Orange County Heritage Coordinating Council

HERITAGE COORDINATING COUNCIL MEETING

Huntington Beach Public Library

May 6, 2008

Minutes By: John Elliott -- Santa Ana History Room

Glad to meet all of you again! I hope that everyone is having a great summer and I will see you all in September.

Notes toward minutes

Sherrie Daugherty, Principal Librarian, welcomed us to the Huntington Beach Public Library. While HBPL has no real local history collection, they do have some significant local historical materials. The building was designed by Richard Neutra and executed by his son, Dion, in 1970 after his father's death. It was been expanded in 1994 and has just undergone some significant restoration.

Joan Rambo and Lloyd Budwig told about the Genealogy collection at HBPL and the interesting items in the collection. The Orange County Genealogical Society uses the facility to house their private collection of genealogical material which is not loaned out; anyone may access the collection however, Huntington Beach resident or not. On Tuesdays through Fridays, volunteers staff the collection from 10am to 2pm. On the first Saturday of each month the Genealogical Society holds meetings and classes starting at 9am.

Links:

http://occgs.com/

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~caorange/ocresources.html

http://www.hbpl.org/info_main.htm#HerQuest

Future OC HCC Meetings:

September 9, 2008 -- Santa Ana Public Library -- John Elliott

November 4, 2008 -- Fullerton Arboretum -- Carol Ritter

January 6, 2009 -- CSU Fullerton -- Stephanie George

Tentative:

March 3, 2009 -- Katie Wheeler Library, Irvine -- Renee Welling

May 5, 2009 -- Nixon Library, Yorba Linda -- Pam Harrell

Discussion

Reminders: We had a discussion of procedures with general consensus that minutes of the meeting (taken by the host of the next scheduled meeting), that contain time sensitive notices, should come out soon after the meeting. A more complete set of minutes with additional material submitted by those at the meeting could then be sent three weeks before the next meeting with a reminder and directions. Notes presented at a meeting should be sent to the person hosting the next meeting.

Website: < http://www.ocheritage.org/ > We discussed the website, listservs, boards and asking questions of the group -- and generally came to the conclusion that the website needs fixing and updating and that the Yahoo connection has not been used. The website provides a place for folks to find us and get next meeting info. There was agreement that we are fine with questions being tossed out to the group.

Round Robin:

Glenn Frank joined us from Buena Park. His great-grandfather built the Dreger clock, < http://dregerclock.org/ > which stood at Knott's Berry Farm for years, disappeared last year, reappeared on eBay, and was rescued for restoration. Glenn is working with the Buena Park Historical Society to put it back in shape and out on Beach Blvd., across from the Buena Park City Hall.

[wait for notes or request them]

Carolyn Adamson of Placentia shared information about a women writers event. ????

Jeanette Gaardner, Placentia Historical Society -- placing photos on website, 4 years of early newspaper Courier 1924-1928

Gary Bell -- Placentia PL -- OC Register article: http://tinyurl.com/5ta47h

Placentia Library Friends Newsletter: Notations: http://tinyurl.com/6akerr

Larry Cummings -- Placentia

Cathy Thomas -- Fullerton PL

Richard Moore -- Huntington Beach PL -- reminders of BEA Book Expo, May 29-June 1, LA Convention Center; Hollywood Librarian (movie), Sunday, June 8, 2 pm -- Los Angeles Public Library Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles, Ann Seidl's film covers the disparity between depictions of librarians in Hollywood films and the reality of today's information navigators; ALA Conference, June 26– July 2, Anaheim.

Pam Harrell -- Yorba Linda Heritage Museum (http://www.ylpl.lib.ca.us/sbb.php) and Nixon Library (http://www.nixonlibraryfoundation.org/) -- Chair of the OC Docent League (http://www.docentsoc.org/); Helen Modjeska Foundation; OC Historical Commission (http://www.ocparks.com/historicalcommission/).

John Elliott -- Santa Ana History Room --
Costa Mesa Historical Society

Mary Ellen Goddard

Thanks for this opportunity to let you know what is planned for the. On June 29, our speaker will be Phil Brigandi, talking about his latest book, "Orange County Place Names, A to Z." In September we will be having our annual "Open House" at the Diego Sepulveda Adobe, complete with exhibits and speakers. More details on that later.

University Archivist & Special Collections Librarian, Pollak Library, CSU, Fullerton.

Sharon K. Perry,

1. The spring semester is coming to an end. CSU, Fullerton’s commencement will be on

May 17th and May 18th 2008. Vickie Vargas and Robert Reich will be the speakers.

The observance of the campus’ 50th anniversary is also coming to an end.

2. The University archives’ staff continues to be busy assisting the Center for Oral and

Public History staff and history student interns who are writing a pictorial publication

About the history of CSU, Fullerton.

3. Retiring librarian Pat Bril donated a large collection of professional papers to the

university archives. Also, the estate of Jon Becker donated a large collection of

papers from founding Dean of Students Ernie Becker who was Jon’s father. The

papers focus on campus unrest from 1967-1972.

4. The Patrons of the Pollak Library Support Group are purchasing some archival textile

boxes for the clothing in the Walkup Theatre Collection.

Center for Oral and Public History
California State University, Fullerton
Stephanie George

The next several months bring change to the Center for Oral and Public History. Art Hansen is retiring from teaching after forty-two years at CSUF and steps down as director at COPH on May 23. Natalie Fousekis has been named as director and will take over her duties [officially] in August. Cora Granata was reappointed as associate director while Ben Cawthra and Ray Rast, history department faculty, were named associate directors.

In September, the Center for Oral and Public History will celebrate its 40th anniversary with an afternoon of panel presentations followed by a reception.

Please follow this link to our most recent newsletter: http://coph.fullerton.edu/newsletter/Newsletter_Spring08_40%20Anniver.pd...

A new student assistant will begin migrating the recently transferred (from the Bowers) Orange County colonia oral history project. In addition to creating digital copies of the recordings, these fifty-two interviews – in Spanish, English, or conducted bilingually—will be abstracted and should be available to the public by September.

The two COPH publications, Orphaned Twice (about the Manzanar Children’s Village) and Various Shades of Orange (African Americans in Orange County) should be completed by the end of the summer. Currently working on edits and securing additional photographs, the two teams responsible for these new books are hoping to turn everything over to the publisher very soon.

The El Toro Marine Corps Air Station oral history project continues to keep COPH staff and student interviewers busy. More than 110 interviews have been conducted and another 60 are expected to be completed by September. If you’re ever wondering how many people it may take to conduct a full-scale oral history project (transcribing, editing, administration, etc.), we have one project director, three-part time staff, and twelve transcribers, audit checkers, and editors. We’re still looking for narrators for this project, so please forward our contact information along to anyone who has memories of the El Toro base. While we’ve found that most of our interviewees are military, we’re including residents who lived in the area, farmers who leased the land, wives who shopped at the PX, vendors or service providers to the base and/or personnel, and visitors (for example, those who attended their annual air shows). Interested parties can either call (714) 278-8415 or send contact information to coph-eltoro@fullerton.edu.

As a result of master students in history, several new oral history projects will be deposited in the COPH archives presently. One highlights the experiences of several members of the 10th Mountain Division (a division of the US Army) who were trained as mountain soldiers beginning in World War II. Another is a small collection of interviews with women who lived under the Third Reich, while yet another small project focuses on Japanese American renunciants. We hope to have these oral histories in our custody and ready for public review by the end of the year.