The Wallace & Ladmo Show with Julia Taggart on Arizona PBS

 Nice Job by Historical League member Julia Taggart on Arizona PBS August 22, 2024. As President of the Sunnyslope Historical Society, she spoke of the Society's exhibit celebrating 70th Anniversary of The Wallace and Ladmo Show. Click on Arizona PBS August 22

to see her. (FYI - Scroll to the end as she is the final interview).

As part of the 1992 Arizona Historymakers Honorees, The Wallace and Ladmo Show has been featured at Arizona Heritage Center and continues to make us smile.

First time NHDAZ Participant Max Luo

 Encouraging words from first time participant in NHDAZ:

Dear Mrs. Shumard, Thank you for giving us a generous cash gift to cover our flights and transportation to and from D.C. I had a really fun time. It was very fun to go through the whole process of NHD, especially in the documentary category. Although I didn't make it to finals, I still very much enjoyed NHD. Plus I went further than I expected in my first year, so I was very excited!

Thank You!

Max Luo Junior Documentary: Challenger Disaster—A Tragedy in Space

Remembering Dr. Reba Wells Grandrud

 Dr. Reba Wells Grandrud, Historical League member and Arizona Women’s Hall of Fame recipient, passed away in Albuquerque, New Mexico on August 10, 2024 at the age of 92.

Her family has requested we not send cards or flowers; instead, send tributes, words of condolences, memories and more to her email address at rwgrandrud@gmail.com for her family to put together a book of these messages to have at her service.

Reba’s funeral and Memorial Service are pending until the fall. Our condolences to Reba’s family, friends, colleagues, and everyone who knew her.

Reba earned an undergraduate degree in Education and graduate degrees in SW History and History of the American West from the Univ. of New Mexico in Albuquerque and moved to Arizona in 1982. For over 35-plus years, Reba has been involved in historical research, writing and publishing, and served on a variety of boards and historical societies all over Arizona. Her good-natured character and wonderful smile were contagious and everlasting. Reba could hardly wait to capture the history of Arizona before the West disappeared and to write about it, talk about it, go out and dig-her-heels-in-the-dirt about it---and bring you into her work in some way, too. She was no stranger to the research and archival reading rooms and reference sections of our state’s historical societies , libraries, archives, and museums. Reba came to know the archivists, librarians, volunteers, and students she met in the course of her research and writing. She easily became their friend—and she engaged you in the sharing of your love of Arizona history with her too. Reba was the Sharlot Hall Award Recipient, 2013. And a part of the Arizona Historical Society Museum/Tucson volunteer team that produced the John and Viola Slaughter Family Exhibit in September 2018. Reba served as director of the Arizona Historical Society Museum in Papago Park, as well as Heritage Fund Planner and Coordinator of the National Register of Historic Places for Arizona with the State Historic Preservation Office. In addition, she served as a member and past president of Westerners International, past Sheriff of the Scottsdale Corral, and a speaker for the Arizona Humanities Road Scholar program. Reba’s Funeral and/or Memorial services are pending. Our condolences to Reba’s family, friends, colleagues, neighbors and all who knew her.

Thanks to Arizona Women's Hall of Fame for much of this information.

To read her complete obituary https://www.afterall.com/obituaries/RebaGrandrud

Reba Wells Grandrud with Historymakers Polly Rosenbaum and Rose Mofford

NHD Project displayed at National Museum of American History

 Having your NHD project displayed at the National Museum of American History. How cool is that? Congrats to Dylan Bagley and Joseph Kim for a great project worthy of public viewing at this prestigious museum.

Their project is Simon: Groundbreaking Technology That Changed Phones Forever.

NHDAZ Second Place Winners at Nationals

 Honorable Mention (Second Place Winners) at Nationals NHD. So very proud of these students!

NHDAZ students Best-In-State Projects

Kudos to these NHDAZ students for BEST-IN-STATE PROJECTS.

Hanna Nguyen for Sr. Project: A Pivot from Precedence: Roe v. Wade, and Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization

Vaishavi Hariharan : Jr. Website: Muckraking the Meat Industry: How Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Changed the Food Industry Forever 

 So proud of these NHDAZ students. Check out the First Place Winners at National Competition from AZ. The Historical League strongly supports National History Day Arizona.