mary gordon who was the house mother was described in every account i have ever read of her as very maternal, very warm and loving and she was really beloved by the children they are long after they left. they would still refer to her as mama. [inaudible] i don't know if you address of the new book that winter of examples of this? didn't the chicago world's fair have ethnic exhibits? >> they were called human human zoos that they think the difference between what was very popular particularly in europe at the time of the century and at the close of the 19th century human zoos were very popular with primitive people that they were people exhibited with people. ota benga was exhibited with an orangutan and with monkeys in a monkey house. so it was up to the spectator to decide whether or not he was fully human. >> hi. i have heard of ota benga as a youngster and i want to know what does that reveal in psychology of how people viewed him and did they actually think he was a monkey? >> for some reason i never loved zoos and that's particularly so when i went to the monkey house. if you look at a

graduating class whereas ken lee served in sfusd for 21 years including teaching at el gordon as a counselor mary a middle school and as head counselor at presidio as assistant principle and finally principle at san francisco middle school he worked tirelessly to have a safe and positive environments for the france middle school and he's welcomed the whole community to the school students apartment and teachers and staff as well as the community and whereas ken lee has shown 0 a never ending commitment to the faculty and others to further francisco as a dedicated person to academic success for the whole community and whereas, his govern philosophy to kick it up a notch and whereas ken lee as helped to raise thoughts of dollars with the help of friends and past francisco alumni and whereas ken lee has brought the expended family of francisco round back to the days when discovery ruled. (laughter). >> and whereas, he probably fly he was honored if 2015 with the mayors principle of the year award and in 2010 was honored with the kqed local heros for asian pacific month on behalf of lunar new year an

gordon. she started her academic career at the college of william and mary ann went on to the university of georgia where she studied. she completed her dissertation on general george pickett which became a book which is a model biography, published by the university of north carolina. and the inspiration for all of this of course begins right here at the civil war institute in 1983. she was one of the high school scholarship recipients that came here. one of many who was gone on to have academic careers. as you all know we have a strong contingent of high school scholarship award winners this summer as well. she now teaches at the university of akron undergraduate as well as graduate students. for a very long time she was the editor of the journal of civil war history and i believe her tenure is coming to a close. she just published a book she has been working on for eight to 10 years or less. she is not the kind of person who strays away from archives. all you have to do is look at bibliographies and you will not see manuscripts cited. lesley goes right into the archival mines and things. the res