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Dolkas Award

Background
The James Dolkas Memorial Fund supports projects that promote the understanding of the history of the Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay Area both in the area of intellectual research (publishing: writing/photographic, video, voice) and material structure (objects/buildings).

The endowment fund was established in honor of James Dolkas. Mr. Dolkas was the founder and original president of the History Forum, a fundraising, membership support group at The Museum of Art & History. Members of the History Forum and the Sesnon Foundation set up the James Dolkas Memorial Fund through the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County and offer the grant annually to a worthy project that will advance community awareness about regional history.

2009

 * Barry Brown fo California Powder Works, Santa Cruz County, 1861-1914

2008

 * Lucia MacLean for her project to preserve and distribute the history of the Alba School and Recreation District in Ben Lomond
 * George Fogelson for his continued study of the History of Jews of Santa Cruz County with new research on the Alexander Family of Watsonville

2007

 * Philip Reader for History of African Americans in Santa Cruz County
 * Alverda Orlando for Davenport History Website

2006

 * Melissa Stevens for "An Oral History of Monterey Bay Fishermen, Part I"

2005

 * Dr. Julianne Burton-Carvajal for a guide to Monterey Bay Adobes
 * Robert Edwards and Charr Simpson Smith for archeological work at the Redman-Hiraharra House, Watsonville

2004

 * George J. Fogelson for The History of the Jews in Santa Cruz County, 1855-present

2003

 * Barry Brown for California Powder Works, 1864-1914

2002

 * Colleen Mclnerney-Meagher for The Story of Pogonip