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Title: Volume 074-1 - January 2020 Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Collection Name: Nevada County Historical Society Bulletins # of Pages: 8 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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NCHS Bulletin January 2020 Rockwell D. Hunt “Mr. California” (1868—1966) By the summer 1942 the advance of the Axis powers, especially Germany and Japan, had stopped in North Africa, before the gates of Stalingrad, and in the Pacific near Midway Island. When the Allies from the United States, Britain and Free French met at Casablanca in January 1943 (Stalin did not attend), they laid plans for victory over Nazi Germany and demanded “unconditional surrender.” From that time intellectual leaders in Britain (including the Free French) Rockwell D. Hunt, courtesy of University of the Pacific for the future demands clear recognition of the principle of continuity.” The subsequent 89 statements outlined a postwar economic, political and social order based on freedom of speech and religion and freedom from want and fear?!. Hunt was influential at the College of the Pacific and especially among such men as Pacific’s president, Tully Knoles, and history professor Robert Burns. These men in 1947 created the California History Foundation (CHF) to promote local and regional and America began imagining the new order that would follow the war. One of those thinkers was Rockwell Dennis Hunt, dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. A California native, Hunt had been educated at the College of the Pacific, Princeton and Johns Hopkins University. He taught at Pacific before moving to USC”. In 1943 Hunt published “Ninety-five Theses for These Times” in Foreign Affairs Interpreter, an academic journal. His theses (following the model of Martin Luther’s theses of 1517), proposed a framework for the postwar world. He based his principles on “The Four Freedoms” articulated earlier by President Franklin Roosevelt. Hunt’s theses began with the study of the past as the basis for building the future. Hunt wrote in his first six theses: “We are what we are largely because of what has gone before. . . History is ‘the statesman’s bluebook’. . .. Historical perspective is essential. . . [and] planning history. After Dean Hunt retired from USC, Burns (who succeeded Knoles as Pacific’s president) invited him to come to Stockton to lead the CHF”. His role at CHF put Dean Hunt in direct contact with former Pacific students like Elmer Stevens; historical society leaders like Doris Foley; and local historians like Edmund Kinyon and Nevada City’s H. P. Davis. While serving as NCHS president, Foley invited Dean Hunt to speak in Grass Valley”’. When the California Conference of Historical Societies organized under the College of the Pacific auspices in 1954, NCHS was one of the first affiliates. Dean Hunt was president, Doris Foley, treasurer, and Elmer Stevens a prominent participant’. As recently as 2015 CCHS recognized NCHS board member Brita B. Rozynski for service to local history. For his lifetime of service to the state, California Governor Goodwin Knight proclaimed Dean Hunt “Mr. California.”