News Scrapbook 1980-1981

SAN DIEGO UNION

"7 '98t SAN DIEGO BUSINESS JOURNAL

•t. Zti - "Mothers and Children," pictures by pioneer phot?- grapher Edward S. Curlis from the University of San Diego collection depicting lifestyles of Western Indian • tribes. F~under's Gallery, USD Campus, weekdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday to 9 p.m. Free.

EDUCATION

Appointments of new faculty to the University of San Diego School of Busines~ have been announced for the 1981-82 academic yca1. 'The appointments include : .JOAN BROWNELL ANDfRS0:-1, assistant professor m marketing; DAVID N . BURT, associate professor m market- ing; WAYNE A. LABEL, associate professor. DAVID LIGHT, assistant professor; DIRK YANDFI.L, assistant professor of economics. Also joining the school are three visiting faculty members . .JOHANNA HUNSAKER. visiting assistant professor in organi1alional behavior; EVAN DOUGLAS, visiting professor in economics; and JERRY W. FER RY, visiting assistant professor in accounting.

A Wednesday class on modem stained-~lass construe• lion techniques will be offered br the mvers1ty of San Diego from Sept. 23 lhrough ov 11 Instructor _Bill Hall will held the class from 7 to9;'30 p.m. in Cammo Hall, Room 139. The class is sponsored by USD's School of Continuing Educa::t:;io:::n::...____________

EVENING TRIBUNE

USD bolstered by recruits Toreros bank on offense; can defense catch up?

Artis R ch r B 2 San Diego Arti st Exhib·t a L.A. Gal ery' Special Show

By Jerry Froide Tribune Sportswriter

of receivers. Split ends Mike Rush and Ron Guzman and tight end Mike Ledbetter combined for 59 recep- tions last fall. John Amarilla, a 6-6, 240-pounder who started as a freshman, and jun- ior Craig Beaver (5-11, 205) are the big men up front. The top offensive line prospect is Jeff Whitey (6-2, 250), a transfer from Scottsdale JC in Ari- zona. The kicking game has also been ( strengthened with the arrival of Mark Hales (Orange Coast JC) and Nevada freshman Bobby Lozzi. Williams will look to free safety Dan Herbert, who he regards as a small college All-Amerii;a candidate, to provide leadership for a young and inexperienced defense. Herbert is joined by three other re• turning starters in the defensive backfield, but there are plenty of holes to fill elsewhere. New players will be called on to assume starting roles at the tackle and linebacker po- sitions. The Toreros will also have the ad- vantage of playing six of the 10 games on their 1981 schedule at home, starting with their season opener Sept. 12 against Redlands.

Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, North Caro- lina, Tennessee, Nevada, Arizona and Alaska. "We have improved offensively," said the 31-year-old Williams, who has compiled a 24-24 record since taking over the USO helm prior to the 1976 season. "We have six returning starters, plus a good recruiting year that has bolstered the offensive line, added depth at wide receiver and running back and the quarterback position." Once again, USO will be led on of- fense by running back Joe Henry, who rushed for 650 yards a year ago and needs a similar effort (622 yards to be exa~t) this season to become the Toreros' all-time leading ball carrier. While the 5-7, 185-pound senior fig- ures to be the big ground threat, Wil- liams will look to returning quarter- back Steve Loomis and some new- comers to key the air game. Loomis, who started four games last season and bad a 50 percent completion average, will battle Tracy Gallagher, a transfer from An· telope Valley JC, and four others for the starting quarterback job. Whoever becomes the No. I signal caller, he will have a veteran corps

In recent years, University of San Diego's football team has taken a back seat to the school's basketball club. While Bill Williams' gridders con- tinue to play a small school (Division III) schedule, the basketball team has achieved major school (Division I) status in the NCAA scheme of things. But with a young, dynamic coach such as Williams around, many peo- ple believe it will be only a matter of time before the gap between football and basketall is narrowed at the Catholic school. The USO football program is defi- nitely on the upswing. It's still a far cry from bemg the Notre Dame of the West, but Williams is laying the groundwork for bigger and better things. Coming off a winning season (6-5), the Toreros have enjoyed a good re- cruiting year. This is reflected in.the national flavor of their recruits, which include 25 junior college trans- fers and 30 freshmen. Added to the 30 returning letter- men, there will be new players from New York, Florida, Pennsylvania,

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y ELISE MILLER "Newcomers 1981," an exhibit at the Mun1c1pal Art Gallery m Los Ang les, will mclude two San Diego • 1sts this year. Th exhibit focuses on the work of 15 Caltforma artists who have never had solo shows in the Lo Angel s area, gallery dir tor Josine lanco-Starrel I ned. The two n Diegans, Richard Baker and Deloss McGraw, are not exactly freshmen in the world of art. cCraw has been an oci pro of painting at University of an Diego for SllC years: a solo exhibition cit his ork will open at Artspace Gallery In Los Angeles and run Bimultaneo ly with the Muni show. Baker has been te ch1ng painting, drawing and de- ign at n Diego State University since 1978 and was chosen by curator Barbara Haskell as the only San Die o artist in an exhibit last January at the Los An- geles Institute of Contempor ry Art. Despite thm experience, being included in the "New- comers 1981" exhibit represents an opportunity for each artlSt Starrels xp amed that the artists chosen were famil- iar to her, and had their !ides on file at the Mum's slide reg1 try, before she selected their work for the show. "Ne com not an annual event," Starrels said. "If I d ·t fin anything exc1tmg, I'll wait another year. Then I y do it several years in a row." Starrels fU'st became acquainted with McGraw's col- lection of contemporary American folk sculpture two Y ars ago, hen went to see his watercolor and ink paintings at the Space Gallery In Los Angeles this nng cCraw received his Master of Fine Arts from Cran- brook Academy of Art In Michigan, where he began col- lecting folk art. His collection continued to grow while in graduate school in Los Angeles, and now includes me works by Edgar Tolson of Kentucky and Elijah Pierce of Oh o. Increased Vtalhlllty McGraw's collection has increased his visibility on the USO campus and in Los Angeles where he has helped organize folk art exhibits. It has also influenced h1 own painting style In recent years. "I was interested in folk art, but it didn't touch my own artwork," McGraw said of past years, standing in hJS USO studio in what used to~ a pink-tiled campus bathroom.

JOE HENRY Running for a record

llELANIE KAESTNER Los Angeles Timft University of San Diego teacher and artist Deloss McGraw's works also will be exhibited at gallery. House." McGraw cites his interest in houses and win- dows 811 an outgrowh of his concern over hou~de forces that cause problems in the home - economic and otherwise. "I am .mterested in the way people live out their Jiy .. McGraw believes Starrels liked his work because of the thought that lies behind il "I'm hot JUSt ripping off what's going on in art today," he wd. "I have a very specific mental idea that comes out in the form of a pic- ture." Form and Co tent In two works from "Beauty and the Beast," McGraw sees a relationship, not a direct equivalence, between form and content. Pleue see SPECIAL, Page 9 I

SPEC A : 2 San Diego Artists Chosen Ct • flDDei from 8th Pare comers sho

, drawn lines run across shape and field, creating a third visual level. The format is also less stiffly squared than in earlier works. "I'm becoming aware of how contrast helps the paint- ing," Baker says. "Line sets up a crisp kind of interac- tion." The immense paintings loom over the viewer, parts of them appearing to reach out off the canvas, other parts actually extending beyond the frame. "I like the physicality of large size," Baker says. "Not that bigger is better, but I wanted to make something forceful, and the size adds to force." The exhibit runs through Sept. 30 at the Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles' Barnsdall Park.

"I liked this tale because it's a reversal of (Franz) .Kaflt~'s 'Metamorphosis,' " McGraw explained. "Beauty seee the good in man despite the beast. In Kafka, the family can't deal with the uglines ." lfow does McGraw feel about being In the Newcom- ers exhibit? "I'm more of a late bloomer," he said with a laugh. "I just do my work to make my own statement. The suc- ce or failure of this show won't change my art. It's very personal work." UnUke McGraw, Baker's art is built upon the founda- tionof complex philosophical beliefs. His art, like his studio home, reveals the l!Ubtle touch of influence from his contact with Japanese culture. He and his wife, artist Yoshiko Kanai Baker, spent years traveling and working in Japan. In Baker's large paintings, abstract shapes are juxta- posed to an abstract field or extend beyond its rectangu- lar frame. Shapes are solid or patterned, muted or vivu:ij,y colored, suggestive of objects or vaguely geo- metrtc. The artists calls the background a "field of energy,'' and equates it with a human core of awareness. The shapes are "responses to events" that intrude upon that awareness. 'This sense of awareness of core is ideally a neutral, calm field," Baker said. "It gets disturbed by experi- ences. hapes come on as a response to events t!\at dis- turb the background. S ape of Event& "Some shapes relate to very specific events," Baker continues, using one work on his wall as an example. "Some are more a chance approach; some are drawn from a pool of shapes I have laying around the house." In Baker's most recent work-; on view in the New-

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