News Scrapbook 1964-1967

J,aw Wh·es, under the d1alr-mnnshlp of )fr,. I,ng, wPrC' In <:har,i:-,• of refre&hments. Shown ar<>, Jpft to right, '1rs. Slnt·lltl!"o, Lrr,:". ,Dean Slnclltko, )I" H<>nry )Jann, )Ir,. IA>r,i:-, nnd .,r,-. Charli-s ,Jont>,.

200 Ga in Recorded at Alcala ark An increase of almost 2(,(J stud<'nt. wa s reported b" the Uniwrsity of San Die-go a · fall n•gistrations closi·d. Th., lotal is I 4~. Nm- pared wl h 1,257 in 1964 in the Colleges for I ten and Women and School: of Law an,I Theology. The Coll<>~e for )Jpn re. poned 370 students, \\1th double the number of fre. h• rn n over last year's class . The College for Women will have . over 700 including part-time students. Th ,, School or Law report(•d a larg,, Increase from 227 to 286, and th(' School of Th<'o- logy int'luding St Francis in El Cajon ha· 77. Lat" r·egistrations are <'X pected )o increase these Io- ta)· slightly Expansions Told , At the Collegp for )ten, \ er-y R,.,. John P. Cadden president announced <>xpan- swns In both fa cult,. and taciliti<'s for the coming year The students are fmding ~O new faculty members mcludlng Ph. D. 's in Eng. lish Biology, Bu iness Ad- rnml tration and Historv plu a new administrato'r' Cmdr. Thomas R. Pt>arson' VS,·, ret., who is directoi of student services. New faculty members in- clude Dr. Robert E Miller, chairman of the Division of Business Administratwn· Dr. Lee Gerlach, chairma~ of the Enj':lish Department; Dr Curt W. Spanis, chair- man of the Biology Depart- ment; Rev. Francis J. Rig, ney, _professor of history; Dr Fidelia R. Dickinson. as- sistant professor of English; Dr. John Y. S. Yin, assistant professor qt Politlcal Sci- ence; W. • Eugene Hedley, assistant professor of educa- tion; Frederick C. Sanders, chairman of the Depart- ment of Speech; William P, Th~mas. lecturer in jour- nalism, and William R. Breckley lecturer in socio- logy Course Required

. •EW WOULl>-F. David Helkenn Jr., 18, who hc- eame blind a year and a half ago, will ntcr a nC'w world tltls week when he ta1is at the Univc1 · ty of San Diego College for Men. lfelkcnn is shown with lus dog, Loreen, who will accompany him to college'. Bl.nd Youth Sees e as Chess Game B) BILL OIT what they do have and less EVENING TR1auNe sro11 w,;1., lbitter about lillle things. Some- r. David Helkenn Jr., 18, ,one else is always worse off lands on the edge of a whole than you are. new world of experience "If people were more chari• And he ~lands firmly, cour- table toward others, the world ageously, with a healthy philos- would be a better place to live ophy about a turn of events that in ," he said. could well have been shattering. David, who lives at 4224 David became blind a year Feather Ave., Clairenwnt, will and a half ago. be accompanied on his new vcn- HJs new ·orld of experience lure in higher learning by will swmg wide its door. Fri• Loreen, his German shepherd day. 11l!en he becomes a sludent i;uide dog. at !he 'niversit bf San Diego Graduation Ceremony Collegr f?r Men. He was officially presented ,. . 'Glad lo • tart' " . with Lorr en on Aug. 21 during _I II b_e glad to start, David graduation ceremonies at Guide ~aid. ' aturally, I, wonder how Dogs for the Blind, Inc.. in San it w out. I ve only been Rafael. Ti1e trained animal and I bl year and a half. Study- a month's ;nstruction with it in Bra l_e and. tapes will were given frre by the nonprofit be new exper1~nce. . philanthropy. ..I there ts that quahty David became blind because cal ea courage. t blends well of a detached retina condition with Dav!d o_ n _phil_osophy which is congenital. It is a con: about lU;nmi: pmnts m life, He dition of myopia in which !he P~'.ases It lh : eyeball grows progressively A lot of peop have one set elongated lo a point where the goal and t~ey rush d1rectly retina can no longer remain toward 11. Its rush, rush, rush. attached. A series of operations Some of them don't make it. to correct the condition was un- \\lhen they don't, it's a major successful. catastrophe and life, for them, David ha known for years comes to an end. that he could become blind at , 'Y?u Have _to Change' any lime. ·But it doesn t have lo." he 'It Kind of Hurt' added thoughttully. ·'Life is "I've been al the Foundation something like a game of chess. for the Junior Blind in Los An- Things often happen and you,geles." he said. ·'Al the lime, I have to change your plans. A could see with both eyes, but, life can be directed along anoth• not verv .well. I got t~ be er channel. I think . people around blind people a lot, so should be more the kful for when I lost my sight I just became one or them. It kind of hurt ..." David, who attt>nd~ lhe Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Clairemont, said foligion he Cd l11m live with the fact

All students will be re- quired to take a course in Marriage and the Family which will be given b)' Brockley for unselor w th th,:, a ri ncilla- twn co rt in n Diego. The cour:e will deaf P.:~ rsonaht) ar,d o"hc1 ac. tors n aeh evin,,. mar ta! d nrfcl\ing ta- lly 1 TH s t lie first time a college has required such a course In the state of California. The College for Men also .has initiated a graduate program leading to the Mas- ter of Arts in Teaching pegree, along with a second- ary teaching internship un- der the direction of William E. Salesses Applications are invited from teacher candidates in the fields of history, political science, English and the natural sci- ences. With the appointment of five new faculty members and two assistant librarians, the School of Law has dou- bled its full-time faculty, according to Dean Joseph A. Sinclltico.

FATHER DOLAN Two To Be Ordained In Rome Basilica Rev Lawrence Martin Purcell and Rev. Laurence Patrick Dolan· will be ordained to the sacred priesthood this Saturd:'IY, December 18. in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The orda~mng prelate will be Bishop Francis F. Reh, rector of the orth American College in Rome. . . Since September, 1962, the St. August111e High_ School two have pursued their studies He en_tered St. Francis College in theology at the Pontifical here 111 1_958 an~ Immaculate Gregorian University in Rome Heart MaJor Sem111ary 111 1960. while attending the North American College.

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They will return to the Dio- cese of San Diego next July to take up their duties here. Father Purcell is the son of Dr. and Mrs Francis A. Pur- cell of Palm Springs. He was born in Indio April 21, 1940. His parents, a sister, Mrs. Joseph C. Dunn ofLos Angeles, and two brothers, Francis A. Purcell, Jr., of Palm Springs and John Purcell, a student at Loyola High School, Los An- geles, will attend the ordina- tion ceremonies. Father Purcell attended Frances Stevens and St. Ther- esa's School in Palm Springs and Villanova Preparatory School in Ojai, Calif. He en- tered St. Francis College in September, 1958, and Immacu- late Heart Major Seminary in 1960 Father Dolan is the son of :\tr. and Mrs. Patrick C. Dolan of 3081 Madrid Street, San Diego. The parents also will attend the ordination riles. Father Dolan was graduated from St. Charles Academy anc

th be would eventually be blind. "And the people around me helped," he said. 'They were good abou! it. They didn't baby or pamper me When they didn't know what to do in a partic'ular situation, they ad- mitted ii. Then we were able to work something out." 2 Brothers, 6 Sisters A June graduate of Claire- mont High S hool Dav id lives with hi parents, :I-fr. and Mrs. Frank Helkenn . lie has two brothers, Charle-, 15, and :\fichael, 10. and six sist r-. They are Billy Jo. 17, Susan, 8, \tr Carol Maldonado of Lan- • Ml ch.; Mrs. Marylou r.h nderfc'r uf Hoch ester, Ind. Mrs Margar~t Falken berg of an Diego and Sister. Mary ChM!es Francis of the GoQd hepherd hew David aid he will go through collei::e al his own pace. "I"m gomg to learn, not to memorize," he aid. ''I may want to leach later on " David also is inter~ ted rn law and will take some pre-Jaw sub- Jects along w1lh his major in cconomi s. "There are so many things you can do in life " he said.

Dance Set To Fete Teen-Age Volu11teers The Candy Strlpers, teen- 132 Candy Stripers have been age volunteers at Mercy Hos- invited to see them receive pital wlll e honored at the their awards. The girls have hosp I Thank You" party given a total of 10,000 voJun- and dance Saturday In the teer hours during the summer. Mercy College of Nursing' Sixty.six girls will be hon- auditorurn. ored for 100 hours of volunteer Reigrung as Queen Candy work each. Special award _s Shipl'r wlll be Miss Julia Fal- will go to Miss Mary Nottc:ill, zarano, who has given 1,160,800 - hour pin; Miss Jameel hours of volunteer service to·Wall, 700-hour pin, and Misses the hospital during the past I Rosalie Rodgers, Katie Burke two summers. and Jan Sugarman, 500-hour The event will begin with pins. the awards program at 2:30 The expression of applec!a-, p.m. Freshmen from the Uni- tion to the volunteers will be versity of San Diego College given by the Sisters of ::\iercy. for !\,fen have been invited for Sister Mary Eucharia, admm- dancing from 4 to 6 p.m. istrator, will pr es e n t the Parents and friends of the awards.

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