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CONTENTS: *CMSA MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL FOR 2007 *CMSA 2007 CONFERENCE AT SAN FRANCISCO: REGISTRATION *CMSA BOARD ELECTIONS *BACK ISSUES OF THE BOLETÍN NOW ON SALE *JANUARY 13 & 14 CORO HISPANO PERFORMANCES *JANUARY 20 SYMPOSIUM ON THE ANZA TRAIL *ANZA SOCIETY INCORPORATED UPCOMING EVENTS AT THE SANTA BARBARA MISSION ARCHIVE-LIBRARY: JANUARY 14 & FEBRUARY 25 *PRESENTATION ON CALIFORNIO WOMEN AT THE CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: JANUARY 25 *RECENT PUBLICATIONS ************************************ CMSA MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL FOR 2007 CMSA 2007 membership forms have been sent to all members. Please renew promptly to insure uninterrupted delivery of the next Boletín. Our membership rates have remained at the same modest level for another year. We are able to keep our membership rates down because of the generosity of a number of our members who contribute at a higher rate than the basic membership level. We ask all members please to consider contributing at a higher rate than the basic membership level, if you are able to do so. Thanks! ************************************ CMSA 2007 CONFERENCE AT SAN FRANCISCO: REGISTRATION Registration materials for the 2007 CMSA conference at Mission Dolores, in the Ohlone village of Chutchui, in San Francisco have been sent to all members. Please sign up early. The conference, organized by Andy Galvan, promises to be truly extraordinary. ***************************************** CMSA BOARD ELECTIONS Ballots for Board membership, for Board officers, and for two bylaw changes will be mailed to all members this week. Please return your ballots in the provided return envelope by February 12, so that results can be announced at the conference. ****************************************** BACK ISSUES OF THE BOLETÍN NOW ON SALE Back issues of all the issues of the Boletín since we went to our new format in 2003 are now on sale. The only exception to this is the first issue (vol. 20, no. 1), which is unavailable. But all the others are available for purchase at a price of $10.00 each to CMSA members and $15.00 each to non-members. Please add 8.25 percent sales tax, and 2.50 for shipping and handling for the first issue, and $1.00 for each additional issue ordered. Orders and checks may be sent to Robert M. Senkewicz, Department of History, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053. *********************************** JANUARY 13 & 14 CORO HISPANO PERFORMANCES Juan Pedro Gaffney writes that the Coro Hispano will be performing on Saturday, January 13th, at 8:00 PM at St. Joseph the Worker Church, 1640 Addison Street, Berkeley and on Sunday, January 14th, at 3:00 PM at Mission Dolores Basilica, Dolores at 16th Street, San Francisco. After the Mission Dolores concert there will be a post-concert Fiesta de los Reyes in the Parish School Auditorium (3351 16th St.). Tickets are $20 general, $15 seniors and students. Music-loving children and youth 18 and under are admitted free. Tickets are available at the door (come early) or by phoning (415) 431-4234. ****************************************** JANUARY 20 SYMPOSIUM ON "THE ANZA TRAIL" On January 20, 2007 the California Studies Initiative at Santa Clara University and the California Legacy Project, a joint project of SCU and Heyday Books, will co-sponsor a symposium on The Anza Trail. The event is sparked by the publication of Vladimir Guerrero’s new book "The Anza Trail," published by Heyday as a California Legacy Book. The event will be held at Santa Clara University, California Mission Room, Benson Student Union, at 2 PM on Saturday January 20. Besides Vladimir Guerrero, panelists will include Greg Bernal-Mendoza Smestad, Lee Davis, and Stanley Bond, all of whom are CMSA members. More information is available at http://www.scu.edu/californiastudies/upcomingevents.cfm. All are welcome. **************************************** ANZA SOCIETY INCORPORATED Lou Fullen writes that the Anza Society is now incorporated as a non-profit corporation. The Society publishes a quarterly newsletter, "La Cordillera," and welcomes new members.The Society has a website at www.anzasociety.org <http://www.anzasociety.org> that contains additional information about the society and about plans for the 12th Annual Anza Society Conference, March 8 - 11, 2007 in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. For additional information please contact Lou at lfullen@suddenlink.net *************************************** UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS AT THE SANTA BARBARA MISSION ARCHIVE-LIBRARY : JANUARY 14 & FEBRUARY 25 January 14: ALEX GRZYWACKI AND NEAL GRAFFY, "Santa Barbara’s Company C, First Battalion: Native California Cavalry of Civil War Veterans." This presentation will focus on the history of Antonio María de la Guerra’s Civil War Company C and the search for and restoration of grave sites in local cemeteries. February 25: JEREMY HASS, "Industry at the Old Missions; Santa Bárbara and Santa Inés." Both presentations will be at 2 PM in the Archive-Library Conference room. A sherry and tapas reception will follow. All are welcome! *********************** PRESENTATION ON CALIFORNIO WOMEN AT THE CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: JANUARY 25 Cambria Copeland of The California Historical Society writes: Join us on Thursday January 25 to hear interpretations of first hand accounts of thirteen women from the time when California was still part of Spain and Mexico. These testimonials have been depicted in the book Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815-1848, offering some accounts that have been translated into English for the first time. The editors, Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz, will be here to discuss these accounts with a slide show and book signing to follow. The event will take place on Thursday January 25, 2007 at 6 p.m. at the California Historical Society Gallery, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco. For more information, please call 415.357.1848, ext. 229, email ccopeland@calhist.org or visit www.californiahistoricalsociety.org <http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org> . ********************** RECENT PUBLICATIONS Patrick Foley, "The Historical Catholic Cultural Base of the American Southwest: the Spanish and the Irish,:" Catholic Texas, vol. 17 (2006): 35-48. Rick Hendricks, "Father Manuel Rada: Priest and Advocate for New Mexico, 1821-1843," Catholic Texas, vol. 17 (2006): 9-34. Christopher Hill, "Mission Impossible?" Preservation: the Magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation (January/February 2007) (Editor’s note: this article is about Mission San Miguel. CMF and CMSA members Knox Mellon, Carol Kenyon, and Tina Foss provide important information about the restoration effort.) Susan Anderson Kerr, "European Iconography on the Texas Frontier: St. Mary’s Cathedral of Austin–Gothic Revival and Iconic Glass," Catholic Texas, vol. 17 (2006): 49-58. C.M. Mayo, Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Berkeley: Whereabouts Press, 2006). Kenneth N. Owens, "Frontiersman for the Tsar: Timofei Tarakanov and the Expansion of Russian America," Montana: The Magazine for Western History, vol. 56. no. 3 (Autumn 2006), 3-21. |