News Scrapbook 1986

Son Diego, CA (Son Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. 0 . 127,4541

Beverly Hills, CA (Los Angeles Co.) Beverly Hills Courier (Cir. W. 44,000)

1888

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/Mall developer is a package of energy < Ernest Hahn maintains hectic pace despite being semiretired By Rut'?~1c~~nie-McCoy m•••• A veritable encyclopedia of facts Now the once-barren area sur- .. b St 1 ., w I on the needs of shoppers here and rounding UTC is in the center of the , ri une. a , ri er ·d th b · G Id T . 1 d . Er t H hn' d· l book does not around the country, Hahn sa1 ere urgeonmg o en nang e an 1s ne a a e_ n should be 10 square feet of depart- dotted with office buildings, condo- r ad like one of a m1retired ma · ment store shopping space for every miniums and a high-rise hotel, prov- On a recent Fnday. Hahn played man, woman and child. So, he said, ing that Hahn has his hand placed m th~ ~b Hope Chrys~er Desert there should be 20 million square feet firmly on the pulse of San Diego. Cla 1c m Palm Springs, flew his of department store space for the Hahn and his wife spend eight King Air jet to McC!cllan-Palomar county's 2 million residents. months of the year at their home in Airport. conferred with an accoun- Although the county appears satu- Rancho Santa Fe. They also have a tanl at the Rancho Santa Fe ofhce of rated with shopping centers, it can home at the El Dorado Country Club th H~hn Foundation, pause~ for an accommodate even more because of in Palm Springs, where they live dur- mterv1ew and drove to San Diego for tremendous growth projections, ing the rest of the year. yet another meeting before flymg Hahn said. He predicted there will be Another of Hahn's shopping cen- back to Palm Springs for a gala cele- a lull in shopping center construe- ters, the Palm Desert Town Center, brat1on at th Palm Sprmgs Desert tion, with the next center opening in is located there. M um . . eight to 10 years. Although he made his millions Hahn, 66, 1d he 1s makmg ~n hon- '---------- -- Asked to speculate on the location without the benefit of a college de- est attempt to cut back on his busy ERNEST HAHN of the area's next shopping center, gree, Hahn said he is a firm believer hedule at th beh t of his wife, Hahn suggested the area east of in a university education. He sits on Jean. . . Builder of 40 shopping centers oceanside toward Fall brook. the board of trustees for the Univer- . He readily admit he spent mo~e Pressed to be more specific, Hahn sity of Southern California and the time on the golf course pnor to his revitalization of the area rests. North smiled and graciously declined, say- UniYersity of San Dielo and is cbair- lf-imposcd. ~emirelirement. Other County Fair, however, is not consid- ing the price of land would likely man of the board for tlie Independent le _ure actlVltl . also have taken a ered as great a gamble. The shopping skyrocket if he tipped his hand. . Colleges of Southern California. back eat, he said. center at Via Rancho Parkway and The area east of Oceanside 1s He also is a founding trustee of the "I have horse that I have to have Interstate 15 will fill a void that has largely unpopulated, a fact that did Eisenhower Medical Center and Hos- someone nde four _um~ a w k 5 ?, existed in North county for years, not escape Hahn. Many people may pital in Palm Desert and a trustee th t I can climb on it twice a m nib, Hahn said. raise an eyebrow at the prospect of emeritus of Scripps Clinic and Re- Hahn id. . . "North County could have had a placing a large shopping center on a search Foundation in La Jolla. Th son of imrrugrant parents, regional shopping center five years site where cows roam freely. But, be -~--~-~--~., Hah_n wa not ~rn "!1th the proverb1- ago and have done well," he said. said, eyebrows were raised when be al ilv~r spoon ID his mout~ He has "Horton Plaza is not going to be prof- suggested building University Towne bu1Jt ~ts ei:np1re by prov1dmg co~- itable for several years. It was a Centre. mumll , with the modern-day equiv- labor of love. It was not a gift to the "There was sagebrush and chapar- a)ent of the town square; the shop-- city, but a commitment we made to ral there" he said. "People said I ~:r~ein~ help revitalize downtown." was crazy." to fair play

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Stores and Stories by Harrison Hoag

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Student,. faculty and administration of the University of San Die.,:o look forward to the completion of the new"tltllvetslty"tcnter, a $ 10 million building which will become the hub of student life on the gorgeous 180-acre campus. Newly completed facilities such as Copley Library and Olin Hall-School of Business Administration and the University Center mark the beginning of fu rther building and academic development, ca refult, designed by the University's planners. The University of San Diego believes m a education firmly rooted in the liberal arts as an education for life, and is dedicated 10 academic, moral, ethical and spmtual excellen~c A commitment to values, a dedicated faculty, active student body and a beautiful location allows the University to remain true to the promise of its founders-to become a great center of Christian education on the rim of the Pacific Basi n. For further 1mformation write to University of San Diego, Alcala Park, Sa1/ Diego, CA 92110. /

Romm New York City's Yorkville section, Hahn moved to Los Angeles with his parents when he was 2. Hahn graduated from Luzinger High School with straight A . Offered a cholarship to the University of Cali- fornia at Los Angeles, he turned it down because the Depression was in full force and he needed to work to help his family. He accepted a messenger's posi- tion at the Bank of America and later was promoted to head bank teller. At age 21, he married his childhood sweetheart, Jean Briley. Following a tint in the Navy dur- ing World War II, Hahn launched bis career in general contracting by forming the Hahn-St. John General Contracting Co. in Hawthorne, Calif. It was renamed Ernest W. Hahn Inc. m 1956. His company has developed about 40 shopping centers nallonwide. Five of his projects are in San Diego Coun- ty. Hahn sold his company to Trizec, a Canadian firm. for $270 million in 1980, but he remains on the compa- ny's board of d1recl rs. The company is under the leadership of John Gil- christ, who has worked for Hahn ince he was 20. Last August, Hahn was m the spot- light as Horton Plaza. the grand st of the shopping centers be has devel- oped, opened amid great fanfare in downtown San Diego. The soft-spo- ken shopping center klDg will be in the limelight agam tomorrow as the latest of his ventures, North County Fair, opens its doors to shoppers. While the two malls are both Hahn proiects located within San Diego County, their differences are many. Horton Plaza has been heralded as the hope for downtown San Diego, the grand experiment ~pon which the

sln Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341 ,840) FEB 2 C186

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· B ---------The Arts--------- . a,n1st Nicolas Reveles plays Bach without ornaments By Da\'id Gregso;;i 5"" Legend h:i~ it that two famous self- proclaimed Bach specialists - 'he were not dazzling "Goldbergs." They were intelligent and entirely admira- ble. They were not thrilling or reve- latory. someday find success concertizing with the "Goldbergs," but at the pres- ent moment they seem somewhat short of greatness. They were, how- ever, a pleasure to hear. 1,, 18U V-:p.

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Unlike Gould, unfortunately, Re- veles has only a moderately impres- sive technique. His is thoughtful, rea- sonably accurate playing, full of fine phrasing. His tempi choices are not ultra-conservative, but neither are they super-human like Gould's. These

decorations wherever he wished and be occasionally fused the end of one variation into the beg:nning of anoth- er. a practice definitrly not indicated ID tne score. lilenn liould did the same thing in his retbir king of the ·Goldbergs" before his death.

Despite the current trend toward purism, Bach will always make sense on the piano. Reveles may

American pianist Rosalyn Tmeck and the Polish harpischordist Wanda Landowska - once traded barb, at a cocktail party. "Isn't it wonderful!" remarked Tureck. "I play Bach my way - on the piano - and you play Bach your Musie re,·iew way - on the harpsichord'" "No," corrected Landowska. ''You play Bach your way and I play Bach Bach's way!" Vihether this tale is true or not, it is doubtful that either of the ladies could have foreseen the present age cf Bach "purism" in which it seems that nearly every month a scholar- musician revises our way of listening to baroque music. Despite this at- mosphere, however, pianist Nicolas Reveles played Bach Tureck's way Tuesday night at the San Diego Pub- lic Library. Well, not exactly Tureck's way. Once \\hen Tureck played Bach's "Golcberg Variations" here, she per- formed all of the repeats. This swelled the work to a length of near- ly two hours. Reveles, a professor of m sic at the University of San Diego, wisely avoided nearly all of the repeats and finished off the aria and 30 variations in just under 60 min- utes. With what authority Reveles stripped the initial statement of the aria of absolutely all of its orna- ments, I cannot say; nevertheless. Reveles took this liberty as well as several others. He added his own

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Gregson is a free-lance writer.

Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Co) Times (San Diego Ed .) (Cir. D 50,010) (Cir. S 55,573)

EB 21 1986

C ~munity Def ender Plan Criticized Panel's Proposal to End Contract System Faces Tough Scrutiny By itsbHACHTER, Tima Staff Writer T authors of a report urging an overhaul of San by the blue-ribbon commission. "No matter what you do, if you don't fund it, It ain't JOinl to work," Blank warned.

Die,o County's system for providing crim1nal repre- sen!,ation to the poor defended their propoNlJ Thur1- day against doubts about their viability andCOlt-effec- tiveness. a meeting of the county's Indigent Defenae Ad Board, members of the blue-ribbon panel that this week propoeed replacing the county's contract defense syttem with a quui-public defender o~ said the new office might save money in the Jong run while providing indigent defeme with the political constituency it has always lacked in San Diego. Nonetheless, some prominent legal community leaders attending the meeting stopped short of endorsing the blue-ribbon panel's proposed "commu- mty defender office," in which salaried lawyers would represent most of the county's $12 million-per-year cueload of more than 30.000 indigent defendants. Moat of those cases now are handled by private lawyen U{lder contract to the county. -,;.n Diego attorney Gerald Blank, chairman of the State Bar of California's committee on criminal dmnse, aid the committee baa found that a conven- tional: ci".i1-aervice public defender office would have more institutional clcait to fight for funding for indigent defense than the nan-governmental office enviaioned

Judge Michael Burley of Vista Municipal Court, meanwhile, urged the commission to reconsider its op~tion to retaining the existing contract system, which he said has proved that it can work when It is .adequately monitored and managed. Other attorneys pointed to the success of contract defense In the South Bay Municipal Court and the importance of maintaining a role for private lawyers in defending the poor as reasons to think twice before once again changing the county's oft-reviled Indigent defense system. The questions and doubts were a first indication of the distance to be covered if a consensus is to form on the direction to take the embattled defense program bruised in the lut few years by criticiams from th~ State Bar and the American Bar Alm., and by the failure of contract law firms in several courthou.ses. Eventually. the Board of Supervillora will address the ilBue. But the superviaors may get more advice than they bargained for. The advilory board plans to meet again within two weeks to take a stand on the blue-ribbon commiUlon'11 recommendations. Melvin Nitz, director of the county Office of Defender Services, has his own propoal for a traditional public defender's office pending. The county's chief admin!Btr&tive officer laued a report this week recommending expansion of an eliltlnl aperlmenl with public defense In aerious felony cue1. "Thia 18 s pivotal Ume for criminal defenae Mr'ricel in thlB county," said Sheldon Krantz, dean ol the Uni.•-"' of 98J: Dl•F 'i'Mool of Law and a member of the blue-ribbon panel, IBolating the one factor in the debate oo which everyone could agree Thunday. "We really ought to apply the prssure for quality lffl'icea/