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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Daily Transcript (Cir. D. 7,415)

El Cajon, CA (San Diego Co.) Dally Callfornlan (0. 100,271)

El Cajon, CA (San Diego Co.) Dally Californian (D. 100,271)

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l.11 1888 PJ;qf essor to challenge Lowery in 41st district By anny Cruz In the 45th Congressional D1str1ct, which covers a much the 43rd District will face Democrat Lois E. Humphreys .,,

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Michele Crockett has joined Ut1hty Sy terns, Inc., as marketing c(lordinator. Herr pon ibilities include business developme~t. marketing and customC'r rela- tions for the firm's San Diego and Orange County of. lice . Prior to joining the company, Crockett acted as co nmunicattons specialist and coordinator with Design 0 , a graphic arts firm. She is a graduate of the Un ersity of San Diego, where she earned a bachel, r

broader area of East County, businesswoman Georgia Day Irey was able to win 50.9 percent of the Democratic primary vote to go against Republican incumbent Duncan who received 49.1 percent of the vote Both Hunter and Libertarian candidate Patrick Wright ran unopposed in

and Libertarian Phyllis Avery in defeated GOP opponent M.!rgaret "Betty" Ferguson 76.72 percent to 23.28 percent. Humphreys defeate

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Univer ity of San Diego law professor Robert Simmons won tochallenge Repubhcan Con- gressman Bill Lowery in the fall election in the 41st Congre. s1onal District Simmon , who virtually ignored three other contenders for the Democratic nomination in favor or a sharp attack on the incumbent during the campaign, captured 52 percent of the vote Linda Carlston attracted 20.88 percent. niel Hostetter received 18.11 percent and Norman E Mann won 9.01 percent. Lowery was unopposed m his party primary, as was Sara Baase of La Mesa, the candidate for the Libertarian Party The 4 !st Congressional District covers a portion of the East County including La Mesa

Hunter in the fall. Irey defeated David Guthrie, a lawyer, Schmidt and Randall Toler to win

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Democrat Jim Bates swamped opponent Peter K. the 39th District - Republican incumbent Jim Carlston to win re-nomination in the 44th Congressional Ellis and Democrat Daniel Finnigan will square off in District, which includes Lemon Grove, and will face November. Neither man faced primary opponents La Mesa -

Republican Neill Campbell m the fall election Campbell defeated Richard La Haye, 53. 76 percent to 46.24 percent. Jim Conole, the Libertarian candidate, was unopposed in his party primary. Bates' margin of victory over Carlston m the 41st District, was 86.58 percent to 13.42

Republican As;.emblyman Larry Stirling has already been assured of anothertwo years in"1iacramento because he faced no Democratic Party opposition m his 77th is true for ~eve Peace, the Democratic incumbent in the 80th Assembly District, which takes in Jamul.

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Chula Vista, CA (San Diego Co.) Star News (Cir. 2xW. 12,544) (Cir. S. 12,739)

La Jolla, CA (San Diego Co .) La Jolla Light (Cir. VJ. 9,293) JUN, ...A.11~11•• P. C. B

Pacific Beach, CA (San Diego Co .) Sentinel (North City Ed.) (Cir. 2xM. 18,500)

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1 " 1 R81i ClJSj~set to aid educators 'il'ta?i.ity of classes designed to help teacht,'"S, lecturers and other education pro- fessioi.. s will be offered this summer by the ruversit)r..oi ·e o's Department of Con- tinuing Education. e exte ·on courses will be conducted June 20 through July 13 at the Douglas F. Man- chester Executive Conference Center. For additional information, contact Jo~ at 293-4586.

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/ ,,. 1888 Counseling association f et~s leaders ~f South Bay com- munity leaders were honored last month for their involvement with the counseling profession and youth activities. Those honored received the the San Diego Counseling and Guidance Association at a wine and cheese reception at the Uni ersity of San Diego. _ Honored were: Officer Done Smith, ational City Police Department; Christy Smith, Chula Vista Beauty College; Pat O'Connor, Fashion Careers of California; Johnnie Lou Rosas, executive editor, Star-News; Richard Esquinas, Career Guidance Foundation; and Michael Cruz, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. Also honored were: Freida Cohen, counselor, San Diego Ci- ty Schools; Joe Stapczynski, Southwestern College; Don Sha£ner, Sweetwater Special Education/Vocational Educa- tion;"Willie Wong, director of in- structional · operatioi:1s, Sweet- water; Beth Lennon, law enforce- ment liaison, Child Protective Services. awards from

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axon and his \\lfe Linda have a daughter 111 the second grade at Country Da) and a son who has been accepted into kindergarten fo1 th~ fall. Frank Grasso is the chairman of the board of Certe tanage- ment Group, a corporation he co- O\\ ns. He graduated from ~1on- mouth College in C\\ Jersey in 1964 "1th a B.S. degree in ac- counting and busine s ad- mmi>tration. He is a certified public accountant and worked in this field from 1965 to 1971 on the East Coast. As a partner of J .H. Cohn and Company, he was selected to relocate to San Diego to develop the firm's first West Coast office. He did so until 1980, when he resigned to pursue a private prac- tice of financial consulting. From 1982 until June, 1983, Grasso was the president and :hief execmive officer of Cobra Group, In . When he left them to return to private consulting, he formed the Certe Management Group. Gras o and his wife Betsy have t\\O sons at Country Day, one in the fourth grade and one in the seventh grade. L

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I ru te . D mar.11~ 1 president of ( or- poratc Sy t mic • Inc He ha ex- ten I\ c experience m orga1111.a- 1 ional development, human re ourcc m,magcment, labor rc!a uons, and development of train- ing programs . He lias been con ultmg maJor I rm • government agencies and profe ,ional group for more than 18 years. fter earning n \I. in education from Lo)ola Lnivern- ty and an \I. tn literature from Go11Laga Lnivct:,1t}. Desmarai, recei,cd a Ph.D. in orga111za1ion development 1nd human rel. - lions from th l,111versit) of or- them Colorado. De marais and ht \,ife Suzanne re ide in Rancho Santa Fe w11h their three children, ,,ho a11cnd C o untr) Day. 7\-lark ·axon grew up in Los Angeles and attended UC River- side. He obtained his legal educa- tion at the Untver ity of San Die.!l_O, where he receivedhisraw degree~74. Saxon is the senior partner in the law firmof Saxon, It, Brewer and Kincannon He sits as a judge pro tern on the Municipal

Pacific Beach , CA (San Diego Co.) Sentinel (North Shores Ed.) (Cir. 2xM . 18,500)

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National City, CA (San Diego Co.) Siar News (Cir. 2xW 3,336) (Cir S. 3,301)

Q LA 2.». waua ur. ex'-'-m,n-e r . ~,~, 8&./ Sightless nominee envisions himself as a U.S. congressman Bob Simmons will never forget the first week of January 1978. A mysterious virus attacked the retinas of his eyes, destroying them. Within 48 hours, he was totally and forever blind This past Tuesday, the 56-year• old Simmons won the Democratic congressional primary in the 41 st O,stnct, a district encompassing San Diego and Del Mar Now. Simmons' v1s1on s to become the first sightless person ever elected to the House of Representatives. He was 1nterv1ew d by Herald staff writer Robert Palm Question: The 41st District is traditionally Republiean, isn't il'' Simmons: Thb di trict has had a plurality of Republiean registration, over the years. but there's heen somc> fluctuation. As a result of three gc>rr~·manderings hy thc> ~late legisla ture in the last five }ear , the Republi· can edgc> has been narrowed ~ignificantl} There's only 1 percent- agt' point sc>parating thl' 1\1 o parties 110\\ ·- 42 percent Republican, 41 percent D£>mouat . And there's a large block of independents and splinter parlle . So it ·s a great opport unity for me to uns<'at the incumbent. Q: Ho\\ long has Bill Lowery, the Republican incumbent. been m Wash- ington? A: He's fmishrng his second term ll£>'s a young man, 37. Q: How do vou describe rnurself politically? · · A: I suppose I'm a consrrvatlve D!'mocrat I mold myself along thl• lines of the lat!' Scoop Jackson or Washington, I think. I want wry bad!~ 111 halanre th(' hucl_g('t I want to freeze fedrral employment fn,rzc spending.

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I didn t have a temperature. It was just oni> of those things that arc quite rare perhaps l in :i milhon, according to lhP doctors. It Ii.as just one of those misfortunes that O('casionally happen. Q: Was it en•r identified? A: Oh yeah. It <:reates a condition called uvntis, although the virus itself was never identified. They never found a tracP of it. but they speculated that's what triggned the whole thing Q: How did sudden blindness affect you? A: I was do\\ n in the dumps. Q: I know that a "How did you feel?" question sounds stupid, but there it is. A: It's an intercstmg question. I was totally unprepared for il. Nobody ever really is fur something like that, and I didn't think there was any way I could function l was seriously think· ing about going on welfare and wondering about how I could support my family I was getting terribly depresspd and Just overwhelmed by ,elf pity and sympathy, which is the ab olutel} worst thing that could hapJ>t'n to anyon£> with my disability q: What changed? A: Fortunately, I met a man who was with the rehahilitauon -depart• ment of tlw tate of California, who ,1as g1vmi: me some orientation point• er,. And he ,poke roughly to me. He figurali\el} gave me a kick in the butt Jnd told me, "There\ plenty you can do Get hark to \1ork." So foctunately, tht•re \\as a r1·wrsal, and I went back. Q: A reversa l of what, your attitude• A: That's right. I started teaching again, the same teaching load. I wrote a book. a nationally distributed work on criminal trial techniques. I became a partm•r in the law firm I was working w1th whlle I was teaching Q: Did vou learn Braille? A: Yes." I did. And orientation is a h1g thing; being able to find your way from point A to pomt B is incredibly l'omplex Braille is prl'lty difficult to h>arn ,\lwn you're that age, but I did. And tht-n• an• a lot of electronir aid,

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around now that make it possible to function very effectively. Plus mem ory and concentration have improved a great deal, so there are other srnses that seem to compensate. Q: Is that a common thing with the sightless? A: It is. Blindness is not all that bad. It's not as big a tragedy as people with sight seem to believe. It's more of an inconvenience than a tragedy , because you find other ways of compensating for sight loss. And there arc other advantages that I have that I ft>el that sighted people lack. Q: Such as? A: Well, one thing is I don't waste as much time as sighted people do watching television. You may not think t{lat's a waste of time, and I don't mean to sound patronizing. but before I lost my ~ight, I spent hours watching TV. Now, quite frankly, I think I apply my time much more effectiv~y. My memory, as I said, has impr.o,{ed. And that's certainly an advantage. I'm able to concentrate without the visual dbtractions. Q: I there some Internal visualiza- tion process that came to you? A: Yes. It's not always accurate, though. For instance, you may not be the most handsome man in the world, but to a blind person, you have a pleasant voice, and we sometimes idealize our ow:n notions of what somebody looks like. But we can tactilely feel our way around the room, for £>xample, and have a pretty good idea what that room looks like. Q: Do you have a Seeing Eye dog? A: Yes, I do. llis name is Charle) and he's a black Labrador retriever. Q: Did being .sightless create problems during the primary cam- paign? A: It doesn't interf£>re with m) speaking at all. In fact, i think I've been more eff£>ctive than be.!:?.re be• <:ausc, again, it enables me HJ concen- tratt• bet-t r n what I'm saying. You concentrate on hearing more. ob \'iou~ly. than on ,i,:tht - edited by Mitchell Fi nk

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number of South Bay com- munity leaders were honored last month for their involvement with the coun cling profession and youth activities. I ho e honored received the award from the San Diego Coun eling and Guidance Association at a wine and cheese reception at the Univcr ity of San DieS9. ,... ~onored were: Officer Done Smith, National City Police Department; Chrbty Smith hula Vista Beauty College· Pa; O'Connor, Fashion Carce; of California; Johnme Lou Rosas executive editor, tar-New.'. Richard Esquinas, Caree; Guidance Foundation; and Michael Cruz, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. bo honored were: Freida Cohen, coun elor, San Diego Ci- ty chools; Joe Stapczynski, outhwe tern College; Don Shafne:, weetwat r Special Educ,1tion/Vocational Educa- tion; Willie Wong, dir ctor of in- trucrional operation , Sweet- watc:r: Beth Lennon, law enforce- ment liai on, hild Prorcctive S rvi es, ;1

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~-5$ c'olnputer camps for children ages 7 to 17 will be held June through August at United Stoles lnternot1onol Univmitf in Son Diego. Four two· week comps w,11 be he d beginning June 25. Campers may choose to live on compus or port,c,pole os doy compers. Campers will receive exposure to robol,cs, graphics, color printers, speech synthesis, networking and more. Computer longuoges offered will be BASIC, LOGO, PASCAL ond ASSEMBLY Other octivities will include outings to the Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater ,n Balboa Pork, the beoch, omusement porks and more. The cost for resident campers ,s $8."~ per session. The ludes room ond board ond live-in odult sup~rvmon. The cast for day campers is $450 per sess,?~· Full tu1t1on poid on or before Moy 15 quolif,es for a $50 discount. Comp dotes ore June 25-July 6; July 9-20; July 23-August 3 ond August 6- 17, For more information coll (619) 271 -8582. price i

Bob Simmons You have to be a doer when d,sabled · and get nd of thf'se def1nts as quKkl~ a possible. rm ronn rued about the kind or future my fhe sons \\ ill have and that's on<' of th<' reasons I C'nterC'd lh1 tJCt• primar) take)ou b) surprisr' A: ~ot at all. frankly, wt• tounted on 1t, although the margin of the votl' was a pleasant surprise. I had three Democratic opponents in this primary, and I won 52 percent of the total vote. Q: Would you tell us about )'Our blindne:s? A: I've been blind for six wars During a period of 48 hours, Jan. ·sand 6, 1978. a mvsterious \'irus attacked thC' retinas in the back of my eyes, and pretty well destrov<'d tlwm So I ha,·e permam•nt and total sight loss. It was ver,· sudden Q: \\'err you 11! at thP ti111C'? A: o. No other part of rn, hod, was affected. I ,,a,n't ill, I had no pai1i, Q: Was this \ our first try at l'l"<.:li\e offitc> in Califurma? A: 'r l'S. Q: Did \Our sur•cpss m tht•

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