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^ojume LXVIV, Number 3	Los	Angeles,	California	Tuesday,	June	22,	1976
AFROTC COMMANDER GETS POST
Acting student services director named
By Don La Plante
Editor
In what can only be described as a major surprise to almost everyone at the university, Col. James L. Jones has been appointed as the acting director of Student Administrative Services.
Jones has been a professor of aerospace studies and the commander of the university’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps detachment for the past two years. Jones will be retiring from the Air Force on June 30 after 26 years of active duty.
The appointment came as a shock to most members of the university staff. President John R. Hubbard appointed Jones on June 14, but Jones did not accept immediately.
Jones accepted the appointment on Wednesday, said Zohrab A. Kaprielian, executive vice-president.
Hubbard’s plan to appoint Jones was unknown to even Kaprielian until last Monday when Kaprielian said he was told about the appointment.
Kaprielian said that he did not know much about Jones when Hubbard asked whether he had any objections. Kaprielian said that he later talked to a number of people and got a number of good reports about Jones.
“He has a good record of administrative leadership in the Air Force. He also knows about the university. Those are both good things,” Kaprielian said.
Jones will assume his new post on July 15.
In a memo to the university announcing the appointment Hubbard cited his excellent record as an administrator and his knowledge of the university problems as reasons for appointing Jones.
As news of the appointment
circulated about the campus, there were many reactions to the appointment. The most prominent seemed to be noncommittal. Most people seem to know little about Jones except that he has a good record in his work in the Air Force.
Kaprielian stressed that the appointment of Jones was only temporary and that the search for a permanent director was continuing. He held a meeting yesterday with the search committee.
The appointment of an acting director is also in line with the recommendations of the Task Force on Financial Aid of the President’s Advisory Council in April. It recommended an appointment of an acting director until the search committee could locate a person to fill the positions, of directors of Student Administrative Services and Financial Aid.
Robert Johnson has been filling the position as the director of financial aid since March when Michael J. Scarpelli resigned triggering the chain reaction that set off the task force investigation. It was the task force that recommended the replacement of Richard Dolen as the acting director of Student Administrative Services.
Dolen is now on vacation and when he returns he will resume his former position as assistant to the dean of the division of natural science and mathematics .
The task force called for the appointment of a new financial aid director by September and new director of Student Administrative Services by January.
At present in the Financial Aid office work is still continuing on processing the financial aid awards for the continuing students for next year. Although there is no date set for the issu-
WORLD RECORD—In qualifying for the Olympics, John Naber set one world ond two American records. He beat the record in the 200 meter backstroke by more than one second. ST photo by Jim Carr.
Trojans gain berths for Olympic games at trials in Long Beach
By Jim Carr
John Naber, with one world and two American records, leads the list of five Trojans who have qualified in the Olympic swimming trials underway in Long Beach.
Naber wacked more than a full second off Roland Matthes’ world mark of 2:01.87 as he clocked the 200 meter backstroke in 2:00.64. In the 100 meter backstroke he set the American record at 56.82. only half a second short of Matthes’ standard.
Rod Strachan broke the listed world record in the 400 meter individual medley with a 4:26.79 but his time was only the second fastest in the world this year behind Zoltan Verraszto’s (Hungary) pending mark of 4:26.00. Teammate Steve Furniss bettered his own American record in the event by more than a Second and finished third at 4:29.15. He made the team on Naber’s double.
Bruce Furniss only set an Olympic trials record in winningthe 200 meter freestyle in 1:50.61, just .29 seconds shy of the world mark that he already owns. Naber completed his qualifying with a second at 1:51.12 in the event and the Trojans will join James Montgomery and Mike Bruner in the 800 freestyle relay which is rated a sure thing for the gold.
Joe Bottom rounds out the list of USC qualifiers with a 51.13 for second in the 100 meter freestyle. He has a good chance in the 100 meter butterfly where brother Mike has a slightly better entry time.
The best showing on the women’s side is by a Trojan to be, Lauri Siering (19 years old) of Modesto. Her double in the 100 and 200 meter breas-troke( 1:14.46,2:38.75) makes her the only American woman other than multi-medal hopeful Shirley Babashoff to win two races in the meet. She has signed a letter of intent to enroll in the fall as a business major.
Naber was as consistent out of the water as he was in it, insisting all along that his only goal was to improve his time in as many races as possible. He failed that goal in only the 1500 meter freestyle that came on his final day of competition and then by only 1.53 seconds in the grueling event. He missed qualifying in the 400 meter freestyle by just 0.21 seconds.
“I’m very happy with my performance. I made my best time in seven out of nine races (including preliminaries) and I made the team which is what I was here for,” Naber said. ‘‘I was going for best times—not events—if I didn’t make the times it wouldn’t matter.
“It is one of my life-long dreams to have a world record. The world record means more to me than a gold medal. I’ve thought about world records for four years. Now I know what it feels like—it’s great,” said the 6-6 senior, in the fall.
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$100,000 endowment for fine arts fellowships set up to honor Getty
A $100,000 endowment fund in the memory of J. Paul Getty has been established in the Department of Fine Arts. The money for the fund will be provided by donation by friends and relatives of Getty and by the Getty Oil Company.
Interest income from the endowment fund will be used to support the newly established J. Paul Getty Memorial Fellowships in Fine Arts. The recipients of the awards will be graduate students in the fine arts who will be chosen annually by the university officials administering the program.
The fellowships are given in memory of Getty, who was an oil
pioneer, who died June 6 at the age of 83. Getty had been a student at the university in the early 1900s.
In Getty’s will, filed recently for probate in Los Angeles, Getty gave the majority of his estate to establish a non-profit museum and art institute at his estate in Malibu.
Getty provided in the will that should the foundation not be granted a tax-exempt status or should lose that status, that part of his estate should go to the university for the maintainance of institute. It also provided that should the university not be able to accept the institute it would pass to the University of Califor-
nia and then Stanford.
In announcing the endowment fund, Harold E. Berg, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Getty Oil Company, and A. Quincy Jones, dean of the School of Architecture and Fine Arts, said in a written statement:
‘‘We believe this program is a fitting tribute to Mr. Getty, who. in addition to his business activities. had many diversified interests, including one of the world’s foremost collections of art. The J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif, is testimony to Mr. Getty’s commitment to furthering the arts.”
ing of awards to students, the awards could start being mailed out as early as the end of this week.
The chairman of the recently-appointed search committee for the two posts is John Fleming, associate professor of management. The three students on the committee are Terry Hillis, undergraduate representative on the executive committee of the PAC; Diego Galindo, an LAS commuter member of the PAC; and Gwen Irby, a first-year law student.
Other faculty and staff members on the committee are Natalie Alexander, associate professor of medicine, Linda Berkshire, assistant dean in the School of Architecture and Fine Arts, Fred Carlson, assistant dean in engineering and assistant professor in four departments, Rebecca Montrenes, administrative assistant in Student Administrative Services, John Vinton, assistant professor of human behavior.
COL JAMES JONES