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Highlights Volumes V and VI of the projected eight volumes of Jon Bilbao’s Eusko-Bibliographia (San Sebastián: Editorial Auñamendi, 1970- ) have been published, and the supplement for the years 1961-75 is now in preparation. The official bicentennial volume for Nevada edited by Stanley Paher, Nevada (Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1976), contains an article on “The Basques of Nevada” by William A. Douglass. Jon Bilbao recently was awarded a grant by the Research Advisory Board of the University of Nevada-Reno to begin research late next spring on the Basques in the Philippines. Richard Lane, an anthropologist formerly with the University of Idaho in Moscow, has joined the Basque Studies Program as Adjunct Assistant Research Professor with the Desert Research Institute. Dr. Lane will be studying Basque sheepherders in the American West and the contract sheepherder program. On October 29th in Sparks, Nevada, Jon Bilbao addressed the Association of College Professors of Textiles and Clothing, Western Region, on the subject of Basque apparel. His illustrated lecture was entitled “The Evolution of Modern Basque Costume.” Professor Juan P. Magunagoicoechea, who during his tenure at the University of Nevada, Reno, served as a consultant to the Basque Studies Program and participated in the Third Basque Studies Summer Session Abroad in 1975, resigned his position as Assistant Professor of Spanish in June to return to Venezuela. Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Richert of the Summer Institute of Linguistics have been with the Basque Studies Program this year studying the Basque language. They spent 18 years in New Guinea studying the indigenous languages of the area, and Mrs. Richert, a nurse, operated a medical clinic. A computerized listing of the Program’s important collection of serials has been compiled by Virginia Jacobsen. This listing of the Basque Collection holdings will be updated periodically to reflect new acquisitions. Institutions interested in obtaining a copy of the listing should address inquiries to the Basque Studies Program. William A. Douglass gave presentations on the Basque people here and abroad at the Humboldt Country Library in Winnemucca in May, and to the Reno Service League in September. Mrs. Julia Kleppe joined the Basque Studies Program this fall as a faculty wife volunteer. She has undertaken the monumental task of organizing the Program’s large collection of newspaper clippings. Among visiting scholars to the Basque Collection this fall were Mr. Gonzalo Sáenz de Buruaga, the noted socio-economist, and Ms. Kay Hummel of Boise, Idaho. Mr. Sáenz de Buruaga, currently completing doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is conducting a study of the Basque “estatutos.” Ms. Hummels, recently graduated from Brown University, is preparing for field research amongst the Basque in Colombia. Mr. Americo Chiarito of the University of Nevada’s Special Collection Library has been assigned since the beginning of the academic year to catalogue the Basque Collection. He will devote half of his time to this much-needed work. A special fund to support research in Basque Studies has been established. William A. Douglass and Jon Bilbao have earmarked the royalties from their jointly-authored book Amerikanuak: Basques in the New World (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1975) specifically for this purpose. The fund will be administered by the Basque Studies Program. |
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