Pacemaker Award
Collection
Albuquerque Public Schools
Date1965
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions7 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (19.1 × 24.2 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Albuquerque Public Schools
Object numberPA1997.046.682
DescriptionFrom left: Lois Edinger, David Smoker, and Jess Gorkin stand near a wooden podium with a microphone attached. Smoker holds a wooden plaque with the words, "The Pacemaker Award 1965 / Parade, the Sunday Newspaper Magazine and the National Education Association of the United States cite Del Norte High School Albuquerque as a Pacemaker leading the way to better [obscured by Smoker's hand] today's youth". Edinger wears a large hat with a shirt dress and stands behind Smoker, who is holding the plaque and looking toward Gorkin. An illustration painted onto decorative wallpaper on the wall in the background. A typed caption attached to the back of the photograph from the National Education Association reads, "From left to right, Lois V. Edinger, Past President of the National Education Association (NEA), David Smoker, Director of Public Relations, Albuquerque Public Schools, and Jess Gorkin, Editor of Parade, the Sunday Newspaper Magazine. The Pacemaker Awards were sponsored by the NEA and Parade."On View
Not on view
ca. 1955
