News Scrapbook 1974-1975

July Wedding Plans

Mr. and Mrs. John Westra of Foley, Minn. announce the engagement of their daughter, Nikki, to Eric Allan Sisco, son of Vice Chancellor Bernard Sisco of UCSD and Mrs. Sisco of La Jolla.

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THE SAN DIEGO UNION

Sunday, May 18, 1975

Miss Westra Is a graduate of Mankato (Minn.) State College and is now attending University of San Diego School of Law. She will receive her Juris Doctorate degree in 1977. .Mr. Sisco, a graduate of Gettsy- burg College, also is attending USD hool of Law. The wedding will take place July 26 in Foley, Minn.

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lems," he said. AB an example, he Id utillty companies migh be prepared to handle business problems but without knowl- edge and sensitivity tb jun- die environmental or social problems, their operations will not go smoothly. "I think It shows tha Ha man Is to be effective, h 's got to know the world ~und him and that's what we're trying to do with our pro- grams," Burns said EVENI G SCHOOL He also said USD at- tempting to meet th busi• ness communlty's n~s by providing an evening ~l for those who cannot go. to college full time or \ir.ing the day. 1 Beginning this spring, he Id USD now offers Ojlgb night course to enab stu- dent:. to earn a bachelor' or master degree in bu without requlrlng any ~~ay- time attendance. Burns received hJ tiac;h Jor and master's d~ In busln ss from an DI go State University. He ;re- celved his doctorate Harvard Univ t ' ool

Distinguished visitors have "sold out" the May social calendar with stellar events. Reservations have closed for the dinner Tuesday that will be part of the Fine Arts Society's 50th annlversary cele- bration. First Lady Betty Ford will be a special guest that night. While she is cutting the ribbon opening the Asian Arts Galleries Maj. Gen. Joseph C. Fegan Jr., commanding officer at Marine Corps Re- cruit Depot, and Mrs. Fegan will be re- ceiving 48 military guests at a reception honoring the commandant of the Royal Thai Marine Corps, Vice Adm. Sobhon Suyarnsestakorn, his wife, and his official party. In the group, in this country at the invitation of USMC Commandant Robert E. Cushman Jr., will be Capt. Prasert Noikamsiri and his wife, Capt. Anong Noikamsiri, physician in the Royal Thai Navy. His Royal Highness Prince Sattam bin Abdelaziz 11-Saud, son of the founder of Saudl Arabia, and Her Royal Highness will be special guests at the University of San Diego commencement May 25 receive Prince Sattam will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.

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Report on Rome Toe Rev. Msgr. I. Brent Eagen, K.~.S-, will share his recent Holy Year expenenc- es in Rome at the luncheon to be given in his honor Tuesday by the University of San Diego Auxiliary at Vacation Village. Msgr. Eagen, chaplain of the auxiliary, will install officers including the reelected president, Mrs. James Robert Davis, wife of retired Rear Adm. Davis. Adm. and Mrs. Davis recently retw,ied from the East where they visited their daughter, Miss Patricia Davis, who will leave in June for Saudl Arabia and USAF flight urgeon, their , capt. Christopher James Davis, who being transferred to Iceland.

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prcs_i~ent of the University of San Diego Auxiliary at a luncheon beginning at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Bayview Room at Vacation Village. Other officers who will be installed are the Mmes. Ross Tharp, first vice president; John Mazur, .second vice president; Joseph Bennett, record mg secretary; Emil Bavasi, corresponding secretary; and Joseph Brock treasurer. ' include Catherine Barber, Mrs. Robert Cihak Mrs Philip Hahn, Mrs. John Hogan, Mrs. Thoma~ Keehn, Mrs. Charles Melville, Mrs. Joseph Mullen, Elizabe_th ~an Horn, Mrs. John Waters, Mrs. Walter Wilkins, and Mrs. Richard Wolt- man. .Monsign?r Brent Eagen, auxiliary chaplain, will be the installing officer. Newly elected board members

West,ern St(tte: A On It's Own, And l)rofitablc, Too Law s,•ltool Started A.~ '/lobby;' Is Now Olle of the l.1argest liy DE~ISF. A. CARAllET SAN DIEGO DAIL y TIIANSCIIIPT s,all w,,,., "Y , we 111-c qmte l~nt I have to be immodest, but if I had a formula, I'd patent 1t." 'rhcrn words were not spoken by a corpori1te ex cut1vc ba king in fnvorable fir t quartcr re ults, nor cv1.:n a rebounded brok r t:1rilled about the ch1111gc m market conditions. 111 le , this was an interview \\Ith Burton R 1 , icecut,ve •J1rector for W t rri State mvcr ity Collcge of Law. Rei i unJcr t,mdably proud of the lnw hoot he h lped mold not quite ten ) ars go, wluch ha. grown in student am.! legal community reputation (its board of tru t ' rer1

Western State Law School -Academic Success Story (Continued from Pnge lA) drive netted 133 legal hopefuls, the foun- ders rearranged their tack anJ reevaluated what they had stumbled upon. "Raison d' etre," said Reis. "We gave the stud nt a second chance, a reason for bemg," This philosophy has escorted W • tern State through these good years and has built a firm fowidation on the second chance tudent. Reis explained there are two cla ifications working within the second chance spectrum. One is the working rigid retention arrd eicclusion policy. Students are subJect to a personal interview before acceptance-a point of pride to the school-and are admittedly "spoon fed" at first. Then the student is on his or her own, which is the nature of law school, according to students. Curriculum is the same al Western State as at other schools. "If I may sound boastful, personal administration and rigid retention rules are one element of our uniqueness," said Reis. The sc!-1001, which is one of few higher learning institutions that can easily claim it is working in the black, is administerc:I almost with as much rigidity as the retention rate. Because of strict dichotomy in ad ministration • - and Reis means NC overlapping - the school's academe is ieft

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The '1\ Journal" will be taught by Dr. Frances' Heussenstamm, an educator and wide! , published researcher and writer, on Jun~ .,a 6 and 7 at USD, Alcala Park. Dr. ""- Heussenstamm studied with Dr. Ira Progroff, who developed the "Intensive t/i. Journ_al" during the past 20 years The \ technique uti!izes a notebook with s~bject;} ~viders to. aid a person in reviewing his~ • life . expenences, integrating them and mov1ng mto new experiences. " * • * • technique ot the "Intensive (Interesting note is that Western State joiired University of San Diego in the Hastings Law School, takeover of Cal We:stern University College of Law, and has its own lobbyist in Sacramento pleading their side. The lob- byist's usual cause is licensed vocational nurses, among other things, according to a news clipping.) One cost-slasher in the Western State administration is the teachers. Not that they aren't paid - Reis says they're paid the going rates - but when they are assigned full-time status, they are required to do just that-teach 10 to 12 (credit) hours a week. Reis compares this to "that twisted tenure status symbol" of professors teaching three hours and then left alone to publish. "And at between $20,000 and $30,000, it doesn't take much to figure out arithmetically the return on the professor's time. We have no deajwood problem, that is those dc:;erving a job but ineffective becau:se they've been there for 40 years." He add-e--J a worn ( at least he apologized) note to that: "Our concept of t.:mure is never having to say you're sorrv." Reis is quite pleasant, but firm. about the school's "no thanks" attitude toward American Bar Assn. membership. "There is no reason for us to take on..,.ABA ap- proval. It would mean an additional set of restraints, which we don't need." The school has California Bar Assn. ac- creditation at both campuses. Additionally, Ries takes more than a little pride in the fact that he and Boas have been invited more than once to speak to the ABA on their "unique. rather unorthodox" way of doing things. "For a non-ABA school, we've gotten quite a bit of acknowledgement. For emphasi·3, the co•founder says there \\ill be ABA applications - "not as long as we (the founders) are still alive. After that, who knows?" he said with a smile. The school's median age is 29; every age between 19 and 6-l. 1s represented in the classroom;;, as are academic backgrounds. Students with junior college degrees all the way through Ph. D.'s hav~ studied :it Western State. Reis is proud of that and of his "meeting the need." And his parting comment underlined lhe wholt: enterprise 01 \\'est

(),11..u f1J/1f' For Distinguished Guests Dr. Author E. Hughes, president of Uni- versity or San Diego, and Mrs. Hughes will give a luncl!eon for 75 guests Sunday at Llttle America Westgate Hotel honoring the recipients of honorary degrees at USD graduation ceremonies that day. The cere- monies will begin Saturday with a Bac- calaureate Mass at 8 p. m. in the Immacu- lata Church. The graduation exercises for 585 students will be held in the Civic Theater. Special guests at the luncheon will be His Royal Highness Prince Sattam Al- Saud of Saudl Arabia, and his wife, Her Royal Highness Princess Shekkah, who lived in San Diego with their children when His Royal Highness was working toward his bachelor of science degree In business administration at USD. other special guests will be Tom L. McCall, former governor of Oregon, who will be keynote speaker at the USD Law School graduation ceremony Sunday and who will be awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree. Mr. and Mrs. McCall's son, Tom McCall Jr., will be a law school g;raduate. Also honored at the luncheon will be Miss Vikki Carr, popular performing artist from Beverly Hills, who will be given an honorary doctor of laws degree for her work for education of Mexican-American students. ~<--t<.J 51::21/-75

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Sara S. Finn, director of public relations at the Uni- versity of San Diego, was elected to the national exec- utive board of the Associated Alumni of the Sacred Heart.

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Ethel Sykes, of accoU1Jting at the Uni~ersity of San Diego, w•s named Outstand1rg Teacher in the school's first annual contest. She has taught account'ng at USD since 1968 and designed the CPA review course as well as ~~signed new curriculum for accounting ma3ors. 11s•istant professor

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to the deans and the operations and ad- ministration to the professional managers, lire Reis. He admits that he and Boas collaborate on very large decisions, but for the rule - he's the final word in ad- ministration and Boas talre~ the aca·Jemic reins. Expansion is something Reis sees as commg to an end. Western Stale fairly exploded onto the scene after its first surprising class of 133 students, and now both campuses are teeming' approximately 2,800 at both sites. In 1970. the school purchased four acres v;here it constructed its main campus in Fullerton, with every intention of leasing the extra space. By summer, Reis said, all leasing plans will have been abandoned as students fill the extra square footage. Western State leases a two-story, 26,000 square-foot facility in the Banlc of California Bldg. in San Diego. The administrative eye is being kept on the part-time student, the opposite of mo t law schools - "but then, we're just nut the same type of school" - to continue to build oo that base. There are about 100 fewer students at the San Diego campus this year vs. last (many due to academic attrition, he agrees). "We try to think of this in a business sense," smiled Reis. "Chances are, we'll be holding the line in the future." And resources? Reis glows and says'. "Resource3 have never been and ari!n't now a problem. We aren't interested in larger campuses, more locations. Any more would dilute our effort." For 25 years , Reis was an educator and administrator, after receiving un- dergraduate and graduate business degrees. After WorU War II, the need for skilled technicians in the civil sector became great, so he switched from executive to educative positions. He first orchestrated technical training schools and then went heavily into the vocational aspect of training mainly in dental and medical assisting schools in Orange County. When Western State was first con- ceived, Reis sru.d a "reasonable amount of the overhead was underwritten" by his previous busmess forays. He had fowid _ _,_awa=other need to fill. . -·"""- Recital tonjght 1 Work by Beethoven, .t) Tchaikovsky, Bach and 11.. Alberto Ginastera will be

czpo4st:.+ 07.l.J/J .)- Sara Finn elected to 'hoard Sara S. Finn of La Jolla, director of public relations at the University of San Diego, was elected ,to the national executive board of the Associated Alumnae of the Sacred Heart at the biannual meeting held recently in Boston. She will serve as the recording secretary and delegate-at-large for the Western Province for the next twQ years. The executive board represents 50,000 Alumnae of the Sacred Heart in the United States and Canada. Mrs. Finn was graduated from the Convent of the Sacred Hearl in Cincmnati, Ohio, ,rnd Mar yv1Le College, St. Louis. ,..__,..,.._ --·-- J_._

Lawyer heads alumni Ralph Fear of University City has been elected president of the University of San Diego Alumni Association. Fear, a 1963 graduate of the university, is a deputy district attorney for the county of San Diego. Serving with him on the board of directors are: Rosemary Johnston of Mira Mesa, vice president; Pam Leighton of San Diego, secretary; and Tim Shaw of San Diego, treasurer. Other members of the board include: Melinda Blade of Coronado; John Bowman of La Mesa; Sandy Chew of Univer- sity City; Jean Earl of San Diego; Corinne Helena of San Diego; and Colleen Mauricio of San Diego. Also, Angela Newman of San Diego; Peter Pitard of La Mesa; Rev . Frank Ponce of Barstow; Katie Ridge of Mira Mesa; John Rodee of San Diego; and John Silber of Pacific Beach. The new officers were elected et the association's annual meeting recently. Winners of the second annual alumni tennis tournament were also announced. Mixed couples co-

USD Will Honor Prince, Singer

RALPH FEAR ... alumni president champions were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Widmer of La Jolla; Mr. and Mrs. John Cutler of University City; and Mr. and Mrs. Dave Little. Rev. Ponce won first place in men's singles. Runner-up was John Cutler. Walt Johnston, co-chairman of the tournament, won the consolation round. Sharon Lengyel of Scripps Ranch won women's singles com- petition. Jeannie Hughes of Orange County was runner-up.

Singer Vikki Carr will receive an hon- orary doctor of laws degree Sunday from th' University of San Diego, for her work with Mexican-American students. Also re- cci\ ing a11 honorary di!gree will be Prince Sattam Al-Saud, a member of the Saudi Arabian royal family who was graduated in 1965 with a degree in business admin- 1Strat1on. He will be accompanied by his wife, Princess Shekkah. • • * The law firm of Brierton & Tierman ha announced the re-location of its Jaw office to 1118 Firnncrnl Square, 600 B St. • • • The San Diego County Bar Assn., as a sc acl M 1b La,1 Office Economics Work- shop 1 'o. 1, v.ill hold a second workshop June 18, at the Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel, nmning from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Th\! work_hop will cover fee arrangements, de- term111?t1011 of fees and billing techniques. Followmg a film entitled "Romancing Fees into th..: Twentieth C.entury," Berne Rolston an authont) on law office management' will speak. ' • • Tom L. IcCall, former governor of Oregon, 11 ill be keynote speaker and a re- cip ent of an honorary doctor of laws de- giu: SurrJa_y at Uni~ersity of San Diego Law Sch>0l s graduauon ceremonies. Of the 2 8 graduating law students, 29 will be \I m n. •

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fPatured tonight at the Univer ity of San Diego in a recital by cellist Alice Connolly. The performan-::e will begin at 8·30 p.m. m Cami!lo Theater. M. Connolly, member of the San Diego Symphony,

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