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THEEVERGREENSTATECOLLEGE

ReViewA MAGAZINE FORALUMNI ANDFRIENDS

Vol. 17, No. iFall 1995

ReView is publishedtwice annuallyby the Office ofCollege AdvancementThe EvergreenState CollegeLIB 3122Olympia, WA 98505

Member,Council forAdvancement andSupport of Education

Director ofAdvancement:Sandy McKenzie

Director ofCollege Relations:Mike Wark

Director ofAlumni Affairsand Annual Fund:Valerie Manion '89

Editor:Craig McLaughlin

Contributing Writers:Craig McLaughlin,Brian Rainville '90,Mike Wark,Office of CollegeAdvancement staff

ContributingPhotographers:Steve Davis,Debra Gerth,TESC Photo Services

Graphic Designers:Mary Geraci,Judy Nufiez-Pinedo

Editorial Assistance:Pat Barte '91,Mike Coyne,David Over

On the Cover:Sean Williams andher students practicethe Gamelan.

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Contents

Features

Lights, Camera, Audio!ReView l ifts the curtain on the movie sound stage

' Craie McLaueh l

8 Barbecue PunkA profile of alternative music mogul Bruce Pavitt '81By Brian R a i n v i l l e '90

12 The Spirit of the GongEvergreen's resident orchestra is an Indonesian gamelanBy Cra ig M c L a u g h l i n

Departments

GreenerNewsCompiled by Off ice of College Re la t ions s taf f

19 AlumNewsed by O f f i c

21 AlumNotes

Commentary

A Year to RememberEvergreen will never be the same after the fall quarter of 1995, a period when the college celebrated two great milestones: the opening of theLonghouse Education and Cultural Center and the inauguration of the Daniel J. Evans Chair in the Liberal Arts. Both will enhance the education ofgenerations of students to come, while forever commemorating individuals who made tremendous contributions to the college.

The Dream is RealityLonghouse dedication ceremony marks beginnings

Students and faculty from more than n academic pro-grams are meeting in Evergreen's new Longhouse Edu-cation and Cultural Center. The college's newest struc-ture is much more than a building; it's a dream cometrue.

The Longhouse is a building with a history. It spansand transcends Evergreen's relatively short existenceto capture the memory of Northwest Coast NativeAmerican communities—their structures and traditions.

More than 2,000 people from throughout the re-gion gathered September 22 for a gigantic gala celebra-tion under the late-summer sun. Festivities in theLonghouse meadow included dancing, speeches, poetry,song and food, all offered in celebration of the culturalrichness the building will bring to Evergreen and themany communities of Washington state. Native cer-emony and drumming reached a peak as special guestscut the cedar-bark ribbon and the crowd packed intothe center.

The dream of building a campus longhouse de-signed in recognition of the indigenous nations of thePacific Northwest is nearly as old as the college. Origi-nally proposed by faculty member Mary Ellen Hillaireof the Lummi Nation, a highly respected educator whoshared her ethics and values with the Evergreen com-munity, the longhouse concept took different formsover the years.

Students helped keep the dream alive as a finalgesture of their Evergreen careers — the graduatingclasses of 1987,1990 and 1992 made significant contri-butions to the Longhouse Fund as their class gift. TheWashington Legislature finally put the project in fullmotion in 1993, funding a $2.2 million building that com-bines space for classes and cultural events. Already,other colleges are looking to Evergreen's longhouse asa model for buildings on their campuses.

Although the Longhouse is situated on Evergreen'scampus, the dedication ceremony made it clear it be-longs to all the people of Washington state. GovernorMike Lowry shared the day's spotlight with PresidentJane Jervis, faculty member Dave Whitener, Skagit el-der Vi Hilbert, Nisqually tribal leader Bill Frank, Jr.,singer and artist Buffy Sainte-Marie, author ShermanAlexie, and Makah master of ceremonies John Hottowe,among many others. Native American dancers and sing-ers from the Lummi, Makah, Yakama, Inupiaq, S'Kiallamand Chehalis tribes performed, and Hawaiian dancersechoed the multicultural theme of the Longhouse. Statelegislators, tribal leaders, local school district officialsand Evergreen alumni, faculty, staff and students wereamong those on hand to share the excitement of theday, which included the ceremony as well as art dedi-cation and a potlatch salmon dinner for 2,000 guests.

This quarter, hundreds of students in academicprograms throughout the curriculum are meeting in thespacious classrooms of the Longhouse, and a majorsymposium on Native American basketry is scheduled,as are a few weddings. During the day and some eve-nings, the building is reserved for class meetings; dur-ing most evenings and weekends it is available to thecommunity for gatherings, concerts, lectures and otherevents.

Opened only a few months, the Longhouse alreadyhas an extraordinary history. It contains memories ofancient Native American traditions, reflected in thebuilding's design; memories of Mary Ellen Hillaire andthose who kept her dream alive; and the promise ofmemories of learning and celebration to be created inthe future.

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Evergreen'sFirst Endowed Chair

Evans Chair enhances Core programs

Evergreen inaugurated the Daniel J. Evans Chair in Lib-eral Arts on September 30, heralding the college's firstendowed professorship. The Evans Chair is dedicatedto bringing prominent scholars to campus to teach inCore programs for first- and second-year students.

Dan Evans was Washington state's only governorto serve three terms. During his tenure, he stronglysupported the creation of a new college in southwest-ern Washington and signed the founding legislation thatcreated Evergreen in 1967. He became the college's sec-ond president in 1977 and played an integral role inestablishing the college as a vital element of Washing-ton's higher education system during turbulent yearsof recession, when some legislators considered closingthe new, alternative college as a budget-cutting mea-sure. He has continued to be supportive of Evergreensince leaving the presidency in 1983, when he joinedthe United States Senate, and he continues to demon-strate his dedication to higher education in Washing-ton as a regent for the University of Washington.

Funding for the Evans Chair was provided by manygenerous private donors and a matching grant from thestate of Washington.

The inauguration of the Daniel J. Evans Chair dove-tailed with celebrations of the Longhouse Education andCultural Center. The Chair is integrating six distin-guished Native American scholars into a full range ofCore programs during the fall quarter, and the inaugu-ration event was hosted in the Longhouse, where Evans1

long record of concern for the state's Native Americancommunities was also recognized.

This year, and every year after, students will haveopportunities to work with prominent scholars selectedfor their ability to add something special to the educa-tional program, thanks to the Daniel J. Evans Chair inLiberal Arts.

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Greener grads make noise at the movies

BY CRAIG MCLAUGHLIN

It is a familiar scene to many moviegoers: Three bullies are throwing

rocks at a young Forrest Gump, and each projectile strikes with a disturbing

thump. Gump runs away, his crippled legs pounding the dirt road, and the

bullies climb onto their bikes to pursue him. In slow motion, Gump's leg

braces break apart and fall to the earth. Mingled with the movie's score is

the sound of metal clinking, the sound of leather tearing. Gump starts to

pull away. The bullies pedal faster. Bicycle tires whir, chains scrape, andfenders rattle, but the bullies can't catch Gump. When they give up, one of

them hurls his bike to the ground in disgust — crash.

It's a familiar scene full of familiar sounds. The clinks and clanks and

clunks of the braces flying off, however, weren't recorded during filming.

Like the sound of the rocks, Gump's footsteps and the bicycle noises, they

are sound effects. In fact, all the noises were created on a specialized stage

— a Foley stage to be precise — at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch outside

San Rafael, California. The Foley mixer who recorded those sounds is Ever-

green graduate Tony Eckert '83. "Up to 90 percent of the sounds you hear ina movie have been added in later," he says.

Producing sound for movies is a complex task that requires the skills of

many people. An audio engineer records the major dialogue on location.

Foley artists go into the studio and create the human sounds, like footsteps

or pats on the back, that are specific to a particular film, sounds that a Foley

mixer then manipulates. A sound editor goes to a library of prerecorded

effects and adds sounds as subtle as ambient noise or as dramatic as theboom of cannons going off when a fighter takes a blow to the chin. Yet

another person mixes the musical score so it can ebb and flow without

drowning dialog or submerging effects. And at the end of the process known

as post-production, a sound engineer mixes all their work together into a

single sound track.

Eckert, a staff Foley mixer at Skywalker Sound, is just one of several

Greeners who produce sound for film and television. They've used their

exposure to sophisticated audio technologies at Evergreen, as well as what

they learned from the school's emphasis on problem solving and experien-

tial learning, to carve out niches for themselves in a dynamic, competitiveindustry.

"At the time I went to Evergreen," says freelance sound engineer Jan

Cyr '78, "there was tons of gear, it helped that I had hands-on experience

with the best equipment made. The equipment in the real world was way

funkier. And having free rein like 1 had at Evergreen gave me incredible

confidence."

"The Evergreen attitude of learning by doing and multidisciplinary work

was a tremendous asset," says Alex Stahl '82, a self-employed sound mixer

who works extensively with Francis Ford Coppola's production company,

American Zoetrope. "It's amazing how much learning by doing is involved.

You just kind of get thrown into it."

People in this line of work expend huge amounts of effort trying to

make their labors invisible if not inaudible. To nurture the filmic fantasy,

they try to present a seamless whole to the audience, not wanting listeners

to step back from a dramatic moment to ask, "How did they do that?" In-

deed, talking to sound people about their work is a little like lifting the

curtain on the Wizard of Oz. What we find back there is a production pro-

cess that is somewhat less magical — and somewhat more technical — than

we might have expected. But that doesn't make it any less fascinating.

MAKING WAVES (TOP TO BOTTOM): JAN CYR, ALEX STAHL, TONY ECKERT AND JANA VANCE.

. ; . . . .

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"THE EVERGREEN ATTITUDE OF LEARNING BY DOING

AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY WORK WAS A TREMENDOUS ASSET,

T'S AMAZING ;HOW MUCH LEARNING BY DOING IS INVOLVED."

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Jan Cyr has recorded sound on location in Africa, Trinidad, Turkey, Bul-

garia and throughout the United States and Mexico. Her home and office

are a farmhouse in Yelm, and like many freelance movie and video workers

in the Pacific Northwest, her bread and butter comes from commercials and

corporate films. But her work of choice is documentaries and the occasional

feature film. "I count myself lucky," she says, "to have worked on dozens ofdocumentaries for or about indigenous people." Her credits include The

Native American, produced by Ted Turner, and 500 Nations, an eight-hoCBS special series produced by Kevin Costner.

Cyr knew she wanted to work in the Seattle film industry while at Ever

green, and during her final quarter she landed a job1 with Alpha Cine, a film

lab in Seattle. There, she eventually headed up the sound department. "I

learned location sound by trying to fix other people's mistakes," she says.

Drawing on her experience and contacts from Alpha Cine, Cyr started

her own business in 1983. "My job," she says, "is to record whatever the

camera sees." That means, for example, deciding what microphones to useand where to place them. Depending on the budget and the scene, Cyr, who

travels with her own equipment, might use only one microphone or as manyas eight. "I record mainly dialog on location," she says, "but I also gather as

many sound effects as I can to help them in post-production and to addtexture."

It can be frustrating work because sound is a low priority during film-

ing. The crew will spend hours setting up a camera shot and getting the

lighting exactly right, but directors aren't usually willing to hold up shoot-

ing while someone gets the sound perfect. Even bungled or badly recorded

dialog can be rerecorded back at the studio. "It bothers me that I 'm not

allowed the same perfection as the cameraman," Cyr says

She tells the story of being called in late to help wrap up the filming of

My Own Private Idaho. While shooting a desert camping scene, she created

an elaborate setup that included two booms, wireless microphones on River

Phoenix and Keanu Reeves, and wireless feeds to the producer, the director

and the script supervisor. Director Gus Van Sant wanted to film quickly, no

rehearsals and only one take, so Cyr didn't have time to get the sound per-

fect. When Van Sant came over to listen to the audio, he told her, "Don't

worry, we'll add some crickets." She describes the experience as "humbling"

even though the scene sounded fine to her in the theaters.

"I'm passionate about giving them clean, perfect sound," Cyr says. "I

can't imagine any sound mixer worth their salt feeling any differently." But

no matter how passionate she is, once the cameras stop rolling, her job is

finished. "I hand over my tapes and go home."

When Cyr's job ends, the efforts of people like Eckert i

'84 begin. The husband-and-wife team work together on the Foley stage.

While lower budget films and documentaries make extensive use of the

location tapes, high-end features usually keep little more than the dialogue

of the main characters. Much of the soundtrack comprises canned effects

selected from a library by the sound editor. But if the picture has a Foley

budget, as major features do, the crew on the Foley stage will tailor sound

effects to the action in the film.

"Certain sounds, like the sound of a car door being slammed shut, can

be found in a library," explains Eckert. "But if the actor stands by the car

and fiddles nervously with the door handle, that sound is specific to that

shot. There are certain sounds where it's easier and more realistic to have a

person look at the screen and perform that sound."

Eckert studied audio technology at Evergreen and entered the movie

business through music recording. But he found the music scene to be full

of big egos, and recording work grueling and unreliable. Then he chanced

on a job wiring Lucas' new studio and ended up sticking around. For the last

year, he has recorded sound effects, working on such movies as Strange

Days and Home for the Holidays. Mostly he works as a Foley mixer, the

person who electronically blends and manipulates the different tracks of

recorded sounds to shape an effect. But he has also worked as a Foley re-

cordist, the person who coordinates the details of a Foley recording ses-sion.

A few years ago, a Foley recordist slot opened up at Skywalker, and

Eckert suggested to Vance that she could do the work. She interviewed and

got the job. One day, while watching a Foley artist at work, she told another

Foley mixer, "I could do that." In the spring of 1994, the mixer offered her a

shot as a Foley artist for Jo Jo, a series of 3O-minute Japanese animation

films.

Vance now works beside Eckert on the Foley stage, sometimes as a re-

cordist, sometimes as an artist. When she's wearing her artist hat, she often

serves as sort of an auditory body double. With the working print projected

on a large screen, she creates sounds to match the action. If a character sits

in a chair, she sits in a chair at the precise moment with similar force. But

she also must find ways, often extremely imaginative ways, to create other

missing sounds.

In the case of young Gump's braces, the Foley crew had the actual braces

used during filming with which to work. But that is rare. For Picture Bride,

Vance rolled an empty wooden wine barrel around on the floor and shook it

to simulate the sound of a wooden cart. After Eckert adjusted the mix, she

says, "It really worked. You would just buy it that this was the cart." And for

a Jo Jo episode, she had to produce the sound of someone ripping a heart

out of a body. So she tore apart a cabbage and plunged her hand to a canta-

loupe to produce sounds the mixer could then blend together to create the

desired effect. "I think I also used a grapefruit to get the squishy sound," she

says.

"IF YOU HOLD A PIECE OF FILM IN YOUR HAND AND LOOK AT IT,

RIGHT NEXT TO THE INDIVIDUAL FJRAMES LJ

,1 1-; THERE IS A SQUIGGLY LINE. THAT'S THE SOUND WAVE." ,

- JAN CYR '78

FX: The next generationBob Moore '78 is a sound designer; he combines the skills of a sound

editor and a mixer. In 1987, he started his own company, World Music, USA.

From the company's studio in Santa Monica, California, Moore uses cutting-

edge technology to create soundtracks for television shows and feature films.

He's the "sound FX designer" for Chicago Hope (2Oth Century Fox Televi-

sion) and his resume lists dozens of movie credits, including The Usual Sus-

pects and Friday the ijth, Part VII! —Jason Takes Manhattan. "1've-done the...

entire soundtrack," he says, "including the music."

Moore uses effects from the Foley stage, sounds he's recorded from

locations around the fforld, and prerecorded sounds stored on hundreds of

compact discs in his library. All the sounds he uses for Chicago Hope are

stored asjdigital files; on his Macintosh computer, a Quadra 950 with 18

gigabytes of hard diskjcapacity. Moore takes an edited VMS tape of the show,

silent except for the main dialog, and loads it onto his computer. Then he

uses his mouse to grab digital sound files and drop them into the sound

track.

"I put the life back into the scene," he says. On Chicago Hope, sounds he

adds in might include background chatter, the sound of an elevator open-

ing, scissors snipping in an operating room, the beeping of a heartbeat moni-

tor. And what he uses to create a sound effect may have nothing at all to do

with the sound he's depicting.At Evergreen, Moore was a programmer and computer consultant be-

fore enrolling. After graduating, he worked as an engineer and technician

for several Los Angeles recording studios, working on recordings for the

likes of Michael Jackson. In 1983, he founded a music software and hard-

ware company called Hybrid Arts, a name he coined while at Evergreen. In

1986, Hybrid Arts, Inc., under Moore's direction, developed ADAP — Ana-

log-to-Digital Audio Processor — a computerized system for manipulating

sounds to produce special effects. "It could do things like play a sound back-

ward. Even on the ?6o,ooo system, you cannot take an element and reverse

it," he says. ADAP, one of almost 30 products Moore invented for Hybrid

Arts, created sound effects for movies like Born on the Fourth of July and

Glory. It's still used on The Simpsons and can be found in many commercial

sound studios.Nowadays, along with ADAP, Moore uses the more powerful AVID

AudioVision system. He owns three AVIDs and rents them out for $1,500 a

week to major studios like Universal and Sony Pictures and for use on films

like Waterworld.

In 1987, he did the pilot for Beverly Hills 902/0, and went on to design

the sound for 112 episodes as a contractor for Todd-AO/Glen Glenn, the

world's largest sound company. But in the fall of 1994, Todd-AO cut him

loose after he brought on someone else to help with Chicago Hope. "Todd-

AO thought I was competition," he says.

In addition to creating most of the soundtrack for Chicago Hope, a pro-

cess that takes 60 to 70 hours per episode, Moore is also investing in multi-

media. He has formed two new production companies, Hello Pictures, unLtd.

for film and Hello PICT's, unLtd. for multimedia. "Multimedia is wide open"

he says. "I'm also working on a film project as executive producer."

The sound of musicSound effects and dialog are two of the three major components that

make up a movie sound track. The other is music.

Although self-employed, Alex Stahl spends a lot of time providing engi-

neering support at American Zoetrope. On Bram Stoker's Dracula, for ex-

ample, he was chief engineer for audio post-production. "We kept it on the

air," he says. "We kept everything running so the show could go on." But

adds, "I do more creative work with music mixing."

At Evergreen, Stahl studied audio engineering, recording and music. After

graduating, he worked for a while repairing state-of-the-art audio equip-

ment, eventually starting a freelance repair business. His work took him to

the American Zoetrope facility in Napa, California, where he began mixing

more and more film work with his music work.

He has toured the world as a sound engineer for the innovative classi-

cal group Kronos Quartet, he was the music mixer for special effects wizard

Douglas Trumbull when he created attractions for the futuristic theater at

the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, and two years ago he was assistant music mixer

for The Secret Garden. Just this fall, he finished writing custom "sound pan-

ning" software for exhibits at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Computers

adjust the n-channel audio system to create the effect that sounds are mov-

ing around the room. "This was something 1 got into with [faculty member]

Peter Randlette at Evergreen," he says, "and I never dreamt it would be so

lucrative 'in the real world.'"

Stahl explains that a composer commissioned to provide a musical score

might record as many as 40 tracks of music. Then the composer, the music

supervisor and perhaps the director premix those tracks down to six or 12

tracks, maybe one track for the ensemble and one for each soloist. "Six tracks

is about average," Stahl says, "so you have a little bit of play left." Then themusic mixer must blend the score to fit the dialogue and the sound effects.

"The music has to snake in and out of the other sounds," he says. "It often

has to make a bed, but not intrude."When all the individual tracks are edited, says Cyr, the post-production

mixer is typically left with anywhere from two to dozens of tracks — dialogtracks, sound effects tracks, ambient sound tracks and several tracks of music.

The ambitious Dracula soundtrack, according to Stahl, employed 120 tracks

for the "mix down." Each track resides on a magnetic medium known as

fullcoat, which has sprockets along the edges, just like the film that carries

the visual image. The sprocketed tapes are all synchronized with the work

print.For the mix down, the reels are loaded on separate dubbers that are

interlocked with the machine that projects the work print, then all the ma-

chines are played simultaneously. The final mix is then converted to light

waves, recorded as an "optical sound track" and married to the final release

print. "If you hold a piece of film in your hand and look at it," Cyr says, "right

next to the individual frames there is a squiggly line. That's the sound wave."

Dozens of people—some of them, perhaps, Greeners—may have worked

hundreds of hours to produce that one squiggly line. But according to Cyr,

the final mix down may be the first time anyone has heard all the elements

together.

The Evergreen ReView Fall 1995

barbecue punkSub Pop's Bruce Pavitt on cooking with fire

BY BRIAN RA1NVILLE '90

SITTING COMFORTABLY on the back deck of his home in

Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, Sub Pop Records co-founder

Bruce Pavitt can easily spy his "serious pit barbecue brought up

from Texas." It's not a Weber — nothing that bourgeois. Instead

it resembles a 55-gallon drum split in two — a true barbecuer's

workbench. The deck, an early fall breeze and a few homemade

muffins provide a pleasant environment for the 1981 Evergreen

graduate to expound on the similarities between punk rock and

barbecue food."We live in a fast-food culture. Barbecue is gourmet soul

food that takes hours and hours of preparation and it occurred

to me, I've been getting more and more excited about barbecue

for the same reason I get excited about punk rock," Pavitt says

while munching a muffin. "There's something about entering an

unassuming environment and finding something that has more

character and more depth and feeling than anything you'll find

in the mainstream. A barbecue place, where there's not a lot of

money and the business is scraping by, is just like a sleazy punk-

rock dive. It's so easy to create a McDonald's, but when you

care about something, when you're passionate about it, you'll

spend the time with it."Though Pavitt began cultivating his taste for "real" barbecue

only recently, he has spent the last 15 years pushing and pro-

moting the virtues of punk rock. And during the last six years,

he has helped push the genre into the media spotlight and given the word

grunge a new and improved meaning.

Since 1988, Pavitt and partner Jonathan Poneman have made the Sub

Pop record label the rock 'n' roll launch pad for such modern, punk-pop

mega-acts as Soundgarden, Mudhoney and Nirvana. And in six years, the

company has grown from a bubble-gum-and-baling-wire operation with

one phone line into a multinational corporation employing 45 people

and producing sales that topped $7 million in 1994. That same year, Pavitt

and Poneman sold a 49 percent share in the company to Time Warner

Inc. for a reported $20 million or more. Not bad, considering Sub Pop

started as an Evergreen individual contract. But then, Pavitt attributes

some of his success to his Evergreen experience, particularly the pro-

gram Words, Sounds and Images, which taught him a key lesson.

"WE LIVE IN A

FAST-FOOD

CULTURE.

BARBECUE IS

GOURMET

SOUL FOOD

THAT TAKES

HOURS AND

HOURS OF

PREPARATION

AND IT

OCCURRED TO

ME, FVE BEEN

GETTING MORE

AND MORE

EXCITED

ABOUT

BARBECUE FOR

THE SAME

REASON 1 GET

EXCITED

ABOUT PUNK

ROCK"

sub premise"ONE THING 1 GOT OUT OF it was that if you're creating

something, you have to have a premise," Pavitt says. "It's pretty

sound advice that was drilled into my head and really helped to

create Sub Pop."Pavitt didn't leave Illinois for life in Olympia with a par-

ticular premise, but he did come with a rabid interest in under-

ground rock 'n' roll. He learned from friends about Evergreen's

interdisciplinary education philosophy. It was a way of learn-

ing he had become accustomed to while attending the Active

Learning Process School, an alternative high school in Park

Forest, Illinois."I was very comfortable with that style of teaching and I

really flourished at ALPS. So I was searching for a college that

would complement that teaching style and Evergreen was re-

ally the only affordable option," he says.So after two years at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illi-

nois, he decided to head for the Pacific Northwest. At around

the same time, he learned of two Olympia-based resources, Op

magazine and KAOS-FM community radio - two venues that were

crucial in shaping his Sub Pop premise.

In the late '705 and early '8os, a group of Greeners who had

formulated the independent music policy-philosophy of KAOS,

created a magazine called Op. Op focused purely on music origi-

nating from independent sources. No monsters of rock. No country su-

perstars. Instead Op provided exposure to music rarely found in the main-

stream. In each issue, the magazine examined obscure and under-repre-

sented music, with each issue focusing on performers whose names be-

gan with a particular letter of the alphabet.While Op examined all independent sources of music alphabetically,

Pavitt decided to take a look at music scenes region by region. Since

Memphis had Sun Records and Detroit had Maiden, surely other commu-

nities had distinct sounds to be explored."It's easy to see the differences between records coming out of Aus-

tin, Texas, and those coming out of New York City created by disenfran-

chised art students," he says. "Every region has its flavor. My big com-

plaint at that time with the culture was it was too homogenized. Rock

music is suppose to reflect the rebellion and dangerous views. But it was

totally co-opted. It made me angry because you could see a lot of music

had so much more character and flavor being created in this grassroots

network."

So he created Subterranean Pop magazine — a small, photo-copied fanzine that took rock 'n' roll community by community.With a press run ranging from 500 to 1,000 copies, Sub Pop thefanzine gave Pavitt exposure to the siren calls of distributionand networking. Fortunately, he says, Op and KAOS had alreadylaid plenty of organizational groundwork for the independentscenester.

"If you're offering something that is unique, eventuallypeople will come to you, but it's still very tricky," Pavitt says.

After graduating in 1981, Pavitt lived for two years above theBarnes Floral building on the west end of Olympia's Fourth Av-enue. While putting out the fanzine, he chopped carrots, madesandwiches, washed dishes and worked as a booking agent atthe Gnu Deli.

After moving to Seattle in 1983, he continued working invarious kitchens, but also expanded into writing a column forthe Northwest music tabloid The Rocket and hosting a radio showon KCMU, both of which were called Sub Pop. The fanzine even-tually mutated from the print version to issues that were cas-sette tapes of songs. In 1986, Pavitt released the first Sub Popvinyl, the eminently collectable Sub Pop 100. He had so muchsuccess with his first record that he released Dry as a Bone, anEP by Seattle's seminal grunge group Green River. It also quicklyfound an audience. Both albums garnered enough of a market

"IF YOU'RE

OFFERING

SOMETHING

THAT IS

UNIQUE,

EVENTUALLY

PEOPLE WILL

COME TO YOU,

BUT IT'S

STILL VERY

TRICKY,"

Sub Pop logo and monikers like "LOSER" that cropped up on thechests of punk rockers and Hollywood movie stars.

The duo loved what they saw as the creation of a mythicalSeattle. They loved playing the biggest punk rock hotshots onthe block. They even went so far as to release a compilationalbum of Sub Pop bands titled F"" me, I'm Rich.

In the music industry, says Pavitt, "There's deception onevery level. And there are good types of deception and badtypes of deception. Lying to your bands and ripping them off isbad. But building myths and telling half truths in the media isOK. Because the mythology is half of it."

But sometimes the fine line between deception and mythol-ogy doesn't sit well with critics in the independent music world,Pavitt says.

"Generally speaking, an independent record label isn't sup-pose to hype itself. That's garish and corporate. As an indepen-dent label, we are supposed to represent everything that cor-porate America isn't. And yet we appropriated all of these im-ages and slogans that are very corporate, and in doing that,made a lot of people confused. People were saying, 'What's go-ing on here? You guys aren't very punk.' So we really playedwith these preconceptions of what we were supposed to be."Pavitt says. "We'd make things up and lie to the press — any-thing to hype a record. And it worked. That hype Seattle got

to play to Pavitt and friend Jonathan Poneman's ambitions — they started about being the center of the rock universe, that was essentially due toa recording company. me and Jon doing interviews every day for 12 months and placing our

money on bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden."PV^ g After practicing "complete overkill," Pavitt and Poneman have stepped

back from the hype onslaught. Seattle has come and gone as the musicalflavor of the month and now the company is diversifying. Today, Seattleis hardly the only music scene represented by the label. Now hard-driv-ing rock acts like Portland's Hazel mingle with neo-lounge, jazz acts likeProvidence's Combustible Edison.

"We're getting away from Seattle and becoming more of a nationallabel," Pavitt says. "We're trying to promote other scenes through in-vestment and advice."

PAVITT AND PONEMAN dove into the record business full-time in1988 with about $20,000, a tiny office in Seattle's Terminal Sales Buildingand plenty of gumption. But after about a month, the duo and the bur-geoning corporation where practically broke.

"Basically we spent all of our money and being an independentbusinessperson with no money is very harsh," Pavitt says. "But some-how, miraculously, we had the will to continue."

Fortunately, Pavitt's experience with applied learning at Evergreenand his interest in performance art began to produce commercial re- i . . . t * iturns. "There's a certain element of performance art in business. You Utrdl l l lVj W i l l I lilt: U t r v l lhave to understand drama to come across in the media," he says. "So, T0 FACILITATE A MORE national approach, Pavitt and Poneman inwhen I put out the first record I called [Sub Popl a multinational con- '993 'inked Sub Pop with the Alternative Distribution Alliance, an inter-glomerate based in the Pacific Northwest. We've always taken to this national arm of the bona-fide multinational Time Warner Inc.. And whileshtick about being this huge corporation, even though we started with some folks screamed sell-out, Pavitt says he is perfectly comfortable withonly one phone line," he says. the partnership. Sub Pop has part ownership in ADA and ADA has no say

Poneman and Pavitt went at the media full bore. They hyped left, in the direction of Sub Pop. The agreement offers Pavitt and Sub Popthey hyped right. They never refused an interview. They lied, bent the easier access to crowds of people. Instead of having to sell records outtruth and did anything and everything to bring attention to themselves of tour vans and through their telemarketing to shops, Sub Pop uses pre-and their company. If Budweiser and McDonald's could saturate the established channels to funnel alternative sounds into the marketplace.American marketplace with icons and ideas, why couldn't two guys in And jt beats dealing with the slew of unreliable distribution companieslove with punk rock and public relations do the same? If Pavitt and tnat controlled those channels in the '8os, Pavitt says. "So in one wayPoneman thought people wanted to hear it, Pavitt and Poneman would we're dealing with the devil, but we know we'll get paid."say it. And if they wanted people to believe it, they'd say it even louder. In late 1994, the duo took the devil into full partnership. Pavitt andThey also oversaw the proliferation of stickers and T-shirts bearing their Poneman sold 49 percent of Sub Pop to Time Warner for a healthy chunk

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"THERE ARE

A LOT OF

PARALLELS

of change. Various reports put the undisclosed sale price in the BETWEEN OURneighborhood of $20 million. COMPANY AND

Pavitt isn't the only Greener getting paid at Sub Pop. Rich THE EVERGREENJensen, who attended Evergreen, acts as the company's general ENVIRONMENT...manager, Heather Lewis '85 works with the company's mail-or- WE ENCOURAGEder operation and Ian Dickson '91 is the resident computer CRITICALhacker. Working for Sub Pop isn't that big of a leap from attend- THINKINGing Evergreen.

"It's funny," says Pavitt. "There are a lot of parallels betweenour company and the Evergreen environment. It's the reasonpeople are leaving their corporate jobs in L.A. to come up toSeattle and work for half of their previous wages. We're muchmore open. We encourage critical thinking and though people'sjobs are focused, they're not regimented. The roles here are re- ROLES HERE ARE

ally interdisciplinary and that's what gives us an edge over ma- REALLYjor record labels." INTERDISCIPLI-

NARY AND THAT'S

alternative rock,alternative energy

WHAT IS NEXT for a punk rock guru? Pavitt owns land in theSan Juan Islands on which he is building a self-sufficient retreat.Creating an environment that is completely self-sufficient is anidea that is totally punk rock, Pavitt says.

AND THOUGH

PEOPLE'S JOBS

ARE FOCUSED,

THEY'RE NOT

REGIMENTED. THE

AN EDGE OVER

MAJOR RECORD

LABELS."

something symbolic about seeing a huge windmill in your frontyard and knowing your lights are powered by it. That speaksmetaphorically of our label and of working outside of the cor-porate structure."

But for tomorrow and today, Pavitt is working on not work-ing. "I try as hard as possible not to do anything. That's my goalwhen I wake up in the morning. I try to stay away from theoffice," he says. "Because if you spend too much time at theoffice, you begin to realize why you got into punk rock in thefirst place."

But even when he's not at the office, Pavitt still has a pro-pensity for doing something, whether it's perfecting the art ofthe barbecue or learning about alternative energy systems. "Thisguy is always learning," says Dan Neelands '88, the contractorfor the alternative systems at Pavitt's San Juan retreat. "But whatthe heck, isn't that what Evergreen's all about?"

Neelands, who knew Pavitt back when he was making boot-leg recordings in a cheap apartment, says one of the reasons heagreed to work on the retreat is because he knows lots of peoplewill pass through it. "What I've come to appreciate about thisguy after working with him is his incredible sense of commu-nity," Neelands says. "For him, it's about finding people, gath-ering people and sustaining people."

Neelands recalls sitting around with Pavitt listening to"My interest in alternative energy and self-sufficiency and a lot of reggae. "I told him 1 thought it was really amazing that a little island like

hippie, Utopian literature is what led me to punk rock," Pavitt says. "A lot Jamaica came up with this music that rocked the world. He got reallyof people can't see the relationship, but it comes down to independence, excited. He said, That's exactly it. I didn't know how to say it before butIndependence in growing your own food and creating your own energy, that's what 1 was feeling when I started Sub Pop. If Jamaica could rockand independence in putting out your own records. I want to create some- the world, why couldn't Oiympia?"'thing that symbolizes my values and the values of the company. There's por a time, ,n part because of Pavitt's ability to gather and motivate

people, that's what happened. Grunge rocked the world.

Greeners galore in two new grunge booksThe names and deeds of Greeners pack the pages of author Clark Humphrey's new book,LOSER (Publisher's Group, $16.95), an exhaustive chronicle of the Northwest music scene.In a workmanlike fashion, Humphrey lists nearly every band , magazine, record and con-cert that has happened in the Northwest during the past 25 years. Thumbing through,you're very likely to net a Greener on every page. From John Foster '79, Toni Holm '78and Dave Rauh '79 to Steve Fisk '82 and Candice Petersen '88.

Photographer Charles Peterson released his first book of photographs about the emer-gence and life of the Seattle music scene. Screaming Life (HarperCollins, $35.00). Whilepictures of Nirvana dominate the book, it does include photos of Greeners, including BrucePavitt '81, Heather Lewis '85 and Calvin Johnson.

Brian Rainville lives in Oiympia.

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Once a week, Sean Williams makes a short pilgrimage to a locked room down the hall from her

faculty office in the Communications Building. Inside, she carefully lays out an offering of flowers and

incense. She comes not to pay homage to a god or a goddess, but to a gong. "The gong," explains

Williams, "is the spiritual center of the gamelan."

The gamelan is an ensemble of musical instruments from Indonesia, and just as the gong is the

spiritual center of the gamelan, the gamelan is the spiritual center of Evergreen's ethnomusicology

program.

Musicologists study notes, says Williams, while ethnomusicologists also study the cultural context

of notes. They record, analyze and teach, along with the notes themselves, the conjunction of music

and family life, spirituality, gender, politics, ecology and other aspects of society.

Williams says one of the reasons she was asked to join the faculty in 1991 was to develop an

ethnomusicology program as part of the school's commitment to diversity. "They wanted to increase

their multicultural visibility," she says. "It didn't make sense for this college to just teach music by dead

white elite European males, what musicologists call D.W.E.E.M. music."

Soon after arriving on campus, Williams declared that the college needed a gamelan. She had

studied gamelan for 15 years, including two years spent in Sunda, an ethnically distinct region of West

Java. There she had studied with Burham Sukarma, the world's foremost player of the suling bamboo

flute. The school approved the budget request, but finding a gamelan is never easy. People can't just

collect individual instruments; each ensemble is tuned differently and each was assembled in a par-

ticular configuration to perform a particular social function. "If people have a really good one, they

don't sell it," says Williams.

But, says Williams, "we got lucky." Her teacher, Sukarma, was living in San Jose, California and

wanted to sell his gamelan. For $10,000, the school was able to buy his igSos-vintage ensemble. The

price included shipping, which was significant considering that most gamelan instruments are forged

from brass. This particular style of gamelan, the Sundanese gamelan degung, was used by aristocrats

in the highlands of West Java to welcome other members of the aristocracy to their courts during the

late igth and early 20th centuries. It is small — seven instruments, including a large hanging gong, a set

of small hanging gongs, a row of kettle gongs, three drums, two metallophones and a bamboo flute —

because it was meant to be played indoors or outdoors under a canopy. "It's supposed to be intimate,"

says Williams.

The gamelan arrived on campus in 1993. "I've taught it every year since we got it," Williams says.

"There's a growing interest as people find out what it is."

Two things made it important to Williams that Evergreen acquire a gamelan, besides the fact that

it was the music she knew best and could teach best. The first is that gamelan, as much or more than

any other type of world music, embodies the very thing that ethnomusicologists are moved to study; it

is intimately intertwined with all aspects of Indonesian life. Some sacred gamelans are dedicated to

invocations of the rice goddess. Secular ones can be used for a wide variety of social functions —

marriages, store openings and military events, for example. Nearly every aristocrat's household had

its own gamelan — a symbol of the court's power and prestige — but most villages also have gamelans

now. Gamelan music can be combined with vocalists, dance and shadow puppet theater or incorpo-

rated into processions. A single performance can last 24 hours.

"It's not just the notes that make the gamelan fascinating, it's what people do with it," Williams

says, "all the mythology that surrounds it, the way it's taught, everything."

The second reason for wanting a gamelan is more personal. Says Williams, "1 think it is some of the

most beautiful music in the world."

SEAN WILLIAMS (FOREGROUND WITH FLUTE) AND STUDENTS (LEFT TO RIGHT) JAMES COURY, BETSY ELWOOD AND MARCIA CHAMBERS

"IT'S NOT JUST THE NOTES THAT /WAKE THE

GAMELAN FASCINATING,

IT'S WHAT PEOPLE DO WITH IT...

ALL THE MYTHOLOGY THAT SURROUNDS IT,

THE WAY IT'S TAUGHT,

EVERYTHING."

- SEAN WILLIAMS

A. Stru.citTJ.re, -A.

A. SpiritThe term gamelan refers to both the orchestral ensembles and the musical style they employ. Both

came from South China a couple thousand years ago. Smaller gongs and metallophones play cyclicalmelodies that are punctuated by the large gong. "The other instruments do ornamentation for themain melody," Williams says. Today, the structure of gamelan music permeates Indonesian culturalperformances, even when, strictly speaking, a gamelan orchestra is not present. It can be found indance, processions and vocal solos.

The music, in part because of its cyclical pattern, is often described as hypnotic, ethereal, sensual."When people talk about gamelan," says Jenefer Bertucci '95, who studied with Williams as a student,"they talk about how it's spiritually dreamy. But to me that wasn't the appeal, it was more the musicalclarity of the mallet hitting the metal. The gamelan is very atmospheric; it fills the room."

A classically trained musician who also plays piano and guitar and sings, Bertucci calls playing thegamelan an "amazing" experience. "Especially when you play the largest gong. It's a very thrillinginstrument because the vibrations move through you. The gongs really have a presence."

Next fall, she plans to go to Indonesia to study music. "Sean's got me hooked. A lot of her studentsare hooked and a lot of them have gone over and studied." Williams says four of her students havegone to Indonesia and at least three, including Bertucci, plan to go. "A bunch of my students, perhapsa dozen, have applied to graduate programs in ethnomusicology," she says.

Bertucci laughs when told the joke that all you need to do to play the gamelan is count to four andsit cross-legged on the floor for hours. Laughs and disagrees. "You absolutely need a sense of beingpart of an ensemble because every instrument is dependent on another instrument," she says. "You'recreating a whole character for each song. That's another way that knowing about Sunda and the musiccomes in handy."

Learning music while also studying its cultural ties, she says, "enriches your experience of learningthe music." Williams uses practice sessions to help convey a sense of gamelan's place in Indonesianlife, Bertucci says. "There's a certain etiquette. You take your shoes off, you never step over the instru-ments, and you never bang on them." Practice sessions are informal, she says. "There's a lot of joking.Sometimes we bring in food and play. That's very common — like it would be if we were practicing inSunda."

Bertucci says of Williams, "She has a wonderful ability to make things come alive."

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"...WHEN YOU PLAY THE LARGEST GONG.

IT'S A VERY THRILLING INSTRUMENT

...THE VIBRATIONS MOVE THROUGH YOU.

THE GONGS REALLY HAVE

A PRESENCE."

-JENEFER BERTUCCI '95

7WoTJ.nta.inGamelan isn't the only musical form that Williams and other faculty members are bringing to life

at Evergreen. During her time as a student, Bertucci studied Irish old-style singing, an i8-string Indo-nesian zither called the kacapi, and a Brazilian drumming ensemble called the batucada — all underWilliams. Terry Setter also teaches African drumming, and Williams admits she is responsible for teachingabout 70 people to play the Australian dijeridu, then setting them loose on campus. Next year shewants to teach Indonesian bamboo rattles, a gamelan-related folk genre performed in processions.

But in a program that teaches an expanding repertoire of musical instruments and styles, a specialreverence is reserved for the gamelan. In September 1993, shortly after the ensemble had arrived on

campus, about three dozen members of the campus community showed up for a selamatan, a tradi-tional welcoming ceremony. Setter and Williams prepared a mound of food - yellow rice with chickenand eggs served on banana leaves, fertility symbols all. An invocation was sung, ancestors called in,Islamic prayers offered. President Jane Jervis helped cut into the mound of food, a symbolic act thatWilliams describes as "saying the gamelan was here now. It had a new home."

The gamelan also received a new name, one of several it has had since its forging. When theprevious owner, Sukarma, realized that the gamelan, which was originally from a volcanic region ofJava, was coming to a home situated between Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier, he suggested the newname — Gamelan Degung Girijaya. Girijaya means victorious mountain. "The name is the bridge," saysWilliams, "between its old home and its new one."

The ceremony also included an offering to the gong that was a little more elaborate than Williams'weekly offerings. It included water from the four directions, flowers, fresh fruit, sugar and salt, in-cense, bitter coffee and a cigar, says Williams. "The spirit of the gong likes all those things."

HOW TO HEAR GAMELANIf you find yourself on the Evergreen campus,-you may .get a

chance to Hear the gamelan. Williams and her students perform forcampus events like Super Saturday, and occasionally perform in RedSquare, On nice days, they will sometimes take the gamelan outsideand play on a small deck adjacent to the Communications Building."It's totally Indonesian," Williams says. "Birds wljj come down andlisten. They'll perch on the instruments. We've had deer listen. Chil-dren will come down and listen from the child-care center."

Rehearsals take place in COM 341 every Tuesday between 1 and5p.m. Visitors are.always welcome as long as they don't disrupt therehearsal.

_And for people who live anywhere nearOlympia, the EvergreenExpressions series is presenting The Dancers and Musicians of Balion Feb. 13,1996,8p.m., at the Washington Center for the Perform-ing Arts. The musicians will hold a gamelan workshop the day ofthe performance. Tickets are $21; $18for KAOS subscribers, students

and seniors; $15 for Evergreen students. For more information onthe performance and the workshop, contact Evergreen Expressions^,room 301, Communications Building, The Evergreen StateCoiTege,Olympia, WA 98505, (360) 866-6000 ext. 6833. ; f -

I

GreenerNewsEvans scholars for 1995Six Native Americansselected as visiting faculty

The Daniel J. Evans Chair in Liberal Arts

has brought six prominent Native Americanscholars to campus to participate in severalacademic programs during the fall quarter.

Their presence was woven into theLonghouse dedication, and each scholar

made a significant contribution to the

event. The scholars are:• John Hottowe, Makah elder, is a spiritualand cultural leader who serves as a masterof ceremonies for potlatches and other

traditional gatherings for tribes inWashington and Canada.• Bill Frank Jr., Nisqually Tribe member, ischair of the Northwest Indian FisheriesCommission and played a key role ingaining recognition of treaty fishing rights

in Western Washington.• Buffy Sainte-Marie Ph.D., Cree Tribemember, is an internationally acclaimedsinger, songwriter and multimedia artist.

She won an Academy Award for writing "UpWhere We Belong," title track to the movie

An Officer and A Gentleman.

• Sherman Alexie, Spokane/Coeur D'AleneTribe member, is a nationally acclaimedwriter of poetry and fiction. His collectionof short stories, Lone Ranger and Tonto

Fistfight in Heaven, served as the text for amodel seminar held during orientation tointroduce new students to Evergreen's

learning process.• Hazel Pete, Chehalis Tribe member, is aprominent basket maker and historian whoserved as master artist for the WashingtonState Arts Commission Folk Arts Program in1994-95. She weaves Indian culture andlanguage into her intensive teaching about

traditional basketry.• Vi Hilbert, Lushootseed Tribe member, is anoted author, linguist, storyteller and

teacher. She founded LushootseedResearch, an organization dedicated to

preserving the culture, language andliterature of Northwest Coast native people,

^and was featured speaker for Evergreen's

1994 commencement ceremony.

Evergreen tops in teachingAmong U.S. News 6 World Report's best colleges

Evergreen is the best regional liberal arts college in the West whenit comes to having "an unusually strong commitment to undergraduateteaching," according to U.S. News fi World Report, which released

results of its annual survey of the nation's colleges and universitiesSept. 18. In recognition of widespread public concern about the qualityof teaching on the nation's campuses, U.S. News for the first time rated

colleges according to strength in teaching.The magazine also repeated its overall rankings, separately rating

national universities, national liberal arts colleges, regional collegesand universities, regional liberal arts colleges and specialty schools.Based on such factors as academic reputation, student selectivity and

faculty and financial resources, Evergreen ranked fifth among liberalarts colleges in the West. It repeated as number one in academicreputation, where it's been listed among the top two since 1989. Lastyear, Evergreen ranked first overall in the West. It has placed in the topsix consistently since the magazine began publishing its rankings.

PureeacceptsPullman postBecomes vicepresident at WSU

Thomas L. "Les"Puree, executive vice

president at Evergreenand former interim

president, left thecollege in September tobecome vice president

for extended universityaffairs at Washington

State University.Puree came to

Evergreen in 1989 as

vice president forcollege advancement,and led the successful

effort to raise funds for the Daniel J. Evans Chair. He was interimpresident from 1990 to 1992, serving as a steward during a time ofcritical transition that followed the tenure of President Joseph Olander.

"Les became interim president at a very difficult time for theinstitution," says President Jane Jervis. "His caring and thoughtfulapproach to managing brought about healing that made it possible for

me to start my presidency in a positive way."In 1992, the board of trustees appointed Puree to the executive vice

president position, where he was instrumental in efforts to acquirelegislative funding for the Longhouse Education and Cultural Center.

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Teaching teaching in TacomaMIT program breaks down barriers

"It's been a lifelong dream," says Mary Bullock, her voice risingabove the sounds of students hustling past on their way to eveningclasses at Evergreen's Tacoma campus. Her words may sound like acliche, but the conviction in her voice leaves no doubt that she haschosen the exact phrase to describe her desire to become a teacher.That her lifelong dream is becoming a reality — she is now student

teaching and expects to receive her master's degree in the spring — is atribute to Bullock's hard work and dedication, and to the success of theMaster in Teaching program at Tacoma.

In a move Evergreen President Jane Jervis described as "anexperiment," the MIT program offered its 1994-96 cycle at the Tacomacampus in the Hilltop neighborhood. The move lowered barriers to

graduate education for people of color working in the schools asparaprofessionals. According to a 1992 study, 19 percent of thestudents in the state's public schools are people of color, but only 5.54percent of teachers are people of color. And while the number ofstudents of color has been increasing, the pool of teachers of color hasbeen shrinking.

Aware of these trends, the Tacoma faculty and the Olympia MITfaculty had been talking for years about bringing the MIT program toTacoma. Then Marcily Brown conducted a needs assessment with fundsprovided by the Pew Charitable Trusts. "She focused on the learners'needs, not just the MIT program's needs," says Jan Kido, MIT program

director. "We advised many students to go into other programs." Theresearch identified 14 people of color enrolled in Evergreen-Tacoma'sundergraduate program and 18 people of color with bachelor's degreesworking in Tacoma-area schools who were interested in a graduateteaching degree and certification. Based on those findings, the MITprogram decided to offer its 1994-96 cycle in Tacoma, meeting in the

evenings and on weekends so students would not have to quit theirjobs for the first year.

By any measure, the program has been a resounding success. It

enrolled 60 students, close to half of whom are people of color.According to Tacoma campus director Joye Hardiman, the retentionrate is the highest in the state — only one student has left and he plansto return. Last year, only five African Americans graduated with a

master's in teaching throughout Washington, she says. This year, theMIT-Tacoma program expects to graduate 17.

But perhaps the greatest measure of success is the praise for theprogram sung by Mary Bullock and the other students. Bullock came toEvergreen through the Bridge Program, a joint effort of the Tacomacampus and Tacoma Community College. She then entered Evergreen-

Tacoma for her upper-division classes and received her B.A. So whenshe started the MIT program, she was already sold on Evergreen'smultidisciplinary approach. But student Bruce Young says he selected

the program for very pragmatic reasons — "location and price." Whenhe enrolled, he was thinking he might drop after one year, but now hesays, "It's been a tremendous experience. I feel like I'm getting atremendous amount from Evergreen — academics, curriculum,preparation. I'm really proud of the school."

Faculty and students agree that being in Tacoma has given the MITprogram a different feel. "The program has adequately prepared me forthe diverse population of students I will have in my classroom," says

student Chris Sullivan."One of the big commitments we made with this program is to

urban education," says Kido. "It's easy to sit in the forest and talkabout urban education. It's very different to actually locate theprogram in an urban environment."

Working toward diversityCenter promotes pluralism on state campuses

Faculty and staff at 26 colleges in Washington state are promotingmulticulturalism on their campuses as part of a three-year programcoordinated primarily by Evergreen's Washington Center for Improvingthe Quality of Undergraduate Education. The center, a public service arm

of the college, is guiding the cultural pluralism project in partnershipwith the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington.

The project was the most ambitious of several funded across thecountry by the Ford Foundation Campus Diversity Initiative, which

contributed $800,000 toward the project. The State Board forCommunity and Technical Colleges, Security Pacific Bank and theBoeing Company provided additional funds. The grant-funded portionof the project ended this summer.

What sets the project apart is not just the number of institutionsthat are beginning to transform their curricula to integrate perspec-tives from many cultures, but also the project's focus on organizationalchange to support and enhance multiculturalism on each school'scampus. "The Ford project gave this state resources to move to a much

deeper level of learning and scholarship in American ethnic studies,while at the same time helping participating institutions think throughways to address curricular reform and issues of campus climate," saysJean MacGregor, co-director of the Washington Center.

Each participating school assembled a seven-member team offaculty members, multicultural student services staff members and asenior academic administrator. Then teams from different schoolscame together for a year-long program that involved a summer

institute, campus planning efforts and follow-up activities. The projectcreated networks among participating schools for sharing ideas andproviding support as they continue their work.

"The progress we've made is remarkable," says MacGregor. "This

work is very hard, but there is a tremendous sense of commitment tostay with it for the long haul."

Geoducks sports expandsBasketball and tennis added to roster

Evergreen announced this fall it will join the National CollegeAthletics Association (NCAA) Division 111 in response to major changesin the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA)conference in which it has competed for more than two decades.

Because of the new affiliation, in 1996 Evergreen will addbasketball and tennis to an intercollegiate sports lineup that nowincludes men's and women's soccer and swimming.

The college had to make a decision about its intercollegiate sportsaffiliation after several schools in the Pacific Northwest AthleticConference changed their affiliations to the NCAA. The decisionfollowed several weeks of reviewing options in consultation withstudents, faculty, staff, alumni and community members.

"The choice that made the most sense for the way Evergreenapproaches athletics and academics was NCAA Division 111," says ArtCostantino, vice president for student affairs. "Division III colleges anduniversities tend to be smaller institutions that maintain a strongacademic focus in athletic programs. Like Evergreen, they see value inathletics, but they look to athletics as an addition to the academicprogram that is accessible to a range of interested students, instead ofjust the most elite athletes."

NCAA Division III has lower costs for membership and insurance,subsidizes travel to compete in championships and prohibits athletics-based tuition waivers, which Evergreen has used. It also requiresschools to compete in four intercollegiate sports. Ironically, Evergreenfound it could add two sports in the NCAA division without exceedingthe overall cost of supporting two sports in the NAIA.

"We found strong support for basketball and a number of studentssaid they would enjoy attending basketball games," says Costantino."There was also interest in tennis because we have courts and becausethe presence of a spring sport was seen as desirable."

Greener on champion soccer teamMedved started for Seattle Sounders

Shawn Medved, who played on the men's Geoduck soccer teamfrom 1985 to 1989, was a starting mid-fielder for the Seattle Soundersteam that won the A League professional soccer national champion-ships October 12 in a game against the Atlanta Ruckus. The Soundersare the first professional franchise to win a national championship inSeattle since the 1979 SuperSonics.

Counting creatures great and smallBiodiversity work gets NYT write-up

Evergreen faculty member Jack Longino was featured in the July 11issue of the New York Times for his cutting-edge efforts to documentbiodiversity in the jungle of Costa Rica. The Times caught up withLongino in the high-tech jungle lab where he spends part of each yeardocumenting an immense number of tropical species of arthropods —animals with jointed bodies and hard shells, including insects, mites,spiders and crustaceans — in collaboration with colleagues from otherschools. Four full-time lab assistants keep the project going. The Timessaid that while the task of Longino and his colleagues might seemmundane, "these biologists are at the leading edge of a veritabletsunami of surveys poised to wash over the globe. A movement aimedat saving biodiversity by marketing the drugs, foods, genes and otherproducts these wild species may carry naturally leads to the need toinventory the available goods. Biodiversity surveys like this one, whichis part of Costa Rica's national inventory of biodiversity, have becomeall the rage."

Beyond counting arthropods — Longino is an ant specialist whodivides his time between research and a half-time teaching post atEvergreen — these biologists are learning new ways to determine howto do these surveys, developing guidelines, goals and methodologiesfor doing inventories for truly diverse groups in one of the mostspecies-rich habitats in the world. The Times considers Longino and hiscolleagues to be direct descendants of the igth century tropicalexplorers like Charles Darwin and Henry Walter Bates, "the long trompthrough the muddy jungle ... poring over the tedium of ant after ant,they keep on in hopes of finishing the job of making sense of theglorious mess of tropical nature.

AlumNewsFirst Peoples'Mentoring Programenters seventh year

Student interest in the mentoring

program offered by First Peoples'

Advising Services is greater than ever

as the program enters its seventh

year. Mentors help new students of

color adjust to academic life at

Evergreen and assist them in develop-

F ing tools for charting their future.

B With 30 students requesting mentors

this year, the need for the service is

obvious. More alumni mentors are

needed as new students enter

Evergreen in the winter and spring

quarters. "We hope to provide each

student who requests a mentor with

the support that a caring alum can

provide," says Ricardo Leyva-Puebla,

director of First Peoples' Advising

Service.

All alumni are invited to participate in the program; people of color are especially

encouraged to volunteer. Alumni mentors who have participated in the program say it

is an extremely gratifying experience. The relationship often evolves beyond mentorship

to a two-way friendship that has lasting rewards, they say.

What does it take to be an alumni mentor? An interest in helping new students of

color in their transition to TESC, an ability to work one-on-one with a student, a

willingness to share personal experiences about life before, during and after Ever-

green, and a desire to see students of color succeed.

Jacinta McKoy '91, who manages the Communications Building on campus, took

advantage of the mentorship program as a student; now she's a mentor herself. "1 see

the benefit of the mentor program from my experience as a student," she says. "1 know

for myself when I first came here there was a plethora of questions — they could be

social, they could be academic, they could be personal. It really helped to have

someone to talk to." Now she says she wants to give something back. "For students of

color here on campus there are so many mixed messages. It always takes a while for

students to find and/or create their way around. The mixed messages are amplified by

issues of race, gender and/or sexual orientation; things can really get complicated."

To find out more about becoming a mentor, contact Leyva-Puebla at(360) 866-6000 ext. 6394.

FIRST PEOPLES' MENTOR JACINTA MCKOY

Geoduck license plateSoon, the only designer license plate

worth hanging on your auto — the

Evergreen geoduck plate — will be

available from the state of Washington.

Whether you drive a '65 Volvo 122$, an '85

Honda Civic or a '95 Chrysler LaBaron, the

plate will personalize your ride, and

proceeds go to Evergreen scholarships.

The image of the geoduck emblazons the

plate, leaving room for five digits. We

think the plate will be popular with far

more than Evergreen alumni, students,

employees and others closely affiliated

with the college. Where else in the

country can you sport a license plate with

a geoduck, the creature that represents

the ultimate in alternative transportation

(digging deep and fast) and is native to

the Northwest? Plates will cost $30 on top

of all applicable registration fees and

taxes, with $28 of that going directly to

the college. For more information about

how to be the first on your block to hang

a clam on your car, contact the Alumni

Office, (360) 866-6000 ext. 6551, or send

e-mail to tescalumselwha.evergreen.edu

or manionv5>elwha. evergreen.edu.

Did we goof?The college is moving to a new database

) system to better serve alumni and donors.I During the change over period, we are

converting thousands of records, and we wantto be sure we get the information right.

If you find that your name or otherinformation appears incorrectly in anymailings or other material you receive fromus, please let us know and we will correct thesituation promptly.You can send corrections to:Office of College AdvancementThe Evergreen State College13122Olympia, WA 98505

call (360) 866-6000, ext. 6566or e-mail allsupsaelwha.evergreen.edu

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AlumNotesShow offyour business card

Alumni are invited to send their

business cards to the Alumni Affairs

Office to be included on a poster project

coordinated by the Alumni Affairs and

Career Development offices. Wendy

Freeman, Career Development director, is

planning to display a poster and album of

alumni business cards in the Career

Development Office to highlight the wide

array of careers alumni occupy and to

help students focus on possible career

paths. "It helps immensely in directing

their conversation to what skills are

necessary, as opposed to 'what can I do

with my degree,'" says Freeman.

If you are interested in participating,

please send two business cards to the

Alumni Affairs Office, 2700 Evergreen

Parkway NW, 13122, Olympia, WA 98505.

For more information, please call Alumni

Affairs at (360) 866-6000 ext. 6552 or e-

mail manionvg>elwha.evergreen.edu.

Political Ecology25-year reunionin the works

In traditional Greener fashion,

classmates from the 1971-72 Political

Ecology academic program are bringing

an idea into reality. Ideas bounced

around at Super Saturday, in holiday card

messages and in casual conversations

have sparked interest in a 25-year

reunion, and faculty member Oscar Soule

is working with a committee of alumni

from the program to make it happen.

They sent a letter and questionnaire in

August to former Political Ecology

students to begin the "grassroots"

organizing for a reunion. If you haven't

already responded to the questionnaire,

please contact the Alumni Office to get

more information or to get involved in

the planning for this reunion.

Call (360) 866-6000 ext. 6552

or e-mail manions>elwha.evergreen.edu.

Spring East Coastand California alumniGreener gatherings

"Geoducks" living in California and on

the East Coast will gather at local Greener

events in February and March. It's not too

soon to start organizing for these Greener

Gatherings. If you are interested in

planning gatherings in your area or have

suggestions about locations or activities,

the Alumni Office wants to hear from you.

Prior gatherings have included visits to

local attractions, receptions at alumni

homes and dining at favorite local

restaurants. Ideas for 1996 Greener

Gatherings are welcome! Contact Valerie

Manion in the Alumni Affairs Office at

(360) 866-6000 ext. 6552 or e-mail

manionvselwha.evergreen.edu to get

involved.

1995-96 Alumni Association Board

Officers:President

Vice President

Treasurer

Secretary

Andrea Bowers, '91

Scott Black, '90

Andy Colvin, '91

Beth Henshaw, '93

Board Members:Brad Aiken, '87

LillieAziz, '95

Freddie Barnett, '93

Maia Bellon, '92

Walter Carpenter, '80

Jerilyn Delaney, '92

Charis Dube, '91/95Ray Fowler, '83

Janet Francis, '92

Kendall Grant, '91

Dave Henshaw, '89

Jerliner Houston, '95

Rosalund Jenkins, '94

Tani Lindquist, '91

Aaron Sullivan, '92

Joe VanBuskirk, '89

The board is seeking alumni interested in filling the four vacant positions on the board. To learn more about being a board member, contactAlumni Association President Andrea Bowers at (206) 545-9103 or Alumni Affairs Director Valerie Manion at (360) 866-6000 ext. 6552.

The Evergreen ReView Fall 1995

CLASS OF 1972William H. Crumbaker, Seattle,

passed away March 17. He is survived

by his wife, Anne Marie Crumbaker,

and children Michael Crumbaker, Shari

Miller, Tara Thomas and Meghan

Thomas. He was president and chief

executive officer of Daniel Smith, Inc.

and took pride in the significant

contribution his company made to the

art community.

Linn Jacobs, Tacoma, WA, retired

from Charles Wright Academy.

CLASS OF 1973Ken Balsley, Lacey, is self-employed

in the public relations field.

Lawrence Hall, Ronan, MT, is general

manager for a tribal electronics firm at

the Flathead Reservation.

Michael Merger, New Brighton, PA, is

vice president for Sales at Trans

General Life Insurance.

James Mead, Olympia, works at the

Olive Garden restaurant.

John Metke, Bow, WA, is employed

by Capital Medical Center.

Glenn Tucker, Danbury, CT, works at

Tucker Associates.

CLASS OF 1974James Bennett, Menlo Park, CA, is a

product manager at Pure Software.

Michael Canfield, Kent, WA, is

employed by Walker, Richer and

Quinn.

Sheila Dinwiddie, Norfolk, VA, works

in case management at Norfolk

Community Services.

Susan Drumheller, Silver Spring, MD,

is a psychologist.

Linda Eber, Brooklyn, NY, works for

Planned Parenthood.

Chuck Gill, Ellicott City, MD, and wife

Heike have a son, Nicolai Darrion,

born March 22, and Chuck says "he's

growing like a weed."

Deborah Hall, Kent, WA, is employed

byJimRosenow.

Michael Hall, Albany, CA, works at

the Earthquake Outlet. As a former

Evergreen staffer, he says, "Hi to

everyone."

Robert Jackson, Riverside, CA, is

executive director of Riverside

American Indian Center, a nonprofit

urban Indian center created by Indian

community leaders to provide social

services, job training and advocacy for

American Indians in Riverside County.

He was an original member of the

Contemporary American Minorities

program.

Harold Matheson, Hoquiam, WA,

performs security work for Anderson

and Middleton.

Neil McClanahan, Olympia, was

appointed interim Public Safety

director at Evergreen in July. He

served as adjunct faculty in the 1987-

88 Crime in America program, and in

1991-92 on a committee that analyzed

campus security procedures and

recommended modifications to the

campus Public Safety Office.

Merry Nail, Brentwood, CA, is a

substitute teacher for the Brentwood

School System.

Marya Nowakowski, Seattle, works

for the Peace Corps.

John Umlauf Jr., Orchard Park, NY,

works at Daffodil, a fancy restaurant.

Jane Wingfield, Olympia, is

employed by the Department of

Health Services.

Jan Rensel, Honolulu, HI, was

awarded a Ph.D. in anthropology from

the University of Hawaii in May 1994.

Her dissertation was "For Love or

Money: Interhousehold Exchange and

the Economy of Rotuma." Jan

continues to research and write about

the island of Rotuma with her

husband, anthropologist Alan Howard,

in addition to developing educational

materials about Pacific Island cultures

and environmental issues, and singing

with a string band and Hawaiian

church choir.

CLASS OF 1975Christopher Altwegg, Seattle,

opened two new businesses.

Diane Berger, Bellevue, WA, received

her teaching degree in 1993 and has

been teaching as an elementary school

computer specialist. She has a

daughter, Anna.

Joan Conrad, Seattle, is an

independent contractor with Conrad

and Associates.

Raymond Eldred, Groton, CT, works

at Foxwood Casino.

Susan Feiner, Williamsburg, VA,

works in economics and womens'

studies at the University of Southern

Maine.

Kent Ferris, Seattle, is a student of

elementary education at the

University of Washington.

Cyril Laurie, Olympia, works for the

Washington State Department of

Ecology in the field of intergovern-

mental relations with Indian tribes.

Petra Lewin, Centralia, works for

Petra and Dean Realty.

Patricia Meessen, Seattle, is a self-

employed voice-skills teacher.

Sarah Moser, Vashon, WA, is a

secretary at the Vashon Island

Community Church.

Dave Schuett-Hames, Olympia, is

employed by the Squaxin Island Indian

tribe.

Chere Weiss, Kelso, WA, is a disability

specialist with Headstart at Lower

Columbia Community College.

CLASS OF 1976Betsey Chadwick, Windsor, CT,

works at Co-opportunity, a nonprofit

housing agency.

Hal Darst, Eugene, OR, works for

Katherine Freer Wilderness Therapy

Expeditions.

Pete Friedman, Whidbey Island, WA,

is senior planner for the City of Mill

Creek, working with the city and

county on land-use matters, and

serves on the City of Langley Planning

Commission. He enjoys downhill and

cross-country skiing, hiking, camping,

golfing, reading and traveling with his

wife, Betsy.

Leslie Young Harvill, San Mateo, CA,

works at Pulse; his wife, Ann Lasko

Harvill, works at Talisman Dynamics.

Shelby Heimdahl, Seattle, is a

paralegal with Hella-Ehrgem.

Rebecca Krall, Portland, OR, works

at the Outside-In Clinic.

Gregory Logan, Tacoma, is a

corrections officer with the state of

Washington.

Richard Sher, Los Angeles, CA, is self-

employed creating animation for CD-

ROM.

Janet Stonington, Louisville, CO, just

had a baby.

David Taylor, Ridgefield, WA, is a

probation officer in Multnomah

County, Oregon.

Beth Tribwell, Olympia, is a financial

planner with Waddell and Reed.

CLASS OF 1977Dale Carlson, Seattle, is a multimedia

developer with Team Design.

Tim Graham, Davis, CA, works for the

National Biological Service at the

cooperative research unit at

University of California-Davis.

Patrick Lee, Olympia, is assistant

director at the Washington State

Department of Ecology.

Joyce McConnell, Washington, D.C.,

is a law professor at West Virginia

School of Law.

Pam Miller, Washington D.C., is

director of the Alaska Lands Program

for the Wilderness Society. She was

selected to chair the Alaska Coalition,

made up of more than 100 groups from

across the United States and Canada.

She spent eight years with the U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service and was

principal investigator for a study on

the effects of oil field contaminants on

birds at Prudhoe Bay. She has also

worked for the National Wildlife

Federation and Greenpeace.

Kevin Olson, Seattle, is a graphic

artist with the Silkscreen Company.

Leslie Owen, Bethesda, MD, is an

attorney.

Sharon Rings, Seattle, is employed by

Stevens Elementary School.

Alice Robinson, Olympia, is retired.

Julia (Gulden) Rosmond, Olympia, is

a computer information consultant.

Stanley Tufts, Jr., Ravensdale, WA, is

working on his doctorate degree.

Bruce Vecchitto, Novato, CA, is a

manager in the film department at

Industrial Light and Magic.

Gordon White, Olympia, works as a

potato farmer and a water quality

manager.

CLASS OF 1978Barbara Al-Haffar, New Canaan, CT,

is a freelance artist with two sons, Zak

and Jake.

Douglas Anderson, Bandon, OR,

works at the Bandon Veterinary

Hospital.

M. Patricia Beckmann, Poulsbo, WA,

is a biochemist at CellPro.

Whit Blauvelt, Brooklyn, NY, is web-

master at The Dorsai Embassy, http://

www. dorsai.org/.

Anne Brohan, Puyallup, WA, works at

Windemere Real Estate.

Nancy Connolly, Eugene, OR,

established a lavender farm.

Raymond Ensing, San Luis Obispo,

CA, is self-employed in body massage/

therapy.

John Ernest, Colton, OR, works at the

North Woods Wholesale Nursery.

Jane (Sameth) Fishman, Sierra

Madre, CA, is a self-employed graphic

designer.

Kathleen Gerrald, Issaquah, WA, is a

Boeing employee.

Jettalee Grimes, Tacoma, WA, is

retired.

Christine Hoggatt, Issaquah, WA, is

an artist and teacher.

Shawn Gutshall, Santa Rosa, CA,

teaches English as a second language

at Santa Rosa Junior College.

Karrie Jacobs, New York, NY, is a

writer.

Marcella John, Toppenish, WA, works

in the vocational rehabilitation field.

Nancy Luenn received the Washing-

ton Governor's Writers Award for her

picture book, Squish! A Wetland Walk

(Atheneum Books, 1994)

Toy Kay, Olympia, is retired.

Israel Mendoza, Lacey, WA, is

director of Policy, Legislation and

Communications with the Department

of Employment.

Mark Noble, Olympia, is a fireman

with Thurston County Fire District 9.

Carla Sameth, Los Angeles, CA, works

for Women at Work.

James Sayce, Ocean Park, WA, is an

executive director with Pacific County

and a cranberry grower.

Nancy Smith, Carbondale, CO, is on

the town council and is a self-

employed architect.

Esperanza Standoff Warren, ME, is

a water quality biologist for the

University of Maine.

David Stevenson, Macomb, IL, is an

assistant professor of English at

Western Illinois University.

Petrina Walker, Shelton, WA, is a

journal-scribe for the Washington

State House of Representatives.

CLASS OF 1979Rebecca McAninch-Dake, Olympia,

is a clerk-steno at the Washington

State Department of Social and Health

Services.

George Baitinger, Portland, works at

Portland State University.

Walter Cavalier, Tacoma, is retired.

Carolyn Conner, Spokane, has a 2-

year-old daughter.

Betsy (Koenig) Farrell, Loveland,

CO, is an outdoor educator for an

international wilderness program. She

has a beautiful husband and a home in

an intentional community.

Wanda Hedrick, Olympia, works at

Olympia Medical Lab.

Robert Hughes, Vancouver, WA, is an

instructor at Clark College.

Richard F. Jones, Hong Kong, a

freelance television news cameraman

based in Hong Kong for seven years, is

looking to do a bit of networking with

old friends — e-mail theageshk.net.

Mary Prevost, Seattle, is an

employee of Levine and Associates.

Janet Purkiss, Lake Wales, FL, is a

teacher at the Polk County School

Board.

Daniel Stein, East Northport, NY, and

his family recently moved and say

"come visit, stay for a while, or at least

drop a line."

Timothy Tavis, Wilmington, DE, is a

psychologist in private practice.

Talbot Uehlinger Jr., Olympia, is

self-employed in the wholesale candle

business.

CLASS OF 1980Melanie Bennett, Olympia, is a self-

employed massage therapist.

John Beauchamp, Jelgava, Latvia,

writes that "everything is well on the

Baltic Front." An active Frisbee (TM)

player in the early '705 and former

World Frisbee Distance Champion in

'75, he plans to start Frisbee teams in

Latvia.

Pamela Cohagen, Battle Ground, WA,

works at Columbia River Mental

Health Services.

Conrad Driscoll, Oakland, CA, is a

landscape architect.

Larry Dobberstein, Eugene, OR, is

starting his own video production

business, Veni Vidi Video.

Cheryl Fredrickson, Louisville, KY, is

a human resources director.

Shirley Galloway, Vancouver, WA, is

a foundation/private consultant with

the Vancouver School District.

Linda Goff, Olympia, does computer

graphics with Interaction Research.

Timothy Hitchcock, Olympia, would

like to stay in touch electronically,

e-mail: evergreengsaol.com. He is

owner/manager of Evergreen Medical

Documents, Inc., a medical transcrip-

tion service. Tim and his wife Sandy

have three children: Brad, 19; Paul, 17;

and Allison, 13. He attends Olympia's

Calvary Chapel and is interested in

computing, hiking, foreign films and

medicine.

Susan Knight, Olympia, is a

registered nurse at Capital Medical

Center.

Debra Leslie, Davis, CA, is a self-

employed music and piano teacher.

Paul Mastrangelo, Odessa, TX, works

for the Odessa Cultural Council.

Debra Piccolotti, Eugene, OR, is a

technical writer at Symantec

Corporation.

Victoria Poyser, Bridgewater, CT, a

freelance illustrator, did the

illustrations for a new book, Snowbear

Whittington.

Victoria Lee Scott and Ernest

Jones, Seattle, were married in

November and bought a house with a

view of the Cascades and Mt. Baker.

Victoria has a massage practice and is

studying for her M.L.S. at the

University of Washington School of

Library and Information Science.

Steve Stein, New York, NY, is an

audio publisher.

R. Scott Stilson, Olympia, works in

the area of databases for libraries.

Jennifer Sidoli, Santa Barbara, CA, is

writing her third novel, and had one of

her short stories published in the June

issue of Art Times. She is a consultant

doing technical editing of environmen-

tal impact reports for Arthur D. Litt le,

Inc.

Michael Strayer, Longview, WA,

works at Lower Columbia Community

College.

Martin Veveris, Buffalo Grove, IL, is

in graduate school working on his

doctorate in clinical psychology.

CLASS OF 1981Jan Bernstein, Seattle, is the mother

of a one-year-old toddler.

Russell Boris, Kingston, NY, is a

musician, composer and outreach

worker. He writes "my two children

keep me working hard!"

Donna Caulton, Kettle Falls, WA, is

completing her nurse practitioner's

license and intends to open a practice

in the Colville area. She bought y,

acres on which she "is going to build a

house out of old tires, plaster and ?"

Steve Chorak, Olympia, is self-

employed.

Paul (Fink) Cinefuegos, Tofino, B.C.,

is in his fifth year living in a yurt in the

ancient temperate rainforest of

Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island.

He continues grassroots community

organizing, increasingly with salary.

His current projects include founding

an ecological restoration pilot project

in the local clearcuts and overthrow-

ing capitalism — "a large job, but

somebody's got to do i t ."

Kevin Head, Olympia, is a teacher/

senior advisor/coach at Puget Sound

High School.

Anita Lawrence, Seattle, is beginning

graduate school.

Tina McKernan-Fox, San Francisco,

CA, works for Reef Real Estate

Company.

Sandra Milano, Olympia, retired from

the Public Employee Council.

Jonathan Moceri, Portland, OR, is

employed by the Oregon Health Plan.

Tucker Petertil, Olympia, is a

commercial and fine artist at Logicon.

Lisa Rose, Seattle, works for Anew.

Richard Stevenson, Seattle, is chief

operating officer for Clise Properties,

Inc., where he supervises management

of Clise Properties and its commercial

real estate holdings. He is a member of

the Bellevue Downtown Association,

the Downtown Seattle Association and

has served as senior vice president

and legislative chairman for the

Building Owners S Managers

Association.

Leslie Thorpe, Olympia, works in

external affairs at Washington Health

Services.

Kendra Wagner, Evanston, IL, is a

dance and physical education teacher

at Cook Magnate School in Waikegan.

Catherine Williamson, St. Louis, MO,

is employed by Barnes Hospital.

CLASS OF 1982John Adams, Bainbridge Island, WA,

was published in the May edition of In

Context magazine. He says, "Look it

up, it's a great edition!"

Michael Boggess, Seattle, is a

freelance fiction writer and owns a

landscape business.

Phillip Bunker, Tumwater, WA, is

retired.

Colleen Chandler, Grapeview, WA, is

self-employed.

Chris Daugherty, Aberdeen, WA,

works in the Washington State

Insurance Commissioner's Office.

Leslie Davino, Wethersfield, CT,

works at the Kari and Shari Daycare

Center.

Carole Dickerson, Olympia, works in

the Office of the Superintendent of

Public Instruction.

Gary Floyd, Olympia, works at

Custom Security Alarm Systems and is

on the advisory board for Thurston

County Crime Stoppers.

Liz Frey, Elma, WA, teaches art at

Greenhill School, a juvenile detention

center.

Karen Kamara Gose, Olympia, is

executive director of the Washington

State Arts Commission.

Jan Gorstein, Ann Arbor, MI, works

with UN1CEF and the United Nations

for the Indonesian government.

William Harris, Olympia, works for

the Washington State Department of

Ecology.

Joan Kitchens, Olympia, is a stay-

home mom.

Steve Holloman, Seattle, has worked

as a financial services supervisor at

the Washington State Department of

Social and Health Services for 10 years.

Patricia Justis, Olympia, is a program

planner at St. Peter Hospital.

Matt Love, Olympia, illustrated

Strange Northwest, a book written by

Chris Bader '82, featuring stories

about strange phenomena in

Washington. In addition, Matt works

for the Department of Transportation

and plays music around town with his

daughter Kelsie, 13.

Denise MacNeil, Claremont, CA, is a

full-time student.

Michael Majoros, Cambridge, MA, is

an independent filmmaker and self-

employed film teacher.

Mark Rappaport, Brooklyn, NY, is a

guidance counselor at the New York

City Board of Education.

Peter Olson, Washington, D.C., is

self-employed in massage therapy/

dance movement.

Marjorie Schmugler, Oakland, CA, is

an engineering process manager for

161 Specialty Audio.

Matthew Sealright, Aptos Hills, CA,

is a technical support engineer at Acer

Multimedia.

Sue Stadler, Gresham, OR, is a

reading teacher for the Evergreen

School District.

Katherine Slice, Seattle, is a self-

employed court reporter.

Diana Stobart, Boston, MA, works for

the Massachusetts State Department

of Public Welfare.

William Wake, New York, NY, is a

registered nurse at New York Hospital

and is adopting a child.

CLASS OF 1983Vivian Ames, Longview, WA, just

retired.

Jeffrey Bruton, Seattle, is working

toward his master's degree at New

York University.

Michael Dibb, Derby, CT, is a middle

school teacher in Bristol.

Patricia Clabaugh, Bryan, TX, is both

a student and employee in the

archeology department at Texas ASM.

Virginia Cooper, Bolinas, CA, does

habitat restoration work with the

National Park Service and is the

mother of two children.

Stephen Erickson, Palatine, IL, an

accountant for W. W. Granger, is

studying for his M.B.A. degree at Lake

Forest College.

Martha Garber, Ocracoke, NC,

recently published a book, Ocracoke

Wild: A Nauralist's Year on the Outer

Banks Island (Down Home Press,

1995).Barbara Gooding, Olympia, has

retired.

Robert Heywood, Seattle, is

employed by Panasonic in the sales/

consumer electronics field.

Jenny Holmes, Washington, D. C, is a

student at Howard University.

Christopher Johnson, Olympia,

operates a physicians' assistant

practice at both Olympia-area

hospitals.

Elizabeth Johnson, Palo Alto, CA, is

married and has a 5-year-old son. She

is a psychotherapist and is looking for

a publisher for the children's book she

wrote.

Leslie Jones, Portland, OR, is a

graduate student in the art therapy

program at Marylhurst College.

Raymond Kirby, Boise, ID,

established a realty appraisal business

in 1993.

Julis Kreger, Olympia, has retired.

John Lysak, Edinboro, PA, accepted

an assistant professorship to teach art,

specializing in lithographic print-

making, at Edinboro University.

David Miller, Berkeley CA, teaches

Jewish studies at Berkeley.

Susan Merlino, Converse, TX, is

working on her master's degree in

special education at Southwest Texas

State University.

Micah Petersen, Vancouver, WA,

teaches high school science in the

Evergreen School District.

David Price, Olympia, is a professor

at St. Martin's College.

James Russell, Seattle, works in

quality assurance at Boeing.

Joan Ruthford, Chehalis, WA, is an

accountant at Craig Ruthford, CPA.

Michael Shohan, Olympia, teaches

English at St. Martin's College.

Patrick Simmons, Seattle, died in an

avalanche on April 24 while climbing

down Mt. Orville in Alaska. Patrick,

who was employed by Eddie Bauer, is

survived by his wife, Darcy

Christiansen-Simmons '83, and his 7-

year-old son, Dylan.

Sandia Slaby, Olympia, is a therapist

and family counseling and elder-care

specialist at Thurston/Mason Mental

Health. She remains an avid gardener.

Victoria Smith, Ithaca, NY, is a USDA

soil scientist.

Chiyuki Shannon, Roy, WA, is self-

employed at the Multicentric Institute.

Gordon Shirk, Dearborn, MI, works

at Pizza Hut.

Jana Vance, Fairfax, CA, is a Foley

artist, doing all the footsteps and

natural props for films like Mi Familia

and Strange Days.

Marian Vimont, Lacey, WA, is a

private case manager in gerontology

at Silver Threads.

Steven Whalen, Olympia, is an

electronic media producer.

CLASS OF 1984Susan Acker, Seattle, is a single

mother attending Antioch University

as a graduate student in education.

Susan Bensman, Snohomish, is a

survey technician at Pacific Northwest

Surveys, and says, "Need a survey?

Call us!"

John Brown Sr., Olympia, is retired.

Martha Bullock, Portland, OR, has

been a kindergarten teacher at the

Waldorf School for n years.

Connie Bunyer, Olympia, has two

children.

Gail Collins, Olympia, is working for

the state of Washington on an

internship for her master's degree.

Joan Cook, Memphis, TN, is a clinical

nutritionist at St. Francis Hospital.

Annie Cubberly, Olympia, works at

the Washington State Department of

Social and Health Services.

Olivia Curtis, Puyallup, WA, is

executive director at TAMARC.

William Eiseman, Glendale, Wl,

opened his own business, Castle

Realty.

Katherine Fehsenfeld, Olympia, is a

physicians' assistant at Shelton's

Health Care Center.

Rex Fletcher, Altus, OK, is a self-

employed pediatrician in a small,

southwestern town.

Robert Golden, Olympia, is a self-

employed knife-and-sword artist.

Doby Johns, Houston, TX, teaches

Kindergarten-through-third-grade

bilingual education in an independent

school.

Lisa Kidd, Olympia, attends St.

Martin's graduate school.

Scott Kimmitt Olympia, owns a small

restaurant.

William Knowles, Seattle, is a labor

employment attorney.

Peter Looper, Atlanta, GA, received

his master's in architecture degree in

1991 and is working on an internship

to become a certified architect.

Peg McAdam, Cambridge, MA, is a

Harvard doctoral student.

Brenden McFarlan, Olympia, is

working on his M.E.S. degree at

Evergreen.

Judith McKenzie, Olympia, is a

teacher at South Puget Sound

Community College.

Aaron Pailthorp, Seattle, works at

Microsoft.

Daniel Puryear, Olympia, owns a

design firm.

Pablo Schugurensky, Seattle, works

at the Washington State Arts

Commission.

The Evergreen ReView Fall 1995

R. Christopher Shaw and Ellen

Bigham Shaw '87, Federal Way, WA,

are still happily married and expect a

new baby to soon join their 4-year-old

daughter, Carolyn. Christopher works

in membership services at REI.

Albert Shepard, Friday Harbor, WA,

is a whale museum educational

coordinator.

Deborah Steinberger, Leeds, MA, is

self-employed.

Jeffery Strauss, Colorado Springs,

CO, works at Heart's Jewelers.

Jan league, Lacey, WA, directs the

Lacey-Thurston County Chamber of

Commerce and established league

Community Management.

Susan (Billedeaux) Trodoux,

Ridgefield, WA, was married in March

1994 and is a self-employed freelance

writer.

Paul Von Mettenheim, Nederland,

CO, is a sales representative for a

construction company.

John Wason, Bozeman, MT, works at

Patagonia and has a new baby.

Marilyn Werner, Gig Harbor, WA, is a

mental health worker for Manner Care

Nursing Home.

Sara Williams, Boulder, CO, is self-

employed.

CLASS OF 1985Lisa Anderson, Vancouver, WA,

works in manufacturing at Hewlett-

Packard.

Fletcher and Wendy (Eshbaugh)

Brown '87, Missoula, MT, have two

boys. He is a professor of environmen-

tal studies and science education at

the University of Montana.

Correne Beaudoin, Gig Harbor, WA,

is retired.

Kenneth Crawbuck, Friday Harbor,

WA, works at Legents, Inc.

Kelly Croman, Seattle, is attending

the University of Washington Law

School.

Lisa Donally, Tucson, AZ, is a self-

employed psychotherapist.

Brian Friedkin, Springfield, OR, is

self-employed in the house recon-

struction field.

Andrea Gage, Olympia, is an art

teacher in the Tumwater School

District.

Michael Gudyka, Olympia, is an

employee of Microsoft.

Marcia Hart, Kennewick, WA, is a

customer service supervisor at Ben

Franklin Transit.

Thomas Henderson, Olympia, is a

computer analyst at the Department of

Labor and Industries.

Joseph Klein, Floyd, VA, spent the

summer teaching carpentry skills to

Cheyenne Reservation teens in Lame

Deer, Montana. They completed three

playground structures from pine logs

salvaged from last year's forest fires.

Previously, he was recycling

coordinator for Floyd County, in the

Blue Ridge Mountains.

Phyllis Lowery, Bend, OR, is a self-

employed chef.

Lois Maffeo, Phoenix, AZ, is an

independent singer/songwriter, playing

no-frills pop music. Her third album,

Bet the Sky, rose to number 12 on the

College Music Journal airplay chart.

Penelope Maldonado, Port

Townsend, WA, teaches signing and

Spanish.

Darlene Miller, Dallas, TX, adopted

three children: James, 11 months; and

twins Danielle and Gabrielle, 20

months.

Consuela (Chela) Metzger, Pasadena,

CA, is a book conservator with

Huntington Library.

Daniel Morgenweck, Portland, OR, is

employed by the Malary Hotel.

Anecia (Debbie) O'Carroll, Olympia,

changed her first name to Anecia, a

traditional name of her people

(Alutiiq). She has two daughters, ages 3

and 6, and completed graduate school

at Antioch University.

Jennifer Rose, Jersey City, NJ, works

in the letter of credit department at

Paine Webber. She says, "Hi," to

Margot, Blain, Brian, Johnny and

Allison, "1 miss you."

Gary Sale, Olga, WA, is a park ranger

in Washington state.

Jill Satran 'Sj/'go, Tallahassee, FL, will

serve as an intern for the 1995-96

Florida House of Representatives,

assigned to the Agriculture and

Consumer Services Committee. She's a

second-year doctoral student at the

Askew School of Public Administration

and Policy, Florida State University,

specializing in comparative interna-

tional development and public law.

Previously, she worked for the

Department of Community Develop-

ment and is a Washington Agriculture

and Forestry Leadership Program alum.

Richard Siddoway, Olympia, is a

Washington State Department of

Ecology environmental specialist.

Rick Stern, Petaluma, CA, works for

the Sonoma County Office of Education.

Hiromi Takeno, Lacey, WA, is

employed by Cooper and Lyband.

Marlene Tessendorf-Stoermer,

Tacoma, WA, is an ATST employee.

Ron Wilkinson, of Helena, MT, works

for the state of Montana.

William Young, Mechanicsville, VA,

works for Joyce Engineering.

CLASS OF 1986Eileen Amandes, Oakland, CA, works

at the Mokinno Institute.

Giles Arendt, Olympia, is a youth

counselor at Community Youth

Services.

Robert Ashby, Chigar Hills, OH, is self-

employed.

Jeffrey Barker, Seattle, is feeding the

poor in south Seattle as an urban

minister/associate pastor at the Beacon

Avenue United Church of Christ.

Robert Baumgartner, formerly of

Mountlake Terrace, WA, has been in

Taiwan for several years.

Chelsea Bonacello, Valencia, CA,

works in the film and video fields and

writes "watch out for the photon belt!"

Peter Boos, Sandusky, OH, teaches at

Holy Angel School.

Daniel Breihof, Vancouver, WA, is

self-employed.

Beth Brown, Chapin, SC, is in the

military.

Daniel Bromberger, Berkeley, CA,

teaches at the University of California

at Berkeley.

Tamara Bullock, Livingston, MT, is a

group manager at Counter Point, Inc.

William Campbell, Hoodsport, WA, is

engaged to marry Jeanene Hill '92.

Arthur Carter, Olympia, works for the

Lacey Fire Department.

Maren Christensen, Missoula, MT, is

attending law school at the University

of Montana.

Randall Collins, Olympia, is a

computer programmer at the

Washington State Energy Office.

Robert Cory Jr., Olympia, plans on

retiring soon.

Thomas Connor, Olympia, is a water

quality specialist for the Nisqually

Tribe.

Karen Crown, Olympia, has a 12-year-

old daughter and is engaged to be

married. She teaches at South Puget

Sound Community College and is a

parent education advisor on the

Community Action Council.

Deanna Curry-EIrod, Golden, CO, is

assistant director of Kids Inc.

Patricia Daubenspeck, Vancouver,

WA, works for the Camas School

District.

Ernest DeBella, Auburn, WA, is

employed by Mid-Mountain Materials.

Darlene Defoe, Tenino, WA, works at

Cascade Mental Health Care.

Bruce Degooyer, Bloomington, I L , is

a Country Companies Insurance

employee.

Kathryn Dernham, Seattle, works at

Elliott Bay Books.

Mark Dunton, Tacoma, WA, is

employed at Materials Testing

Corporation.

Carol Dupont, Olympia, is employed

by Batdorf and Bronson Coffee

Roasters.

Karen Edelbach, Tacoma, WA, works

for the Franklin-Pierce School District.

Douglas Ehrmantraut, Longview,

WA, is a Washington State University

employee.

John Elo, Olympia, works for the

Washington State Health Care

Authority.

Kimberly Fitzharris, Seattle, is

majoring in painting at the University

of Washington.

Earl Frank, Sable, ID, works at Rocky

Mountain Academy.

Lenard Fritz, Seven Points, TX, is a

hypnotherapist and psychologist

working on behavior modification on

physical phenomena, after spending

20 years in the Coast Guard.

Saundra George, Olympia, is atraining manager with the state of

Washington.

Stephen Gilbert, Bellevue, WA,

works at the Chamber of Commerce

and just bought a new home.

Eunice Good, Tumwater, WA, is

retired.

Cynthia Green, Port Angeles, WA, is

a reading specialist in a Port Angeles

school.

Debra Gronning, Seattle, works for

the Seattle School District.

Peter Guenther, Putney, VT, works at

Green Mountain Orchards while

attending graduate school in

environmental studies at Antioch.

Patricia Harrington, Fox Island, WA,

is self-employed in the educational

seminar, wellness and business

management fields.

Linda Heuertz, Seattle, is studying

communications in the University of

Washington's graduate program.

The Evergreen ReView Fall 1995

Elizabeth Hislop, Tumwater, WA, is a

city attorney and an advocate for

survivors of domestic violence in Kent.

Michele Hoeft, Vancouver, WA, is

employed at the Parry Center for

Children.

Carol Jenner, Olympia, works at the

Washington State Office of Financial

Management.

Jamie Jenson, Olympia, works at the

Timberline Service Center Library.

Joan Kaczmarek, South Bend, WA, is

employed at the Willapa Alliance.

Michelle Kassens, Centralia, WA, is a

registered nurse at Providence

Hospital.

Michael Kent, Olympia, is employed

by the Thurston County Health

Department.

Michael Leitch, El Cerrito, CA, is a

flight instructor.

Dwight Lentz, Spokane, WA, is the

owner of My West Company.

David Levy, Bellevue, WA, who raised

tilipia fish in a solar tube, is a

Microsoft software engineer.

Theresa Lynch, Olympia, is a

computer analyst with the Washington

State Department of Transportation.

Linda Magin, Beaverton, OR, works at

Albina Emergency Food.

Joan Marshall, Olympia, teaches in

the North Thurston School District.

Jon Martin, Olympia, is self-

employed.

Michael McGrath, Tenino, WA, has

been happily married for 20 years and

works for the Health Care Authority of

Washington.

Scott McLain, Olympia, works at the

Olympia Post Office.

Scott Merriman, Olympia, is a

lobbyist with the Washington

Environmental Council.

Karl Mincin, Concrete, WA, is a

therapeutic nutrition counselor at the

Nutrition Resource Center.

Greg Monta, Modesto, CA, works with

the Big Brother/Big Sister Program in

Stanislaus County.

Roger Moore, Seattle, a nursing

home administrator for Cascade Care

Centers, has two children, ages 4 and

8, and a wonderful wife.

Philip Morgan IV, Seattle, works for

the law firm of David Vail and

Associates.

Teresa Morris, Olympia, is a

vocational rehabilitation counselor for

the Alta-Pacific Group.

Allison Narver, Seattle, is artistic

director of the Annex Theater.

Karen Nelson, Tacoma, WA, bought a

restaurant, sold it and is now relaxing.

Pamela Gates, Olympia, works at the

Budd Bay Cafe.

Kathleen O'Brien, Seattle, is self-

employed in the counseling and

mediation field.

Jackie Oven, Nashville, TN, is a

student at Tennessee Technological

University while working as a fish

biologist at the Tennessee Wildlife

Resources Agency.

Douglas Peters, Nine Mile Falls, WA,

is a solid waste specialist with the

Washington State Department of

Ecology.

Doris Ray, LaCenter, WA, is semi-

retired with 21 grandchildren.

Robert Reed, Eugene, OR, is a tennis

coach with a junior program that was

awarded best in the Northwest.

Philip Rees, Tacoma, WA, is a

longshoreman with the Pacific

Maritime Association.

Mattie Robins, Lilliwaup, WA, is

newly located, just starting a business

and still gardening.

Lee Rose, Kingston, TN, works for the

Tennessee Housing Development

Agency.

Megan Samuels, Woodland Hills, CA,

is a development associate for Davis

Entertainment Television.

Caroline Santuelson, Aberdeen, WA,

is a second-grade teacher.

Eric Seabloom, Ames, IA, is studying

for an ecology degree at Iowa State

University.

Kai Schafft, Stiliwater, ME, is a

student at the University of Maine.

Patricia Schock, Yelm, WA, is leaving

her counseling job at Evergreen and

moving to the Green Mountains of

Vermont, where she will make dolls.

George Sharrett, Olympia, is self-

employed.

Thor Skov, Seattle, is in graduate

school studying international

environmental policy and conserva-

tion biology.

Sylvia Smith, Olympia, works for the

North Thurston School District.

Malcom Stilson, Olympia, is a

Washington State Department of

Natural Resources employee.

Nancy Swenson, Shelton, WA, is

going to graduate school for

certification as a school psychologist.

Previously, she was a prison

psychologist.

Susan Taylor, Yelm, WA, works for

the Washington State Department of

Agriculture.

Lorri Trimble, Olympia, works at

Evergreen's library.

Jacqueline Walter, Olympia, teaches

fifth grade at Meadows Elementary

School.

Maryellen Ward, Carnation, WA, is a

school principal trying to organize a

state funding program that would

serve students with behavior

disorders.

Frederick Wetzel, Morton, WA, is aLewis County Sheriff's Department

detective.

Marie Wick-Freeman, Bremerton,

WA, works at the Bremerton Parks and

Recreation Senior Center.

N. Tod Wooldridge, Bend, OR, is a

self-employed designer-builder.

Duane Wright, Seattle, is writing a

book and is a wire writer on Internet.

Jamise Valadez, Port Angeles, WA, is

employed by the Lower Elwha Tribe.

CLASS OF 1987Sally Anderson, Tenino, WA, is a

freelance photographer.

Cheryl-Lee Alvarez, Olympia, is a

graduate student at Chapman

University. She works with health

services management and medical

evacuation for the Air Force.

Duane Anderson, Newall, SD, is a

Lutheran minister.

Toni Bailie, Paisley, OR, opened a

massage therapy business.

Robert Becker Jr., Seattle, is a

carpenter.

Candyce Bellinger, Olympia, is a

counselor at South Puget Sound

Community College.

Alan Bolton, Seattle, works for Adobe

Systems.

Katherine Brascher, Olympia, works

for Rainier Research.

Richard Britz, Grapeview, WA,

teaches in the Grapeview School

District.

Mary Bruce, Tumwater, WA, is a

substitute teacher.

Chris Burke, Boulder, CO, is director

of Boulder Farmers Markets.

David Lee Campbell, Nashville, TN, is

the director of Science and Steward-

ship of Tennessee at the Nature

Conservancy. He received his master's

degree at the University of Vermont.

David Campbell, Olympia, is

employed by Works in Progress.

Martha Campbell, Olympia, recently

had a baby.

Florence Caplow, Bellingham, WA, is

a self-employed rare plant botanist

who discovered a previously

undescribed plant species last year.

Helenmarie Clynch, Seattle, is the

registrar at Seattle Prep High School.

Donald Coleman, Syracuse, NY, is a

self-employed remodeler.

Lisa Coleman, Madison, AL, works for

the Department of Human Resources.

Nina Cooley, Austin, TX, teaches

music at Kirby Hall, a private K-i2

school. She also teaches private piano,

flute and voice at her own music

studio.

Daniel Deane, Quilcene, WA, was

married recently and is the manager of

Skookum Environmental Service, the

smallest full-service recycling center

in the state.

Celine Davis, Aloha, OR, is studying

for her master's degree in health

administration and public administra-

tion at Portland State University. She

is a computer liaison in medical

records at Oregon Health Sciences

University.

Sooze DeLeon, Seattle, works for

Frontier Geo Sciences.

Charles Demarest, San Francisco, CA,

completed his M.B.A. working as a

Japanese-English translator. He works

at Tesco.

Stephan Dimitroff, Milton, WA, is an

engineer at Entertainment Communi-

cations, Inc.

Carol Dittbenner, Roy, WA, is a

program coordinator at Puget Sound

Education Service.

Lawrence Dominguez, Olympia, is a

fishery biologist with the U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service.

David Dubreuil, Olympia, is a

Washington State Department of

Ecology employee.

Dean Duncan and Elizabeth Vargas

Duncan, Davenport, IA, have a

daughter, Sara Beth, born July 22, 1994.

Beth is an attorney and is looking

forward to working in mediation as a

part-time job, since she's now a ful l -

time mom. Dean is an assistant

professor at Western Illinois

University, after receiving his Ph.D. in

counselor education and supervision.

Susan Ellerman, Missoula, MT, is an

interpreter in the Missoula School

District.

Pamela Favro, Olympia, is a self-

employed psychotherapist.

Russell Fry moved to Australia.

Jean-Louis Gazabat, Gig Harbor, WA,

owns his own company.

Thome George, Tonasket, WA, is the

owner of Rustic Furniture.

John Gibbons, New York, NY, is a

philosophy professor at New York

University.

Frank Gunderson and Micky Pohl

'90, were married. Frank works at

Wesleyan University.

Lawrence Hall Jr., Taholah, WA, is

employed by Northwest Indian

Treatment Center.

Susan Hall, Milpitas, CA, is a massage

therapist at Watercourse Way.

Richard Hartley, Philadelphia, PA, is

self-employed in desktop publishing,

producing medical texts.

Susan Hershman, Tacoma, WA, is a

self-employed acupuncturist.

Greg Hightower, Issaquah, WA, is a

senior software engineer at Synergistic

Software.

Patricia Holm, Olympia, is an

environmental planner for the state of

Washington.

Nicholas Huff, Olalla, WA, is starting

his own business.

Susan James, Charlottesville, VA, is

the business office manager at the

University of Virginia Medical Center.

Marjory Johnson, Montesano, WA,

has three children and works at Grays

Harbor Community College and at

Coastal Community Action.

William Johnson, Seattle, works for

the Skagit Community Mental Health

Veterans' Program.

Kimberly Koeppen, Olympia, works

in the trade and economic develop-

ment field.

Kenneth Koester, Vancouver, WA, is

an employee of Frost Engineering.

Thomas Kolba, Portland, OR, is a

church custodian. Last year he began

his own acting school/theater

business, Portland Theater Art School.

He is also completing a theater-related

M.A. program.

Keith Krasovec, Yelm, WA, is

employed by Woodfire Pottery.

Rhyannon Lallatin, Kirkland, WA,

taught at Evergreen this summer while

working on her master's degree in

ecopsychology at Antioch.

Cosette LeCiel, Seattle, studies

genetics at the University of

Washington graduate school.

Marc Levine, Brooklyn, NY, is a

writer and state court employee.

Rich Lindner, Aurora, CO, does oil

and gas exploration for Cody Energy.

A. Burke Long, Shelton, WA, works at

Videoland Productions.

Kenneth Lopossa, Olympia, is

employed by Gibson and Wise

Investment Corporation.

Derek Maher, Buena Vista, VA, is

earning his Ph.D. in religious studies-

Buddhism at the University of Virginia.

Sharon McBride, Olympia, is a case

manager for Senior Services of South

Sound.

James McCauley, Puyallup, WA, is a

postal employee.

Brian McLaughlin, Port Townsend,

WA, works for the Washington State

Department of Fisheries.

Matt McLean, Auburn, WA, works at

Express Northwest.

Steven Miller, Montgomery, AL, is on

the faculty at Alabama State College.

Roberta Morello, Olympia, is a

Butchard Designs employee.

Wilan Morgenstern, Kent, WA, just

bought a house.

Louis Nadelson, Olympia, teaches in

the Olympia School District.

Sandra Jones Nielsen, Seattle, and

her husband, Kurt, are parents of Lars,

born October 5, 1994. Sandra resigned

as human resources coordinator at

Shurgard Storage Centers to be an at-

home mom.

Tom O'Brien, Pine Bush, NY, has two

children and teaches at-risk youth.

Tamara Paddock, Olympia, teaches

fourth grade in Shelton.

Pamela Pasquale, Seattle, is a field

staff nurse at Staff Builders Home

Health.

David Peterson, Federal Way, WA, is

a teacher with the Federal Way School

District.

Nancy Patterson, Oiympia, writes

special projects for the Washington

State Department of Social and Health

Services.

Sandra Paul, Seattle, is a drug/

alcohol abuse counselor at Lutheran

Compass Center.

Guy Reim, Fircrest, WA, works in

sales at Inspecttech.

Glenn Reynolds, Olympia, is a

mental health case manager.

Jennifer Rietzke, Olympa, is an

employee at Educational Services

District 113.

Heidi Roecks, Seattle, contracts with

Microsoft.

Rhys Roth, Olympia, works at the

Energy Outreach Center and is co-

director of The Atmosphere Alliance, a

project of Earth Island Institute.

Susan Seegers, Lacey, WA, is an

administrative assistant at JJ and

Associates Realty.

Debra Shapiro, Olympia, owns Jinjor,

a natural fiber clothing boutique.

Eric Simonson, Los Angeles, CA, is

working in multimedia and enjoys

riding his bike on the beach-bike

path. He writes "alum e-mail would be

great!" — simonsonanetcom.com

Susan Sisk, Tenino, WA, is employed

by Parkside Elementary Kindergarten.

Patricia Soderberg, Vidalia, GA,

works at the Ohoopee Regional

Library.

Beverly Stein, Tacoma, WA, applied

to graduate school and works in an

environmental lab.

Virginia Stern, Olympia, is a

Washington State Department of

Health hydrogeologist.

Erik Stewart, Ashland, OR, is a

student at Southern Oregon State

University.

James Stewart, Tacoma, WA, is a self-

employed building designer.

Francis Stoll, Tacoma, WA, is an

aircraft electrician.

Keitaro Takechi, formerly of Tacoma,

WA, lives and works in Japan.

Dominic Taylor, Vancouver, WA,

works for Restoration Resources.

Edward Teather, Seattle, is a social

worker with the Tacoma School

District.

Dorothy Templar-Diment,

Tumwater, is a literacy tutor and is on

the Accessibility Advisory Committee

for Intercity Transit.

Cheryl (Demorest) Thomas, Kalama,

WA, works for Kelso School District .

Janet Thomas, Lynnwood, WA, owns

Progressive Marketing Strategies.

Mark Thome, Olympia, is a self-

employed musician.

Brenda Treptow, Vancouver, WA, is a

human resources manager at Fiskars,

Inc. She completed her master's

degree at Seattle Pacific University.

Linda Upshaw, Tacoma, earned her

M.l.T. degree at Tacoma University

and teaches television production.

Pamela Vest, Olympia, is employed by

the Washington State Department of

Natural Resources.

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Kate Vidales, Oiympia, is an

educational assistant with the Olympia

School District.

William Walker, Olympia, works for

Roadway Package System Inc.

Kathleen Weber-Smythe, Loveland,

CO, is self-employed in the advertising

field.

Francesca Weisser, San Diego, CA, is

studying for a Ph.D. in political theory

at the University of California.

Brian Weyrauch, Lacey, WA, is an

assistant programmer with Pierce

County Medical.

Kristine White, Ridgefield, WA, is a

freelance writer.

Jennifer Whitney and BrentVadopolas '85, have a daughter,

Lydia, born October 7,1994. Jennifer

works at the Point Whitman Shellfish

Lab for the Washington State

Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Barbara Williamson, Olympia, is

working on a biography.

Karen Wilson, Seattle, teaches in a

Seattle public school.

Tanya Wiser, San Francisco, CA, is a

residential program director at

Florence Crittenton Services. She was

awarded a master's degree in social

work at San Francisco State University.

Jacalin Wyant, St. Paul, MN, teaches

in a St. Paul public school. She is going

to teach in Ecuador at InterAmerica

Academy.

Jean Wylie, Tacoma, WA, is retired.

CLASS OF 1988Diane Allen, Seattle, works at

Consolidated Press.

Lance Altheide, Arlington, TX, works

for Hughes Aircraft Company.

Richard Anderson, Olympia, is a

research handler for the Legislature.

Tracy Anderson, Seattle, is a custom

painter for Price Ragen Company.

Marsha Beery, Olympia, works for

Westinghouse-Hanford.

Sheryl Belcher, Seattle, works in

photography.

Johanna Bell, Moscow, ID, is

completing her master's degree in

science in the agricultural engineering

program at the University of Idaho.

She has worked as a forest hydrologist

for state and federal agencies and as a

private consultant. Her volunteer

activities include: president of the

Puget Sound chapter of the Associa-

tion for Women Geoscientists, leading

a women's support group, and

teaching co-counseling.

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Thomas Berentsen, Olympia, works

in financial services for the Washing-

ton State Department of Social and

Health Services.

Anthony Bittner, Tacoma, WA,

teaches special education in the

Clover Park School District.

James Boedeker, Bremerton, WA, is a

computer programmer analyst.

Lawrence Boehm, LaCenter, WA, is

in sales at Scapa Press Fabrics.

Susan Brearey, Putney, VT, teaches

painting.

Cynthia Broadbent, Lacey, WA, is a

program coordinator at Centralia

College.

Constance Bryant, Tacoma, WA, is

retired.

Meggan Chambers, Jackson, WY, is

employed at Jackson High School.

Cristina Charney, Olympia, teaches

in the Olympia School District.

Catherine Childs, Olympia, is

program director at Monarch

Children's Center.

John Christensen, Auburn, is

employed at Mikron Industries.

Steve Colgrove, Seattle, works at

Bellevue Community College.

Stephen Collins, Seattle, works at

Seattle Repertory Theater.

Alicia Craddock, is a programmer

with the state of Washington.

Michael Craig, Tacoma, works in

children's services for the Washington

State Department of Social and Health

Services.

Oliver Crew, Olympia, plans to work

for the Washington State Department

of Fish and Wildlife.

Richard Crimmins, Olympia, is a

biofeedback therapist at Greenhill.

Kevin Dahlstrom, Seattle, is a

carpenter.

Claire Davis, Lenore, ID, is an adjunct

faculty member at Lewis and Clark

College.

Susan Dones, Puyallup, WA, is self-

employed in the massage and

counseling fields.

Pieter Drummond, New York, NY, is

participating in the Peace Corps

Fellows Program at Teachers College,

Columbia University.

Cindy Duncan, Seattle, is a Clal lam

County personnel administrator.

Annette Estes, Seattle, is a University

of Washington graduate student.

Hugo Flores, Olympia, is a senior

planner for Mason County Community

Development.

Sheila Fox, Seattle, is self-employed.

Jennifer Francis, Portland, OR,

attends naturopathic college.

Jan Frost, Olympia, works for RSVP.

Sara Guciardo, Oakland, CA, has a 3-

year-old daughter and works as a

parent liaison at Community Bridges.

Linda Gueck, Olympia, works in

social services at South Sound Options

Limited.

Marlene Gulbranson, Olympia, is a

mental health counselor.

June Hansen, Olympia, is retired.

Barbara Hinchcliffe, Hadley, MA, is a

psychotherapist.

Jeff Horsager, Olympia, is a sleep

technician at St. Peter Hospital.

James Inglebritson, Fox Island, WA,

is a teacher with the Federal Way

School District.

Rhonda James, Olympia, is employed

by the E.F. International School of

Language.

Timothy Kelly, Olympia, opened his

own business, Local Locksmith.

Donna Knapp, Lafayette, NY, is

expecting a baby and works for

American Express Financial Service.

Robert Knott, Kirkland, WA, teaches

at Lake Washington High School.

Karin Knudsen, Arnold, MD, married

Wyatt Gates, former director of Ever-

green's Media Services, in 1991. As

group manager for the Finlay Fine

jewelry Co., Karin is in charge of fine

jewelry departments in 45 stores in

four states.

Chey Kyarky, Olympia, is a computer

analyst for the Washington State

Lottery Office.

Barbara Langlois, Port Angeles, WA,

is administrator of chemical

dependency programs for Jamestown

S'Kalallam Tribe.

Kathleen LeGreid, Tacoma, WA, is a

lab technician.

Susan Leland, Auburn, WA, received

her master's degree at Seattle

University. She works in business

administration in the White River

School District.

Laura Lewis, Toledo, OH, is a

registered dietitian and is completing

her Ph.D. at the University of Toledo.

Jonathan Locke, Seattle, is a co-

author of the upcoming book,

Windows 95: A Developer's Guide.

Robert Lyons, Tacoma, WA,

established his own law practice.

William Mahler, Portland, OR, is

completing a degree to be a

naturopathic doctor at the National

College of Naturopathic Studies. He

spends his summers as skipper of a 43-

foot wooden schooner.

Larry Malone, Tacoma, WA, works for

the federal government.

Brian Mardon, Olympia, is a certified

netware engineer at Idea Works.

Melissa Marmalstein, Seattle, is an

art teacher at Pathfinder Alternative

Elementary School.

Brian Mathis, Seattle, has worked at

Tim Girvin Design for six years.

William Maxwell, Olympia, works for

the state of Washington.

Susan Meline, Tacoma, WA, has

taught first grade at Life Christian

School for six years.

Ian Merrill, Seattle, attends the

University of Washington and works at

University Bookstore.

Jane McCann, Olympia, works for the

Washington State House of Represen-

tatives.

Joanne McCaughan, Olympia, is

employed by the Washington State

Department of Community Trade and

Economic Development.

Colette Morse, Vancouver, WA, is a

computer teacher at Clark College.

Madeline Murphy, Chicago, IL, works

at the Rose Garden Cottage and was

accepted at DePaul University as a

graduate student.

Richard Nelson, Olympia, works in

knee surgery rehabilitation.

Thomas Nicholson, Berkshire, NY, is

developing a garden program for

special education students for the

Ithaca School District and is expecting

his second child.

Dorothy Nilsen, Oiympia, is

employed at the Washington State

Department of Natural Resources.

K. Alex (Kristen) Onno, Seattle, is

attending graduate school at Bastyr

University for an A.B.S. in counseling.

M. Jean Pearson, St. Anthony Village,

MN, works on the Board of Aging for

the Minnesota Department of Human

Services.

Jeffrey Pedersen, Los Angeles, CA,

opened his own business, Banana

Vision, which creates highly

interactive CD-ROM games and

educational programs.

Anne Phillips, Olympia, works with

the hearing impaired.

Ellyne Plotnick, Stamford, CT, is a

graduate student at Bank Street

College of Education.

Paula Plumer, Mount Vernon, WA,

opened a private law practice

specializing in family law and Indian

law. She also works in the local tribal

courts as a defense attorney. She

previously worked as a public

defender with the Intertribal Court

System and volunteered at the Skagit

County Community Action Agency's

legal clinic.

D. Dale Pressnall Jr., Federal Way,

WA, is a poison information specialist

at the Children's Hospital poison

center.

Richard Rempfer, Olympia, is

employed by the Washington State

Department of Transportation and is

on the County Road Administration

Board.

James Rick, Lacey, WA, works for the

state of Washington.

Mary Ruhl, Tumwater, WA, is retired.

Marian Russell, Olympia, is a water

aerobics instructor at the YMCA and is

completing her master's of gardening

program.

Keith Seiders, Olympia, is a water-

quality specialist with the Washington

State Department of Ecology.

Ursula Shea-Borneo, Shutesbury,

MA, is writing a book.

Mary Spengler, Cottonwood, CA, is

employed at Mobile Design.

Tracy Springberry, Cheney, WA, is a

grants writer for Eastern Washington

University and built a house.

Charles Sosnowski, Portland, OR, is

employed in customer service with the

Oregon Health Plan.

Jerry Steenson, Fort Collins, CO,

works at the Center for Ecological

Management of Military Lands.

Paul Uusitalo, Seattle, is employed by

Adobe Systems.

Linda Wakeman, Seattle, works for a

school district.

Norean Warren, Lacey, WA, is a

YMCA employee.

Randy Weaver, Muskogon, MI, works

for U.S. 31 Bar-b-que espresso cart.

Laura Wildfong, Woodinville, WA, is

a test manager at Microsoft.

Sera Wiley, Tacoma, WA, is a district

staff assistant with Norm Diggs.

Shannon Winder, Seattle, WA, is

self-employed in the fields of stained

glass and therapeutic massage.

Bethel Wolfe, Steilacoom, WA, is a

self-employed vocational rehabilita-

tion counselor.

Albert Zantua, Tacoma, WA, is an

independent artist.

Barbara Zelano, Olympia, is box

office manager for the Washington

Center for the Performing Arts.

CLASS OF 1989Gloria Anthony, Vancouver, WA, is

self-employed.

Philip Bransford, Washington, D.C.,

is a graduate student at George

Washington University and is looking

for a job in print journalism.

Carl Brownstein, Shelton, WA,

teaches in the Aberdeen School

District.

Tamara Bunnell, Seattle, is employed

by Northwest School.

Chris Cooper, Rochester, WA, works

for the Lewis County Health

Department.

Cynthia Davis-Olds, Lodge Grass, MT,

married Jonathan Olds '90, in June

1994. They met in the 1984-85

program, The Paradox of Progress.

Cynthia is currently teaching high

school English at an Indian reserva-

tion.

Cere Demuth, Friday Harbor, WA, has

a lo-year-old son, Nate. She received a

master's degree in psychology from

Antioch University and is a counselor

at North Island Counseling.

Keith Fredrikson, Bellingham, WA, is

a sales manager at Fourth Corner

Nurseries.

Cathy Fritsch, Packwood, WA, is

attending Brenicy School of Massage.

Natasha Geiger, Olympia, is

employed by the Washington State

Department of Employment Security.

Kristine Hayhurst, Aberdeen Proving

Ground, MD, has two children: Kate,

born January 1993; and Kurt Anthony

born February 21,1995.

Adrien Hefta, Seattle, works for

Perkins Coie.

Deborah Johnson '8g/'94, Tumwater,

WA, is an urban planner for the City of

Tacoma.

Kathryn Kemp, Olympia, is getting

married. Her daughter turns two this

summer.

Kristina Klawitter, Brighton, MA,

works in the Norfolk County Sheriffs

Office.

Mark Koch, Olympia, works in the

Olympia School District.

Jacqueline Miller, Issaquah, WA, is a

warehouse manager at Helly Hansen.

Michelle Mulanaux, Bothell, WA,

works at Odessa Brown and is in

Evergreen's Master in Teaching

program.

Anne Murphy, Olympia, is a manager

at Bulldog News.

Rebecca O'Connor, Olympia, says:

"It's been five years since the 1990

teacher program—let's plan a reunion.

Anyone interested call (360) 956-3705."

Susan Rainsford, Olympia, works for

Community Mental Health and is a

student at St. Martin's College.

Nathan Reed, Monterey, CA, is a

Household Credit Services employee.

Jennifer Shepherd, Seattle, is self-

employed.

Michelle Smith, Olympia, works for

University Place School District.

Susan Sniado, Arcata, CA, is about to

graduate from Humboldt State

University graduate school with a

master's in wildlife management.

Kristin Stewart, Medical Lake, WA, is

employed at Eastern Washington

University.

Linda Sullivan, Tenino, WA, is a staff

nurse at St. Peter Hospital.

John Summerfield, Columbia, MO,

teaches chemistry and physics at

Stephen's College.

Mark Swenson, Lake Forrest Park,

WA, has a son, Bjorn.

Ellen Tepper, Bellevue, WA, is office

administrator of Siemens Rolm

Communications and volunteers as

coordinator for EarthSave, Seattle's

eastside satellite.

Anna Trombley, Olympia, is a

cartographer for the Puget Sound river

basin team.

James Wallace 8 Julie Bergstrom,'90, Portland, OR, have a new

daughter, Olivia Pearl, born June 10;

she is happily adjusting to the family

along with older sister, Carter. James

works in tele-medicine in Portland,

and Julie works in the field of aging.

CLASS OF 1990Kevin Bonagofski, Tenino, WA, owns

and operates Tenino Auto Parts;

serves on the Tenino City Council; the

Intercity Transit Authority; and is

treasurer of United We Stand, America

- Capitol Chapter.

Tikva Breuer, Olympia, is an

environmentalist with the Department

of Health.

Cindi Campbell, Fort Collins, CO, is

pursuing a master's degree in

landscape architecture at the

University of Colorado at Denver.

Kathleen Dolan, Southworth, WA, is

director of the women's program at

Olympic College.

Dante Driver, Seattle, is an attorney

and accountant. He graduated from

Northeastern University School of Law

and Graduate School of Professional

Accounting.

Cheryl Fredrickson, Louisville, KY, is

human resources director for Louise's

Inc., manufacturer of non-fat and low-

fat snacks.

Tom Freeman, Olympia, works at

KAOS radio and completed his M.P.A.

applications project this June. Tom also

joined the Alumni Association Board.

Karen Hiatt, Portland, OR, works in

catering assistance for the Oregon

Museum of Science and Industry.

Eve Hilgenberg 'go/'gz, Olympia,

works at Barnes and Noble Olympia.

She had an Elizabethan marriage to

David Hammond in 1994.

Vickie Hinson, Silverdale, WA, is

employed by the Kitsap County

Museum.

Paul Horton, Olympia, is executive

director of the Energy Outreach Center.

Dianna Kallerges, Olympia, works at

the Washington State Department of

Ecology.

David Keleher, Albuquerque, NM, is

living in his home state and working

toward a master's degree in architec-

ture at the University of New Mexico.

Sotie Kenmano, Washington, D.C.,

works for CNC International

Development.

Lucy Key, Sumner, WA, works for

Weyerhaeuser and attends the

University of Washington.

Paul Kimball, San Mateo, CA, is

getting married.

North Larsen, Bergen, Norway,

received an M.S. in atmospheric

physics in 1994 and is studying for a

Ph.D. in the same major.

Shawn Lawlor, Seattle, works with

music video at Pro Video.

Rita Luckmann, Bremerton, WA, is

self-employed.

William MacArthur, Olympia, does

seasonal biological field work.

Laine Mclaughlin, Olympia, works at

South Puget Sound Community College.

Elizabeth Miller, Comstock Park, MI,

is a residential instructor for the Hope

Network.

Roxann Mulvey, El Portal, CA, is a

full-time parent.

Jonathan Olds, Lodge Grass, MT,

married Cynthia Davis '89 in June

1994.Puja Pecovsky, Olympia, works at

Community Youth Services.

Justin Pollack, Washington, D.C., is

an herbalist.

Carol Poole, Olympia, is employed by

Financial Management.

Karen Prentice, Fort Collins, CO, is a

student at Colorado State University.

Brian Raiter, Seattle, is a Connectsoft

Corporation employee.

Cynthis Senter, Seattle, attends

Bastyr University.

Kathleen Spence, Tacoma, WA,

worked at Harborview Medical Center

doing social work, and is now raising

Tom, 17, and Anna, 3, who were

adopted in Romania in 1993.

Rob Tate, Bellevue, is international

operations manager of Atlas Asia, a

Seattle-based exporter.

David Wagner, Olympia, received his

master's in teaching from Seattle

University in 1992 and has worked at

various teaching jobs since then. He

founded Learning Skills and

Educational Assistance Inc., an

Olympia-based tutorial service. He is

an admissions counselor at Evergreen.

Anthony Waters, Edmonds, WA, is a

self-employed painter.

Charlotte Wheeler, New York, NY, is

a services director at Common Ground

Community.

CLASS OF 1991Diane Asseln, Chicago, IL, received

her master's degree in library science

at the University of Pittsburgh.

Erica Anderson, Dexter, OR, is

secretary and office manager at

Cascade Health and Massage Center.

Chris Bader, Lynnwood, has written

Strange Northwest, featuring stories

about strange phenomena in

Washington, including material he

originally published in the Cooper

Point Journal. The book, illustrated by

Matt Love '82, is available in some

larger bookstores.

Maia Bellon, Olympia, is a law clerk

in the Washington State Attorney

General's office and still enjoys

serving as a member of the Alumni

Association board of directors.

Kirsten Bennett, Olympia, is

employed by Sylvan Learning Center.

Victor Braitberg, Durham, NC,

attends the University of North

Carolina.

Bill Braun, Olympia, was married in

April 1994.

Julie Chirman, Goleta, CA, was

married in July 1995. Both she and her

husband are involved with AIDS care

and education. Julie is pursuing her

master's in education and teaching

credentials. She works as staff support

and teaching assistant at Central Coast

Congregate Care Management

Academy.

Heather Clark, Seattle, is employed

by the Committee for Children.

Andy Colvin, Olympia, works at the

Washington State Department of Social

and Health Services.

Jana Dean, Olympia, teaches at an

Olympia middle school.

Michael Fraidenburg, Olympia, is a

librarian at Evergreen.

Jeanine Gill, Tumwater, WA, died of

cancer on June 18, 1995. Her career was

in administrative assistance and office

management, and she had lived and

worked in Seattle, Olympia and

Anchorage, AK. She enjoyed volunteer

work, gardening, camping and

photography. Jeanine is survived by her

mother, five sisters and two brothers,

and was a special aunt.

Laura Gustavson Fraser and EricFraser, San Francisco, CA, have a son,

Emmett West, born November 1994.

Laura attends John F. Kennedy

University and Eric works at University

of California at Berkeley.

Ruth Garcia, San Antonio, TX, teaches

sixth-grade science and social studies

at Cooper Middle School.

David Greenwald, Seattle, is a stu-

dent at the University of Washington.

Demian Godon, Seattle, is a student

at the University of Washington.

Jeff Hale, Somerville, MA, is co-owner

with Steve Stevens '92, of the Someday

Cafe. The cafe recently celebrated its

two-year anniversary with a 1994 Best

of Boston's Best Latte award. The

business plan for the cafe was

developed as part of a senior thesis at

Evergreen.

Leo Healey, Olympia, is a writer/

analyst at Washington Occupation

Center.

Michael Hernandez G KellyUusitalo live in Everett. He works at

the Edmonds School District and she

works with Lynnwood Parks and

Recreation.

Nancy Hewitt, Seattle, is self-

employed.

Sharon Howe, Port Angeles, WA, is a

project archivist at the Makah Cultural

and Research Center at Neah Bay. She's

completing work on a master's degree

in history and archives management at

Western Washington University. She

was awarded the 1995 Bradley Graduate

Research Fellowship by the Montana

Historical Society.

Sue Japhet, Olympia, is employed at

Griffin School.

Rene Fameli Johnson, Maple Valley,

WA, attends Pacific Lutheran University

graduate school.

Pamela Jorgensen, Olympia, works for

Grant and Associates.

Eileen Keller, Olympia, is in graduate

school and works for the Division of

Children/Family Services.

Cynthia Kelley, Yardley, PA, is a

student at Bryn Mawr School of Social

Work.

Megan Kelso, Seattle, is self-employed

in the comics field, and cleans and

maintains the art collection at Sea-Tac

Airport.

Kathryn Kersten, Portland, OR, is a

graphic designer at Otak.

Vincent Lalonde, Olympia, is a kiln

operator at Windsor Porcelain.

Eric Larsen, Olympia, is a wildlife

biologist with the Washington State Fish

and Wildlife Department.

Angela Leonard, Olympia, teaches in

the Olympia School District.

Jennifer Lewis, formerly of Spokane,

WA, is living in Nepal.

Tani Lindquist, Seattle, is a teacher's

aide in the Mercer Island School District

and has been accepted to Antioch

University in Seattle, where she will

pursue graduate study in education.

Michael MacSems, Olympia, works for

Mason County.

Susan Manning, Wheaton, MD, is a

Johns Hopkins University graduate

student.

Patricia Marks, Zaire, is a political

section secretary specialist at the

American Embassy in Kinshasa. She

studied French in Washington, D.C. to

prepare for her new career. She says

she "was sorry to miss her first Super

Saturday in n years!"

D. Garth McMurtrey, Tumwater, WA,

was recently employed as an engineer

for Vaughan's Company.

Amy Moon, Charleston, IL, is a student

at Eastern Illinois University and works

there as a graduate assistant.

David Moseley, Oakland, CA, left inApril for a year bicycling from

Thailand to Poland.

Carolyn Muellner, Olympia, is self-

employed in graphic design.

Eric Nielsen, Seattle, works for Muzak

Ltd.

James O'Hara, Anchorage, AK, works

for the Alaska Railroad.

David Pinkis, Bellevue, WA, is

employed at Car Toys.

Diane Robbins, San Francisco, CA, is

a Planned Parenthood employee and a

Johns Hopkins University nursing

student.

Lon Schieder is back in his suburban

hometown of Ladner, just south of

Vancouver, British Columbia. He has a

terrific 2-year-old daughter, Kelly, who

has changed his life, and he's leaving

movie production crews to enter

photography, his fourth career change.

Margaret Sherwood, Ocean Shores,

WA, was awarded a 1995-96 Quest

Scholarship from Luther Seminary in

St. Paul, MN. She completed work

toward the master of divinity degree

at Fuller Seminary. Her home

congregation is Our Savior's Lutheran

Church in Aberdeen, WA. Margaret

teaches art, math, English and reading

classes at North Beach junior and

senior high schools, and enjoys

boating, camping and gardening with

her family.

Alison Squier, St. Paul, MN, works for

Wet Paint and her husband, Robert, is

on the Environmental Education

Advisory Board.

Sean Starke, Seattle, works for

Random Access, a value added

computer reseller in Bellevue.

Whitney Ware and Andy Williams,Kirkland, WA, were married May 18.

Tedi Weber, Rockport, TX, is a bishop

with the Diocese of Texas, Federation

of St. Thomas Christians. He received a

doctor of divinity degree in July 1993

from the American Apostolic

University, College of Seminarians.

CLASS OF 1992Donna Albert, Olympia, is a self-

employed potter and sculptor.

Robin Anderson, Seattle, is manager

of a balloon decorating and delivery

service.

Marcia Brooke, Gig Harbor, WA, is a

substitute teacher.

Holly Brown, Tacoma, WA, works for

Foundation Health.

Michele Clayton-Kaster, BainbridgeIsland, WA, received a master's degreein psychology from Antioch Universityin June 1994. As coordinator for Abuse

Prevention Program in Kitsap County,

she interviews and assesses at-risk

families and matches them with

volunteers.

Janelle (Crabb) Cotogna, Kirkland,

WA, married Chris Cotogna in

December 1992. She works for the City

of Bellevue and is pursuing a B.A.

degree in education at Northwest

College.

Daniel Fain, Pasadena, CA, is a

graduate student and works for the

National Science Foundation.

Ryan Finholm, Seattle, is a research

assistant with Group Health

Cooperative.

Nancy Gleason, Seattle, works at the

New York Deli and is still interested in

a career in environmental studies. She

is involved in building and sailing

wooden boats.

Karla Gustafson, Gresham, OR,

enjoys country life very much. She

raises pygora goats and works for a

fast-growing environmental company.

Carrie Henry, Olympia, works for the

Washington State Department of

Social and Health Services in Shelton.

Beth Henshaw, Belfair, WA, is a

manager at Danson's Landscaping.

She'll soon start a desktop publishing

and small video production for the

Bremerton Symphony. Beth joined the

Alumni Association Board of Directors

in July.

Jeanene Hill, Hoodsport, WA, is

marrying William Campbell '86.

Sheri Hinshaw, Seattle, is a Microsoft

program manager.

Michelle Hofmann, Olympia, works at

Safeplace.

Christopher Holcomb, Catacamas,

Honduras, is serving in an environ-

mental education program of the

Peace Corps in Catacamas, Honduras.

He teaches in the public schools and

organizes naturalist activities in Sierra

de Agalta National Park.

Susan Horn-Pak, Jerome, ID, and

Hyong Pak, her husband of four years,

are the proud parents of a baby girl,

Sarah Chonsah.

Lois Jost, Eugene, OR, attends the

Oregon College of Oriental Medicine.

Jacqueline Kaufman, Edmonds, WA,

works at Seattle Children's Home.

28 The Evergreen ReView Fall 1995

Robyn and Mikel Lane, Mt. Vernon,

WA, built their own house. Robyn

makes natural fiber dolls and works at

Scott's Bookstore, and Mikel is in

graduate school and teaches at Skagit

Island Head Start,Sara Lisch, Tenino, WA, is a self-

employed artist and also works at

Bulldog News.Scott Longanecker, Olympia, works

for the Washington State Department

of Natural Resources.

Scott Richardson, Olympia, is an

endangered species recovery biologist

with the Washington State Department

of Fish and Wildlife.

Bonnie Shock, Minneapolis, MN, is

pursuing her M.F.A. in Theatre

Directing at University of Minnesota.

Todd Seidman, Brooklyn, NY, is a

freelance property master in the film

industry.Ellen Shortt, Shelton, WA, works with

Mason County Literacy.

Doug Smith, Redwood City, CA, is

corporate services dispatcher for

Intuit.John Spitzer, Seattle, works for

Oppenheimer Camera.

Mary Swain, Olympia, is project

manager at Homes First.

Dora Taggart, Tumwater, WA, works

in advertising at TCI Cable.

Heather Teverbaugh, Seattle,

attends Seattle University Law School.

Donald Willson, Olympia, is married

to Kate jones-Willson. He works for

Thurston County Solid Waste.

CLASS OF 1993Joan Bantz, Olympia, received a 1995

Public Service Award of Merit for

Singular Achievement from the

American Society for Public

Administration, Evergreen chapter. As

acting director of the Office of

Managed Care, Medical Assistance

Administration in the Washington

State Department of Social and Health

Services, Joan played a key role in

implementing managed health care for

Medicaid recipients throughout the

state and made numerous contribu-

tions to the public service.Barbara Bellettiere, Olympia, works

at the Waldorf School.

Tina Benshoof and Dan Black '91,

Seattle, are engaged to be married.

Tina works at Microsoft.

Brin Berliner, Venice, CA, works

freelance sculpting children's toys.

Maria Braganza, Seattle, works free-

lance in the video art and education

fields.Karen Camit, New York, NY, is a

student.Greg Carlson, Washington, D.C., is a

student.

Michelle Demay, San Francisco, CA,completed a counseling internship at

George Washington High School and

earned her M.A. degree in feminist

psychology at New College of

California.Mark Dettner, Pullman, WA, is

attending Washington State University

studying for a master's degree in

counseling psychology.

Michelle Drumheller, Westminster,

MD, is a student.

Cindy Franklin, Olympia, is

employed by the Washington State

Department of Community, Trade and

Economic Development.

Cindy Gaines, Corvallis, OR, is

pursuing a civil engineering degree at

Oregon State University.

Diana Gonzalez, New York, NY,

works as a researcher. Her e-mail

address is seiteknewssaol.com.

Jessica Greene, Davis, CA, attends

graduate school at University of

California-Davis.Matt Hammond, Olympia, is a

nursing assistant at Roolan Health

Care Center.Kara Harms, Bothell, WA, works as a

store manager.

Anthony Kesler, Anchorage, AK, is

chief of staff for the North Slope

Burough, a municipality with a land

mass larger than the state of

Washington. He manages 16 depart-

ments and oversees an annual

operating budget of $165 million and a

five-year capital improvement

program of $1.2 billion.

Stephanie Korschun, Corvallis, OR,

is a bioresources student at Oregon

State University.John Malcomson, Seattle, works at

the Porno Temple in Pusan, South

Korea and is now a Zen Buddhist.

Debby Mathis, Woonsocket, RI, has

been accepted for graduate studies at

Antioch New England Graduate School

in Keene, NH, where she'll pursue a

master of arts degree in counseling

psychology.Kirstin Mathison, Olympia, has been

promoted to team coordinator at

Wright Enterprises.

Molly McCloy, Flagstaff, AZ, will

graduate from Northern Arizona

University with a master of arts degree

in English with a creative writing

emphasis. She hopes to live in

Barcelona and teach English as a

second language. She says she'd be

grateful for some contacts from any

alumni or their parents who read the

ReWewwho have connections in

Barcelona or Spain.Laurie (Hulse) Moyer, Longview,

WA, has worked since graduation in

the environmental office at a local

pulp and paper mill.Lisa Riker, Portland, ME, dropped out

of the M.F.A. program at Naropa and

chose to study at the Irish Writers'

Center in Dublin, then spent time in

Denver, San Francisco and Key West.

Aeon Schmoock, Minneapolis, MN, is

working on a first novel, Nate

Pumpkin.Gena Shurtleff, Seattle, is a Seafirst

Bank employee.Jay Stasser, New York, NY, works as a

lab technician at Columbia University.

Katrina Weihs, Olympia, has worked

at Wolf Haven and Northwest Trek.

CLASS OF 1994Brian Almquist and Sharon Romeo,Williamsburg, VA, have recently

relocated. Brian works for Circuit City

in Richmond and Sharon is a master's

candidate in the history program at

the College of William and Mary.

Eric Brown, San Francisco, CA, works

in administration at United Way.

Catherine Clausen, Los Angeles, CA,

is a teacher with the Los Angeles

Unified School District.

Eric Donohue, Seattle, is trying to

locate Martha Wolfe '82. Eric would

appreciate it if Martha, or someone

who knows where she is, would

contact him.Michelle Giansante, Lacey, is a self-

employed musician performing in the

Tacoma Symphony and owns and

manages a music agency, A Sampling

of Strings.Erin Henderson, Olympia, is engaged

to marry Brad Kimmel in spring 1996.

She plans to continue her education at

the University of Washington. Brad

works at the Hearing Health Care

Center Inc.

Chris Robison, San Carlos, CA, is a

bike mechanic at Redwood Cyclery.

Laurette Santos, Longview, WA, and

her guide dog, Roster, are trying to

resolve their differences with Owl Taxi

Service, which Laurette takes to night

classes at Lower Columbia Community

College. Owl wanted to ban Roster

because of dog hair, but Laurette

challenged their actions, citing the

Americans with Disabilities Act.

Eric Weppler, Mt. Vernon, WA, has

been accepted into medical school at

the College of Osteopathic Medicine of

the Pacific in Pomona, CA.

CLASS OF 1995Josie Bell, Shelton, will pursue her

teaching certification at St. Martin's

College, and will take over as the new

dance team coach at Shelton High

School. She now tutors through Mason

County Literacy and hopes to be able

to tutor at SHS. She aspires to teach

her two favorite subjects, social

studies and English.

David Connolly, Montesano, WA, a

Democrat, is one of four candidates

applying for the recently vacated post

of Grays Harbor County Commissioner.

He teaches business courses at Grays

Harbor College and received his M.P.A.

degree this year from Evergreen.

Kristie Potemkin, Olympia,

announced plans to marry Scott

Lemon in a costume wedding this

October.

Much of the information for

AlumNotes is collected by telephone.

ReWewhas made every effort to

ensure the accuracy of this material

and regrets errors resulting from its

method of collection. AlumNotes is

compiled by the Office of Alumni

Affairs and Annual Fund. Call the

office at (360) 866-6000 ext. 6551,

with corrections, or e-mail

tescalumaelwha.evergree.edu.

Commentary

World Beat:Modern Colonialismor Indigenous Synthesis?

The Evergreen ReView Fall 1995

BY SEAN WILLIAMS

The ceaseless onslaught of technological advances means

images and sounds of people are now being sent all over the

globe in mere seconds. Aspects of North American culture

invade the homes of people everywhere. At the same time,

world music, especially "world beat," is being presented to

North Americans and Europeans as an exotic, exciting form of

dance music that uses a mix of Western and local instruments.

The resulting blend of sounds has been called everything from

a type of modern colonial dance mix to a rich synthesis of

styles. The question is: With the rise of technology and the

shrinking of the global music market into a single, continuous

world beat section at your local music store, can indigenous

music survive? The short answer is no; the qualifier is

fortunately.

I am an ethnomusicologist; I study music in its cultural

context. Ethnomusicologists go beyond notes and rhythms to

look at relationships between music and spirituality, gender,

patronage, ecology and other areas where music intersects so

intimately with who we are and how we live our lives. Instead

of relying simply on observation, we usually employ language

skills, tape recorders, cameras, camcorders, paper and pencil

and finely honed memories to record each musical moment.

And in doing so, we freeze musical culture in time and space.

This well-worn formula has recently begun to change as

people have realized that life, music and technological

development continue on after the tape recorder shuts off.

Many people are quite comfortable with the idea of change in

their own societies, yet warning lights go on when they are

confronted with change in another culture. One of the greatest

leaps of understanding we can make is that music has never

been, and will never be, static or permanent. When we talk

about any form of music, we refer to music that has been alive

and changing and dying out and losing or gaining elements all

the time. Indigenous music is no exception.

Traditionally, much indigenous music has been rural music. But

for many indigenous musicians struggling to continue their

work in the face of profound socio-economic transformations,

the city is the place to go to find economic and social advance-

ment; and with it a new identity. Thus it would follow that

traditional music, with its ties to specific locations and to the

roots of those who escaped rural poverty, might not have much

of a place in the city. Indeed, in many areas it has died out or

been supplanted by popular music.

As it turns out, it is precisely through the use of technology

and the medium of popular music that the indigenous musics

of the world will thrive into the next century, because

indigenous music manages to infuse the burgeoning popular

music scene with a powerful traditional flavor, thereby re-

indigenizing it. Indigenous music does not cease to be

indigenous when it meets such technological wonders as

synthesizers and drum machines. Rather, it seems to gather

strength for its next transformation.

So the short answer to the question of survival is, "No,

indigenous music cannot survive much longer." But that is

fortunate because an unchanging indigenous music would be a

sterile, captured music. The long answer, then, is, "Yes, it will

survive because music is living and thriving and changing." The

indigenous music you hear today will have altered by the time

we reach the 2ist century, which means it can only survive as a

transmutable entity. It is the music's very vitality that ensures

its continued adaptation to current conditions, and will likely

carry it past the aist century.

Sean Williams holds a doctor of philosophy in ethnomu-

sicology from the University of Washington. She teaches world

music, Indonesian language and literature, Celtic studies and

Southeast Asian studies.

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