News Scrapbook 1975-1977

A Cousteau Fears The Worst

SAN DIEGO UNION

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T e·r, ·ef Trials Are Triumphs (Continued from Page D-1) amount of recognition in her five years of law practice. She too, has been active with both the state and county bar associa- tions. She ls also active with the Califoml~ Women Lawyers' Associ- ation. I!)•,: anuary, she received the Outstar.dmg Young Citizen award by the San Diego Junior Chamber of Commerce, the first woman to receive the award, and, in April, was named "Woman of the Year" by the President's Council of Women's Ser- vice, Business and Professional Clubs. "I think the awards were probably because I have been involved in such a variety of things, both law-related and community. Also, I have not just been a member, but have served as president of organizations, such as the USD Alumni Association. I was first woman president of that." She was also a founder of the Lawyers' Club, a four-year old or- ganization which includes men, but was founded to deal with feminist principles. She said she got the idea of becom- ing a lawyer while still a young girl because an older cousin, whom she admired, was a lawyer. "I remember being impressed by his office, and when he told me that if I became a lawyer I could practice with him, I decided. Of course, my reasons for wanting to be a lawyer changed later." It wasn't until high school, she said, that she realized people felt there was something strange about a woman wanting to be a lawyer. "I was always being pressured by counselors to take shorthand and typing, but was afraid of getting into the business cycle, which really meant clerical." Unlike her husband, she was not particularly active in high school because her parents worked and she had the responsibility for a younger brother after school and did other baby-sitting for her expenses. While going to UCLA, she worked for the telephone company as an operator, then in the engineering department. "I did my 'flourishing' in law school." Friedman is in private practice and Ms. Schenk is with the legal department of San Diego Gas and Electric Co. Both are adjunct profes- sors at University of San Diego Law School. Friedman has been very involved with his wife's projects, most nota- bly the Women's Bank, of which she was a founder. "When several of us started dis- cussing the idea, I immediately called Hugh, told him we had a crazy idea and wanted to talk about it," she said. "If he had made us feel as if the whole thing were a fantasy, we would have dropped it right then." For two years he encouraged and helped the women realize their goal, completed this past March. The Women's Bank, Ms. Schenk

heir Brief Trials Are Triumphs During their 3½-year marriage, Now, th ey say, th ey compromISe. he was in high school, at Yale and at lawyers Lynn Schenk and Hugh Friedman said_ he has learned to StaJlford. Friedman have learned a lot from see issues he nu~t n ~ave been In high school, Fried was an each other. aware of ;- particularly ill regards active student involved in sports Ms. Schenk, 31 and practicing law to womens problems. . (track and basketball) and student for about five years, ls, her husband In turn, Ms. Schenk said she has government. says, "sensitive to needs for leaf!1ed to look at problems more "I liked high school. I flourished changes, quick to find a wrong and realistically, in terms of what can be there. Unfortunately, I was too busy to want to do something about it." done. . . , . with working and studies during Friedman, 44, graduated from Bo th are achievers. Friedman IS college and law school to be as Stanford University Law School in now president of the San Diego involved in school activities." 1956, says he has a generally more County Bar ~iation. Ms. Schenk Since receiving his law degree he conservative approach to change. has JUsl been ~,eked as ?n_e of 17 has again "flourished," both as a

professional and in the community. Recipient of the county Bar Assocla- lion award of honor in 1965, he has been chairman of the San Diego County Civil Service Commission, chairman of the state bar commis- sion on administrative agencies and tribunals, president and director of the Legal Aid Society, and was a founder of Defenders, Inc. The fellowship appointment not the first honor for Ms. Sch=. who has received an im ressi

perso_ns nationwide to p~Cipate In a White House Fell~ws~1p program. Both knew early ID life what they wanted to do - and that t~ey would have to do a, Jot of 1t on therr own. Friedman s fll:ther was a lawyer died when his son :was 6. There was nu question of poverty - my moth~r was a secretary and able to proVIde - but I knew early on that I would have to earn my own allowance and spending !:1oney and, later, money for college. This he did by playing clarinet and saxoph e with dance bands while

- Stoff Pholo bY Ted Winfield Early in life, Lynn Schenk and husband Hugh Friedman knew they wanted co Ix :momcys. Now she has been sclccrcd ro participate in a White House fellowship program, and he is president of San Diego Coumy Bar Association.

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- Staff Photo by Ted Winfield Lynn Schenk has little leisure rime, bur she and husband Hugh Friedman do go biking occasionally.

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said, was planned to help answer one of women's most common problems - attaining credit. Credit for women has been Ms. Schenk's specialty as an extra volun- teer activity. "I have spoken to many groups and participated in seminars on the subject. Other women lawyers have specialized in different problems, such as employment discrimina- tion." Ms. Schenk said It is probably "nervous energy" that has helped her handle so many diverse activi- ties. "Having to work all through school also helped me learn to orga- nize my time. When you know you have a half-hour free, you learn to cram in some studying during that time." "Much of our spare time," Fried- man said, "has been spent in im- proving opportunities for women to get what they deserve in law and in

political appointments." All of which leaves the couple little time to be together. When they do have time, they travel,• or, if at home, ride bikes or work in the garden. "I'm a good gardener and ,ynn's an outstanding cook," he says. · Ms. Schenk's year-long mternship in Washington, D.C., will begin in September in the vice president's office. Ms. Schenk was first chosen as one of 99 regional finalists, who were then narrowed down to 30 national finalists. "The 30 finalists went to Washing- ton for a long, intense weekend of interviews. There we were probed on everything - current events, our philosophies. It was actually very stimulating, since the people inter- viewing us were very impressive. After the weekend, 17 of us were chosen." By Noel Osment

White House job for Schenk LyM Schenk of La Jolla is one of 30 persons chosen nationwide as a 11176-77 Whit House Fellow. Schenk:

an attorney for San Diego o.. I Electric Co. also an adjunct oJ .law at her alma , University of San ,Diego Schoofof Law. Her usband, Hugh Fried· man, als.o is an attorney.

Beginning Sept. 1, she will serve as a special assistant to a senior member of the Wbite House staff or member o the cabinet.

Nursing making it the third baccalaureate degree nursing school in the San Diego area.

l!S~ City deske3/1'>] · THE UNIVERSITY of S n Diego 's newly formed Philip Y. Hahn School of Nurs- i ng has been ac- credited by the National League for

University Women The. Sa_n Diego branch of the Amer can As~oc1at1on of University Women ins !ls officers at 9:30 a .m . Saturday, June 12, at th~ br~nch_clubhouse at 6545 Alcala Knolls Di;1ve m Lmda Vista , / -rw..J-ua+r',a-e../-wUJl.-::/,m(. ~/ :,..c,