European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes tuesday May 29,1990 faces n places commencement upbeat thanks to honoured Hope from wire reports commencement at the University of san Diego doubtless would have been a solemn occasion sunday if not for the class Cut up. "1 love commencement. I love the Happy ecstatic joyous faces but enough about the teachers comedian Bob Hope told about 9,000 people at tending the ceremony. The parents also look so Happy he said. This is the last payment that they la have to make on their Hope 86, and his wife Dolores were presented with honorary doctor of humane letters degrees amid wild cheers and applause. Before receiving their degrees the Hopes were lauded by University officials for their humanitarian and philanthropic endeavours. Hope then took Center stage. The audience roared and littered at his Trade Mark one liners. I m now a doctor at last i can get on the Golf course on wednesdays he said. Hope s acceptance speech took on a serious tone As he told the More than 700 students receiving degrees that their real education is about to you be gotten the last grades you la Ever get in geometry history and English lit Hope said. From now on you la be attending a far bigger and More important classroom where your grades will determine How far you will go in Devotion compassion and self re Spect. That will be the important curriculum from now on. Cicero said a room without books is like a body without a soul " Hope said. Ill never forget when he told me that the comedian added. Dolores Hope who was celebrating her 81st birthday sunday also Drew chuckles from the crowd. She thanked the University for Hon Oring her and for having Bob Hope As an opening . Freedom still Young some icons of american history Are not what they claim author Kurt von it it or. Told University of Rhode is Lund graduates sunday in South Kings town . Vonnegut told about 2,700 graduates that while Boston and Philadelphia both claim to be the Birthplace of lib cry Freedom was Only conceived there so Boston and Philadelphia were Only motels of the gestation period of american Liberty has taken 200 years or More said Vonnegut whose satiric novels take darkly humorous looks at the past present and future. Don t be cynical ab9ut the Ameri can Experiment because it has Only now begun said Vonnegut author of breakfast of champions cat s Cra dle slaughterhouse five and 11 other novels. Vonnegut whose new novel hocus pocus or what s the hurry son is due out in september left the crowd with two highly personal one the noblest of All professions arc nursing and teaching. And two no matter where you Are even in the . Army there will be at least one Saint. And it might even be no duty for governor a Phoenix judge lauded gov. Rose of lord As Arizona s no. 1 Public Citi zen but said that did not mean she was eligible for jury duty. I was summoned and i Felt it was my duty to respond said the governor who took a fifth Row seat in Maricopa county Superior court As a possible juror in a drug Case. The court s presiding judge b. Michael Dann made a special trip to the jury room to Greet her. Dann thanked mofford for coming Forward but said she could t serve because of conflict of interest. As governor mofford can Grant Par dons and shorten the sentences of criminals. Life Benefit celebrating the 30th anniversary of his transition from Valentino Garavanti to Valentino the italian Couturier has transformed a spend Ferous 15th-Cen Tury building in the heart of Rome into Center for the arts. Named after him self of course. First name Academia Valentino opens to the Public thursday with the Art of Cartier an exhibition of 200 glittering objects and Bijoux from the frenc jeweler from its founding in 1847 to 1980.admission is 7,000 lire about $6. Part of the Academia s income from exhibitions will Benefit life an association created by Valentino and his partner Giancarlo Giammetto for pub Lic education on aids in says that discrimination against people with aids there is in tense which is Why the foundation will a Street named Spillane mystery writer Mickey Spillane an Elizabeth n.j., native poses next to a sign commemorating a portion of South Broad Street As Mickey spill Ane the new Street sign is in front of Theodore Roosevelt or. High school which Spillane attended. At least it s paved the 72-year-old Spillane said. If it was t paved i would t Spillane has written More than 40 detective novels featuring the hard boiled private Detec Tive Mike Hammer. Concentrate on raising awareness rather than research. He estimates that the Cartier exhibition will generate $200,000, to Benefit a children s Hospital in year s exhibition will be a Valentino retrospective showing his Opu Lent fashion confections. Hotel guests get Bonus guests staying in Helmsley hotels Are being treated to a Glossy color brochure showing Leona Helmsley writing Check for her taxes for $42.06 million to be precise to the internal Revenue service. Inside is the reprint of an article that appeared in the Sarasota Fla Herald Tribune in which a Helmsley lawyer says that Helmsley and her husband Harry b. Helmsley have so much Money it s ludicrous to believe they would chisel the government out of paltry $1.2 million. Helmsley has been sentenced to fou years in prison for Federal income lax fraud and is appealing the decision. She wanted people to know that she s paid her taxes Howard j. Rubenstein the Helmsley spokesman explained of the flier which is in thou Sands of rooms in 15 hotels. Dear Abby you were absolutely and positively wrong in your advice to Mother of six i be used such Strong language because this goof is monumental you owe 50 Mea culpa on this one. What if 1 Don t like something i read in your column should 1 write to the publisher of my newspaper and Tell him to cancel my subscription or should i Contact the newspaper s largest advertisers and enlist their Aid in coercing the editors to print Only what i deem appropriate soon we would have either no Media or Only meaningless fluff Offen Sive to no one. Also no dear Abby. Let me Tell you what offends me i am offended by this growing idea that we can control what people Media included say by simply Labelling it Freedom of speech is our first and Foremost civil right guaranteed by the . Constitution. You Don t like what someone says Tough. Don t look Don t listen or Don t read it. But Don t try to shut them up. Information in t dangerous. Suppression of information is. Very Little to programming is intended for 4-year-Olds. They Don t have jobs and they Don t spend dear Abby Money. I could t believe you would encourage eco nomic coercion nationwide As a Means of censorship to help one Parent abrogate her responsibility. But Don t shut up. Just think a Little. And keep on writing. David Miller Fayetteville . Dear or. Miller All right w take 10 whacks with a rolled up facsimile of the . Constitution. And As one of the original members of people for the american Way founded by Norman learn ought to be ashamed of myself. And i am. Dear Abby regarding the pregnant woman who stood on a bos ton bus while men were comfortably seated pretend ing not to notice her some years ago i got on a bus in Japan. I was able19 get a seat but the bus filled rapidly. I noticed a very tired looking elderly japanese woman standing so Igot up and offered her my seat but before she could get to it a Middle aged japanese Man jumped in front of her and took the seat he sat there glaring at me for the duration of the trip. Apparently their customs Are not the same As ours. S.s.t., Wisconsin rapids dear . Customs do differ in various cultures but i would have assumed that because Oriental people have a reputation for respecting their elders Japan would be me last place to witness the scene you described. Dear Abby believe me when i say that thin people Are ridiculed too. I should know. From puberty on i Vas underdeveloped which did not go unnoticed. I be Bee told that if i swallowed an Olive i d look pregnant Ana if i drank beet juice i d look like a thermometer. Also be been asked if i have tapeworm. All in Tun 01 course. I be been called Olive Oil Twiggy Bird legs,1 Skeleton and bean i m 26 years old stand 5 foot 8 and Wenteh 94pounds. I have annual medical checkups and believe i or not i m healthy. I be been underweight All my incest everything All Day every Day. 1 am used to people making remarks about How Thini am and i Don t consider it a compliment. 1 think any kind of comment about a person s weight is thin thanks for writing. You May have educated a few people today
