News Scrapbook 1986

San Diego, CA (San Diego co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454)

1986

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Fifties still nifty: Episcopal Community Services to roll back the decades Jf1~( , , , A calendar of social events tail hour will include sales of 200 $50 The Polish American Association ence Day party from 11 a.m. to 5 ception, _Phon~ 239 -200L . 11 < OP L CO~nrn. IT'l: u raffle tickets for the grand prize of a will have its 50th anniversary ball p.m. Sunday at the Alpine Creek Tb_e B•~hops School "'. 111 have an ices _w!ll roll back to the ride for two aboard the Venice Sim- Saturday at the Town and Country Shopping Center. Admission is free to auction-dmner M~y 10 m the Eva " ifty F1ft1es" tomorrow for pion Orient Express, including Convention Center. Cocktail hour, 6 the event, which includes entertain• May Fleet Athletic Cent_er _on cai:n- a rhnn r dance to be held m the p round-trip air fare from San Diego. p.m., will be followed by dinner at 7 ment and authentic Me'

lure reception at 7 p.m. tomorrow in a private home. "The Art of the Bari- tone" is the theme, which will be dis- cussed by Tony and Trudy Julian with an opera quiz by Melvin and Dorothy Bartell. Refr hments will follow Tickets are $7.50 each. For more information, phone 286-3053. ichola Reveles, profes- ·or of music at the UniYersity Qf.San Piego will discu tomorrow "The Tbt> Re<.·.

by 'oung Buffs and North Coast Guild of the San Diego Opera Associ- ation. will begin al 7:30 p.m. at a pri- vate Del Mar home. Coffee, desserts and champagne will be served. Tick- ets are $7.50 each For more infor- mation, phone 282-9692 or 755-2970. The National Kidney Foundation wtll have its annual Orient Express Gala Saturday in San Diego's Santa Fe Railway Depot. The 7 p.m. cock-

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are $35 each. For more mformat1on, The Community Service Center for the Disabled will have an awards' dinner and art auction May 10 at the La Jolla Marriott Hotel. Honorees are Bree Walker, Hal Clement and George Hendrickson. Cocktail hour is 6 p.m. to be followed by dinner at 7 and the 8 p.m. awards program. Tickets are $50 each. For more in(or- mation, phone 458-9966. phone 459-4201.

The San Diego NAACP and Voice & Viewpoint will have a role model- awards presentation Saturday from 6 more information on the black-tie party, which includes the showing of

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Whispering Winds Family Camp, a lay-directed, nonprofit Catholic facil- ity in Julian, will have its annual din- ner-dance Saturday in Hotel Inter- Continental. Betty Wood is chairman of the event, which includes enter- tainment by Frankie Laine and the In Case Trio. Bill Green's orchestra will play for dancing. For more in- formation, phone 265-7878.

"Mirrors of the Gods: Reflections important shows ever exhibited at the San Diego Museum of Man, will May 8 for President's Associates members and a general membership reception at 6 p.rn. May 9. For infor-

to 9 p.m. in the Viscount Hotel. For of Huichol Reality," one of the most

a film on black women in the arts, open with a private preview at 6p.m.

phone 264-5239 or 266-2233.

Alpine Community Center will

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rges women to speak against nuclear race

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Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union. "It didn't surprise me or anyone who knows anything about nuclear technology. It's extremely danger- ous," said Verdon-Roe. Verdon-Roe, 36, was a school teacher m her native Britain until she moved to the Bay Area 10 years ago, when she started freelance writ- ing. All her life, she said, she hacl been a "political blob, an ostrich with my head stuck in the sand." But that changed four years ago, after she saw "The Last Epidemic," a docu- mentary about nuclear war She turned her efforts to filmmak- ing, concentrating on the nuclear issue. Her film, "In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?" received a 1983 Academy Award nomination for best short doc- umentary. "I discovered in talking to other women that they had difficulty in talking about this issue to their hus- bands, friends, co-workers, even though they were really concerned," she said.

"I would ask why, and they would say, 'I really don't think I can speak with the passion of Dr. Helen Caldi- cott (a physician who has been active in the anti-nuclear movement, Physi- cians for Social Responsibility) - and then they would proceed to speak with the passion of Dr. Helen Caldicott. What seemed to be miss- ing, though, was the confidence." Caldicott, ironically, announced last week that she is planning to withdraw from the anti-nuclear movement and return to her native Australia. She cited her feelings of frustration in getting enough support for the anti-nuclear movement. "It's sad," said Verdon-Roe. "But, she has put an enormous amount of energy into this. If everyone put half the energy into it the way she did, we'd have the world's problems solved." Women have not been taken seri- ously when they speak out about the nuclear arms race, Verdon-Roe said. ·'They have generally been excluded when it comes to military matters. Most men seem to dismiss their opin-

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ions by saying,'You're so emotional.' " But Verdon-Roe believes emotion- alism - "combined with some basic knowledge" about ooclear weapons - is what is needed in order to raise the consciousness of Americans about the nuclear issue. "Women" recently received the r:- 1

San Francisco Fi.Im Festival's award for best educational film. Verdon-Roe hopes the film will en- courage both men and women to speak out on the nuclear issue. "It's the only hope we've got," she said. "And I don't think it's a naive one.''

"In a nuclear age, our nuclear fam- ily 1s all the children In the world," Eli sda Melamed says touchingly.in the film "Women For America, For the World." Last year, Melamed, the n other of three children and a therapist, died in a car accident. It is to her that filmmaker Vivienne Verdon-Roe dedicates "Women." - Melamed was one of 22 women that Verdon Roe interviewed for the film about the nuclear arrrtS race. The film which includes inter- views with actress Joanne Wood- ward. Rep. Pat Schroeder, D-Colora• do; and former Reps. Ehzabeth Holtzman and hirley Chisolm - will air nationally on cable station WTBS at 730 p.m. (PST) May 19. · San Diegans will have a chance to see the mm tonight at th1; UniveIJl$y of San Di1>1?0. Verdon-Roe, along with Lmda""Smith, founder of Mothers Embracing Nuclear Disarmament (MEND), will speak at 8 p.m in the

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Vivienne Verdon-Roe Manchester aud1torrnm in the Man- chester Conference Center at USD. The program, part of USD's "Women Leading the Way" series, is free to the public. The film is even more timely with this week's nuclear accident at the