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VoL 2, No. 5 A Report to Alumni From Western Washington State College FEBRUARY, 1971
Flora hits proposed budgetThe proposed budget for Western
was criticized by President Charles J. Flora during a House Appropriations Committee hearing last month in Olympia.
Dr. Flora, backed by Acting Business
Elizondo is ESC choice
Dr. Sergio D. Elizondo has been named dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at WWSC, replacing Dr. Ronald Williams who has resigned and will leave the campus In July.
Dr. Elizondo will come to Western from California State College at San Bernardino, where he has served as an associate professor In the department of humanities since 1968.
He has also been an instructor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina and at the University of Texas and has had teaching experience as visiting instructor at North Carolina College for Negroes. He has been involved In Peace Corps projects in Venezuelan, Guatemalan and Dominican Republic affairs at the University of North Carolina and Kansas State University.
The 40-year-old educator was born in El Fuerte, Mexico, and was educated In Mexican elementary and secondary schools. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in social studies at Findlay College in Ohio and the master of arts and the Ph.D. in romance languages from the University of North Carolina.
Dr. Elizondo has been extensively involved In Mexican American affairs since 1963.
Manager Ernie Sams and College Planning Director Barney Goltz, challenged enrollment projections for the college forecast by Gov. Dan Evans. He also hit proposed cuts In library spending and said failure to provide
PART OF EXHIBIT — Above is a 10-foot stainless steel sculpture by internationally known artist David Smith which was part of an exhibition of sculptures at Western March 2 to 19. The work, entitled Fifteen Planes,'’ was loaned for the exhibit by Mrs. Virginia Wright of Seattle. The sculpture is valued at ’’more than $65,000,” according to Campus Planner Barney Goltz. There is a possibility the work could be a permanent fixture at the College if a suitable site is found, Goltz said. It was installed on a grassy knoll just south of the Art Budding for the exhibit.
faculty salary increases would mean a loss of parity with other schools.
According to a UPl story out of Olympia, the governor’s budget director, Walter C. Howe, said enrollment at Western is not expected to Increase by more than 320 students in the next two years.
Flora listed an enrollment increase of about 1,000 students for each of the past few years and said the college trustees anticipate that enrollment would reach more than 10,000 students by the end of the next biennium, more than 500 above the governor’s estimates and well below the level the governor’s office had projected in January of last year.
Concerning library funds. Flora said the governor’s recommendation of a 45 per cent cut “will be disastrous to the library program, particularly in the area of acquisition.’’
The proposed increases in student fees were described as another form of taxation. “When you say you are opposed to tax Increase but you are for an Increase in student fees, you are violating your own statement,’’ Flora said.
He said student fees would increase 87.5 per cent compared with a gain of only 10.5 per cent in the average family Income.
Howe said the governor’s fee Increases were placed In the budget with some reluctance. Even so, he said, the cost Is still below that of many other states.
Because no increases are proposed in the budget for faculty salaries. Flora said salary levels now at 94 per cent of parity with comparable schools in other states would slip to 82.3 per cent by the end of the biennium.
Adkinson is new director of geographical society
Western alumnus Dr. Burton W. Adkinson has been named director of the American Geographical Society and has assumed his new duties at the organization’s New York City headquarters.
Prior to his appointment, Dr. Adkinson served as head of the Office of Science Information Service of the National Science Foundation (NSF). He has also been chief of the map division of the reference department, and later head of the reference department of the Library of Congress.
In his position at NSF he has been active in international activities as consultant to UNESCO, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and several European governments. His present position Is considered by many geographers to be one of the highest honors attainable within the profession.
Born in Everson (Whatcom County), Dr. Adkinson attended Maple Falls schools in north Whatcom County and was graduated from high school there as valedictorian In 1926. He received the elementary teaching certificate from
With an 88-57 conquest of Eastern Oregon In their final game of the season. Western’s basketball team set an all-time school win mark of 20 wins against only 6 losses.
The game was the final contest for five seniors: Captain Neal Larson, John Reed, Terry Brower, Tom Keeney and Ben Smith.
The Vikings finished In a tie with Central Washington for first place in the Evergreen Conference. Each team finished with an 11-3 conference record, but since the Wildcats defeated the VIks twice during the season and Evergreen has no playoff system. Central got the bid to qualify for the nationals.
We stern’s final game against Central at Ellensburg drew nearly 5,000 fans and saw the ’Cats come through with a slim 67-65 victory.
Gary White, 6-4 forward, topped the season statistics for Coach Chuck Randall’s charges. The junior from East St. Louis, III., scored 422 points for a 16.2 average and grabbed 262 rebounds for a 10.1 average. The transfer sensation also led in field goal percentage
Dr. Adkinson
Western in 1934. He earned a master’s degree in geography from the University of Washington and the Ph.D. at Clark University In Massachusetts.
Dr. Adkinson was honored In 1965 by being selected as distinguished alumnus of Western Washington State College.
(49.8) and free throw accuracy (83.6).Rudy Thomas, 6-7 center who
missed the last few games due to an emergency appendectomy, ended the season with a 13.2 scoring average, followed by Mike Franza with 11.2, Lee Roy Shults 10.5 and Larson 8.5.
In Memoriam'14 ETHYLE M. THOMAS, July 13,
1970, in Portland, Oregon.'16 ESTHER BERGSTROM
BURBIDGE, April 7, 1970, in Spokane.'17 LILLIAN BERKSHIRE, In Palmer,
Wash.'18 ETHEL H. BUTLER, November 6,
1970, in Vancouver, Wash. . . . MARGARETHA PALLAS, November 4, 1970, in Seattle.
'19 MARY HUNTER, February 15, 1968, In Shelton.
'20 MARTHA JACKSON SUOMELA, October 2, 1970, in llwaco.
'24 VERA HANCOCK DEAN, June 6, 1970, in Coupeville.
'25 MIRIAM McPHAIL MORRISON, May, 1968, In Anacortes.
'27 CHARLES O. COY, June 1, 1969, in Yakima.
'37 ERMA BARR MOORE, In Parsons, Kansas.
Fund driveWestern’s Annual Fund Drive,
designed to raise money for programs lacking in state support — primarily scholarships — is now in progress.
In addition to the general scholarship fund, gifts are solicited for the Wilson Library, various memorial funds and other purposes a donor desires that are in keeping with the educational mission of the college.
Methods used in the drive include mail solicitations, personal contacts and telephone campaigns, particularly among alumni in Western Washington.
The money raised through this drive goes to needy students who have demonstrated special academic ability, according to Steve Inge, Western alumni officer.
Two professors win scholarships
Two faculty members at Western have been awarded Science Faculty Fellowships for 1971 by the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Carter Broad, professor of biology, and Dr. Robert Meade, professor of psychology, were among six persons receiving such awards in the state.
The awards are designed to permit college and university science teachers to study and increase their knowledge In their subject areas to improve their effectiveness as teachers. Applicants were selected on the basis of their demonstrated interest and outstanding competence as teachers, among other criteria.
Dr. Broad, who will be on leave without pay, will spend the first half of next year doing field work In Alaska covering intertidal marine community structure in the Pacific Northwest. The second half of the year he will study at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island.
Dr. Meade, who is director of Western’s Center for Cross-Cultural Research, will use his grant to further his study of psychological phenomena as they have been conditioned by culture. He will be affiliated with the division of behavioral science at Meerut University In India.
Viking hoop squad ties for first
A WARD FOR WESTERN — Ray Heller (right), director of Pubiic Information and Development at Western, is pictured here receiving an award for direct maii brochures annuai giving won by Western at the recent joint American Aiumni Council/American Coiiege Pubiic Reiations Association regionai meeting in Portland. Presenting the award is Peter Friedman (ieft), director of Annual Funds at Reed Coiiege. Also receiving an award is Ian “Scotty** Malcolm, director of Alumni Funds at University of British Columbia.
Earth science institute is setThe National Science Foundation,
Washington, D.C., has granted $58,000 to Western for support of the 1971 Summer Institute in Earth Science under the direction of Dr. Robert A. Christman.
The grant makes possible a nine-week institute for the purpose of improving
Rutan is chairman in political science
Dr. Gerard F. Rutan will assume duties as chairman of the political science department next September. He has been a faculty member at Western since 1969.
Dr. Rutan came to Western from Seattle University. He has also taught at the University of Montana, the University of North Carolina and the University of Georgia.
The 35-year-old educator was born In Great Falls, Mont., and earned bachelor’s degrees in political science and speech and a master of arts degree in political science at the University of Montana. He received the Ph.D. In political science from the University of North Carolina.
In 1957 he was selected as one of two members of the National Debate Team to debate at Oxford University in England.
While at Western, Dr. Rutan was recently selected as a member of a seven-member steering committee to organize a national committee on Canadian studies at Johns Hopkins University.
He lives In Bellingham with his wife, Patricia, and their three children.
the teaching of earth science at the secondary level. Dr. Christman, an associate professor of geology at Western, has directed four previous such institutes.
Thirty-five teachers from throughout the United States will be selected from an estimated 250 applicants. Last year 14 states were represented.
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Roll Call'40 ESTHER HOLBERG BELGUM
recently received her M.S. degree in Counseling and Guidance from North Dakota State University and is now teaching middle school at West Fargo. N.D.
'53 KENNETH E. GERMAN, a USAF weather officer, is chief of the space technique development branch at the Aerospace Environmental Support Center inside Cheyenne Mountain near Colorado Springs . . . ROBERT G. WOODMAN has been promoted to vice-president and treasurer of Puget Sound Mutual Savings Bank.
'61 JERRY C. TAKASAKI has been appointed new principal of Maple Elementary School In Seattle.
'63 LANNY SPARKS recently received his Ph.D. In education at Oregon State University. He is now employed at Oregon College of Education, Monmouth, Ore.
'64 MARIE ANN STERK and Klaus Peter Prels were married December 12 . . . BONNIE L. STEVENS is a half-day teacher and half-day girls' counselor at Arlington Junior High.
'65 ELLA ELVEBAK is doing volunteer work at the largest Navajo Mission at Rehoboth, N.M. ... WILLIAM KINDLER completed his Ph.D. degree last July at the Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, WIs.,
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and is presently employed as a research chemist for Crown-Zellerbach in Camas . . . FRANK N. JOHNSON has been promoted to assistant cashier at the Bremerton branch of the National Bank of Commerce.
'66 JOHN R.SCHROEDER Is director of a national conference of map curators and librarians sponsored by the geography and map division of the Library of Congress.
'67 ARVELL L. BAJEMA and Diane K. Roloff were married December 27 In RItzville. They are living In the Tacoma area where he Is serving with the Army at the Madigan General Hospital in the pediatrics clinic ... BARBARA LUTHER and her husband are living In South Korea during the 1971-72 school year where she will be teaching English . . . GEORGE C. HARVEY recently returned from Southeast Asia where he was serving with the USAF. He is now instructing at Reese AFB, Texas ... SANDRA HAYDEN RAFCHIEK Is completing her master's degree in vocational rehabilitation counseling at the U of W . . . VELMA WENDT teaches third grade in Bellingham . . . LINDA CLARK KIM and her husband are living In South Korea where she earlier served with the Peace Corps.
'68 LINDA GOLD teaches second grade In Bellingham . . . BETTY M. SHORE Is employed as a substitute teacher in Mukilteo . . . MICHAEL B. McFALL has been assigned to a unit of the Strategic Air Command at Travis AFB, Calif. . . . JANA S. REID is now Mrs. Gary E. Cole. They are living in Sedro
Woolley where she is a speech therapist . . . JUDY RAUB EILER Is doing graduate work In speech at Pacific University, Forest Grove, Ore.
'69 KAREN S. LOERS and Lowell Chong were married In January in Oak Harbor. She Is teaching in Ceres, Calif. . . . DAVID E. SWANSON was recently commissioned a second lieutenant in the transportation corps . . . DAVID M. DAVIS is employed as a child welfare worker with the State Department of Public Assistance in Port Townsend. He was recently awarded the annual "Man Outstanding In His Field" by the Chimacum Grange . . . RON EWING is a naval communications technician and Is stationed in Bremerhaven, Germany.
'70 SHARON L. POLESKIE Is teaching first grade in the White River school district . . . MORLEY G. MORGAN is a physical education teacher in Port Alberni, B.C. . . . LARRY NIELSON is employed by the Household Finance Co. in Olympia . . . LINDA L. CASTON became the bride of Ronald S. Krivosha In a December 27 wedding. They are living In Daly City, Calif.. . . LINDA FORELL Is teaching kindergarten in Bellingham . . . KRISTI FAYER is teaching third and fourth grades in New Stuyahok, Alaska, an eskimo village of about 200 persons . . . RANDLE HAYDEN has been named cafeteria manager at Lamar Community College in Colorado . . . JUDITH E. JOHNSON is teaching junior high school at Lake Stevens . . . CAROLYN S. MONTGOMERY and John R. Lewis were married December 26 in Mt. Vernon. They are living in Lawton, Okla. . . . VERONICA
MARSHALL is teaching fourth grade in Bellingham . . . ANNE BILLINGSLEY and DENNIS MILLS were married December 26 in Chehalis. He Is teaching In the Snohomish school district . . . LINDA McCLELLAN teaches third grade in Bellingham . . . ROGER A. NICHOLS and Martha A. Zaleski were married December 29 in Ferndale . . . KATHRYN L. MILLER and DAVID R. RUDELL were married December 18 in Bellevue. They are living in Concord, Calif. . . . DAVID ASPNES took the former Jodee Stepp as his bride last August. They are living in Marysville where he is in the teacher corps while getting his master's degree . . . LINDA CASS BEACH is teaching second grade in the Lake Washington school district . . . STEVE NELSON is employed as a research assistant in the research and evaluation division of the Northwest Regional Laboratory in Portland . . . SHARON BERG recently became the bride of Bryan Wetmore in Tacoma . . . RICHARD HARDER is working as an investigator for the department of hospitals in New York City.
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CONNIE WAHL teaches English and history at Bellingham High School . . . MARGARET J. ANDERSON and David TIsh were married December 19 in Everett where they are living . . . DOROTHY S. ARNEY Is teaching elementary school in the Federal Way school district . . . JOAN SMITH is employed as a social worker for the Bellingham schools . . . ALEXIS C. EASTON and HARRY T. MILLER were married December 19 in Bellingham where they are living . . . KRISTINE A. CALL and HOWARD W. MILEWSKI were married December 19 in Bellingham . . . LINDA ST. ANDRE is teaching fourth and fifth grades in Bellingham . . . Major WILLIAM H. ROSE was decorated with the USAF commendation medal at Offutt AFB, Neb. He is a heavy bomber instruction pilot and electronic warfare officer . . . MARY C. MAY became the bride of Drew Pettus in December. They are living In Berkeley, Calif. ... Lt. MARGIT M. LOSER has been presented with a navy achievement medal . . . JOHN GIBBONS Is admissions counselor at Clark College . . . MARGO GRAF is teaching first grade in Bellingham . . . Navy Seaman Apprentice DOUGLAS A. LUNDGREN has graduated from recruit training at San Diego . . . Captain GEORGE S. SEVIER is attending the Air University's Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB, Ala.
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