Library Celebration of the Albuquerque Tricentennial

Tricentennial Speakers
Official Tricentennial website

 

Tricentennial Speakers are Available

During Albuquerque's Tricentennial, you can arrange for a speaker to come to your organization, the South Broadway Culturual Center, or an Albuquerque Bernalillo/County Library System branch. Contact the speaker directly to set up time, location, and any fee or honorarium.

The South Broadway Cultural Center may be used the third Saturday of each month at 10:00AM. Call 764-1742 to check availability. There is a $20.00 per hour charge for security. Albuquerque/Bernalillo County libraries may also be used at no charge during the hours they are open. To check availability, call the library at least two weeks in advance .

Speakers: A - H | I - M | P - S | T - Z

Dr. Adelamar Alcantara, Senior Demographer UNM
Phone: (505) 277-8823
Audience: General
Topic/Notes: Changing demographics of Albuquerque, New Mexico;  Interconnection of the history of the Philippines and New Mexico; Early Filipino settlers in Albuquerque circa 1754; Military and the Baton Death March.
Length: approximately 45 minutes
Special needs:  Power Point presentation

Charles Becknell Jr, Director, UNM Charley Morrisey Research Center
Phone: (505) 277-4883
Audience: General
Topic/Notes: Settlement patterns of African Americans in Albuquerque New Mexico from the Spanish Colonial Period until the present.
 Length: 45 minutes with a period for questions and answers
Special needs:  Power Point presentation- will need large screen, microphone, laptop and projector.

Carolyn Chan: Chinese American Citizen’s Alliance
Phone:  (505) 298-1727
Audience: General
Topic/Notes: Early history of Chinese settlements in the 1860’s prior to the Chinese Exclusion Act and the later settlement of Chinese into Albuquerque in the 1920’s; Chinese cultural and economic contributions; Discriminatory barriers the Chinese faced on arriving in Albuquerque. Includes a Pictorial exhibit of early Chinese settlers. 
Length: 30-45 minutes

Brenda Dabney: African American Community in Albuquerque from the 1860’s until Present
Phone: (505) 836-3627
Audience: General
Topic/Notes: Social organizations such as the Home Circle started in 1915. East End housing development built in Albuquerque in the 1950’s by her mother Virginia Ballou. Educational issues in Albuquerque from the 1860’s until present.
Length: 30-45 minutes

Dr. Doris Fields: Impact of Health Issues on New Mexico and Albuquerque: Early Statehood until Present
Phone: (505) 827-0608
Audience: General
Topic/Notes: How and why we came to have a state health program. Disparities of healthcare within different communities in Albuquerque and throughout the state. Cultural and linguistic issues that affect health care.
Length: approximately 45 minutes

Werner Gellert, NM Holocaust & Intolerance Museum
Phone:  (505) 247-0606
Audience: Middle/High School and General Audience
Time period : From Spanish Colonial until the present. 
Topic/Notes: History of Hate and Intolerance in Albuquerque.  How City Government affects these issues by the policies in place. The sociological impact and tensions hate  and intolerance creates between communities.  Comparison of Albuquerque with other cities in our dealings with religious and racial intolerance. Has symposiums for teachers and a traveling exhibit. 
Length: 45 minutes to 1.5 hrs, depending on the audience

Cindi Heffner, Albuquerque Arts Alliance, Heritage Counci: Hawaiian Culture
Phone: (505) 268-1920. To book Cindi Heffnner and other cultural presenters, contact the Albuquerque Arts Alliance
Audience: General
Topic/Notes: A Tell Story through dance.
Length: 30 - 45 minutes

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Irish-American Society of New Mexico: Irish-American History
Contact:  Norita Kallahan
Phone: (505) 298-2708
Audience: General
Topic/Notes: Speakers available after their September board meeting. River Dancers and musicians also available.
Length: 30-45 minutes  

David Jackson:  Chautauqua Presentation (Humanities Council)
Phone: (505) 299-2430. To book David Jackson and other Chautauquas, contact the New Mexico Humanities Council 
Audience: General
Topic/Notes: Mr. Jackson does a Historical presentation on Kit Carson in Character and answers questions as Kit Carson.  For the second half of his presentation he comes out of character and answers questions as himself on how he researched his topic matter. Additional topic: The History of Clyde Tingley, who lead the state through the great depression and was a personal friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Length: 30-45 minutes

The Honorable Judge Tommy Jewell: History of Juvenile Justice in Albuquerque and Juvenile Detention Reform Legislation
Contact: Tommy Jewell
Phone: (505)841-7392
Topic/Notes: Judge Jewel, Children's Court Judge, Division III, is a life long resident of Albuquerque. A graduate of New Mexico State and of UNM law schoo, he became a Metropolitan Judge in 1984.
Length: approximately 60 minutes.

Larry Lopez: Sandia/ Los Alamos Connection to Albuquerque
Phone:  (505) 265-3296
Audience: General
Topic/Notes: Needs one to two months notice
Length: 45 minutes with time for questions and answers

Dr. Lenton Malry: New Mexico Education-1950’s until the present
Phone: (505) 268-6344
Audience: General
Topic/Notes: Discrimination within the Albuquerque Public Schools that led to African Americans teaching on reservations and how he progressed through the system to become the first African American Principal.  Political climate of this era and his journey to become the first African American Legislator for New Mexico. 
Length: approximately 45 minutes

Robert  Matteucci: Retailing in downtown Albuquerque during the 1950’s
Phone:  (505) 268-8678 
Audience: Middle School, High School, Senior groups, Neighborhood Associations, General Public.
Length: approximately 45 minutes with time for questions and answers

Van Ann Moore: "Katherine and Carrie: Jewels of the Southwest" and "A Journey of the Heart" A Southern Belle in the Old West, Mary (Mamie) Bier Bernard Aguirre
Phone: (505) 864-2038
Audience: General
Topic/Notes: One Woman Music - Theatre. To book Van Ann Moore and other Chautauquas, contact the New Mexico Humanities Council
Length: 30-45 minutes

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Michiko Pierce, Japanese Shigin Club: History of Shigin Poetry
Phone: (505) 831-9573
Audience:  Middle/HighSchool and General Audience
Topic/Notes: Punctuated with poetry and song, details how this centuries old tradition has been established in Albuquerque.
Length: 30 - 45 minutes

Joe Powdrell: Sports and Athletics in Albuquerque from Statehood to Present. 
Phone: (505) 346-8086
Audience: General
Topic/Notes: 91-year history of the NAACP in Albuquerque and some of its memorable battles against housing and lodging discrimination, job discrimination and its current struggles in Albuquerque and the state. History on the establishment of Mr. Powdrell’s Barbeque and how the migration of the Powdrell family to Albuquerque in the early 50’s coincides with the reasons many families migrated to Albuquerque during this time period. 
Length: approximately 45 minutes

Georgia W.  Ramey: History of Lovelace Clinic
Phone:  (505) 822-0579
Audience: Senior centers and service groups.
Topic/Notes: The Lovelace Clinic from its inception to the present, stressing her personal affiliation from the middle 50’s to the 90’s.  Pictorial history book could be copied and distributed.
Length: 30 - 45 minutes

Joseph Sabatini, Branch Manager, Special Collections Library
Phone:  (505) 877-5170
Audience:  Middle/High School and General Public
Topic/Notes: History of the Albuquerque Public Library and the development of public education, Erna Fergusson and her relatives, Ernie Pyle and the Ernie Pyle Library, and short presentation on Fred Simms, a Black entrepreneur of the late 19th Century.
Length: 30 - 45 minutes

Ruben Salaz: New Mexico History and Culture
Phone: (505) 839-4849
Audience:   All age groups
Topic/Notes: Slide/Lecture presentations (with music) with focus on Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
Length: 30 - 45 minutes       

Mahassen Shukry:  Arab History in Albuquerque from late 1800's.
Phone: (505) 830-0088
Audience: General
Topic/Notes:  Arab contributions to Albuquerque, cultural celebrations, and sociological reasons why  people from 22 differing Arab countries call Albuquerque their home.
Length: 30 - 45 minutes

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Carmie Toulouse, archaeologist: Albuquerque: Early Settlement Period
Phone: (505) 266-0881
Audience:  Public Schools to Special Interest groups
Topic/Notes: Ms. Toulouse is a native New Mexican and archaeologist. Her grandfather, Joseph Toulouse, was a historian and one of the writers of the New Mexico State Constitution. Her father James Toulouse was a historian and local attorney.
Length: approximately 20 minutes, informal

Professor Spencer Wilson: The Coming of the Railroad to Albuquerque.
Phone: (505) 265-7695
Audience: General
Topic/Notes: The influence of the railroad.  (More information to follow)
Length: 30 - 45 minutes

Additonal Resources

Albuquerque Arts Alliance

Albuquerque Historical Society

Historical Society of New Mexico
Speakers are experts on many aspects of New Mexico, from the Spanish colonial era, Pueblo life, Territorial times and through to the creation of the Trinity site.

New Mexico Humanities Council

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