Summer School for Union Women, bulk: 1987 - 1989

In September 1986, Dan Leahy, an MPA faculty member, met with a group of union organizers and Evergreen students to watch a video called, “Women of Summer,” about a school for working women held at Bryn Mawr College in 1921. At the end of the film, this group decided to open the Labor Center with a Summer School for Union Women. Includes: docuemtns related to efforts by Helen Fox, Pat Holm, Jeff Johnson, Steven Kant, Diane Lutz, Sue Moyer and Tina Simcich to recruit union women, raise funds from unions, design a program, implement it and evaluate it.

Helen Fox, Pat Holm, Jeff Johnson, Steven Kant, Diane Lutz, Sue Moyer and Tina Simcich, who were already organizing to create the state's first Labor Education at Evergreen, Their work was guided by an Advisory Committee composed of union leaders: Sue Moyer, Chris Alden, Della Curry, Gloria Delaney, Jeff Johnson, Bill Johnston, Gary Moore, Tunnell O'Brien, Lori Province, Michelle Radosevich, Shirley Rector, Kris Rohde, Patricia Rose, Holly Spears, Emily VanBronkhurst and Sue Zukowski, as well as the Friends of the Labor Center group. As union donations came in, Dan hired Nancy Swenson as the School Coordinator, staff member Melissa Roberts and student intern, Joanne McCaughan. The school opened with 55 union women. Helen Fox, Pru Hathaway, Diane Lutz, Susan Ramsauer and Mary Tuominen were cohort group facilitators. Panelists included Lisa Brown, Elise Bryant, Jeanne Hahn, Ottilie Markholt, Suzanne Mode, Linda Lanham, Jeff Johnson, Charlie Forbes, Tina Simcich, Susan Starbuck and Christine Mrak.