SUMMER MONTHS with UCLA's RESOURCES

SUMMER 2024 (July - August - September)

Did you know that MUSIC was a part of FWC Programs as early as 1922?

WORTH NOTING: The FWC Program (1922) included music -- before Sections had been introduced

From: Personal Reminiscences of the
First Twenty Five Presidents of the
Faculty Women's Club
University of California, Los Angeles 1918-1946

Early programs (General Meetings), besides music, included presentations on
travel, political and historical topics, as well as literature

With this in mind, Music in Cultural Contexts Section starts off our new Year 2024-2025 with a wonderful music recital, featuring Ginger Rose Brucker, a recipient of the FWC 2024 Scholarship and Jennifer Jo. 

Ginger Rose Brucker, harp and Jennifer Jo, flute

The recital will be held on October 16th 2024 at 12 noon

We will meet at the Faculty Club LIBRARY!! 

The program will be announced soon. Stay tuned!

Please calendar the date for this very special event

Special collection resources are available to you at UCLA's Special Collections Library. It is part of a larger umbrella set of collections known as ONLINE ARCHIVE of CALIFORNIA. Our FWC archival materials are organized in UCLA's Special Collections Library located in the Young Research Library. 

NOTE: A special 1-hour workshop will be given to you in January 2025 (part of the Music Section programming). The purpose is to learn about our own personal and family primary sources and archival materials. In addition, the presenter will show us how to care, organize, and curate our own family archival documents (e.g., photos, letters, correspondence, and other personal documents).

From early technologies of a printing press and card catalogs
to digital media
(In the reception area of the Special Collection Library, UCLA)

Special Collection Library -- archival collections

The Los Angeles Normal School was to be converted into a four-year degree-giving university, and one of our iconic buildings, The Royce Hall was finished in 1928 (Latin numerals MCMXXVIII are inscribed above the main portal to the building):

ROYCE HALL, 1928

Recently we have seen some historical texts inscribed on plaques
related to the UCLA Centennial celebration 1919-2019
Detailed sources are also found in the UCLA's Special Collection Library

Finding a space was always on the agenda of FWC board meetings. It took another 30 years that the UCLA Faculty Center opened its doors in 1954, as a separate entity from the UCLA Faculty Men's Club, UCLA Faculty Women's Club, and Association of Academic Women.

A PERFECT DAY: Starting off with a morning gym; meeting with a dear colleague for an extended coffee break at our beloved Faculty Club (earlier Faculty Center; the photo of the Playa lounge below):

Wonderful space at the Faculty Club where one reads, discusses, meets
with colleagues, sips coffee/tea, reads, and meditates

Moving on to HAMMER Museum for the exhibition and the preview of tonight's jazzPOP 2024 concert https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2024/jazzpop-2024 Details are here for the tonight's show.

Just around the corner from the HAMMER'S is one the favorite most charming French bistro Violet.

And here we are (Daniele, Melissa, Dorota, Zorana) enjoying delicious Salad Nicoise, and suggesting to revive "let's do lunch" as part of our MUSIC IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS Section. 

MUSIC was on FWC Programs from the very beginning. See Program notes earlier on this page.

Zorana, Dorota, Melissa, Daniele

At the same time, you can be viewing a retrospective of the late artists DAVID MEDALLA. A few of his works are captured here for you as a temptation to personally visit the exhibit. The Gallery closes at 6 pm.

David Medalla, 1938-2020, Self Portrait

Cloud Canyons at Signals London 1964
"bubble machines" consisting of soft columns of soap foam oozing
from clear tubes and wooden bases