Sunday, September 15, 2024, 3:00 pm-4:30 pm
Neutra House, 181 Hillview Ave, Los Altos

We heard from the Tech Trek 2024 campers from Los Altos, Mountain View, and Palo Alto middle schools and our National Conference of College Women Student Leaders – Amit Freikorn and Nicole Nguyen.

Our speaker, AAUW SV member Tempe Javitz, grew up on a cattle ranch in SE Montana and graduated from Scripps College in Claremont, California. After retiring as an insurance agent in 2007, Tempe spent six and a half years preserving her grandmother Jessamine Spear Johnson’s photo legacy—34 boxes of images from the early 1900s through the 1950s. The photos document her life as a rancher’s wife in SE Montana and NE Wyoming. Learn about Jessamine’s original glass plate camera and then her progress from 1908 forward. She even bought a movie camera at one point. How Jessamine did it is related in Bighorn Visions, the Photography of Jessamine Spear Johnson.