Jeron Velasco Arizona Historical Society's Al Merito Award Winner

 Jeron Velasco, Az Social Studies Teacher of the Year and Arizona Historical Society’s El Merito award. Congratulations to Jeron. Keep up the great work you do with history and National History Day Arizona!

2025 ARIZONA HISTORYMAKERS CHANGE OF VENUE

 

Jessica Finnie is National History Day winner and award winning photographer

 Multi-talented NHD winner Jessica Finnie is also an amazing photographer. She captured these lovely pictures earning recognition from Arizona Highways. Adventures in Nature Student Photo Contest Winner in September 2025 issue.

She also took 1st place in the 2024 Arizona Highways Adventures in Nature Photo Contest. In her submission she describes her winning photo titled Reprimand, “This picture captures two wild mustangs engaged in a fierce chase. Mustangs establish their dominance within the social hierarchy of a herd and reprimand younger stallions who challenge their rank. In this photograph, the younger horse is being reprimanded by the reigning mustang.”
More than 400 talented Arizonans, ages 13-18, entered nearly 700 photos taken in Arizona.
🔗 Click the following link to see 2nd and 3rd place winners and honorable mentions: https://www.arizonahighways.com/.../student-photo-contest...
Job well done to all participants!

Marshall Trimble talks about 75th birthday of Arizona State Little League Baseball Tournaments.

 Leave it to Marshall to share the wonderful history of Arizona State Little League Baseball Tournaments.

"Route 66 is celebrating its 100th Anniversary in 2026. Another event, celebrating its 75th birthday is the Arizona State Little League Baseball Tournament. The first one was held in Prescott in July 1951.

The towns of Ash Fork, Williams and Seligman along Route 66 formed a league earlier that season and were invited to participate. I was one of the players selected. The other teams were the leagues in the Verde Valley, Winslow and Prescott. We were the Tri-City All Stars and were the underdogs but we made it to the championship game against heavily favored Prescott. It turned out to be a close game and Prescott held a 2-0 lead until the bottom of the last inning. With two outs, Tri-City had two runners on first and third. I was standing on first, another runner was on third and our cleanup hitter was coming to bat. If he hit one out we would be state champs But, like that fateful day Mudville, our Mighty Casey struck out."

Honored as AZ Historymaker in 2014, he tells his story at https://historicalleague.org/projects/marshall-trimble/

AZ Women's Hall of Fame Scholarships

 ANNOUNCING SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

FOR STUDENTS IN HISTORY OR MUSEUM DISCIPLINES

Students at two- and four-year colleges and universities in Arizona are eligible to apply for an award of $1,000 in tuition support from the Arizona Women’s Hall of Fame. Two scholarships will be awarded, one to an undergraduate student and one to a graduate student pursuing a degree in a museum program or a history discipline with an emphasis on women.

We encourage you to share this email with people who may know students in the above disciplines. All students at Arizona institutions are eligible.

The scholarship criteria and application are available at www.azwhf.org. The application must be submitted electronically or postmarked by December 1, 2025. The successful applicants will be notified by December 18, 2025. If you have any questions about the scholarships or the process, please direct them to: azwhfscholarship@gmail.com.

Traveling Trunk with Kristen Rex and AHS Education Team

 Kristen Rex with AHS Education Team are creating unique objects for the Traveling Trunk program.

The Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum reports:

Museum friends are the best! We recently hosted colleagues from the Arizona Historical Society’s Arizona History Museum (Tucson) and Arizona Heritage Center (Tempe). We will be providing them with Arizona rock and mineral specimens for their traveling trunk educational outreach program.

Thanks for visiting us, AHS friends!

AHS Education: Emily Hahn, Holly Barnard, Kristen Rex, Taylor Kyle

Terry Goddard 2023 Arizona Historymaker continues to be honored

 Congratulations to Terry Goddard, named one of Valley Leadership’s 76th Arizona Leaders of the Year. From restoring Monroe Street Abbey to leading “Stop Dark Money,” his work continues to protect Arizona’s history and strengthen its civic future. https://buff.ly/Xmxop0M (Photo: Phoenix Magazine).

Honored as 2023 AZ Historymaker. Listen to him tell his story at https://historicalleague.org/projects/terry-goddard/