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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Western Publications at Western CEDAR. It has been accepted for inclusion in Western Reports and Résumé by an authorized administrator of Western CEDAR. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WESTERN REPORTS Alumni Review of WESTERN WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE October, 1967 WESTERN REPORTS The President Vol. XVII ■ No. 1 ■ October, 1967 Reports Dr. Charles J. Flora, WESTERN WASHINGTON Interim Presi(dent STATE COLLEGE

Western Reports is published semi-annually for the alumni, former students and friends of Western Washington State College, Bellingham, Washington.

ALUMNI BOARD MEMBERS Ed Bailey, Seattle Fred Boede, Edmonds Frank W. (Bill) Dolby, Bellingham George Fallis, Tacoma Mrs. Joyce Gillie, Shelton David J. Grocott, Longview Another school year is upon us. As of this writing, we look forward Morton Gronseth, Centralia Mrs. Bernice Hall, Bellingham only a fortnight to the arrival of 78 new faculty members who will bring Mrs. Doris Johnson, Kennewick the teaching strength of the College to slightly more than 350 persons, Arta Lawrence, Bellingham Hans Lorentzen, Bellingham one hundred and fifty more than were on the faculty only five years Larry O'Donnell, Everett ago. Those who join us this fall come from 24 states of the union and Wes Peterson, Kelso W. O. E. (Bill) Radcliffe, Bellingham ten foreign countries: Australia, Columbia, Denmark, England, France, Loren Rankin, Seattle George Rudes, Puyallup Ireland, New Zealand, and Turkey, in addition to a number from Canada. Gordon Smith, Edmonds And we look forward next month to an anticipated enrollment of Cecil Thomas, Anacortes Chet Ullin, Bremerton nearly 6,100 students, a far cry from the 3,400 of five years past. The Dr. August G. Zoet, Bellingham physical accommodation of this horde of eager young people continues Frank (Moose) Zurline, Bellingham ALUMNI OFFICERS to tax the efforts of our planners and implementors of buildings. Those Fred Boede, President of you who have not recently visited the campus will be startled at Loren Rankin, Vice President Arta Lawrence, Secretary the mushrooming of a new Science-Math-Computer Building, a new Hans Lorentzen, Treasurer wing to the Arts Building, and a new Education-Psychology facility. PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE And soon, maintenance, commissary, library and other structures will Dr. Charles J. Flora (Interim President) be added in addition to a new college campus called Fairhaven. COLLEGE-ALUMNI RELATIONS Though we talk much of our buildings, perhaps because they are so Ted McQuary obvious, we continually remind ourselves that they are only the places EDITOR for learning and that places are never replacement for the substance of James Mulligan learning. Thus, we are ever watchful for ways of improving quality— in program, in teaching, in research, and in people. It is this concern THE COVER: which has led us to the satellite or cluster college concept, the first of A section of an oil painting by Seattle which will be Fairhaven. These small colleges within the college will make artist Don Charles symbolizes the philos­ possible close student and faculty interaction, giving the advantages of ophy and objectives of Fairhaven College, Western of yesteryear. This concern for quality has led to an expansion the first in a series of cluster colleges being planned by Western. The painting of our graduate programs, for we recognize that the acquisition and is being reproduced in several Fairhaven retention of quality faculty relate not only to enrichment of the under­ publications and the college intends to graduate program, but also to that of the post baccalaureate. Thus, we have the artist reproduce it as a mural at Fairhaven when buildings are com­ have master’s degrees in many areas today and we envisage post­ pleted. (See story, page 4.) master’s degrees on the morrow. We enter the coming year with confidence, knowing that Western is not only larger but better and will tomorrow be even better still. ^

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'i 4 -4 HOMECOMING PLANS SET -4 Letters i 4 The campus will come alive to the sights H To The Editor: and sounds of the “Roaring 20’s” as Home­ 4 coming ’67 gets underway October 31. Rac­ A ■i I found the article in Western Reports “LSD-Flight From Reality” coon coats, the Charleston and “23 skidoo” •* (May), very disturbing. It seems to condone the use of LSD and mari­ will be common as the classes of 1920 and -i juana as a means to escape reality. 1929 are honored by the students of Western. < 4 Should we encourage our children (young people from 18 to 22 are At 8 p.m. on October 31 Homecoming will 4 very immature), to flee from reality? Would it not be better to help kick off as the Viking Palace presents “Roy­ -4 i them to face the world as it now is and try to do something about alty Revue” in the Auditorium. A presenta­ 4 the things that are wrong with it? tion of girls vying for Queen and Princesses i will be intermingled with some campus talent. ~4 We need leaders! We expect to get them from our colleges! We have A November 1 will see a presentation of i people going around lecturing who cannot or do not use proper Eng­ rhythm and blues. The Activities Commission \ lish. Are we going to get leaders to lead us out of this mess from weak­ \ is sponsoring a concert by Ray Charles at i lings who are afraid to “face the music and dance?” 8:15 p.m. in Carver Gymnasium. 1 i We desperately need young people who are well informed about the Coronation of the Homecoming Queen and facts of world history and present day trends and who have courage court is scheduled for November 2 in the and integrity to meet these conditions with intelligent, realistic solutions. College Auditorium. The winner will be \ 4 In Seattle Argus, Pat McGeer, doctor and specialist engaged in brain crowned Queen Sigrid XXX and will reign 4 research at University of British Columbia and now a member of the the remainder of Homecoming week. < British Columbia legislative assembly, says “LSD is a terrifying drug On November 3, there will be a Field Day and I am alarmed by the spread of its use—fifty pounds of it are suf­ all afternoon. Competition between residence '1 ficient to produce mental illness in everybody in North America—that halls and off-campus houses in the form of chariot races, pop drinking relays and pie is how powerful it is.” throwing are some of the tentative plans that ( Dr. McGeer, in his speech to the B.C. legislature, pointed out that LSD have been made. Alumni are welcomed to has been used responsibly by doctors and researchers for 20 years be­ join the fun. fore this burst of misuse was started. A reception will be held at 9:30 a.m. Sat­ “Contrary to the opinions of pseudo experts,” he says, “LSD does urday, November 4, for the alumni. At 10:30, not expand the mind—but shrinks it and interferes with chemical proc­ the Homecoming parade will follow its course 4 esses of the brain.” through downtown Bellingham. This year’s i parade will be unusual in that antique cars “This is an evil thing.” will be the focal point of transportation. Other dangerous drugs are used only under prescription of a doctor. At 1:30 p.m., the kickoff of the Western- 4 This is the way LSD must be used. U.P.S. Homecoming game takes place. The < Winifred Bunker halftime celebration, under the direction of Forks, Wash. Phil Ager of the Music Department, will again be a high point of the day. Homecom­ ing closes with the traditional Queen’s Ball held in the Carver Gym from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. and the Alumni Cabaret Dance at the Elks Club, also starting at 9 p.m.

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I With the help of a Carnegie Corporation grant, his academic progress; hence, evidences of this ^ Fairhaven College has accepted thirteen students kind of capability are sought for each new Fair- ^ this year who will be doing their academic work haven student. > on an independent basis and assisting the Fair­ The emphasis upon independent study and dis- ^ ^ haven Committee in the development and plan­ cussion and the de-emphasis of lectures requires ^ ning of the new cluster college. The first regular a more mature student. Because Fairhaven will ^ ‘ full-sized class of approximately 200 students is give the student considerably greater opportun- ^ still slated for fall, 1968 and it will be housed in ity for discussion with faculty, occasionally stu- * temporary quarters in one of Western’s resi­ dents whose high school records are not espe- ^ dence halls. dally good may find Fairhaven an appropriate » By fall, 1968, the new campus with its own aca­ college. , demic and residence facilities southwest of the Expressions of interest from students and par- » main campus will be ready. ents suggest that Fairhaven will prove not only ^ * The Fairhaven Program is proving particularly attractive to many of Western’s capable students , appealing to competent students. Although not an but will also bring to the campus outstanding stu- ^ ^ honors college, the Fairhaven Program will de­ dents who otherwise would not apply for admis- ^ mand that the student is responsible for much of sion to Western. > *

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<4 ■4 i-4 ¥ preliminary¥ plans for Fairhaven College, as shown in the model on the left, recently were approved by the Board of Trustees. The design was prepared by Seattle architect Paul Kirk. The Fairhaven complex includes a m'ain building with seminar rooms, library, faculty offices, dining rooms, and other facilities, and, 12 residence halls. The halls house 50 students e^ch and have study, seminar and social rooms. 4 ring are on part-time appointment. In addition, the following are members of the planning committee: Fred Knapman, Richard Payne, Tom Schlotter- back, Robert Lawyer, Harvey Gelder of the fac­ ulty, and Terry Flanders, Richard O’Brien, Jack Tingstad, Lloyd Adalist and Neal Johns, all stu­ dents. The broad curricular outlines for Fairhaven have been developed and a new brochure which includes this curricular description will be avail­ able in October. Alumni who have particular in­ terest in Fairhaven or who know high school stu­ dents who may become interested in Fairhaven are invited to send for this brochure. It is im­ portant to the new college that word be passed on to the high school students so those who are attracted by the Fairhaven Program will know of

4 Dean Harwood it in time to send their applications to Fairhaven < Since the thirteen students who have been ad- and to further investigate the college. * mitted to Fairhaven this fall will have to do a Seattle architect Paul Kirk presented the pre­ I, i great deal of their work on an individual basis, liminary plans for Fairhaven at a Board meeting * and because these students will always be the on September 27 and the building program is , " upperclassmen to the larger classes to follow, their moving along at a pace which should result in ^ selection was especially important. Western’s ad- completion of the buildings in time for the fall, missions officer was informed of the special ca- 1969, class. pabilities required and, in accordance with these In line with the goal that Fairhaven should , ' criteria, selected a group of names from the serve as Western’s experimental division and re­ " students already admitted to Western. Then the main flexible in its development, the Western Fairhaven admissions committee, consisting of Board of Trustees passed a motion on July 21, ' two Fairhaven faculty and two students, reviewed 1967, which states that the Fairhaven Dean will " this list and selected 28. These 28 were contacted report directly to Western’s president. ^ by letter and telephone; after they had read the To support the innovative and experimental ' Fairhaven literature and discussed the matter by programs planned for Fairhaven as well as full < phone, seventeen came in for personal interviews. use of the living-learning environment, funds be­ yond the state’s support are necessary. It is vital 1 ' Thirteen of these seventeen were recommended , for admission and all thirteen accepted. to the development of Fairhaven and other < A summary of the numbers reveals the type unique, special Western programs that the alumni ' of student who is attracted to the Fairhaven Pro- support these new programs and let others know < i gram. From this small sample, it appears that about our aspirations. The ideals of the small ' about 85 per cent of capable Western students residential college are valued by many individuals ^ ^ who plan to live away from home would like to and particularly in California, the University of * attend Fairhaven. In addition, 27 per cent of California at Santa Cruz and the University of ‘ students within commuting distance of Western the Pacific at Stockton, there has been successful i requested admission to the new residential college appeal to private donors for support of the spe­ * in spite of the fact that students from this area cial programs. The Fairhaven Dean and the offi­ ^ usually live at home and commute. cers of the Western Washington State College ' The Carnegie money also has allowed an in- Foundation will be pleased to provide more in­ ^ * crease in the amount of faculty time spent in plan- formation concerning the goals and aims of Fair­ ^ ning Fairhaven for the coming year. Faculty haven to alumni who may wish to support this ' members David Mason from the Biology Depart- effort or to other interested individuals who may < ment, Donald McLeod and Annis Hovde from wish to assist us. We believe that within a very " the English Department, August Radke from the short time Fairhaven will be widely known for its History Department, Stewart Van Wingerden commitment to undergraduate liberal education ^ ^ from the Education Department and Paul Wood­ and its ability to provide an outstanding program. ^

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Pat Morton in Nepal

Between camping in the shadow ited many monasteries and examined their treas­ of Mt. Everest and witnessing ures of ancient art, witnessed a number of Hindu » > ALUMS ON some of the world’s most ex­ and Buddhist religious festivals, dined with a Head ► quisite religious festivals, Patricia Anne Lama, and attended rice-planting ceremonies. ) Morton (’57) has little time to become She also stayed overnight in a Sherpa home ASSIGNMENT: bored. She is secretary to the Deputy where she feasted on yak cheese and drank yak Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in milk. Kathmandu, Nepal, and she uses her off-duty Living in Nepal has required some adjustments » hours to see and study the Himalayan kingdom. for her, including the use of kerosene for cooking > Patricia, who is due back in the U.S. this month and heating. “One of the hardest adjustments,” for home leave and reassignment, recently recalled she said, “is putting on a cocktail dress or formal her trip to Mt. Everest, the world’s highest moun­ gown, then climbing gracefully into a jeep to go tain. to an embassy party.” > “I could have stayed in one place for a week Last year, Patricia said she witnessed an un­ > and seen something new and different every mo­ usual bit of diplomatic history: the first marriage ment I was there. It is entrancing to watch a of American ambassadors. Her boss’s boss. Am­ waterfall cascading down the side of a mountain bassador Carol Laise, was wed to Ellsworth Bunk­ and to see icicles form along a river bank as er, who now heads the American Embassy in sprays of water from the rushing river are caught South Vietnam. and held by an overhanging bush.” Patricia was sent to Nepal, her first Foreign Before joining the Foreign Service branch of Service assignment, after completing an orienta­ the Department of State, Miss Morton flew over tion course in Washington, D.C. Nepal has been Mt. Everest on a round-the-world trip. At the a land of legend and mystery for centuries; and time, she never dreamed she would camp at its it is still a new country for most Americans, al­ base and explore its lower regions. though an increasing number of tourists are going > On the camping trip, Sherpa guides accom­ there each year. The name of its capital, Kath­ panied Patricia and her party. (Sherpas are Ti­ mandu, is derived from the name given a temple betans who live on the high southern slopes of —Kath Mandir—which was built from the wood the Himalayas.) She recalled how one of the of a single tree in 1596. The temple itself still guides nearly doubled up with laughter watching stands in the heart of the city. two others practically carrying her down a diffi­ The American community in Kathmandu num­ cult trail and over a river. bers about 500 and is comprised of personnel “He thought it was funny because he had done in the Foreign Service, the U.S. Information it so many times before without batting an eye.” Agency, and the U.S. Agency for International she said. “He also would get ahead of us on the Development as well as representatives of Ameri­ trail, then sit down and strum his guitar while can business firms and a number of missionaries. waiting for us to catch up.” But she had nothing Many Americans live in converted Nepalese but praise for the Sherpas, who she found re­ houses with small rooms but large verandas and V markably easy-going and cheerful people. It was corridors. Patricia has an apartment in what for­ ► the Sherpas who joined Jim Whitaker and his merly was a palace. A 90-foot balcony goes with > party in the first conquest of Mt. Everest by an the apartment. American. While on home leave this month, Patricia plans Talking about some of her other experiences, to visit her home at Napavine, Washington. Her Patricia explained that the Nepalese are a very brother, Delbert, was graduated from Western religious people and that the landscape is domi­ in 1962 and presently is teaching at Federal Way nated by temples, stupas, and pagodas that vary near Tacoma. immensely in size and shape. For the most part, the temples are concentrated in large “temple squares” in each city rather than being spaced around the community. Many are ornately carved with historical scenes which Patricia described as > “fascinating.”

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ALBERT VAN AVER DIES FEDERAL GRANTS AWARDED Albert Van Aver, a member of the English Department Federal grants for library development, graduate studies, " faculty at Western for the past 27 years, died August 23 local and regional problems, biology and psychology ^ in a Bellingham hospital. Just before his death, he had studies were awarded to Western during the summer. , been granted a sick leave for the 1967-68 academic year. Congressman Lloyd Meeds and Senator Warren Mag- Dr. Van Aver came to Western in 1939 from the Uni­ nuson notified the Bureau for Faculty Research of the versity of Oregon where he had taught for two years. He grants. ^ previously worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times Included was $35,431 for library materials. The grant X and had taught in a secondary school and a junior college. was made by the Department of Health, Education and ^ As his record at Western testifies. Dr. Van Aver took Welfare (HEW) under Title II-A of the Higher Education seriously the total responsibility of his position as a faculty Act of 1965. ^ member: responsibility to the students, to the adminis- Another HEW grant of $41,758 was made to support ^ trative needs of the college, to the community, and to the graduate studies at Western. The total includes $10,710 demands of scholarship in teaching. for mathematics faculty development and $5,000 for For many years he sponsored the Critic’s Club for mathematics library development. Another $5,000 is to be those interested in literature and, in addition, served as a used for library development for the English department. > faculty representative to the student legislature. He also Money also was provided for $17,498 worth of library served on a number of faculty committees, including the materials in the area of elementary and secondary general Library Committee and the departmental Graduate Studies science and for $3,550 worth of curriculum materials. ' Committee. As chairman of the latter, he was chief archi- The U.S. Office of Education awarded three grants < tect of the present Master of Arts program in English. totalling $27,819 under Title I of the Higher Education , Dr. Van Aver was a founder of Western Reports and the Act. The funds are to be used to continue educational pro­ Summer School Proceedings and served as editor of both grams on water and regional development in the Northwest for a number of years. and to produce a television series anticipating the environ­ Dr. Van Aver’s scholarship was concentrated primarily ment in Northwest Washington by the year 2000. ^ on Oriental and Biblical literature, and his writings re­ The National Science Foundation granted $13,300 to vealed a clear and sympathetic understanding of both. Dr. John Erickson of the biology department and HEW His articles, published over a period of 43 years, appeared granted $4,026 to Dr. Merle Meyer of the psychology ^ in such diverse journals as The New Republic, Darshana department. Both grants are to continue research already i International, and The Personalist. His style ranged from under way. the journalistic to the scholarly. Dr. Van Aver’s commitment to humanistic ideals and ' values were as evident in his classroom teaching as they 4 were in his published works. He taught Shakespeare not as SEARCH FOR NEW PRESIDENT CONTINUES an historical or literary phenomenon only but as an exam­ ple of “high seriousness” as having the power to refine A four-member Faculty Selection Committee has been 4 and to elevate the mind and sensibility of the student. working closely with the Board of Trustees in search of a president to replace Dr. Harvey C. Bunke who left West­ During his illness, which plagued him for nine years, former students who had caught something of his vision ern September 1. ' were his most loyal sympathizers and visitors. In the last Bunke resigned to accept a new position as director of V months before his death. Dr. Van Aver drove himself to undergraduate studies at the Univeristy of Indiana. Dr. the study and to class even though he was desperately Charles J. Flora, a biologist who served as academic dean sick. Many of his articles were written during his illness, for the past two years, is interim president. ^ the last of which will be published posthumously. Dr. Robert Lawyer, director of the library and chair­ man of the faculty committee, said recently that selection activities have been slowed during the summer. He added, however, that an extensive list of nominations and appli­ cations have been received and are now being processed. Lawyer also said the committee and the Board hope to name the new president sometime between the first of the year and early spring.

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Last summer there were 48 participating youngsters, all BREWSTER, NEUZIL WIN TEACHING AWARDS but one of them from Whatcom and Skagit counties. The * > exception came from Snohomish County. > Brand said the summer’s activities included trips to Vic- ^ toria and Vancouver, B.C., Seattle Center, the University of Washington, Mt. Baker and the beach. Some trips were ' > primarily for recreation, others were related to classroom ' activities. ^ The academic program for Project Catch-Up included ^ instruction in language and quantitative skills, as well as ^ r individual projects in the general areas of science and art. * Participants were selected on the basis of teachers’ judg- ^ Dr. Laurence Brewster Dr. Edward Neuzil ment of good academic potential, school performance be- > low potential and social-economic handicap. Serious emo- ^ , Dr. Laurence W. Brewster, professor of speech, and Dr. tional or physical handicaps bar participation. ^ Edward F. Neuzil, professor of chemistry, were selected Schwartz, an assistant professor of education, replaced ^ ^ by the student body last spring as winners of the Patricia Dr. Thomas Billings as director of Overcome last summer. Abel Outstanding Teacher Award. Billings is now the national director of Upward Bound. ^ Each received a $100 award and an engraved desk pen Project Overcome gives socially disadvantaged high ^ set at a banquet. school juniors an emotional and educational boost intended ^ * The two were selected from nominations by the general to pave their way into college. ^ student body. Last summer there were 98 participants on the campus, * Brewster received his doctorate from Iowa University about half of them for the first time. Their activities in- » and has been teaching at Western since 1948. eluded visits to Victoria and Vancouver, B.C., and to the ' Neuzil received his doctorate from the University of Sixth Annual Anacortes Arts and Crafts Festival. ^ Washington and has taught at Western since 1959. He Most of the students were from the Seattle-Tacoma ^ was one of the two outstanding teachers selected by the area, and a few were from Indian reservations around the > students in the 1963-64 academic year. state. ^ This fall, some 70 participants in Project Overcome will ► be enrolled as regular Western students. ^ CONTINUING GRANTS SOUGHT Selection of students for the project is based upon stu- > FOR POVERTY PROGRAMS dent potential rather than upon grades. * New grants for the continuation of Western’s two highly Overcome, which ran for eight weeks, had a staff of 36 ^ successful anti-poverty programs are being sought for next persons. Catch-Up, a nine-week program, had a staff of ► 20. , * summer. A $100,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, All of the students in both projects lived in the Ridgeway ^ which financed Project Catch-Up for the past two sum­ Residence Hall complex on campus. ^ ^ mers, will expire June 1, 1968. Sterling Brand, co-director > ) of the project, said that funding for the continuance of the ------V program is being sought and will likely come from a new HEAD START GRANT AWARDED v ' source. A grant of $133,214 from the Office of Economic Op­ Twenty-five trainees are participating in the first of four , portunity, which financed Project Overcome as part of the eight-week training programs for aides and teachers with ' national Upward Bound program, will expire on June 30, Project Head Start. The first session began Oct. 2. » 1968. Funds will be sought from the OEO to finance the Under terms of a $162,000 grant to Western’s Depart- > program for its fourth consecutive year of operation, ac­ ment of Education by the Office of Economic Opportunity, ^ ^ cording to Sy Schwartz, project director. the training programs will include two nursery schools > Brand, who is principal of Mountain View School in conducted by Miss Barbara Bieler and Mrs. Mildred Trun- ^ ^ Ferndale, has worked with Project Catch-Up since its in­ key. The grant is from the Office of Economic Oppor- > ception. The program is directed by Dr. Evelyn P. Mason, tunity. * associate professor of psychology. Project manager is Dr. Bearnice Skeen and coordinator ^ Catch-Up is a remedial and facilitating program for of instruction is Mrs. Supriya Mookherjee. ^ culturally disadvantaged American-Indian, Mexican-Amer- Other sessions are scheduled for Jan. 8, April 1 and > ican and European-American junior high school students. June 17. * >

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' i' ' 4 ______• ___: --.v—♦.•A-. . . ■ — fc- 'i The institute offered the brightest of the state’s high < ' ARTS AND LECTURES SERIES school juniors a chance to become familiar with college 4 life and to compete with their peers. < The Arts and Lecture Series this fall consists of two An indication of their high ability was provided when , ^ concerts and four art gallery exhibits. The Anna Sokolow the group took the Miller Analogies Test, a widely used ' Dance Company will open the series November 5 with instrument for appraising academic aptitude for graduate ^ a program of modern dance at 8:15 p.m. in the College study. Dr. J. Alan Ross, dean of graduate studies, ex­ ' Auditorium. Miss Sokolow is a major choreographer and plained that the students “earned scores well within the , is generally considered to be an exponent of the theatre of distribution expected of applicants for graduate study.” protest. On November 14, Nelson and Neal, well-known ^ Australian-American two piano team, will present a con- « cert at 8:15 p.m. in the College Auditorium. ' Although the Arts and Lecture Series is primarily for < Western students, a limited number of tickets will be re- NEW BOARD MEMBER APPOINTED ^ served for public sale and will be available at the Viking Harold Philbrick, a banker and resident of Seattle, has « Union desk two weeks prior to the performance. The fol- been appointed to Western Washington State College’s ^ lowing art shows will be in the Western Art Gallery (Room Board of Trustees. . 201 of the Arts Building). Hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. He succeeds Marshall Forrest whose term expired in ' and 7-10 p.m. Monday through Friday. June. V British Columbia Artists—October 17-November 3. This A resident of Bellingham from 1948 to 1959, where ^ group exhibition of some of British Columbia’s leading he was vice president and manager of the Bellingham , 1 contemporary artists is on loan from the Bau-XI Gallery branch of Seattle-First National Bank and president of ^ in Vancouver, B.C. Rotary Club and YMCA board, Philbrick made his first , ' Marsden Hartley—November 6-24. Marsden Hartley was board appearance at the July 21 trustee meeting. one of America’s pioneer modernists and this collection Now vice president and manager of the national and , of paintings, drawings, and prints will survey the work special accounts department of Seattle-First National Bank, ^ of Marsden Hartley. which deals with large companies and correspondent bank , ^ Contemporary Crafts Invitational Exhibition—November relationships, Philbrick is the second trustee to have been ^ 27-December 15. This invitational will include works appointed by Governor Evans. ' by Marvin Lipofsky, Harvey Littleton, Tim Crane, Paul Philbrick received his bachelor of arts degree from the Soldner, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bauer, and Katherine and University of Washington and his M.B.A. from Harvard ^ ^ ^ Ed Rossback. Most of these works will be available for University School of Business, Cambridge, Mass. ’ purchase. i' ■i)

< i) ------3,000 ENROLLED FOR SUMMER SESSION • HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ATTEND INSTITUTE Workshops, special institutes, poverty programs and a * ^ A group of 65 high school juniors, representing top host of special events were combined for the 1967 Summer ^ students in 31 Washington state high schools, spent six Session at Western. ^ weeks in a summer institute on campus studying sopho- Summer enrollment topped 3,000 students for the first more-level college courses. time in the six- and nine-week sessions, as well as in the The students all took courses in electronic computer 16 special events. The latter ranged from a Birch Bay ’ programming and anthropology. Each also chose two Music Camp for high school musicians to National Science , courses from the fields of biology, physics, mathematics Foundation institutes in mathematics and physics. *' and Russian. There were hundreds of high school and junior high ^ The Giftedness and Creativity Institute was directed by school youngsters on the campus to participate in Project

1 James L. Hildebrand of the mathematics department. Overcome, designed to aid socially disadvantaged high Hildebrand, who conducted a similar institute in 1963, school juniors; Project Catch-Up, a remedial and facili­ said that he expects the institute will become a regular tating program for culturally disadvantaged junior high ' feature of Western’s summer program. students, and a Giftedness and Creativity Institute, provid­ , All of the students will be granted college credit for ing opportunities for competition for 60 of Washington ^ their work if they return to Western as freshmen. Some state’s most gifted high school juniors. ^) other state institutions also may grant college credits to the Noted educators from across the country were on cam­ ^ students. pus to direct or participate in special programs.

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alumni > * news also touched on the past and paid tribute to Sen. Ernest 270 ATTEND ALUMNI DAY Lennart for his aid to the college during legislative sessions. Three “old timers” were given special recognition at the ) More than 270 persons attended the June 3 Alumni Day banquet. They were Mrs. Lillian Whitney, class of 1901, > k festivities on the Western campus. and Minnie Byron and Alice Gookins, both from the class I Registered guests included 27 members of the Golden of 1902. Year class of 1917, 10 members of the Silver Year class of Bert Foster, Bellingham, responded for the Golden Year 1942 and 11 retired faculty members. class of 1917 and Mickey Smith, Longview, spoke for the Dr. Paul Woodring, distinguished service professor and Silver Year class of 1942. editor-at-large of Saturday Review, pointed to the future In addition to Dr. Haggard, retired faculty members who of Western in his address following the evening banquet in attended the banquet included Priscilla Kinsman, Hazel the Viking Commons. * Plympton, Dr. Irwin Hammer, Dorothy Button, Irene > He cited the development of cluster colleges, such as Elliott, Ruth Burnet, Leona Sundquist, Myra Booth, Ruth ) Fairhaven, as one of the means to “regain some of our old (Weythman) Van Wickle, and Pearl Reese. ) t intimacy.” He also suggested that there will be a leveling Sam and Doris Buchanan, who retired last spring, also off of Western’s enrollment at between 8,000 and 9,000 by were honored at the banquet. the late 1970s or early 1980s because of the declining Long-time alumni workers George Fallis, Louis Lallas, birth rate in the United States. Harvey Culbertson and Art Runestrand were presented Dr. M. A. (Pat) Allan, a 1935 graduate of Western plaques by Alumni President Fred Boede. and currently president of Highline Community College, New board members. Bill Dolby, Doris Johnson, W. O. served as master of ceremonies. Dr. Allan, who earned his E. (Bill) Radcliffe, Gordon Smith, Dr. August Zoet and master’s from Western in 1952, recalled the happenings Frank Zurline were introduced by Boede. of the past for the alums and guests. Campus tours and a luncheon were among the activities Dr. W. W. Haggard, president emeritus (1939-58), of the day.

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Ex-Editors Get Together—Three former editors and an advisor of the Collegian (above) gathered during Alumni Day events to talk y about their newspaper days. They are, from left, A1 Biggs (’41), Seattle; > Cecil Thomas (’51), Anacortes; Ruth Burnet, advisor from 1942-53, > Menlo Park, Calif., and M. A. “Pat” Allan (’35), Seattle.

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Alumni Class Speakers— Alumni Day Meeting—A number of > Representing the honor classes “old timers” (above) returned to Western V at Alumni Day (right) were June 3 to briefly review the past and to take (h > these three Western graduates. a look into the future. Shown talking just

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for Longview School District; Bellingham; Dr. W. W. Haggard, (> y Mrs. Nadine (Schilling) president from 1939-58; and Fred Boede Smith (’57), a ninth grade (’60), alumni president, Seattle. > teacher in Everett, and —Photos by Jack Carver : > Bert Foster (’17), Bellingham I y businessman. y y r ) 10 i y

i__ ALUMNI, DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR NAMED FOUNDATION CHAIRMAN NAMED Rogan Jones Sr. of Bellingham was elected chairman of the Western Washington State College Foundation for 1967-68 at the organization’s second annual meeting in June. Stephen Chase of Everett is the outgoing chairman. Mrs. Richard Fleeson, Bellingham, was elected to suc­ ceed Jones as vice-chairman of the Foundation. Chase and Miss Arta Lawrence, Bellingham, were each elected to five-year terms on the Foundation Board.

BOOSTER BANQUET RAISES FUNDS Persons attending the first Viking Alumni Booster Ban­ quet last May at Bellingham Golf and Country Club have begun planning for next year’s event. Chairmen of the buffet dinner and dance were Moose Zurline and Dick Stark of Bellingham. More than 100 alumni and former students attended. Proceeds from the Ted McQuary event went to the athletic department’s blazer fund. Because of interest shown in the booster banquet, alumni Ted G. McQuary, a 32-year-old attorney, has been members are planning to attend the Homecoming game named to work with development and alumni affairs at together, then return for a dinner and dance. Western. Educated in Spokane, Ephrata and Tacoma, McQuary was graduated from Billings Senior High School in Billings, NOTICE Montana. He attended Milligan College in Johnson City, In the past few months, the Alumni Office has added Tennessee, and received his LL.B. from Vanderbilt Uni­ new staff members and equipment. During the same peri­ versity Law School in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1963. od, the alumni mailing list has been increased from 10,000 Having practiced law for two years in Tennessee, Mc­ to nearly 18,000, but the search for missing members goes Quary worked as area coordinator under the community on. If you know of anyone who has attended WWSC and action program for the states of Mississippi and Alabama is not receiving Western Reports please complete and re­ with the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, turn the coupon below. D.C. Parents of alumni, who still are receiving mail for their He subsequently became assistant to the director of sons and daughters, are also asked to return the form community action programs on the Washington, D.C., below so that mail will be properly addressed. staff and was later named acting director of the national Finally, we ask that alumni send us news clippings con­ legal services program covering 11 north-central states. cerning themselves and other former students as a means Traveling to Chicago, he became contract negotiator, of helping us keep abreast of their jobs, activities, and then associate general counsel for the Airline Pilots Asso­ interests. ciation International. At Western, McQuary will be in charge of Alumni As­ ■■■••I-...... sociation relations with the college and coordinate alumni : ALUMNI OFFICE activities. : WESTERN WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE He will be responsible for capital campaigns, large do­ : BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON 98225 nations, gifts, such as works of art and private libraries, as well as deferred gifts involving estate planning service ■ Name____—— — Class Year------which is made available to persons wishing tax information J (Maiden Name------) for their attorneys. McQuary also hopes to create larger I (Married women please note your husband’s full name and endowments and family annuities. i class year below: He also is executive secretary of the W.W.S.C. Founda­ tion, and is housed in the Office of Development and Occupation Public Information in Old Main.

Street------CityState______ZIP ALUMNA IS 1ST WOMAN MARINE IN VIETNAM Vera M. Jones (’52) of Santa Cruz, Calif., is the first woman Marine officer to be sent to Vietnam. Capt. Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Erie E. Jones, entered the Defense Language Institute at Monterey, Calif., last spring to take a 12-week course in Vietnamese prior to being sent to Vietnam in June. She entered the Woman’s Marine Corps in 1961, taking her basic training at Quantico, Va. She then was sent to Camp Pendleton for 26 months where she was executive officer of a Woman Marine company. From Pendleton she went to Paris Island, S.C., for 27 months as commanding officer of a Headquarters Com­ pany and then of a recruit training company. She returned to Quantico as a senior platoon commander for woman Sam and Doris Buchanan officer training, then was commanding officer of Head­ quarters Company here. began working his way through a bevy of titles ranging She arrived in Saigon in June to begin her one-year tour from bursar to business manager to controller and, most of duty as officer in charge of Marine Corps Personnel recently, payroll and retirement officer. Section with the U.S. Military Assistance Command. Both of the Buchanans received two-year teaching cer­ Before entering the Marines, Capt. Jones taught physical tificates from Western and Mrs. Buchanan later attended education at the elementary, high school, and junior col­ Washington State University for a year. lege levels. They plan to spend their summers on Lummi Island and their winters in the south in the years to come.

Vera M. Jones Horseless Carriage Fans—Marion Bogdanovich (’54) and his wife, the former Ramona Cass, who attended during the 1952-53 year, drove their 1913 Ford in the Horseless Car­ riage Club of America tour from Seattle to Vancouver in SAM, DORIS BUCHANAN RETIRE July, stopping at Ferndale. “Boggie” was a quarterback on Mr. and Mrs. Sam Buchanan, who together contributed the ’52 team for Charles Lappenbusch, starting the first four games before injuring his knee. He is a grade school prin­ 81 years of service to Western, retired last spring. cipal at Montesano, a position he’s held the past eight years. Mrs. Buchanan began part-time work at Western in the The couple has six children. accounting office in 1925 and in 1940 she began working —photo by Jack Carver full time. She moved to the Housing Office staff two years ago. Buchanan came to Western as a student in 1923-24 and attended classes in Old Main and Edens Hall. In 1928, he i

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y class Elmer Keiski ■< y y notes y He spent two years in Hawaii as liaison officer for the V ’17 James (Nat) Mount has received a citation for distin­ Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Navy. y guished service as an outstanding high school physics teacher. The award was made after 49 years of continu­ y ous service in secondary school teaching at Broadway and ’54 Norman J. Brann is a real estate appraiser in Rolling Garfield High Schools in Seattle. Hills Estates, Calif. . . . Mrs. Robert Downing of Eureka, Calif., was guest speaker at a meeting of Grays Harbor •i ’29 Mrs. Joseph (Elsie Rapier) Taylor retired this year fol­ Christian Women’s Club. She has taught music in Wash­ 'i lowing cancer surgery. She taught school in Washington ington, Colorado and California. < and Oklahoma for 22 years. ’56 John Davis is a purchasing chief with Boeing Company y ’33 Dr. H. Clark Hubler is stationed in Vietnam with the AID program. . . .William M. Kendrick, former direc­ in Edmonds. < y tor of the supplementary education center of San Diego y ) ’57 Mrs. Ramon T. (Barbara Scbroer) Heller is a labora­ County, Calif., has been named director of curriculum tory instructor at Towson State College in Towson, Md. and instructional services for school district 65 in Evans­ . . . Verne Lamont Smutz received his doctor of educa­ A ton, 111. tion degree from the University of Southern California y ’35 Dr. Marion O. Oppelt is the new president of Clover School of Education. . . . Harry R. Ayers is teaching Eng­ Park Community College near Tacoma. Formerly a pro­ lish and history and is assistant basketball coach at Lake y I fessional baseball player, he worked as Clover Park School Stevens Senior High School. District associate superintendent before being named presi­ y dent. ’58 Mrs. Berniece Leaf is teaching elementary education in 1 the Sedro Woolley School District. X ’38 Mrs. Hazel M. (Swisher) Knudson is a caseworker with the Yuma County Department of Public Welfare in ’59 Elmer Keiski is executive director of the Tacoma As­ y Yuma, Colo. . . . Vera Tessye Hembury has received her sociation of Classroom Teachers. He was director of the \ y i master’s degree from Seattle Pacific College. Her project Neighborhood Youth Corps in Thurston County. . . . was a study of spelling problems of children in the Had- John D. Albaugh is teaching fifth grade at North Belling­ y y) don School in Bremerton. ham School. . . . Mrs. William (Clarice Bachman) Stef- y ’39 Carl Barbo, principal of Meany Junior High School in on has returned from a trip to South America and she y*) Seattle, has become principal of Thomson Junior High and her husband are planning a tour to Africa. She has y School in the Seattle public school system. He joined the taught music in Chehalis for five years. y ^ A Seattle staff in 1943. ’60 Fred Boede, A. A. president, was married to Miss Tanya ’41 Vern Leidle has been selected as assistant director of ad­ i Pakonen, ’65, last August. . . . Dean Turnbull has been y ministration and finance for Washington’s new community appointed coach of basketball, cross country and track at t college system. He was a consultant in the State Depart­ Friday Harbor High School. . . . Robert K. Leick has < 1 ment of Public Instruction. taken over the office of prosecuting attorney of Skamania < County in Stevenson. y ^ ’42 Army Lieutenant Colonel Eric C. Phillips received the Joint Service Commendation Medal for meritorious service ’61 Richard Wojt, Chimacum High School science teacher, y) while assigned as chief of the plans branch, operations is helping determine the effects of insulin injections into i division. Army Advisory Group, joint U.S. military ad­ the mother on the unborn young under a grant awarded i) visory group to Thailand from May 1965 to June 1967. him by Washington State Heart Association. •i i ) ’46 Cdr. James Hayes, a career Navy dentist, died at the age ’62 Donald Henderson received his doctorate in physiology i ' of 43 in the navy hospital at Charles, S.C. He was from the University of Texas in 1966 and is living in St. i) assigned to Paris Island Naval Base at the time of his Louis, Mo. He is married to Vivian Graham, also a U of T < death. graduate. . . . Robert C. Johnson is completing an Ed.D. i) ’50 Roger Michael is the new principal and sixth grade at Arizona State University, Tempe. His special interest 1 teacher at Deming Elementary School. Before this, he is education for the disadvantaged. . . . Don Trethewey has obtained an MS degree in Fisheries from OSU, Cor­ < taught in the Edmonds schools. y^ vallis, Ore. < ’51 Cale (Whitey) Campbell was guest of honor at the

i) South Kitsap High School class of 1957 reunion. The ’63 Thomas F. Taylor has been elected assistant manager of former coach and graphic arts instructor at South Kit­ the Kennewick branch of Seattle-First National Bank. He < sap now lives in Seattle. has been manager of the installment credit department at i' ’52 Roger N. Dews has been appointed administrative as­ Kennewick since 1966. . . . Theodore Mork has a master’s i degree in education from Western Washington State Col­ sistant to the president of Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, Calif. A sabbatical leave last year culminated the lege. He is teaching language arts at Marcus Whitman y Junior High. . . . John W. Betrozoff has been named y) first phase of his study on “the preservation of the U.S. y principal of Clyde Hill elementary school in the Bellevue Presidency” . . . Capt. Vera M. Jones is officer in charge district. He was counselor at Tillicum Junior High School 4') of Marine Corps personnel section, U.S. Command Head­ \ quarters, Saigon. Before becoming an officer in the Wom­ in the same district. . . . Gerald Eugene Thompson re­ <) en’s Marine Corps, Captain Jones taught physical educa­ ceived his M.A. from the University of Iowa in June, 1967. i . . . First Lieutenant Curtis D. Smith has entered U.S. Air tion in the Bellingham area. t) Force pilot training at Williams AFB, Ariz. . . . U.S. Air i ’53 Robert Funk is director of instructional services for Force Captain Clarence P. Wickman has been graduated y'» Santa Paula Elementary Schools in Calif. . . . Mabel from the Air University’s Squadron Officer School at y Johnson is teaching first grade at East Port Orchard Maxwell AFB, Ala., and has been reassigned to Sheppard y.) Elementary School. . . . Roger Stearns has been named AFB, Tex., as an aircraft maintenance officer for the Air I <) director of Everett School District’s Neighborhood Youth Training Command. . . . Douglas Clarence Lundgren will y I Corps Program. He has been a counselor at South Junior teach history in the Sedro Woolley School district. . . . y) High School since 1954. . . . R. M. Sundean is now a Robert N. Mullen will teach science to junior high school y Lt. Commander on the ship Pathfinder in Alaskan waters. students in the Sedro Woolley district.

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’64 Mrs. R. Keith (Lucia Smoyer) Klaas is teaching in Westrom has been commissioned a second lieutenant lk» Camas, Wash. . . . Perry F. Mills has been placed as a in the U.S. Air Force upon graduation from Officer h graduate trainee with Westinghouse Electric Corporation Training School at Lackland AFB, Tex., and has been in Pittsburg, Pa.... Lynn Armstrong is a field representa­ assigned to Tyndall AFB, Fla., for training as a weapons h tive for Aetna Life and Casualty Company in Mil- controller. . . . Mrs. Mary Jean Bingham will teach waukie. Ore. . . . William Matthew Genther received primary grades in the Sedro Woolley School district.

a master of arts degree from Chapman College in Orange, . . . Denny Freehiirn is an activities advisor at the 'If Calif., in June, 1967. . . . James T. Hopkins has been University of Washington in Seattle. . . . David Oliver commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force Wallace has been placed with the Great Northern Rail­ upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lack- way Company in St. Paul, Minn., freight traffic’s market land AFB, Tex., and has been assigned to Offutt AFB, research division. . . . Mrs. Dennis (Jeanne Tanguy) Neb., for training and duty. . . . Mary Lee Reed and Navy Bunch is a teacher in Fort Worth, Tex. . . . Army Private Lt. (j.g.) William John Heinz were married July 18, Paul F. Webber Jr ., was chosen basic combat training l*» 1967 in San Diego, Calif., where they will live. . . . company’s outstanding trainee May 19 at Fort Knox, Ky. Dennis Peacock received his M.F.A. in art and Donald . . . Richard M. Rosa was commissioned an Army (7 Wilhur Strihling his M.A. in dramatic art from the Uni­ second lieutenant on completion of the Ordnance Officer w versity of Iowa in August, 1967. Candidate School at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.,

May 23. 17 ’65 Kenneth Colvin is teaching instrumental music in Ray­ mond public schools. . . . Lorena Mattison is teaching ’67 Judy Fuller is teaching contemporary world problems at dance lessons at the Edmonds Dance Studio. . . . John Wapato Senior High School. . . . Marilyn Gay Tripp Andrew Holtzheimer is teaching elementary education in will teach music to students in grades one through six at the Sedro Woolley School district. . . . Mrs. Laurie L. Beaverton, Ore. . . . Jane A. Smith is a stewardess for Lundgren has joined the primary staff in the Sedro TWA Airlines. She works out of El Segundo, Calif. . . . Woolley School district. . . . Mrs. Patricia Carolynn Thorn Don Houston is mathematics teacher and head basketball is speech therapist for the Sedro Woolley School district. coach at Ritzville High School. . . . Steve Hepp is teach­ (ff' . . . Roger Ralph Thorn will teach elementary education ing chemistry and physics at Ritzville High School. . . . in the Sedro Woolley School district. . . . Army Captain James Chenoweth is teaching English for senior high school William C. Parks received the Army Commendation students in the Kelso School District. . . . Douglas Patrick Medal Aug. 17 while serving with the 126th Maintenance is a social studies teacher at Anacortes High School. He Battalion in Germany for meritorious service as company will also serve as boys’ physical education instructor, head I? commander of the battalion’s Company A. . . . Navy track coach and assistant football coach. . . . Jolene Rice I'-' Lt. (j.g.) Ellis R. Vonheeder has reported for duty as is teaching secondary education in Vientiane, Laos. . . . assistant stores officer aboard the destroyer tender, USS Joseph R. Montgomery has received his commission as 'r Samuel Gompers. . . . Private Larry R. Mattheis com­ Ensign, U.S. Naval Reserve and is awaiting orders for (> pleted a recovery and evacuation course May 12 at the fleet duty. . . . John Seremeta has been named vice prin­ Army Ordnance School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. cipal of Lynden High School. . . . George E. Rough is ■ He was trained to move vehicles which have been dam­ teaching arts and crafts in the Meadowdale Junior High 7 aged, disabled or abandoned in combat. . . . Second School. . . . James Hope is teaching instrumental music Lieutenant Ronald F. Carlson has been awarded U.S. to grade five through 12 at Greater Sitka Borough School Air Force silver pilot wings upon graduation at Laughlin in Sitka, Alaska. . . . Phillip Johnson Jr. is teaching AFB, Tex., and has been assigned to Griffiss AFB, N.Y., social studies at W. F. West High School where he will for flying duty. also be assistant football coach. . . . Mary Alice John­ son is a computer programmer in the Naval Elec­ i* ’66 David O. Jones is a graduate student in West Lafayette, tronics Laboratory in San Diego, Calif. . . . James Ind. . . . Army Private Kenneth E. Zahel, Jr. completed D. Lindsay is a community planner for Montgomery a fuel and electrical systems repair course June 23 at the I'*' Co. Planning Commission in Norristown, Pa. . . . Russell 7 Army Ordnance School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. E. McComb is a draftsman-designer for W. C. Neckum . . . Leonard R. Bean was promoted to Army Specialist and Sons, Co., in Seattle. . . . James Hathaway and four July 14 near Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam where he is Robert D. Dickinson are with Westinghouse Electric serving with the 623rd Quartermaster Company. . . . Corporation. . . . Bruce R. Fugitt has joined the Naval Linnea Marie Berg received her AB in Ed. from Har­ Laboratories Research development test and evaluation vard University, Cambridge, Mass., June 15, 1967. . . . teams, stationed at Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Harold L. Gappa was commissioned a second lieutenant Pasadena, Calif. . . . Dale E. Shaw has been commissioned upon graduation from the Officer Candidate School at a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force upon graduation the U.S. Army Artillery and Missile Center at Fort Sill, from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB, Tex., Okla., May 23. . . . Army Private Richard V. Jones and has been assigned to Shaw AFB, S.C., for training completed a basic military journalist course Aug. 3 at and duty in the Tactical Air Command. . . . Mrs. Jerry G. Defense Information School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, (Patricia Ann Patterson) Metcalf is teaching in Biloxi, Ind. . . . Pamela Ragnes is teaching second grade at Miss. . . . Second Lieutenant Lynn C. Tjerne has been *J Mount Erie School. . . . Jerry G. Metcalf has been com­ graduated with honors from the training course at Shep­ missioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force pard AFB, Tex., for U.S. Air Force technical instructors.

upon graduation from Officer Training School at Lack- She will remain at Sheppard for duty as an education and ■'If , land AFB, Tex., and has been assigned to Keesler AFB, training officer. . . . Mrs. Vicky Senff is an English in­ Miss., for training as a communications officer. . . . ♦* structor at Ferndale High School. . . . Frank John Ander­ if Nigel Adams is doing research on the history of Holden son will teach art at Sedro Woolley junior high school. lit from 1880-1957 in preparation for a book he will write . . . Francis L. Dawson will teach English and Walter on the unique mining town. He is a historian at Green David Fitzgerald will teach in the primary grades in the tt River College in Auburn. . . . Gary R. Castle has been Sedro Woolley School district. . . . Pete Kerl will teach commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force elementary education in the Sedro Woolley School dis­ upon graduation from Officers Training School at Lack- trict. . . . Robert D. Dickinson has been placed as a land AFB, Tex., and has been assigned to Chanute AFB, graduate trainee with Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 111., for training as a missile launch officer. . . . Rodney A. Pittsburgh, Pa. (V >r i'^ 14 V

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FOOTBALL Western will meet the University of Puget Sound in the ion. Ron Caderette, a transfer from Clark J.C., should annual Homecoming game at 1:30 p.m. at Civic Field on fit well in Randall’s system both offensively and defensive­ November 7. The Vikings dropped their opener Sept. 16 ly. Jim Lee, another transfer from Columbia, was an all­ against General Washington State College, last year’s Ever­ stater whil?. a prep at Goldendale. He could be the man green Conference champion. to fill Hull’s shoes. And freshman John Reed also will be But Fred Emerson, in his second season as head coach given a shot at a starting berth. Randall rates Reed as of the Vikings, sees better days ahead. With only 13 re­ the best player on the Renton High School team that was turning lettermen among 60 candidates who showed up on No. 1 in the state. opening day, Emerson has little continuity from last year. Randall feels that defense will win games. Last year the The Vikings do have one of the best quarterbacks in the Viks were eighth in small college defense and finished conference in senior Pat Brewin who last season com­ with a 17-8 mark. This year Randall feels his squad will pleted passes for more than 800 yards. Most of his yardage be No. 1 in defense. was picked up late in the season when he changed from a rollout to a straight dropback pass. The toughest job in the backfield has been to come up CROSSCOUNTRY with replacements for Tom Guglomo and Steve Richard­ Coach Boyde Long feels that his 1967 cross-country son, the latter a NAIA All-American. Several have been squad will hold its own this season. Bill Cliff, who missed showing well, including Bob Unick and A1 Anderson, both last season, will be returning. Also on the squad will be lettermen; and Russ Lee, John Weaver and Joe Parker. Jim Shephard (junior, Suquamish), A1 Wright (sopho­ Leading the offensive line is A1 Divina, a senior tackle more, Seattle), Larry Anderson (sophomore. North Bend), who was an all-conference selection last year. Two other Steve Swan (sophomore, Bellingham) and newcomers Jim all-conference selections—sophomore guard Jack Dolan Kuhlman and Dick Pugh. and senior end Dave Weedman—are the mainstays of the Long, who was appointed as the cross-country head defensive squad. Weedman won the honor for the second coach last spring, is confident that his squad will compare straight year, and was named to the Washington State favorably with those at other colleges in the area. Coaches All-Star squad and the AP All-Northwest team. Emerson is using the I formation again this year with more emphasis on passing. SPORTS NOTEBOOK V^• ’ _ A committee is being formed to develop criteria for membership in Western’s Hall of Fame in athletics. A BASKETBALL ceremony to install the first members is being planned during half time of the basketball game (Western vs. Cen­ Head coach Chuck Randall predicts a great year for tral) on Alumni Day, January 27. Western Washington basketball. He cites the fact that last year Central Washington, the EvCo champion, finished An exhibition game between the two newest members third in the N.A.I.A. playoffs. This year he feels the Big of the National Basketball Association—the Seattle Sonics Blue will be the toast of the Evergreen Conference and fi and the San Diego Rockets—was termed “highly success­ have a good chance to become the No. 1 team in the ful” by Athletic Director Bill Tomaras. The game was 1. N.A.I.A. tournament. sponsored by the Alumni Association the “W” Club to Although known as an optimist, Randall seems to have raise funds to complete payment on new blazers which 1 the personnel to back his claims. Mike Dahl, Western’s will be worn by all athletic teams representing Western. 6'4" center will be returning for his final season. Last 1 iyi year Dahl led the Viks in scoring while being an honorable Several rows of seats at Civic Field have been reserved >1 mention pick in the N.A.I.A. All-American choices. for alumni by the athletic office for home football games. '< Also returning will be guards Paul Hallgrimson and The area will be designated and alumni should identify « Mike Clayton. Both shot close to 50 per cent from the themselves at the gate. ^ % field and are equally tough defensively. Gary Reirsgard t will be returning at a forward position along with Whit A new display case, purchased by the “W” Club, has 1' Hemion. Although the Vikings lost forward John Hull been added to the main corridor in Carver Gymnasium.

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