School of Nursing Scrapbook 1979

WHISPERING -p ALMS SITE OF CLASSIC ~-z_. 10 , 1fo $165,000 LPGA tourneyslated

senting the LPGA. Kathryn Crosby, whose husband Bing founded the famed Clambake at Rancho Santa Fe and subsequent– ly moved it to Pebble Beach, will serve as. the honorary chairman. A registered nurse, Mrs. Crosby said the beneficiary of the tourna– ment proceeds will be the Philip Y. Hahn School of Nursing at USD. School officials said the monies real– ized will be directed to the scholar– ship fund. The purse will be more than four times greater than for any previous women's tournament played in the San Diego area. Alcott said she first heard of the tournament when she returned from a tour of the Far East for three LPGA events, oneDf which she won. "I was very excited about it - I especially since I am a Southern · Californian (from Santa Monica) and have a soft spot in my heart for everything about the area. "But the main thing is that the LPGA has made great strides in the two years I've been on the tour. Ray Volpe (LPGA commissioner) has taken hold of the tour and has it going in the right direction. "He wants to change it from a second pedestal to the men's tour to a place of its own - a focal place in sports." (Cont. on page u-2, cot,. ti) ----

Country Club will be just that - the third richest event on the 1977 LPGA tour schedule. Announcement of the tournament was made yesterday at Whispering Palms with Alcott, one of the tour's rising young stars, and Susan O'Conner Downer of La Jolla repre-

By BOB ANGUS Amy Alcott called it "a fabulous tournament and a feathe~ in the hat of the Ladies Professional Goll Assn." And the $165,000 Kat_hryn Crosby Honda Civic Golf Classic, scheduled March 23 _27 at Whispering Palms

The Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic will enable Mira Mesa resident Wanda Callies and others like her to continue her nursing education at the University of San Diego's Philip Y. Hahn School of Nursing, and still have 1 time to spend with her daughter, Susan. All proceeds from the ,six-day event, : which begins Tuesday, March 22 at Wlilispering Palms Country Club in Rancho : Santa Fe, will benefit the scholarship fund at the USD nursing school. For 1 further information, phone 291-6480. I