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1 vi g for a degree find it a matter of life in debt By Mi<·h d Scott- nuir tarr Wrll r

Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Co.) Times (San Diego Ed.)

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ing that I am a better nurse." "I would say that at any given moment, 6:i percent to 85 percent of our nursing students are in serious need of financial aid, but have great difficultv ~ettin~ it because the laws are wntten for the more tradition- al 18· to 22-year-old student," said Irene S. Palmer, dean of the Philip Y. Hahn School of Nursing. Now the university and one of its principal benefactors, businessman Douglas F. Man bester, are trying to raLSe $200,000 to create a student aid fund, through a ball at the new Inter- Continental Hotel on April 28. Manchester, who built the hotel. has designated the $250-a-bead 'U Eon P e B-5

All or th almost 150 students 10 th ba h !or' and master's nursing d gree program al USO are already regist red nu and many of them and moth rs, some of them holds. The chal- 1 nge · that fed ral and state regu- latiorui on tudent loan· often ex- dud those who own a hou e or have me 10come, without regard to any hnanc1al ohligatio they may have. Th tud nts hold full-time nurs- mg Job , oft n at mght, put five day w k in at the university for at I • l two y ars, and rarely gel a pay r i t lb end of 1t all. They finish up d •ply in debt and all they have to r w1v the heads of hou

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Scott Barne~~~-year-old college student who won election last week to the Del Mar City Co~nc1l, said the campaign was worth three umts of credit m a political science class he's taking at the University of San Diego. His run for public omce was considered a political internship, because of llR valuable learning experience. "But I don't know if I'll receive any credit for bemg a councilman," he said, laughing. He was told by his professor that hls grade won't necessarily be improved be- cause he won. Other requirements for the internship mclude wnting a 15-page paper on the experience and reading three related books, he said. And what were they? a~wo were on political campaigning, he The third book was about how city government can save money by contracting for outside services. The title: "Cutting Back City Hall." 'I didn't carry that one around City Hall" ~sad ' Mr. Barnett appears to b wise beyond his years. TOMGORMAL

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dalene school across the canyon from the campus. "And now it is go10g to happen. On May 24 I graduate. Oh, I know I'm more than $17,000 in debt and I'll al- ways remember the many many tears of frustration. But most of all, I will always remember the joy of suc- cess."

she said, "I've borrowed from banks, I have even borrowed from my best friend's mother - but this is a dream come true for me. "I have never told this to anyone before, but I used to dream about graduating from USO when I was a little girl attending St. Mary Mag-

now have over $8,000 in tuition debts and that might not sound much to other people. "But for a nurse making less than $11 a hour with a home to keep and four children to raise, let me tell you, it is enormous." The nurses sink years of savings into their degrees. For some it means their families stay in an apartment instead of getting a house. Others hold down another job in ad- dition to their nursing and school in order to meet the bills. They tele- phone each other in the early morn- ing hours for mutual support. "Many of these students take four to eight years to finish the two-year course and their debts mount staggeringly," said Palmer, explain- mg that the two-year course costs $190 a unit for 30 units a year. "They really need some help - many of them need it desperately - and the funds from this inaugural hall will be a terrific start." Through it all, Suzanne Kbambata smiles. "I've borrowed from relatives,"

but from 1 bed my b band It pt telling me to hang m there," Pearlmutter said. Having been out of college for 20 years, be bad to go back and take many preparatory courses and it has taken s11 years of "hard work, ne- glect of my family, and endless fi- nancial crises," she said. "Now it is finished and we are deep in debt as a result - but like everyone else here, I will probably go through it all agam to get a master's degree and make myself a still better nurse." Terri Wurdeman has been a nurse for 18 years and is a single parent with four children aged 4 to 14. one of them mentally retarded and com- pletely non-verbal. She works three nights a week in a hospital and two days in a doctor's office 10 addition to gomg lull-time to USO for the nursing degree. She turned down a promotion m order to accommodate her studies - but she could not get any financial aid. "We're not looking for a gift - just a little help, a low-interest loan like other students," Wurdeman said. I

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One 37,y ar-old 10gle d1squaltfled from aid because he ac- cepted loan from h r parents dur- in a h alth c is and the govem- m nt 1mmcd1ately classified her as a d pend nt. Othe face the d1l mma that they can't g t enough time off work to take enough course to qualify for some aid, or If they do take enough cou to qualify, they don't have th llm 1 ft to bold a Job that pays enough to uppor their families. "In my late 4 , I am the oldest in th cl ," id Pearlmutter. b pped away from a uccess- ful car r m 10terior d or ting to fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming a n , ·• nd I wanted to go to th t hool L1ttl did I know what w ah d of me," he d Her h h nd, a vcre diabetic, ai- m t died last ummer, but he had to be back m the cla room only two days after he came out of intensive care ' 1m and a a n I felt I couldn't take ny more, 1t wa n't worth it -

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Tetrault chosen Del Mar mayor 'J f,t:; By Elu.a'beth Wong them specifically where the cuts should come from," he Tribune Staff Writer said. "Should it be from lifeguards? Fire? Planning?" The Del Mar City Council, with three newly elected The council also voted to set a goal of reducing mainte- members, has ch n Councilman James Tetrault as nance costs by $100,000, or 3 percent, and directed the city mayor. staff to eliminate or cut back programs, or to find more Councilwoman Arlene Carsten was named mayor pro efficient ways of financing programs. tern. She and Tetrault will serve one year in the positions. The preliminary city budget for 1984-85, which goes The choices were unanimous. before the Finance Committee this month, is about $6 Neither Tetrault n<>r carsten was up for re-election this million. The City Council is expected to vote on the final year. budget m late June or early July, Hopkins said. Elected last week to four-year council terms were No cutbacks or reductions are to be made in the capital Lewis Hopkins, 64, a retired admiral; Veronica Delaney, improvement budget, Hopk10s added. Any excess in reve- 39, owner of a commercial development company in San nues from the operatmg maintenance budget would be Diego; and Scott Barnett, 21, a University of San Diego turned over to finance capital improvements. student. -- About 50 people attended the meeting, which included a Outgoing Mayor Rosalind Lorwin and Councilman Lou swearing-in ceremony and the presentation of resolutions Terrill did not seek re-election, and Councilman Harvey of appreciation by Tetrault to Lorwin, Terrell and Sbapi- Shapiro quit the race because of his lies with the troubled ro. J. David & Co. investment firm. Taking over as the new mayor, the 60-year-old Tetrault The new council yesterday voted 4-1 to freeze the city's emphasized team effort. operating maintenance budget at the 1983-84 level of "I will be part of this council . . . It's not me as mayor slightly more than $3 million. that is going to do anything. This council will be doing the Barnett voted against that measure, saying he support- doing," be said. ed the idea of the freeze but that the wording was too "My first action as mayor is to get rid of the clock," broad. Tetrault added, referring to a time clock used by the "I think we need to give staff more direction ... to tell council to limit speakers to three minutes.

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existmg special reading program called DISTAR (Direct In tructional System for Teaching Arith- metic and Readmg) to the fourth, fifth and sixth grades. It is now used in kindergarten through third grade. Student teachers from San Diego State Univer- stty are workmg with the staff at Kennedy to upgrade the pup'ls' reading skills. In addition, re- source teachers from SDSU have volunteered their services, she said. "Stockton is still In the process of focusing its efforts on a specific project," Tomblin added. "They hope to improve the academic environment at the school as n way to help the students." Dennis Gooier, dean of SDSU's college of educa- tion and chairman of the higher education com- mittee, said cooperation IS coming from the Uni- versity of califomia at San Diego, Univ i!J. of San Di¥1, United States International University, Point ma College, National University and SDSU. u1 have high hopes that the proJect will be suc- cessful," Gooier said. "We can find out what works and what doesn't. Then we can determine what would be helpful to th tudents." S~perintendent Tom Payzant, spearheading the proJect for the city schools, also is optimistic that it will help the pilot schools boost therr basic skills. And the program's chairman, Ernest Roberson, educational administrator for San Diego Gas & Electric Co., termed Rainbow "a great step for- ward" in helping minority children.

Project Rambow, made up of representatives from San Diego universities, local industry, the city schools and the commumty, still is in the planning tage. The proJect won't be fully 1mple- m nled until the fall. "It is the future," said Paul Gilroy, a fourth- grade teacher at Balboa ' I feel it' important that uden be exposed to use of computers.

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They will have to be competitive with other chil- dren ' Admmistrators at the project's other schools also are gearing up for the experiment. Betty Tomblin, asmstant director of evaluation for the city schools, said the four schools were chosen because they have some of the lowest scores m the city on the distract's Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills. They are mmority-isolated schools, so identi- f1ed by the court (in the Superior Court Carlin desegregation SUit against the district), and we believ the program would be helpful to their studen ," he said. Logan's staff IS workmg o plans to extend an

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Co., John J . Judge, manager of inter- national administration for Hughes Aircraft Co.; Patricia Petree, di trict manager, Circle Air Freight; and Jo- seph J. Darby, professor of law, Uni- venlty of San Diego. They are to be adviserS to Bal- drige on programs, legislation and is- sues of Interest nationally and local- ly. ---'-----~-~-~~

invited by Commerce Secretary Mal- colm Baldrige to be representatives of the San Diego Area District Ex- port Counc1 I. The nommc are William Ivans, chairman of COHU, Inc.; Bert Salo- nen. vice pr ident and manager of San Diego Trust & Savings Bank; Gerald Kahl, vice pr ident of Kahl- slco International Corp.; Peter Caldwell, vice president and general manager of Topaz International; John H Norton, director, Intema- llonal R urce Center; Robert J. Cr haw, vice president, Wavetek Corp, A Beck Ki }burgh, general manager, ALAA Division of Merck &

San Diego, CA (San ~iego Co.) S~n Otego Union (C!r. D. 207,415) (Ctr. S. 332,920)

Helen Copley (left) talks with USD President Author E. Hughes and Katharine Graham.

Library dedicated The University of San Diego's new Helen K. and James S. Copley Library was the scene of a special dinner recently honoring Helen Copley and the James S. Copley Foundation. Among guests was Katharine Graham, chairman of the board of the Washington Post, who delivered the keynote address .

Guests were entertained by a string trio of musicians as they viewed the new facility. USO President Author E. Hughes thanked the guest of honor 'ror "confidence, support and dedica- tion lo learning" and for con- tributions which enabled the university to build the $3.7 million library.