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 .