Rice (Hugh) Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center Records, 1973-1996, bulk Bulk, 1983-1989

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Title:
Hugh Rice Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center records
Dates:
1973-1996, bulk Bulk, 1983-1989
Creators:
Rice, Hugh
Abstract:
Administrative and promotional records, clippings, and photographs maintained by Hugh Rice primarily regarding his work at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, bulk 1983-1989. Rice was a longterm employee of the Center, including as Health Services Director during the 1980s AIDS crisis.
Extent:
0.4 linear foot. 1 archive carton
Language:
Preferred citation:

[Box/folder #, or item name] Hugh Rice Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center Records, Coll2013-044, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.

Background

Scope and content:

Administrative and promotional records, clippings, and photographs maintained by Hugh Rice primarily regarding his work at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, 1983-1989. The records include images of the center and its health services activities, a 1973 advertisement for the center, a 1991 award given to Rice for his AIDS-related service, and a commemoration by the State of California Department of Health Services upon his death in 1996.

Biographical / historical:

An Ohio native, Hugh Rice completed a bachelor's degree in speech and audiology and a master's degree in public health at the University of Akron and Kent State University. After teaching at the university level for several years, he moved to Los Angeles in 1973 to be a technical consultant with Walt Disney Studios. He began volunteering at the Gay Community Services Center and soon initiated the clinic's original Mobile Testing Program at various Los Angeles businesses and organizations. In 1974, Rice got certification as an epidemiologist and was hired under the Center's new contract with the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services in the Men's Venereal Disease Clinic. In 1979, Rice became the Center's first supervisor of the Public Health Office. The Center appointed Rice as the interim Health Services Director in 1983, then made the hire permanent in 1984. Rice served as a faculty instructor for the University of Southern California to the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Training and Treatment Center's Model Clinic, as well as a lecturer for the Department of Health and Human Services for the Centers for Disease Control. He served on the HTLV-III Antibody Subcommittee of the California State AIDS Advisory Committee as well as on numerous other AIDS/community health related committees. In 1989, he chaired the AIDS Community Educators of Los Angeles network. He served as an advisor to the State of California's Community Planning Working Group and the HIV Comprehensive Care Working Group. He was an advisor to the State of California Department of Health Services' Office of AIDS and provided planning assistance to the HIV Education and Prevention Services Branch and HIV Care Branch. At the time Rice died in 1996, he was the longest tenured executive of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.

Acquisition information:
Date and method of acquisition unknown.
Processing information:

Formerly box 102-A110B. Collection processed by Kyle Morgan, 2013.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Kyle Morgan
Sponsor:
Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Date Prepared:
(c) 2013
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013-06-03T17:15-0700

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Preferred citation:

[Box/folder #, or item name] Hugh Rice Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center Records, Coll2013-044, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.

Location of this collection:
909 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007, US
Contact:
(213) 821-2771
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