San Diego Community Newspaper Group
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2009
www.SDNEWS.com Volume 14, Number 28
Soledad ceremony to honor General Patton BY ALYSSA RAMOS | VILLAGE NEWS
La Jolla High's Troy Leloup readies for the start of a 100 freestyle race during a May 7 swim meet versus host Cathedral Catholic. It was a battle of the undefeated teams that the La Jolla boys won in the final regular season match VILLAGE NEWS | DON BALCH of the year.
Viking swimmers make strong showing Boys team wins City Conference; tennis team co-league champs BY DAVE THOMAS | VILLAGE NEWS
Polyak, Tyler Woods and Mike Vespremi came in at 1:39.24, and the girls placed second with 1:53.52 (Allie Knight, Tammy Tran, Heren Alanis and Havyne Cooper). The boys 4x100 free relay took first place and cracked the school record with 3:12.74 (Vespremi, Troy LeLoup,
Artist Georgeanna Lipe marks a century of creative living
The La Jolla High boys swim team emerged City Conference champions last Friday, while the girls placed a close second to Cathedral Catholic in the annual post-season event. Three La Jolla High school records were broken, including SEE VIKINGS, Page 4 both the boys and girls medley relays and the boys’ 400 free relay. Viking Eric Hedlin (right), the counThe boys medley relay squad ty leader in the 500 freestyle event, of Hunter Gettelfinger, Alex churns the water. VILLAGE NEWS | DON BALCH
BY PATRICIA DALY-LIPE
Bishop’s alumni will join new graduates BY ALYSSA RAMOS | VILLAGE NEWS
The Bishop’s School’s class of 2009 will officially graduate Friday, May 22 alongside about 25 alumni during the school’s “100th Birthday Party! Celebration of the Century” weekend. This year, Bishop’s is holding its alumni reunion during graduation ceremonies in honor of
the school’s centennial celebration, said Suzanne Weiner, director of marketing and public relations for The Bishop’s School. “For the first time, our alumni reunion falls over graduation. It usually falls sometime in June. So more alumni could come back for the reunion and the party,” Weiner said. Today, May 21, about 138
The Mount Soledad Memorial Association will hold ceremonies at the Soledad Mountain War Memorial atop Mount Soledad honoring war veterans and Gen. George S. Patton Jr. this Memorial Day, Monday, May 25 beginning at 2 p.m. Brig. Gen. Angela Salinas, commanding general, Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD), San Diego, will deliver the keynote address. “She’s the first Hispanic female general in the Marines,” said Bob Phillips, Mount Soledad Memorial honorary trustee. Nathan Fletcher, State Assemblyman, 75th District and 50th District Assemblyman Brian Bilbray will speak during the Memorial Day ceremonies, Phillips said. The Navy Band Southwest will play and the MCRD Rifle Team will perform a 21-gun salute. The San Diego Salute T34 Performance Team will perform a flyover to conclude the ceremony. La Jollan Carol Patton Detwiller,
a Patton relative, will join dignitaries in celebrating the general’s career, including Patton Society founder Mike Province, Phillips said. “Mike Province is the country’s leading authority on General Patton,” Phillips said. “He will be flying in to commemorate Patton.” Province owns the world’s largest collection of Patton books and memorabilia and wrote four books about the famed general, according to Phillips. The association recently enhanced the areas surrounding the war memorial, including refurbishing the cross and installing safety railings along the veterans memorial plaque walls. The Old Town Trolley will provide shuttles to the memorial site from Mount Soledad Presbyterian Church, 6551 Soledad Mountain Road, and French American School, 6550 Soledad Mountain Road, beginning at 1 p.m. For more information about Mount Soledad Veteran’s Memorial, visit www.soledadmemorial.com. ■
members of The Bishop’s School — the Centennial Class of 2009 — will attend the baccalaureate service at St. James by-the-Sea Church. The commencement ceremony follows Friday, May 22 at 2 p.m. on the grassy quad. Bishop’s also will host events for alumni May 22, and the public is invited to the school’s SEE GRADUATES, Page 2
Today, May 21, Georgeanna Lipe will celebrate her 100th birthday. If you do not know her, you might conjure up the image of a wizened old lady, maybe bedridden, hunched over, perhaps partially deaf or going blind. This is not the case with Georgeanna Lipe! Beyond her 96th year, she was as spry as any 40-year-old. Her time was too occupied to consider the aging process. It just stopped for her. Her energy was tapped into her creativity. And this, for Georgeanna, was a relatively new venture. In the late 1920s and early ’30s, Anna White decided to attend Vanderbilt Medical School. Her goal was to become a medical illustrator. Few women attended Georgeanna Lipe, seen here with Luke medical school in those days. In the quarter horse at her son’s home in fact, one summer she attended an Virginia, will celebrate her 100th birthSEE LIPE, Page 3
day May 21.