Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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Piece by piece In hi spare lime. Jeff Arthur, associate professor of statistics, works on a stained glass project. The Craft Center offered 50 classes and workshops which met on a weekly basis. Oorlj Vounj Handwork Using a pottery wheel. Nancy Peam. Craft Center pottery teacher, makes a bowl. Peam had worked at the Craft Center for 15 years. Home improvements With a band saw. Brigitte Goetzc. an Alpine resident, cuts wood. Goetze was working on a staircase for her home. 22 Craft Center

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 FUNDRAISER Students + effort = $177,550.46 all 'til you fall was the motto of the OSU Student Foundation for the 1989 Super Telefund and that is exactly what they did and they did it well. The Student Foundation motivated callers to surpass their goal of $160,000 by $17,550.46. They earned a grand total of $177,550.46 for the University by calling alumni and asking for donations. The telefund began on Nov. 6 and continued until Nov. 16. Before the telefund began, the Student Foundation held a recruitment for volunteer callers. They called various organizations and clubs on campus to find enough callers to cover the entire telefund. Over 30 groups participated in the event. Sixty people were needed to work each night of the telefund. In two shifts of 30 people each, volunteers called for two hours. Each shift began with a VIP caller, who would set an example of how to handle a call. VIPs included Dave Kragthorpe, John Byrne and Nancy Vander-pool. During each shift the Student Foundation gave away t-shirts, cups, money and free dinners at random. Prizes were awarded in a fair and equal manner. All callers had a chance to win. For example, a Student Foundation member would tell the callers that the next person to get a $50 pledge would win a t-shirt. The prizes were offered mainly as incentives for the callers to bring in more money. Each caller was also able to make a long-distance call to anywhere in the Continental United States for free, but only for a five-minute conversation. Ten prizes were given away each shift. Prizes were also given out for the overall top caller and top group. The overall top caller prize was $50 and the award for the top group was $200. Top callers and top groups were invited back on the last night of the telefund to compete for a grand prize. The caller who brought in the most money won the grand prize, a ski trip. Of the 30 calling teams who participated. Dot S W-.OT Beta Theta Pi fraternity earned the top calling group award of $200 for earning the most money and receiving the most pledges. Freshman Tim Johnson of Beta Theta Pi received $50 for being the top caller. The top sorority was Chi Omega and the top independent group was Oxford House. This is the biggest fundraiser at OSU. without anyone getting paid for their time. said Lynn Davidson, telefund coordinator. One of the reasons the telcfund was able to raise as much money as it did was because a number of companies in Corvallis committed themselves to match pledges of their alumni employees. The companies could choose whether they wanted to match the pledges one-to-one or up to as much as five-to-one. It is really helpful when a company pledges as much as an alumni does.” Davidson said, because we can make as much with one call as it would otherwise take with two. We raise a lot of money for OSU and I'm pleased with how much we raised this telefund.” Davidson said. -Om G«i Wi« Call 'til you fall The first night of the Super Telefund. President John Byrne make the first call. Each shift was begun by a VIP caller, who showed participants how to handle a call. Super Ttlefund 21

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CREATIVE Outlet for artistic endeavors he Memorial Union Craft Center was “an arts and crafts studio that’s open to all students. faculty and staff at OSU and the community at large. said Barbara Gast. director of the center since 1982. Founded 22 years ago. the center was one of only two in Oregon. “It's very unique. It's very unusual for a college to have a Craft Center — especially a college centered around agriculture and sciences.” said Gast. The Craft Center boasted 5,000 square feet of studio space with equipment and tools for almost any artistic endeavor one could imagine. The center included a woodshop. a ceramics studio, black-and-white and color darkrooms and a jewelry area. Studio memberships were available to students for $16 and non-students for $18. The 2.500 members of the center ranged in age from six to 70. Thirty percent of the membership was made up of faculty and staff. The Craft Center offered 50 classes and workshops that met on a weekly basis and were taught by local artists. Karin Dunker. a local artist and ceramics instructor at the center, described the Craft Center as “a place to keep sane, for one thing. If anything goes wrong in the outside world, the Craft Center is a place to wind down and get back to yourself again. It's a place to express what’s really important to you.” she commented. “It's not just for artists. It's an environment that encourages everybody. said Gast, who said the object of the center was to support and promote creative efforts in the arts. What were some of the most unusual courses the Craft Center offered? Game board making, egg baskets, hand-toned photographs, new-wave laminated pins, xeroxed cards and Ukrainian egg decorating could begin the list. The center held three major craft sales: the Holiday Marketplace in the fall with 80 artists participating. Artmarks in the winter, a Craft Center instructors’ exhibit, and the Lonesome Pottery sale in the spring. Eighty percent of the profits of these sales went to the artists themselves. while 20 percent went back into the craft center for supplies that were used for the various classes offered throughout the year. — CVwy IknitT Precise measurements Using the Craft Center woodshop. We Smith. Corvalli resident, measures the depth wanted on a frame before using the table saw. Smith was making window frame screens Craft Center 23