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 The History Department and Phi Alpha Theta hosted our annual Christmas banquet on Friday, December 14, 2007, in the Institute for Peace & Justice, Room D. David Marshall gave an illustrated lecture based on his recent book, “San Diego's Balboa Park."
 
Phi Alpha Theta initiated 18 new members at the banquet, including:
- Ramzy Berbawy
- Alexander Chapman
- Travis Degheri
- Mary A. Della Rocchetta
- Kaitlin Garigan
- Christina Guido
- Kathryn Jordan
- Joel Levanetz
- Valerie Lizárraga
- Victoria Patton
- Keiko Rosensteil
- Stefanie Salyer
- Joseph Seymour
- Chloe Sidley
- Louis Vargas
- Laura Vaughn
- Sally Weegar
- Matthew Worthington
David Marshall is a San Diego architect whose firm, Heritage Architecture and Planning, has worked on several reconstructed park buildings and planning projects.
A recent article in the San Diego Union-Tribune (10/15/07) notes that he "has collected more than 2,000 postcards and assembled 128 pages of them in a new book, San Diego's Balboa Park, from Arcadia Publishing."
He said, “Most cards probably come from estate sales after people pass away,” Marshall said, and many are ending up on eBay (87 recently listed online range from 99 cents to $12)." He said the most expensive he found cost about $40 and depicted a plane flying over the Plaza de Panama during World War I, when the Navy operated a training station in the park.
According to the article, "The images offer a window on the evolution of the park from a scruffy, dry mesa to the man-made Eden it is today."
For more information about David Marshall, see http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20071014-9999-mz1c14balboa.html
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