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Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Co) Times (San Diego Ed.) (Cir. D 50,010) (Cir . S 55,573)

Encinitas, CA (San Diego Co.) Coa t Dispatch (Cir. 2xW. 30,846)

1 1987

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Soprano to sing Spanish zarzuela at church benefit By Marty Wisckol Beat Editor "Noche Hispanica," an evening of La tin music and dance which will benefit aliens seeking legal status here, is the merging of two personal int e r ests of soprano Virgi ni a Garland. Fm,t , Garland loves the zarzue- la, a Spanish musical form similar to the operetta at is virtually nknown m the United States. "It is probably the most popular of classical music in Spain," said Garland . "it's quite entertaining a nd fun . It captures the many spccts ofSpanish life , everything rom the peasant to the aristocrat. "Second , it will raise money to cl p aliens - mostly Hispanic - who are going through St. James Catholic Church in their effort to t ake advantage of ien mn _ gram. "The bulk of the people who are coming (to St James for help rocessing immigration applica- tions) make no more than $7 ,200 a )Car," said Garland who, with her 11u band, Robert, volunteers at the church' amnesty center. The church, under the auspices of Catholic Community Services, ha proce sed some 1,600 applica- tion" so far for the Immigration an d Na turaliz a ti on Service . Garland, who holds a bachelor's degree in Spamsh, has been par- ticularly bothered by the financial obstacles some aliens face: The required medical check-up costs a n11 n imum of $45; the Catholic Communit y Se rvic es fee for photos, fingerprints and counsel- ng is 40; the INS processing fee 200, ''There are famil ies that have five or six people who want to become lega l," Garl and said . "Vhen you mult iply (mandatory fees) by six people, it comes out to quite a lot. ''It pained me to see people like this every day. Then it came to me IS

Benefit is tonight "Noche Hispanica" will be held tonight beginning at 7:30 at St. James Catholic Church , 625 S. Nardo Ave. in Solana Beach . It will feature arias from Spanish zarzuelas by three established opera singers and Mexican folk dancing by Ballet Folklorico Azte- ca. Tickets are $5. Proceeds will benefit the church's Amnesty Program Legalization Fund. For more information, call 755-2545 or 755-2965.

Lupe Limon, left, is the daughter of the founder of Ballet Folklorico Azteca and now leads the group. Ballet Folklor- ico Azteca will perform Mexican folk dances at Noche Hispanica tonight. NOCHE!Benefit show Continued from page D1

that I could use my background to help them out." "Noche Hispanica" is generat- ing the first funds for the church's Amnesty Program Legalization Fund and Garland hopes other contributions will follow. Setting up the fund and orga- nizing "Noche Hispanica" is only the most recent of Garland's endeavors, one of the mo t signif- icant of which was raising six children after her first husband died. She also founded the New Life Opera Ensemble of Solana Beach, which she directed for two years. Garland, 49, has studied voice extensively since 1975, including a one-month intensive program with the late maestro Frank Base- lice in New York City . She is presently studying in San Diego with Carolee Thornburg. She has been a fan of zarzuelas since discovering a record ofSpan- ish s oprano Victoria de los Angeles. Initially she had difficul- ty in finding the written music. Finally her accompanist, Janie Prim, brought her some zarzuela music and also put her in contact with another singer who was familiar with the music, Maria Antonia Rey. Last year, the two performed together in a zarzuela performed by the U iver · of San Diego Opera orkshop , PabloSorasobal's "La Tabernera de) Puerto." Soprano Rey, who will join See NOC\Page D8

be tenor Joseph Carson who frequentl y ,;mgs pnnc1pal roles for the Pacific Chamber Orches- tra. The three, accompanied by Prim, will ·mg ome 50 ari:is from zarzuela · Rounding out the hill wJII be BaJl et Folklorico Azl" a, a San Marcos- based Me. il'~n folk dance troupe of 19 members tha t performs throughout the county.

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Garland on ~tage tomght, is a native of aragossa, pain and has pe rformed lead role s in opera and zarzue/a.~ in Spain and South America, including holding the title of la Prima Soprana of El Teatro de Zarzue- la m Madrid. Also performing t omght will

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As for the specific case of physi- cians trained in Vietnam, Mc- Cready said more than 200 Uni- versity of Saigon graduates are practicing in California. All grad• uated prior to 1975, she conceded, and most were able to bring papers documenting their training with them. im- migrants fled quickly, often with only the clothes on their backs, to escape the new regime. Their cases are more difficult, D'Angelo said, because the University of Saigon has not released data on its former students to California. McCready also declined t o discuss the specific cases mention- ed in the suit. The board will be re- presented by the attorney general's office, she said. The suit names past and current members of the 17 member board and various staff members of the licensing di vision as well as the Department of Consumer Affairs. One of the defendants named in the suit is San Diego County Medical Society President Jacquelin Trestrail, a radiologist who was appointed to the board l48t Janu- ary. Trestrail , who is on vacation, could not be reached for comment yesterday. / In contrast, more recent

Dr Dao is one of the named plaintiffs in the suit, which also in- cludes Eileen Wynne, a San Diego area medical student in Grenada, and Dr. Frederick Cruck Kraft, a Mexican-trained physician who was admitted to practice medicine in six states. In the case of the Vietnamese graduates, the suit alleges that BMQA met in closed session Jan. 30 and 31, 1986, and voted to sus- pend processing of all applications from University of Saigon gradu- ates, but failed to record that deci- sion until the end of May, inform- ing applicants by letters dated June 4, 1986. None of the applica- tions has been considered on an in- dividual basis, she said. The problem is so widespread, the attorney asserted, that the state Legislature is taking action to assist post-1975 University of Saigon graduates who wish to practice in California. Senate Bill 1358, passed unanimously by the Senate and now pending in the AsEembly, would set up a faculty council-in-exile composed of five former University of Sr:iigan facul- ty members who would review the records of graduates and make rec- ommendations to state officials. D'Angelo referred to a state Senate subcommittee study of complaints about the board's han• dling of foreign medical graduates. The subcommittee ultimately compiled a 30-page "accusation" against the licensing division, charging numerous violations of the state administrative pro- cedures act. BMQA sees the problem dif. ferently. Concerned when the practice of "selling diplomas" came to light in 1983, BMQA has tightened up its standards for med- ical school curricula, according to BMQA spokeswoman Linda Mc- Cready. Prior to 1983, the board relied on certification from indi- vidual medical schools that indi- ,.; iuals had completed training. S .ice then, the board set up $ ecific standards for medical t aining.

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''There are families that have five or six people who want to become legal. When you multiply (mandatory fees) by six people, it comes out to quite a lot. It pained me to see people like thl every day. Then it cam to me that I could use my background to help th m out. ,, Soprano Virginia Garland

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co-) Daily Transcript (Cir. D. 7,415)

JUL 30 1987

USD Law Center Sues Licenser For Foreign-TrainedDoctors Byt/s~BRYDOLF Although representing all SanDiegoDailyTrllMCriptStsffWriu,r foreign-educated physicians who The University of San Diego have applit!d for state licenses Center for Public Interest Law has since 1980, the suit specifically charged that fthe state physicians identifies a group of about 30 doc· licensing board is discriminating tors trained at the University of against foreign-educated doctors in Saigon Medical School in Vietnam an iJlegal effort to limit the after 1975. The center estimates number of physicians practicing in the number of foreign medical the state. graduates (FMGs) to be in the h an amended class action com- hundreds, with Vietnamese grad- plaint filed in U.S. District Court uates numbering at least 30. in San Francisco last week, the In San Diego, Robert Moser is center asserts that the Board of associate director of resettlement Medical Quality Assu°;-ance (BM- programs for Catholic Community QA) violated open meeting laws, Services, a social service agency falsified documents and fabricated that is also a plaintiff in the suit. criteria for licensure to deprive Moser estimated that about 12 qualified physicians the right to Southeast Asian physicians are practice in the state. practicing locally - a number that Acc11rding to center attorney is insufficient to serve the area's JuUanne B. D'Angelo, BMQA has 45,000 member Asian refugee met frequently in violation of the population, he said. Bagley-Keene Open Meetings Act BMQA's rules are creating an and failed to consider applicants' "incredible waste of talent" he cases on an individual basis. · complained, adding that refugees " If they have evidence that my prefer to vJSit physicians who can clients didn't complete a proper speak their languages and under- medical education, I'd like to know stand their cultures.

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~ormer journalism professor .. VjP: t.?..~!m~ rba~:~,:~• h~,~!~b ..,,, sor who ooc ught journalis and grammar. Occasionally, he would Enghsh a he --l!njyersity ~of San stick his head out a classroom win- Diego d" esterday at his home in dow, wave a white handkerchief and Ponce et, Fla., of cancer at age 66. shout, "Help me! They're all idiots in B emner, who taught here from here!" 1W1' to 1961, had retired to Florida "Professor Bremner motivated all after ending a lengthy and honored who knew him to do their best," said teaching career at the University of Kansas Dean of Journalism Mike Kansas in 1985. Kautsch. "He was a master teacher Bremner's theatrical, intimidating of editing. He showed through hi methods were beloved by the thou- teaching the importance of lan- sands of students who studied under guage." him, and many_des~rib~d him as one A native of Brisbane, Australia, of the most msp1rabonal persons Bremner received a bachelor th~,Y met. sacred theology degree from Prope- . ,,Abs_olutely, he was very dynam- ganda Fide University in Rome in 1c! said John Bowman, a Ramona 1941, and continued theological stud- High Srhool Enghsh teacher who ies at All Hallows College in Dublin, to?k cl~sses at USD und~r Br~m~er Ireland. He w;is ordained a Roman w1_t~ Bill Hagen, The Tribunes film Catholic priest m 1943, and remained critic. a priest for 24 years "He was a very charismatic indi- · vidual who was a great influence on Bremner worked as a magazine guys like Hagen and myself. He knew editor, newspaper columnist and what he was talking about. We used radio writer and announcer in Aus- to call his lectures the Gospel ac- tralia before coming to the United cording to st. John because what he States in 1950. He earned a master's said was gospel. degree m journalism from Columbia "Of course, we only said that be- University. hind his back." He also taught at the University of Standing 6-foot-5 and weighing 260 Iowa, where he received a doctorate pounds, Bremner cut an imposing in mass communications in 1965. figure in university classrooms and In 1969, he came to the University seminars in newsrooms across the of Kansas and in 1977 was named country. Longtime colleague Lee Oscar S. Stauffer Distihguished Pro- Young remembered him as a "de- fessor of Journalism. lightful terror to students." Bremner, who will be buried Tues- Bremner would stalk around his day in Lawrence, is survived by his classroom, often quoting Robert wife, Mary, and a sister in Sydney, Frost and the Bible or lamenting Australia.

Althoul(h McCready, who said ..he boarc 'had n<,t been served with the Fu.it, declined specific comment on t!i'e allegations, she saM 30 per- cent of the physicians licensed in the last year were foreign-trained. She said she did not know how many foreign-trained applicants were turned down last year. The board currently bas 25,000 ap- plications in the pipelin~ right

D'Angelo cited the case of one named client, Dr. Le Bup Thi Dao, a University of Saigon-trained pediatrician who has not received a state license despite completing a three-year medical residency at the University of California Irvine Medical Center and pa,sing all re-

it," she said. "They've never llowed us to test their evidence or nt any evidence of our own." ' decisions are regularly in a "secretive and un- trustworthy manner," D'Angelo asserted. All physicians must be licensed by BMQA in order to prac- pr BMQ made

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