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EDUCATION, MEDICINE & CELEBRATIONS FOCUS OF 1996-2003 EXCHANGES June
2003:
Three doctors from Nakhodka's Substance Abuse Center, a pediatrician,
and a journalist, sponsored by the Open World Leadership Program,
spend a week in Oakland learning about drug abuse prevention and
treatment. November
2002:
ONSCA hosts 5-member delegation from Nakhodka under Open World Russian
Leadership Program. Group spends week meeting health and youth services
professionals. October
2002:
Debbie Chapman, Roman Yorick, MD, MPH spend week in Nakhodka, conduct
Community Health Program Development and Grant Writing Seminar with
Robert Rhyne MD March 2002: Family Physician Anthony Barnett MD and Public Health Specialist Lisa Handwerker PhD spend 12 days in Nakhodka performing health care needs assessment. April 2001: Pediatrician and nurse-midwife spend two weeks meeting colleagues and observing at Children’s Hospital Oakland, Alta-Bates/Summit Medical Centers, Highland Hospital, public & private health providers. September 2000: Vice Mayor Tatiana Naumova, a City Councilwoman, and the Head of Nakhodka’s Financial Department visit Oakland to celebrate 25th Anniversary of the Sister City relationship and meet their counterparts. July 2000: Teacher of English from Nakhodka spends 4 weeks at ELS Language Center. June/July 2000: 10 student nurses from Cal State Humboldt and their instructor spend 5 weeks in Nakhodka. May 2000: Three Oaklanders travel to Nakhodka to celebrate the city’s 50th Birthday, May 18, 2000. Spring 1999: 40 foot container of medical equipment and supplies assembled and shipped to maternity and children's hospitals in Nakhodka, in cooperation with Heart-to-Heart. Winter 1998: Nakhodka children’s paintings exhibited, greeting cards of paintings sold. Summer 1998: Nakhodka teens here for two weeks, focus on waterfront ecology of the Bay Area. August 1997: Local ELS Language Center donates a large number of English as a Second Language books and audio tapes to English classes in Nakhodka. These are shipped with the assistance of the Bellingham/Nakhodka Sister City Committee. Oakland ESL teacher spends 4 weeks in Nakhodka teaching children, teachers of English. June 1996-December 1997: ONSCA selected as one of 13 sister city programs in US to take part in the Partnerships for Independent Newspapers program funded by USAID through SCI. Two Bay Area journalists travel to the Russian Far East, six from Vladivostok visit Bay Area. Focus is on support of a free press. August 1996: With the Alameda County Assessor’s office we host representatives from Nakhodka government, here to learn about property assessment and taxation. July-August 1996: A teacher of English as a Second Language from Nakhodka takes classes in UC Berkeley ESL extension program. May 1996: ESL teacher from UC Berkeley Extension spends 4 weeks in Nakhodka teaching teachers, children April 1996: Oakland Special Education teacher travels to Nakhodka to mentor teachers of special needs children |^|back to top|^|
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A LARGE NUMBER AND VARIETY OF EXCHANGES: 1991-1995 August 1995: Nakhodka doctor and medical student participate in a 3-week rotation through surgical departments at Highland Hospital, hosted by head of the UC Davis East Bay Surgery Program, Dr. Claude Organ. April and August 1995: Official delegations to Oakland and Nakhodka celebrate the 20th anniversary of sister city ties. City Councilmember John Russo head’s seven member group from Oakland. June 1995: Nakhodka girls’ choir takes third place in Folk and Popular Music division of Golden Gate International children’s Choir Festival. October-November 1994: Four Oakland Special Education teachers visit Nakhodka. ONSCA hosts four Nakhodka Special Ed teachers, introducing them to public schools and private agencies in Oakland. August
1994:
Two Bay Areas jazz musicians take part in Nakhodka jazz festival. March 1994: Customs official makes a return visit to Bay Area. August/September 1993: ESL teacher/novelist from Berkeley spends six weeks in Nakhodka sharing English as a Second Language teaching techniques and materials with English teachers at School #21. June 1993: Members of children’s choir from Nakhodka’s Music School #2 participate in the Piedmont Choirs’-sponsored Golden Gate International Children's Choir Festival. After the Festival a 48-person delegation from the Piedmont Choirs travels to Nakhodka, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk. April 1993: ONSCA with assistance of Port of Oakland, US Customs officials, and Oakland Free Trade Zone managers hosts customs officials from Nakhodka and the Nakhodka Free Economic Zone September 1992: The Kapitan Panaev with a crew of three calls in Oakland on its way around the world. June 1992: Directors of an insurance company, travel agency, and construction company, members of Nakhodka Sister City Association, attend business seminars, meet Bay Area counterparts. March 1992: ONSCA ships 20’ container of medical equipment and supplies to main hospital in Nakhodka. Two ONSCA members travel to Nakhodka to oversee distribution of container’s contents. Oakland Rotary sends first of several annual delegations of business people who teach seminars in business practices for young Nakhodka business students. November 1991: Members of the Nakhodka Sister City Association take part in trade expo in Bay Area. September 1991: High school students, school administrator and English teacher from Nakhodka hosted by Head Royce School and ONSCA. Chairman of Nakhodka City Soviet and Executive Director of Nakhodka Sister City Association take part in US/Soviet Sister City Conference in Ohio and business trip to Oakland. June-August 1991: Nakhodka banker visits Bank of America, Wells Fargo, the Federal Reserve Bank, others. |^|back to top|^|
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ASSOCIATION FOUNDED, SPONSORS FIRST EXCHANGES: 1986-1990 June 1995: Nakhodka girls’ choir takes third place in Folk and Popular Music division of Golden Gate International children’s Choir Festival. October-November 1994: Four Oakland Special Education teachers visit Nakhodka. October 1990: Nakhodka Mayor, his Assistant for Foreign Relations, and Director of Container Port visit Bay Area, announce designation of Nakhodka as Free Economic Zone, meet with Bay Area business people. September 1990: 3-week visit by delegation headed by one of Nakhodka’s Vice Mayors includes Director of Nakhodka’s Libraries and assistant, Director of Recreation Department, and Chef. Vice Mayor and interpreter take part in early morning radio program on KGO. Librarians begin on-going exchanges of books in Russian and English. Recreation Director visits sailing program, parks and recreation centers. Chef visits university and hospital kitchens, prepares food at Rockridge Cafe, gives cooking class. July 1990: 6 Nakhodka yachtsmen on 40’sloop Kapitan Panaev are guests of ONSCA, Metropolitan Yacht Club 1987 - 1989: Nakhodka invites Bellingham WA to be its sister city. The Mayors of Oakland and Bellingham, at SCI’s direction, sign a Memorandum of Understanding setting out guidelines for sharing the relationship. Summer 1988, April 1989 & Summer 1990: Yearly exchanges of high school students, school administrators and teachers (two from Oakland to Nakhodka in 1988 & ‘90 and one from Nakhodka to Oakland in 1989), in partnership with the Head-Royce School, and partially funded through grants from Sister Cities International (SCI). A crabapple tree is planted in Lakeside Park to commemorate the first visit of Nakhodka children. August 1987: First ONSCA delegation to Nakhodka, 17 people ages 14-70, headed by Oakland Vice Mayor Aleta Cannon. January - March 1987: Oakland/Nakhodka Sister City Association (ONSCA) elects its first Board of Directors and is granted non-profit corporation status, having been organized in 1986 by the Plowshares Committee of Montclair Presbyterian Church in cooperation with Oakland’s City Manager’s Office and the Public Affairs Office of the Port of Oakland. |^|back to top|^| |
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ORIGINS & EARLY YEARS: 1972-1985 1984: Port of Oakland hosts small delegation of Nakhodka city and port officials. 1980 - 1982: American cities with sister cities in USSR discouraged by State Department from doing exchanges 1973-1979: Focus on Port-to-Port relations with annual exchanges of small delegations of port and city officials April 22, 1975: Formal Sister City and Sister Port documents signed by Oakland and Nakhodka City officials. Ships from Nakhodka call at Port of Oakland; Nixon-Brezhnev detente; Oakland one of five US cities encouraged to form Sister City relationships with Soviet cities. Ships from Nakhodka call at Port of Oakland; Nixon-Brezhnev detente; Oakland one of five U.S. cities encouraged to form Sister City relationships with Soviet cities. |^|back to top|^| |
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