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Fall-Winter 2017 THE LA JOLLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY MAGAZINE FALL - WINTER 2 017 VOLUME 36, NO 3 LA JOLLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY MISSION The La Jolla Historical Society inspires and empowers the community to make La Jolla’s diverse past a relevant part of E ultural heritage, including the 1997 Tony Award for Candide. With contemporary life. G once activated, has a MFA in Costume Design and a PhD in Directing A C VISION the capacity to enrich and Design from Stanford, her designs have been seen The La Jolla Historical Society looks toward the future while S the present and mediate at numerous companies in the United States and celebrating the past. We preserve and share La Jolla’s S distinctive sense of place and encourage quality in the urban E the future, to comment Europe, including Dublin’s Abbey Theater, London’s built environment. The Society serves as a thriving community ic, The Kennedy Center, The Brooklyn resource and gathering place where residents and visitors M in thought-provoking Old V explore history, art, ideas and culture. ways on the human Academy of Music, The Shakespeare Theater in S ’ condition and facilitate Washington, DC, and the New York City Opera. BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2016-2017 R social progress. Her professional practice includes extensive historical President O Judith Haxo, T At the La Jolla research, the use of collage and storyboarding, and Weston Anson Vice President C Historical Society, the creation of hand-drawn sketches and renderings. Elizabeth Thiele Barkett Vice President Secretary E we have an inclusive This exhibition surveys Dolan’s creative process Ruth Covell, M.D. R Nick Agelidis Ph.D., Treasurer I vision to interpret across nine theater productions over two decades – D history within the creative accomplishments concurrent with her rise to James Alcorn, AIA E broader context of Distinguished Professor rank at UCSD. The exhibition Ann Craig Heath Fox Heather Crane, AIA V civil society, and allow will also feature the history of the performing arts in I Tony Crisafi, AIA T it to resonate through layers of time in innovative the community, starting with stage and musical Laura DuCharme Conboy, AIA U ways – the notion of museum as laboratory. Our performances in the Pre-Depression era through the Meg Davis C David Goldberg ultimate purpose is to nurture citizens who value the growth of organizations still thriving in La Jolla E make decisions about today. We offer our sincerest gratitude to the financial Lucy Jackson X community, and who seek to Diane Kane, Ph.D. E the future informed by an appreciation of the past. As supporters who made this project possible. Major Jeffrey W. Kirsch, Ph.D. we plan our exhibitions and programs, we strive to funding for this exhibition was provided by Dr. Matt Mangano, PE cultivate public engagement through relationships Michael A Bernstein and Ms. Patti Harp with Seonaid “Shona” McArthur, Ed.D. Donna Medrea with community groups, cultural organizations, additional support from Crystal and Jeff Anderson, Anna Palmer and educational institutions, and to reach out to Weston Anson, ArtWorks San Diego, Robert Pascale John Peek diversified constituents curious about a wide range and Sara Bauer, Gail and Ralph Bryan, The David Suzanne Sette of disciplines. To meet these ambitions, we offer Copley Foundation, Martha and Edward Dennis, Margie Warner experiential and interdisciplinary learning opportunities, Patricia and Jack Fisher, Marcy and Jeffrey Krinsk, STAFF reaching beyond La Jolla to collaborate with Margret and Nevins McBride, Wendy Nash, Colette Heath Fox, Executive Director organizations throughout San Diego, seeking new and Carson and Ivor Royston, and Marilyn and Michael [email protected] expanded audiences with broad arts and culture Yeatts. Artistic sponsorship by Lynelle and William Bill Carey, Business Assistant interests – in architecture, literature, film, theater, Lynch. Corporate support provided by Procopio, [email protected] dance, science, and natural history. Our fall exhibition, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, LLP. Michael Mishler, Archivist/Curator Judith Dolan: On Broadway, is a great example of On behalf of the Board of Directors, I want to [email protected] this programming and engagement strategy – an express our deepest gratitude to the Society’s members Carol Olten, Historian/Docent Coordinator interdisciplinary project designed to resonate with and supporters, whose generous financial and volunteer [email protected] an affinity audience in the performing arts, in ways support are the foundation of our exhibitions, MAGAZINE that relate to La Jolla’s past and its present. programs, and events. Thank you! I look forward to Editor Contributors Judith Dolan: On Broadway presents the work of seeing you at the Society soon! Carol Olten Nick Agelidis artist-scholar Judith Dolan, theater costume designer Design & Layout Bill Carey and Distinguished Professor of Theater and Dance at Heather Crane Heath Fox Julia de Beauclair Jack Fisher the University of California, San Diego. Dolan’s Executive Director Columnists Isabelle Kenagy designs have earned accolades on Broadway and off, Heath Fox Michael Mishler Carol Olten Printer Neyenesch Printers GENERAL INFORMATION NEW BOARD MEMBERS Mailing Address: Contact Information: Heather Crane , AIA, joins the LJHS Board of Directors with an extensive background in architectural PO Box 2085 858•459•5335 history and historic preservation. Crane received her Bachelors of Architecture from Woodbury La Jolla, CA 92038 [email protected] University in 2010 and is currently a licensed architect employed by IS Architecture as a Project (email) Locations Manager. Monday - Friday Office and Research 10 a.m. - 4.p.m. Crane has worked on a variety of projects in San Diego, including the documentation, evaluation, preservation, and 7846 Eads Avenue La Jolla, CA 92037 rehabilitation of adobe structures such as the Johnson-Taylor Adobe Ranch House and Mohnike Adobe in the Los Penasquitos Canyon Preserve. Her association with LJHS began with the Wisteria Cottage Rehabilitation project (2013), Wisteria Cottage Thursday - Sunday which won several awards including an Orchid from the San Diego Architectural Foundation. 780 Prospect Street Noon - 4 p.m. La Jolla, CA 92037 Matt Mangano, PE, is a local business owner and resident of La Jolla. He moved to La Jolla www.lajollahistory.org after earning his engineering degree from Rutgers University and quickly became involved in Follow the Society on the community. He works as a structural engineer in residential and small commercial design, while running his own business projects that include management of the Bird Rock Maintenance Assessment District and consulting with owners and designers in all aspects of residential design. Matt is an active member of the Bird Rock Community Council, La Jolla CPA, and currently serves Cover: Judith Dolan’s sketch for Lady on the La Jolla Historical Society Preservation and Facilities Committees. Matt has a passion for Mummer character in 1997 Tony Award winning Candide produced by Harold surfing and soccer, and enjoys traveling with his wife, Emily. Prince. R O T I D E E H T M O R F R E T T E L Carol Olten In this “interview” Judy was cruising around the Greek islands in the South Aegean and I was sitting at an office desk at 7846 Eads Ave. Costume design for Westphalian soldiers in Candide by Judith Dolan, 1997. Voila! The Internet. ne of the highlights of putting together this issue of Timekeeper talked and laughed. I took notes and went back to the newspaper was my “interview” with Judy Dolan (pages 4-9). I have put office and wrote my story on a manual typewriter. It made the front the word interview in quotes because it really wasn’t that at page. I don’t think an e-mail would have accomplished quite the Oall in the traditional definition of being a conversation where ques tions same result. are asked and answers are given in a one-on-one confrontation with Celebrity interviews are always tricky. The subject has already one person acting in the role of interviewer (myself) and the other been interviewed dozens of time and most probably been asked the in the role of interviewee (Judy). In this “interview” Judy was same tiring questions. As an interviewer I learned novelty worked cruising around the Greek islands in the South Aegean and I was best in breaking the ice whether the subject was Jack Nicholson, sitting at an office desk at 7846 Eads Ave. Voila! The Internet. In David Lynch or Elizabeth Taylor. My first celebrity interview was a journalistic practice, it has made a vast change in how we think of phoner with Louie Armstrong. I was scared. My voice shook when interviews and how they are conducted, via flurries of e-mails I started asking questions. Mr. Armstrong sensed the dilemma and containing questions and answers as opposed to the journalist arriving asked what I was upset about. I said I’d never spoken with anyone at the subject’s location with the proverbial notepad and pencil. so famous before. He said fame wasn’t really important and that he In some ways current communication technologies have only lived his life to play the trumpet. The interview went along im proved the interview process, making it possible to communicate fine after that. information when parties are vastly separated in a geographic sense. When you don’t get the interview, sometimes as an interviewer Of course, the telephone interview (phoner in the trade) made this you still get the story. This happened to me on an Anthony Perkins possible as well many years ago. What e-mail accomplishes is a more interview I once scheduled pool side at La Valencia. Sunbathing studied approach, a chance to form questions and answers more with Marissa Berensen, Perkins was in a dour mood and either methodically than most phone chats would afford.
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