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Western Washington University Western CEDAR Western Reports and Résumé Western Publications Spring 1988 Résumé, Spring, 1988, Volume 19, Issue 02 Alumni Association, WWU Follow this and additional works at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/alumni_reports Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Alumni Association, WWU, "Résumé, Spring, 1988, Volume 19, Issue 02" (1988). Western Reports and Résumé. 209. https://cedar.wwu.edu/alumni_reports/209 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Western Publications at Western CEDAR. It has been accepted for inclusion in Western Reports and Résumé by an authorized administrator of Western CEDAR. For more information, please contact [email protected]. \ » i Spring 1988 A Report to Alumni and Other Friends of Western Washington University VOL 19, NO. 2 Follow the alumni brick road! ore than 560 Western graduates and former stu dents have so far ordered Mpaving bricks for Western’s Alumni Way. Alumni Way is the walkway which intersects with Memory Walk at the foot of the central stairs to old Main. The first bricks were installed this past fall when 86 were placed in the ground. Another 470 are destined for installation this spring, with sub sequent installations to take place each fall and spring. One section of the walkway will be set aside for a special memorial to President G. Robert Ross and vice presidents Jeanene DeLille and Donald Cole, who were killed in a plane crash last fall. The Associated Students and Western Alumni Board went together to purchase those memorial bricks. The walkway is capable of holding more than 4,000 bricks and it is the Alumni Association board’s hope that each of those bricks will one day hold the name of Western graduates and former students. If you’ve missed the opportunity to purchase an Alumni Way brick, Members of the University community turned out to weicome three professors and 60 students from Japan's Asia University to Western’s campus. order forms are available by writing The weicoming tea, heid April 6 at Canada House, marked the start-up of a program that wiii take fuii effect in March, 1989, when 200 Japanese stu to the Alumni Office, Old Main 475, dents wiii be studying at WWU. Western Washington University, Bell ingham, WA 98225. Purchase price of each brick is $35, with proceeds Japanese students arrive at Western going to the Alumni Association’s on going support of Western. • ere to perfect their English the students say they’re comfortable lot of good looking guys," says skills and study American here, reporting no feelings of culture Yamada. Her friends, Yukiko Inada culture and history, 60 shock. and Miyako Otsuka agree. HJapanese students from They say the Japanese have been "The people are very friendly," Asia University have made Western modeling themselves after America said Yoshihiro Azuma. their home for the next five months. since the end of World War II, and The exchange students don’t have They arrived at Western as part of they haven’t seen much in Belling any complaints with the food service a pilot exchange program, the only ham that they haven’t already seen at Western: some even say they like one of its kind. in Tokyo. it. Their favorite American foods are Last fall, WWU signed an agree "Everything you have here in hamburgers, steak and pizza. ment with Asia University in which America, you can also get in American music is big in Japan, as 200 Japanese students vyill spend Japan," said Shigeyo Yamada. well as British and Australian music. spring and summer quarters on the The students are housed in Of the 10 students interviewed, the WWU campus in a concentrated pro Western residence halls where young men seemed to enjoy the gram meeting Asia University’s re spring quarter vacancies occurred. 70s rock and roll scene, naming quirements in English language, Hall staff have developed special favorite bands such as Led Zep American culture and history, and programming to enable Western stu pelin, Pink Floyd and The Velvet Un environmental studies. The course dents to get to know their Japanese derground. The young women of study has been especially counterparts. tended to be more progressive, developed for the program, which is So what do the students think of naming Dead or Alive as well as a financially self-sustaining with all ex Western thus far? few top 40 groups—A-HA, Wham! Chet Ullln, class of 1937 and Alumni Associa penses covered by Asia University. "It’s a nice school and there are a and Bananarama—their appeal tion regional coordinator, helps lay the first After several weeks on campus being that they can dance to it. • brick in Western's new Alumni Way. Resume / Spring 1988 Southeast Alaska In Memorium alumni launch chapter '17 ... Beatrice V. Bailey. More than 30 WWU alumni resid ’25 ... Truman B. "Ben” Mitchell ing in southeast Alaska braved a died December 25, 1987 at the age constant downpour in October to of 81. He served for 35 years as help launch the Southeast Alaska principal and teacher in King Coun Chapter of the WWU Alumni As ty In the Highline, Kirkland and sociation in Juneau. The group is Shoreline Districts, retiring from headed by Regional Coordinator Shoreline In 1971. Robenett (Hatcher) Lee, '85. A Western contingent of Alumni Rela ’38 ... Helen Helmbaugh. tions Director Chris Goldsmith, Vice ’49 ... Dorothy A. Wells died President for University Advance January 15, 1988 at the age of 83. ment Jeanene DeLille, Corporate She dedicated her adult life to Development Director Jan Omey teaching. She taught a total of 43 and former Alumni Association years in Idaho, then Poulsbo and President Russ VanBuren at Olympia, Washington. tended the event. • Class of 1938 reunion Sv Grist of Goldsmith Grads from ’38, earlier invited to campus T by Chris Goldsmith / Director of Alumni Relations embers of the Class of being put out by Chet Ullin, ’37, to 1938 and earlier are invited all those alumni who participated in The Western graduates and their families who attended the WWU to return to campus on the annual Chain Lakes, Hannegan Alumni Night at the Seattle Aquarium in February should congratulate Friday, May 20, to Pass and Chuckanut Mountain celebrateM the 50th anniversary of themselves. They participated in the largest Alumni Association-spon hikes as well as the Mount Baker the class of 1938. sored event put on in recent years. summit climbs. Participants will begin the day with Chet also would like to see the •v> •^yr Our special thanks to Dr. Jerry Flora and his wife Rosemary for agree refreshments and a chance to get Beanery Boys gather at this year’s ing to serve as guide and narrator for this successful endeavor. reacquainted after many years event in addition to all those who at apart. Luncheon will be served in tended the salmon barbecues at Two new Alumni Club benefits: ACT (A Contemporary Theatre) in the Viking Union accompanied by a Seattle has recently been added to the WWU Alumni Club benefit pack Normalstead, Gooseberry Point and guest speaker. age. Alumni Club members can now subscribe to ACT’S full season Larrabee. Following the luncheon, a tour of As is our usual custom, all and receive a 10 percent discount on those season tickets. ACT’S campus will be scheduled. Featured graduates prior to 1938 also are in r season runs from May though November with eight productions will be the favorite haunts of 1938 in vited to attend the reunion. scheduled. Call (206) 285-3220 for more information and season ticket addition to the new buildings and en If you know a 1938 graduate who order forms. Be sure to identify yourself as a Western Alumni Club larged grounds of today’s campus. hasn’t heard from the Alumni Office .Hicnnnnt nrir^ ....... wm 'SwilUhea.ba¥e free.. -about the reunion, please get in Nendels Inns and Hotels throughout the West will provide WWU Alum time until the 5 p.m. reception and touch with us. More than 100 ni Club members with a 25 percent discount off regular room rates. banquet in the Viking Union. graduates have been located, but Simply show your WWU Alumni Club Membership Card when register Special thanks go to Claire many more are still missing. Please Thomas (formerly Clara Vander ing and ask for the University Discount Program Rate. send names and addresses to Griend), 1938 junior-senior class Class of 1938, Alumni Office, Old King, Pierce and Snohomish counties alumni should have just president, for her assistance in plan Main 475, Western Washington received or soon will receive announcements on two upcoming events: ning the reunion day. University, Bellingham, WA 98225 A special invitation is once again the third annual Alumni Day at Longacres — May 21, and the eleventh or call (206) 676-3353. • annual Norm Bright Road Run — May 15. Graduates or former students living outside the above areas who are interested in any of these events may obtain registration information by Presidential search caiiing (206) 676-3353 or writing to the Alumni Office, Old Main 475, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225. Final three candidates named hree finalists for the presidency of Western have been invited to cam pus for extensive interviews in May, Trustee Martha Choe, chair of the search committee, has announced. The three candidates and dates of their campus visits are: William E. Davis, Chancellor, Oregon State Sys Ttem of Higher Education — May 15-17; Kenneth P. Mortimer, Vice President . i I i...................i Mi . 1' and Vice Provost, The Pennsylvania State University — May 25-27; and Peter E.