Dr. Anna Turner Jolivet, Class of 1946 Educator, Assistant Superintendent TUSD Dr. Anna Turner Jolivet is an amazing accomplisher of civic and volunteer work as well as of many professional achievements—doing all this while being a homemaker and mother of two. The...
Ruth Corbett Meyer Cross, Class of 1945 Entrepreneur Daughter of Hiram Corbett and Ruth Weissinger Corbett is a Tucson native and her Tucson and Arizona are deep, in fact her ancestors came to this valley from Spain in the mid-17th century. That’s even before father...
Oliver C. Drachman, Class of 1923 Businessman, Civic Leader A businessman. A civic leader. An advocate for better education in Tucson. A member of one of the first families of Arizona. . . And a fantastic gardener. All of these words describe the late Oliver C....
Judge Harry Gin, Class of 1944 Pima County Superior Court Judge Was born in February 19 1927, in Tucson is one of four children of B.S. Gin and Lee B.K. Gin who owned and operated “Gin’s Market” the neighborhood grocery store at 3rd Ave. and 17th Street. Not content...
Joana Daved Diamos, Class of 1946 Attorney Jennie (to family friends). . . Jo Ann (to classmates and professional colleagues). . . Joana (the name on her birth certificate in her father’s handwriting, which she now prefers). . By whatever name, Joana Diamos is a warm,...
