Bear Facts VOL XXVI NO. 1 e THE NEWSLETTER OF OCEANIDS e OCTOBER 1987 The Board ol Oceanids invites all women allilliated with UCSD to come to meet and welcome current, new and prospective members at the Oceanids Annual Fall Luncheon Thursday,Oetober 15, 1987 (luestions 'l Call Beth Spooner 11:30 to 2:00 755·2322 University House 9630 La Jolla Farms Road, La Jolla No Children, please OCEANIDS BOARD 1987-88 Honorary Chairman Rita Atkinson President Lou Bowles Bear- Facts 1st VP/Luncheon Beth Spooner 2nd VP/Membership Mary Watson Please address all mail to: Treasurer Rosemary Lugmair Bear Facts Financial Secretary Jean Fort UCSD Q-049 Recording Secretary Enid Hinds La Jolla, CA 92093 534-5770 Corresponding Secretary Dorothy Lyon Editor: Evelyn Lakof f 296-1039 Nominating Committee Alice Kearns Marge Bradner Calendar: Carolyn Kellogg 452-1434 Penny West Membership/Subscription Lila Butler Mary Watson Georgina Sham 8666 Cliffridge Ave. Sharyn Orcutt La Jolla, CA 92037 453-2226 Advisor Frieda Urey Circulation: Isabel Wheeler 459-7461 Bear Facts Editor Evelyn Lakof f Bear Facts Calendar Carolyn Kellogg Interest Groups: Betty Irvin 942-3629 Pavilion Key Keepers Doris Baily Mabel Bittmann Ilse Warschawski Housing: Historians Laura Galbraith 8902 Nottingham Place Mary Carol Isaacs La Jolla, CA 92037 4:53-2479 Pavilion Patrol Ilse Warschawski Artist: Elibet Marshall 459-5246 Interest Group Coordinator Betty Irvin Parliamentarian Sally Kroll Staff: Nora Atlas, Ellen Revelle, Peggy Sard, Past President Allie Boynton Georgina Sham, Frieda Urey. Liaisons: Bear Facts is the newsletter of Oceanids, a Guess Who's Coming to Dinner UCSD campus women's organization. It is published monthly except for July, August and Suzy Ticho September. Letters to the Editor and articles Friends/Int'l Center Helen Lovenberg of interest to UCSD women are invited. Al..l Friends/Library Ellen Revelle submissions must be received by the Editor no Medical Auxiliary Jean Johnson later than the 10th of each month. Staff Association Hazel Alksnis The Post Office does not forward Bear Facts. Chairmen: Please notify Circulation of any change of Casino Night/Alumni Assn. address. Pat Kampmann Membership and/or subscription: $15 per year. Georgina Sham La Jollywood Revue Connie Mullin PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Directory Ads Martha Fredkin Holiday Party Rosemarie Lugmair As we begin the second year in our own (Roswitha Enright) Pavilion and Garden, we should reflect on the International Cafe Beverly Douglas enormous amount of work that went into the project from first glimmer to completion. Life Memb/Past Pres.Tea The entire Oceanids membership owes a debt Allie Boynton of gratitude to Alma Coles, Maxine White and Georgina Sham for the months of cajoling and Newcomers Sharyn Orcutt confronting the Powers That Be. There were Newcomers Membership Georgina Sham long hours poured into writing letters to Special Awards Hazel Alksnis raise funds, thanking donors, and prodding Spring Luncheon Lila Butler officials. Proposals were made, plans Alice Kearns changed, and reports submitted. It is due to Phone Committee Marie Pearce the tirelessness of these Oceanids that we have our home on campus at last. People to People Carole Ziegler We should also thank the many people who Space Theater Party Carole Ziegler contributed to our Building Fund, especially UCSD Open House Sally Gilbert Roger and Ellen Revelle, Fred and Maxine South. Camp~s Women's Clubs White, and Shao-Chi and Lily Lin whose Maxine White generosity made it all possible. As we move into 1987-88, we would like to Buildings and Grounds Alma Coles see more of you become involved in our events Members at Large Ruth LiptOlc and projects. Please join us to see old Luna Funq friends and meet new members. ....---;. ;; Lou Bowles, President ~ 2 ACADEMIC U ADMINISTRATIVE CALENDAR 1987-88 Fall Quarter 1987 Welcome! The Newcomers Committee extends a Fall Quarter begins September 17 warm hello to new members of the university. Instruction begins September 22 Our purpose is to introduce newcomers to the Thanksgiving Holiday November 26-27 campus and our community. We invite you to Instruction ends December 4 meet with us for once-a-month activities. Fall Quarter ends December 12 Contact us so that you can receive notice of Christmas Holiday December 24-25 each scheduled event and the Newcomers New Year Holiday Dec. 31-Jan. 1 Information Booklet. Please also take advantage of our Kitchen Winter Quarter 1988 Equipment and Baby Furniture Exchange. Winter Quarter begins January 4 Assorted items can be rented for a small fee. Instruction begins January 4 For information, please call Sharyn Orcutt, Acad./Admin. Holiday January 18 755-6139, or Georgina Sham, 459-1336. Acad./Admin. Holiday February 15 Winter Quarter ends March 19 Acad./Admin. Holiday March 21 It's time to toast new friends at Spring Quarter 1988 THE NEWCOMERS Spring Quarter begins April 1 GARDEN WINE PARTY Instruction begins April 4 Memorial Day Holiday May 30 2 Come sip wine in the garden at Instruction ends June 10 Frieda Urey's, 7890 Torrey Lane, La Jolla Spring Quarter ends June 18 Friday, October 9, 1987 Independence Day Holiday July 4 from 8:00 - 10:00 pm Labor Day llolida*eptember.5 Adults only, please ~ Call Sharon Orcutt, 755-6139 ~ SOUNDING BOA.RD Monday, oc+ober 19 at 12:00 noon at Frieda Urey's, 7890 Torrey Lane, La Jolla (off Amelf i Road) Bring a bag lunch. BYRON NORDBERG, Vice Chairman and Trans­ portation Commissioner of the city of COMING TO Oceanside speaking on "Inner City Passen­ ger Rail Service and Local Suburban Rail DINNER Service." An expert on surface transport, Mr. SET FOR FEBRUARY 28 Nordberg will discuss AMTRAK and the railroad system in Southern California. Mark your calendars! Our third annual evening of simultaneous dinner parties is set for (almost) the last day in February. This is a Leap Year, you know? In our first two years more than 500 faculty, alumni, students and staff got to The LA JOLLA MONEY BOOK know each other better at GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER. Hosted by volunteers and spon­ will be on sale at the sored by the Alumni Association, Oceanids OCEANIDS FALL LUNCHEON and the Medical Auxiliary, the Dinners are a * way to make UCSD a friendlier place for $10.00 everyone. What better way to celebrate Leap Year (half the proceeds go to Oceanids) and UCSD? Watch for your invitation in January! 3 =1llk at the ~ at UCSD =iirr MEDICAL CENTER =ilfF APPOINTMENTS: Patrick Ledden, assistant chancellor at UCSD, has been selected as provost of Muir College, replacing John Stewart who retired in July.... Harriet Marsh, dean of Warren College, has been appointed dean of the new Fifth College. The thrust of the new college's curriculum will be study of comparative cultures.... .1.JJ..i.£ Ramirez, director of the Student Assistance Center at Western Washington University, has November 7, 1987 been named dean of student affairs for Third Senator Pete Wilson College. Special Guest NEW DEPARTMENTS: A separate Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been created out of what had been the Department of Sea V\Orld~. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It is felt that Electrical Engineering would benefit from being a separate department because it would become easier to attract Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the US Senate's federal funding. leading architect of social policy, will come to San Diego on November 7 to address the NAMING NAMES: It's official The eighth annual "Evening With ... " dinner dance Faculty/Community Club will be called the l..d..a sponsored by the UCSD Medical Center and Cecil Green Faculty Club in honor of the Auxiliary. The black-tie event will be held late Ida Green and Cecil Green who donated $1 at the Sea World Nautilus Pavilion and million to the project .... The new university benefits the Division of Cardiology at UCSD center now under construction will be named Medical Center. the Price Center in honor of Sol Price and his Senator Moynihan, a former Harvard family who have given $2 million to help build Professor and chairman of the Senate the center. subcommittee on welfare, has influenced US social policy for three decades and is considered an astute analyst of demographic trends. His recently published book, Family and Nation, has caused heated debate. In it at SIO he speaks of replacing the basic federal welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), with a "national APPOINTMENTS: Marvin K. Moss, director of the family policy" to promote the preservation of Off ice of Naval Research, has been appointed two-parent households. Guests will have the associate vice chancellor of marine sciences opportunity to question Senator Moynihan about and deputy director of SIO. his views. Susan Stone and Joanne Meredith are co­ chairs of the event. For ticket information, call Stone at 450-0483 or the Development at EXTENSION Office at UCSD Medical Center, 543-6499 After a five-year absence from San Diego's Center City, UCSD Extension has established a new downtown center at the site of the .,.......,. Califbrnia Western School of I~aw at 350 Cedar SCRIPPS AQUARIUM Street. From its opening in 1923 until 1982, classes were held in a variety of downtown locations. lli.........YI The new downtown center will offer more than 30 evening courses spanning a wide range SCRIPPS AQUARIUM DOCENT TRAINING of subjects. The majority of classes will be held from 6-9 pm with several meeting throughout the day. Docents are trained volunteer guides who work with school groups who come on field Extension courses are open to the general public and are geared to the special needs and trips to Scripps Aquariuffl. The training class standards of the adult learner.