Newsletter Contents | 1972-2001

The OWA Newsletter has always been a vital instrument to our group as it announces the location of meetings which vary from members homes, architectural or design offices, community buildings or other places of interest to meeting organizers (new, historic or member's projects for example.) It also has recorded the broad range of issues members have been concerned with and the incredible numbers of members who have participated in writing articles and or editing the OWA Newsletter.

In the early years the table of contents takes two pages: one from January to June, the second from July to December, the later years only one page. The editor(s), topics and page number are noted. The publication design has changed over the years and issues range from one to 13 pages but the average is four pages. Sometimes inserts, illustrations, photos and cartoons are noted.

172 OWA Newsletters have been published by 155 different editors over the past 30 years. These newsletters announce and report on meetings, present feature articles, discuss OWA organizational issues, propose the annual budget, review books, show member's projects, record interviews and share work or travel experiences. Job openings, workshops, event calendars and members' news show up too. Current Steering Committee members and the OWA Health Plan were listed in each issue.

The first 15 years here were compiled in 1987 when they were microfilmed and donated with the OWA Newsletters to the University of California College of Environmental Library in Berkeley, California. The table of contents for the second 15 years was compiled in 2002, when the two parts were combined and formatted for the OWA web site to help celebrate OWA's 30th year anniversary.

--Wendy Bertrand

1974 | 1975

1972-73

1972 NOVEMBER

1-2 First attendance list, first gathering 3 Organizational purposes diagram by W. Bertrand

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1972 DECEMBER

1 Organizational meeting 2 Membership list of names and addresses

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1973 JANUARY

1 Organizational meeting announcement

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1973 FEBRUARY

1-2 BEVERLY WILLIS: The Profession, the women, the problems 2 "Organization of Women Architect" (OWA) name chosen

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1973 MARCH Editor: MUI HO

1 DOLORES HAYDEN: on WALAP [Cambridge, Mass.] meeting announcement

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1973 APRIL Editor: MARY LAILEYAN

1 AIA related activities by M. Laleyan FANI DANADJIEVA HANSEN: On her work meeting announcement

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1973 MAY Editor: MUI HO

1 Affirmative action, AIA Convention report meeting announcement First OWA Steering Committee Election

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1973 JUNE Editor: MUl HO

1 Affirmative action, AIA Convention, by-laws meeting announcement 3 Communication and Public Relations 4 Employment committee's Information call; lawyer call

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1973 JULY Editor: MUI HO

1-2 PAFFARD KEATING CLAY: The Nature of Materials meeting announcement 3 Educational program proposal by M Laleyan 4 The licensing exams [letter writing campaign]

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1973 AUGUST Editor: MUI HO

1-2 BROCCHINI, DUMCOME, BRAGSTAD: Professional experience 2 OWA Stationery design competition announcement

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1973 SEPTEMBER

1-2 ANN KING, SUSAN SWABACKER: Construction Technology meeting announcement 3 Training Par-professional [minority/women] by W. Bertrand 4 "Women's Place Under California Law"

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1973 OCTOBER Editor: MUI HO

2 ANN KING: Curtain Wall Technology meeting announcement September all business meeting report 3 OAE wants to challenge registration 4 Education committee projects 5-6 Using your maiden name: relevant regulations In California

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1973 NOVEMBER Editor: BOBBIE SUE HOOD

2 ULIA MORGAN: Threatened Film: "The Building of Gund Hall" meeting announcement ANN KING: Curtain Wall Technology meeting report 2 J3 OWA Newsletter revolving editorship policy 4 Ratifying the Articles of Incorporation 5-7 OWA Articles of incorporation (text)

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1973 DECEMBER Editor: LUCIA BOGATAY

1 VERA JANSONE and LUCY LICHTBLAU: Swedish Shopping Center meeting announcement 2 Film: 'The Building of Gund Hall," and business agenda meeting report 2-3 AIA taskforce on women 3 Buildings for women artists [Chicago 1893, Los Angeles 1973] 4 Course on women & architecture announcement Students join OWA (from U.C. Berkeley) 5 Construction Dictionary by Women in Construction [Arizona] book review 5-6 JULIA MORGAN lecture by Richard Longstreth 6-7 Steering Committee Members' roles defined 8 BERTHA YEREX WHITMAN: Letter from Illinois Architect

1974

1974 JANUARY Editor: JANIS BIRKELAND

1 CATHY SIMON: Design approval with citizen participation 2 Employment program letter sent to 350 Bay Area firms 5-6 "The AIA Hears From Its Women ... " 6/74 7-8 AIA Task Force on Women in Architecture meeting/R by J. Crane 9 "The Lady Is a Hard Hat" San Francisco Chronicle 11 HEW on discrimination at Brooklyn & Queens Colleges, NY, "Women In Science and Technology: MIT Workshop" 13 Voices from Women's Liberation

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1974 FEBRUARY Editor: Rosemary Muller

1 GINGER, LeGRAND and O'DONNELL :"Equality Under the Law" panel meeting announcement LUCY LICHTBLAU: Solerl's ARCOSANITI meeting report by M. Haviland 2 Employment program contact letter (draft by 1. Rosenfeld) 4 Financial Report (1973 and 1974)

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1974 MARCH Editor: CORRINE SPINGARN

1 RUTH ASAWA: On her work and sculpture photograph meeting OWA Library: 'Architectural License Seminars' materials list 2 "Minority graduate enrollment rising' "'Shocking' Lag In Women's Pay" 4 Organization of Women Architects [4/15/73 Group photograph] 5 46 Bay Area women in architecture [Group photograph caption]

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1974 APRIL Editor: CORRINE SPINGARN

1 OWA Work session meeting announcement 2 PAT NODA: Development bottom line meeting announcement RUTH ASAWA: On her work by M. Haviland The Woman's Eye book report by P. Noda 4 "New Women's Paper [Plexus]" 6 Membership invitation

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1974 MAY Editor: SUSAN SWABACKER

2,10 Open discussion on Women's Conferences meeting announcement 4 Letter on Longstreth's view of JULIA MORGAN by P. Woodring 6 "Women in the Professions" interview of B.S. HOOD by Raynor 7 "Madam Executive" [Simmons graduate management program]San Francisco NOW contacts list 8 U.S. laws against job discrimination [chart] Ms. Magazine 9 PAT NODA: Development bottom line/MR by M. Haviland 10 OWA regional meetings [San Francisco, East Bay, Peninsula]

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1974 JUNE Editor: WENDY S. BERTRAND

1 CLAIRE COOPER MARCUS: House as a Symbol of Self meeting announcement 2 St. Louis, West Coast design conferences panel by M. Haviland 3 Politics [National Women's Political Caucus description] The Rights of Women book report 4 South Bay OWA first meeting announcement 8 AIA survey reveals professional discrimination 9-11 OWA business

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1974 JULY Editor: JANIS BIRKELAND

1 CATHY SIMON: Design approval with citizen participation 2 Employment program letter sent to 350 Bay Area firms 5-6 "The AIA Hears From Its Women ... " 6/74 7-8 AIA Task Force on Women in Architecture meeting/R by J. Crane 9 "The Lady Is a Hard Hat" San Francisco Chronicle 11 HEW on discrimination at Brooklyn & Queens Colleges, NY, "Women In Science and Technology: MIT Workshop" 13 Voices from Women's Liberation

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1974 AUGUST Editor: DOLORES MALLOY

1 JANICE PERLMAN: City planning in Rio de Janeiro settlements meeting announcement 2 KIM SPURGEON: Architectural conservation meeting announcement CHRISTIE COFFIN: User Participation, Peninsula OWA meeting report 3 OWA group photograph with Japanese text 4-5 JUDITH ROEDER: May 1974 AIA convention remarks text 8 job announcements

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1974 SEPTEMBER Editor: PAT NODA

1 JANICE PERLMAN: Rio de Janeiro squatter settlements meeting report 2 KIM SPURGEON: on architectural conservation, August meeting report 3 BOTSAI, ROSENBERG rebuttals to Crane's AIA-0WA meeting report 4 Steering Committee 8/27 letter to Asia's BOTSAI and ROSENBERG 6 Keep Abortion Legal organization announcement 7 S.F. 5/73 Minimum Affirmative Action for Architects/Engineers 11 OWA information

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1974 OCTOBER Editor: MARLAN C. HAVILAND

1 OWA Task force on employment, October meeting announcement 2 Letter on AIA-OWA meeting report by Nancy Bennett 3 What Can She Be? by Goodrich Guide to Creativity by Koberg & Bagnall book review 4 ANNE MINER: Employment discrimination, South Bay 0WAIMIR 7-8 Minorities in Architecture (AIA memo and survey)

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1974 NOVEMBER Editor: NANCY BENNETT

2 JIM BURNS: on coiling design, South Bay OWA meeting STEVANNE AUERBACH FINK: Career Mothers/Child Care, Nov. meeting, Yerba Buena Center and Affirmative Action 4 "if Your job Resume Has No Sell, It Won't" UPI , "?a Vintage Year for Women's Rights" S.F. Chronicle 7 CSE: Couples Sharing Employment, a Norway program 8-12 OWA Bylaws text

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1974 DECEMBER Editor: LUCY LICHTBLAU

4 OWA/DP now organization name; November meeting report TOPHER DELANEY, November construction seminar speaker report 8 "Statisticians disown UC hiring plan data" T. D. Californian 9 U.C. Berkeley Affirmative Action Plan statistical method

1975

1975 JANUARY Editors: MARIAN C. HAVILAND and NANCY BENNETT

1 CAROL MERCADO: Graduate Architect in toy business meeting announcement 2 PAT NODA: Interior design at San Jose State, South Bay OWA meeting announcement 3 RUTH GORDON SCHNAPP: Earthquake design seminar, SHIRLEY YAWITZ: Legal matters seminar 5 December Dance meeting report by M. Haviland 6-7 OWA/DP graphics design contest rules 8 Asian Women's Journal announcement

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1975 FEBRUARY Editor: SANDY SCHOPMAN

1 OWA Bylaws and OWA project workshops meeting announcement 2 CAROL MERCADO Graduate Architect in toy business meeting report South Bay, January meeting announcement 4 June licensing exam information OWA collection of local architectural offices brochures Proposed Bylaw changes 5-8 1975 OWA/DP Steering Committee conference minutes text

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1975 MARCH Editor: ANNE DIAZ

1 Self-presentations by members, March meeting announcement 3 OWA Poster contest/, Slide Show library project announcement 4 "Job Options for Women in Today's Economy" conference 6 OWA Business, North Bay OWA meeting report by A. Diaz OWA Business, South Bay 0WA meeting report by N. Bennett 8 Job restructuring and flexible time, Advocates for Women meeting announcement 9 Steering Committee information

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1975 APRIL Editor: SUSAN DUNLAP

2 EVELYN WOZNIAC and EILEEN KOPELSON: Advocacy planning on the Berkeley Marina meeting announcement JUDY CRUTCHER: Business promotion seminar announcement KELLY BRANDEAU: Plants and landscaping meeting announcement 3 AIA Affirmative action, from the 1973 Convention Women in Design by Sandy Schopman 4 Open Design Office [Cambridge, Mass] book review by M. Haviland Two Factor Theory: The Economics of Reality excerpt

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1975 MAY Editors: JANET CRANE and RUTH KLEINMAN

3 Calif. State Board of Arch. Examiners needs women OWAJDP 1975 Membership statistics 4 NCC/AIA and the Calif. State Board of Arch. Examiners OWAIDP research grant committee announcement

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1975 JUNE Editor: ISABEL KING

2 NORMA EVENSON: Paris after Haussmann, North Bay meeting announcement 3 Dinner with Women Professionals by J. Crane 4 SARA HOMES BOUTELLE: U.C. Extension class on JULIA MORGAN Feminist Studio Workshop, Women's Building [L.A., CA] announcement

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1975 JULY Editor: LINDA MATHEWS

2 Picnic South Bay meeting report NORMA EVENSON: Paris urbanism meeting report by S. Schopman Show and Tell series meeting announcement 3-6 Suggestions by Members: Itemized responses to May OWA/DP questionnaires 5 AIA Is OK [supports admonition of AIA energy seminar exhibitor's discrimination] 6 Plan for action 7 AIA Status of Women in the Architectural Profession by J. Crutcher

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1975 AUGUST Editor: LUCIA BOGATAY

2 DR. CHARLES FLECKLES: Sexist conflicts in your work, August meeting announcement GILBERT SANCHEZ: Adobe construction and aesthetics, OWA meeting announcement 3 "Modern Cake" drawing Michael A. Weiner's Plant a Tree book review from the S.F.Chronicle 1-4 [Insert:] OWA 7/74-8/75 Employment Survey by B.S. Hood 4 SANTA RAYMOND: Company of Women In Architecture [London]

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1975 SEPTEMBER   Editor: CYNTHIA RIPLEY

2 HELEN SOM: on her work, North Bay OWA meeting announcement WILL RADCLIFFE: about printing, South Bay OWA meeting announcement 4 Advocates for Women: Women in Apprenticeship Program [non-traditional union trades employment] ESTER McCOY on Eileen Gray" 7/75 Progressive Architecture S.F. Neighborhood Legal Assistance: Women's Litigation Unit

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1975 OCTOBER   Editor: MARIAN C. HAVILAND

2 PEGGY WOODRING: on JULIA MORGAN meeting announcement 3 HELEN SOM: on her work, North Bay OWA meeting report WILL RADCLIFFE: on printing, South Bay OWA meeting report 4 S.F. 1975 Women's Year Conference/A and L. Bogatay patchwork banner drawing 4-5 OWA/DP Membership Information Survey form

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1975 NOVEMBER Editor: GERTRAUD BOPP

2 BERTHA YEREX WHITMAN: 60 years of practice, South Bay meeting announcement SUSAN DUNLAP: Interior design, North Bay meeting announcement 3 PEGGY WOODRING: on JULIA MORGAN meeting report

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1975 DECEMBER Editor: LINDA GROAT

2 South and North Bay Parties meeting announcement 3 ROGER KOHLER: People, Nature and Architecture, South Bay 4 Manuel J. Smith's When I Say No, I Feel Guilty book review by W. Bertrand Women's Hall of Honors [Seneca Falls, NY] architectural design competition