Guide to the Abbe Wolfsheimer-Stutz Collection
Finding Aid Authors: Stanley Schwartz and Laurel Schwartz.
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Guide to the Abbe Wolfsheimer-Stutz Collection
1938/2014
Special Collections & University Archives
Overview of the Collection
Collection Title: Abbe Wolfsheimer-Stutz Collection
Dates: 1938-2014
Identification: MS-0557
Creator:
Abbe Wolfsheimer-Stutz, 1938-2014
Physical Description: 2.50 linear ft
Language of Materials:
English
Repository:
Special Collections & University Archives
5500 Campanile Dr. MC 8050
San Diego, CA, 92182-8050
URL: http://library.sdsu.edu/scua
Email: askscua@sdsu.edu
Phone: 619-594-6791
Biographical Information:
Abbe Salomon was born in Chicago to Irving and Cecile Salomon in 1938. After World War II, she moved with her family to Rancho
Lilac (Lilac Ranch) in Valley Center, California where she attended schools in Escondido. She completed her secondary education
at Miss Hewitt’s Classes in New York City and then attended Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. She met her future husband,
Louis Wolfsheimer on the East Coast and they moved to San Diego, where he became an attorney. The couple had two children
and later divorced. Wolfsheimer Stutz attended California Western School of Law, became a law professor and was very active
in community affairs. She served on many civic boards and was active in performing arts production and the Jewish community.
She was elected to the San Diego City Council where she served from 1985-1993. An active environmentalist, she was instrumental
in establishing the San Dieguito River Park in 1989. She served as an Assistant City Attorney and in 1997 married Deputy District
Attorney, David Stutz. Wolfsheimer Stutz was a world traveler and author. She died in 2014.
Access Terms
This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Topical Term:
Jews--California--San Diego
Administrative Information
Custodial History:
David Stutz, widower of Abbe Wolfsheimer-Stutz, donated this collection to the Jewish Historical Society of San Diego in 2015.
Accruals:
2018-023
Conditions Governing Use:
The copyright interests in some of these materials have been transferred to or belong to San Diego State University. The nature
of historical archival and manuscript collections means that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine.
Copyright resides with the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. Requests for permission to publish
must be submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. When granted,
permission is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are
made available for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the
materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.
Conditions Governing Access:
This collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation:
Identification of item, folder title, box number,
Abbe Wolfsheimer-Stutz Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Library and Information Access, San Diego State University.
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Irving Salomon Collection
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Abbe Wolfsheimer-Stutz Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises papers, documents and photographs, from Wolfsheimer-Stutz's birth in 1938 to her death in 2014.
Box 1 contains photos and scrapbooks from schools that she attended, correspondence, class notes, newspaper clippings, her
writings, awards and family genealogy. Box 2 contains souvenirs, playbills and memorabilia from her high school and college
days and her time in New York City, plus the book that she wrote.
There is also material about Abbe Wolfsheimer Stutz in the Salomon Collection at the Valley Center History Museum. The Valley
Center Collection contains family photos and material about Wolfsheimer-Stutz's life at the Lilac Ranch and grade school memorabilia.
Box 1, Folder 1
Correspondence between Abbe Salomon and her father Irving Salomon Birth Announcement
1938-1950s
Box 1, Folder 2
Early school photos - Valley Center and elsewhere
1946-1951
Box 1, Folder 3
Photos of Abbe Salomon
1938-1960
Box 1, Folder 4
National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan
1949-1950
Box 1, Folder 5
Escondido Union High School scrapbook
1951-1952
Box 1, Folder 6
Escondido Union High School scrapbook
1952-1953
Box 1, Folder 7
Escondido Union High School scrapbook
1952-1953
Box 1, Folder 8
Escondido Union High School scrapbook
1953-1954
Box 1, Folder 9
Confirmation - Congregation Beth Israel
May 19, 1953
Box 1, Folder 10
Miss Hewitt's Classes - New York City (now Hewitt School) Pamphlets, yearbook, photos
1954
Box 1, Folder 11
Miss Hewitt's Classes - New York City (now Hewitt School) Graduation
1955
Box 1, Folder 12
Goucher College scrapbook - Baltimore, MD
1955
Box 1, Folder 13
Political Science Class - Goucher College, Baltimore MD
1956
Box 1, Folder 14
Goucher College, Baltimore MD, Activities
1955-1959
Box 1, Folder 15
Personal Correspondence to Abbe Salomon while at Goucher College, Baltimore MD
1955-1959
Box 1, Folder 16
High School / College photos of friends
1950s
Box 1, Folder 17
Matchbook cover collection from New York City nightlife
1950s
Box 1, Folder 18
Goucher College, History Class Notes
1959
Box 1, Folder 19
Goucher College, English Class notes & papers
1955
Box 1, Folder 20
Goucher College, Spanish class notes & papers
1957
Box 1, Folder 21
Goucher College, Music class notes
1955-1959
Box 1, Folder 22
Young Adulthood - Photos
1950s
Box 1, Folder 23
Travel Photos, Resort, Cruise, Spain
1956-1957
Box 1, Folder 24
Early married life - Photos - Louis Wolfsheimer
1960s
Box 1, Folder 25
Newspaper clippings
1958-1968
Box 1, Folder 28
Poetry, prose, speeches & notes
1980s - 2001
Box 1, Folder 29
Newspaper clippings
1970-1989
Box 1, Folder 30
Newspaper clippings
1990-2003
Box 1, Folder 31
Political memorabilia & photos
1980s-1990s
Box 1, Folder 32
San Diego Voter - Newsletter (League of Women Voters)
April & October 1995
Box 1, Folder 33
Lilac Ranch & Valley Center
1960-2015
Box 1, Folder 34
California Western School of Law - Student & Professor
1968-1985
Box 1, Folder 35
Biography, Birth & Death certificates - Condolences
1938-2014
Box 1, Folder 36
Awards & letters of appreciation
1973-2015
Box 1, Folder 37
Abbe Salomon - Family Tree
Box 1, Folder 38
Genealogy: Virginia Lee Salomon (Blake) Harold Mark Salomon & Miriam (Florsheim) & Helen (Dean) Will of Estelle Wiltsie
Box 1, Folder 41
Genealogy of the Wolfsheimer Family
Box 1, Folder 42
Genealogy of the Becker, Kirchhausen, Vogel, Wolfsheimer Families
Box 1, Folder 43
Genealogy of the Leibowitz Family
Box 1, Folder 44
Genealogy of the Zimmerspitz Family
Box 1, Folder 45
Genealogy of the Leibowitz & Zimmerspitz Families
Box 1, Folder 46
Genealogy of the Naken, Leibowitz & Zimmerspitz Families
Box 1, Folder 47
General Jewish Genealogy Information
Box 1, Folder 48
Correspondence Between Abbe Wolfsheimer Stutz and her Half Brother Derek Taylor
1996-1999
Box 1, Folder 49
Correspondence Between Abbe Wolfsheimer /Stutz and her Half Brother Derek Taylor
2000
Box 1, Folder 50
Correspondence Between Abbe Wolfsheimer /Stutz and her Half Brother Derek Taylor
2001-2005
Box 1, Folder 51
Correspondence Regarding Freedom of Information Act Request by Derek Taylor for Irving Salomon
1990s
Box 1, Folder 52
Military Records for Irving Salomon Requested by Derek Taylor - World War I and World War II
Box 1, Folder 53
Derek Taylor's Family - Early Photos
Box 1, Folder 54
Visits in San Diego and Seattle with Abbe Wolfsheimer Stutz and Derek Taylor
Box 1, Folder 55
Abbe Wolfsheimer Stutz's Notes on her Father Irving Salomon
Box 2, Item 2
Book and Miscellaneous Items
1940s - 2001
Scope and Contents
Book: The Whores of St. Joan by Abbe Wolfsheimer-Stutz 2001 - 2 copies Autograph Album - Grade School Travel Diaries - 1940s
& 1950s Homecoming button 1953 Escondido High School Tomahawk from Haverford College, PA
Box 2, Folder 1
Menu from the Pump Room Ambassador East Hotel, Chicago Autographed Program from Flamenco Dancer Jose Greco
1950s
Box 2, Folder 2
Goucher Weekly - Goucher College Newspaper (MD)
1956-1957
Box 2, Folder 3
Oversize Newspaper Clippings
1980, 1987
Box 2, Folder 4
"The Derek, Frieda and Abbe Chronicles" - Article from the San Diego Reader
May 20 & 27, 1999
Box 2, Folder 5
Escondido High School Scrapbook Pages
