I Am Candidate For President
Posted on June 26, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
On this day, June 26, 2023, I John Gregory Presco announce I am a Republican candidate for President of the United States.
Around 4:00 P.M. I called Spooky Noodles in California and told him to Google Samuel Merritt. Twenty minutes later we are talking about me running for Mayor of Oakland. I talked about a door opening, a brass ring coming round, as well as the White Unicorn on the Merry-Go-Round. I talked about getting backing from the Ballers, and even avid A’s fans. We talked about where a new stadium will be built. I told Spooky about Jackie Jensen who Carl Janke’s great granddaughter raised. Twenty minutes ago, I read this….
‘She has also cited as a success her support of outside investments in Oakland, including by the Ballers, a minor-league baseball team that formed this year ahead of the A’s departure to Las Vegas via the Sacramento region.”
Every Democrat has to THINK SWING VOTER! The White Man is – THE SWING VOTER! I want Biden to drop out of the race and anoint Gavin Newsom. I own much of his history, and Kamala’s. As Mayor of Oakland I will lay the foundation stone for the return of White History – and the Vitality of Young White Men! I am asking Biden – not to run! Make our day!
I live three miles from Hayward Field. I see….The American Olympics. How about baseball becoming an Olympic Sport -with rule changes?
John Presco
Recall effort against Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has enough signatures for election
By SHOMIK MUKHERJEE | smukherjee@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: June 18, 2024 at 5:34 p.m. | UPDATED: June 20, 2024 at 8:16 a.m.
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OAKLAND — Efforts to remove Mayor Sheng Thao from office are likely headed to the November election after city officials confirmed Tuesday that a recall campaign against the mayor gathered enough valid petition signatures.
A progressive mayor who took office as the city struggled to recover from the pandemic, Thao may now be forced back into campaign mode. The City Council is expected to discuss placing the recall on the November ballot during a July 2 meeting.
Earlier this month, recall organizers submitted around 40,000 petitions to the city — far more than the 24,644 valid signatures needed to compel a new election.
After randomly sampling a portion of the petitions, Alameda County’s elections office estimated last week that the whole batch would exceed 110% of the necessary threshold. That’s enough to trigger an election outright without a full manual count of signatures.
Organizers of the recall campaign, led by retired county Judge Brenda Harbin-Forte and former mayoral candidate Seneca Scott, celebrated news of the validated signatures on social media.
“Thao’s actions have pushed Oakland to the brink, but the community is saying, ‘NO MORE. We want Thao gone,’ ” Harbin-Forte said in a written statement.
They also boasted that of the 40,000 petitions they submitted, nearly all were deemed valid — but this is incorrect, according to public records.
Instead, the random sample projected that roughly 26% of the petitions, or somewhere around 10,753 signatures, were not “valid signatures of qualified registered voters” in the city, per records obtained by this news organization and first reported by the Oakland Observer on social media.
The distinction could prove important in a city that has been politically divided ever since Thao eked out an election victory in 2022 over a more moderate candidate, Loren Taylor, whose close loss prompted the local NAACP chapter to seek a recount.
Thao received 39,909 first-place votes in that race, fewer than Taylor, but enough voters placed her as their second-choice preference that she emerged victorious under the city’s ranked-choice voting system. The race contained 10 candidates, though the ballots allowed for only five choices — an apparent possible violation of the city charter.
Thao’s opponents have pilloried her and other local progressives for the perception that she is soft on crime and bad at managing public money.
Oakland saw a devastating spike in crime during the pandemic that has slowly begun to recede: Total citywide crime was down 33% as of Sunday from year-to-date statistics in 2023.
The city, entrenched in a staggering budget crisis, is planning to direct revenue from a private sale of its share of the Oakland Coliseum property toward its budget shortfall over the next two years — a move criticized by financial experts as a shortsighted use of long-term funds.
Next week, the City Council is expected to review Thao’s budget proposal for final approval.
Thao has also pointed to her revival of the Ceasefire strategy, an anti-violence program in Oakland that slowed during the pandemic, as the cause behind the recent decline in crime.
She has also cited as a success her support of outside investments in Oakland, including by the Ballers, a minor-league baseball team that formed this year ahead of the A’s departure to Las Vegas via the Sacramento region.
Requests for comment on the petitions’ validation were directed by the mayor’s spokesperson to her campaign’s email address — a sign that Thao was now gearing up for another election fight.
The recall campaign, meanwhile, is currently under investigation by the city over an ethics complaint alleging it tried allowing potential donors to “remain private,” a violation of state campaign-finance reporting law.
In the same complaint, the campaign has been accused of having workers overlap with a nonprofit political action committee, Foundational Oakland Unites, that is backing the recall.
Public records released by the city in the ethics complaint indicate that Scott, a recall campaign representative who received under 3% of the vote in his 2022 election bid against Thao, had devised a plan late last year to form the PAC to “support candidates in 2024.”
It’s unclear how the investigation’s outcome could affect the campaign. Other recent city ethics complaints have remained in investigative limbo for weeks, months and even years.
Recalls, once rare political maneuvers, have gained prominence in California. Voters in Alameda County are also pursuing a recall against District Attorney Pamela Price in November.
Perhaps the largest source of criticism against Thao has come from supporters of the city’s ex-police chief LeRonne Armstrong, who sued the mayor after she fired him last January for his response to an internal cover-up scandal involving a city cop’s hit-and-run.
Armstrong, who is now running for City Council, will be another player in the upcoming November election.
Staff writer Nollyanne Delacruz contributed reporting to this story.
Cultural Destruction of Three Cities
Posted on April 7, 2024 by Royal Rosamond Press
“He was the founding president of the Frank and Eva Buck Foundation, which grants college scholarships in Northern California and has been on the Board of the Jeffers Tor House Foundation in Carmel for many years.”
April is Poetry Month. I sent Monica Korde a small poem – with a crack in it! For several days, I’ve been composing a letter to the Government of Belmont in regards to Belmont Wedding Day. This morning I concluded these elected officials know nothing about Art, Poetry – and Bohemians – and they don’t want to know anything. Why? Well, they got their One woman Cultural Event – in Monica – and she seems very agreeable, even…pliable! Why aren’t I funded? Have any millionaires offered to help me put together this amazing history? No. I assume people think I’m very wealthy. I’m on SSI.
Last night I had a long nightmare, where I went to THAT HOTEL again. It wa filled with drunks and addicts – and the severely mentally ill. We were on the verge of homelessness. My Governor has spent millions on – THESE PEOPLE. I have been clean and sober for thirty-six years. You would think I would have some value to many City Governments? I’m going to try a new approach. Above are pics of Jackie Jensen who was known as the Golden Boy when he went to UC Berkeley. Dr. William Stuttmeister was one of the first to graduate from UC when it was located in SF. He was one of this cities first dentists. He made a lot of money.
Below is an account of William’s wedding to the daughter of the founder of Belmont. If these two had not gotten married, then my grandmother, Melba Charlotte Broderick, would not have been born, and, she would not have rescued Jackie and Bobby who came to live with her after their mother had a “nervous breakdown”. Melba took care of these boys for a year, and they graduated from Oakland High, where Vic, Mark, and myself attended. These three males owe their existence to Carl and Doretha Janke, who were dug up out of their graves in the middle of the night, and put in the grave of Mutter “Heinrich, Dorothea’s mother, whose headstone was put back in place! In 1972 the founders of Belmont – did not exist! When you do a genealogy, birth, death, and burial plots are noted. LATER, the stone you see today, was ordered from the stone maker, and it replaced Mutter’s stone! What the hell happened to that stone. Mutter’s genetic material helped Jackie Jensen group up and play for…..THE NEW YORK YANKEES! Wow! Almost everyone loves baseball…..America’s Game!
John Madden and Ken Kesey played football for the Oregon Ducks! How about a Godzilla Run in Twin Pines Park – with Sadie Hawkins Run – too!
In September of 1958, my new friend, Bill Arnold, told me a woman came into his art class, and talked about me with Bobby Jensen who taught art at McChesney High. She asked Bobby to watch over me, because I was very disturbed. I had done a Plein Air oil in the vineyard out back of the Melba’s home in Roseville. I found a pond hidden in a grove of trees. Melba loved it, and went to get her friends so they could see how talented her grandson is. This, bid me to wipe that beautiful painting off the board, and in its place I rendered a very disturbing surrealistic message. Bill shook my hand.
“Congratulations. At twelve you have achieved notoriety as an artist. But, what I don’t get is – she just walked in to my class! She wasn’t invited. She didn’t address us. She just came in to talk about your mental illness. Who are……you people?”
John Presco
On page six, Mr. Morris explains why there was a delay in the closing of the estate;
“By September 2000, however, plans were underway for a biography of Decedent, which Petitioner hoped might create interest in her work. The book was published in 2002. Although the book did not spur the hoped-for interest in Decedent’s life and work, efforts continued to market the concept of a screenplay based upon Decedent’s life. Petitioner hoping that this might be brought to fruition, elected to keep the estate open. However, it is the Petitioner’s belief the likelihood of an increased interest in Decedents work is negligible, and the time has come to close the estate.”
1888: From the Daily Alta, an article on the marriage of Dr. William O.
Stuttmeister and Augusta D. Janke.
Daily Alta California, Volume 42, Number 14175, 24 June 1888
STUTTMEISTER-JANKE.
One of the most enjoyable weddings of the past week took place at
Belmont, Wednesday morning last, the contracting parties being Miss
Augusta Janke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Janke of Belmont,
and Dr. Wm. Stuttmeister of San Francisco. The house was
handsomely decorated with a rich profusion of ferns and flowers, and
at the appointed hour was filled with the relatives and intimate friends
of the contracting parties. At 11 o’clock the wedding march was played
and the bridal party entered the parlor. The bride was attended by Miss
Alice Stuttmeister, a sister of the groom, and Miss Minnie Janke, a
sister of the bride, as bridesmaids, and Dr. Muldownado and Wm.
Janke, a cousin of the bride, were groomsmen. The Rev. A. L. Brewer
of San Mateo performed the beautiful and impressive ceremony under
an arch composed of flowers and greens very prettily arranged, after
which the guests pressed forward and offered their congratulations.
The bride was attired in a very pretty and becoming costume of the
crushed strawberry shade, and wore a corsage bouquet of orange
blossoms. She carried a handsome bouquet of white flowers. After the
guests had paid their compliments the bride and groom led the way to
the dining-room, where the wedding dinner was served and the health
of the newly married pair was pledged. The feast over, the guests
joined in the dance, and the hours sped right merrily, interspersed with
music singing and recitations, until the bride and groom took their
departure amid a shower of rice and good wishes. Many beautiful
presents were received. Dr. and Mrs. Stuttmeister left Thursday
morning for Santa Cruz and Monterey, where they will spend the
honeymoon. On their return they will make their home in Belmont.
1911: Dr. Willian O. Stuttmeister was practicing dentistry in Redwood
City, CA. (Reference: University of California, Directory of Graduates,
Watercolorist – Robert Jensen
Posted on July 13, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press
This morning I awoke with the realization that Jackie Jensen and Ken Kesey led paralell lives in regards to their Sports history. They were both Golden Boys. Jensen excelled in sports at the University of California, and Kesey at the University of Oregon. Both men met their wives at college. Jackie met Zoe Olson who swam in the Olympics. Ken would have wrestled in the Olympics if not for an injury. These two athletes look alike. We just had Olympic Trials in Eugene. Jackie played for the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. Why wasn’t Ken’s sports history promoted? People came from all over the world, many knowing Eugene is the home of the Pranksters, but, did Zane Kesey show up at the stadium in Further? Did visitors stick around to go to the Country Faire?
At the dedication of the Kesey Mural I talked to Chuck Kesey about the trophy sitting atop the bookcase. He ran down some of his brother’s athletic achievements. He had won many trophies. What became of Jackie’s trophies? I captured Springfield Mayor, Christine Lundberg, on video standing under Giant Ken. I told her about the oppression and censorship at the Emerald Art Association that I and other artists experienced. She assured me this had all changed, and Springfield was moving in a more inclusive direction.
What’s going on here? One has to wonder if the Nobody People are jealous of this history, and want to drag it down and pin it to the mat. The Kesey family demonstrated against the UofO abandoning its wrestling program, while Knight promoted Track Town.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-02-22-666077407_x.htm
Jackie’s brother Bobby, was a well know artist. The EEA was founded by the wives of men who owned logging companies up river, the same men Mim’s refers to who made it a point to not hire blacks. The Mim’s house is located arround the corner from the Cogswell House. Geroge Miller married a Cogswell. His brother, Joaquin Miller, used to accompany my father’s mother on the Frutivale Trolly when she and those famous poet went to San Francisco. This is a literary-newspaper history that needs to be amplified. My grandmother raised the Jensen brothers for a year. I was told their mother had a nervous breakdown, and went into a sanitarium. But, there was the hint she abandoned them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey
Normal biographies about creative people include the creative people they came in contact with that had an influence on their creative history. If there are any historic people hovering about, they are included. The Jensen brothers and Zoe Olson did not make it into the two biographies of Christine Rosamond Benton, nor did Joaquin Miller and the artist, Thomas Hart Benton. Jackie and Zoe Jensen are two of the most famous people that came out of Oakland. Both went to Oakland High School where Robert (Bobby) Jensen taught art. Victor was a classmate of the Jensen brothers. They were role models for Mark and I. My brother played on Oakland High School’s only championship team. This fact was missed by the ghost writers, Tom Snyder, and Julie Lynch, who were hired by outsider and self-titled caretaker of my family legacy, Stacey Pierrot.
My friend Bill Arnold was in Jensen’s 9th. grade class, when my father’s mother walked in and began talking about me. Nancy Hamren was in this class, she later becoming well know for her yogurt at the Kesey family creamery. Bill heard my name and moved closer. Melba was telling the artist she raised during hard times, that I was a deeply troubled young man, and, if Bobby should ever have me in his class, could he take me under his wing, guide me in some manner. This famous watercolorist never approached me. He is not a shrink. If he had he would have discovered my watercolor of a sailboat had toured the world in a Red Cross show when I was twelve. I have found artists on the internet who prospered under the tutelage of Jensen who rendered boats in Jack London Square and the Oakland Estuary where I lived on my sailboat, and, on a houseboat like Victor Hugo Presco.
Yesterday I went to the Oregon Country Fair and found peace there, along with some forgiveness for my father due to the two chapters I wrote about him. Vic Presco was mentally ill, psychotic. What he did to his two sons – is against the law! He could have gone to jail. What people have done to me since Christine was killed by a rogue wave, borders on being criminal. Christine, Rena, and myself suffer from mental illness. The people around us tried to prosper from our disability and our creativity by making us out to be insane! My biography is forced to bring their extreme abuse and destructiveness out of the darkness. They will be exposed for the sake of art, and all creative people.
What Melba did was try to embroil Bobby in the never-ending turmoil her son brought into the lives of all around him. Not once did Melba declare her son was mentally ill. I was her son’s Scapegoat. Because I was sensitive, kind, and loving, and because life was very hard for me, my mental illness was employed by people around me as a smokescreen to hide their disturbed minds, and at the same time rip-off my creative genius. Below are articles on creative people and mental illness. Above is a photograph of my watercolor that Rosemary posed her children in front of. Christine was not drawing and painting in the closet. The true drama that whirled around us, was the struggle two very close friends were having with their insane fathers. I have only touched the surface of the creative relationship between Bill Arnold and I.
The Rosamond gallery in Carmel should have been springboard for the surviving family artists, and writers for generations to come. Instead it was sold to a un-gifted outsider who was backed by Vicki and Mark Presco who had no creative gifts. They were cashing in and slandering the creative members of our family. They put obstacles in our path, just like Victor had in his psychotic need to get all the attention.
I just called the Crockett Museum. I am considering donating much of the history I own. Victor Hugo Presco lived in Crockett on a houseboat. He never met the author, Royal Rosamond, who was estranged from his family when he died. Their children married and had four children. I would like to bring these two grandfathers together in this humble little museum – along with Christine – who was born nearby in Vallejo. Vic used to deliver produce here.
‘The Gambler and the Poet’
Mary Ann Tharaldsen and I almost moved to Crockett that I believed would be the next Sausalito. I am glad I was wrong. Perhaps my ex should donate her painting to the Crockett Museum, and, Pynchon could be the curator in disguise? I see him showing of the giant stuffed sturgeon.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/39616
Here is a partial biography of Robert Jensen. I will have to pay $15 dollars to read the rest of it. I am looking for Terry to talk to him in person. I suspect the Jensen brother suffered from mental illness due to the hard life they had. Do you think Robert wants to be posthumously associated with these writers and artists? Do you see how this works?
Jon Presco
Copyright 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity_and_mental_illness
The following biography, submitted April 2004, is from Terry Jack Jensen, son of the artist.
My father was born on December 15, 1922 in San Francisco, California. His parents were Wilfred Jensen and Alice I. Jensen. My father had two brothers; Jack E. Jensen and an older brother Wilfred (Bill) Jensen. Jack became a gifted athlete, All American College football and baseball player. Jackie played for the Yankees and Red Sox (MVP 1958). Bill was a business man. The family moved to Oakland when my father was in elementary school.
The Depression came along, and the family business (butcher shop) went out of business. Wilfred senior left the family and did not return until after WWII. Hard times hit the family hunger and malnutriti………………
Jackie Jensen, the blond rugged Californian who attained great heights on both the football gridiron and baseball diamond, also waged a complex struggle with anxiety that he seemed to have conquered only at the very end of his life, a life that ended too early. A member of the College Football Hall of Fame and an American League Most Valuable Player, Jensen is today most famous for his midcareer decision to leave baseball because he could not bear to fly in an airplane.
Jack Eugene Jensen was born on March 9, 1927, in San Francisco to Wilfred and Alice (Delany) Jensen. Wilfred owned a meat-cutting business and worked briefly as a patrolman, but he and Alice divorced when Jackie was 5 years old. Alice, an Arkansas native, worked at various jobs in San Francisco to support Jackie and his two older brothers. Alice and the boys moved several times during Jackie’s childhood, mainly in Oakland. Wilfred was the second of Alice’s four husbands.
Jack entered Oakland High School in 1941 and became an immediate sensation. Besides starring in baseball and football, he also wrote for the school paper, became class president, and was the idol of all the other kids in the school. In the spring of 1942 guidance counselor Ralph Kerchum, taken by the possibility of greatness in his student, recorded an interview with Jack and made a 78-rpm record for posterity. The questions were not probing (“What’s your favorite sport?” “Baseball.” “What’s your next favorite?” “Football”) but indicate the effect Jensen had on adults as a teenager. Kerchum became something of a surrogate father to Jensen, and remained a close friend for the rest of Jensen’s life.
Jack graduated from high school in January 1945, and enlisted in the Navy, as both his brothers had done. He enrolled in radio school hoping to work on a communications ship, but he was still in school when the war ended in August. He was then stationed at a base in Idaho, mostly playing football and working as a lifeguard. He stayed in the Navy until his discharge in the summer of 1946. That fall he entered the University of California on the GI Bill.
The well-built (5-feet-11, 190 pounds) Jensen’s athletic reputation, built in high school in neighboring Oakland as well as in the service, made his college football debut much anticipated. The first time he touched the ball, a punt return against Wisconsin, he ran 56 yards for a touchdown. By the end of his freshman year he was considered the finest back in the Pacific Coast Conference (today called the Pac-10), and was selected to play in the East-West Shrine game. In his sophomore season, the Golden Bears finished 9-1, with Jensen the fullback and best defensive back. The following season, 1948, Jensen was a consensus All-American, rushing for more than 1,000 yards and leading the team to an undefeated season. Jensen was injured early in the second half of the Rose Bowl game, and his Bears were defeated by Northwestern.
Jensen also starred on the baseball team at Cal. In 1947 he was the team’s ace pitcher, hit .385, and helped his team win the inaugural College World Series. In the regional final he outpitched future football Hall of Famer Bobby Layne of Texas, then helped his team win the final series against a Yale team that included future President George H.W. Bush. Jensen was academically ineligible in his sophomore year, but came back to help the team to a 31-17 record in 1949, earning All-American honors as he had in football.
By this time Jensen was one of the more famous athletes on the West Coast, both for his sporting exploits—he was universally called The Golden Boy—and his relationship with diving champion Zoe Ann Olsen. Jensen and Olsen both attended Oakland High School, though she was three years behind him. When they began dating in 1946, Jensen was a freshman at Cal and Olsen was 15 years old and still in high school. Olsen was a Golden Girl in her own right, and won the silver medal in springboard diving in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. The two were blond, attractive athletic heroes, and the press could not get enough of their story.
After his junior year at Cal, in the spring of 1949, Jensen disappointed many Cal loyalists by forgoing his senior year, instead signing a contract to play for the Oakland Oaks baseball club of the Pacific Coast League. Jensen had been scouted by several major-league teams, including the New York Yankees, who reportedly offered him a $75,000 bonus. The Oaks matched the bid, and Jack decided that the Oaks offered a higher level of competition than the lower minor-league berth the Yankees had suggested he would get. Jensen hit .261 in his first professional season, after which he was sold (along with Billy Martin and others) to the Yankees.
http://www.artandcointv.com/artMichaelSchofield.php
http://www.calart.com/Data/Artists/Robert_Jensen.asp
http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Robert_Edward_Jensen/6197/Robert_Edward_Jensen.aspx
http://www.askart.com/Info_Individual.aspx
A new football/soccer/baseball field was inaugurated in the spring of 2006. The football field is officially known as Jackie Jensen Field, while the baseball/softball field is dedicated to Mike Marcoulis, Sr., longtime coach and teacher.
| Robert Jensen (April 20, 1989) Arts and Crafts 22 Aug 1923 – 20 Apr 1989 66 Years Old |
http://choiralleypress.com/Pg.16.html
http://www.ousd.org/domain/1751
http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/00badd9b
John Madden and Godzilla Run
Posted on January 9, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
I want the spirit of John Madden to be the Hovering Spirit Head at the first – Godzilla and ZARDOZ Run For The Roses.
John Madden, Jim Bailey and a race through Eugene (i-5corridor.com)
City Hall Meeting With Poetry
Posted on April 5, 2024 by Royal Rosamond Press
Watercolorist – Robert Jensen
Posted on July 13, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press
This morning I awoke with the realization that Jackie Jensen and Ken Kesey led paralell lives in regards to their Sports history. They were both Golden Boys. Jensen excelled in sports at the University of California, and Kesey at the University of Oregon. Both men met their wives at college. Jackie met Zoe Olson who swam in the Olympics. Ken would have wrestled in the Olympics if not for an injury. These two athletes look alike. We just had Olympic Trials in Eugene. Jackie played for the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. Why wasn’t Ken’s sports history promoted? People came from all over the world, many knowing Eugene is the home of the Pranksters, but, did Zane Kesey show up at the stadium in Further? Did visitors stick around to go to the Country Faire?
http://www.dma-mry.com/About%20Us.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Jeffers
https://www.facebook.com/lacy.w.buck
http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20160306/NEWS/160309870
About half of the Marin Community Foundation’s $1.7 billion in assets is money from the original Beryl Buck endowment; the rest is donor-advised funds. In addition to managing the Buck Trust’s assets, the foundation administers charitable funds for more than 450 people, families and businesses. These giving accounts are known as “donor-advised funds” because the donors consult with the foundation regarding how their money should be spent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_House_and_Hawk_Tower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Jeffers
He later built a large four-story stone tower on the site called “Hawk Tower”. While he had not visited Ireland at this point in his life, it is possible that Hawk Tower is based on Francis Joseph Bigger‘s ‘Castle Séan’ at Ardglass, County Down, which had also in turn influenced William Butler Yeats‘ choice of a poets tower, Thoor Ballylee.
Robert B. Buck, President and Principal Owner
Bob Buck is the President and principal owner of Del Monte Aviation. Mr. Buck acquired and redeveloped Monterey’s fifty year old Del Monte Aviation in early 1996, using his more than five thousand pilot hours as a guide.
Mr. Buck’s development of Del Monte Aviation followed many years of activity in real estate development, agribusiness and oil production. He is a founding partner of the Carmel law firm of Heisinger, Buck and Morris. Mr. Buck is active in charitable endeavors, now serving as Vice Chairman of the Buck Institute in Marin County, California, a medical research facility specializing in the problems of aging.
He was the founding president of the Frank and Eva Buck Foundation, which grants college scholarships in Northern California and has been on the Board of the Jeffers Tor House Foundation in Carmel for many years.
Robert Buck owns the law firm that stepped into to be the Special Executor of Rosamond’s creative legacy after Vicki Presco refused to serve. Robert is connected to the Buck Trust and Institute that is right out of a science fiction novel in regards for searching for the Fountain of Youth. Robert also owns Del Monte Aviation that flies in professional golfers to play at Pebble Beach. This beats anything Thomas Pynchon could dream up. ‘Inherit Vice’ should have been like ‘Chinatown’. Pynchon is in the Presco Family Tree. I married his ex-wife.
Critics argue this is an unnecessary expense, and that the money would be better spent on the needy of Marin—as Mrs. Buck wished. Dr. Peters responds to this critique in his characteristically careful and politically sensitive manner: “Do I need a special master to tell me whether or not I need to make sure that Dr. and Mrs. Buck’s money as to their will is spent appropriately?” He asks. “No, I don’t need that.” But, he adds: “Justice Strankman is a most thoughtful, intellectual partner to have. He’s a real resource to think through the issues. He and the court have been most supportive of our reach well beyond Dr. and Mrs. Buck’s family and played a key role in supporting our efforts to attract other donors…”
All told, the Buck Trust has doled out more than $1 billion. After 25 years of stewardship by the Marin Community Foundation, it is time to ask how successful it has been in meeting the Bucks’ challenge of providing help for the needy.
On page six, Mr. Morris explains why there was a delay in the closing of the estate;
“By September 2000, however, plans were underway for a biography of Decedent, which Petitioner hoped might create interest in her work. The book was published in 2002. Although the book did not spur the hoped-for interest in Decedent’s life and work, efforts continued to market the concept of a screenplay based upon Decedent’s life. Petitioner hoping that this might be brought to fruition, elected to keep the estate open. However, it is the Petitioner’s belief the likelihood of an increased interest in Decedents work is negligible, and the time has come to close the estate.”
Lost Prestige
Posted on December 16, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
Big Buck
by
John Presco
“If Christine’s parents had embraced her talent, there might be existing works from her childhood, but this was not to be. Fearing that Christine would steal her brother’s spotlight as the family artist, Christine’s mother, Rosemary, forbade Christine to draw at home.”
I learned at an early age that most human dealings are about recovering Lost Prestige. When I read the Bible for the first time in 1987, I got the core message. Jesus is the Parodical Son returning to his place of birth in order to right a great injustice – and wrong! He reads from Isiah, and his folks people – go nuts – and try to throw him off a cliff! They falsely identify Joseph as his father – but the Jews got that one all wrong – and lose their God to Roman and Greek converts. Oops!
What went wrong – here! Joseph is the epitome of Lost Prestige. His wife Mary gets to brag on his son – till kingdom come! Good Ol Joe is regulated to the background as is Melba’s second husband Joe Wilkins. In this amazing photograph, we see a question mark that guesses – is this Joe? Study this article on bragging rights, because there is a battle going on over this in the photo below.
Bragging: When Is It OK and When Is It Not OK? | Psychology Today
When a partner of Robert Brevoort Buck sold our family history to an outsider, he made a judgement, a ruling, that a family member was unfit to reord the Presco Family History that has to be SEIZED in order to PAY OFF CREDITORS. Sydney Morris has complete confidence in Stacey Pierrot hiring a ghost writer with monies that the Heirs will eventually realize. What is important is to FIX the waning interest in Rosamond’s hack commercial work. This is the real tragedy here – that began in 1987 when no one wanted the four images produced for the Family Art Partnership by Vic&Vic and Christine Rosamond. I had come down from the North for my annual visit, and Captain Vic was all in tizzy because his idea to market Rosamond’s Art via American Express cards, was not working. Half my family was going to lose Melba’s Windfall. Reluctantly my opinion was sought.
“Produce a coffee table book of Christine’s work.”
‘But, aren’t we giving away Rosamond images -for free? The idea here – is to make money!”
“Oh shoot! Darn! I forgot. Never mind.”
Eventually MY IDEA was accepted, but I had to be divorced from all The Family Art lest I want……SOME MONEY! Well, I don’t deserve any money because I helped my mother oppress Christine’s artistic genius she owned when she snuck into the closet in the girl’s room to render masterful works of art – when she was three and half!
Study the Family Photo. Vicki looks to be around three and a half. Did she ever catch her older sister – slipping into their shared closet with a flashlight? Did Rosamond slip a mind-numbing drug into Vicki’s cereal in order to prevent her from blurting out the truth.
“Guess what? My big sister did a amazing pencil drawing of a horse that rivals the horse that Leonardo did!”
The basis for my lawsuit will be how Buck and Morris ASSUMED the loyal fans and collectors of Rosamond Prints – WERE COMPLETE IDIOTS – and were not insulted! How many were mothers – who loved to brag about their children – and hoped they would be as gifted as Rosamond. Why not author a lie – saying Rosemary was very proud of her achievements and encouraged her – all the way! So did her older brother!
“Ahhhhhhhh! How nice! And they got sober together? What a miracle!”
Focus in on The Trinity…..Christine, Rosemary, and John. Why are our images standing out. Even in black and white we look – enhanced! Why? According to the second ghost writer, who did a coffee book thing, Rosemary ONLY WANTS ME to be a world famous artist. The million dollar question is, when did I WANT TO BE a world famous artist? Don’t I get a say-so? I appear to be eleven in this photo. I did not decide to become an artist till a year later. I was looking at being a architect at this time.
The other real question, is, how did lynch know my mother only wanted ME to be famous? And, here’s the BONUS QUESTION…..why wouldn’t any mother want BOTH HER CHILDREN to be famous – especially her daughter/ Do you see it? Do you see it? Why does Pierrot approve of The Mother of a World Famous Artist – being disqualified and disowned from THE SUCCESS? Forget about me! Lynch says Rosemary knew her daughter was doing fine art – at home – and only allowed her to paint at school? Did Rosemary keep this a big secret – from me – lest I feel too much pressure to succeed? Or, did the knowledge I was crushing my sister’s creativity – too – make me feel very artsy?
Morris and Buck sold a world famous art gallery located in Carmel to a non-artist – who got to STRUT ABOUT AND BRAG! Stacey Pierrot was invited to civic cultural events. Her blessing – was sought! She knew nothing about art. Did she ever write a poem?
In reading the STELLAR VITAS of board members of the Buck Foundation, I consider how my life would be transformed is I could say I was the owner of the Rosamond Gallery – or at least – THE GENERAL MANAGER! The goal was to make money and increase the waning interest in Rosamond’s work – that included images of my nephew. Imagine if a couple fly in from Monte Carlo on a Lear Jet. Entering the gallery, they tell me they collect Rosamond’s.
“Can you tell us more about Rosamond. There is so little information!’
“This is your lucky day! I am John, her brother. My mother said I was Christine’s John who “prepared her way.” Get it?”
“Oh by God! Yes! CHRIST-INE!”
“We’ll take a dozen!”
“You choose which ones you think are best for us! I want to tell my friends Rosamond’s Brother personally – CHOSE THESE ONES!”
“Bless you!”
Why does Melba look so concerned in the photo above? It’s because she lost much prestige when she fell in love with Viola, and then had a son by a famous gambler. I do not think she was told the Stuttmeister Dead was moved to Colma. Melba grabbed as much prestige as she could. She was stingy with the truth she helped raise Jackie Jensen ‘The Golden Boy’. Rosamond could have done a series of Jackies. What about me?
Jackie went to Oakland High School with my father. He and Zoe had a drinking and drug problem which should be of some interest to Alcohol Justice. I am the only artist who did a image of Christine – and have plans for another!
I never got a dime from Rosamond’s Art. Never touched a penny. There is something very wrong about this. But then, there is something – so right! I kept my integrity. I resisted temptation – just like Jesus!
John Presco
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Meet Snitty Cynthia Karpa McCarthy
Posted on March 1, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
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Here she is, the devil who played evil mind games with me – and dead members of my family!. She wrote a book on the City of Belmont – and did not tell me for three days. We were having a squabble over how the facebook for the Belmont Historical Society is set up. My first posts identified me as a close relative of Carl Janke. Did Snitty Miss Cynthia – jump for joy and say;
“Oh by God! I thought you were all dead. I wrote a book on your family. Have you read my book? Do you have more family photos – and history?
One of the first posts I posted was on Cipriani found La California in Italy. did she jump for joy at this news. Did she tell me this was fantastic research. This is a ex-librarian. Don’t they take a oath to respect writers of books, and the history of people – written by relatives. What gets me, she did not approve the Tiffany window in the Janke-Stuttmeister crypt with the name of Augustus Janke on it. Why would she withhold this beautiful historic image from the people of Belmont. I suspect she is a parasite and a thief who stayed up all night pouring through the blog – that she said she did not know existed1 Outrageous. I spoke about the deaths in the family and the books and movie scripts about my famous sister. Is she gong for another Rosemond Book? You think she would have said
“Your sister is Rosamond? Oh my God, I had some of her work. And her grandfather is Carl Janke? Oh my God. Lets co-author a book together!”
But, what got me, is, she took down this photo of the Janke-Stuttmeister crypt after I told her this is where my grandfather moved OUR DEAD after they were dug up from their not final resting place, the Oddfellow cemetery.
As fate would have it, I posted my video of Chuck Kesey on his brothers mural, on Davina Hurt page. Snitty Catherine falsely claimed in her history book, the Grateful Dead lived, or, practiced their music in Ralston Hall. I have been on the bus with Kesey. I believe I posted on Nancy Hamren who worked at the Kesey Creamery and made a famous a yogurt. I will be letting The Dead Family – found all over the world – know that I came upon a trap-door spider that FEEDS OFF THE DEAD. My grandparents knew Joaquin Miller, who was promoted by Ida Culbreth, the head of the Oakland Library. This is a CONSPIRACY! Snitty said she is the only one to blame. How many read my posts, and knew I was handing them a gold mine? Did they should a warning. Did thy say;
“You need to talk to Cynthia Karpa McCarthy! You two have alot in common!”
No we don’t.
Here is the Satan-Cherry atop the who stinking History Theft. I posted on the Tanforan Cottages and my theory Cipriani bought one of Janke’s homes he brought around the Cape in 1849. I said this;
“Someone needs to look at these houses to see if they are screwed together.”
I believe I posted on the dumb claim Ciriani tore down a house in Italy and had it shipped to Belmont. Miss Snitty stole that idea from aother alleged historian, Dd Snitty say;
“Wow! Fantastic theory! Can you come here! Well ut you up in a fine hotel. We can get the city to lend us some construction workers!”
“We will review the content for its interest to our followers.”
How many others shared with THE REVIEWERS and got the same treatment – and walked away? I told Cynthia to let me post away, and if THE REVIWERS don’t like it, tell me, and I will take it down. How many visitors to this group – that give a rat’s ass. I will lodge a complaint with facebook.
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John Presco
Greg Presco Hi Greg , I have been enjoyed some of your posts and photos that are directly related to the Belmont area and you have provided some new photos and information that will be put in a file, but please try not to post anything that is off topic or is not Belmont Area related. Thank you ,Denny Lawhern Belmont Historian
“My name is Cynthia McCarthy and you can blame me and me alone, not the Belmont Historical Society. You can email me at carthy@gmail.com.
“Midway between San Francisco and San José, Belmont is where an Italian count reconstructed his villa transported from Italy,“
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“In Mr. Sydney Morris’s Report of the Administration he says on page 4 line 10;
“Petitioner hired Stacey Pierrot, who had been assistant manager of the gallery during Decedent’s lifetime, to run the gallery and prepare and execute a marketing plan. The gallery was run by the estate until March 1996 when the gallery was sold to Ms. Pierrot through a contract approved by this Court. During the time that the estate operated the gallery, aggressive marketing efforts were made in an attempt to stir interest in Decedent’s work and increase the potential market for her work. In spite of these efforts, interest in Decedent’s work continued to wane.”
On page six, Mr. Morris explains why there was a delay in the closing of the estate;
“By September 2000, however, plans were underway for a biography of Decedent, which Petitioner hoped might create interest in her work. The book was published in 2002. Although the book did not spur the hoped-for interest in Decedent’s life and work, efforts continued to market the concept of a screenplay based upon Decedent’s life. Petitioner hoping that this might be brought to fruition, elected to keep the estate open. However, it is the Petitioner’s belief the likelihood of an increased interest in Decedents work is negligible, and the time has come to close the estate.”
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THE BEGINNING: Oakland, California
If Christine’s parents had embraced her talent, there might be existing works from her childhood, but this was not to be. Fearing that Christine would steal her brother’s spotlight as the family artist, Christine’s mother, Rosemary, forbade Christine to draw at home. The only time she could express herself was at school or in her closet, by flashlight, when everyone else was asleep. Though we don’t have images to prove it, Christine’s kindergarten teacher has said that, by age five, Christine was already drawing with adult skill. She can remember Christine’s pictures of animals having near perfect detail and perspective.
In addition to oppressing Christine artistically, Rosemary also dominated Christine with physical violence. Trying to support four children with only a high school education and little help from her alcoholic husband, Rosemary was often enraged. She took this rage out on Christine and Christine’s earliest known works reflect it. In Teenage Drawing II, her subject is reticent and withdrawn. In Teenage Drawing III, the woman looks shocked and angry.
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Melba Charlotte Broderick
Posted on August 31, 2011 by Royal Rosamond Press
Above is a photo of my father’s mother, Melba, and her childhood friend, Violet (Vie), near Joaquin Miller’s house. I heard they were into Isadora Duncan. Did they meet Miller and his daughter at this age?
Joaquin Miller lived in the Oakland Hills above the Stuttmeister farm and orchard located in the city of Fruitvale that would later be incorporated into the city of Oakland. Miller was titled the `Poet of
the Sierras’. His farm was called `The Heights’ and was a Mecca for California artists and poets. This eccentric Bohemian was friends of William Broderick and would accompany Melba Charlotte Broderick, the mother of Victor Presco, to San Francisco where Melba met her husband, Hugo Presco, a professional gambler in the Barbary Coast.
Miller carried the infant father of Rosamond on these adventures that proved too much for Melba who divorced Hugo when Victor, Melba’s only child, was three years of age. Joaquin Miller was invited to England by the Pre-Raphaelite poet and artist, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and had dinner at his house with most of the Brotherhood present. The four Presco children would converse with Miller’s daughter on the phone, she calling herself `The White Witch’..
The boy in the two photos is Melba’s brother, Frederick Broderick, with his cow, Daisy. This had to be taken on the farm in Fruit Vale.
Jon Presco
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2011
Angela Isadora Duncan was born in San Francisco, California on May 27, 1877. She was the youngest of four siblings: Augustin Duncan, Raymond Duncan, and Elizabeth Duncan. Their parents were Joseph Charles Duncan (1819–1898), a banker, mining engineer and connoisseur of the arts, and Mary Isadora Gray (1849–1922). Soon after Isadora’s birth, her father lost the bank and he was publicly disgraced. Her parents were divorced by 1880 (the papers were lost in the San Francisco earthquake), and her mother Dora moved with her family to Oakland. She worked there as a pianist and music teacher. In her early years, Duncan did attend school but, finding it to be constricting to her individuality, she dropped out. As her family was very poor, both she and her sister gave dance classes to local children to earn extra money.[citation needed]
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Will Bohemia Arise In Oakland?
Posted on September 1, 2011 by Royal Rosamond Press
Lake Temescal in Oakland became a Mecca for Poets and Plein Air Artists. The poet, George Sterling met Ambrose Bierce at a campsite on the lake where the Presco children used to go swimming. These two men would found the Bohemian Club where some of the richest men in the world would come to camp out. There is something to be said for living a frugal existence, a Bohemian life around a campfire, in the good company of creative men and women. These early Bohemian campers would prepare the way for the Hippies that were born in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley. The ideal was to live in a little shack, pay next to no rent so one could concentrate on what truly matters.
One could say my grandfather was a Plein Air Poet. He must have taken the photo above of his wife camping on Santa Cruz Island that was also made into a post card. Did Royal try to become a photographer in order to earn monies to support his craft and family?
I did three Plein Air paintings in the course of my life, and have plans to make it a big part of my life. This is why I purchased my classic Ford truck.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2011
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In 1892, Sterling met the dominant literary figure on the west coast, Ambrose Bierce, at Lake Temescal and immediately fell under his spell. Bierce — to whom Sterling referred as “the Master” — guided the young poet in his writing as well as in his reading, pointing to the classics as model and inspiration. Bierce also published Sterling’s first poems in his “Prattle” column in the San Francisco Examiner.
Sterling also met adventure and science fiction writer Jack London, and his first wife Bess at their rented villa on Lake Merritt, and in time they became best of friends. In 1902 Sterling helped the Londons find a home closer to his own in Piedmont, near Oakland. In his letters London addressed Sterling as “Greek” owing to his aquiline nose and classical profile, and signed them as “Wolf.” London was later to depict Sterling as Russ Brissenden in his autobiographical novel Martin Eden (1908) and as Mark Hall in The Valley of the Moon (1913).
The Society of Six was intensely devoted to a self-imposed set of rough-and-tumble attitudes that they found necessary for the maintenance of the visual purity in their works. They sensed that they were not making new art merely for the sake of newness, but with an exhilaration that was born from an overthrowing of subservient visual posturing over various sanctified art modes. Although they were a part of the San Francisco Bay Area modernist art scene in the 1920s, they had an allegiance primarily to themselves, and they were forced to be their own best audience. Influences upon them ranged from nineteenth century Impressionism to European Abstractionism. Although it is fairly easy to trace the more obvious influences, “The Six nonetheless, managed individually to fashion their own painting styles into fresh and ingenuous outdoor paintings which appear generally American and specifically Californian. They were regional painters in the best sense of the word.
“Will Bohemia arise in Oakland,” was the question asked in an article in the Oakland Tribune on April 22, 1917. The reporter told of the formation of an artist’s club of the East Bay with a membership of more than 30 painters, sculptors and art students including Selden Gile, William H. Clapp and William A. Gaw (1891-1973). Many of the things that made the area seem so desirable to “The Six” were mentioned in that review, such as the picturesque waterfront and the sunny rolling hills above the Bay. Oakland was depicted as “…a Bohemia where kindred spirits meet with art and the great adventures that stimulate art to color its atmosphere.”
For almost 10 years, 1917 to 1927, until Selden Gile moved to Belvedere,[2] his cabin on Chabot Road in Oakland was the weekly meeting place for “The Six.” The “Chow House,” as it was called, had electricity but no toilet or bath.[3] What the accommodations lacked in convenience was more than made up for by the heated art discussions and garlic-laced meals that Gile, the generous host, provided. He frequently offered a formidable home-brewed beer to wash down his famous meals and, occasionally, the proceedings were enlivened by the bottles exploding. In addition to the beer, they fortified their meetings with at least two gallons of “dago red” wine which were delivered to Gile every week by an Italian bootlegger friend.[4] Occasionally, von Eichman showed up with his “San Jose Cheer,” a prune whiskey that helped to lubricate their discussions.[5] Clapp, the sedate curator, was dubbed “Ho-Ho-Ho” by Gile because that was Clapp’s usual exclamation when he arrived at their meetings. He was considered to be the gentleman of the crowd.[6] As Siegriest recalls, “Clapp was a very quiet sort of fellow, polite and quiet.” He also remembers with discomfort, “the way these guys would talk in front of him…he looked embarrassed but he would join in.”[7] “The Six” friends rarely missed a Saturday or Sunday evening get-together at Selden Gile’s place..[8]
William Clapp was the only member of the group who had received formal instruction in France.[9] Born in Canada, in 1879, but reared in Oakland, Clapp returned to Canada, in 1900. He studied there and at the Académie Julian in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens, as well as the Académie Colarossi and at the Ecole de la Grande Chaumière. Before returning permanently to live in Oakland, about 1917, Clapp had been considered a radical painter in Montreal. In fact his studies in Europe and Paris, and his later familiarity with the modernist Canadian “Group of Seven” who showed for the first time together in Toronto in 1920, contributed immensely to “The Six’s” cohesiveness. Not coincidentally, “The Six” had initially been called “The Group of Six,” undoubtedly prompted by Clapp’s knowledge of the Canadian painters.[10] His previous studies in Paris and Montreal had acquainted him with an attitude that considered manifestos and closely-knit groups to be essentially supportive of art. An Oakland Tribune critic finally named the Oakland-based group of artists “The Society of Six,” perhaps cribbing the title from a contemporary group of vanguard French musicians led by Eric Satie, “Les Six,” who had been in the news as musical innovators.[11] In 1923, Clapp initiated a policy of annual shows for “The Society of Six” as part of a progressive exhibition program in the Oakland Art Gallery.
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