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BBAB FACTS PUBLISHED BY OCEANIDS - UCSD WOMEN June 1974 Vol. XII, No. 9 Editors - Julie Olfe, 8220 Paseo del Ocaso, La Jolla 92037 454-1424 Marie Pearce, 785.8 Esterel Drive, La Jolla 92037 453-4897 Calendar Editor - Peggy Langacker, 3286 Galloway Drive, San Diego 92122 453-1280 Subscriptions and Circulation - Isabel Wheeler, 1594 Crespo Drive, La Jolla 92037 459-7461 Staff Artist - Elibet Marshall, 2767 Hidden Valley Road, La Jolla 92037 459-5246 Staff - Marge Bradner, Elibet Marshall, Nat McDonough, Gifford Menard, Christine Nyhan, Helen Raitt, Betty Shor, Sally Spiess, Audrey Swartz, Frieda Urey, Mary Watson, Isabel Wheeler OCEANID membership includes BEAR FACTS $5. BEAR FACTS subscription for non-members $5 Deadlines - news items, 15th; calendar items, 15th of each month. SUMMER ENTERTAINMENT FOR YOUNGSTERS into this if you have small fry of the appro priate age and inclination. Call your local summer programs for children are as plenti YMCA for specifics. Brochures should be ful as ocean waves, but difficult to organize available by now. for systematic description. This is an unre The United Presbyterian Church has several fined, brief listing of activities likely to enticing choices. Nine-to eleven-year-olds interest our readers. may go to a camp in Ramona June 30-July 6 For high school seniors, undergraduates, ($42). A junior high camp runs August 4-10 adults, UCSD (June 24-August 2) will have at Mt. Palomar ($48). August 3-11, high courses on comedy, a chamber music institute, schoolers and college agers are planning a a course on oceans, intensive Spanish (includ bike trek from San Francisco to San Diego ing a trip to Madrid), courses on soap opera, after AMTRAK-ing up ($50). Another cycling war movies without John Wayne, "new wave" adventure for this age group runs June 24- movies as well as a flock of more traditional July 25, covering Holland, Germany, Austria, offerings. For more information, call 1248. Switzerland and France ($1,180). The 15-to UCSD Physical Education Department offers 22-year-olds may also take part in a wilder two two-week sessions for children of faculty ness experience July 20 to August 10 ($285). and staff ages 8-15 (August 5-15 and August All activities will have clergymen as leaders. 19-29). The sessions will run 9 to 12 a.m. Participants of any faith are invited. Call Monday through Thursday at $35 per session. 286-8080 for more information. Activities available are field trips, beach The Natural History Museum has programs days, basketball, badminton, golf, trampoline, relating to nature study for children grades volley ball, weight training, gymnastics, 1 through 12. Groups meet several times a handball, swimming, tennis, physical fitness. week at quite diverse times. Call the museum For additional information call extension for details. 2275. The YWCA will run a program including The La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art ballet for pre-schoolers, tumbling, magic nas three programs that will run July 8 through classes, day camp, exercise to jazz for teens, August 16. Five- to seven-year-olds may come jean stitchery and such. Schedules should be to "Is anybody listening?", a class for cre available by now at local Ys. ative expression. Ages 6 to 8 and 9 to 12 . The San Diego Parks and Recreation will may participate in a creative museum apprecia have an extensive program also, ranging from tion experience in "Let your fingers do the ballet and symphony to sports and sightseeing. walking!." Children ages 10 to 14 may go Brochures should be available in local librar 11 .Piround the world in 18 days," which will ies and community centers. You may also call sample techniques of expression from various .236-5720 for information. · cultures. The groups meet three times weekly Nat McDonough for an hour and a half. The cost is $30 for museum members and $35 for non-members. The rMCAhas a variety of most interesting camping experiences for age groups within the five to sixteen bracket. There are many sessions within the time period of June 23 to August 22. Locations range from beach t~ SUMMER RECREATION FACILITIES AT UCSD mountains, activities are too numerous to list, but generally fall in the area of craf~s, The UCSD pool and outdoor recreation sports and wilderness and nature experiences. facilities are available to faculty families All activities are monitored for safety and holding recreation cards. The summer hours healthfulness by trained staff. Fees ran~e. are 12-7 Monday through Friday and 12-6 on from $50 to $150 depending on type of activity weekends. and its duration. I highly recommend looking 1 GRADUATION CEREMONIES . PACIFIC UPSURGE The School of Medicine will hold its Our university, which first became famous graduation ceremonies at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, for oceanographic exploration in the Pacific, June 9, in the parking lot west of the Basic is now becoming a resource area for study of Science Building. Forty-nine students are the Pacific Islands. A new press named the expected to take part. Chancellor McElroy Tofua Press, which emphasizes the Tongan will give the welcome, and Dean John Moxley Islands, is operating in the Sorrento Valley. and Vice Chairman of Faculty Dr. Nicholas A university group is involved in this private Halasz will give brief addresses. enterprise. There will be a procession from the Basic The most recent production, a portfolio Science Building. The ceremony will consist of historic prints entitled South Pacific of conferring of degrees and recitation of a Prints: Kingdom of Tonga, compiled by art modified version of the Hippocratic Oath. department graduate Nick Rott and author Following a recessional, a reception will be Helen Raitt, is being sent to many parts of held in the Dean's Office area. Two days be the world. Lennart Bourin of the UCSD art fore the ceremony Dr. David E. Rogers, Presi department is responsible for the photography dent of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, of one of these screened prints. will deliver a formal address titled, "The The sources of these unusual silk screen Doctor Himself Should Become the Treatment." engravings can be found in Helen Raitt's This will be at 8:00 p.m. Friday, June 7, in private collection and in the Mandeville Garren Auditorium~for graduates, the faculty, Department of Special Collections at the other students and the local medical community. Central University Library. These collections Third College commencement will take place are currently being used by scholars and writers at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 16, in the Third interested in the Pacific. College Plaza. There are 90 students eligible A first publication of the Tofua Press was for degrees, 25 of whom are members of the Donna Gerstle's Gentle People, reviewed in the Charter Class (first four-year students). March issue of Pacific Islands Monthly. Gentle Dr. Wilson Riles, Superintendent of Public People--the first account of a beautiful island Instruction for California, will be the main group, Vava'u in Tonga--is being sold all over speaker. Several students will also speak. the world. A reception will follow the ceremony. Tofua Press' next contribution to Pacific Revelle College graduation will take place st~dy will be Tonga Pictorial--A Tapestry of at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 16, in Revelle Pride, a photographic essay which will combine Plaza. The ceremony will be preceded by a historic lithographs from explorers' voyages brunch at 10 o'clock in the Revelle Cafeteria. with modern-day photos to present a total About 50 graduates (approximately 200 are picture of Tonga--the last remaining Poly eligible for degrees) will march to seats nesian Kingdom. And the best is yet to come, facing the Undergraduate Sciences Building. for Tofua Press hopes to publish books by the Chancellor McElroy and Provost Goodman will Tongan people themselves. In fact, bi-lingual take part. Two outstanding faculty awards manuscripts are now being received from Tongans and one outstanding student award will be on such topics as oral traditions and Tongan given. In addition, the Burckhardt and the poetry. Urey Prizes will be awarded. Of considerable interest are two publica Muir College commencement will be at 1:30 tions from within the University itself. A p.m. on Sunday, June 16, in the Muir Plaza. most important volume, Dimensions of Polynesia About 600 students are eligible for degrees. was edited by Jehanne Teilhet and produced by The ceremony will be preceded by a reception a seminar of her UCSD students and teaching at 11:00 a.m. in the Muir Commons. Student staff last fall for a show at San Diego's and faculty members of Muir will entertain Fine Arts Gallery. This book is proving very with music. The traditional bagpipes will popular and will soon be a collector's item. play prior to the start of the ceremony. Recently published by the UCSD Library is an During the ceremony five outstanding teacher extensive bibliography of The Hill Collection awards will be given and one recipient will of Pacific Voyages. speak. In total/the special Pacific collections The Graduate Division will hold a reception at the Library, ethnic objects from the Pacific at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 16 (in place of a area at Gallery 8 in UCSD's own International formal ceremony) in the International Center. Center, and the Tofua Press with its private Graduates will be recognized by Chancellor collection and its expertise on Tonga, offer McElroy and Dean Roy Harvey Pearce at 6 unparalleled opportunities to the public and o'clock. Ph.D.'s will receive diplomas.