Preserving Our Past, Enriching Our Future Upcoming OHC Events First Wednesday Series 19th Annual Collector Car & April 4, 2018 7 pm Classic Boat Show Linda Beutler - Will discuss Antiques in the Roger- son Clematis Garden at Luscher Farm: The Heirloom Oswego Heritage August 18, 2018 Clematis in the Heirloom Garden. Classic Boats - Sundeleaf Plaza - 9 am to 3 pm Land & Sea Classics - Pavilion - Foothills Park May 2, 2018 7 pm Journal 9 am to 3 pm Gregory Nokes - The Troubled Life Of Peter Burnett: PT Boat 658 Arrives - Foothills Park - 10 am Oregon Pioneer and First Governor of California is the “Poker Run” Charity Car Tour - Foothills Park first, full-length biography of this western explorer and The Oswego Iron Furnace, built in 1866 at the confluence of Oswego Creek Spring 2018 and the Willamette River, was the first iron furnace on the Pacific Coast. 11 am former slaveholder, who supported banning blacks and other minorities from the West. August 19, 2018 President’s Letter to the Membership Classic Boats - Sundeleaf Plaza - 9 am to 3 pm President Land & Sea Classics - Pavilion - Foothills Park Tom O'Connor 9 am to 3 pm Dear Fellow Members of Oswego Heritage the past and the present. First Vice-President Council, Collector Cars with Awards at 2 pm - George Rogers Judy Hathaway This Spring, Park - 9 am to 3 pm Thank you for placing your trust in me as we are also Second Vice-President OHC President for 2018. 2017 was a great planning a new Historic Home Tour Mary Puskas October 7, 2018 backbone to build on. We already have a fun video of vintage Treasurer year planned for 2018. photographs to Scott Havens Before we look ahead, however, I want to be available in take a minute to thank all of our retiring the Museum. Secretary I hope you Candee Jones board members for their past service. John Baines, Dr. Steve Beckham, Bonnie have watched Directors Trumbull, Henry Germond, Jim Rathbun, and enjoyed Denise Bober Suzi Warren and Don Schmidt have all made the current Mark Browne major contributions to OHC over the years. slideshow of Heather Charvet President Tom O'Connor historic photos LaQuita Corbett - I want to especially thank our retiring Board in the museum Martin President, Candee Clark Jones. As some of created by Board Member Denise Bober. She Nancy Dunis you know, Candee has been the glue master is working on a new version that I know you Ron Erickson and reunion organizer of the LOHS Class of will enjoy as well. Miles Eshaia ’65. She also became one of the key leaders Caroline Glad at Oswego Heritage Council because she In June, be sure to visit our Historic Rose Al Green loves our community and our history so Garden when the roses are at their best Char Green deeply. I want to thank her so much for her thanks to Nancy Dunis and Board Director Karen Harris leadership at Oswego Heritage Council and I Jeannie McGuire. Vic Keeler Glen Lowe know she will continue that role in the future In July, we are planning a member barbeque Jeannie McGuire as a proud member of OHC. dinner event with the help of grill master and 97034 Phoebe Osborn The support of all our members is absolutely Board Member Mike Eshaia. This will be Lake Oswego, OR OR Oswego, Lake Michael Thompson critical to the future of Oswego Heritage a new event for OHC. Vice President Mary PO Box 1041 Box PO Council. All the great things we have Puskas is coordinating the planning and Directors Emeritus would love to have volunteer help. Dr. Stephen Beckham accomplished this last year and in the years Phil Engstrom before are because of you. In August, we will put on our world- Bobby Pierce Kent We are planning what we hope is a fun and renowned Collector Car and Classic Boat PERMIT NO. 836 NO. PERMIT Ed Miska exciting 2018. Show. Members Miles Eshaia and Roger LAKE OSWEGO, OR OSWEGO, LAKE Phyllis Miska Rollins and their team are planning for PAID Bill Warner To kick off the year, we plan to open a new collector cars at George Rogers Park, historic US POSTAGE US museum exhibit “Then and Now” which Executive Director military vehicles and the PT Boat at Foothills NON PROFIT ORG PROFIT NON will feature photographs of Oswego homes, Park and those magnificent wooden boats at Nancy Niland businesses, streets, and locations comparing 1 3DraftSpring2018newsletter.indd 1 4/3/2018 10:44:10 AM President's Letter (cont'd)... Fond Farewell To Our Retiring Oswego Chamber of Commerce, Oswego Business restoration, period kitchens and and bathrooms, his Committee, and the Lake Oswego Women’s Coalition. A passion is old architecture paired with a keen eye for detail Sundeleaf Park. Board Directors graduate and backgammon champion of Portland State and complete dedication to quality; Al brings his years of In September, we are planning the opening of a special University, she resides in Oregon City and enjoys her free experience and skill to any project he tackles. exhibit centered on the life and works of Theresa Truchot, time with her three grandchildren: golfing, winter sports, Karen Harris has been a teacher for most of her life. Lake Oswego historian and author of the book Charcoal and live music. She retired as a Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Wagon Boy. Phoebe Osborn attended Whitman College for Geology Education Biology Teacher in 2013. She has been a In October, we are planning our Historic Home Tour. and taught English to Japanese exchange students and volunteer at the Oswego Heritage House & Museum, We have moved the Home Tour from May to October this autistic children in the Walla Walla School District. working with Mark Browne on collection preservation year due to some scheduling conflicts and the hope of She also taught in the Palo Alto Unified School District projects and has quickly become a valuable assistant. better weather. as a one-on-one aide, both in Junior High and High Caroline Glad is originally from Midland, Michigan In December, we will be putting on our OHC Holiday School, for teens struggling with Autism, Asperger's, and moved to Lake Oswego in 1984, where she entered Gift Market to help you get in the mood for the holidays BPD, Bipolar disorder, ADD/ADHD, as well as kids Waluga Junior High. She recalls the old downtown, and provide you with some locally crafted gifts for your from underprivileged families who dealt with issues of movies at the original Lake Twin Theater, and learning substance abuse and gang activity. She later attended friends and family. Thank you to our retiring OHC Board Members. Their to drive in a town with very little traffic. She met her Berklee College of Music, for songwriting and music Throughout the year Candee is planning for our regular contributions have been so valuable to our organization. husband, Shawn in high school and they married shortly production and engineering, and has worked doing voice First Wednesday speakers program. Pictured here at our Annual Meeting are John Baines, Jim after college. After a brief time in Evanston, Illinois, over work for commercials and radio, acting Rathbun, Henry Germond & Don Schmidt. Not pictured they returned to Lake Oswego to raise their family. Our Museum Store will also be open throughout the year in commercials and local Boston television, and has are: Suzi Warren, Timm Grauel and Bonnie Trumbull. We with fun gifts for your friends, and to remember their visit appeared on television, radio, and festivals in Boston and She has a degree in teaching and has been actively wish them well and thank them for their service! to Lake Oswego. San Francisco, as well as modeling. involved in the education of her five children, who range from a sixth grader at West Hills Christian School to a All these events mean a lot of work behind the scenes. Welcome Incoming Board Directors She has volunteered as a camp counselor for Camp Junior at Cal Poly, majoring in Aerospace Engineering. We have a go-getter Executive Director in Nancy Niland Everytown, a program for high school students She loves museums, libraries, researching and history. who will be coordinating our team. Thank you so much dealing with issues of discrimination, sexism, racism, We have been very grateful for Caroline’s recent to those of you who have been part of our volunteer homophobia, and gender identity. volunteer efforts with Mark Browne, helping with all community. We would all love to have new volunteers She started her photography company, Byrd and Vellum aspects of collection preservation. join us. It’s a lot of fun as part of a great team. Give Photography, with an emphasis on family, portrait, Nancy a call and she will sign you up. Heather Charvet moved to Portland as a baby but spent event and estate photography and has experience in her childhood and beyond in Central Oregon. While Finally, I hope you will join us in our efforts to preserve graphic design. She and her husband, Michael, moved to growing up, her family owned an historic hotel and her Lake Oswego’s history. Your history is our community West Linn this year. teen years were spent working at an antiques store and history. If you would like help in preserving your family Char Green has served on Lake Oswego’s Historic messing with old cars. Hers was the only ‘56 Packard in history, please give us a call. Our volunteer archivist, Resources Advisory Board as a member and former the high school parking lot and she doesn't remember a Mark Browne, will be happy to help with resources and Chair and Vice Chair.