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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. He entered the Institution in colorless,” a principal “who had a of the Year balloting. 1966 and received his bachelor’s degree straight-forward way of missing the The NAIA currently consists of in journalism in 1971. point,” and a superintendent of schools approximately 500 member institutions. The 30-year-old Madison has earned now in charge of a multimillion dollar Selection for awards were made on the four NAIA All-America awards for operation “whose wife used to take his basis of outstanding achieverPent in the programs and brochures. He also check and give him an allowance.” promotion of sports activities on handles publicity for the Evergreen Badly written communications are campus, throughout the community Conference (five years) and the North­ another form of incompetence, Peter served by the institution, and in the west Women’s Basketball League (two told his audience. NAIA. years) on a part-time basis. □ 3 HALL OF FAME A WARDS — Receiving sports Haii of Fame awards at the banquet were from left Dan Gagnon, Ted Bruiand, who represented his deceased brother Dick, Roger Repoz and Bill Tomaras, Bill McDonald and Tomaras joke during awards. WWU personalities prominent in sports fete

On any day it would be hard to All-American Bruce Manclark and runner-up in the Contributor of the outshine the likes of Seattle Bellingham amateur golfer Fred Year category. Utendale was one of Supersonics Coach Lenny Wilkens, Urquhart were runners-up for the the co-founders of Bellingham’s Minor Seattle Seahawks running back personality honors. Hockey Association, coaches teams and Sherman Smith, and Warren Moon, the is chief training officer for hockey in Prep Male Athlete honors went to most valuable player In this year’s 11 western states, including Hawaii. He Western freshman Doug Groves for his Rose Bowl. also coached track, pee-wee and Babe three-sport starring role at Nooksack But the stars that shone brightest Ruth Baseball teams during the year. Valley High last year. Former Mount during April’s Whatcom County Sports Lynden’s Hub Dejong took the Personality of the Year Banquet at Baker High track standout Kathie Kinniburgh won the Prep Female Area Contributor award with Utendale, Bellingham’s Holiday Inn were the Rocky Hughes and Bernie Laverty, the Athlete award. local folks. other finalists. With Wilkens, Smith, Moon and Lynden’s Jake Maberry took the Sports Family of the Year honors Washington State University Athletic Coach of the Year honors, competing went to the Jim Emersons of Director Sam Jankovich adding pizzazz against Western’s women’s basketball to the night’s festivities, Blaine’s Tim Bellingham. Two of their six children coach Lynda Goodrich and Vel West are attending Western this year. Evans, all-stater at Blaine High and star of Bellingham High School In the basketball player at the University of During the banquet Roger Repoz, finals. Puget Sound the last four years, was Bill Tomaras, Dan Gagnon and the late named Sports Personality of the Year. John Utendale, associate professor Dick Bruiand were ihducted into Western’s cross country of education at Western, was a Western’s Sports Hall of Fame. 4 Western Front is named top college paper in state contest

Western Front was recently named first-place winner as best college news­ paper in the state at the annual awards banquet of Sigma Delta Chi—Society of Professional Journalists in Seattle. The Front was selected for the award over 13 other four-year schools in the state. Laurie Dunham, winter quarter editor, accepted the award on behalf of the staff. The issues entered were for February 3, 7 and 10. The February 10 issue carried the story on David Rorvik’s book. In His Image, The Cloning of a Man. This story broke nationally first In the Front. Additionally, the Front was awarded FRONT PERSONNEL SHOW A WARD — From left, Lyle E. Harris, adviser, John Nelson, Laurie a First Place Certificate from the Dunham (editor), Charles Nacke and Jerry Galloway, Columbia Scholastic Press Association, Columbia University. Universities and colleges around the nation send in all issues from the calendar year for an Summer Session expecting extensive evaluation. Scores of 850 to 1,000 points earn a first place. The Front scored 933 points. one of its biggest years Four students and adviser Lyle E. Harris went to Spokane April 21-23 to Graduation ceremonies for Western’s undergraduate program sort of goes to receive additional awards in the regional current academic year are just around sleep and the graduate program wakes competition of SDX/SPj for four-year the corner, but that doesn’t mean that up. I think that’s because most of our schools. The region takes in Washington, school will be out. The Office of the regular graduate programs are available Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. □ Summer Session already is gearing up in the summer. That’s not necessarily for what could be its biggest year ever. true at other places.” Learning opportunities this summer The Office of the Summer Session is will range from courses for high school now working to keep Western’s under­ seniors to graduate study. Standard six- graduates awake by publicizing the and nine-week sessions will be offered, University’s summer opportunities. as well as an enlarged workshop “Summer Session Day,” an infor­ program. mational program featuring displays and “I think that reflects the type of demonstrations, is scheduled for clientele we’re getting,” Richard Riehl, Wednesday, May 10, in Western’s Viking director of admissions, commented. He Union lounge. said a substantial number of persons Publicity Director Bruce Hyland said who attend the summer session are most students don’t take advantage of non-traditional students—housewives, the summer session because they don’t people in business, anyone who can’t know what it’s all about. attend college full-time but want to “The learning opportunities during further their education. The workshops the summer are almost as good as during (more than 70 are scheduled this year) the regular year,” he said, “and the provide a perfect opportunity to do so. atmosphere is much more relaxed. This Topics include nutrition, labor re­ Is an appealing place to be in the lations, human evolution, soccer, infant summer.” development, political parties, volcanos Part of that appeal comes from and dozens more. They run from one smaller, informal classes, as opposed to week to a month and can be taken for the large lecture hall sessions most college credit. students encounter during the regular The largest single group of students school year. on Western’s summer campus Is made Hyland also pointed out that tuition MUSIC CHAIRMAN - Richard Goldner, up of persons working on master’s at Western and Washington’s other Internationally known string musician, is the degrees. Sam Kelly, Western’s dean of colleges and universities will increase new chairman of the Music Department in graduate studies, said almost half of the again this fall, leaving the summer the College of Fine and Performing Arts. summer enrollment is involved in session as the students’ last opportunity Goldner, a native of Romania, succeeds Phillip Ager, who recently was appointed graduate work. to further their education at the present dean of Fairhaven College. “In the summer,” Kelly said, “the rate. □ 5 Thirsk new associate director in Career Planning/Placement Bob Thirsk was recently appointed programs and students. associate director of Career Planning Thirsk will assume leadership in and Placement at Western. The 1965 developing cooperative education pro­ graduate has been Western’s associate grams, similar to the internship pro­ registrar for seven years and previously grams currently being used in education was assistant director of admissions and and political science, where a practicum for the 1975-76 academic year was In a specific field is included in the acting director of Continuing students’ course of study. Education. Also high on Thirsk’s list of priorities In his new post, Thirsk will be is development of research tools that primarily involved with the business, will help evaluate early employment government and experiences of alumni. This information industry di­ will be incorporated into the Uni­ vision of the versity’s overall career planning ALASKA SPEAKER — Secretary of the In­ center. He will programs. terior Cedi Andrus, keynote speaker at Western’s recent “Year of Alaska Confer­ be developing “I hope I will be able to give the ence, “explains the Carter administration's career informa­ academic departments a clearer image of proposal for preserving almost WO million tion programs what career avenues their graduates have acres of public land in Alaska. The largely for students and student audience appeared in agreement followed,” Thirsk said. “This infor­ with the proposal which would set aside 92 alumni. He also mation should assist departments in the million acres for inclusion in either national will spend con­ preparation of their students.” parks, wildlife refuges, wild and scenic siderable time Thirsk, and his wife Dova, are the rivers or national forest. The two-day con­ making prospec- Thirsk ference, sponsored by Western’s Associated parents of four children. He is an avid Students Outdoor Program, featured work­ tive employers aware of Western’s boater and skier. □ shops, speakers, movies and panel discussions. ‘East Asia House ‘ set up at Western Experiencing a bit of East Asia, rather than just studying the subject, is the goal of a new program set for next year by the East Asian Studies Program at Western. According to the program’s Dr.Toru Takemoto, up to 48 students will be invited to live and participate in an “East Asia House” project, which will be based in a house in Fairhaven, a district of Bellingham. Takemoto said students will learn East Asian languages from native speakers, exchange Ideas and obtain information about East Asia from resource persons, observe East Asian practices through field trips to business firms in Vancouver, B.C., and Seattle, and develop academic skills through house-sponsored seminars. The group also will schedule special movies on East Asia and enjoy the “fraternity of students with similar interests,” Takemoto added. Faculty for the program will come from the East Aslan Studies Program and Western’s College of Arts and Sciences. A graduate student or in­ structor and a student assistant will supervise East Asia House. STUDENTS COME THROUGH — Western design students got a real challenge recently., With “Our East Asia House can accommo­ only two weeks notice Marvin Southcott's students were given the task of designing, creating and constructing a geodesic igloo for Bellingham’s annual culinary cruise, which benefits the American date only about 46 to 48 students, so Cancer Society, Right on time, the students shown inhabiting their creation, erected their igloo space is limited,” Takemoto em­ m the lobby of Bellingham’s Leopold Inn. The igloo was later auctioned off with other donations. phasized. □ 6 Stress

Rehearsing a fight with your wife or boss can reduce it

NOT ALL BAD - Stress, long recognized as a factor in such illnesses as hypertension and cardio­ vascular disease, is often thought to be produced only in highly pressurized situations. But, says Western professor of psychology Chris Taylor, even pleasant events can be stress producing and piay an eventual roie in illness.

Can rehearsing a fight with your boss excellent low infant mortality it would be useless from a nutritional or spouse help you live longer? statistics.” standpoint. We beat the nutritional According to Dr. Christopher Taylor, In his stress management workshops, value out of food, then add sugar and associate professor of psychology at Taylor urges his students to recognize color. We really eat garbage in this Western, such rehearsals can be effective the factors which cause stress. While country, but cutting back on meat, as a means of reducing stress, that 20th many of these—job pressures, divorce, sugar, caffeine and alcohol will help you century villain which plays a major role deaths of family or friends—are readily survive.” In many illnesses. apparent, many more are not, Taylor Taylor Is enthusiastic about the Taylor, who is frequently asked by said. benefits of relaxation for better health. “We need to understand what our business and professional groups to do “You can’t be relaxed and stressed at emotional Achilles’ heels are, what both speeches and workshops on stress the same time,” he said. “Rather than things we over-react to, what people in management, believes it Is too easy for be constantly Involved with the here our lives cause us stress and how other people to shun responsibility for their and now, drift away from the present to people affect us,” he said. own health. someplace else, through prayer, Taylor and many other researchers “We get paid for being ill,” he said. meditation, day-dreaming, cat-naps or see life changes as being particularly “Health insurance is really disease self-hypnosis. You’ll feel rested, alert, insurance; life insurance is really death stressful situations. energized and better able to carry on.” Insurance. We also get paid in the “When we have a whole lot of attention of our families and time off changes in our lives in a short time,” Learning to use less volatile reactions from work. Because we don’t get paid Taylor said, “research shows we have in uncomfortable situations is another for having good life habits. It’s too easy roughly a 90 percent chance of stress management aid, Taylor said. not to take responsibility for our becoming ill. Also, anticipation of “Worrying about being chewed out health.” events, both pleasant and unpleasant, by the boss is often worse than the Part of that responsibility, Taylor can take a bigger toil than the events actual encounter,” he pointed out as an believes. Is learning to recognize how themselves. We create our own juices example. “It’s helpful to practice great a part stress plays In illness. and literally stew in them.” beforehand, perhaps getting someone to “It’s easy to get the flu and say ‘I To combat stress, Taylor advises help you. Imagine you’re seeing the boss was a passive actor; a bug got me.’ But students to develop a better equilibrium in that situation. Take deep breaths. research shows that animals injected of body, mind and emotions. He Relax. Tell yourself, ‘I won’t let this get with viral strains—flu bugs—respond suggests a program which includes to me so much.’ ” differently depending on how they’re exercise, better diet, relaxation and Taylor also advises students to spread treated at the time of the injection. learning new reactions to old problems. their life changes out carefully to avoid Those handled and injected gently don’t Exercise is important among other too much change in too little time. get ill; those handled and Injected reasons, he noted, for reducing a “Some changes you can’t do any­ harshly get sick,” Taylor said. person’s resting heart rate and thus thing about,” he said. “But when a lot While the role of stress may not be maximizing survival chances In the event of unavoidable change is taking place, readily recognizable In flu, its effects in of heart problems. Coupled with proper you can decide not to add to it by relation to illnesses such as hypertension diet, Taylor added, exercise can also buying that house or taking that and cardiovascular disease are evident. help a person look and feel better, an vacation. Spreading change out gives the “Our lifestyle is killing us off,” aid to self-confidence, which in turn body more chance to adapt slowly. Taylor said. “We lead the world in heart brings about a better attitude. “Part of being healthy involves how attacks for both men and women, and Diet Information in this country is we’re dealing with our lives,” he said. despite our Incredible medical tech­ very poor, Taylor said. “If you walked “People need to realize that they’re nology, we’re 20th in the world in terms through a supermarket picking out food making choices that effect their of longevity. That figure Is bolstered by items at random every three feet, half of longevity.” □ 7 ’69 Susan Benco and JAY CASTLE were married in May and are living In Denver. ANNUAL MEETING

’70 DEAN STENSBY is manager of Pioneer First Federal in Redmond ...GARY The Alumni Association’s ’47 MILTON “MICKEY” SMITH retired SEIFORD is a salesperson with Diversified annual meeting of the general last July after seven years as superintendent Imports Corporation in Seattle. They are membership, which includes all and 30 years with the Longview School importers of premium table wines. District. former matriculants, will be held on Saturday, May 20, at 10 a.m. ’50 BOB WILCOX, Sedro Woolley in­ ’71 FRED C. LARSEN has been elected in Room 361 of the Viking Union surance agent, was elected to the board of to the position of Whatcom County Free­ Building. directors of the Washington Lung Association. holder and is working on a new home rule charter for the county . . . WILSON “KIM” At this meeting, an election of ’59 JERRY BAKER, manager-purchasing PERRY has joined the insurance firm of new directors of the corporation and material control for Foss Launch and Tug Nystrom-Peery & Associates, Inc., of Camas and the election of corporation Company in Seattle, has been named to the in the sales and production department . . . officers will be held. □ 16th edition of Who’s Who in the West. BRUCE POTOCKI is associated with the law practice of Jerry Heller, a Woodland attorney. ’61 DALE WARR is teaching music at Sardis Secondary School in Sardis, B.C. He ’73 BONNIE LONGWORTH DOLAN re­ has organized a recorder quintet called “The ceived her master’s degree in library science in ’77 ALTHEA DEAN is employed by Van Four Winds,” who represented Canada at a August 1975 and is currently the legislative Winkle’s Interiors in Everett . . . ANN concert at the International Society of Music librarian for the State Legislature of Colorado WENDY GRIFFIN MERRICK is employed as Education Conference in Switzerland. Last . . . DENNIS ORGAN is an industrial engineer a linguist for the USAF and is stationed at the year they represented British Columbia at the with Associated Grocers in Seattle . . . GREG Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Canadian Music Educators Association Con­ BOEHME teaches music at Shorecrest High California ... DIANE DITCH and SCOTT ference In St. John’s, Newfoundland. School. SLAGLE were married recently and are living in Bellingham. ’62 JIM DE YOUNG is assistant manager ’74 MARY McFarland is a CETA of the Metropolitan Branch of People’s Bank assistant in the Skagit Valley College job Unclassified BOB BLAIR, of Othello, is in Yakima . . . CHARLOTTE YORK teaches information center ... DEBBIE DICKHAUT director of a federally funded Adams County physical education at Olympic College. and BOB BUSK (’77) were married in Seattle juvenile program for youths who would not in March. They are both teaching elementary be charged with a crime if they had ’64 GARRY NAKAYAMA teaches band school in the White River School District. committed the same act as an adult . . . at Renton High School. DUANE GUGGENMOS is manager of the ’75 GAIL PULLAR and Randy Jones main office of Kitsap County Bank in Port ’67 Mr. and Mrs. TOM CAMPBELL were married in February and are living in Orchard ... GARY E. HALL has joined (ELAINE MEIER, ’72) are living in Edmonds. Blaine ... JOE HUNTER, JR. is senior Tacoma’s Human Relations Department in­ She teaches first grade at Lake Stevens merchandising manager at the J.C. Penny vestigation team . . . DAN NOEL teaches Elementary and he teaches at Edmonds High store in Everett . . . DOLORITA REANDEAU creative art, drama, English and biology at School ... DIANA RECK CALDWELL and has returned from Jamaica where she spent a Concrete High School . . . CHRISTINE her husband recently returned from the year and a half as a Peace Corps volunteer. PAYNE and GARY WILLIAMS were married Netherlands where she taught at the American She worked in a school for the deaf there. in Seattle and are living in Kirkland ... Lt. School, The Hague, Netherlands, for two LINDA HUBER BIRD is in receipt of order as the Supply Officer at the Public Works Center years. ’76 CHRISTINE ANNE ERICKSON and JOHN BALLEW were married in February in in Yokosuka, Japan . . . LARRY SPELHAUG ’68 The Rev. JAMES WHIPPS has joined Bothell . . . SHARON MORRIS is the director has been appointed 850 division program the staff of the Italian Bible Institute in of career planning, placement and alumni manager at Xerox Office Systems Division in Rome, Italy. relations at Green River Community College. Dallas.

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