Clark, Stella. Interview August 9, 2023.
California State University San Bernadino
California State University San Marcos
California State University San Marcos. Modern Language Studies Department
Education, Higher
Immigrants -- United States
Kansas University
Mexican Americans -- California -- San Diego County
Mexican Americans -- Education (Higher)
Mexicans -- United States
Roma (Motion picture : 2018)
Dr. Stella Clark grew up in Colonia Roma, Mexico City, and moved to the U.S. in her early childhood. She grew up in a family who valued education; both her parents received a PhD and she was expected to get one as well. Clark received her bachelor's degree in French and her master's and PhD degrees in Spanish. She began her professional career at California State University, San Bernardino and eventually applied to California State University San Marcos, where she founded the Modern Languages Department and created the university's language lab. In her interview, Clark discusses how she made an impact not only on her students learning but life as well by encouraging all to pursue their academic dreams, and on the struggles that working students and women students face in getting an education.
Stella Clark
California State University San Marcos University Library
Sean Visintainer
English
Colonia Roma (Mexico City, Mexico)
East Lansing (Mich.)
Lawrence (Kan.)
Oxford (Miss.)
San Bernadino (Calif.)
San Marcos (Calif.)
Biggs, Bonnie, and Gunnar Biggs. Interview March 26, 2024.
American Indian Library Association
California Indians
California State University San Marcos. Tribal Liaison
California State University San Marcos. University Library
Libraries -- Ghana
Jazz -- Ghana
Jazz musicians -- Ghana
Love on a Leash
Patterson, Lotsee
Rodriguez, Henry Nichols, 1919-2002
Tribal libraries -- New Mexico
Tribal libraries -- Southern California
Bonnie Biggs was the inaugural Tribal Liaison and a Librarian Emeritus at California State University San Marcos. Gunnar Biggs has been a prominent figure in the musical environment in Southern California for over forty years, and is a retired music instructor from San Diego State University and Palomar College. In this interview, Bonnie and Gunnar recall the early history of CSUSM when it transitioned as the North County satellite campus for San Diego State University into CSUSM in 1989. Bonnie also discusses her academic and professional achievements, including her work as the university's Tribal Liaison. Bonnie and Gunnar additionally recall her sabbatical to Ghana, Ghanaian jazz music and musicians, visiting and working with tribal libraries in New Mexico, and Bonnie's most recent work with Love on a Leash.
Bonnie Biggs
Gunnar Biggs
Judith Downie
Ghana
New Mexico
Lai, Floyd. Interview transcript, April 10, 2023.
California State University San Marcos. Cross-Cultural Center
Civil rights
Human rights
Racism -- California -- Irvine
Student Success
University of California Irvine. Cross-Cultural Center
Floyd Lai served as Director of the Cross-Cultural Center at California State University from 2011 to 2023. In this Interview, Floyd discusses the growth and development of the CCC in conjunction with other student organizations. As a self-identified Chinese American, Lai addresses how his personal, educational, and professional background have informed one another.
Floyd Lai
Madeleine Meyer
Aaron Williams
In copyright
Tawfilis, Joanne. Interview transcript, October 31, 2022.
Art Miles Project
Bosnian Women's Initiative
International Atomic Energy Agency
Military base closures
Mural painting and decoration
Muramid Art and Cultural Center (Oceanside, Calif.)
Orphanages--Bosnia and Herzegovina
Srebrenica Massacre, Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1995
Unesco
United States. Army
United States. Navy
Women artists
Joanne Tawfilis is the executive director of the Art Miles Mural Project, which has had the participation of over 500,000 people from 125 countries to paint murals. Tawfilis and her late husband Fouad started the Art Miles Mural Project after Tawfilis worked with orphans in Bosnia, where they created a murals using the only materials available -- a 10 gallon can of white wall pain and bedsheets riddled with bullet holes. The Art Miles Mural Project is currently homed at the Muramid Arts and Cultural Center in Oceanside, California, where there are electronic displays of over 5,000 murals, art classes, music, and spoken word performances. Tawfilis has had a storied career and has worked with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Women of Srebrenica Project, and UNESCO. In her interview, Tawfillis discusses her career working as a civilian employee of the military, as well as her work with the United Nations, IAEA, and the Women of Srebrenica Project. Tawfilis also discusses the creation of the Art Miles Mural Project, the Muramid Arts and Cultural Center, and her thoughts on art as a vehicle for healing, empathy, and peace.
Joanne Tawfilis
Linda Kallas
Melissa Martin
Oceanside (Calif.)
Srebrenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Link, Rich, Mary Anne Bixby, and Greg Lorton. Interview transcript. July 9, 2017.
Home brewing -- California -- San Diego County
Quality Ale and Fermentation Fraternity (San Diego, Calif.)
Women brewers -- California -- San Diego County
Rich Link, Mary Anne Bixby and Greg Lorton are all early members of Quality Ale and Fermentation Fraternity (QUAFF), a San Diego area homebrewing group. In this interview, Link, Bixby, and Lorton discuss their introduction to craft beer, early home brewing experiences, QUAFF, various local breweries, mead, and womens’ participation in homebrewing. None have worked in the industry professionally, but all are certified beer judges and Lorton and Bixby also judge mead competitions. Link wrote for the Celebrator Beer News magazine on the Southern California beer scene and his experiences visiting European breweries. He served several terms as QUAFF President. He is a certified beer judge. Lorton served as QUAFF Newsletter editor and President. (He has provided a separate oral history.) Bixby, with her late husband, Horace, switched from wine making to beer making. She belonged to the SDSS (San Diego Suds Sorority) which was a women-only subgroup of QUAFF. QUAFF was founded in 1989 for San Diego area homebrewers to learn, improve, and successfully compete with their beers, ciders, meads, and other fermented beverages. The group also assists members with earning national Beer Judge Certification (BJCP) and encourages participation in club-only and external competitions and charity events. QUAFF is noted for sponsoring the America’s Finest City Homebrew Competition. One recipe from the pool of first-place winners considered for Best of Show at this event is selected for production at a local commercial brewery. Participating breweries have included Stone Brewing and AleSmith Brewing. The beers produced include Stone’s Xocovesa, developed by member Chris Banker. The club has garnered awards such as the American Homebrewers Association’s Radegast Award for community involvement and California and National Homebrew Club of the Year Awards, based on competition points earned. Dozens of QUAFF members have ‘gone pro’ either finding employment in the beer industry in a variety of positions or opening their own brewery. Some have opened breweries in San Diego County and others have moved either elsewhere in California or out of state. As the group has grown, the monthly meetings have moved from member’s homes, to Callahan’s Pub, Karl Strauss Brewery and Gardens, and now meet at The Gärten (Bay Park neighborhood beer garden space shared by Lost Cause Mead, Oddish Wine, and Deft Brewing.) Their website is found at https://quaff.org/ This recording was made on the front exterior patio of Burning Beard Brewery in El Cajon; there are periods of traffic noise which interfered with recording.
Rich Link
Mary Anne Bixby
Greg Lorton
Ernest Cisneros
San Diego County (Calif.)
Kallas, Linda. Interview transcript, December 22, 2022.
Arts education
Basket making
Death and remembrance
Education -- Native Americans
Illustration of books
Luiseño Indians
Pablo Tac Elementary School (Oceanside, Calif.)
Valley Arts Festival (Oceanside, Calif.)
Transcript of oral history interview of Linda Kallas, December 22, 2022. Interview conducted by Diania L. Caudell. Linda Kallas is a retired middle school art and drama teacher who has collaborated with other local artists and authors on a variety of endeavors, including illustrating "Mel and the Blue Arrow" written by Mel Vernon (Luiseño). Kallas and Vernon also collaborated on a Luiseño/English coloring book and on an arts integrated curriculum taught at Pablo Tac Elementary School in Oceanside. Kallas is also on the committee for the Valley Arts Festival that celebrates Luiseño culture each November at Heritage Park, Oceanside. In her interview, Kallas talks to Diania Caudell about topics such as family, school, higher education, post-college life, and her various art and cultural projects.
Diania Caudell
Rios, Dan. Interview transcript, March 30, 2017.
Agricultural laborers -- California
Mesa Community College (San Diego, Calif.)
Mexican Americans
Photojournalists
Daniel Flores Rios, born in Hanford, California. April 10th, 1939 to Theodore and Jennie Rios, was the Chief Photographer at the Escondido Times-Advocate and North County Times newspapers. This interview recounts Rios's childhood and early adulthood, and his personal and educational journey towards becoming a news photographer. As a child and teen laborer Rios, due to extreme heat, convinced his field worker family to leave the Central Valley and join his aunts in San Diego. They moved in 1953. As a 14 year old teen high school drop-out, Rios started his own gardening and landscaping business in La Jolla, California. A client convinced Rios to attend night school to get his high school degree. Rios then pursued a civil engineering degree at community college, eventually dropping the pursuit of engineering when he finds his passion for photography. Rios acquired a degree in commercial and portrait photography at San Diego Community college where he met his mentors. After graduation he sought work as a photographer and landed an interview in Escondido for the regional newspaper, the Escondido Times-Advocate.
Daniel Flores Rios
Alexa Clausen
Escondido (Calif.)
Hanford (Calif.)
La Jolla (San Diego, Calif.)
Ocean Beach (San Diego, Calif.)
Bagby, Jeff and Dande. Interview transcript, February 21, 2018.
Bagby Beer Company (Oceanside, Calif.)
Brewers -- California -- San Diego County
Brewing industry -- California -- History
Microbreweries -- California -- San Diego County
Bagby Beer Company emphasizes traditional style beers, a craft cocktail program, and a restaurant menu to complement their beers. Over the years, Bagby Beer featured highly admired and hard-to-find American and European beers such as Bierstadt Lagerhaus (Denver, CO) and Brasserie d’Orval (Belgium) to complement their lineup. Built on the site of a former car dealership (among other businesses), the Bagbys closely oversaw the construction from the ground up which opened in 2014. The site was also host to the Brewbies® cancer awareness beer festival (2015-2022) and the Low and Slow Lager Festival among other fund raising and educational events. Bagby Beer sold to Green Cheek Beer Company of Costa Mesa, CA in early 2024. Jeff and Dande Bagby are the founders and owners of Bagby Beer Company in Oceanside, CA. Holly Sweat is Publicist at Katalyst Public Relations. Jeff Bagby’s role was as head brewer and leading the on-site Beerleaders brewing education program. Jeff’s brewery experience includes Stone Brewing, White Labs, and Oggi’s Pizza and Brewing. His last brewery before opening Bagby Beer was Pizza Port, leading brewing operations for the chain from the Carlsbad location. During his time at Pizza Port, he led the team to win notable awards and medals such as the World Beer Cup and the Great American Beer Festival’s brewery and brewer awards multiple times. He is one of the most awarded San Diego region brewers, notably garnering more GABF Alpha King Challenge awards for best hoppiest beer in the United States than anyone to date (2005, 2010 and 2011.) He left Pizza Port in 2011 to devote his energy to finding a site for a brewery/restaurant in the San Diego North County beach area. With the sale of Bagby’s to Green Cheek Beer, he remains as the brewer and continues to focus on lagers and traditional styles. Dande Bagby worked as Director of Operations including marketing and customer experience. She designed much of the building. Her employment background includes the San Diego Zoological Society, education, environmental science, restaurant and craft beer bar management, and marketing and finance responsibilities for multimillion-dollar budgets at a Fortune 500 company. She remains active in the transition to Green Cheek Beer Company at this time. In their 2018 interview, Jeff and Dande discuss their introduction to craft beer; homebrewing; introduction of craft beer to the region; Jeff’s entry into the profession in the late 1990s; challenges and responsibilities of founding and building a brewery; packaging and distribution; charity work; competitions, judging, and awards; consumer education.
Jeff Bagby
Dande Bagby
Holly Sweat
Tawfilis, Joanne. Interview October 31, 2022.
Link, Rich, Mary Anne Bixby, and Greg Lorton. Interview July 9, 2017.