News Scrapbook 1980-1981

LA JOLLA LIGHT

LA JOLLA LIGHT

La Joi/ans to greet USO parents

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USO greets members

Author E. Hughes and Vice President and Dean of Students Affairs Thomas F. Burke. wlll speak. Following the meeting, a rec9'tion will be held at 3 p.m. on Founders Patio

ministrators of USD expect to welcome 800 parents who will be attending Orientation Day. Parents are invited to attend a meeting in Camino Theater at 2 :30 p.m., where President

La Jollans Richard and Carol Reilly, USD Parent's Club presi- dents, will welcome parents of incoming students at Parents' Orientation Day Tuesday on the University of San Diego campus . As presidents of the Parent's Club for the coming academic year, Mr. and Mrs. Reilly will explain the function of the club and detail upcoming activities and events . Faculty and ad -

tea are Mary Jo White, co-chairman; Jay Ghio, welcoming committee ; Esther Collins , tea table ; Judy Comito , Mary Mulvihill and Kay Barber, punch table ;

The University of San Diego Auxiliary will hold its annual mem- bership tea on Sept. 17 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the home of the University president , Author Hughes.

Ann Brown, hospitality; Monica Teyssier, Nan La Jollans working on Woltman, Gerrie Smith com1ilittee to plan the and Barbara Riley.

LA JOLLA LIGHT

(_ L I. tenure in Mexico's foreign service . Pictured above &e Mrs. Morales , right, with La Jollans Maria Luisa aneta and son, Hetor HetO( will enter USO this Ias a business admini major.

A reception was held recently at the University of San Diego's Founders Gallery for Esteban Morales, Consul General of Mexico in San Diego. The recep- tion marked the opening of an exhibition of 27 of Morales' paintings, created during his 40-year

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• JOHN McDONOUGH / Lao AngelaTunft Spaciousness marks the interior of the lmmaculata Church on the University o!_ San Diego campus. ·- : School Led to New Heights Continue from lb age Marge Hughe rem mbers whe she used the glis- #

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During Krantz's interview for the post, he found that the two shared the same views on the role "a university plays in a city and about the need to give students some fairly rigorous training in what their own role and values are . .. what I describe as the human factor in providing services." In a 1977 UC Berkeley survey, USD appeared on a list of 10 law schools seen as up and com- mg in the next decade, he added. For Hughes, the "value-based education" that USD provides is what sets it apart from the research-on- ented UCSD, and the more populous SDSU. Its aim is not to indoctrinate, he said, but to provide education that revolves around a set of basic principles: "They're very simple. A belief in God, and a belief in the dignity of a human being," he said. "What we're , trying to do as an institution is to build a community where we do share those values. "It's important that we have that kind of a com- munity or we won't survive. because it's precisely that which makes us different from other institutions.... I would say our principal competition is not with (San Diego) State or with UCSD but rather with the other independent colleges like us in California" such as Loyola-Marymount College and the Claremont Col- leges. Strive for Euellenc:e Many associated with USD believe 1t 1s important to preserve that difference. "Art Hughes identified what our potential was, in what way we could really shine and we've been striving to do that," Figueredo said. "We're not trying to be a UCSD. We"re trying be a small private school with excellence." Hughes is really celebrating three anniversaries this month. Besides a decade as USD president and 25 years 'We 're trying to be a small private school with excellence.' as a Catholic, this August marks h!s 25th wedding anni- versjll"y, which the couple celebrated with a vacation in Switzerland this summer. More than a small part of the success story of Hughes and the university can undoubtedly be attributed to Mrs. Hughes, herself a part-time MBA student at USD who sees the presidency as a ·•couple commitment. In fact, it might even be a family commitment if you look at it that way," she said, notmg that their oldest son, Gregory, 24, 1& a USD graduate and the second-oldest boy, 21-year-old Timothy, is in his seruor year there. There are two other children, John. 16, and Susan, 12. Although there have been other offers during AutMr Hughes' stay In San Diego (mctuding one to head a med um-sized university m the Southwest), it doesn't appear that the family is headed anywhere else soon. "There's still a lot to be done," says Marge Hughes, "a lot." .

tening blue dome of the lmmaculata as her landmark to gu de her and the children home while dnving around San Diego but found that others didn't even know there was a college camp around the church. "You'd say USD and they'd say, 'Oh yes, UCSD' . . . or refer to the state college (SDSU l," she said. "Even now we have to make that correction ..." USD still has a relatively low profile but has gained exposure through Hughes' many community involve- ments. Among other volunteer tasks. he has served as a director of the San Diego Tra11S1t Co been appointed by 'JVhat we 're trying to do . . . is to build a community . . . . ' Mayor Pete Wilson and other city officials to chair three blue-ribbon citizen's panels that studied energy, water and mass transit, and served as a vice president and director of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce. Home Federal's Fletcher says he knows people who have come from as far away as M1ssoun and Utah to at- \end USD's law and business schools. "It is not Just a local umverslty anymore, 1t s really a regional univ'er- slty ," he maintained But USO student leaders are concerned lest, with all the expanS1on plans ahead, the current student popula- uon be "shortchanged for a future generation." Student body President Vincent Guilin said students must still pay for speed reading courses and other services he feels should be provided free He feels Hughes has generally been responsive to students and faculty, pointing to the speed with which the USD president met with people who objected to the selection of Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger as the speaker and honorary degree recipient at gradua- tion ceremonies last June Weinberger spoke as sched- uled. ,, Hold Same View• Hughes will soon meet with student government leaders to d15cuss the university s long-range develop- ment plan$, Guihn said, and the group Is hoping to con- vince him to support the appointment of a student to the board of trustees Sheldon Krantz, new dean of the law school. said Hughes and his style of leadersh p was a "primary fac- tor" m his decision to resign a professorship at ~ston Universtty's Law School and come here.

Si~ter Mariella B_remner will be honored for 30 years of s~rv1ce .to the Umvers1ty of San Diego al a 4·30 pm hlurgy today in Founders Chapel. A reception wiil foll~; at 5:30_ p.m. on the East Patio. Sister Bremner is leaving San Diego for a new assignment at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Oakwood in Menlo Park. • • •

EVENING TRIBUNE

Sister Mariella Bremner will _be honored for 30 years service to the University of San Diego at a Mass at 4:30 p.m. today at USD's Found- er's Chapel. Sister Mariella formerly a registrar, teach~ er, alumnae director and assistant director of Con- stituent Relations at USO has been reassigned to th~ Convent of the Sacred Heart in Menlo Park.

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_At ~he University of San Diego s School of Business Administration, Joan Brownell Anderson has been named assistant pro- fessor of economics; David N. B~rt has been appointed associate professor of mar- keting; Wayne A. Label has been named associate pro- fessor, and David Light has been appointed an assistant professor.

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