News Scrapbook 1979

SAN DIEGO CLIPPING SERVICE EVENING TRIBUNE JUL 3 0 1979

~NEIL MORGAN

PARK LANE: The young men who do the valet parking at La Valencia Hotel in La Jolla know their clientele. They toss keys of parked cars into two cardboard Ice buckets. One is labeled MERCEDES. The other OTH- ERS. NOTEPAD: Dave William of the BBC has been touring our city In preparatlo film In a Brltl b ries o merl an cit- ies. On t Londo r's map, all- fornla bas two cities, both to the rth I . Williams thinks bis theme Is about San Diego, "tbe forgotte city. ' ... Sao Diego's education boom goe on at USO, where the student body ba dou- bled In a decade. It'll be at about 4,000 this fall, wltb a projected ~p-out at 5,000.

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SAN DIEGO UNION AUG 5 1979 The ·Thouve Quartet of Midl nel S~ring featured . and will be P m F 'd m concert at 8 . · ri ay i th sity of San Dn e Vniver- Hall, iego Camino

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AUG 4 7979 String quartet to perform

The Thouvenel String Quartet will perform music by Mozart, Beethoven and Krenek at 8 p.m. Friday in the Cammo Hall at the University of San Diego. Admission costs $5, and tickets are available at the door. The Thouvenel Quartet includes first violinist Eugene Pu:due, second Michael Rosenbloom, violist Sally Chisholm and cellist Jeffrey Levenson.

AN IMPORTANT PART of the Toulouse program was the inclusion of volunteers from among the university's undergraduate student body, about one for each 10 seniors, to share every part of the course. -~~~~~~l,liij,,w;r, associate professor of socio ogy a was chosen to handle selection and supervision o the undergraduate participants in the USD program. Dr. Fuelner said the undergraduates are in the program to add an intergenerational aspect to it. " In this country age groups are becoming segregated," she said . "There is very little contact between seniors and young people because each group lives apart from the other. Seniors live near seniors and young people live near young people." DR. FUELNER selected six undergraduates for the program. Meanwhile, ~ad a lunch for members of the news media, who proceeded to spread the word about the Unixecsjty 9 1 !be IbicdAge. "The response from the public was fantastic," Rafferty said. "We received close to 600 phone calls. Of those, 392 people asked for applications." Rafferty said 278 applications were submitted for the 1978 program. Krulak said the applicants were screened three times, and measured against the criteria of apparent need, ability to contribute and deduced ability to get along in a group. Fifty-five seniors, with an average age of 63, were chosen for the program. ON JULY 24, 1978, the University of the Third Age made its American debut. By the time the program ended six weeks later, the Third Agers had heard 45 different lecturers speak on 52 subjects. They had also engaged in a daily physical exercise program and had received about 25 hours of instruction in either basic French or Spanish conversation. According to Rafferty, the 1978 program was an unqualified success. This year's program began on July 9 and will run through Aug. 16. Graduation is scheduled for Aug. 17. THE 57 SENIORS and five undergraduates involved have already heard lectures on the death penalty, the free enterprise system, the Equal Rights Amendment, the San Diego power structure, nuclear energy and health care. In the remaining two weeks other speakers will discuss the SALT talks, law enforcement, cancer and investments. This year's group also participates in a daily

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As 'students' at USO Senior citizens 'grow young'

By David Matt Green SAN DIEGO-"Old age 1s the only period of lifew1th no apparent future ." Those words, spoken by the narrator in a film about the l loiversitY of §a • Q'.?fiiC'f I \Qtlf@CSl!V at thP Jhi[d &s,e,, are being disputed and disproven by the 5Tsen1or c1t1zens·taking part in this year's six-week program. Modeled after a program developed at the University of Toulouse, France, the University of th,e Third Age was instituted last summer by USD s Continuing Education Department as a pilot pro1ect to work with a non-traditional student segment described as the "third age." IN A BOOKLET about last year's program, the first age is said to be "growing up," the second "growing old," and the third "growing young." Malachi Rafferty, director of the Continuing Education Department, said the goal of the University of the Third Age is stimulation, not education. "We want to get them out of their doldrum environment and into a program that might stimulate them to new act1v1ty," Rafferty said. The president of USD, Dr Author Hughes, said the program "offers an opportunity for the non traditional student to be reawakened . It exposes them to a whole new field " DR. HUGHES SAID the credit for bringing the Third Age program to USD goes to Victor Krulak, a reti_red Marine Corps lieutenant general and former v1ce- pres1dent of Copley Newspapers. Krulak had heard about the Toulouse program, and went to France to investigate it. Convinced of the v lue of the concept, he returned to San Diego and contacted the University of San Diego. After much discussion between Krulak and the USD administration, 1t was resolved in April 1978 that a pilot University of the Third Age project would be conducted on the USD campus that summer. Rafferty was placed 1n overall charge and Krulak agreed to prepare a detailed daily program and procure speakers from the community

exercise program and receives either French or Spanish lessons. All of the Third Agers seem pleased with the program. When questioned, their responses ranged from, "I think it's the greatest," to "I'm enjoying it tremendously," to "It's absolutely beautiful.'' JIM ABBOTT, one ot'the undergraduates, said he knew the program would be interesting, but he "didn't think it would be as much fun as it is. The program is about as perfect as you can get it," he added. Both Dr. Hughes and Rafferty said the program will continue. "We are glad is involved in the University of the Third Age," Dr. Hughes said. "It provides a much- needed service to the community." "We will definitely continue to do it," Rafferty said. JOHN DONOHUE, a retired child psychiatrist who looks like Santa Claus, said the program is a good one, because "the only way to stave off senility is to keep using your mind." This seems to be in agreement with a statement by Krulak that "there is, indeed, a vast reservoir of energy, productivity and wisdom latent in America's elderly, waiting only for programs like this to set it free." Krulak added that the graduates of the University of the Third Age "will live longer, more happily and more meaningfully" because of the program. If that is true, old age may suddenly have a future.

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Jennie Glasel and Terry Gardner are among 57 senior citizens who are participating in the six-. week program aimed at stimulating them to new activity, thus helping them to "grow young." (David Matt Green photo)

'GROWING VOUNG'-Students in the University of San Diego's University of the Third Age program laugh at a joke durin~ a French conversation class taught by Nadine Speck. In the front row, from left, Deil Finch,

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