The WRI also conducts and houses oral history projects of local and regional water leaders. Please contact Archivist/Historia Suzie Earp at (909) 537-7683 to review any of the following records in our Oral History collection:
Completed Oral Histories with Transcripts |
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| Interviewee | Affiliation/Topic of Interviews | Date of Interviews |
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Ruben Ayala |
Former State Senator remembered for proposing the Peripheral Canal |
September 16, 2002 |
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Louis Fletcher |
Former General Manager of San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District-District History |
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Putty Hencks |
Longtime SB Mountain Resident that assembled a collection of documents and stories about water in Lake Arrowhead |
February 27, 2008 |
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Bill Leonard |
San Bernardino business leader who supported San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District joining the MWD, founding member of Inland Action |
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Joe Rowe |
San Bernardino Water Engineer from family firm that served the water industry primarily in the upper Santa Ana watershed | |
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Ralph Wagner |
Engineer based in Lake Arrowhead that has served every local major water-related agency or organization |
November 14, 2006 |
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Harold Willis |
San Bernardino businessman who opposed a ballot measure that San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District join the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California in 1964 | |
Oral Histories without transcripts in video format include:
Anthony “Butch” Araiza- GM, West Valley Water District;Arlene Lewis- Wife of Congressman Jerry Lewis; Art Littleworth- Attorney with Best Best & Krieger; Barbara Boxer- U.S. Senate; Bev Lowry- Director, Mojave Water Agency; Bill Emmerson- State Assembly Member; Bill Huckell- Board Member of Crestline Village Water District, Retired; Bob Ellingwood- Former Mayor of Ontario; Bob Ghirelli- Assistant General Manager for Orange County Sanitation District; Bob Martin- GM, East Valley Water District; Bob Owen- City Attorney, Rialto; Bob Reiter- Former GM San Bernardino Valley MWD; Brad Boxer- Public Works Director, Rialto; Brent Graham- GM Tulare Lake Basin Water Conservation District; Carl Boronkay- Former GM, Western Municipal Water District; Carole Beswick- Chair, Regional Water Quality Control Board, Santa Ana Region; Celeste Cantu-Director of SAWPA; Charlie Bachmann- Assistant GM, East Municipal Water District; Daniel Cozad- President of Integrated Planning and Management, Inc.; Dave Kelly-State Senator; Dennis Hansberger- San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors; Dennis Majors- Former Santa Ana River Project manager, USACE; Don Harriger- GM Western Municipal Water District and Water Master; Doug Headrick- Public Works Director of Redlands; current GM of SBVMWD; Dr. Albert K. Karnig- President of CSUSB; Dr. Fred Cannon- Penn State University; Dr. Joe Lovett- Department of Health Science and Human Economics, CSUSB; Dr. Keith Takata- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Dr. Kent Schofield- Professor of history, CSUSB; Dr. Klaus Brasch- CSUSB Center for Technology Transfer; Dr. Mark Losi- Center for Environmental Microbiology; Dr. William Aguilar- V.P. of CSUSB; Fred Hanson- V.P. of Albert A Webb Associates; George E. “Skip” Wilson- Director, East Valley Water District; Gerry Thibeault- Executive Officer of the California Regional Water Quality Board, Santa Ana Region; Gordon Cologne-State Senator; Greg Wilkinson- Attorney with Best Best & Krieger; Hubert Webb-CEO of Albert A. Webb Associates; Jerry Lewis- US Congressman; Jerry Thibeault- Executive Officer, Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board; Jim Dilworth- Legal council for San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District; Joe Grindstaff-Lifetime achievement 2008- Director of the California Bay Delta Authority; John Anderson- Inland Empire Utilities Agency, Board of Directors; John Paul Woodley- US Department of Defense; Johnnie Ann Ralph- Former Dean, Pfau Library; Judith Valles- Former Mayor of San Bernardino; Justice Robert Robie-California Court of Appeal; Keith Lewinger- Water Reuse Association; Ken Witt- Former Board Member MWD; Kirk Berchtold- Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board; Lester Snow- Director of California Department of Water Resources; Lois Krieger- first woman President of MWD, WMWD Director; Louis Fletcher- Retired GM, San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District; Marion Ashley- Riverside County Supervisor, District 5; Matt Webb- President of Albert A. Webb Associates; Mike Huffstutler- GM Bear Valley Municipal Water Company; Norm Hunt- GM, Crestline Village Water District, Retired; P. MacLaggan- Vice President, Poseidon Resources; Pat Morris- Mayor of San Bernardino; Patrick Mulligan- President of San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District; Patrick Hamrick- Director, Jurupa Community Services District; Patrick Milligan- President, San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District; Pete Dangermond- President, ESRI; Peter Wulfman- Director of Solid Waste Management, San Bernardino County; Phillip Kassal- long-time SB Attorney and former Law Partner of Bob Holcomb; Quentin Kopp- Former State Senator; Rachael Clark- City Clerk for the City of San Bernardino; Randy Record- Director, East Municipal Water District; Randy Van Gelder- GM San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District; Rich Atwater- Inland Empire Utilities Agency; Robb Quincy- City Manager of Upland; Ron Gastelum- Former GM, MWD of Southern California; Sam Gershon- Senior V.P. of Albert A. Webb Associates; Stacey Aldstadt-General Manager, San Bernardino City Water Department; Steve Kashiwada- Former Deputy Director of the State Water Project; Steve Stockton- Former GM, SGPWA; Thomas N. Jacobson- Attorney, Gresham Savage Nolan & Tilden; Tim Moore- President of Risk Sciences; Tom Clark- GM Kern County Water Agency; and Wayne Holcomb- Former board member, Western Municipal Water District.
