Guide to the John Vasconcellos papers HPA Mss 47
Processed by D. Tambo and David C. Gartrell, additional processing and arrangement by Campbell Hannan, 2024.
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
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University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara 93106-9010
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Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Title: John Vasconcellos papers
Creator:
Vasconcellos, John (1932-2014)
Identifier/Call Number: HPA Mss 47
Physical Description:
90 Linear Feet
(78 doc boxes, 52 cartons, 1 shoebox, 2 flatboxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1946 - 2007
Abstract: This collection documents John Vasconcellos' personal and professional life, including legislative materials, artifacts, and
his work with Humanisitic Psychology.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Language of Material:
English
.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by John Vasconcellos, ca. 1986-2004; future additions anticipated.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into 6 series:
- Series 1. Personal/Biographical
- Series 2. Humanistic Psychology
- Series 3. Campaigns
- Series 4. Legislative Files
- Series 5. Artifacts
- Series 6. Audiovisual
Biography
The following biographical sketch was prepared by Sen. John Vasconcellos' legislative office. See also his web site at: http://democrats.sen.ca.gov/senator/Vasconcellos/
BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN VASCONCELLOS
April 25, 2003
At age 71, Senator John Vasconcellos is serving as the Dean of the California Legislature. Currently in his last term 'Representing
the Heart of Silicon Valley', Vasconcellos is known for his innovative and sometimes radical approaches to transforming the
traditional roles of politics and government to better serve the human potential toward self-realization and peace. He often
repeats the most compelling personal/political calling of our times:
We must become both hospice workers to support the peaceful dying and letting go of our traditional culture of fear and cynicism,
and midwives to gently usher in our emerging culture of trust and mutual regard - and with it a more hopeful human future.
Throughout his 37 years in public office, Vasconcellos has made his way with integrity, faith, transparency and partnership
- all in the midst of a society undergoing profound revolutions and transformations, chaos and change. He's been characterized
as 'A Pragmatic Idealist', 'The Conscience of the California Legislature', and 'The Johnny Appleseed of Self Esteem.'
Vasconcellos is redefining leadership, believing that the true leader is that person who inspires and enables other persons
to recognize, and then to realize, their innate capacity for becoming their own leaders. He is realigning the purpose of government
to facilitate the growth and healthy development of whole human beings who are fully able to lead lives of freedom and responsibility,
integrity and compassion, characteristics of a truly democratic society. He delivers a challenge for all of us in California
and throughout the nation:
to transform every level of governance according to a more faithful view of our human nature, so as to empower each and all
of us to realize our innate human capacities, and the promise of our multicultural democracy, with gender equity, in the global
economy, in this age of technology!
THE BEGINNINGS
Born in San Jose, California, John Vasconcellos was the eldest son of three children to parents of Portuguese (father) and
German (mother) descent. His father was a California public school teacher and administrator for 40 years. His mother was
a devoted homemaker and bank teller.
After attending public schools (where his father was a top administrator), Vasconcellos was formally educated by the Jesuits.
He began as a boarding student at Bellarmine College Preparatory, then went on to Santa Clara University where he graduated
magna cum laude with a Bachelor's Degree in history (after changing majors 3 times). He was the only triple crown winner in
the university's history - student body president, valedictorian of his class, and winner of the Nobili Medal awarded to the
most outstanding graduate.
Until this time Vasconcellos had given no thought to a career in politics. Upon graduation his counselor Steve Earley urged
him to consider a career in politics. Vasconcellos prepared a résumé and took it to California Attorney General Edmund G.
'Pat' Brown. Brown wrote Vasconcellos assuring him that he'd provide him opportunity for gaining experience and exposure,
both essential for an aspiring politician seeking to establish his credibility and candidacy.
Upon completing his undergraduate education, Vasconcellos' ROTC commitment led him into two years as a lieutenant in the United
States Army, first in officers basic training at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, then 18 months of service in Giessen, Germany. After
returning home he entered Santa Clara University's law school where he again served as student body president and graduated
first in his class in 1959.
A BURGEONING CAREER
Vasconcellos joined the prestigious San Jose law firm of Ruffo & Chadwick. After practicing law for one year he got another
call from Pat Brown, then governor, inviting him to join his staff as Assistant Secretary for Travel. After three weeks of
arduous struggle within himself (and nearly turning down the offer), Vasconcellos succumbed to the advice of a mutual friend
of his and the governor who said "John, the Governor needs good people around him. You've got to go!"
Vasconcellos served on Brown's staff for a year, including many thrilling encounters like accompanying the governor and John
F. Kennedy (a special hero and role model for Vasconcellos) on Kennedy's campaign tours throughout California - during which
he got plenty of 'experience and exposure.' Vasconcellos then returned to his law practice in San Jose, immersing himself
in local civic and religious endeavors.
Then in 1966, when Assemblyman Al Alquist ran for a new Senate seat opened up by the Baker vs. Carr decision, Vasconcellos
finally was persuaded by friends to become one of 6 Democratic candidates vying to become the party's nominee, in what was
a strongly leaning Democratic district. After nearly a year of full-time campaigning, Vasconcellos won the 6-person primary
with 48% of the vote and went on to a fairly easy election that November. At that time Vasconcellos was considered too liberal
by some, yet too conservative by other Democrats - probably because he wasn't really sure who or what he was, himself.
That same year and all throughout his first election campaign, Vasconcellos suddenly found himself in profound pain and confusion
and went looking for help. Still a Roman Catholic he was referred to Leo Rock, a Jesuit priest and psychologist who was a
protégé of pioneering humanistic psychologist, Carl Rogers. Thereupon the highly accomplished yet suffering politician began
psychologically restructuring himself, a long public odyssey with many diversions and false starts.
He explored various therapies and personal growth experiences which today Vasconcellos characterizes as having lead to "a
radical change in [his] personal identity, [his] social condition and capacities" - in particular his sense of himself and
of his emerging self esteem. Leo Rock introduced Vasconcellos to the pioneers of humanistic psychology. He devoured all (what
would today be considered) the classics such as Sidney Jourard's
The Transparent Self, Carl Rogers'
On Becoming A Person, Abraham Maslow's
Toward a Psychology of Being, Rollo May's
Man's Search for Himself, and close to 100 self-help books in the vein of humanistic psychology.
By 1968-69, fueled by both his personal growth/self awareness and the assassinations of Robert Kennedy (for whom he worked
in the 1968 primaries) and Martin Luther King, Jr., Vasconcellos started his move away from traditional liberalism toward
a more radical humanistic political ideology. He participated in a series of 8 workshops at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur,
a leading retreat center for exploring the frontiers of human potential, and kindred centers across California. His mentors
in this series included Jourard, Rogers, Maslow, May, James Bugental, James Fadiman, Richard Farson and John Heider.
His personal discoveries and insight into himself and the human experience inspired his developing an ever more holistic approach
to politics and government. He began actively cross-fertilizing the tenets and goals of humanistic psychology with his work
in legislative public policy-making - particularly in the fields of natural childbirth, education and holistic health.
PROMULGATING A NEW POLITICS
Between 1970-1980, Vasconcellos actively lobbied for community-based nonviolent conflict resolution projects and university
peace-study programs, as well as promoting student representation on all the major governing boards in California higher education.
Vasconcellos also initiated three leading-edge legislative efforts:
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The California Task Force on Alternative Birthing Practices (x2)
-
The California Task Force on Positive Parenting
-
The California Commission on Crime Control and Violence Prevention
All the while Vasconcellos (less than secretly) continued his diligent search for himself and his healing toward becoming
a whole person. Talk therapy enabled him to turn around his mindset regarding himself and his human nature from negative to
positive. Then, having engaged in both individual and group encounter efforts, he sought to liberate himself and his emotions
from the constraints of his guilt and shame-ridden Roman Catholic childhood. In 1970 he took the most profound step of his
recovery and he began working weekly (for most of the next 13 years) in the breathing and body experiences of bioenergetics
with Stanley Keleman.
At one point in their work Keleman halted the process to check in with Vasconcellos regarding a dilemma they were facing.
"You have a lot of energy," Keleman advised him, "which being in politics you use up well. Yet you have so much rage locked
away inside you, that if we proceed and we open you up to all that, I'm not sure we'll be able to keep you from blowing your
top, and in the midst of that, blowing your entire political career! Do you want us to continue, or would you prefer to stop
here?"
Vasconcellos believed that having come so far, there was no way he could stop now, that they must go on. It caused such a
fallout that the State Assembly created a team of colleagues who rushed to his side when he and his rage erupted, and held
his hands while he blew until he settled down. Eventually, he outgrew both his rage and his need for such support.
In the mid 1970's Vasconcellos and two close friends, each feeling alienated from politics-as-usual, co-founded an innovative
humanistic association called
Self-Determination: A Personal/Political Network. At its peak it boasted 1800 members who were dually committed to their own personal growing self-awareness and socially-aware
political engagement.
He also pleaded for far-reaching changes in the economic structure of California, moving from competition to cooperation,
from materialism to humanness. Vasconcellos grew into recognizing (under the tutelage of legendary Republican industrialist
David Packard) that most of the impetus for economic development and prosperity must come from outside the public domain,
and continues to be skeptical about only creating large public-sector programs. Vasconcellos maintained that a healthy private
sector is generated by nurturing a smart strategic sense of public/private partnership.
By this time Vasconcellos was developing a reputation among his colleagues for being 'more than a maverick' and for possessing
well-developed skills in mediation and conflict-resolution. He began describing himself less as an 'alternative role model'
and more as an 'anti-establishment member of the establishment.' He was conscious of the living paradox inherent therein,
saying "That the most radical political act is taking responsibility for becoming the first person to know who I am." And
he began to transform his sense of politics from 'the art of the possible' to 'the art of the practical'.
He was growing ever more popular in human growth circles, and in 1979 he completed his first book entitled
A Liberating Vision: Politics for growing human beings. It both told the story of his personal odyssey of self-discovery during his first 15 years in politics and public office,
and was his first attempt to synthesize the principles of a whole new humanistic politics. He talked ever more loudly and
insistently about his hopes to 'humanize politics and politicize humanists.'
In his book he wrote: "My major goal over the years has been unity, unity between my inner and outer self, between who I am
as a person and who I am politically. I've tried to live without any masks, to be open to all of who I am, to all my deepest
feelings, doubts, needs, anger, fears, and to all my tenderness, lovingness, vulnerability and compassion."
In 1980 Vasconcellos began by far the longest tenure in California legislative history as Chair of the most powerful committees
in the State Assembly, the
Committee on Ways and Means, which had jurisdiction and responsibility for both preparation of California's annual state budget, and processing every
piece of legislation which proposed to appropriate any taxpayer money. He held that position longer than any person in the
Committee's hundred year history (including throughout California's deep recession of the early 1990's).
He also deployed a provocative 'whole child as learner' vision for education by serving on the
Assembly Education Committee, chairing both the policy and budget subcommittees on higher education. In both the early 1970's and the late 80's he chaired
comprehensive and ambitious legislative reviews of California's legendary 'Master Plan for Higher Education.'
By this time, Vasconcellos had also become a senior member of the Assembly, second only to his good friend and legendary Speaker
of the Assembly, Willie L. Brown, Jr. (now Mayor of San Francisco). Then came a time of awful legislative misconduct that
sent several of his colleagues to prison. Vasconcellos urged Speaker Brown to initiate some action 'to clean up the mess,'
and upon his return to the Capitol for the 1989-90 legislative session Vasconcellos learned from the Capitol press corps that
Speaker Brown had announced his appointment as Chair of the Assembly's
Select Committee on Ethics.
Vasconcellos immediately selected his smartest Democratic colleagues to comprise the majority on that committee, and invited
his Republican Vice-Chair to operate instead as his Co-Chair. The ensuing effort produced for the State and People of California
the toughest code of legislative ethics in the nation at the time. Never had a legislative committee operated in such an open
and bipartisan manner, and at a time which especially needed a credible counter-force to the public's growing cynicism. The
work product of the Select Committee went onto the June 1990 primary ballot and was overwhelmingly enacted into law. There
have been no legislative ethics scandals in California since that time.
About that time his friend Lonnie Barbach, a sexuality therapist, advised him she'd been asked to run for President of
AHP (The Association of Humanistic Psychology), but was concerned about whether she could handle its workload. Vasconcellos suggested
they run together as Co-Presidents. Many AHP members who would have never elected either a politician or a sexuality therapist
were at least disarmed (perhaps even charmed) by the 'odd couple' and elected them both for a year of service.
Then came, as a further function and expression of his growing self-awareness, Vasconcellos' most notorious, most profound
political effort to fuse the insights of humanistic psychology and the practices of government and society. In 1984 with the
help of self esteem teacher Jack Canfield, Vasconcellos created and introduced legislation to create the
California Task Force to Promote Self Esteem and Personal & Social Responsibility.
In 1987 Vasconcellos succeeded as the chief architect of the most controversial, notorious, and profound achievements of his
legislative career. He enlisted strong bipartisan support in the Legislature and persuaded a very conservative Republican
governor to sign the legislation into law.
The Task Force had four primary goals:
- To compile research on the correlation between self-esteem and six major social concerns (crime and violence, drug and alcohol
abuse, teen pregnancy, child and spousal abuse, chronic welfare dependency, and failure to achieve in school);
- To examine three critical questions:
- What constitutes self esteem?
- How is self esteem lost?
- How can self esteem be rehabilitated?
- To explore the government's appropriate role in promoting these strategies and self esteem, and to identify model programs
and specific applications of remedial strategies which are grounded in an explicit self-esteem component;
- To broadcast the good news emerging in the findings of the Self Esteem Task Force, and to assist in helping to create county
self-esteem task forces in each of California's 58 counties.
The legislation was subject to an avalanche of satire and criticism. The Task Force received more requests to be appointed
(400) than any commission in the state's history. Its members included both Jack Canfield, who later went on to become the
lead author of the popular
Chicken Soup for the Soul series of books, and Virginia Satir, one of the leading founders of family therapy. Its final report was produced in January
of 1990 after 12 public hearings and 15 task force meetings.
Toward a State of Esteem broke all records by selling more than 60,000 copies and becoming by far the #1 best seller of all time for State of California
publications.
The most obvious proof of its success was its spin off of 49 county-level task forces. In the wake of California's endeavor,
at least fourteen other states began exploring ways to create their own efforts in regard to the appreciation and understanding
of the interior person, and the applications and cures regarding healthy self esteem.
Most significantly, the Task Force succeeded in transforming healthy self esteem from a secretive matter laced with taboo
into one of the most cherished insights and values in post-modern society. The influence of the Task Force can be seen around
the world, and is now attended to by the ongoing International Self Esteem Council. Vasconcellos made his mark, building a
reputation for working both the idealistic and practical dimensions of government and politics.
In the early 90's Vasconcellos found himself and his fellow Democrats under siege as the California economy sunk into deep
recession. His response was
ADEPT (the Assembly Democratic Economic Prosperity Team) which over the next two years he took throughout California, engaging
in more than 55 dialogues with various sectors of California business.
The effort produced the historic report,
Toward an ADEPT California. It coincided with the Republican Governor's Commission on the California Economy, which together led to legislation setting
the conditions for California's astonishing recovery and technological leadership throughout the mid to late-90's.
Other Vasconcellos initiatives which may have received less media attention but constitute essential spokes in his commitment
to promulgating a whole new political agenda (proceeding from, and grounded in, humanistic psychology's faithful view of our
human nature, included the following:
-
California Leadership - a nonprofit and nonpartisan enterprise that, recognizing California's shift toward becoming a much more diverse state,
sought to identify and train especially talented young women and persons of color to become the future leaders of California.
A Latina member of its first class is now one of two finalists to become the next President Pro Tempore of the California
State Senate. A female African-American graduate of its last class was recently President of the Board of the Los Angeles
Unified School District. California Leadership served to unite current and future state leaders in a decision-making process
that was 'collaborative in practice, multicultural in representation, and proactive in problem-solving.'
-
The California Human Corps - a statewide program enacted in the late 1980's which strongly expected and encouraged every student in the University of
California and California State University systems to engage in 30 hours of community service per year during her/his college
career to remediate such issues as illiteracy, environmental contamination, alleviation of hunger and care for the elderly.
- Vasconcellos also promoted a variety of social wellness projects including:
- California Preventing Violence
- The Latino Advancement Project
- The Senior Partners Program
- Parents as Teachers
With the passage of a rigid Constitutional amendment imposing term-limits upon California legislators, Vasconcellos was in
1996 prohibited from standing for reelection to the California State Assembly. Fortuitously, his State Senator was that same
year termed out. Vasconcellos stood for election to the California State Senate and won, once again 'Representing the Heart
of Silicon Valley.'
THREE DECADES OF LEADERSHIP
During his first Senate term, Vasconcellos chaired the challenging and controversial
Public Safety Committee which had hitherto been named the Committee on Criminal Procedure. The Vasconcellos 'Tough & Smart Public Safety Program'
took a more long-range, holistic, and preventive approach to public safety, and stopped cold the decade-long rush to more
penalties and more prisons.
He managed that assignment without making himself or his fellow Democrats vulnerable to 'soft-on-crime' labels from the other
side. Vasconcellos lead the effort to transform prisons and the lives of inmates from torture chambers that produce greater
threats to public safety, toward institutions and programs that truly seek to live up to its name as the Department of Corrections.
In this his final term of his legislative career, Vasconcellos Chairs the
Senate Committee on Education, whose jurisdiction extends to both pre-K-12 public education and California's legendary higher education system. In his
first year he enacted a program which was signed into law that provided $200million annually for California students in the
lowest performing schools. In his second year he moved onto the California law books the most comprehensive and elegant methodology
for preventing school violence, steeped again in the vision and practices of humanistic psychology.
As Chair of the
Senate Subcommittee on Aging and Long-Term Care he convened the 15 most out-of-the-box thinkers in that field asking them what could be accomplished during his final 3 years
in the Legislature that would most profoundly improve the lives of aging Californians. This year as Chair of the Senate's
Select Committee on Economic Development he aims to create our nation's leading comprehensive system of spending accountability for all State efforts and subsidies
seeking to spur economic development.
THE LAST HURRAH
As he rapidly approaches the end of his final term in the California Legislature, Vasconcellos and his colleagues decided
in the Fall of 2001 to create
The John Vasconcellos Legacy Project. The original scope of the project was simply to identify and bring together all the various initiatives generated over four
decades in the California Legislature into a coherent and sustaining body of work that would not dissipate and disappear upon
his departure from the Capitol.
Today the Legacy Project seeks to articulate a whole new politics -
The Politics of Trust - a progressive orientation to governance whose faithful vision is best expressed by the eminent humanistic psychologist
Carl Rogers who said:
I've been doing psychology for 60 years, and I've come to believe we human beings are innately inclined toward becoming life-affirming,
constructive, responsible and trustworthy.
With this foundational assumption and worldview, the Politics of Trust constitutes a powerful antidote to the self-defeating
and debilitating practices of traditional politics, offering instead a liberating approach to democracy and healthy self-governance.
In his book
A Conflict of Visions, political economist Thomas Sowell concedes "that the central fulcrum issue facing all of us in politics today is our basic
assumption regarding ourselves and our human nature."
Vasconcellos is now dedicating the rest of his life to further discerning, developing, and promulgating the Politics of Trust
with the aim of elevating its principles, policies, practices and programs into the mainstream of California, U.S. and global
politics. For more information visit www.PoliticsofTrust.net.
CONCLUSION
Perhaps more than any other elected public office holder in the United States, John Vasconcellos has lived out his commitment
to the faithful vision of our human nature and potential, espoused by humanistic psychology and the human potential movement.
He has lived and acted transparently and authentically, both privately and publicly, and established an alternative model
for future legislators and radically innovative programs for their engagement and commitment.
Early in his legislative career, he assessed what was deficient in himself as a leader and as a human being, and courageously
decided to seek assistance in unlocking and developing as much of his potential as he could. Like two of his mentors, Carl
Rogers and Sidney Jourard, he now emphasizes the process of
becoming (rather than outcomes), with all its false starts, mistakes, regressions, imperfections, and fumbles, along with a deep conviction
that he and others are capable of realizing the very best that we human beings can be/come.
The vision of Senator John Vasconcellos recasts in modern terms the philosophical and psychological justification for restructuring
self and society so that the ancient values of freedom and responsibility, democratic empowerment and cooperation, self-realization
and community become primary in the functioning of individuals and political systems. Building trust, he contends, is the
path to this new reality. In his words:
It is only by building trust, on a large-scale, that we can change, and change fundamentally, both ourselves and the pathologies
of our social and political systems. Our most important public policy is our personal policy; our individual visions, beliefs,
and value systems regarding human beings and human nature which necessarily underlie all our hopes and expectations, all our
relationships and all our public policies.
Our society is in crisis. Our time is come. We owe it to ourselves, and to the persons and causes we hold dear, to fully invest
and commit ourselves, come together to lead lives of faith and hope and love, and realize the promise and the peace that is
built into our human genes, that is our human calling, that is meant to become our human destiny!
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials from John Vasconcellos' personal and professional life and includes series of his work
within the California Legislature and on Humanistic Psychology.
Preferred Citation
(Item title), John Vasconcellos Papers. HPA Mss 47. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Personal/Biographical Series 1.
Scope and Contents
Includes biographical material, correspondence, high school and college years, and University of Santa Clara files photographs,
writings such as
Liberating Vision.
box 1, box 2, box 3, box 4, box 5
Biographical/Family
1946 - 1995
Scope and Contents
Materials related to John Vasconcellos' early life and family, including high school and college at the University of Santa
Clara. Also includes daily calendars from 1973 - 1995.
box 6, box 7, box 8, box 9
Correspondence
1946 - 2004
1946 - 1987
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, personal and professional, largely from 1946-1987, but also including emails from the tail end of Vasconcellos'
career, 2001-2004. Also includes letters of condolence for his father's death in 1983.
box 10, box 11, box 12, box 13, box 132
Photographs
Scope and Contents
Photos and photo albums both personal and professional.
box 14, box 15, box 16, box 17
Writings
Scope and Contents
John Vasconcellos' writings, including articles, essays, and drafts of his book
Liberating Vision.
box 18, box 19, box 132
Political Files
Scope and Contents
Files on other politicians and on Vasconcellos' post-legislative career.
box 20, box 21, box 22, box 23, box 24, box 132
Unassociated Personal Items
Scope and Contents
Other materials from Vasconcellos' personal life, unassociated with the previous series. Includes materials from various trips
that influenced his international relations policy.
Humanistic Psychology Series 2.
Scope and Contents
Mainly relating to Self Esteem, with some files pertaining to other areas of humanistic psychology, its advocates and organizations.
box 25, box 26, box 27, box 28, box 29, box 30
General
Scope and Contents
General materials related to Humanistic Psychology, arranged alphabetically and chronologically.
box 31
Association for Humanistic Psychology
Scope and Contents
Materials related to the Association for Humanistic Psychology.
box 32, box 33, box 34, box 35, box 36, box 37, box 38
Self-Esteem
Scope and Contents
Materials related to the California Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility, John Vasconcellos'
Self Esteem Notebooks, Towards a Healthier State, and other topics around self esteem.
Campaigns Series 3.
Scope and Contents
Arranged chronologically, by campaign.
box 44
Governor
1997 - 1998
Scope and Contents
Mainly exploratory files, ca. 1997.
box 40, box 45, box 133
General
Scope and Contents
Campaign materials from Vasconcellos' early races and general campaign literature.
Legislative Files Series 4.
Scope and Contents
Materials related to Vasconcellos' legislative work.
box 46, box 47, box 48, box 49, box 50
Bill Files
1985 - 1997
Scope and Contents
Arranged by session, then bill number.
box 51, box 133
Bill Records
circa 1967 - 1984
Scope and Contents
Lists of bills.
box 52, box 53, box 54, box 55, box 56, box 57, box 58, box 59, box 60, box 61, box 62, box 63, box 64, box 65, box 66, box 67, box 68, box 69, box 70, box 71, box 72, box 73, box 74, box 75, box 76, box 77
Chronological Files
1966 - 2004
Scope and Contents
Includes calendars, daily agenda, select correspondence, memos, newsletters, work schedules, and other material primarily
relating to legislative matters. Arranged by session, then bill number.
California Assembly
Scope and Contents
List of members, officers, committees and the rules
California Legislature
Scope and Contents
Biographical sketches of members, committees, offices, schedules, standing rules, and election statistics.
box 80, box 81, box 82, box 83
People Files
Scope and Contents
Files on people relevant to Vasconcellos' legislative work.
box 84, box 85
Propositions
Scope and Contents
Propositions Vasconcellos made to the California Legislature.
box 86, box 133
Resolutions and Proclamations
circa 1990s
Scope and Contents
Resolutions and Proclamations Vasconcellos made for proposal.
box 87, box 88
Staff Memos Subseries 6.
1987 - 1994
Scope and Contents
Memos from Vasconcellos to his legislative staff.
box 89, box 90, box 91, box 92, box 93, box 94, box 95, box 96, box 97, box 98, box 99, box 100, box 101, box 102, box 103, box 104, box 105, box 106, box 107, box 108, box 109, box 110, box 111, box 112, box 113, box 114, box 115, box 116, box 117, box 118, box 119, box 120, box 121, box 122, box 123, box 124, box 125, box 126, box 127, box 128, box 129, box 133
Subject Files Subseries 7.
Scope and Contents
Alphabetical, spanning entire legislative career. Some topics included:
- ADEPT (Assembly Democratic Economic Prosperity Team)
- Aging
- California Compact
- Californians Preventing Violence
- Campaign Reform
- Community Summit
- Economy
- Education
- Ethics
- Family Life Education Project
- Guestbooks
- Health
- Immigration
- Interest Groups
- Japan
- John Vasconcellos Legacy Project
- Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
- Learners Unlimited, Inc.
- Learning Project
- Mailings
- Master Plan for Higher Education
- Model District 23
- New Politics
- Newspaper Clippings
- Peace
- Press Releases
- Public Safety
- Questionnaires
- Sexual Orientation
- Toward a Healthier State
- Tracking Legislation
- USSR
- Wellness Council
- World Music Festival
box 130, box 131
Artifacts Series 5.
Scope and Contents
Includes awards, certificates, plaques, keepsakes, memorabilia from Vasconcellos' life.
Audiovisual Series 6.
Scope and Contents
Includes audio and videotapes
reel A10154/R7
Dr. Glasser - Reality Therapy
1967 January 7
reel A10155/R7
Dr. Richard L. Foster - Cloud Award
1970 May 14
audiocassette A10156/CS
1972 Campaign Talk - George Leonard and JV
1972
audiocassette A10157/CS
Conscious Politics (#335A-B) - W. Erhard, J. Fadiman, M. Toms, JV, tape 1
1976
audiocassette A10158/CS
Conscious Politics (#335A-B) - W. Erhard, J. Fadiman, M. Toms, JV, tape 2
1976
audiocassette A10159/CS
Raincross Square - Interview with JV, KUCR Radio
1979 September 25
audiocassette A10161/CS
California Public Radio Feature with JV, re state budget
1983 May
audiocassette A10162/CS
Peace P.C. [legislative peace package]
1983 August 22
audiocassette A10164/CS
Election 84, tape 1
circa 1984 November
audiocassette A10165/CS
Election 84, tape 2
circa 1984 November
audiocassette A10166/CS
New Dimensions
1985 March 1
audiocassette A10167/CS
John Vasconcellos
1985 April 19
audiocassette A10168/CS
Vasconcellos P/L
1985 May 9
audiocassette A10169/CS
"New Dimensions"
1986 May 9
audiocassette A10170/CS
Council for Excellence, L.A.
1986 September 17
audiocassette A10171/CS
Toward a Healthier State - Benicia, CA, tape 1
1986 September 26
audiocassette A10172/CS
Toward a Healthier State - Benicia, CA, tape 2
1986 September 26
audiocassette A10173/CS
Toward a Healthier State - Benicia, CA, tape 3
1986 September 26
audiocassette A10174/CS
Healthy Politics (#1989)
1986
audiocassette A10175/CS
Preventing Violence
1987 May 29
audiocassette A10176/CS
Vasconcellos, with introduction by Warren Baker
1987 September 14
audiocassette A10177/CS
Association of California School Administrators
1987 September 30
audiocassette A10178/CS
"Toward a Healthier State" - Community Health Panel
1987 October 2
audiocassette A10179/CS
People, Power, and Politics - JV keynote address
1987 October 17
audiocassette A10180/CS
California Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives, Irvine
1987 October 23
audiocassette A10181/CS
CCPD Conference - Asilomar
1987 November
audiocassette A10182/CS
Santa Clara University
1988 February 18
audiocassette A10183/CS
CSAC Childcare Conference
1988 February 20
audiocassette A10184/CS
LAC - PTA- CCC Conference
1988 February 26
audiocassette A10185/CS
Tide Speech
1988 March 10
audiocassette A10186/CS
CSU Sacramento - commencement address
1988 May 21
audiocassette A10187/CS
San Jose State University - speech
1988 October 18
audiocassette A10189/CS
Assemblyman Vasconcellos Speaker's Nomination
1988 December 5
audiocassette A10190/CS
Plenary - Threats & obstacles to Sexual Literacy & Our Profession - Pilpel and JV
1988 December 9
audiocassette A10191/CS
IGA Speech re Select Committee on Ethics Proposition
1989 August 4
audiocassette A10193/CS
EOP 20th Anniversary at SJSU
1989 September 26
audiocassette A10194/CS
National Conference of Social Workers
1989 October 4
audiocassette A10195/CS
Vasco 8340, tape 1
1989 October 5
audiocassette A10196/CS
Vasco 8340, tape 2
1989 October 5
audiocassette A10197/CS
Fremont Union High School District
1989 October 23
audiocassette A10198/CS
Broadcast
1990 January 24
audiocassette A10199/CS
Jackson/Vasconcellos
1990 February 14
audiocassette A10200/CS
State Special Education Speech
1990 February 28
audiocassette A10201/CS
A Politician's Look at the Future of Health Care
1990 July
audiocassette A10202/CS
Ford Fellows Conference - Panel Presentation, JV, et al
1990 October 19
audiocassette A10203/CS
CSPA PAC Breakfast Meeting
1990
audiocassette A10204/CS
Luncheon - A Healthier Society
[1990]
audiocassette A10205/CS
A Vision of Health Promotion for California's Multi-Ethnic Communities in the Year 2000
1991 June 14
audiocassette A10207/CS
Santa Clara County Public Health
1992 February 22
audiocassette A10208/CS
California Chamber of Commerce - Board of Directors dinner, JV speech, Laguna Nigel
1992 March 5
audiocassette A10209/CS
New Vision Speech
1992 May 7
audiocassette A10210/CS
Economic Transition Workshop - L.A.
1992 June 8
audiocassette A10211/CS
WFS: Creating the 21st Century - Closing Session, JV and Kenneth W. Hunter
1992 August 16
audiocassette A10212/CS
General Session: The Political & Economic Challenges Affecting Prenatal Health Care
1992 October 16
audiocassette A10213/CS
League of Conservation Voters - Legislative Orientation
1993 January 6
audiocassette A10214/CS
California Bankers Association, tape 1
1993 January 26
audiocassette A10215/CS
California Bankers Association, tape 2
1993 January 26
audiocassette A10216/CS
California Tax
1993 January 28
audiocassette A10217/CS
Community College League
1993 January 1
audiocassette A10218/CS
CELC Annual Legislative Meeting - California Competitiveness
1993 March 3
audiocassette A10219/CS
Young Presidents Organization
1993 March 22
audiocassette A10220/CS
Latino Electoral Officials
1993 May 5
audiocassette A10221/CS
CSMFO Legislative Seminar - Sacramento
1993 May 27
audiocassette A10222/CS
SCAP-NGG Conference - JV address, Sacramento
1993 May 27
audiocassette A10223/CS
Inside Edition
1993 May 28
audiocassette A10224/CS
The World Future Society - 7th General Assembly, Monday Luncheon: Governance on the Front Line
1993 June 26
audiocassette A10225/CS
CSUPERB Biotechnology Symposium - JV Luncheon Presentation
1994 January 25
audiocassette A10227/CS
MALDEF Awards Dinner
1994 March 23
audiocassette A10228/CS
California Medical Association
1994 April 13
audiocassette A10229/CS
Friends on Criminal Justice, tape 1
1994 April 28
audiocassette A10230/CS
Friends on Criminal Justice, tape 2
1994 April 28
audiocassette A10231/CS
John Vasconcellos
1994 September 12
audiocassette A10232/CS
Gandhi Conference - Santa Cruz, CA
1994 October 1
audiocassette A10233/CS
Academic Planning Conference, University of California - Oakland
1994 October 20
audiocassette A10234/CS
Transparent Politics
1994 November 12
audiocassette A10235/CS
Programs with the Japan America Society - Orange County and LA
1994 November 15
audiocassette A10236/CS
Leadership, Sunnyvale - "State of the State"
1994 November 18
audiocassette A10237/CS
Internet Brainstorm, tape 1
1994 December 3
audiocassette A10238/CS
Internet Brainstorm, tape 2
1994 December 3
audiocassette A10239/CS
Internet Brainstorm, tape 3
1994 December 3
audiocassette A10240/CS
Children & Family Collaboration
1995 March 3
audiocassette A10241/CS
CHEA Conference - JV opening address
1995 March
audiocassette A10242/CS
California Society of CPAs - Legislative Day
1995 May 3
audiocassette A10243/CS
CAEA Conference, Summit Session - JV Opening Address
1995 November 18
audiocassette A10244/CS
International Somatics Congress - The Living Body
1995 November 22
audiocassette A10245/CS
ITA Conference - Spirit in Action
1995
audiocassette A10247/CS
Academic Senate
1996 April
audiocassette A10248/CS
CTC (tape 4 of 6) - Sacramento
1996 July 11
audiocassette A10249/CS
Interfaith Action
1996 August 13
audiocassette A10250/CS
John Vasconcellos End-of-Session Tribute
1996 August 27
audiocassette A10251/CS
Exploratory Campaign for Governor
1997 September 16
audiocassette A10252/CS
JV Speaks to Counselors
1998 February 15
audiocassette A10253/CS
Willow Glen Methodist Church
1998 March 1
audiocassette A10254/CS
Mobilization for the Human Family: Including the Excluded - JV, Including the Excluded in the Social Contract
1998 May 9
audiocassette A10255/CS
Year 2000 Crisis - JV, et al, tape 1
1998 May 13
audiocassette A10256/CS
Year 2000 Crisis - JV, et al, tape 2
1998 May 13
audiocassette A10258/CS
Re-Igniting the Spirit of America
2000 April 30
audiocassette A10259/CS
CAG Annual Conference - JV speech, "California's Crisis & Crossroads"
2003
audiocassette A10260/CS
AB1 - Workers' Compensation
undated
audiocassette A10261/CS
Asian Pacific State Employees
October 13, no year
audiocassette A10262/CS
CABE Keynotes - Cisneros / Vasconcellos
undated
audiocassette A10263/CS
CAPED - Interview with Casey
undated
audiocassette A10265/CS
Self-Esteem & Society
undated
audiocassette A10266/CS
Self-Esteem (tape 2 of 2) - Washington, D.C.
1987 November
audiocassette A10267/CS
PPANA 6: Nurturing the Possible Human - JV, Violence & Self-Esteem / Pre & Perinatal Origins, San Francisco
1987
audiocassette A10268/CS
CCA 13: Congress of the Arts, San Francisco
1987
audiocassette A10269/CS
National Council on Self Esteem
1987
audiocassette A10270/CS
Building Self-Esteem: A Positive Approach to Education
1988 April 30
audiocassette A10271/CS
Self-Esteem & Society (tape 1 of 2) - Washington, D.C.
1988 November 20
audiocassette A10272/CS
Self-Esteem Conference - Self Esteem: A Multi-Cultural Perspective, JV, et al, CSU Long Beach
1988
audiocassette A10273/CS
Marketplace (American Public Radio) - JV Commentary on Self-Esteem
1989 March 13
audiocassette A10274/CS
Toward a State of Esteem - Boston Interface Conference
1991 May 3
audiocassette A10275/CS
ASTD National Conference - Self Esteem in the New Economy
1991 May 23
audiocassette A10276/CS
FEA 91: Through the Family & Beyond: Full Esteem Ahead - Towards a State of Self Esteem, tape 1
1981 August
audiocassette A10277/CS
FEA 91: Through the Family & Beyond: Full Esteem Ahead - Towards a State of Self Esteem, tape 2
1981 August
audiocassette A10278/CS
FEA 91: Through the Family & Beyond: Full Esteem Ahead - The Self Esteem Revolution: Taking It back Home
1981 August
audiocassette A10279/CS
Association for Humanistic Psychology Conference - Self-Esteem: The Key to Gender Reconciliation
ca. 1992 February 14 - 17
audiocassette A10280/CS
The Significance of Self-Esteem - Annual Conference on Self Esteem
1992 February 21
audiocassette A10281/CS
Action Now: Full Esteem Ahead - Association for Humanistic Psychology Closing Ceremony
1992 August 2
audiocassette A10282/CS
Self Esteem Advisory Panel - Sacramento
1992 August 4
audiocassette A10283/CS
Celebrating Self-Esteem - Palm Springs
1993 February 19
audiocassette A10284/CS
Rekindling the Flame of Human Possibility - Making the Political Personal" - Association for Humanistic Psychology Conference
- Seattle
1996 August 18
audiocassette A10285/CS
First Annual Virginia [Satir] Self-Esteem Conference
undated
audiocassette A10286/CS
Northern California Association of Marriage & family Therapy Annual Meeting
undated
audiocassette A10287/CS
The Self-Esteem Task Force: A Report from the Capital
undated
audiocassette A10288/CS
Seven Springs sessions, tape 1
undated
audiocassette A10289/CS
Seven Springs sessions, tape 2
undated
audiocassette A10290/CS
Seven Springs sessions, tape 3
undated
audiocassette A10291/CS
Seven Springs sessions, tape 4
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audiocassette A10292/CS
Seven Springs sessions, tape 5
undated
audiocassette A10293/CS
Seven Springs sessions, tape 6
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audiocassette A10294/CS
Seven Springs sessions, tape 7
undated
audiocassette A10295/CS
Seven Springs sessions, tape 8
undated
audiocassette A10296/CS
Seven Springs sessions, tape 9
undated
audiocassette A10297/CS
Update on California State Task Force on Self-Esteem: A Vision of a Healthier California - 7th Annual California State Conference
on Self-Esteem
undated
audiocassette A11752/CS
Pacific Rim Research Program Briefing - JV keynote address, U.C. Berkeley
1999 May 7
audiocassette A45130/CS
KQED Radio Vasconcellos
1994 January
tape V/17689/VHS
Carl Rogers' 85th Birthday
1986 December 22
