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ARCHIVES
IN CALIFORNIA TO MOVE TO DAYTON Fr. Tim Kenney recently announced that the California Archives will be moving to Dayton this summer. The Marianist Archive Network of North America (MANNA) comes under the responsibility of the Province Office of Education. Fr. Tim indicated that a recommendation was made to the Provincial Council over this past year to relocate the West Coast Archives to the Eastern Region located at Roesch Library on the University of Dayton. The Provincial Council has accepted the recommendation, and we are most grateful to Bro. Eugene Frank and Bro. Joseph Nuuanu for their leadership in recent years. The California Archives is in excellent condition, well organized, well documented with good inventories in place. Discussions have taken place with the archivists working in all three areas – Cupertino, Dayton, and San Antonio — since the merger of the Province of the United States. There is ample space in Dayton to welcome the archival material from the former Pacific Province, which will be kept in a special room in the Dayton Archives. The Dayton Archives has four personnel working very hard for the Province: Fr. Paul Vieson, Bro. Louis Fournier, Ms. Jennifer Gerth and Ms. Kimberly Neuenschwander. There is a San Antonio Archives office under the leadership of Bro. Paul Novosal and Bro. Earl Leistikow. The former Pacific Province started an archive in September 1973. Fr. Walter Bach accepted the assignment as the first full time provincial archivist for the Pacific Province. He was followed in February 1977 by Bro. Lawrence Scrivani. In 1980, a decision was made to locate the Archives in the Alcalde House. Fr. Joseph Stefanelli eventually became the Province Archivist with the help of Bro. Philip Fruehwirth and Bro. Charles Boglitz. Bro. Gene Frank was assigned the Province Archivist in 2000 and eventually received the kind assistance of Bro. Joseph Nuuanu. We are very grateful to those Marianists who have faithfully served as archivists in the former Pacific Province and we want to assure our Brothers on the West Coast that there will be a West Coast heritage preserved in a special section of the archives in Dayton. The many items that are being transported to Dayton will be housed and maintained with distinction and great care.
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