Founded 1946
Palomar College
Volume 40 No. 15
Tuesday, Apri17, 1987
A Publication for the Associated Students
Marcos, CA
Governor lacks • • VISIOn -- Boggs By Monica Nash
Dave Cohen of Channel 8 interviews Dr. George recently, because of deteriorating campus Boggs, Palomar Superintendent/President, facilities. (Photo by Tom Fry)
Surreal architecture displayed Opera music theme San Diego artists Mathieu Gregoire and Jim Skalman will use the Boehm Gallery to create two "sculptural installations" April21 through May 15. Gregoire's "Hood/Slot/Section," a three-part display in two rooms of the gallery, will deal with the "formal" architectural concerns of shape, space, scale and plane, according to Louise Kirtland, Boehm Gallery director. This unique sculptural environment includes a gallery length ramp-like form (made of clear plastic) built down from the ceiling (Hood); a "Slot" bisecting the two gallery rooms; and cross sections of a Gothic cathedral made of cast concrete (Section). Skalman's "Temporal Heights" installation is a walk-in tableau evok-
for Spring concert
ing the sense of Southern California suburban architecture. Opera Music: Overtures and Arias According to Kirtland, the title will be the theme for the up-coming "Temporal Heights" is a reference to Music Department concerts on April the planned communities of the area. 25 at 8 p.m. and April 26 at 3 p.m. "Viewers will recognize familiar forms in the Palomar College Community of residental architecture altered by Theatre. scale, placement, lighting and color, resulting in ambiguity," Kirtland said. Selections to be performed by the "The real looks unreal and the familiar, Palomar Community Orchestra, conunfamiliar...eerie and surrealistic." A reception for the artists will be ducted by Robert Gilson, include held in the gallery April 24 from 6 to Rossini's William Tell Overture, 8 p.m. Regular gallery hours are 10 Mozart's overture to the Marriage of a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesdays through Figaro and Bizet's Suite from Carmen. Fridays; noon to 4 p.m., Saturdays; and Arias from Carmen, Figaro and La Traviata will be performed. 6 to 9 p.m., Wednesdays. For more information, call the Tickets are $7 general admission Boehm Gallery at 744-1150 or 727and $5 for students and senior citizens 7529, Ext. 2304. and are available from the Box Office.
Project preserves school's history By Peggy Kelly
On July 30, 1946, a long awaited dream started unfolding among the rural communities of the North County. The formation of a junior college district was approved by voters of the Redondo, El Segundo and Centinela Union High School districts. On September 23, 1946, in temporary quarters at Vista High School, 98 students were enrolled in the first classes of the school. The first square dancing class was offered at this school on February 5, 1947. The first surrealism course was set in the fall semester of '4 7. Enrollment rose to an astounding figure of 421 in two years. And on February 19, 1948, the purchase of a 124 acre site for the future Palomar College was confirmed by the college Board of Trustees. Founders of Palomar dreamed that the newly formed junior college could someday enroll 6,500 students and be valued at $1,000,000. Today, almost 41 years later, Palomar's enrollment figures have exceeded 1946 figures by 16,827, and today's total of all funds is $40,904,699, according to the accounting payroll office.
For more information contact the Music Department at Ext. 2316 or 2317 or the Box Office at 744-1156.
"What we have is an accountant for governor instead of a leader with vision," said Dr. George Boggs, Superintendent/President. "The great leaders have a vision, like Martin Luther King. Governor Deukmejian emphasizes the amount of money in the state reserves. One hundred years from now, who will remember that? What about the quality of life of the citizen?" Dr. Boggs said that as president of Palomar, he has a vision of where we are and what is important. He thinks the governor is neglecting the state's future, and has designed no vision of his own. "Human services aren't important to him ... a jail in L.A. is," said Boggs. "Maybe the governor should be reminded that one year in prison costs the state $20,000 per person and a year at a community college costs $1,700. Which is the better investment of the state's resources?" Dr. Boggs stressed that education wasn't the only institution complaining of being short-changed. So are most all public organizations. "It's like a business that won't modernize or replace old equipment. We are meeting the future unprepared. California has to realize how important education and some social services are." Commenting on the recent veto of funds for community colleges, Dr. Boggs said, "I don't think Deukmejian has anything against us. We're just easy targets. He knows that community colleges don't have their political act together. It appears that 1.2 million students and half of the adult population who are former students are willing to let community colleges deteriorate." Recently, Palomar has received some publicity about the deteriorating equipment and buildings on campus. On March 23, an article was published in the Times-Advocate about the conditions. That article brought the issue to the attention of Channel Eight, which featured Palomar in a story soon afterwards. Dr. Boggs remarked that not all of the feedback he received from the publicity was positive. "The most disturbing element in the Times-Advocate article was the impli-
cation that Palomar is not safe. We are safe. That's why we fixed the chem lab. However, there is some truth that you can't neglect community colleges and not expect the degeneration of facilities." According to Dr. Boggs, Kathie Hinnen, who wrote the TimesAdvocate article, said "How do we know that this isn't Palomar College poor-mouthing again," when requested to do the story. Dr. Boggs was able to provide plenty of evidence to prove Palomar's need. When asked where the moneywould go if it came through, Dr. Boggs' face lit up. "I dream of what we could do if we had the money," he said. A few of the things he mentioned were: the addition of core English and Math classes, improved parking (We have 3,000 parking places for 17,000 students.), better lighting for safety purposes, increased staff salaries, regulated traffic flow, reform of registration methods, and programs added for staff development, such as regular workshops and rewards for outstanding employees. Dr. Boggs also spoke of plans to fmance an addition to Poway High School in Palomar's name and use it as a new satellite campus. He said that there were currently no college facilities in that area. "I would like Palomar to abe number one. Palomar can be considered a first choice, rather than the place to go if you can't go somewhere else. We're up against status. Students can come here for two years before attending Stanford, save their parents $16,000 a year and get as good an education. "Marvin Glusac, principal of San Marcos High, told me that statistically, people who attend Palomar get better grades at the four-year schools. Unfortunately, there is no prestige for a parent to say that his child is going to a community college. We have a talented staff here, but not the reputation." Dr. Boggs' priority is the improvment of public relations. To reach his goal, he's put in a lot of hours. "It's been a seven day a week job since I started," he said. "Weekdays I work with local chambers of commerce and on weekends I do paperwork. I'd like to see Palomar become an integral part of the community."
In a joint effort to protect these and many more historical facts about the college, The Patrons of Palomar have given a special fortieth birthday present to the college. They have funded a $9,000 project to preserve the old scrapbooks of college related news and memorable items starting with that first news clip on March 8, 1946. Mrs. Esther Nesbin Altmann started the scrapbooks in 1946 and the library kept these until1973 when they were sent to the Public Relations office. "I had the contacts," said Mary McClain. "This effort proved that The Patrons of Palomar and Friends of Palomar Library could work together in unison." McClain has spent over a year revamping the old scrapbook$., tediously reading, dating, pasting, and organizing nearly 50 volumes' of Palomar History. "The books were in shambles. Pages were torn, articles were falling out and decomposing. There was some printed material that just dropped off," recalls McClain. (Continued on page 2)
Leaders of the Patrons of Palomar and Friends of the Palomar Library (L toR) Louise See, Mary McClain and Ann Boggs show that their cooper-
ation and hard work to preserve Palomar's history in scrapbooks has paid off. (Photo by Tom Fry)