News Scrapbook 1982-1984

DAIL y TRANSCRIPT NOV 1 O 1982

Ernesto Grihalva, a second-year student at the University of San Diego School of Law, took top honors recently in the three-day Jessop International Law Moot Court Competiti,>n at the law school.

't ds Finally Lift Over USD Growth Plans By PAULA PARKER, Times Staff Writer Even the heavens cooperated Tuesday morning at ground-break- ing ceremonies for a $10-million construction project at the Umver- s1ty of San Diego, a school that was in the red only six years ago. Stormy skies gave way to sun- shine on the campus of the Catholic university long enough for USO Pre ident Author Hughes and other dignitanes to thrust silver shovels into the moist earth where a $3.8- milhon xpans1on will more than double the size of the campus Ji. brary. The library expansion, a $2-mil- lion executive conference center and a new 45,000-square-foot building to house uso·s School of Business Administration, estimated to cost about $5 m11lion, were made possible by a $15-million fund-ra1s- mg campaign begun three years ago. USO officials say the construction program Is vital in helping the cam- pus handle a student enrollment Please see LIBRARY, Pafe 4

Part II/Wednesday; November 10, 1982 J t BRARY: Funding Skies Clear Contlnaed from Fint Pase

report, USD has erased the last of a $1.8-million deficit accumulated during the late 1960s and early 1970s before it merged the once- separate College for Women, Col- lege for Men and School of Law. Laat of Deficit Eliminated The deficit accumulated after the Catholic Diocese of San Diego dis- continued funding for the former men's college in 1968. Hughes has been credited with instituting tight budget controls and other meas- ures, which moved USO into the black six years ago. USO now shows a surplus of $531,613 in its current annual operating budget of $26.7 million, according to its annual re- port. Hughes said there are plans to raise funds for a fourth construction project, a $6-million student center which would house dining halls and other student services. The univer- sity has distributed proposals to pri- vate donors seeking about $8 mil- lion, but has not yet received responses, he added.

project for academic programs there since the $1.5-mill!on School of Nursing was built in 1978, univer- sity spokeswoman Sara Finn said. Result of Steady Efforts The project also is probably the most tangible evidence of more than a decade of steady efforts by Hughes and USD's Board of Trust- ees to turn around the once finan- cially troubled institution, capping years of internal budgeting im- provemepts and aggressive fund- raising efforts. "To have talked about a $15-mll- lion (capital improvements) pro- gram in 1971 was so far.from any- thing that appeared to be remotely possible . . ." Hughes, president of USO for 11 years, observed during a break in the ceremonies. "It's been a personal as well as professional goal, to see this (uni- versity) evolve. to succeed, lo be a really important part of the higher education scene in San Diego," he said. According to its 1981-1982 annual

that, at 5,003, has grown 72% since 1977. Original projections did not call for an enrollment of that size until 1985. Classrooms and library facilities are now "badly cramped, badly overcrowded," said Sister Sally Furay, USO vice president. The university has an average cllll!S· room use rate of 87% - much higher than desirable. Funding for the projects, to be built over the next two years, came from corporate donors, private benefactors and foundations. Nearlv half of the $15 million amass"ed as generated directly by tru~tees, including a $1.5 million donation to the libr~y expansion fund from the James S. Copley Foundation. The completed library will be called the Helen K. and James S. Copley library in honor of the donation, USO officials said. But Tuesday's festivities marked more than just the expansion and addition of buildings at the 33-year- old USO. It is the largest building

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d • g shows plans for USO' s new Helen K. and James S. Copley_Library expansion.

Architect s ren enn Construction of library addition which will add 38,000 square feet to the present 24,000, will begin in January, with comple- tion expected in about a year. The architect for the project is Mosher, Drew, Watson and Ferguson, a San Diego firm. . The new building for the business the

school, where enrollment has tri- pied in five years, will be built by Tucker, Sadler & Associates of San Diego, and will house classrooms. faculty offices and instructional fa- cilities. Construction is set to begin The 15,000-square-foot confer- ence center will house the univers1 - in~~

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academic seminars, workshops and lectures can be held, USO officials said. It will be called the Manches- ter Executive Conference Center in recognition of a $500,000 gift rom USO trustee Douglas Manchester. f

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fering classrooms, offices, seminar rooms and lounge space.

The USD School of Business Administration Building will be a 45,000-square-hot building of-

DAILY CALIFORNIAN NOV 1 3 1982 I Through Dec. 9 .. USD display - The Uni- 1 varsity of San Diego will 1 have a display of its sculptun1d works begin- / ning Nov. -10 at the ; sc~ool's ~ounders ~allerr. An -ope;,mg reception· will , be held ~ from 7 to 9 p.m. · Tuesday, Nov: 9. The gal- lery is open Wednesday from noon to 9 p.m. and other weekdays from noon f to.5 p.m. Admlssion _is h:ee. ,

Reaches $15Million Construction Goal, USD Begins Construction On Three New Buildings Having reached its fund raising more than double what exists today. goal of $15 million, the University of Hughes described the plans as San Diego yesterday began a con- "our answer to a clear and pressing struction program that will add need." three new buildings to the campus He said USO has experienced a by the fall of 1984. 72% increase in enrollment since Ground was broken yesterday 1977. a tripled enrollment in the for the expansion of the James S. School of Business, and an average Copley Library at USO. classroom utilization of 87%. The approximately $3 million The new School of Business will addition will add 38,000 square feet be a 45,000 square foot building to the library. The expanded facility housing classrooms, faculty offices, will be designated the Helen K. and seminar and lounge space and James S. Copley Library upon its centers for student accounting, word projected completion in September processing, and computer science 1983. instruction. USO President Author E. The building will be located at Hughes said the university is also the west end of the campus, near the planning a new School of Business Philip Y. Hahn School of Nursing. Administration, and the Manchester While the local firm of Mosher, Executive Conference Center. Watson_ and Ferguson is the ar- USD Discovery chairman Helen chitect on the library expansion, San K. Copley said yesterday the $15 Diego-based Tucker Sadler & million goal was reached over a Associates has designed both the three-year period. School of Business Administration The major gift for the library and the Manchester Conference construction came from the James S. Center. Copley Foundation, which con- The two Tucker Sadler buildings tributed $1.5 million. are expected to be under con- Other major gifts were provided struction by next spring, with by: the W.M. Keck Foundation of completion slated for the fall of 1984. Los Angeles, $500,000; the National USD trustee. Douglas Man- Endowment for the Humanities, chester provided the school with a $400,000; the Edyth Bush Charitable $500,000 gift last December, which Foundation of Winter Park, Fla.. prompted USD to move ahead with $150,000; the Dan Murphy Foun- its plan for the conference center. dation, $100,000; Wells Fargo Bank, USO is an independent, Catholic $75,000; and other contributions institution with an enrollment of from the Ahmanson Foundation, 5.003 't'dergraduate and graduate Atlas Hotels, Robert Golden students. Foundation, and Home Federal Founded in 1949, it occupies a Savings. 180-acre area in historic Alcala Park The expansion of the library will overlooking Mission Bay. ~--- ----

facility will feature seminar and workshop rooms as well as classrooms.

The Manchester Executive Conference Center will be under construction by early spring next year. Designed by Tucker Sadler & Associates, the

EVENING TRIBUNE NOV 3 0 1982 Ramirez named

Outstanding Jurist North County Municipal Court Judge Victor E. Ramirez has been named the Outstanding Jurist by the Law Alumm of the University of San Diego. Judge Ramirez, who graduated from the USD's College of Law in 1973, was appointed to the bench in 1980 and has served in the Vista Mu- nicipal Court since January. -------'

The 38,000-square-foot addition to the USD library should be completed by Sentember 1983.