Events — Zonnie Gorman

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Feb
5
7:30 PM19:30

Growing Up With Heroes: A Daughter's Journey with the Navajo Code Talkers

This is a touching and riveting multi-media story about the original famous Navajo Code Talkers. This very first group – the First Twenty-nine – was the pilot project in 1942 who created the first Navajo code. 

As a recognized historian and the daughter of the oldest Navajo Code Talker, Carl Gorman, Zonnie Gorman expertly weaves her personal connection and intimate knowledge with thirty years of archival research and collected first account stories.

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Oct
19
7:00 PM19:00

Culture, Art, & War: Carl Gorman & the First Twenty-Nine Navajo Code Talkers

Zonnie will be the Keynote Speaker for the 81st Annual International Conference for The Association for Business Communication.

Zonnie Gorman, Carl's youngest daughter and a noted historian on the Navajo Code Talkers will share how the Navajo Code Talker program began with twenty-nine Navajo men, including her father, in the spring of 1942 and how Carl, following the war, emerged as an advocate for cultural understanding and dialogue through art and teaching.  

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