News Scrapbook 1969-1971

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USD's Moore Cited For Sports l?rioJl~-~,!11 Will le Moore. director of the University of San Diego summer a thletic program for disadvantaged youth, under federal spon- 1orshlp, wa cited by the President's Council for Youth Oppor- tun it ies. Tran1mltting the citation, Mayor Frank Curran said, "Due to tlX' cHorts r int r ted a nd

THE SAN DIEGO UNION /'J.. ©'J• ' If FINANCIAL NEWS LEWIS D. GILBERT HERE orporate Gadfly Makes 'Em Listen By WAY E CARPENTER Vinancial Writer, The San Diego Union They call him "the corporate gadfly" and he loves lt. ~i name is ~cwis D. Gilb rt and his principal e(aim_ to fame 1s _regularly l pping big corporate ~mgpms _on th~ wnsts when hu aren't being done m a busmcs:,;hke enough m r for this sclf-stvled defondrr of shareholder~• rig t • Even the famed warrior, Gen. Douglas MacArthur didn't escape Gilbert's attack when Gilbert demanded to know' during an annual meeting of Remington Rand Corp. (now' Sperry Rand), why the general, as president of the company, didn't own any of the company's stock. "It's none of your business what I do with my personal mon- ey," the general retorted, Gilbert recalled yesterday in a San Diego interVJew But he next year MacArthur showed up at the annual meeting as the owner of 800 shares of the company's stock. Gilbert tmversity. "We often lose battles, but we seldom lose wars." * * Gilbert estimates be attends the annual meetings of about 150 corwrations a year, prodding and di,ggmg to make the firms change their ways if the ways need changmg. The • ·ew Yorker's ultimate objective ! to make the annual meeting a true forum for stockholders, they large or small. And that's a job that he has been pursuing since 1933 follow- ing a short career as a newspaper reponer fo~ small New York City area papers. Among Gilbert's chief objectives is to have companies hold annual meetings where they are convenient for stockholders to atlend and to issue follow-up reports to tockholders who were unable to be present at the meetings. The_ ~n Diego visitor said companies often attempt to avoid que t10mng by stockholders by scheduling their meetings in lit e towns "54 miles from nowhere " * * * Ia addition to attending so maay hundreds of meetings be has lost count. Gilbert and his brother produce the "Gilbert Re- port," a 250-page volume contaimng much intelligence of value to shareholders and investors generally. It includes reports on the meetings attended and various articles and comments about those meetings printed in newspapers and magazines. Gilbert gives away the reports, printed at his own expense. * * * , s to bis inve tment philosophy, Gilbert says persons should bay stocks "with proven earnings capability" and be patient, 'oven if you buy only 10 shares and hold them for 10 years." 1 He says he buys in both bull and bear markets and only ~ound swcks "that nobody wants at tga particular moment." Gilbert, a shareholder in about 800 U.S. cor- porations, makes a full-time job out of attend- ing _annual meetings and, in general, attempting to fmd whatever he can that may be faulty. Gilbert, with his brother ,John, has a staff of three, not counting numerous volunteers, work- ing with him on stockholders' behalf. •·we small stockholders 11111 never know what's going on m a company if we don't make an effort to keep the lop executives on their_ toes," he told I • tudents from the 1'.!li; vernfY o[ San Dil'go and California Western

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concern d c itize ns suc h as yourself we were able to in- l'rc sc the l v I of activities and program· t or the un • dcrprivil d cd youth of our l'1 ty "llow vcr, the nc d s till renuu ru, for mcrea ed year round and ·ummer programs,'" M yor Curran noted I oore ha been a thl ct1c train r t U D inc 1962. He rN1n'CI from the l/ S Marine Corps as a gunnery ·ergcant a ltl·r W y a rs of nice Th(• ci tation from the l'r<•s1d ·n t' · Council for You th Opportu nitics read . · In appreciation Willie Moore 1s commended for outstanding accomplishments in s upporting th Pr id nt's program to enhance the oppor tuni llcs for o,sadvantaged youth in the r, lds of employmen t , Music Clinic SetOct.18, 19 Kev Eugene l,mdu ky, O ·c, will conduct a two-day liturgical mus1<· clime at De Sale,, Hall, Umwr 1ty ol San Diego, on Octob r 18 and 19. Th clinic is sponsort'd by the D10cesan Music Commission under the cha,rrnansh p of Bishop John R. Qumn. f<'ather Lindusky is a national figure in Church music and a specialist in the field of music educatJon. lie i the former president of the largest organization of professional tholic mu icians in the U111tcd States, the National Catholic Mu ic Educators Association, with headquarters in Wa h1ngton, D.C. His articles tn MUSAHT, official organ of NCMEA, were a regular feature of this Journal The first day's clinic, October 18, will be conducted primarily for the music teachers of the diocese. October 19 will be set aside for diocesan choir directors, organists, singers and 111strumentalists. Both sessions will commence at 2:30 p.m. Members of the San Diego Diocesan Music Association will be admitted free. The fee for all others IS $3. &:~.?J,j /() I l 6 r

education , and recreation during the summer of 1%9 " Your e ffort has helped ma terially in improving the lives of these young America ns a nd equ iping them for a productive r ole as responsible c1hz ns of our. nation.' The citation was signed by Vice f> ·ident Spiro T. Agnew The federally-funded Sum- mer Youth Sports program, a nationa l program for youth betw n the ages of 12 a nd 18, brought · 0 youths on the USO campus for sports training and competition. The program was sponsored at the na tiona l level by the federa l gover nment and the Nationa l Colleg iate Athletic A ociation. health

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Tht rats infected JI areas of the hou~ s '.11th 11,e d~ ease which was found m thc1; urine. ihe dL~ea e apparently was not transfer ble between human, she sa d Dr. Shields said the tbreat of the epidemic I l'mams today because the :\fex1can govern ml'nt. disregarding Pr test ol local residents, continue to u e the DDT to kill the !llalarta- carr} mg mosqmh "Substance of the DDT kills the cats and with the cats dead the rats carriers of the , 1rus, ha,e increased " he said. Study Traces Origin Dr Shields said study of the outbreak of the disease has traced it's orig.n to rats nor- mal.\ found in A ·a l!ntil the ep1dem ern Mpico U1er I' any known cases he dis- eas• m the We ern Hemi- ~phere she said. Symptoms of t"e disease, similar to those of t) pho1d and cholera include shock. fever and hemorrhaging and ii not imm~iatelv treat<:d the vic- tim is likefv to die within 10 minutes. Dr· Shields aid 75 Hear Talk Speaking to about 75 per ons at the January meeting of the Fellows of The San Diego Sociel\ of :-latural Historv at the • 'atural History l\fusc:um, Dr Sh1e'ds said the :'vlex1can government's refusal to dis- continue use of DDT stems from the fact that curbing ma- laria is 1·ery important to people in that part of the coun- tn ~'A man suffering from ma- laria can't work and may de- velop permanent liver prob- lems," she said. Government workers ~pray DDT throughout each house in the area every four months, Dr. Shields said. Cats Were Dying However, the DDT is mixed with a gluey substance that won't rub off whatever it sticks on and destroys furni- ture or anythmg it attaches it- self to, she said. "Five years ago we dis- covered that our cats were dy- ing, and unlike in urban areas. it's a tragedy when there are no cats here to help fight off the rats," she said.

Sloff Pholq Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen disc:usses San Diego County Heart Association fund drive with Cathy Dill, 1970 Heart Queen. Cathy works in the Confraternity of Ch ii:;tian Doct lne offiC'e and Archbishop Sheen . poke at the annual CCD meeting yesterday. Educat rs Archbishop By JOHN BURR Archbishop l<'ullon J Sheen series, was featured sp aker for the the R second day of a two-day reli• of tli on ress, described him giou education congress of the as a •• 1 man from the East." Roman Catholic Confraternity of Archb h heen, 74, resigned Christian Doctrine (CCD) at last O o as bishop of Roch- Community Concourse yester- ester, N , to write, lecture and day. conduc~ plritual retreats. Using the chalk-talk technique CHA E OF YOUNG of his former _television pro- He W7tlci ted In the Eu- gram, Archb1:3hop Sheen charis le Cell bration yesterday frequently was mterr~pt';(i by conduct by the Most Rev. Leo applause as ~e related _mc1dents T. M1,1b;r, bishop of the san to 1llu~trate his discussion o~,the Diego D(o e. During the Mass, suffermg ofhChrist a~d the an- Bishop M er said teachers of thology of t e Cross. religion face a challenge to use 1.200 PRESENT the new words and the new art An estimated 1,200 heard him forms to awaken the hopes and during the morning session at dreams of the young. the annual congress of Catholic "The one fundamental task educators. for teachers of Christianity is to Archbishop Sheen spoke Sat- make Jesus a living reality - urday at a similar ongress at that is the message, the medium the National Oran Show in and the hope of this gener- San Ber rdinii, a the Rev. ation," hes d Cyr Mil er, w o spa e in San\ Music for the :Mass, provided Diego aturday a keynote by the Charles Tucker family, speaker II these on yesterdayjhad a modern beat, and_posters in San Bernardina. on the walls of Community Con- Arch hop n summa- course were in today's psy• rized · San J3e nardino speech chedelic patterns. before cussing sin, violence, The congress ended with a frustration and love as an "an- panel discussion conducted by thology of the Cro~s." the Rev. Joseph Stadler, Ron ln introducing the former Del Ben, Dr. Ra R and moderator of the television the Verv Rev. 1 z.

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Sc,~--:,o I/,?() USD Offers Two Ethnic New Courses Indian, Chicano and Black communi ties or San Diego County are the subject of two Uni versity of San Diego courses to be offered during the January Intersession The course, "The Mission Indian of San Diego County," is the first of its kind dealing with the contemporary problems of the Indian. Members from the Indian community assisted in course prepara tion and will se r ve as guest lec turers. Coordina tor for the course is a nthropologist 1-' lorence Shipek. This class will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 to 9 p.m. Janua r y 6-27 The second course, " Blacks a nd Chicanos in Ame ri can Society" will be a team presentation. Coor dinators for this course are David Crippens of Channel 15 and Carlos Velez and Renee Nunez , both of San Diego State College. The class will be held daily from 9 to 11 :30 a.m. J a nuary 5-28. An ad hoc joint-community advisory committee assisted in the preparation of the course, said Sister Irene Lawrence, chairma n of the Department of Sociology. Black students and commun ity members joined with re prese nta tives of the university's Mexican-Amer ican Advis or y Committee in preparing the course. Indian education, bealth, laws affe cting Indians, tr ibal government, land and resources and the Bureau of Indian Affairs are the subjects to be covered in the Indian course. A field trip to several India n reserva lions of Northern San Diego County is also in- cluded. Lecturers from the Indian c ommunity will be James Parcell, Henry Rodr iguez a nd Robert Loften of La Jolla Reserva tion , Clarence Brown, Viejas ; Mrs. Lorena Dixon and Juanita Dixon, Pauma ; Don Calac, Mrs. Patricia Dura and Mrs. Dorothy Gonzales, Rin- con : Claude Devers , Mesa Grande, and King Freeman, Pala Others are Robert Pelcyger of California Indian Legal Ser- vices, and Jessee Towne and F rank Hagarty of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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B Of A Slates Local Management Shifts Gilbert R. Fox has been president and manager of the named regional vice president bank's San Diego Main Office and chief executive officer for since 1961. Bank of.America's 48 branches In his new position, Fox will in San Diego County· . . be in charge of all branch aetivi- He succeeds C. 0. Philhps, ties and San Diego County and who has been in char~e of. the will carry the equivalent r3:11k San Diego County Region smce and authority of a senior vice 1963, and retires Feb. 1, endmg president at the corporate lev- a 45-year career with _the bank. el. Phillips Joined of A m 1926 as I Replacing Fox at the main off- a clerk in Los Angeles. ice is Robert L. Miller, who has Fox who has been with the served as vice president and bank '34 years, has been vice manager of the Santa Ana Main Office since 1966.

CSD, although out eonng the home club from the field. 18 bas- ket to 9, m the openmg hair, l1II had t > b tile for it life for a -15-45 talemate at the mter-

L. to R. Rufus Dewitt, Executive Director of YMCA, Ray Robinson, Chairman of YMCA Board of Managers; Mel Chater Executive Director of YMCA; and Leonard Jones, Owner' of The House of Africa, are seen after going to the Martin Luther King Art Exhibition.

Fox, a native of Stuart, Iowa, joined the bank in 1936 as a note clerk at the Highland Park branch in Los Angeles. In 1942, he was promoted to officer status and he worked ex- tensively in real estate lending, consumer credit and co_m- mercial credit before bemg named manager of the Laurel- Sunset branch in Hollywood m 1950. . He moved to the San Diego Main Office in 1954 as an assis- tant vice president and _was pr?- moted to vice pres ident m 1959. . I He currently is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of San Diego_ College\ • for Women, vice president of San Diegans, Inc., and a ~ em- l ber of the Board of Navy League. He served as pre~1dent ,of the s:m Dieg<1 convenl!on & , Visitors Bureau in 1966-6 7 a nd continues as a member of that board.

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