News Scrapbooks 1977-1979

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Sunday, February 26, 1978

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for individual lectures ($2 for students). "Parnell" with Clark Gable, "The Informer" with Victor McLaglen and "Shake Hands with the Devil" with James Cagney, will accompany three of the lectures. Two documentaries will accompany the first lecture, "Making of a British Colony, 1800-1870." Irish senator Augustine Martin will be guest lecturer for the third lecture on March 14. He is a professor of Anglo-Irish literature and an expert on Yeats. Colburn said the programs are designed for the general public in order to answer the question of the '70s, "How did Ireland get into this mess?" He said the series will deal more with the past than with the present. "There is a definite historical parade of events that will shed light on why there's still lingering hostility in Ireland. "A lot of Americans have romanticized Ireland because of Hollywood, Tin Pan Alley songs and because of the unrequited love of those who've left school it. We're trying for a more realistic view." iational Colburn said Ireland has been artificially kept t%u~: backward. "It doesn't want to be 'quaint' today." , to Cal Rafferty said that although the scheduled >o. The Hollywood films are entertaining, they are turning basically accurate. Walker, Because seating is limited to 150, he suggested 6 guard reservations. "These films on their own will make tionany film buffs happy. The cagney is a classic." ir Phil Rafferty also reminded that USD is more ac- cessible than some campuses and parking is free. That should even attract a few of those penny- pinching Scots - like me. ·h, the l Stall' ,ne the tave a rso in :e, but beaten ;on, 74-

Just me and two handsome Irishmen with two neatly trimmed beards and one neatly turned brogue. I was set for a rousing good time. To convince them of my slender Irish con- nection, I mentioned that I had an uncle named .James and a cousin named Joyce. T.hen, I jumped the gun and told them my grandmother's name - l faud. I quoted a bit from "Ode on a Grecian Urn" maybe that wasn't Yeats). I offered my recipe for 'Irish coffee with Kahlua. Finally, in desperation, I 'said, "Viva Parnell!" That did make them blink, but these two Irish impostors (after all, anyone knows Irishmen are boisterous, lovable drunkards who laugh, cry, sing tenor and spout poetry with equal fervor) remained pleasant, but reserved. Malachi (Mal) Rafferty and George Colburn explained calmly that they've put together a special course which is designed to clear up a few misconceptions about the Irish and their history. Colburn, who has a PhD in modern British history, said, "I had no sense of Irish history until I studied it in graduate school. Most people growing up in Irish families in America have little knowledge of Ireland." Rafferty, a La Jollan by way of Ireland, is director of USD's Conference Center. He and Colburn, director of courses by newspaper at UCSD, have arranged a series of six films and lectures which Rafferty calls, "a fun approach to Irish history; not a serious investigation." "The Quest for Freedom: Ireland Since 1800" series begins Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in USD's Salomon Lecture Hall. The fee for all is $20 or $4

The Shimada station on the Tokaido Road by artist Hiroshige. Hiroshige Prints On Exhibit

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cut blo lelji pcnod - 1868-1912.) All the prints are quite ·mall, measuring pproximately 4x6 inches and are bout the size of mode~n-day jumbo picture post cards. Within that small spal-e, Hiroshige skillful!)! and aesthically re-created the pilgrimages, com- merce and beauty round everywhere along the road. Viewers will find at nature pre- dominates, that men carried beayy loads on their back·, and that only the privileged few rode horseback or were carried on the backs of other men. Teah uses fish rmen, ferries, rastles, foot brld e shrines, c us rs ho d or es of trav er,; I on ry roles to Japan' akes, bays, pine and cl Hlrto hlg sands of p1ct landscapes of d ap , r's ar: He died during the great cholera epi- demic of 1858, and his tombstone bears in part, the following inscrip- tion written by a pupil: "He did not seek other teachers, being ambitious to found an Independent school. He therefore studied nature itself, sketched il, scaled numerous moun- tains and desc nded Into many val- leys. It is thus that he founded the free school for landscape true to nature." ThJS exhibit10n is not a monumen- tal or epic producl1Gn, but does prove that while mortal life is short, the life of good art is ageless. The Founder ' Gallery, University of San Diego, 1s open from 10 a.m: to 4 p.m. weekdays only. This exhibi- tion will end March 3. during th many of them o1e aspects of the great ma. :vers o er

b m lhe women bcln portrayed prtmanly as courtesans, waitresses and singing girl Artists wP,re engaged lo illus- trat romantic novelette and pic- ture book . The landscape was disre- garded entirely. bemg thought of as merely background Hlroshige changed all that: He highllghted nature, uslflg people as minor char- acters or accessories as 1t were. Thi! was so "shocking," that his pr omlnent contemporaries gave the painter a wide berth as a revolution- ary and rebel' On this, Hiroshige' fir t journey, h rav led some 320 m:les, opplng t 53 station . at each of wruch ,ere fresh t orses, accommodations r r the n,ght, ath , refreshm ts, and companion hlp. In a ser..se, traveling on the To a1- do wa~ much like traveling Int r- ·tate 5 - it was a microcosm of Japane e life then, as califomia freeways are to life in our state now: The nch and poor, high and low, priests and pilgrims, merchants and customers, soldiers and sailors, inn- keepers and guests, natives and tourists - everyone was on the road. When Hiroshige returned, Tak- enouch1 Magohachi the publisher, commissioned a set of designs for the ••53 Post Stations of the Tokai- do " These were successful with both the Japanese, as well as with foreign visitors. The 53 stations exhibited at the f'ounders' Gallery are early pnnts, the color· are bnght, the Imes sharp. (Fine early impre ions are ~are, but bad late ones are comparatively plentiful, for copies continued to be ·truck off till the blocks were almost worn out, and the Ute was re ued several times from newly o th) of portrayal;

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Marge Hughes, wife of the presroe~i _ur me Umv~rsity of San Diego, has that porcelain, patnc1an look which 15, n1; course, entirely unsuitable for any activity more .renuous than pouring at a faculty te:i. So much for ks. Marge aITi ed at the dinner given )Jy the National onference of Christians and Jews the other night not ven wmded after completing 29 laps around the track in ne univers1ty's Jog-a-thon. (Her astonished sponsors in he USD fund-raiser included - at $10 a la,U- Audrey ~eisel. ) '"<.. ---

'WOMEN OF DEDICATION'

Dozen Honored For Community Work--------------- A dozen '\\om of Dedication"

lary Glen Phalen, who has served on many of the maJor cultur- al boards here in addition to writing skits for several philanthropic events, including Madcaps fashion shows and Charity Ball entertain- ment. The wife of Dr. James Phalen, she is the mother of five children. Lynn A. Schenk, an attorney and adjunct professor of law at the Uni- versity of San Diego Law School. One of the originators and directors of the Women's Bank and a White House fellow, she has served on he city's advisory board on the Status of Women and the state attorney general's Women's Rights Task Force. La Wanda Sievert, who has done volunteer work with the Girl Scouts, Children's Hospital and Health Cen- ter, Madcaps, the Symphony Or- chestra and other organizations. She serves on several local boards and does volunteer work at the Child Guidance Clinic. Lou Smith, a goller who helped develop golfing events for junior gollers through the Junior Goll Asso- ciation which she serves as secre- tary-treasurer. She also i. treasurer of the Century Club and secretary of the Southern Section of thP Southern California Golf Association. Hazel Tow, society editor of the Evening Tribune, who has given of her own time in promoting and at- tending various community endeav- ors. She also is Involved in profes- sional journalistic societies and is a past president of Women in Commu- nication Inc. Joan C. Warren, who is complet-

Adm. James Robert Davis, retired, she is involved in \\Tiling for chil- dren Sister Sally I. Furay, provost of the University of San Diego, who entered the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1944. A graduate of Stanford University and the University of San Diego's School of Law, she works as a volunteer in parole programs with the San Diego County Bar Associa- tion and the California Youth Au- thority and as a volunteer supervisor with the Women's Legal Center. Sara Goodrich, a member of a number of volunteer organizations, including the Council of Jewish Women, Makua, a home adoption center for children, and the advisory board of the National Conference of Christians and Jews and its scholar- :;htp fund. She is president of Good- rich on Main Inc , a corporation of surplus stores. Qulncella ickerson Kimbrough, founder of Las :'.iunecas Society, which ls an agency to promote adop- tion of black children under auspi- lces of Children's Home Society. She also serves as a member of more than a dozen volunteer organiza- t10ns, mcluding several sister city societies With her husband, Dr. Jack Kimbrough, she collects and lectures on African art. Priscilla Llcbly xley, who, as wife of Dr. John H. Moxley, dean of the UCSD School of Medicine, start- ed a faculty wives group at the university and served as its chair- woman. She does volunteer work with the Junior League, San Diego Symphony and several other organ- 11.ations.

y, er honored for their individual community service at a luncheon ye:.terday at Hotel del Coronado ponsored by the Salvation Army Women's Auxiliary to the Door of Hope. Rece1V1ng silver platters and the congratulation of the 600 women and quite a few men attending, the honoree y,ere presented at the 13th annual such event, according to lunch on chaJl'Vioman Sally Jones. As each woman "'as escorted to a stage flanked th white chrysan- themum , In a room filled with red- clothed table decorated wllh fems, a photograph of her, theater-size, formed a backdrop. In past years, th remony honored "women of eleganc ," bl!t the word '·dedica- t10n" more accurately expresses the reason they ar bemg honored, ac- cording to Jon s. Th luncheon bene- fltted th Door of Hope home operat- ed by the Salvation Army Honor d were: Dr. Bernice G. Davidson, presi- dent-el ct of the medical staff of Children· Ho pita! and Health Cen- ter, who rve a medical staff pediatrician at thf' Door of Hope horn . Agraduate of the University of Oregon .,tedical School at Port- land, h is the wife of Dr. Doug Davidson She ts especially interest- d 1n preventative medicine for Infant , children and adolescents. Heleu McLaughlin Davi , wtio rv as a volunteer on the boards of more than a dozen local organl7.a- tlons, including Goodwill Industrle , tarllght Wo en's ociation and t. Committee of . Wife of Rear

Three of the dozen "Women of. Dcdicacion" honored by che Salv:ition Army Women's AW(ili:uy to the Door of Hope pause outside Hord dd Coronado where ceremonies were held yesterday. From lef.r are Sis- ter Sally Furay, provost of the Univers1ty of San Diego; Mary Glen Phalen, author of several Children's Hospital and Health Cencer shows, and Lynn Schenk, an attor- ney and one of the o.rigin:i- tors of che Women's Bank.

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Center's board of trustees and foun- dalion board. She serves as record- mg secret\ry for the Rancho Santa

ing a two-year term as president of Country Friends and is a member of Children's Hospital and Health

Fe Opera Guild and on the San Diego , Symphony Orchestra Assoc(- atlon's board of directors.