News Scrapbook 1980-1981

SAN DIEGO UNION

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Resting Amid The Palms

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LOS ANGELES TIMES 1 Capener to Return to USO • 'From a Times Staff Writer

JUL 1 3 1981 'The Swinging Years" will be revived at a jazz concert Tuesday night at the University of San Diego, featuring Dick Braun and his or- chestra. The artion starts at 7:30 in USD's Camino Theater and the one- and-a-half-hour program is free to the public. Connoisseurs of "swing" giants such as Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller are invited to boogie-woogie to the big band sounds. Braun also plans a musical history le son illustrating tile origins of jazz, blues, ragtime and the dixieland music.

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Appointment of Rear Admiral~ Gerald E. Thomas to the Board of Trustees of the University of San Diego has been announced by Dr. Author E. Hughes, university president. Thomas has been commander of the Pacific Fleet's Training Command, based in San Diego, since 1978. For two years he was director of the Near East, Africa and South Asia Regions for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, involved in efforts leading to the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty.

SA DIEGO-Don Capener will return to the Uni- versity of San Diego basketball team this season after a two-year Mormon mission in Japan. . Capener was an all-county player at Torrey Pmes High School in 1977-78, lea_ding the Falcons to the CIF championship. The 6-6 swmgman guard averaged 4.8 points and two rebounds a game at USDin 1978-79. Capener was also bemg sought by Arizona State. ~e- vada Las Vegas, Utah, Brigham Young and UC Irvme upon hl.s return from the mission.

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\9'Radio us El ew ere around the broadcasting dial: In this longest summer of reruns, something fresh stands out ~ike a ~a,n wearing a hat in church. This week 1~ s "A Touch of Churchill, a Touch of Hit- ler: the Life of Cecil Rhodes," on Chan- nel 15 tomorrow at 8 p.m. Rhodes (1853- 1902) was the iast and greatest of Bri_t- ain's empire builders. He dabbed _m South African farming, gold and dia- monds on his way to establishing Rho- desia and the Rhodes schvlarships. The BBC documentary runs 90 minutes. Channel 4's "On Campus" visits the University of San Diego, USD President Author Hughes and the Gaslamp Quar- ter Sunday at 11 a.m. George Fenneman is host. Loren 1 ·ancarrow, Channel 8's week- end news anchor and a prize-winning reporter, is a welcome change from the weekday run of local anchors. Thus far he is low-profile, low-plastic.

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i- -t-.,.. The University of San Di ha 1981-82 basketball schedul e~ Ts annowiced its • gadmes wi!} include match:s wrth 'g:f ot~~lrvinho~e an San Diego State. , e Also c · t onung o the Alcala Park campus will be -- the University of Pacific, Boise State and Southeastern Louisiana, plus competing schools in the West Coast Athletic Conference. The WCAC will be celebrating its 3oth anniversary. The University of San Francisco, with returning All·Americ~ Quintin D~ey and Wallace Bryant, and defending co-champion Pepperdine its star- ting line-up intact, are the early favorites' but USD coach Jim Brovelli isn't cowiting his Tore;os out. "Last year we were close to getting over the hump_," he ~d. "Ov~r half our losses last year were m the final two minutes. This season, with the ret~n of Gerald Jones, Rusty Whitmarsh and Davi~ Heppell, plus the addition of our new rE:Crwts, I look for us to win a few close ones that , slipped by us last year.'' ..j.. +

SAfJ DIEGUITO CITIZEN l 5 Capener back on USD squad Don Capener will return to where he started college. The former All-CIF basketball p_layer at Torrey Pines High has s1g~ed scholarship to attend the Uru~ers1ty of San Diego, where he studied as a freshman before em- b~rk!ng , on a two-year l\forman m1ss1on ,hat ended in Iay. Capener indicated that he would go to UC Irvine before his return but cb~nged his mind and considered Anzona State, Colorado and Utah before making a decisfr,n.