News Scrapbook 1985

Del Mar, CA (San Diego Co.) Del Mar Surfcomber (Cir. 2xW. 1,845) DEC !61985

Van Nuy , CA (Los Angela Co.) Dally N ws (Cir. D. 135,010) (Cir. Sat. 145,767) (Cir. Sun. 122,031) DEC 26 1985

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/Chance to join history the mail • I By Nancy Ewing 2 "i 5 5 Staff Wn i;r Lett e r s are in the mal I announcing the start of a con- centrated membership drive for the Del, ,ar Historical Soci- ety, according to Margie Throneson, membership chair- woman Throneson said that ev- erybody who joms during the drive, which ends with the group's meeting on Jan. 15, will be considered a charter mem- ber and will be eligible to sign the parchment charter. Since it inception in May. the fledgling group, headed by H . K. "Swede'" Throneson, has bee n directed by founding members John and Iris Parker, Le w Hop kin s, Tom and Dora Pearson, Cal and J ane Scrog- gins, Ali ce Goodk ind, Freda Rei d. M ire Gitt!esohn, Cathy and Woody Wood Nanc;y Ewing and the Thronesons . At the br ie busine s session on Jan. 15, a permanent board, which will e lect its own officers, will be named. The society's meeting will take place in the auditorium of MiraCosta Del Mar Shores Cen- ter at 7:30 p.m. Dr. James Moriarity, an archaeology pro- fessor at the University of San Diego, will analyze afilfiaeiitify a number of artifacts unear- thed by the society at a historic- al dig on the site of old Casa Del Mar at the foot of 10th Street. Annual membership dues in the society are $15 per family. The society's address is 1442 Camino del Mar, Del Mar CA 92014. The major project for the society this centennial year was the moving of its historical home. the 100-year-old Alvar- ado-Levi house. to a temporary location at City Hall. The struc- ture was donated to the society by John and Sharon Quart, and the move was made possible by John Parker of Parker Indus- tries. The society is seeking a permanent location for "Our House," as the structure is be.J ginning to be called. 1/

Vista, CA (San Diego Co.) Morning Press (Cir. D. 7,676) (Cir. S. 7,967)

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d 5 ,F ndation plans grants $4. 751illion earmarked to recruit teachers, improve curricula Al OCI tOd Pr • a,

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"Our aim is to enhance the skills and commitment of under- graduate faculty, whose intellec- tually engaged teaching not only detennincs the quality of educa- llon but also influences students to consider academic careers," said foundation President Franklin A. Thomas. Under the new program, 39 public and private colleges and univers1t1es have been invited to submit grant proposals. The schools ere selected for eligi billty d on the strength o their academic programs, thf proportion of undergraduate1 who eventually earn Ph.D.s anc become college teachers, and thf ethnic diversity of their studenl bodies, the foundation said.

The schools can apply for three kinds of grants: non- matching grants of up to $100,000 for short-term or exper- imental activities; one-to-one matching grants of up to $150,000 for larger-scale or long- er-lasting projects; or grants of up to $250,000 with a two-to-One matching requirement. "The colleges and universities selected by the foundation are notable not only for their quality and diversity but also for their

success in educating future fac• ulty," said Peter W. Stanley, th1 officer in charge of the founda lion's education and culture pro gram. California institutions eligiblt for grants are Occidental Col lege, Los Angeles; Pomona Col lege, Claremont; University 01 California, Irvine; University oJ California, Riverside; U~rsit) of California, S§Dj)iego; Univer• sity of California, Santa Cruz, and Stanford University.

The Ford Found1tion an- nounc d plans Wedne day to • ward gran totahng $4.75 mil- lion Int n xi two ye r to help up to 39 olleges and umversi- tlcs, inch1'!lng seven in Califor- nia, recruit teachers and im- prove their undergraduate cumcula. The foundation said It Is acting partly m respon e to a spate of recent studies that have ques- tioned the quality of undergrad- uate education. It also cited a re- cent urvey by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- ment of Teaching showing that 21 percent of college teachers think they made a mistake in choosing a teaching career.

ASYLUM STUDY: The University of San Diego Law School has begun a stud} o '.fhe leg.ii status and treatment of Cen~ , meri- cam in :'vfexico who claim they · p1r itical refogces. , Hesults of t~e study, financed by a $16,250 ford Foundat10n grant, could make it easier for the United States to grant political asylum to Central Americans. If the study finds that the Mexican gov- crn?~ent has no legal mechanism for granting political refugee status, one potential obstacle to asylum request could be eliminated, say~ Susan Drake, a coordinator for the school's \fexicu-U.S. Law Institute. Such a finding, she argued, would mean that U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service judges no longe'. could deny asylum requests based on the rationale that Central Americans fleeing politically motivated oppression could se<•k refuge in Mexico rather than the United States. Drake aid only about 3 percent of the estimated minimum of 500,000 Central Amer- icans living in the United Stales have been granted asylum. As one indication of Mexico's legal inability to grant political refugee status she notes the country_did not s!~n a United N~tions protocol that defmes a political refugee as someone with a "well-founded fear" of persecution. The c:ite~ion usually applied in Mexico, Drake said, 1s whether someone seeking refuge actually has experienced persecution.