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taught in San Leandro for six years before marrying Jorge Lawrence, Supreme Director of <br />the Portuguese Fraternal Society, U.P.E.C. <br /> <br />During her years as a San Leandro resident, Mrs. Lawrence volunteered for several agencies. <br />In 1935, when Councilmember George Weldon resigned, several councilmembers asked <br />Lawrence to fill the vacancy and she accepted. On May 21, 1941, Mayor Mark DuTiel <br />resigned. After his resignation Mrs. Lawrence’s colleagues nominated her Mayor, the first <br />woman in San Leandro’s history to serve this position as well as the first person of Portuguese <br />descent to serve as mayor in the United States. She served 3 years as Mayor. She was also <br />voted President of the Council. <br /> <br />Dave Karp Senior Facility <br />Dave S. Karp served as San Leandro’s mayor for seven years. He served as a <br />Councilmember for District 1 for four year and was elected mayor on April 8, 1986. He was <br />born on April 5, 1935 and was a resident of San Leandro for many years. He was married to <br />Marcia Karp, who served as a board member for the Friends of the San Leandro Library for <br />many years until she died in 2012. He served on several city advisory commissions, including <br />the Board of Zoning Adjustments and the Site Development Commission. He was Vice <br />Chairman of both the Executive Committee and the Charter Revision Committee for San <br />Leandro’s Future. He also served on the Alameda County Parks and Recreation Commission <br />and was a director of the San Leandro Chamber of Commerce. <br /> <br />He was very active in the U.S. Conference of Mayors, focusing on transportation issues. He <br />also lobbied Washington, D.C. seeking federal support of local projects. In fact, he helped <br />secure millions of dollars for projects ranging from sound walls on Interstate 880 to a BART <br />parking garage in Dublin. His expertise in transportation earned him an appointment as one <br />of eight mayors chosen for President Clinton’s Transition Team Committee to work on <br />problems of U.S. cities. <br /> <br />In July 1989, Mayor Karp signed a proclamation marking Dec. 4-10 Senior Citizens Week in <br />San Leandro. <br /> <br />Estudillo Room (Main Library) <br />José Joaquin Estudillo was the first Spanish settler to reside in San Leandro and thus <br />considered the founder of San Leandro. He was born May 5, 1800 at the Presidio of Monterey. <br />His father, Lt. José Maria Estudillo, had been stationed at Monterey in 1799. As a teenager, <br />José Joaquin entered into military service at the Monterey Presidio. Estudillo applied for a <br />grant to Governor Nicholas Guiterrez for the old El Rodeo de Arroyo de San Leandro. <br />Anticipating the receipt of this grant for his 17 years of military service, Estudillo moved his <br />wife and family to the property and built an adobe home near the south bank of San Leandro <br />Creek. It was near the present junction of Brookside and Donovan Drives. Estudillo filed <br />another request for approximately 7,000 acres and included all the land between San Leandro <br />Creek and San Lorenzo Creek from the hills to the Bay, except the lands occupied and <br />cultivated by the Ohlones. He called it Rancho de Arroyo de San Leandro, popularly known <br />as “Rancho San Leandro.” <br /> <br />José Joaquin Estudillo built a “fine framework house” for his family at 1291 Carpentier Street <br />(off W. Estudillo). It was a two-story house and included 14 bedrooms, a wine cellar and <br />servants’ quarters. It had a balcony on two sides. St. Leander’s Church acquired the home in <br />133