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Syndic Journal No.1 – August 2010
Cover Photo by LeRoy Chatfield: North Beach San Francisco & Coit Tower
(1) Bruce C. Mitchell (2 Poems: “Organic Community”) [California/Washington]
( 2) Photographer Gilbert Ortiz (“Cassius Clay” + 5 photos) [California]
(3) Dennis Renault (6 Editorial Cartoons) [California]
(4) Professor Jorge Mariscal (UCSD Demonstrations) [California]
(5) Photographer Carlos Legerrette (3 Photo Essays) [California]
(6) Don Edwards (4 Mexico Stories) [Mexico]
(7) Agustin Lira (Musical Essay) [California]
(8) Richard Baldwin Cook (Shakespeare Essay) [Maryland]
(9) Andy Zermeno ( 9 Book Illustrations) [California]
(10) Photographer Victor Aleman “Human Condition Anthology” (8 photos) [California]
(11) Deborah Miller (“UFW Boycott” Essay) [California]
(12) Artist Susan Due Pearcy (1 Artwork) [Maryland]
(13) Landscape Photographer Nicholas Pavloff (8 Photos) [California]
(14) Terence Cannon (Story: “Critique of Hume”) [California]
(15) Francisco “Pancho” Garcia ( “Despedida de Cesar Chavez”) [California]
(16) Photographer Joseph Blum: “People & Work” (8 photos) [California)
(17) LeRoy Chatfield (3 “Easy Essays”) [California]
(18) Bob Thompson (1 Artwork & 1 Poem) [California]
(19) Terry Scott (1 Poem & 1 Photograph) [California]
(20) Rafael Jesus Gonzalez (“Cinco de Mayo” Keynote Address) [California]
(21) Photographer Paul Sequeira “Black Panthers” (8 Photos) [Chicago]
(22) Ed Frankel (4 Poems: John Fahey, Miles Davis, etc.) [California]
(23) Rick Tejada-Flores (Illustrated Children’s Book) [California]
♦ Cumulative Summary: 23 First Time Authors • 83 Literary Pieces
Syndic Journal No.2 – November 2010
Cover Photo by LeRoy Chatfield: View of San Francisco from Twin Peaks
(23) Haiga by Neal & Elaine Whitman [California]
(24) Poetry by Neal & Elaine Whitman (7 Poems) [California]
(25) Oregon Wildflowers by Larry Francis (12 photographs & Commentary) [Oregon]
(00) Photographer Paul Sequeira: Photojournalism 1960s/1970s (20 photos) [Chicago]
(00) Story Essays by Don Edwards ( 2 Essays) [Mexico]
(00) Landscape Photographer Nicholas Pavloff ( 8 Photos) [California]
(26) Jerry Kay: Memoir (“Millie the Cow”) [California]
(27) Charles Rammelkamp (Fiction “The Taint” [Maryland]
(28) Judy Lewloose: Watercolors Pointillism (4 watercolors) [California]
(29) Sarah Flanagan: “Sarah’s Recipe Box” (4 recipes) [Massachusetts]
(30) Jennifer Szabo: Juggling & Photography (4 Photos) [Nevada]
(00) Photographer Victor Aleman :”Indigenous People Anthology” (12 Photos) [California]
(31) Elaine Elinson: Story “The Sailor and the Babaylan” [California]
(32) Constance Goddard Botanical Illustration (4 Illustrations) [California]
(00) Jorge Mariscal: “Profile of Cesar Chavez” (1 essay) [California]
(00) Rafael Jesus Gonzalez: “To Tell How It Is” (1 poem) [California]
(00) Photographer Gilbert Ortiz Photographs ( 8 Photos) [California]
(00) Artist Dennis Renault “Editorial Cartoons” (12 cartoons) [California]
(33) Writer Marco Lopez Memoir: “Reasons To March” (1 photo 1 essay) [California]
(00) Terry Scott: Photo-Essay ” Cimetiere des Chiens”(13 Photos)
(00) Richard Baldwin Cook Essay: “Shakespeare Owned No Books or Breeches” [Maryland)
(34) Bernard LeRoy Artwork (3 Paintings) [California]
(00) LeRoy Chatfield “Easy Essays” (2 essays) [California]
(00) Poet Deborah Miller: Photos (6) & Poems (23) [California]
(00) Writer Terence Cannon Story “The Dog” (1) [California]
(35) Writer Barbara Moore: Jonestown Remembered, November 18 1978 . (1 essay, 23 photographs).
(36) Gary Fabian: 4 Pic Poems [Unknown]
(00) Elaine Whitman” Hospice Flute & Photography” (3 pieces) [California]
(37) Journalist Dick Meister: “Profile of Ernesto Garza” (includes 3 photos) [California]
(38) Photographer Cathy Murphy (9 photos) [Arizona]
(39) Richard Falcon Musical Presentation: “Let the Eagle Fly” [California]
(40) Peter Broderick: Interview/Discussion “A New Era for Filmmakers” [California)
(00) Artist Andy Zermeno Artwork: “Cesar Chavez Memorial 1995” (4 art pieces) [California]
♦ Cumulative Summary: 40 First Time Authors • 155 Literary Pieces
Syndic Journal No.3 March 2011
Cover Photo by LeRoy Chatfield: San Francisco TransAmerica Tower
(41) Filmmaker Anna Sophie Loewenberg “Sexy Beijing” [Beijing]
(42) Poet Kate Mullikin : “Grilling” (1 poem, 2 photos) [California]
(00) Writer Terence Cannon: “Take the Lecture to the Street” (1 excerpt, 1 photo)
(43) Polish Poet Dariusz Pacak Visits California 2005 (3 poems, 8 photos) [Vienna]
(44) Filmmaker Glen Pearcy: “All Blogged Up” (1 video) [Maryland]
(45 – 00) Sarah Flanagan & Eileen Murphy-McNamara” The Art of Baking Pies” (3 recipes, 3 watercolor paintings) [Massachusetts]
(00) Opinion/Commentary by Cartoonist Dennis Renault (2 cartoons) [California]
(46) Photographer Sheila Van Noy. (8 photographs) [California)
(47) Writer Leslie Edwards “Cats on a Plane” (1 story, 1 photo) [Mexico]
(00) – (00) Point Arena Haibun and Five Haiga (5 photos, 5 Haiga)
(00) Writer Richard Baldwin Cook: Six Ancestral Sonnets. [Maryland]
(00) Artist Bernard LeRoy – Three Portraits. [California]
(00) Tech Artist Jennifer Szabo: Five LED Hula Hoop Photographs. [Nevada]
(48) Writer Charles Haddox Memoir: “A Mother and Father”. [Texas]
(00) Photographer Paul Sequeira: “Test Your Chicago Celebrity IQ”. (28 Photos) [Chicago]
(00) Writer Elaine Elinson : “Valentine’s Day On Guimaras Island” (6 photos) [California]
(00) Victor Aleman Presents: The Outlaw Blues Band (5 musical presentations) [California]
(49) The Rev. John V. Moore: “The Struggle for Gay & Lesbian Rights in the Methodist Church.”
(1 essay, 5 photos) [California]
(00) LeRoy Chatfield: “Easy Essays”. (2 essays, 3 photos) [California]
(50) Writer Catherine (Clemens) Sevenau: ” Three Geneology Pieces. (text, 3 photos)
(51) Historian Ronald Isetti: “Were the American Revolutionaries Hypocritical?” (essay & 6 photos). [California]
(00) Photographer Victor Aleman: “Celebrated Society” (20 photos) [California]
(52) Poet Gene Gordon: “Satire: Shakespearean Authorship”. [California]
(53) Photographer John Kouns “1960’s U.S. Racial Segregation”. (8 photos) [California]
(00) Writer Don Edwards Story “Bless Me Father . . . ” [ Mexico]
(00) Writer Larry Francis Photo-Walk “Prairie Creek Redwoods”. (7 photos) [Oregon]
(54) Photographer Jon Lewis 1938 – 2009 Remembered. (9 photos) [California]
(00) Journalist Dick Meister “Profile: Jack Hall ILWU Hawaii Regional Director” [California]
(00) Poet Deborah Miller “Poems For Our Mothers”. [California]
(00) Writer Jerry Kay: “The Loves of Ivan Gomez”. [California]
(55) Photographer Bob Van Noy “Exhibit: Six Photographs”. [California]
(56) Poet Chris Giovacchini “Machine of a Man; McFarland, CA” [California]
(00) LeRoy Chatfield Essay: ” Our Nation’s Social Injustice”. [California]
(57) Writer Alfredo Santos c/s “My Experiences with the Border Patrol”. [Texas]
(00) Photograher Gilbert Ortiz “Exhibit: Six Photographs” [California]
♦ Cumulative Summary 57 First Time Authors • 333 Literary Pieces
Syndic Journal No. 4 June 2011
Syndic Cover Photo by LeRoy Chatfield: View of Alcatraz Island from North Beach San Francsico
(57) Syndic No.4 – Dedicated to Polish Poet Halina Poswiatowska (1935-1967) who was known in the 1960s as “The Poet of Love”. (2 poems) [Poland]
(00-00) Haiga – 4 Photographs by Elaine Whitman & 4 Haiku Neal Whitman. [California]
(00) Poet Kate Mullikin: “Alzheimers Poetry Reading & Photographs” (4 poems,4 photos) [California].
(58) Writer Steve Kwok: Immigration “My Father Was a Paper Son.” [California]
(59) German Artist Lena Jurikowa : 9 Wood Sculptures 1 Poem. [Germany]
(60) Poet Juan Lara: “Marching! Legacy of Dr. King”. (1 poem, 3 MLK photos) [California]
(00) Photographer Bob Van Noy: “Still Life – 8 Photographs. [California]
(61) Polish Artist Lech Lament Exhibit: 20 Mixed Media Pieces, 1 poem. [Poland]
(62) Filmmaker Glen Pearcy: “Ode to the ’58 Impala” [Maryland]
(00) Polish Poet Dariusz Pacak : “Poetry Without Words ~ 37 Photographs”. [Vienna]
(00) Writer Don Edwards: “The Girls Loved Me”. [Mexico]
(63) Taiwanese Poet Karen Kung: “7 Poems” [Taiwan]
(00) Chicago Photographer Paul Sequeira: “1970 Rock & Roll Concert at Kickapoo Creek” (20 Photographs) [Illinois]
(oo-00) Sarah Flanagan: “The Art of Baking Pies” & Eileen Murphy-McNamara. (3 recipes – 3 watercolor paintings) [Arlington Massachusetts]
(64) Polish Artist Jerzy Zachara: Art Exhibit ” Emotion & Composition” (28 paintings) [Poland]
(65) India Poet Ram Krishna Singh: Three Poems. [India]
(00) Journalist Dick Meister: “The Legacy of John Steinbeck”. [California]
(66) Photojournalist Anne Chadwick Williams:; “Anneke’s Haven” (10 photographs)
[California]
(00) Botanical Illustrator Constanza Goddard: “Nine Illustrations”. [California]
(00) Genealogist Catherine Sevenau: ” Family Genealogy: Lore, Libel, & Lies.” (essay, 4 photos)
[California]
(00) Writer Jerry Kay: Story “Doctor Rich”. [California]
(67-00) Writer Terry Scott & Filmmaker Jim Scott: “The Franky Carillo Story”. (1 essay, 1 video)
[California]
(00) Writer Juan Lara: Monologue “SH Class of 1961” (1 narration, 4 photos) [California]
(00) Writer Leslie Edwards: Story ” The Wake”. [Mexico]
(00) Polish Poet Dariusz Pacak “Eats Tibet” (5 poems, 3 photos). [Vienna]
(00) Fiction Writer Charles Rammelkamp: “The End of History” (story, 4 photos) [Maryland]
(68) India Poet Ra. Janakuramani “Poetry”. (4 poems)
(69) Peter Stiehler: “San Bruno Catholic Worker Philosophy”. [California]
(70 Poet Chris Giovacchini: “For Richard”. (1 poem, 2 photos) [California]
(00) Filmmaker Glen Pearcy: “The Cost of Repealing Affordable Health Care.” [Maryland]
(00) P0et Taki Yuriko:”Blessed Are They” & “Instead of Vengeance”. [Japan]
(00) Photographer Gilbert Ortiz: “Los Angeles 70s” (7 photos) [California]
♦ Cumulative Summary First Time Authors: 70 • Literary Pieces 525
Syndic Journal No.5 ~ December 2011
Syndic Cover Photo by LeRoy Chatfield : View of Golden Gate Bridge from North Beach San Francisco.
(71) India Photographer Mukesh Srivastrava: “Photography:Nature”. (10 photos)
(72) Poet Nina Serrano: “To Anthony Holdsworth”. (1 poem, 1 photo). [California]
(00) Photographer Paul Sequeira: “Chicago Work” (12 photos) [Chicago]
(00) Poet & Narrator Catherine Sevenau: “An Elegy to my Father”. (1 poem, 4 photos) [California]
(73) Poet & Narrator Judy Darling: “The Day I Met James Dean” & “Long’s Ridge”. [ Colorado]
(00) Photographer Gilbert Ortiz: “Los Angeles Boxing Scene c.2005 – Israel Vazquez & Pacman”.
(7 photos) [California)
(00) Writer Leslie Edwards: “Ashes On a Plane, My Last Trip With Dad.” [Mexico]
(00) Writer & Dear Friend Don Edwards: “Verganza, al Estilo Mexicano.” (1 story, 5 photos) [Mexico]
(00) Poet Chris Ciovacchini: “Broken Medicine” & “Could You, America?” (2 poems) [California]
(74) Attorney Ronald Blubaugh: “The Unlikely Constitutional Theorist.” (1 essay, 2 photos) [California]
(75) Poet Paul Pera: “The Story of a Nobody” (Part 1, Part 2) [California)
(00) Photojournalist John Kouns: “Freedom Words 1963”. (7 photos) [California]
(00) Fiction Writer Charles Rammelkamp: “Burying the Bones” (1 story, 1 photo) [Maryland]
(00) Poet Juan Francisco Lara: “World War II Through A Child’s Eyes.” (4 photos, 1 narration) [California]
(76) Poet Ada Aharoni” Universal Woman”, “A Bridge of Peace” & “Siniora”. (3 poems, 1 Photo)
[Israel]
(77) Poet Doctor Maurus Young: “Perplexity” & “She, Me, Birds”. (2 poems, 1 photo) [France]
(78) /Dutch Holocaust Survivor Poet Abraham Henselyn: “3 Poems & 3 narrations”. (1 photo)
[California]
(00) Poet Terry Scott Photo-Essay: “Hermosa Beach Sidewalk Stories & Philisophical Musings”. (22 photos) [California]
(00) Haiga • Poet Neal Whitman: “3 Haiku”; Photographer Elaine Whitman: “3 Photographs”. [California]
(oo) Poet Kate Mullikin: “Can Never Be Tested” (1 narration, 4 photos) [California]
(oo) Musician Victor Aleman: “Good Music Never Dies” (5 performances, 3 photos) [California]
(oo) Artist Susan Due Pearcy: “False Indigo”; “Paulwnia Flower Buds; & “Field Series #18”. (1 photo)
(00) Journalist Dick Meister: Profile – Albert Tieburg “Unsung Champion of Farm Labor.” & Lionel Steinberg “The Grower Who Made It Happen.” (2 essays) [California]
(79) (80) Historian Paul Richards: “The Making of “We’ll Never Turn Back (1963) and “Dream Deferred” (1964) by Filmmaker Harvey Richards. (1 essay, 19 photos). [California]
(81) Writer Jacquelin Aubin Ewing “3 Memoir Stories”. (2 photos) [California]
(82) Writer Alfredo Sanchez c/s : “Now I Believe!” (1 story, 1 photo) [Texas]
(83) Poet Adrienne Wolfert : “Poetry/Reading”. (3 poems). [California]
(00) Poet Bruce C. Mitchell: “Socrates and Cleopatra”; “Huizinga and Shakespeare”. (3 poems, 2 photos) [California- Washington]
(85) Poet Stan Yogi: “A Son’s Return to Manzanar – A Letter from Rosie”. (2 photos, 1 text) [California]
(00) Poet Richard Baldwin Cook: Essay “And Also With You ~ Roman Catholic Church Hierarchy.” (6 photos) [Maryland]
(oo) Filmmaker Anna Sophie Loewenberg: “Three Sexy Beijing Videos”. [Beijing]
(86) San Francisco Tour Guide: ” North Beach, Crossroads of the World.” (12 narrations) [California]
(87) San Francisco Photographer Mel Soloman: North Beach: “Crossroads of the World.” (14 photos) [California]
(88) Science Fiction Writer Rudolph Najar: “Olympus Mons”. (story, 2 photos) [Colorado]
(oo) Novelist Terence Cannon: “Liberated Zone” (5 photos) [California]
(oo) German Artist Lena Jurikowa: “Open Letter To Everyone”. (1 poem, 2 artwork) [Germany]
(89) India Poet RK Singh: “Three Poems”. [India]
(90) Japanese Poet TAKI Yuriko : “If I knew I would die tomorrow.” & “Is Nuclear power finished? Or is Humanity finished?” (1 photo) [Japan]
(oo) Artist Andy Zermeno: “Nine Illustrations Plight of Farmworkers”. [California]
♦Cumulative Total First Time Authors ~ 90
• Repeat Authors ~ 73
• Literary Pieces published: 699
♦ Total Syndic Narrations Including Cloudburst ~ 538
(Total Cloudburst Narrations ~ 225)
♦ Total Literary Pieces Published Syndic: No.1 to Syndic No.5 + Total Narrations = 1,237