145, 149 Karsher, Gayle, 52 Engineering Program, 128 Jensen, Wilbur, 150 Karshner Lounge, 107, 141 Indian Teacher & Educational Personnel Jessen, Michael, 156 Karshner, Don, 49, 50, 52, 54, 60, 70, Program, 72, 92, 128 Jesus People, 109 73, 79, 80, 81, 91, 101, 104, 105, industrial arts, 14, 65 Jewish Student Union, 90, 140 140 Ingebritson, Ted, 68 job consciousness ,103, 124 Karshner, Gayle, 18, 50, 73 Ingram, Jim, 77 Joe College, 87, 88, 139 Karuk, 96, 98 Institute for Research & Creative John Birch Society, 89 Kashdan, Hatton, 151 Projects, 104, 141 Johnson, Adella, 54 Raster, Manuel, 122 interdisciplinary studies, 105 Johnson, Ana Averell, 14, 15 Kates, Phil, 100 international programs, 72 Johnson, Bill, 101, 139 Kearns, Sean, 120, 156 International Relations Club, 81 Johnson, Birger, 153 Keg, 88,94, 100, 109 internship program, 108 Johnson, Clarice, 54 Kehoe, William, 1, 135 intramurals, 10, 26, 40, 77, 97, 129 Johnson, Ed, 97 Keith, Tony, 151

Irvin, Kari, 130 Johnson, Hiram, 1, 2, 3, 4, 135 Keithly, Kirsten, 130 Irving, Hally Jones, 149 Johnson, Lyndon B., 98 Kellenberg, Kim, 152

isolation, 1, 71 Johnson, Otis, 129, 150 Kelly, Robert, 97, 153

172 Kemper, Marjorie, 150 Lamp, 142 Lincoln, Jeff, 113, 150 Kenman, Lee, 74 Lamp, Nancy, 147 Lindemenn, Chuck, 105, 113, 143 Kennedy Memorial, 92 Landsbergen, P., 156 Linn, Jim, 151 Keough, Todd, 130 landscaping, 102, 120 Lioni, Fred, 97 Kerker, Larry, 97, 101, 104, 142, 153 Lang, Ken, 127, 147 Little, Stella, 24, 54 Kerr Tower, 98, 140 Langlois, Aimee, 148 Littlejohn, Fritz, 49 Kerr, William, 147 Lanphere, Hortense, 51, 57, 136 Littlejohn, Stephen, 147 KHSC-FM, 73 Lanphere, William, 51, 54, 57, 72, 101, Littleton, Dave, 83 KHSU-FM, 73, 109, 142 136, 139 living group advisors, 94 kid's party, 28 Lanphere-Christensen Dunes, 116, 142, loan fund, 16, 37, 43, 85, 104, 135

Kidd, Randy, 130 143 location of school, 1 Kieval, Harry, 125, 145 LaPlantz, David, 148 Lococo, Kim, 151 Kilmer, Frank, 100 Lark, Denby, 145 Loder, Eugenia, 54, 60, 80 Kinzer, Ced, 59, 77, 97, 104, 140, 151, Larsen, Betty, 77 Loebner, Lynn, 149 152 Larson, Donald, 146 Logan, Frank, 151 Kirkby, Carol, 150 Larson, Richard, 151 logging train, 5 Kirkman, David, 151 Latter Day Saints, 112 Longholm, Leonard 40, 50, 151 Kite-Flying Contest, 94, 139 Laura Virginia, 8, 42 Longshore, John, 100, 124, 148 Kittleson, Robert, 76, 104, 142, 147 Lawitzke, Dick, 66 Loring, Ted, 72 Klamath Ferry, 7 Lawlor, Timothy, 148 lottery funds, 143 Knight, Tom, 122, 143 Lawrence, Grady, 152 Louisiana-Pacific, 145 Knights, 65, 90, 137, 140 Lawson, Bob, 151 Love, Bill, 83 Koen, Ross, 86 Lawson, Don, 100, 143 Low, Roger, 147 Koepp, Donald, 105 Lawson, William, 146 Lowery, Bette, 105, 122, 142 Kohl, Roy, 131 layoffs, 104, 121, 122, 132, 140, 143 loyalty oath, 68, 85 Kohlmeier, Kim, 113 Lazio, Lawrence, 147 Lubitz, Paul, 148

Korbel, 1, 32 Leach, E.A., 1 Lucas, Eugene, 147 Korean War, 59, 68, 71, 137 Ledbetter, Ticia, 114 Lucky Logger, 77, 138 Kosmos, 8 Lee, Billy, 51, 151 Lucky Logger Society, 97 Kramer, Dr. & Mrs. John, 146 Lee, Sue, 133 Lufkin, Alan, 52 Kroeger, Hermie, 153 Lepold, Stefan, 116 Lumberjack, 31, 39, 40, 43, 49, 65, 66,

Krohn, J.J., 3,25, 146 letter home, 34 68, 82, 85, 86, 87, 89, 90, 94, 98, letter-writing campaign, 52, 68 109, 112, 113, 126, 136, 139, 140, Levine, Maryanne, 148 143, 144, 150, 157 Lewis, John, 156 Lumberjack Days, 46, 79, 81, 89, 90, liberal arts, 43, 61, 72, 103, 107, 121, 109, 118, 126, 138, 143 LaBudde, Carrie, 130 132 Lumberjack Enterprises, 82, 129, 138, Ladd, William, 73 liberalism, 90, 94, 112 143 LaGraff, Ron, 116 library, 9, 15, 21, 33, 36, 40, 48, 52, 62, Lumberjack mascot, 94, 136 Laing, Diann, 114, 152 65, 75, 76, 77, 105, 106, 107, 108, Lumberjack Ski Lodge, 51 Lake, Bobby, 101, 141 109, 111, 122, 124, 125, 132, 137, Lumberjack, nickname, 40 Lakeport, 32 138, 141, 142, 143, 144 Lumberjacks, Incorporated, 100 Lambda Sigma Nu, 109, 143

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lyceum, 14, 28, 29, 32 mascot, 77 McPherson, Jerry, 97 mashed potato incident, 138 McRae, Mary Ann, 149 Masked Ball, 39 McWilliams, Lindsey, 151 M Massey, Carl, 114 Meade, Richard, 54 master plan, 61, 72, 79, 85, 97, 105, meals, common, 29 M.B.A. degree, 107 138, 139, 144 MEChA, 90, 140 M.S. degree, 72 master's degree, 60, 108 Mechals, Ray, 66, 151 Macauley, Kimbra, 130 Mathiesen, Marty, 49, 152 Meckel, Steve, 114 MacConnie, Susan, 148 Matteoli, Ledo, 52 meditation room, 98 Mace, Shirley Cameron, 150 Matthews, Robert, 146 Melendy, Mark, 150 MacFarlane, 140 Thomas, Maypole, 1 1 Melody Men, 29 MacGinitie, Bea, 32 McAnnick, Charles, 77 Melvin, Rebecca, 129 MacGinitie, Harry, 24 52, 54, 55, 60, 76 McAuley, James, 66, 151 Meneweather, Earl, 40, 45, 51, 54, 77, Mack, Herschel, 147 McCallum, Dean, 81 101, 105, 137, 140, 151 Madonna, 123, 143 McCarthyism, 68, 71, 85 Menne, Karen, 1 14 Madsen, Robert, 150 McCaustland, Vedder, 151 Meredith, Farris Roy, 122 Magladry, George, 100, 122, 147 McCay, Ray, 109 Meredith, Steve, 114 Mahan, Collis, 149 McClary, Mac, 100 Meritorious & Professional Promise Mahar, Frank, 100, 122 McCleary, Kim, 113 Awards, 104 Mahler, Donald, 148 McCrone, Alistair, 103, 105, 108, 111, Mervyn's, 146 Mai Kai apartments, 101, 107 116, 120, 122, 123, 132, 140, 143, Meyer, Richard, 100, 103, 147 Mair, June, 54 147 Miers, Dave, 151 Malaguena, 108, 141 McCue, Susan, 156 Milhous, Ivan, 60, 61, 101, 138, 139 Malone, James, 97, 153 McCune, Ellis, 121, 144 military service, 49, 68 Hilda 124, Maloney, &Tom, 146 McCurdy, Allan, 150 Miller, Anna Marie, 1 14 Manary, Gordon, 146 McDaniel, Stanley, 150 Miller, Byron, 147 Mancini, Joyce, 151 McDonald, Carl, 149 Miner, Dawn, 130 Manley, Leigh, 150 McDowell, Estelle Preston, 36, 77, 143, Miner, Mary Ann, 150 manual training, 10, 13 148, 149 miniskirt contest, 90, 109, 139 Marching Lumberjacks, 67, 77, 79, 97, McDowell, Raylene, 129 Minor Theatre, 14, 19, 32, 43, 135 129, 139, 140, 144 McElwain, Alta, 136 minority students, 90, 101 Mardi (Muddy) Gras, 33, 78, 81, 86, 137 McGaraghan, Zdenka, 149 Mitchell, Larry, 149 marijuana, 90 McGauley, Jennifer, 151 Mitchell, Rod, 87 marine laboratory, 72, 93, 98, 107, 139, McGlyn, Pat, 98 Mitsanas, Demetrios, 100

141 McKelvey, Mike, 113 Mittner, Jeff, 116 Marks, Charlotte, 150 McKinleyville, 49 Mitts, Jon, 149 Marriage Education Week, 81, 138 McKittrick, Myrtle, 54, 76, 137 Monohan, Tim, 129 married students, 65 McKown, Tex, 66 Monroe, Alta McElwain, 40, 149 Martin, Pam, 130, 152 McMillan, William, 52 Monroe, George, 149 Martin, Thea, 147 McMurray, David, 105 Montesino, David, 151 Martzall, Donna, 149 McNamara, Thomas, 147 Moon Nights, 70 Marx, Lawrence, 59 McNellis, Marty, 114 Mooney, Marian, 96 Mary Lou Humboldt, 35, 121

174 Moore, Francis, 40, 45, 49, 149, 151, music building, 76, 99 newspaper, student, 31, 43, 89, 94, 112 152 Muskovich, Sheila, 113 Nicaragua protests, 112 143 Moore, Jack, 150 Musselman, Dennis, 100 Nichols, Jean, 150 Moore, Marilyn, 149 Mutsuhito Club, 49, 136 Nicholson, Dick, 116 Moore, Wendel, 45, 51 Myers, Charles, 147 Niclai, Dick, 97, 105, 152 morale, 43, 121, 122 Myers, Joe, 151 Niece, Janet, 97 Morales, Ramon, 114 night football, 66 morality, 14, 26, 47, 65, 85, 112, 138, Noga, Joe, 104 142, 143 N Nordstrom, Burt, 117 Morehouse, William, 149 Nordstrom, Corrine & Gus, 145 Morey, Mike, 97 Nance, Michelle, 151 Normal Home-Finding Committee, 9

Morgan, John, 148 Nash, Jeanne Johnson, 147 normal school, 1 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 15, 16 Morley, LaVerle, 150 national championship football game, Northern California Athletic Association, Morningstar, Katherine, 124, 146 77 26,27 Morris, Gwynna, 149 National Defense Education Act, 71 Northern California Athletic Conference, Morris, Lawrence, 31, 150 National Education Association, 10 113, 129, 142, 152 Moser, Chuck, 97 National Endowment for the Arts, 123 Northern California Guidance Associa- Motschman, Charles, 147 National Organization of Women, 141 tion, 37 Mottaz, Stan, 157 Native Americans, 98, 108, 128, 132, Northern California Women's Intercolle- "Muddy" Gras, 33, 78, 81, 86, 137 146 giate Conference, 97 Muene, Karen, 151 Native American Career Education in Northwestern Pacific Railroad, 6 Muldoon, Katie, 151 Natural Resources, 108, 128, 140 Norton, Jack, 82, 101, 150, 153 Mullaney, Chris, 129 Native American studies, 72, 101, 112 Nuckols, Kathie, 150 Mullery, Colleen, 125 natural history museum, 125, 146 nude bathing, 142 Mulligan, Mike, 116 natural resources, 60, 65, 66, 102, 105, nursing, 43, 72, 102 multicultural, 108, 126, 129, 144 107, 108, 119, 124, 126, 128 Nye, Francis, 150 Munitz, Barry, 122, 126, 132, 144 Natural Resources & Sciences 122 Munoz, Chris, 104 natural resources sciences building, 98 mural, 42 Navarre, Dave, 114 O murder, 126 Negro, Gilly, 49 Murison, William, 98, 139 Neilsen, Don, 150 O'Kane, Donald, 61, 146 Murphy, George, 52, 54, 55, 60 Nelford, Thomas, 107 Oberdorf, Barbara, 150 Murphy, Nell, 52 Nellis, Marty, 151 observation post, 49 Murray, Dave, 94 Nellist, Clarke, 150 observatory, 133 Muwjy, Emily Duprey, 31 Nellist, William, 54 ocean-going vessel, 72, 102, 108, 141 Murray, Kathryn, 149 Nelson Hall, 21, 40, 47, 48, 59, 61, 62, oceanography, 93, 127 Murray, Mark, 150 66, 70, 81, 107, 136 Ocheltree, Lyle, 120 museum of natural history, 124, 132, Nelson, Hans, 1, 16, 47, 135 offshore oil drilling, 112 143 Nelson, Tom, 97 Oglesby, Walt, 152 music, 10, 12, 14, 24, 29, 32, 33, 38, New Deal, 39 Ohanian, Valerie, 151 43, 49, 64, 68, 69, 77, 81, 94, 98, 99, Newman Club, 65 Oliner, Pearl, 148 107, 115, 117, 123, 127, 137 News Letter, 52 Oliner, Samuel, 148

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Oliveira, Bob, 52 Palmer, James, 149 Peterson, Don, 80, 150 Oliveira, Edwin, 151 Pan American Day, 5 Peterson, Doug, 148 Oliver, Mel, 97 Pancake Feed, 136 Peterson, Ellen, 53 Olson, Craig, 130 Pape, Larr.y 152 Peterson, Frank, 147 Olson, James, 130 Par Infinity Club, 126 Peterson, Gary, 114 Olympic Festival, 129 parade, 67 Petranek, Jan, 107, 116, 142, 157 Olympics, 26, 27, 135 Pardoe, Russell, 147 Pettit, Sue, 130 ombudsman, 101, 105 Parent Fund Drive, 116, 143, 145 Pfeifer, Dennie, 130 Oneto, Duane, 151 Parham, Luke, 129 Phillips, Gary, 157 open enrollment, 104 Park, Yung, 148 Phoenix Club, 72,80, 141, 143 open house, 116, 141 Parke, Charles, 137 147 physical education, 10, 17, 23, 25 Oppenheimer, Janet, 150 parking, 62, 65, 85, 124, 130, 138 Piard, Robin, 151 Orangeaid, 112 Parsons, Tom, 96 98 Pierre the Legionnaire, 82 orchestra, 12, 30, 32 Partain, Elizabeth Stagle Anderson, 77, Piersall, Jack, 150

Oregon, 1 114,153 Pierson, Ed, 72 Orick, 32, 49 Partain, Jerry, 72 Pierson, Edwin, 59 Orlandi, Gene, 52 partnership 68 Pigg, Ervyl, 99 Orlandi, Reno, 52 Partnership Campaign, 116, 142 Pinches, Marianne Lambert, 51, 149 Orleans, 6 Passof, Peter, 75 Pirtle, Ann, 149 Ortiz, Lionel, 105 Pate, Eddie, 114 Pitlock, Shirley, 149 Ortmann, Julie, 130, 153 Patenaude, Clyde, 40, 149 placement, 23, 54, 136 Osgood, Thomas, 150 paternalism, 91 plant operations, 41, 105 Ostrander, Marie, 24 Patton, Will, 146 Plant, Bill, 114 Oswald, Gilbert, 147 Pauley, John, 59, 72, 102, 137, 140, Plant, Lourin, 127 Otto, Allen, 150 147, 148, 157 Piatt, Imogene "Maddy," 23, 54, 70, 76, outstanding professor award, 123, 138, Pauley, Lyn, 8 138 139, 148 Paulsen, Karen, 77 Play Day, 26, 40, 68, 135 Overstreet, Carl, 97 Peace & Freedom Party, 89 pledge, 126 Oviatt, Peter, 129 Peace Carillon, 137 Poggi, Joann, 114 Owen, Carl, 149, 153 Peace Corps, 96, 98, 126, 138 polarization, 87 Oyler, David, 105, 111, 122 Pederson, Bill, 25, 29 political science, 108 Oyster, Eric, 97 peer group concept, 91, 94, 139 politics, student, 39, 49, 68, 85, 87, 90, Peithman, Roscoe, 59, 72, 85, 101, 104, 91,94, 109, 112, 126 137, 141, 147 Pomona, 7 Pennekamp, Peter, 117, 123 Pop's Shop, 18 Perkins, Barbara, 97 Porterfield, Anna, 16 Pacific Lumber, 76, 122, 146 Perkins, Sheila, 97 potato patch, 19 Pacific Oceanic Olio, 94, 139, 157 Perrone, Craig, 147 pottery, 69 Pacific Southwest Forest & Range Persian Gulf War, 129, 132 Potts, Dale, 151 Experiment Station, 107 Peters, Jim, 153 Poverty Ball, 37 Palais, Hyman, 4, 9, 59, 72, 85, 102, Peters, Scott, 114 Power, Scott, 130 137, 157 Peterson, Charles, 150 Powers, Sharon, 151

176 Potts, Dale, 151 R Renaud, Barbara, 113 Poverty Ball, 37 Renaud, Donna, 151 Power, Scott, 130 R.V. Sea Gull 93 Republican Club, 112 Powers, Sharon, 151 racism, 71, 83, 91 residence halls, 25, 33, 34, 40, 44, 47, practice school, 39 radio, 32, 73, 109, 136, 137, 142 59,61, 66,81, 82,91, 94,98, 99, pranks, 66, 70, 92, 94 railroad, 4, 6, 14 124, 138, 139, 144 prayer groups, 112 Raleigh, William, 59 retention, 104, 142 preregistration, 37, 39, 104 rally committee, 65 retirement, 76, 101, 102, 122, 142 president, 9, 17, 23, 25, 26, 31, 33, 37, Ramirez, Richard, 150 Reynolds, Ann, 105, 122, 142, 144 39, 59, 60, 61, 71, 79, 85, 101, 103, Randor, Janet, 109 Rezzonico, Joe, 52 104, 105, 108, 111, 116, 122, 123, Rankin, Cinda, 114, 152 Rhea, Mark, 59 132 rape crisis center, 112 Richardson, Bill, 94, 150 President's Ball, 116, 140 Rasmussen, Robert, 100 Richter, Glenda, 76, 147 president's home, 107, 140 Rathskeller, 124, 142 Rickey, Merwyn, 150 Preston House, 36 Rawlinson, John, 73 Ricks, H.L., 146 Preston tract, 15, 20, 21 Ray, Donald, 150 Ridenhour, Richard, 76, 101, 105, 122, Preston, George, 105 Reagan Redwood Memorial Grove, 112, 139, 147, 148, 149 Preston, Kathleen, 147 141 Risling, Lois, 126 Preston, William, 3, 14, 15, 17, 36, 124, Reagan, Ronald, 89, 90, 101, 109, 112, Roberts, Drew, 77, 151 135, 143 126 Robertson, Harold, 146 Prnjak, Rod, 114 Reagan, Scott, 130 Robison, Houston, 101 Proctor, L., 156 Reaume, Sheldon, 150 Rocha, Tonya, 149 Professional Studies, 122 Rechtin, Julie, 119 Rodearmel, Susan, 114, 130, 151, 153 progressive education, 2, 25 recruiting, 1, 11, 16, 21, 26, 54, 59, 60, Rodgers, Margorie, 149 progressivism, 1, 2 71, 104, 116, 142 Roeckl, Chris, 151 provincialism, 1 Red Scare, 68, 85 Roelofs, Terry, 147 Psaros, George, 77, 151 Redwood Bowl, 17, 41, 46, 66, 68, 76, Rogers, Elizabeth, 9 psychology, 102 97, 102, 107, 117, 133, 137, 138, Rogers, Felix, 151 publications, 31, 39, 40, 43, 52, 82, 89, 139, 142 Roloff, John, 123, 144 94, 109, 116, 135, 140, 141, 142, Redwood Hall, 59, 61, 66, 70, 81, 137, Romero, Cris, 114 144 138 room &board, 10, 23 Puzz, Mike, 129 Redwood National Park, 87, 90, 98, Rooter, 135, 157 100, 112, 139, 141 Rosaia, Andrew, 147 redwood sciences laboratory, 36, 107 Roscoe, James, 52 redwood trees, 6, 25, 98, 112, 118, 120 Roscoe, Martha Beer, 21 Reentry Center, 143 Roscoe, Stanley, 52, 148 Quackenbush, Lolly Haston, 105 registration, 65, 72, 84, 90, 102, 104, Roske, Ralph, 81, 137, 147 Quackenbush, Phyllis, 151 139 Ross, Cornelius, 130 quarter system, 102, 105, 139 religion, 109, 126, 144 Ross, Judy, 150 quonset hut, 62 Religious Emphasis Week, 81 Ross, Sheila, 147 Relyea, Kie, 151 Rosvold, Christi, 114, 151 remoteness of campus, 121 Rousseau, Lanette, 148, 149

177 Rousseau, Marshall, 150 Schatz solar hydrogen project, 125 Shaffer, Jack, 122 Rowe-Grondalski, Janis, 130, 153 Schatz, Louis, 123, 146 Shanley, Katie, 151 Rubin, Don, 151 Schatz, Madeline, 143 Shaw, William, 157 Rumble, Earl, 145, 149, 150 Schell, Grace, 150 Sheets, Tom, 151 Rumble, Virginia, 104, 120, 143, 145 Schenler, William, 100 Shelley, Sarah, 117, 123 Ruprecht, Theodore, 104, 141, 148, 157 Scher, Eddie, 109, 150 Sherwood, Harold, 108 Rush, Dave, 114 Schimps, Erich, 100, 147 Sherwood, Kamika, 130 Rusiewicz, Anne, 129 Schipper, Bill, 129 Ship or Sink committee, 102 Rusk, Glenn, 150 Schmidbauer, George, 147 Sholty, Myrtle, 26 Russ, Karen, 147 Schneider, Mike, 116 Short, Frances Ward, 66 Russell, lone, 32 Schneider, Robin, 109 Sibley, Brooks, 100 Russell, John, 122 Schocker, Walter, 40, 52, 149 Siemens Hall, 75, 76, 107, 111, 138, Russell, Ronald, 32 Scholar of the Year, 105 141 Ryan Act, 102, 139 scholarships, 124 Siemens, Cornelius, 59, 61, 64, 70, 71, Ryden, Roy, 100, 147 school spirit, 39, 65, 67, 109 72, 82, 85, 86, 87, 89, 91, 94, 101, Schroeder, Gordon, 66, 77, 151, 153 102, 103, 111, 120, 137, 139, 140, Schuler, Melvin, 66, 69, 148 145, 146, 157 Schussman, Henrietta, 32 Siemens, Olga, 64, 145 Schussman, Leo, 23, 24, 31 Sierra Club, 90, 139 S.T. 893, 108 science, 105 Sievers, Linda, 148 Sacramento, 2, 4, 16, 36, 37, 40, 71, 72, science buildings, 76, 120 Siler, Fred, 100, 153 129 Scobey, Bill, 97, 114, 151 Silva, Andrew, 151 Sadie Hawkins Hop, 49 Scotia, 4, 32 Simas, Frank, 40, 49 Safe Hitchhiker's Workshop, 90 Scott, Ethel Pedrazzini, 40, 149 Simas, Manuel, 77, 151 Sage, Rhea, 14 sculpture, 123 Simmons, Ed, 94, 101 salaries, 9, 59 Sears, Mildred Moe, 149 Simmons-Timmons Think-In, 101 Salmi, Steve, 151 Secret Comb Society, 70 Simpson Paper, 145 Salmon Bake, 46, 79, 138, 140 Seemann, Danae, 151 Simpson, Wayne, 150 Samoa, 29, 50 segregation, 71, 83, 86 Sinclair, Giles, 59 Samuelson, Ralph, 81 Seiber, Dora, 74 Sino, Sal, 77, 151 San Francisco, 1, 32 Seidell, Lee, 51, 151 Sintchak, Ken, 130 Sanderson, Frank, 49 seismograph, 131 Sisters of Sappho, 90 Sandoz, Joli, 152, 153 Selective Service, 47, 68, 87, 89, 109, Sivert, John, 150 Sandstrom, Henry, 147 112, 140 ski club, 51, 136

Sarboe, Phil, 66, 77, 81, 83, 94, 137, Self, Jeff, 123 ski lodge, 51 151, 152, 153 semester system, 102, 105, 109, 143 skywatch, 49, 50, 136 Sasway, Ben, 112, 142 Sempervirens, 51, 64, 94, 139, 142, 160 Slack, Fred, 150 Saturday classes, 15, 72 senior banquet & ball, 39 Slumberjacks, 66 Saunderson, Frank, 151 Senior Day, 37, 59 Sly, Altho, 152 Schafer, Beth, 147 Sequoia Plaza (quad), 89 97 Smead, Chuck, 151 Schaffer, Jack, 76 Sequoia Theatre, 79, 89, 107, 138, 140 Smith River retreat, 89, 139 Schaffer, Lorraine, 113, 153 Sessions, Alwyn, 122 Smith, Alex, 149

178 Smith, Barbara, 151 Staffler, Ted, 152 Student Federalists, 65, 137 Smith, Bert, 25, 26, 152 Stallard, Sue Ellen, 130 student government, 14, 29, 40, 87, 88, Smith, Dave, 104, 142, 143 stamp shack, 49 113, 129, 150

Smith, James, Jr., 105, 122, 148 Stanhope, Dale, 116 student health building, 76 Smith, Martha, 150 Stark, Craig, 150 Student International Meditation Smith, Nathalie, 149 Stark, Frances, 150 Society, 90 smoking, 26, 31, 39, 90, 124, 143 state board of education, 1, 16, 37 Student Legislative Council (SLC), 88, Smullin, William, 145 State-of-the-University address, 132 89,94, 112, 113, 129 Smultea, Hie, 100 statue of President McKinley, 50 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Snapp, Ted, 97 steam locomotive, 6 Committee, 139 Sneak Day, 94 Steamboat Shuffle, 49 Student Statesman, 82 Sno-Ball Singers, 69 steamboats, 15 student teachers, 15, 43 snow, 33, 51 Stebbins, Francis, 149, 150 Students Against Violent Events (SAVE), Snygg, Charles, 147 Steele, Edward, 85, 147 126 soccer, 97, 107, 116, 130 Steen, Alann, 112, 115, 143, 144, 151 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), social consciousness, 103, 126 Stegman, Art, 104, 143 87,89 social sciences, 124 Stephens, Cecil, 77, 151 Students for Peace, 141

Social-Emotional Climate Committee, Stern, Charles, 1 Studivant, Elwood, 152, 153 112, 141 Stevens, Edna, 149 Stupek, Pat, 151 soda fountain, 48 Stewart, Hugh, 31, 149 Sullivan, Dee, 149 Softball, 26, 113, 115, 130, 142, 144, Stewart, Kathryn, 149 Sullivan, Leo, 25, 29, 49, 149, 151 153 Stewart, Ruth, 149 Summer Arts, 123, 143, 144 solar hydrogen project, 123 Stipek, Thomas, 101, 139 summer session, 21 Somerville, David, 147 Stockly, Cindy, 149 Sun Day, 112 Sonntage, Sam, 148 Stockstill, Mike, 88, 139, 151, 157 Sundet, Stuart, 100, 122 sororities, 81, 109, 126, 129 Stone, Doug, 114, 151 Sunset Hall, 40, 70, 81, 138, 142 Soto, Cesar, 151 Stone, Pat, 114 support programs, 105 Southern Pacific Railroad, 2 Stone, W.W., 3 Susan, Pat, 151 Spaght, Monroe, 29, 30, 33, 94, 116, Stoob, Jack, 147 Swain, Lorna Mullen, 157 138, 145, 148, 150 Stop-at-Four committee, 90 Swanlund, Sam, 145 Speakers Stump, 94, 139 Stradley, Jean, 81, 104, 143 Swap, Katherine, 150 Speier, Shannon, 130 Strahan, Donald, 101, 104, 105, 139, Sweetheart Ball, 65, 78, 79 Spellenberg, Percy Homer, 149, 150 142, 143, 147 Sweethearts, 94 Spiering, James, 149 streaking, 109 Swetman Child Development Labora- Spinas, Janet, 122, 143, 147 strike, campus, 87 tory, 107 Spinas, Richard, 114 Stringfellow, Joseph, 150 Swetman, Alice, 32 Spinas, Ruth Cartwright, 149 Stromberg, Les, 40, 149 Swetman, Ralph, 23, 25, 26, 31, 33, 37, Sports Hall of Fame, 77, 130, 137, 138 Stromberg, Rick, 97 135, 136, 141 spotted owl, 130 Strope, Gladys Smith, 148 swimmin' hole, 17 Spurs, 90 student & business services building, swimming, 61, 76, 77, 97, 113, 114, Sputnik, 71, 85 124, 130, 133, 144 129, 130, 135, 138, 153 St. Jean, Louise, 149 Student Conduct Program, 89, 91 Swine flu epidemic, 141

179 Symphony, Humboldt, 68, 136, 143 Thompson, Richard, 147 Turner, James, 139 Szarek, Mike, 153 Thomson, Emmalena, 52, 149 Turner, Lawrence, 61 Thonson, William, 76, 100, 148 Tuttle, Gary, 97, 151 Thornton, Vernon, 40, 51, 136 Twitchell, Stan, 129 Thunderbolts, 40, 136 Two Per Cent Club, 89 Till, Keith, 151 Tyson, Joan, 129 taffy pulls, 14 timber industry, 100, 130 Tyson, Josephine, 149 Taft, Mike, 130 time capsule, 79, 144 Tyson, Mary Kay, 149 Tang, Victor, 100 Timmons, Charles, 150 Tanner, Bill, 148 Timmons, Gary, 89, 101 Tau Kappa Epsilon, 81, 94, 137 Timmons, James, 147 U Taylor, Marilyn, 113 Title IX, 113, 140 Tea, 33 Tolowa, 96 Ugly Professor contest, 81, 138 teach-ins, 87, 89, 101 Tooby, Frank, 25, 146 ukulele ensemble, 28 teacher education, 1, 14, 16, 21, 23, 43, topography, 71 Union, 6 52, 60, 61, 71, 72, 98, 102, 105, 122, town &gown, 68, 76, 98, 130, 132 United Native Americans, 140 124, 139 Toyon, 82 university center (UC), 80, 82, 98, 99, teacher shortage, 15, 54 track, 10, 26, 27, 40, 66, 77, 97, 113, 107, 117, 124, 129, 140, 141 technology, 110 114, 127, 129, 130, 136, 138, 139, University Professors of California, 85, teepee burners, 100 153 104 Tele-Student, 104 Tracy, Bobby, 94 university seal, 142 telegram (protesting segregation), 83 trainer, athletic, 77 university status, 102, 140 television, 78 training school, 21 Upward Bound, 98, 105, 139 Telonicher Marine Laboratory, 107, 141 Trainor, Joe, 104, 142 urban industrialism, 10

Telonicher, Fred, 23, 25, 29, 40, 44, 55, transportation, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 21, 34, 85, 101, 138, 139, 147, 148, 151, 40,82, 112, 116, 132, 138, 140 152, 153 tree farm, 123, 143, 146 Telonicher, Margaret More, 32, 149 Trepiak, Tom, 113, 157 Van Deren, Frank "Bud," 94, 97, 99, temporary buildings, 15, 20, 21, 22, 29, trestle, 6 114, 139, 143, 152, 153 39, 61 Treutlein, Alice, 149 Van Deventer, Zeke, 77 temporary classrooms, 57 Trinidad, 3, 72, 98 Van Duzer Theatre, 75, 76, 79, 89, 107, tennis, 21, 26, 40, 76, 77, 97, 113, 136, Trinity Hospital, 98, 124, 140 117, 138, 140 138, 153 Trione, Henry, 124, 148 Van Duzer, John, 52, 54, 58, 70, 73, tenure, 104 Troblitz, Henry, 147 101, 139 Tessley, Eric, 114 Tropp, Henry, 122, 148 Van Matre Hall, 137, 138, 141, 142 theatre arts, 53, 75, 109, 123, 126 Trueblood, Howard, 29, 135, 150 Van Matre Hall 65, 69, 76, 107 theatre arts building, 107 Truitt, Adam, 112, 151 Van Matre, Nelson Blieau, 4, 9, 11, 14, Third World Coalition, 94, 139 trustees, 3, 21, 135 15, 17,23, 135 Third World Week, 90 Tsoutsouvas, Louis 152 vanPutten, Barbara, 97, 113, 122, 153 Thobaben, Marshelle, 147, 148 tuition, 37, 136 variety show, 66 Thomas, Robert, 147 Tullar, Dave, 130 Thompson, James, 151 Turner, Bill, 150 Turner, Jack, 150

180 Varsity Hall, 61 Wandling, Harry, 109, 149 Whitson, Alice, 146 Varsity Sweet Shop, 55 war deaths, 54 Who's Who, 30, 77 Vasquez, Tony, 150 Warner, Lynn, 97, 113, 141, 142, 151, Wiese, Kevin, 130 Vellutini, Delores, 147 152, 153 Wildlife & Conservation Week, 81 Verdin, Tom, 151 Wartell, Michael, 105, 142 Wildlife Club, 65 veterans, 56, 59, 65, 66, 71, 105 Washburn, Sherman, 150 wildlife management, 51, 60, 72, 75, Veterans Club, 81 Wasson, Beverly, 97 102, 107, 123, 136, 137 Viale, John, 157 wastewater aquaculture, 116 wildlife management building, 76 vice president, 43, 89, 101, 102, 105, water polo, 97, 113, 153 Wiley, Rease, 3, 4, 16 121, 122 Waters, Charles, 54 Williams, Georgia, 54 Vietnam, 87, 89, 91, 101, 139, 140 Waters, Forrest, 149, 150 Williams, James, 129, 153 Vietnam Moratorium Day, 89 Waters, Jim, 151 Williams, Vicky, 150 Villa, Milton Earnest "Bud," 150 Waters, Tom, 97 Williamson, Ellis, 153 Villa, Randy, 129, 150 Watkins, Everett, 148, 149 Willis, Jerry, 158 Viracola, Tom, 66 Watkins, Robert, 129 Willitts, 32 VISTA, 98 Watson, Frank, 145 Wills, Denise, 149 visual & performing arts, 105 Watson, Louise, 59, 77, 97, 147, 153 Wilson, Bernice, 32 Vlaardinger, Lu, 150 Way, Arthur, 14 Wilson, Bert, 54 vocational education, 10, 23, 39 weather, 15, 39, 40, 51, 60, 72, 77, 93, Wilson, Curtis, 149 Volkswagen stuffing, 92 100, 126, 137, 139 Wilson, Donald, 105 volleyball, 26, 40, 97, 113, 130, 153 Webb, Edward "Buzz," 105, 140 Wilson, Lloyd, 152, 153 von Humboldt, Alexander, 132 Webb, Sheila, 105 Wineroth, Harry, 49 Vulich, Frank, 97 Weber, Allison, 129, 143 Winged Victory statue, 22 Weber, Tad, 151 Winship, 3 Weiss, Leslie, 151 Wissenback, Brent, 114 W Wells Fargo Bank, 124, 132, 143, 146 Wold, Pat, 97 Wells, David, 129, 130, 152, 153 Women in Natural Resources & Sci- Wagner, Leon, 76, 81, 137 Welsh, James, 148 ences, 133 Waldner, Glenn, 150 Wenger, Pat, 147 Women's Athletic Association, 26, 28, Walker, Denise, 127, 130 Westbrook, Henry, 146 40, 49, 68, 135 Walker, Dennis, 120 Westfall, Leslie, 147 Women's Awareness Week, 90, 140 Walker, George, 112 Westmoreland, Daryl, 114 Women's Center, 107, 140 Walker, Marcia, 152 Whalen, Vernon, 150 Women's Day, 138 Wall, Linwood, 105 wharf, Areata, 7 Women's History Week, 142 Wallace, Bill, 150 Whetstone, Jack, 152 women's liberation, 90 Wallace, Glenn, 151 Whetstone, Lloyd, 152 Women's Recreation Association, 79, 97 Wallace, Robert, 122 Whistling Pete, 66 women's studies, 108 Walsh, Danny, 97 White, Danforth, 150 Wood, Ashford, 150 Walsh, Joe, 54 White, Ed, 77,83, 151 Wood, Frank, 59, 104, 142 Walsh, Katie, 151 White, Haig, 109 Wood, L.K., 112, 132 Walters, Teresa, 130 Whitmire, Fred, 77, 130, 144, 151, 152 Wood, Tom, 114, 129, 142, 152 Walters, Vera, 74 Whitmore, Eddie, 129 Wood, Truman, 33

181 Wood, William, 147 Yurok, 96, 132 Woodcock, Jessie Turner, 23, 26, 31, 37, Yusi, Raymond, 158 52,61, 109, 137, 143, 148, 149 Woodcock, Willard, 52 Wooden, Wesley, 150 Z Woodman, Emma, 9, 14 Woodward, Wendy, 148 zero population growth, 90, 97 Wooley, John, 150 Zion, Leela, 77, 152, 153 Woolsey, Eric, 114, 151, 153 Zumbrum, Danielle Plumb, 126 Work Day, 31,46,49, 66, 135 work-study, 98, 139

World War I, 10, 15, 135

World War II, 18, 37, 43, 46, 47, 50, 51, 52,54, 136 wrestling, 77, 97, 114, 115, 129, 141, 142, 144, 153 Wright, Monica, 136, 153 Wurster, Bernardi, 158 Wyatt, Karen, 109

Y.E.S.,91, 143 Yale, Muriel, 150 Yamagata, Hank, 153 Yapp, Jackie, 152, 153 Yard, Anne, 123 Yarnall, Jack, 122, 147, 148 yearbook, 26, 31, 49, 109 Yocom, Elenore, 33 Yocum, Charles, 72, 143 Yocum, Frances, 54 Yocum, Len, 14, 76 Young, Dorothy King, 148 Young, Emma, 150 Young, John, 131 Young, Ronald, 101, 105, 122 Young, Todd, 105 Youth Educational Services, 94, 100, 112, 126, 140

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