All Day Event
Oral History Symposium Nov. 16
Join us Thursday, November 16 for the second day of our three-day Oral History Symposium at Ventura College in Room ASC-150.
Student Presentations: 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.
- Faculty Moderators: Dr. Michael Ward and Professor Colleen Coffey
Afternoon Guest Speakers and Presentations: 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
- 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."
Reception 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. | Hallway outside ASC-150
Evening Panel: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
- Presentations and Discussions: "The History of Ventura, Its Culture, Politics, and Development"
- Moderator: Dr. Michael Ward and Professor Colleeen Coffey
- Introductions by Michael Ward
Panelists Include:
- Betsy Blanchard Chess - "Daughter of the Land"
- Al Guillen- "Limoneria"
- 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.
