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commg in and Schwartz was scor- ing high. "I liked the pressure of the big exams. I put in my hours studying, but there were people who put in a lot more. I worked, had a social life, worked out in the gym. But I stud- ied intensely when I studied." He won American Jurisprudence Awards for being tops in nine of his classes, was in the top 5 percent of his class the first year and wor ked on the l!lw review. Last Friday he was presented several honors in a law school awards ceremony. He plans to take the bar exam in July, and has his job at Gibson, Dunn, waiting for him in September. "A lot of the kids were saying if he can be in law review, anyone can," Schwartz remembered. "They didn't say it to my face. I took that 'Rocky' comment as a slight. People laughed at me. "But I wasn't going to quit. It was a challenge. That professor will never know how much he mot~ated me by that comment." /2

whole career. I worked for them last su=er, in sort of an intern- ship, in their Newport Beach and Century City offices. "They offered me a job my last day. I was tempted to take it right away, but everybody told me to look around. I interviewed with aome Wall Street firms. "The plan was never for me to stay out here. I always thought I'd iro back east. But then the choice seemed to be the East Coast v. Gib- son, Dunn. And Gibson had everything I wanted." The big-time lawyers from L.A. took the Brooklyn street kid out for hill first golr game. Schwartz didn't do too well, but he had fun. "They asked me what my score was and I said I didn't know, the maximum. So they named a tour- nament after me: the 'Max' Schwartz Memorial Classic." For amateurs? he was asked "Or worse," he joked. Schwartz wasn't born lo the golf ing set. His parents were raised in Brooklyn, living in the house his grandmother owned. Everyone in the neighborhood knew him and his younger brother and sister as they grew up. There was the mom and pop irrocery store, the candy store, and long weekends playing stickball and basketball at the park. "I spent a lot of time hanging out at the corner," Schwartz recalled. "We did a lot of dancing - like 'Saturday Night Fever.' There weren't really gangs around, but a lot of drugs. 1 did all right in school, but I didn't really work. "Law school was the first time I really worked and wanted it. I'd grown up a lot, realized you can't just hang out. I had a lot of time and money in, and felt I'd better d() well. I was always competitive, and at law school I had a goal, to be a lawyer, or at least be successful." He said his parents, Melvin and Audrey Schwartz, pushed him to succeed. His father, a career soldier who served in Vietnam, "always wanted me to get a good educa- tion," Schwartz said. His mother worked her way up to a position as medical staff coordinator at Inter- faith Medical Center. "My parents saw what was going on They saw the place was going down," he noted. One of his close friends was stabbed to death in a fight - an incident which helped Schwartz decide it was time to leave. His folks liked what they saw of San Diego while visiting relatives, and planned to move here. Schwartz said it just never worked out for them, but they wanted him to try it on his own. He graduated from high school and landed here in 1977, at age 17, to enroll at San Diego State University. When the time came for him to declare a major, he picked business for no particular reason. Then he focused on business management, "because I wanted to be a boss," he stated. "I wanted to own a busi- ness, have a corporate jet. "I didn't like it here at first. I'd never been on a college campus, and there were students on skate- boards and roller skates. And blondes. I'd hardly ever been out of Brooklyn before. Back there, only little girls ride skateboards." He said his aunt and uncle, who'd lived in the county for years, helped him to assimilate. He took odd-job.. in construction, as a secu- rity guard, busboy, and still works at the college's Professional Devel- opment Department, helping peo- ple sign up for programs they need. He took the Law School Aptitude Test just to see how he'd do - and he did pretty well. Then he sweated out the financial aspects of law school, getting a student loan and a scholarship shortly before the term at USO was to begin. And though his fellow students didn't take him seriously at first,

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P. C. B /:st. 1888 IVli raCosta sets transfer info day or,sr;-- MiraCosta College counselors and repre- campus and the North County location), .Univer- se~tath:e~ of several public and private four-year sit>:' of San Diego, University of Californ ia universities and colleges will be available to an- Diego), United States International University, swer stud_cnt's quc~.tions during a special "Transfer National University, Chapman College, Point Information Day, Wed~esday, May 29, from 10 Loma College and Western State University of a.m. to I p.m. at the mam campus, One Barnard Law. MiraCosta counselors and Student Services Driv~ in Oceanside . specialists will also be on hand to talk with stu- M1raCosta College students have the opportu- dents throughout the day. nity of transfcring to a variety of public and The Transfer and Career Center will have pri,:ate ~our-year colleges and universities. In written materials to distribute to any students in- Ca!1for?ia,_ students _may_ transfer ~o a ~allege or tercsted in trausfcring to a four-year college or umvers1ly m the University of Cahforma system, university, and free refreshments will be served. Cal_ifornia_ State C?lleg_e_and University system, or MiraCmta College's Transfer Information Day vanous pnvate umver~1he~ and coll?ges. will allow students the opportunity to receive in- Students can re<;e1ve m~ormation about en- formation about transfer courses in plenty of time trance an~ ~:aduat10n requ1rements of local col- to figure their class sched11lcs prior to summer ses- leges _b) ns1tmg the Transfer and Career Center sion regbtration days, June 18 and 19. at :'1-hraCmta College on Transfer Information Thi• public is invited to attend Transfer Jnfor- Day. Representatives will be on hand that day malion Day on May 29. For mon• information, from San Diego State Univer~ity (both the main call 757-2121 or 7,57-5155.

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proud of th ir eld t aon, the first to leav Brooklyn and really start to "m k sorn thing" of himself. "It's h rd to break out," Schwartz r fleeted. "People in Brooklyn re doing the same thingt now th y did 10 years ago. They hang out at the same street comers. Most of my fnends are still b ck in th old neighborhood." Schwartz envisions something better for himself - a carr-er as a corporate attomey. ' I like board meetings, corporate takeovers, merg . I think that's exciting," he id in an intervi w, his n- thusiasm briefly covering his discomfort at talking about himself. "Gibson, Dunn gives so many opportunities to do other things. I can myself Btayinf there my (Continued on Paae_ fA) ,

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f Escondido attorney William Brennan has been named execu- tive assistant to Sen. Pete Wilson in his Washington office. Brennan, 41, will supervise sch~du,ing and advance work and will coordinate activities between Washington and four officE.1in California. A gradu- ate of USD law school in 1971, Brennan- was a founder of the Ran- cho Bcrnci.rdo Chamber of Com- merce. Most recently, he managed and operated a specialty manufac- turing firm in Escondido with his wife, Christine He replaces Marty Wilson who moved to Wilson's L.A. office. Will Brennan carry t};)e soup andc~kers? 2'ffj?

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/u,,1e Royalty, a children's store located at the Old Town Galleria will host Evening Star Watch to celebrate the new summer evening hours on Sat- urday, June 1st from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. The event w1/I be located on the plaza level. View our galaxy and lts_ten to Philip Peterson of the Un_iveQity of San Otego Physics Department explain and answer questions about Halley's Comet, black- holes, quasars and twin stars. Old Town Galleria ,s loc~ted at the corner of Juan and Harney in his- tone Old Town. For more information. call Little Royalty at 298-1098. ;;i._ct 5") /

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