Past President of the Southwest Oral History Association and California Delegate
Community Oral History Project
The Laguna Woods History Center has an ongoing project to interview community leaders in order to document their story and preserve our heritage. Please contact us and let us know if you would like to participate.
Jennifer and Cindy Keil (shown here) of 70 Degrees designed this History Center website and are also spearheading the oral history project. They have over a decade of interview experience.
Each candidate for this project is selected by LWHC for their early history and major contributions to the community. They provide varied perspectives of life in Leisure World which was incorporated into Laguna Woods in 1999. Each oral history has a verbatim transcript, recording log, and video. These interviews are indexed with OHMS: Oral History Metadata Synchronizer. Use the links below to use the text searchable oral history interface with interview segment titles.
OH01_Morris Meadow_Recording Log
OH02 Evelyn Shopp Recording Log
OH02_Evelyn Shopp OHMS
OH 03 Bob Ring Video
OH 04_Rob Merritt_Recording Log
OH 04 Robert Merritt OHMS
OH 05 Myra Neben Video
OH 05 Myra Neben Recording Log
OH 06 Lee Bevilacqua Transcript
OH 06 Lee Bevilacqua Recording Log
Oral History Project Interviews with a Transcript Only:
OH 08 Fran Lindberg Transcript
OH 09 James Thorpe Transcript
OH 09 James Thorpe Recording Log