Finding aid to the Deaf AIDS Center Collection, SFH No online items

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1 No online items Tim Wilson San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library Larkin Street San Francisco, CA URL: SFH 1

2 Title: Deaf AIDS Center (San Francisco, Calif.) Collection Date (inclusive): Date (bulk): Identifier/Call Number: SFH Creator: Deaf AIDS Center (San Francisco, Calif.) Physical Description: 2 boxes(5 photograph albums + 1 DVD) Contributing Institution: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA sfhistory@sfpl.org URL: Abstract: The Deaf AIDS Center Collection documents the educational and social activities of the Center through photographs, flyers, and ephemera. Physical Location: The collection is stored onsite. Language of Material: Collection materials are in English. Access The collection is available for use during San Francisco History Center hours, with photographs available during Photo Desk hours. Collections that are stored offsite should be requested 48 hours in advance. Publication Rights All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the City Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Deaf AIDS Center Collection (SFH ), San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. Provenance Albums donated by Frank Lester, December DVD recording of the 16th annual Deaf AIDS Memorial (December 3, 2005) donated by Daniel Sonnenfeld in Historical note The Deaf AIDS Center was founded in 1986 by Darol Nance. The original team members included St. Benedict's Church, Deaf Service Network -North, Interpreting Service at St. Benedict's, Father Ken Canedo, Father Tom Coughlin, Garet Stark, and other staff and volunteers. In the 1990s, the Deaf AIDS Center become part of the University of California, San Francisco, Center on Deafness. Scope and Contents The collection documents the activities of the Deaf AIDS Center through albums of photographs and ephemera. The Center organized educational workshops and conferences, retreats, an annual memorial for those who died of AIDS, and quilt panel sewing bees for the NAMES Project. There is a videorecording of the 16th annual Deaf AIDS memorial service from Arrangement The collection is arranged into two series: Series 1. Albums; and Series 2. Audiovisual Materials. The albums are arranged in chronological order with some loose materials in folders. Subjects and Indexing Terms Safe sex in AIDS prevention. Deaf -- Health and hygiene -- Congresses. AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention. Nance, Darol Frank Deaf AIDS Memorial (16th : 2005 : San Francisco, Calif.) Deaf AIDS Center (San Francisco, Calif.) Deaf AIDS Center (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Archives SFH 2

3 Series 1Albums, , undated Series 1 Albums, , undated Physical Description: 5 albums + 2 folders Box 1, folder 1 "AIDS and the Deaf Community: Taking Responsibility" conference program (Pacific Grove, California: Asilomar Conference Center), January 21-24, 1990 Presented by AIDS Education for the Deaf and the Greater Los Angeles Council on Deafness. Box 1, folder 2 "Deaf Gay Men Tackle AIDS and Speed Use" by Michael Bajko ( Bay Area Reporter), December 8, 2005 Box 1, volume , 2011 (bulk ) Photographs and ephemera: " Main Accomplishments of DSN AIDS Task Force"; Dec AIDS Task Force monitors at Names Project Quilt showing; AIDS Task Force meeting; KQED night volunteers to answer TDDs; Women's Rap Meeting on AID; HIV Treatment week, Saturday health fair; Retreat for the AIDS Task Force, July 1989; Living With AIDS poster and photos, May 14, 1988; Christmas bake sale 1989; "AIDS and the Deaf Community: Taking Responsibility" January 21-24, 1990 newsletter article, and photos; St. Benedict Deaf AIDS Information Center, 1990 open house photos and flyers; Shanti Project practical training, April 1990; 7th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, May 20, 1990; Darol Nance's speech, June 29, 1991 at Deaf Memorial service; Deaf AIDS Memorial at Hearing Society, November 2, 1991; The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, Fort Mason Center, June 21-24, 1990; Honoring Dr. Werdegar; Darol Nance at Oklahoma City University; ODAS Conference; wedding invitation and photos for James Velasco and Robert Suniga, 1991; flyers and photos for "Memorial Service 'A Remembrance of Deaf Friends'" June 23, 1990 hosted by Deaf Community AIDS Project; 8th San Francisco AIDS Candlelight Memorial and Mobilization, [1991?]; Pride Party, June 23, 1990; DSN retreat, September 14-16, 1990; Rainbow Deaf Society; Deaf AIDS Information Center; New York; "Living Memorial" Time (October 26, 1992) clipping and photos of AIDS Quilt display in front of the Washington Memorial, Washington, D.C.; flyer for distribution at Castro Street Fair 1993; AIDS Quilt making; Darol Nance and Frank Lester reviewing albums, Box 1, volume 2 Deaf AIDS Center local news, Newspaper articles and photographs about the center. Includes: business card for Darol Nance; mission statement; photo of Deaf Center staff? in front of AIDS quilt; a copy of the proclamation for Darol Nance Day in San Francisco on October 29, 1992; photo of Darol Nance and other Deaf AIDS Center staff at David Werdegar's farewell party; Father Ken Canedo; Jovan Ryg; playbill for "Hear No Scream" production at Ohlone College (1995); photocopy of certificate of honor designating May 4, 1995 to be Deaf AIDS Awareness Day; and "I Remember" a Deaf AIDS Memorial flyer (1995). SFH 3

4 Series 1Albums, , undated Box 2, volume Photographs of several individuals with family and friends. Also includes photos of AIDS quilt panels, memorial gatherings, a flyer to honor John Darcy Smith at the AIDS Candlelight March (1989), a flyer for the Julio Nunez Genao memorial gathering, and notes and postcards to Darol Nance. Subjects pictured include: Darol Nance, John Darcy Smith, Betty Ann Prinz, Tom Radcliff, Etta Smith Stecker (John Smith's sister), Smith family, Dan Langholtz, Jay Wilson, Don Parodi, Pat Zinovich, Tommy Saavedra, Carolyn Baer, Jerry Lindberg, Ken Canedo, Julio Nunez Genao, Frank Lester, James Baer, Susan Molinari, Genao siblings from Dominican Republic, Kathleen Duffy, Lisa Cahn, Julie Kraemer, Khae Saeteun, Milton Teasley, James Ledford, Bill "BJ" Petrie, Don Silver, Frances Gage, Margie Iller, Angelo Rosado Marquez, Albert Walla, Robert Suniga, Steve McLaughlin, Tim Johnson, AIDS Memorial Service at St. Mary's in San Francisco (May 16, 1990), Larry Demers, Don LeClair, Jeff Jeffery and Rose, Paul Isaac, Leo Gallant, Joe Quinn, Mark Niklas, Nancy Moser, Ed Cruickshank, Don Rosenjkar, Khai, Guy Wonder, Arthur Simon, Phillip Hildreth, Anthony Rheim, Garet Stark, and Veronica Saavedra. Box 2, volume 4 Obituaries, Includes memorial service notices, some obituaries and some photographs: Mark James Niklas; remarks by Darol Nance (for a conference?); John Darcy Smith; "A Remembrance of Deaf Friends" memorial service notice and program (1991); Carl A. "Buddy" Davis, Jr.; Julio Nunez Genao; photos of AIDS Memorial quilt squares for John Smith, John Canaday, and Julio Nunez Genao; Roy Washington Morrison, Jr.; Edward James Cruickshank; Jovan Ryg and John Smith; Tommy T. Saavedra; "list of names read at National Quilt"; Matthew Harris; Donald R. Silvers; Angelo Rosado-Marquez; "A Rememberance of Deaf Friends" memorial service notice (1990); Phillip Hildreth; card "To Steven. Love from Darol" with photo; Billy "B.J." Petrie; Paul Isaac and Leo Gallant; Garet Michael Stark; Tom Kane; Mark James Nicklas; Reverend Kenneth C. Bland; Rick Cuevas; Patrick "Bad Puppy" Saatzer; Jay Morgan Jackson; Samuel Feliciano; Allen Lee Forbes; Allen Williams; John Stubbins; Bruce Hlibok; and Rich Chenault. Box 2, volume "Names of our friends from the San Francisco Bay Area Deaf Community who are always remembered." Includes: photographs of Deaf AIDS Memorial 1994; flyers for Living With The AIDS Virus presentation by Daniel Langholtz, "I Remember..." Deaf AIDS Memorial 1995, and A Community Forum presented by Deaf AIDS Project at U.C.C.D. and Deaf AIDS Center in March 1995; photographs at the Names Project; program for the 2nd Annual Bay Area Deaf Lesbian & Gay Community Awards Night on May 6, 1995; program and poster for Hear No Scream: AIDS in the Deaf Community by Thomas Holcomb presented by Ohlone College Sign Theatre in April 1995; flyer: "HIV/AIDS Services for Person who are Deaf or have Hearing Loss"; flyer: "The Deaf AIDS Project at UCSF"; photos of information tables at [Castro?] street fair, AIDS quilt panels; photocopy of Certificate of Honor from the Board of Supervisors, City and County of San Francisco designating April 30, 1996 to be Deaf AIDS Awareness Day"; announcement of the "new Deaf AIDS Center at U.C.S.F. Center on Deafness"; flyer for "I Remember..." 3rd annual Deaf AIDS Memorial 1996; newspaper clipping: "SJSU hosts conference: conference combines HIV, disabilities with education" ( Spartan Daily, March 4, 1994). Series 2 Audiovisual Materials, 2005 SFH 4

5 Series 2Audiovisual Materials, 2005 Box 2 16th Annual Deaf AIDS Memorial (San Francisco, Calif.), December 3, 2005 Physical Description: 1 itemsdvd Produced by the Deaf AIDS Center, a member organization of Deaf Communities Together, Inc. Approximate running time 60 minutes. SFH 5