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A trip through history as we experienced it and remember it a trip through Living History. Professor HN, who is a veteran of a half century of Arizona journalism will be your guide. You will visit with some of the state's most important personalities and your neighbors who are eyewitnesses to history. Today's guest is Peyton rivets, former principal of AMP Hi Hi.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=30.0,138.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Welcome to eyewitness to history. Today I witness history turns to the history of education in Tucson and our guest Payton Revis, former principal of AMP theatre, Hayes High School has studied and written extensively about this history. And Peyton I want to start by getting you going all the way back in 1775, Tucson became a wall Presidio. But we didn't have much schooling in those earliest days. Can you give us a start on our story of education in the old pub by telling us when we got our first schooling here?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=139.0,172.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Well, they had been some Indian School to sign a beer over the years. But that didn't last very, very long. But in 1866, Bishop soundpoint came to Tucson, and brought with him two priests that didn't have priests at the here at that time, two priests, and one teacher named Mr. Vincent and I muster events and started the school at the Mission sign of error, but it lasted only a few months. Then he moved to town and held his school and the home of the priests. This is during 1866. But in 1877, a school block was built in Tucson which had facilities for the school. And Mr. Benson, of course, had school for boys only.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=173.0,222.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: No girls in the school heralds and no education at all. For girls in those early years, there","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=223.0,226.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: were some private schools private instruction schools for for girls, but not under the auspices today in the Catholic Church.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=227.0,234.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: All the education at the start was out of the Catholic Church then,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=235.0,238.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: at the very beginning it was and in 1870, the Sisters of St. Joseph came to Tucson and started the St. Joseph's Academy. And that outstanding educational institution existed in Tucson for 100 years, and provided the good education and some outstanding community leadership over that period of years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=239.0,266.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: It was just a school for girls, that was a school for girls. And at that time, for that period, we had the startup of the public education system and tell us a little bit about when public education came to Tucson.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=267.0,279.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Well, in 1864, the first Arizona legislature had indicated some interest in education, and they had appropriated some money for schools in Arizona. They appropriated $500 for schools and Tucson and Prescott The paws and Mojave. What are those for? Only Prescott qualified to get the money. Tucson had no school at that time. But at the sign of our mission, there was a school under the direction of father Misia. And they did get a special appropriation of $250. But that school lasted only a few months.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=280.0,320.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: And now we had the first appropriation, even when dollar was worth more that wasn't very much for education. So there wasn't a great interest in building up an educational system. When did we then get the public school into tussah? Health","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=321.0,333.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: in 1867 when Earth when Tucson became the capital of Arizona. Along with the State Capitol, officers came a young clerk by the name of Augustus Britta. And he was selected to be the teacher of this first public school in Tucson. But that school again lasted only about six months.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=334.0,358.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Did it have appropriation?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=359.0,360.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: It had a provision for a tax of one half percent on the assessed valuation, and was that coeducational? That school Oh, his school was still for boys only.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=361.0,373.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: So there really still even in 1867 with a capital, there still wasn't a premium on education? Well, no,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=374.0,378.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: they did not have a school for for girls. And only a small percentage of the youngsters did go to school. And most of these were Spanish speaking and the teachers, by necessity had to be Spanish speaking.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=379.0,394.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: What I wanted to ask you, why do you believe looking back and having done your studies, there wasn't that much emphasis on education, that the families need the children to work? What what do you feel was the picture at that time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=395.0,409.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Probably that played a big role in it. But I suppose that they just didn't feel the real need for education, although some of those early teachers did were college graduates.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=410.0,425.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Now tell us about John spring and and his beginnings in Tucson and what it meant to schools here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=426.0,432.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: John spring was a very interesting character in early Arizona history. He came to Arizona with the army, served down at Fort Yuma and then entered into other activities over the state. He was quite a writer and wrote a lot of material for newspapers back East. And 1872 He became the teacher of the Tucson school. And here again, it was for boys only.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=433.0,467.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Now John spring there's a school that was named for him after the segregated Dunbar school close it became John spring, but unfortunately, that school is not now not being used now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=468.0,478.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: John, spring building is still still exists, but it is no longer in use as a school. Now, we wondered about education for girls. Mrs. Josephine Brawley Hughes, who was the wife of LC, who is the editor of The Arizona Daily Star was concerned. So she began a school for girls only down in a building, which was once owned by the brewery down in Levine Park. And this school started in the early spring of 1873 and lasted until May of 1873.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=479.0,520.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Now Josephine use was quite a personage at that time, wasn't she?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=521.0,524.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Yeah, she was very active with her with her husband, who later became a governor of Arizona. And at","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=525.0,530.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: that when he went to the governorship appointed, she became editor of the paper for a short while our first woman editor in Arizona. Well, that's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=531.0,537.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: quite interesting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=538.0,538.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: We'll take a break right now. I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=539.0,540.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: knew that she was interested in women's rights and other things of that nature.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=541.0,544.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: We'll get back to Josephine news of the school in just a moment after this break. We're talking about John spring and his school for boys. And then Josephine use is fabulous frontier woman has a school for girls. She was also a leader in the temperance and upset a lot of barkeeps in those days because there were a lot of bars here. She also was a leader for women's rights, where she did she run a good school from what you can see and looking back","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=545.0,606.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: for what we know she did have a good school and she got a lot of help from John spring, who was interested in schooling, and John spring, operated his school until May of that year. Then he started his own private school. And the following year, Tucson had two new teachers here in town. Governor ciphered was very much interested in education in Arizona, so much that he acted as his own Superintendent of Public Instruction. And he was very active in recruiting teachers for Arizona. He had a he got acquainted with Miss Maria Wakefield, who lived in California, and he convinced her to come to Tucson to be one of the teachers. And Miss Wakefield had a friend named Harriet Bolton and she persuaded Miss Bolton to come to Tucson. Tucson needed good teachers. And John Watson, the editor of the citizen, wrote in the spring of 1873, said Tucson needs good teachers. We need good school moms. And when they and we'll pay them good wages, and when they're tired of teaching, then we will find them good husbands","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=607.0,695.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: now that it was quite a job for an editor, the editors kind of stick their nose out the far into the community but the john watson","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=696.0,702.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: philosophy was true to his word. How was the for the school was out. He and Miss Wakefield were married. And en fish married Miss Hardy at Bolton fish was another pioneer and fish was a very prominent merchant here in Tucson at the time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=703.0,723.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: And so the promise of the editor came through even if it carried out both teachers and we have schools name for those people. We have Watson peak in the Tucson Mountains. So those names now to Sonas will have a better idea of what those names","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=724.0,738.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: are as a school name for Miss Wakefield, but not far Miss Bolton but one of her daughters did have a school name for her who is that? Her granddaughter was named Miss Clara. Her daughter was named Miss Clara Barton fish Roberts. She had murdered at Roberts. She was the first student to enroll at the University of Arizona. And later on, she served on the school board of Tucson unified district. Our Tucson district is known then. And she served two years as president of the board. As far as we know, she was the first woman member of a school board in Tucson.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=739.0,789.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Now we've had a really a good history of the early early days. When did we finally get a high school in Tucson.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=790.0,798.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: The high school and to son date Exactly. That escapes me. But Tucson High School of course was the first one. But I don't recall the date that the Tucson high school really began","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=799.0,814.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: well Tucson High School was operating at least by 9919 10 As I recall, but even earlier,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=815.0,822.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: we might jump back a little bit in history because we skipped over some very interesting people. And after the Wakefield Miss Bolton were married, then we had to have other teachers. So the following year, Professor Horton came to Tucson as one of the teachers and he had with him a mess Packard and an outstanding young man named Bolognaise Ignacio Bonilla Ignacio Bonniers. Now, Ignacio peroneus was a native of Mexico, but a very brilliant young man. And there's a school in town named for him. But he is best known for the fact that a few years later, he became minister from Mexico to the United States. So we had an expand his fluency in English and his understanding of the United States helped the two countries over some pretty rough years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=823.0,879.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: So we had a very influential person in our early school system","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=880.0,883.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: and a former teacher and Tucson as minister from months ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=884.0,890.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: As we came along now, we were talking a great deal about Tucson. I don't believe people realize how early the school district began. In the northwest side of Tucson,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=891.0,900.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: we've been talking about the dates 1870s and 1880s. But in 1889, there was a school district called Rico, organized north of town a several miles north of town. Now that district is now known as Flowing Wells. After a few years, some of the residents in the eastern part of that district of Rito district didn't like the idea of where they might build the new school. So el Wetmore and others got up a petition and requested the organization of a new district. Which at that time was given the name of amphitheater","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=901.0,947.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: now why and theater Well,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=948.0,950.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: JD Andrews, one of the three board members of amphitheatre at the time, looked around over the Tucson Valley and said, the whole thing reminds me of a giant amphitheater. So it was called amphitheater Valley High School, but they dropped the ballet and just called it amphitheater.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=951.0,973.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: So we had almost a little Greek touch to the early formation of that school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=974.0,977.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Wonder somewhat about the education of JD Andrews. We know very little about him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=978.0,982.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: We'll take a break now we'll be right back to talk some more about that. Peyton before we we go any further I want you to tell us a little bit about that Congress Street School. We missed that I pass it up. That was an interesting school too. Wasn't","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=983.0,1036.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Yes, the Congress school was the first real school building built in Tucson. It's built on the corner of Congress, and I believe Scott. And it was built through community effort and community donations. At one time, they had a fire down there where they auctioned off a cake. And this cake was sold and resold until it brought in a total of $200. Now lumber for the school was donated by the officers up at Fort grant and tell it oh Choa you know, very famous writers of those days, haul the lumber to Tucson and help to put the building up. And Alana the labor was came from volunteer work here in Tucson, where the otoa very prominent in building that building, just as Ochoa had been prominent and building the school for the Sisters of St. Joseph a few years before","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1037.0,1104.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: the first very important School of Congress feed school was really a great community effort, wasn't it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1105.0,1109.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: It certainly was it took a lot of help from all the people of Tucson.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1110.0,1113.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Now I want to go back to the Flowing Wells area that and the amphitheater district because that was a very interesting area. And some interesting names pop up and Ralph Wetmore and Harold Bell, right the Great Western writer who had his home in Tucson in earlier days and even the name Buffalo Bill Cody comes up how do those names figure","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1114.0,1133.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: well, Ralph and Eddie Wetmore were sons of El Wetmore al Wetmore served on the amphitheatre school for school board for about 12 years. And Ralph Wetmore was best known out there as a well driller. And he was a water dozer, you know, using this fork and stick to locate where to drill wells, and he was quite successful. Not Ralph Wetmore never served on the amphitheater school board, but his wife did. Miss Helen Wetmore, who still lives out in the amphitheater district. And she and Ralph Wetmore lived in a house for many years, that's now occupied by the Tucson Mall.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1134.0,1180.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Well, I know that area because also there was Wetmore Park and Wetmore pool and as a youngster, that was the place when we before we had air cooling and air conditioning. We would go to relax and cool off.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1181.0,1191.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: It certainly was, but you also mentioned Buffalo Bill and Harold Bell, right? Yes. How do they come into the picture? Buffalo Bill had nothing to do with amphitheater district, but he was well known out in that area. Because in his later years, he used to spend a good bit of time, relaxing, you might say, at a hotel and Oracle, the old article hotel that's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1192.0,1216.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: an hour church,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1217.0,1217.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: and he hired people to look for the man with the iron door. And it's out in the Catalina somewhere if we just knew where to look.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1218.0,1226.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Now, tell us about that. Now, we didn't want to get everyone running out in the mountains. Now I was looking for it. But tell it what was the mind with the iron dawn? Oh, good spring up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1227.0,1234.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: It's one of the mind lost mind traditions in Arizona. And just as some of the other loss minds, you cannot prove exactly that it did exist. And one day when a committee was meeting down to amphitheater, I happen to make the comment that I had bought a book that day, a first edition of Harold bel Wright's book about the legend of the mind will the iron door not present that day was Mrs. Gertrude zip, who lived in California? And she said, What do you mean legend? I'm the one who told Harold Bell write that story. And Buffalo Bill did spend a lot of money, but and he never found the mine. But that was a good diversion for Harold though, right? Lived in Tucson Herald Bell, right lived in Tucson for a number of years. And the herald bell right. estates are named after him here","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1235.0,1296.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: now very much in the middle of the city at the end of Speedway and will not","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1297.0,1300.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: yes. And at that time, I suppose they're almost a half a day's ride or something like that from Tom Murthy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1301.0,1306.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: That's right. And the book mined with the iron door was a good seller across the nation at that time. And I suppose it's very much like the story of the mine up in the superstitions that had people looking for the Lost Dutchman for years, you've ever thought when you were principal at the at Amphi of maybe funding all your problems by going out and finding that mind, did you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1307.0,1328.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Well, I'd heard something about it. And of course, what happened to the mind with the iron door and while we won't be able to find it, is that in the earthquake of 1877, the Catalinas were disturbed a great bit. And clouds of dust arose from the mountains back in the mountains. And people thought there might even be fires up there. But when it settled down, the earthquake had covered up the mind with the iron door.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1329.0,1361.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: It's a great story, legend or truth, we don't know. But it's a great story. You know, I want to ask you, as you look at the spread of Tucson today, and the huge number of schools as you've done back in history, there was remarkable planning wasn't there? In education, it got a slow start, but then it came on rather strong and school systems have well been honored through the years here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1362.0,1384.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Yes, it took a long time for education to get started in Tucson. But it plays a very important part in the area now. And there are school districts surrounding Tucson. Some people wonder why we have so many districts around town. Well, these were country districts like amphitheater and Rito Flowing Wells. Thank you, Bertie. And later on the Catalina Foothills district and many years before up north there the Catalina district which later became a part of amphitheatre but when amphitheatre first started, it was four miles square from Flowing Wells road on over to Country Club. And it doesn't reach the country club now. It doesn't reach the Flowing Wells now. The other districts kind of took in part of this area.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1385.0,1433.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: What's happened in Tucson that the growth has been so big that we don't have country districts anymore. But the history of education Payton, as you spelled out today has been most interesting and I want to thank you very much for being with us today on eyewitness to history. And we hope you'll be back with us again next week on eyewitness to history.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1434.0,1453.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: You","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225#t=1454.0,1456.0"}]},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["English [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1978/collection_resources/74365/file/160225/transcript/38326/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"subtitling","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/038/326/original/azu_ms685-018_a.vtt?1654116825","format":"text/vtt","language":"en"},"target":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/038/326/original/azu_ms685-018_a.vtt?1654116825"}]}]}]}