Rio Grande High School - Po Ye Da Yearbook (Albuquerque, NM)

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Los Historianos . . . The club was organized in December of 1962. Mrs. Hinton is the sponsor of Los Historianos. The club members work in the Old Town Museum on Sundays. Los Historianos is the only Junior Historical Society in New Mexico. We have taken field trips to various other museums in the state. Waiting for the train to come in are Left to Right Susan Kesler, Vice-Presidentp and Corina Lucero. Enioying the Fred Harvey cuisine are Left to Right Shedra Gambrel, Presidentp and Bonnie Reynolds E4i55Zlfs Norma Ratzlow, Fred McDougal, Parliamentarian, l59

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Debate Club embers Work Hard FIRST ROW: Kirk Aleck, John Conlon, Annie Ternest, and Dee Ann Wilson. STANDING: John MacCord, Linda Bachicha, Mr. Sedillo Csponsorj, Tommy Morales, and Lawrence Candelaria. The art of formal debate is hard to master. The members of Debate Club sacrifice their time to practice after school, and to do research work on debate topics. Debaters must learn to reason and speak spontaneously on various dif- ficult topics. lt is, perhaps, one of the most difficult activities carried on at Rio. At the beginning of the year only four students were in Debate Club. By the second six-weeks eight students were preparing for competition with debate teams from other schools. Rio's teams ltwo people on each teamj, have'made a very good record. At the beginning of the year only four students were in the Debate Club. They are shown here with sponsor, Mr. Sedillo. Left to Right: Kirk Aleck, John Conlon, Annie Ternest, Dee Ann Wilson Dee Ann Wilson was placed in the final rounds at the N. Mex. State Uni- versity in the division of oral interpretation. At the city-wide tour- nament in November, Kirk Aleck and John Con- lon together won three rounds and lost one. isa

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STANDING, Left to Right: Juanita Torres, Ray Salazar, John Luian, Marilyn Gleasonp Randy Self, Parliamentarian, Dierdre Shaw, Dorothy Woodward: Joe Baker, Doris lovato, Treasurer, Julie Trechel, Tamara Wright, Donna Walden, Vice-President, Jane Stanleyy Janet Hall Becky Burcio, Anne Sanchez, Historian, Linda Thompson, Dede Padilla, Secretary. SITTING: Sharon Bunten, President. Sponsor Eleanor Herrera I60 Future Teachers Acquire Knowledge The FTA Club seeks to enable its members to study and to identify the qualities, traits, and aptitudes which are basic or related to successful teaching, to acquire an understanding of the history and development of our public schools, their purposes and obiectives, and an appreciation of the contributions they have made to our democratic, free society, to secure accurate in- formation on vocational opportunities in education, and the special competences required to aid in self-evalua- tion, to participate in pre-vocational activities which are both exploratory and developmental in nature.