News Scrapbook 1980

Tuesday, Aprll 22, 1980

Page 8 - The Vlst a Press

What's Doing in San biego County

EVENING TRIBUNE

~ .;6 - Talk planned on sex guide The Rev. Dr. Raymond Ryland will speak on the proposed public school sex education program and manual for grades K-12 at 8 p.m. Monday in De Sales Hall at the Umversity of San Diego. Ryland is professor of re- . ligious studies at USD. Bishop Leo T. Maher of the San Diego Roman Cath- olic Diocese has issued a pastoral letter denouncing the program as in some ways '·in direct 'O t adic- tion to Catllolir- imd teaching ·

Students know their history

STARRING_-Students Bob Sullivan and Daniell~ Ff 5 gre 0 will ~lay the principal roles in the University o on. iego s production of Lerner and Loewe's romant~c comedy "Brig~doon." The pl~y will run May I 4 at the Com,no Theatre on· campus.

Vistans win honors in contest

David Hedrick, Mark Donica and Wilma Comstock. Below, Diana Colucci (left) and Ama Kulikowski won second place for their research project on Alonzo Horton, the father of San Diego, in the senior division. Also, at right, Jaime Mills won an honorable mention for her research . paper on Amelia Earhart. -Staff photos by Charlie Neuman

Students from St. Francis School in Vista entered the National History Day competition at the University of San Diego recently and came away with a number of awards. In the junior division, students won second place for their movie, "Danie l Boone." Students who participated were (above left to right) . Nadine Piche, Sister Fide/ma, Matt Donica,

SAN DIEGO UNION

SAN DIEGO UNION

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f 'BRIGADOON' - The University of San Diego will open the Lame~ and Loewe romantic musical Thursday at 8 p.m. with pe_rformance.s daily through Saturday at 8 p.m. and a 2.30 matinee next Sunday in the college's Camino Theater.

New This Week --...J

Founders' Gallery: Eighth Annual Student All-Media Competitive Exhibition, April 28 through May 23. University of San Diego. Mon.-Fri., 10-4. 291 -6480.

Classifieds/Legals

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1980 C-1

Grant grandson a winning topic San Pasqual senior's research on local man nets history award By TED WITT T-A Staff Writer

Griffin obtained copies of Chapman Grant's military commissions {Grant was a major) from special orders from the University of Southern Illi- nois, where the Ulysses S. Grant Asso- ciation is located. The association has histories of U.S. Grant's descendants. "There are lots of U.S. Grants around today," Griffin said he learned. "It's hard keeping them all straight." In addition j; the .military history of Chapman ~nt, Griffin also investi- gated the ~'>:ientific accomplishments of the E!':o.:Jndido resident. In tha: ·study, Griffin learned that Grant was a herpetologist. Herpetolo- gy is 1e branch of zoology that deals witr , eptiles and amphibians. Grant wa~ a member of the first expedition of men to the Leeward Islands, which include the islands of Midway, Kure, Layson and Necker, Griffin learned. "He was a debunker," the 17-year- old Griffin s· i.rt of Grant. "He de- bunked comm1m notions about sci- ence." And, often, he was right. To collect data about the scientific wr\ting and military accomplish- ments, Griffin spent a lot of time in libraries. He headed for the Escondi- do Public Library, the Palomar Col- lege library, the Natural History Mu- seum, the San Diego Public Library, and the San Pasqual High School li- brary.

ESCONDIDO- Rob Griffin's inter- est in the Civil War led him to re- search its history through the Chap- man Grant family of Escondido. And the San Pasqual High School senior was surprised at what his research turned up. Griffin expected to uncover details related to the life of Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general who was the 18th president of the United States. In- stead, he discovered Chapman Grant was a celebrity in his own right. And his personal discoveries about 93-year-old Chapman Grant earned him first place in countywide History Day competition sponsored by the University of San Diego. Chapman Grant, grandson of Presi- dent Grant, is a resident of Escondido and a member of the Grant family, which has held rank in the San Diego area since 1893. Griffin had an acquaintance with the Grant family, so when the History Day competition was anno~e naturally thought of a par.ier on Ulys- ses S. Grant. But as he talked with some members of the G:ant family and othe-: contacts (Gr:z,,•t himself was not interv·e~e request of the family), tfie name Chapman Grant kept coming to the forefront. And General Grant was taking a back seat.

SOUTHERN CROSS APR 2 4 19811

Baseball Toreros lose in three of four SCBA games

In a doubleheader the following day at Fullerton, USD's Mike Saverino and Bart Brainard each col- lected four hits as the Toreros salvaged a split losing the opener 7-4 but bouncing back to take the nightcap 4-3. McDonald (4·4) was on the mound again for USO in the first game, but was chased in the first inning as Fullerton scored three runs. Torero Andy Asaro blasted a solo home run in the fourth inning, his third of the year. MARTY Sturgeon (4-4) picked up the win in the second contest despite letting up two circuit clouts. USD's SCBA record now stands at 6-7, while its overall mark is 20-18-1.

The University of San Diego basi,!ball squad had a difficult time with its Southern California Base- ball Association schedule last week as it lost three of four games played. Loyola-Marymount Uni- versity in Los Angeles hosted the Toreros April 15 and handed USO an 8-4 loss. The Toreros allowed 12 hits and committed five fielding errors as pitcher Jamie McDonald absorbed the loss. USD entertained Fuller- ton State University at home April 18 as the visitors pushed across a run in the top of the ninth inning to win, 3-2. Greg McSparran (7-3) went the distance on the mound for the Toreros.

Stall Photo by Ted Wilt

GRIFFIN WITH GRANT FAMILY RESEARCH tory buffs, representatives of the Escondido Historical Society. And he contacted the publisher of the Galena, Ill., Gazette who forwarded him infor- mation on the Grant Memorial home there. Griffin said he has been urged to write a magazine article on the sub- ject, and he is seriously considering it. Most of all his project has taught him about researching techniques, he said.

-one thing His projec taught nun, Griffin said, is that a person can't just go to his high school library and ex- pect to do serious research. Griffin had to go beyond the Escondido Pub- lic Library as well, because the city library's collection on the Grant fami- ly Is limited. But in addition to libraries, people .were important. "I did more inter- views than anything else," he said. He talked with the Grant family, a newspaper reporter, Grant's personal nurse, former Grant secretaries, his-

And that is one of the major pur- poses of History Day, said Stanley Dean, Griffin's history teacher. "What they are doing Is basic history research - how to deal with historical information and put in an organized maMer so that it can be understood," Dean said. "That is pretty basic. They are also finding that history is interesting. That's what I see as the great value of these things - that they can get turned on to history as a great sub- ject."

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