ORANGE
COUNTY PIONEER COUNCIL
Winter
2004
President’s Message: Terry Brennan
On behalf of your Board of Directors Happy New Year!! As you will read the Board has selected the PHOENIX CLUB in Anaheim to host the 2004 Annual Dinner and Meeting. It will be a fun and interesting evening. The annual picnic at the new Grijalva Community Park was a good success with Eddie Grijalva providing documented history of how it all came together. Thanks again to Chester Horton, Dan and Barbara Oldewage for putting it together. Janet Tonkovich has done a great job with membership; please encourage any family members that are not involved to get involved (brothers, sisters, cousins, etc.). We would like to encourage additional council members to join our board. We meet once a month from September thru May (9 meetings, 1 ½ hour meeting, 13 ½ hours total – That’s All!!). We discuss upcoming events as well as new oral histories to be completed. Please, Please consider.
As we have mentioned in the past, membership and its support continues to be a vital part of our organization. We ask that you consider a gift (tax deductible) to our Oral History Program; again it is the cornerstone of our organization. We thank you for your support and look forward to seeing you at the Annual Dinner.
ANNUAL
DINNER by CHESTER HORTON
APRIL 22, 2004
Your Pioneer Council is fortunate to have secured the PHOENIX CLUB in Anaheim as our venue for the 2004 annual dinner and meeting. Our wonderful location for the past few years is not available because of a renovation project.
The name IRVINE and its position in the early and continuing history of Orange County is familiar to all. The timely program for the evening will feature the “Oral Histories in Conjunction with Archaeological Studies at the Irvine Ranch Headquarters” recently published and titled
Our speakers, Nick Magalousis, archaeologist and David Knox conducted the 3-year archaeological dig project and interviews for the oral histories. Their presentation will highlight the interviews, show slides of the dig and describe plans for the property.
Save the evening of April 22! Invitations will be
mailed in late March.
2003 was a very productive year as we have five new
books ready to present at the annual dinner in April. We will be presenting
Esther Cramer’s La Habra Pioneers, Volume 4, as well as interviews with Henry
Segerstrom, Judge Robert Gardner, Forbes Snow Freeman, and Thomas and Frances
Turton. Included in the La Habra volume are interviews with Evelyn Brittain,
George Washington Cramer, Grace Tresslar, William and Lucille Morlan and Sigvald
Salveson. Copies of Piecing the Past Together, interviews pertaining to
the Irvine Ranch, will also be available for sale that evening. There are many
more stories out there to be told, so if you would like to participate in the
program, please contact Eileen at 949-552-6037. You need no experience, just and
appreciation of Orange County’s heritage and a desire to get involved. The
Oral History Program, now the Center for Oral and Public History (COPH), will be
glad to train anyone who is interested, so please help us continue this valuable
project. The number for COPH is 714-278-3580. Please ask for Kathy Frazee.
Thank you to all of you who paid your dues so promptly and those who made additional donations to the Oral History Program. It has made it possible to get our year underway in a solvent mode. We hope to hear from the rest of you soon. If you have any questions regarding the dues and donations please contact Barbara (714-543-9681), oldewage@aol.com.
We are pleased with the number of renewed memberships that have been received since the renewal letter was mailed out in December. Thank you to everyone for telling your friends and family members about OCPC as we have received dues for several new members, too. Membership forms and information can be retrieved from our website: www.OCPioneer.org or by contacting Janet (714-544-4377), janet@tonkovich.com.
WEBSITE
Please checkout the website: www.OCPioneer.org. If you have information for the website please contact Janet Tonkovich. Our special thanks to Janet and Paul’s son Greg Tonkovich for keeping the website current.