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Sharlot Hall MuseumCentennial Advisory CouncilThe Sharlot Hall Museum has created a Centennial Advisory Council whose state-wide members will serve as ambassadors for the museum throughout Arizona and the United States as the state celebrates its centennial in 2012. The 15-member council is a non-governing body that will help increase awareness of Sharlot Hall Museum’s and the Prescott area’s role in Arizona’s rich history. For background on each of the council members, please click on the member's name below. Ambassador Barbara BarrettJacquie DorranceJane W.I. DroppaStevie EllerSandra S. FromanJustice Sandra Day O’Connor (Ret.)The Honorable Mae Sue TalleyBetsy S. TaylorGay F. WrayJulie Ann WrigleyDaughter of an Arizona cowboy, Barbara Barrett is an international business and aviation attorney and CEO of Triple Creek Guest Ranch, a Montana Hideaway – the #1 inn in the continental U.S. and Canada and #2 hotel in the world according to Travel + Leisure magazine. Until January 2009, she was U.S. Ambassador to Finland.
Barbara is a member of the boards of RAND, Smithsonian, Aerospace Corporation, Hershey Trust, and the Center for International Private Enterprise. She is Secretary of the Space Foundation and serves on the Smithsonian National Board.
Prior to serving as ambassador to Finland, Barbara served on the corporate boards of Raytheon, Exponent, Piper Aircraft and The Mayo Clinic. She was Chairman of Thunderbird School of Global Management and the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. As a member of the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council, she founded a program to train and mentor Afghan women entrepreneurs at Thunderbird – a program that has been broadly emulated.
Internationally, Barbara was Senior Advisor to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Teaching Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and lecturer at the Moscow School of Political Studies. She has been a participant with the Global Leadership Foundation, Club of Madrid and World Economic Forum and was President of the International Women’s Forum.
Domestically, Barbara served as Deputy Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration and Vice Chairman of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board. She was President and CEO of the American Management Association, national Chairman of the U.S. Secretary of Commerce’s Export Conference and advised three American presidents on trade and defense policy.
In Arizona, she was founding Chairman of Valley Bank of Arizona and also chaired the Arizona District Export Council, Arizona World Affairs Council and Economic Club of Phoenix. She was a Republican candidate for Governor of Arizona. As a partner at Evans, Kitchel & Jenckes, Barbara specialized in aviation, governance and international law. Before she was 30 she was an executive of two Fortune 500 corporations.
Barbara earned her bachelor, master and law degrees at Arizona State University. Honorary doctorates have been conferred by ASU, Thunderbird, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the University of South Carolina and Pepperdine University. Barbara has been recognized with the Horatio Alger Distinguished Americans Award, Sandra Day O’Connor Board Excellence Award and as one of the top one hundred women in aviation in the first century of flight. ASU’s Barrett Honors College bears her and her husband’s name.
An instrument rated pilot, Barbara has flown in civilian and military aircraft and was the first civilian woman to land in an F/A-18 Hornet on an aircraft carrier. She trained at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, and at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, culminating in her certification for space flight to the International Space Station.
Barbara and her husband, Craig, live in Paradise Valley.
Ambassador Castro was Arizona’s 14th Governor and Arizona’s first Mexican-American Governor. Ambassador Raul Castro has served as Ambassador to El Salvador, Bolivia and Argentina. He currently resides in Nogales, Arizona with his family.
Dr. Christensen is recognized as the foremost authority in his field of medicine. Today he and his wife Anne devote much of there time to helping others, especially Arizona youth. The Christensen family is well known to the historians of Arizona.
As a philanthropist and businesswomen, Jacquie Dorrance is dedicated to making Arizona a leader in the science, arts and humanities. She’s a founding member of the Phoenix Women’s Board for the Steele Memorial Children’s Research Center at the University of Arizona and has been on the board of the Phoenix Art Museum for more than a decade. Mrs. Dorrance is also a lifetime trustee of the Arizona Science Center. Jacquie Dorrance is the co-founder of the Red Book and most recently renovated the historic El Charro Lodge in Paradise Valley.
The Droppa family ties run deep in Arizona. Much of Jane Droppa's time is spent enjoying ranch life and helping non-profit organizations such as National Aquarium Board and the World War Two Memorial.
Mrs. Eller was born and raised in Paxton, Illinois where her father owned and published the local newspaper, The Paxton Daily Record. She graduated from the University of Arizona, earning a Bachelor of Science degree. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and served as President of the sorority during her senior year. Stevie was elected President of the Phoenix Alumnae Chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta, and also served as State Chairperson of District VII for three years. She was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1993, receiving the Mary Coldwell Award.
In December of 1999, Mrs. Eller was presented with an honorary doctorate from the University of Arizona as an acknowledgement of her substantial contributions to the cultural enrichment, health and quality of the citizens of Arizona. She remains active with her alma mater by presenting to undergraduate and graduate MBA students “The Stevie Eller Enterprise Creation Awards.” These scholarships are given annually to students who have excelled academically and who have promise as future entrepreneurs and community leaders.
After her marriage, Mrs. Eller taught English for four years at Washington Grammar School and then became active in Phoenix civic affairs. For five years, Mrs. Eller conducted special grooming seminars for girls and women who were about to re-enter society from Good Shepherd Home for Girls and from the Arizona State Mental Hospital.
For two years, Mrs. Eller coordinated and hosted a television program on the Phoenix Public Broadcasting Channel (KAET-TV, Channel 8), which listed organizations’ public needs for volunteers. During the program, she outlined where volunteers could put their time to community improvement uses. She founded a Women’s Auxiliary for Gompers Rehabilitation and was a member of the Phoenix Motion Picture Board. She was a member of the Phoenix Art Museum League where she served as a volunteer docent and, subsequently, was a two-term member of the Board of Directors.
In the Visiting Nurse Service Auxiliary, Mrs. Eller chaired the Organization’s Annual Book Sale and raised a record at that time of $50,000. Following that, she served as President of VNSA the next year. As a member of the Arizona Heart Association, Mrs. Eller was Chairperson of the organization’s Heart Sunday. She was also a member of the Arizona Town Hall and served on the Zoo Auxiliary Board for many years.
Stevie has served for 16 years on the Foundation Board for the University of Arizona, the Board of Trustees of Barrows Neurological Hospital and Chaired the ’99 fund raising project, which raised over $2 million for the hospital, the Board of Trustees for the Herberger Theatre, and the Board of Trustees for Achievement Rewards for College Scientists. In 1991, Stevie served as Chairperson of the Phoenix Presidents’ Club for the University of Arizona. She also served as Chairperson of the 1992 Reunion Committee for the University of Arizona, and was honored in the bicentennial celebration in 1998. For 10 years, Stevie was President of Circle K Travel, now Carlson Travel Network. Recently she was honored as an Arizona Historymaker for her extensive personal commitment within the community by the Arizona Historical Society. In November 2003, Mrs. Eller received the Outstanding Philanthropist Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Mrs. Eller served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Arizona Cancer Society and as a member of that organization, was Chairperson of the highly successful Cancer Ball. For the quincentennial celebrating the arrival of Columbus in North America, Stevie was named to the Presidential Commission by George Bush to represent the United States in the Dominican Republic. She served as State Chairperson of Arizonans for Reagan and Citizens for America and was appointed to the Women of the Western Hemisphere commission organized by President Reagan. In 1988, she represented the United States at the bicentennial of Australia.
In February of 1999 Mrs. Eller joined the board of the National Committee for the Performing Arts at the Kennedy Center as the National Representative for the State of Arizona. In July 2002, President George W. Bush appointed her to the Advisory Committee on the Arts. In May 2004, Stevie and her husband Karl joined President and Mrs. Bush at the White House to show their support for the America’s Promise Campaign. In December of 2005, Mrs. Eller received the honor of being appointed to the Kennedy Center’s Board of Trustees by President George W. Bush.
Mrs. Eller served for five years on the Multiple Sclerosis Board of Directors, five years on the City of Phoenix Human Relations Commission, and was a community advisor to the Phoenix Junior League for two years. She is a founding trustee of the Children’s Science Museum, and also a founding trustee of the Harrington Arthritis Research Center of St. Luke’s Hospital, served on the Board of Governors for the Hon Kachina Awards Dinner, and the Maricopa County Bond Committee. Mrs. Eller concluded a three-year term as a member of the Board of Directors of KAET-TV, Channel 8, the Public Broadcasting outlet in Phoenix.
Other community activities included a term as President of the Junior Women’s Club of Evanston (Illinois); a member of the Board of Directors of COMPAS (a Phoenix organization dedicated to supporting the arts) and Chairperson of the Salvation Army Ice Cream Social for several years. In addition, Mrs. Eller was an organizer of the Fiesta Bowl Women’s Committee and has been active as an advisor to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Recently, the Board of Directors of the Arizona Alumni Association voted to present Mrs. Eller with the Arizona Alumni Association Distinguished Citizen Award in recognition of her service in nonprofit organizations and outstanding volunteer service. She Co-chaired the University of Arizona’s Presidential Leadership Team’s Billion-Dollar fundraiser, reaching the goal in October 2003, two years ahead of schedule. Also in October 2003 the College of Fine Arts at the University of Arizona honored Mrs. Eller by dedicating the “Stevie Eller Dance Theater” in her name. On February 18, 2011, the Arizona Board of Regents honored Stevie and Karl Eller with the Regents’ Award for Outstanding Service to Higher Education, recognizing their commitment to the University of Arizona for over 25 years through the development and growth of the Eller College of Management, scholarships to undergraduate and graduate MBA students, and Stevie’s role as a lead supporter of the UA’s School of Dance.
Ambassador P. Robert Fannin has enjoyed a 44-year career as a lawyer in private practice and as a businessman. In those roles he has worked in the public policy arena, has advised many businesses on legal matters, and has served as an officer and director of two financial institutions. From 2007-2009, he served as the United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
Since 1963 he has been in the private practice of law. He is presently senior counsel with the 450-attorney international law firm of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. He has been an active member of the Bar, including 14 years as a chairman of a State Bar legal education program. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the Arizona State University College of Law in 1995, and was appointed by the Supreme Court of Arizona to serve on the State Commission on Salaries of Elected Officials.
Ambassador Fannin has been a strong proponent of responsible economic growth for Arizona. He has served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce, as well as many committees of the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, including the Special Events Committee, which was created to promote Greater Phoenix through the sponsorship of sporting events. He also served on numerous committees under several governors, including the Governor's Strategic Partnership for Economic Development, the Governor's Transportation Task Force, the Plan B Task Force (stadium financing) and Growing Smarter. As chairman and member of the Governor's Motion Picture and Television Advisory Board he actively promoted film and television production in Arizona. From 2005-2007, he served as a member of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships.
Ambassador Fannin continues to be active in charitable non-profit work and volunteer service. He is a Life Member of the Phoenix Thunderbirds, which conducts the Waste Management Phoenix Open (formerly the Phoenix Open) professional golf tournament. He was Chairman of the tournament in 1976. He is an emeritus board member (former chairman) of the Barrow Neurological Institute Foundation, and a member of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society (United Way).
Ambassador Fannin has been active in Arizona politics for many years assisting candidates for federal, state and local offices. He was Chairman of the Arizona Republican Party from June 2001 to January 2005. As such, he was a member of the Republican National Committee during the same period.
A native of Phoenix, Ambassador Fannin received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Stanford University and a Juris Doctorate Degree from the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. He served on active duty for three years as a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force. He is married to Dr. Elizabeth Wilkinson Fannin, a retired neuro-anesthesiologist, and is the father of three children, Paul, Jr., Sheryl and Joe.
A past two-term president of the National Rifle Association of America (bylaws limit presidents to two terms), Sandra Froman is currently a practicing attorney, law school professor and international speaker. Froman serves on the boards of the University of Arizona’s law school, as well as George Mason University School of Law. She is a member of the NRA Board of Directors, on which she has served since 1992. In 2007, she was unanimously elected to a lifetime appointment on the NRA Executive Council.
As president and Director of Harvard Investments, Mr. Krumwiede leads the company’s development and investment activities. He serves as a Governor of the Urban Land Institute and also on the Executive Committee of the Arizona District Council. He is very involved with Arizona State University, where he is on the Dean’s Council of 100 for the W.P. Carey College of Business, the Advisory Board for the Master’s in Real Estate Development program and is an Advisory Board Member on the Council for Design Excellence. Mr. Krumwiede is a founding member of Social Venture Partners Arizona, a philanthropic organization based on a venture capital model.
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (Ret.) When Justice O’Connor first was looking for work, she had to open her own law office because no law firm would hire a woman at that time. She then served as an Arizona assistant attorney general from 1965 until 1969, when she was appointed to a vacancy in the Arizona Senate, where she rose to the rank of Senate Majority Leader. In 1974, she ran successfully for trial judge, a position she held until she was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals in 1979. Eighteen months later, on July 7, 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated her to the Supreme Court. In September, 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor became the Court’s 102nd justice and its first female member. During her time on the court, Justice O’Connor made it clear that the high court's role in American society was to interpret the law, not to legislate justice.
Justice O’Connor currently serves as Chancellor of the College of William and Mary and on the board of the National Constitution Center. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Between March and December of 2006, Justice O’Connor served her country as a member of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group of the United States Institute of Peace. She authored The Majesty of the Law, Lazy B, Chico, and Finding Susie. In 2009, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Most recently she founded a website www.icivics.org and has overseen the O’Connor House Project, a community effort to relocate both the original adobe house and the spirit of Sandra Day O’Connor to Arizona’s spectacular Papago Park (www.oconnorhouse.org).
A true Arizona Renaissance woman: rancher, businesswoman, diplomat and philanthropist Mae Sue Talley sets the standard for future Arizona women. As a founder of Talley Industries*, a Fortune 500 company, the name Talley quickly became synonymous with Arizona business and innovation. Whether it was the Director of Interior Design for the Arizona Biltmore (when Talley Industry owned the historic landmark) or publisher and owner of Arizona’s oldest newspaper, the Arizonian, Mae Sue Talley continued to find the proper balance between innovation and preservation. Today Mae Sue Talley continues her balancing act as owner of Castle Hot Springs Hotel Corporation, the first resort in Arizona. Mae Sue Talley’s business insight is skillfully matched with her academic service. As founder and first chairman of the board of trustees of Phoenix Country Day School, Mae Sue Talley created what is today one of the leading private preparatory schools in the country. She has also been a pivotal influence on the boards of Arizona State University and the American Graduate School of International Management. She has been honored by Arizona State University with an honorary Doctorate of Human Letters, an Ambassadorship from Barrett Honors College, and the Distinguished Achievement Award.
The consummate diplomat Mae Sue Talley has served with the Agency for International Development for the U.S. State Department, consulted for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, been a delegate at United Nations conferences, and written for the archives of the Defense Department Advisory Commission on Women in the Services.
Additionally she has been a Commissioner for the United States Commission on Public Policy, UNESCO, The President’s Export Council, and the Commission on Presidential Scholars and the President’s Commission on Executive Exchange. She is the founding member of the President’s International Youth Exchange and member of the Advisory Committee on Book and Libraries Abroad, USIA, and the President’s Task Force on Books Abroad.
Throughout her life, Mae Sue Talley has founded, chaired, advised, or sat on over 30 non-profit boards. Her commitment to creating stronger communities through philanthropy can be seen in the diverse charities she supports. A few examples are: Hospice of the Valley (founding board member), Phoenix Art league, Women’s Board (founding member), Barrow’s Women’s Board (Barrows Neurological Institute, founding member),Phoenix Junior Achievement (first female board member),Taliesin Foundation Council, Phoenix Opera Company (founding board), Arizona Nature Conservancy- Streams of Life Committee (co-chairman), Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Women’s Institute, and the Stillman-McCormick Railroad Park (founding member).
Currently Mae Sue Talley sits on the advisory Board of the University of Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson (a cancer survivor herself), serves as a fellow at the Thunderbird Graduate School and the ASU Emeritus Board. Mae Sue Talley is also a member of the prominent groups “The Wise Guys” and the “The Babes.”
The Honorable Mae Sue Talley has been honored with a commander, Order of Saint John, by the Queen of England. *NOTE: Talley industries acquired the property rights to the ejection seat from Mae Sue Talley’s business Talco Engineering, which originally created the ejection seat.
The Taylor family has made giving in Maricopa County an art form. The family’s civic mindedness serves as an example for others to follow. They are the silent movers that have made Arizona the state it is. Her help in the creation of the Crisis Nursery and its annual fundraiser has helped countless families receive a stop-gap measure before children are forced to enter the foster home system. Now Arizonans longest-serving children’s shelter, the Crisis Nursery has provided a safe haven for more than 17,000 children in greater Phoenix. Like Sharlot Hall, Betsy Taylor has the ability to bring people together and to creatively improve a situation to make a better Arizona.
Bruce Theony is the president/owner of Theony Management Company in the field of commercial management. Mr. Theony has chaired the boards of the Arizona Kidney Foundation, the Red Cross, the Cancer Society, the Lay Advisory Board of St. Josephs Hospital, Camelback Kiwanis, as well as the Industrial Commission of Arizona and the State Compensation Fund. He was Chairman of the Independent Business Committee of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce and received the Distinguished Public Service medal of the Maricopa Medical Society. He currently sits on the Grand Canyon Council of the Boy Scouts. He has two married sons, Steve and Dave.
Educated at Bennett and Vassar colleges, Gay Wray has lived in Paradise Valley since 1961 and owned ranch lands in both northern and southern Arizona until the early 1990s. Her philanthropic associations included the Junior League, Charter 100, Phoenix Zoo Auxiliary, Arizona State Board of Vocational Education, Valley Shakespeare Theatre, Senators Cup for Hospice of the Valley, and Christ Church of the Ascension Memorial Garden. She is a former Director of the Arizona Bank/Bank of America, AZ.
Ms. Wray is now president of the Roger S. Firestone Foundation, an honorary member of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Board, co-founder of the O’Connor House, a trustee of the Ullman Foundation, an advisory trustee of Phoenix Country Day School, and a life member of the Women’s Board of the Barrows Neurological Institute.
She and her three fabulous children and one grandchild are pleased she is an Arizona Ambassador for the Sharlot Hall Museum.
Julie Ann Wrigley is the President/CEO of Wrigley Investments, LLC in Sun Valley, Idaho, Managing Member of Wrigley Ranches, LLC in Weatherford, Texas and President of the Julie Ann Wrigley Foundation.
Julie is a passionate proponent of sustainable societies: the concept that considers the interconnectedness of environmental, economic and social systems. In 2004 she helped co-found the Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS) at Arizona State University. She was honored in 2007 with the Arizona Outstanding Philanthropist Award.
Currently Julie serves as co-chair with Dr. Michael Crow, President of ASU and a world recognized leader and innovator in sustainability, and Rob Walton on the board of the Global Institute of Sustainability at ASU. Julie served on the Boards of Directors for E.W. Scripps, Associated Bank of Chicago, First Bank of Idaho, American Eagle Group and Wyndham Foods. Julie has been able to commit a great deal of her time to philanthropic endeavors including board involvements with Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Peregrine Fund (Chairman Emeritus), Santa Catalina Island Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy, Keep America Beautiful, Sun Valley Writer’s Conference, ASU Foundation, Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the USC/Wrigley Institute of Environmental Studies.
Julie Wrigley tries to live her life understanding that our goal as human beings should be to recognize that we can create development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
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