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Son Diego, Thursday, July JO, 1975
EVENING TltllJUNE
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STU ENTS REALL Y,DIG THEIR JOBS
0 d To n site keeps USO archaeologists busy d1 ?" on pupil a ked
LEGAL, FAMILY SERVICES PROVIDED Counselors' files lull
"Marbles," one boy responded. "I have some of those at home." " ot hke this one," Moriarty said, holding one up. "This marble was made in the 1920 I consider myself an expert on marbles and matches - I've found hundreds of them in the 30 years I've been on digs." The pupils didn't ru out of ques- tions before their teacher decided that they had bothered the workers long enough. FamilyToday •CLASSIFIED "They asked some tough ques- tions," Mrs. Del Bene said to Mori- arty •·Children don't ask bad question at all," he said. "If they ask you m thing it's because they really want to know th~ answer." Moriarty and his students are -.1orking on a site in Old Town that will soon be ready for construcuon. "First we have to f1msh our work
hours a day in their appoinled spots, except for one site buried under asphalt. One student works that spot alone It took Howard Bomn, 23, a senior at USD, one day Just to dig up the two-inch deep crust of asphalt. "This is hard work," he said. "Mainly because you have to be so careful." Bonin has found all sorts or inter- esting artifacts from the past in his little corner of the dig. "I've found an old-type of sewing needle, some pottery and other trivia," he said. "It's really exciting when you find something from the past - it's a feeling you just don't get by reading about a dig in a textbook." The five-foot wire fence that sur- rounds the students and their profes- sor draws a lot of attention from passers-by. "We put up the fence to protect people from falling in the holes when we're not here working," Moriarty said. "I don't think as many children would be so curious about us and what we're doing if it wasn't for this fence. It just seems to draw the little ones to us." Monarty and his crew will be working at the Old Town site until the first week of August.
here to determine what the building looked like that was here in 1850," he said. "They are going to construct a building much like it to house the Mission Playhouse." The playhouse is now located around the corner but 1t has out- grown its quarters. "The architect is waiting for our report," Moriarty said. "It sould be ready the first week of August." The artifacts and miscellaneous findings to date show that the stu- dents are working around the 1900 level. "We're right on schedule," he said. Moriarty and his students know that there was a large building on the land that was later turned into a parking lot from a survey made of Old Town in 1850. There is a very rough drawing showing its approximate location and working with this material Mori- arty has estimated its size and loca- tion. "It's not a completely accurate estimation," he said. "I could be off a foot or two. We'll find the founda- tion line by working in the six spots I have selected!' Two students dig and sift for three
•·Well, wc'r not looking for the ctual building," Mrs Del Bene Id "W r looking for th founda- t on lln Lo what the onginal
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San Oi&go, Monday, June 9, 1975
ol success stories By BARBARA HERRERA Cora's problems closed m on her all at once: The childr n whined that they were hungry The landlord screamed for rent and threaten d eviction. Bill coll rs pounded at the door. The dem ds rushed at her with Help offered at three clinics Neighborhood Legal and Family Services offers free counsel to low- income families through three lo<'al clinics. Their locations and hours are: - Neighborhood House. Linda
such confusion that Cora could not isolate any one of them to work out a solution. So she settled on the only solution that seemed to cover them all; She would kill herself. That's what Cora, as we'll call her - not her real name - confided to family coun elor Stephen Garrow when she finally sobbed out her problems to him in a last-ditch at- tempt to make some sense of her life As ll turned out, Cora was lucky. She had turned to a service uniquely equipped to handle her problems. And with some help from Garrow and his associates, Cora soon was aggressively seeking her own solu- tions, Stephen Garrow, a social worker with Family Service Assn. of San Diego County, is director or Neigh- borhood Legal and Family Services ( LFS). The program, financed by reve- nue-sharing and United Way funds, is unusual in that it combines legal services and family counseling to help low-income families overcome a multitude of pro• ms. The ser- vice are free. NLFS is jointly sponsored by the association and the University of San Diego School or Law. The free services, offered through three neighborhood clinics in National City and the Southeast San Diego and Linda Vista areas, are provided by two Family Service counselors, in- cluding Garrow, 25 USD law stu- dents and supervising attorneys. The clmics, opened in 1972, are now providing services for more than 100 new clients per month - about 40 per cent of them from mmonty families. And, like Cora, many of the people who seek help have more than one problem. "It's not unusual for us to get a case where a person has severe financial problems as well as mari- tal problems and maybe problems with the kids," Garrow said "They all kind of go together." If there's one thing the cou lors have learned it's that people's prob- lems don't come in neat boxes. Or, as Dr. Charles Lynch, director of legal clinlcs for the USD School of Law, put it "People have problems that cross the academic lines of law or social work. So where a person might need to go to a lawyer for legal problems and then to a counselor for family problems, we can provide a com- plete service, treating them more realistically, I think, than programs that divide people's problems into neat segments." Cora, for example, could not cope with her children, the landlord and arrogant bill collectors or sort out her problems - situations which required family counseling. And, faced with eviction, she could not afford to move. Compounding her frustrations, her former landlord owed her a cleaning deposit. These sJtualions called for legal advice. "I helped her see that she had to face her problems one at a lime and advised her to work out arrange- ments with her bill collectors to pay her bills a little at a time," Garrow said. "And one of the law students advised her of her rights as a tenant." Probably the main thing NLFS did for Cora was help her gain self- confidence. Before long she was coming into the office to make photo copies of her rental agreements. She began pursuing her own solutions until she had obtained her cleaning deposit KGTV Channel 10 has a new reporter, Ellen Burstein, who will also contribute medical news stories nd entertainment features. Ms. urstein comes to San Diego from alias, Tex., where she was honored for medical reporting by the Texas Medical A"sn.
Vista Center, 6943 Linda Vista Rd , No. 114. Open 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tues- days. - MAAC (Metropolitan Area Ad- visory Committee) Service Center, 827 A Ave., National City. Open 6 30 to 9 p.m. Wednesdays. - Southeast Office, Legal Aid So- ciety, 3040 Imperial Ave. Oprn 6 30 to 9 p.m. Thursdays. People without appointments are encouraged to arrive by 7.30 p.m. back from her former landlord and used it to pay the rent owed her present landlord. Not all NLFS clients end up solv- mg their own problems, but the files are full of success stories. There was the allerglst persuaded to provide free treatment for a teen- age girl until Garrow could help her Spanish-speaking family_ work out MPdi-Cal problems, while at the same time a Jaw student represent- ed the father in court in an injury accident case. And then there was the injunction obtained to keep an alcoholic, child- abusing father away from the chil- dren while his wife received counSPI in how to deal with her unruly children. NLFS legal services cover dissolu- tion or marriage, landlord-tenant problems, welfare and Social Srcurl ty difficulties, auto accident casrs, bankruptcy and other financial trou- bles, child custody cases and some criminal matters, among others. The 25 law students, all surpcr- vised by attorneys, work under the student practice rules or the state Bar Assn., according to Lynch. The rules, approved by the state Su• preme Court, provide for a student who has completed more than half his or her law school training to do everything an attorney can do, under the direct supervision of an attorney, Lynch added. The students, who interview cli- ents, counsel them, prepare legal documents and represent clients in court or before administrative agen- cies, receive class credit but no pay for their work. The clients, in turn, get the benefit of legal services from enthusiastic counselors. "Most of our students have this desire to serve and the caliber of their work is very high because they can afford to spend many more hours than an attorney," said Lynch. "They have no office overhead to worry about, and they're i!ot trying to make a living at it." Clients also benefit from a full range or services offered by the Family Service Assn. The frustration, accordmg to both Lynch and Garrow, is that despite all their efforts they cannot cover the needs of all the people who come to them for help. "Because we are limited in per- sonnel, the demand for our services far outweighs what we can supply," Garrow said. He estimated that 40 per cent of the eligible people re- questing assistance at the clinics have to be sent to the county Bar Assn. 's lawyer referral service. Eligible clients are those whose incomes fall within revenue-sharing guidelines: $4,900 a year maximum income for the first family member; $1,000 a year additional inoome for each additional depenMnt family member.
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inches below the asphalt parking lot where he is working, and Debra King, right, takes a break and stretches her hands and fingers. These USO students are on an ar haeological dig in Old Town searching for the founda-
lion of a building that once stood on the site according to rough drawings in an 1850 survey of the area. Astructure much like the old one will be built on the site. - Photos by Dennis Huls, Evening Tribune Staff Photographer
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A La Jolla girl i. making her mark from coast to : coa t and she has left her fingerprints to prove it. Sh • Delle Willett of 7431 La Jolla Blvd , once know!\ a the "official poster girl" while attending th Univer 1ty of San Diego. She was graduated from USO in 1964 with a degree in fine arts. It wa while attending USD that she became mtere led m commercial art, doing work for school publications Today, he operates her own finn known as :"d lie' touch" specializing in the production of •multi-occasion greeting cards and gift-enclo..•;ure ards tern from the fact that she uses prrnts a the base for unusual _paintings on ards ~~'t) .:t-~~ ALUMNI ELECT RALPH FEAR Ralph Fear of University City has been elected President of the University of San Diego Alumni Association. Fear, a 1963 graduate of the University, is a deputy district attorney for the County of San Diego. Fear's first announcement was that the Alumni Fund Drive is ahead of schedule, with $20,000 of the $30,000 goal already in. Two successful telethons have increased participation. Serving with Fear as officers are: Rosemary Johnston of Mira Mesa, vice president; Pam Leighton of San Diego, secretary; and Tim Shaw of San Diego, treasurer. U) C; . l..\l ...,_') -J~,\~ '1s-' •
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