HomeMy WebLinkAboutMarch 19LAH History Committee Minutes - March 19, 2013
Attendance: Chairwomen Carol Gottlieb, Mary Ann Malcolm, Jitze Couperus, May
Davenport, Diane Brauch, Catherine Popell, Nobuko Saito Cleary, Ginger
Summit
Town Council Liaison: Rich Larsen
Associate Member: Joe Heinrich
Chairwoman Carol Gottlieb called the meeting to order @ 3:30 p.m.
January 15 Minutes were approved.
Old Business:
1. Old Archives files project is still being research each Thursday between the hours of 2:00
p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Newspaper Scanning Article project still in progress. Jitze has
completed around 3 books of scanning. Many books to go, maybe we can get assistance
from students at Foothill College.
2. Oral History Project Task will be starting soon. Ginger has join working with the Los
Altos History Committee.
Los Altos Committee has interview over a 100 people using a tape recorder, LAH
purchase a tape recorder now for our interviews.
We will be using the same format as Los Altos. Such as a script of questions, permission
slip to sign. The interview will be tape, a hard copy will be made from the tape and
changes made accordingly to the hard copy as needed to perfect the interview.
Ginger has completed an interview with Bob Stutz.
3. Street names as progress nicely, but there as been a slow down on input received.
4. Heritage Oak Tree-History/Environmental Design/Open Space committee are proceeding
and in full process for developing procedures on designated trees. The history committee
will be primarily responsible for putting name plates around the designated tree.
5. Mary Ann ask Carol to follow up on The Pink Horse Ranch History signs that need to be
repaired ( 2 Horses). Developed by Walt Disney studios.
6. Mary Ann invited Linda Swan to stop by the History committees meeting. At next
months meeting Linda Swan and Sheryl Alexander will drop by to share information on
the Griffin House located at Foothill College.
New Business: None
Adjourned: @ 5:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted by Mary Ann Malcolm