Yakutat Photographs by Japanese National Seiki Kayamori Received by Sealaska Heritage Institute

In 1912 thirty-five year old Japanese national Seiki Kayamori arrived in Yakutat, Alaska to work at the local salmon cannery. He joined a crew of Japanese, Filipino, and Tlingit workers already employed in the Yakutat cannery. Kayamori, however, was an amateur photographer, and spent the next thirty years photographing the people, community life, and environment around Yakutat, and his surviving photographs provide an intimate glimpse into the environment and life of those in Yakutat between 1912 and 1941.

In 2012, a century after Kayamori arrived in Yakutat, Sealaska Heritage Institute received 28 photographs taken by Kayamori, a donation by Yakutat born-resident and Tlingit leader Byron Mallott on behalf of the community of Yakutat. These 28 photographs were recently discovered in Yakutat and have now been scanned and placed online [click here]. Sealaska Heritage Institute is interested in engaging the public to assist in photograph identification and study.

The bulk of Kayamori’s photographs were obtained by the Alaska State Library in 1976, amounting to 694 images. The State Library’s collection of Kayamori photographs (PCA 55) has been studied with great interest, and some of the Kayamori images have been placed online via Alaska’s Digital Archives. The photographs and life of Kayamori will continue to capture the interest of educators for generations to come, especially on account of Kayamori’s unfortunate death. The below text provides a slightly more detailed biographical sketch of Kayamori and suggestions for further study. Sealaska Heritage Institute is pleased to make this collection open to the public for research and educational purposes.

Sealaska Heritage Institute is a private, nonprofit founded in 1980 to promote cultural diversity and cross-cultural understanding. The institute is governed by a Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars. Its mission is to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska.

Photo credit: Tlingit logging crew near Yakutat, circa 1930.

Biographical Sketch of Seiki Kayamori (1877-1941)

Seiki Kayamori (1877-1941) was born in 1877 in what was then the village of Dembo, today part of Fuji City in central Japan. He was the fifth of eight children; the second of four sons. The wealthy and prominent Kayamori family owned a paper mill, farm lands and a small department store. Under Japan’s conscription law, Kayamori likely served a three-year military term. The law also required an additional three-year term in the reserves. In 1903, Japan was on the brink of war with Russia, and reservists like Kayamori waited to be called back to duty.

In September 1903, Kayamori turned 26 aboard the steamer Iyo Maru during the voyage from Yokohama to Seattle. He arrived with $87.10 and a steamer ticket for San Francisco, according to the ship’s manifest, which lists his last residence as Tokyo and his occupation as “laborer and farmer”. The ship's manifest lists his destination as the Japanese Methodist Mission on Pine Street.

By 1910, Kayamori was living in Seattle's Welcome Hotel and working as a “cleaner and passer” at a dye works, according to census records. Around 1912, he moved to Yakutat, a small Tlingit village in southeast Alaska, where he worked in the Libby, McNeil & Libby fish cannery. Racist attitudes and active unions at the time ensured that the jobs available to Japanese immigrants on the West Coast were largely limited to agricultural, railroad, laundry and cannery work. After his father’s death, Kayamori’s mother went to live with her grandson’s family in Manchuria, then a Japanese colony. According to family members, Kayamori sent letters, money, pictures, toys and once a whole salmon packed in salt.

In Yakutat, children just called Kayamori “Picture Man”. For thirty years, he photographed celebrations, ceremonies, remnants of traditional Tlingit culture, and the growing influences of white society. Kayamori had a box camera with a hood, and a darkroom in his small house near the cannery on Monti Bay.

Yakutat’s exposed Pacific coastline made it vulnerable and U.S. military forces began to fortify the area as World War II escalated. Soldiers warned Yakutat residents to prepare for an attack. In October 1940, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover sent a letter to the bureau’s Juneau agent requesting the names of “persons who should be considered for custodial detention pending investigation in the event of a national emergency.” The reply included the name S. Kayamori and a description: “Is reported to be an enthusiastic photographer and to have panoramic views of the Alaskan coast line [sic] from Yakutat to Cape Spencer.”

A day before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hoover wrote to the War Department’s military intelligence division requesting information on a number of individuals. Under Kayamori’s name the reply noted: “Reported on suspect list, Alaska.” After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, soldiers reportedly beat up Kayamori, a 64-year-old, 5-foot-3 photographer, according to a town resident. Locals say Kayamori knew he would soon be arrested. On December 9, he committed suicide in his home.

Under cause of death, his death certificate asks “Drug?” The doctor who responded to Kayamori’s death later wrote that he found evidence of an attempt to burn some documents. Locals say soldiers buried Kayamori across the bay, a site that was later paved for a naval ramp.

Sources:

-          India Spartz and Ron Inouye, "Fhoki Kayamori: Amateur Photographer of Yakutat, 1912-41," Alaska History 6, no. 2 (Fall 1991).

-          Wikipeda.com, accessed October 2, 2012.

SHI TO SPONSOR LECTURES FOR NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH

Series will focus on Native art

Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a noon lecture series to celebrate Native American Heritage Month in November.

The brown-bag lunch series will focus on Native art, said SHI Arts Director Rico Worl. The institute has expanded its art program in recent years to assist artists and to teach the public about Native art, said Worl, adding the lecture series is open to anyone who is interested in the topic.

“The decision to make a more focused effort on arts is to improve the opportunities for artists but also to educate the public—to develop a greater cross-cultural understanding,” Worl said.

The lectures, sponsored by ConocoPhillips Alaska, will be held from 12-1 pm in the 4^th floor boardroom at Sealaska Plaza in Juneau. Attendees are invited to bring their own lunches.

Lectures 12-1 pm, Sealaska Plaza, 4th Floor Boardroom (bring your own lunch)
Tuesday, Nov. 13	On the Origins and Diversity of Northern Northwest Coast Headgear Steve Henrikson Curator of Collections, Alaska State Museum The Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people are renowned for the spectacular hats and headdresses used by clan leaders, warriors and shamans. With a focus on art history, this presentation will review what is known or surmised about many types and styles of headgear, with an emphasis on some of the earliest hats, the more unusual forms, and those imported from neighboring Native groups.
Tuesday, Nov. 20	Basketry and Alaska Native Art Revival Delores Churchill Haida master weaver and artist This presentation will discussed the revival of Native art during the late twentieth century in communities like Ketchikan and the impact these activities have had for Southeast Alaska Native arts today. The discussion will also focus on Churchill’s own artistic experience as a master weaver
Tuesday, Nov. 27	Three Hundred Years of Tlingit Art Aldona Jonaitis, Ph.D. Emeritus Director, Museum of the North This presentation will overview the history of Tlingit artworks made in the eighteenth century to those created in the twenty-first century. Special attention will be devoted to artist elements that have been consistent over these centuries, and those that have changed.

Sealaska Heritage Institute was founded in 1980 to promote cultural diversity and cross-cultural understanding. The institute is governed by a Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars. Its mission is to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska.

A Missionary’s Words from the Past & Tlingit Language

Today many Native American and Alaska Native cultures work to combat language fluency loss and revitalize language use, seeking to overcome a complex past where U.S. federal Indian policies and laws fostered programs of language eradication. Often attacks on indigenous languages and cultures were carried out against tribal youth in classrooms, in boarding schools away from their families, or in day schools operated by Christian missionary educators. It is important to note that in many instances Native Americans and Alaska Natives intervened when schools abused their children or attacked their cultures and languages, but the wide ranging application of polices and laws made it difficult to avoid and combat all of the many aspects of language and cultural eradication programs.

Recently I came across a published memoir of a missionary couple, Charles and May Replogle, who operated a day school for Alaska Native youth in Douglas, Alaska during the 1890s. Their memoir, entitled Among the Indians of Alaska, published in 1904, contains wording about their efforts to stop the use of indigenous language of tribal youth in the classroom. Their words, when read today, sound very harsh and are troubling for many Alaska Natives seeking to learn their respective languages, but it is important to acknowledge the practices of the past and what indigenous communities have overcome. Although additional forms of punishment occurred, Charles Replogle’s words on page 95 from his chapter “Training the Children” give context to what children faced in boarding and day schools in Southeast Alaska.

“In order, that the children might the more rapidly acquire the English language, they were expected to speak nothing but English in the home [school]. Of course, this was hard for many of them who only knew two or three words, knowing none at all when they came, and naturally they would among themselves talk Indian. This made their pronunciation of English very bad, and interfered with their construction of sentences; so we required them to speak nothing but English except by permission; but they often would get into the washroom or in the wood shed, and having set a watch, they would indulge in a good Indian talk. A few cases of this kind, and we applied a heroic remedy to stop it. We obtained a bottle of myrrh and capsicum: myrrh is bitter as gall and capsicum hot like fire. We prepared a little sponge; saturated it with this solution, and everyone that talked Indian had his mouth washed to take away the taint of the Indian language! One application usually was sufficient; but one or two cases had to receive a second application. From that time on, progress in their studies was almost doubly rapid, for they dared not talk their own language.” C. Replogle, 1904.

The Sealaska Heritage Institute and other organizations are committed to advancing language learning. Sealaska Heritage Institute hosts language learning courses, develops language curriculum, and works with language on many fronts. Sealaska Heritage Institute is a private, nonprofit founded in 1980 to promote cultural diversity and cross-cultural understanding. The institute is governed by a Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars. Its mission is to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska.

Photo credit: Image of Charles and Mary Replogle from Among the Indians of Alaska and cover page of their book.

Digital Display of Alaska Native Veterans’ Photo Album Online

Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has just posted scanned images from a historic photograph album of Tlingit veteran Stanley D. Peratrovich (1919-2002) online [click here to access]. Originally born at Klawock, Alaska, the photograph album contains images of Peratrovich’s time as a student at the Wrangell Institute during the late 1930s and then his journeys around Alaska during his service in the U.S. Army during the Second World War. Recently donated to SHI by Peratrovich’s widow, Evelyn M. Peratrovich, the photograph album documents Alaska Native life and military service during an important period in Alaskan history.

Stanley D. Peratrovich was born in Klawock, Alaska, on May 4, 1919 to James and Kathryn Peratrovich. His father was a Croatian immigrant to Alaska and his mother was Tlingit from the Kuiu Island area of Southeast Alaska, of the Raven Moiety and Dog Salmon Clan. Stanley Peratrovich was raised in Klawock but then sent to a boarding school, the Wrangell Institute of Wrangell, Alaska, where he completed his studies around 1938. Thereafter he enrolled in Washington State College (now Washington State University) at Pullman, Washington. While a college student, the Second World War began and Peratrovich enlisted, later serving from 1941 to 1945 in his home state of Alaska in the 297^th Infantry Battalion, Company B, Harborcraft Detachment. During his time in Alaska he was based, operated at, or traveled to Haines, Seward, Whittier, Anchorage, Harbor Craft, Attu, and Adak. His two home ports were Seward and Adak.

After the war in 1948, Peratrovich married ex-army nurse Evelyn Taber in Walla Walla, WA. For the next decade or longer Stanley served as a boat captain for Harbor Tug & Barge in San Francisco, CA. After Peratrovich and his wife retired, they moved to Bainbridge, WA. In Peratrovich’s later years he was active in the American Legion and attended veterans’ reunions for the 297^th Infantry Battalion. Stanley Peratrovich passed away on June 22, 2002, in Bainbridge, WA.

Sealaska Heritage Institute is a private, nonprofit founded in 1980 to promote cultural diversity and cross-cultural understanding. The institute is governed by a Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars. Its mission is to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska.

Photograph credit: Image of Stanley Peratrovich circa 1941 in his military uniform. 

A History of Leadership: Alaska Native Sisterhood Grand Officers

The Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has just released the most comprehensive to-date list of historic Alaska Native Sisterhood (ANS) Grand Camp officers. The list was largely compiled by SHI archival intern Alyssa Peterson, but with some assistance by SHI’s Archivist & Collection Manager Zachary R. Jones. Spanning from 1914 to 2012, this list is the first ever presented to the public. Although officers who served some years remain unknown due to lack of historical records to research, this list adds greatly to the understudied history of the ANS.

As articulated in mid-2012 online post, in 2008 Kim Metcalfe’s book In Sisterhood: The History of Camp 2 of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, the first book-length publication about the ANS, noted the dearth of study on the ANS. Metcalfe argued that the 1958 book by Philip Drucker, The Native Brotherhoods: Modern Intertribal Organizations on the Northwest Coast, remains one of the lone publications with information about the ANS, but Drucker’s research was incomplete. Although little published information is available on the founding of the ANS, both Peterson and Jones from 2011 to 2012 reviewed original Alaska Native Sisterhood and Brotherhood historic records to arrive at this list. The list of Grand Officers will be updated as more information is obtained, and Sealaska Heritage Institute welcomes feedback from ANS members and any historical records ANS members may desire to donate to SHI’s archival collection. In 2009 the ANB/ANS Grand Camp passed a resolution making SHI the official repository of ANB and ANS’s historic records, and SHI continues to reach out to ANB and ANS officials to obtain historic records so they can be preserved and studied so all can better understand ANB and ANS’s rich history.

Sealaska Heritage Institute is a private, nonprofit founded in 1980 to promote cultural diversity and cross-cultural understanding. The institute is governed by a Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars. Its mission is to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska.

Photograph credit: ANS members at the 1955 Grand Camp Convention in Petersburg, Alaska. From the Rosa Miller Collection, Sealaska Heritage Institute Archives.

List of ANS Grand Officers

Working draft

Compiled by Alyssa Peterson & Zachary R. Jones

Sealaska Heritage Institute

Note:

The founding of the Alaska Native Sisterhood (ANS) requires additional research. Both Phillip Drucker’s early The Native Brotherhoods (1958) and Kim Metcalfe’s recent In Sisterhood (2008) were unable to speak to ANS’s founding and hypothesized that ANS was founded circa 1920.

In the historical record differing perspectives have been presented. In The Voice of Brotherhood, the official ANB/ANS periodical, it contained a 1962 article by ANS elder Josephine Ukas, who spoke about her being present at the first official ANS meeting and camp formation in 1914 at Wrangell. (Josephine Ukas, “Alaska Native Sisterhood started in fall of 1914,” Voice of Brotherhood 8, no. 8 (July 1962): 1) This makes the case that ANS was founded in 1914, though determining when the first ANS Grand President was elected still requires research. It should be noted that the 1977 Grand Camp keynote address by Roy Peratrovich argued that the first ANS Grand President was Nellie Branovich, but this also requires additional research. Herb Hope wrote that the first ANS grand president was Eva Blake of Sitka, with ANS being founded in 1923. (Herb Hope, "An Overview of ANB History," Alaska Native News 1, no. 12 (Nov. 1983): 13-15, 41.) Additional research and discussion on this topic is warranted. 

Working List:

1927 for 1928:

Grand Pres: Elizabeth (Kadashan) James

Vice: Mrs. Bessie (Edwards Miller) Visaya

Secretary: Mrs. Samuel Martin (Louise Josephine Jackson ?)

Treasurer: Mrs. James Grant

S@A

1928 for 1929:

Grand Pres: Elizabeth (Kadashan) James

Vice: (?) Bessie Edwards Miller Visaya

Secretary:

Treasurer:

S@A:

1929 for 1930:

Grand Pres: Elizabeth (Kadashan) James

Vice: Minnie Jackson

Secretary: Mrs. Louise Martin

Treasurer: Mrs. James Grant

S@A: Rachel Peratrovich

1930 for 1931:

Grand Pres: Mrs. Margaret Ridley

Vice: Mrs. Louise Martin

Secretary: Mrs. Ruth Hayes

Treasurer: Mrs. Paul Jones

S@A: Mrs. William Johnson

Note: Elizabeth (Kinninook) Baines elected as Grand President [?] sometime during 1931-1933. Number of terms served unknown.

1934 for 1935

Grand Pres: Mrs. Jimmie Hensen

Vice:

Secretary: Cecilia Kunz

Treasurer:

S@A

1936 for 1937:

Grand Pres: Mrs. A. Zuboff

Vice:

Secretary:

Treasurer:

S@A

1937 for 1938:

Grand Pres: Bessie Edwards Miller Visaya

Vice:

Secretary:

Treasurer:

S@A

1939 for 1940:

Grand Pres: Lucille Ridley

Vice: Mary Williams

Secretary: Edith Bean

Treasurer: Elizabeth Basco

S@A: Eva Simpson

1940 for 1941:

Grand Pres: Mrs. Laura Holler

Vice: Mrs. Edith Haldane

Treasurer: Elizabeth Basco

Secretary: Erma Lawrence

Treasurer:

S@A:

1941 for 1942:

Grand Pres: Helen Sanderson

Vice: Elizabeth Peratrovich

Secretary:

Treasurer:

S@A:

1943 for 1944:

Grand Pres: Helen Sanderson

Vice:

Secretary:

Treasurer:

S@A:

1944 for 1945

Grand Pres : Elizabeth Peratrovich

Vice: Flora Cook

Secretary: Edith Smith

Treasurer: Matilda Gamble

S@A: Mable Johnson

1945 for 1946:

Grand Pres: Elizabeth Peratrovich

Vice: Josephine Peele

Secretary: Clara Natkong

Treasurer: Marie Tagaban

S@A: Mrs. Josephine Williams

1947 for 1948

Grand Pres: Amy Hollingstad

Vice: Josephine Peele

Secretary: Clara Natkong

Treasurer: Marie Tagaban

S@A: Mrs. Josephine Williams

1948 for 1949

Grand Pres: Amy Hollingstad

Vice: Josephine Peele

Secretary: Phyllis Gunya

Treasurer: Mildred Sparks

S@A: Elizabeth Williams

1949 for 1950

Grand Pres: Clara Natkong

Vice:

Secretary:

Treasurer:

S@A:

1950 for 1951

Grand Pres: Mildred Sparks

Vice: Elizabeth Williams

Secretary: Edith Smith

Treasurer: Sophie Peck

S@A: Mabel Johnson

1951 for 1952

Gran Pres: Mildred Sparks (?)

Vice:

Secretary:

Treasurer:

S@A:

1952 for 1953:

Grand Pres: Mildred Sparks

Vice: Elizabeth Williams

Secretary: Beatrice Anderson

Treasurer: Sophie Peck

S@A: Mabel Johnson

1953 for 1954:

Grand Pres: Amy Hollingstad [Hallingstad]

Vice: Sophie Peck

Secretary: Edith Smith

Treasurer: Mildred Sparks

S@A: Mabel Zuboff

1954 for 1955:

Grand Pres: Amy Hollingstad

Vice: Clara Natkong

Secretary: Edith Smith

Treasurer: Mildred Sparks

S@A: Mabel Zuboff

1955 for 1956:

Grand Pres: Amy Hollingstad [Stella Martin?]

Vice: Martha Carle

Secretary: Katherine Williams

Treasurer: Mildred Sparks

S@A: Elise Austin

1956 for 1957:

Grand Pres: Stella Martin

Vice: Edith Bean

Secretary: Katherine Williams

Treasurer: Mildred Sparks

S@A: Elsie Austin

1957 for 1958:

Grand Pres: Stella Martin

Vice: Edith Bean

Secretary: Katherine Miyasato

Treasurer: Mildred Sparks

S@A: Elizabeth Williams

1958 for 1959:

Grand Pres: Helen Sanderson

Vice: Evangeline Nickerson

Secretary: Katherine Miyasato

Treasurer: Mildred Sparks

S@A: Juanita Larsen

1959 for 1960:

Grand Pres: Martha Bradley

Vice: Flora Theile

Secretary: Florence Demmert

Treasurer: Mildred Sparks

S@A: Elsie Austin

1960 for 1961:

Grand Pres: Amy Hollingstad

Vice: Elizabeth Williams

Secretary: Florence Demmert

Treasurer: Mildred Sparks

S@A: Elsie Austin

1961 for 1962: (50^th Convention)

Grand Pres: Elizabeth Williams

Vice: Edna Peratrovich

Secretary: Stella Martin

Treasurer: Mildred Sparks

S@A: Elsie Austin

1962 for 1963:

Grand Pres: Elizabeth Williams

Vice: Edna Peratrovich

Secretary: Stella Martin

Treasurer: Irene Inman

S@A: Elsie Austin

1963 for 1964:

Grand Pres: Elizabeth Williams

Vice: Lottie Nannauk

Secretary: Stella Martin

Treasurer: Edith Bean

S@A: Leona Davis

1964 for 1965:

Grand Pres: Elizabeth Williams

Vice: Lottie Nannauk

Secretary: Frieda Peele

Treasurer: Lucy Roberts

S@A: Dolores Anderson

1965 for 1966:

Grand Pres: Lottie Nannauk

Vice: Frieda Peele

Secretary: Stella Martin

Treasurer: Lucy Roberts

S@A: Mae Daily

1966 for 1967:

Grand Pres: Lottie Nannauk

Vice: Lucy Roberts

Secretary: Stella Martin

Treasurer: Teresa Stitt

S@A: Gertrude Wolfe

1967 for 1968:

Grand Pres: Lottie Nannauk

Vice: Marlene Sprague

Secretary: Mary Jones

Treasurer: Teresa Stitt

S@A: Gertrude Wolfe

1968 for 1969:

Grand Pres: Lottie Nannauk

Vice: Marlene Sprague

Secretary: Mary Jones

Treasurer: Teresa Stitt

S@A: Gertrude Wolfe

1969 for 1970:

Grand Pres: Stella Martin

Vice: Gertrude Wolfe

Secretary: Mary Jones

Treasurer: Teresa Stitt

S@A: Mary Jackson

1970 for 1971:

Grand Pres: Gertrude Wolfe

Vice: Teresa Stitt

Secretary: Mary Jones

Treasurer: Jackie Dailey

S@A: Mary Jackson

1971 for 1972:

Grand Pres: Gertrude Wolfe

Vice: Lucy Roberts

Secretary: Ethel Gonzales

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Geraldine Gardner

1972 for 1973:

Grand Pres: Mary Jones

Vice: Lottie Nannauk

Secretary: Ethel Gonzales

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Geraldine Gardner

1973 for 1974:

Grand Pres: Mary Jones

Vice: Geraldine Gardner

Secretary: Ethel Gonzales

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Mary Jackson

1974 for 1975:

Grand Pres: Mary Jones

1^st Vice: Martha Benzel

2^nd Vice: Johanna Hotch

Secretary: Ethel Gonzales

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Marilyn Wilson

1975 for 1976:

Grand Pres: Barbara Lewis

1^st Vice: Johanna Hotch

2^nd Vice: Ethel Gonzales

Secretary: Connie Simpson

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Marilyn Wilson

1976 for 1977:

Grand Pres: Barbara Lewis

1^st Vice: Johanna Hotch

2^nd Vice: Connie Simpson

Secretary: Gloria Beaton

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Marlene Fred

1977 for 1978:

Grand Pres: Johanna Hotch

1^st Vice: Harriet Knudson

2^nd Vice: Geraldine Gardner

Secretary: Irma Young

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Marlene Fred

1978 for 1979:

Grand Pres: Johanna Hotch

1^st Vice: Geraldine Gardner

2^nd Vice: Marlene Fred

Secretary: Irma Young

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Joan Lewis

1979 for 1980:

Grand Pres: Johanna Hotch

1^st Vice: Emma Widmark

2^nd Vice: Sally Kookesh

Secretary: Irma Young

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Joan Lewis

1980 for 1981:

Grand Pres: Emma Widmark

1^st Vice: Sally Kookesh

2^nd Vice: Joni [Joan?] Lewis

Secretary: Carol J. McQueen

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Mary Guthrie

1981 for 1982:

Grand Pres: Emma Widmark

1^st Vice: Joan Lewis

2^nd Vice: Rowena Nathan

Secretary: Carol McQueen

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Mary Guthrie

1982 for 1983:

Grand Pres: Emma Widmark

1^st Vice: Rowena Nathan

2^nd Vice: Mary Guthrie

Secretary: Carol McQueen

Treasurer: Jackie Dailey [?]

S@A: Rosie Fay

1983 for 1984:

Grand Pres: Ethel Lund

1^st Vice: Carol McQueen

2^nd Vice: Virginia Thomas

Secretary: Selina Everson

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Rosie Fay

1984 for 1985:

Grand Pres: Ethel Lund

1^st Vice: Carol McQueen

2^nd Vice: Rosie Fay

Secretary: Selina Everson

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Marge Byrd

1985 for 1986:

Grand Pres: Carol McQueen

1^st Vice: Rosie Fay

2^nd Vice: Marge Byrd

Secretary: Selina Everson

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Millie Guthrie

1986 for 1987:

Grand Pres: Trudy Wolfe

1^st Vice: Marge Byrd

2^nd Vice: Sue Sargent

Secretary: Selina Everson

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Millie Guthrie

1987 for 1988:

Grand Pres: Trudy Wolfe

1^st Vice: Marge Byrd

2^nd Vice: Sue Sargent

Secretary: Selina Everson

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Millie Guthrie

1988 for 1989:

Grand Pres: Sue Sargent

1^st Vice: Millie Berry

2^nd Vice: Selina Everson

Secretary: Mary Harris

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Lindsay Buxton

1989 for 1990:

Grand Pres:

1^st Vice:

2^nd Vice:

Secretary:

Treasurer:

S@A:

1990 for 1991:

Grand Pres: Selina Everson

1^st Vice: Mary Brown

2^nd Vice: Marge Byrd

Secretary: Dorothy McKinley

Treasurer: Evelyn Hotch

S@A: Lindsey Buxton

1991 for 1992:

Grand Pres:

1^st Vice:

2^nd Vice:

Secretary:

Treasurer:

S@A:

1992 for 1993:

Grand Pres: Mary Guthrie

1^st Vice: Millie Stevens

2^nd Vice: Dorothy Owen

Secretary: Vicki Soboleff

Treasurer:

S@A:

1993 for 1994:

Grand Pres: Millie Stevens

1^st Vice: Dorothy Owen

2^nd Vice: Donna Ashenfelter

Secretary: Vicki Soboleff

Treasurer: Geraldine Williams

S@A: Johanna Marvin

1994 for 1995:

Grand Pres: Jackie Martin

1^st Vice: Marietta Hopkins [?]

2^nd Vice:

Secretary:

Treasurer:

S@A:

1995 for 1996:

Grand Pres: Selina Everson

1^st Vice: Kimberly Strong

2^nd Vice: Jackie Martin

Secretary: Maureen Obert

Treasurer: Geraldine Williams

S@A: Valerie Gamble-Houston OR Linda Guthrie [tie in ballot – re-ballot not noted]

1996 for 1997:

Grand Pres: Kimberly Strong

1^st Vice: Jackie Martin

2^nd Vice: Lavina Jack

Secretary: Maureen Obert

Treasurer: Geraldine Williams

S@A: Monica Wolf

1997 for 1998:

Grand Pres: Kimberly Strong

1^st Vice:

2^nd Vice:

Secretary: Janice Jackson

Treasurer:

S@A: Monica Wolf

1998 for 1999:

Grand Pres:

1^st Vice:

2^nd Vice:

Secretary:

Treasurer:

S@A:

1999 for 2000:

Grand Pres: Jackie Martin

1^st Vice:  Janice Johnson

2^nd Vice: Monica Wolf

Secretary: Doloresa Cadiente

Treasurer: Georgiana Hotch

S@A: Cecelia Wolf

2000 for 2001:

Grand Pres: Jackie Martin

1^st Vice: Doloresa Cadiente

2^nd Vice: Monica Wolf

Secretary: Della Cheney

Treasurer: Johanna Dybdahl

S@A: Cecelia Tavoliero

2002 for 2003:

Grand Pres: Doloresa Cadiente

1^st Vice: Cecelia Tavoliero

2^nd Vice: Della Cheney

Secretary: Sonya Smith

Treasurer: Adeline DeCastro

S@A: Ellie Jackson

2004 for 2005:

Grand Pres: Johanna Dybdahl

1^st Vice: Cecilia Tavoliero

2^nd Vice: Della Cheney

Secretary: Sonya Smith

Treasurer: Marietta Hopkins

S@A: Ellie Jackson

2006 for 2007:

Grand Pres: Johanna Dybdahl

1^st Vice: Libby Watanabe

2^nd Vice: Micalyne Kunz-McGhee

Secretary: Ellie Jackson

Treasurer: Marietta Hopkins

S@A: Sarah Lampe

2007 for 2008:

Grand Pres: Johanna Dybdahl

1^st Vice: Libby Watanabe

2^nd Vice: Micalyne Kunz-McGhee

Secretary: Nathalie Abbot

Treasurer: Marietta Hopkins

S@A: Sarah Lampe

2009 for 2010:

Grand Pres: Micalyne Kunz-McGhee

1^st Vice: Marietta Leask

2^nd Vice: Sarah Lampe

Secretary: Beverly Russell

Treasurer: Marietta Hopkins

S@A: Ronda (Butler) Lofftus

2010 for 2011:

Grand Pres: Janice Jackson

1^st Vice:

2^nd Vice:

Secretary:

Treasurer:

S@A: Ronda (Butler) Lofftus

2011 for 2012:

Grand Pres: Mary A. Brown

1^st Vice: Victoria Canul

2^nd Vice: Beverly Russel

Secretary: Rhonda Butler

Treasurer: Marietta Hopkins

S@A: Brenda Louise