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Highlights Mr. Andolin Monforte, delegate to the Spanish Parliament from the province of Guipúzcoa, visited the Basque Studies Program in January. Parliamentarian Monforte is a member of the Health Committee and consequently visited our medical school for a discussion of medical education and health care delivery systems in the United States. Professor Jon Bilbao completed volume one of his Basque Emigration Studies Working Papers. It consists of short biographical sketches of 1500 Basque residents in the Philippine Islands between the years 1830 and 1910. While unpublished, it is available from the Basque Studies Program. The study can be used here in the Basque Studies Program library or requested from Interlibrary Loan. Xerox copies can be requested at a cost of $0.10 per page. William A. Douglass published Beltran, Basque Sheepman of the American West (Reno): University of Nevada Press, 1979). “On the Naming of Arizona,” Names, December 1979, and “The Last Range War,” in The American Lands, Smithsonian Exposition Books, 1979. We would like to thank Phil and Jean Earl of Earl Enterprises for donating a set of “El Basco-Basque Aspen Art of the Sierra Nevada” to the Basque Studies Program. “El Basco” consists of ten lithographs made from tree carvings made by Basque shepherds in the Sierra Nevada. “El Basco” is available from Earl Enterprises, P.O. Box 13994, Reno, Nevada 89507 for $200 per set or $20 per print. Harpist Nicanor Zabaleta gave a concert at the University of Nevada Reno in February. Zabaleta is a Guipúzcoan Basque born in San Sebastián, Spain. He studied in Madrid and Paris. The concert was sponsored by the Public Occasions Board of the University of Nevada Reno. Ms. Anetxu Olascoaga joined the staff of the Basque Studies Program as half-time secretary in March. Ms. Olascoaga is assuming many of the duties formerly performed by Jill Berner who has been promoted to Library Assistant. Ms. Berner will be in charge of the development and maintenance of the Basque library collection. A copy of Los Pastores (The Shepherds), a performance of the nativity play filmed by the John E. Connor Museum of Texas A & I University – Kingsville, is available from the University of Nevada Reno Office of Communication and Broadcasting. Los Pastores is the story of the shepherds who journeyed to Bethlehem to worship the Christ child. The play had its origins some eight hundred years ago in the Basque Country of Spain. The version presented is one which evolved in the Hispanic regions of the American southwest. The ¾ inch color video tape film was produced under a grant from the Texas Committee for the Humanities. In early January Parks Canada sent three staff members to visit the Basque Studies Program. Ms. DiAnn Herst, Chief, Archaeology Division, Mr. Robert Grenier, Marine Archaeologist, and Mr. Lester A. Ross, Researcher, Material Culture, made a preliminary study of the Basque Studies Program’s holdings relating to 16th century Basque shipping and showed slides of their current “dig,” a sunken whaling vessel found off the coast of Labrador near Red Bay. Insurance records mentioning a ship lost there in 1565 led to its discovery by an underwater archaeological crew from Parks Canada. While they were here, plans were made for Jon Bilbao to visit the salvage site and lecture on Basque history following a one- to two-week period of intensive research by their investigators in the BSP library. Subsequent collaboration will be established in Vitoria (Alava) between the Basque Studies Program and the Basque Provincial Government of Alava. |
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