News Scrapbook 1974-1975

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Hagen named theater editor Bill Hagen, an Evening Tribune staff member for 15 years, today became the newspaper's entertainment editor. At one tlme Hagen was editor of the Evening Tri· bune's special weekly en- tertainment page, the CarouSl'I Page, which was later discontrnued. He leaves the po. t of news edi- tor tQ assume his new du• ties. Hagen IS"' a gradual of the University or San Dl o and he holds a m t.er's degree from Columbia 1- versity, ·ew York He fills the vacancy I ft by the death of Oav 1cln- tyre, Ev ning Tribune en• tertainment editor Jor 23 years. 7 2 7< Professor gets grant Dr. Donald Peterson, professor of chemistry at the University or San Diego, 1 conducting a , research project at the National Center for Resource Recovery, through a grant to the center from the National Science Foundation. Peterson is working with froth flotatior- procedures for recovet- ing reusable glass from solid waste. ·

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~Id ready The biggest La Jolla ten- nis tournament in its 59. year history -1,100 contes- tants - will begin smashing balls back and forth across the net tomorrow. It will be July 13 before all champions in 35 divi- sions are decided. Tournament officials said the entry list tops last year's record field by 40 Many courts will be used and, as was the case in 1974, lights probably will have to be turned on to finish some matches. In addition to nine courts at the La Jolla Recreation Center, private courts and courts at La Jolla Country Day, Bishop's School and the Northwest YMCA will be put in use because of thl' number of entries. Tom Leonard, defending champion in men's open singles from Fallbrook, will be among the fir~t in action. He will oppose Rod Wil- liams of Newport Beach at 8 a .m. tomorrow. Seeded No. 2 behind Leonard Is Brian Cheney of J\1esa, Ariz., who is Leon- ard's partner in open doubles. They will try to defend the title they won la year. Two University of San liego netters - Andrew !{ae was seeded No. 4 and nay Watts got the No. 5 ·pot - drew top spots in 1 men's open singles. -..J Officials said the largest number of entries was in boys' 14, 16 and 18 divisions. Junior play will not begin 11ntil Monday. Among entrants drawing top-seeded berths are sev- eral area players - Randy , 1xon, in boys' 16; Lisa Senn, in girls' 18; Tracy Pnct•, m girls' 16; Leslie RPdondo, in girls' 12; Lydia Kap1rh, m girls' IO, Rod Susman, in junior veterans, and Bob Galloway, in men's 55 singles. Susman drew the top spot over defending champion Bob Perry of La Jolla. See- l ond to Galloway is Alan Cheesebro, another area en- trant.

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Vo Phuong Anh, 7, lett, and Vo Thi Thien An, 10, are beginning to become Americanized by getting acquainted with a Dr. Seuss book.

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Dr. William Doyle and his Vietnamese guests explore backyard nature. English translations of the girls' names are 'Heavenly Peace' and 'Light from Poinciana.'

Refugees find us gentle Family shares home with Vietnamese By LOLA SHERMAN It also helps that Ms. To is not making her first attributes that (her education abroad, for instance, To Thi Dien came to La Jolla expecting the worst. trip to this country. She has a degree in history of when boys were the first to receive foreign Instead, he had "quite a shock, but a good philosophy from Duke University She also has a schooling) to her mother ·· "probably the first shock" wh n he found La Jollans so kind and degree in psychology from the Sorbonne in Pari5 U Vietnamese woman to be libe~ated." _ . "gentle." IJ And she hopes to study for a master's in Her mother was an only child and was raised hke And she's already begun to do her share for this psychology at University of San Diego. a boy. community. But more excitedly, she talks of hopes of heading By Vietnamese custom, Ms. To's grandfather Ms . To volunteers her mornings to work with the a child-care center at the university. She conferred should have taken another wife, to bear him more children at Gillispie Child Care Center. with USD officials on that possibility Friday. children (most families - whether Catholic or She's well prepared for the job, having two "I miss my kindergarten," she said wlule Buddhist - contain four or five children), but academic degrees , having written many books for recalling Saigon. grandfather loved grandmother, and Ms. To is children and five books on reading and having run obviously touched by that fact. two school:; of her own, one a 750-pupil kin- he remembers what once was a cosmopolitan Vietnamese families are headed by grandmother dergarten. , city of two million (it could be three or four million and grandfather and include all the aunts and now with refugees from the war, she said). While in the refugee center at Camp Pendleton, uncles, nieces and nephews and cousins as well. In Ms To had read a survey which said only 56 per Downtown Saigon is "a lot like San Diego" wi th the country, all live together. They can't do that in cent of Americans favored the relocation of Viet- 12 •Story buil di ngs a nd a cosmopolitan popultion of the city, but they do get together for supper and to namese here. Vietnamese, French, Americans, Chinese, celebrate not birthdays but death days, days It surprised the refugees, who feel it's " better to Japanese businessmen and some I nd ians. marking the anniversary of an ancestor's death. be anywhere except in a Communist country," to After a century of French domination, that culture is widespread. read that only 30 persons in 100 (another survey Ms. To, educated by French nuns, considers figure> agreed with them . French her "second mother tongue." She also So, she prepared for a cool reception. speaks excellent English "and a little Chinese." Instead, Ms. To said, " here I am in a marvelous Besides operating the kindergarten, she ran a family, a marvelous Catholic family . I think it's language

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Ms. To doesn't know where that woman, master of five languages, is now, but she presumes the doctor's fled Saigon. Ms. To's sister, a Catholic nun, and mother are still in Vietnam. The archbishop there issued a plea for all priests and religious to remain to help the war-torn country. Ms. To herself was not politically active enough to be in immediate danger in Saigon. However, she said, " with the Communists, everyone will be vulnerable, everyone with a certain wealth." Then, she added, with more emphasis, "anyone with liberal thought will be suspect." "They do not respect human life and the same values I respect." She said all the horror stories coming out of Vietnam are true, including those from the 1968 Tet offensive when the bodies of 3,000 persons killed in one day were uncovered. The victims had been linked with barbed wire, she said. "The mass killings were the real thing. They weren't propaganda at all." Ms. To tells of the rush to flee the Communists, of 3,000 persons crowded on a boat built for lOOseated, 500 standing, of persons dying while standing up so wedged in that the body must stay in place. Those last few days "were awful, really a nightmare," Ms. To said. Ms. To, with sponsorship papers already filled out by Dr . Figueredo, flew out by military plane - she remembers the numbers with joy - to the Phthppines, Guam and finally Pendleton. She's poor now, she said, but she's willing to work and for right now to volunteer at Gillispie. "I'm so happy to be in the same ambience" (with little children) , she said. And she's happy to be in a "country with a government that respects the same fundamental values that I do."

most fortunate to be in such a wonderful family . ..All the people here are so deeply concerned with our welfare. All the people in La Jolla that I have " It 's characteristic of the American people to greet you warmly. "We feel lost. Who would not feel lost (under the circumi.tances >? But everyone accepts us as if we were their own family It's such a good feeling. ' Tm very pleased to be here , of course." " Here" is the home of Dr. William Doyle and Dr. Anita Figueredo, a modern-day castle on Coast Boulevard overlooking the sea of which Ms. To is so fond . ' Ancestral ties go back to the sea - to Rachgia on the Gulf of Siam . Ms. To may be enjoying the sea but she's not enJoying the weather. "We're tropical birds," she said, describing the plight of many Vietnamese in the unheated tents at Camp Pendleton. She·s quick to point up the work of the Red Cross, giving warm blankets and clothing and providing each arrival, including the children, with a box containing "all the little things," - toothbrush and paste, towels, tissues, needles and thread and thimble and even chewing gum As she spoke, Ms . To's daughters, 7 and 10 years old, giggled as they played on the stairway in the Doyle-Figueredo home. Her three sons are somewhere with their father. She hasn' t heard from them since leaving Siagon April 23, but their father had a boat, and she's quite sure they"re out of Vietnam. Asked if the other refugees are worried about resettling here, she replied without hesitation, "Oh, yes, there's a lot of worries. My goodness. One has to be emotionally very secure to support all those things (that have happened to the refugees) without being depressed. "Of course, I'm Catholic and believe me, it helps ." met have been 50 nice.

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and has a diploma from a French normal school to teach that langua~e to the very young. She was the first in Vietnam to teach English to 4-year-olds. She follows the Montessori method but without all Materials are especially expensive in Vietnam, she explained, because the cost of shipping them from the United States or France is added to the original price. So, the children made their own toys -- with gravel and beans for sound toys , with sandpaper for touch materials, etc. They even made a television set with a box, two rollers and pa per, a light and rag-clad puppets. The puppets were inserted between the "screen" and the light so they were shadows only. It's wonderful, she said, what you can do without materials but with a lot of imagination. From a certain point of view - the instillation of creatively and the pride of having made the materials themselves •· it's even better on a do-it- yourself basis, according to Ms. To. She used themes for segments of education -· the sea, the farm, the kitchen. The children brought things, i.e. shells, from home rather than having all the materials handed to them. Enthusiastically describing the family life in Vietnam, Ms . To said, "We love the children. The children have every right. They are disciplined, but we love them. They have to behave.. .because they must respect the ancients." At this point, she laughed to explain that the rule of respect even goes so far as to require a 7-year-old to be respectful of a 10-year old and address her as · older sister," rather than byname. Vietnam, she said, still abides by the tradition of primogeniture-all inheritance to the eldest son only She hasn't always stuck by the traditions but she the tools.

that role at the University of San Diego part-time next year while assuming her new position of associate vicar for Religious in the Diocese of San Diego for which she has a three-year contract. The afternoon will begin with a Mass at 2 p .m . in USD's Founders Chapel. Cocelebrants will be Msgr . I. Brent Eagen, secretary of the boa rd of trustees of the university and the Rev. Laurence Dolan, university chaplain . Mrs. Lawrence Oliver is chapel chairman. Serving on the committee for the tea which will be held from 3 p.m . to 5 p.m. in

arrangements ; Mrs. James D, Casey Jr., invitations; Mrs . Robert Cihak, telephone committee; Mrs. William Buckley, recep- tion ; and Mrs. Richard Woltman, publicity. Also assisting as mem· hers of the advisory committee are Mrs. Joseph Bennett, Mrs. Harry A. Collins, Mrs. D. C. Ferguson and Mrs. Robert Maw. The occasion is hosted by the University of San Diego Auxiliary of which Mrs. James R. Davis is president.

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The shows will be staged on alternate nights in the school gymnasium. Curtain will be at 8 p.m. except Sundays, when performanc- es will begin at 7 p.m. The shows run through July 27. The Parker Foundation ha.s awarded a $25,000 grant to the San Diego Symphony Assn. , it was announced. The community-interest foundation was established by Gerald and Inez Grant Parker

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The program, part of a series of "Sunday After- noons in the Park" spon· sored by the Chula Vista Parks and Recreation De• partment, will include "Peter and the Wolf' and "Chapeau Charade." Both will be choreo- graphed by Maxine Mahon, who will also narrate the program. Preceding the 4

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dy-opera "Cosl Fan Tutte," opening July 31 in the Cam- ino Theater on campus. The production will fea• ture alternating casts. Or· chestra and chorus will be under the direction of Dr. Walter Teutsch. Robert Austin will direct, with James Sparks as scenic de- signer and costumes by Carolyn Satter.

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I cheduled to bcgtn at 2 pm. Sund y, July 27 in the th ter. Th 16 piece b nd will perform n hi tory or jazz progr m, ranging from wmg nnd dixieland J87.l up to th musir· of the '70s.

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Dick Braun's big jazz band will present the first of two summer concerts at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the University of San Diego Camino Theater. The 16-piece group will play a varied program ranging from swing and Dixie and through 1970s jazz-rock. Selec- tions in the two-hour show will include "Let's Dance " "Sweet Carolirie," "We've Only Just Begun" and "Moo~- light Serenade." The second show will take place at 2 p.m. July 27 in Camino Theater.

~,\;,un~ 1{ ~7{ USD gets grant t:niver · ty of San Diego has received a $25,000 grant from the U.S. Offi e of Edu- cation lo pro\1de stipends and tt.ltlon waivers for graduate students training to teach mrntally retarded scholch1ldren.