Stern Grove Festival Association records, 1931-1984.

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Stern Grove Festival Association records, 1931-1984.

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Correspondence, minutes, program and financial reports and records, programs for events, and scrapbooks. Correspondence consists of letters between Rosalie Stern and Elise Haas--as presidents of the Board of Trustees--and musicians, conductors, performers, agents, dance and theater companies, and the San Francisco Musicians Union, Local 6 of American Federation of Musicians; as well as letters relating to fundraising activities. Minutes of the Board of Trustees provide detailed information concerning policy and planning issues, finances, and the performances. Financial reports and records include Season reports, weekly reports (1960- ), information on donors and donations, checks and check stubs, bank statements, W2 forms, and payroll account books. Scrapbooks mostly contain newspaper clippings from the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner. Includes records (1936-1941) of San Francisco Recreation Commission, consisting of Stern's correspondence with various officials; correspondence of Josephine Randall, superintendent of the Recreation Commission for many years and a prime mover in the development of the San Francisco city park system; and minutes.

14 boxes, 4 flat boxes, 1 oversize flat box, 2 cartons, 11 v. (ca. 14.0 linear ft.)

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California historical society

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Randall, Josephine D.

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San Francisco (Calif.). Recreation Commission.

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Goldman, Rhoda H., -1996

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Biographical Information Richard Goldman (1920-2010) was born to Richard Samuel Goldman (from San Francisco) and Alice Wertheim (from Great Falls, Montana). Richard attended the University of California, Berkeley and served in the United States Army between 1942 and 1946. Richard Goldman married Rhoda Haas (1924-1996), daughter of Walter A. Haas, Sr. and Elise Stern, in 1946. Rhoda also attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate. In 1949, Richa...

Haas, Elise S., 1893-1990

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Elise Stern Haas was born in San Francisco on Oct. 29, 1893, the only child of Rosalie Meyer and Sigmund Stern. Her father was president of Levi Strauss and Co., and nephew of Levi Strauss, who founded the firm in 1850. In 1914, she married Walter A. Haas, president of Levi Strauss and Co. from 1928 to 1955. They had three children: Walter A., Jr., Peter, and Rhoda. She died on Oct. 20, 1990. From the description of Elise Stern Haas papers, 1914-1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 7...

Stern, Rosalie Meyer, 1869-1956

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Biographical Information Rosalie Meyer Stern was a civic and social leader of San Francisco. In 1892, she married Sigmund Stern, the president of Levi Strauss and Company. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, Stern converted her house into a Red Cross factory. During World War I, she became the first woman associate field director for military relief in the West; worked with the Red Cross at Camp Fremont Base Hospital; helped...

Stern Grove Festival Association (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Nonprofit recreational and park facility which sponsored summer concerts, dramatic productions, and dance from 1932-1938, and since 1938, a series of concerts known as Midsummer Musicals. Founded by Rosalie Meyer Stern in 1931. Stern served as organizer, director, and president of the Board of Trustees until her death in 1956. Her daughter, Elise Haas, and later, Executive Secretary Lucy Eastlund, ran the organization with the Board of Trustees until the early 1970s, when the presidency was tran...