Ventura College Oral History Symposium: Our Collective Memory

Afternoon Guest Speakers and Presentations: 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Introduction by

• Scott Corbett—“Memory, Imagination, and History,” Japanese and Asian American experiences in Ventura County during the Interwar years
• John McNally and Howard Bufford—-Ventura’s Veteran of the battle of Bastogne
• Kat Lisowska—“The 1969 Flood and the Destruction of the Ventura Marina”
• Lauren Coyne–“Ventura County and the 1969 Flood Revisited.”
• Glenda Jackson, Author, Historian, & Ephermemra Collection on display
• Moderator:

Reception – Hallway  ASC 150 5:00-6:00pm

Evening Panel – 6:00 – 8:00pm ASC 150

Presentations and Discussions: “The History of Ventura, Its Culture, Politics, and Development”

Moderator:  Dr. Michael Ward and Professor Colleen Coffey

• Introductions by Michael Ward

Panelists

• Betsy Blanchard Chess author “Daughter of the Land”
• Al Guilin- “Limoneira”
• Gwen Alferes- “The History of Foster Park”
• Susie Arellanes-Willeford- Cabrillo Village: A History of El Campo”  focusing on the lives of Ventura County’s Immigrant Agricultural Workers in the Twentieth Century.

Saturday, November 18th in ASC-150 from 9:00am – 12:00pm

Student presentations and Speakers

• Glenda Jackson – “Over a Century of Memories:  Photographs, Memorabilia, and Ephemera of Ventura County”
• Kat Lisowska – “Russia in Ventura County:  Holy Trinity—El Rio’s Hidden Gem”
• Glenda Jackson, Author, Historian, & Ephermemra Collection on display
• Others

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