News Scrapbook 1986

La Jolla, CA (San Diego Co.) La Jolla Light (Cir. W. 9,293)

JAN 30 1986

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Gearing up for Off the Wall; I 7Z q . By JANET~ALLISON Biddulph at 454-6092 . (Strong backs and the ability to make change count as teal talents here .)

••• Most major educational and cultural institutions have strong support groups of local benefac- tors - friends who can be counted on in many ways . And most arc quietly thanked and made to feel appreciated at annual private parties such as the black-tie dinner dance hosted by Ma.rjoric and Author Hughes, president of the Uruv~]!ity of San Diego, for the school's President's Club Saturaay night in the Copley I.lbrary on the Alcala Park campus.

The Off the Wall Street Dance is off and running again. The 1986 version will be held Sunday, Aug. 24, and was the main topic of conversation at a lun- cheon given on the 23rd by Carolyn and Jack Farris at La Jolla Country Club. Jack is associate dean of the UCSD School of Medicine, the beneficiary of the fund-raising party. Betie Biddulph will be chairman following Ann Poovey last year and chairmen Mac Canty and Nancy Hester who were prevailed upon to head their "baby" (the whole idea can be blamed on them) two years in a row. Over the lunch of consomme, Chinese chicken salad and white chocolate mousse in a dark chocolate shell, plans for the coming year were discussed plus reminiscences of last year's very suc- cessful party that drew 3,500 in attendance and net- ted $95,000 for the UCSD Medical Center. Lun- cheon guests included the new and former chairmen, Rudy Rehm, Lee Watson, Dan Smartt, Bruce Sinykin, John Schenck and Oren Owen. Mimi Morris will be -Bette's co-chairman and committee members include Syd Youngson, Nell Waltz, Neely Swanson, RayLccn Liebhardt, Jan Schultz, Melanie Fuller, Martha Ehringcr, Barbara Straker, Sandy Melchior, Jean Johnson, Barbara Funkenstein, Monique Gray, Mac Canty and Jocelyn Vortmann. Rightly so, the committee reflects the La Jolla mix of newcomers and long-time residents: Bette here only four years from Phoenix and already tak- ing a leading role in community work and second- generation La Jolla volunteers such as Mimi Thorn- ton Morris, whose father Ollie devoted countless hours to Sqipps Memorial Hoslli!al as a trustee and RayLeen Liebhardt whose mother-in-law Mimi Liebhardt was active in Jewel Ball preparations (she was decorations chairman one memorable year). Lots of help is needed on a party like Off the Wall so if you have some hours to give call Bette

Guests were greeted in the foyer by President's Club Council president Elsie and Frank Weston and the university' s chairman of the board of trustees, Bishop Leo T . Maher. Cocktails were served among the stacks and din- ner at the study tables in the Rosalie Hill Reading Room. Of course, if your party setting is the library, it helps a lot to have an exceptionally beautiful library - as USD does . 11tc Rosalie Hill Reading Room was the original library when the school was begun in the early '50s as The College for Women and a library as a serene, gracious place to study was a hallmark of the Religious of the Sacred Hean. On Saturday evening the study tables were dress- ed in white linen and centered with white amaryllis, white tapers and maiden hair ferns banked in spagnum moss for the dinner of filct of trout with beamaise, grilled sirloin of beef, corn soufflce, stuffed potatoes and raspberry charlotte with creme Chantilly. La Jollans amona the 200 guests wcr Sara and Tom Finn, new members of the Presi nt's Club

Clockwise from upper left, Jack Farris, Ann Poovey and Bette Biddu1ph: Dan Smartt; RayLeen Liebhardt; Carolyn Farris; Mimi Morris.

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US~ honors its fast friends (Sarah hea} the !bl1c relatiom office for the "llhout reservations and paid at the door. Smee the private univer,ity of 5,200 students), Anita and Bill preview rarty to create interest in the event (held at Doyle, Dort"ne and John Whitney, Esther and Bill Confetti m Mission Valley two weeks ago) drew Keeney, Claire Tavare~ and Ken Rearwin, Dona 400, the numbers are not surprising. and George- \'otjko, Lee and Peter Maturo, Ethel After being presented with a simulated lift ticket and Burt Agin ky, Alberta Casey, Lee and Larry as identification as a bona fide paying guest, ar- Cox (Larr} ,teing and looking well following a lens rivals had two choices of entrance - one a casual implant) . Jam: and John Murphy, Mary and Dan walk down one dry driveway ramp, the other a Mulvihill \ 'al and Jack Frager and Esther Collins. toboggan ride on the other ramp which was packed Also a1tcnding were Betty and Alex DeBakcs) with sno1~ (ice?). with thei r grandaughter Wendy campus-looking The decorations committee did a lot with white here from Washington, D.C., Betty and Ross lights, 12-inch diameter paper snowflakes, much Tharp, Mim and Al Sally, Carol and Mike Alessio, silver foil and many bales of hay - the pany also the Joseph Fritzenkotters, the Jim Malvaneys and offered an old-fashioned horse-drawn hayride for Sister Sally Furay, new president of the Q!d Globe. two dozen or more at a time or a cozy foursome It wa , an evening for the long, quiet dinner carriage ride around the village. However, meeting dress - in marked contrast to a party the same new and old friends and dancing to the music from evening on Ca\'e Street in La Jolla where ski togs an elaborate sound system set up by a local radio and cold weather gear were the fashion. Hot Spice station were the focal points of the spirited party. 'N Ice 86, a party put on by the Society Club Laura Knight and Cynthia Genit were chairmen benefiting the American Cancer Socie1y was held in wi th Karen Kaye as vice-chairman with 16 commit- the basement/ parking garage of a new retail tee chairmen and 64 committee workers. And a building at 1295 Prospect. This was the second in good time was had by all. what the enthusiastic committee promises as an an- nual event - last year's locale was Jonathan's

parking garage on Fay Avenue. Six-hundred guests were pre-registered plus 200 to 400 who arrived

Janet Gallison is society columnist for the Light.

Clockwise from upper left, Ken Rearwin and Claire Tavares; Author Hughes, president of USD,j,_Tom and Sara Finn; Betty DeBakcsy with granddaughter Wendy Bronson; Valerie and Jack Frager; Edmund Keeney; Elsie Weston; Jean Hahn; James Burns.

Enjoying the Hot Spice 'N Ice were (clockwise from upper left) Karen Kaye and Laura Knight; Karen Breed, Tom Graff, , haron ~ix and Joe Harmon; Ellen Choi~ser; Cynthia Genii.