Celia Sarabia Hightower, Class of 1972, Community Leader
Celia Sarabia Hightower was a native Tucsonan and a first generation American; her father’s lineage being Spanish and her mother’s being Mexican. Her sister states that with both parents working full time, Celia took on the role as surrogate mother to her siblings. Because she was such an exemplary student, she motivated them to be disciplined in their studies,…
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Jim Ferguson, Class of 1971, Educator & Coach
Jim Ferguson, Jr., has distinguished himself as both an excellent basketball player as well as an excellent coach. In fact, he is the only person who played both on a 4A/5A Arizona State championship team (Sahuaro High School, 1970) and coached an Arizona state championship team (Santa Rita High School, 1999 and 2010). Jim was born in Chicago and…
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Ben Crawford, Class of 2000, Actor, Singer, Broadway Star
Ben Crawford graduated from Sahuaro in 2000. Ben was very involved with drama, choir and athletics while at Sahuaro. He was the lead in the musicals, Anything Goes and brought down the house as Tevya in Fiddler on the Roof. Ben was also a member of Dr. Ashcraft’s performing choir and a member of the…
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