Edgar Goyette was the man who made things happen when leadership was badly needed, and he deserves a paragraph to himself An adopted Tucsonan, he arrived from Los Angeles in 1911 at the age of eighteen and enrolled in the University of Arizona.

Note: Ed Goyette, Arthur Brewer. Charlie Beach and Al Condron all went to Los Angles High School (class of 1911) together. Goyette and Brewer told Condron and Beach "Tucson was the place to be". The rest is history.

 

His talents as a leader were recognized early. He was elected the first president of the student body in 1913. As the years went by, he became more and more deeply involved in welfare work and was ready for a top job when
the Depression arrived. A calm, friendly, efficient, industrious man, he probably had more friends and fewer critics than any other leader in Tucson’s history. He administered the government programs from 1929 on, resigning from the Welfare Board in 1937, though he continued to act for some time as secretary. From 1940 to 1960 he was secretary-manager of the Tucson Chamber of Commerce, and when it was time to step down from that strenuous job, he went to work as publicity man for the Pioneer Hotel. He was the kind of man whom everybody relies on and takes for granted. The Advertising Club named him Man of the Year in 1958 for his work in bringing the Kitt Peak Observatory to Tucson; the city

gave him a testimonial dinner in 1974, just before his death at the age of eighty-two; and the city planners named a street for him on the north side. These were small returns for his years of service, but he would have asked no more. Only the old-timers remember him now; nevertheless he left his mark on the city.