Mr. John Neihardt Skyrim Farm Route #7 Columbia, Missouri

Dear John:

I'm matching your irrepressible optimism with a letter to Gladys Saylee Gordon Paisley, as you see. If that Bible is extant, we must get it!

Any news on the original MS of The Splendid Wayfaring? We are eager as a beaver about that, too.

Yes, indeed, we do want that Millie MS. It really belongs in our Jed Smithiana repository, no es verdad? I'll enclose a label which brings a postal rate of 4 ¢ for the first pound, and 1 ¢ for additional pounds. Also, here's an advance program of our annual Institute. Wish you could come!

Cordially,

Leland D. Case

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THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL CALIFORNIA HISTORY INSTITUTE, March 17 and 18, 1967

Theme: Ethnic Contribution to California History and Culture

Friday, March 17

8:00 THE WESTERNERS FOUNDATION Breakfast and Business Meeting At: Anderson Dining Hall Presiding: Philip A. Danielson, Director

8:30 INSTITUTE REGISTRATION (continuing till 6:00 p. m.) Registrar: Mrs. Helen Harney At: Gold Room, Anderson Social Hall (fee $2.00)

9:00 CALIFORNIA HISTORY FOUNDATION, Board of Sponsors' Annual Meeting At: Stuart Library of Western Americana (Irving Martin Library Building) Presiding: Dr. Robert E. Burns, President of the Foundation and the University of the Pacific "Twenty Years of Cooperation:" Dr. Malcolm H. Moule, Chairman of Department of History, University of the Pacific "Over My Shoulder:" Mr. R.R. Stuart, Former Director of the California History Foundation Reports of Committees

10:00 CONFERENCE OF CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETIES, Board of Directors' Spring Meeting. At Regents' Room, Burns Tower Presiding: President Edwin Gledhill, of Santa Barbara

12:00 INSTITUTE KEYNOTE LUNCHEON ($2.00) At: President's Dining Room, Anderson Hall Presiding: Dr. R. Coke Wood, Executive Secretary of the Conference of California Historical Societies InvocationL Dr. Lawrence Meredith, Chaplain of the University of the Pacific

1:00 Address: "Twenty Years at Work on a Foundation" President Robert E. Burns, Founder of the California History Foundation

1:30 Memorial Resolution of the California State Senate honoring the late Dr. Rockwell D. Hunt, first Director of the California History Institute,

Presented by Senator Alan Short of Stockton, and Mr. Hal Altman of Sacramento, Regional Vice President of the Conference of California Historical Societies

2:30 SPECIAL INSTITUTE SESSION: Indian Arts and Crafts

At: Pioneer Historical Museum and Haggin Art Galleries, Pershing Avenue at Victory Park

Presiding: Mrs. Janet Goodrum, of Sacramento, Curator of the Dunlap Foundation's Indian Collections

Address: "Welcome Amerinds and Other Americans"

Director Stephen B. Gyermek of the Haggin Art Galleries

Address: "We, The Indians of California"

Mrs. Marie Potts, antive Maidu, Instructor in Basketry at Sacramento State College

"California Indian Dances"

Troupe under direction of Mr. Jack Dyson of the California State Department of Beaches and Parks

"Thirty-One Portraits of American Indians"

Special showing of watercolors by Joseph Scheuerle through courtesy of Mrs. Joseph Scheuerle and Mrs. W. J. Grierson

3:30 Conducted Tour of Haggin Galleries--including the Indian Arts and Crafts Exhibit

4:00 Reception and Tea--Courtesy of Junior Women's Group of the San Joaquin Pioneer and Historical Society, the Board Trustees, and the President, Mrs. Erma c. Robinson

6:30 ANNUAL INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION BANQUET

(Venison roast - $3.50)

At: Callison College Dining Hall

Presiding: Dr. Robert E. Burns, President of the University of the Pacific and of the California History Foundation

Invocation: Reverand John McGloin, S.J.

Address: "Singing Across the Land"

Mr. Sam Hinton, Assistant Director of Office of Relations with Schools, University of California at San Diego. (Self-accompanied on guitar and harmonica.)

Book and Print Auction (Proceeds to California History Found-ation)

Conducted by Mr. Michael Canlis, Sheriff of San Joaquin County, and Mr. Hugh Hayes, both "Cowpoles" of the Stock-ton Corral of the Westerners.

Saturday, March 18

7:30 INSTITUTE REGISTRATION (continuing till noon)

7:45 JEDEDIAH SMITH SOCIETY'S TENTH ANNUAL BREAKFAST

At: Callison College Dining Hall

Presiding: Hon. Warren H. Atherton, former National Commander of American Legion, President of the Jedediah Smith Society

Invocation: Dr. Larry Jackson, Provost of Callison College, of the University of the Pacific

Address: "On the Biographical Trail of Jedediah Smith."

Dale L. Morgan, Honorary Life Member of the Jedediah Smith Society, author of Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West, Research Associate of Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley

Business Meeting: Election of officers and announcements con-cerning the Tenth Annual Fall Rendezvous at Micke's Grove Stockton, October 7, 196 [?]

9:00 INSTITUTE SESSION ON ETHNIC GROUPS

At: Anderson Lecture Hall

Presiding Herbert D. Gwinn, of Sacramento, Consultant in Secondary Education (Social Sciences), California State Department of Education

Address: "California - A Mosaic of Cultures"

Dr. Hector H. Lee, Executive Vice President of the California Folklore Society and Dean of the College, Son-oma State College

10:00 Intermission for coffee break and examination of exhibits

10:30 Simultaneous Symposia: "Eddies in the Main Stream," (ten minute presentations by each panelist, followed by discussion; rooms to be posted.)

I. Armenian, East Indian, Jew, and Negro

Moderator: Dr. Berndt L. Kolker, Provost of Raymond College, University of the Pacific

Panelists: mr. Ara Zovickian, District Manager of the U.S. Social Security Office, Stockton.

Dr. Harold S. Jacoby, Professor of Sociology and Dean of the College of the Pacific

Dr. Bernard Rosenberg, Rabbi of Temple Israel, Stockton

Mr. William Dobson, Attorney, member of the Stockton Unified School District Board

II. Italian, Mexican, Portugese, and Spanish

Moderator: Dr. Arthur J. Cullen, Provost of Elbert Covell College of the University of the Pacific Panelists: Mr. Bruno Dentino, of Stockton, Engineer in the California State Division of Highways

Mr. Carlos Esqueda, of Stockton, Principal of Taylor School and member of the Board of the California Teachers' Association

Professor August Mark Vaz, Instructor in San Leandro High School, author of The Portugese in America

Dr. Walter A. Payne, Director of Graduate Program in Inter-American Studies, University of the Pacific

III. Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, and Japanese

Moderator: Mrs. Fay Goleman, Professor of Socio-logy, University of the Pacific

Panelists: Reverend Vilbur Choy, Pastor of Oak Park Methodist Church of Sacramento and Chaplain of the California State Senate

Mr. Jose Alba, President of the Filipino Community of Stockton

Mr. Charles W. Kenn, of Honolulu, native Hawaiian and historian

Mr. Henry Taketa, of Sacramento, attorney

IV. Basque, English, French, and German

Moderator: Dr. Georges De Bone, Professor of the Humanities, Raymond College, University of the Pacific

Panelists: Mr. Louis Arbios, of Stockton, attorney, Secretary-Treasurer of the Central Valley Wool Growers Association

Mr. Don Inch Segerstrom, of Sonora, collector of "Cousin Jack" lore, former publisher of Union Demo-crat, mining corporation executive

Mme. Marcel Coudeyre, of Stockton, Instructor in French at Stagg High School

Mr. Fred Bitterman, Executive Vice president of San Joaquin First Federal Savings and Loan Association and former Mayor of Stockton

12:30 ANNUAL INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION LUNCHEON

At: Callison College Dining Hall

Presiding: Mr. Ted Baum, of Fresno, President of the Board of Regents of the University of the Pacific

Invocation: Reverend Henry Praed, of San Leandro, former Canon of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

Introduction of New Officers

California History Foundation

Conference of California Historical Societies

Jedediah Smith Society

The Westerners Foundation

The First Pacific Awards for Best Western Historical Fiction for Children, a project of the Westerners Foundation

Dr. Dewey W. Chambers, Professor of Education, University of the Pacific

Address: "California's Forgotten Man - the Native Yankee American"

Mr. John Gilchriese, of Tuson, Field Historian of the University of Arizona

JEDEDIAH SMITH SOCIETY UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC STOCKTON, CALIF. 95204
11-11-68
To Read to J.G.N.
From Dr. Leland D. Case
UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC CALIFORNIA'S OLDEST CHARTERED UNIVERSITY SINCE 1851
Mr. John Neihardt Skyrim Farm Route #7 Columbia, Missouri
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