The first symposium ever held on the history of our community will occur on
March 28. This has generated a lot of interest from around the country.
Space is limited so I recommend folks preregister for it by sending a check into
the SVHS. If you have questions please email me at
kaldenberg@machlink.com.
Symposium Registration $25.00; Trona residents $20.00.
Lunch and Supper are on your own but there are good local venues.
Our address is:
SVHS
PO BOX 630
Trona, CA
93592-0630
March
28, 2014
Trona Centennial Celebration History Symposium,
Trona High School Auditorium
Celebrating 100 Years of Our History 1914-2014
Registration Cost $25.00
per person. If you want to preregister send your check to Searles Valley
Historical Society, P.O. Box 630, Trona, CA 93592. Identify how many people and
specify that the check is for the History Symposium registration. Registration
will be available on site also. Meals are on you own and are not included in the
price of registration. Camping at Valley Wells is $5 per night beginning
Thursday night, March 27th. Another nice place to camp is Great
Falls Basin, a BLM location with a backdrop to the Argus Mountains and in the
vicinity of the Pinnacles Natural National Landmark. Four wheel drive
vehicles are recommended due to the sandy nature of the access at Great Falls
Basin. Motels are available in Ridgecrest.
Friday, March 28, 2014,
registration begins at 7:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
1.
Welcome to the Symposium, James Fairchild, Searles
Valley Historical Society
2.
Welcome to Trona High School, Superintendent David Olney
3.
National Anthem, performed by Christy Atwood
Eichelberger
4.
Announcements-Trona Symposium Organizer Russell
Kaldenberg
9:10 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
A History of Trona High School
-
Mackenzie Wheeler
9:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. The
History of the Searles Valley Historical Society >From Its Inception In 1979
Covering Its Properties, Collections And Its Expansion To Four Museums - Margaret “Lit” Brush
10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Searles Valley's Ice Age Legacy
-
Roger Mitchell
10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Historical Bureau of Land Management Data Sets for Searles Valley
-
Larry Vredenburgh
11:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
A History of Trona Road
-
Roger Hatheway
11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Company-Built Houses of Trona, California
-
Marty Dickes
12:00-1:30 lunch in town
and at St. Madeline’s Catholic Church
1:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
Westend Chemical Company: Borax Smith's 2nd
Borax Co. - Steve Beck
2:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Garden City: a Desert Surprise
- Liz Babcock
2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Westend, California: The Plant, The Town and The People,
-
Pat and Tom Dunne
3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Growing Up In Borosolay, California from 1950-1966
-
Bill Gossett
3:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. Water
Across the Desert: History of the Trona Water Line and its Effects on the Town
of Trona, - Kish LaPierre
4:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Chicken Liquor and Other Trona Bootlegging Stories -
Cliff Walker
4:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Military Aircraft Incidents History Recognition and Memorialization in Death
Valley, Panamint Valley, and Saline Valley
-
Blair Davenport
5:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. The
Epsom Salt Monorail
-
Ivan Summers
5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Supper
in Town, and at Trona Senior Center
Evening Keynote Speakers
7:00 p.m.-7:45 p.m. Early Mining at Searles Dry Lake
-
James L. Fairchild
8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Searles Valley Minerals Operations
- Rod
Jensen