Event Headquarters
Offices of SOHO &
Whaley House Museum Complex
2476 San Diego Avenue
Historic Old Town San Diego
Schedule of Events
Registration
Maps, Directions, & Parking
Volunteer Opportunities
Advertising Opportunities
SOHO Membership
Historic Home Tour
Panels & Lectures
Architectural Tours
Cocktail Party
Sponsorship Opportunities
Contact SOHO
Phone: (619) 297-9327; or
email: sohosandiego@aol.com
Panelists & Presenters
Alex Bevil
Historian
Tour Guide for Tiki: A Guide to San Diego's Tiki Modern Architecture
- Past SOHO board member; past recipient of SOHO's People in Preservation Award; organized and led several SOHO historic neighborhood tours in San Diego and Los Angeles
- California State Parks historian
- Adjunct professor, San Diego NewSchool of Architecture and Design
- Published several award-winning articles in the Journal of San Diego History focusing on San Diego's architectural and military history
- Contributed chapter on local architect Emmor Brooke Weaver in Toward a Simpler Way of Life: The Arts and Crafts Architects of California, 1997
Bruce Coons
Executive Director of SOHO
Ask the Experts
- Architectural and historic interiors historian
- Period design restoration consultant
- Historic color specialist, he has advised on well over 100 buildings
- Developed the Sherlock Homes program for SOHO where he provides a 3-hour indepth analysis for the hew old house owner to detect and advise on the home's historic integrity and subsequent restoration
- Has owned and restored numerous 19th century houses and currently owns and is restoring the 1837 Casa Alvarado adobe in Pomona, California
Jaye Furlonger
Member - SOHO Board of Directors
Tour Guide for Bungalow Courts & Tiki: A Guide to San Diego's Tiki Modern Architecture
- Masters in Public History, USD, 2005
- Educational and professional background includes both museum work and historic preservation
- Currently works as an architectural historian for IS Architecture in La Jolla
- Other interests include the history of variety entertainment and mid-century American pop-culture
- An authority on San Diego's bygone Hollywood Burlesque Theatre and currently co-authoring a book on burlesque for Fulcrum Press (due out Spring 2009)
Micheal J. Kravcar
President - SOHO Board of Directors
Ask the Experts
- Treasurer for Greater Golden Hill Community Development Corporation whose goal is to create a holistic approach to address revitalization efforts
- Business manager as well as business partner for RMR, which supplies and installs vintage appliances to homeowners
David Marshall, AIA
President of Heritage Architecture & Planning
Ask the Experts
- Specializes in restoration and adaptive reuse of historically designated buildings
- Architect for Balboa Park's House of Hospitality, which won a National Trust for Historic Preservation Honor Award as well as preserved PETCO Park along with the acclaimed restoration of Western Metal Supply Company
- Prior board member & president of SOHO and serves as chair of HRB Design Assistance Subcommittee
Ron May
Architectural Research Historian
Tour Guide for U.S. Army, Fort Rosecrans
- President and co-founder of Legacy 106 Inc. and Chairman of the Fort Guijarros Museum Foundation
- During the past 35 years, has been involved in a broad spectrum of historic, archaeological, and general environmental studies in California and northern Baja California, Mexico
- Author of over 50 publications on history, historic and prehistoric archaeology, government policy, and Spanish historic ceramics
- Twenty-four years as Environmental Management Specialist, County of San Diego , general environmental and staff archaeologist/ historian, and manager of the National Park Service, Certified Local Government, County Historic Sites Board
Sheila A. Menzies
Member - Tile Heritage Foundation Board of Directors
Tour Guide for San Diego's Historic Tile
- Cofounded the Tile Heritage Foundation with Joe Taylor in 1987
- Craftswoman, a mixed media artist, with a background in stage-set design and theater costuming
- She has traveled extensively in the United States, Great Britain, Portugal, Italy and Mexico documenting historic and contemporary tile installations
- Primary designer of Tile Heritage publications and the coordinator of educational events including symposiums, regional exhibitions and tile making and mosaic workshops nationwide
Bonnie Poppe
Historic Homeowner & Preservation Advocate
Tour Guide for Bungalow Courts
- Historic home restorationist of over a dozen homes in San Diego
- Vintage Trailer restorationist
- Tour leader for Offshoot Tours in Balboa Park for 20 years
- Historic preservation and native landscapes advocate
Joseph A. Taylor
Author & President of the Tile Heritage Foundation
Lecturer: Historic Tile of Southern California
Tour Guide for San Diego's Historic Tile
- Initiated into the world of tiles as Director of Sales at McIntyre Tile Company for 12 years
- Cofounded the Tile Heritage Foundation with Sheila Menzies in 1987
- Frequent writer & lecturer on tile history
- Principal contributor to More About Malibu Potteries 1926-1932, Catalina Tile of the Magic Isle, The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life, Batchelder Tilemaker and California Tile: The Golden Era.
Diane Y. Welch
Author of local history books
Lecturer: Lilian J. Rice, Sincerely Yours
- Freelance writer and public speaker
- Authority on the life and works of 1920s architect Lilian J. Rice
- San Diego Union Tribune contributor
- Official Ecke Family historian and Paul Ecke III's official biographer
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