News Scrapbook 1962-1964

• TCLE..\R--POWl-.HED ~A VAN:"lo.\lI VI l'fED -The .\Jost Re>et<'nd Bhhop, 't'<.'0nd from IHt a.bow, and Very J~,·. .\lsi,'t'. Donald F. Do>.ie, Bl.,hop•, ',Ptrt'tal), ar.. ,flown lihoard thr, Sarnnnah, the world', flr,l nuclt'ar-powerl'd mn<'hnnt ,hll', gu,-.,t, of Commodorl' Ga,ton R. O,-Groot,-, rn11tain or tlw savannah, Ct'ntf>r, durln,:- th~ hl11'<; ,i,it to '-an Di<·i;o. Otlwrs are damp., ~lorrJi.,..,t•)-·, chief en~inet:r, e-c.·ontJ from nght, antl Dr. l'etf'rs, the •hip' doctor. Ht. u .., .. H,r;-r. ,J, ,\, ('. \ an

\"t>ggPI, pastor of St. Brigld'H parish, I shown bf'I0\\ prf'sf'ntlng a dlo('t--an rltatfon to Commudore u.. nroote on bf'ha Ii of Ill C C<'llf'llf'~• for thl' Commodore•, dhth1,p1i,lwd rolr In ti,,, tlt>ld of nn<·IPur ,,•lf'n<'f> anti hi, out..tan

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COLLEGE TALK Students Read for

Professors By PIDLLIS DUDICK Two-hundred and thirty. three students were paid to read at San Diego State la~t month. An average of ZZ7 has been employed as "readers" each month since September. Th e s e students assist professors in grading examinations and clerical work. Members of Grossmont College' honorary schol- arship clety, Alpha Gam- ma Sigqia, formed a cam- pus tutoring service in time for final examinations this semester. They're offering a,s sis t a.n c e in language's sciences, mathematics and history. Clarence Uri is AGS president. Uni.-..r~ity of San Diego students celebrate tonight at the traditional semester- end Blue and White Ball. Senior Scott G a v i n is dance chairman. Cal-Western sophomore Linda Mayer is competing for a place among the na- tion's 10 best-dressed col- lege c o e d s. S h e is the school's entry in Glamour Magazine's annual contest. Westerners Donna Couch- man and Holly Jack have been named to .1adamoi- selle Magazine's college board. The coeds are com- peting nationally for a sum• mer guest editorship with the magazine. Cal-Camp, a s u m m e r camp for underprivileged children, is a major cam- pus project at the Univer- sity of Calliornia (Berke- ley), reports senior 1arcia Ruskin, a Hoover High graduate. The camp is fi. nanced through campus fund:raising evi:nts and led by student counselors. Each summer about 200 children attend.

Frank Ponce Wins Wilson Fellowship F>-ank Ponce has ason to be pleased wllh hunsel!. Pleased but nol sat1 fied ! F r the road to his eventual goal an academic car er ,s tn, lbng, It IS rugged too. But he lta•~reEtcli1e.d, important · lone on the way. ...,,,...,.,,,,_ w o !lo" ,hip marks t s at hool, the arduous .studies, dili-

Frank Ponce Is Awarded Fellowship (Continued from Page 1) the discipline and industry characteristic of his earher years. "The fellowship is based partly on my record at col- lege," Ile says, "and partly on an essay of 1,500 words which I ha.ct to submit for the award." Nor Is this all. The can- didate for a fellowship is re- quired to appear befot•e a regional committee for what amounts to an oral exam- ination. A group of five professors, drawn from Western colleges and universities, conducted an "interview" to determine the intellectual interests and capacities of the USD candi- date and the pt·ofcssion he plans to enter. ..The committee was im- p1·essed wrh my showing," he sairl. "1'hcy were inquisillYe and rather dcmandrng but ve1·y genial. Upon the recornmendaUon of the reg;lona I group, the Na- tional Selection Committee, headquartered at Princeton, N. J., appomted Frank Ponce a "Woodrow \Vilson Fellow for the a ca d e m i c year 1963-64." ' Outstanding res u I t s in English, the new l<'ellow's major at USD. in philosophy, French and Spanish have earned for him free tuition and fees at the graduate school of his choice. In addi- tron. he rrccivcs 11 •·stipc11d'' of ~1.500 for living expenses, "Stanford already has a.c- ceptPd my a.pplicR.lion,'' Frank said, "but I probably will rnroll at Claremont. I hke lhe !11c1li!i~s offered and the faculty has a very good repu- tation. ..It is also ll('llr home,'' he added with a smile. English liter-aturc, prl'fe1·- ably tlie Ehzabethan authors and Shakcspea re, will be the chief study for his ma.~lct ..s deg-rec. Linguistics also w,11 be included, And then? Frank w,n stnve to purnue the three- year course for a Ph.D. m literature with a new lo a leaching Ct\l'CCl'. It would seem he will be dlssatisfled unlit he finds ,t.

Jmown no o h r school," he i; y~. From his native Driggs in Idaho to school in San Ber- nardino was a big step in the life of a five-year-old boy. It was also to prove eventful in time. School and books and teachers always have consti- tuted the USD student's chief intercst:s. Wo1·k for tuition and incidental expenses usu- ally closes his busy day. But it is to the directors of his earlv education, particularly to h·is tutors at Newman High in Fontana and later at Aquinas in San Bernardino that he gives the credit for the record and references which in· September, 1959. gained him admission to the University of San Diego. "l\!y teachers were wonder- ful," he recalls. And if "the bO)' Is faL'1El' of the man" then in the case of Frank Ponce the maxim

gence. patience and attent· n he has brought to them In- deed have earned an enVlable reward. A senior at University of San Diego's College for Men, Frank Ponce is a product of Catholic schools. "I have . . .

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