The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, September 26, 1980 Page: 1 of 8
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from David DeWall, attorney for the
local chapter of Common Cause, inquir-
ing about the status of the request made
by board chairman George Ozuna Jr. in
July.
“We did send a copy of an opinion
given in January (No. MW-127) which
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Acme Vending Services Inc. employees remove a 900-pound
machine from McCreless Hall. Snappy Snack Vending Co. will
assume campus vending services effective Wednesday.
Among those attending the meeting
were James M. Bellinghausen, vice
president for administration, and Henry
Stanford Berry Jr. of Americhem Inc., a
major supplier to the district, Norman
said. Also Norman said relatives of Bell-
inghausen and Norman were present.
At this meeting, Norman was asked to
take a “slap on the wrist” and reimburse
Weynand is president of the state organization
comprised of chief executive officers of community
and junior colleges throughout the state. His term
would have expired in July 1981, but resignation
from his administrative post at the district will make
him ineligible for membership in the group.
Weynand will announce his intention to leave the
correspondence from the attorney
general’s office.
“I requested the ruling myself and I
think it’s a matter of courtesy that it be
sent to me,” the chairman said Thurs;
day.
“I’ll react to it when I receive it.”
Weiss had not received the informa-
tion from De Wall as of Thursday even-
ing, but he said they would discuss it and
present it to steering committee members
Oct. 12.
“We will consider the issue at that
meeting. We’ll probably have some
discussion with the executive committee
at the state level the following week,”
Weiss said.
department said Ellis will tell seminar participants
how to react to a bomb threat. Muennink said the col- conduct follow-up seminars in about
earlier in the hearings. been admitted to Park North General
Norman said he believed the contribu- Hospital Sept. 15. He said it would be
tions were for the election of trustee Dan detrimental to Grier s mental health if he
Martinez in 1978. were required to testify.
By Lil Rodulfo-Duran
Ranger News Editor
A former district official testified Sept.
19 his bosses in the San Antonio Com-
munity College District tried to stop in-
vestigations into district mismanagement
and wrongdoings.
Marvin Norman, former director of
physical plants here, completed his
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Weynand to discuss leaving
President Jerome Weynand of the San Antonio
Community College District will discuss resignation
plans this weekend with members of the Texas Public
Community/Junior Colleges Association.
district before the end of his contract in August 1981
at an executive committee meeting Sunday evening in
Austin.
“I will discuss my resignation plans with the ex-
ecutive committee members. If necessary, I will tell
the full session of 47 chief executive officers at 9
o’clock Monday morning.”
Weynand said he will urge members to select his
successor by December.
“I would like to see the new president in office
before the legislative session opens in January,” he
said.
awaited the opinion before pursuing legal
action against the board of trustees.
The group contends the hiring was in
violation of the Open Meetings Act
because trustees interviewed and discuss-
ed the qualifications of the candidates in
a closed session.
“The only thing to do now is file a
lawsuit and make them do the hiring in
public.
“I think they (trustees) know
themselves it was illegal,” DeWall said.
The attorney said he will forward the
information to Lawrence Weiss, San An-
tonio area coordinator, and let him
decide what action to take.
Ozuna said he has not received any
The committee reconvened to hear
Boag, who pleaded his Fifth Amend-
ment right against self-incrimination to
each question he was asked.
The only witness subpoeaned who did
not appear was Edward Grier Jr., former
from other vendors who did business assistant plant supervisor, who retired in
with the district to keep a McAllister ma- 19 < 9.
jority in control of the board of trustees. Dr. John G. Skelton Jr., a
Berry invoked the Fifth Amendment psychologist, testified Grier, 66, had
earlier in the hearings. been admitted to Park North General
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Another time, contributions went for
District Attorney Bill White’s campaign,
he said.
White responded Thursday, “I would
be very skeptical of anything Marvin
Norman testified about. He has been
tried and convicted on six counts of
bribery, and I’m sure he is not too happy
about that.”
Bellinghausen said Friday he regretted
witnesses pleaded the Fifth Amendment.
If they had answered questions, it might
have cleared up a lot, the vice president
said. Bellinghausen is on vacation and
unavailable for further comment.
At the conclusion of Norman’s
testimony, trustee John Courage ad-
dressed the committee and outlined
report by Hugh changes the board has instituted in the
private in-
ly worked in the snack study from 7 a.m.
to 10 p.m.
“We’ve been letting all the other
machines run out so they’ll be easier to
remove,” he said.
Marvin Bland, vice president of Coca
Cola and general manager of Snappy
Snack, a subsidiary of Coca Cola, said
Tuesday the company could immediately
service soft drink machines at every loca-
tion.
“Coca Cola is leasing those machines
to Acme. All we’d have to do is take over
the machines and start stocking them,”
he said.
Representatives of both companies
met Wednesday afternoon to change the
locks on the soft drink machines and
Garrison said the board of trustees can
go through the Texas Education Agency
or the Coordinating Board of the Texas
College and University System to request
an opinion.
“They can seek an opinion through a
state agency if that agency wants to
make the request,” Garrison said.
Local members of Common Cause had
testimony under immunity on the final
day of the Texas House of Represen-
tatives Investigating Committee Hear-
ings.
Norman told of a gathering in his
home in 1978 after allegations of misuse
of college materials and personnel were
published in The Ranger and spread
throughout the campus.
Chief Counsel Jim Vollers said
Wednesday he hopes to take a deposition
from Grier at the hospital today. He said
if he is able to question Grier, the deposi-
tion will become part of the report
prepared by the committee and will be
made public with the rest of the report.
Vollers said the purpose of the hear-
ings was to determine responsibility and
problems in use of state property and
state funds and to create new legislation
to correct this.
State Rep. Richard C. Slack, chair-
man of the committee, said it was possi-
ble there might be a need for further
hearings, and although no criminal
charges came out of these hearings, ’‘if
an individual’s honesty is in question, he
has no right to work in a public institu-
tion.”
John L. Quinlan III, assistant
Snappy Snack began servicing them im-
mediately.
Bland said the company will install
equipment as soon as the contract
becomes effective Oct. 1. He said
Southwest Center and the outlying areas
of this campus will be serviced first.
O’Nave said Snappy Snack is
cooperating with her in trying to hasten
the availability of vending products on
the campuses.
“We’re reshuffling the schedule, but it
all depends on what equipment Snappy
Snack has available.
“I know it’s an inconvenience to our
students, but we’re doing all we can and
I urge them to be patient with us,"
O’Nave said.
Snappy Snack Vending Co. is servic-
ing soft drink machines on this campus,
although its 11-month contract with the
district becomes effective Wednesday.
The general schedule submitted with
the bid proposal specifies the company
will be in full operation by Nov. 19.
Linda O’Nave, acting purchasing
director, said she asked Snappy Snack
officials to expedite their services for the
convenience of the students.
“They’re doing it as a courtesy to us,”
she said.
Acme Vending Services Inc., present
district vendors, has been removing
equipment from district premises since
Sept. 17 after an agreement signed in
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Proper procedure bypassed
After public testimony had been con-
a telephone interview eluded and the committee had gone into
never called Norman executive session, J.M. Boag, formerly
Norman testifies investigation impeded
the college for use of college equipment,
he said.
Norman also said he was told he would
receive help with legal counsel.
Shortly after the meeting in his home,
Norman said W.W. McAllister Jr.,
former chairman of the board of trustees,
called him to his office and told Norman
to pay the school a nominal fee for
gasoline and truck rental.
Allegations had surfaced charging
Norman had used a college vehicle for
personal business.
McAllister also told him to take a
“slap on the wrist” and assured him he
would not lose his job, Norman testified.
Norman said the former board chair-
man also told him he (McAllister) was
holding on to a
Hardeman and Associates, a
vestigation firm hired by the district.
Norman said McAllister told him if
the report, it would be forwarded and occurring again, Courage said,
squelched there.
McAllister, in
Thursday, said he never called Norman executive session, J.M. Boag, formerly
to his office and had never made the with Boag Painting and Remodeling, ap-
statement urging Norman to take a “slap peared. Texas Rangers had been unable
on the wrist.” to find him earlier in the week to serve
He also denied withholding the him with a subpoena.
Hardeman report. McAllister said he
took the report to the board in an ex-
ecutive session and immediately after
that turned it over to the district at-
torney’s office.
In other testimony, Norman said
court Sept. 16 allowed the company to do
so.
O’Nave said Acme has until Sept. 30
to remove equipment, but she expects
the company to complete the process by
the end of next week.
Tom Dowling, branch manager for
Acme, said all vending machines have
been removed from St. Philip’s College.
He said Southwest Center and the
snack study on the fifth floor of Moody
Learning Center here will be the last
areas cleared.
“We’re still servicing the machines on
the fifth floor of Moody (Learning
Center) periodically. We don’t have a
full-time hostess there anymore.”
Dowling explained a hostess previous-
L. The attorney general will not issue an
Mt opinion on the hiring of Leo Alvarado
Jr., attorney for the San Antonio Com-
munity College District, The Ranger
learned Thursday because the request
did not go through proper channels.
Susan Garrison, acting chairman of
the opinion committee in the office of At- pertained to a similar situation.”
torney General Mark White, said the at-
torney general can give legal advice con-
cerning the Open Meetings Act only to
Estate officials or agencies.
“We could not give an attorney
general’s opinion because we’re not
authorized by law to give an opinion to
junior colleges,” she said.
Garrison said she responded to a letter
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re-organization of the district operations
department and auditing procedures.
“We have undertaken several steps to criminal district attorney and chief of
the district attorney’s office requested prevent these types of abuses from ever operations/special crimes, who was pre-
sent at the hearings, said his office will
study the transcripts of the hearings
carefully to see if peijury has been com-
mitted.
Quinlan said he already knew most of
the information coming out at the hear-
ings because employees of his office
worked closely with investigators hired
by the board.
However, Bellinghausen’s bank ac-
count records, subpoenaed by the com-
mittee, revealed a large number of credit
cards and a bank account his office had
not been aware of before, Quinlan said.
Quinlan said his office is investigating
to see if new information will reveal
evidence enough to seek indictments.
He said the three-year statute of
limitations for bribery had expired.
The statute of limitations for theft is
five years and for official misconduct 10
years, the assistant district attorney said.
A bomb threat seminar will begin at 9 a.m.
Room 201 of Moody Learning Center. Detective two months.
R.R. Ellis of the San Antonio Police Department will Muennink said he expects telephone switchboard
conduct the seminar. operators, secretaries and others responsible for
Cpl. Donald Muennink of the campus police answering campus telephones to attend the seminar,
department said Ellis will tell seminar participants The campus police official said the college may
how to react to a bomb threat. Muennink said the col- conduct follow-up seminars in about a month.
“We’ve already spent $17,000 on these
our
chances are very good of getting a judg-
ment on these firms.”
In a 6-0 decision Monday, the San An-
tonio Community College District Board
of Trustees agreed to seek the resignation
of Vice President James Bellinghausen.
Trustee John Steen Jr. read the resolu-
tion at an emergency session which ex-
pressed the board’s no confidence in
Bellinghausen, and the resolution in-
cluded sending a committee at the
earliest possible date to seek his resigna-
tion and clear his employment status
with the district. ”
Trustee Sue Oppenheimer, vacation-
ing in New England, did not attend the
meeting.
In a prepared statement. Chairman
George Ozuna Jr. said, “This is a sad
and tragic situation that has occurred
here in the San Antonio Community Col-
lege District.”
Ozuna said the action was spurred by
testimony during the Sept. 23-26 hear-
ings of the Texas House of Represen-
tatives General Investigating Committee
and information from local investigators
Hardeman and Associates.
“The information from the local in-
In other business, the board agreed to
retain the services of Hardeman and
have several op- Associates in an effort to recover money
lost to firms who allegedly overcharged
the district.
“We have asked the investigating firm
of Hardeman and Associates to obtain
hard-core evidence that we can use in a
court of law to recover money losses that
have occurred over the past several
years,” Ozuna said.
Trustee Dan Martinez, the only abs-
taining vote in this action, said the conti-
nuing investigations are unnecessary.
“I feel we’ve gone as far as we need to
go on these investigations. We’ve all
learned a lesson from this, and I know
the district will be more careful in who it
does business with,” Martinez said.
He called the continuing investigations
a financial gamble and expressed
Trustees oust Bellinghausen
refuses to vacate his post.
“Our counsel advised us during the ex-
ecutive session that we
tions, but I can’t elaborate on those
now,” Ozuna said.
Bellinghausen, employed by the
district since 1968, would have earned
almost $50,000 this year if his contract
had been renewed.
“His contract expired at the end of
August. He never got a new one,” Ozuna
said.
Weynand said he was aware that Bell-
inghausen has been seeking other
employment.
“He has used my name as a reference,
and I’ve been contacted by persons in
another city.”
The president said he will submit a re-
quest to the board for an interium
replacement for Bellinghausen.
“He had indicated he would stay
about 60 days into the fall semester, and pessimism about recovering the money.
I had hoped that he would. I’m short of
administrators now. We have an acting investigations and I don’t think
finance director and Mary Brogan is ac-
ting director of operations.”
vestigations is still confidential. We hope
it will be made public soon — maybe
within 30 days,” the chairman said.
Ozuna said a committee comprised of
President Jerome Weynand, Leo
Alvarado Jr., attorney for the district,
and he, would ask Bellinghausen to
resign upon his return to San Antonio.
Bellinghausen and his wife departed
Saturday for a five-day vacation in the
Bahamas.
“We have to give him due process of
law. We have to give him a chance to
prove himself,” Ozuna said.
Although Bellinghausen has not been
tried for allegations which surfaced at the
state hearings or during local investiga-
tions, Ozuna said his termination is in
the best interest of the community.
“We are asking for his resignation for
the good of the colleges. I feel that it’s
the most fair thing we can do for the
community,” Ozuna said.
The chairman said the board is
prepared to use alternative methods to
obtain Bellinghausen’s termination if he
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