Las Vegas High School - Roundup Yearbook (Las Vegas, NM)

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Organization of the senior class was noteworthy, the following officers being in charge: Nash Garcia, president, Robert Fellabaum, vice president, Bernice Ewing, secretary, and Betty Phillips, treasurer. It must also be noted that the senior class produced many lettermen in football, basketball, track, baseball and tennis. The class chose as its motto, Forward ever, backward never, its flower, the red rose, and its colors were turquoise on silver. At the expiration of the four years, the principal, who was now Mr. William C. Hurt, expressed himself as greatly pleased with the additions to his country and pronounced them all highly eligible for admission as citizens. By way of appropriate celebration, a strange ceremony, known as commencement, was held. Speeches were made, songs were sung, and scrolls called diplomas were given to the seniors. It has been suggested by our best friends and severest critics that the form of this history is ambiguous, if not misleading. They say it should have been written the way it really happened, the pupils discovered the school, explored its vast resources, and settled there for four years of hard work, after which they moved on to greater things. But we say it is our history and we wrote it to suit ourselves.

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They were permitted to form an organization of their own, and elected t ffieers, all of who ' t ' uties well: as resid elected - leta vice presiden Carmen Gutierrez KSecretary,63eartice Gutierre ' and treasurer, -3, Y A, , new ' X T y aes. ' The freshmen became interested in strange new exercises called basketball, and football, also track and tennis, and attained a slight degree of prowess in each. They suffered much agony and despair during this period because of the social functions which they were required to attend to acquire poise and dignity. The male freshmen in particular found the dances torture, but the females enjoyed them greatly. In time, however, these functions became festive occasions for all. At the end of the year, a terrible disaster befell the freshmen. Many had their growth retarded a year by it and a few, permanently disabled, left the freshman class forever. This disaster was called ufinal exams, and ranks as one of the worst mas- sacres of all time. With the coming of the next September, they received a new name. Because of their skill in acquiring the customs of the school, they were renamed Sophomores, and the process was called by the native name upromotionf' The routine of the classroom was now familiar and they found studying easier than before. The talents discovered the previous year were developing rapidly, and the ex- ploring teachers found much to please them, but also much to astonish them. Rushing forward into the' vastnesses of the Sophomore mind, they found strange things. During this Sophomore year, a political party came into existence within the class organization. The .name given this new party was The Progressive Party. It was very successful, for all. of its candidates were elected to office. They were: Nash Garcia, president, Nancy Browning, vice president, Jeanette Montgomery, secretary, and Toby Maes, treasurer. In the third year, owing to an old educational custom, the sophomores became juniors, and promotion made their sense of importance increase out of all due propor- tion. Great, indeed, was their scorn for freshmen and sophomores. The Progressive Party again showed its strength, all its candidates were elected to office. They were: Nash Garcia, president, 'Nancy Browning, vice president, Jeanette Montgomery, secretary, and Leroy Newman, treasurer. ' And now we come to the fourth and greatest year in the history of the class. They became seniors in September. With the gaining of this title, they began to take them- selves more seriously than ever before. As the year drew to a close, they were positively dizzy with dignity. All this was looked upon with friendly amusement by the teacher-explorers, who regarded the result of their four years of hard labor with rightful pride. They had converted a band of ignorant, untamed, aborigines into intelligent, courteous citizens of their school, and had lost only the usual number in the process.

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, .T . if . W, . 211, V ,I , nil ' in of I 7 :7 Q P 4 WV First row: Frank Padilla, Jimmy Contine, Larry Warner, Fred Gallegos. Second row: Alfred Harence, Charles Vigil, Bennie Ortega, Bessie Madrid, Lavinia Ortega, Ann Butterfield, Mary Louise Garcia, Mary Lou Padilla, Juliette Rudolph, Beatrice Baca, Delfinio, Toby Lena. Third row: Frankie Tafoya, Ardell Cariett, Carolyn Hale, Corina Segura, Opal Cariett, Delia Martinez, Judy Sister, Shirly Masier, Floraida Trujillo, Erniteria Archuleta, Paula Frank, Lilly Lopez, Don Pointer, Ernest Cake, Ralph Mar- tinez, Terry McLaughlin, Bennie Genzales, Miss Caravasos. Back row: Wanda Lee Gifford, Yvonne Maloof, Billie Sue Wooster, Stella Trujillo, Mrs. A. Shaffer, Frances Guerin, Ruby Non Baker, Louree Sperry, Helen Rirz, Vic- toria Sandoval, Louise Hicks, Mary Ann Esquibel, Ann Sweeney, Hazel Johnson. Middle row: Danny Miller, Larry Butterfield, Sam Alirez, Tony Cordova, Pablo Marrujo, Jim Luj an, John Harbough, Russell Davison, Jesse Plotner, Bobby Chandler. Front row: Jesus Garcia, Ernest Medina, Fred Cordova, Pablo Flores, Wilburn Van- zant.