Museum Board of Directors
Judy Triem founded San Buenaventura Research Associates, a historic preservation consulting firm, in 1980. She received her M.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1980 in the field of Public History. Her B.A. was completed in 1962 at the University of Arizona, Tucson, with a major in Spanish and a minor in history. Judy is also an author and lecturer whose book entitled Ventura County: Land of Good Fortune, was published in 1985 and has been reprinted twice. She also authored a history of The Limoneira Company, One Hundred Years of Growing published in 1993 for the Limoneira Company, and completed a history of the Santa Clara Valley of Ventura County published by the Easton Gallery in 2002. Currently, Judy also serves on the Blanchard Library Endowment Board and the California Oil Museum Board. In addition, she is involved with the Design Assistance Committee for the City of Santa Paula and is an advisor to the Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board.
A California native, Jack Infranca was born in Glendale and raised in Los Angeles. He earned his B.A. in Accounting and Economics from Claremont Men’s College (now Claremont McKenna College) in 1967. During his senior year at CMC, Jack interviewed for and was selected to work as an Auditor Student Trainee with the California State Board of Equalization in its Pasadena office. After graduation, he continued with the Board of Equalization starting at the entry level of Tax Auditor 1, and over his career of 38 years, he advanced to positions of increasing responsibility, culminating in his appointment as District Principal Auditor of the Van Nuys District office. In that position, he was responsible for a staff of 72 professionals including tax auditors, supervisors and clerical staff. In 1981, Jack became a Certified Public Accountant. Upon his retirement from the Board of Equalization in 2004, Jack received several honors for his years of state service, including a personal letter of congratulations signed by then-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Jack has been involved with Rancho Camulos Museum and its operations since 2007 when he first became a volunteer docent. He was the museum’s Site Manager in 2008. Over the years he has been involved with many of the museum’s ongoing improvement and maintenance projects and fundraising events, and he has gained celebrity status portraying Reginaldo del Valle at living history events. Jack resides in the Hasley Canyon area of Castaic with his wife Dianne
Meredith McGowan has been a Librarian for the last 15 years and is currently a Senior Librarian with the City of Los Angeles. She received her Masters in Library and Information Science at the University of North Texas, Denton, and holds an Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Studies from California State University, Northridge. Having a lifetime love for books and local history, she was one of the founding volunteers to help establish the Rancho Camulos Research Library in 2013. She has been a resident of the Santa Clarita Valley since 1990.
Philip Scorza writes and hosts a television program called “Points of Interest” that has aired on SCVTV in the Santa Clarita Valley since 1994. The program takes the viewer to the places where history was made in the Santa Clarita Valley and tells the stories of the people who pioneered the area. Scorza is a retired junior high school teacher in the William S. Hart Union High School District in Santa Clarita. He lives in a remote area of Castaic that was once part of a homestead.
EMERITUS BOARD MEMBERS
Originally from Connecticut, Karen Roswell has called Los Angeles home for the past 21 years. She currently resides in Pacific Palisades with her husband and son, who are 7th and 8th generation Southern Californians, respectively, and proud del Valle descendants. Karen holds a B.A. in Economics from Connecticut College, a B.F.A in Graphic Design from The Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, a post-Graduate Certificate from the Sotheby’s Institute in London, and a M.A. in Art History & Museum Studies from the University of Southern California. In between these academic pursuits, Karen worked as a graphic designer for National Geographic in Washington DC, ran her own freelance graphic design business in DC and Los Angeles, and taught graphic design and art history at Platt College of Art in Eagle Rock, California. After finishing her M.A. degree, she completed a fellowship at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and went on to serve as the first director of the Rancho Camulos Museum from July 2000 to January 2004. Since November of 2005 Karen has been managing a private, multi-million dollar collection of late-19th and early-20th Century art in Los Angeles, which will eventually be gifted to LACMA.
Bob Cox is a retired engineer and executive with Texaco Refinery, where he served for more than 34 years. Bob now generously shares his engineering and management skills with Rancho Camulos Museum in a variety of ways to help improve the RCM campus. As a fourth generation Fillmore native with longstanding ties to the community and a descendant of one of Ventura County’s original settlers, Bob is particularly well-suited for this position. Bob’s great grandparents immigrated to Fillmore in 1885, and his maternal grandfather worked at Rancho Camulos’ citrus tree nursery about 1900. His mother’s parents were local farmers, land, and business owners and his father’s family worked in the oil business, arriving in Fillmore in 1918. Bob owns land in Fillmore and he and his wife Diana (a Camulos volunteer and 5th generation Fillmore native) now live in Westlake Village. In addition to overseeing the building of the Rancho Camulos carriage house, Bob has taken on numerous key and complex projects at RCM over the past two years. These include rebuilding the historic replica of Camulos’ grape arbor, the replacement of the structurally unsound columns on the Main Adobe veranda and schoolhouse porch, the laying of new concrete on the veranda, and the restoration of the schoolhouse and Main Adobe parlor and living room hardwood floors.
STAFF & COMMITTEE CHAIRS
• SUSAN FALCK, Museum Director
• MARIA CHRISTOPHER, Marketing/Media
• LYNN EDMONDS, Volunteer Chair
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
• CHRISTY MADDEN, County of Ventura
• JEFF BURGH, County of Ventura
• CHARLES JOHNSON
• MICHAEL A. VELTHOEN, ESQ.
• DYDIA DELYSER, Ph.D.
• DOUG GREEN
• GARY BLUM, Heritage Square
• DOUG NELSON, Mainstreet Architects