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Collegiate Business Policy Competition. For the compet ition, each team made up to 65 decisions over a 10-week period covering every aspect of business. Mark J. Riedy, former president of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), was selected as the first holder of the Ernest W. Hahn Chair of Real Estate Finance in USD's School of Business Administration. Riedy assumed the post in September, coming to USO from the National Council of Community Bankers. During the 1992-93 school year, four USO student-athletes earned NCAA All-America honors: Charles "Chugger" Adair, soccer; Julie McKean, women's tennis; Laura Richards, women's tennis; and Robert Ray, football. Lt. Gen. Robert B. Johnston, USMC, addressed the undergraduate com- mencement ceremony on May 23. Johnston was commander of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. Speaking at the graduate commencement ceremony earlier in the day was Rhetaugh Graves Dumas, dean of the University of Michigan School of Nursing. Morris Dees Jr., co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, was the speaker for the School of Law commencement on May 22. When Pope John Paul 11 visited Denver in August for World Youth Day, an estimated 200,000 young people were on hand, 17 of whom came from USO to join the international celebration of spirituality and youth. U D's footba ll Toreros began their first season at the Division I-AA level as a member of the Pioneer Football League. C. Hugh Fri edman , USO professor of law, was named by President Clinton to the White House Conference on Small Business Commission. The commis- sion is responsible for developing recommendations for executive and legisla- tive action to encourage the economic viability of small business. For the fift h consecutiv yea r, USO was named in the annual rankings of top universities and colleges compiled by U.S. News & World Report. In the maga- zine's "1994 America's Best Colleges," USO was ranked third among regional colleges and universities in the West. Eliza beth obbs, associate professor of history, was selected as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar, one of 30 chosen worldwide, and is spending the 1993 fall semester at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. , to work on a book about the Peace Corps. The USO board of trustees welcomed three new members: Robert H. Baker, president of Bob Baker Enterprises, Inc.; Sister Barbara Dawson, RSC], the newly named provincial for the Religious of the Sacred Heart in the United States; and John A. McMahon, executive vice president and managing princi- pal of Johnson & Higgins of California. Homecoming 1993 in November attracted more than 1,000 alumni and their families to Alcala Park for three days of reunions and activities. Angel Kleinbub '59 received the third annual Mother Rosalie Hill Award .

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Elderly and low-income San Oiegans who needed help filing their 1992 income tax forms were able to tum to the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program at USO, which was staffed by students from the School of Law, the School of Business Administration and other departments. Malikah Shabazz, the youngest daughter of Malcolm X, addressed a USO audi- ence in February on "The Legacy of Malcolm X." Eleanor Guetzloe, the 1992-93 recipient of USD's DeForest L. Strunk Endowed Chair in Special Education, discussed "Aggressiveness and Adolescents" and "Suicide and Adolescents" in free public lectures at Alcala Park. The Phili p Y. Hahn School of Nursing and Zeta Mu Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau, sponsored a free public lecture, "The Politics of Pain Management: The Role of Clinical Practice Guidelines." The lecture focused on new federal guidelines to help direct health care practitioners in the effective management of acute pain. The Torero women's basketball tean1 took the 1993 West Coast Conference Championship in March, shattering conference coaches' preseason predic- tions that USO would finish eighth out of eight teams. Daniel W. Derbes, president of Signal Ventures, was elected chairman of the USO board of trustees and Joanne C. Warren, longtime San Diego civic leader and philanthropist, was elected vice chairman. Derbes has been a USO trustee since 1981 and vice chairman of the board since 1990. Warren, a trustee since 1986, was chairman of the executive committee of USD's successful Education for a New Age capital campaign. Chong Wan Kim, AIA, a renowned architect and urban planner, was named a member of the USO board of trustees. Kim is president of C.W. Kim Architects & Planners, Inc. US. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun delivered the ninth annual Nathaniel L. Nathanson Memorial Lecture on April 7 at Shiley Theatre. Blackmun, the oldest member of the Supreme Court, discussed changes in the court and in the political arena. The Fletcher Jones Foundation awarded $1.5 million to USO to endow and establish the Fletcher Jones Chair in Biology, the university's first endowed chair in the sciences. USO will fill the chair with a teacher-scholar in devel- opmental biology. Irene Palmer, dean emeritus of the Philip Y. Hahn School of Nursing, appeared on "Nursing Approach," a cable television show for nurses. Every Sunday in May, the show included a segment on Florence Nightingale pro- duced by and starring Palmer, a national authority on Nightingale. A group of USO graduate students in the School of Business Administration brought home the first-p lace trophy this spring from the 1993 International

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