these women sought the level of commercialism that prevailed, most of us today, believe in this well-deserving celebra-tion in honor of the won-derful people who bring us unconditional love!

One of the most popular days of the year, Moth-er’s Day, has roots back to the pre-Civil War era, when Anna Jarvis, from West Virginia organized Mother’s Work Days to improve sanitation and avert deaths, later con-nected to caring for wounded soldiers, and nurturing wounds of the sole between opposing armies at the time. Then in 1872, women’s suffra-gist, Julia Ward Howe, of Boston, established a day for mothers aimed at bringing peace. En-tering the 20th Century, Anna Jarvis’ daughter, also named Anna, decid-ed to memorialize her

mother’s activism for the cause and launched a campaign that resulted in a 1914 Congressional resolution called Moth-er’s Day, normally cele-brated on the second Sunday of May each year. Though none of

THE HISTORY OF MOTHERS DAY

MANTECA POLICE DEPT—MAY PROGRAM

The Manteca Police Department will be our guests for the May Program night at the Museum.

Learn how our Police department works. Special performances from our police de-partment’s K-9 unit by Officer Goforth and his K-9 Gage and Officer

Smigelski and his K-9 Kato, will be sure to capture our attention. Come join us for this informative May pro-gram!

PROGRAM DATE:

Thursday, May 8th at 7:00pm

Always Free for members and other interested guests!

MANTECA HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM

DEDICATED TO THE PRESERVATION OF OUR MANTECA AREA HISTORY

MAY, 2014 VOL. 24, ISSUE 5

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES :

Parking Lot Sale At the Museum, Sat.,

May 3, 8:00am

Program Night Manteca Police Depart-

ment. Thurs., May 8, 7:00pm

Executive Comm. Mtg. Mon., May 12, 3pm

Reminisce Group Tues., May 13, 1:00pm

Letters to Grandkids Thurs., May 15, 1:00pm

Board Meeting Thurs., May 15, 6:30pm

Docents Lunch Mtg. At the Museum, Thurs.,

May 29, 11:30am

WHAT’S INSIDE :

News briefs 2

President’s corner Comet Dedication

3

Membership 4

Docent Schedule 5

Memorials & Gifts 6

Board of Directors 1920’s Hat & Radio

7

Museum Info Membership form

8

NEWSLETTER

Retired Manteca Police Officer, Clancy Rogers &

Rommell shown on duty in 1974.

DON’T MISS OUR GIANT PARKING

LOT SALE Sat., May 3, 8-3

Donations Needed!

Source: History.com

A&E Television Networks, LLC—2014

MANTECA JR. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

PRESENTS NEW STREET S IGNS

THANKS TO JR SIMPLOT

The Manteca Historical Society presented a plaque of appreciation to local businesses for their longtime support. In addition to being a member, Simplot has donated printing services to make tickets and posters for its two annual fundraisers, and also prints the monthly newsletter for a nominal fee. Historical Society President Leon Sucht is pictured with Simplot employees: Jeanette Farley, Donni Cook, Kathy Marshall, Kim Wells, and Warren Campbell.

“TO CATCH THE READER 'S ATTENTION ,

PLACE AN INTERESTING SENTENCE OR

QUOTE FROM THE STORY HERE . ”

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News briefs

From Clancy Rogers, Manager

The Historical Society congratulates the Convention and Visitors Bureau

and new CEO Virginia Camacho for successfully hosting Manteca’s Spring Sidewalk Fair downtown April 5th and 6th. It is a large job, and the CVB and board has accomplished another worthy event for Manteca!

Membership drive- has produced nearly 500 Histori-cal Society supporters so far for 2014. Thank you!

Finances– We received a number of donations and memorials in April. We appreciate all, and especially the memorial gifts in honor of so many good people.

Program Meetings- Chili tasting, Water History by Jeff Shields of SSJID, and Healthcare by Nicholas Tejeda of Doctors Hospital, and an April program by Karen McLaughlin, Manteca’s City Manager have topped our schedules so far for 2014. We look forward to the Manteca Police Department and their K-9 team on May 8th, at 7pm at the Museum.

A new street sign project was headed up by the Jr. Chamber of Com-merce in 1948, and approved by the City Council. JCs presenting some of the signs at the Sportsmen’s Festival were, from left to right; Larry Tinker, Lee Phillips, Charles Whelan and Antone Raymus.

Students from Sequoia Elementary enjoyed their Museum tour recently, here learning about Manteca’s first new fire truck from docent, Alan Marsden. Call for a tour!

Although l am happy to serve as the Society’s president, it will be bitter-sweet not to have Leon

as our leader. We pre-sented him with a well-deserved outgoing presi-dent’s award, and he even received a trophy for bringing in new mem-bers in his so-called lame-duck year! I can’t say enough good about him, and Liz, for that matter. Even last year while nurs-ing a sore leg, he was still here on crutches to stay engaged for the good of our cause. I’m not quite sure Liz approved of that!

Well, it is my turn to take the helm, though I be-

lieve, as a group, it takes many to make a difference around the Museum.

As with any other organiza-tion, building for the fu-ture is a key to it’s success.

We have a wonderful group of volunteers and supporters , and I look for-ward to our ongoing efforts to keep history alive and well in Manteca.

By the way, if you have an interest in volunteering for events, work crews, or be-coming a docent, we need you!

PRESIDENT ’S CORNER— DAVE WINEGARDEN

NEW PLAQUE FOR COMET ’S LANDING PLACE

restored the historic marker that resides on a monument at the park, with the financial help of the Lathrop Sunrise Ro-tary Club.

Representing the Manteca Historical Society was Jeanette Farley, who also pro-vided this photo.

The first official sailing vessel to venture up the San Joaquin River landed at Moss Landing in 1846. The “Comet”, carried 20 Mormon pioneers who founded the New Hope agricultural project on the Stanislaus River. The Lathrop Sunrise Rotary and Daughters of the Utah Pioneers recently

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A new historic marker for the Comet Landing was presented by Tanya Nieves and Robert Gleason of the Lathrop Sunrise Rotary Club on March 30, 2014

It’s official, President Le-on handed off the gavel after 6 years as the His-torical Society’s Presi-dent.

Outgoing President Leon presents Gayl Wilson with an award for her service as board secretary.

Although our official 2014 Membership Drive ended last month, we are pleased to continue re-ceiving annual renewals and new memberships, as the year moves ahead. Our total membership is now right at 493, with 68 new members so far this year. Again, thanks so

much for your ongoing support with member-ship, and our special events!

Please remember to invite friends and visitors to visit the museum!

Dave Winegarden 2014 Membership Chair

Independently Owned

2014 HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP NEARS 500

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MOTHER’S DAY

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& UNDER

Purchase tickets at the door!

SERVING FROM 8:00am

CELEBRATING OUR 77TH YEAR

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Philip & Mary Bookman*

Ruth & Jerry Cheadle

David & Carol Strait

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Raymond & Darlene Quaresma & Family

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Ray Mendes Owner

4343 Pacific Ave., Suite A5 1449 Historical Plaza Way Stockton, CA 95207 Manteca, CA 95336 209-957-2099 209-824-2070 Fax: 209-957-2046 Fax: 209-824-2179 Chris’s cell: 209-481-6176 curvesmcs@gmail.com

Our 2014 Membership Drive ended in March with nearly 68 new supporters, and these two recruiters headed up the lion’s share of new memberships dur-ing the drive. Anita Hand-ley and Jeanie Marden have been our Member-ship Queens for 2014 and both received trophies, as did Clancy Rogers and Le-on Sucht for their efforts in the new member drive!

Outgoing Historical Society President Leon Sucht recently presented Toinette Rossi, Exec. VP & Director, from left , and Phyllis Abram, Operations Officer, of Delta Bank with a plaque for ongoing support of the Historical Society and Museum. Phyllis has also been a long-standing docent and volunteer for the Museum.

MEMBERSHIPS RECEIVED IN APRIL— THANK YOU!

DELTA BANK RECEIVES AWARD

Nicholas Tejeda, Doctors Hospital CEO, at Museum’s March program.

Manteca Union High was built in 1923 and attended by many stu-dents throughout the years. Although the build-ing was eventually demol-ished in 1969, it is shown here in replica form,

crafted by long-time Man-tecan and Historical Socie-ty member, Sam Bologna, who presented it to the Manteca Museum where it is on permanent display.

THANKS TO DALE JOHNSON

The Museum Board has decided to bring back our Spring Parking Lot Sale after taking a couple of years off! We are plan-ning the big event for Sat-urday, May 3rd, from 8:00 to 3:00, so if you have some items you think we can sell, and want to do-nate them to our cause, please plan to bring them Call Scott Gatze to volun-

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MAY 2014 Docent work schedule

Thurs. May 1 Jeanie Marsden Arleen Sevor

Sun. May 4 Evelyn Moore Pat Metzler

Tues. May 6 La Merle Peterson Nancy Van Sandt

Wed. May 7 Alice Hafer Marie Pasquinelli

Thurs. May 8 Mary Hildebrand Alan Johnson

Sun. May 11 Anita & Tom Handley Tues. May 13 Earl Pimental Alan Marsden Wed. May 14 Betty Mueller Claudia Machado Thurs. May 15 Sam & Norma Bologna Sun. May 18 Kay Bianchi Claudia Machado Tues. May 20 Ron Howe Reminisce Liz Sucht Jeanie Marsden Lillian Vieira Wed. May 21 Alan & Jeanie Marsden Thurs. May 22 Earl Pimental Nancy Van Sandt Sun. May 25 Phyllis Abram Carol Hamrol Tues. May 27 Donna Stafford Pat Metzler Wed. May 28 Kay Bianchi Claudia Machado Thurs. May 29 Alan & Jeanie Marsden

IF YOU ARE A DOCENT AND CAN NOT WORK, PLEASE CALL JEANIE 823-4349 AS EARLY SOON AS POSSIBLE.

After many years of ac-tive involvement with the Manteca Historical Socie-ty, Dale Johnson an-nounced his retirement from the Executive Com-mittee. Dale was hon-ored with a plaque by out-going President, Leon Sucht, in appreciation for his many years of volun-teer service and support to the Manteca Historical Society .

GNARLY Wine Tasting 4 miles North of Manteca

Highway 99 at French Camp Road

(209)824-3500 - Daily 9:00am—5:30pm

MEMORIAL &

HONOR ROLL

PROGRAM

This is a very significant way to remember those who have passed away, or to honor one for a special event or tribute. All gifts are tax deductable and the names of those re-membered are then inscribed in the ”Honor Roll Book”, which is on permanent dis-play at the Museum. Printed form-envelopes are available at the Museum, and on the museum’s website, at: www.mantecamuseum.org, or by calling Claudia Macha-do, 982-1722.

great selection of mantel

clocks

Hand-made by clock maker, Jim button. Prices

range from only $45-$75

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MEMORIAL GIFTS Received March 22—April 22, 2014

In Memory of Janet Marie Teicheira

Sam & Norma Jean Bologna In Memory of John P. King Frank Mendes Ken & Alice Hafer In Memory of Maureen “Moe” Iorio Ken & Alice Hafer In Memory of Joyce Ann Botelho Jimmie & Isabelle Pugh In Memory of Joe Gully Sam & Norma Jean Bologna In Memory of Frank Scarlata Hart & Jenny Laurence In Memory of Joaquin “Jack” Lewis Barbara Jean Martin Lucille Harris Donna Bordenkircher Marvin Brocchini Janet Thornton Lori Mackey Jimmy & Isabelle Pugh Ken & Alice Hafer Toni & Andrew Sephos

Long before their time— Students from Sequoia Elementary took a Museum tour recently, and learned from docent, Jeanie Marsden, how an early toaster was used in kitchens before electric toasters were invented.

BECOME A VOLUNTEER !

CALL US ABOUT GETTING INVOLVED WITH THE HIS-

TORICAL SOCIETY! CONTACT CLANCY ROGERS

FOR INFORMATION (209)825-3021

Dave Winegarden, President 275-7651

Leon Sucht, Past President 239-0288

Earl Pimentel – 2nd V. P. 823-1050

Mark Abram, Treasurer 239-0744

John Borders 239-2519

Marvin Brocchini 239-6491

Mike Brockman 823-2668

Kristin Founts 858-4846

Scott Gatze 518-9221

Victor Gully 823-1276

Anita Handley 898-1268

Lucille Harris 239-1361

Ron Howe 823-5641

Alan Johnson 815-9406

Jeanie Marsden 823-4349

Pat Metzler 823-2507

Evelyn Moore 823-5160

Victor Nusbaum 275-5621

Walt Silva 239-4017

Cleve Stafford 823-4800

Gayl Wilson 483-8187

Board of directors

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1920’S HAT & RADIO

This hat and radio were do-nated by Ronald L. Faria of Manteca.

The radio is a Detrola Mod-el 3041, and was used in a cow barn, circa 1927, locat-ed near the intersection of Union Rd. & Lathrop Road,

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Imagine how much fun you can have shopping for jewelry for Moms’ Day, or other fun occasions! Inset stones, silver and many other collectibles can be found! Open during regular Museum hours.

MUSEUM GIFT SHOPPE

of the town of Manteca.

The imported hat was pur-chased from Tully’s, in Stockton, and worn by Ronald’s father, Leonard J. Faria, when he was 20 years old.

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