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Allen, Nancy Gentry, ecta Black and Nancy Cudahy of La Jolla, Judy Ridgway of Rancho SaBta Fe, and Dorothy Tyson of Point Loma. Now that they've proved they can make money, they're retiring. Monkey Business closes on Saturday. For a parting shot, the women had a call from National Enquirer, which identi- fied their logo as the one on the hull of Gary Hart's favorite party boat. (No one admits to having a clue how it was copied in Miami.) ON THE ROAD: Sheldon Krantz, dean at USD Law School, will go to China mer this month to help plan a juvenile court sys- tem. Going with him: Presiding Judge Judith McConnell of Juve- nile Court, and Presiding Judge Anthony Joseph of Family Law Court. .. , Jonathan Freedman, who received a Pulitzer for his Tribune editorials on immigra- tion, hurried off to Europe on a grant, filing dispatches on terror- ism. Home-town tributes are being deferred until summer's end. Among them: The Mexican and American Foundation is naming Freedman its Media Role Model. Runners-up: Tom Johnson, publisher of the L.A. Times, and magazine publisher Dan Lopez. IN SHORT: The hot item among car prowlers: cellular phones. In six months, thieves have ripped off 89.... The Hamel brothers oppose Belmont Park development, but they're more than tripling the size of their Mis- sion Beach sports store. (It's Hamel's first face lift in 20 years.) . . . Pam Connolly notes that the C&R Clothier TV spot, of a young man's graduation, was filmed on Elm Tree lawn at Scripps College for Women. NICKEL EAGLES: Chuck Nickel, the D.A.'s chief felony prosecutor, and his fo_ur hroth~rs set a national record m 1971: five Eagle Scouts in one family. Now Chuck's son, Tom, is an Eagle. (Last year his cousin Bob, son of San Diego pathologist Jim Nick- el, started the second generation of Nickel Eagles.) eil Morgan c n. Alison DaRosa assists witlb the

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/tetter from W ash1ngton USD prof gets boost on nomination By Mark Ragan .,, --L C"pley News Sl>rv,ce ,;?-"ft,:/ specI.,J to The Tribune PANCER BACKS SIEGAN.. Michael Paocer, the San Diego attorney who defended former Mayor Roger Hedgecock in his trial on conspiracy and perjury charges, is urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to confirm the no inaLion of conservative Universi.!Y..2l§an Diego law school professor Bernard Siegan to the federal oenc . In a letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., Pancer mentioned his credentials as a past president of the San Diego chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. · "While I cannot speak for the American Civil Liberties Onion, I mention my activites with them to demonstrat my concern in general for the princi- ples of civil liberties," Pancer wn,te 10 his May 14 letter. "I have complete confidence that Professor Siegan will serve most fairly as a justice. He is most concerned with the liberties of all citizens and has written extensively of this concern." Siegan, whose confirmation hearings are tentatively scheduled for July, C?uld in fo_r a fight. Several liberal groups have hinted they might oppose his confirmation. !'fancy Broff, director of the Wcishington-based Judicial Selection Project, said her group will release a report soon on Siegan's qualifications for the federal judgeship. She said Siegan's writings on judicial review are so far out of t ne main- stream that putting him on the federal bench "would be like rutting the wolf in to guard the chickens." ' She said the report will draw from Siegan's own writings, including a manuscript for his new boo on judicial review "' * * AMERICAN IN PARIS . Rep. Bill Lowery, R-San Diego, is off to Paris ne~t week on what he described as a congressional fact-finding trip. Lowery s~•d he and other member of the congressional delegation will visit the Paris Air Show to study the "compete iveness of American aerospace technology" ~o:~ than 240 U.S. aerospace manufacturing and service firms will be exb1b1tmg products to bout 25,000 industry representatives. • Lowery is taking an Air For<:e plane to Paris and his four dctr· · ~.r hotel expenses will be pick d up by the Air Force and the State Department. His wife, Ka~e, w_ho will be joining him there, is paying for her own ticket on a commercial airplane. L -~-~--

BURN OUT: Orville Myers, a photographer who covered the Pebble Beach fire for the Mon- terey Herald, was hospitalized for scratched corneas, smoke in- halation and exposure to poison oak. His truck was burned in the flames. Some big deal: He won the Associated Press photo award for May, bringing him a check for $100. THE A)1ES: Robin Thrush, wife of HBJ's Peter Jovanovich, has written her first children's book, "The Gray Whales Are Missing." It has in-house ties: Pre-teen sleuths use HBJ-owned Sea World to learn why the grays aren't migrating. The book is due this fall from HBJ. . . . Ken Thygerson, CEO at lmperial Sav- ings, will be profiled in Forb s in August. He's credited with that firm's turn-around.... Dean Mi- chael Dessent of Cal Westt:rn Law School sends a photograph from Harry's New York Bar in Paris, where he bas installed a Cal Western pennant. . . . The Alumni Assn. at UCSD will honor a pair of physics gradu tes on Friday as alumni of he }ear. , They're Paul Chu and Br an Maple, both pioneers in super- conductivity research. (Chu is the Universit} of Houston physicist who launched a technological revolution when he broke the high temperature barrier with his superconducting materials.) PASSAGES: Husbands and friends laughed when six prom1- ne women opened a boutique called Monkey Business at La Valencia Hotel. That was 14 years ago. 'o one had thought of them as 1 Jmesswomen: Ruth

VI ta's Ian Skidmore is earning a reputation on just his doubt play. kidmore earning oubles dividends 'I'h pure doubl play r, 1t eems,

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Local Tennis Mark Zeigler ticed agamst each other mo t of their waking lives, will be gomg their sep- arate ways oon. Carl, 18, a senior at San D1eguito High who defeated 15-year-old Mi- ch el .in r1day to win the section singles title, is heading to the Univer- sity of California on a tennis scholar- ship. Michael, according his father, will play "10 to 12·• pro tournaments as a amateur in the ne t year and may "go away to train somewhere." Carl and Michael aren't the only ones leaving the county. The family has sold its La Costa house and will move to Orange County this summer. · Both Chang brothers, who have dominated San Diego junior tennis in recent years, will try to qualify for September's U.S. Open, either ~y winning the national 18 hardcourts (and earmng an automatic berth) or through a qualifying tournament. Be- fore that, Michael may play in some professional satellite events to gain points for a world ranking. '"There is no pressure for him to tum pro," Joe Chang said of Michael. "The decision will come when he es- tablishes himself on the pro circuit. The other nice thing is that he is starting young.'' GURNEY IN - Palos Verdes' Melissa Gurney has confirmed she will defend her title in the $75,000 Virginia Slims of San Diego. The 56- player tournament begins Aug. 3 at the San Diego Tennis and Racquet Club. Gurney, who turns 18 this month, defeated juniors rival Stephanie Rebe in last year's final for $13,000 and her first Slims victory. Her com- petition this year has not been set. "But already it looks like a much stronger field," said Jane Stratton of Promotion Sports.. "It should be stronger because the Federation Cup (in Vancouver) is a week before us and the Los Angeles Slims is the week after us." For ticket information. call 581- 9166. PIECES AND BITS - Former Crawford High and San Diego Mesa College star Chri~topher Groff reached the singles and doubles quarterfinals in the NAIA tourna- ment la t month in Kansas City, Mo. Groff, the team captain at Cal-Lu- theran, earned All-American status by making the final eight ... The local Domino's TeamTennis leagu · are in their spring playoffs. There is a possibility that some leagu champions will play their counterparts from Ventura County later this month ... _USO wi!!Jiost week-long tennis camps-11l!'Juniors in June July and August. Both the tournament- and basics-level ses- ion are offered on a resident or day-camp basis. For more informa- tion, call 260-4803

IS gomg th way or dinosaurs and wood n rackets. Singles gets c nter- court r ·ognition. Doubt gets the b c t - and back courts. • ' refr hing to come across an I n k1dmor , a nior at Vi ta HI H likes mgl s But in high , • played more douhl . And day at the San Diego Tennt and qu t Club, he won hi econd ralght CU'-San D1 go ·t10n dau- b champlo hip. A testunony to his ability when four players are on the c rt in. lead of t , Skidmore defended his title with a partn r - junior Mike Brown he first played with when they step~d on the court Tu day for their first-round match. kidmore' usual partner, senior Mike Watson, was in Georgia trying to qualify for thi summer's national 18-and-under hardcourt champion- hap . In defeating top-seeded Mark Ellison and Chris Swortwood of 'for r y Pin 6-3, 3 in the fmal, kid- more and Bro11,n playt..>d only their eventh and eighth sets together. "I was trying to find him a new partner," said Vista coach Stormy xton "I told him, 'Brownie's the only guy I can give you.' He said, OK, no problem. I'll take him.' " 1ght sets later, Skidmore added a championship trophy to the one be won last year with Paul Richards. Hcapped an incredulou eason of d ubl for Skidmore. lie never lost a match. He never lost a et. He lost his rve twice. With Watson, he was 72-0 m sets and took the high school doubles title at the prestigious Ojai Vall y Tournam nt in April. "He has a hellacious serve," Sex- ton id of his star charge. "Plus, he analyzes hi opponents so well. He's so ucated in the game of tenm.s - e peci lly doubl - that he imme- diately pick out the flaw in the op- pon nt and exploits it." Skidmore, 18. came to Vista two yea go a part of Woody Blocher's tennis academy. Next year, he's bound for Kentucky on a tennis scbolarsh1p, Wildcats coach Dennis i,:mery has hmted Skidmore might play No. 1doubl - a a freshman. Curr ntly, he's ranked No. 8national- ly m the 18s for doubles with J.R. r;dwards, a freshman at the Univer- 1ty of San Diego This summer, he'll play with Jeff Speir, a high school emor in T xa who will attend Ari- zona in the fall. "Wh n I wa young, I played a lot of mgl tournam n and I pl yed doubl with my friends just for fun," Skidmore id. "I found out I wa pr tty good at (doubles), so I kept pl yin "I think doubl s help with mgle . It refm a lot of the ingles aspects of th game It make you concen• trate on your return (of rve) more and place your return It help you with your reflexes more at the net " And, as idmore h d monstrat- droitly, It can illvidend .

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....,'18D ,!tas named Paul C. Gib- bons Jr. of Coronado, former UCLA a~ociate dean and Navy rear ad- miral, as director of corporate rela- tions. He succeeds Frank Horner who retired, in planning activitie~ for USO supporterP in ~~orate Associates. t')q~ ./ ./:./ .. * .. ./

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/ Poway resident receives USO law degree Lin,faq ?.~alix, a resident of Poway, was among the 1,250

Calix received her Juris Doctor degree in Law. She was the recipient of the Bancroft-Whitney American Jurisprudence Award for Constitu- tional Law for 1984. She is currently employed with Imperial Savings

Association as a law clerk. The USDgraduating class includ- ed 740 st udents receiving undergraduate degrees, 250 receiv- ing Master's degrees and 250 receiv- ing law degrees.

students receiving degrees from the Univec,c;it~f San Diego at com- mencement exercises held May 23 and 24.

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$10.6Million USD East Campus Student Housing CenterN~ars Co1:1ple~ion livin Construction of the $10.6 million East Campus Student Housing one-betr:om wi th ~ne-b:~~::::u e:~=~:n: ~:::;ei;.u:or th! Center at the University of San Di_ego is on schedule a nd to be ~:~: ~;m a;::dits 0 :omputerized scheduling of building trades completed by C.A. Larsen Construc!ion Co., the gene.r~ contractor'. and materiais with kee ing the project on schedule and in holding by the end of June. Included are six three-story buildmgs for st u t· t 'thi~ b dget Desi'gned as a visual gateway to · · uxili" b ildi ·te improve- construe ion cos s WI n u . dent housmg, f<_>ur smgle-sto~ a ary. u . ngs, ~• . he universit the 154,000-square-foot housing center is being con- ments and parking for 500 veb1cles. The six maJor bmldi~gs are to t d y{5- •t al g the north side of Linda Vista Road. hou 512 students in 135 two-bedroom with two-bath uruts and 21 structe on a acre SI e on