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Highlights A grant in the amount of $28,240 has been awarded to the Basque Studies Program by the U.S.-Spanish Joint Committee for Educational and Cultural Affairs for a one year project to study nineteenth century immigration of Basques into California and Nevada, and Basque involvement in European settlement of the Philippines. This is part of a larger study of nineteenth century Basque society being conducted by a research team of the University of Deusto (Bilbao, Vizcaya). Jon Bilbao spent the period from November 1978 to April of 1979 in the Philippines in conjunction with the above project. He conducted considerable archival research in Manila archives and on the island of Negros (where Basques controlled the sugar industry). He also visited Mindanao, Iloilo, Cebu, and Bicolandia (all areas of significant Basque activity). Ms. Marianna Etcheverria joined the staff of the Basque Studies Program as a research assistant on the above project. She is currently engaged in reviewing Southern California archives for evidence of Basque activities during the last century. In April Professor Martin Blinkhorn of the University of Lancaster, England was a guest lecturer. Professor Blinkhorn, noted historian and author of the book Carlism and the Crisis in Spain, spoke on Basque nationalism. We wish to thank the National Association of Jai Alai Frontons, Inc. and its Executive Director J. Patrick McCann, for donating a copy of their film entitled “Jai-Alai – The Fastest Game.” Groups interested in borrowing this 16mm film (about 20 minutes in length), may do so without charge by writing to Mr. McCann, Executive Director, National Association of Jai-Alai Frontons, Room 207, 9999 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami Shores, Florida 33138. Recent visitors to the Program included Mr. Steven Jackobs of Harvard University who is researching the labor cooperatives of Mondragon, Guipúzcoa; Mr. Robert Wilcox, novelist, who is writing an epic novel on a Basque-American family; Professor Dorothy Legarreta of Mills College who has undertaken a study of Basque refugee children during the Spanish Civil War; and Professor Richard Etulain of Idaho State University who is preparing an annotated bibliography of Basque-American studies for Gale Research Publications. In February William Douglass participated in the Social Studies Institute Day of the Washoe County (Nevada) school district. The purpose was to bring to the teachers’ attention the availability from the Program of audio-visual materials for classroom use. In April Jon Bilbao addressed the Nevada Legal Secretaries Association. In March William Douglass chaired the session “Issues in American Society and History” at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Anthropological Association held in Santa Barbara, California. He also gave a paper entitled “The Mining Camp: A Unique Social Phenomenon.” |
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