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Obituary: Giles Pellerin, known as Superfan, saw his first and last games at the Rose Bowl
By JENNIFER KELLEHER
Staff Writer
Giles Pellerin, who had seen P5T'
797 consecutive Trojan football games since 1926, died Saturday of cardiac arrest in the parking lot of the Rose Bowl during the UCLA game. He was 91. /
There were eight minutes left Wp' in the second quarter when Pellerin didn’t feel well enough to Q)tes Pellerin stay for the rest of the game.
Superfan, as he was also called, never missed a game, and he always made sure to stay to the very end.
But after the Trojans fumbled for the fourth time, Pellerin and his brother left to go to the hospital. But when they made it to the parking lot, Pellerin fell. He died at 2:45 p m., before paramedics arrived.
“(Giles) lived and breathed USC since 1926,’ said Oliver Pellerin, Giles’ brother, who was with Pellerin Saturday.
It was in 1926 when Pellerin started going to every single football game. But in 1923, he saw the Trojans play for the first time at the Rose Bowl while he was still a high school student.
“He wasn’t his real self during the last few games," Oliver Pellerin said. Pellerin hadn’t been feeling well prior to the game.
“But he was sharp up to the last," he said.
Oliver Pellerin, 90, of Palm Springs, had been accompanying his brother to games since 1945. Giles was enjoying the UCLA game, he said. The UCLA and Notre Dame rivalries were his favorite.
Giles Pellerin graduated from USC in 1929 with a degree in electrical engineering. All through his college years, he went to every' home and away game. He continued to do so even after graduation. He often traveled with the official USC charter plane.
Pellerin, a retired phone company executive, lived alone in his Pasadena townhouse. His wife, Jessie, passed away in 1990. Together they accumulated nearly $2 million in investments, which will be given to the USC Athletic Department for student scholarships. The couple did not have any children.
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sions, he said. “The law makes a promise, the promise is neutrality. If neutrality is broken, the promise is broken."
The neutrality' of the courts is more easily maintained because of factors which control the power of judges like the jury system.
“The jury is a counterweight to the independence of the judge,’ Kennedy said. “The jury, properly understood, confirms the independence of the judge.” Kennedy spoke about the similarities between the role of the judge and a jury.
“Juries do the same thing as judges,” he said. "They apply the law and they are not entitled to defy the law, or the rule of law is broken.’
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“The reason for judicial independence is neutrality,” Kennedy said, explaining the first ‘R’ during the keynote address. However, speculating on what would happen if biases and partiality played a factor in judicial deci-
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By GORDON ALLEN
Staff Writer
Speaking on the importance of judicial independence and tackling issues such as campaign financing, the jury system and the neutrality of the courts, Justice Anthony Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court gave a lecture Friday night at Davidson Conference Center.
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Her parents saw that she was progressing at an accelerated rate. At the age of 2, Lewis was able to recognize words and know how to spell them. When her mother, Vivian, noticed that Lewis was showing an interest in reading, she began to teach her daughter to improve her reading skills. By the age of 3, Lewis was able to read at second- and third-grade levels.
Her mother originally enrolled Lewis in a private elementary school so that she would be in a learning environment with students within her IQ range, making it easier for
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By ADRIANA GALAVIZ
Staff Writer
College is a big challenge, 14-year-old says
year. She is currently a full-time student, and she plans on getting her doctorate degree as well as going lo medical school and becoming a medical research scientist.
“Before I would be allowed to enter USC, school officials wanted me to do a year at another university to see how the socialization issues would go, and after that was done, there was still a lot of persuading I had to do,” she said. *We had to talk
Skipping high school altogether, 14-year-old Natashia Lewis managed to enter USC and is now a sophomore majoring in biology and chemistry — the youngest USC student on record.
At the age of 12, she scored 1300 on her SATs and attended California State University at Los Angeles her freshman year. Last year Cal State LA. nominated Lewis for the National Dean’s List, a compilation of the top half of 1 percent of the nation’s college students.
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