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AGAVE PROGRAMS
Video biographies featured at
Historymakers™
Gala and Recognition Program
Family
photos, KOOL News film and videotaped oral histories were
used to give life to the video biographies of the 2005 Arizona
Historymakers.
Agave
Productions produced video biographies of the Historymakers
who were honored February 5, 2005 by the
Historical
League of the
Arizona
Historical Society. Extensive oral histories were recorded
by Agave Productions with each Historymaker and used in the
videos for them to tell their story in their own voice. The
oral histories have been transcribed and will be available
for future researchers at the
Arizona
Historical Society Archive in Papago Park. Plans are being
made to make the 2005 Historymaker video biographies available
for schools and libraries.
The
2005 Historymakers are:
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Bruce Babbitt served Arizona as Attorney General
and Governor. He was a candidate for U.S. President in
1988 and 1992, and under President Clinton he was U.S.
Secretary of the Interior for eight years.
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Cloves Campbell, Sr., was a schoolteacher, an Arizona
House Representative and the first African-American elected
to the Arizona State Senate. A lifelong community activist,
he was owner and co-publisher of the Arizona Informant,
the state's oldest and largest African-American weekly
newspaper.
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John
Driggs is a third generation Arizonan who was Mayor
of Phoenix for two terms in the 1970s. He has devoted
his life to community service and historic preservation,
leading efforts to restore the Rossen House and create
Heritage Square in downtown Phoenix. He also has been
a leader in the Boy Scouts, local and national food banks.
He is spearheading the current project to renovate Papago
Park and the Tovrea Castle landmark.
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Navajo
Code Talkers are credited with helping the United
States to win the battle for the Pacific in World War
II. Serving in the U.S. Marines, they used the Navajo
language to devise a code and transmit messages by radio
and telegraph that were never deciphered by the Japanese.
The Navajo Code remained a classified secret until the
1960s.
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Alberto
Rios was born and raised in Nogales, Arizona, the
son of an English mother and a Mexican father. As an award-winning
poet and author, he has used his multicultural heritage
to present a unique view of life in his writings. An ASU
Regents Professor of English, Rios was a finalist for
the 2002 National Book Award.
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