Finding aid to the Deaf AIDS Center Collection, 1987-2011
SFH 71
Tim Wilson
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
2013
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
sfhistory@sfpl.org
Title: Deaf AIDS Center (San Francisco, Calif.) Collection
Date (inclusive): 1987-2011
Date (bulk): 1987-1996
Identifier/Call Number: SFH 71
Creator:
Deaf AIDS Center (San Francisco, Calif.)
Physical Description:
2 boxes
(5 scrapbooks + 1 DVD)
Contributing Institution:
San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
sfhistory@sfpl.org
Abstract: The Deaf AIDS Center Collection documents the educational and social activities of the Center through photographs, flyers,
and ephemera.
Physical Location: The collection is stored onsite.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English.
Access
The collection is available for use during San Francisco History Center hours, with photographs available during Photo Desk
hours. Collections that are stored offsite should be requested 48 hours in advance.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the City Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Deaf AIDS Center Collection (SFH 71), San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Provenance
Scrapbooks donated by Frank Lester, December 2011. DVD recording of the 16th annual Deaf AIDS Memorial (December 3, 2005)
donated by Daniel Sonnenfeld in 2012.
Historical note
The Deaf AIDS Center was founded in 1986 by Darol Nance. The original team members included St. Benedict's Church, Deaf Service
Network–-North, Interpreting Service at St. Benedict's, Father Ken Canedo, Father Tom Coughlin, Garet Stark, and other staff
and volunteers. In the 1990s, the Deaf AIDS Center become part of the University of California, San Francisco, Center on Deafness.
Scope and Content
The collection documents the activities of the Deaf AIDS Center through scrapbooks of photographs and ephemera. The Center
organized educational workshops and conferences, retreats, an annual memorial for those who died of AIDS, and quilt panel
sewing bees for the NAMES Project. There is a videorecording of the 16th annual Deaf AIDS memorial service from 2005.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into two series: Series 1. Scrapbooks; and Series 2. Audiovisual Materials. The scrapbooks are
arranged in chronological order with some loose materials in folders.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention.
Deaf -- Health and hygiene -- Congresses.
Deaf AIDS Center (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Archives
Deaf AIDS Memorial (16th : 2005 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Nance, Darol Frank
Safe sex in AIDS prevention.
Series 1
Scrapbooks
1987-2011, undated
Physical Description:
5 scrapbooks
+ 2 folders
box 1, folder 1
"AIDS and the Deaf Community: Taking Responsibility" conference program (Pacific Grove, California: Asilomar Conference Center)
January 21-24, 1990
"AIDS and the Deaf Community: Taking Responsibility" conference program (Pacific Grove, California: Asilomar Conference Center),
January 21-24, 1990
General
Presented by AIDS Education for the Deaf and the Greater Los Angeles Council on Deafness.
box 1, folder 2
"Deaf Gay Men Tackle AIDS and Speed Use" by Michael Bajko (
Bay Area Reporter)
December 8, 2005
"Deaf Gay Men Tackle AIDS and Speed Use" by Michael Bajko (Bay Area Reporter), December 8, 2005
box 1, volume 1
Scrapbook
1987-1993, 2011
(bulk 1987-1993)
Deaf AIDS Center (San Francisco, Calif.) Scrapbook volume 1, 1987-1993, 2011
General note
Photographs and ephemera: "1988-1989 Main Accomplishments of DSN AIDS Task Force"; Dec. 1987 AIDS Task Force monitors at Names
Project Quilt showing; AIDS Task Force meeting; KQED night volunteers to answer TDDs; Women's Rap Meeting on AID; HIV Treatment
week, Saturday health fair; Retreat for the AIDS Task Force, July 1989; Living With AIDS poster and photos, May 14, 1988;
Christmas bake sale 1989; "AIDS and the Deaf Community: Taking Responsibility" January 21-24, 1990 newsletter article, and
photos; St. Benedict Deaf AIDS Information Center, 1990 open house photos and flyers; Shanti Project practical training, April
1990; 7th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, May 20, 1990; Darol Nance's speech, June 29, 1991 at Deaf Memorial service;
Deaf AIDS Memorial at Hearing Society, November 2, 1991; The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, Fort Mason Center, June 21-24,
1990; Honoring Dr. Werdegar; Darol Nance at Oklahoma City University; ODAS Conference; wedding invitation and photos for
James Velasco and Robert Suniga, 1991; flyers and photos for "Memorial Service 'A Remembrance of Deaf Friends'" June 23, 1990
hosted by Deaf Community AIDS Project; 8th San Francisco AIDS Candlelight Memorial and Mobilization, [1991?]; Pride Party,
June 23, 1990; DSN retreat, September 14-16, 1990; Rainbow Deaf Society; Deaf AIDS Information Center; New York; "Living Memorial"
Time
(October 26, 1992) clipping and photos of AIDS Quilt display in front of the Washington Memorial, Washington, D.C.; flyer
for distribution at Castro Street Fair 1993; AIDS Quilt making; Darol Nance and Frank Lester reviewing scrapbooks, 2011.
box 1, volume 2
Deaf AIDS Center local news
1988-1995
Deaf AIDS Center (San Francisco, Calif.) [Scrapbook volume 2] local news, 1988-1995
General
Newspaper articles and photographs about the center. Includes: business card for Darol Nance; mission statement; photo of
Deaf Center staff? in front of AIDS quilt; a copy of the proclamation for Darol Nance Day in San Francisco on October 29,
1992; photo of Darol Nance and other Deaf AIDS Center staff at David Werdegar's farewell party; Father Ken Canedo; Jovan Ryg;
playbill for "Hear No Scream" production at Ohlone College (1995); photocopy of certificate of honor designating May 4, 1995
to be Deaf AIDS Awareness Day; and "I Remember" a Deaf AIDS Memorial flyer (1995).
box 2, volume 3
1989-1990
Deaf AIDS Center (San Francisco, Calif.) Scrapbook volume 3, 1989-1990
General note
Photographs of several individuals with family and friends. Also includes photos of AIDS quilt panels, memorial gatherings,
a flyer to honor John Darcy Smith at the AIDS Candlelight March (1989), a flyer for the Julio Nunez Genao memorial gathering,
and notes and postcards to Darol Nance. Subjects pictured include: Darol Nance, John Darcy Smith, Betty Ann Prinz, Tom Radcliff,
Etta Smith Stecker (John Smith's sister), Smith family, Dan Langholtz, Jay Wilson, Don Parodi, Pat Zinovich, Tommy Saavedra,
Carolyn Baer, Jerry Lindberg, Ken Canedo, Julio Nunez Genao, Frank Lester, James Baer, Susan Molinari, Genao siblings from
Dominican Republic, Kathleen Duffy, Lisa Cahn, Julie Kraemer, Khae Saeteun, Milton Teasley, James Ledford, Bill "BJ" Petrie,
Don Silver, Frances Gage, Margie Iller, Angelo Rosado Marquez, Albert Walla, Robert Suniga, Steve McLaughlin, Tim Johnson,
AIDS Memorial Service at St. Mary's in San Francisco (May 16, 1990), Larry Demers, Don LeClair, Jeff Jeffery and Rose, Paul
Isaac, Leo Gallant, Joe Quinn, Mark Niklas, Nancy Moser, Ed Cruickshank, Don Rosenjkar, Khai, Guy Wonder, Arthur Simon, Phillip
Hildreth, Anthony Rheim, Garet Stark, and Veronica Saavedra.
box 2, volume 4
Obituaries
1989-1995
Deaf AIDS Center (San Francisco, Calif.) [Scrapbook volume 4] Obituaries, 1989-1995
General
Includes memorial service notices, some obituaries and some photographs: Mark James Niklas; remarks by Darol Nance (for a
conference?); John Darcy Smith; "A Remembrance of Deaf Friends" memorial service notice and program (1991); Carl A. "Buddy"
Davis, Jr.; Julio Nunez Genao; photos of AIDS Memorial quilt squares for John Smith, John Canaday, and Julio Nunez Genao;
Roy Washington Morrison, Jr.; Edward James Cruickshank; Jovan Ryg and John Smith; Tommy T. Saavedra; "list of names read at
National Quilt"; Matthew Harris; Donald R. Silvers; Angelo Rosado-Marquez; "A Rememberance of Deaf Friends" memorial service
notice (1990); Phillip Hildreth; card "To Steven. Love from Darol" with photo; Billy "B.J." Petrie; Paul Isaac and Leo Gallant;
Garet Michael Stark; Tom Kane; Mark James Nicklas; Reverend Kenneth C. Bland; Rick Cuevas; Patrick "Bad Puppy" Saatzer; Jay
Morgan Jackson; Samuel Feliciano; Allen Lee Forbes; Allen Williams; John Stubbins; Bruce Hlibok; and Rich Chenault.
box 2, volume 5
1994-1996
Deaf AIDS Center (San Francisco, Calif.) Scrapbook volume 5, 1994-1996
General note
"Names of our friends from the San Francisco Bay Area Deaf Community who are always remembered." Includes: photographs of
Deaf AIDS Memorial 1994; flyers for Living With The AIDS Virus presentation by Daniel Langholtz, "I Remember..." Deaf AIDS
Memorial 1995, and A Community Forum presented by Deaf AIDS Project at U.C.C.D. and Deaf AIDS Center in March 1995; photographs
at the Names Project; program for the 2nd Annual Bay Area Deaf Lesbian & Gay Community Awards Night on May 6, 1995; program
and poster for
Hear No Scream: AIDS in the Deaf Community
by Thomas Holcomb presented by Ohlone College Sign Theatre in April 1995; flyer: "HIV/AIDS Services for Person who are Deaf
or have Hearing Loss"; flyer: "The Deaf AIDS Project at UCSF"; photos of information tables at [Castro?] street fair, AIDS
quilt panels; photocopy of Certificate of Honor from the Board of Supervisors, City and County of San Francisco designating
April 30, 1996 to be Deaf AIDS Awareness Day"; announcement of the "new Deaf AIDS Center at U.C.S.F. Center on Deafness";
flyer for "I Remember..." 3rd annual Deaf AIDS Memorial 1996; newspaper clipping: "SJSU hosts conference: conference combines
HIV, disabilities with education" (
Spartan Daily
, March 4, 1994).
Series 2
Audiovisual Materials
2005
box 2
16th Annual Deaf AIDS Memorial (San Francisco, Calif.)
December 3, 2005
Physical Description:
1 items
DVD
General note
Produced by the Deaf AIDS Center, a member organization of Deaf Communities Together, Inc. Approximate running time 60 minutes.