University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
VOL. IXIII
NO. 15
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1971
Bloland to leave on sabbatical; Nowak assumes responsibilities
The request of Dr. Paul A. Bloland, vice-president for student affairs and professor of education, for a year’s sabbatical has been granted, President John Hubbard announced today.
In addition to his duties as vice-president, Bloland served this last year as national president of the American College Personnel Association, a national professional organization of 7,500 members. A recognized authority in his field, Bloland will spend his sabbatical in travel and research.
Dr. Daniel B. Nowak, assistant vice-president, will assume the student affairs responsibilities as acting vice-president.
University extends lease to Long Beach Free Clinic
Idyllwild campus to hold two-week arts festival
The Idyllwild Festival of the Arts will be launched by the university next Sunday and will focus the artistic resources of the region in a natural setting, conducive to greatest enjoyment by those attending.
Under the sponsorship of the School of Performing Arts, a series of orchestral, choral and chamber music concerts will be performed on the Idyllwild campus of the school, beginning Sunday and continuing through Sept. 5.
The festival orchestra will be directed by Daniel Lewis, conductor for the USC Symphony Orchestra. The festival chorus will be led by William Hall, director of the William Hall Chorale of Los Angeles. A number of chamber music performances will be given by members of the festival orchestra and guest artists from across the nation.
Artists for the chamber music concert opening the festival Sunday at 7:30 p.m. will be Alice Schoenfeld, violin; Eleanor Schoenfeld, cello; Mary James, viola; June Lusk Nelson, piano.
They will perform Beethoven’s String Trio in G Major for violin, viola and cello; Piston’s Trio for violin, viola and piano; Colin Hand's Discussion: Duo for violin and cello; Brahms' Quartet for piano, violin and cello.
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PHOTO DAY—SATURDAY
By PETER WONG City Editor
The university has extended its lease two more months to the Long Beach Free Clinic after a university official had notified the clinic two weeks earlier that it would have to vacate the property by Aug. 31 because of planned repairs.
Meanwhile, the clinic’s board of directors hope to buy the facilities from the university within the next several months.
The office of Carl M. Franklin, university vice-president for financial and legal affairs, announced yesterday that the clinic’s board of directors would be given first option on buying the buildings at 1204 and 1228 Pine Ave., Long Beach, near the downtown area.
“We’re trying to work out something that will satisfy everyone — we hope,” a spokesman for Franklin said. “Clinic officials met with us last week to discuss possible courses of action.”
USC still plans to repair and repaint the facilities, the spokesman said.
But it is not university policy to hold property for income purposes.
“We are not in the property-management business. We sell most of the property we acquire in order to supplement our student scholarship funds,” the spokesman continued.
The clinic property is now owned by the university only because its former owner, a private physician now dead, willed it to the university.
The list price for the property is $150,000, but Franklin’s office said that if the clinic’s board of directors finally decide to buy the buildings, the university will make the property available at a lower price that was not disclosed.
After the two-month extension on the current lease expires, the university will then consider a renewal on a month-to-month basis.
The university has leased the buildings to the clinic since Septmeber, 1970.
On July 30, two high-ranking clinic officials, Ron Lofstrom, clinic administrator, and Ted Acre, chairman of the clinic’s board of directors had been notified by Franklin that the clinic would have to find other quarters by the end of August.
Franklin said in a letter that the university wanted to repair the buildings and prepare them for sale.
Excerpts from the letter follow:
“The lease between USC and the clinic expires on Aug. 31.
“I am writing to indicate to you that we should like to have the premises vacated at the expiration of the lease.
“As you have known for some time, the university is really interested in selling the building and we have discovered during the past several months that we cannot show the property under the present conditions.
“Moreover, we feel that we must have the property vacated in order to do some repairs and repainting to make the property more attractive for a prospective buyer.
“I am writing you this letter well in advance of the date of expiration of the lease in order to give you an opportunity to search elsewhere for replacement quarters.”
When the letter was received, Lofstrom, the clinic’s administrator, reacted with surprise: “It’s come like a bolt out of the blue to us. We don’t know what we’re going to do.
“We have private grants, government funds, working agreements with the YMCA and dozens of others — all predicated on our providing services out of these buildings.”
Before the lease extension, Lofstrom indicated he would seek the aid of California’s U.S. senators and representatives and the USC School of Medicine in persuading the university to change its mind.
The Long Beach Free Linic has had four other headquarters since its start in February, 1969. (It was formally incorporated in July of that year.)
Its previous moves were caused by the clinic’s remarkable growth; at present, clinic personnel see some 3,000 persons per month for counseling, medical and dental treatment.
Lofstrom said the clinic does not want to move again because the buildings offer an ample
11,000 square feet for the clinic’s operations.
Some $1 million in service is saved yearly by Long Beach’s city administration because of the clinic, he estimated.
Football to begin
John McKay begins his 12th season as head football coach at USC with an impressive 11-year record of 82-29-5 behind him. His mark in the past nine years is an even more impressive 74-18-5 and in the past five years USC has achieved the third best winning record in the nation behind only Tennessee and Notre Dame.
McKay’s winning percentage of .728 ranks him No. 10 on the won-lost percentage list of college football’s win-ningest active coaches.
As McKay prepares for the 1971 campaign he says, “our strength is in the offensive line, it should be outstanding, our runners are good, our quarterbacks outstanding, and the receivers at least adequate.”
McKay has said he expects the 1971 offense to be improved over that of last year which was the highest scoring offense in 40 years at USC. Defensively it could be another story.
“Defense is where our problem is,” says McKay. “I believe we have some talent but we have people who have not played before at the university level and our success depends on how fast these players can come along.”
“Defense — that's how you win — you have to play good defense.” McKay said. “Sure, we’ll move the ball most of the time and probably score as much as we did last year. Our problem will be keeping the other team from getting more points.”
USC opens the season on Friday night, Septmeber 10, when the Trojans host the University of Alabama in the Coliseum. USC defeated Alabama 42-21 in the season opener in Birmingham
last fall.
Alabama's Bear Bryant, rated No. 8 in the nation among winning percentages, will be seeking his 200th victory as a head coach.
USC also has non-conference encounters with Rice, Illinois, Oklahoma and Notre Dame on it’s 1971 schedule in addition to six Pacific-8 conference foes (all but Oregon State).
“I think the Pacific-8 will again be a strong conference,'’ McKay said. “I don’t think there are any super teams, they are all good solid teams and I wouldn't be surprised if any one of seven won the title.”
McKay will greet 22 returning let-termen when the Trojans report for their annual photo day on Saturday, August 21 — fifteen offensive returnees and seven on defense.
In the offensive line, McKay will have returning starters Dave Brown at center, Allan Graf and Mike Ryan at guards, John Vella and Pete Adams at tackle, and part-time starter Charles Young at tight end. Vella, an All-America candidate, started in the offensive line as a sophomore and on the defensive line last season.
Returning in the backfield are starting quarterback Jim Jones, who already holds or shares 11 passing records, his backup quarterback of last season junior Mike Rae, who will probably handle Trojan place-kicking chores this year too, along with running backs Lou Harris, Sam Cunningham and Bill Holland.
Defensively, where a near-complete rebuilding is in the works, McKay
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SMILE—YOU'RE ON CANDID CAMERA
Trojan football coach John McKay talks with KNBC sportscaster Ross Porter at last year's pre-season photo day. This Saturday, the coaches and players will meet members of the press at Bovard Field for picture taking and interviews at 10 a.m. The team will begin light workouts next Monday.