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The Telesco Friday, November 18, 1988
Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
Volume 42 No. 9
Two newcomers elected to Board Members face new challenges Newcomers Ben Echeverria and Harvey Williamson will join incumbent Barbara Hughes and other members of the Governing Board in a year that promises to be challenging and filled with major issues. Voters elected the two new members and Hughes to the Board in elections held Nov. 8. The other members of the Governing Board, Ralph Forquera and Dr. Roberty Dougherty, still have two years remaining on their terms. The two members leaving the board, Leon Baradat and Mary Burke Trotta, will serve the residents of the district for the last time on Tuesday, Nov. 22. The next four years will see the new Governing Board taking on major issues. Here's a look at some of those issues that the board will be facing:
By Fred Tracey Managing Editor
(Photos by Charles Miller)
(left to right) Incumbent Barbara Hughes and newcomers Harvey Williamson and Ben Echeverria are the three who were voted to seats on Palomar's Governing Board. • The board will find itself taking on new responsibilities if AB 1725, the community college reform bill, is passed by voters. The bill redefines the mission of community colleges and changes the way colleges receive its funding. • Finding a place to park at Palomar College will be even more difficult if
enrollment continues to rise. Parking became a campaign issue, but no visible solution is in sight. The Governor recently signed legislation allowing colleges to raise its parking fees to a maximum of $40 a
Incumbent Barbara Hughes and two newcomers were elected to Palomar's Governing Board in elections last week. Joining Hughes will be Harvey Williamson and Ben Echeverria. All three will be sworn into office on Sat., Dec. 3 at a special organizational meeting of the board at Quails Inn in San Marcos. Hughes came in with the highest number of votes, 105,878. Williamson received 63,080 votes and Echeverria received 49,566. The election dealt another defeat to Clyde Romney, who ran un-successfuly for Fifth District Supervisor in 1986. Romney served as chairman of the north county Republican campaign effort. Romney came in last with 46,893 votes. Also defeated was Mark Palid who received 49,050, coming in fourth place behind Echeverria. On election night, Palid had led Echeverria for the third spot. At 11 p.m. on Nov. 8, Echeverria passed Palid and eventually to victory in this low-keyed campaign. "People are satisfied with how things are," Hughes said. "I'm thrilled to be elected and I'm looking forward to doing it again."
(see ISSUES - page 2)
(see ELECTION - page 2)
La Porta: nevv blood to old foundation By Kevin Adams
Contributing Writer
(Photo by Mark Hopkins)
'Court' musicians Mary Gale Severence and Tom Woodford play a tuneful Elizabethan melody at the Renaissance Faire held last Wednesday, Nov. 16 on campus. Other events included medieval dancing, jousting and palm reading.
Vet enrollment increase expected By Robert Santiago Staff Contributor Judy Duncan, coordinator of Palomar College's Veteran's Education department, says that she expects to see an increase of veteran students attending Palomar College within the next year. In a recent interview, Duncan credited this increase to the new G.I. bill, otherwise known as the Montgomery Bill. "Right after the Vietnam War we had an average of 4,000 veteran students at Palomar College," Duncan said. "Now we have about 400." In the post-Vietnam years, veteran enrollments comprised 25 percent of Palomar College's student body. In more recent times, vets have made up as little as 2 percent of the total student body. Duncan insists, however, that as a result of the Montgomery Bill, that figure could return to at least 10 percent of the overall enrollment. The Montgomery Bill is the latest educational assistance program which the government has
Bringing new blood to an old body can be as much the job of a fundraiser as a surgeon. And who's to say which of the two professionals do the more vital work? Without surgeons the world wouldn't have heart transplants, but without fundraisers the world would be short a good variety of universities, culture centers, and thousands of worthwhile charities. It is the enthusiasm and pride that comes from understanding the importance of her fundraising work that sets apart Esther La Porta, the new Palomar Development Foundation executive director. The Foundation was formed in 1959 as a fundraising organization made up of prominent community people with an interest in the success of Palomar College.
devised to boost enlistment into the Armed Forces. With the rise in educational costs, .many young Americans have viewed entering the service as another means of paying for their college education. Mary Tennant, evening supervisor at the Veteran's Education Department and Duncan's assistant, stated, "Of all the other programs in use right now, the Montgomery Bill allows veterans more benefits than any other." The Veteran's Education Department now must adjust some of its procedures and become familiar with the new bill, as well as maintaining the records of those personnel still under the older programs. Most recipients of assistance are of the Vietnam era (old G.I: bill.). Other programs include V.E.AP. (Veteran Education Assistance Program) reservist, dependents of deceased veterans, vocational rehabilitation enrollees, active-duty personnel, and now the new Montgomery Bill. Tennant, a declared English major and a (see VETS - page 8)
Esther La Porta
But for most of its history, said La Porta, the foundation was a passive organization. La Porta has been director of the Foundation since January of this year. "I saw my job as to get new blood into the Foundation board," explained La Porta. "My role was to get the board revved up." In the early years, the Foundation raised funds to assist in construction of the Wallace Pool and the Arboretum. La Porta feels that those projects were a valuable contribution to the college, but now the new director wonders where those donors are. One of the problems with the Foundation, as La Porta sees it, is lack of continuity. She couldn't find the record of donors and contributors for those two foundation projects and had to start anew making contacts. "You can't keep starting and stopping in building a foundation," stressed La Porta, adding that there is an absolute need to make and keep contacts with those affluent or hard-working people who give to the college. La Porta has become a student of fundraising science. The work of Jerolds Panas, author of"Mega Gifts: Who Gives Them, Who Gets Them" is La Porta's guide in the world of attracting money from those who can afford to give it. Panas interviewed 32 men and women who were generous or crazy enough to give $1 million to a philanthropic cause. He also surveyed 1,000 fundraising executives with the question "what motivated your $1 million donors to give?" Using the answers he got, Panas compiled a lengthy list of (see LAPORTA- page 2)