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1,resident of the Califorma rm ions, and the Spanish g°' ernmcnt. Fathe1· Serra thought the town should grow up around the m1 • ions and be under mis- ion iulc. S pa i n thought olher- wi ·e, however, and in l 7bl, a site near the Porci- uncula River ("Hio de nue,tra senora la reina de los angeles de Porciucu- la") wa. cho en. The Pueblo of Los Angeles, the second of the California pueblos, was di vidcd into to11 n lots with farmin" tracts out ide the pueblo it elf, which the colonizers \I ere to "·or~ during the in 1966. He Jived at 1178 Virginia Way, La Jolla. He was wi h the firm, Gel- fund, Greer and Popko before JO g Bear. Kuykendall and R ardson onths ago. He was a m of the San Diego Bar Association. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rich- ardson of San Diego.

18 lo$ ~nirdtf 't!!mtt Sec. E-Sun.,Sept.28, 1969 ~-,1\.j\f ILIES Continued from TJ1ird Page people were more lik1t econd rlass citizens. 'fh1t people in control lh·ed on tbe ranchos,• ys Dr. Wil on. nea on this, she explain , was he prom- inence of the. ranchos on which fa:nili and rela- li ves of the owner, some- times numbermg 100 or more, lived under rancho de facto goYern l. Only 20 rancho grant, ere awarded duri g the l';panish period, ho ~·ever, :ind these went to retired Spanish soldiers a re- ward or in lieu of back pay The fir t grants wer1t 1,\·arded in 1784, after years of fruitle.s petitions, to three !Oldiers who had bel"n on the Portola ex- pedition of 1779. J e Maria Verdugo received land in the Glendale area. J.fariano de la Luz Domin- i:uez'11 rancho was in th1t San Pedro area and Man- uel Xieto received all the land from the San Gabriel River to the Santa Ana River and from the moun- tains to the ·ea. Rancho familiP.s inter- married and led a life Independent of the pueb- ]()~ until the .1exican peri- od. At this time, ranc-ho n w n er began building 1owQ house in the pueblo. .Tose Antomo Carri 11 o, who3e family's contribu- tions to the early days California "ill be spot- Iig'1ted at the Fir~t Ccntu- 1 Families luncheon, pe- ioned for a lot' in th1t p za an built one of the t ana most elaborate \n hou es on the site h~re the Pico Hou.e now Cand • Early California hi,,tory r.hanged abruptly as foreigner began filtering in, with the first American overland expedition reach- I"!"' California in 182G What Dr. Wilson calls "the beginning of the end" fo1• Spanish-speaking Cali- , o r n i an~ really began ·hen the first American families mi.grated to Ca'i- fornia in lS·H. By 1846, ~he reports, there were 7,000 Spanish - speaking :ind 7,000 Americans in California. Proved Title After California's inde- penden and statehood in 1850, ea y California fa- milies were f o r c e d to prove title to their lands. "The U.S. land commis- sioners couldn't believe that individual families had been awarded such large parcels of rand," says Dr. Wilson. "Boundaries were very J,azy," she notes. Descrip- tions were 30metimes little, more than 'from the old oak tree to the forked can- yon." There were other prob- lem•, too. In the tradition of Spain, a gentleman's word had been as good as hi~ bond-and thus e.1rly land grant confirmatio were often no more "th n a scra, ·led message that m e a n l something Ii e, '0.K. You can haYe it.'" It took an average of 17 years to prove land grants, a a y s Dr. Wilson, and Southern California fami• lies had to travel to courts fn San Francisco to do it. "Families would run out of monev and would have to pay their attorneys in land,• she said. Those who were able to hang onto their property were m01,e often tho~e familie~ who had inter- married with YankePs. "Old Spanish gentlemen from the old tradition had a hard time competing with the energeti Yankees," •he notes. Although the Spanish- life style disappeared in •octhern California dur- ing the gold rush, th!! greatest change i1;1 South- l'Tll California life styles rl.id not occur until :after the arrirnl of the railroad ln the 18'30s, according to Dr. Wilson.

California, in 1781, ,1a~ con idered . uch an unde- n·able place to li1 e that Spain. had to prombe free land, food and transporta- t10n plus a two-year wage nuarantee to induce the Jmeblo of Los Angeles' fir.,t settlers to come here. "Callfornia ,1 as o bar- ' en that it \I as practically th Siberia of the new 11 or!d,• acC'ording to Iris lliibie \\'il,on 1 m-o[e;- sor of i?Lorx at the JToi; VC1'8ity of San Diego. wl•o \\ ill ue cnbe the pueblo's r.1tly cla:s at the l<'ir"t Century Families lunch- eon Oct. 9, at the Los n eles llilton. Tho e mo t attract- Pd by Spam's land in- ducements \I ere u ually orph n or former pri o- ner recruited main I y from the Sonora region of I ;ic1co, according to Dr Wil on. She a y s th a t Spam, un:ike England, did not ha, e a large popula t1on of malcontents with which to colonize the new 11orld. Unique Concept nder Spain's unique concept of colonization throu'"'h military rule, as- re igious ronver ion of the Indian , the mb,ion ystem origin- ·IIy ,, as de igned to be phased out, its lands divid- er! amon" the lndians ,ith the mh,ion;; becom- 111.. par! h churches, ac- cordmg to Dr. Witson. C' eation of towns sepa- rate from the mission sy - tern , as a urce of con- flict bet\\ een Father Ju- 111pero Serra, who was imilation, and

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OUR lU L'l'l\'EUSl'f\' Cl'.l'Y :s such that Robin Goodenough serves on the alumni board at USD, his law sc:hool alma ma1er, while tcachmg t the new Wr>s!ern .StalPs CollP.ge of Law and continuing his Ph.D studi<'s a( USIU.... u~. .,,,_ ,;./rG, U D Elans Fall Pol itica I Series University of San Die o's fall John V Tunney, D-Calif.; us. political communica seneij Senator Alan Cran ton D-Calif will feature five . a li~rcs and representatives fr~m the of~ th,s year, the Pol:Ucal c1ence . Clubhasdlsclo.ed. fice of Gov..Reagan and the Speakers will includ Rep. Li- :::~!~ Republican Central Com- onel Van DeerJin, D-S n Diego, 1---·--------- Oct. 10; Assemblyman adie P. Deddeh, D-Chula Vista, Oct. 27; A scmblyman Pete Wilson R an Diego, Nov. 7; State Sen'. J es R. Mills, ·D-San Diego,,

PLAZA REVISITED Mrs. Theodore Jackson Knopp, (:)ft, Mrs. James B. Duffy Jr., v1s1t plaza whNe en once5tor, Jose Antonio Carrillo, bu,(t one of first town houses on s te of Pico House, 1n 1821. -

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N v. 14, and Dr. Max Rafferty, ~t te superintendent of public m ruction, Nov. 20. All meetings will be held in the Rose Room of USD's College for Women, according to Jack Kaufman, club president. Other speak rs who have ac- cepted -if a cable dates can be worked out include Mur- ray Goodrich, San Diego County Democratic party leader; Rep. Bob Wilson, R-San Diego; state Alty. Gen. Thomas C. Lynch; Senator George Murphy, R-Cahf.; state Senator Jack S~hrade, R-San Diego; Califor- rua Assembly minority floor leader Jesse M. Unruh; Rep. USD GRAD DIVISION SAN DIEGO --The Gradu- ate Division of the University of San Diego begins classes Monday, Sept. 8, with I a t e registration until Sept. 19. The Graduate Division of. fers programs in education, English, French, history so- cial science, and Spanish.' The division also offers a Master of Arts in teaching and a Mas- ter of Science in education. For further information phone 291-6480, or write Graduate Division, University of San Diego, Alcala Park, San Di- ego 92110, for the catalogue of University of San Diego Coordinate Colleges. / ' • * ~I". :! "{,,, -b,o-, ,. :1 University sets graduate work Graduate D1v1.;ion of the University of San Diego b-e- gins classes Monday, with late registration possible un- liil Sept. 19. The Gra

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USD Expects Enrollment Record Today (Continued) econ mies, French and thea r acts. Father Baer aid th mergers of a d mic departments be- tween tl:c colleges ha paved the way f r unJtcation at all levels. De rtmen of rel gious stud• ies a d education are now opcr• ated a un:versity-wide ba is. Uniq courses to be offered this year will include H1stonc Site .'.Iethods, hich falls under the joint superv1 ion of the his- tory and anthropology d :irt- rnents. It will include ex- cavations by students at the ruins o Mission S,1n Dte 0 o de Alcala. A course titled lluman Ecolo- gy al o is being offered thtS year along v. ith clas e in Black Lit- erature to be developed with the assistance of an Afncan student Col. Irving Salomon. for!'ler U•. delegate to the United i' a• lions, has been appo:nted v:s- iting profe ·or of politic-al sci- ence. and will teach a class ti- tled International Crises. Newest course at the School of Law is in tbe field of Poverty Law, according to law school of- ficials. It is a two- emester of. fcling which 11 ill involve work with the Legal Aid SOCJety. The course covers the theory and application of law as it af- fects those with low mcome · and "ii I concentrate on we: fare programs, hous:ng, education and c nsumcr law. music, phy

GILBERT R. FOX ... a first

tli1./4#"k. r.i, ' ' layman Heads Board Of USD College For the first time, a layman has been named chairman of the board of trustees of the Univer- sity of s., 1 Diego College for Worn.en, it was announced yes- terday. He·is Gilberf Fox, vice presi- dent and manager of the down- town branch of the Bank of America. One of his daughters, Colleen, is a Sister of Charity of Providence. Until now, the board had been headed by a member of the Re- ligious of the Sacred Heart, the order that built and manages the college. LAYMEN BACKED In announcing the appoint- ment, the Rev. Mother Frances Danz, former chairman of the board and superior of the reli- gious at the college, said: "The bishops at the Vatican Council requested that more lay- men be brought into the world of education. This is in line with that philosophy." Lay trustees were first ap- poin(ed to the College for Wom- en board two years ago. Last Y.ear lay trustees were named to the board of the College for Men. KEYES NAMED TRUSTEE An alumnus of the college of men,. Robert J. Keyes, Gov. Reagan's assistant for commu- nity relations, has been named a trus ee of the university; A former professional football player, Keyes taught accounting at St. Augustine High School. He was appointed to his present post in 1967.

GRAYIT S. RICHARDSON Member of law firm

ew Mark et In USD E llment S hool Expecting 2, 0 Full-Time Students Today

Thursday, September 11, 1969 USO Law Grad Wins Top Honor James B. Franklin, 32, of 522 Catalina B v

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