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R. Kenneth Coleman and family.
No full textclient file of R. Kenneth Coleman; Corresponding Negative, folder 45https://egrove.olemiss.edu/miles/1173/thumbnail.jp
Memorandum from Kenneth Iyeko
No full textMemorandum from Kenneth Iyeko regarding establishment and support of the Japanese American Citizens' League at incarceration camps operated by War Relocation Authority.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Stabilization of vinylic intermediates in the addition, cyclization, and oligomerization reactions of alkynes by coordination of molybdenum and tungsten. The crystal and molecular structure of [W(SC6H4Me-p)[η2-C(CF3)C(CF3)PEt3] (η2-CF3C≡CCF3)(η-C5H5)] and [WCl[η2-C(CF3)C(CF3)CN](η2-CF3C≡CCF3)(η-C5H5)]
No full textNucleophilic attack of phosphines, phosphites or Me3CNC on the η2-CF3C≡CCF3 (L) complexes L2WBr2(CO) and L2MX(Cp) (Cp = η5-cyclopentadienyl; M = Mo, W, X = Cl, SC6F5; M = W, X = SC6H4Me-p) occurs at an acetylenic C atom to give 1:1 adducts. The products, I [X = SC6H4Me-p, L1 = PEt3 (II); X = Cl, L1 = Me3CNC (III)] were shown by x-ray diffraction to contain a metal-stabilized 1-3 dipolar vinyl ligand L+C(CF3)C-(CF3) η2-coordinated to the W center. The structures of II and III were refined to R 0.038, 0.040, for 2924, 6900 independent reflections, resp
Comparing cost-utility estimates: does the choice of EQ-5D or SF-6D matter?
No full textBACKGROUND: A number of different measures can be used within cost-utility analyses, we compared results according to both the EQ-5D and SF-6D. METHODS: A randomized trial was conducted to compare 4 options for people with knee pain. Over the 2 year trial period, the change in cost to health-service was estimated, and both the EQ-5D and SF-6D were used to estimate the change in quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). Using a complete case analysis, the cost-utility (incremental cost-effectiveness ratio [ICER]) of each option, according to both the EQ-5D and SF-6D, was calculated and assessed in relation to the cost-effectiveness threshold of pound20,000 per QALY. RESULTS: Of the 389 participants, 247 had complete cost, EQ-5D and SF-6D data. According to the EQ-5D, option 1 had an estimated ICER of pound10,815 (compared with option 4), option 2 was dominated by option 1, and option 3 was subject to extended dominance. Conversely, according to the SF-6D, option 3 had an ICER of pound9999 (compared with option 4), option 2 had an ICER of pound36,883 (compared with option 3), and option 1 was subject to extended dominance. CONCLUSION: The EQ-5D and SF-6D estimated that different options (1 and 3, respectively) were cost-effective at the pound20,000 per QALY threshold, demonstrating that the choice of measure does matter
Comparing the performance of the EQ-5D and SF-6D when measuring the benefits of alleviating knee pain
No full textObective: to assess the practicality, validity and responsiveness of using each of two utility measures (the EQ-5D and SF-6D) to measure the benefits of alleviating knee pain.Methods: participants in a randomised controlled trial, which was designed to compare four different interventions for people with self-reported knee pain, were asked to complete the EQ-5D, SF-6D, and Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) at both pre- and post-intervention. For both utility measures, we assessed their practicality (completion rate), construct validity (ability to discriminate between baseline WOMAC severity levels), and responsiveness (ability to discriminate between three groups: those whose total WOMAC score, i) did not improve, ii) improved by <20%, and iii) improved by > or = 20%).Results: the EQ-5D was completed by 97.7% of the 389 participants, compared to 93.3% for the SF-6D. Both the EQ-5D and SF-6D were able to discriminate between participants with different levels of WOMAC severity (p < 0.001). The mean EQ-5D change was -0.036 for group i), 0.091 for group ii), and 0.127 for group iii), compared to 0.021, 0.023 and 0.053 on the SF-6D. These change scores were significantly different according to the EQ-5D (p < 0.001), but not the SF-6D.Conclusion: the EQ-5D and SF-6D had largely comparable practicality and construct validity. However, in contrast to the EQ-5D, the SF-6D could not discriminate between those who improved post-intervention, and those who did not. This suggests that it is more appropriate to use the EQ-5D in future cost-effectiveness analyses of interventions which are designed to alleviate knee pain.</p
Do estimates of cost-utility based on the EQ-5D differ from those based on the mapping of utility scores?
No full textBackground: mapping has been used to convert scores from condition-specific measures into utility scores, and to produce estimates of cost-effectiveness. We sought to compare the QALY gains, and incremental cost per QALY estimates, predicted on the basis of mapping to those based on actual EQ-5D scores.Methods: in order to compare 4 different interventions 389 individuals were asked to complete both the EQ-5D and the Western Ontartio and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) at baseline, 6, 12, and 24 months post-intervention. Using baseline data various mapping models were developed, where WOMAC scores were used to predict the EQ-5D scores. The performance of these models was tested by predicting the EQ-5D post-intervention scores. The preferred model (that with the lowest mean absolute error (MAE)) was used to predict the EQ-5D scores, at all time points, for individuals who had complete WOMAC and EQ-5D data. The mean QALY gain associated with each intervention was calculated, using both actual and predicted EQ-5D scores. These QALY gains, along with previously estimated changes in cost, were also used to estimate the actual and predicted incremental cost per QALY associated with each of the four interventions.Results: the EQ-5D and the WOMAC were completed at baseline by 348 individuals, and at all time points by 259 individuals. The MAE in the preferred model was 0.129, and the mean QALY gains for each of the four interventions was predicted to be 0.006, 0.058, 0.058, and 0.136 respectively, compared to the actual mean QALY gains of 0.087, 0.081, 0.120, and 0.149. The most effective intervention was estimated to be associated with an incremental cost per QALY of pound6,068, according to our preferred model, compared to pound13,154 when actual data was used.Conclusion: we found that actual QALY gains, and incremental cost per QALY estimates, differed from those predicted on the basis of mapping. This suggests that though mapping may be of value in predicting the cost-effectiveness of interventions which have not been evaluated using a utility measure, future studies should be encouraged to include a method of actual utility measurement.Trial registration: current Controlled Trials ISRCTN93206785.</p
Lifestyle interventions for knee pain in overweight and obese adults aged > or = 45: economic evaluation of randomised controlled trial
No full textOBJECTIVE: To estimate the cost effectiveness of four different lifestyle interventions for knee pain. DESIGN: Cost utility analysis of randomised controlled trial. SETTING: Five general practices in the United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS: 389 adults aged > or = 45 with self reported knee pain and body mass index (BMI) > or = 28. INTERVENTIONS: Dietary intervention plus quadriceps strengthening exercises, dietary intervention, quadriceps strengthening exercises, and leaflet provision. Participants received home visits over a two year period. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Incremental cost per quality adjusted life year (QALY) gained over two years from a health service perspective. RESULTS: Advice leaflet was associated with a mean change in cost of -31 pounds sterling, and a mean QALY gain of 0.085. Both strengthening exercises and dietary intervention were more effective (0.090 and 0.133 mean QALY gain, respectively) but were not cost effective. Dietary intervention plus strengthening exercises had a mean cost of 647 pounds sterling and a mean QALY gain of 0.147 and was estimated to have an incremental cost of 10,469 pounds sterling per QALY gain (relative to leaflet provision), and a 23.1% probability of being cost effective at a 20,000 pounds sterling/QALY threshold. CONCLUSION: Dietary intervention plus strengthening exercises was estimated to be cost effective for individuals with knee pain, but with a large level of uncertainty. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ISRCTN93206785
An assessment of the discriminative ability of the EQ-5Dindex, SF-6D, and EQ VAS, using sociodemographic factors and clinical conditions
No full textObjective: to assess whether three health-related quality-of-life (HRQL) measures (the EQ-5Dindex, SF-6D, and EQ VAS) can discriminate between the HRQL of different groups of individuals.Methods: in one UK general practice a cross-sectional survey requested information on six sociodemographic factors, 10 clinical conditions, and the three HRQL measures. Regression analyses were used to assess whether there was a significant difference in HRQL between groups with different sociodemographic factors and those with and without clinical conditions.Results: one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five questionnaires were returned. There was a significant difference between the HRQL of the majority of different groups according to each HRQL measure. However, not all of the measures could discriminate between groups of different ethnicity, gender, or smoking status, or those with and without asthma, stroke, cancer or diabetes.Conclusion: the HRQL of the majority of different groups could be discriminated between by the EQ-5Dindex, SF-6D, and EQ VAS.</p
The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 2007
Full text linkJohn Muir Hanna: A Biography Bill Hanna, Napa, California FAMILY John Muir Hanna was born on March 15, 1909 in Oakland to Wanda Muir and Thomas Rae Hanna. He was the second child of six. His older brother was Strent (Strentzel) who was born in 1907. His younger siblings were Richard, Robert, Jean, and Ross. His grandfather was the naturalist and preservationist John Muir and his grandmother was Louie Strentzel Muir whose parents had settled in Martinez in 1853. John\u27s mother, Annie Wanda Muir, was the elder daughter of John Muir and Louie Strentzel. She and her sister, Helen, were home schooled. Helen was not a healthy child and Wanda helped care for her as well as her grandparents. She was determined to further her education and told her father she was going to Berkeley. John Muir was not in favor but did not forbid his daughter to go. She walked to Berkeley and enrolled in the precursor to Mills College and after completing her college prep requirements entered the Univ. of California. When she was one semester shy of graduating her sister became gravely ill so she dropped out of school to go to Arizona and help care for her. While there, she filled in for an ailing stage driver and drove a stagecoach for tourists to the Grand Canyon. On her return to Martinez she married Tom Hanna in 1906. She died of sepsis in 1943. Tom Hanna was from a fanning family near Gilroy. He met Wanda while he was an engineering student at Cal. While a student he spent his summers working in the mountains. One summer he worked for a company that was surveying the Hetch Hetchy Valley for the city of San Francisco. He also spent at least one summer monitoring grazing permits on National Forest land on the east side of Yosemite. After marriage he helped manage the Stentzel- Muir farm as well as engage in several entrepreneurial endeavors, including owning a gold mine near Bodie. He spent many months a year for several years in the eastern Sierra. He is credited with discovering the Paiute trout and there is a mountain named after him to the west of Bridgeport. After his wife\u27s death he appointed John as executor of the family estate and went to Alaska to work for \u27 the Army Corp of Engineers. He died in 1948. John and his older brother Strent spent several summers traveling by horseback before they were teenagers. While teenagers their temperaments grew apart and they were mildly estranged during middle age but reconciled well before Stent\u27s death in the early 70\u27s. Dick was always taking the opposite side in a discussion and thus became a lawyer. He moved to Nevada, became a District Attorney and later a judge. He retired to Montana where he died in the mid 90\u27s. Robert was an aviator (I think) in WWII and sold insurance for a living. He died of heart failure at age 45 (1957). Jean moved to Carson City with her three children after her divorce. She became executive secretary to the governor of Nevada and died of cancer about 1980. Ross was the musician in the family and (continued on page 4) pagel
JEWS «. R ES Field Trip, Sutter\u27s Fort John A. Sutter Symposium held at Pacific, April 25, 26 This past April, John Muir Center hosted the 57th California History Institute at Pacific. The topic, John A. Sutter & His World, attracted eighty five students, scholars and community supporters, as well as a roster of distinguished speakers and descendants of John Sutter. Events began with a field trip on April 25 by bus to Sutter\u27s Old Fort in Sacramento and Marshall Gold Discovery Site in Coloma. Historian/interpreter Steve Beck of California State Parks provided a personal tour of the Fort and its artifacts. In Coloma, the group toured the original gold discovery site and the interpretive center commemorating the beginning of the California Gold Rush. The program on campus on April 26 included formal presentations from six Sutter scholars. Dr. Iris Engstrand, University of San Diego, launched the symposium with a slide presentation on John Sutter\u27s Old World Background and Family History. Steve Beck followed with views of the evolution of Sutter\u27s Fort. The morning ended with a reevaluation of Sutter\u27s relations with Native Americans by George Harwood Phillips, University of Colorado emeritus, and currently living in La Jolla. The luncheon was a specially-prepared California- Mexican-period buffet based on recipes from Encarnacion Pinedo\u27s El Cocinero Espanol (1898), recently reissued as Encarnacion\u27s Kitchen, translation and editing by Dan Strehl. •Albert Hurtado, Travis Chair in Modern American History at the University of Oklahoma and currently the Los Angeles Times Fellow at The Huntington Library in San Marino, gave the luncheon keynote, The Trouble with Heroes: John Sutter in California History. Hurtado pointed out Sutter\u27s strengths as well as his weaknesses and based his overview on his thirty years of research that led to publication of John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier (2007). Kenneth Owens, Sacramento State University, and his colleague, Alexander Petrov, Russian Academy of Albert Hurtado and Bill Swagerty Sciences, provided the final two presentations in the afternoon. Owens focused on the importance of Mormans and the Gold Rush while Petrov spoke on John Sutter and Fort Ross from a Russian Perspective. Following the symposium, members of the Sutter Family joined presenters for photos and all authors signed books. Members of Swagerty\u27s American West Class were special beneficiaries of the symposium in that they read the Hurtado book as part of the class during spring semester and wrote essays on Sutter\u27s impact on California\u27s development. One wonders, had Sutter remained in California and not moved to Pennsylvania for the last years of his life, what John Muir would have thought and written about this pivotal figure. As Hurtado has put it, Famous in his own time, Sutter is now a lightning rod for controversies concerning the moral dimensions of the conquest of the American West (Preface to John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier). The next California History Institute will be hosted in the spring of 2010, the focus of which will be John Muir as Scientist and Environmentalist in tandem with an exhibition of Muir\u27s herbarium at the Oakland Museum, curated by Dr. Bonnie J. Gisel. American West class at symposium page 2
Muir Journals, Drawings, and Photographs Available Online By Michael Wurtz Holt-Atherton Special Collections University of the Pacific Library Researchers can now go online and read every John Muir journal, look at every Muir drawing and see every photograph with John Muir in it that is located at the Holt- Atherton Special Collections Department of the University of the Pacific Library. The quality of the digital images of these materials makes close examination Muir\u27s work easier than if one were to hold the original in hand. With a click of the mouse, researchers are able to zoom in on the images so that every detail of the item is revealed. Like many archival repositories, the Holt-Atherton Special Collections Department has undertaken digitization initiatives to expand online access to its holdings, including the Muir Papers. Since scholars from around the world will use the John Muir Papers online, digitization of the most heavily used items in the collection was a central focus of the selection process. Thus, it was decided to digitize only the 242 photographs in the collections that include Muir himself- the most requested images from the Muir Papers. The bulk of the photographs come from the John Muir Papers, but there are a few from related holdings such as the James Eastman Shone Collection of Muiriana. In general, there was reliable metadata - information such as where the photos were taken and the identification of the people in them. Dates were more elusive, and archivists familiar with the collection analyzed Muir\u27s appearance and other factors to establish approximate dates when necessary. In cases where the archivist knew places and people that were previously unidentified, the information was added to the metadata as well. One of the advantages of posting images online is that any knowledgeable researchers can now help with identification as well. Since the site went live we have added data and made corrections based on information that the public has provided. After digitizing the photos of John Muir, attention was directed toward making his seventy-eight handwritten journals available online. These journals provide insights into his experiences and view of the natural world. They document his explorations around the globe, and are in continual demand by researchers. Digitizing this material in a reasonable timeframe was beyond the resources of Special Collections, so a University of the Pacific Planning Priorities grant was secured to hire and train temporary employees to scan the over 7,000 journal pages. Existing metadata about the items scanned such as the dates, locations, and general topics of the journals was used to create descriptive titles for each journal. While full text transcripts would have been ideal, much of the journals\u27 content was problematic in terms of creating transcriptions. Some pages include writing in several different directions, and many were heavily edited by Muir with crossed-out lines, rewritten sentences, and extensive marginalia. Transcribing this content in a usable manner would have been both difficult and time consuming. It was decided that providing users with images of the original writing was the first priority, and the transcription issue could be revisited later, perhaps with additional grant funding. Another major component of the Muir Papers is the 384 drawings by Muir that illustrate the environments he encountered in California, Alaska, and other locations. As much information as was available was entered with the images, but we hope that researchers will also assist us in bolstering the metadata. With the completion of the Muir drawings, three of the four major elements of the Muir Papers, in terms of patron use and research potential, have been digitized. The remaining component, Muir\u27s correspondence, is the focus of a pending grant application that will include full-text transcripts of all of Muir\u27s letters. The greatest benefit to putting digitized material online is that researchers can view the material from anywhere at any time. However, one of the corollary benefits is that the original materials can now be handled less and ensure the continued preservation of the Muir material. Visit http://pacific.edu/ha/muir and click on either Digitized John Muir Journals, Drawings, and Photographs or Digital Content. If you need any assistance with navigating the online material, please call us at 209.946.2404. .....mm. John Muir Journals Oli-icf. Ij c I { o KSSESga I JB ffiPi? -A t**»-««f-.t.i,t.^ This screen shot of Muir first journal, The \u27thousand mile walk\u27 from Kentucky to Florida and Cuba, from 1867-1868 is only a sample of the almost 8000 new images that are available of John Muir\u27s journals, drawings, and photographs. page 3
(continuedfrom page 1) John gave him a saddle so he could trade it for a new trumpet. He was in the navy in WWII and graduated from UOP. He was a partner in a slaughter house in Dixon and John used to sell him the cattle he raised. Ross and his wife still reside in Dixon. EARLY EXPERIENCES Shortly after his birth John had to share his mother\u27s breast. Wanda\u27s cousin who also lived in Martinez had given birth to twins. She became sick and had passed the illness to her infants. The doctor sent a nurse to take the twins to Wanda for her to nurse. All survived but John said that is why he was the shortest of his siblings. John lived with his family in the Martinez Adobe near the Strentzel/Muir house until the spring of 1915, shortly after Muir\u27s death. He remembers little about Muir other John Muir with grandchildren Richard, John and Strentzel Hanna, Martinez, CA. (Courtesy of the John Muir Papers, Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library, Copyright 1984 Muir-Hanna Trust. Photo f24-1352) than he liked children and always had candy in his pockets. The adobe is now part of the John Muir National Historic Site and John was consulted by the National Park Service during its restoration. In the early 1970\u27s he planted the vineyard which is currently on the site. After Muir\u27s death the family moved to Crockett where Tom Hanna was developing a housing project. John went to grammar school there and recounts an incident when a delivery truck\u27s brakes failed. He was delivering a payroll for the sugar mill by horseback and standing near the curb holding the reins. The horse shied and threw him to the ground right in front of the truck. The truck straddled him but he received a bad cut to the head. Bystanders took him to the nearest establishment, a bar, and laid him on the table while others went for his mother and a doctor. Wanda arrived just before the doctor and the bystanders wouldn\u27t let her in because she was a woman. She said That\u27s my child in there! and physically cleared her own path to the table. A few stitches and a dressing and John was as good as new. John had a lifelong fascination with and love of horses. He watched his father and hired hands training ■ If John Muir with grandson, John Muir Hanna, probably Martinez, CA. (Courtesy of the John Muir Papers, Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library, Copyright 1984 Muir-Hanna Trust. Photo f24-1351) horses from the time he was a toddler. When he was three he stayed behind after his father had finished working with an as yet unbroken wild stallion, climbed the corral fence, and climbed on the horse when it came near. His mother came looking for him when he didn\u27t return with his father and was afraid to take any decisive action because it might spook the horse. The horse was being quite calm so she told John to guide it over to the fence and get off. The minute he was clear of the horse she grabbed him by the collar with one hand and spanked him with the other. He had his own horse by the time he was five and kept riding a good part of his life. The family journeyed to Yosemite in 1916. Tom and Wanda were in a wagon with Richard and Bob while John and Strent rode bareback. They passed over Tioga Pass and down into the Mono Basin. They turned north, passed page 4
through Bridgeport then came back home via Sonora Pass. The very next year, when John was 8 and Strent was 10, they and a foster brother who was 14 rode (bareback) with pack horses from Martinez to Yosemite and Tuolumne Meadows where they spent the summer. Tom and Wanda joined them for two weeks after driving up by car. The next year they repeated the trip. In 1919 they decided to do something different. The three boys rode from Martinez north along the foothills of the Sierra to Klamath Falls, Oregon. They returned using a more coastal route and passed through Napa on the way to the Benicia ferry. Tom and Wanda moved the family back to Martinez in time for John to attend high school there. During this time he helped cultivate the orchards and vineyards using teams of horses. He had the contract to prepare the high school football field for use (disc it up and harrow and drag it smooth) using his team. He also got a contract to grade driveway approaches to a new county road. Sulfuring grapevines to prevent mildew was done by shaking a burlap sack with finely ground sulfur over the vines in the early morning. John improved on this by tying a bag to each end of a pole and riding through the vines, thus doing two vines at a time. He says the first time he did this the teachers were distraught when they saw his eyes tearing. He explained he had sulfured that morning and the sun was reacting with the sulfur making his eyes water. At this time the family also had several milk cows. At milking time they would send the dog Hector to herd the cattle down. One time Hector brought the cows down but one was missing. John told Hector to go back and get the wayward cow. The next thing he heard a bawling and barking and saw a cloud of dust. Hector was running at the cow from the side and grabbing hold of the tail with his mouth. The momentum carried him to the other side and clear of the wildly kicking feet of the cow. Thereafter, that cow was the first back into the bam. John used the money he earned to buy beef cattle. He gradually built up a sizable herd which he hoped would finance his college education. After graduation from high school he was accepted at Stanford University. He did well academically but missed the horses so he joined an ROTC cavalry unit on campus. When the officer found out how well he could ride he was immediately drafted onto the polo team. When the depression hit the value of his cattle was not enough to pay his expenses so after one year he dropped out. YOUNG ADULT Tom Hanna had bought the May Lundy Mine to the northwest of Mono Lake at the end of 1919. John spent part of his high school summers up there helping his father do assay work. His father had bought the mine on speculation, hoping to sell it to a large mining company. The depression put an end to that so the family decided to build a new mill and reprocess tailings to pay the taxes until they could sell the mine. John decided to find work near a college so he could continue his education. He moved to Oregon and worked on a state highway near Florence then got a job helping to build the Columbia River jetty. The contractor on both jobs was a friend of his father\u27s. After two years of working he had saved enough to enter Oregon State. There he continued to play polo and earned money cutting hair and washing dishes in a fraternity house. He became a partner with two of the members in a riding academy but after two years again had to drop out. He returned to California and went to Lundy to work with his father. He worked at least a couple of seasons (April-October) there. One year he stayed on into November trying to keep things operating longer. He grew lonesome prior to Thanksgiving so shuttered the cabin and got a ride out to the highway. He caught the stage which was a truck with a few added seats that made deliveries all along the way. He had hoped to get a haircut and shave (he had had neither since April) in Minden but the stage took too long and he didn\u27t have time before the train left. He rode the Virginia&TruckeeRR from Minden to Reno and thought he would still have time for a haircut and shave in Reno but the train was indeed a milk run , stopping at all the farms along the way to pick up and deliver milk and other freight and chat with the families. The shops were closed so he just called home to tell them he was arriving the next morning and to send someone to pick him up. He waited around the station awhile then walked into the parking lot in time to see his brother Richard about to leave. He shouted and got his attention. His brother swore in amazement and hardly believed it was him. When he walked in the door his mother dropped what she was doing, stared at him, and said, Son, I never thought I\u27d live long enough to see a son that looks as old as you! He later obtained part time work at the Union Oil refinery nearby and then landed a permanent job at the American Smelting & Refining Co. plant at Selby in 1938. He started working in the warehouse but in a short time got the job of purchasing agent, the job he retained until his retirement in 1972. His retirement coincided with the closing of the Selby plant and he managed the sale of all the assets. MIDDLE YEARS Once he had a job he could contemplate marriage. Brother Ross was playing in a dance band and invited John to get a date and attend. He asked his brothers for suggestions and one said he knew a gal nearby. He called her and she said she\u27d be happy to go with him but had a friend visiting from Stockton. John said he\u27d take them both. The friend was Virginia Young and he was smitten. page 5
The old saddle turned Ross into a matchmaker. In the summer of 1938 John was at Lundy with his father. His sister Jean was to be married in Yosemite so Virginia came to Lundy with his brother Richard. When she got there Saturday afternoon, John and his dad were talking with the regional Catholic priest, Father Maclnness. He asked John and Virginia if they wanted to go to the dance in Bodie that night and if so, he would take them. They went and forever talked of the wild ride through the sagebrush and on the narrow bumpy road. John and Virginia were married in August 1939 in Stockton. Virginia graduated from the College of the Pacific in Stockton in 1934 and had been teaching in Stockton. The newlyweds honeymooned up the coast and visited many of John\u27s friends in Oregon and Washington and then settled in Berkeley. She couldn\u27t find a teaching job so tookajobinthe accounting department of Capwells. After their son Bill was bom in 1945 they moved to a rental house in Albany, CA. The love of farming was too strong in John and so in November 1950 John and family moved to a 100 acre ranch just north of Napa. It took a while for city raised Virginia to adapt to rural life but she grew to love the solitude and beauty. She never forgot their anniversaiy in 1951 as she and Bill spent most of the day rounding up some of the cattle that had broken through the fence. That September she started work as a teacher, Bill started first grade, and her mother came to Napa to look after Bill. John worked 5 % days a week at Selby and only received 2 weeks vacation. He spent all weekends working t
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