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Bear Facts VOL XXVI NO.~ e THE NEWSLETTER OF e DECEMBER 1987

~ lt-8pn"l. ~~-q~3ok~~ ~I~~-~ a..-n.4_ ~-~ ~· OCEANIDS FALL LUNCHEON REPORT. One hundred and sixty women gathered at University House to meet and greet old and new - friends at the annual Oceanids Fall Luncheon. Bear Facts Rita Atkinson, Frieda Urey, Lou Bowles and other Board members gathered at the gate to Please address all mail to: greet the women. The courtyard was a blaze of Bear Facts color as the Interest Groups showed their UCSD Q-049 wares and explained their purposes to La Jolla, CA 92093 534-5770 newcomers. The Resale Shop displayed some of the nice "bargains" available in their new Editor: Evelyn Lakoff . 296-1039 location at the International Center. The Calendar: Carolyn Kellogg 452-1434 Public Information Off ice distributed information on the new "Docent Program" - Membership/Subscription encouraging all Oceanids to consider Mary Watson volunteering at some time. The La Jolla Money 8666 Cliffridge Ave. Book was for sale in the hopes of raising a La Jolla, CA 92037 453-2226 little extra cash for Oceanids functions. Circulation: Isabel Wheeler 459-7461 There was a wonderful mix of old timers, new visitors, staff and faculty wives. Interest Groups: Avis Johnson made gallons of our favorite Betty Irvin 942-3629 punch. Instead of the salad potluck of the Housing: Ilse Warschawski past, salad box-lunches were presented with a 8902 Nottingham Place fall flair - accompanied by a lovely "groaning La Jolla, CA 92037 453-2479 board" of desserts. All three of the salads served came from the Oceanids cookbook - see Artist: Elibet Marshall 459-5246 the list to follow for page numbers. Staff: Nora , Elaine Halperin, Ellen Our heartiest thank you to the members who Revelle, Peggy Sard, Georgina Sham, Frieda boxed lunches, set up and cleaned up: Ilse Urey. Warschawski, Allie Boynton, Alice Kearns, Suzy Bear Facts is the newsletter of Oceanids, a Ticho, Dorothy Lyon, Lila Butler, Mary Watson, UCSD campus women's organization. It is Laura Galbraith, Georgina Sham, Rosemarie published monthly except for July, August and Lugmair, Lou Bowles and Alma Coles. September. Letters to the Editor and articles And to those who gave time to make the of interest to UCSD women are invited. All salads and the desserts - and to those who submissions must be receiyed by the ~djtor no contributed cash donations, we say "THANK YOU" later than the 10th of each month. for making the day such a success.

The Post Office does not forward Bear Facts. Chjcken S~lad - page 218 Please notify Circulation of any change of address. Lou Bowles, Allie Boynton, Lila Butler, Pat Kampmann, the Poetry Group: Yvonne Pasternach Membership and/or subscription: $15 per year. and Elaine Halperin, Carol Schultz, Emily Stowell, Suzy Ticho. Tabuli Salad - page 213 UCSD COUPON BOOK.S Alma Coles, Sally Kroll, Ruth Lipton, Dorothy Did you get your UCSD Coupon Book? If not, Lyon, Elibet Marshall, Laura Norris, Georgina hurry! Some of the coupons expire at the end Sham, People-to-People: Margot Marsh and Ruth of December. Fejer. Here are some of the bargains: 50 cents off purchase at campus eateries * 25% off most Strawberry Delight - page 211 UCSD Extension courses if you hold certain Alice Kearns, Elizabeth Houseman, Vera positions at UCSD * $1 off a T-shirt and $2 Roberson, Liz Wills, People-to-People. off a book at the campus bookstore * · Reductions at the Aquarium Bookstore * 10% off Desserts purchase at Gallery Store * "Twofers" for many ·university Events, concerts, and theater pro­ Barbara Bank, Ann Heiss, Kristy Hille, Enid ductions. Hinds, Madeleine Langille, Helen Lovenberg, They are free. Only a limited supply Rosemarie Lugmair, Priscilla Moxley, Edie remains. Get them at the Public Information Nierenberg, Sylvia Rath, Susan Scholander, Florence Stern, Carole Ziegler. Office. Call 534-3120. Beth Spooner

z We invite you to the yearly Holiday Party on Friday, December 11th at 8 pm at University House, 9630 La Jolla Farms Road in La Jolla. Please join us for a festive evening. The UCSD Community Chorus will perform, and there will be a holiday sing-along. If you have special carols from your country, bring along the music and be prepared to sing them out! This party is for adults only, please. For more information, call Rosemarie Lugmair, 454- 4573, or Sharyn Orcutt, 755-6139.

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~ Half-day morning trip An evening of fun and ~ames with Seaforth Sportf ishing Dancin~ to the sound of the BIORHYTHMS Newcomers will receive flyers If you have an item, a service, a trip, More details in the January Bear Facts or anything else to donate for prizes, please call Georgina Sham, at 459-1336, Call Mary Cutchin, 459-8074 Pat Kampmann at 454-184G(H)/534-4087(0) or or Dan Rodriguez at 534-3900. Sharyn Orcutt, 755-6139 The evening is a joint effort by Oceanids and the Alumni Association Look for more details in the next issue at the ~le INTERNATIONAL~~ CENTER ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT . AT THE SALK INSTITUTE HOLIDAY FARE The Salk Institute will present a Christmas concert by the La Jolla Renaissance Singers, Tree Trimming: Wednesday, December 9, 12-2 pm an Oceanids Interest Group, and La Stravaganza Come help trim a Christmas tree with on Saturday, December 19 at 8 pm. Th.is decorations from around the world. performance of Renaissance and Baroque fes~ive Christmas music, held in the large seminar Children's Holiday Party: Friday, December 11, room of the institute, is free and open to the 3-5 pm public. Seating is on a first-come,, first­ served basis; no tickets or reservations are A puppet show followed by holiday treats for required. all international students and scholars and The La Jolla Renaissance Singers, directed their children. Bring a plate of holiday by Michael Mullin, an oceanographer at SIO, treats to share. have been performing in the San Diego area for over 20 years. This group of 20 sin~ers Holiday Cookie Exchange: Wednesday, December includes UCSD personnel and San Diego 16, noon to 2 pm residents. This year's concert will feature motets by the Tudor English composers. Thomas A special event of the Wednesday morning Tallis and William Byrd, an early Renaissance coffee group. Bring cookies to exchange with motet by Josquin des Pres, and Christmas hymns others. For more information, call Emily by William Billings, an ~erican compo~er from Stowell, 481-7938 the time of the Constitutional Convention. La Stravaganza is an instrumental trio from the Los Angeles area. Members of the group will be performing Baroque music on the Baroque violin and violoncelloJI and the arch­ lute. 3 MORE ON THE FACULTY CLUB UCSD CULTURAL TRAILBLAZERS IN VllTASAARJ - Construction of the Ida and Cecil Green Viitasaari, Finland. Reindeer, birch Faculty Club, named after the major donors trees, chanterelles, saunas, ryi]y (founders of Texas Instruments), will be (tapestries), cloudberries, lingonberries, completed this December and will be ready for Lapland. UCSD Music Department members operation in the early part of the new year. Bertram Turetzky and Roger Reynolds journeyed Its gleaming copper roof at the edge of the farther than usual this summer to share their eucalyptus grove is already a campus landmark. wares at Finland's Musiikin aika ("Time of All the professional restaurant and club Music"). This international midsummer's managers who have seen the facility have given academy/ festival of new music is in its 5th accolades to its design. It will be a year. The community that supports it, comfortable building for inside and outside Viitasaari, is situated on Keitele Lake in dining in its dining room, terrace and central Finland. The surroundings are interior courtyard. The kitchen will be able startlingly serene in their natural beauty, to cater large parties, as well as to serve with the lingering summer days of midnight the daily needs of club members. Designed for sun, a setting common in Finland, but by no flexibility, its meeting rooms can be means commonplace. Time of Music, certainly configured for small or large groups and the not always serene itself, has nevertheless main dining room can be divided for special found its home in such a wonderland. events or functions. The lounge is a large Even before 1917, when they made their beautiful room with its own terrace, so it too break for independence from the centuries­ will provide indoor/outdoor service. The Club strong grip of their neighbors Russia and is within an easy walking distance from almost Sweden, the people of Finland had begun to any location on the upper campus and also has distinguish themselves. They were the only reserved parking for members. European people to honor their World War I The Faculty Club Board of Directors has debts to the United States. Culturally, they affirmed that club membership will be open to asserted themselves throuqh an advanced sense all active and retired UCSD academicians and of design manifested in fabric, architecture, staff, graduate students, alumni and the glassware and furniture. The familiarity of larger UCSD community of support groups and individuals and firm names like Armi Ratia for affiliates. The membership drive will start Marimekko, architects Alvar Aalto and Eero in January when the Club is outfitted to cater Saarinen, Arabia glass and ceramic art, receptions and events for prospective members Iittala glassware, Olympic runner Paavo Nurmi, and will be open for weekday and special artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela, composer Jean weekend service shortly thereafter. In mid Sibelius, philologist Elias Lonnrot (who November, proposals for managing the Club will compiled the epic "Kalevala") is evidence of a be received from local and national vendors. nation on track. When the contract is awarded, the initial Finland is a Nordic country that extends as hours of operation, the specific list of far north as the Arctic Circle and is closer services offered, and the initiation fee and to Russia than to Scandinavia. It necessarily dues will be determined. Fees and dues are views the rest of the world from afar - "A planned to be modest and special financial Country with a View," one might say. benefits will be offered to Charter Members. Musically speaking, artistic director Jukka For additional information, contact Laura Long Tiensuu, who is currently visiting San Diego, at 534-3781. composed the festival's view inventively and focused on the use of electronics and comput­ ers. Two composers, classicist Roger Reynolds and the enigmatic Fran~ois-Bernard Mache from France, addressed this current perspective individually in illustrated lectures and with plentiful performances of their music. Bert ~ Turetzky, electric and acoustic bass, and THE LA JOLLYWOOD '-' REVUE -· OF 1988 Nancy Turetzky, flutes, performed with ~lan IS COMING! and the effect of Turetzky's own "Reflections Circle January 30 on your calendar and plan on Ives and Whittier" lodges hauntingly in to attend the LA JOLLYWOOD REVUE OF 1988. For this listener's mind. UCSD was further those who missed the original sold-out show, represented by the lively participation of two four great acts will be repeated, including PhD students, the charismatic flutist John­ the utterly charming "Three Little Deans from Sebastian Winston and David Yoken, a notable School Are We" (with apologies to Gilbert and young percussionist. Sullivan) to be sung by Harold Ticho, Vice Karen Kortesmaki (Reynolds) Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Stan Chodorow, Dean of Arts & Humanities; and Ed Frieman, Director of SIO. Another nine or ten acts are being rehearsed and the new show promises to be another smash. Details will appear in the January issue of Bear Facts. Be sure to save January 30 for a wonderful dinner and show, and the chance to see the brand new Faculty Club. 4 nicknames as "Tin-Can Lizzie." WHAT'S IN A NAMET Faustina Solis' first name is an old Roman name that was used by Spaniards and Italians, Since the Oceanids Directory is about to and it is not related to the German "Faust." appear, it is a good time to take note of some In Italy and Spain, orphanages and other such of the more unusual names borne by our members buildings are sometimes endowed with the name. - names like Zenda, Baneeta, Gifford, and, of Faustina herself was named after her course, z. Why do parents decide on such grandmother. unusual names? How do people feel about Gifford Menard's name was her mother's having names that are so different? mother's maiden name, and her parents were One pattern seems to hold: people dislike eager to give the name to a child (preferably their unusual names as children, but then get a boy) . When Gifford was born, the name used to them and often enjoy them later in "Frances" was entered on her birth life. I remember that as a child I thought my certificate, but three years later, it was own name was terrible. (In Hebrew, my crossed out and Gifford put in its place. The grandfather's name had been Hayim, meaning next year, her parents produced a son, but it "life," so I was given the female equivalent, was too late - the name belonged to Giff. As Havah, which translates as Eve (alias Evelyn) . a child, she hated the name, but now she likes As a teenager, I would have given anything to it. have been called Valerie, and I was absolutely Heli Hoffmann's full name is Helga, but she convinced that every Valerie must be bliss­ was called "Helga" by her very strict father, fully happy - until I actually met one who and "Heli" by her mother and sisters, so she admitted she was longing for a completely now uses Heli all the time. different name. Jil Warn's name is officially "Karen Jil" Here are the stories behind some of the more unusual names of Oceanids members. on her birth certificate. Her parents just liked the spelling variation and thought it Adylin Rosenblatt was named after her gave the name a unique look. Jopie Thompson: Jopie (pronounced Yopie) mother's sister, Ida. Her mother chose a similar but fancier name popular at the time. is the Dutch shortening for Johanna - a name Not the best speller, she made "sweet Adeline" as common in Holland, she says, "as a Dutch into Adylin. Ady never cared for the name wooden shoe." when she was young, but now she makes it her Luna Fung: Back in China, when Luna's slogan: "Adylin can win!" class was studying English in High School, the Alma Coles was named after her Swedish teacher had a list of names, supposedly grandmother who lived in a rural village typically English, and each student chose one complete with reindeer and sleds near the to be used in class during conversation Arctic Circle. Alma and her father visited periods. Luna's name, Latin for "moon," is the area this past June. They still have now her legal name, but she is not fond of it. family living there, but no one is presently She uses it because her Chinese name is carrying the name. difficult to pronounce. Alnora Bishop was the second child born Melba Kooyman: The idol of her father's into the family. At her birth, her father youth was Dame Nellie Melba, the famed walked into the room and announced, "Her name Australian soprano, so he named his child is Alnora." No one was ever able to find out af~er the opera star. Naturally enough, as a why he chose that name. child, she was often called "Melba Toast." When she celebrated one of her rnilestorie Baneeta Taylor's parents told her she was birthdays, she made sure to have Peach named after an actress. She suspects the name Melba? was probably "Bonita," but that it was spelled phonetically. She always liked the idea that Nil la Stennes: Although of German once she left her home town, no one knew how background, Nilla had an aunt named Petronilla to spell her name. She also likes its after an Italian patron saint. She has no uniqueness - no one else, as far as she knows, idea how the name came into the family, but has the same name. she was named after that aunt. The shortened Dixie Long Whittaker is from Georgia, and version, Nilla, was used from childhood on her mother and aunt were named Dixie. The because her mother said, "By the time I call last of four girls, what else could her her Petronilla, she is already around the parents have named her? corner!" Elibet Marshall's first name is really Portia Weiss's father was always proud of Elizabeth. But when she was two years old, his middle name, Porter, from a family. living in Turkey at the end of World War I, name dating back to the earliest period of sweets and candy were very hard to come by. American history, and he was frequently called Elibet's mother had managed to get some, and "Port." He also loved Shakespeare, so he was all the children were lined up waiting to be delighted to be able to change his own name a given a treat. Elibet was at the end of the bit and come up with Portia for his newly-born line and she impatiently cried, "Elibet auch!" daughter. It was only when she reached high (Elibet too!) a number of times. The school that Portia found adults who admired shortened version of the name remained in use. the name and knew its source. She has come to Since then, several relatives and friends have enjoy it herself. named their children Elibet. She likes the Regitze Vold's full name is Bente Regitze name, especially since it avoided such Rosen;trn Vold. Bente is from "Benedicta." 5 Regitze is an old Danish name in use since the Viking Days. Rosen~rn means a red sea eagle. When Regitze was taking her US citizenship WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT: TAKING PRECAUTIONS test, the officer said to her, "I assume you want to get rid of some of those names." Even though Southern Californians escape Regitze told him outright, "You assumed snow and freezing temperatures, they are still wrong!" susceptible to influenza. With cold and flu Sybil York's mother knew a girl in grammar season about to begin, prevention, in the form school named Sybil, and although the girl was of vaccination, is the best course of action, not a friend and she didn't even particularly according to Dr. Diane Cross, a UCSD Medical like her, she thought the name was lovely, and Group general internist with a special used it many years later. interest in geriatrics. Velma Krueger was named after her parents' "Individuals over 65 years of age can get minister's daughter, the only other person she very sick from influenza, even if they are knows to have had the name. normally healthy," Cross said. "Even a few Sobin was named after the Greek days of dehydration from decreased food and goddess of love and beauty. Venus or fluid intake can be very serious, and the was born in the area of Cythera near recuperation period can be much longer than where our Venus was born, and the Greek name the ten or more days it takes younger people "Aphrodite" has been used in her family for to recover." The greatest threat of flu is generations. On her birth certificate, the that it reduces resistance to secondary name is entered as "Venus." As a child, she bacterial infections. did not like the name at all. When she had a Young, heal thy people who contract daughter of her own, Venus chose the name influenza may not need to see a physician , who was the mother of Venus. since there is no drug that can eliminate th~ Vilma Malmberg, as some of you may have virus. Bed rest, fluids and aspirin or guessed, was named after the movie actress of aspirin substitutes may help relieve symptoms. the 1920s, Vilma Banky. The flu vaccine now available, protects z Kripke: It's not just her initial - it's against three types: Taiwan and Leningrad her first name! Z was born into a family in (both flu Type-A), and Ann Arbor (Type-B). which there were few female children, and Annual vaccinations are required because flu there was a tug-of-war as to whether she viruses change from year to year and should be named after someone on her father's antibodies made by the body in previous years side or her mother's. Her father suggested don't recognize the new strains. The risks of temporarily picking a letter that would not the vaccine are small and side effects are even suggest one side or the other, and "Z" usually minor. Patients may experience was written on the birth certificate. It was soreness at the site of the injection and some thought a "real" name would be picked in a may have a slightly elevated temperature or while, but Z it has remained. chills for a day. Zelda Goociman is not named after F. Scott The most common upper- and lower-reBpiratory Fitzgerald's wife. Zelda was her infections, including colds and bronchitis, grandmother's name. are caused by a variety of common viruses and Zenda Mae Norte was named after the popular cannot be treated with drugs. Rest, fluids to book, "The Prisoner of Zenda" which described loosen secretions, and aspirin or aspirin­ an imaginary island located somewhere south of substitutes to relieve aches and pains will France. Zenda owns an original copy of the make the patient more comfortable, but will book which was published in 1889. not shorten the duration of the cold. Zsuzsa Heiligenberg· That's a short form "The acute phase of a cold can last from a of the Hungarian version of Susanna. Her full week to 10 days, and symptoms can persist for more than two weeks. It can take up to six name is Zsuzsanna. OK, all you Mary's, Barbaras, and Joans, weeks for an individual to fully recover and etc. Although your names are "common" and it feel up to his or her normal activities," is impossible to call all of you, is there Cross said. some particular reason you were given your Cold viruses can also make individuals more name. Does your name have an interesting susceptible to secondary infections. story? If it does, send your tale to Bear Indications of something more serious than a cold are fever of three days or more; a fever Facts, Q-049 for the January issue. 0 . of 102 or higher for more than a day; an inability to engage in more than minimal activity that persists for more than five or six days; shortness of breath, chest pain, or blood in sputum; and signs of confused behavior or troubled thought processes. A return of a high fever or a worsening of symptoms after an initial recovery from a cold are also signs of complications. "It is wise to contact a physician if these signs of secondary infection occur " Cross said. '

6 ONIONS IN THE STEW at UCSD At the 12th Annual Orchids and Onions presentation of awards for San Diego's best •• and worst architecture and planning UCSD TOPS RECORD-SETTING FUND DRIVE GOAL accomplishments, UCSD was given an Onion for " ... squandering the opportunity to create The largest capital fund drive ever timeless architecture in a splendid natural attempted in UCSD history not only met, but setting." The "award" was accepted by John exceeded its goal. The campaign to raise Woods, acting vice chancellor for $30.4 million needed for building construction administration, who commented that he was and to establish new endowments has brought in somewhat surprised. "Our view," he noted, "is a total of $32,588,628. that the campus has a number of attractive Through individual gifts totaling over buildings, and certainly a very attractive $12.4 million, San Diegans contributed the site." But, according to a report in the San largest percentage of the campaign total. Diego Union, he added that the campus is Among those gifts are $2 million from Sol determined to "strive to do a better job" and Price and his family for a new University is hiring new master planners to guide future Center; $1.6 million from Florence Riford for building projects. There are also plans to endowed chairs in Alzheimer's Disease research· establish a design review board. He also and AIDS research, and a library collection on pointed out that "there really is a silver the Pacific Rim; a $1.l million bequest from lining in this. UCSD has been trying very Helen Hillyer for medical school scholarships, hard to get a school of architecture on and $1 million from Ida and Cecil Green for a campus. This award might just lend the Faculty Club. project the proper sense of urgency .... " Last Foundations contributed approximately $9 year, UCSD won an Onion for the Supercomputer million, including $6 million from the Birch Center. Foundation for a new aquarium and ocean science center at SIO. Local corporations gave $1.5 million; UCSD faculty and staff THE REAGAN MYTH contributed $2.6 million; alumni, students and parents gave $2.3 million, and a variety of Two UCSD researchers, Michael Schudson, other private sources accounted for close to chairman of the Department of Communications, $4 million. and Elliot King, a doctoral student of Although the record-setting drive exceeded sociology, report that President Reagan is its goal, the campus will continue to seek definitely nQt. one of the most popular US funds for several projects that require more presidents in history despite such claims and support than targeted in the campaign. his being hailed as "The Great Communicator." Over $20 million of the campaign total is After examining public-opinion surveys taken earmarked for new campus facilities that are since 1952 by Gallup Polls, they claim that ineligible for state funding, such as a Reagan's popularity has actually been lower university center and bookstore, a building than almost any other elected president in for the Institute for Research on Aging, a that period. The "myth" was probably the cancer facility, a faculty club, and an result of the news media being overawed by aquarium museum. Reagan's election success. The remainder will create endowments which will enable the university to recruit outstanding faculty and graduate students, CENTRAL LIBRARY ADDITION DESIGN CHOSEN build special library collections needed for research, create a major campus/ community A plan for an· addition' to the UCSD Central lecture program and enhance visiting scholar Library that would double its size and make and artist programs.~ more use of existing space has been accepted after much controversy and disagreement. The library designed by the architect, William Pereira, is now 17 years old, and it was built when the university had half the students it UCSD PURCHASES MCKELLER RESEARCH CENTER has today. There is dire need for additional book space, equipment areas, and study room. In a move to alleviate a critical shortage In September, architect Gunnar Birkerts of administrative space on campus, UCSD has presented a plan for expansion that called for purchased the McKeller Research Center the construction of three new floors wrapped building at 10280 North Torrey Pines Road. around the south and west sides of the The facility is located between Scripps Clinic library, and connected by glass to the fourth and the Salk Institute, opposite the north level of the library. The addition was to be entrance to the campus. About 100,000 square covered with earth to form a mound. An atrium feet is currently leased to several private effect would be created by covering half of and development firms and UCSD will honor the present forum with glass and turning much these leases. The acquisition will enable the of it into usable space. campus to meet its most pressing space needs The initial design was approved by the by occupying close to 40,000 square feet Building Advisory Committee, but a number of currently available in the building. faculty members, including Roger Revelle and 7 Walter Heller, criticized the plan as being unsympathetic to Pereira's original design. The library is generally considered to be just about the only building of architectural note at SIO on the campus. They also objected to the necessary destruction of many of the eucalyptus trees surrounding the building. DRAWN FROM THE SEA On the other hand, Dorothy Gregor, university librarian, was enthusiastic about "DRAWN FROM THE SEA: Art in the Service of the design because she felt that it would work Ichthyology" is an exhibition of beautiful and that students would make good use of the scientific illustrations from the Smithsonian facilities. San Diego architect, Kay Kaiser, Institution collection in the National Museum also strongly favored the plan. of Natural History's Division of Fishes. The Birkerts subsequently submitted a second exhibit highlights the importance of plan which it is generally felt is much less scientific drawings as tools for study, while architecturally daring or inspiring, but providing a glimpse into the history of this intrudes much less on Pereira' s unusual art. The earliest illustrations date back to structure. The second design has two 1838. Such illustrations are often more underground floors wrapped around three sides valuable than highly-technical photographs of the library (west, south, east) . because the artist can base his drawings on Two campus committees voted for Plan B several specimens. The exhibit will be in the (Academic Senate's Campus and Community Scripps Aquarium-Museum from December 5 to Environment Committee - 8-0 and the Campus January 3. The museum is open from 9 am to 5 Community Planning Committee - 14-0), while pm daily. the Building Advisory Committee voted 13-1 in AN UNDERSEA VOLCANO favor of Plan A. So it is Plan B that will be presented to the UC Board of Regents in The SIO ship, Melville, and Harmon Craig, January. The legislature has already approved chief scientist on the ship, made national the expenditure of $37 million on the news when an undersea volcano erupted expansion. Construction should begin in the immediately below the vessel and in the fall of 1989 and should take approximately 20 surrounding waters in the south-central months to complete. Pacific. Craig described "large gas and steam bubbles bursting at the surface, with choco­ late-colored water and steaming lava balls," and how one gigantic bubble pushed above the surface, then exploded, shooting out jets of gas and exposing a cluster of 20 to 30 volcanic rocks. One rock, the size of a football was captured, but was too hot to ... A cube standing on one corner ... a handle immediately. The bursting bubbles made spaceship landing or taking off ... a sphere "horrendous clangs and clamors." No one was of knowledge supportd by invisible hands . . . a hurt, and the ship was not damaged. pyramid ... a mushroom .... The library has become a symbol to which many people on and off campus have become attached. -~~::-\~W1}1'/{-~~~ .

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Browse through the latest shipment of unique marine gift ideas during a special sale at the Scripps Aquarium-Museum Bookshop from November 27 to 29. Holiday gift items include shells, jewelry, gift books, and art objects. This special shoppers' paradise will be held in the Scripps Aquarium Classroom, 8602 La Jolla Shores Drive at SIO. Hours are Friday, '1 know it's none of my business, but November 27, 11 arn-3:30 pm; Saturday, November could I make just one suagestion?" 28, 10 arn-3:30 pm; Sunday, November 29, 10 am- 2: 30 pm. The public is invited. Proceeds THE SATURDAY EVEN/NC POST help fund the Aquarium's exhibits and educa­ November '87 tion programs. For more information, call 534-4578. 8 menopause. The UCSD Menopause Clinic meets Wednesdays =11l1= at the ='== from 1: 30-5: 3 0 pm at the UCSD Medical ~UF MEDICAL CENTER =i1rf Group/Fourth Avenue Medical Practice, 3969 Fourth Avenue in the Hillcrest area of San UCSD TOPS MED-SCHOOL ENROLLMENT LIST; Diego. Reservations are required; call 294- FACULTY, QUALITY OF PROGRAMS CREDITED 6130 or the "Hot Flash Line," 453-3210.

More students from UCSD go on to medical school than from any other public university at EXTENSION in the nation, according to a recent study by the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions. WORKSHOPS The study of undergraduates in the first year of medical schools during 1982-84, showed "Computer Graphics for the Desktop that UCSD led with 8.1 percent of its students Publisher," a one-day workshop featuring one enrolled. Macintosh computer per student for a real "I at tribute UCSD' s success to its hands-on experience. This will be held on outstanding faculty and to the high quality of Saturday, December 5 from 10 am to 4 pm at the programs offered in pre-med subjects, such as UCSD Supercomputer. The fee is $110. biology, chemistry, psychology and bio­ engineering," said UCSD Chancellor Richard "Breaking Free From Compulsive Eating," a Atkinson. one-day seminar featuring Geneen Roth, Other schools below UCSD were the consultant and author. This workshop will be University of Virginia, 5.8 percent; UC-Davis, on Saturday, December 5 from 10 am to 4:30 pm 5.6 percent; University of Michigan, 5.5 at UCSD. The fee is $95. percent; UCLA, 3.7 percent, and UC-Berkeley, 3.2 percent. The list of private schools was headed by "Distinctive Neighborhoods of San Diego: Johns Hopkins University with 23.9 percent and Mission Hills," a half-day walking tour Stanford with 15.5 percent. providing historical, architectural and biographical information on this unique neighborhood. Meets on Saturday, December 5 AGREEMENT WITH JAPANESE UNIVERSITY from 9:30 am-2:30 pm. The fee is $35 and includes lunch at a quaint neighborhood cafe. The Schools of Medicine of UCSD and Call UCSD Extension at 534-3400 for Yokohama City University have developed an information or to enroll. agreement of cooperation to promote academic exchange between the two institutions. Among the programs to be developed are visiting professorships, exchange of post-doctoral and graduate students, exchange of publications and teaching materials, and joint research projects. The agreement calls for the further exploration of other mutually beneficial Jn tleu1nriam projects. ~.... , LOUISE BRANSTETTER UCSD MENOPAUSE CLINIC Louise Branstetter died on June 22 after a The Menopause Clinic, a service of the UCSD 3-1/2 year battle with cancer. A native Department of Reproductive Medicine, has a new Californian, she became an airline hostess for phone number - 294-6130. The clinic gives United before going to Venezuela to become a women an opportunity to share personal teacher at a Standard Oil Company school. experiences and receive up-to-date information While there, she met her husband, Harold. on therapies and research on menopause. Women After leaving Standard Oil, they moved to La who are pre- and post-menopausal are welcome, Jolla where Harold worked for many years as an as well as individuals experiencing surgical electrical engineer in building design menopause. The founder and coordinator of the construction during the early expanding years clinic is Sonia Hambruger. at UCSD. Louise was a member of Oceanids and During each four-hour session, participants an active member of the Bridge Group. She is discuss symptoms, hormone replacement therapy, survived by her husband, three children and osteoporosis, sexuality, two grandchildren. hysterectomy/oophorectomy and taking Two postscrips: "She was a good mother. I responsibility for one's own care, with the had her youngest son in a pre-school workshop help of informed staff. while I was employed by the San Diego City Participants have the opportunity, during Schools. I wish all my mothers had been as the session, to consult a specialist from the nice." Elibet Marshall UCSD Department of Reproductive Medicine. "Louise enjoyed her many meetings with Each participant will receive informational Oceanids friends. She would certainly advise handouts, including a directory of health care all to get a yearly breast exam." Harold providers knowledgeable in the field of Branstetter 9 members serving as contacts. "This system, assures that no one is ever alone," says· UCSD RETIREMENT CLUB Herbenar. It can also be used for such things End ing its second year in operation, the as finding a house-sitter or car pooling to UCSD Retirement Club for Faculty and Staff has club events. over 500 members, with new members joining This successful retirement center is led by dai l y. Th e club's philosophy is that a 17-member executive board which this year retirement is not something to be feared and has revised the by-laws, restructured the that youth and age can join together in board's operation, organized many successful -support of one another. The members realize club events, and increased club membership. that many retired faculty and staff want to Their most important accomplishment, however, stay in t ouch with what's going on at UC, and was obtaining the Club's own campus building, want to help out where they can. They also Quonset Hut 323. believe that everyone benefits when retirees The Club has an advisory board of pro­ conti nue t heir presence on campus. fessionals in the fields of health, physical Maryann Herbenar, with the staunch support fitness, law, and finance, who - when called of Quelda Wilson, Assistant Vice Chancellor­ upon - help with decision-making. There are Personnel, founded "The Club" in 1984. also four UC Club Consultants who update club The adventure began when Herbenar sent a members on university issues pertaining to survey to all UCSD faculty and staff over the retirees. age of 55 to determine whether there was an The Club is planning to participate in the interest in forming a UCSD retiree center. UCSD Docents Program in which members The results were overwhelmingly positive, volunteer to staff an information telephone resulting in a 66-member faculty, staff, and line in the Public Information Office, service retiree planning committee. the Visitor Information Center on Gilman Drive The committee quickly reached an agreement (as of Spring 1988), and lead guided tours for on what the concerns of the retirement center important campus visitors. should be, and developed the first by-laws. Any UC Emeritus or retiree living in the Although the Club's mission is to serve San Diego area is eligible to join the UCSD retirees, the committee decided that currently Retirement Club. If you are interested, working faculty and staff would also be please phone (619) 534-4724 for information. allowed to become members. The Club's first office was opened in the spring of 1986. At *This is, of course, also true of Oceanids. this time, the Rice Resource Center, a self­ help library for club members, was dedicated * * * * * to the Club's first treasurer, Madora Rice, who had recently passed away. On December 3 at 7 pm in Conference Room The Club is unique in the UC system in that lllA, the Retirement Club is hosting a faculty and staff are together in the same presentation on "The Joy of Living" featuring organization.* "Our faculty members are Howard Hunt of the Physical Education strong supporters of what we've developed for Department; Paul Saltman, Professor of Biology Emeriti and retired staff. We' re still and author of The California Nutrition Book; developing our credibility with the rest of and Bettina Experton, a doctor specializing in the UCSD faculty, but it's really just a geriatric and preventative medicine. matter of getting the word out to them on what the club is all about," explains Herbenar. The Club services UCSD directly by TOY SHOW CONTINUES providing members who are available for volunteer and "temporary paid" positions. Club members developed this system, which enables them to return to UC quickly and easily. Members of the UCSD Retirement Club are eligible for many benefits: th'e UCSD/Club Affiliate ID card for check cashing, library privileges, UCSD bookstore discounts, parking discounts, UCSD theater discounts and special mailings. Members frequently receive invitations to attend exhibit openings and artist receptions. The Club offers lectures on a wide variety of subjects, such as estate planning, mental health, and the rights of the dying. The Club newsletter summarizes UCSD BEAR FACTS happenings and keeps members informed about UC If you haven't seen them yet, don't miss research and discoveries, wellness ideas, them! Giant pandas Basi (female) and Yuan academic endeavors, and top management Yuan (male) will remain at the San Diego Zoo changes. through early February now that an extension Membership in the Club offers another has been granted by the Chinese government. benefit - the Emergency Help Unit. The entire Plan to visit them early in the morning or membership has been divided by zip code into late afternoon for the least crowded viewing. emergency units, with each unit having several Call 55-PANDA for more information. 10 zens who have had successful careers. The six included Sherley Anne Williams, pro­ fessor of literature and author of "Dessa what's bruin ••• Rose;" Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, chair of the department of community and family Our thoughts are with Marlene McElroy in medicine at the UCSD School of Medicine; this time of her illness. *** NO LONGER and Des McAnuff, artistic director of the HAMSTRUNG: Alma Coles is recovering nicely La Jolla Playhouse. *** MEDIEVAL MADNESS: from her operation in which the ligament At the "Medieval Madness" Feast sponsored she tore while playing soccer was replaced by the American Institute of Wine and Food, by part of her hamstring. Full recovery Stan Chodorow, Dean of Arts and Humanities, should take a year. *** GETTING THE POINT: served as chancellor of the realm (m2ster Elibet Marshall, Marie Pearce, and Betty of ceremonies). ***GIVING THANKS: Nancy Shor have all won a number of first, second Eitts teaches four-year-olds at a Children's and third place awards at the San Diego Center, and she has been telling them about Cactus Society Show. *** WORKS OF ART: Thanksgiving - how the Pilgrims came to this This past summer, the Mary Moore Gallery country on a sailing ship; how hard the in La Jolla Shores featured art works by voyage was; and how the Indians helped the Edith Namias in an exhibit titled "Oils and new arrivals. Hanging in her classroom is Transformations." Edith used various media a picture of a long table with Pilgrims to create abstract landscapes and collages. and Indians partaking of the Thanksgiving She has received awards for her works from meal. In reviewing the story with the the Society of Washington Artists, the children,. Nancy asked them why the Pilgrims Smithsonian, and the Baltimore Museum. came so far. "Oh," said one bright-eyed Sharing the exhibit with Edith was Alexandra youngster, "because they wanted to have a Whitney whose works included a sculpted picnic!" head of Roaer Revelle. *** POET'S CORNER: A poem by Rose Schweitzer titled "Reflec­ tion" is included in a newly-published volume, "Changes: An Anthology of Contem­ porary Poetry" (Vol. I, no. 1) published by the White Swan Press of La Jolla. Rose wrote the poem in 1948. On November 7, Rose presided over a Humor Workshop at the PIGDIG ICL. *** THE LITTLE FOXES: When Frieda Urey has her morning coffee, she shares her Falling into the swirruning pool a few times cinnamon buns with visiting foxes. For a has .made Blackberry, the pet pig, very while, three came to her door - a large one cautious of water. The way she figures, you and two babies. Now only one fox appears. approach any type of water very carefully, They usually came during the day, but some­ barely peering into it, holding back mostly. times would greet guests when Frieda was If you see your reflection, it's deep and you having a party. *** SLOW BOAT TO CHINA: back up, but if it's murky, you know it's your Chia Wei Woo, former provost at UCSD, will drinking water pan and you can therefore sip, be leaving San Francisco State, where he slurp, and snort in it. has been president since 1983, to become Water in the form of rain is a different founding president of Hong Kong University. ball game. One takes cover until it's over His wife, Yvonne, and their 7-year old and then one digs and digs. First you remove daughter, Detian, will move to Hong Kong all the roots (known as "rooting") and very with him. Their three grown children will difficult to do in rock-dry adobe, as it was remain in the US. *** COALS TO NEWCASTLE?: this past dry summer. However, after a nice Akemi Masui, who often does translations rain, the soil becomes squishy soft, gooey and for an editor of a newspaper in Osaka, was fluey. Several inches can cake your whole asked to send him a kilo of American rice. face and snout - a perfect Halloween masK. So NUTRITIONAL NETWORKING: Paul Saltman, pro­ now it's time to dig down to China. If Marco fessor of biology, appeared on the Donahue Polo went there overland, and Magellan TV show on October 6. Saltman discussed circumnavigated the globe, Blackberry is doing his new book, "The California Nutrition it through the earth's mantle. She's already Book." *** ALLIES: Vladimir Pozner, the gone down through our California Plate, and Soviet journalist who spent two days at soon she will be at the core. It all depends UCSD in October, came to the campus at the on how much rain we get this winter. invitation of Helene Keyssar of the Depart­ Blackberry, the little black pig, is not a ment of Communication. They collaborated loafer. two years ago on "Remembering War," a pro­ Elibet Marshall gram shown on KPBS, and are now working on an expanded book version of the show. It will be published simultaneously in English and Russian late next year. *** THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST: "They easily rank as San Diego's biggest successes - the best and the brightest." So began the tribute in the San Diego Union to six leading citi- 11 SIO 1 retired in May. He will become one of the administration's chief policy advisers and "~onors a awards: spokesmen on issues ranging from acid rain to E Margaret Burbidge. director of the ozone depletion. Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences at Al Manaster, mathematician, Tim McDaniel. UCSD and one of the world's most renowned sociologist, and Yuan-Cheng Fung. bioenginees astronomers, was honored by Mt. Holyoke were named winners of UCSD' s Chancellor College in Massachusetts on the occasion of Associates Awards. Manaster won the its 150th anniversary on November 8. Burbidge Outstanding Community Service Award for "his has been chosen as one of four recipients of leadership role in working with secondary the Sesquicentennial Medal. The other three schools in the design and implementation of honorees are author Eudora Welty; Simone Veil, the Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project," past president of the European parliament; and which teachers use to measure students' Eddah Gachukia, an educator and organizer of abilities in algebra. Fung was named the Nairobi Forum which closed the United outstanding researcher, and McDaniel won the National Decade for Women. All four women are award for outstanding teaching. being honored "for making signifcant contributions to human understanding." Each UCSD's new-music ensemble,• .s.QNQB, will be will receive a special medal designed the sole representative for modern American specifically for the occasion. Burbidge is music at the Darmstadt Festival in West known for reseach that has contributed Germany next sununer. substantially to our basic understanding of outer space. Anne Carlson. an employee of the Department 1 of Pharmacy in the UCSD Medical Center and staff pharmacist at the Internal Medicine Group on the ma.in campus, has been named the 1987-88 Outstanding Staff Employee which housing: carries a prize of $1, 000 and a UCSD ~•• • • • • recreation card for one year. Nine other Housing ads should not exceed 6 or 7 lines employees have won Exemplary Service Awards (about 40 words) . There is a $5 charge per ad which carry prizes of $500 each and recreation for each month. Make check payable to cards. Ocean.ids, and send with your ad to I 1 se All winners were honored at a reception Warschawski, 8902 Nottingham Place, La Jolla, at the International Center on November 23 and CA 92037, no later than the 15th of the month their names will be placed on the perpetual preceding publication. plaque that hangs at the entrance to the Central Library. The Off-Campus Housing Off ice has listings for rentals and keeps a housing exchange list Harmon Craig, geochemist and oceanographer for vacations or extended visits abroad and in at SIO, has been chosen a co-recipient of the this country. Call 534-3670. The current top award in the field of earth sciences. sabbatical rental list can also be seen in the Craig and Wallace Broecker, a geochemist at Friends office at the International Center. Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, have been selected for FOR RENT the Vetlesen Prize, which was last given in 1981. For rent December 1. 1987 to February 1. 1989· The award, which includes a gold medal and A Tierrasanta townhouse, 15 minutes from UCSD $50,000 apiece, recognizes "achievement in the with 2 bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths, library, den, 3 sciences resulting in a clear understanding of levels, cathedral ceilings, garden patio, 2 the earth, its history or its relation to the decks, 2-car garage. The completely-fur­ universe." Both scientists have studied the nished house includes washer and dryer. atmospheric accumulation of gases contributing Six-month lease is available beginning in to the global warming known as the greenhouse December 1987; rent is $1,200/month. Call effect. Jane Westbrook at 565-7668. A Howell. MD was presented the Second Annual World Community Day Award by the Available now: Furnished 2-bedroom, 1-1/2 Board of the United Campus Ministry. The bath home (duplex) in downtown Del Mar with professor of pediatrics was honored for her patio and garage. One block to Lus; two outstanding service to the campus and the blocks to beach; 10 minutes by car to UCSD. greater San Diego Community. She is the Non-smokers, no pets; gardener and water included in the $950/month rent. Phone former president of San Diego Hospice Inc., Betty Shor 453-0334 or Joanne Tiernan one of the several hospices across the nation that Howell has been instrumental in (714) 792-5639. establishing. WANTED TO RENT Melvin N.A Peterson has been appointed first chief scientist of the National Ocean Rental wanted: Visiting faculty member and and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) . his wife would like 3-bedroom rental. Win­ Peterson, who drew worldwide acclaim as the ter and Spring quarters, from January 1 for director of the Deep Sea Drilling Project at approximately six months. Call 450-9441. 12 ·december

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Oceanids Board 755-7102. Meets Thursday, December 3 at 10 am for the meeting at the Oceanids Pavilion. Bear Facts Staff 6Jfi Editor Evelyn Lakoff, 296-1039 Meets on Monday, December 28 at 10 am at the Oceanids Pavilion. Newcomers Chairman Sharyn Orcutt, 755-6139: ·The Holiday Party is on Friday, December 11th at 8 pm at University House, 9630 La Jolla Farms Road, La Jolla. Adults only, please. Interest Groups All Interest Groups are invited to use the Oceanids Pavilion for meetings. Please contact Doris Bailey, 453-3900; Mabel Bittman, 453-7328; or Ilse Warschawski, 453-2479, so you can be put on the Calendar. Oceanids may attend any group at any time; please call the group chairman in advance. New groups may be formed if five or.more Oceanids are interested. All members of Interest Groups must be members of Oceanids. Please call Interest Group Coordinator Betty Irvin, 942-3629. THE AVI-SET/BIRD WATCHING - Co-ch Sally Kroll, CAFE FRAN9AIS - Co-ch Pat Stone, 454-5949; 459-1322; Teresa Lein, 453-4785. Meets Mary Annino, 456-1735. Le prochain Cafe the 4th Monday of the month. Call Fran9ais lieu le 14 decembre lundi, Sally, Teresa, or Ginette Launay, 453- i 10 heurs chez Colette Alford,· 15530 _4663, for information. Overview Dr, Poway, 748-3380. GARDENING - Outings are planned for January, BOOK GROUP - Co-ch Dorothy Goldman, 454-9314; February, March and April; details will Clara Wall, 459-8570. Meets Tuesday, be announced in Bear Facts. The new December 8 at 9: 30 am at Florence chairperson is Pat Austin. For more Stern's, 5431 Candlelight Dr, LJ. The information, call Pat, 222-5819, or Mary book to be discussed is Kaffir Boy by Lynn Hyde'- 459-351L Mark Mathevane. KITCHEN EQUIPMENT /BABY FURNITURE - Rents BRIDGE, DAY - Co-ch Ruth Lipton, 455-1059; kitchen equipment and baby things to Rosalie Weinberger, 459-7741. Meets the short term visitors to UCSD. Call first and third Tuesdays of each month Maryruth Cox, 755-4007; Ilse at 10:30 am. Bring a bag lunch; anyone Warschawski, 453-2479; or Liz Fong who is interested, please call a Wills, 454-6858. chairman. LA JOLLA RENAISSANCE SINGERS - Rehearse 4-8 BRIDGE, COUPLES' EVENING - Ch Rose Baily, 453- part Renaissance and Baroque music every 2637. Call Rose for information on the Wednesday from 8-10 pm. Call Connie December meeting. Mullin, 454-6871, for information. INTEREST GROUPS • Happy· Hanukkah Feliz Navidad '7Wtilleurs v«uX MOVABLE FEAST - Ch Liz Fong Wills, 454-6858. Conflict and Cooperation. Reception No meetings in December because of the follows. Information: Theresa Taualski, holiday festivities. Be sure to go to 481-1742, free . . the Oceanids Holiday Party! Dec 4 "The Mission" 7 pm, room 107, Third PEOPLE TO PEOPLE - Coordinator Mabel Bittrnann, Lecture Hall, Third College. This film 453-7328. Christmas Party-Pot Luck is a moving historical account of the Luncheon. Bring a foreign guest! It is Jesuit missionaries' efforts to preserve at the home of Emily Stowell, 238 Torrey for the Native Indians a sanctuary from Pines Terrace, Del Mar, 481-7938. the ravages of rapidly increasing POETRY - Co-ch Elaine Halperin, 459-5628; Spanish and Portugese colonialism. Part Kitty Ellickson, 450-5131. Call Kitty of the Political Film Series. or Elaine for details; meets the third Dec 9 US-Mexican Relations in 1987 Seminar. Tuesday of the month. Panel discussion reviewing the major RECORDER, ANYONE? - Meets every Tuesday from events and trends in US-Mexican 10 am to 12 noon. For more information, relations during 1987 by visiting call Goergi Price, 459-1734, preferably fellows and academic staff of the Center before 9 am. for US-Mexican Studies and representa­ tives of other institutions in the San SOUNDING BOARD - Co-ch Elaine Halperin, 459- Diego/Tijuana area. Second floor 5628; Joy Arthur, 454-6002. No meeting conference room, Institute of the in December. Americas, 10 am. STAMP COLLECTING - Betty Shor, 453-0334. Call Dec 17 Faculty Qistinguished Lecture by Alan Betty if you have any stamps to exchange Hofmann, UCSD, 4 pm, Liebow Auditorium, or give to the group. Basic Science Bldg, School of Medicine. TERTULIA ESPANOLA - Ch Andrea Ludden, 454- 8733. Contact Andrea for information on the December meeting. MUSEUMS WEDNESDAY COFFEES - Meets every Wednesday GALLERIES morning in the International Center. EXHIBITS Children are welcome. Corne for tea, coffee, co0kies, conversation; bring your friends. Dec 1 AnnuaJ Winter Ceramics Sale. 10 am to WINE TASTING - Ch Betty Shor, 453-0334; phone 5 pm, Grove Gallery. Work by students, contact Ginette Launay, 453-4663. Meets faculty, staff of the UCSD Crafts the third Friday evening of the month Center. One of a kind pieces (couples or single) . Call at least a stoneware, porcelain, raku, earthenware week in advance if you are interested. will be on sale. WITS - Ch Pat Kampmann. Meets at the Dec 1- "Jewelry Invitational" - National International Center, UCSD from 7:30- Jan 3 invitational show features jewelry in 9:30 pm on the second Monday of the gold and silver. Grove Gallery 10 am-5 month. If you would like to be on the pm Tuesday through Friday, 10 am-2 pm waiting list, please write to Pat Saturday, 534-2021. Kampmann, 8448 La Jolla Shores Dr, LJ Dec 4 "Jewelry Invitational" Artists' 92037. Reception. Grove Gallery, 6-8 pm, open •••• ,5 .. to the public . and LECTURES Dec 5- "Drawn From the Sea - Art in the ~~FILMS Jan 3 Service of Icthyology." From the archives of the Smithsonian Institution Dec 2 SOM pistinguished Faculty Lecture come these beautiful scientific illustrations that have been collected Dec 2 "Scientific Uses of the Space Station" into a special traveling exhibit. Made by David C. Black, NASA Ames, room 101, possible with a grant from American Nierenberg Hall (formerly POSS Bldg), Express Company. Scripps Aquarium­ SIO, 12 pm, California Space Institute Museum, 9 am to 5 pm daily, 534-4086. Seminar. thru "The Toy show from The Lawrence Scrip_ps Dec 2 "Is There a Long Run Solution to the Dec 13 Wilkinson Collection of Toys " The Arms Race?" by Norman Cousins, discussion exhibit is made up of 137 toys from a moderated by Herbert York, 7 pm, room broad range of categories. Mandeville 110, Peterson Hall, Third College. Co­ Gallery, noon to 5 pm Tuesday through sponsored by the Institute on Global Sunday, 534-2864. a " :Jf03gpa6.tt1AJO Season's Grllti"Js Mele Kalikimaka many others to bring you a gala HEALTH sportf ishing extravaganza, open house, FITNESS and exhibit. Arena at the San Diego and YOU Municipal Sportfishing Docks at Harbor :5mRIJ Drive and Scott Street, Point Loma, 10 am to 5 pm, free. Dec 1 "Huntington's Disease· The Venezuela Project and the New Genetics" by Nancy Dec 20 Tidepool Walk #3. This is the third in Wexler, PhD, president of the Hereditary a series of explorations of the Disease Foundation and a leading tidepools of SD County. See description researcher in the field of medical above on December 5 for general genetics. Garren Auditorium, UCSD information. This walk will be to School of Medicine, 4 pm. Sponsored by Cabrillo National Monument. the UCSD School of Medicine Associates. Dec 22 Snorkel through Fiji's coral gardens Dec 9 "Down Is Syndrome and Alzheimer Is Jan 2 with Scripps Aquarium naturalist. Plan Disease: What is the Conne.c.tion?" by Dr. now for a memorable holiday season Charles Epstein, Professor of amidst a glorious profusion of colorful Pediatrics, UCSF. Garren Auditorium, 8 fish, corals, other exciting marine pm; same lecture at 3 pm, Lieb life. For more information, call Heidi Auditorium, 505 South Coast Blvd, LJ, Hahn at 534-4578. 534-6299.

Scripps Aquarium Associates SOUNDS Scripps Aquarium A-007 Scripps Institution of Oceanography OF MUSIC University of California. San Diego La Jolla. California 92093 Dec 3 Tide Pool for Tots, 1 pm. Ao Dec 1 Concert Choir. 8 pm, Philip Larson, opportunity for children ages 3-5 to director, Mandeville Recital Hall, 534- explore marine life in natural tide 3230 or 534-4090 for information. pools. Adults $6, children $4. For information and reservations, call Heidi Dec 2 UCSD Jazz Ensembles and Guests, 8 pm, Hahn at 534-4578. Jimmy Cheatham, director, Mandeville Auditorium, admission $3. Dec 4 Beach Walk and Tide Pooling for Seniors. 1 pm. An exploration of local Dec 3 UCSD Chamber Ensembles, 8 pm, beaches and tide pools especially Mandeville Recital Hall. designed for senior citizens, fee $6. For information and reservations, call Dec 4 Wind Ensemble, 8 pm, Cindy Earnest, Heidi Hahn at 534-4578. director, Mandeville Auditorium, admission $1. opens "Drawn from the Sea - Art in the Service Dec 5 of Icthyology" 9 am. An exhibit of Dec 5 UCSD Violins. 8 pm, Janos Negyesy, beautiful scientific illustrations from director, Mandeville Rectial Hall. -the archives of the Smithsonian Institution. Exhibit continues to Dec 6 UCSQ Guitars. 8 pm, Romeros, director, January 3. Scripps Aquarium-Museum 9 am Mandeville Rectial Hall. to 5 pm daily.

Dec 5 Tide Pool Walk, 2 pm. Explore the tide pools in La Jolla with a naturalist from "\ Scripps Aquarium-Museum, adults $6, ' - children $4. For information and l~ THE THEATRE reservations, call Heidi Hahn, 534-4578.

Dec 11 Junior Oceanographers Club lJOCCl opens "The Mactman and the Nim" 8 pm, Mandell Meeting, 7:30 pm, Sumner Auditorium, Dec 2 Weiss Center for the Performing Arts. SIO. Monthly club for students in Love and insanity mingle in this absurd grades 4-12. The topic is "Collecting romance between a nun and an asylum's Aquarium Specimens." resident poet by one of Poland's leading playwrights, S. I. Witkiewitz. Dec 13 "Day at the Docks." We will be joining Performances repeated on December 3-6. San Diego's sportfishing industry and Admission $9, students $5, 534-3793. b Bear Facts Month: December Year: 1987

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