News Scrapbook 1964-1967

College Athletes Honored at Dinner The University of San Diego College for Men annual award_s banquet was held las_t week at the Midway Chuc Senior Bill Sheridan and Junior Ted Fields eceived Valu_able Player honors for varsity baske tball. Neal Schram _received the Most Valuable Player award fo r freshman b.uket- ball. Base ball Co-Most Valu- able Playe r hono rs were thletic agon. Most

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and chairman of the theology department at the College for Men, will offer course~ ,n po litical science and hfstory for the program The Ix-week session starts July 5 and ends August 13. Other colleges and univer- sities participating in the program are Georgetown, Loy- ola, Gonzaga, St. Louis, Bos• ton College, St. Bonaventure. Holy Cross, Loyola at Los Angeles, and Sophia Univer- sity, Tokyo, Japan. Each par- ticipatin!! inslltullon con tribut s one faculty member per se.,sion

boarding in the college's Lark Cafeteria will be provided for the first session only. A fee 9f $150 will be charged for /room and board. Only housing accommodations will be available for the second session. Tuition costs include $30 per unit and a $3 library and student service fee Three unique courses in his- tory will be included in the summer program. Dr. Ray Brandes, chairman of the college's history department, will offer a historic site meth- ods class and seminars in Spanish Borderlands and m the History of Baja C'aliforn ,a The historic methods class is a continual program by the College for Men history depart- ment to restore Mission San Diego de Alcala The summer session will mark the fourth semester that undergraduate and graduate students of the unive rstty have participated in the project. Programs Abroad The College for Men also wtll participate in the Associated Colleges and Univcr ities for Programs Abroad summer ses- sion at the Institute of Tech nology in Guadalajara, Mex, co Dr Gilbert Oddo. director and founder of the ACUPA pro gram, 1s a professor of politi cal science at the College for Men. Oddo and Rev. John A. My- han, OP, assistant professor

The University of San Diego, College for Men has an nounced an expanded pro- gram of course offerings for the 1967 summer session. Thomas R Pearson. direc - tor of student and educational services at the college, will direct the summer program. Pearson said, "The last four years have shown a marked growth in both faculty and courses ofiercd This summer we will have course offerings ,n all divisions of the college A major increase in the enroll mcnt of the Education Depart ment is expected. Indications arc that total enrollment will double what ,twas last year." first 5ession w,ll be June 15 and 16. First ession classes will con- vene on June 19 and end July 28. Registrallon for the se cond session w,11 be held on the last day of the first session The second session will run from July 31 to August 25. Thirty-seven course s in busi- ness administration, h istory, philosophy. polrti cal science, English, education, mathema- tic s, and economics will be of- fe red . Emphasis will be placed on small classes and a clo se stude nt-faculty relationship. All classes will be open to both men and women. The maximum course load for e ach session will be two tourses. Hou s rng in the College for Men 's studel)I apartm nts and Registration Set Regi tratwn for the

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USD's freshman basketball history. Dr. Gilbert Oddo, p~ssor of political science 1111d coach of the tennis tl'am a-..acdcd senior athletic award s to Tom Cahalane and John Briesch. Other tennis awardees were freshmen Don Valley and :',like Taylor, sophomores Bob Cota Walt Johnstone. and Bill Gore, and juniors John Downs and Frank Regan Seniors Raul Martinez. Ray Beaudreau , and Tom Cahalane were honored as the winning team rn the three-man limited division of intramural bas ket- ball. Graduates Bernie Bic- kerstaff and Lymond Williams were honored along with Coach Cunningham as the first-place team in the three- man unlimited division of in - tramural basketball. USD's Law School won the championship trophy m Intra- mural basketball competition. Alpha Delta Gamma national fra ternity received an award a s th e first-place team in in- tramural football. An inte r- collegiate sailing award also was presented .

awarded to sophomore Tom Thompson a nd Dure! Carpen- ter Fres hman Richard Bake r won the Hu stle award for the varslly baseball squad. Bob Chandler of KOGO-TV served as ma ster of cere- monocs and Jack McMa hon , coach of the new San Diego Rockets, wa s the main speaker Phil Woolp e rt. athletic dir- ector of the College for Me n and coach of the varsity bas- ketball team , presented senior athletic av.ards for basketball to Alan Fay, Bill Ferree a nd Ste,·e WoJdowski. Woolpert al so pre sented go lf te am award s to freshman Rick Ford and Jim Cern eglia , sophomore Don Ferrell and juniors Dave Duncan a nd Bill Bachofner. John Cunn i n g ham , var s ity ba.,eball and fre shma n bas- ket ba 11 co a ch , pr e ented senior athl e tic awa rds for baseball to Bob Ahe rn , Bob Dunlap, Paul Tuomainen and Chuck Rutledge. Cunningham was th e recipient of a gold bowl.inscribed" Ith the nam of the 196667 freshman bas- ketball team in recognitwn of the most wioiung seaso n in

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One of the students on the Dean's Lisi at the University of San Diego College for ~kn will never see his name printed th re. H fs F. DaV!d Hclkenn J r .• and he is blind. Helkenn entered his world of darkness F eb. 22, 1964. By then, a condition called congenital myopia had taken !ts to I. It Is a disease in which the eyeball grows progressively elongated until the retina can no longer remain attached. erles of operations was unsuccessful in Helkenn's case. He is a sophomore economics major at USD. He and Loreen , his German shepherd guide-dog, are familiar sights on cam: pus. Helkenn, 20, who lives with his parents at 422~ Feather Ave., as a junior at Clairemont High School when he went blind. He had known for years that it could happen. "I wa~ sort of prepared , but not r eally," he said. "It's a matter of trying to find other solutions to everyday tasks. J ust gcttmg around was a problem." An ima l Trained For One Month t f1r he u ed a cane for walking, swinging it in front of b rn • Tho c nes get stuck ln so many places," be said. Also "It doesn't tell you when there a re overhangs." ' Guide-Dogs fer the Blind Inc, gave him the German shep- herd In the summer of 1965. He and the animal trained together for a month a I the Guide-Dog center in San Rafael One day Loreen saved his life. Helkenn and Loreen were waiting at an intersection for a traf 1c signa l to change. When it did, they started to cross the street. Suddenly the big dog stopped, jerking Helkenn to a halt. An auto had gon through a red light and passed only a foot away. laybe that explains v.hy Helkenn is happy to feed Loreen two pounds of meat a day, in addition to dry dog-food. He likes to go eye' g (on a tandem bike), play the banjo, iiu1lar and hannoru a, and date girls. He also likes to read. Other Stud nts Read His Homework H lkenn•~ 15-urit sc'iool load includes mathmatics, theology, U S. h1 tory a d e nom1cs. He also is taking a correspondence course m real estate. . His favon e study method is to have other USO s tudents read h homewo k aloud, since they can d1Scuss any pro ems or qu lions he has. g his hands aero s the raised dots makes him too nervours, he explained. Helkcnn ha SJX sisters and t wo brothers. His father is a welder at a steel fabricating plant. "I don't like to read braille," he said. Run

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an off ight \',c were on our way." fhe Impalas are so hot righ t now, they are booked up for 27 tlanc, through March of rn68, he said . "They have built up t~e1r popu a,1ty by playi_ng a ll o\er for three years, but it took · b g ct nr·~ to put thc'll over the top. No , they a re not t A J.I 1zmg on :Jw Crosby name. In fac t. not one kid at these dan e n v.; l 1ere's a Crosby behind it." The next dance is n x Sa u c'a\ · t the 'xhib1t Hall 1 c ind cat11 of 'he Impalas ' popularity 1s that 2.500 kids howed up at on<' of t~eir dances several months ago a t Sea V rld - held outdoors m the fog< nd ram. That\ success. ' The IIT'Ja a. try to give the impres ion that they just happened lo get_ together to have a party. They are very r. formal and their program seems impromptu. You know, the kids somehow prefer this. And !_hey don't like a fancy place with atmo~plwre '!'hey prefer gomg to someplace like a barn or a gym, or just a big, bare hall. " Dick and Steve pay cash in advance for everything the band needs .- outfit a hall, advertising, the works. "If anyone lo , It Is Dick and L But then we stand to make a lot, too." Steve Crosbv 1s a tall: slender young man with blue-green eyes brown r worn m a pompadour. and a very casual relaX('d mann<'•. _'1aybc he gets this from his father Or Bing'. w th whom he f1•he5 and play< golf I Jll erratic shooting scores •angmg frum 72 lo 130. Bing and Dad are ~cratch players.")

Ste\ e Crosby, 20, ~ings hke Ji1 o to aV< d ,oundmg hke a copy cat he confines h1 war'>ling to the ~ho1H r "Otherwise. people would think l wa ttmg them o 1 " S.J)S the ~oungcst son of singer and bandleadc.r Bob Crosby ' When I mg It jus, comes out that wdy naturallv I pla; the piano , too, but orh t l nc ( B, g

Dr. c anes Is Honored By tudents Dr. Stcv n a cademlr • d narned th mo t outl t ndmg faculty member at th Uni• :versity of San Otego College for :\1cn. He w, s elected by a wt or the student body. The award Ls given to the l ty member who stud nts co d- er has best served th oal and been most Int re ted the welfare of the students. ward Given A ociat d Student Body to Sehanes Saturday night dur• ing an ASB ball in El Cortez Hotel. Four other faculty members and a fraternity also were honored. Schanes, 43, also a profe. • sor of political science, is president o the National ~ s- sociation of Social Security Administrators. He Is a coun• selor for several states on th ir emploJe retirement sys- tems and has written two publications on the ubject. Others amcd Other outstar.ding faculty member awards went to Dr. Lawrence Wh eler, a !slant profe or of English, In the area of humanities; Dr. Ray Brand , chairman of the his· tory department, in the area of oclal scienc ; Dr. Curt Spanis, chairman of the biolo- gy department, the natural scle.'!ces-Mathematics are a, and Dr. Robert E. Miller, chairman or th conomics • busine s administration divi- sion, ln bu iness administra- tion. Alpha Delta Gamma is the campus' most outstanding fraternity. The award Is given by the dmmistratlon for gen- u-al excellence and service to e college. President presented Stephen DeSales the award

home. and I'll nevt'r go min the entcrta•nmen t s· d o how busmcss. 1 d rather stay b hind th s c e n c s and run things. That's where the money i · And t at ·s wlJ re Steve Crosby thc•e days. A jumor at t~c Universitv of San Diego he sometimes makes up to $1.000 a night as pro ducer of a local rock 'n' roll dance band ~ailed Sharon and the Impalas; despite t 0 fact that he personally dislikes R&R. I prefer show tuPes and popular mu 1c," he ,ay~ c'ln- didly

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Impal s mto the big_time" dance field by working a a teller 1 a famil)-owned First .l\'avajo l\'ational Bank of Holbrook Arizona. • L:: t December Crosby and a fellow l.:SD student Di;k Donoghue, who was a part-time Janitor at the uniJc.rsity, e'IDled up to handle the Impalas' business affairs. Donoghue I ad founded t_hc sextet three years before, but their efforts nad been confmed to small high school dances and p?rties. Each Put Up $1,000 For Dance '·Dick a,nd I ~u_t up $1,000 each to rent the Commur t Concourse s Exhibit Hall and pay for handbills and meui~ Rdverlismg to get the kids out. We really put ii on the line and if_ that dance had bombed, we'd have taken a bath. But 3 fiOO kids showed up - and this was the Monday after Chnst~~s.

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F. David Helkenn Jr. and his guide-dog, Loreen, cross street on campus. After co1lcge Hclkenn would like to work with the P eace Corps, .or teach. But because of his blindness, he believes the Peace Corps would not accept him. He does not th)nk of his blindness as a handicap, however , because : "lt 1s little, compared to the big problems in many foreign countries."

emicDean ..,......nding' Awa Dr. Steven Schane , aca- Ern~st Bat hofner, 20, vice rector of the Serra dem1c dean at the University president; Dennis Sinclitlco. ~r San Diego, ~eceived the 19, secretary; Herbert Baker, professor of Dr. Spanis, 34

3 A lergymen at Convocation ree That God Stili Lives Three clergymen o ferent faith s, who rec ently conducted an ecumenica l con- voc a tion a t the College fo r Men, University of San Diego, agreed that olct' concepts of sity Lutheran Church in La Jolla and a chaplain at the University of California at San Diego, and the Rev. John Mort, priest-director of the Catholic Student Center at UCSD. 400 Attended cala Park campus. "Those who say that God is dead do not say they killed Him ; they only say that our contemporary society has be- come godless," Rabbi Goor said.

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God may be dead but that God still lives in the upd a ted , en- li ghte11ed and vibrant con- ce pt$ ofH,m held tod ay.. Dl)lcu ss ing the question, "Is God Dead on the College Cam- pu s?", the clergymen said the image .of God as a vengeful grand father rio lqnger is ac- ceptable to most believers. The three w~re Rabbi Joel Goor of Temple Sole!, the Rev. John Huber, pastor of Univer-

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''In that sense, if God is dead. we have a duty to bring him back to life," the rabbi said. " but in my sense . God lives." Rev. John Huber said the claim that God is dead is largely a p·roblem of seman- tics. New Concept Emerging "Our terminology must change to meet the times," he added. "A new mental concept of God is emerging."' Father Mort said the ques- tion involves a problem of relevancy - "how one relates one's self to God. "One of the great thing given to us by St. Thomaf Aquinas is the concept o analogy," the priest said. /1 false analogy does not chang1 the basic truth from which i was drawn. he added. "We must bury old imagei and affirm a more real isti, image ofGod." The God is dead theory ii related to a situation that haf existed throughout church history, "and that is the twQ spheres - the religious sphere and the secular sphere, or th11 sacred and the profane." Father Mort said. Trend to Secular "In medieval times there was a shifting of th e two but after the Reformation the shift changed toward the secular sphere," he said re- examine our beliefs and find new definitions," he said. Rabbi Goor rephrased the priest's view: "It is time for 1 cor>tinued on page 3) "We must stop and

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Dr.. 'hane , 43. professor ed as a member of the United who select t~c. faculty mem- of P_Ol11lcal science and aca- • ' alion formerly ment Mission to Eastern Eu- they _consider the most out- professor of pol it!cal science rope-an nations for summer standing on the basis of ser- at Seton Hall University. He of 1966. vice to the school and mter- is listed in "Whos Who in -~--~--- est and work for the "eneral the East," ' Who' s Who in welfare of the student body. m e r i c an Education " Awards were also given to '·American Men of Science'." the out tandmg profe ors in and "Leaders of American the dlv1 ons of humanities, Science.'' He is president of social cnce, natural ienc- the , at1onal Association of P and mathemah , aod bus- Social ccunty Administra- iness administration. tors. Faculty award w nners Dr. Whee ler assistant pro- were Dr: Lav.rcnce Wheeler, Cessor of English, was fo rm- hu1;1an tie , Dr R Y Brandes, erly teach ing asistant at ' social sciences; Dr Curt CCL . lie joined the univer- Spams, natural sciences and ity fac y in cptember mathematics ; and Dr. Robert 1966 ' E. Miller. bu incss- aclminis- · tration . A representative of formrr Director the college' s administration Dr. Brandes 42 assistant pre. e~ted the "Most Out- professor of ' histocy, and standing Fraternity \ward" chairman of the department for the 1966-67 academic year of history, was formerly di- to lpha Delta Gamma. ~....:.:.:=.;.;=c.....:.= ...:.:.:.:.:: Three fraternities on campu were considered for the award. Economic . Ianage- ber or admm1 trator whom dem1c dean, was

This award is presented by the administration to the fra- t~rmty that has d isplayed the h1ghe t degree of service to the college and qualities o! general excellence during the acaclemic year. 'New student bo y officers for the coming year were presented at the ball follow- mg th ir elecl1on Wcdnesoay. Robert Edward Ostcrmeyt'r, 21, stud- ent body re ident, William Officer include

ECUMENICAL CONFERENCE - The first ecumenical convocation was _h~ld at t~e University of San Diego College for Men last week. Participating m the event were, left to right, Rev. John Huber of the University Lutheran Church in La Jolla and a chaplain at the

University of California at San Diego, Rev. John Mort, CSP, director of the Catholic Student Center at UCSD; Rabbi Joel Goor of Temple Solel, and Rev. John Myhan, OP, chairman of the Theology Depart- ment at USD's College for Men.