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A Study Of The Development Of The Recreation Department Of Stockton, California, Margaret Fitzgerald Coston
A Study Of The Development Of The Recreation Department Of Stockton, California, Margaret Fitzgerald Coston
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
Stockton is a city suffering from the sudden realization that it is no longer a small farm town, end that in the process of becoming a moderate-sized city, a community faces inevitable growing pains.
The municipal recreation phase of city government well illustrates this fact. Because of the great need for expansion in this field, and because the city is now just beginning to rise to meet the occasion, a study of the Recreational Department and the program of the Metropolitan Recreation Commission in Stockton City Government and San Joaquin County, is a particularly interesting activity.
In contrast to many …
Basques In Stockton : A Study Of Assimilation, Carol Pagliarulo
Basques In Stockton : A Study Of Assimilation, Carol Pagliarulo
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
In Stockton today there is a small number of persons who come under the category, Basque. As the origin of the Basques and their language is as yet undetermined, it lends a somewhat mysterious air to them.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether the Basques, more particularly the younger generation, are becoming assimilated into the community. Are they the Basque in their manner of living, or are they American?
WIthin the scope of this study fall some 219 individuals organized into eighty-seven family groups. They are the first and second generation families and their unmarried children living …