Susan Ann Harter
18 Nov 1933 - 18 Jan 1993
diedPhoenix, Arizona, USA
bornTempe, Arizona, USA
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BiographyElementary school teacher and college instructor.She was a fourth-generation Tempean and historic preservation activist in Tempe. She lived in the Niels Petersen House on Southern and
Priest as a teenager.
Attended Payne Training School and Tempe High School, and went to Colorado College in Colorado Springs on a Scholastic Art scholarship. Received a B.A. degree from Arizona State College in 1954. Earned a M.A. in Art from Claremont College, in California.
Her professional experience included teaching in France, Spain, and Japan; in the Roosevelt School District in Phoenix; Hermosa Beach, California; Arizona State University English Department;
at the Kingman, Tempe, and Kyrene Elementary districts; ASU College of Architecture and Environmental Design; and Mesa Community College English Department.
She was an accomplished painter.
She was instrumental in promoting the preservation of historic buildings in Tempe in the 1980s. She moved and restored the Sampson/Tupper/
Van Horn house, one of the oldest brick residences in Tempe. She also helped create some of the first neighborhood associations in Tempe, and was a member of the Riverside Neighborhood
Association.
Charter member of the University Club at ASU.
Died of pneumonia at age 59.
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