News Scrapbook 1984

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 207,415) (Cir. S. 332,920)

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The Sor, lllevo ~/Bc,ry F1lnimmons Al the 7odos Smlos' art show reception at..41J1Ji!:.... lows.Church {left photo) Thereu Whitcomb, left, and Mirtha Longenecker, the curator of the Mingei Muse- um, admire the 1mm.lcu/ate ConceptionJ at right ,re md Dick YOUIW, dwrmen of the exhibmon, which is free and open to the public through April 15.

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Seven Dancers. Doc's Prescriptions will play for danc- ing. Lee Crimmins and Mim Sally are in charge of the black-tie "Night in Venice." There are special benefits for seniors visiting the Assistance League's Blood Pressure Center on a regular basis. For example, 70 of those seniors have been invit- ed to enjoy a harbor cruise Tuesday morning, followed by luncheon at League House. Any semors wishing to have their blood pressure checked may go to League House, 2738 Upas St., from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. any Wednesday. Agatha Christie's play, "The Mousetrap" is the big attraction for today's fund-raiser of San Diego Women's Council of the Navy League. It will begin at 11 a.m. with social hour and brunch at Fiesta Dinner Theater. Chair- woman Sandy Latham said tickets may be purchased at the door for $15 per person. Then at a brunch April 29 at Admiral Kidd Club, officers will be installed. Ralphine Greaves is the new president; outgoing president is Maria Taggart. More Old Globe openings in view. Globe Guilders will have dinner at McDougAl's Restaurant at 6:15 p.m. Sat- urday, before the curtain of "Strange Snow" opening at 8 p.m. at the Cassius Carter Center Stage. Then "Catsplay" comes to the Old Globe Theater April 19, with a black-tie dinner right next door in the San Diego Museum of Art's Copley Auditorium, again at 6:15 p.m. The message, "Spring Is a New Beginning," hand- lettered in a child's scrawl, together with sunflowers and the sun, is the motif of the invitation to the luncheon fashion show April 24 at The Garden Club, Rancho Santa Fe. It is sponsored by The Child Abuse Prevention Foundation, and the children's fashions will be provided by The Scotts, women's fashions by Sigi's Boutique, both of La Jolla. It will begin with champagne at 11 a.m. Tickets are $50. Starlighters will combine their enjoyment of ball- room dancing with a spring fashion show at 7 p.m. today at Silvergate Masonic Temple. Beryl's of Point Loma will provide the fashions, then after the show, the ball- room dancing will commence. Virginia Stillman and Eleanor Nickel are co-chairwomen. Janie Tahara and Terri D'Acquisto are chairing the "Stars, Stripes and Style" luncheon fashion show May 2 at Loma Santa Fe Country Club, Solana Beach. They are members of the sponsoring Las Proveedoras del Norte, auxiliary to the beneficiary, Children's Home Society.

wh1 h th league hopes will continue coordinating the painting proJect m future years. nd, volunteer are most welcome to sand and paint m 1985 Back in the Bowery ow those who have seen Mark Medoffs "Children of r God" and "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryd r?" may meet and hear from the award-winning playwnght. The Bowery Theater is sponsoring hlS visit .h e r r a th hour worksh / mmar nl 21. Th Bow ry ha staged "Ryder," "The Kramer" and "The Wag r," all by Medoff Recently, San Diego Repertory hedler ~rformed "Children Of ALesser God.") Hi latest work "The Hands of Its Enemy" bas just been premiered at New Meuco State University where he i director·of the Department of Theater Arts. Dur- mg the wor hop, be will comment on the vaned techni- cal hurdles one encounters wb~n writing. producing and ·ng a play. The ion will begm at 11 a.m., and be immediately follow d by a champagne reception This IS a fund- ra1 r for the Bowery, where anyone may call for reser- vation.-;, at $25 pet person. The silver screen The Museum of Photographic Arts will "Celebrate the S1h r Screen" tomorrow with wide-screen viewing of the cademy Award . That will be from 6 to 10:30 p.m with prizes for tho who pick the winners, and Farrell's will provide New York-style deli sandwiches. Re rvation are $20, tickets at the door, $25, with pro- ceeds going to the museum's buildmg fund. But it is back to the silent classics on Friday for the Horton League, that new support group of San Diego HI torical Society. It is a really rea. onable evening ($5 in advance, $7 at the door), to see "Amerlcano," vintage 1915 with Douglas Fairbanks; a 1915 short with Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand visiting the Balboa Park Exposition; "Pearls of Parad1Se"; plus filmed 1898 street scenes of San Diego. In fact, all of the films have some San Diego link, and will be screened at 7 p.m., repeated at 8:30 p.m. Popeorn, beer, pretzels and hot

Spindrift dogs will be at band and pianist Tom R1acb will accom- pany the "silents" with honky-tonk music. Where there's smoke Steam, fire, smoke and water have been employed by artist Erie Orr in bis dramatic works, and some of those n on vie at San Diego State U iversity Art Gallery. Director Dennis Komac has organized a survey of Orr's works, 1964-1984, to be on exhibition from Sat- urday through May 12; in the fall , it will go on a national tour. One work emitting fire and steam will be dlS- played outdoors. The artist's visit and the show are a project of San Diego State University Art Council, which has brought art1Sts Vita Acconci and Mary Miss to town in the past. The public is invited to the opening reception from 8 to 10 p.m. Friday and the artist will be there part of that time. He will also give a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the art building; there will be a small admission charge. Spinoffs Nora Ephron may win an Academy Award for her screenplay "Silkwood" tomorrow night, but she definite- ly will be in San Diego Wednesday to speak at United Jewish Federation Education Day 1984 at Hotel Inter- c ontinental. Also featured during the day will be a panel discussion on Jewish women in politics and a show of works by Jewish women artists. For reserva- tions, call the federation office. "Una Notte in Venezia" will honor Matthew Garbutt, assistant conductor of San Diego Symphony and conduc- tor of the Summer Pops series. The symphony's Women's Committee is sponsoring the event April 18 at the Cuyamaca Club. Italian menu? Yes, indeed - pros- ciutto with melon, minestrone, veal scallopine, spumoni and Asti Spumante. Soprano Kathy Knight Holt, who hl!s ung with many opera companies and symphonies and done lots of musical comedy too, will perform, along with Melvin and Dorothy Bartell and the Stage

SAN DIEGO UNION

Post publisher cites Copley Library value

Library: Post publisher talks at USD dedication

Continued from B-1 the only things that will be left to help future generations understand the current tumultuous era. Graham echoed the thought, quot- ing playwright Tom Stoppard in say- ing. "I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a lit- tle or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead." She urged parents to "start reading aloud to their children right after they start them on pablum." "Like every other important value in life, the value of reading and learning is taught at home," Graham said. The library was received on behalf of the university by The Most Rev. Leo T. Maher, bishop of the diocese of San Diego and chairman of the USD board of trustees. He said he accepted it in the name of the "colle- gial body of the university," includ- ing its faculty, students and staff. He praised the importance given to historical studies in the library, saying there has been an "unfor- tunate trend to de-emphasize history on many campuses in the nation," a trend that ignores bL~tory's larger

role as a guide to the future. Speaking for the university, cam- pus President Author E. Hughes said a good library is "perhaps our great- est monument to the civilizing influ- ences of the printed word." A library is "a secular temple where the words of antiquity congre- gate with the words of today's news- papers to reflect the anguish and the triumphs of the race," Hughes said. As part of the dedication ceremo- nies, a 50-year time capsule was bur- ied just outside the door to the new library by David and Michael Cop- ley, sons of the late James S. Copley. David Copley, president of the James S. Copley Foundation, the li- brary project's leading donor, placed 20 objects in the capsule. They ranged from memorabilia of the uni- versity's founding, to books, coins, and print and film records of the present and recent past. The capsule is scheduled to be opened in 2034, and two currently en- rolled USO students, Francis and Monica Bennett, pledged yesterday to be at the campus for that opening ceremony. Both parents and six chil- dren of the Bennett family are grad- uates of USD. Following the dedication, the more than 500 guests toured the new Ii-

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alyze the problems, and books to brmg real perspective to the experi- ences, Graham said. She d cnbed the new $3.7 million, 46.120- quare•foot library named after Copley and her late husband, Jam . Copley, as "an example of a commitment to the prmted word. to books and to knowledge." Copley, a member of the USO board of trustees since 1972 and cur- rently vice chairman of the board, said the late James Copley "loved the University of San Diego" and considered a library to be "the very soul of a umversity." She described libraries and their contents as "monuments of man's ac- cumulated learning," and reposito- ries of virtually all that mankind leaves for future generations. History has shown, Copley said, that recorded word and sounds are LIBRARY OD Page B-3

New. paper and television JOurnal- m complement each other rather than compete, and the public mu t avoid •falling mto the trap" of ·emg them a. enemi , Wa ·hington Po:;t pubh her Katharine Graham said here y terday. A keynote speaker at the dedica- tion of the Helen K and James S. Copley Library at the Univer ity of • n D1 go, Graham 1d a well-m- formed pubhc need both print and broadca t media and must avoid see- ing th m as an gomsts "as many (people) ev1d •ntly do." It took televi 10n "to brmg the problems of race nd the horror of th Vietnam War mto our hving room ," which rai ed the nation's consciousness and "rattled our preju- dices, · he said. But it took the prmted word to an

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brary, which houses 250,000 volumes and resource materials in an open, airy structure. It features dark oak furnishings and has several antique works of art on display. The new library is adjacent to the original James S. Copley library, which has been refurbished and now holds the university's art and music collection in elegant display and reading r_ooms.

The San Diego Union;George Smith the Helen K. and James S. Copley Library at the University of San Diego.

Guests watch a Marine color guard during the opening of dedication ceremonies for

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