University of Southern California
SUMMER
TROJAN
VOL. LXV NO. 1
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1972
A CALL FOR INVOLVEMENT — Otto N. Miller, chairman of the board of Standard Oil Co. of California, urged students to get involved with business and government in his address to the university's 89th annual commencement Thursday. Miller and five others were awarded the honorary degree of doctor of laws in recognition of their contributions to society. Photo by Dave Greenlee.	____________
Opera Theatre will begin here
The establishment of the Opera Theatre of Southern California, a professional company in residence at the university. has been announced by Grant Beglarian, dean of the School of Performing Arts.
George London will be general director of The Opera Theatre. Working with him in production planning and coordination will be Dale Duffy as associate director. Katherine Duke is director of promotion and development.
Hans Beer, chairman of the Opera Department, will head the enlarged educational programs in opera in cooperation with the Opera Theatre. The
Trustees reelect 4 officers, pick 2 life members
University trustees reelected officers and named two men as life trustees Wednesday.
j! Robert Fluor was reelected chairman for one year. Fluor was named chairman April 5 to complete the term of the late Kenneth T. Norris. He is chairman and chief executive officer of Fluor Corporation.
Justin Dart was reelected vice-chairman of the trustees. He is chairman ofthe board and president of Dart Industries. Inc.
Forrest N. Shumway, president of the Signal Companies, was reelected treasurer of the university, and Gordon S. Marshall, industrialist, was reelected treasurer ofthe board.
Robert E. Brooker, a trustee
for 10 years, was named a life trustee. He retired two years ago as chairman of Montgomery Ward and chairman and chief executive officer of Marcor, Inc. in Chicago.
Willard W. Keith, a trustee for 18 years, also became a life trustee. He was an insurance executive with Marsh & McLennan, Inc.
Opera Department is the base on which the new company is being formed. A comprehensive program is being devised for all facets of the operatic art. from coaching and repertoire to staging techniques, acting and historical studies.
The first season will be launched in 1972-73 with Tchaikowsky’s “Eugene Onegin.” The opera will be performed in Bovard Auditorium Feb. 3,6 and 8,1973. The production will be directed by London. With an emphasis on Southern California artists, the cast will include Carol Neblett as Tatyana, John Reardon as Onegin, David Sundquist as Len-ski, and Brenda Quilling as Olga.
“Don Pasquale” by Donizetti will be the second production and is scheduled for Bovard Auditorium on May 2, 4 and 6, 1973. W’illiam Chapman has been engaged for the title role, with Shigemi Matsumoto as Norina. Arrangements to fill the other leading roles are pending.
The Opera Theatre of Southern California is the result of a long process of planning and researching directed by Beglarian in the ways and means of creating professional opera based in Los Angeles.
“The company will provide much needed professional outlets to extraordinary numbers of talented artists in this region, and offer to the public a gradually expanding opera season of highest quality,” he said.
“The merging of professional
and educational activities for the benefits each will bring the other is a breakthrough in the operatic traditions in the United States.”
London, the general director, has had a distinguished career as a bass-baritone with both the Metropolitan and Vienna State Opera companies as well as other companies around the world.
Standard Oil chairman asks for involvement in business, politics
By PETER WONG Editor
A call to graduates for public service through involvement in business and government was made by the board chairman of Standard Oil at the university’s 89th annual commencement exercises Thursday in Alumni Park.
“The constructive path for youth to follow today is not merely to stand on the sidelines and rail at the errors of previous generations—anyone can do that with ease, in this era of instant reply, and with essentially no bearing whatsoever on the course of history,” Otto N. Miller, board chairman ofStandard Oil ofCalifornia.told the 3,300graduating students.
“The constructive thing to do is to get off the sidelines—become involved, participate in the conception of practical solutions to the problems of our times in business, in education, in social welfare, on all the frontiers of human endeavor where tomorrow’s America is being shaped and forged.”
Miller particularly stressed the need of graduates in business.
“Business can be no better than the people that are in it—and people of the highest intellect and imagination are needed in business, it it is to meet successfully the needs of our society,” Miller said.
“Those of you who will become managers of business and industry will face tremendous opportunities to serve the broad national interest. Your careers will be just as noble, just as personally rewarding on an intellectual and spiritual level, as you yourselves choose to make them.”
In speaking about business in American society, Miller said business will become increasingly important, especially in maintaining the United States as the world’s leading economic power.
“While our country now leads the world in the ability to produce goods and services for the benefit of its people, it does not have permanent possession of that distinction,” Miller said.
“We can well lose it, and our preeminent position in the world eceonomic community, if the men and
women of our industrial establishment do not have the skills, the dedication, or the motivation it takes to stay ahead.
“Let me emphasize, economic competition at the world level is not merely a matter of national pride—but a serious matter of our security, national prosperity, and well-being.”
The board chairman of Standard Oil also said business will become increasingly important in such matters as cleaning up the environment and promoting economic growth to help people out of poverty.
“It will take innovative management, sizable infusions of capital, and unique technological concepts to improve our ability to produce the goods needed or wanted by America’s people, and to meet the growing demands for energy,” Miller said.
“This is not only essential to lift up those of our citizens who lag behind in living standards—and to move all of us further ahead—but also to restore and improve our environment.”
He also urged the graduates to consider service in government: “If, in the eyes of any of us, our government should be lacking in direction, and in wisdom, we have no one to blame but ourselves—we cannot fairly find fault with our government, unless we stand ready to become an active part of it.”
Miller called for reconciliation between the generations and criticized what he called “misunderstanding between youth and experience, which squander our national energies in fruitless disputes and rancor.”
For his own generation. Miller said, “Let us readily acknowldege that there are many in our society who have not shared equitably in the fruits of past economic progress. There are blights on our environment that must be cured. These things we should strive to improve.”
Miller concluded, “I strongly believe we still have the capacity to solve the growing problems in our country, and in our world, with offsetting growth in knowledge, in technology, and in our determination to improve society.”
Summer study to start
Registration for the various summer sessions is under way in the Physical Education Building.
The major seven-week session will begin Monday and end Aug. 5, and the four-week postsession will begin Aug. 7. Some classes are scheduled to meet in between these weeks.
Registration will be in the Physical Education Building until June 29, daily this week and next from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. After June 29, registration will be located at the service windows of the Registrar’s Office, daily from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. except from June 30 to July 4, when registration will be closed.
A complete listing of all summer sessions may be found in the Summer Session Bulletin, available at the Information Center or at the Summer Session
Newspaper will print 16 editions
Today’s issue uf the Summer Trojan is the first of 16 issues to
be published this summer.
The newspaper will appear twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays for six weeks, followed by a one-week vacation from publication.
During August, the newspaper will appear once a week on Wednesdays.
Peter Wong is the editor of the Summer Trojan. He may be contacted in Student Union 420, ext. 2203 or 2204.
Offices, Administration Building 356.
Academic advisement will be available only in departmental offices this year, Mary Ludwig, assistant dean of Summer Session, said, instead of at the registration area. Formerly, several departmental advisers were stationed at the registration area, the others in their department offices.
Administration officials hope for some 8.000 students to enroll in the various summer sessions, but because of the national economic situation, “we’re keeping our fingers crossed,” one official said.
Further information on the summer sessions may be obtained through the Summer Session Offices, ext. 2272, and announcements.
Business associate dean appointed VP of Sunkist
David E. Hitchin, associate dean of the School of Business Administration, will join Sun-kist Growers, Inc., as its new vice-president for administration.
Hitchin will supervise corporate planning, data processing and personnel for Sunkist, a California-based marketing cooperative that represents 757c of the citrus industry in California and Arizona.
He has a B.A. in philosophy and social sciences from the University of Alberta (Canada), a master’s degree in business administration from UCLA, and a doctorate in business administration from UCLA awarded in 1965.
Hitchin taught business at the University of Kansas from 1965 to 1967, then joined the faculty here. For more than three years, he was associate dean in charge of the School of Business, the undergraduate business program here, and was also responsi-ble for administration and finances of the entire School of
Business Administration.
He has been a management consultant for many national and local businesses and organi-zations, including Dart Industries and Security Pacific National Bank.
DAVID HITCHIN