News Scrapbook 1964-1967

'ENJOYING ASSIGNMfNT' S.D. Peace Co ps Teacher Describ~r· e In Tanzani By DON SEVRENS dom used except In school, room and food is pushed un• What is life like In the but as it is now the official der the door. After two years Peace Corps? language of the country, the of this, her body has cleansed One Peace Corps volunteer, students must learn to speak itself and she is allowed to James Shultz, 2 a 1966 grad• ii. Few of them speak Swahili become a part of her society uate of the Uni rsity of San any better than myself. once more. Diego College for Men, de- "The Ministry of Education "They keep cattle for status scribed bis experiences re- has made mincemeat of our and for bride price, but they cently in a letter to the Rev. teaching schedule. In this do not kill or eat a cow. The I. Brent Eagan of USD. term they have initiated four condition of their cattle mat• Shultz Is the son of Mr. and ma or changes in the ters not at all, just as long as Mrs. James Shultz of 1149 S. program • • • the cow can walk. They prac- Hill St., Fallbrook. "At present I'm teaching tice no management, and as a He trained for 13 weeks at two classes of English, six result, the cattle are literally Syracuse University, New classes of physical education, 300-pound bags of bones. York, before leaving for Tan- nine classes of general NOT ENOUGH RANGE zania. science, three classes of agri• Shultz received Instruction cultural techniques and four "Each 'farmer' keeps 30 to

ceremonies at 2 p.m. .June 4 in the University's Thomas Lynch be featured •peaker in the program honoring the C. will Gen.

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Lynch largest graduating class. Lynch also will be presented an honorary doctor of laws degree. Degrees will be conferred by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John F. Pure II, vicar general of the San Diego Catholic Diocese. Wck-oming remarks will be de• livrred by the school's dean, \Toseph ~- Sinclitico Jr. Faculty participants wilt in- clude Profes~or Jos,ph S. Broc-k. who will give the pro- nouncement, Professor Frank A. Eo felt who will announce awards and Professor Richard S. Kell? who will act as mar- shal. The Very Rev. John R. Quinn, rector of Immaculate Heart Major Seminary, will give the invocation. Robe ·t Kuhnert, past pres- ident of the Student Bar Associ- ation, will lead the flag salute. The closing prayer will be give by the R . Vincent J. Walters, admini~trative vice presid at the liSD college for Men. hool's madrigal singers and he Crawford High school's Performing will be Claire- mont 1gh

Lynch Due To Receive USD Honors State Atty. Gen. Thomas C. Lynch will receive an hon orary doctorate from the Uni- versity of San Diego hool of Law at commencement exer cises June 2. exer- for 49 st i:ltnts, who will 1ve th juries doctor de- He al o will &peaker at graduatlo e principal The degrees i 1 be con- ferred by :\lsgr John F. Pur- cell, ,1car genl'ral of the San Jo ph A Sinclitico, dean of the , chool of Law, will . the doctoral cand1- The ceremony will begin at 2 p.m. in Alcala Park Bowl on the USD campus. Sunday Plans Set USD's College for Women will graduate 63 seniors in exercises at 3 p.m. Sunday in the college theater. Com• mencement speaker will be the Most Rev. Francis J. Furey, bishop of the diocese. Baccalaureate Mass will be said at 10:30 a.m. Sunday in the college chapel. The College for Men's grad- ualton exercises for 7 seniors will be held at 2 p.m. Satur- day in the Alcala Park Bowl. The Baccalaureate Mass will be said at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the Immaculata Chapel on 1 go Catholic Diocese. The ree. Officials Are tlec-ted

50 cattle, and as the.re are no fences, the entire countryside is open range. This area does not have sufficient rain or feed for the large number of grazing animals, and the re- suit is erosion on every bill .. schools here are orienbted toward liberal arts in a coun- that desperately needs farmers, mechanics, carpen- ters, masons and engineers. "Our school is run for the benefit of the five per cent "The worst Is that the try schools. The government beginning to realize the im- building skills and that is why they have introduced wood~ is portance of basic nation- who will go to secondary gloom, however. The people are gregarious, once they toward an outsider. Many of the limitations of th ir tribal society and they the students are aware of overcome their shyness acutely curriculum. "The picture is not all

classes of geography. I'm also troop and I've been organiz. month and campouts every scoutmaster of our scout ing all-day hikes once a "As I'm teaching agricul- ture, I'm also in charge of the school farm, an 80-acre tract that has not been farmed since the British left in 1961. far, we've cleared and planted two acres of cabbage and built a 50-foot-by-50-foot So the cattle and the men sleep time I go to town I see sever- men passed out on the side of the road from drinking too "The most Interesting as- pect of their culture is eir attitude concerning death and puberty A person never 1es spirits have entered bis body. Thus, when a person rue , bis corpse is left where it j and nobody dares to touch il or bury it. If a man dies in a house, everything except the is moved out and tiie house is abandoned. "When a very old person becomes ill, he is carried 'to the forest and left to die. puberty, she is said to be polluted and for two years she al much beer. from natural causes; vii body ' When a girl reaches other weekend. fishpo nd . WOME WORK "In the tribal society, the disdam any physical leaving that to the

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ALCALA PARK GRADUATIONS - John V Naish, San Diego civic leader, second from right, Is shown re- ceIvInK an honor ry Doctor of Science de11ree at the Un1vers1ty of San uIe110 College for Men commence- ment ex • rcIse on the Alcala Park campu last Saturday Jommg in the awarding of the decree are, left to rIaht, M ar. Donald f. Dox11, Bishop's secretary; Most Rev Francis J. Furey, and Very Rev. John Paul C dden, Coll 11 for Men president. Naish gaf P the commencement address. Graydon Hoffman retired n D11 o bank r, al&o wa awarded an honorary decree. Bishop Furey 1s shown below with Mother Nancy Mom , Coll1ge for Women president, and four honor 11raduates of the College for Women at exercises la t Sunday Honor aradu tes are, left to n11ht, Teresa Soler Thorpe, Margaret Coppernoll, and Laune Y una, 11 cum f ude, and Mary Ann Guarrera, maana cum taude

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ident of General Cortvall' until his reti 1qro and Graydo Ho, hr banker, were resented honorary degrc s by the Most Rev. Francis J. Furey, bishop of the Catholic diocese of San Diego, who presided at the cere- monies. Citations honoring both men were read by the Very Rev. John Paul Cadden, president of the College for Men. Then Bish- op Furey pre ented an honorary doctor of science d gree to • aish and an honorary doctor of laws degree to Hoffman. Naish, the principal speaker, told the graduates that hi tori- ans will mark this as the "cen- cnt in

'OUTSTANDING' STUDENT At USD, Shultz was named the "Outstanding Graduating Senior" in 1966. He was stu- senior year and received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship nomination in political science. dent body treasurer in his

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"I'm teachmg al a boarding school about a million mile from nowhere. A couple of weeks ago I took our school' men troop on a hike up into the work,

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sure enough, from a summit we could see the edge of world about 20 miles distant. Arusba, 120 miles away, over eight and one-half hours away by the dirt road ... "Our little school of Mbulu has no electricity, no running water, no telephones, and the town has nol h ing but a couple of general stores, a gas pump and a post office . . . I'm enjoying my assignment. The little village of Mbulu is three miles from our school, and in walking to town once a we~k J meet some pretty in- "The nearest city is "In spite of the isolation, DESCRIBES PEOPLE "The indigenous people are from Somali a few hundred years ago and they speak a click language. Swahili is sel- Wadraqui. They migrated teresting people.

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the 'nivcrs1ty of San Diego, College for Men, at 2 p.m. turday in the outdoor the- ut r on the Alcala Park cam- pu~ John V. 'ai:h, a forme pre 1dcnt of Convall'. will re- ceive an honorary doctor of sci nee de e H v. ill be the featured pc:1ker Graydon Hoffman. a former s nior vice pr ident of Bank of m nca, will receive an honorary doctor of laws de- gr . On >,fedical Board Nat h, a native 'ew \'or • er, was senior vice president or General Dynamics and chairman of the board of gov- enor of the Aero Space In• dustne A iation until his retirement n 1960. He i serv- ng h1 econd lour-year term a a tnemh of the state ~I d1cal Board. 'a, h is chairman of the I Icy Hosp1tal Advisory Board and vice chairman of the Tn Ho pita! fund drive. He i director of the United Community Services, Mercy- Guadalupe Chmc and San Di- go Ho pita! and Health Plan- ning. He I Ii ted in the U.S. ;md British "Who' Who." 'ai h and hi wife, Alice, ltH at 1361 hoda Dnve, La Jolla. They are the_ parents of t1\0 ons - Richard S., a predoctoral fellow at the tini- vers1ty of • hfornia at Ber • ley, an John Carroll, a seni- or :it San Franc, co State Col- lege Hoffman, a n ive of Kan-

1946 came o ~an Diego as \ ice president and manager of the. main lire. Jn 1961 he was appointed to a newlJ created position of semor vice president. Y\fCA Trustee Hoffman is a member uf the lercy Hospital Advisory Board, ScrtppS Clime and Re. search Foundation, l'nited Community Service and is a YMCA trustee. He is past president of the Chamber of Commerce and wa v[ce president of the Downtown Association and a director of the San Diego Tourist and Convention Bu- reau. Hoffman and hi· wife, Gladys, live at 2205 Willow St

ege Prexy State College and in 1949 en- tered St. Francis College, then in El Cajon, for study for the priesthood in the San Die- go diocese. Ordained in Rome Father Baer completed his theological studies at the North American College and the Gregorian University, in Rome, where in December, 1956, he was ordained to the priesthood and earned the bachelor and licentiate de- grees in sacred theology. He was named assistant pastor at St. Anne's Church in San Bernardino and taught at Aquinas High School there. In 1960, he received a master of arts degree in education at Loyola University. Father Baer was the first principal of Marian High School in Imperial Beach. He received his doctorate in 1963 from the Gregorian Uni- versity. His dissertation dealt with fundamentalism in American protestantism.

The Very Rev. John Baer today was named pres- ident of the College for Men at the University of San Di- ego. The appointment was made by the Most Rev. Francis J. Furey, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego and USO chancellor. Father Baer becomes the fourth president of the col- lege. He succeeds the Very Rev. John Paul Cadden, who resigned because of ill health. Father Cadden has been pres- ident since 1961. Bishop Furey Announces Father Baer's appointmeht was announced by Bishop Furey at a reception in the college's faculty lounge. Also present were the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John L. Storm, first college president, and the Very Rev. Russell Wilson, the second president. Father Baer as president will head the men's college which. expects an enrollment of 500 in September. For the first lime next fall, however, students of the College for Men and the College for Women will take courses in both colleges. Father Baer was born in Streator, Ill., in 1930, and re- ceived his elementary and secondary education in El- sinore. He attended San Diego

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College For M Pres· dent Cho The Very Rev. John E. Baer, community uqdertaking for men ~. yesterday was named pres- and women of all faiths." 1dent o~ the_ College for _Men of "Father Baer," the bisho the Umvers1ty of San Diego by add d "b . t h. P the Most Rev. Franc is J. . e , rmgs o IS new: as- Furey, bishop of the San Diego signment youthful en_thus1asm Catholic diocese and chancellor tempered by mature ~ud,ipnent of the university. and profound scholar hip. Father Baer, the college's Father Baer, a native ?f fourth president succeeds the Streator, Ill., was educated 111 Very Rev. John' Paul Cadden. Elsinore, attended San Diego president since 1961 who State, and studied for the pries- resigned because of ill h~alth thood at St. Francis College, Msgr. John L. Storm, ~ow then in El Cajon· and at the pastor of All Hallows' Church in North American College and La Jolla, was the first president jGregorian University in Rom~, when the college opened in 1952 where he took a doctorate. His and the Very Rev. Russell wil'. dissert~tion . was on_ "Funda- son was t)ie second president. mental(sm ,,m Amencan Pro- Appointment of Father Baer testanltsm. was announced at a reception at Ordained in 1956, be served as the college attended by several an assistant pastor and taught hundred persons. high school in San Bernardino. The recepti(\n, said Bishop He was the first principal of Furey in a statement, was "an- Marian High School in Imperial other opportunity" to restate Beach, and later became pres- the philosophy of USD - "that ident of St. Francis College, the sacred and the secular are now part of the School of Theol- intermingled in every life, and ogy on the Alcala Park campus. that a study of one without the It is from this post that he other woul~ lead to a d!~torted moves to the College for Meo, understanding of reality. which will have an enrollment He reiterated that USD "is a of 500 in September.

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REV. JOHN E. BAER Succeeds Cadden