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Trujillo helped open up TUSD
Teresa Trujillo, an original plaintiff in a desegregation lawsuit against Tucson Unified School District in the 1970s, died yesterday at age 70.
Mrs. Trujillo, whose health started deteriorating last year after she broke a thigh bone, died at a hospice, where she had been taken after being hospitalized at St. Mary’s Hospital.
She did much ”to eliminate the vestiges of discrimination across Tucson’s largest school district,” according to fellow lawsuit plaintiff Mary Mendoza.
”She opened the doors to 1010 (E. 10th St., TUSD headquarters),” Mendoza said. ”Back then you hardly ever saw parents coming in.
”Now you see them. Now you see more Hispanics and blacks in (TUSD) administrative positions. She opened the door for Hispanics and blacks to run for the school board.
”Children benefited by having their rights protected against any act or school policy based on race or ethnicity,” Mendoza said.
Mendoza and Mrs. Trujillo, along with Alberto Sanchez – all West Side parents in TUSD – filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in October 1974.
Mrs. Trujillo, who grew up in Tucson and went to West Side TUSD schools, had children at Menlo Park Elementary.
The suit charged discrimination against minority students and teachers. It called for sweeping changes in curricula and in hiring and promotion practices.
”The Anglos – they’re the ones with real political clout. Get their kids over here (to West Side schools) and changes will happen real fast,” Mrs. Trujillo said in a past interview.
Among the charges in the lawsuit:
• A majority of Mexican-American children continue to enter first grade and graduate from 12th grade, having attended inferior schools.
• Industrial and vocational education is emphasized at largely minority high schools, while college preparatory courses are encouraged at Anglo high schools.
• Minority high schools are inferior to those that have mostly Anglo students.
The lawsuit went to trial, and in 1978 U.S. District Judge William Frey order the district to implement a plan for desegregation.
Mrs. Trujillo was a proponent of phonics to teach children to read and an opponent of bilingual education, Mendoza said.
”When she saw girls dancing in folklórico groups, she’d say to me, ‘Mary, how beautiful they dance, but can they read and write?’ ”Mendoza recalled.
SERVICES
Services for Teresa Trujillo will be held Monday at St. Margaret’s Catholic Church, 801 N. Grande Ave. Viewing will be from 9 to 10:15 a.m., followed by a Mass at 10:30 a.m.
(Dated Mar 13, 1998)
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Services planned tomorrow for charity worker Harry Motzkin
Services for Harry M. Motzkin, who spent nearly a half-century working for Tucson charities, will be held tomorrow and Wednesday.
Mr. Motzkin, 77, died Saturday of a stroke.
”He was always doing something for somebody else,” said Bob Brauer, Mr. Motzkin’s friend for 27 years.
”As soon as he’d get done with one event, he’d go on to another. He was always working hard and working together with others to help people in the community,” Brauer said.
For 48 years, Mr. Motzkin played Santa Claus during charity events, special projects and to cheer up hospital patients.
He had to give up the role when his health no longer permitted it.
Mr. Motzkin worked more than 31 years as a member of the Old Pueblo Civitan Club of Tucson.
As past president of the Civitan Club, Mr. Motzkin volunteered to help the handicapped through Special Olympics and the Civitan/City of Tucson Special Population Dance.
He also worked on fund-raisers such as Dog Track Night, the Fourth Avenue Street Fair Project, Charities Night and most recently the ”For the Children” dinner, helping to raise more than $850,000.
He held the highest Civitan award, the President’s Honor Key.
He spent 25 years as administrator of cemeteries throughout the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson.
Mr. Motzkin was a member of the St. Ambrose Catholic Church and Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church.
He held various state officer positions with the Knights of Columbus, including Past-Grand Knight. As part of the Knights of Columbus, Mr. Motzkin was on a team that developed St. Joseph’s Youth Camp at Mormon Lake, Flagstaff, for underprivileged children.
He also was instrumental in starting the Bishop’s Charity and Development Fund Drive to benefit Catholic charities in southern Arizona.
For health reasons, he moved to Tucson from Massachusetts in 1947.
Before going to work for the diocese in 1963, he was a produce manager and food distributor.
”This is a man who had very little formal education. He was a selfmade man, yet still very community minded,” Brauer said.
Mr. Motzkin is survived by his wife of 55 years, Mary R. Motzkin; eight children, Robert of Golden, Colo., and Edward, Gregory, Bryan, Michael, Charlene Carrillo, Mary Ann Keller and Belinda Brauer, all of Tucson; 28 grandchildren; and 26 great-grandchildren.
A celebration of life for Mr. Motzkin will be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church, 1800 S. Kolb Road.
A Mass will be celebrated at the church at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Burial will be at Holy Hope Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Julie Motzkin Cystic Fibrosis Memorial Fund in care of the Old Pueblo Civitan Foundation, P.O. Box 57249, Tucson, Ariz. 85732-7249.
(Dated Mar 16, 1998)
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Salvatierra did charity work here, abroad
Clara Roseboro Salvatierra, a native Tucsonan who traveled the world with her husband, U.S. Foreign Service Officer Richard Salvatierra, died yesterday.
Mrs. Salvatierra, known for doing charitable work for children nearly everywhere she visited, was 79.
Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at Santa Cruz Catholic Church, 1220 S. Sixth Ave. Mass will be said at 9 a.m.
Burial will follow at Holy Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum, 3555 N. Oracle Road.
Mrs. Salvatierra had traveled with her husband to more than 60 countries, both whilehe was in the foreign service, from 1946 to 1972, and through his retirement.
The couple had been married for 56 years and had five children – including two sets of twins.
Richard Salvatierra, now an international affairs columnist for the Tucson Citizen, said this morning that he met his wife the year the United States entered World War II.
”We met here in Tucson at a dance,” he recalled.
He said he had been dating another young woman at the time, and in fact had taken her to the dance. But he said it was love at first sight when he saw the future Mrs. Salvatierra.
They married a year later.
Mrs. Salvatierra was a graduate of Tucson High School and over the years took classes at the University of Arizona.
In 1940 she was named, the then-Spanish-American Rodeo Queen.
After her husband’s retirement, Mrs. Salvatierra spent some 20 years as a volunteer Spanish interpreter at University Medical Center, until suffering a stroke in May 1994.
Mrs. Salvatierra, with former high school classmates, also was a founding member of a local civic group, Club Recuerdo, the remembrance club, a social club that gave money to local charitable causes.
Mrs. Salvatierra also was a member of the Santa Cruz Church Restoration Committee, joining in efforts to restore the South Side church after it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1944.
While abroad with her husband before his retirement from the foreign service, Mrs. Salvatierra engaged in charitable work, such as working with underprivileged children in countries such as Mexico, Peru and Ecuador.
From 1954 to 1956, ”when we were in Mexico,” her husband recalled, ”she did volunteer work for a charity hospital.”
Elsewhere ”she became associated with women’s groups which did seek to help underprivileged children.”
”She always felt that our kids were relatively well off” compared to children in other parts of the world, he said.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Salvatierra is survived by sons Richard D. Salvatierra of Bethesda, Md., and George Salvatierra of Arlington, Va.; daughters Yolanda Hill of Scottsdale, Maria Cristina Lowe of Lake Forest, Ill., and Maria Elena Rodriguez of Phoenix; and brother Joseph Roseboro of Tucson.
(Dated Mar 17, 1998)
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Radio executive Lazarus supported community programs
A family remembrance will be held today for Frank Lazarus, a retired broadcasting president who formerly owned two local Spanish-language radio stations.
Mr. Lazarus, 67, died yesterday in his home after a lengthy illness.
He was president of Cactus Broadcasting and owned KXEWAM (1600) and KOHT-FM (98.3) before selling the stations recently.
In addition, Mr. Lazarus was a board member at the new University Heart Center.
He focused his attention on the heart center because heart disease afflicted his father, two brothers and three uncles, his wife said.
He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1952, served in the Navy and graduated from New York University’s Stern School of business in 1955.
When Lazarus retired from retail sales in Ohio in 1982, he and his wife moved to Tucson.
”Since attending the UA, he had always had a love affair with Tucson,” said Jessica Lazarus, a retired adjunct associate professor of retailing at UA.
Lazarus was born in Cincinnati on April 11, 1930.
He became vice president and general manager of the John Shillito Co. in Cincinnati, where he retired after 30 years.
The company was affiliated with Federated department stores. His uncle, Fred Lazarus Jr., was one of four founders of the company in 1929.
Frank Lazarus was a lifelong supporter and contributor to the Boys Scouts of America.
He was a member at large on the executive council of the Western Region Boy Scouts. He served two years as president on the Arizona and Nevada Council for Boy Scouts.
His father, Jeffery Lazarus, was on the national board of Boy Scouts and a member for 55 years.
In Tucson, Lazarus served on various national committees.
”Philanthropy was (his) way of life from childhood to adult,” his wife said.
He was a board member of the local Catalina Council and of the American Humanics.
Formed in 1948, American Humanics is a national organization that trains and educates college students for careers in youth-oriented fields such as the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and 4-H Club.
Today, American Humanics programs can be found on 50 college campuses with a chapter at Arizona State University, his wife said.
Mr. Lazarus also served on the board of AMITY, a local drug rehab program.
He is survived by his wife, Jessica; daughters Amy Marchioni, Tracey Worthington and Trudi DiTullio; and grandchildren Kevin and Adrienne Marchioni and Joseph, Thomas and Riley Worthington and Dylan DiTullio.
Friends may call at the family residence today from 5 to 7 p.m.
There will be a private interment at the United Jewish Cemetery on Ludlow Avenue in Cincinnati, followed by a private memorial service at Isac M. Wise Plumb Street Temple on Thursday.
Donations may be sent to the University of Arizona Heart Center or the UA Cancer Center, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., 85724, attention Brian Bateman.
(Dated Mar 24, 1998)
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