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VOL. 6f NO. 11 A Report to Alumni and Other Friends of Western ]Washington State College A UGUSTy 1975

Interim president Dr. J. Alan Ross and Dr. Keith Murray, chairman of Western’s American Revoiution Bicentenniai Committee, dispiay a bi­centennial flag which wiii be flown beneath Old Glory until the dose of 1976. The new flag was presented to the College by the national American Revolution Bicentennial Administration in recognition of designation of WWSC as a Bicentennial College. Dr. Ross served as interim president during July, between the terms of Dr. Flora and the new president of the College, Dr. Paul J. Olscamp.

Women's athletics interest spurs call for coaches

Recent growth in the popularity of women's athletics has brought about a demand for the training of women coaches, according to Western track and field coach Ralph Vernacchia.

“In years past, women did not compete in athletics to any great extent

because such ac­tivity was not considered femi­nine,” Vernac­chia said. “In high school, men were ex­pected to be­come Involved in athletics while high- school-age

women competed in academics, house­keeping and catching a husband.”

Now all of that has changed. There is a great need for women coaches. In a one-week clinic for track and field coaches held at Western early this summer, one-third of the 45 students enrolled were women.

One of the students, Peggy Bowers, a graduate of Anacortes High School now attending college in Ohio, believes that standards of competition have required male coaches to be taught more of the finer points of sports than women have been. Women coaches have, therefore, been operating under a distinct dis­advantage.

Vernacchia

Once women obtain the same degree of knowledge as men. Bowers feels they may be better qualified to coach other women than are men, because they are more aware of female physiological, psychological and sociological factors.

The belief was echoed by Bev McKissick, a WWSC graduate who was a teacher and part-time coach at Meridian High School last year.

“Many women become Involved In coaching with no specific training, simply because they enjoy a particular sport,” McKissick said. “With the current emphasis on competitive women’s sports, it is essential that we become more knowledgeable and more specialized.”

The faculty at Vernacchia’s WWSC clinic included as guest lecturers, track coaches Dixon Farmer, assistant at the University of Washington; John White, assistant at Western; Hal Werner of Simon Fraser University, and Val West of Bellingham High School.

Next year, according to Vernacchia, the guest faculty will include women. □

Fairhaven students work on barn

Fairhaven students acquire barn for Outback Program development

Things were looking up at Fairhaven College as students involved in the Outback Program put the finishing touches on their new barn. The 42-foot-square structure, a gift from Cascade Natural Gas Corporation, was dismantled at Its old State Street site in Bellingham by Outback Program students.

The structure was reassembled adjacent to Fairhaven's quarter-acre organic garden just south of the campus. The barn is being used as a storage area for machinery and equipment. Students working in the Outback Program hope to eventually supply power to the facility through the use of two wind­

mills located near the site.The Outback Program is a student-

originated program developed three years ago by Fairhaven students. It is an attempt to generate a self-sufficient rural life style by applying practical technology. Some 50 students are currently working together on various projects.

Outback’s animal population has been steadily growing over the years and now boasts three goats, two pigs and a host of chickens and ducks. The vegetable and animal products are consumed and processed by students and other members of the community who are participating in the program. □

Bettis is new Fairhaven deanDr. J oseph Dabney Bettis has been

named Dean of Fairhaven College, replacing Dr. Kenneth Freeman, who resigned to resume teaching.

Dr. Bettis, 38, comes to Western from the position of curriculum specialist of the overseas program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has also served as associate dean and professor in residence of humanities and coordinator of academic programs at Nebraska.

Other posts he held were that of associate professor and chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama; assistant pro­fessor of religion at Alabama; and as a part-time Instructor In religion at Rutgers University.

BettisHe received the B.A. In philosophy at

Southern Methodist University; the B.D. in theology from Drew University; and the M.A. and Ph.D. in religious studies from Princeton University. His research interests include the humanities, social ethics, social pathology and religious studies. □

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Miner King DeLorme Ramsiand Ager Larsen Chaney

Department chairmen appointments announcedSeven academic departments have

announced appointments of department chairmen for present and future terms at Western.

Dr. Ralph E. Miner, associate pro­fessor of political science, will assume the chairmanship of the Department of Political Science effective September 1, replacing Dr. Gerard Rutan, who will remain as a member of the Political Science Department faculty.

A native of Long Island, New York, Dr. Miner graduated from San Jose State College and received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Oregon. He first came to Western as a lecturer in 1969.

Dr. Donald King, associate professor of chemistry and WWSC faculty mem­ber since 1966, has been appointed chairman of the Department of Chem­istry effective ,September 1. He will replace Dr. Joseph Crook, who will return to the classroom.

Before coming to Western, Dr. King was a research chemist for Du Pont Company in New Jersey. He is a native of Washington and received his bachelor of science degree at Washington State University. He earned his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology.

Chairmanship of the Department of History returned to Dr. Roland L. DeLorme effective summer quarter. Dr. DeLorme, associate professor of history, served previously as department chair­man from 1971 to 1974.

Chairman of the department for the past year has been Dr. LeRoy Dresbeck, who will return to assignment as associate professor of history.

Dr. DeLorme is a native of Aberdeen and received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Puget Sound. He earned his M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. at the University of Colorado.

Dr. Dorothy Ramsiand, professor of home economics, has been reappointed chairman of the Department of Home Economics. She has served as depart­ment chairman since 1959.

She was graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor of science degree and later earned her M.S. and Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Prior to coming to Western

in 1949, Dr. Ramsiand taught at the University of Hawaii, Central Michigan State University and Michigan State University.

Phillip Ager, associate professor of music, will return to the post of chairman of the Department of Music effective September 1, for a four-year term. He previously held the position of chairman from 1969 to 1974, having been replaced by Dr. Edwin LaBounty during the interim period.

Ager is a graduate of WWSC where he earned his bachelor of arts degree. He received his M.A. from the University of Washington.

Beginning August 1, Dr. Golden Larsen became acting chairman of the Department of English. A faculty member since 1956, Dr. Larsen Is a specialist in English romantic literature and the English novel.

He received his bachelor and master of science degrees from Utah State University and earned the Ph.D. from

the University of Washington. He is the author of The Dark Descent, a book dealing with social change and moral responsibility in the novels of English author Joyce Carey.

He will be replacing Dr. Robert McDonnell, who has been appointed chairman of the Department of English at California Polytechnic State Uni­versity in San Luis Obispo.

Dr. Robin W. Chaney has been named chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Dr. Chaney is a native of Ohio, where he attended Ohio State University, earning both his bachelor of science and Ph.D. degrees from that institution. He first came to Western in 1969 as a professor of mathematics. His field of speciali­zation is mathematical optimization theory.

In his new post. Dr. Chaney will replace Dr. Albert J. Froderberg, who will remain as a department faculty member. □

Swineford co-authors settlers bookDr. Ada Swineford, professor of

geology at Western, has co-authored a book. Land of the Post Rock, dealing with early settlers of north-central Kansas and their efforts at using fencepost limestone, or post rock, in the settlement of the area.

Released by the University Press of Kansas In June, the book has been termed a majorcontribution to the preservation of the post-rock landscape heri­tage. Dr. Swine­ford collabor­ated with Grace Muilenburg, associate pro­fessor in the College of Agri­ Swineford

inculture at Kansas State University, producing the book.

Dr. Swineford, a member of the faculty at Western since 1966, is a former faculty member of the Depart­

ment of Geology at the University of Kansas. Land of the Post Rock is the result of her research in the area with the State Geological Survey of Kansas from 1942-1966. The book provides specific information on where post-rock artifacts and buildings may be observed today and can serve as a guide to modern-day explorers. □

PRISCILLA KINSMANMemorial services were held recently

in Bellingham for Priscilla Kinsman, assistant professor emeritus of educa­tion. Miss Kinsman died July 2 in Olympia at the age of 83.

Miss Kinsman, who retired In 1959 after 35 years of service at Western, was associated with the student teaching program at the former Campus School.

She was a member of St. James Presbyterian Church, PEO and the AAUW. She is survived by a niece, Mrs. Paul Swanson of Snyder, N.Y. □

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doESN'T JUMP mereIv foR joy"WESTERN'S DR. CL YDE SENGER COLLECTS FLEAS LIKE SOME PEOPLE COLLECT STAMPS.HERE'S WHY.

Dr. Senger, chairman of the Biology Department at Western, recently ex­plained why he, and a handful of others In this country, would embark on such an unusual pastime as collecting fleas.

Looking over a couple of hundred or so members of his collection, which are mounted posthumously on laboratory slides. Dr. Senger likened his hobby to that of a stamp collector.

“You obtain a batch of stamps and assemble them in front of you,” he began. “And out of that group you might find one or two you haven’t run across yet.”

Dr. Senger goes through a similar process with his fleas. It must be mentioned, however, that getting the fleas in the first place is somewhat more difficult than ordering stamps.

His curiosity about fleas was first stimulated as an undergraduate student at Reed College while he and another student were studying internal parasites in mammals. Before getting into their own work, the students would extract fleas they found on the animals and send them to the Rocky Mountain Laboratory In Hamilton, Montana. There, Dr. William Jellison, now at the

University of Montana, was conducting research on fleas and other external parasites.

Flea Research Project

A few years later. Dr. Senger joined the faculty at the University of Montana and at the request of Dr. Jellison, he agreed to assist in the flea research project. He has continued In this interest ever since.

There are an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 different varieties of fleas to be found world-wide. Dr. Senger explained. Of that number approximately 300 are known to exist In the United States.

“If you stop to consider that there are roughly 100,000 different species of flies in the world,” Dr. Senger said, “the flea as a group has a relatively small number of species.

“One could get to be familiar with all the different fleas, while I suspect that no one could accomplish that task with the flies,” he continued.

In Dr. Senger’s collection, there are more than a few fleas which have been quite rare up to now.

One such flea is the nearctopsylla martyoungi. A male of this species was found some time ago on Hurricane Ridge on the Olympic Peninsula. But Dr. Senger, on one of his flea-finding treks, discovered a male and a female thriving on a short-tailed weasel living along Chuckanut Creek near Bellingham.

Largest Flea

The hystrichopsylla schefferi schef- feri holds the distinction of being the largest flea known. As a prominent member of Dr. Senger’s collection, it literally dwarfs most of the others by comparison. It is found only rarely on mountain beavers living in Washington, Oregon and lower British Columbia.

Another species, the hystrichopsylla dippiei spinata, the second-largest flea known to exist, is also in Dr. Senger’s collection. Before he located it, in the

Senger in his iabChuckanut Mountain area, the flea was known only to frequent the general vicinity of Vancouver, B.C.

“Fleas,” said Dr. Senger, “are quite specific as to their hosts. You will usually find a different species for each type of host animal.” However, you can’t always assume they belong where you find them.

He cited an instance in which he found a particular flea on a weasel. The flea was only known to frequent a certain type of shrew. What apparently had happened in this case. Dr. Senger suggested, is that the weasel ate the shrew and the flea then moved to the weasel.

Dr. Senger used to collect his specimens by trapping animals and then extracting fleas from their fur. Now, however, he said he has adopted a more

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WWSC’s 30 debaters have completed a successful year, winning a total of 50 trophies in competition. Judged “outstanding speaker” was Kevin Twohy (left) of Seattle. Others with him are Jim Nicholas, Bremerton, president of the Debate Club, holding a perpetual plaque; Charles Douthwaite, Seattle, selected as “most improved debater, “and Dr. Larry Richard­son, college director of forensics. (Photo courtesy Bellingham Herald).

Alumni-varsity grid game set

kind-hearted approach, that of locating and removing the nests of the animals.

“Most fleas are very sensitive to movement,” Dr. Senger said, “and when the host animal starts to move, the flea will hop off and wait at the nest for the animal to return.”

There are a number of animals which most people don’t normally think of as carrying fleas. Among these are birds.

Dr. Senger noted that there is a whole group of fleas which associate exclusively with birds. In particular. Dr. Senger has found the nests of swallows, ground-nesting sea birds, and tree-hole nesting birds to contain a variety of fleas.

Owls and hawks also pick up fleas, usually by the flea transferring from the birds’ prey. Dr. Senger said.

Although he admits that flea collect­ing is not exactly a booming craze these days. Dr. Senger knows of at least four other people in the northwest who are pursuing the activity.

And he could be considered a specialist of sorts, since, to his know­ledge at least, there are only “a couple of dozen” flea collectors in the country who approach the hobby with the same enthusiasm as he.

After nearly 20 years of tracking down fleas. Dr. Senger says he doesn’t recall ever being bitten by one. He added that fleas are apparently attracted to certain odors, offering a possible explanation why one member of a family might suffer from flea bites while others are not bothered at all.

Fleas are only one of Dr. Senger’s Interests, though. In 1974 he was

Fleas on displayhonored by having a spiderlike organism named after him. The Speleonychia sengeri, a white, cave-adapted harvest-man, was found by Dr. Senger and his students during class field trips to lava caves in search of bats in southwest Washington.

So, for stamp collectors who feel their interest waning or who are finding the hobby too expensive, there are other things to collect, although the catalog value of a flea would probably tend to be a bit shaky at best. □

WWSC Director of Athletics and Head Football Coach Boyde Long has announced that the first WWSC-alumni football game will be played on September 13 at Bellingham Civic Stadium.

The contest, scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m., will feature a host of former Big Blue greats against a 1975 Viking team, considered the strongest in recent years.

Two former All-America gridiron performers at Western, halfback Steve Richardson (1966) and defensive end Dave Weedman (1967), will participate in the game. Richardson was a three- time All-Evergreen Conference selection on offense and defense, while Weedman is the only Viking ever to be chosen In the National Football League draft.

Also among those returning to the hill are quarterback Glenn Hadland (1968-71), Western’s all-time leading

Schlotterback gets fellowship award

Dr. Thomas Schlotterback, chairman of the Art Department, has been awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in Residence for College Teachers. The fellowship will be taken at Brown University, Department of Art, Providence, R.l. The tenure of the fellowship will be September 1, 1975, to May 31, 1976.

While on the fellowship. Dr. Schlotterback will study and research the history of modern sculpture. This will be undertaken in connection with a seminar to be offered by Brown University under the direction of Professor William Jordy. □

passer, and fullback Tom Wigg (1970-73), the all-time leading rusher at the College. Another member of the alumni team will be interception record- holder, defensive halfback Vic Randall (1967-70). □

Randall to return for 14th season

Western Washington State College basketball coach Chuck Randall, who suffered a severe heart attack February 12, has been given the “go-ahead” to return for his 14th season as the Viking hoop mentor by Bellingham heart specialist Dr. Richard Schwindt.

Randall, 48, underwent open-heart surgery on June 24, correcting damage and enabling him to return to the coaching ranks.The operation, a coronary-artery bypass, was con­sidered very suc­cessful and his recovery has been rapid.

The surgery was performed by Dr. Lester Sauvage at RandallSeattle’s Providence Hospital.

In his 13 previous seasons on Sehome Hill, Randall has never had a losing season In posting a 216-107 record. Four times, he has been named Evergreen Conference Coach-of-the- Year and three times he has received similar recognition from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics’ District I.

Born and reared In Spokane, Randall has a lifetime coaching record of 413 wins and 189 losses. □

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Sewer line constructionaids studies

historicCounty.

construction of a sewer I line and treatment plant . at Birch Bay is helping ' archaeology students at

Western learn about pre­inhabitants of Whatcom

Under guidance of Dr. Garland Grabert, associate professor of anthro­pology, WWSC students are exploring trenches being dug for sewer trunk lines and excavation for treatment plant foundations, searching for traces of archaeological sites. Earth-moving equipment used at the project exposes many underlying layers of soil that the experienced eye can read to learn about changes in the shape of the land and the story of the people who lived on it.

A scoop from a power shovel accomplishes in a few minutes what would require days of hand digging for the students.

Like today’s residents along Birch Bay, prehistoric inhabitants of the region built their dwellings near the shoreline. These dwellings were grouped together in villages, handy to fishing, clam digging, water fowl and other sources of marine-derived food supply.

The evidences of early habitation are apt to be located at some distance from the present shoreline, however, because the beach has moved over the passage of time.

The northern end of Birch Bay has been filling for centuries with mud and debris from erosion of the bluff at Birch Point which extends westward. At one time, therefore, the Bay reached much farther inland than it does now.

Exploration of the area has indicated the existence of a sand bar or spit that is now under the beach but at one time extended well out into the Bay. A hundred yards or more back from the shoreline, deep cuts made for installa­tion of manholes have uncovered shells at a depth of 16 to 18 feet that indicate there was once a lagoon behind the spit.

Shells of a bent-nosed clam have been unearthed by the digging. “This clam lives in the mud in a part of the bay that is exposed at low tide,’’ Dr. Grabert explained. “This indicates that

Construction work halted as human bones, apparently from a burial, along with elk bones and bone tools were uncovered at Birch Bay Park. Cindy Swanson and Gene Griffin, anthropology students from WWSC, investigate further and a state park ranger looks on. Preliminary estimates place the burial date at about 300 years ago; more precise information about the bones will be obtained in an archaeology lab at Western.

IN MEMORIAM'08 EDNA KERR, November 25, 1974,

in Bellevue.’10 HELEN CLARK POTTER, November

29,1974, in North Dakota.’13 DORA CANNON, January 25, in

Bellingham ... LUCINDA KILLINGS- WORTH, March 1973, in Pomeroy.

’20 LILLIAN BOURKE KILBOURN, December 7, 1974, in Longview . . . MAYME MARTIN, April 8, in Bellingham .. . MILLIE ALEXANDER, September 27, 1974, inCalifornia.

’21 STARR SUTHERLAND, July 5, 1974, in Seattle.

’25 EDITH ROMIG, November 1974, in Oregon.

’29 NINA HUSELAND, March 24, in Renton.

’70 Mr. and Mrs. MICHAEL CARR (GLORIA NEAL, ’71), May 12, in an airplane accident in Alaska.

Unclassified AL KOSMOSKI, January 7, in Seattle.

the location of a section of the sewer line was once an intertidal zone.’’

By dating material from this inter­tidal area, the students hope to fill in gaps in what is already known about the history of changes in the shape of the shoreline as well as learning more about other geological processes. This, in turn, will add to information about the people who inhabited the region.

There are five known sites of prehistoric villages in the Birch Bay Village area, plus two about a mile away, north of the present location of a trailer court. There is an old village site further south at Birch Bay State Park, plus others nearby.

One site, at what is now a marina at Birch Bay Village, contains remnants of campfires that are 2,500 years old. A long section containing evidence of dwelling sites extends along the beach and is probably the remains of several Indian villages which have existed there over a number of centuries.

“Although we know where most of the archaeological sites are, we are continuing to monitor the construction because something unexpected may turn up,’’Dr. Grabert explained. □

Annie Dillard is visiting scholar

Annie Dillard, 1975 Pulitzer-Prize- winning author, will be a visiting scholar-in-residence at WWSC during fall quarter. According to Dr. James W. Davis, dean of Western’s College of Arts and Sciences, Dillard will teach a course and offer a seminar in creative writing.

Recently a lecturer in creative writing at Hollins College in Virginia, Dillard is a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine and a columnist for the Wilderness Society. She is the author of numerous essays, articles and poems, many of them about environ­mental issues and life in the Appa­lachian region of the United States.

Dillard has written two books. Tickets for a Prayer Wheei and Piigrim at Tinker Creek, both published in 1974. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in May of this year for the latter book, about her life in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia over a period of one year, with an emphasis on nature.

While at Western, Dillard will lecture at Huxley College of Environmental Studies in addition to her classes In the English Department. □

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LETTERSEditor, RESUME:

Ron Aust, graduate student from Chehalis, talks with Western's ninth president, Dr. Paul J. Olscamp, shortly after the latter's arrival on campus July 14. Dr. Olscamp has been a member of the faculty at Ohio State University and while there was three times nominated for a distinguished teacher award. He served two years at Roosevelt University in Chicago as vice president for academic affairs, dean of faculties and professor of philosophy. Immediately prior to coming to Western, he was vice chancellor for student programs at Syracuse University. Olscamp describes himseif as being excited to be at Western and in Bellingham. He and his wife, Joyce, are the parents of two children, Adam, age 10, and Rebecca, 14.

Compliments, first of all, to your RESUME staff who each month cater so many choice items, all with varied and tasteful touch. And because of your almost- total briefing on campus activities, alums are able to boast of what’s going on at Bellingham, as we proudly exchange progress reports—resumes that the klutz from Pullman or even Seattle would have trouble in matching.

A few constructive comments I’m sure you won’t mind. (And you probably won’t.) Could, for instance, there be some follow-up stories of past RESUME articles? How successful was the Patterson K-2 climb? And what farewell gift did Lappenbusch get? How much did it cost and how many dollars were collected? In the unfavorable light of inflated college grades over the U.S., please reassure us alums that WWSC profs are holding to standards of quality in course requirements. While many professors over the country now are giving their students only As and Bs, and asserting to hell with the old bell-shaped curve, please say that It isn’t so at WWSC and quote grade-point statistics as proof.

Maybe, too, you can lay to rest some of the rumors frightening many of us, such as opposition to campus art projects that we’ve been looking forward to along the High Street. How can anyone object to a heroic-sized plastic geodesic dome (Buck­minster Fuller-inspired) with its single sus­pended crystal question mark inside it to symbolize the collegiate dream? And how envious other institutions have been since the announcement of the 65-foot-hlgh bronze piece, “Creation,” a stylization of two tree-slugs mating. To those who ridicule or condemn these sculptures, murmuring, “Why wasn’t this $750,000 given to the poor students in scholarships or to the poor faculty in sabbatical grants?”, all I can say is: “The academic poor always you have with you, but Fuller or Fitzgerald you have not always.” And if some lament the felling of campus evergreens and bricking over the grassy floor of the one-time Sylvan Theater, well, don’t those evergreens block much of the view between buildings?

For many a fading graduate, the “Roll Call” is an awaited feature each month. You can’t imagine the lift it gives some puny fellow who managed to get excused from required phys-ed sections to read the obituary notices about more muscled classmates who. In the long ago, starred in Viking sports or scored high on Sehome Hill. In addition to Info that “Sherri Evans and CLYDE HUGHDAL (’64) were married recently in Kent and are living in Poulsbo,” why not mention some of the with-it alumni who are not married but are sharing relationships and are partnering in Marysville or sharing a commune in Centralia? That should be of equal interest, shouldn’t it?

And the many whimsical Mr. Chipses unique to our college—couldn’t they be profiled occasionally in RESUME? Even former students who knew not Thomas Hunt or Victor Hugo Hoppe or Olive Eden would be fascinated, like Coleridge’s Wedding-Guest, by such campus personalities. These teachers had endearing styles that transcended course content. If it means that you must double your staff and add two or four pages to the bulletin, do it. . .

Sincerely,26 ALUMN7339 (Alias Theodore Cederberg)9317 Olympic View Drive Edmonds, WA 98020

’28 EVELYN BUCKLEY retired in 1972 after 33 years in education. Including working as a remedial reading teacher and school psychologist. Since retirement she has worked with children and adults with specific language disabilities.

’29 KARL WEBER has retired after a career in public education that has spanned four school districts and nearly half a century, the last 38 of which were spent In the Renton School District.

’46 MARION MILLER has retired after 40 years in education, the last 29 of which were spent In the Salem School District.

’49 EUGENE REGAN Is district super­intendent of the Mead School District 354 in Spokane ... NELL BAILEY received his master’s degree In education from Chapman College in California in February.

’57 SHIRLEY HASKINS NELSON DOYLE is living in Carbondale, III., where she earned her M.S. degree from Southern Illinois University in 1974 ... GILBERT KUGEL received a graduate degree from The Uni­versity of Northern Colorado winter quarter.

’58 MARILYN WERNER is stationed with the Peace Corps in Fiji where she trains student teachers in child development.

’59 DON LOOK is acting superintendent of the Monroe Reformatory.

’60 MILTON CLOTHIER, a Sehome High School (Bellingham) science teacher, has been named the best earth science teacher in the Pacific Northwest section of the National Association of Geology Teachers.

’61 TED SMETHERS is vice principal of the North Mason Upper Elementary School in Belfair.

’63 JAY HAMMOND has been appointed manager of the new Snohomish branch of The Bank of Everett.

’64 MICHAEL BORING has been ap­pointed superintendent of the White Pass School District . . . HAROLD PARROTT has been awarded membership for 1975 in the Leaders Section of the President’s Club of the Great-West Life Assurance Co. The club is composed of leading representatives of the company who. In the past year, have distinguished themselves through outstanding sales accomplishment and maintenance of high standards in the conduct of their business . . . Air Force Captain DANNY D. HOWARD is a member of the 77th Tactical Fighter Squadron which recently earned double honors.

’65 DAVID and KAY HARBECK (’64) are living in Omaha where he is Director of Admissions at the University of Nebraska.

’66 MILTON SCHELLHASE received his master’s degree in education from Chapman College In California In February.

’67 KIT MARCINKO and GLEN VEAL are owners of Anacortes Brass Works, which produces brass products such as belt buckles, pendants, wall hangings, chess sets and sun dials . . . DENNIS S. JOHNSON, co-owner of Johnson’s Wenatchee Real Estate Clinic, has been appointed by Governor Dan Evans to the Board of Trustees of Wenatchee Valley College.

’68 JERRY PRICE is a research chemist employed by the Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Bellingham Division . . . JOEL SHEPARD teaches junior high school in Kirkland .. . LARRY NELSON is the manager of student programs at Fort Steilacoom Community College and was recently elected president of

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(ROLL CALL continued)the Washington Association of Community College Student Activities Personnel.

’69 JEANETTE HANSON is a Peace Corps volunteer working with the Jamaica Council for the Handicapped in Kingston, Jamaica ... ED MONK received his California elementary teaching credentials in 1974 and is running the children’s summer program at Maharishi International University in Fair- field, Iowa . . . Kathryn Reid and ROLLIN WILSON were married in March and are living in Bothell . . . LOIS WENMAN and Jim Routt III were married and are living in Dallas where she is a secretary.

’70 K. WAYNE FOOTE is assistant secretary of Mount Baker Mutual Savings Bank in Bellingham . . . USAF Reserve Second Lt. ROBERT D. OLSON has been awarded his silver wings following graduation from navigator training at Mather AFB, Calif. ... KATHY MclLRAITH ELLESTAD is teaching third grade in Juneau ... Mr. and Mrs. MICHAEL MARINES (NORA HORENSKY) are teaching at Cairo American College in Egypt. It is a private school that serves the foreign business and diplomatic communities . . . SUSAN HAYNES and HOWARD HART (’74) were married in February In Burien and are living on Mercer Island . . . Jean Lane and DONALD G. OLSON were married in February in Arling­ton. They are living in Mukilteo and she is employed by the Everett PUD office . . . GARY OLSON is teaching school in Pago Pago, American Samoa. He is the head of the Mathematics Department and is the football coach . . . TERENCE McMILLAN teaches industrial arts in Joyce, Wash. . .. WILLIAM GRIMM received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Puget Sound in May.

’71 JEANNE MESERVEY and Robert J. Kellner were married recently in Aberdeen. She Is employed by the Mountain Bell Telephone Co. in Denver . . . Mr. and Mrs. ED HUISINGH (PAULETTE STEENSMA) have been teaching and serving as dorm parents at the Rehoboth Mission School in New Mexico. Next year they will be teaching at an American International School in Dusseldorf, Germany . . . Melinda Bailey and STEPHEN GLASS were married in March in Seattle. He teaches in the Highline School District . . . GRACE L. CAMPBELL is a music specialist in the Northshore School District . . . CATHERINE M. MOORE and Peter J. Anderson were married in Renton in December and are living in Adelaide, South Australia, where she is developing a science for the elementary while teaching at Murry

Park College of Advanced Education . . . VICTOR LEONARD is a physicist stationed at Lowry AFB, Colo., where he is working with the 2nd Communications Squadron . . . Air Force Sergeant KENT BENN III was decorated with the USAF Commendation Medal in ceremonies at Clear Missile Early Warning Station, Alaska.

’72 SUZETTE ALLEN is supervisor of the Kent Parks and Recreation Dept. Senior Center . . . BARBARA S. FISHER and Randal Odermann were married in March in Seattle . . . WAYNE LEE is performing with the Oregon Shakespearean Festival at Ashland as part of the dance group until September . .. Susan McKee and STEVEN PRINGLE were married in January in Bellingham and are living in Burlington ... WILLIAM BOE and SCOTT ST. CLAIR received their Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Puget Sound in May ... DAVID BIRCHMAN, a Peace Corps volunteer, has been working In Moma, Zaire (formerly the Belgian Congo), as a rural development worker who is helping bring intermediate agricultural tools and methods to subsistence farmers there . . . SANDR'A lee HOFF and Robert S. Anderson were married in April in Tacoma. She is employed by the Department of Social and Health Services in Olympia . . . JOHN BERRIDGE received his master’s degree from the University of Rhode Island . . . LYNN ANDERSON and LYNNE MILLER (’69) have opened the Whatcom Speech and Hearing Clinic in Bellingham . . . CLIFFORD FRAZIER is working as an engineering geologist for a consulting engineering firm in Corvallis.

’73 BRUCE ANDERSON is teaching high school in Pelican, Alaska .. . DAVID A. OLSON, a volunteer caseworker with the King County Justice Probation System, recently received a Carnation Service Award which Is given to outstanding volunteers in community-based correctional programs . . . TOM RYAN teaches high school shop at Friday Harbor ... JANE STEARNS and ROBERT DOYLE (’72) were married In March in Bellevue. They are living in Vancouver where she is a resource learning center specialist and he teaches fifth grade . . . ANNA PARKER and James Johnson were married in Seattle . . . PAT THOMPSON is employed In Bellingham as an interior decorator . . . JOY FUKUMOTO has been living in Paris where she has finished a novella and two non-fiction works . .. TOM WARD received a graduate assistantship and head swim coach job at Kearney State College in Nebraska and is completing a M.S. degree in physical education . .. VICKIE and MICHAEL FARRIS are living in Spokane

where he is attending Gonzaga Law School and is Articles Editor of the Gonzaga Law Review and is employed as a law clerk with a firm there . . . Suzanne Morgan and REED WILLIAMS were married In March in Oregon and are living In Bremerton.

’74 SERENA MAR teaches second grade in Seattle . . . ALAN R. OLSON is employed by the Transamerica Title Insurance Co. in Bellevue . . . LAURA HUBBELL is employed by the Auburn Senior Center as a program coordinator . . . MARY DALE is employed by the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community as an administrative assistant to the Planning and Development Director in LaConner . . . BARBARA “C.T.” BENSEL is a contract specialist for the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in Seattle ... JOYCE LAES CONNOLLY is living in Bremerton where she substitutes for the Central Kitsap, South Kitsap, and Bremerton school districts.

Unclassified AILENE ANDREWS is director of drama at Big Bend Community College . . . MARCY CHADWICK and George Woodruff were married recently on Mercer Island. She is employed by the Auburn School District . . . MARIE ANSTETT and ROBERT CARR were married in February . . . DAVID EBERHARDT, an aerospace control and warning systems operator specialist, was named Outstanding Non­commissioned Officer of the Quarter in his unit ... JIM KENNETT coaches track at Mt. Rainier High School in Des Moines . . . KAREN NOWADNICK and Mark Leander were married in February in Mount Vernon and are living in Bow where they are engaged in farming . . . SUSANNE HULTGREN OLSON is a special charm consultant for the Washington Dairy Products Commission . . . STEPHANIE SKIDMORE and Michael Hedley were married recently in Prosser and are living in Seattle . . . SHARON ABEL and S. Scott Horner were married in March in Tacoma. They are living In Centralia and she is employed by the Chehalis School District . . . Carol Loewing and DAVID WEDEVEN were married in April in Bremerton where she is teaching . . .JULIE HORAN and WILLIAM GAZ were married in May on Whidbey Island ... DAVID SPOGEN is district super­intendent of the South Bend School District . . . ZINDA DINISH and Donald Foster were married recently in Seattle . . . MARGARET HIATT, associate professor of education at Oregon College of Education, has been selected for the National Wildlife Federation’s annual conservation safari to the Galapagos Islands . . . MIKE EADS is the Oklahoma Region purchasing manager for the Weyer­haeuser Company.

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