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Event s ExtraordinaryBy FRANCKS RUSREU, KAY, Staff Society ColumnistA week ago UCLA’s Alumni Assn. numbered 21,500 members., Today there’s one more.He’s singer Frank Sinatra, a high school drop-out whose father, he said, never learned to read or write his own name but was a “wonderfulguy.”Only thing he’s ever regretted in his life, he said over and over again, was that he'd never completed his education. He was too anxious to become a singer.The singer, who seemed-as pleased as though it were a doctorate, was presented wit.h an honorary alumnus award the other night at the UCLA Extraordinary Jubilee that filled the sold-out Music Center Pavilion from orchestra to gallery and sent some members of the committee to the Founders Room, where they viewed the show on closed circuit television.it was quite a show, this Extraordinary Jubilee that served as a community celebration marking UCLA’s 50th anniversary.Prank Sinatra did not sing but Andy Williams, tlie master of ceremonies, did,Carol Burnett, UCLA alumna class of ’54, didn’t sing either, but she told everyone she’d fallen in love with the singer when she was seven, hut they didn’t meet until she was 19 and too old for him.Sinatra, by the way, is the sixth honorary alumnus in the entire 50 years of UCLA’s history.He joins UC Regent Edwin Pauley, Joe E. Brown, Bob Hope and UCLA basketball coachJohn Wooden.He received the award in recognition, not only of his many music scholarships but for contributions to kidney research, at UCLA Medical Center.A number of Valley alums (there are hundreds, if not thousands, and not all are members of the association) helped produce the show that featured Barbara McNair (another alumna and also a member of Cain! Burnett’s class, Bob Newhart, the Young Americans and the Osmond Brothers.Bob Thomas of Eneino, class of .’43 and chairman of the oftlli anniversary special events, greeted the 400 invited to a reception after the show in the Pavilion's Blue Ribbon Room.And Alice Alshuier '42, of Sherman Oaks, special events eordinator for the Extraordinary' Jubilee, stood at the elevators with her husband Rolerl to show guests the way to the reception.Mrs. Thomas was on hand to guide the Quentin Clarks of Sherman Oaks and others to the bars and buffet tables set up in both tire Blue Ribbon and Eldorado rooms.Don Williams of Sherman Oaks was there to keep his brother Andy company.Earlier in the evening and before the performance there was a non-host reception in theContinued nn Next Pagn
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