Today's Featured Biography
Georgiana White Godfrey
Vita
Georgiana White: Special Assistant for the JAAC for Education and Outreach
Education: History and Communications Studies, B.A. with honors, CSUS.
Work Experience: Special Assistant for the JAAC for Education and Outreach, CSUS, 2001 to 2003, CSUS, 1976 to 2001: Head Special Collections and University Archives, Emeritus
Memberships and Activities:
• President, Society of California Archivists, 1997/98
• V.P./President-elect, Society of California Archivists, 1996/97
• Society of American Archivists, Member
• Society of California Archivists, Member
• CSUS President's Speakers Program, Member
• State History Day, Judge
• Oral History Historian
• Florin JACL, Member; National JACL, Member
• Co-Chair 1996 Annual SCA Conference, Riverside, CA
Keynote Speaker:
Time of Remembrance, Florin JACL, 1996
Marysville/Yuba City JACL, 1996; French Camp JACL, 1997; Stockton/Lodi JACL, 1997
Asian American Youth Leadership Conference, 1998, 2001
Public Speaking:
Japanese American Experience • Belle Cooledge • Oral History • Sacramento History • History of Women in Sacramento • Archives: Theory, Procedures and Practice • Using Archival Materials in the Classroom • Japanese American Experience, Immigration to the Present • Faculty Writing Collections, SCA & SAA Conference, May 1995 • Japanese American Collection, JACL Women's Forum, October 1995 • Archival Security, SCA Workshop, December 1995 • SCA Conference, 1996, Chair, Seminar of the Future of Archival Education • Issei Women, 1996 Florin JACL Women's Forum • Florin JACL 60th Anniversary Dinner
Exhibit Curator:
• Sacramento Sports Hall of Champions, 1850-1988, Sacramento History Museum, 1988/1989
• CSUS $50 million Campaign Kick-Off Exhibit, September 1994
• Japanese American Collection Exhibit, November 1994
• Japanese American Collection Asian History Month, April 1995
• Tule Lake Internment Camp Reunion, May 1995, 1998, 2001
• CSUS Alumni Exhibit, May 1995
• Nembutsu Camporee and Exhibit, August-September 1995
• Florin Reunion Exhibit, September 1995, 1998
• Florin JACL 60th Anniversary Dinner Exhibit, 1996
• Florin JACL Women's Forum, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
• JACL National Biennial Convention, San Jose CA, 1996
• For the Sake of the Children, 1997
• Time of Remembrance, Elk Grove School District, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
• Heading East/JAAC, Sacramento Public Library, 1998
• The Home Front, WWII/JAAC, Sacramento Public Library, 1999
• Golden State Museum, Time of Remembrance Program, 2002, 2003, 2004
Grants
• JACL Legacy Grant, 1996 • CLPEF Grant Recipient, 1997
Documentaries
• Children of the Camps, Technical and Photographic Advisor, 1998
• We Came to Grow, Technical and Photographic Advisor, 1999
• Forsaken Fields, Technical and Photographic Advisor, 2001
Awards
• Outstanding Alumni CSU, Sacramento, 2000
• Educator of the Year, Mary Tsukamoto JACL Award, 2001
I am empty nester. Daughter, Geneva, senior at Humboldt State on Athletic Scholarship - four year starting shortstop, National Champion and All American. Will stay with Humboldt as a assistant coach at end of senior year. Now that softball life is over I will return to my love - Baseball. Born in the City - my team finally World Champions - Go Giants!!!
VIEW ALL BIOGRAPHIES
|