Western Washington University Western CEDAR Western Reports and Résumé Western Publications Fall 1990 Résumé, Fall, 1990, Volume 22, Issue 01 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, Fall, 1990, Volume 22, Issue 01" (1990). Western Reports and Résumé. 216. https://cedar.wwu.edu/alumni_reports/216 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Western Publications at Western CEDAR. It has been accepted for inclusion in Western Reports and Résumé by an authorized administrator of Western CEDAR. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Vol. 22, No. 1 A Report to Alumni and Other Friends of Western Washington University Jack Carver photographed Western events, like this late ’50s Homecoming, for 40 years. See story on page 1. Inside... Grist of Goldsmith page 2 Homecoming 1990-style page 2 It’s Alma Mater calling pages A very good year for Western page 4 Honor Roll of WWU contributors pages 5-12 Former president recalls ’60s page 14 There’s silver in history page 15 1990-91 basketball schedule page 15 VOL 22, NO. 1 Fall 1990 A Report to Alumni and Other Friends of Western Washington University Western viewed through the eyes of love When prodded, he will recount the ByJoCollinge big events he photographed: visits of Presidents and Vice Presidents, the For nearly 40 years, Jack Carver building of the Mobil Refmery, big recorded — through the lens of his fires and huge snowstorms like the one camera — the changes and growth of in January of 1950 when he saw his Western and its community as a blizzard photos go out on newswires photographer for The Bellingham around the world. Herald. But it is the small events in the life It was a labor of love. of Town and Gown that Jack Carver Now, at 72 and “retired,” he is remembers most fondly. reliving that history as he catalogues Most of all, he says, he “enjoyed 57,000 photographs and negatives of coming to Western” for graduations. the Jack CorvQT/Bellingham Herald col­ Blossom Time festivals, groundbreak- lection which the local newspaper ings and dedications of new buildings. presented to the University in 1987. And then there was Homecoming with Try looking back over the photos floats, houses decorated to suit the that you always meant to label and theme of the year, young women neatly place in the family album and proudly wearing rhinestone crowns you have some small idea of the task and waving to football crowds. he has set himself. “My single most vivid memory of Jim Moore, director of the Western, he says as he happily dis­ Washington State Archives Northwest plays some of his photo collection, “is Regional Center where the news its growth. All the construction is photographer volunteers his services, is great All the new students, all the new amazed at Carver’s recall of names, faculty have been able to come to dates and places. So is Jim Scott, the Western because of that growth. WWU professor who directs the Cen­ “It was a small college and I’ve ter for Northwest Studies to which the watched it become quite a university. collection belongs. “It had its growing pains — dif­ “Most archivists will tell you that, ferent kinds at different times. in any photograph collection spanning sevei^ decades, only a quarter of the “Probably the Vietnam years were the most disturbing for both town and photos can be identified at all,” Moore gown. Town folks didn’t think highly says, “which means only a quarter of the protest activities up on the hill.” have value in an historical context. Perhaps that period is most on his “Jack has gone way beyond that Jack Carver, who captured four decades of Western* s history with his trusty Speed Graphic, mind because he has reached it in the was caught himself by another photographer in the early days of his press career. His work here is a very useful histori­ archiving of his collection. Archivists cal resource.” Moore and Scott find the speed at Carver grew up with Bellingham. which he is working as remarkable as Bom at the Old St Joseph’s Hospital, his powers of recall considering he he was reared in a Garden Street home Archives start new chapter only began to catalogue in October History will have a new home in the spring of 1992. That’s when the just below the slowly growing Normal 1988 and works on a volunteer, part- Washington State Regional Archives, Western’s Center for Pacific Northwest School campus. His career with The time basis. Studies and the University Records Center are scheduled to move into a $3 mil­ Herald began in boyhood. He “If the weather is good,” Carver delivered the paper for 10 years, only lion new building south of Bill McDonald Parkway. says with a sly smile, “you won’t find This launches a new phase in preserving the collective memory of northwest quitting while a sophomore at me in the archives. You might try the Washington. Western. golf course.” He also volunteers once Established in 1975, the regional archives are currently housed in Westen’s Despite a stint at the University of a week at the city’s Visitors and Con­ Commissary building. According to State Archives Director Jim Moore, the Washington and World War II service vention Bureau — and then, there are current facility places invaluable records at risk. Up-to-date heat and humidity in England with the Army Air Corps cooking and baking contests to judge. controls in the new building, he notes, will help preserve documents and from 1942-45, he hasn’t strayed far. When the new Archives building He now lives just six blocks from the photographs that are, by their nature, self-destructing. opens on the south end of campus in Professor Jim Scott, who heads the Nwthwest studies center, is pleased that home of his youth. about 18 months (see box). Carver the new structure will also have a darkroom, a conference room and adequate After the war, he “backed into relishes the prospect of a new phase in research areas for scholars, the general public, legal researchers and the photography” when his father, W. Cos- his project. In the building’s d^kroom, ton Carver, Herald Editor, “showed graduate students who train in archive management. he can transform grey-on-black nega­ Like most people facing a move, Moore and Scott grimace at the thought of me which end of the camera to point tives into photographs that reveal four relocating tons of documents requiring kid-glove care. But a Western graduate at the subject.” Armed with an unwiel- decades of Americana: life in the town student devoted his internship to creating a Moving Day Plan and the prospect dy-but-wonderful Speed Graphic, he wh^e he was bom and on the campus of a new, user-friendly facility is worth the effort. set out to record the life of his of the school that became a college hometown and the college on the hill. that became a university. \ for Counseling and Development has served as an adviser for several ternational Commission of of People’s State Bank, has recent­ which Georgie was instrumental in clubs and organizations. Maritime History. ly joined the Seattle office of Piper, founding and for which she has Jaffray & Hopwood, a full-service Roll Call *61 — Eh. John M. Panagos is *70 — Jack Foster, a lieutenant in served as a volimteer office execu­ investment Erm, as a vice president the Lynden Police Department, was tive over the past seven years. now chair of the Communication of institutional sales. ’44 — Georgie Kunkel and her Disorders and Sciences Department recently promoted to police chief. husband were sponsors for Valai- *53 — Emma Jean Webber is at Wayne State University, Detroit, *75 — Jeff Bander, former ac­ *73 — Theodore Bestor, associate tina Koleganova, a tour guide for retiring from Hockinson School Michigan. count executive for Dean Witter in professor of anthropology at the Kunkels when they toured the District after 33 years of leaching, Seatde, was recently appointed a *65 — Barry Gough, professor of Columbia University and a USSR who has remained a pen-pal 25 of which were spent teaching vice president and branch manager history, Wilfrid Laurier University, specialist on contemporary Japan, of theirs for over seven years. The first grade. She will now spend her in Dean Witter Financial Services Waterloo, Ontario, has been elected was recently chosen as a winner of Kunkels returned tour guide duties time pursuing her interests. Group’s Lynnwood offices ... Ric vice president for research com­ the first Arisawa Memorial Award when Koleganova and her husband Boge, who was the director of *58 — Ruth Haynes is retiring munication of the Social Science for scholarly contributions to under­ came to Seattle for the Goodwill Head Start at Skagit Valley Col­ from the Enumclaw School District Federation of Canada. He is also standing Japanese life and culture. Games. Georgie Kunkel was also lege, is now Skagit County’s new after 32 years of teaching. During president of the North American recently awarded the Honored *74 — Dwight E. Funai, past recycling coordinator. her years as a teacher, she taught Society for Oceanic History and the Counselor of the Year for 1990 senior vice president of Shearson typing, shorthand, business law, official U.S. representative to the In­ ’77 — Campbell H. D. Kint^ a Award by the Seattle Association and Lehman and past vice president business math and accounting, and Portland, Oregon, resident, will be Grist of Goldsmith By Chris Goldsmith I Director of Alumni Relations This past year, more than 3,700 Western graduates, former students and friends joined the WVU Alumni Club — the dues paying division of the WWU Alumni As­ sociation.