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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHistorical Records - Miscellaneous (149)0 HToe Page3 Page7 Page2 -.....__Thursday, February 28, 1980 People----�---Otizen of the Year R.Keith Walden, president of Farmers Invest­ment Company at Green Valley, has been named Distinguished Citizen of the Year by the Rotary Walden Club. Rotary President Leo L. Rummell described Wal­den as "a master agricultur­ist, philanthropist and all­around good citizen."Who's Who Mary McGarey of Tucson •has been selected for inclu­sion in Who's Who AmongAmerican Universities andColleges based on her aboveaverage academic standing,community service and lead­ership ability. She is attend­ing Arizona State University.Sunnyside reunion her pre-professional training at the University of Arizona. The award is worth $500 per semester. Officer of the Year Capt. Talbot N. Vivian has been selected �om­pany Grade Officer of the Yi r at Wright Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, Ohio. James L. Taylor, has been promoted to lieutenant colonel at the Pen­tagon in Washington. Cadets Jon A. Kimnunau and Gregory L. Lewis have been named to the Dean's List at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs. Student winners Elks Lodge No. 385 has named the following stu­dents winners in its "Most Valuable Student Con­test": Kelly Anne Patton, Marana High School, first place for girls, $500; Todd LaPorte, Sahuaro High School, first place for boys, $500; Raine Figueroa, Catalina High School, and Roman Danner, Amphi High School, $400; Carol Jean Cullinan, Sahuaro High School, $300, and Jackie I,.ee Staten, Flowing Wells High School, $200. The winners will be hon­ored at the Elks Annual Youth Banquet May 1. Sunnyside High School clas f 1970 is holding its 10-year reunion June 14 and would like to have allformer classmates contact Judy Madril Ochotorenaat 883-7299 or Robert Laguna Murray at 294-6728.Campaign chairman Mandell B. White, president of Arizona Academy of Beauty, has been named chairman of Tucson's 1980 benefit on behalf of the National Jewish Hospi­tal/National Asthma Center campaign which runs through April 19. Honorary chairman is Louis A. Cohn, president of Super City Stores. Jack D. Davis, executive vice president and director of United Bank of Arizona, is treasurer. Wins honor medal Maj. Norman H. Kahn, USAFR, has won the George Washington Honor Medal for a Military Essay, "America's Commitment To Freedom" in the annual Valley Forge freedom program. Director named •Discussing legislation affecting the elderly at arecent Congressional reception in Washingtonwere U.S. Sen. Dennis DeConcini (D., Ariz.) andFrance Smith of Tucson, a member of theNational Legislative Council of the AmericanAssociation of Retired Persons/National Re,;.tired Teachers Association.Bus driver retires Scholarship awarded Sharon Lee Stelzl of Tucson has been awarded a Eric A. Burklein, psychological consultant, has been elected by the Pima Alcoholism Consortium to serve as a director. A graduate of the University of Arizona, Burklein is also a member of the Commis­sion on Assessment for Student Development and the Commission on Campus Affairs and Legal Issues. He is a member of the National Honor So­ciety in Education, the National Honor Society in Psychology and the 2'lmerican Personnel and Guid­ance Association. When George Cooper, Greyhound Bus driver, stepped off his bus yesterday after driving his regu­lar run from El Centro, Calif., he found a group of his fellow workers waiting at the depot to celebrate his retirement. -National Osteopathic College Scholarship �t Kirks­ville College of Orthopedic Medicine. She completedActivities Widowed to Widowed meeting A meeting for men and women who have lost spouses will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in Levy's Catalina Room. The topic for discussion this month is about work . . . volunteerism and the creative u�e of leisure time as a way of coping withwidowhood. The volunteer, non-profit or­ganization has a hot line, 624-1414.Fitness Fantasia Exercise routines to music will be ex­plored at the Mulcahy YMCA, 4902 S. Sixth Ave. It's a fun way to shed pounds, achieve muscle tone and get into a cardio­vascular program. Morning, afternoon and evenin� classes are available. Call 294-1449 for registration information. On the cover Sharon Mulford and 3-year-old Barry Bahrychuk share a quiet mo­ment outside the usually noisy "Up With Kids" preschool, which is (Un as a child development class for Sun­nyside High School students. But while Sharon and other high schoolers take the class to learn _ child care, the preschoolers teach their elders something else. For more on being a kid again, see the cover and page 3. Cover photo by H. -Darr Beiser; design by Paul Krause. • Old Pueblo is the Tucson Citizen's weekly supplement for local and neighborhood news. If you know of a person or activity that merits cover­age, we'd like to hear from you. Call 294-4433; ext. 203.Classic films at UA "Detective Story" and "Somebody Loves Me," both from the early 1950s, will be shown beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Social Sciences Auditorium at the University of Arizona. Admission is $1.50 for adults, $1 for students and 50 cents for children under 12. Poetry contest winners Contest winners will read from their works in the Terrace Lounge of the Uni­versity of Arizona Student Union at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. The public is invited atno charge.Opera fair The Arizona Opera Company is in seri­ous need of funds and staunch supporters have organized a fair to help out. The Tuc­son and Phoenix Opera Dames, the opera chorus and orchestra, Opera ACTION, the Opera Guild of Southern_ Arizona, the board of directors and friends invite the public to a day of food, entertainment, ac­tivities for children, backstage tours and memorabilia items March 9 from noon to 8 p.m. in the Tucson Community CenterMusic Hall -all over it, from backstageto the balcony.Downtown Mercado Arts and crafts, farm produce and pre­pared foods, are for sale at the Downtown Mercado each Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Stewart Group, couptry rock musi­cians, will be featured at 11:30 a.m. tomor­row. Saturday the Meals for Millions pup­pets will do shows on nutrition at 11 a.m .. and I p.m. Theater workshops The Invisible Theatre will hold 10 a.m. workshops Saturdays for everybody at the theater, 1400 N. First Ave. The workshops are held on a drop-in basis and th� fee is $2. Shuffleboard playoffs The Arizona Shuffleboard Association Cooper, who lives at 5480 W. Flying St., has beendriving for Greyhound for 38 years. State Team Championship playoffs will take place at Armory Senior Citizen's Cen­ter Saturday at 10 a.m. when Mesa will take on Tucson. Refreshments will be available. Art show registration A juried art show will be held March 30 through April 5 at Reid Park. Applications for entering work are available at the Ran--dolph Community Building, 200 S. Alver­non Way. Call Oleaun Underwood for infor­mation, 791-4868.Antique fair registration Antiques in the Park is the theme of the fair to be held March 23 at Fort Lowell Park from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Registration begins Monday at the Pima Parks and Recreation Office, 1204 W. Silverlake Road, or from the Arts and Crafts Center in Fort Lowell Park. Fee is $20. Religion series Religion in Indonesia: Way of the An­cestors, is next in the Long Search Series at the University of Arizona. The film is free and will begin in the Modem Lan­guages Auditorium_at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Eyes on the Universe Poet Richard Shelton of the University of Arizona English Department will pres­ent a program at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Grace Flandrau Planetarium call� "Sonora· The Kingdom of the Moon." Desert gardening "Exploring Desert Vegetation: Native Plants" is the beginning program of the March gardening se1ies offered by the Pima County Cooperative Extension Ser­vice and the Tucson Garden Center. The programs are at IO a.m. Wednesdays at the Center, 4040 N. Campbell Ave., and at the YMCA, 401 S. Prudence Road. A plant clinic is held at 9 a.m. Wednesdays. Rummage sale A fund-raiser rummage sale for the benefit of the Tucson Metropolitan Ballet will be held from 9 a.m. Saturday at the France Academy of Dance, 4639 E. First Street, one block south of Speedway Boule­vard· YMCA activities The Lighthouse YMCA, 2900 N. Colum­bus Blvd., will begin microwave cooking classes from 1: 30 to 3 p.m. March 13 for three consecutive Thursdays for a non­member fee of $22. Morning nature study courses will begin next Thursday at 10 a.m. and will ruri for three weeks. Call 795-9725 for registration inform�tion.PTA rummage sale Used clothing and rummage will be for sale to raise funds for the Tucson Region of PTA from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Safford School playground, comer of Fourth Avenue and 13th Street. Proceeds will be donated to the PTA/fUSD Clothing Bank. Amphi schedules town hall meeting The Amphitheater School District will involve about 150 parents, teachers.and ad­ministrators in constructive criticism of district programs and policies during a "town hall" March 8. At a Tuesday night meeting the district school board approved the town hall meet­ing, which will �m 1rom 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Amphitheater ffigh School. District Superintendent Thomas J. Neel said 10 parents will be chosen from each school by its principal, and will represent different geographic areas within school boundaries. Parents who are not selected but wish to attend are welcome, but should contact Neel's office to reserve space. Neel said the district has not had a town hall meeting since 1975. In other action, the district awarded a $108,000 contract for landscaping and other cosmetic work on Amphitheater High School to the Chaney Building Co., Inc.