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Résumé, May, 1978, Volume 09, Issue 08 Alumni Association, WWU Western Washington University Western CEDAR Western Reports and Résumé Western Publications 5-1978 Résumé, May, 1978, Volume 09, Issue 08 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, May, 1978, Volume 09, Issue 08" (1978). Western Reports and Résumé. 154. https://cedar.wwu.edu/alumni_reports/154 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. 9, NO. 8 A Report to Alumni and Other Friends of Western Washington University MA Y, 1978 WWU couple stroll In Arboretum. (See story on page 2.) WWU shows awareness in conserving natural areas In these days of environmental awareness, more and more attention is being given to preserving our dis­ appearing natural areas. Western is participating in that effort. The University now maintains five such areas, according to campus pre­ Wooden steps lead to Sehome Hill Arboretum. serves com­ mittee chairman Over the years Western students have miniature of the San Juans in terms of and biologist used Lummi Rocks off the eastern shore plant and animal populations. Dr. Ronald Tay­ of Lummi Island as an outdoor Fonda said Western will have two lor. laboratory. The University maintains, priorities for the island. First the Recently with the City of Bellingham, the 80-acre University is obligated to maintain the Western ob­ Sehome Hill Arboretum which borders area as a natural preserve. Secondly, its tained Dot Is­ the campus to the east. nearness to Western’s campus makes it land through a Acquisition of the Dot Island Pre­ an ideal location for marine and lease agreement serve will add a new dimension to terrestrial research. with the Nature Western’s field research areas, said Dr. Some work has been completed in Conservancy, a Taylor Richard Fonda, who serves as preserve past years to catalog the plants and non-profit organization dedicated to director. animals of the island. Several graduate preserving lands for educational, recre­ Fonda, a biologist, is an expert on students are using the island for field ational and scientific purposes. the San Juan Islands’ vegetation. research and Fonda said he expects to He said the island, though less than a The five-acre island, situated a short begin taking class field trips to the mile from the mainland, represents a distance from campus in Chuckanut island by next fall. □ Bay, will be used by students and faculty for research and local field trips. In 1968 Western acquired Deering Wildflower Acres, a 25-acre wooded site Spring enrollment sets mark near Marysville now used as a living outdoor laboratory for ecological re­ Spring quarter enrollment at Western or six percent from other states, and search. is 9,002 students, highest spring enroll­ 393 or five percent from foreign The land was donated by Mrs. Ivah ment in the school’s history. countries. Deering of Marysville and her late University Registrar Eugene Omey California contributed the most out- husband, Tam Deering; Mr. and Mrs. reported this year’s spring enrollment of-state students followed by Alaska, Paul Unger of Cleveland, Ohio, and Mr. tops last year’s total by 202 students. Oregon and Illinois. In Washington, and Mrs. Edward Schafer of Berkeley, There were 8,840 students enrolled King County contributed 28 percent of Calif. spring quarter of 1976. Western’s students, Whatcom 20 per­ Another area owned or maintained The totals bring Western’s average cent, Pierce nine percent, Snohomish by Western or the Biology Department enrollment for the 1977-78 academic seven percent, and Skagit four percent. is the Alger Bog, an old and now year to 9,191, Omey reported. Three percent or 302 of spring stabilized bog covering several acres near Undergraduates attending Western quarter’s students came from British Alger off Interstate 5. Some 15 acres of number 7,124 for the quarter, with Columbia with 11 students from else­ Western-owned land is near an 80-acre graduate and other students totaling where in Canada adding to the total. □ parcel by Lake Whatcom. That property 1,878. Of the total student population, is known as the Lake Louise Natural women outnumber men, 4,645 to CORRECTION Area. 4,357. Taylor said most of the Lake Louise New transfer students at Western Why is it that small, but area (80 acres) is owned by the state spring quarter numbered 190. Wash­ critical, errors have a sneaky way and managed by the Department of ington community colleges contributed of creeping into Resume? In last Natural Resources (DNR). Western has 51 percent of that total, Washington month’s issue, we noted that the asked DNR to keep the area in a natural four-year colleges 25 percent, and 24 50th anniversary reunion of the state to preserve a large beaver pond and percent came from schools outside the Class of 1928 would be held on one of the few remaining mature state. Thursday, June 9. It should have lowland Douglas fir-red cedar forests in Of the total student count, 8,068 or read Thursday, June 8. □ northwest Washington. 89 percent come from Washington, 541 2 Dr. Peter returns as Intalco lecturer The man described by University President Paul Olscamp as “the best read graduate of Western” returned to campus last month to share the wit and philosophy which have made him a best-selling writer in 35 languages and to receive Western’s Distinguished Alumnus Award. Dr. Laurence J. Peter, also a noted educator and columnist, is the author of such books as The Peter Principle and The Peter Prescription, which have sold more than 40 million copies. He also is the author of a 10-volume compilation on teacher competence, the research for which required 20 years. Peter donated the original manu­ scripts of this latter work to Western, where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the late 1950s. He took his doctorate at Washington State DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS — Dean Robert Collier (left) of Western’s College of Business and University. Economics, presents a Distinguished Alumnus Award to Dr. Laurence Peter, noted author, educator and columnist, at a luncheon of local business persons at Bellingham Yacht Club. Earlier in the Peter’s lecture, presented by the day, Peter, the author of such best-selling books as ’The Peter Principle ’’and “The Peter Pre­ College of Business and Economics as scription,’’ had presented Western a 10-volume compilation of the original manuscripts of his books one in its four annual Intalco Dis­ on teacher education. tinguished Lectures, was full of rapid doing the same things better,” he said. one-liners and witticisms. “At the University of British Lifestyle, creativity, confidence, Peter, a Canadian, noted that Columbia, there was a memo going beauty and love are other factors that Americans and Canadians share a around which said, ‘Professors who have must be balanced with material success, common language—broken English. no secretaries of their own may take he pointed out. “Americans are more exciting and advantage of the girls In the secretarial “A successful life is a lifetime job,” emotional; Canadians are more stable.” pool,’ ” he said. “The counter­ Peter said. “You can’t burn the candle After a pause he added, “What they are, intelligence service had a line in their at both ends if your pilot light’s out; actually, is dull.” application which asked, ‘Have you or you can’t paint the town if your brush As proof of this contention, he cited any member of your family ever is dried out.” the story of a Canadian manufacturing committed suicide?’ ” Peter was professor of education at group which spent its three days trying There would be less incompetency in the University of Southern California to come up with an exciting slogan the world, Peter believes, if people until 1970 and director of the Evelyn which would sell Canadian products. would learn that more is not necessarily Frieden Center, an on-campus facility The result; “Made in Canada.” better. for training teachers of the handi­ Peter said the period from 1850 to “If you have one watch, you know what time it is. If you have two, you’re capped. Since leaving USC, Peter has 1875 was a Golden Age. never quite sure,” he pointed out. been professor-in-residence at California “The fixed bathtub was invented in State College in Stanislaus. 1850; the telephone in 1875,” he said. The notion that everyone must move up the ladder of success is what causes He’s been allowed to continue doing “What that meant was that for 25 years people to move up from the things they the things he does best by avoiding it was possible to sit in the bathtub do well to positions for which they’re unwanted promotions and advises without the phone ringing.” others to use any means necessary to do Speaking of his discovery of the unsuited, Peter said. “Upward is not the only direction to the same. Peter Principle which dictates that “I avoided one promotion by parking individuals will rise to their level of go. Progress is made not by doing more and different things necessarily, but by in the dean’s parking space,” he said. □ incompetency, Peter cited “teachers who can’t teach, governors who can’t govern and civil servants who are Madison runnerup in SID balloting uncivil.” He described, as examples of in­ Paul Madison, sports information Madison has handled the sports competence, a teacher “whose varicose director at Western, was runnerup in the information duties at Western the past veins kept her from being completely first NAIA Sports Information Director 11 years.
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