4th graders to learn with AZ Recollections and Reflections

Meeting many history teachers at a recent ACHE history convention, Zona Lorig, Carolyn Mendoza and Ruth McLeod were happy to hand out the donated copies of Arizona Recollections and Reflections: An Arizona Centennial Historymakers Commemoration.

The elementary through university level teachers were excited to receive the book and share with their students the human side of Arizona Historymakers through photos and biographies.

Elementary teacher Rondi Du Brock of Pomeroy school in Mesa talks about how her students will use the book with Carolyn Mendoza and Zona Lorig.

History teachers love AZ Recollections and Reflections book

Book donated by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in Memory of Historymaker Eddie Basha

Zona Lorig, Carolyn Mendoza and Ruth McLeod distributed 40 donated AZ Recollections & Reflections: An Arizona Centennial Historymakers Commemoration books at a History teachers convention Saturday, Sept 7. It was so gratifying to see how appreciative the teachers were. They were all ready thinking up lesson plans based on the book and ideas for research for students!

Often times, I think the Historymakers program is great but ends with the exhibits at the museum. Now I realize that with this book and online biographies and oral histories, we are reaching a much larger audience - students and teachers (elementary through university), historians, researchers, family historians .  .  . It is such a POSITIVE experience. Hurrah for Historymakers Gala and Recognition Program!