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SBHC Mss 34
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Title: Jean Storke Menzies collection
Identifier/Call Number: SBHC Mss 34
Language of Material:
English.
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
25 Linear Feet
(25 cartons)
Date (inclusive): 1897-1995
Date (bulk): 1955-1992
Abstract: These papers contain files of organizations and institutions with which Menzies was associated (including Santa Barbara Mission
and University of California, Santa Barbara), as well as personal papers and subject files (people, places, subjects). Menzies
spent years in India with husband Ernest Menzies, who was a businessman there. Jean Storke Menzies was daughter of Thomas
Storke (owner, publisher of the
Santa Barbara News-Press) and was a journalist herself. Many of the files contain articles by her and related background research matter.
Physical Location: The collection is located at the Southern Regional Library Facility (SRLF).
The collection is open for research, though some legal files are closed, as noted in container list. The collection is stored
offsite. Advance notice is required for retrieval.
Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through
the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to
the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator
and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@ucsb.edu. Consent is given
on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at
UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such
permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine
who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assigns for permission to publish where the UC Regents do
not hold the copyright.
[Identification of Item], Jean Storke Menzies collection, SBHC Mss 34. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa
Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Multiple donations by Jean Menzies Vaughan and Tom Menzies, 1995-2009.
Jean Storke Menzies was born December 30, 1904, the first child of Thomas and Elsie Smith Storke. She obtained a bachelor's
degree from Vassar and was the first woman to receive a master's degree in physics from Stanford University. After Stanford,
she taught physics at Vassar and later taught at a private school in San Francisco.
In 1937 she married Ernest F. Menzies and moved to Calcutta, India, where he was in business. They spent the war years there.
After his retirement in 1951 they moved back to Santa Barbara, where she became a reporter and feature writer for the
Santa Barbara News Press, a paper founded by her father.
Jean Storke Menzies was extensively involved in a number of local organizations for many years, from the 1950s and to the
1990s. She was closely associated with Pearl Chase, another long time advocate of planning and historic preservation, and
was particularly active with such groups as the Santa Barbara Mission Archive's Library, the Santa Barbara Historical Society,
the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, the UCSB Foundation and Affiliates, and
the Friends of the UCSB Library. She died at age 88, on April 17, 1993.
One of Jean Storke Menzies ancestors was Captain Jose Francisco Ortega, who helped build the Santa Barbara Presidio and who
was its first commander. Captain Ortega's granddaughter, Rafaela Ortega, married Daniel Hill, and their daughter married T.
Wallace More. The Mores' daughter, Martha, married C.A. Storke, an attorney and journalist, who was Jean Storke Menzies' grandfather
and Thomas M. Storke's father.
This collection contains personal and family papers, organization files, and subject files. Personal and family papers in
the collection contain articles about Jean Storke Menzies and Thomas Storke, but no personal correspondence or financial material
is included. There also are copies of articles that Jean Storke Menzies wrote, mainly for the
Santa Barbara News Press. Articles also are interspersed throughout other parts of the collection.
Organization files, comprising the largest portion of the collection, contain correspondence, minutes, programs, reports,
brochures, flyers and clippings for organizations, clubs, businesses, institutions, schools, and other groups. Most are in
the Santa Barbara area or are national and state organizations, with Santa Barbara chapters. There are extensive runs of material
for the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara Girls School, Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library, Santa Barbara Museum
of Natural History, Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, and University of California, Santa Barbara. Also included
are materials from Vassar and Stanford University.
Subject files include correspondence, drafts of articles and speeches, clippings, brochures and flyers on a wide range of
topics relating to the Santa Barbara area and other parts of the world, reflecting Jean Storke Menzies' international interests
and apparently serving as research files for many of the articles that she wrote.
The collection also contains an audiovisual component, including a number of home movies.
The collection has been arranged into the following unnumbered series: Personal/Family papers, Organization files, Subject
files, Oversize, and Audiovisual.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Associations, institutions, etc. -- California -- Santa Barbara
Articles
Audiovisual materials
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence
Family papers
Organization files
Personal papers
Photographs
Topical collections
Storke, Thomas M. (Thomas More), 1876-1971
Storck family
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden -- Archives
Santa Barbara Girls School -- Archives
Santa Barbara Mission. Archive-Library -- Archives
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History -- Archives
Santa Barbara News-Press -- Archives
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation -- Archives
University of California, Santa Barbara -- Archives