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Hugh Rice Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Coll2013-044

Scope and Contents

Administrative and promotional records, clippings, and photographs maintained by Hugh Rice primarily regarding his work at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, 1983-1989. The records include images of the center and its health services activities, a 1973 advertisement for the center, a 1991 award given to Rice for his AIDS-related service, and a commemoration by the State of California Department of Health Services upon his death in 1996.

Dates

  • Creation: 1973-1996
  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1983 - 1989

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biography

An Ohio native, Hugh Rice completed a bachelor's degree in speech and audiology and a master's degree in public health at the University of Akron and Kent State University. After teaching at the university level for several years, he moved to Los Angeles in 1973 to be a technical consultant with Walt Disney Studios. He began volunteering at the Gay Community Services Center and soon initiated the clinic's original Mobile Testing Program at various Los Angeles businesses and organizations. In 1974, Rice got certification as an epidemiologist and was hired under the Center's new contract with the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services in the Men's Venereal Disease Clinic. In 1979, Rice became the Center's first supervisor of the Public Health Office. The Center appointed Rice as the interim Health Services Director in 1983, then made the hire permanent in 1984. Rice served as a faculty instructor for the University of Southern California to the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Training and Treatment Center's Model Clinic, as well as a lecturer for the Department of Health and Human Services for the Centers for Disease Control. He served on the HTLV-III Antibody Subcommittee of the California State AIDS Advisory Committee as well as on numerous other AIDS/community health related committees. In 1989, he chaired the AIDS Community Educators of Los Angeles network. He served as an advisor to the State of California's Community Planning Working Group and the HIV Comprehensive Care Working Group. He was an advisor to the State of California Department of Health Services' Office of AIDS and provided planning assistance to the HIV Education and Prevention Services Branch and HIV Care Branch. At the time Rice died in 1996, he was the longest tenured executive of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center.

Extent

0.4 Linear Feet (1 archive carton)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Administrative and promotional records, clippings, and photographs maintained by Hugh Rice primarily regarding his work at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center, bulk 1983-1989. Rice was a longterm employee of the Center, including as Health Services Director during the 1980s AIDS crisis.

Acquisition

Date and method of acquisition unknown.

Processing Information

Formerly box 102-A110B. Collection processed by Kyle Morgan, 2013.

Title
Finding Aid to the Hugh Rice Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center Records, 1973-1996, bulk 1983-1989
Status
Completed
Author
Kyle Morgan
Date
(c) 2013
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Description is in English.
Sponsor
Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.

Repository Details

Part of the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, University of Southern California Repository

Contact:
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Los Angeles California 90007 United States
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