December 2006 Archives

Check out the new Handbooksoption that you'll see in the navigation section for. Follow the link to view illustrated guides that step students and other visitors through using Through Our Parents' Eyes. It will be a valuable resource to new visitors and to students using Through Our Parents' Eyes for schoolwork. The guides provide a project overview, explain how to find information contained in the nearly 1,500 discrete HTML pages, and review some of technical specs you may need to know, such as viewing our videos.

If you live in Tucson, or did any amount of time, you have likely seen
Dr. James S. "Big Jim" Griffith's By the Side of the Road segments on KUAT's Arizona Illustrated . Normally shown in the last five minutes of Arizona Illustrated's Monday program, Big Jim explains a Southern Arizona tradition.

For holidays, we invite you to watch Big Jim tell us about a Southern Arizona holiday tradition -- La Posadas. [Real video 3:17]

Pearl Harbor Memorial
[image courtesy Stuart Glogoff]

December 7th is Pearl Harbor Day. The University of Arizona is honored to have one of the ship's bells in the Student Union. In addition, pictures and artifacts of the USS Arizona are displayed in the Student Union's USS Arizona Memorial Lounge. The UA Library's Special Collections houses many artifacts donated by USS Arizona survivors and their families. Remember Pearl Harbor by visiting the UA Library's USS Arizona -- "that terrible day"