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A Magazine for Alumni and Friends of The Evergreen State College Vol. 14, No. 3, June 5,1993 

IN THIS ISSUE 

3 Creating the Illusion of Life: 

Evergreeners in Animation and Illustration 

Marge Brown 

Michael Swofford 

Steve Willis 

8 Craig Bartlett 

9 Charles Burns 

10 Lynda Barry 

12 Matt Groening 

14 Young Harvill 

IN EVERY ISSUE 

15 Greener News 

17 Alumni News and Notes 

24 The Back Page 

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The Evergreen Review 

Editor: Sandra McKenzie Hanson 

Managing Editor: David Over 

Feature Writers: Tedd Kelleher, David Over 

College News & Alumni Association News: Mike Wark, Pat Belisle 

Design: Mary Geraci, Judy Nunez-Pinedo 

Photographs: Steve Davis, Kirk Jones, David Over, TESC Photo Services 

Production Assistance/Proofreading: Pat Barte 

Cover art by Mike Wark 

Art this page from top to bottom: 

© Charles Burns 

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© Marge Brown 

© The Walt Disney Company. All rights reserved. 

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BEFORE THE EXISTENCE OF WRITING, we stained the walls and ceilings of limestone 

caves with images of the hunt. We brushed color upon canvas during the Renaissance, 

Baroque and Modern periods, attempting to recreate in two dimensions the living 

world around us. Painting in the Far East took the form of cranes and cherry blos- 

soms on silk and polychromed wood. Modern artists invented whole new ways of 

telling stories with images, capturing fancy and firing imagination through cubism, 

surrealism and other styles. 

Yet, some artists found the need to add words to the images they created. Painters 

like Lynda Barry, Craig Bartlett and Charles Burns found that need taking them into 

a whole new realm - cartooning. Like Matt Groening, these graduates of The Ever- 

green State College forged their own, distinctive styles, challenged the artistic status 

quo and found success. 

In an ironic twist, the non-conformist illustrating styles of Barry and Burns have made 

"alternative" comics a genre sought by much of mainstream America. Cartoonist and 

Evergreen graduate Steve Willis dodges the spotlight, working in the realm of un- 

derground illustrating; while Groening and his animated family, "The Simpsons," are 

rarely out of the limelight. 

Bartlett, a man of many talents, began to animate clay and helped give us the Cali- 

fornia Raisins. Evergreen teacher of animation Marge Brown uses the medium as a 

voice for persons marginalized by society. Michael Swofford found happiness within 

animation's corporate halls, and has worked on "The Little Mermaid" and "Aladdin" 

for Disney. 

Young Harvill has seen the future of animation. In fact, he is creating it. He is a lead- 

ing developer in the industry called virtual reality. 

You are invited to read on; to see how Evergreen has influenced the shape women 

and men give to their art in these times. 

Marge Brown's "Pupicka,' 

an animated short 

completed in 1991, 

weaves visual re-enact- 

ments of her own 

experiences with those 

imagined, to illustrate 

how her life has brought 

about her world view. 

THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS for students in 

Marge Brown's popular animation program at The 

Evergreen College is to develop the proper focus. 

"Animatorslearntoseethings," sheexplains, "most 

people merely look at things." Brown asks her students 

to couple insight with eyesight in order to note 

movement, style and detail; as well as weight, volume 

and mass. "How does motion feel?" she queries. 

"How does it look when a 500-ton spacecraft hits zero 

gravity?" 

Brown has an impressive collection of student work, 

culled from 10 years of teaching at Evergreen — 

intriguing videos of metamorphosing images in which 

an idea is carried for 20 seconds by one student, then 

picked up by the next, without a cut. Images change; 

they flow in a way altogether different from the last. 

Many of the works contain images from mixed 

media. "Someone used a dried-up rat in one of the 

animated pieces," points out Brown, eyebrows raised, 

"but the way they combined it with stones, tree bark 

and leaves — it was totally fitting to the thematic 

content. It was a beautiful, beautiful piece of work." 

Using organic materials in this way makes a statement, 

Brown says, about the beauty of "creating a balance 

between our steel, 'build-'em-up,' corporate society, 

and back-to-nature, protect-our-environment (movements)." 

But focus, for Brown, involves a philosophy that 

permeates her entire program. Animation — popularly 

believed to be a bastion for cuddly characters, 

situation-comedy plots, and anvils dropping from the 

sky — is an important and capable vehicle for educating 

society about difficult subjects. She asks her students 

to devote works to issues of difference, culture, 

gender, sexual orientation and class. Some of the 

imagery in student works, particularly that created by 

women, deals honestly with personal relationships, 

issues of rape, incest and other often-internalized 

thoughts. 

Brown explains: "We're so trained to be entertained 

by animation. We're so susceptible to the colors, the 

motion, the laughter. We can use that to our advantage 

and say, 'I'm going to use the colors, the stylistic 

interest, to captivate you, and, at the same time, tell 

you some very important things.' 

"Animation is a way that women and other underrepresented 

people can make their point in a very 

accessible manner. If you said, 'I'm going to do a film 

festival on women's oppression, feminist theory and 

people basically marginalized by society,' you'd get a 

very different response." 

Brown thinks there is room on our television and 

theater screens for works that entertain as well as 

inform, and that creators need to strike a balance 

between the two goals. Animator Bill Plimpton does 

an admirable job of this, she feels. We watch his 

business-suited, stone-faced duo conduct personal 

warfare, and we laugh. Then we realize how destructive 

and pointless such struggle is. 

June 5, 1993 

Some refer to work like Plimpton's or that of "Ren 

& Stimpy" creator John Kricfalusi as needlessly violent. 

Creators like Matt Groening, some charge, are 

overly cynical; a product of hardened, modern times. 

"There are a lot of people saying, 'With what are we 

training our children to think through these kind of 

images ?'" Brown says. "But I don't see that there's a 

whole lot of difference in what we watch today and 

what I was trained on, which was the Warner Brothers 

coyote getting mashed every couple of seconds. Our 

ethics training comes from many sources, including 

cartoons." 

BROWN HAS SPENT MUCH OF THE LAST 

DECADE living vicariously through her students, she 

admits. She finds joy in teaching people how to 

animate, then watching the results — some 20 animated 

projects each quarter. Brown is a busy woman; 

a virtual blur as she scurries about campus. She attends 

conferences and seminars, including those sponsored 

by the Society of Animation Studies, an international 

collection of animation teachers. 

She and Kathryn Ford, front desk supervisor of 

Evergreen's Media Loan, are the driving force behind 

the Northwest International Lesbian/Gay Film Festival, 

which recently completed a successfiul, sixthannual 

run in Olympia, and featured an array of 

impressive works from around the world. Brown's 

involvement with the festival was a natural outgrowth 

of her graduate-level studies in motion and graphic 

production, and third world and feminist theory. Her 

training in education explains her love for teaching. 

"What I love about teaching at this college is that I 

get students from every discipline. I get people who are 

into philosophy, math, writing, political science and 

visual media. They each come at the process and 

content from differing views. It makes the overall feel 

of the work very exciting, and unexpected. I don't 

teach from an industry standard. I don't say, 'This is 

how everyone in the industry does it; this is how you 

have to do it.'" That's how many other institutions 

teach. The Evergreen method of animation is saying, 

'There are no bad ideas, just untried ideas. There are 

many techniques and approaches, so let's try them.' 

"I basically taught myself to animate. I like the fact 

that I learned in my own living room studio. Until 

recently, the superior corporate entities like Disney 

Studios liked to keep the animation process a big 

mystery. Since more people have gotten access to 

animation, it's become a standard curricular offering 

at educational institutions. Because of this, and a huge 

increase in independent film production, the industry 

has opened up as a political venue. 

"I use 4-inch by 6-inch index cards as the palette. 

My method of teaching doesn't tie the artist to an 

institution. You can keep your artwork in your back 

pocket and bring it out whenever you get inspired."

When animating the 

genie in this scene and 

others from Disney's 

recent hit "Aladdin," 

Michael Swofford 

worked from a recording 

of the script, in which 

actor Robin Williams — 

the voice of the character— 

improvised a 

rapidly changing catalog 

of impressions. Following 

one cue by Williams, 

Swofford asked fellow 

artists to imitate William 

f. Buckley so he could 

produce accurate 

expressions and movements. 

© The Walt Disney Company. 

All rights reserved. 

IT IS NOT EVERYONE WHO CAN SAY Roger 

Rabbit changed his life. For some it is Freud; others, 

Friedan. For Michael Swofford, it is Toontown's 

comic hero. 

When "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" debuted in 

1988, Swofford was working in Los Angeles as a freelance 

animator on television programs like "The 

Smurfs" and "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" 

— animation that, like fast food, made use of 

low production values but achieved high commercial 

appeal. The shows were wildly popular and engaged 

the attention of younger viewers, but often fell short 

of connecting with their creators. Take away the 

glitter and glamor, Swofford and the inner circle 

knew, and He-Man was just another muscle-bound 

blond guy in a thong. 

A depressed Swofford sought solace at the movie 

theater. In the flickering light he watched "Roger 

Rabbit" turn the animation industry on its ear, redefining 

the medium technologically and breathing new 

life into its venerable, comedic style. It astounded him; 

and, in a moment of animative epiphany, the dark 

night of the soul in which he found himself rolled up 

and away like a window shade. 

"I should have worked on that," Swofford realized 

while watching the film, "but I was too chicken. By 

that time I had tried too many experiments with my 

life. I was terrified because everything I'd done had 

turned into a really nasty experience. I thought I 

should play it safe." 

Swofford committed himself to plowing unsafely 

ahead. While his television experience had disciplined 

his drawing and taught 

him much about the process 

of cartoon production, 

he resolved to move 

on to projects destined for 

the big screen. 

Swofford was offered a 

position with Disney Feature 

Animation, and his 

star rose quickly. He 

moved from an assignment 

as an in-between animator 

on "The Little Mermaid" 

to one of character 

animatorwith "Aladdin," 

in which he helped imbue 

a frenetic genie with multiple 

personalities. Today, Swofford perches over a 

team of animators giving flight to an African bird 

character in "The Lion King," a new, feature-length 

cartoon influenced by the writings of Joseph Campbell. 

The film tells the story of a young lion who regains a 

destiny that seemed lost. In so many ways, it is 

Swofford's story, too. 

SWOFFORD SEEMS OUT OF PLACE at Disney. 

His frank, dark sense of humor contrasts with the 

serious sunniness of this corporation, where workers 

wear name tags and smiles eight or more hours each 

day. But he speaks with the enthusiasm of one completely 

enthralled — if not possessed — by his work. He 

discusses with fervor his attempts at getting the feathered 

figure on his light table to act, and, when words 

fail, flaps his arms as though they were wings and glides 

through his office. His officemate is unfazed; clearly, 

Swofford has taken flight before. 

Before finding a roost in feature animation, Swofford 

will tell you, he lived a directionless life, dabbling in 

'60s-styled Bohemian excess. His days at The Evergreen 

State College from 1978 to 1981 offered him the 

chance to experiment with freedom in two-dimensional 

drawing, animation and live-action film. Though he 

dismisses much of his work as unfocused frittering, 

others recall it as being inspired. 

Peter Randlette, Evergreen computer applications in 

media specialist and 1980 graduate, reviewed Swofford's 

illustrating and watched his animated motion studies. 

He remembers a man so accomplished in the visual arts 

that success was only a matter of his figuring out what 

it was he did best. "When he was at Evergreen he was 

just scratching the surface of animation," he remembers. 

"He's made light years of progress." 

Come 1981, Swofford was sure of three things: He 

was undecided about what to do; he was in his midtwenties; 

and, by this time in his life, Orson Welles had 

finished "Citizen Kane." "I realized I'd used up all of 

my rope at Evergreen;" he says. He packed up what 

remained of his faith in his art and headed for Hollywood; 

landing on the couch of friend David Worman, 

a 1978 graduate of TESC. 

"I had never worked a job in my life. I'd developed 

this smarty pants attitude that charmed a few professors 

but wasn't going to get me past the first few days 

in business," says Swofford, who, despite such trepidation, 

went on to hold posts in computer graphics and 

computer animation before entering the world of television 

animation. 

At Disney Feature Animation, he found artists of like 

mind who enjoyed working together, and he made use 

of something he learned at Evergreen: 

"Collaboration and cooperation are very important. 

They're like a symphony: When all the instruments 

work together, it's so beautiful. When they don't, it's 

just noise." 

SWOFFORD RETURNED TO OLYMPIA last summer 

to treat audiences to the Northwest premier of 

"Aladdin," and to screen a few older works missed by 

the great publicity machine: videos he had produced in 

his college days. Surprisingly, he laughs, his videos 

received the bigger reaction. "I felt confident," he 

realized, because of the success — so long in coming — 

he thought he was beginning to make of his life. 

He looked over at Wyatt Gates, head of Evergreen's 

Media Loan, for whom he worked in college. Remember 

the times, his smile asked, we ditched work to sneak 

off to the Capitol Theater? It was there Swofford 

watched Indiana Jones triumph over seemingly insurmountable 

odds, and ride happily into the sunset. 

A triplet featuring Steve 

Willis's Morty the Dog. 

Morty appears in much of 

Willis's work, including 

volumes of comics 

published by MU PRESS, in 

which he becomes a 

famous tennis champion, 

serves as president of the 

U. S., develops a cure for 

cancer and is awarded the 

Nobel Peace Prize. But can 

he roll over and beg? 

©Steve Willis. 

"EVERGREEN WAS LIKE AN ALIEN SHIP that 

landed outside of Olympia," says Steve Willis, one of 

what has become known as the "cartoon mafia" that 

came out of Evergreen in the late 1970s. Willis was 

relieved when Evergreen descended on the then-small 

and -sleepy, conservative town. "I was real excited 

because the '60s totally passed Olympia by." As a 

teenager he wandered the nascent campus in anticipation, 

watching trees being cleared for what would be 

Red Square. 

Willis's involvement in what he calls "bizarro" 

comics began in Aberdeen, where he discovered his 

first underground comics. "They totally flipped my 

cranium out. I couldn't get enough of the underground 

stuff. Now it looks so tame, but back then it was like 

this tidal wave in a real sedate pool. It was a clash with 

everything I had been used to." 

In 1973, a year before he started Evergreen, Willis 

produced his first bizarro comic book. During his first 

quarter, he met Matt Greening and Lynda Barry. 

"Matt was real urban and I was real rural, but we had 

cartoon drawing in common." 

Willis enrolled at Evergreen thinking he wanted to 

be a social worker, but changed his mind after stints at 

an institution for consumers of mental health services 

and home for the aged. He thought about learning 

law, but later abandoned that idea as well. Eventually, 

he gave up on the idea of a focus, enrolling in a writing 

program taught by Thad Curtz and Peter Elbow. It 

ended up being the best course he took at Evergreen. 

"I learned an awful lot about cartooning through 

writing," he explains. 

DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE 1982 RECES- 

SION, Esquire offered to pay Willis, Barry and 

Greening to do cartoons — with conditions. The 

editors told Willis, "You can do anything you want, 

but — " Willis didn't want to prostitute his work. "I 

finally said forget it. I decided to chuck the idea of 

becoming a cartoonist because it just sounded like by 

the time I met all the requirements it wouldn't be me 

doing it anymore. Later I was approached by other 

magazines like Lear's. I still occasionally get commercial 

offers, but I'm pretty firm now in saying, 'No.' I 

don't even consider it." 

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Willis says Groening is largely responsible for the 

number of cartoonists that came out of Evergreen in 

the late '70s. "Matt's personality drew the cartoonist 

out of several people who would otherwise have had a 

totally boring career in gallery art. He converted 

people. He excited them about the possibility of doing 

comics. I think credit belongs to him." 

Willis thinks Evergreen's "do-what-you-want" atmosphere 

also nurtured cartoonist culture. "Evergreen 

was a school filled with individualists, and cartoonists 

are individualists in a geeky kind of way. They stay 

indoors all the time and get real pale, chubby and sickly 

— fantasizing on a drawing board. Evergreen allowed 

people to do that, for better or worse." 

His more than 100 comic books have earned Willis 

notoriety in the underground comic world."I'm still 

very dedicated after all this time to the idea of underground 

media," he says. Presently, he is the publisher 

of the cartooning newsletter "City Limits Gazette," 

which he describes as "E-mail without the E." "There 

are a whole bunch of people who are capable of 

becoming professional cartoonists, but for different 

reasons choose not to. A lot of us keep in contact 

through things like the "Gazette." There are some 

people who are up and coming and use the "Gazette" 

as an invisible college. They'll stay in the network until 

they become famous and then move on." Not long ago, 

before going mainstream, the Teenage Mutant Ninja 

Turtles creators were part of the cartoon network. 

"One of them used to do the most obscene comics I 

have ever seen." 

AFTER GRADUATING FROM EVERGREEN, 

Willis earned a master's in library science from the 

University of Washington, which has led to a series of 

jobs as librarian, including a stint at the Evergreen 

Library. At the Washington State University library, 

Willis started one of the few academic underground 

and new wave comic collections in the country. Presently, 

he is a librarian at South Puget Sound Community 

College. 

"Right now my life is ideal. I have a job I love, I still 

have my family, and I'm able to draw whatever I want 

for fun," he reports. "I don't have to deal with editors, 

publishers and deadlines. I didn't want cartooning to 

become a job, because it's a real special part of my life. 

It's like an overprotected child. I don't want to get it out 

there and get battered up by the brutal reality of the 

publishing world."

Craig Bartlett recently 

wrapped the shooting of 

"Postcards," a live-action, 

multi-media film shot in 

exotic locales around the 

globe. The film is to be 

shown in the round on 

nine screens at Expo '93 

in Taejon, Korea. A 

master of many mediums, 

Bartlett has 

produced accomplished 

work in illustration, 

cartoon animation and 

the animation of clay, 

"Postcards" logo courtesy 

BRC Imagination Arts. 

THE ART OF ANIMATING CLAY TOOK GI- 

ANT STRIDES FORWARD in 1986 with the advent 

of the California Raisins, a soul-singing group of 

wizened grapes that worked wonders for the California 

Raisin Advisory Board and captured public fascination. 

Hundreds of Raisins products were issued, and 

by the end of the decade, hundreds of millions of 

dollars had been made at the retail counter. The 

California Raisins are very likely the first raisins to 

have performed on their own television specials. 

Not bad for dried fruit, surmises Craig Bartlett. 

Bartlett was a creative force behind the Raisins, which 

were designed and choreographed by Academy Awardwinning 

Will Vinton Productions of Portland. Bartlett 

was also responsible for the Noid, a food-spoiling 

claymation character that appeared in Domino's Pizza 

television commercials produced by Vinton studios, 

beginning in 1986. 

When Marge Brown sees the emotive, elastic Noid, 

she remembers a multi-talented friend who put much 

of himself into everything he produced. "It's him," she 

claims. "The faces, the actions. It's him." 

"I'm sort of a wise guy," agrees Bartlett, whose move 

into animation represented a veer from his training in 

fine art. "I just couldn't take all that painting stuff 

seriously after a while," he explains. 

BARTLETT PRODUCED AN ANIMATED 

SHORT called "Shove a Burger" during his years at 

Evergreen, infamous for its unswerving commitment 

to exposing society's love affair with fast food as 

gastronomic idiocy. Critics maintain that appreciating 

art is an experience; something a viewer feels on a gut 

level. Under this 

definition, "Shove 

a Burger" is a masterpiece. 

Viewers 

give strong consideration 

to cooking 

at home — if not 

hunger striking — 

as characters consume 

more bovine 

in a few moments 

than the Beef Council 

might recommend 

in a lifetime. 

"I had a kind of 

fixation on how fast 

fast food was becoming," 

explains Bartlett. "It doesn't look like Godard; 

but I was influenced by the French New Wave." 

The gregarious Bartlett enjoyed the isolation of his 

studies. "Evergreen said, 'Here's the animation stand. 

Here are the keys. Knock yourself out.' You could 

work and work and work and no one would ever hassle 

you. I was not in a hurry to leave." 

When graduation reared its ugly head in 1981, he 

looked up from his work in alarm and made a snap 

decision. "[Hey!] I'm about to graduate. I'd better do 

a comic book." The amusing collection "Tales From 

the Steam Tunnels" followed, which Bartlett edited. 

The book contained illustrations by Lynda Barry, 

Charles Burns, Matt Groening and Steve Willis, plus a 

healthy dose of Bartlett's own work. 

He also remembers the weeks after graduation that 

he calls the "lost months," during which he looked for 

work in major markets along the West Coast: Seattle, 

Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. These were 

the days before "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," "The 

Simpsons" and "The Little Mermaid" helped revive 

flagging audience interest in animation. The industry 

was experiencing recession. There were short-term 

assignments Bartlett liked, like one for a Seattle animator. 

And there were those he loathed. "The absolute 

low point was during Christmas, when I was painting 

Christmas windows at a bank," he says. 

Fortunately, a few weeks later he was working for 

Vinton. "How committed are you to this two-dimensional 

animation you've been doing?" Vinton asked 

the starving artist. Bartlett said he had never heard of 

it. 

BARTLETT MOVED TO LOS ANGELES in 1988, 

after the furor over the California Raisins and Noid 

eased. He began work on "Pee Wee's Playhouse." He 

produced an imaginative series of claymation shorts 

featuring a girl named Penny, with coins for eyes and 

a child-philosopher's heart. He interviewed girls, asking 

them questions like, What if you met a mermaid? 

or, What if you went to Mars? Then he wrote a script, 

designed a storyboard, and presented a rough of the 

project to Herman on cassette. There was little of the 

answering to layers of supervisors so common in 

television, Bartlett says thankfully, and little wrestling 

for creative control. "I would play the tape for Pee Wee 

and he would say, 'Yes,' or, 'No.' I got to do what Pee 

Wee wanted and that's it." 

While parts of Bartlett's job were simple, it was no 

easy endeavor getting clay characters to act. He played 

actor and sculptor, he says. The heat from the lights 

took its toll on his intricate moldings. "An animator 

has a stack of eels at the end of a day. In claymation, 

all you've got is a beat-up lump of clay. Tomorrow, 

you've got to start from scratch all over again." 

BARTLETT HAS DEVIATED FROM THE FIELDS 

of animation and claymation these days, with production 

of a 360-degree, multi-media film for Korean Air 

called "Postcards," which combines live action footage 

shot in exotic locations around the world with stills 

and other media. 

"It's a complicated and confusing thing, but a fun 

way to shoot," he says of the logistical and mechanical 

undertaking this project requires. "You tell yourself, 

'Oh, God, I hope this all works out.' I don't have to 

fantasize about saying, 'Well, I'd like to find something 

harder to do.' I found it." 

His shooting schedule took him around the world; 

to Seoul; Paris; the veldts of Africa; the Canadian 

Rockies; Bali; Carnival in Rio de Janeiro; and rafting 

down the Colorado River, through Grand Canyon 

gorges. Each seven days, Bartlett faxed cartoons of his 

hilarious and harrowing travels to co-workers at BRC 

Imagination Arts in Burbank. "Africa was so good," 

he reflects, "I sent two that week." 

Fatal attraction: panels 

featuring Charles Burns' 

Dog Boy, from the book 

"Skin Deep: Tales of 

Doomed Romance," 

published last year by 

Penguin. Burns recently 

worked as the concept 

designer for Mark 

Morris's production of 

"The Hard Nut," a ballet 

based on "The Nutcracker 

Suite." 

© Charles Burns 

THE DISTURBING ILLUSTRATIONS OF 

CHARLES BURNS have adorned the pages of The 

New Yorker, Heavy Metal, Raw and the cover of 

Time. His comic strip "Big Baby" could be found in 

major independent press markets in the late 1980s and 

early '90s. Burns has illustrated the covers of recordings 

for the Sub Pop label, as well as proto-punk 

innovator Iggy Pop. He has published five collections 

of his work. 

The clean lines and highly structured style of his 

work invite connections to drawings that appeared in 

the 1950s and '60s. But Burns often places his characters 

in desperate circumstances. He makes them witnesses 

to mysteries and sometimes twists their faces in 

fear. "He has this hyper-real, cold style that is really 

affecting," says Jon Snyder, a 1991 graduate of Evergreen 

and himself an illustrator. "He takes a lot of 

mainstream stuff and puts it under a microscope. He's 

really tenacious about looking at fear. But that's what 

is really great about it." 

Many have praised his efforts.' There have been 

times, however, when Burns has been criticized. He 

was a frequent contributor to the Cooper Point Journal 

in his days as a student from 1976 to 1977. "The 

illustration that I'm doing now kind of came out of the 

comics," he relates. "There is a certain look: real clean, 

real precise. But I'm just emulating a look and type of 

storytelling that I enjoy, that I've always responded to. 

I've been drawing steadily since I was a kid, and my 

style developed slowly. 

"It wasn't me saying, for example, 'Oh, I'll do 

something to shock everyone, or something that will fit 

into that kind of '50s-nostalgia thing.' There are illustrators 

who have styles that look like that kind of popart, 

'60s-comics look, and mine doesn't quite fit into 

that genre. In some ways it relates to classic American 

comics." 

Matt Groening, editor of the Cooper Point Journal 

in the mid-1970s, observes, "At the time, the underground 

cartooning scene was virtually dead. I think 

Lynda Barry and Charles Burns really showed us the 

way. They just had their own personal, peculiar visions. 

Charles is doing the same kind of bizarre cartoons 

now that he did back then. They really drove 

people crazy. We got more letters about those cartoons 

— not for the content—just because of how nightmarish 

they looked." 

BURNS COMPLETED FINE ART COURSE WORK 

at the University of Washington and Central Washington 

University prior to his arrival at TESC, and welcomed 

Evergreen's allowances for personally directed 

and unmolested study. "My personality didn't fit into 

regular schools too well. At Evergreen, I could really 

focus in on what I was interested in, and work more on 

my own." He delved into photography and magazine 

production. 

Later, Burns attended graduate school at the University 

of California, Davis. "In a way I was kind of finally 

deciding what it was I was going to do. It was two years 

of never-never land, being in a studio situation that I 

knew I wouldn't be able to do later. I was just able to 

do work, anything that I wanted to experiment with 

and do. I was doing sculpture and photography — 

anything and a whole bunch of different things. 

"When I got out of graduate school, I was suddenly 

trying to figure out how I was going to make a living." 

He tried to land illustration jobs, but it was a difficult 

situation. "You're not a tried-and-tested artist, so it's 

hard to get work." Eventually, though, comic anthologies 

began to publish Burns' pieces, and he was on his 

way. He recently finished a job for a beer company, in 

which he produced art for outdoor billboards. 

"That's kind of weird," Burns says, "that I'm selling 

beer. I'm kind of surprised at some of the places my 

stuff's appeared." He describes as a balancing act the 

struggle to maintain artistic integrity in a commercial 

environment. Every artist is concerned about how 

watered down imagery may become, he continues, 

"whether they sell Butterfinger candy bars or beer." 

If you can pull it off, then I think there's nothing 

wrong with it at all. You (may) reach millions of people 

as opposed to a handful of your close friends and 

admirers." 

TODAY'S NEWSPAPER FUNNIES do not interest 

Burns. "I'll get a Sunday paper, and pass the comics on 

to my children," he shrugs. "They're not something I 

have any interest in." Comics from the past, however, 

are a different story. Burns reads anthologies of decades-old 

strips with great relish.

10 

Early Lynda Barry, circa 

1976, from "Tales From 

the Steam Tunnels." At 

right is recent Barry, from 

her nationally syndicated 

comic strip. 

© Lynda Barry 

"I CAN REALLY, HONESTLY SAY I owe my 

entire career to (Evergreen faculty members) Marilyn 

Frasca and Mark Levensky. They're the best," says 

cartoonist, writer, playwright, painter and National 

Public Radio commentator Lynda Barry. 

Barry, a 1978 graduate of Evergreen recalls, "Their 

idea was that images are at the center of all the arts, and 

that, first, you have to figure out what an image is. 

Then you figure out what the story is, and then you 

should figure out how to express it. I still think that's 

a Pretry revolutionary idea." 

Barry credits the intensive journal writing and painting 

she did at Evergreen with helping her remember her 

childhood, aspects of which are the subject matter of 

her work. "They had us do a lot of work, but because 

none of us had really worked hard before, we didn't 

know it was impossible. You got over being a beginner 

real fast. 

"A lot of teachers get a crush on making you love 

their brain," Barry remembers. At Evergreen, however, 

she found educators who shifted the focus to 

others. "These teachers facilitated you loving a bunch 

of brains, even dead people's brains. Plus, they took us 

real seriously, at least they acted like they did when we 

were in the room, which was good enough for me." 

Barry started at Evergreen in 1974, after graduating 

from high school in Seattle. "I grew up in a neighborhood 

where nobody went to college, and I had heard 

this rumor that you couldn't get into college unless you 

had three years of foreign language. I had only two 

years of German. As a result, I thought I had to go to 

an alternative school, never checking this out, of 

course. Plus, I was sort of a hippie and I had heard that 

Evergreen was where all the cute hippie guys were." 

At Evergreen Barry strived to be the best, most 

depressed Bohemian on campus. "I always liked the 

really thin girls who looked troubled, that were so 

anorexic their eyes and eyelashes stuck out. I admired 

those really depressed, thin girls because I thought they 

got the most boyfriends, but I could never pull it off, 

because I like to eat too much. Instead, I just tried to act 

depressed and deep. I would read Sylvia Plath in front 

of people and have lots of depressed opinions." 

AS DID HER CARTOONING COHORTS, Barry 

clashed with intolerant elements on campus. One of 

Barry's first paid graphic arts jobs was creating publicity 

materials for a gynecological self-examination 

workshop sponsored by the campus health center. "I 

announced it by having a talking speculum. They 

thought it was kind of funny, until some real uptight 

people complained." 

Her first exhibition as curator of the campus galleries 

featured neon art, which was placed all over campus. 

"People were hippies, so they hated neon. I 

thought it was dynamic; they said it was 'ungentle.' 

Those were those people living on farms and stuff. 

They were real strict about everything. It's so funny 

because the idea of being a hippie was that you weren't 

so dogmatic, but, in fact, the hippies were the most 

dogmatic people around. They were a drag." 

In a Cooper Point Journal article written by Matt 

Greening about the neon exhibition, Barry is quoted as 

saying, "I'm fed up with these sappy, organic poets. 

Here we are all trying to be groovy and get back to the 

grass, man, and the only thing that would make these 

morons happy is if someone painted the side of a ... 

sheep." 

It was while installing one of the neon signs in the 

CPJ office that Barry met Greening. "Matt was fun to 

irritate. I would come in all the time to blow his mind 

in different ways. I wouldn't say we were friends, but 

we were certainly antagonistic toward each other in a 

loving way. We actually got much closer after we were 

out of school." Barry contributed cartoons, articles 

and artwork for the CPJ. "Matt asked me to find the 

best hamburger in Olympia. I didn't have the heart to 

tell him I had been a vegetarian for five years, but I 

wanted to write for the paper so bad I ate 13 hamburgers 

in three days." 

TO PAY FOR COLLEGE, Barry held a series of 

campus jobs, including a stint doing patient intake for 

the campus health center. One of her responsibilities 

included drawing blood samples, until "This girl I 

knew came in and said she was kind of scared. But I 

thought she was joking, so I unpeeled the blade, looked 

at her and said, 'The instrument of doom!' She passed 

out, and from then on, they only let me answer the 

phone." 

Barry drew her first comic strips at Evergreen. "I 

started drawing comic strips kind of for Matt, to drive 

him nuts. Also, after I had gone through a terrible 

break-up, I started drawing comic strips at night when 

everybody was asleep and the Eastside Club was 

closed. I had this really terrible insomnia because my 

boyfriend was off with this beautiful blond woman. I 

didn't have any choice but to sit around and draw." 

She says she led a rich social life off campus. "At the 

Rib-Eye I would play Eagles songs on the jukebox and 

eat pancakes." She got free beer for life at the Eastside 

Club after giving the bartender her pair of authentic 

Tony Lama boots. 

After graduating, Barry worked odd jobs until she 

got fed up working for others and decided to become 

self-employed. She earned money doing illustrations 

and selling paintings, until the Chicago Reader hired 

her to do a weekly comic strip. 

Barry now divides time between drawing her nationally 

syndicated, weekly comic, "Ernie Pook's Comeek," 

painting and working on a new novel about Edna, the 

main character in her first novel and nationally acclaimed 

play, "The Good Times are Killing Me." 

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Barry 

Her new novel, which she hopes to finish in January, 

follows Edna through the eighth grade. "It's about her 

turning into a bad kid, taking drugs, hitchhiking and 

having fights with her mom. It's like my comic strip 

only rougher. In one year she goes from a kid to 

someone seeing the world." 

Even though her work is focused on her comic and 

writing, Barry still makes time for painting. "I kind of 

have to paint or I feel crazy. The neat thing now is that 

I make enough of a living that I don't have to sell them. 

I'm like one of those artists who, every time I sell a 

painting, I get really sad, because I like them. I have this 

incredible storehouse of paintings and cartoon strips 

that I j ust won't part with. I can't let go of them, so they 

will all be in one place when I conk." 

AFTER YEARS OF RAMBLING around the country, 

Barry has settled in Chicago. "Chicago is like if 

you stuck Seattle with Manhattan. It's this amazing, 

swinging town with an enormous amount of music. 

Culturally it is incredibly diversified, and you can still 

park your car. I have a crush on Chicago that is sort of 

like how I used to have a crush on guys. I don't think 

I'll ever leave." 

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12 

Below, the youngest 

member of television's 

first family, Maggie 

Simpson. At right, Bart at 

Krusty the Clown's 

summer camp; Lisa, Bart 

and Homer look on as 

Ned Flanders and Marge 

perform "A Streetcar 

Named Desire." 

© Fox Broadcasting 

Company. All rights reserved. 

LOS ANGELES SIMMERS IN UNSEASONABLE 

HEAT, yet car windows are up and doors locked. 

"Give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the world," the 

newsradio station promises, then shoots all but two of 

those minutes forecasting local apocalypse, once the 

verdicts in the Rodney King federal trial are handed 

down. The announcer begins a countdown: "The 

results are due any day now." 

Ragged men at freeway onramps hold signs of the 

times: "Homeless" and "Will work for food." It is late 

April — springtime in the City of Angels — and Time 

magazine asks, "Is Los Angeles Going to Hell?" 

Matt Groening thought the town was already there 

years ago. "The phrase 'Life in Hell' came to mind the 

second I left Evergreen in the late 1970s," he recalls. He 

churned his satiric observations on life from the vantage 

points of driver, movie extra, busser of tables, 

newspaper circulation manager, free-lance cartoonist, 

writer and drawer of rabbits into the popular comic 

strip "Life in Hell." His cartoons spawned an entire 

family of meditations on hell, of course, including the 

books "Love is Hell," "Work is Hell," "The Road to 

Hell," and "Next Exit: Hell"; and calendars cheerily 

entitled "Another Year Shot to Hell." 

Groening is perhaps best known as the father of 

another family, however: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, 

and Maggie — the Simpsons. 

He deplores the way the media have sensationalized 

events surrounding this trial. They have stoked a fire 

that will turn out to be, he predicts, only smoke. 

Groening was in South Central Los Angeles just yesterday, 

speaking to high school students. The air reverberated 

with the sound of helicopters. 

"Yes, the Rodney King trial was on everybody's 

minds, and the people in South Central L. A. have a lot 

to be [angry] about, but it's a paranoid fantasy to think 

that they, whoever they are, are organized the way a lot 

of people think, and are coming to get us, whoever we 

are. 

"The rumors and fantasies that are spinning out of 

control around town are just amazing to me. Which is 

not to say this is not a dangerous town. There's lots of 

gunfire and people get killed every day. It's part of the 

legacy of neglect from the Reagan/Bush era," Groening 

says. "It's a miserable, racist culture that gets out of 

control every so often." 

The Evergreen ReViev 

FREEWAY 405 IS A PARKING LOT NEAR 

EMPTY. A Rabbit speeds past, with a Bart Simpson 

doll — his spiked, yellow head stained smog-brown — 

suction-cupped to its rear window. "Don't Have a 

Cow, Man," advises the license plate holder. Navigating 

the 20th Century Fox studios lot, where Groening 

has an office, is difficult. It is a maze of cables and 

scaffolding, executives and security cops in BMWs and 

golf carts. 

Groening's office is but a humble stab at corporate 

staging, housed in a building that resembles an aging 

Motel 6. Behind his screen door exists an impressive 

shrine to "Life in Hell" and "Simpsons" marketdom 

—something between a smirk and salute to the grindings 

of commercial machinery. There are some 1,000 licensed 

Simpsons products, most of which seem to be 

displayed here. There is even a piece of correspondence 

from the White House, in which Barbara Bush apologizes 

to Marge Simpson for some unkind remarks 

made about her family in 1990. 

"I didn't realize how depressed I'd been for the last 

12 years until Bush was defeated," reveals Groening. 

"I've spent so much of my creative thinking fuming 

about Reagan and Bush that it's a real relief to have 

them gone. I smile every time I think about it," he adds, 

smiling. 

"One of the things I've tried to do with my work is 

give comfort to the people that agree with me. I don't 

know if I've changed anybody's mind. But I like to 

think that there are some people out there that might 

be cheered up a little to find there's somebody who was 

opposed to Desert Storm, when so much of the rest of 

the country looked the other way." 

THERE ARE BUTTERFINGERS IN THE OFFICE 

refrigerator, and cans of 7-Up. Where is the official 

"Simpsons" recycling bin for empties, one wonders. Is 

Groening still green? 

"Well, you know, my life has gone downhill since I 

left the college," he admits readily. "One of the nice 

things about Evergreen was the sense of community 

and openness to different ideas. It made me determine 

that for the rest of my life I was not going to slip back 

into the status quo." 

He has been hard at work. This is a man The New 

York Times called "Mocker of the Mainstream," and 

Spin, "Show-biz Guerrilla." "Well, thanks," he offers, 

when told it looks as if others feel he has kept his edge. 

"Doing 'The Simpsons' was really an experiment in 

trying to go mainstream; to see how far you could take 

an idea into the mainstream," Groening continues. 

"I've talked about this with Lynda Barry over the years 

—about sneaking into the media—and 'The Simpsons' 

was a real successful experiment. Now that I've done 

it, I hope that the next project will be a little more 

subversive and outrageous. We'll see what happens." 

Groening's Simpsons have stolen their dysfunctional 

ways into mainstream America's heart, poking fun at 

its foibles every step of the way. It is an odd phenomenon, 

Groening grants. 

"Having gotten a little experience of how things 

work in Hollywood, the more I realize that the fact that 

'The Simpsons' even got on the air is a real fluke. It's 

really tough to get anything that's different on the air, 

there are just so many things standing in the way of 

anything good. In fact, knowing what I've gone through, 

I'm surprised anything good ever gets on television. 

"I think it's because the Fox executives never got it," 

he muses. "I think animation was so alien to TV 

executives that they didn't know what to wreck, so 

they left us alone." Now, of course, no one leaves them 

alone. Groening's walls are completely hidden by 

framed magazine covers of TV's first family or its 

creator; from Time and Newsweek to The New Republic 

and Mother Jones. The fez-wearing Akbar and 

Jeff from "Life in Hell" adorn the cover of The 

Advocate. 

GROENING PRIES OPEN A CAESAR-SALAD 

TO-GO that has been waiting for him for hours, and 

roots for a crouton. "I don't want to make him feel 

bad," he says, chewing, "but Evergreen teacher Mark 

Levensky is one of the people most responsible for my 

creative outlook on life. He was very inspiring to me. 

He was the one who suggested I head for Hollywood." 

Levensky facilitated the Program "Conceptions of 

Self," of which Groening was part, and sponsored his 

editorship at the Cooper Point Journal. When Groening 

told Levensky he had received an offer of employment 

from an independent weekly in Los Angeles, Levensky 

encouraged him to take it. "I admire his talent and 

work. But he had a whole group of friends who 

supported and encouraged each other. By the grace of 

God, they were all quite talented. It wasn't just a 

fantasy; it was amazing." 

- 

"If you were a creative weirdo anywhere in the 

Northwest, Evergreen was the place to go," Groening 

explains. "We all gravitated there. And Evergreen, for 

all its reputation as being a non-stop hippie orgy, was 

actually relatively sedate. The most drug abuse I saw 

was done by the kids I had gone to high school with, 

who were in the fraternities at the University of Oregon 

and Washington." 

Groening was more interested in pursuing a career 

as a writer than cartoonist when he edited the Cooper 

Point Journal. "We tried to stir things up," he recalls. 

"We did a parody of The Olympian, which we called 

the Daily Zero. The contents really outraged some 

people. We covered Gov. Dixy Lee Ray's inaugural 

ball. And I'm proud to say that the Cooper Point 

Journal was held up on the legislative floor as evidence 

that the school should be closed down. 

"There was a lot of left-over hippiedom at Evergreen 

which we also made fun of," Groening continues. "It 

was so funny because the hippies were simultaneously 

laid back but incredibly easy to provoke. It was irresistible. 

We caused a lot of trouble." 

GROENING HAS A COLD, AND WORRIES about 

dark circles appearing under his eyes, but goodnaturedly 

agrees to sit for a picture his former friends 

at Evergreen may view. "You'll see me with my hair 

this long; that's good," he reasons, and smiles.

14 

"Still of Packard" 

produced using 

MacroModel, a computer 

program that 

allows artists to bring 

movement to images. 

Young Harvill, who 

spearheaded development 

of the program, is 

designing the future of 

animation through his 

work in the industry 

called virtual reality. 

Still courtesy MacroMedia. 

THE TALENTS OF CARTOONISTS are key components 

to computer animation, says 1976 Evergreen 

graduate Young Harvill, a leader in the burgeoning 

field of virtual reality. Using software developed 

by Harvill, animators fine-tuned the movement 

of computer-dinosaurs in the soon-to-be-released 

film "Jurassic Park." 

"Talented character animators from Disney and 

Warners are increasingly being used to fine-tune 

computer animation so it has personality," says 

Harvill. But gee-whiz movie animation gives us only 

an inkling of what is to come from information 

technology coming to be known as virtual reality, say 

its proponents. 

Since leaving Evergreen, Harvill has become one of 

the principle actors in the field of virtual reality — a 

cutting edge technology that promises to revolutionize 

the way we interact with information. During a 

stint of unemployment, Harvill taught himself computer 

programming and wrote "Swivel," a leading 

three-dimensional modeling program. "Swivel" was 

used to write the popular CD-ROM computer game 

"Spaceship Warlock," in which a player has 20 

frantic minutes to roam a spaceship, searching for a 

way to halt its imminent self-destruction. "Swivel" 

and another program of Harvill's have also been put 

to use on television's "Star Trek: the Next Genera- 

The Evergreen Re View 

Greener News 

Harvill typifies the Evergreen student who uses tl 

college's interdisciplinary learning as a stepping stoi 

Many ties that bind a 

to a leading role in his or her field. "I went to Evergret 

News From 

college to a community 

because I could get my degree and still do fine arts," 1 

explains. 

The Evergreen are crystal clear. Others 

After graduating, Harvill worked at the college f 

State College are more subtle and lie 

just below the surface, 

six years as an art technician. He and fellow a 

yet are as firmly 

technician Ann Lasco designed and installed tl 

established as the roots 

printmaking studio in Lab II. Later they married. 

of a full-grown tree. 

HARVILL HELPED DESIGN THE DATA GLO\d by corporations and universities to interface use 

Evergreen's roots 

reach deep into sur- 

with computer-generated virtual worlds. Presentl 

rounding communities 

Harvill is director of three-dimensional software 

through public service, 

Macro Media in California, where he heads the desij 

forming links that 

of three-dimensional modeling software. The softwa 

deserve closer examina- 

he developed is being used to create virtual worlds f< 

tion at a time when 

the 3-DO system, hailed by The Wall Street Journal 

service is a hot topic in 

the probable leader in the next generation of intera 

the media and on 

tive computer systems. 

campuses across the 

Although consumer-level technology falls short 

nation. 

allowing users to totally immerse themselves in 

President Clinton has 

virtual world, Harvill sees the systems he is working c 

intensified the spotlight 

now as steps toward a future when virtual worlds a 

on public service 

accessible to everyone. 

through his plan to 

exchange community 

service hours for dollars 

owed from student 

loans. But even before 

Clinton arrived on the 

national scene, Evergreen 

was quietly 

working to encourage 

community service for 

students by making 

opportunities available 

in academic programs. 

This year, a community 

services grant 

project funded by the 

Commission on 

National and Community 

Service, is placing 

people from local nonprofit 

community 

service organizations on 

faculty teaching teams. 

These "community team 

members" help students 

find suitable community 

service placements, then 

participate in group 

discussions that connect 

classroom theory with 

real-world experience. 

Program Coordinator 

Terry Elliot is working 

with interested faculty 

teams to expand the 

program in the fall. 

' 

Public Service: Evergreen's Roots Run Deep 

Interest is strong, and as 

the number of participating 

faculty teams 

increases, the number of 

students pursuing local 

public service opportunities 

should increase 

dramatically. 

Evergreen's traditional 

emphasis on 

internships yields 

thousands of hours of 

valuable service to local 

organizations each year. 

During the 1992-93 

academic year alone, 

more than 450 students 

conducted internships 

for academic credit; 

most took place in 

Thurston County. Many 

students have volunteered 

their services to 

non-profit community 

organizations where 

they've established 

reputations as selfmotivated, 

effective, and 

very creative workers. 

"I cannot tell you 

how many times interns 

have saved us," says 

Eunice Santiago, who 

directs the outreach 

program for Safeplace, a 

non-profit organization 

that provides support 

and shelter to women 

and children who 

experience abuse. 

Safeplace depends on 

volunteers who are 

available at all hours to 

help support women 

and children in crisis. 

Evergreen interns are 

there when needed. 

Chris Walline of the 

Thurston County 

Conservation District 

has put Evergreen 

interns to work designing 

educational programs 

for Dobbs Creek 

JuneB, 1993 

Model Farm, a 66-acre 

plot of land in the 

Henderson watershed 

where hundreds of 

second- through eighthgrade 

students learn 

about conservation 

issues each spring. 

"Evergreen interns are 

phenomenal. What they 

do is invaluable to the 

community," says 

Walline. "Evergreen's 

link to the community is 

there — and it's strong." 

Evergreen interns are 

found nearly every 

quarter helping out at 

Thurston/Mason 

County Mental Health, 

Thurston County 

Television, the Olympia 

AIDS Task Force, 

Dispute Resolution 

Center, Wolf Haven, 

Cascadia Research 

Collective and South 

Sound Advocates for 

Disabled Citizens. These 

and many other 

organizations sponsor a 

continual flow of 

talented students whose 

work adds up to a 

profound contribution. 

Meanwhile, more 

academic programs are 

integrating internships 

into the curriculum, 

especially those programs 

that involve 

counseling and other 

helping professions, 

which almost always 

direct students toward 

work with community 

service organizations. 

Class projects also 

add to the equation. 

During spring quarter, 

Faculty Member Larry 

Eickstaedt's "Conservation 

Ecology and 

Restoration Ecology" 

Program spent a day on 

Hope Island, which was 

recently purchased by 

the state, to compile 

environmental recommendations 

for managing 

the area when it 

becomes a park. 

Other student projects 

include working to help 

the state Attorney 

General's Office identify 

how budget cuts would 

impact procedures for 

billing state agencies for 

services; writing a 

manual to help State 

Patrol personnel 

understand an electronic 

fingerprinting system; 

and working to restructure 

accounts receivable 

policies for the Washington 

State Health Care 

Authority, a project that 

involves bringing people 

together to develop a 

consensus on the 

process. Two students 

are building gardens for 

low income people and 

teaching them to grow 

vegetables, with a goal 

to build 100 gardens 

over the next year. 

Evergreen's roots in 

public service run deep. 

Many community 

service professionals 

began their careers as 

interns or developed a 

commitment to service 

through academic 

experiences. You must 

dig much deeper for a 

more complete picture 

of Evergreen's contributions 

to its surrounding 

communities, but it's 

crystal clear that 

Evergreen public service 

is making a difference. 

15

16 

New Trustee 

Named 

Dwight K. Imanaka, 

senior manager for 

human resources with 

the Boeing company, 

has been appointed by 

the governor as 

Evergreen's newest 

trustee. 

Imanaka replaces 

Constance Rice of 

Seattle, who stepped 

down early from her 

six-year term on the 

board after accepting a 

position as vice 

chancellor of institutional 

advancement for 

the Seattle Community 

College District. 

A human resources 

manager for Boeing 

since 1974, two years 

spent as personnel 

director for the city of 

Seattle, Imanaka 

currently administers 

compensation and 

workforce processes 

and practices for the 

777 business management 

organizations, is 

an advisor and coach 

for the company's 

World Class Competitiveness 

Program and 

serves on the 

Governor's Search for 

Excellence Committee. 

If the new trustee's 

name sounds familiar to 

people who were on 

campus during the 

college's earliest years, 

they may remember 

Imanaka's brother 

David, who was one of 

Evergreen's first graphic 

designers. 

Student Wins Regional Emmy Evergreen Makes a Difference 

Hector Douglas, '91, 

won a 1992 regional 

college award from the 

Academy of Television 

Arts and Sciences, the 

organization that also 

awards the Emmy, for 

his educational video 

"In the Cradle of 

Storms." 

Douglas's documentary 

describes issues 

surrounding a drastic 

decline in sea mammal 

populations from Siberia 

to the Western Gulf of 

Alaska over the past 15 

years. "The sea lion is 

on the road to extinction 

over a vast area of 

the Bering Sea and poses 

important questions 

about the future of the 

endangered species act," 

says Douglas. 

Although the cause of 

population decline is 

somewhat of a mystery, 

differing opinions about 

the impact of extensive 

fishing of the mammals' 

primary food source has 

placed the fishing 

industry and government 

fisheries regulators 

at odds with environmentalists. 

CAB Addition Named 

Building of Distinction 

A remodeling project 

that provided S&A staff 

and student group 

offices on the third floor 

of the College Activities 

Building has won a 

prestigious architectural 

award for building 

excellence, energy 

performance and 

climactic responsive 

design. 

The American 

Institute of Architects 

recognized the CAB 

project with one of its 

top three awards in the 

Douglas's video 

features interviews with 

key players. The show 

aired on 58 public 

television stations across 

the nation and was seen 

in secondary schools 

through the Pacific 

Mountain Network and 

The Classroom Channel. 

Media Services staffer 

Dick Fuller also received 

a certificate from the 

academy recognizing his 

educational contribution 

to Douglas's video 

project. 

If Douglas could give 

an acceptance speech, he 

would thank Evergreen's 

media staff and faculty 

by name, as well faculty 

in the sciences, where he 

spent the majority of his 

time at Evergreen with 

guidance from faculty 

member Steve Herman. 

He would also mention 

those who taught him 

about the economic and 

political mechanics of 

important issues. 

Douglas is studying 

shorebirds and coastal 

avifauna for the 

National Park Service in 

Alaska before beginning 

graduate study in 

biology this fall at Wake 

Forest University. 

spring Architecture and 

Energy: Building 

Excellence in the 

Northwest competition. 

Innovative use of 

natural light and energy 

saving measures were 

cited for the project, 

which rests on what 

previously was a third 

floor outdoor patio. 

The project was 

designed by Seattlebased 

Olson/Sundberg 

Architects and built by 

Berschauer Philips of 

Turn water. 

The Evergreen ReView 

Two national guide 

books praise Evergreen 

in their just-published 

1993 editions. 

Barren's "Best Buys in 

College Education" 

describes Evergreen in 

its guide to getting the 

most for your money at 

selected colleges across 

the United States. 

Alumna Wins 

Prestigious U.N. Award 

Tamar Chotzen, '81, 

who has led the Hawaii 

Nature Center through 

seven years of unprecedented 

growth as 

executive director, was 

the sole winner of this 

year's United Nations' 

Environmental Leadership 

Award. 

Carl Sagan and 

Margaret Mead are two 

others who have won 

the award, among a list 

that reads like a "Who's 

Who" of environmental 

leaders. 

The award recognizes 

Chotzen and the 

organizations she leads 

on Oahu and Maui. 

When she joined the 12year-old 

Hawaii Nature 

Center on Oahu in 

1986, the private, nonprofit 

organization 

annually served 6,000 

people with hands-on 

environmental education 

programs designed 

The "Making a 

Difference College 

Guide," which tells you 

how to get an education 

for a better world, 

describes Evergreen as a 

challenging, free-spirited 

and continually evolving 

community founded on 

the values of cooperative 

learning, open inquiry 

and diversity. 

for elementary school 

children and families. 

The program had a staff 

of two and a budget of 

$50,000. 

Today, with the 

addition of a center on 

Maui, the Hawaii 

Nature Center annually 

serves 45,000 people 

with a staff of 15 and a 

budget of $850,000. 

Chotzen is also president 

of the Hawaii 

Environmental Education 

Association. 

As an Evergreen 

student, Chotzen played 

on the soccer team and 

spent summers working 

for Hawaii Bound, 

teaching survival and 

problem-solving skills to 

people ranging from 

troubled juveniles to 

business leaders. After 

graduation, she returned 

to Evergreen as women's 

soccer coach for the 

1983-84 season. 

. 

Legislature Finalizes State Budget 

The best news from 

the 1993 Legislature 

came in the form of 

Capital Budget funding 

for the Longhouse 

Educational Center, a 

dream that's been in the 

making for more than 

15 years. 

Capital funding also 

provided for additional 

campus networking and 

several highly critical 

maintenance and repair 

projects. Passage of a 

Timber Trust bill, will 

provide a stable base of 

funding for future 

minor maintenance and 

repairs critical to the 

campus's aging facility. 

The operating budget 

did not fare as well, 

although higher 

education in general 

was not hit as hard as 

much of state government. 

Evergreen's 

overall cut in operating 

funds for 1993-95 will 

be approximately $3.6 

million. Adding in 

mandatory rate increases 

and other fixed 

costs, this represents 

about a 6.8 percent cut. 

Along with the budget 

cut came an enrollment 

increase of 48 students 

in the first year and 32 

additional students in 

the second year. College 

officials expand evening 

and weekend opportunities 

through a new 

Evening/Weekend 

College Program for 

part-time, upper division 

students. 

Undergraduate tuition 

will increase 9 percent 

the first year and 13 

percent the second year. 

These increases are in 

addition to those 

mandated by current 

law, for a total increase 

of 27 percent. Financial 

aid has been increased 

to fully fund the state 

need grant program and 

increase eligibility to the 

65 percent level. 

Longhouse Dream Comes True 

For years, Evergreeners 

have dreamed of building 

a Longhouse cultural 

education center that 

would provide additional 

classroom space, a home 

for the Native American 

Studies program and a 

base for outreach and 

interaction between the 

college and regional 

tribes. 

Momentum for the 

Longhouse project picked 

up when Colleen Ray, a 

1992 graduate of the 

MPA program, presented 

her master's thesis on the 

project to college officials 

and the Board of 

Trustees. Evergreen's new 

president, Jane Jervis, 

made it one of her highest 

priorities with the goal of 

securing support and 

funding to make the 

Longhouse dream come 

true. 

With support from 

the Trustees, college 

officials, Native 

American communities, 

key legislators and the 

governor, the project 

was included in the 

Capital Budget and 

passed legislative 

scrutiny. 

Ray, a Native 

American who completed 

her undergraduate 

work at Evergreen 

in 1977, has served as 

coordinator of the 

Longhouse project since 

November of 1992, 

shepherding the project 

through its design phase 

and helping develop 

plans for the cultural 

center's future. 

Alum News 

News from the 

Evergreen 

Alumni 

Association 


Alumni Events Calendar 

June 27 

Alumni Board Orientation Meeting, 

TESC Organic Farm 

July 13-1.8 

Lafcefair, Alumni Espresso Booth, 

Downtown Olympia 

August 21, 22 

Northeast U.S. Alumni Retreat 

August 28 

First Peoples'/Third World Reunion 

September 11 

Reception for Parents of New Students 

September 13,17 

Alumni Tours of Olympia With New Students 

Mark your calendars 

for TESC's premiere 

First Peoples' 

Third World Reunion 

Saturday, August 28 at Evergreen's 

Olympia Campus 

Watch your mailbox 

for more information or call Pat Belisle at 

TESC's Alumni Office at 

(206) 866-6000, Ext. 6552. 

Hope to see you August 28. 

17

18 

Northeast Alumni 

Retreat Approaches 

In just two months, 

Greeners from all 

around the Northeastern 

United States will 

descend upon Pierce's 

Inn, Etna, N. H., for this 

summer's Northeastern 

Greener Gathering and 

Retreat. All Evergreen 

alumni and their 

families are invited to 

participate in this festive 

event on Aug. 21 and 

22. A Saturday night 

dinner and Sunday 

brunch are planned. It's 

possible that a faculty or 

staff member from 

Evergreen will attend 

the event, to provide an 

update on college 

happenings. 

In addition to a 

beautiful setting, Pierce's 

Inn offers myriad 

recreational options and 

a perfect atmosphere for 

getting back in touch 

with Evergreen roots. 

Reservations must be 

secured by a $20-perperson 

room deposit. 

Room and meal 

bookings will be 

handled directly by 

Pierce's Inn. Mail 

deposits to the inn at 

Dogford Road, Etna, 

NH, 03750. The 

telephone number is 

(603) 643-2997. 

Watch your mailbox 

for a detailed invitation. 

If you have questions 

before then, call Walter 

Carpenter, '80, at (603) 

526-9219; Ellie 

Marshall, '79, at (802) 

78 5-4017; or Julie 

Pagan, '85, at (802) 

866-5457. 

Alumni T-shirt Order Form 

Name 

Address 

Phone 

Color: Size: 

Q Ivy Green Q Large 

Q Maroon Q Extra Large 

Q Peppercorn (white with gray) 

Paid By: 

Q Check (made payable to TESC Bookstore (206) 866-6000, Ext. 6212) 

Q Visa 

Q Mastercard 

Account Number 

Expiration Date 

Number of shirts x $13.90= $ 

WA residents add $1.10sales tax $ 

plus shipping $2.00 

TOTAL PAYMENT ENCLOSED 

Roger Goldingay, a 1973 Evergreen graduate, and Carol Otis hosted a Greener 

Gathering in April at their home in Malibu, Calif. Graduates from all over Southern 

California attended the event, some driving from as far as San Diego. Guests 

included Megan Samuels, '84, who wore a geoduck-emblazoned jersey from her 

days at TESC. Pictured with Otis and Goldingay is Smokey, event mascot. 

Evergreen's East Coast Alumni 

Meet Jervis, but Miss Singer Sade 

Alumni in Boston, 

New York and Baltimore 

mixed with one 

another and Evergreen 

President Jane Jervis 

recently. 

Greeners in Beantown 

met at the home of John 

Hennessey, '77, and 

Derna DeMaggio for an 

evening which featured 

tasty morsels, Olympia 

beer, and a good dose of 

Massachusetts snow. 

In New York, the Hip 

Time Cafe played host 

to alumni until 11 p.m., 

at which point all 

patrons were ushered 

out to make room for 

singer/songwriter Sade, 

who was having a 

private party after 

completing the New 

York leg of her concert 

tour. 

Washington, D.C. and 

Baltimore-area alumni 

made a splash at the 

National Aquarium in 

Baltimore, where the 

dolphin show and 

rainforest exhibit were 

the highlights. The fun 

continued into the night 

at Foster's restaurant in 

the historic Fell's Point 

district. Thanks to Bruce 

and Ellen Ladenheim, 

both 1976 graduates, 

and John and Derna for 

organizing the festivities. 

Alumni Office 

Gets Internet 

Attention all alumni 

with Internet access. 

Now you can communicate 

with Evergreen 

via your computer. 

Please E-mail your 

Internet address and 

any interesting news to 

the Evergreen Alumni 

Office at 

tescalum.@elwha. 

evergreen.edu 

and keep that address 

handy. 

Those without 

Internet may call the 

Alumni Information 

Line at (206) 866- 

6000, Ext. 6634, to get 

updates on college and 

alumni events. 

Alumni Association Looking for Coffee Achievers 

The Alumni Association will once again sponsor an espresso booth at 

Olympia's Lakefair celebration from July 13 through July 18. Come down and 

have a cup ... or two ... or three. Also available will be Italian sodas, baked 

goods, and soda pop. Hope to see you at Lakefair. 

The Evergreen Re View 

ALUM NOTES 

CLASS OF 1972 

Suzanne Pitt, Eureka, CA, 

works as a health services 

administrator for Prison 

Health Services while attending 

California College of Health 

Sciences. 

Mary Lou Pero, Yakima, WA, 

published "The Hulsey Book" 

and is currently working on 

"The Tharp Family." 

CLASS OF 1973 

Diane Tiffany, Olympia, WA, 

is a medical assistant for the 

Department of Social and 

Health Services. 

Roger Duryea, Bremerton, 

WA, is a realtor with Reed 

Realty. 

David Groves, Olympia, WA, 

provides data entry for the 

Department of Licensing. 

Steven Pointer, Navato, CA, is 

telecommunications lead 

analyst and has a 1-year-old 

named Andrea. 

Velina Murray, Sacramento, 

CA, is an accounting analyst 

for the state of California. 

Peter Lawson, Newport, OR, is 

a biologist for the Oregon 

Department of Fish and 

Wildlife. 

Susan Drumheller, Silver 

Spring, MD, is a self-employed 

psychologist. 

Carina Springer, Encino, CA, is 

a self-employed photo-stylist. 

CLASS OF 1974 

Joan Gregg, Anacortes, WA, 

recently retired. 

Lynn Garner, Olympia, WA, 

owns Lady Lynn's Fabric Shop 

in West Olympia. 

Alan Karganilla, Olalla, WA, 

works as a pipefitter at 

Bremerton Shipyard. 

Marcella Wing, Seattle, WA, is 

working on fund-raising for 

Seattle Group Theater. 

Christina Peterson, Olympia, 

WA, is a representative for the 

Washington Federation of 

State Employees. 

Lee McDonald, Charlestown, 

MA, owns McDonald Paper 

Equipment. 

Nanci Watson, Riverside, CA, 

is an employee development 

specialist with the OAO 

Corporation, which has a 

laboratory service contract 

with NASA. 

Nancy Foss, San Francisco, 

CA, is a free-lance announcer 

doing video work and voiceovers. 

Rodney McLean, San Rafael, 

CA, is president of Able Force, 

a consulting and training 

seminar service designed to 

create disability awareness. 

Terrence Stone, Rochester, 

WA, is a drug and alcohol 

counselor for the Department 

of Corrections. 

Diana Deutsch, West Hills, 

CA, works as an early 

childhood education teacher 

for Los Angeles Community 

College, and is married with 

two children. 

William Bryan, Seattle, WA, is 

studying drug and alcohol 

counseling at Shoreline 

Community College. 

Lee Chambers, Olympia, WA, 

is a computer network 

manager in the Washington 

Attorney General's Office, has 

two boys, and is in the process 

of adopting two girls. 

Gary McCutcheon, Puyallup, 

WA, earned a master's in 

photography at Central 

Washington University and 

owns McCutcheon and 

Foshaug Studios in Puyallup. 

Randy Schulte, Lincoln, NE, 

is a service engineer for an 

instrumentation company. 

Cheyenne Schutt, Montgomery 

Village, VT, is a selfemployed 

water color artist. 

Mark Stevens, San Diego, CA, 

is director of marketing for 

Jostens Learning Corporation. 

Jim Cameron, Swedesboro, 

NJ, is married to Ruth Wen, 

'75, and is a planning engineer 

manager for Boeing's 

Helicopter Division. 

Amy Levinson, Olympia, WA, 

is employed by Community 

Mental Health, providing 

services to the chronically 

mentally ill. She is still doing a 

reggae show on KAOS radio. 

CLASS OF 1975 

Peter Pratt, San Francisco, 

CA, is a self-employed audio 

engineer. 

Ronald Taggart-Deffinbaugh, 

Stanwood, WA, is a state 

prison counselor. 

Brenda Johnson, Davis, CA, 

holds a post-doctoral research 

position with the California 

Forestry Association. 

Ellen Thompson-Green, 

Independence, OR, is a 

learning consultant for Linn- 

Benton. 

Thomas McLaughlin, Santa 

Fe, NM, builds solar homes. 

Christopher Mondau, 

Olympia, WA, is a special 

services coordinator for the 

Olympia School District. 

Mary Looker. Olympia, WA, 

is a health program administrator 

for the Washington 

State Department of Health. 

Anne Zellinger, Haleiwa, HI, 

teaches high school chemistry 

at Kahuku High School. 


Eduard Jurkovskis, Gig 

Harbor, WA, is self-employed 

in maintenance. 

Don Smith, Tacoma, WA, 

works as a general coordinator 

for American Turkish 

Associates. 

Leslie Layton, Paradise, CA, is 

a free-lance journalist. 

David Schuett-Hames, 

Olympia, WA, is a fisheries 

biologist for the Northwest 

Indian Fisheries Commission 

and is attending TESC's 

Master of Environmental 

Studies program. 

Ross Fuller, Olympia, WA, is 

the assistant chief of salmon 

culture at the Department of 

Fisheries. 

Adele Berg-Layton, 

Bainbridge Island, WA, 

teaches voice and directs three 

choral programs for 

Bainbridge Choral Groups. 

Anne Reynolds, Rockford, 

MI, is co-owner of Stenson 

Builders. 

Dona Neill, Anchorage, AK, is 

a records clerk for the 

Anchorage Police Department 

and is active in volunteer 

work with Alaska Sport 

Fishing Association. 

Mary Berghammer, Seattle 

WA, is a legal assistant for 

Siderius Lonergan. 

Wesley Norman, Bartleville, 

OK, just moved from 

Massachusetts to be the 

director of product development 

for Applied Automation, 

which does process monitoring 

for chemical companies. 

Dean Katz, Seattle, WA, has 

formed Royer/Katz Communications, 

a public affairs firm 

specializing in issues 

management, public affairs, 

and media relations. 

CLASS OF 1976 

Ruth Milner, Seattle, WA, is a 

wildlife biologist for the U.S. 

Department of Wildlife. 

Mabel Adkins, Seattle, WA, 

teaches third and fourth 

grades for Seattle Public 

Schools. 

Ronald Gold, Hoodsport, 

WA, is self-employed in the 

environmental consulting and 

construction business. 

Nelsa Buckingham, Port 

Angeles, WA, is a selfemployed 

botanical researcher. 

Carolyn Gilmore-Judd, 

Olympia, WA, is a real estate 

appraiser and has two boys. 

Nancy Stetson, San Anselmo, 

CA, teaches journalism and 

business at Marin Community 

College. 

James McClendon, Kirkland, 

WA, is president of Pacific 

Financial Group. 

Maureen Karras, Olympia, 

WA, is a graduate student at 

St. Martin's College. 

James Nailon, Longview, 

WA, is a lab analyst for 

Reynolds Aluminum and is a 

singer/songwriter. 

Jill Schwenderman and 

Robert Yerks, Waitfield, VT, 

operate their own business 

and have two children. 

Joseph Koczur, San 

Francisco, CA, is working for 

the Federal Fishery after 

having traveled around the 

world with the Peace Corps. 

Tamara Burdiga, Inglewood, 

CA, is a student at UCLA 

and employed at Coldwell 

Banker. 

Joe Dear, Olympia, WA, 

former director of the 

Washington State Department 

of Labor and 

Industries, has been 

nominated head of the 

federal Occupational Safety 

and Health Administration. 

Shelley Morse, Stevensville, 

MD, is a self-employed 

educational technology 

specialist. 

Catherine Castaneda, 

Houston, TX, is a geography 

student at the University of 

Texas. 

Patricia Parish, Seattle, WA, 

is enjoying being home with 

her two children. 

Lynda Weinman, Burbank, 

CA, heads the Computer 

Graphics department at BRC 

Imagination Arts, Burbank, 

where she produced 

computer-animated portions 

of the film "Postcards." The 

film is a 360-degree, multimedia 

production, which will 

be shown in the round on 

nine screens at Expo '93 in 

Taejon, Korea. She presents 

demonstrations for Apple 

Computer and has taught at 

the American Film Institute 

and Art Center. 

CLASS OF 1977 

Cher Stuewe-Portnoff, 

Olympia, WA, is a specialist 

with the Washington State 

Energy Office. 

Ellen Henderson, Seattle, 

WA, recently had a baby, 

Maggie, who joins her 3year-old 

brother, Ross. 

Stephen Creager, San 

Francisco, CA, is a lawyer at 

Sherman and Sterling. 

Mary Burg, Olympia, WA, is 

a manager for the Wetland 

Program at the Washington 

State Department of Ecology.

Toshiaki Udo, Hayward, CA, 

completed her doctorate in 

clinical psychology and is a 

post-doctoral fellow at the 

National Asian-American 

Psychology Training Center. 

Shellie Black, Seattle, WA, is a 

social worker for the Home 

Health Care Agency. 

Henry Selkirk, La Honda, CA, 

works for NASA Aimes 

Research as a meteorologist. 

Susan Donner, Santa Rosa, 

CA, is a high school science 

teacher for the Geyserville 

School District. 

Victoria Randlett, San 

Francisco, CA, teaches 

geography at the University of 

California, Berkeley where she 

attends classes working 

toward a doctorate in 

geography. 

Carl Wolfhagen, Olympia, 

WA, works for the Washington 

State Department of Labor 

and Industries as a research 

investigator. 

Albin Saari, Olympia, WA, is 

chief engineer at TESC. 

David Judd, Olympia, WA, is 

a grant contract accountant at 

TESC. 

Martina Nehrling, Indianapolis, 

IN, works for the Indiana 

Arts Commission as a teacher 

and artist. 

Richard Tessandore, 

Anchorage, AK, works for the 

Public Interest Law Firm, 

serving clients with disabilities. 

Rita Gaylor, Vancouver, WA, 

is a services supervisor for 

Clark County Juvenile Court. 

Ronald Johnson, Kennewick, 

WA, works for Westinghouse 

Hanford. 

Kim Kertson, Ilwaco, WA, is 

in Egypt with an agency for 

international development. 

Theresa Wright, Portland, 

OR, works for Lewis and 

Clark College. 

Devin Norwood, Long Beach, 

CA, also known as Aubrey 

Dawn, is a writer and director. 

Edward Zuckerman, Seattle, 

WA, is director of west coast 

operations for Campaign 

Design Group and recently 

had a baby girl. 

CLASS OF 1978 

Laura Van Dilla, Los Alamos, 

NM, is self-employed in 

parent education. 

Kimberly Schnittger, 

Watsonville, CA, is a teacher 

for Pajaro Unified. 

Marjorie Shavlik, Steilacoom, 

WA, is assistant director for 

computer services for the 

Department of Information 

Services. 

Ann (Thomas) Samuels, Santa 

Rosa, CA, is an English 

teacher for Santa Rosa City 

Schools. 

Barry Martin, Arlington, WA, 

works for the city of Everett 

and just fathered his first child. 

John Seward, Stamford, CT, is 

the associate editor of The 

Hour, a daily newspaper. 

Jane Sameth, Sierra Madre, 

CA, is a free-lance graphic 

designer and has two children. 

Geraldine McGowan, 

Somerville, MA, is a 

production editor for Editorial 

Services of New England. 

Richard Weeks, Lacey, WA, 

owns his own consulting firm. 

Debra Janison, Olympia, WA, 

is a program coordinator for 

Washington State Employment 

Security. 

Douglas Follett, Olympia, 

WA, is a supply clerk for the 

House of Representatives. 

Kathleen Knobel, Olympia, 

WA, is a counselor for the 

Steilacoom School District. 

Scott Bond, Spokane, WA, is 

the director for community 

services for Spokane County. 

Samuel Bauman, Vancouver, 

WA, is an assistant manager 

for AM-PM Mini-Mart. 

William Blunt, Signal 

Mountain, TN, is working in 

Denmark as a translator. 

Joseph Rice, Houston, TX, is 

attending the University of 

Texas, studying speech 

communications. 

Russell Talbert, Vancouver, 

WA, is a real estate appraiser 

and has five great-grandchildren. 

Carol Detweiler, San 

Francisco, CA, is in the 

master's program in music 

composition at San Francisco 

State and expecting a child 

soon. 

Carol Cordy, Seattle, WA, is a 

doctor at a community clinic. 

Jeff Barton, Lebanon, NH, 

will begin a doctor of ministry 

program in Minnesota in 

September. 

Sue Ann Roberts, Lexington. 

MA, is working in the field of 

video production. 

Randy Partridge, Baltimore, 

MD, is currently at Johns 

Hopkins Medical School, 

Kennedy-Krieger Institute. 

CLASS OF 1979 

James Stonecipher, Captain 

Hook, HI, is a station manager 

for an FM radio station. 

Rita Sammons, Seattle, WA, is 

a flight attendant for United 

Airlines. 

Rick Shory, Bellingham, WA, 

is attending graduate school at 

Western Washington 

University, studying environmental 

science. 

Robert Densmore, Woodacre, 

CA, teaches eighth-grade 

science at a California private 

school. 

Mary Lucas, Hanalei, HI, has 

a general store in Waihiha, is 

the first woman on the island 

in the Lions Club, and has a 3year-old 

daughter. 

Rebecca Northway, Seattle, 

WA, is a self-employed 

educational consultant. 

Peter Mullineaux, Boulder, 

CO, works in technical sales 

for Alpen. 

Richard Hunter, Olympia, 

WA, works for TESC 

Grounds. 

Martina Guilfoil, Los Angeles, 

CA, is the executive director 

for Englewood Neighborhood 

Services. 

James Parks, Austin, TX, is a 

land planner for the Lower 

Colorado River Authority. 

Wendy Norton, Endicott, NY, 

is a lab assistant for 

Assforfchung Research 

Institute in Munich. 

Robert Fromm is an art 

director for the Long Island 

News Group. 

Gregory Falken, Aptos, CA, is 

a corporate pilot. 

Louise Williams, Ellensburg, 

WA, has paintings all across 

the country. Her work was 

recently shown at the 

Spurgeon Gallery at Central 

Washington University. 

Richard Jones, Hong Kong, is 

a free-lance television 

cameraman doing news 

coverage and corporate video 

work. In the past year his 

work has taken him to 

Thailand, China, Vietnam, 

Nepal and Korea and included 

such clients as Disney, 

American Express, SKY-TV, 

and the BBC. 

Joyce Baker, Seattle, WA, 

completed a two-year term as 

the TESC Alumni Board 

president. She recently married 

Alan Irvine and became 

regional training director for 

Waddell & Reed. 

Jessica Jastad, Silver Spring, 

MD, is a teacher at the 

University of Maryland. 

Michelle DiPaula, 

Cockeysville, MD, is a preschool 

teacher. 

Ellie Marshall, East Thetford, 

VT, does management 

consulting in organizational 

development and is an adjunct 

faculty member at the 

University of New Hampshire. 

CLASS OF 1980 

Susan Tepper, Olympia, WA, 

is a volunteer coordinator for 

the Refugee Center. 

Steven Hammerquist, Eugene, 

OR, is an agent for Jean Tate 

Real Estate. 

Kristine Boe, Olympia, WA, is 

a teacher for the Thurston 

County School District. 

Robbin Wiggin, Portland, OR, 

is a development specialist for 

the Multnomah County 

Developmental Disabilities 

Program. 

Daniel Tolfree and Margaret 

Millard, Chapel Hill, NC, are 

busy raising their two children. 

Margaret is also teaching 

fourth grade while Daniel 

works as an organic farmer. 

Alice Salinero, Scotts Valley, 

CA, is a contractor for Borland 

International. 

Christopher Dupre, Silver 

Spring, MD, is a program 

analyst for the Naval Federal 

Credit Union. 

Richard Vanlehn, Frederick, 

MD, works for American 

Airlines. 

Walter Carpenter, New 

London, NH, has completed 

his graduate program in race 

relations and Holocaust 

studies and serves on the TESC 

Alumni Board. 


CLASS OF 1981 

Barbara Johnson, Seattle, WA, 

graduated from the Brian 

Utting School of Massage. 

Holly Hill, Seattle, WA, is 

married and teaching writing 

at Everett Community College. 

Garth McMurtrey, Olympia, 

WA, is attending St. Martin's 

College studying mechanical 

engineering. 

Margaret Welch, Seattle, WA, 

works in the grants and 

contract accounting office of 

the University of Washington. 

Todd Johnson, Winthrop, 

WA, works for Winthrop 

Forest Service as a fuels 

technical specialist. 

Steven Noll, Spokane, WA, is 

owner and president of 

Interior Solutions, Inc. 

Carmen Hanna, Olympia, 

WA, is a self-employed marital 

family therapist. 

Lynn Busacca, Shelton, WA, is 

the director of the Mason 

County Literacy program. 

Longueville Price, Santa Cruz, 

CA, is attending the University 

of California and works as a 

mechanic specializing in 

BMWs. 

Dianne Christensen, Port 

Angeles, WA, is the owner of 

Thompson McKeller 

Communications. 

Barrett Burr, Olympia, WA, 

builds homes for chemically 

allergic people. 

Marissa Hopkins Swick, 

Chicago, IL, is a self-employe< 

marketing consultant 

specializing in consumer hard 

goods for Catalyst Marketing 

Group. She is married with 

one child and expecting 

another soon. 

Diane Rainge, Shelton, WA, is 

the Indian education director 

at Hood Canal School while 

working on her master's 

degree at City University. 

Margaret Vonheeder, 

Olympia, WA, became a 

director for the Washington 

State Department of 

Corrections in April, where 

she oversees capital and 

operating budgets totaling 

nearly $1 billion, reports 

husband Ellis. Since leaving 

Evergreen, she has held posts 

with the Washington State 

Research Council and Office 

of Financial Management. She 

is also a potter of local note. 

Kay Isbell, Tacoma, WA, is 

the program support 

supervisor at TESC's Tacoma 

campus. 

Marie Mercer, Tacoma, WA, 

is employed at the Fort Lewis 

Commissary. 

Tim Streeter, Los Angeles, 

CA, is doing film research. 

Jon Moceri, Seattle, WA, is 

attending the University of 

Washington School of 

Medicine. After graduation 

this summer he will start an 

internship at Sacred Heart 

Hospital in Spokane. 

Tamar Chotzen, Honolulu, 

HI, won the prestigious United 

Nations Environmental 

Leadership Award for her 

work as executive director of 

the Hawaii Nature Center, a 

non-profit organization that 

provides "hands-on" 

educational programs for 

elementary school children 

and families. 

Roger Stritmatter, 

Northampton, MA, is a 

teaching associate at the 

University of Massachusetts at 

Amhurst. 

Tom Buell, Pittsburgh, PA, is 

a free-lance writing and 

communications consultant. 

Jessica Treat, Amenia, New 

York, is enjoying being home 

with her son, Kai, born 

January 27. She will return to 

London this summer to teach 

for Brooklyn College's 

summer abroad program. 

Recently, a collection of her 

short stories, "A Robber in 

the House," was published by 

Coffee House Press. 

Donovan Gray, Olympia, 

WA, works at TESC on grant 

applications and is setting up 

a state-wide network of art 

agencies. 

Cynthia Swanberg, Arcata, 

CA, is a curator at the 

National History Museum. 

Robert Kirkbride, Bellevue, 

WA, operates his own 

personnel business. 

Clifford Olin, Alhambra, CA, 

teaches for the Los Angeles 

Unified School District. 

David Stalheim, Port Angeles, 

WA, works for the Clallum 

County planner's office. 

Alex Baxendell, Olympia, 

WA, has legally changed his 

name to Prophet Atlantis and 

is a New Age Christian 

Counselor and advocate for 

the rights of the mentally 

disabled. 

Sue Stadler, Gresham, OR, is 

a reading specialist for the 

Evergreen School District. 

John Irwin, Osceola Mills, 

PA, is a pastor at Osceola 

Mills Presbyterian Church. 

CLASS OF 1982 

Ronald Miyabara, Vancouver, 

WA, is an operator for city of 

Portland Sewer Treatment. 

Noel Carey, Sequim, WA, 

owns Cornerstone Builders, 

Inc. 

Jean Saunders, Richland, WA, 

is in private practice, 

providing adult counseling. 

Kimberly Barnett, Seattle, 

WA, graduated from 

University of Puget Sound and 

is now an attorney. 

Susan Feldman, Olympia, 

WA, is a visiting faculty 

member at TESC. 

Joan Lundgren, Orinda, CA, 

earned a doctorate in East- 

West psychology from the 

California Institute of 

Integrated Studies and is a 

licensed marriage, family and 

child counselor. 

Patricia Justis, Olympia, WA, 

is a program planner for St. 

Peter Hospital and recently 

had a son named Keegan. 

James Helms, Snohomish, 

WA, is a police officer. 

Mark Anderson, 

Newburyport, MA, is a 

community ecologist for the 

Nature Conservancy. 

Daniel Beckett, Reston, VA, is 

a sales manager for a software 

company. 

Barbara Dragul, Cincinnati, 

OH, is a part-time Hebrew 

religious education teacher. 

Colleen (Wine) Chandler, 

Grapeview, WA, is the special 

assistant to the director for 

the Department of Community 

Development. She is a 

former TESC KEY Student 

Services staff member. 

Janet Bent, Olympia, WA, 

attends St. Martin's College, 

where she is studying for a 

master's degree in counseling 

psychology. 

Susan McRae, Olympia, WA, 

is a computer analyst for the 


Warren Waldorf, Olympia, 

WA, is a cabinet maker at 

Carra's Cabinets. 

Dorothy Gist, Olympia, WA, 

is a health educator for the 


of Health. 

Barbara Branstetter, Olympia, 

WA, is a program manager 

for Community Youth 

Services . 

Robert Richerson, Albany, 

CA, is a commercial real 

estate broker for Korman and 

Ng. 

Eric Einspruch, Aloha, OR, is 

a research assistant at the 

Northwest Regional 

Educational Lab. 

Janet Meurs, Olympia, WA, is 

a claims manager for the 

Timber Operators Council. 

Leslie Romer, Olympia, WA, 

is a budget and planning 

supervisor for the Department 

of Ecology. 

CLASS OF 1983 

Michael Holloman, Pullman, 

WA, is finishing his second 

master's in fine arts, is 

married and expecting his first 

child. 

Karl Pohlod, Sequim, WA, is a 

technician at Battelle & 

Sequim Marine Sciences 

Laboratory. 

Charles Churchill, Jamaica 

Plain, MA, is a video 

producer. 

Avram Rips, Baltimore, MD, 

is teaching emotionally 

disturbed students at 

Baltimore Public Schools. 

Karen Laing, Anchorage AK, 

is a wildlife biologist with the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

and was a principal investigator 

on bird studies following 

the Exxon Valdez oil spill. 

Baylor Capers, San Francisco, 

CA, is a legal assistant and 

interning as a grief counselor. 

Peter Miller, Burbank, CA, is 

a film editor. His film "Rave" 

will debut this summer. 

Susie Engelstad, Olympia, 

WA, is manager of the 

Thompson Gallery. 

Megan Moffitt, Kent, WA, is 

a drafter at Boeing and has an 

8-year-old daughter. 

William Dean, Seattle, WA, is 

working for Starbuck's 

Coffee. 

Johanna Gangemi, Gold Hill, 

CO, is a first-grade teacher for 

Boulder School District. 

Donald Sprague, Seattle,WA, 

is the manager of information 

at Pacific Biometrics. 

William Scott, Seattle, WA, is 

a hazardous materials 

technician at Northwest 

EnviroService. 

Amy Holonics, Anchorage, 

AK, is a fourth-grade teacher. 

Nancy Gallagher, Olympia, 

WA, is an instructor at South 

Puget Sound Community 

College. 

Jennifer Boehm, Seattle, WA, 

practices acupuncture and 

runs a Chinese herb company 

with her husband when their 

6-month-old daughter, Kayla, 

is sleeping or at play. 

George Jackson, Tacoma, 

WA, passed away in April. 

Beth Howard, Malibu, CA, is 

a marketing director for a 

small coffee company. 

Thomas Kelsh, Everett, WA, 

is a national service officer for 

the military order of the 

Purple Heart doing veteran's 

advocacy with local, state, 

and federal governments. 

Sherri Barrett, Little Rock, 

AR, is a resident physician at 

the University of Arkansas. 

CLASS OF 1984 

Andy Stewart, Olympia, WA, 

is building a boat with at-risk 

youth in conjunction with 

Thurston/Mason Mental 

Health Services, local schools, 

and TESC. 

Bonnie Ramsey, Tumwater, 

WA, is working for the 


Mary Calnan, Agawam, MA, 

is the director of family life 

ministries for the Diocese of 

Springfield and attends Regis 

University. 

Dennis Livingston, Sumner, 

WA, is a media technician at 

Kersh College. 

Frank Kohout, Olympia, WA, 

is the manager of information 

systems at the Washington 

State Energy Office. 

Kathleen Daly, Olympia, WA, 

is a regional training officer at 

Keycorp. 

John Marsh, Olympia, WA, is 

a project director for St. Peter 

Hospital. 

June 5,1993 

Rex Fletcher, Norman, OK, is 

a pediatrician at University of 

Oklahoma's College of 

Medicine. 

Dan Parry, Seattle, WA, is a 

self-employed graphic artist. 

Ann Hartman, Tacoma, WA, 

is a free-lance journalist. 

Ginna Correa, Olympia, WA, 

is a habitat biologist for the 

Department of Wildlife. 

Walter Acuna, Newhall, CA, is 

a judicial assistant for the Los 

Angeles courts system. 

Richard Hall, Tracy, CA, 

works as the manager of 

audio-visual services for Dole 

Food Company. 

Daniel Johnson, Olalla, WA, is 

a staff biologist at Point 

Defiance Zoo. 

Janet Eidsmoe-Ward, Gig 

Harbor, WA, is a teacher for 

the Peninsula School District. 

Craig Jones, Lacey, WA, is 

employed at Craig's Podiatry 

Lab. 

Harry Gibson, Palm Desert, 

CA, is a high school department 

coordinator. 

Ginny Hamilton, Olympia, 

WA, was married last fall. She 

works for the Washington 

Department of Labor and 

Industries as an industrial 

hygienist. 

Carolyn Vaughn Young, 

Tacoma, WA, is the director of 

multicultural student services 

at Tacoma Community 

College. 

Annette Newman, Alexandria, 

VA, is a computer services 

manager at the Smithsonian 

Institution. 

Anne Gavzer, Leonia, NJ, is a 

clothing designer and importer. 

Vicki Gass, Brooklyn, NY, is 

an activist for Salvadoran 

issues and plans graduate work 

in Latin American studies. 

Megan Samuels, Sherman 

Oaks, CA, is employed with 

M.P. Productions. 

CLASS OF 1985 

Elese Claussen, Vancouver, 

WA, is the secretary-treasurer 

for Select Management. 

Karen Tvedt, Olympia, WA, is 

chief of the Office of Child 

Care Policy for the Department 

of Social and Health Services. 

Bradley Stout, Seattle, WA, is a 

social worker for Child and 

Family Services. 

Corinne (Herman) Hajek, 

Vancouver, WA, is the 

management coordinator for 

Education Services District, 

Number 12. 

Corrin Anderson-Ketchmark, 

Vancouver, WA, is president 

of the Washington State 

Association of Social Workers 

and is a counselor for the 

Washougal School District. 

Michael Kretzler, Olympia, 

WA, is an information 

technology manager for 

Washington State Utilities and 

Transportation. 

Paul Touchette, St. Louis, 

MO, is a lab technician at 

Benjamin Moore Paint. 

Judith Whitmer, Olympia, 

WA, is a judicial assistant for 

Pierce County. 

Carol Serdar, Olympia, WA, 

is an environmental educator 

for the Department of 

Ecology. 

Nora Eskes, Portland, OR, is 

doing research on the HTV 

virus and was recently 

published in Lancet, a British 

medical journal. 

Abelardo De La Pena, 

Wilmington, CA, is the 

national director of 

communications for the 

Mexican-American Legal 

Defense Fund and has a 1year-old 

daughter. 

Michael McConnell, Boise, 

ID, is an attorney for the 

Idaho Court of Appeals. 

Catherine McDonald, 

Olympia, WA, is a medical 

program specialist. 

Brian Wittmers, Gig Harbor, 

WA, is an industrial engineer 

for Boeing. 

William Young, 

Mechanicsville, VA, is a land 

surveyor, and a student at 

Sergeant Reynolds Community 

College. 

Bruce Fogg, Olympia, WA, is 

employed at the Seven Gables 

Restaurant. 

Consuela Metzger, Boston, 

MA, has been studying hand 

book-binding for the last two 

years at North Bennet Street 

School. She will continue her 

training at the Library of 

Congress next year as an 

intern in the area of rare 

books. 

Eddie Enoch, Spanaway, WA, 

is employed by the U.S. Postal 

Service. 

Jadene Eikenberry, Boston 

MA, works for the Central 

Artery Project as a slide 

librarian and visual 

information specialist. She has 

displayed her photography at 

several shows in the last few 

years. 

Gena Gloar, Portland, OR, is 

an environmental designer for 

Nike. 

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Nancy Warshaw, Chicago, 

IL, is a student in the master 

in music program at 

Columbia College. 

Darlene Miller, Dallas, TX, is 

a program coordinator for the 

Volunteer Center of Dallas 

County. 

James Pincham, Yelm, WA, 

owns and operates a child 

placement agency in Thurston 

County, which places children 


Children and Family Services. 

He earned his master's in 

science and counseling from 

Eastern Washington 

University. 

Julie Pagan, Newbury, VT, 

graduated from the University 

of Vermont in May, and is 

working as an obstetrics 

nurse. 

William Blodgett, 

Charlottesville, VA, is owner 

and president of Mingle 

Wood Associates. 

Marion Morgenstern, 

Tacoma, WA, has earned a 

juris doctor degree at the 

University of Puget Sound 

School of Law. 

CLASS OF 1986 

Theresa Lynch, Olympia, 

WA, is a computer analyst/ 

programmer for the 


of Transportation. 

Vikki Poitra, Olympia, WA, 

works in integrated 

community energy planning 

for the state Energy Office. 

Bonnie Moonchild, Olympia, 

WA, is a systems analyst for 

TESC and a campus 

advocate. 

Thomas Connor, Olympia, 

WA, is employed by the 

Nisqually Tribe as a water 

quality specialist. 

Elizabeth Felder, Winslow, 

WA, works as a production 

assistant for Lockert-Jackson 

& Associates. 

Daniel Winkley, Olympia, 

WA, is the grocery manager 

of Mega Foods. 

Judy Fritts, Olympia, WA, is 

a self-employed artist and 

sculptor. 

Brents Hawk, Jackson, WY, 

is the owner of the Indoor 

Rock Climbing Gym. 

Deborah Hanlon, Olympia, 

WA, is a consultant for the 

Federal Aviation Administration. 

Karl Mincin, Concrete, WA, 

is a self-employed nutritional 

consultant. 

Eric Wall, Kent, WA, is a 

teacher for the Kent School 

District. 

Stephen Mazepa, Olympia, 

WA, is a living skills instructor 

for South Sound Options 

Unlimited. 

David Chamberlain, 

Olympia,WA, teaches adult 

basic education at South Puget 

Sound Community College. 

Karen Crown, Olympia, WA, 

is maternity case manager for 

Providence Hospital in 

Chehalis. 

Marcia Jordan, Seattle, WA, is 

a resident in family practice at 

Valley Medical Center. 

Steven Friddle, Olympia, WA, 

is a social planner for the 

Olympia Planning Department. 

Brent McManigal, Yucaipa, 

CA, is an environmental 

planner for Pimagro Systems, 

Inc. and was recently married. 

Bridget O'Connell, Smyrna, 

DE, is a teacher for Newark 

Co-op Preschool. 

Tommie Frazier, Tacoma, WA, 

is a field investigator for the 

city of Tacoma. 

Lisa Jones, Baltimore MD, is a 

mechanical engineer. 

Douglas Mackey, Tacoma, 

WA, works for MGM at 

Disney World. 

Randall Clark, Weymouth, 

MA, is currently working on 

his master's degree. 

Eric Simonson, Los Angeles, 

CA, is working on a CD ROM 

marine biology project called 

"Deep Voyage." 

Tom O'Brien, Wurtsboro, NY, 

is a teacher for the Education 

Services branch of New York 

State Board of Corrections. He 

is engaged to be married. 

Suzanne Sweetingham, 

Glendora, CA, works in police 

records for the city of 

Glendora. She took a. detour to 

the Golden State in '88, but 

hopes to return to the "green 

state" one of these days. 

Randy and Leona Weightman, 

Reseda, CA, are working in 

film production and property 

management. They have two 

children, Anna and Gabrielle. 

Dean Duncan, Carbondale, IL, 

is completing a doctorate in 

educational psychology at 

Southern Illinois University. 

He received a National 

Dissertation Award and the 

Peg Carroll Scholarship for 

studies in group work within 

counselor education. Both 

awards were presented at the 

American Counseling 

Association Convention in 

March in Atlanta, GA. Beth 

Vargas Duncan completed her 

master's in public administration 

and is in her second year 

of law school at Southern 

Illinois University. 

CLASS OF 1987 

Marsha Stead, Olympia, WA, 

is teaching for the Olympia 


William Leonard, Olympia, 

WA, is an environmentalist for 

the Department of Ecology. 

Andrew Wilbur, Shelton,WA, 

is self-employed as an artist at 

the Haitwas Gallery of Native 

American Arts. 

Chris Burke, Boulder CO, 

works as an organic farmer. 

Trudy Thomas, Seattle, WA, is 

employed by Boeing as a 

toxicologist. 

Wiliam Paresa, Vancouver, 

WA, is a social worker for the 

state Division of Children and 

Family Services. 

Linda Brownell, Olympia, WA, 

is a fiscal analyst for the state 

Senate Ways and Means 

Comittee. 

Kathi Durkin, Olympia, WA, is 

a business analyst for U.S. 

Intelco. 

Kyzyl Fenno-Smith, Seattle, 

WA, is a reference librarian for 

Pierce College. 

Jennifer Seymore, New York, 

NY, is in graduate school at 

City University of New York. 

Ida Dightman, Olympia, WA, 

is a counselor at Shelton High 

School. 

CLASS OF 1988 

Cynthia Walker, Olympia, 

WA, is the assistant manager of 

the South Puget Sound 

Community College bookstore. 

Christine Goodale, Olympia, 

WA, works at Olympia 

Waldorf School and plans to 

attend graduate school at 

Antioch in New Hampshire. 

Joni Schlarb, Olympia, WA, is 

a budget program specialist for 

the Washington State 

Department of Corrections. 

Laura Wildfong, Redmond, 

WA, is a software test manager 

for Microsoft. 

Kirk Haffner, Vader, WA, 

teaches math and science for 

the Castlerock School District. 

Alice Wheeler, Seattle, WA, 

works as a free-lance 

photographer when she isn't 

working for the Henry Art 

Gallery. 

Claudine Towle, Winlock, WA, 

teaches voice and piano at 

Centralia College and sings 

with the Tacoma Opera. 

Candyce Burroughs, Olympia, 

WA, is teaching for North 

Thurston School District. 

John Standifur, Olympia, WA, 

is an electronic technician for 

the Department of Corrections. 


Tracy Guerin, Olympia, WA, 

is employed by the secretary 

of state as the director of 

financial services. 

Jill Wyman, San Francisco, 

CA, works in the fashion 

industry, organizing fashion 

shows. 

Michael Cotry, Olympia, WA, 

is an industrial hygenist for 

the Department of Labor and 

Industries. 

Jamie Marline, Olympia, WA, 

handles customer service 

representation for Intercity 

Transit. 

Jane McCann, Olympia, WA, 

has opened her own business 

called State of the Art 

Graphics, which sells 

computer clip art and graphic 

design to the desktop 

publishing market. 

Shawn Litten, Los Angeles, 

CA, is an environmental 

information specialist. 

Patricia Hays White, Tacoma, 

WA, has earned a juris doctor 

degree at the University of 

Puget Sound School of Law. 

Not only did she make dean's 

list during her second and 

third years of law school, but 

she also received the American 

Jurisprudence Award for 

comprehensive trial advocacy. 

Yvonne Dickson, Lacey, WA, 

is employed as a paralegal for 

the state of Washington. She 

has completed her master's at 

City University. 

Jan Pieron, Olympia, WA, is a 

writing instructor with the 

Institute of Children's 

Literature. 

Thomas Bucchiere, San Jose, 

CA, is an engineer for Borland 

International. 

Stefan Killen, New York, NY, 

is a self-employed graphic 

artist. 

Michele Griffin, San 

Francisco, CA, is an 

admissions counselor for the 

California Culinary Academy. 

Michael Sacks, Kent, WA, is 

working on his master's in 

theater at San Francisco State. 

Elaine Kaufmann, Gig 

Harbor, WA, is the director of 

the Olalla Guest Lodge. 

Sharon Winters, Gig Harbor, 

WA, has started her own 

business as a photographer. 

Candice Marshall, Olympia, 

WA, works with the Big 

Brother-Big Sister program as 

a camp manager. 

John Motley, Portland, OR, is 

teaching English in Japan. 

Michael Gordon, Portland, 

OR, is an ecologist for the 

state. 

Dennis Held, Missoula, MT, 

is writing and editing. 

Scott Phipps, Seattle, WA, 

works for the American 

Cancer Society in patient 

CLASS OF 1989 

Kennette Kangiser, 

Tumwater, WA, teaches for 

the Tumwater School District. 

Karen Davisson, Seattle, WA, 

is a customer service 

representative for the Seaview 

Company. 

Dylan Righi, Seattle, WA, is 

studying oceanography at 

Oregon State University. 

Patricia Jausi, Sedro Woolley, 

WA, is a senior inorganic 

chemist at a materials testing 

and consulting laboratory. 

Virginia Holbrook, 

Vancouver, WA, is employed 

by Legacy as a registered 

nurse-contract specialist. 

Kelly Greene, Seattle, WA, is 

a customer service representative 

for U.S. West Cellular. 

Leslie Holeman, Vancouver, 

WA, coordinates the shelter 

and advocacy programs for 

the Clark County YWCA. 

Michelle Jensen, Syracuse, 

NY, has a master's in English 

and literature, and teaches 

writing. 

Nick Byrnes, Seattle, WA, 

works for Microcase Corp. in 

design testing and social 

science. 

Barbara Doolittle, Vancouver, 

WA, is a teacher's assistant 

for the Vancouver School 

District. 

Robert Conrad, Rochester, 

WA, has a 2-year-old son, 

Kristofer, and teaches at 

Centralia College. 

Dawn Dzubay, Tulukak, AK, 

is in her first year of teaching 

in a Yupiit Eskimo village. 

Richard Usitalo, Olympia, 

WA, does management 

consulting for various fire 

districts. 

Michael Dinkins, Olympia, 

WA, works in the reference 

library in Centralia. 

Denise Clifford, Olympia, 

WA, is an environmental 

education outreach specialist 


Ecology. 

Melvin Williamon, 

Tumwater, WA, is a right-ofway 

agent for the Department 


Wynn Wright, Olympia, WA, 

does substitute teaching for 

the Shelton and Pioneer 

School districts. 

Christine Ahonen, Mukilteo, 

WA, works in general 

construction as an office 

manager. 

David Beck, Kirkland, WA, is 

working on a doctorate in 

English at the University of 

Oregon and is a composition 

teacher. 

Gary Johnson, Buffalo, NY, 

can be found at New York 

University, where he is a 

graduate student in philosophy 

and works as a graduate 

assistant. 

Guy Winkelman, Olympia, 

WA, is a leasing agent for the 

Division of Property 

Development. 

Jennifer McCain, Woodinville, 

WA, is working for an organic 

landscaper. 

Suzane Clary, San Jose, CA, is 

a certified home health aide 

with the Visiting Nurses 

Association. 

Jennifer Hanson, San Diego, 

CA, is a student at the 

University of California, as 

well as a school staff member. 

Jay Nuzum, Thousand Oaks, 

CA, is employed with B&B 

Video. 

Glen Kriekenbeck, Somerville, 

MA, is a software engineer for 

Sun Microsystems. 

Richard Beckerman, Seattle, 

WA, is the director of 

operations at the Museum of 

Flight. 

Lester Dickson, Lacey, WA, is 

pursuing his master's in 

business administration. 

CLASS OF 1990 

Charles Gale, Olympia, WA, 

works as an environmental 

planner for the Department of 

Ecology. 

Brian Trinen, Olympia, WA, is 

a carpenter currently restoring 

a Victorian home. 

Donna Ne Lena, Olympia, 

WA, is a buyer for Radiance 

Herbs and Massage. 

Robin Towers, Kissimmee, EL, 

works at Disney World. 

Mark Stueve, Charleston, OR, 

is a district executive for the 

Boy Scouts of America. 

Beverly Hughes, Tumwater, 

WA, is the executive director 

for Washington Business 

Week. 

Mark Purington, Seattle, WA, 

is studying early childhood 

development at North Seattle 

Community College. 

Andrew Murphy, Oak Harbor, 

WA, is a sales representative 

for Pacific Food Inc. 

Jonathan Potter, Bellingham, 

WA, is a teaching assistant at 

Western Washington 

University, where he also 

attends graduate school. 

Sarah De Laive, Olympia, 

WA, is a clerk for the law 

firm of Morris and Church. 

Tikva Breuer, Olympia, WA, 

is an environmentalist for the 

state Department of Health. 

Kimberly Doyle, Olympia, 

WA, is a rural transportation 

specialist for the Department 


Tamatha Martelon Ullman, 

Denver, CO, married 

alumnus Michael Ullman in 

October and is now working 

on her master's in teaching at 

the University of Colorado. 

Eve Hilgenberg, Olympia, 

WA, is a substitute teacher 

and an actor with Safeplace's 

Heartsparkle Players. 

Penny Mabie, Tumwater, 

WA, is a solid waste 

specialist for Thurston 

County. 

Darrell Craig, Austin, TX, 

earned his master's in 

business administration from 

the University of Texas at 

Austin this year. 

Ruth King, Tacoma, WA, 

was recently promoted from 

newswriter to supervisor at 

the state Department of 

Social and Health Services. 

Knoll Lowney, Seattle, WA, 

is attending law school at the 

University of Washington. 

CLASS OF 1991 

Jo Ann Wiest, Olympia, WA, 

is a recreation leader for the 

Department of Social and 

Health Services. 

Barbara Keogh, Olympia, 

WA, is attending TESC's 

Master in Teaching program. 

Donna Tiktin, Olympia, WA, 

works as a physician's 

assistant at Lacey Medical 

Clinic. 

Marguerite Schauder, 

Olympia, WA, is working 

toward her master's degree at 

the Institute for Social 

Ecology through Goddard 

College. 

Cynthia Felter, Olympia, 

WA, works as a counselor for 

Woodlawn Home. 

Eli Sterling, Montesano, WA, 

is the producer of an awardwinning 

public access show. 

Michael Watts, Olympia, 

WA, is a self-employed media 

contractor. 

Jennifer Searle, Winter Park, 

EL, is a counselor for the 

Women's Clinic. 

Michael Fraidenburg, 

Olympia, WA, is a biologist 


Fisheries. 

Carol Galliart, Olympia, WA, 

works as a dental hygenist. 

Shelby Edwards, Eugene, OR, 

is a student at the University of 

Oregon, studying the 

environment and geography. 

Scott Faulkner, Seattle, WA, is 

a production associate for 

Microsoft. 

Michael Holly, Olympia, WA, 

is enrolled in a master's 

program at St. Martin's 

College. 

Daniel Bermant, Olympia, 

WA, works for the Treasure 

Chest in Olympia. 

Leslie Bergsman, Edmonds, 

WA, is an office manager for 

Letter Perfect Signs. 

Peggy Vitullo, Tacoma, WA, 

went on to the University of 

Washington and is now 

employed at St. Nicholas' 

Greek Orthodox Church. 

Knox Sylvester, Tacoma, WA, 

works at the Veterans Medical 

Center at American Lake. 

Geraldine Staton, Tacoma, 

WA, works for U.S. West 

Communications. 

Reed Evans, Lacey, WA, 

works for the Comprehensive 

Mental Health Center. 

Todd Babcock, Monroe, WA, 

is teaching English in Paris. 

Hector Douglas, Nome, AK, 

won a 1992 regional college 

award from the Academy of 

Television Arts and Sciences 

for an educational film 

produced for television. The 

film, "In the Cradle of 

Storms," deals with Alaskan 

environmental issues. 

Philip Tietjen, Las Crusas, 

NM, is attending graduate 

school at New Mexico State 

University. 

Kim Wilson, Amhurst, MA, is 

working on a master's in labor 

studies at the University of 

Massachusetts. She works as a 

coordinator and organizer for 

Local 2322 of the United Auto 

Workers. 

Jeff Hale, Cambridge, MA, 

operates the Someday Cafe in 

Somerville, MA, where he sells 

Batdorf & Bronson Coffee 

from Olympia. 

Jason Renaud, Portland, OR, 

is the program manager of the 

Alcohol and Drug Free 

Community and is manager of 

the Estate Hotel in downtown 

Portland. 

Nicole La Follette, Seattle, 

WA, is working for the Fred 

Hutchinson Cancer Center in 

telecommunications. 


CLASS OF 1992 

Ellen Jamison, Olympia, WA, 

works as a sales clerk at 

Rainbow Sports. 

Andrew Clarke, Olympia, 

WA, works in shipping in 

Tumwater and remodels 

houses. 

Sara Lorimar, Olympia, WA, 

is a publisher of Pinto 

magazine. 

Rebecca Green, Olympia, 

WA, works in the personnel 

office at the University of 

Washington Medical Center. 

Bonnie Schock, Seattle, WA, 

is a campaign manager at 

Arts Marketing Services. 

Barbara Caswell, Roy, WA, 

works as a computer analyst 

at Knight, Vale and Gregory. 

Troy Smith, Spokane, WA, 

has a business consulting job 

in Madrid. 

Noel BickneU, Seattle, WA, is 

a kayaking guide in the San 

Juan Islands. 

Dena Spencer, Pullman, WA, 

is a receptionist at Pullman 

Family Medicine. 

Douglas Taylor, Pullman, 

WA, is a teaching assistant at 

Washington State University, 

where he is attending 

graduate school, pursuing a 

doctorate in genetics. 

Richard Pinkley, Tacoma, 

WA, appraises real estate and 

married another TESC alum, 

Heidi Henderson. 

Todd Gieger, Olympia, WA, 

is a staff facilitator at South 

Sound Options Unlimited, 

while attending graduate 

school at Chapman 

University on McChord Air 

Force Base. 

Leslie Michael, Salkum, WA, 

works in juvenile rehabilitation 


Social and Health Services at 

Green Hill School. 

Valerie Davis, Olympia, WA, 

is a teacher for the Olympia 


Tamara Elliott, Kent, WA, is 

a project manager at Boeing. 

Megan McLean, Bremerton, 

WA, is a database manager 

for the Kitsap County Public 

Utility District. 

Edward Martin, Milwaukie, 

OR, is an editor for "Dark 

Horse Comics." 

Mark McKechnie, Olympia, 

WA, works for Community 

Mental Health on a 

contractual basis with the 

child and adolescent 

program. 

Stacy Dell, Olympia, WA, is a 

coffee roaster for Batdorf & 

Bronson. 

Alexandria Morris, Olympia, 

WA, is currently attending 

the Master in Teaching 

program at TESC. 

Dawn Golden, Puyallup, 

WA, is a student at St. 

Martin's College. 

Nancy Gleason, Port 

Townsend, WA, is building 

wooden boats and enjoys 

sailing. 

Jan Edwards, Seattle, WA, is 

a medical technologist in a 

pathology laboratory. 

Pere Staples, Tacoma, WA, is 

a counselor at Puget Sound 

Hospital. 

Heather Stevens, Tacoma, 

WA, works at Clover Park 

Technical College. 

Jerylyn Patrick, Tacoma, 

WA, is enrolled in the master 

of Public Administration 

Program at TESC. 

Peggy Smith, Tacoma, WA, 

works for the Metropolitan 

Development Council. 

Daniel Fain, Pasadena, CA, is 

working on his Ph.D. in 

computation and neural 

systems at the California 

Institute of Technology. 

Sarah Ryan, New Brunswick, 

NJ, is a graduate student in 

labor studies at Rutgers 

University. 

Much of this information was 

collected via telephone by staff 

in the Alumni Affairs/Annual 

Fund Office. The staff of 

ReView has made every effort 

to ensure its accuracy. If you 

have questions or corrections, 

please call the Alumni Affairs/ 

Annual Fund Office at (206) 

866-6000, Ext. 6551. 

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Future Star 

Sings the Evergreen Blues 

I woke up this morning 

jumped out of bed, 

my mind was already spinnin' 

'cause to Seminar I had to head 

I got the Evergreen Blues 

I got the Evergreen Blues 

from my tie-dye T-shirt 

down to my Birkenstock shoes 

—Teresa Jaworski 

"The Evergreen Blues" 

Teresa Jaworski began her senior year by bringing down the 

house at convocation with her parody of life at TESC, "The 

Evergreen Blues." On May 5, before a packed Experimental 

Theater audience, she performed her last concert before graduation. 

There is, however, nothing experimental about this singer, 

whose handling of standards and original compositions during 

her "Blues in the Night" show put one in mind of Etta James and 

Ernestine Anderson. 

Jaworski was backed by Pete Lira and his band What's Happening. 

She credits Lira with introducing her to the blues. 

"I've been getting a lot of support from the Evergreen community," 

she says. "And I've learned a lot about marketing, producing, 

what it takes to put yourself out there, and what it takes to 

draw an audience in." Jaworski's plans for the future, she says,, 

are to continue her studies in these areas — from outside the 

classroom, up on the stage. 

The Evergreen Review 

June 1993; Volume 14, No.3 

Published by The Office of College Relations 

The Evergreen State College 

Olympia, WA 98505 

ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED 

Nonprofit Org. 

U.S. Postage 

PAID 

Olympia, WA. 

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