An official 2012 Arizona Centennial Legacy Project, Celebrating Arizona Women (CAW) will chronicle the legacy and diversity of Arizona women.  The stage presentation, featuring song, dance, and storytelling, will be held February 24 and 25 at Scottsdale Community College (SCC) Performing Arts Center.  CAW will celebrate contributions of our more memorable residents.  Examples include Nellie Cashman, an early business woman in Tombstone whose boarder, Doc Holliday, threatened to slay a man who dared to complain about her cooking.  Memorialized by Judy Garland, the Harvey Girls are credited with bringing gentility and guests to Arizona. Imported by a French madam, Can-Can dancers were applauded as exquisite gems of the desert by lonely miners.  The Sisters of Mercy began by nursing tuberculosis patients at the turn of the century and their primitive hospital has evolved into two premier institutions.  From our Arizona Indian tribes to Governor Rose Mofford (who, as a teen, spent a year being a softball professional with the Queens team), Arizona’s Historian Marshall Trimble will regale the audience with highpoints in the lives of women who helped shape the State.  Then the center screen will feature modern counterparts.

This event is a partnership between SCC and Scottsdale AAUW (American Association of University Women).  There are other women’s organizations assisting with the sketches such as the League of Women Voters who will depict noisy and effective suffragists.  Exemplifying teachers in a one room school, Scottsdale Historical Society will note the rigid conduct they obeyed while nurturing the minds of children.  Mujer, Inc. will show how early Latina settlers worked side by side with their partners as they homesteaded.

Advance tickets ($20) may be purchased by credit card through Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation at www.maricopa.edu/foundation/egive

Tickets are available by mail-in order (check or credit card) using the printable form.  Please allow time for delivery and processing.
Tickets will also be sold at the door. Net proceeds will provide scholarships for SCC students.

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