SAH/SCC
is delighted to announce the establishment of the annual Merry Ovnick Fellowship.
It provides $1,000 each year to an advanced graduate student to be used to travel
to the SAH Annual International Conference. Applications are reserved for Southern
California graduate students studying architectural and/or cultural history
toward the pursuit of a Master’s degree or PhD at an accredited college or university.
The Fellowship will be awarded annually, with its first recipient in early 2025.
SAH International will hold its next annual conference April 30-May 4, 2025,
in Atlanta, GA.
As an author and educator,
Merry wrote extensively on the Southern California built environment and was the
author of Los Angeles: The End of the Rainbow (Princeton Architectural Press, 1999). For years, she was also the editor of the Southern California Quarterly. As a teacher
in the history department at California State University, Northridge, she educated
and mentored young historians for decades. She served as President of SAH/SCC and
was a long-time board member. Her final wishes were that those of us left behind
pay forward the passion and enjoyment of architecture and history that she had.
In celebration
of the Fellowship, The Merry Ovnick Fellowship Fundraiser and Lecture will be held
on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at the historic Neutra Office in Silver Lake and
broadcast via Zoom. Architectural historian Daniel Paul will be the featured speaker.
Paul, known for his groundbreaking work on glass-skinned office buildings, was mentored
by Ovnick. One hundred percent of the proceeds of the lecture will go to the support
of the Fellowship.
The call for
applications will begin on November 15, 2024, with the last day to apply January
15, 2025. The application will be posted at www.sahscc.org.
If you would
like to donate to support the Fellowship (100% percent of your donation is tax
deductible), you can do so at www.sahscc.org.
