Newsletter | Mar/Apr 2004


Wanted: OWA Archival Material

by Inge Horton
Since its beginning in 1972, OWA has maintained an archive with records such as their newsletters, steering committee rosters, agendas and minutes, financial records, health plan records and other files of interest to OWA members. For many years, Mui Ho has graciously provided space in her office to house the archive, thank you so much, Mui! In 1987, Kiss Raupach did the monumental work of organizing the records, putting them in chronological and subject order. We really appreciate Kiss' efforts and thank her wholeheartedly! On November 13, 2003 Kiss and Tinge met in Mui's office and selected four big boxes of records for transfer to the International Archive of Women in Architecture at Virginia Tech in Blacks burg, VA. With the help of her husband Marvin, Tinge mailed them the following day.

After having emptied the files from 1972 to 1987, we realized that there was not much record keeping since then. Thus we issue a call for submitting records which are still in your closets or basements. We are looking for all kind of OWA records such as those mentioned above plus records of the annual retreats, Thea and Thea anniversary celebrations, house tours and other OWA sponsored events. We appeal especially to former steering committee members and retreat leaders and house tour leaders to transfer their records to the OWA archive.

If you have any old records, please organize them as much as possible and contact Mui Ho or Inge Horton to discuss what kind of records you have and arrange for a time when you can deliver the records to the OWA Archive at Mui's office at 1605 Arch Street, Berkeley. We would appreciate if you could do that before the end of May 2004.

Also, OWA regularly sends a copy of the newsletter to the Environmental Design Library at UC Berkeley. However, there are a few issues missing. If you have old issues, please contact Mui Ho to determine if your issues are needed for the Library.


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