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Anita Benedetti Richard Klein Richard Klein, PhD. has served nearly 30-years as an instructor, program administrator, and research consultant at Cleveland State University. Early in his career, he served as the Levin College’s undergraduate recruiter and articulation specialist. In this capacity he helped to establish urban programming at all three local community colleges. Dr. Klein also developed the East High and East Tech Urban Archeology Program as part of a continuing educational partnership with the Western Reserve Historical Society. In 2005, we were one of 29 recipients to receive funding from the History Channel as part of their “Save Our History” Program. For the past year, Dr. Klein has served as a Program Coordinator for the U.S. Department of State Citizen Visitors Exchange Program. He also served as a speaker for the Cleveland Bridge Builders and has been interviewed by both the White House Press and the Capitol Press Corp. Dr. Klein has served as an OCPM facilitator for the past 3 years. He also has been a consultant for numerous municipal governments and non-profit organizations. Dr. Klein represented CSU for two years on the Federal Executive Board. More recently, he served as a record retention specialist at the Cleveland City Hall archives and as a Jurist for the Levin Chair Seminar. He also has coordinated special projects at both the College of Business and the College of Education. Dr. Klein has published two books and several national articles. Fee: $50 per hour Contact Information: r.klein@csuohio.edu Vicki Blum Vigil Vicki was born and raised in greater Cleveland, and graduated from Brush High and Kent State University. She lived in New York City for two years, San Francisco for seven years, and then returned to Cleveland. She holds Masters Degrees in Social Work and in Public Health. Her freelance articles have appeared in The Plain Dealer, Sun Newspapers, Cleveland Jewish News, Cleveland Akron Family, Best of Health, and The Christian Science Monitor. Vicki considers herself an amateur genealogist and a historical researcher and enjoys discovering how the past affects the present. Through her books, seminars, and tours she enjoys showing others how to make discoveries of their own. She is the recipient of the 2006 Martha Washington Award from the Northeast Ohio Sons of the American Revolution. Vicki’s first book Cleveland Cemeteries (Gray & Co.) was published in 1999, followed by Finding Your Family History in Northeast Ohio (Gray& Co.) in 2003. Her most recent book, Cemeteries of Northeast Ohio (Gray & Co.) came out in 2007. Vicki has made presentations to funeral directors associations, library groups, genealogical and historical societies, senior citizen groups, Order of Founders and Patriots, Cleveland Grays, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland Society of Professional Journalists, Building Connections Conference (Columbus), and Women in Communication and The Ohio Turnpike Commission to name just a few. A retired home and school counselor for Euclid City Schools, she is the mother of 3 adult children and lives in Highland Heights. Speaking Topics: Why the dead are interesting to the living Fee: $200 for 1 ½ hours Contact Information: vvigil987@sbcglobal.net Rebecca McFarland Rebecca McFarland is internationally recognized as an expert on the life and times of Eliot Ness. Her research has been requested for magazines, books, movies, radio and television specials. “A&E Biography” and the “History Channel” featured her on their programs with regard to Cleveland crime in the 1930s. People Magazine as well as international press came to cover the funeral of Eliot Ness that she coordinated in 1997. Speaking Topics: Great Lakes Expo Fee: $100 Contact Information: Rebecca.mcfarland@euclidlibrary.org Judith Cetina, Ph.D., C.A., Archivist JUDITH G. CETINA, Ph.D., CA PERSONAL: Born in Cleveland, Graduate Cleveland Heights EDUCATION: B.A., Case Western Reserve University, January 1971, graduated Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa EMPLOYMENT: Manager and Archivist, the Cuyahoga County Archives, 1985 to the present ORGANIZATIONS: Academy of Certified Archivists, President; Cleveland Archival Roundtable; Cleveland Association of Phi Beta Kappa, Member Board of Trustees; History Associates, Case Western Reserve University, Member Board of Trustees; Midwest Archives Conference; Society of American Archivists; Society of Ohio Archivists PUBLICATIONS: Published book reviews on works dealing with archival or historical subjects; Reviewed Colleen McCullough's FORTUNE'S FAVORITES for the CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER, September 1993; Book Review published in the JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY, Spring 1998; also published articles in the JOURNAL Of THE CUYAHOGA COUNTY ARCHIVES on women and naturalization and coroners case records; contributed a chapter to the book PIONEER HEALERS, A HISTORY OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS IN AMERICAN HEALTH CARE, 1989; authored a History of Cuyahoga County published in Glimpses of Ohio Counties and contributed articles to the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CLEVELAND HISTORY. Speaking Topics: An overview of the Cuyahoga County Bicentennial Fee: none Contact Information: John Dailey John E. Dailey retired on June 30, 2004 after 51 years in the surveying profession. He began his career in surveying by spending 14 years with the Staff Engineering Department of the East Ohio Gas Company. He left in 1967 to become Chief Surveyor of Wheeler & Melena, Inc., a full service civil engineering and surveying firm in the Cleveland area where he became a Principal and Vice President of the firm. In 1992, the assets of Wheeler & Melena, Inc. were purchased by Michael Benza & Associates, Inc. and John remained with the firm until his retirement in 2004. As Chief Surveyor, John was responsible for survey marketing, client contact, job estimating, contract preparation, data research, field survey design, survey management, survey calculations, data analyzation, computer drafting operations, legal description preparation, final plat preparation and cost control. In his years in the surveying profession, John gained experience in boundary surveys, topographic surveys, construction surveys, quantity surveys, quality assurance surveys, ALTA-ACSM-NSPS Land Title Surveys, engineering surveys and property line determination. John has provided expert testimony in boundary dispute trials, taught at all levels of education from preschool to college level and has presented seminars for many professional societies. He has presented programs for continuing professional development credits for the surveying, legal and land title professions. He also presents seminars to genealogical societies on the use of land records in genealogical research and is an active volunteer at the Western Reserve Historical Society Genealogical Committee and the Cuyahoga County Archives. He also serves on the industry curriculum advisory committee for the survey program at the University of Akron. John has been active in several professional societies, serving as President of the Professional Land Surveyors of Ohio, Inc., the National Society of Professional Surveyors and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping where he is also a Fellow Member. He was a member of the ACSM/NSPS delegation to the conference of FIG, the International Surveyors Association, in Budapest, Hungary. He currently writes columns for the “Cleveland Surveying News”, the “Ohio Surveying News”, edits the monthly newsletter for the Computer Assisted Genealogical Group (CAGG) and has written for national professional magazines. John is a member of the Computer Assisted Genealogical Group, the Cuyahoga Valley Genealogical Society, the Ohio Genealogical Society and the Northeast Ohio PC Users Group and the Western Reserve Historical Society Genealogical Committee. On a personal note, John and Shirley have been married for almost 54 years, have five children and 12 grandchildren. Speaking Topics: Using Land Records in Genealogical Research Fee: None Contact Information: Susan Sifritt Ms. Sifritt is the History Specialist for the Cuyahoga County Public Library System. Speaking Topics: Cleveland’s Old Ethnic Neighborhoods Fee: None Contact Information:
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