Freedoms Foundation to Honor Arizonans
Freedom Awards are given to honor individuals,
schools and organizations who have had worthy efforts which strengthen the
understanding and the fundamentals of a free society. Freedom Awards were
presented to Col. Earl F. Hopper, Cdt. Harry W. Feldman, Linda Cradit, Mary Ann
Crompton, W. A. Johnson, Dr. Chilton C. McPheeters, Mrs. Martin Nestich, Gary M.
Kekstad, Lori Cox, Col. Paul M. Morrill; Jack and Artis Poulsen, and Maj. Larry
J. Chesley. Dr. Kevin C. McCann was speaker. Phoenix Gazette 4/22/1978.
The Phoenix Indian School was a boarding school founded in 1891 with the
goal of fostering the assimilation of Native Americans into white society. The
school served as a federal educational institution for Native American children
from tribes in Arizona and elsewhere in the Southwest. Its last graduating class
consisted of nineteen students in 1990.