News Scrapbook 1985

Son Diego, CA (Son Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,3241 (Cir. S. 339,788)

/USD degree with special h~or By Diane Lind~t ·1111 rll r The whoop and cheer for the 1,283 graduating University of San Diego students bu bed yestei day as D an e epped forward to accept a bachelor'· degree awarded posthumou ly to h1 daughter, who wa stabbed to death last November after her car ran out of gas. The crowd gave a long standing ovation for the memory of Anne Cath rin Swanke, 22. The degree for her ..,.ork as a French and music major, cut short by a killer 1n her , nior year, was given with magna cum laude tatu "1 feel great about the umvers1ty and I th m they were very generous to confer this ln this manner," said Swan e, a l 1 SD philosophy profes or. "I'm orry sh wa n't here to accept ,t . As th last of the graduate,, name wer called, Sw nke and his wife, Kathi n, walked a vay from the cer mom 1th heads bowed. pring Valley carpet-cleaner v:rl A !en Lucas ha been charged th t mg of Swanke, several th r w o n and a 3-year-old girl. T • young woman, who would hav been among this year's 32nd gr duatmg clas , a o was remem•

The San Diego Union/Don Kohlbauer Anne Catherine Swanke, a USD student who was slain last November when her car ran out of gas on the freeway. She would have been one of 1,283 USD gr~duates.

USD philosophy professor John Swanke, and his wife, Kathleen, leave graduation ceremonies after receiving a posthumous bachelor's degree awarded their dauahter.

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The San Diego Union/ Don Kohlbauer ceremonies yesterday in the school's stadium. A total of 1,283 students received their degrees.

Two graduating Ufuversity of San Diego students congrat- ulate each other on a job well done before commencement USD: Its graduates remember classmate Continued from B-1

at the stadium, 376 students graduat• ed from the USD School of Law. The day before, seven men and women were the first to graduate from USD's Naval Reserve Officers Train- ing Corps and were commissioned as officers into the armed services. At yesterday afternoon's ceremo- ny, USD President Author E. Hughes Jr. urged the graduates to take lead- ership positions on the issues con- fronting their lives. He singled out the delicate rela- tionship between the United States and Mexico. U.S. immigration policy is patently outdated, he said, noting the poverty, hunger and lack of health services in Tijuana. "Our relationship to Mexico has not improved," he said. "It has stead• ily deteriorated as the United States has prospered . . . The issue is not solely a Mexican problem. It is a U.S.-Mexico problem." The resolution lies with everyone and especially those who entering into careers that would challenge their leadership potential, Hughes said.

bered during yesterday's ceremonies by Peter Michael McGuine. He received the school's top award to a senior male student, the Franklin Award. McGuine praised Swanke as an ex• ample of one who shared her talents and effort for the good of others. "She gave of herself to USD through music and Christian ser- vice," the honor graduate in business administration said. Like her, McGuine said, the gradu- ating students should not forget oth· ers who are in need. Avis Mae Reinicke, a political sci- ence major, was given the Alcala Award and voted "outstanding senior student" by her classmates. At the ceremonies in the campus stadium, two students received doc• torates in educational leadership; 186 received master's degrees in busi- ness administration, nursing, educa- tion and arts and sciences; and a record 712 received bachelor's de- grees. During a morning commencement