Presidential search commences final phase
Constituencies meet with candidate First formal candidate:
By Susan Pedersen
Staff Writer
One of the candidates to replace President John R. Hubbard was on campus Tuesday and Wednesday to meet with university constituencies as part of the advanced stages of the presidential search process.
Thorton F. Bradshaw, president of the Atlantic Richfield Co., is the first of several candidates to come on campus as part of Phase III of the selection process.
Sources said there are approximately four or five final candidates at this point.
Sources contacted by te Daily Trojan refused to release the names of the other candidates and the estimated length of the selection process.
Phase III is the critical stage of the selection process, a two-day program where acknowledged candidates meet with representatives of the various university constituencies for discussion and an exchange of views.
The purpose of Phase III is not only to provide the university with a means of evaluating the candidates, but also as a way for the candidates to evaluate the university.
Throughout the two days, the candidate is involved in a heavy schedule including meetings, luncheons and dinners.
Bradshaw met with groups that included the executive committee of the Council of Deans, the executive board of the Faculty Senate, the chairman of the President's Advisory Council, the chairmen of the Student Senate and Staff Caucus, the Presidential Search Committee and the deans of the medical school.
Bradshaw also met with Richard Perry, director of athletics.
Bradshaw ended his formal schedule of meetings with the search committee Wednesday. The committee then reconvened to evaluate the entire Phase III process.
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Volume LXXXVII, Number 34 University of Southern California Thursday, November 1, 1979
Atlantic Richfield chief
Thornton F. Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield Co., is a very successful man.
He earned his B.A., M.B.A. and Doctor of Commercial Science degrees from Harvard College.
One of a handful of potential candidates for the university presidency, Bradshaw joined ARCO as president in 1964.
He is also a director of the RCA Corp., the National Broadcasting Co., The London Observer and the American Petroleum Institute. In the early 1970s, Bradshaw was one of the first oil executives to call for an end to depletion allowances.
Bradshaw is a director of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, which brings together business, education and cultural leaders to discuss human and social
The Conservation Foundation, for which he is also a director, is a private group that researches into environmental issues and communi-
THORNTON F. BRADSHAW
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Staff photo by Mark Sttcht
SENIOR CITIZEN POWER — The Andrus Volunteers, a group of active senior citizens who work with the gerontology center, are proof that you are only as old as you feel. Recently the group sponsored a Fall Festival at the center.
Fall festival presented at Gerontology Center
By Jill Richards
Staff Writer
Women dressed in Halloween costumes or old-fashioned country fair outfits sold goods while couples danced to music from the 1950s.
The courtyard of the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center was the scene of an annual fall festival yesterday.
The Andrus Volunteers, a group of older titizens who work with the center, sponsored the fair and gave tours of the center. Proceeds from the fair will go to the group.
Home-grown plants, handmade wood and glass terrariums, books, records and individually designed handicrafts and clothing were sold.
Home-baked pumpkin pies, cookies, donuts and cakes along with apple dder and coffee were also available.
Loweta Mack, a staff member at the center, held an art exhibit and sale at the fair which included large oil paintings, portraits and smaller prints.
The Andrus Volunteers began six years ago as a project of Dr.
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SETS OUT TO MEET GOAL OF $80,000
Band plays, acts for uniforms
By Ann Krueger
Staff Writer
The Trojan Marching Band has set out to raise $80,000 for new uniforms a little differently from most collegiate bands.
"Fleetwood Mac, Chuck Barris and Jerry Buss have all donated sizeable amounts to our uniform fund," said Arthur Bartner, director of the band. "The band has had a very eventful year."
The band backed the rock group Fleetwood Mac on their new album Tusk and will play at the group’s five Los Angeles concerts this month.
"During rehearsal for the Fleetwood Mac concerts we had sort of a 'Battle of the Bands.' Fleetwood Mac would play Dreams (a song) for us and then we'd play Fight On, for them. There's a genuine feeling between the two bands," Bartner said.
The band also took part in Chuck Barris' Gong Show Movie to be released in early May.
"I think the part we did for the Gong Show Movie will be the bit of the year," Bartner said. "Barris is sitting in the middle of the desert just about giving up on life, when the USC Marching Band comes marching over a dune playing 'Fight On.' Aside from donating, Barris also set up the band for the night and fed them."
"The Gong Show gig was awful. We slept in bunks, froze because there was no heat and they fed us green eggs. Most of the time we spent just standing around," said one flag girl.
The band's latest offer is from Jerry Buss, a university graduate who owns the Los Angeles Lakers. Buss has hired a
10-piece band combo, called the Trojan Brass, to play at all of the Laker home games.
"We'd like new uniforms by next football season to fit in with the Toward Century II idea. Our old uniforms served us well, but they're about 10 years old and becoming very tattered," Bartner said.
But the new uniforms will not be much different from the old.
"The helmet and cape fit our image so we're keeping those and modernizing them. We're getting rid of the 'moon boots,' adding spats, gauntlets, and touches of white throughout the uniform," Bartner said.
The coat will be short-waisted instead of a tunic and the colors will match the football team in a darker red and brighter gold.
The uniforms will cost S250 each, without helmet.
"We already have $60,000 so we're three quarters of the way there. But we have to raise the other $20,000 by Jan. 1 "
Peninsula Symphony opens season before sell-out crowd
By James Grant
When the Peninsula Symphony performed The Sorcerer's Apprentice at its annual summer concert at Rolling Hills High School this year, over 3,000 people attended. In mid-October, Mary Costa, the opera's number one box-office star, gave a benefit concert to open the symphony's season, attracting a sell-out crowd of 1,500 and raising over $2,000.
The symphony, though only a community orchestra, has become a well-respected and financially stable organization since its establishment just 13 years ago.
"The Peninsula Symphony is a remarkable organization," said George Babikian, executive vice president in charge of special funding. "It has a good past history of support and musical improvement within a relatively short period of time."
Of the 14 members of the symphony's executive board of directors, seven are affiliated with the university.
"Many of the university’s administration, alumni and friends are involved with the Peninsula Symphony, exerting the same vigorous time and energy that they devote to helping the universi-
ty," said Lynn Gill, associate professor of marketing and president of the board.
Other supporters of the symphony include Conrad Wedberg, director of student administrative services, Leslie Loschen, associate professor of accounting, and Jerome Belsky, mayor of Rolling Hills Estates.
The symphony has the most extensive financial backing of any community orchestra in California and is the only one to operate with a balanced budget, said Mrs. Eugene Springer, an executive board member in charge of membership and one of the founders of the symphony.
The association has an operating budget of about $50,000 for five concerts - deriving profit revenue through memberships, advertising and corporate support and grants, Babikian said.
Among the current supporters of the symphony are Getty Oil Co., the Atlantic Richfield Foundation, United California Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, the City of Rolling Hills Estates and Cal Crome (a division of Orion Industries).
Belsky said support for the establishment of a symphony in the South Bay area was a result of the community's attempt to add to the cultural climate of the area.
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