News Scrapbook 1974-1975

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------Students find old adobe Digging into Old Town history by Dan Coyro llclorc an archcolog1st <'an start t11gging up tht ground m search ot rdt(·s lrom the past - even II he's 1.hgging in a sit that he knows holds buried arlifacts - h ·· got to have :onw t:.mg1blc evidence to point himsell m tlw nght direction

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Appearing Monday, Feb. 10 TV star Art Linkletter will be' featured speaker in .th_c USO lecture series. Public is invited to attend in De Sales

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mont College, Ms. Lebeck has exhibited m shows in the southwest since 1955. The show will be on display through Feb. 23. LOU BROWN De Giulo·s vegetative photo-printed sculpture will be on display in the University ol San Diego's r·oundcrs Gallery beginning Monday. The gallery is open !rom 10 a m. until 4 p.m. weekdays There 1s no admis ·ion charge. The artist's work consists of soft vegetable forms photo-printed on muslin, which is stuffed and sewn The exh1b1t will be on displav through ~~cb. 28.

THE UNDERGRAD- UATE Art Guild gallery opens this week at UC-San Diego. It will offer contmu- l ous two-week showings of work submitted by under- graduate student~. Exhibited in the 11,allerv s inaugural show through Jan 31 are 20 pastel works by Terry Platt.

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Former Senator Sam Ervin Jr., chairman of sena~~ : Watergate hearings, w1l speak at S p.m., Thursday, Feb. 13, in Camino Theater at USO. Tickets at the door . ----------

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"!k's got to have intuition." says Or. Jame Monartv. Un1vers1tv ol San I>wgo archeolog1 ·t who co-directed the' l'Xtavat10n ol the San Diego M1ss1on. Monartv and h1 students are exeavating a . ite in Old Town on which he b 'licves on e tood an adobe house built 111 the 1840 ·. For a tune. people believed an unromantl(' American clapboard house ·at then•. But Moriarty tollowcd his intuition and dug up the ground to a dt•pth ol several feel - and did, in tact, llnd the foundation or the old abode house Monartv, a Pac1tic Beach re ident. ha~ b 1 <'n an archeologist for half hi 50 v ars The class he teache is "Hi tone Sites rcheological Methods... the only une ol its kind m outhern Cahtornia . The excavat10n of the Old Town site b Moriiarty and his class actually serves a two-fold purpo e. "It's a formal cla s to begin with,' says Moriarty, "and it gives the tudPnts not only the correct d1sc·1plmes and methods of excavating an historic site, but it also gives them a • · nse of the multi-ethnic heritage of the area. "it's a eommunity service project a well." The clas: is excavating the 1te ( the work will continue next ummer J and using old photographs as well as ' artifacts they find to try and piece tog ther th over-all picture of what the building originally looked alike. Once Moriarty writes a formal report on the mdmgs, he will submit the report to the state park people, who WIii then contract a builder to reconstruct the building to match the ongmal as uggested by Moriarty. Mncv to reconstruct the adobe bu1l

choir director for All Souls Episcopal Church in Point Loma and produced the parish musical rendition of H.M.S. Pinafore last fall . Ms. Koman is also active in the Opera Vignette program sponsored by the San Diei;(o Opera Company.

William and Mary, and is both a pianist and organist. She has accompanied recitals at San Diego State University and the San Diego Public Library, as well as performed publicly as pianist and organist. She is the organist and

Pianist Holly Koman will perform the Prelude and Fugue in G from the Well- Tempered Clavier, Volume I, by Bach, at the University of San Diego Feb. 15. Also on the program are Beethoven's "Waldstein Sonata #21 in C," and Poulec's ''Les Soirees de Nazelles Suite 0 for Piano." The recital will be in the Camino Theater at 8 p.m. and is open to the public free of charge. Ms. Koman is a part-time faculty member at both USO and USIU where she teaches piano. She received her B.A. in nusic from the College of

-0.i b~,~~ s~ Art Linkletter t'i 7 ::, to speak here Art Linkletter, author, radio and television person- ality, will lecture at the University of San Diego Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. in Salo- mon Lecture Hall, De Sales Hall. His topic is "Human Values in a Changing Soci- ety."

Dr. James Moriarty, University of San Diego archeologist, watches students busy excaYCJting site at Old Town . This old photo shows a wooden building next to the American Hotel.

The free lecture is open to the public. Linkletter was raised and educated in San Diego. He has written 12 books and he recently has been recognized as a humanitarian. ,\£tufied, se~ sculr.~~r~ :~:.e~.:,t

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This old photo shows a wooden building next to the American Hotel Diggers proYed an adobe stood there first.

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\. Lou ~rown ~et G1uh;~ ;: vegetative "' sculputre v.:m be displayed al the Umvers1ty of San Diego's Founders Gallery The gallery is open week- days 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with no admission charge. The artist's work consists of soft vegetable forms P o o-pnn l Feb. 3-28.

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his students. One day recently. while his students were busy brushing away dust and dirt at the excavation site, Moriarty enhanced their knowledge of history with a story of a man who was skinned alive by the Indians - and had the grave misfortune of living for three days afterward~. Several of the female students blanched, but, history is history - and that's what Monarty's archeology is all about. ~s~r ~..;,~/97S LECTURES, SEMINARS Sam Ervin To Talk Here ,on Watergate The following lectures, meetings and classes which may be of interest to Daily Transcript readers are scheduled in San Diego: . Sam J. Ervin Jr., former chairman of the Senate Watergate hearings, will discuss the hearings Feb. 13 at the University of San Diego. Tickets will _be available at the door ·of the Cammo Theater on the night of the performance, which begins at 8 p.m. General admission charge will be $1.SO. T'\.-- ---- • ---

bottles to bra clasps. 11o1 iarty already has found several hand-blown glass bottles used for storing opium and other drugs. He says 1t was common for every household to have a bottle of ··taundinum" in its medicine cabinet Laudinum, says Moriarty, is a mixture of alcohol and an opium derivitive. A history buff as well as· archeologist.' Moriarty likes to add color to the often tedious work done by

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J.aQt/... u. USD seeks books; sale March 7-8 '?-- ?'-,'" ?t Books and magazines are arrangements can be made library, and the group plans needed [or a book sale to pick them up ii necessary to make th_e sale an annual s nsored by the Friends of by calling the library at 291- e_vent to ~a1se mone~ the t~ Library at the 6480, ext. 261. . library s acquis1t1ons University of San Diego. The USO Friends of the budget. . The sale will be held James s. Copley Library Mrs.. Gene_v1eve C. March 7 8 in the library was started last April wi~h Bennett 1s pres1~ent of the patio on the USO campus. 60 charter members. Their group and. Mis~ Mary Donations may be left at major concern is the im- McDonough 1s chamnan of the Copley Library, or provement of USD's the book sale.