Download - Great women in Tempe's History
Great Women in Tempe History –
a photo retrospective
Women in the laboratory in Old Main at the Territorial Normal School, circa 1898
Easy Riders.
Tempe High School women on a Harley, circa 1924
Estelle Hackett at the switchboard in the Laird and Dines building, circa 1912
Lucille Pyle, wife of former Governor Howard Pyle.
Girls Basketball Team
Tempe High School 1911
Some of our former City of Tempe Councilmembers: Pat Hatton,
Barb Carter, Dottie Cooper-Nelson, Pam Goronkin, Bev Hermon, Carol Estes and Linda Spears
Current Tempe City Council members: Shana Ellis, Robin Arredondo-Savage and Vice Mayor
Onnie Shekerjian
1940: Women in a parade truck.
Tempe’s first female police officers – they wore high heels and skirts
Mrs. Clarence deWitt, Mrs. William Evans, Mrs. Cliff Campbell with Pen Johnson at the Centennial Ladies Day breakfast - 1971
A.H. Williams, school teacher, in a buggy, circa 1900
Estelle Hackett at an ostrich farm, circa 1909
Normal School Women’s Basketball Team, circa 1910
Students at the Tempe Normal School (now ASU)
Guess Birchett, seated near her garden pond, circa 1940
Swimmers Lucile Pyle, circa 1940 and Geneva Adams and friend, circa 1930
Three members of the Tempe Women’s Club, April 5, 1967
Faces that made a difference: Estelle
Hackett, 1908; Honor Anderson Mouer, 1940; Flora Thew, 1960; Una
Belle Decker, 1910
Mrs. Kathryn Gammage at
home
Girls sewing class, Rural School, 1920
Rural School teacher G. Goodwin on a bicycle, circa 1904
Alice Walker, Tempe’s first female police dispatcher
More Tempe women who shaped the community and the future. From left: Josephine Barrett, 1910; Sarah Hayden, 1899; Mrs. Ellis, 1890; unknown woman with a lunch box; Ida Frankenberg, 1900;
Visit the Tempe History Museum to see an exhibit regarding the accomplishments of Tempe’s women leaders and watch a
video about them at www.youtube.com/tempe11video .