News Scrapbook 1986

S.111 Diego, Calif Southern Cross (Cir. W 77,500)

San Diego, CA (San Diego C~.) san Diego union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341,840)

, : at Frega, who's representing plainltffs in the deep-pockets suits against .J. David & Co., was among the last to visit Jerry Dominellt before his stroke this week in the federal prison at Pleasanton. Dominelli, like a previous htgh-prof1le San Diego inmate al another facility, works as a gardener at the campuslike prison. Alas, neither Frega nor some 15 defendants' attorneys was able to gel Dominelli to talk. But, says Frega, the altorneys did gel to spend about two hours with guards who conducted elaborate searches of them. "As if,' he says, "these lawyers were gonna break Dominelli out of his country club." activist, is in Kaiser Hospital today, mending after complications from a good deed. Saxod, on a mission of mercy, was de!tvering crutches lo her 8-yr.-old nephew, Victor Vilaplana, who sprained his ankle wh le three-wheeling in the desert. Ass was leaving Victor's house, Saxod slipped on ice plant. And she'll be needing those crutches back. Saxod broke her ankle in three places. ITEMlZED: Local Boy Scouts, warming up for next month's Scout Fair al Del Mar Fairgrounds, will be out in force this morning, doing their good deeds on Good Friday at Embarcadero Marina Park. With provisions from Vons, they'll serve a free pancake breakfast to anybody who needs one, from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. ... Charlie Lum, for years the No. 2 man here with the Small Business Administration, has been named district director of the SBA for Hawaii. But he's not forgetting San Diego. Lum called Phil Herr at Miki-San here to cater his installation ceremony at Honolulu. ... Gail Lynn Falkenthal, an aide to Dick Murphy when he was councilman, has landed at KSDO Radio, a popular spot with ex-City Hall employees. Falkenthal, who's actually returning to the station after a six-year absence, starts next month as managing editor. UPMANSHIP: Katerina Lycheva, the Russian schoolgirl who's getting a rare taste of the U.S. this w k, attended a performance of "Big River" on Broadway Tuesday night. After the show, she stopped to pose with the cast, and told them she'd read "Huck Finn" in Russian. "Ah," quipped a cast member, "the ty. TURNABOUT: Elsa Saxod, businesswoman and political

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The , ur(h invites its members to enter into the hrist 's pas ·age frolll mortal to ri en life ukbratcd during the Easter 1 riduu111. \',,. , , ept this invit,1tion by uniting our suffering with the continual Redemption of the world, looking forward in faith to our own re urrection, not only in heavt'n, but al o in th events of this life. With f 1ith we belit·ve that Goel brings good out 01 evil - that ea h trial or death rndurcd is follow ·d by a victory or r urrccuon. SCRIPTURE ABOU DS with r ferences to the deaih-re urrr1 tion cycle· woven into the fabric of the Chmt1a11 life. The second reading in the Good Fnday liturgy rnnrlude "Son though he wa·, he learned nl di<-n(e from what he suffered; and when perfe ted, he c,1me the rnrcr of et.. rnal . .Jvation for all who obey hun" (Heh 5·8-9). , this year's E,1ster J'riduum n ared, John and K,,thlet·n Swanke reflected on the violent death of their 22-ye.ir•olcl dau11:htc1, Anne Catherine. '11,ey 1 ·arned on Nov. 24, 1984, that her body had been fount.I m Spring Valley with "multiplt' slashes to her nt•( k," her father 'lid. She had been mis ing five days ,,ncl wa, st·cn walking with a can of gasoline toward her c, 1r p,,rkt'd ,war.J..tc kson and Parkway Dnves in La Me. a. N WAS ,•nior at the Univer·ity gf San Diego "here her f.1ther teachl.'s ph,losophy cour •.. "How < ould anyone g t through thi without fa,th?" K,,thlren qur.stione

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FA FEATHER: Criminal ~rfon.e attorney Frank Prantll was himself entenced this week to prison on a 1983 conviction involving check forgery. That despite a colorful plea to Superior Court Judge Raul Rosado for probation: 'Tm no longer that peacock that strutted. My feathers have been plucked." Rosado, respondmg in kmd: "The chickens have come home to roost." Two years. AN DIEGANS' I K: Su an Brown pre 1dent-elect of the SD Board of Realtor , plunked down some change at her neighborhood 7- Eleven store Tuesday and picked up a $100,000 wmnmg ticket in the California lottery Her plans for the money? What else: ·'Buy real estate." . Tern D'Acquisto, who started this week at USD as assistant PR director, is the wife of former Padres pitcher John D'Acquisto. She came in on her own credentials, of course. An alum, she was USD's outstanding female gradii'arein 1977. Bonus points: In 1976, she was Miss San Diego... The restaurant called 926, successor to the first Gustaf Anders at 926 Turquoise in PB. will serve its last precious vegetables and close the doors after Saturday mg 1 's dinner. That may only be tempora y, depending on the apital situatwn. Chef Doug Organ y th restaurant will be closed at least for the first couple weeks of April, and may re ~n as a 'bistro, ' with new menu and lower prices. Then again. it may not.

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John and Kathleen Swanke are shown with a family photo, which includes Anne Catherine (standing, second from left).

members, unready to meet the public in church that Sunday, gathered for the liturgy. Adrienne Robbins, Anne's sister, led the assembly in singing the Mass of the Resurrection for Anne , con(elebrated by over 30 priests. "Be Not Afraid" was one of the songs selected for the liturgy she described as inspiring. "I never had such an experience ofjoy; I sang my heart out," Kathleen said. HER HUSBAND concurred. It was uplifting to realize "that life is not ended, but changed," he said. Holy Week 1985 saw the two in Cottonwood, Ariz. Although keenly aware of their loss, the time_ ~as an "occasion of grace" for John. The Easter V1g1l they attended in the town's hrgely Hispanic church brought a

His wife recalled the five days of uncertainity that followed after a police officer showed them Anne's driver's license with news of her abandoned car. "Our hopes were up and down like a yo-yo," she said. "We went through upheaval and exhaustion." She thought of Our Lady losing Jesus in the temple. "I hoped she would come home, instead of her eternal home," she said. John said he felt deep sorrow during this time . THE DAY after her burial in Holy Cross Cemetery, they went camping. John Swanke prayed and contemplated his loss. "It was like the agony in the garden." he said. "l don't like ,t, " he prayed, "but your will be done. You have asked for a difficult sacrifice." He said that crying hard brought an emotional release. He and his wife also recollect the resurrection experiences of their ordeal . THEIR PASTOR, Msgr. Thomas Moloney of Our Lady of Grace Church, celebrated Mass m their home the day after they learned of Anne's death. Twelve family

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They Hobe Millions Get Spanked - .,, (Continuedfr~) · · · · ·1 f · . 1s surv1vmg pnman y rom momes Mane Joyce, the e d buyer at generated by a silk-screening bus- Nordstrom who appreciates the iness the two ran at USD "~un look" of the line and plans to Wehan and McGraw .aren't ex- dis play Spankers in the actly new to the business world. loungewear,department. After meeting through Sigma Pi What you II see are boxer shorts fraternity at USD th b ·th - d - , ey egan wi v~m~u~ e~igns on them, their silkscreening business as a nearly mdistmgw.~hable f'.rom the service for other fraternities and un~erwear; T-shirts ~vith the campus organizations. They put de 5 igns along the Slde mstead of Greek letters on sweatshirts and the f~ont and back; and T-shirts.

photo by Marianna McLou1hlin A blue tile slab laid In the circular rose garden honors the memory of Anne Catherine Swanke. Above her name is written in French: Your Interrupted melody unites us In harmony. Easterlpromise .........

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Australian-style caps which are more rounded than regular basebal I caps. Current designs have Sphightop tennis shoes, new-wave models, teddy bears, and a Summer of'63 beach scene. Although both owners brainstormed over a name for their business, Wehan insists that Spank:ers came out of thin air. "There's so much you can do with a name like that, promotion-wise and marketing-wise," Wehan says. The slogan "Get spanked" may, they hope, become a household slogan less associated with pain. Wehan and McGraw have so far put most of their energies into marketing. Almost from the beginning, they aimed towards the Action Sports Retailer Show in early February. They enlisted the aid of Jessie Seidenwurm, a retired president of an eastern clothing manufacturer and a member of the Service Corps of Retired Execu- tives (SCORE). Seidenwurm is enthusiastic about the two, using phrases like " ... they conjure up the meaning of entrepreneurs" and " ... they are bringing a fresh new approach to the business world." Part of McGraw's and Wehan's homework consisted of visiting earlier shows to see what succeed- ed and what didn't. "At the show nobody did anything like this at all," says Wehan. "There were 800 booths, and every one was exactly the same. People would come to our booth and say, 'Your stuff is so dif- ferent. That's what we want.' " At the moment, though, orders are just beginning to come in and much of the income will be used to keep up the cash flow. The business

Now Wehan, who grew up in Dana Point, and McGraw, from Newport Beach, are entrenched in the clothing business full-time and looking to move out of their home near Balboa and I-5 to a permanent office. The first delivery was scheduled for March 15. They'll spend the next several months servicing these accounts, establishing new ones and aiming for a show in Sep- tember where they plan to premier a line of sweatshirts, according to Wehan. The basic plan is to stay dif- ferent, but as McGraw says, "We want to build on the success we started with the name Spankers, and continue to offer a product which is different. We'll follow the path of success but not offer the same product as everyone else. "The boxers are big but we took the idea and made it different." Ron Miller, owner of PB Ski and Sport, says their difference is stay- ing with the boxer look, while oth- er manufacturers are becoming more conservative, such as a swimming suit look. "I feel it will be different and unique. They'll have to be put on a separate rack" Miller says. ' Spank:ers isn't all conservative. Should they or shouldn't they keep the fly? After much thought and consultation with Seidenwurm the answer was yes, but they agreed to sew it up. Spankers will also be found at Robby London's in Pacific Beach. The shorts, made in Columbia, S.C., have a suggested retail price of$12.95. As for the future, Wehan said "You've got to have guts, and faith that you will succeed."

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At Our Lady of Grace parish she was an usher and had been "invited to become a Eucharistic minister,'' her mother said. She was also a member of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, the young adult group, and participated 111 small-group RENEW meetings. civic thantablc orgamzations. They have about 200 letters from individuals testifymg to the help they received from Anne ''She "as an excellent scholar," Kathleen aid. She was m,ijOring in music and French and hoped to become an opera . ingcr. She was posthumously award<'d a bachelor's degree with magna cum lauclc honors at USD graduation ccremon1c last May. A tircular rose garden east of Founders Hall w.is dedi,ated in Anne'· memory March 18. (See photo on page three.) Herc Anne and her father used to walk together. The garden was donated by a friend of the wanke family. The Anne Catherine Swanke Memorial Scholarship fund wa established through contributions to provide a tuinon grant and the cost of mus,c Jes ons to a qualifying music major at U D who plans to become a performmg mu ician. Dr. Swanke hopes the fund, now totaling 13,000, eventually will be large enough to support a full-time faculty member in the university's music department. "Th(' joy of the resurrection is not complete," ht· said. Anne i still not buril.'d in my life . " However, he contmues to st"arch for good in the tragic event he views as a mystery. Anne's parents said she donated generously to religwus and THE MEMORY of Anne Catherine wanke lives on at the university.

ncwcd arquamta&1:(o?ndts('overetl pastor wa, a high school class· mate from Columbus Oh10, whom he their growth m sp1ntuahty after the traged). K,,thle n said she is "mnn• keenly aware nf (,od 111 her life I 111 working to ket>p him th,·re." HER HUSBA D .ud he feel. a "deeper sen itivity to tleath and mortality " He somctim s docs grie · wu11 ·Jang ,n his private practice as a 111 irn gc, family, ant.I thild counselor. l'h,· s... ankes c • tcpped·up safety pracucrs resulting from Anne's as ault San Diego and La Me.a ga. stations are urged tn harbor women who come there dunng tht night until poli c arrive. Local I\ i •roups pressed for the distribution and s,11t· of larg,· Call-Pollre signs ior use i.,y rlrl\ ns with car trouble I hry believe women, in gt·neraJ, have be( ome 111orc safety conscious and aware of their own \Ulnerability. HAVE THE wankes orgiven Anne's assailant .1 "Whoever it is, I hop<· the person is (<,nvertt"u ... like the assa in of t. Mana Gm tti," John said. "W believe that Anne died defending hi,r mtegnty,'' he .aic.l m a written tatemtnt is. ucd through USD soon after her d ·,1th. " I hope that everyone who kn w nne learns that ,·irtuc and integrity ar · needed for happiness and " pe~u c . JOH AND Kcuhlcen Swankt• believe 1111e 1. at pca(e and extol her virtue· with pt idc ,md joy. l't1ey s 1id sh,· enjoyctl attending Ma. s, fr qucntly read f1m11 h I Hiblc, always wo1t tht brown s apular of Our Lady of 1t. C rmel ..111(I kq,t a ro .,ry ,it her bed that th h.,d not i:cn for 45 years 1 he Swanke ,1lso test,fy to

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