CAMARILLO : Park Panel Studies Eisenberg Memorial

A volunteer organization that is raising funds to develop Constitution Park will consider installing a memorial to Harvey Eisenberg, a civic leader who died recently, officials said.

William Q. Liebmann, chairman of the Camarillo Constitution Park Committee, said the group will consider at its Feb. 11 meeting whether to install a memorial. They may choose to plant trees or dedicate new benches.

Eisenberg, who died Sunday at age 62, following a stroke earlier in the month, was the committee’s finance chairman. He also was active in numerous other civic groups, including the local chapter of the American Assn. of Retired Persons, the Camarillo Chamber of Commerce and the Pleasant Valley Historical Society. Eisenberg ran twice for City Council, in 1988 and 1990. Although he lost both times, he nevertheless began attending council meetings regularly after the 1988 elections.

“I thought he would come to two or three and then quit,” Councilman David Smith recalled Thursday. “He kept coming and kept coming.”

Smith said Eisenberg was not an annoying gadfly.

“He was serious,” Smith said. “He would listen carefully to the meetings and then if he had a contribution to make he would come to the next meeting and say ‘This is what I think you should do.”’

Councilman Stanley J. Daily said: “He was kind of the sixth member of our board.”