Win Holden, former publisher of "Arizona Highways" magazine and now its informal ambassador, will enlighten us as to how the magazine has remained popular through historical and contemporary photographs, attracting elite landscape photographers and using an unconventional publishing business model. Lunch may be purchased online or reserve your place with Susan Howard and pay by cash or check by October 3.  Members with reservations are responsible for payment even if unable to attend.

As we honor our veterans this month, Diane Burke Fessler, author of No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses of World War II, will join us. She wrote this, her first book, to honor the nurses of the 1940s. Her aunt was an Army nurse who wrote letters every week from her stations overseas and led Fessler to want to write about her.

Lunch may be purchased online or reserve your place with Susan Howard and pay by cash or check by October 31. Members with reservations are responsible for payment even if unable to attend.

We are delighted to be welcoming Pat McMahon as the speaker for our December holiday celebration. Over the course of his career, he's won seven Emmys, is an inductee into several halls of fame, and is a 1993 Arizona Historymaker.™ He is the winner of both an International Broadcasting Gold Medal and an Edward R. Murrow Award.

Lunch may be purchased online or reserve your place with Susan Howard and pay by cash or check by November 29, 2024. Members with reservations are responsible for payment even if unable to attend.

Do you remember taking Spanish in high school? Dr. Christine Marin will tell us how Spanish became a major course of study because of Gràcia Liliana Fernàndez.

Dr. Marin, Professor Emeritus, Archivist-Historian at ASU, is the founder of the prestigious archival repository, Chicano/Chicana Research Collection and Archives at the Hayden Library in Tempe. She has won many awards for her work, and she is also the President of the Tempe History Society. She proudly hails from Globe, Arizona where she maintains close ties to the community and was inducted in the Globe High School Hall of Fame.

Lunch may be purchased online or reserve your place with Susan Howard and pay by cash or check by Thursday, January 2. Members with reservations are responsible for payment even if unable to attend.

Hang on to your Guccis! This month we are joined by Kathie May, former president of the Arizona Costume Institute (ACI). ACI was founded in 1966 to support Phoenix Art Museum's Fashion Department in the acquisition and preservation of garments and accessories of historical and aesthetic significance. It also promotes appreciation and support of the museum's fashion exhibitions, which feature fashion as an art and cultural phenomenon.

Kathie May is a Fiesta Bowl emerita and Maricopa Community College professor emerita. We welcome her and the fashion stories she tells.

Lunch may be purchased online or reserve your place with Susan Howard and pay by cash or check by January 30, 2025. Members with reservations are responsible for payment even if unable to attend.