Neil Bethke

Currently arranging the archives of Loyola High School at Los Angeles for a book celebrating 150 continous years of Catholic high school education, Neil Bethke is also a consulting archivist for other collections in the Los Angeles area.

From 1994 to 2011 as archivist at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles Bethke kept the university's record of higher education beginning with Bishop Thaddeus Amat's founding of Saint Vincent's College in 1865.  Bethke with noted associates and students, colleagues and staff maintained this story of civic building modern Los Angeles from a perspective of the Roman Catholic faith.  To that end the LMU Hannon Library's Rev. Terrance Mahan, SJ Department of Archives & Special Collections holds records of St. Vincent's College, Los Angeles College, Loyola College, St. Vincent's School of Law, Loyola Law School, Loyola University of Los Angeles, Marymount School & College, St. Joseph's College of Orange, St. Vincent's School of Nursing to modern day.

Bio data

Newsboy, Valley Daily News & Greensheet and the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner , 1959-1961

Trombonist, The Royal Cavaliers, Burbank, 1962-1965
Promoman, It's Boss Nightclub, Hollywood, 1965-1966
Music copyist, Musicians Local 47, Hollywood, 1968-1969

Under-assistant West coast promoman, United Artists Liberty Records, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Beatles Let It Be, Canned Heat, Don McClean, Electric Light Orchestra, War with Erik Burton and others, Hollywood, 1970-1973

Co-publisher, Impeachment with Honor bumper stickers, 1972-1973

Audio sales, Columbia Broadcasting Systems, Inc., North Hollywood, 1973-1974

Bassist vocalist, Little Rock, Los Angeles, 1974-1977
Gold refiner, Occidental Petroleum, Chatsworth, 1976-1978

3rd class commercial announcer engineer, programmer & underwriting director, KCSN-FM, Northridge, 1978-1979

Bachelor of Arts Radio, Television and Film, CSU Northridge, 1978
Audio sales manager, Now Sound, Inc., West Los Angeles, 1979-1980
Audio video sales, The Federated Group, West Los Angeles, 1980-1987

Audio video design sales engineer contractor, Jane Alexander, Saul Bass, Beverly Hills Media Room, Mario Cantinflas Moreno, Dino De Laurentiis, Ervin Magic Johnson, the Pardee family, Prescilla Presley, Jane Seymour, Sultan of Brunai, Brian Wilson and the Santa Monica Museum of Flying, Los Angeles, 1987-1991

Graduate archives studies, Robert Marshall, John Baur, John Broesamle, and Gerald Prescott, CSU Northridge, 1991-1994

Archivist, The Santa Susana Mountain Park Association Collection, 1992-1993

Archivist, The Senator Alan Robbins Papers, 1992

Archivist, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO Collection "Slim" Connelly Papers, 1993

Archivist, Congressman James C. Corman Papers, 1993-1994
Director, Northridge Neighborhood Council, 2003

Member of Executive Board, Los Angeles As Subject Forum, 2009-2011.

Credit


A Ten Gallon Beret: Basque Sheepherders of the San Fernando Valley, 1992~

Encountering Richard Hofstadler, 1993

Fraternal Orders of Victorian America, 1993

Historiography and the Art of Remembering, 1993

Sarajevo: Problems with the Study of the Decline of an Urban Culture, 1993

Analysis, Reevaluation & Recommendations of a Collecting Philosophy at the Urban Archives Center CSUN, 1994

Engendering or Endangering? Literati, Public Opinion and Revolution in 19th C. Europe, 1994

Guide to the Loyola Marymount University Archives, 1994; 1995; 1996; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003; 2004; 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009

Since the Civil War: A Los Angeles Tradition of Catholic Higher Education exhibit, 1995-1996

A Pride of Lions: Athletes of Loyola Marymount University exhibit, 1996-1997

Beauty in a Thinking Shop: Fine Arts and Letters at Loyola Marymount University exhibit, 1997-1998

Loyola Marymount Celebrates the Merger---25 Years After exhibit, 1998-1999

Zelzah diorama, 2000~

Images of Taiwan, 2001

Images of the Mudpots of Salton Sea, 2003

Right Place, Right Time promotional video, 2004

75 Years! The Library of LMU exhibit, 2004-2005

Images of Korea, 2005

Machine records properties, 2005~

Los Angeles Treasure Map, 2006~