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1976-1981
Mss201
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Title: Community Forum of San Joaquin Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1976-1981
Collection number: Mss201
Creator:
Ronald H. Limbaugh
Extent: 0.25 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Community Forum of San Joaquin Papers, Mss201,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific
Library
The Community Forum of San Joaquin was a community organization
consisting primarily of educators and community leaders. The Forum's purpose
was to conduct community research and to present its findings to the Stockton
(Calif.) community through conferences and seminars in an effort to draw
individuals into new and active civic roles. Many members of the board were
faculty and administrators from the University of the Pacific and San Joaquin
Delta Community College. The President of the Board was Fran Abbott, a Trustee
of the Lincoln Unified School District. This collection was created by Ronald
Limbaugh, a member of the Board of Directors of the Forum, Professor of History
at the University of the Pacific and Archivist at the Pacific Center for
Western Studies.
Forerunners of Community Forum began with a conference styled "What
Price Progress?" (1976) under a California Council for the Humanities in Public
Policy (CCHPP) Grant to the Pacific Center of Western Studies at the University
of the Pacific. The proceedings of the conference were published in the Pacific
Historian. In Spring of 1977 a second conference called "Community 77,
Stockton's Growth: Change and Challenge" was sponsored by the Sociology
Department at the University of the Pacific and the Greater Stockton Chamber of
Commerce.
A planning committee composed substantially of individuals attending the
1976 and 1977 conferences founded the Community Forum and set goals and
workshops for a conference in the Fall of 1977 organized by the UOP Sociology
Department faculty and students. A third conference "Toward the Year 2000:
Social and Criminal Justice Planning for the Stockton Community" (1978) was
sponsored by the UOP Sociology Department and the Community Forum and was
funded by CCHPP. Seminars in 1978 and 1979 focused on Cultural Pluralism and
were organized by George H. Lewis, UOP Sociology Department and a member of the
Community Forum. Community '79 was held at Delta Community College and was
called "How to Be Heard: Strategies for Citizen Participation in Government."
It was organized by Ronald Limbaugh and Peggy Guttieri, Program Manager, Junior
Achievement of Stockton.
These papers consist of reports on community issues authored by
Community Forum Task Forces or gathered by them for study. Report topics
include: education, crime, city image, water issues, traffic patterns, refugee
programs, and literacy. Also included are seminar reports, grant proposals to
CCHPP, correspondence, minutes, treasurer's reports, budgets, flyers and
publications about the conferences and seminars.