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Jim Tallmadge gives his current chess team a look while at a dedication ceremony for the new multipurpose room, named Tallmadge Hall, at Sam Hughes Elementary School on Saturday. Tallmadge taught for 35 years at Sam Hughes before retiring in 2003. He still does things around the school, including running the chess team. The multipurpose room was dedicated along with a new library and kitchen during the celebration of the school's 80 years. The project cost some $2 million through state funds and bonds, said Lori Stratton, past PTA president. "It's certainly a source of pride," she said of the renovations.
dean knuth / arizona daily star
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Tucson Region

Photos: Happy day at Hughes School

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 10.07.2007
DID YOU KNOW …
Sam Hughes Elementary School and its neighborhood just east of the University of Arizona are named for "a hemorrhaging tubercular who came to the desert to die in 1858. That, as it turned out, wouldn't happen for another 59 years," as Star columnist Bonnie Henry has written.
In the meantime, Hughes married a member of a prominent local family, Atanacia Santa Cruz, at San Xavier Mission in 1862 (when she was not yet 12), went on to sire 15 children "and to take up page after page in just about every history ever written about this burg," Henry added.
Hughes was a pioneer Tucsonan, sheriff, alderman, Pima County treasurer, and one of those who worked to establish Tucson's first public schools. "My hobby was to make a town," was his oft-quoted remark.
"Atanacia, too, was no slouch in the history department," as Henry has written. "Born at a time when Tucson was still a Mexican garrison, Atanacia witnessed the raising of the first American flag in town, as well as the arrival of the Overland Stage."
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