FRIDAY, September 1, 2000

3:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.		Registration Tables - Doubletree Hotel 1) Sign-in 2) Name Tag 3) Cup(s) & Shirts/Tubac Buffet Ticket previously ordered 4) Family Tree 5) José Maria Sosa 6) Sign-up for Saturday's 1:30 PM walking tour 7) Your child's coloring book if he or she is registered for the banquet dinner on Saturday.
6:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.		Reception in the Bonsai/Boojum Rooms, Doubletree Hotel Mariachi "Tierra del Sol" from "Viva Arizona". ENJOY

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, September 1 & 2, 2000

10:00 AM. - 4:00 P.M.

OPEN HOUSE Sosa-Carrillo-Fremont House Museum Family Pictures and Family Articles will be on exhibit for your perusal. (Courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society) Models of the "Presidio de San Agustin de Tucson" and "Downtown Tucson with a future representation of a replication of the Presidio".

SATURDAY, September 2, 2000

9:00 AM. - 11:00 A.M.		Leo Rich Theater (The Leo Rich is situated behind the Sosa-Carrillo-Fremont House Museum) From the Doubletree Hotel: Right Turn on Alvernon (North), Left Turn on Broadway (West) for approximately 4 miles. Broadway turns into Congress by the Greyhound Depot, so stay on left lane on Congress for a Left Turn on Granada. (Granada is the 2nd Light past Stone Avenue). Turn Left on Granada and the nest Left into the Sosa-Carrillo-Fremont House Parking Lot. 1) Welcome by Juan Bautista de Anza (The Son)/Introductions/Reading of Proclamation by Mr. Luis Gutierrez 2) Lily Fremont (Who lived next door to Michael & Manuela MdKenna) 3) Tucson High Folklorico Dance Group and Los Changuitos Feos Mariachi 4) Lily Fremont - Presentation of Gift Package to Children 5) "Soza Family History" - Mr. Stuart Glogoff 6) Recognition of attending Senior Citizens by Edward Soza 7) On exiting the Leo Rich, don't forget to pick-up your copy of the "Soza Family Reunion 2000 Proclamation."
12:00 AM. - 1:00 P.M.		Mass Celebration - The Most Reverend Manuel D. Moreno, Bishop of the Tucson Diocese; Homilist - Reverend Charles W. Polzer, S.J. Where: St. Agustine Cathedral (Across the street from the Leo Rich Theater)
1:30 P.M. - 2:20? PM		Tour of the Old Pueblo and Presidio de San Agustiin de Tucson. Start at the Sosa-Carrillo-Fremont House Museum and end at Old Town Artisans, approximately 45 minutes. (MUST HAVE SIGNED-UP ON FRIDAY EVENING AT THE RECEPTION) If you mention you are with the "Soza Family Reunion" you will receive a 15% discount at "La Cocina" at Old Town Artisans Marketplace.

SATURDAY, September 2, 2000

5:30 P.M. - 6:30 P.M.		No Host Reception - "Cielo de Mexico" Mariachis Grand Ballroom, Doubletree Hotel
6:30 P.M. - 11:00 P.M.		SOZA FAMILY REUNION 2000 BANQUET DINNER Dance after Dinner ending at 11:00 PM

CITY OF TUCSON OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, Colonel Hugo O'Conor, Commanding Inspector of the frontier forts of New Spain, established the site for the Presidio de San Agustin del Tucson within the present limits of this city on August 20, 1775; and

WHEREAS, Don José Maria Sosa was a member of the Royal Spanish Army at the Presidio de San Ignacio del Tubac and of the troops moved to the Presidio de San Agustin del Tucson; and

WHEREAS, on September 26, 1794, Don José Maria Sosa was promoted from sergeant, and was commissioned Alferez on September 26, 1794; and

WHEREAS, Alferez José Maria Sosa died in Tucson on April 2, 1800 and his widow Dona Rita Expinosa de Sosa died April 16th at Tubac, and was buried April 17, 1820 in the Tubac Church, next to the Holy Water Basin; and

WHEREAS, The Sosa Carrillo-Fremont House, the property originally owned by José Maria Sosa III, and where a Soza room has been dedicated in honor of Sosa and their descendants; and

WHEREAS, the City of Tucson is concurrently celebrating the 225th year of its founding on August 20, 1775; and

WHEREAS, members of the extended Sosa/Soza Family, have resided continuously in Tucson, and throughout the United States since the establishment of the Presidio de San Agustin del Tucson; and

WHEREAS, descendants of Alferez José Maria Sosa and Dona Rita Espinosa have convened for a reunion in Tucson, to celebrate the 225th anniversary of their ancestor's arrival in Tucson in 1775-1776,

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Robert E. Walkup, Mayor of the City of Tucson, Arizona, do hereby proclaim September 2, 2000,

SOZA FAMILY REUNION DAY

in this community, and encourage all of our citizens to join them in celebrating this joyous reunion.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have herunto set my hand and caused the seal of the City of Tucson to be affixed this 2nd day of September 2000.