| 1867 |
School District No. 1
established
Augustus Brichta was the first teacher in the DistrictHarriet Bolton and Maria
Wakefield were the first two women teachers |
| 1875 |
Congress Street School
first publicly constructed, rather than rented, facility of School District 1 |
| 1886 |
First substitute
teacher, Miss Olive E. Monahan, hired |
| 1895 |
First woman
superintendent, Lizzie Borton, elected |
| 1898 |
First district budget
established. Estimated expenses, 1898-99: $13,500 |
| 1908 |
First high school
completed, now the site of Roskruge |
| 1912 |
J.F. (Pop) McKale
first athletic coach, coaching football and teaching math |
| 1912 |
First full-time
librarian, Mrs. Annie W. Kellond, hired. She later became the first full-time secretary to
the school board. |
| 1916 |
First school orchestra |
| 1917 |
Alice Vail, Mary
Duffy, Anne Rogers started Tucson Education Association |
| 1917 |
Night school opened,
summer school opened |
| 1917 |
Board's first woman
member, Mrs. Clara Fish Roberts, elected (In 1891, she was the first student to register
at the new University of Arizona) |
| 1918 |
First powered vehicle,
a Buick truck, purchased for $905 |
| 1920 |
First full-time school
nurse, Mrs. Gertrude Cragin |
| 1920 |
School lunch program
established |
| 1930 |
Miss Salome Townsend
at Roskruge and Charles E. Dietz at Safford formed first school safety patrols |
| 1937 |
Joseph Magee and Roy
Robison started Tucson Teachers Federal Credit Union, now known as Tucson Federal Credit
Union |
| 1946 |
Distributive
Education, through which students learned retailing and worked part-time, established |
| 1947 |
Board approved
releasing one teacher in each junior high and six teachers in high school to provide
half-time counseling services |
| 1947 |
Francis A. Vesey
appointed Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds -- the beginning of the present
Engineering Department |
| 1948 |
Laura Ganoung hired --
beginning of Exceptional Education Department |
| 1949 |
Howell Elementary
School first TUSD school built with evaporative coolers |
| 1950s |
District began hiring
married women teachers |
| 1950s |
Homebound teaching
program started |
| 1951 |
Tucson School District
1 first district in Arizona to desegregate |
| 1952 |
Instructional Aids
Dept. established -- present Educational Materials Center |
| 1954-55 |
High schools increased
to four years, taking ninth grade from junior highs |
| 1960 |
Librarians assigned to
elementary schools for first time |
| 1962 |
School Resource
Officer program established by District and Tucson Police |
| 1964 |
District topped all
large U.S. school systems in "holding power" -- lowest percentage of dropouts |
| 1973 |
School Community
Partnership Council formed |
| 1974 |
First computer
installed in high school classroom at Rincon |
| 1974 |
Program established
for academically gifted elementary school students |
| 1974 |
Girls varsity sports
added. Home economics, auto mechanics, choirs, sports opened to students of both sexes. |
| 1976 |
New state-of-the-art
facility for Howenstine first solar-heated school in state |
| 1977 |
New name - Tucson
Unified School District. (TUSD) |
| 1982 |
District began its
annual Love of Reading Week |
| 1991 |
Board adopted official
creed |
| 1992 |
Fourth R program
established |
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