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William Newport Goodell Exhibition Opens TIMEKEEPER THE LA JOLLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY MAGAZINE WINTER - SPRING 2 016 Volume 35, No1 William Newport Goodell Exhibition Opens Secret Garden Tour, Concours d’Elegance Upcoming Mozart to Ibsen: A History of La Jolla’s Music and Theater in Review LA JOLLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY MISSION Executive Director’s Message The La Jolla Historical Society inspires and empowers the community to make La Jolla’s diverse past a relevant part of contemporary life. e’ve had a wonderful who have graciously allowed their works to be VISION response from the included: Alida Brill, Adrienne Brodeur, Jane and The La Jolla Historical Society looks toward the future while W celebrating the past. We preserve and share La Jolla’s public, both La Jolla residents Ira Carlin, Bram and Sandra Dijkstra, Will distinctive sense of place and encourage quality in the urban built environment. The Society serves as a thriving and visitors from afar, about Erickson, Carolanne Gano, Alex Gano, Jean community resource and gathering place where residents and visitors explore history, art, ideas and culture. the fall exhibition Frank Barrett Holloway, Lyn Thwaites and Peter Karlen, Lloyd Wright’s Legacy in Billy and Ellen Simms, and Jan Wyatt. Please see BOARD OF DIRECTORS (2013-2014) San Diego: the Taliesin related articles in this issue. President Ellen Brown Merewether, Apprentices . Many people Upcoming programs include a lecture and Seonaid “Shona” McArthur Vice President James Alcorn, Vice President who viewed the exhibition reception on March 10 entitled Mission to Judith Haxo, Secretary Heath Fox Mod ernism – Master Architects of La Jolla by Donald Quackenbush, Treasurer gave very positive comments , and we’re extremely grateful for their enthusiastic Ione Stiegler, FAIA. This will be followed by a Nick Agelidis Diane Kane Historic Designation Workshop on the morning Lisa Albanez Jeffrey W. Kirsch response. I want to extend our sincere thanks to Elizabeth Thiele Barkett Donna Medrea of March 12. These events have been organized Ruth Covell Carol McCabe curator Keith York for organizing this project. We Ann Craig Molly McClain by the La Jolla Landmarks Group steering also received an excellent response to our fall Meg Davis John Peek committee, and you can find additional information Laura DuCharme-Conboy Nell Waltz public programs, and are grateful to the presenters : Tony Crisafi Margie Warner for both elsewhere in this magazine. David Goldberg How the West Shaped Frank Lloyd Alan Hess for The 12th annual La Jolla Concours STAFF Wright (and vice versa) ; Keith York for The Taliesin D’Elé gance & Motor Car Classic Heath Fox, Executive Director is scheduled [email protected] Architects in San Diego ; and Nancy Carol April 8-10, 2016, and the 18th annual Secret Bill Carey, Research Assistant Carter for her Ellen Browning Scripps Luncheon Garden Tour will be held May 14, 2016. The [email protected] presentation on Kate Sessions ’ Legacy in Balboa committees for both of these important Archivist/Curator Michael Mishler, Park and Beyond . Thanks to all of you who commu nity events are well into planning, and we [email protected] attended these events. are very grateful for their contributions and Carol Olten, Historian/Docent Coordinator [email protected] Our next exhibition, opening February 5, is support. Mike Dorvillier is once again chairing Peter Soldner, Graphic Designer William Newport Goodell: painter, craftsman, the Concours , and you can register and find [email protected] teacher , ably curated by Tara Centybear. This more information at www.lajollaconcours.org . collaborative project between the La Jolla More information on the Secret Garden Tour can MAGAZINE Editor Contributors Historical Society and the Athenaeum Music & be found in this issue and on our website soon. Carol Olten Nick Agelidis Arts Library showcases the art of Goodell, Our Annual Appeal 2015 fundraising Design & Layout Bill Carey a representational American painter who campaign has been very successful (and is still in Julia deBeauclair Tara Centybear Cornelia Feye produced figurative and landscape work starting progress!) and we are very grateful to those who Columnists Pat Miller in the 1920's. Goodell spent the second half of have given so generously! Your support provides Heath Fox Michael Mishler Carol Olten his life as a resident of La Jolla, and served on key underwriting for our programs and Printer the faculty of La Jolla Country Day School. We activities – thank you ! We are also very happy Neyenesch Printers are extremely grateful to those who have to announce that Ann Craig and Jeff Kirsch have supported this joint project. Major funding for recently joined the Board of Directors, and we this exhibition has been provided by Bram and very much look forward to their leadership. GENERAL INFORMATION Sandra Dijkstra, with additional support from Thanks to Ann and Jeff, and to all Board Mailing Address: Contact Information: the Florence Riford Fund of the San Diego members, for their service to the Society. And PO Box 2085 858•459•5335 Founda tion, ArtWorks San Diego, Ira and Jane thanks to all the Members of the Society who are La Jolla, CA 92038 [email protected] Carlin, Ruth Covell M.D., Meg Davis and Brian so generously supportive – we are extremely Locations (email) Office and Research Earley, and Lyn Thwaites and Peter Karlen. grateful and hope to see you at the So ciety’s 7846 Eads Avenue Monday - Friday Institutional support is provided by the City of events often! 10 a.m. - 4.p.m. La Jolla, CA 92037 San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture and Wisteria Cottage Thursday - Sunday the Members of the La Jolla Historical Society and 780 Prospect Street Noon - 4 p.m. the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. Our Heath Fox La Jolla, CA 920 37 deepest appreciation also extends to the lenders Executive Director www.lajollahistory.org Cover Image: Follow the Society on William Newport Goodell Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Serigraph on paper Circa 1946 Collection of Carolanne Gano Editor’s Note he Timekeeper welcomes the New Year Terry in the early 1900s. In 1916, the newly opened La Jolla Twith a combined Winter/Spring issue Woman’s Club became the setting for elaborate Shakespeare devoted to the history and growth of the arts productions. Entertainment in the 1920s ranged from silent films in La Jolla, particularly the performing arts. at the opulent Granada Theater on Girard Avenue to miniature As 2016 makes its debut, an arts renaissance operas staged in private homes by Edward Ewald. Both the visual is underway already heralded late last year and performing arts received a major boost in the 1920s with the by the opening of The Lot, a new seven- building of the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library. Later years screen state-of-the-art cinema house on Fay witnessed the formation of many formally organized theatrical Carol Olten Avenue. Upcoming are the La Jolla Music and musical groups: The Musical Arts Society in 1941, the La Society’s Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Jolla Playhouse in 1947, the Drury Lane Players in 1949 and the Center (also to be located on Fay) featuring a new 500-seat La Jolla Civic Symphony in 1954. concert hall and a massive revamping of the Museum of The 1960s witnessed another great growth period in art Contemporary Art San Diego on Prospect Street that will add and culture as the University of California, San Diego, opened its greatly expanded gallery spaces. These projects are major doors to the community. shapeshifters in La Jolla’s cultural life, significantly changing not We invite you to look back at the people and arts organization only experiences of the arts themselves, but the atmosphere in that have flourished (and, yes, a few that have floundered) in La which they are experienced. Jolla over the years and consider the future the new buildings and From La Jolla’s pioneer days in the late 19th century to the developments will bring. The arts play a role in everyone’s life. present day, theater and music have played eminent roles in the They are purposeful, not purposeless. “The purpose of art,” Picasso growth of the cultural community. At Anna Held’s internationally once stated, “is washing the dust off the daily life of our souls.” known Green Dragon Colony of the 1890s, musicians, thespians and poets were frequent guests and impromptu performers. The Wheeler Bailey House on Princess Street also hosted an array of Carol Olten cultural figures including the great Shakespearean actress Ellen Timekeeper Editor New Board Members nn Craig moved to La Jolla in January resh out of USC graduate school, my wife A2001 after she and her husband Roger FJoy and I came south to La Jolla in inherited Roger’s family home, a house designed September, 1969. We have been here ever by Thomas Shepherd and built in 1932. During since. While our children navigated La Jolla’s their 35 years as residents of Washington, three levels of public schools, I began as a D.C. they raised two children. The last 20 Research Engineer, which turned out to be the years of Ann’s 30-year teaching career were first of three careers. The second was at KPBS Ann Craig spent at the Capitol Hill Day School. There, Jeffrey W. Kirsch TV, where I led the devel opment of a Science she developed the foreign language program Production unit before beginning my 30½ for children 4 -14, taught French, organized an exchange years as head of the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in beautiful program for her French students, and was the Upper School Balboa Park. Now in r etirement I have come to Coordinator. Ann is presently completing nine years on the recognize that La Jolla too has been in continuous change.
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