News Releases for 1979

News Releases for 1979

January 3: Winter quarter calendar of events
January 5: Jessy Dixon and the Dixon Singers to join UCSD gospel choir in concert to commemorate birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King
January 10: Tom Chapin to perform
January 10: Appointment of Quelda Wilson announced
January 11: Tapes of "Yanomami Indians: Videotapes, Paintings and Drawings" on display in Mandeville
January 17: SONOR in concert
January 17: Earl Hines in concert
January 19: Nicholas von Hoffman to lecture
January 19: Bartok Quartet to perform
January 19: Janet Guthrie to lecture
January 22: UC Santa Barbara site of National Science Foundation institute for theoretical physics; Dr. Walter Kohn director of institute
January 22: Dr. Ronald McNair to lecture
January 23: Dr. Bernd T. Matthias awarded 1979 American Physical Society International Prize for New Materials
January 23: "San Diego Inside: A Look at the County's Future" series presented
January 24: Jesse Colin Young to give concert
January 24: President Gerald Ford visits UCSD
January 25: Roy Harvey Pearce to lecture
January 26: La Jolla Civic/University Symphony audition applications due
January 30: Chinese art on exhibit in Mandeville
January 30: Forum on Coors Brewing Company's employment practices and union relations
February 1: Janet Guthrie to lecture
February 1: "Sizwe Bansi Is Dead", one-act play open in Mandeville
February 5: Dr. Herbert F. York named chief negotiator for U.S. to the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty talks in Geneva
February 5: Gerald Ford to give public address
February 7: Chinese art festival scheduled in the Other Gallery
February 8: Two plays, "Escurial" and "Sweet Eros" to be presented
February 9: Conference of American Society of University Composers at UCSD
February 12: M.B. Tong discusses Chinese painting and calligraphy
February 13: Exhibit of colors, language and mythology by artist Tyaga on exhibit
February 15: Proposed cancer center to be named the Theodore Gildred Cancer Center
February 15: Dr. Michael Dean to perform
February 16: Conference on American Society of University Composers; Bernard Rands is director
February 16: Ephraim Katzir is visiting professor for 2 months
February 20: Sea Deucers in marathon underwater backgammon tournament
February 20: Open House
February 21: Dr. Yehuda Blum to lecture
February 21: "A Streetcar Named Desire" to open
February 23: "A Streetcar Named Desire" to open
February 23: Student version of the Pugwash Conference at UCSD
February 27: Artist Douglas Huebler's work on exhibit
February 27: "Fear and Misery in the Third Reich" to premiere
March 5: Paul Winter Consort and Keith Berger to perform
March 6: Dr. Joseph Sommers dies
March 7: Ephraim Katzir to lecture
March 8: Yuan Cheng B. Fung elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering
March 9: Energy Center receives $103,000 to fund Fossil Energy Research Working Group
March 12: Applicants being sought for Pugwash conference
March 12: "Federalism in Perspective: Constitutional Ideals and Modern Governmental Practices" seminar at UCSD
March 13: Exhibition of Betye Saar's eclectic art pieces in the Mandeville Art Gallery
March 13: Media Advisory - Theatre and Arts Foundation news conference for proposed design of university theater
March 14: William D. McElroy to be guest speaker at meeting of the Oceanside and El Camino Rotaries
March 16: Book by Leo Szilard published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press
March 29: Spring quarter calendar of events
March 29: Eddie Money to perform
March 30: Dr. William Nunn Lipscomb Jr. to lecture
April 4: Low Moan Spectacular to perform
April 4: The Borodin Quartet of Moscow to perform
April 4: Alan Schneider to become professor and head of Drama Department's directing program
April 4: Jean Ritchie to appear in concert
April 9: Media Advisory - Underwater tricycle races
April 11: Gary Snyder to give poetry reading
April 11: Reinhard Lettau awarded the Horspielpreis der Kriegsblinden, the West German Prize for Best Radio Play of 1978
April 11: The Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Company to perform
April 11: Graduate student Peter Bull won first place in film contest
April 12: David Brower featured in a panel discussion
April 12: Sixth Annual Trike Races at the University of California, San Diego
April 13: John Muir Week activities planned
April 13: UC SunDay scheduled
April 16: Science film festival highlights of UC SunDay
April 18: Dr. Michael A. Becker, Allan Kaprow, and Vladimir J. Konecni winners of Guggenheim Fellowships
April 18: "Survival," a play about repression and injustice in South Africa, will be presented at UCSD
April 18: Sanford Lakoff to be visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy
April 18: Media Advisory - private reception for widow of Peter Yates
April 20: UC SunDay, arts and music
April 24: Conference "Housing San Diego's Needy: Why Can't We Do Better?" at UCSD
April 24: Dr. Harvey A. Itano, Dr. Harmon Craig and Dr. John Miles elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences
April 25: Peter Matthiessen to give lecture
April 25: Israeli Independence Day Folk Dance Festival to be presented
April 25: James Baldwin to give informal talk
April 26: Media Advisory - The Game Room
May 1: Annual forum of The Association for Institutional Research to be held at Town and Country Hotel; Paul Saltman to give address
May 2: Graduate students to present "The 'Ah, Wilderness!' Project"
May 3: "Creative Uses of Charitable Trusts" to be held at Westgate Hotel; sponsored by Chancellor's Associates
May 3: Friends of the Library book sale
May 3: "Women at Work" on display in the Other Gallery
May 9: "Orestes, Orestes" presented by Drama Department
May 9: Dr. Clarence Y. Lo planning an in-depth study of emergence of a "new right" in the country
May 9: Top winners in undergraduate book collection contest named
May 10: UCSD sponsoring a Theatre of the Disabled production "A New Silence" to help solve economic problems the group is facing
May 11: Women's Caucus First Annual 10-Kilometer Run
May 14: San Diego Ballet Company to become resident program
May 16: Ruby Millsap Dance Theatre and mime artist Hayward Coleman perform
May 17: "Orestes, Orestes" to open
May 17: "A Love Song for Miss Lydia" to be performed
May 17: Herb Caen, Jack Smith and Neil Morgan to speak, "An Evening with California's Best-Known Columnists"
May 17: "Oasis in Space" to be presented
May 18: High school math contest held at UCSD, sponsored by Mathematics Department
May 21: UCSD to hold six-week summer session
May 21: UC Regents approve use of nine acres of land as possible site for conference center
May 23: "The Last Disco" dance contest held at UCSD
May 23: Dr. Harry N. Scheiber awarded Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
May 24: One of the best faculties and strongest programs on modern Chinese society has been developed at UCSD
May 25: Invitation to attend U.S. Student Pugwash Conference
May 29: "Inflate 7-9 lbs./Notes on Becoming a Star" on display in Mandeville
May 30: Dr. Marlene DeLuca begins duties as one of 12 members of the new Environmental Measurements Subcommittee of the Environmental Protection Agency
June 5: $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded to Program in Cognitive Science
June 11: Announcement of commencement exercises
June 11: Clark Kerr to deliver commencement address at Revelle College
June 14: "why E is?" to be presented by the Theatre of the Disabled
June 21: Solutions to home and garden problems
June 21: Media advisory on U.S. Student Pugwash Conference
June 29: Roger Reynolds' work chosen to represent U.S. at International Rostrum of Composers/UNESCO meeting
July 11: Two EOP summer programs cosponsored by UCSD offered to low-income and minority students
July 16: Media Advisory - San Diego Suzuki Piano Workshop
July 17: EOP summer program picnic cancelled of July 11
July 20: Dr. Chia-Wei Woo appointed to provost of Revelle
July 20: Michael Addison, Mary Corrigan, Jorge Huerta and Luther James to take part in the American Theatre Association National Convention
July 24: Dr. Stanley Chodorow, Dr. William Nyhan and Dr. Stephen Shuchter honored for work at the university and in community
July 25: Chancellor and Mrs. McElroy to host black-tie dinner dance honoring Chancellor's Associates and Board of Overseers
July 26: Harry Scheiber awarded research grant by Project '87
July 26: Work of Verna Cook Shipway, America's first successful female architects have been placed in the archives of Central Library
July 27: Yen Lu Wong named recipient of Humanities Fellowship from Rockefeller Foundation
July 30: Personal statement from Henry Allison regarding the death of Herbert Marcuse
July 31: Dr. Steven Willner studying vast concentrations of molecular clouds; findings to be published in The Astrophysical Journal
August 2: Media Advisory - Cognitive Science Conference at UCSD
August 13: Statement from William McElroy with his plans to resign; Statement from David Saxon accepting McElroy's resignation; Biographical data of William McElroy
August 15: UCSD students need housing
August 24: Dr. Bennetta Jules-Rosette named recipient of Recognition Award for Young Scholars from the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation
September 4: William McElroy to head 11 member delegation to China to permit exchange of scholars and students between UCSD and 2 Chinese universities
September 13: Media Advisory - Welcome Week activities
September 14: Dr. Stanford S. Penner named winner of 1979 Numa Manson Medal
September 14: "Autochromes from the Albert Kahn Collection/Tonkin 1915-1916" on display in Mandeville
September 17: "The Great American Quiz Show Scandal" to open drama season
September 17: Fall quarter calendar of events
September 17: Frank E. Maestrone comes to UCSD as part of Diplomat-in-Residence Program
September 19: Expected enrollment figures
September 20: Arend Lijphart named co-winner of 1979 prize of the American Political Science Association
September 21: Media Advisory - Sports Bizarre and Pizza eating contest
September 25: Memorial service for Gloria Liebrenz
September 28: Dr. Clifford Grobstein elected to Institute of Medicine
October 2: "Oklahoma is O.K./Seasonal Rituals 1959" collection of paintings and drawings by Heidi Hardin on display in Mandeville
October 3: Media Advisory - Pub grand opening
October 4: Student art gallery newly named The Mandeville Annex
October 5: Thomas Dublin has recently published book "Women at Work"
October 5: Media Advisory - Plaque dedication to honor Frieda and Harold Urey
October 8: The Don Cameron Allen Renaissance Collection to be topic of lecture by Thomas K. Dunseath
October 9: "Thurber" to be presented
October 10: Anthony Braxton to perform
October 16: Dave Mason to perform
October 17: "The Island" to be presented
October 19: "The Decorative Impulse" to be on exhibit in Mandeville
October 23: "The Great American Quiz Show Scandal" to be performed; season continues with other drama productions
October 23: "Law and California Society: 100 Years of the State Constitution" day-long program at UCSD
October 23: The International Ballet of Caracas to perform
October 25: "Issues in Ethnicity and Mental Health" - three day conference
October 29: McElroy concludes trip to China- signs agreement to permit exchange of scholars between UCSD and two Chinese universities
October 30: Louis Phillips to be regents' lecturer in conjunction with his play, "The Great American Quiz Show Scandal"
October 30: The Bruce D. Schwartz Puppets will be presented
October 30: "The Great American Quiz Show Scandal" to premiere at UCSD
October 31: Visit of Senator Edward Kennedy
November 5: "Under Milkwood" to be presented
November 5: Dr. Manfred Eigen to be Calbiochem Lecturer
November 5: Aman, International Folk Dance Ensemble to perform
November 5: "Woyzeck" to be presented
November 6: Public invited to meet the Chancellor's Search Committee
November 6: Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger to present concert
November 16: Xiao Qian and Bi Shuowang to be regents' lecturers
November 19: Note to Editors, Senator Edward Kennedy's visit- media to contact Secret Service
November 20: Series of workshops offered to San Diego high school students in an introduction to new music
December 5: Media Advisory - Presentation of Grumman Energy Systems Scholarships
December 11: Scholarships presented to winners of Grumman Energy Systems contest
December 19: "Artists in the Courtroom" exhibited in Mandeville
December 19: UCSD one of main centers for study of superconducting materials; Larry Peterson director of the X-ray and gamma ray astronomy group; Joseph Gusfield develops a perspective toward understanding of public actions; Michael Cole has book in press which describes his research among the Vai people of Liberia
December 21: Winter quarter calendar of events
December 28: "Celebration" to be presented