Prescott Centennial Planning Committee
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On February 16, 1962, Prescott Mayor Frank Tutt established a commission of prominent Arizonans to guide and coordinate the centennial observance of Prescott’s founding. The City of Prescott, the birthplace of American government in Arizona and the first state capital, celebrated its first 100 years in 1964. Mayor Tutt formally designated Arizona Governor Paul Fannin as honorary chairman of the Centennial Commission.
L. W. (Budge) Ruffner was named Commission Chairman. He worked with an executive committee consisting of William A. Coerver, Gail I. Gardner, Dr. Charles Franklin Parker, J. Phil Rockfellow, and George Rothfuss.
Prescott Centennial Planning Committee members:
Pictured in the back row, left to right are: Dr. Charles Franklin Parker (pastor, First Congregational Church, authority Arizona history), Edward (Ed) N. Seidman (cochairman, 1962 Prescott Frontier Days), Dr. Taylor T. Hicks (Hicks Dental Group), Frank Carson (founder, Americana Indian Development Company, L.W. (Budge) Ruffner (first Arizonan elected to the Cowboy Hall of Fame), Paul Wedepohl (Yavapai County treasurer), Norman Fain (veteran Yavapai County rancher and board member, Valley National Bank), Howard Douglas Jorgenson (former Prescott City mayor), Dr. C. E. Yount, Jr. (practicing physician, Prescott), and George Rothfuss (past president, Prescott Chamber of Commerce).
Pictured in the front row, left to right are: Gail Gardner (retired Prescott postmaster), Miss June Wood, Mrs. Joe (Dora) Heap (former curator, Sharlot Hall Museum), Mrs. James (Mary) Coughlin, (Coughlin Cattle Co., Peeples Valley), and O. M. McNeil (graduate, Prescott High School, retired auto manufacturing executive).
Not pictured are: George Allan Jr. (Prescott architect, authority on Southwest historical architecture), F. V. (Bud) Brown (owner-operator, Friendly Pines Camp, Groom Creek), William Coerver (manager, First National Bank of Prescott), Sherman Hazeltine (board chairman, First National Bank of Arizona, Phoenix resident), Howard W. Moffat (Prescott television cable executive), M. William (Bill) Nixon (northern Arizona correspondent, The Arizona Republic), George Phippen (renowned western artist, Skull Valley), Jack Reuter (president, Prescott Chamber of Commerce), Otto Reynolds (general manager, Prescott Courier), Phil Rockfellow (retired oil company executive), and Bee R. Waples Jr. (engineer, Iron King Mine, Humboldt).
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