News Scrapbooks 1977-1979

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/ Burl Stiff Fun, Even Without Travolta They made a nametag for John Travolta Just in case. The rascal didn't show up - hadn't, In fact, been in- vited - but ''Disco D1men- s10ns" Friday night in USD's Serra Hall was a fine ·and feverish party all the the presiding deejay Colleen Yancey and Mari- lyn Pavel were in charge of party-planning for the Uni- versity auxiliary. Dynamite on the dance floor were couples llke Don Benjamin called the turns, and Jim olan was

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Al I.Jllian Olney, Social Service League of La Jolla; Susan Davis, League of Women Voters; Barbara Halverstadt, Women's Committee of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra Asso- ciation; Gayle Graham, Junior League; Vicki Fraser, Las Patronas. To be continued ...

merous - but so deserving - that the list will appear here in two installm nts) are: Sandy r .1ndel, Globe Guilders; Mary Jane Thompson. Villagers; Mari- lyn Regalado, The Covey; Alice Richards and her daughter, Lisa del ·ero, Women's Committee of Grossmont Community Concert Association, Alice Coyne, Door of Hope; Vada Holsinger, La Jolla New- comers; Rita Neeper, San Diego Bar Association, Barbara Mears, Women's •lr Committee or the San Diego :;J Ballet; Ann iBurt:e, Juniors of the Social Service Auxili- ary. Others are Kathy Kave- ney, National Charity League; Beverly Thomas, CPA Auxiliary; Judy Comi- to, Committee for Multiple Sclerosis, uth Mulvaney, Umverslty or San Diego Auxiliary, Bonnie Lloyd, P Youth for Christ; Betty Manning, en's Auxili- ..,

(Continued rrom Page D-1) La Jolla's Mandarin Hou Is the site of the March 8 party, and "China· Yesterday and Today" Is the theme. Elaborate Chine robes from the collcctlon or an Aura member will be mod led, and Kay Porter has been asked to report on a recent tour of Mainland China. •artoo Bradley, Barbarf Porter, G)adys Howse, Patty Bolinger and Jean torey ar ln charge. Forty presidents (or their

representaliv ) will share lhe spotllght March 29 m the annual "Spirit of San Diego" fashion luncheon staged by lhe All Hallows Women's Guild of La Jolla. Civic, cultural and philan- thropic organizations in San Diego will be recognized. Mary O'Rourke is chair• woman of the Vacation Vil- lage event, and Guild presi- dent Barbara Duncan will join Lilo Miller of Saks 1''1fth Avenue in saluting the 40 women and describing thelr clothes. The guest models (so nu- •

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. Altho~gh ,lfnivC'rsity of Carol and Jim Smathers, San Diego s ba ketball Ruth and Jim Mulvaney, team has beatPn Point Maureen and Charles King Loma College five straight and Val and Jack Frager. limes, Torero Coach Jim Singing the praises of Art Brovell1 expects a "real Bolic's buffet were par- sh?Otout" tonight when the tygoers Judy and Dr. John quintets clash at 8 at USD. Comito Tonme and Jim "They have some fine Moss Beth and Jack Sen- hooters " BrovellJ aid neff ' Gloria and Charles "and they will be gomg aii Mel~e. Phyllis and Todd out to end the lo Ing streak Ghio, Nancy and Earyle against us. It was so close Woodard the Ed Streich- last season that w won by ers, Migg and Jack Boyce, only two points " the Jim Kassners, Doris Every game 1s crur.ial to and Peter Hugh~. Sister the Toreros because thEy Virginia c.'\fonagle, and are aiming for a berth in Sara and Tom Finn. the , al!on~I ~olleg1ate Ath (Sara was just off the !:tic Association Division II plane from a world COil· western rcgwnal playoffs gress of Catholir women's for the second straight organl2:ations In Bangalore, ear 1be•· .are 16-5 with India - still copmg with jet four games remalmng afler lag. "And my disco dress is tonight at the cleaner's . . ") Hopmg to go ove~ the 400 Party fare included ,crab, mark m~ormg to1!1ght will shrimp and baby octopus, h;. the Grusaders Barrie caviar, smoked salmon, EU10tt, who has hlt for 392 steak tartare, hemng in points. Bob Bartholomew sour cream and those spe- top~ the Toreros with 318. cial burrito~ _ 14 vegeta- t;CSD ~nd US. Interna- bles cooiblned wlth shred- tlonal Umvers1ty will be on ded sirloin and cheese. the road for gan:es tonight, Disco patrons Cindy Mills UCSD at RiVerSJdc against h . Cal Baptist and USIU at and Sue B.~yea, co-c au;: Bakersfield Stat · ./" women of_ Swing-In 1979, e. L

ary to the Salle Institute; axlne Rohrbaugh, San Diego Im I Council of Girl Seo ts; Juanita ;,~;:_,-~~,.!)4!,=:H;ft--\lrhil":'l:lmf~~~a---wel- ~r,:;a fare Leagi;e; Carol Rubel,

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Toreros' t le of woe: Case of missing games By ICK CA, 'EPA

were remmdmg everybody that the annual tennis tour- nament JS coming up May 19 and 20. It's a big moneymaker lnr cerebral palsy. Cashew chicken, Mongoli- an beef and swee -and-sour pork are on the m " ,,..r the annual spring luncheon or Aura, the Women's AUXI- iiary to the County Epilepsy Society. (Continued OD D-Z, Col. n • • •

next year, it has to drop us completely from its schedule to reach 85 percent." What partJcularly gripes Brovell1 Is the CAA changing everything in mid- "You would think they would ha\e made 1t effective for thr 1979-1980 season " he I= - sa1a "]';ot at this lime whC'n most ~f the season already has been played. It's an incredible thing and it's unfortunate for us "Especially after last week. We go up to Riverside and the gym 1s packed. We warm up and the buzzer sounds to start the game. Then we fmd there are no officials to be found." The Toreros, with a 17~ record, have one game remaining. They entertain Sono- ma State Friday mght. USD 1s favored and the coach hopes an 18-6 record will be enough to reach the 'CAA Division II playoffs. "I would think 18-6 Is enough to get us in," Brovelli said. "We've comr so far this season. We just want to make the playoffs. The way lhmgs are gomg, we may have a chance to get there with an 0-0 record. "Anyway, we should kMw by Sunday whether or not we made it." With any luck, that playoff reservation is one the NCAA won't cancel schedule • i}

Jim Brovelli believes that Jf th coll g ba ketball polls ranked cancellations, team would b No. 1. Th Umvers1ty of ·an D1 go coach have a point lhcre v.eek ago, Rrov 1 's team traveled to UC-River 1de for a game, only o have It canceled becnu • no cffi- clals , re n ha!'ld Th n yest rday, h recened a call from Alabama-Blnnln°h~m Coach Gene B r- tow and wa to d Alabama would have to bow out of to ght' game at USD bera4se of a allonal Collegiate Athletic Associa- tion t hnicallty "The thing to do Is not play any games," laughed Bro\ Ill. "That way, we ould go to the CA playoffs unbeaten. It's I e havmg two ti this eason In hockey, y u get po for ti I wonder If we can? ' Th problem stem from the fact Uiat Uabama-Blrmlngham is in 1t. fir. t yejlr a a DIVision I school Prior to this year, to be in Division I, at lea t 75 percent f schedul had to be made up of Div1sioll,I tearru. "Well In January, the NCAA d cided ~o move that number up to 85 percent. eff - live right away Alabama-Birmingham, w1th us on the schedule, was at 84 percent. But we're m Divtsion II, so if Alabama- Blrmmgham wants to remain in Division I

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wayr im Brovelh, the USD basketball coach by O a ~ymg career at USF, has a trivia question, What He1sman Trophy-winning football P.layer who s~lre~ m basketball once pitched a doubleheader for hlS egiate team and won both games, one eft-handed and •pl m_e.

e other nght-handed? Answer later.

- Staff Phot05 bY Tld Winfield Woodard, Ruth Mufviney, Jim Mulva- n , Val Frager d Chirles King, Jim and ~rol mathers mdMiureen King and lack Frase!·

"Disco Dimensions" was a fine d t verish party by Marilyn Pavel and, at up er left, Colleen Yancey; other ,uests, clodwise, included Nancy

USD'S BROVELLI HAS BIG PLANS

Invitation. The runner-up in the CCAA and the , inner or ; ,, the Far West Conference will also be considered, along with independents like ourselves." How tough is it to gain a playoff berth? "Two years ago, I had a team that was 20-6 and we didn't get m," said Brovelli. "And remember, our athletic director, Tom Burke, can't vote for us." · Brovelli says independent schools may become a thing of the past in the coming seasons. The University of San Diego will be among them. The Toreros have been admitted to the West Coast Ath- letic Conference for the 1979-80 season. The school will compete in a major basketball conference and play alJ Gf its home games at the San Diego Sports Arena. Brovel Ii is excited, but at the same time he's trying not lo look too far down the road. USD still has another year as an independent, and there's nothing Brovelli would like more than winning another regional title with a starting unit composed entirety of underclassmen. "I'm being realistic about the step up," he said, "We're taking one step at a time." The first lime was to upgrade next year's schedule. Un- der NCAA rules, the Toreros must play 85% of their games next year against Division I opponents. Brovelli has already scheduled San Diego State, Pacific, Northern Ari- zona, Air Force and North Texas State, along with 6 WCACgames. "We have some buildin~ to do, not only on the court, but throughout the program,' he said. "First, we have to build tradition. The school is relatively young with few active alums. Second, we have to build rivalries. "We re-established our game against San Diego State. I'd also like to see a rivalry build with one of the confer- ence members, Every team in the conference is a Catholic school and there's nothir.g like a rivalry between two Catholic schools." , Brovelli will also step Ull recruiting. He's getting an assista t coach for next-season and the number of scholar- shir,s will be raised from 10 to 15 for the 1979-80 year. ' We will go after the top San Diego prep players in hopes to build interest and boost the program," he added. "I think it's important to recruit local players." Jim Brovelli obviously is a man with visions of big-time basketball for tiny University of San Diego.

Continued from First Page Lately, the Toreros have·been having problems getting .games, period. On Tuesday night, they took a tW>-hour bus trip to UC Riverside, but the game was cancelel when the referees never showed up. • "In my years of coaching, I've never seen anythtig like it," Brovelli said. "The gym was full, the band was ~aying, they even had a radio station broadcasting the gane. And then halfway through our warmup drills they told us the gaJM was canceled. "Beheve it or not, no one was ever assigned the g1me." Just a minor problem for Brovelli. He's had tougher .....,...,..______ times just trying to get players. "It has been difficult to get good players here in thepast." he said. "I do my homework and try to get the sleepers. I've never had an assistant so I rely on contacts in the Bay area and junior college

Spanish style. The school has a small enrollment or 4,000 students, with academic emphasis on law, business and nursing. Brovelli managed to recruit three San Diego prep stars -Joe Evans (6-9, center), Don Capener (6-5, fonvard) and Rusty Whitmarsh (6-3, guard). Evans is starting on a relatively young team. Sophomores Mike Stockalper and Bob Bartholomew are the only returners from last year's starting unit. Brovelli lost seven senior~ and expected a rebuilding season. ·•1 said in the beginning of the year we could jell in two weeks or maybe three months," he said. "The turning point fortunately came in December " Brovelli said the Toreros "came together" after a 67-66 win at Southeast Louisiana USD trailed by 18 points at one time during the game but rallied t.o win. Bartholomew leads the team in scoring with a 14.0 aver- age and also averages eight rebounds. Russell Jackson, a 6-5 junior college transfer from Oxnard College, is averag• ing 13 points and six rebounds. As a team, the Toreros are averaging 75 points a game In their pattern-oriented offense and allowing opponents 66 points a game with primarily a man-to-man defense. "We have basically a brand new group of players who have improved mdividually and collectively through the course of the season." Brovelli said. "I try to preach that success can only be attained by playing as a unit." One of the biggest influences on Brovelli's coaching techniques is former Cal coach Pete Newell. Like Newell, Brovelli believes there is no player bigger than the system and the players flt into the system or they don't play. "I've never met a man with as much knowledge about the game of basketball as Pete Newell has," he said. Brovelli also uses many or the thmgs he learned as a play- er at USF. . He was the starting point guard at USF in 1963 and 19U' when the Dons won the WCAC and advanced to the CAA Western Regionals. He teamed in the backcourt with Joe Ellis and said his role on the team was to feed scorers Erwin Mueller and Ollie Johnson. And he was pretty successful at that. too. The Dons were eliminated from the regionals His jumor year by Oregon State, which featured 7-foot center Mel Counts. The next season, USF defeated Utah State in the first round and then lost to UCLA in the finals, 76-72. "We had the Bruins down by 14 points and lost," be said. "It was UCLA's first national team that went 30-0. They had Gail Goodrich, Walt Hazzard and Keith Erickson on the team. It was a great team." While Brovelli talks, the term "team" keeps recurring in the conversation. He cited another example of a player who came to USD, learned his system of play and helped the Toreros gain a playoff berth. "I had a guard last year named Ron Cole, who was the' best shooting guard I ever had," he said. "He probably could have scored 30 points a game if I turned him loose. But it took until his senior year to convince him to play in the system or he wasn't going to play at all. ''Ron came on last year and led us to the regional cham- pionship. We went all the way to the quarterfinals at the national tournament in Orlando, Fla. before losing. And It took a great team effort to do It." Brovelli's team this year bas come on strong, but anoth- er playoff berth is still uncertain. A five-man committee composed of athletic directors at USD. San Francisco State, Cal State, Hayward, Cal State Bakersfield and Puget Sound will select four teams to play on F . 5. "The committee members revl w possible playoff en- trants every Monday morning through a phone hookup " said Brovelh. "The CCAA champion has an automatic berth. Puget Sound will win 20 games and probably get an,

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Brovelli says there have been some fine players on the Division II le\'el, citing former Torero stars Buzz Harnett, Stan Washington and Ron Cole as examples.

SA DIEGO-There are some un- certainli m he hfe of Unive ity or San Diego he d bas etball coach Jim Brovclh that don't make things easier forh1m For one, the six-year veteran does- n't have an a tanl coach and ad- JTl Is h gamble$ on many of his re- cnnts, hopmg ey will develop mto compe nt college pl y For another, the Umversity or San Di go compel on lhe Div n II lev I, which n~ even 1f Brovclli does fmd the elUSJve blue-chipper, the player may not be ntercsted. And hove all. the Toreros are an independent, which means their chances of playing In the CAA D i- mon II playoffs rest In the han of a five-man playoff committee.

USD played such "powerhouses" as Tabor College, Spring Arbor, SL Xa- VJer and Manchester College. And the Toreros play most of their games at home, where a 22-game wmning streak was recently snapped by Point Loma. But USD has played seven Di vision- I opJ)Ollents thlS season, defeating St. Mary's twice and UC Irvme. Still, Brovelli says his team wlll have to win its final three gam~ to gam a tournament b1d. Pl Tum to Page 9, Col, 1

"Buzz Harnett was a skinny, 6-5 forward when I recruited him," he said, "who developed into a 6-8, 220-pourid All- ....__....;..,J Coast player that was even - tually drafted by the Golden 1 State Wamors."

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Brovelli's biggest selling point is the USD campus itself. The school was built in 1949 and IS as beautiful as its set- ting. The Catholic liberal arts campus sits on a m01a over- looking Mission Bay. The architecture IS 17th Century

USD still pursuing playoff bert~ 1 The University of San Diego's basketball team

court. The Joss put USD's record to 16-6 Tomorrow night's contest is one of four re- ma1mng on the Toreros' schedule ii their bid for an NCAA Dh1Sion n westel'll regional pllyoff berth.

\1" artby has been named USD women's varsU1/ -~/

USO Jed by 10 points Sat- urday night with seven min- utes to play, but the Crusad- ers bat I d ack

will be at UC-Riverside to- morrow night to continue its drive for a playoff berth after being upset by Point Loma College 84-80 Satur- day night on the Toreros'

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All In the Room: When USIU and U D mC€t on the football field next Nov. 3, the coaches should be well pre- pared for enemy strategy. Tom Walsh, the new USIU coach, and Bill Williams, the USD coach, were roommates while both were issistants at USO earlier in the 1970s. "That won't make any difference with B!ll," Walsh laughed. "He's always a fanatic for being prepared." They remain close friends, of course, but do not look for them to go trick-or-treating together next Halloween. The old friends will be miles apart that week thinking of new tricks. L. • , • ;., f

"All an md pendent, you hav h vc an excellent record to be cd to the playoffs,'' Brovelb Toreros' chcdulc shows the emphasis to wm. to le<:t- Id. "That' th ttom lme." A q eek or th