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Mary Catherine Hall Janice Harbin Abraham Hoffman O'FLAHERTY TEACHING AWARDS PRESENTED

our deserving reachers received the O 'Flaherty Distinguished Teaching Janice Harbin Janice reaches second grade at Lakeland Award during the annual Holiday F Elementary School in Norwalk. She is an Open House on Saturday, December 9 at enthusiastic supporter of history in the El Alisal. The award, named in honor of classroom and includes it in every aspect of JosephS. and Louise O'Flaherty, recognizes her reaching: in licerature, art and excellence in the teaching of history among language. Janice focuses on local history. elementary and secondary school Her srudents were among those who per­ educators. The winners were: Mary fo rmed train songs at the dedication of Catherine Hall, Janice H arbin, Abraham Hericage Park Trai n Depot in Santa Fe Angie Sims Hoffman and Angie Sims. Springs. Janice continues her own growth The award consists of a certificate, a in child development and the reaching of one-year membership in the Historical literacy skills. Janice also lends her Angie Sims Society and a check for $500. The award expertise as a resource reacher and Angie Sims has been an insrrucrorl recipients also receive a copy ofJosephS. fac iJiraror co local and regional institutions. consultant for the County Office O 'Flaherty's rwo-volume history of Los of Education since 1992. Angie designs Angeles: An End and A Beginning: The South materials for live interactive television and Coast and Los Angeles 1850-1887 and Those Abraham Hoffman uses these materials co reach civic values, Powerful l'tars: The South Coast and Los Abe Hoffman has taught history at Taft righcs and responsibilities co students as Angeles 1887-1917. High School in Reseda since 1974 . In addi­ well as their reachers and parents. tion co teaching advanced placement and Angie also developed a popular Mary Catherine Hall honors courses in U.S. history and govern­ classroom program she shared at last ye~r ·s Mary Hall is a fifth grade reacher at ment, Abe has conducted workshops, served History Fair which uses photographs and Montemalaga Elementary School in Rancho on the state curriculum committee revising household anifacts co reach a very personal Palos Verdes. Mary has taught at the the 11th grade U.S. history course of study, kind of history. By using this program elementary level since receiving her served as a consultant on KCET's Los Angeles reachers help families learn their own bachelor's degree in 1966. She works History Project, and written a high school stories, engendering pride and fostering a energetically to inspire her students to level textbook on California hismry. He is sense of local history. become historians and has incorporated currently revising Advmtures in United States hisrory inco her core curriculum. Mary is a History, a series ofremedial U.S. history The H iscorical Sociery proudly joins model for other reachers, giving presentations booklets published by the Los Angeles the O 'Flaherry family in honoring chese and concinuing her own education in history. Unified School District in 1965. ourscanding reachers. GENTLE READER LOS ANGELES HISTORY: OLD VENUES- NEW VISTAS

he secret is our-research and Transformed. His subject " World War II as writing about Los Angeles history an Agent of Change for Los Angeles" will T is alive and well and undergoing show how a world-wide war impacted L.A. an exciting transformation! The aim of this Following the opening presentation, 1996 History Conference is to investigate Merry Ovnick, author of Lcs Angeles: How would you evaluate a president who these recent interpretations and present the Beyond the RAinbow, will reveal how residen­ has a high tolerance for contradiction and best of the current research on the City of tial archicecrure provides clues co L.A.'s ambiguity, who has struggled over the Angels. hiscory. appointments and dismissals, who cuts This is the first of several conferences Next, Steve Loza, author of Barrio deals, wastes time and who takes planned for historians, teachers and the Rhythm: Mexican American Music in Lcs general public which will focus on the Angeles will demonstrate how music serves forever to make up his mind? larger theme of as an introduction co ethnic groups in L.A. How would you rate a president whose Gloria Lothrop, author of Lcs Angeles "LOS ANGELES: personality and character is a mix of Profiles: A Tribute to the Ethnic Diversity of THE ESSENCE OF A COMMUNITY." ambition and passivity, who can be both L.A. and Jim Allen coauthor of An Atlas of awkward and very poised, who has HSSC is pleased co join with the Population Patter11s in Metropolitan Lcs Angeles and Orange Counties, team up co discuss outwitted the more sophisticated Autry Museum of Western Heritage, California State University, Northridge, demographic and ethnic changes in L.A.'s politicians yet has been thwarted and Los Angeles County Office of Education history. villified during most of his presidency? and the Southern California Social Science Two panels-one chaired by Michael Would you take time and pay money to see Association co present these insights into Engh, SJ. and the ocher by Matthew an exhibit about his life? "No," you say, the 200-year history of Los Angeles. Roth-will review recent research in L.A.'s history. Serving on the panels are the young "he obviously was a failure or near-failure With exciting presentations, discus­ sions, resource packets and door prizes, historians doing the research: Miraslava as president. '' It sounds that way, yet this promises co be a rewarding day spent Chavez, William Deverell, Alicia others thought differently as they lined up with history. Rodriguez, Tom Sitton and David Yoo. in record numbers last year to view the Kicking off the conference is keynote Please join us at the Autry on Lincoln exhibit at The Huntington. speaker Arthur Verge, author of Paradise January 20. "Wait," you ask, "what does Lincoln have to do with the man described above?" He is that man! This is the complex portrait of 1996 FELLOWS ANNOUNCED Lincoln painted by prize-winning historian David Donald in his recently-published he FELLOWS Award, inaugurated Past FELLOWS include: in 1988, is che flagship ofHSSC's biography of the man we generally Nancy Banning Call consider to have been the greatest T awards programs and the highest honor the Society bestows. Glen D awson of the American presidents. The 1996 FELLOWS are: JANE Neal Harlow The lesson here is that the judgment APOS10L, the historian of the Arroyo; Robert V. Hine of history is not always the same as ARTHUR H. CLARK JR., the publisher as John Kemble• contemporary opinion. Over time, the hiscorian; NORRIS HUNDLEY JR., the perspective provided by careful research historian as scholar and editor; GLORIA David Lavender RICCI LOTHROP, the historian as scholar and critical scholarship enters our Richard Lillard• and civic professional; and ROBERT Miriam Matthews collective memory and allows us to see SKafHEIM, the historian as culruralleader. individuals differently than did Be sure co save March 21 for a gala Esther M cCoy• their contemporaries. evening at the Huntington Library's Friends' Doyce B. Nunis Jr. The value here is that history as shared Hall when the FELLOWS medallions will JosephS. O'Flaherty• be presented co these five individuals who memory (not selected memory) tempers Lawrence Clark Powell have sharpened our sense of place and per­ our rush to judgment, makes us wiser in sonal identity as Southern Californians. Martin Ridge our public choices-and, in the view of Each guest attending the Gala will Ward R itchie Thomas Jefferson, remains the only way receive a special keepsake celebrating Andrew Rolle for a free people to look to the future. HSSC's honoring of its 25th FELLOW. Florence C. Shipek Plan to meet and mingle with past and present FELLOWS on the patio and enjoy Julius Shulman the sounds of a string quartet. Watch for Irvi ng Stone• the next newsletter for profiles of the 1996 Jean Stone FELLOWS and for details about the March 21 Gala. Francis J. Weber •Deceased

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a private reception on Sunday, ccober 8, 1995, the onorable Victor Ibanez Martin, Consul General of Spain in Los Angeles presented the Order of Isabella the Catholic to Doyce Nunis in recogni­ tion of his distinguished contributions in promoting the scholarship of California's Spanish heritage through publication. The Orden de Isabel Ia Catolica is Christine Shirley Spain's highest ranking Order of Merit. Previous HSSC members honored with this award include Msgr. Francis]. Weber, Meet Director Harry Kelsey and Maynard Geiger, O.F.M. An even earlier recipient was Charles F. Christine Shirley Lummis. ven though Christine Shirley DoyceNunis graduated from Stanford cum laude Ewith a degree in economics, history is the subject she has pursued in both her professional and private life. After receiving a general secondary teaching credential, Christine caught U.S. history ac Los Angeles High School for ll years, eventually serving as department chairman. In 1971, she earned a master in arts HSSC degree from UCLA and soon generously volunteered her talents ac the Banning PRESIDENT'S CIRCLE MEMBERS Residence Museum. There, Christine initiated an interpretive program, beginning with Sandra J Burton Louise O'Fiaherty the development of a curriculum for docent Christopher & Thomas P. Carson Barbara & john Osborne training. Her involvement was many-fold. Siegfried G. Demke Stephen A. Kanter From producing a docent manual, co giving lectures; from designing an examination co George A.V. Dunning Christine & William Shirley contributing a monthly article for the docent Billie & Powell Greenland Esther & Morgan Sinc/aire newsletter, Christine gave of herself whole­ janice & George La Moree Margaret Ann Storkan heartedly. Today, Christine continues her work for the Banning Museum by serving Marjorie & Denver Markwith Alix & Terry E. Sullivan on the board of the Friends ofBanning Park. In 1986 Christine's historical focus became more personal when she and her hus­ band Jack bought the Hale Solar Laboratory. Although the meticulous restoration of the THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAN is published quarterly by the Historical Society of building-listed on the National Register Southern California which is a California non-profit organization (501)(c)(3) through Christine and Jack's efforts-is com­ plete, the research and restoration of the ExtcNtivt Dtrector Thomas F. Andrews The offices of the Historical Society of scientific instruments continues. Southern California are located in the Christine is a founding editorial ConJIIItant Denise J. Martin Lummis Home, 200 East Avenue 4 3, board member of The Californians magazine Los Angeles, CA 90031 • (213) 222-0546 ComribNtorJ: Robert Blew and an avid supporter of the First Century Margaret Dickerson HSSC Office Hours 9·5 Monday · Friday Families, the Huntington Library and the Carole Dougherty Calcech Libraries. For most, chis record of Mlchnl Sanborn LummisHome Open to the Public accomplishment would be complete, bur 12 · 4 Friday · Sunday luck11y for history Chrisdne's involvement Dt~ign ConsNIIant Margaret Yasuda goes on. As an HSSC board member she Group Tours Friday moroing Printing & mailing Ucher Direct Mall by appointment now shares her considerable talent in new and ever-widening historical circles.

Page 3 A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CLASSIC REVISITED [I] CHARLES FRANCIS SAUNDERS' THE SOUTHERN SIERRAS OF CALIFORNIA byJohn W Robinson

in 1859 and educated in Quaker schools in Philadelphia. Until he was well into his thirties, he Jed an uneventful life as a clerk in a Philadelphia import-export firm. He seemed destined for obscurity until, on his way home from work one night, he dropped in on a lecture on the plant world. The talk introduced Saunders ro a world of beauty he hadn't known. His life now had renewed purpose. After several years of intense study and field work he became one of the premier amateur botanists in the East. In 1897 he began his literary career by writing a series of articles on flowers and plants for a Philadelphia paper. Nineteen hundred and two was a watershed year in Saunders' life. He married Elisabeth Hallowell, an accomplished artist Charm Francis Saumkrs in Yosemite Valley comfortably set up to write among the pinu around 1910. who shared his interest in nature, and together the two made their first visit to California. Their journey west was an eye­ hen does a book become a In Saunders' time, 70 years ago, the opener. He and Elisabeth were completely classic? According to Southern California mountains were mostly captivated by the fascinating flora of Lawrence Clark Powell­ primitive enclaves rising sacrosanct above Southern California. W In 1906 Saunders moved permanently when it possessses the quality of excellence the populated lowlands. "Though at the that causes it to transcend time and be read very edge of one of the most highly cultivated to Southern California-ostensibly for beyond the author's own generation. and most populous sections of California,'' Elisabeth's fragile health but also because Such a writer was Charles Francis wrote Saunders in his 1923 classic, "the they were enthralled with the region and its Saunders, and his classic lives today as The Sierra Madre is still a very wild land." flora. They bought a home in Pasadena, Southern Sierras ofCalifornia. Within its Alas, the old Sierra Madre (yesteryear's and wasted no time exploring and enjoying pages, Saunders does for the Southern name for the San Gabriels) has changed their new state. California mountains what John Muir does much since then. Ribbons of asphalt now Saunders now entered his most prolific for the Sierra Nevada. He, like Muir, is snake their way across the range and into period of writing, with Elisabeth illustrating able to evoke the spell of nature and make its most isolated recesses. Mystic fingers of several of his early books. Between 1913 the mountains come alive in timeless, urban haze engulf the canyons and lap and 1923, Saunders wrote Under the Sky in vibrant prose; literature and landscape against the ramparts of the higher peaks. California, a descriptive guide to outdoor blend in perfect harmony. And yet, much remains the same. travel in the Golden State, With the Flowers Away from the highway, often just a few and Trees in California, a delightful guide to minutes walk, one can still delight in woodsy the flora of the state, and with]. Smeaton canyons and bubbling little creeks. Chase The California Padres and Their MiJJiom. john W Robinson also But Saunders' best single work remains writes about the moun­ Hillsides are clothed in velvet-green The Southern Sierras ofCalifornia. What Jed tains surrounding Los chaparral and pines are the stately monarchs of the high country. Saunders him to write about these mountains so close Angeles. His book, The to his Pasadena home? H e tells us in chapter San Bernardinos, has captured this timelessness in his faithful interpretation of the mountain landscape, two: "For ten years I had been looking from received the prestigious my back door at the long, dark line of the Pflueger Award. Hikers the flora, and the enriching experience of wilderness travel and camping. Sierra Madre, when one summer a dom­ will know him for two inating desire to learn something of what guides: Trails of the Who was this writer who used the English language like an artist's brush? lay within led me to tramp a hundred miles Angeles and San or so over some of its less frequented trails." Bernardino Mountain Charles Francis Saunders was a self-taught Trails. botanist born in Warminster, Pennyslvanla (Continued on page 6) L OCAL HISTORY ~ TRAINING SCHOOL TO UNIVERSITY A VIGNETTE OF AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY by Sheldon jackson

he year was 1899 when a group of nine Quakers dreamed of T establishing an institution ro train Christian workers, missionaries and pastors. Together with a Methodist evangelist, they mer in a Whittier home and began the organization of such a school. The school opened the following March with a president and rwo students, meeting in a home. Growth in succeeding years forced moves to locations in Boyle Heights, downtown Los Angeles, and chen ro Huntington Park, where the school continued for three decades. In 1934, the Training School became interdenominational and five years later reached a significant turning point with the appointment of one of irs graduates as the new president. Cornelius P. Haggard entered rhe office of president as one of the country's youngest college presidents. The Wilden Hall ofBusin ess and Management houses state-ofthe-art facilities, including classrooms, Haggard proved ro be a man of many faculty offices, a lecture hall, a technology center, a lounge, and an atrium. talents. The posrwar decades produced Azusa Pacific University had done significant changes. In 1964 the well in music and athletics-the men's In his thirty-six years Accrediting Association (WASC) granted track team won its eleventh national title in as president, full accreditation. A year later, Los Angeles 13 years in the recent National Athletic Pacific College, a Free Methodist institu­ Intercollegiate Association's track and field Dr. Haggard took the tion, joined Azusa College on the Azusa championships. small Training School campus. The merged institution chose the Important developments in scholarly name Azusa Pacific College. Three years activities include an international program and developed it into a later, Arlington College, a Church of God called "Operation Impact;' a significant liberal arts college with institution in Long Beach, joined the new special collection of rare books on California organization. An explosive growth of and the West in the Marshburn Library, an enrollment of 1,500 enrollment and new buildings followed. and a nursing school project in Russia. and an attractive The year 1975 saw another turning With a current enrollment of 4,000 campus. point with the death of the president. In his undergraduate and graduate students, thirty-six years as president, Dr. Haggard APU truly has grown with Southern had taken the small Training School and California and with the Twentieth Century. The president's ambitious program of developed it into a liberal arts college with growth and development began with a an enrollment of 1,500 and an attractive Shel®n Jackson taught name change. The school now became campus. at Azusa Pacific Pacific Bible College, with a new four-year In 1981, the school adopted the University until his program leading ro a Bachelor of Arts university structure to better organize its retirement in 1988. He degree. Next, a search for a campus with College of Liberal Arcs and Sciences, School is the author of A room for expansion led the board to an ofTheology, School of Music, School of British Ranchero in eight-acre site in the San Gabriel Valley­ Nursing, School of Education and Old California: The Highway 66 at Citrus Avenue. The move to Behavioral Studies, and School of Business Life and Times of chis new campus in 1946 promised a "new and Management. The Friends Church Henry Dalton which era" in the history of the school and the rejoined the list of sponsoring denomina­ received the Pflueger name became ' J\zusa College." tions of the institution it had founded. Award in 1991. FIFTEEN RECENT CALIFORNIA GUIDES AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES

alifornia is a state richly endowed Marie E. Northrop, SPANISH-MEXICAN Henry R. Wagner, Charles Camp & with many outstanding guides FAMILIES OF EARLY CALIFORNIA Robert Becker (compilers), THE Cand bibliographies which serve (2 vols., 1976, 1984). PLAINS AND THE ROCKIES (1982). as keys co unlock the treasures of its past. Here are 15 recendy published guides Doyce B. Nunis & Gloria R. Lothrop Francis). Weber, (since 1976) which form an importanc pan (eds.), A GUIDE TO THE California of any reference collection. How many do CALIFORNIA (1989). BIBLIOGRAPHIES Bibliographies you have in your library? (1991). l..lnd ofl'iiCt Ac..,-Mou.tJ~ Roger Berry, Sylvester Klinicke, Louise Lawrence Clark Powell, ....,...._.._ ...... Francis). Weber, Booth, & Shirley Stephenson, LAND OF FACT (1992). ltt-CW,_, CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MISSIONS. --.~~-~ •~-- ORANGE COUNTY (1989). Lawrence Clark Powell, A BIBLIOGRAPHY LAND OF FICTION (1986). California State Department of Parks (1991). and Recreation, CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL LANDMARKS (1990). ZAMORANO INDEX TO Richard Quebedeaux, PRIME SOURCES BANCROFT'S HISTORY OF William F. Kimes & Maymie B. Kimes, OF CALIFORNIA/NEVADA LOCAL CALIFORNIA (2 vols., 1985). JOHN MUIR: A READING HISTORY (1992). BIBLIOGRAPHY (1986). Roberts, George &Jan, ''Bibliography DISCOVER HISTORIC Gloria R. Lothrop, CALIFORNIA (1994). is the geography A GUIDE TO of the HISTORICAL OUTINGS book world'' IN SOUTHERN Pierce Butler CALIFORNIA (1991).

SAUNDERS Continued from page 4 fringe of snow. Still farther on, San Jacinto's summit, lifted above the range, a yellow Tramp Saunders did, through the smudge marked the desert's whereabouts; verdant heart of the Sierra Madre, up such and nearer, almost at my feet, the great gray lofty summits as Old Baldy and San basin of the Big Tujunga lay in clear-cue Gorgonio Mountain, across the desert­ relief. Oceanward the Sierra sank gradually influenced Santa Rosas co the San Diego till its feet were sunk in a chin white fog back country, and inco the chaparral-clad chat hid the great plain of San G abriel; and hills behind Santa Barbara. beyond chat, in the light of the evening sun, Many of Saunders' descriptions are the sea gleamed like a shining platter, bearing timeless. He describes a scramble up twin-peaked Santa Catalina in its golden Strawberry Peak in the Sierra Madre: "So I midst." started up once more, clutching carefully at Saunders produced six more books in every projecting hold and keeping scead­ the 18 years remaining co him. Of the 18 fasdy an upward look until finally, after books he wrote in a lifetime, only The fifteen minutes of tedious creeping, I Southern Sierras reached the high literary scrambled out on the cop, and lo! the plane of a classic. It remains coday the best kingdoms of the earth. Twenty-five miles book about the Southern California moun­ eastward, 'Old Baldy; genial giant of the cain country and a worthy complement co Sierra Madre, blocked the view; but over Muir's best works. If your library is co one shoulder San Gorgonio peeped, revealing contain just a single volume on the local an arc of his smooch back oudined with a mountains, chis should be the one. Charles Francis Saundus about 1906. Page 6 TRIBUTE AND MEMORIALS ~ REMEMBERING KENYON DE VORE by j ohn Robinson

e was known as "Mr. San and imparting knowledge to hikers, Gabriels", and he was a veritable backpackers, and picnickers. H storehouse of knowledge on the Always interested in history, he was a mountains he loved. Kenyon DeVore spent weekly docent at the Lummis Home. For his whole life in and around the San more than 20 years his tours on Thursdays Gabriel Mountains. He grew up at his and later on Fridays were highlights for parents' trail resorts on the West Fork of hundreds of visitors. the San Gabriel River, first at Camp West He was a board member of the Big Fork, then at Valley Forge Lodge. As a child Santa Anita Historical Sociery, and a he busied himself with camp chores; as a corresponding member of the Los Angeles teenager he led a pack train that supplied Corral of the Westerners. resorts, forest stations, and campers But Kenyon DeVore was much more throughout the mountains. Kenyon spent than a fountainhead of information of the most of his adult life working for the old mountains he knew so well. He was a dear Los Angeles Flood Control District, most and loving friend to all who knew him. As of the time in San Gabriel Canyon. a person he was unique. There was nothing Being a dam keeper was no easy task. artificial or temporal in his makeup. His Many a cold, rainy night Kenyon had to intellect was straight-forward and make hourly descents into the dam to captivating; his personaliry genial, with check guages, regulate water flow, and that spark of humor that so delighted those inspect for structural damage. who knew him. He was a giving person, After retirement in 1971, Kenyon willing to go co almost any length to help or signed on as a Forest Service volunteer, and comfort a friend or acquaintance. later as a part-time paid employee. For Those of us fortunate enough to have some 15 years he was a familiar sight crossed Kenyon's path are forever enriched Kenyon De Vore at El A lisa/ in 1983. almost every weekend at the Chantry Flat for having known him. Kenyon DeVore visitor information station, giving advice died on September 6.

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