Menaul School - Sandstorm Yearbook (Albuquerque, NM)

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The SANDSTORM Dan Cordora the last to enter rnto the Land of Enlrghtenment rn V932 come from the frrgrd regron of Raton New Vlexrco He has had the pleasure of representrng Nlenaul rn rts three nrajor sports and ha had the honor of berng one of the class hr torrans If desrres dexelop as planned he wrll admrnrster medical ard rn some Spanrsh peaking held ln the same year the frrst grrl proneers to jorn our class at the Allison ame Nchool were Beronrz YVIHTIIHC7 Estefana Martrnez and Adonarsa Ortega Beronrz 'Nlartrnez emerged from the jungles of Chrmayo rn an oxcart and after a month trayel arrrred at the Alhson Today she can malte the trrp rn forty fue mrnutes rf the rarn hasnt washed out the road and her car holds together long enough She wrll go back to her people and be of some help to her communrty E tefana 'Vlartrnerz halls from the mysterrous Black Lake of New Nlexrco where dor, run loose and traxel by day and cats turn out to howl by nrglrt Now she ha come to 'Vlenaul and howls the year around hhe has chosen to be a telephone operator rn New Horlc Adonarsa Ortega rs another denrzen of th backwoods of Qhrmayo ble ha a lrlunv for sports boxrng berng her specralty She rs also a member of the semor grrl quartet and of the MGAA Her ambrtron rs to see apan before settlrng down In l933 Mr Schans was unloadrng a truck load of baggage and from some where among the trunks jumped rmmre Prrce and Andv Pacheco attrred rn balloon pants and lookrng for a reputatron rmmre rs the other half of the Prrces He has changed localrtres so often that we cant youch for hrs present surroundrngs lest he swrtch to a drfferent envrronmen where the currous glances of the Publrc Gaze cant reach hrm Thrs rs one reason why he rs plannrng on a career as a forest ranger Roy and rm are both afflrcted wrth exces ne longrtudrnal ty whrch makes rt necessary for them to strclc therr feet out the wrndow and rnto the adjacent atmosphere when rn a recumbent posrtron Andy Pacheco came all the wav from Carcra Colorado He has earned part of hrs reputatron on the crnder track and by playrng polrceman roles rn plays What repu tatron he now lacks wrll come eventually for hrs serrrces as a forest ranger wrll no doubt wrn commendatron ln l934 the Board felt that no educatron was complete wrthout educatrng the tronger and wealter sexes srd by srde Nlenaul became r senror hrgh school and the Xllr on ames a junror hrgh Three brunettes decrded to talce a chance on thrs scheme and rt must have worked too well for they re strll here They are Kate Lowato Oralra Rojas and Elvrra Vrgrl Kate comes to us from th tough crty of Penasco New Mexrco where she learned to use the dash to her advantage when punctuatrng Incorrect s ntences She has taken a great Interest rn sports and musrc but her greatest rnterest hes rn some people attend rng the unrrersrty Her ambrtron rs to be a dress clesrgner Oralra Rojas left Mramr Arrzona wrth tears streaming clown her cheeks because he thought that New Mexrco was rn some part of the world other than the United States but now she has come to be the jollrest and laughrngest person on the campus Her Ideal husband r her colored frrend rn Arrzona and her future ambrtron rs medrcrne IJ age m ze A V 4 a 5-J l 9 3 9 j . I5 ' , L ' e . 2 , Vr V . L ' 'e . . ' 5 'e s - s- Q . , . . . . ,J Q , - .. . s ., . ,, - , . - . . . S . . .,,, I. , . . , 'fs' e ' '. . ' ' ' ' . ' s 1 4 v - - N . A I Y nk. 1. n. Q ' A . e ' : ' . r 's 1, . e, A .. , e s - , - - , . M L J ' . r . . , . . . 6 , . r s ,, ' 7 ' . ' , . ' ' H, e - . s' ' ' 1' '- . z. ' Q A s -J s . . . 0 . 'N . .. ., . . n . u - ' , , . S . . , .. K s , , .

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Ihc bANDSTORM Hzstor o the Classo IQ3Q Rll 'NDN Roman and Lountryrnen lend me your ears Lrsten O yt men and women youths and mardens' lrsten that the e humble words may establrh rn your mrnds the true orrgrn of a great lrrstorrcal ewnt and deprct a few of the great accomplrshment of the early maker of hr torv that by therr example ye may also learn the yrrtue of the great In fall of the year of our Lord tanno domrnrl nrneteen hundred thrrty one rn the nrnth month and on the rxth day of the month the earth drd quake untll rt seemed a rf the phere were rent rn tw arn and the un drd stop and a terrible wrnd drd low o that all creatures of rlrt earth drd tremble lr class of I939 had begun to make lrr tory bandoxal New Xlexrco the land of mrlk and honey vrelded rts rncrease and the hrt shrpment of raw materral ent to he rehned was Albino Lopez Fate had hrm go down rn hrstory as rlrc foundatron of the great 'lower of VVrsdom hnrshed rn 1939 He belreyes that the rarlroad fngrneerrng department needs hrm to test the new stream lrned trarns therefore he has chosen thrs work as hrs career The fall of l932 brought to the campus srx ambrtrous httle urchrns looking quite usprcrous who gaye then names as lohn Baca hloy Manzanares Ernest Greene Lsustaxo Moya Roy Prrce and Dan Cordoya ohn Baca sard hrs address was Raton New Mexrco but to the present no one ha belreved hrm srnce hrs folks lrye at Pecos New lVlexrco He has been our class presrdent throughout our hrgh school term and plans to take up the legal professron after whreh he y rll become presrdent of the Unrted States on a leyel equal to that of Lrncoln whom he may surpass rn a few respects Eloy Manzanares from Carcra Colorado who clarms krnshrp wrth such as the Alamosa Flash and the Alamosa Tornado can yerrfy thrs statement by hrs per formance on the basketball court when not afHrcted wrth old age and rheumatrsm and wrll soon yerrfv rt from the standpornt of an arr prlot on Uncle Sam s force He ha had a hr h scholastrc record eyen though he comes from Colorado Ernest Greene drrfted rnto hlenaul from Gallup New Mexico He does not belreve rn exolutron but through the slow process of thus monkey business he ha devel oped rnto a football and track star He has been studyrng scrence to see rf he cant hn a way to hasten thrs proces a lrttle but o as to transform hrmself rnto a yaluabe law ofhcral Custayo Moya r another by product from the mrnes rn and around Grants New 'Vlexrco He lrke hr brother r a good yocalrst and when he starts to srng the brrd listen to hrm and the fhes crowd all around hrm He may be named among the great athletes of lVlenaul and hopes the fame he has made for hrmself wrll get a coachrng po rtron as successor to Rockne Roy Prrce the frrst half of the Prrces strolled onto the campus after school lr rd been gorng on for about two weeks ln tryrng to rmproxe hrs hat rack he took ur woodworkrng and now after makrng a few attractions he has adyanced to the pornt of wantrng a woodshop of hrs own to mend hrs famrly s arlments , . ., , A I 9 3 9 . K' K' 7.1 ,, s, f Y . ' . . , ', , . .. -- . s . y t s s A ' A -s s A . ' ' ' . . . 5 . i s ' y' , - s s A ' A A , s , b ' s ' ' : A A A , Nt e , . ' s 1 7 Y ' A 1, 1 Y 'vs V 1 V t, .7 .h - V ' - . , . ' . , ' .' . ' . . - ., , . s . A ' s A 5, f Y f - - Y y J . . V Y V. h N . . s , - ' , ' . A ' . l A U H- v . . V . , , ' . Y . . . . ' . , ' ' ' ,' . . . L. . . L L ' ' A A A . s 0 . . , . g . I I. . X V . , , . ' . A . ' - . ' , s ' - d ' ' .A 3 A As s s . A Q A 4 A 't l ' ' s ' y'- A Ac . A A -, ' r ' . , ' s A A, s ' . , ' A. A s s - , . , , ' .' , . . 3' V , use ug rl

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The SANIDSTORM Elura X rgrl rs another member from the sun baked yrllage of Clrrmayo She too rs a great athlete Her frame makes one quarter of the senror grrls quartet but her vorce r brg enough to drown half a dozen quartet srngrng full force She thmks that Menaul ought to furnrsh soap for the senrors She ha decrded to make her lrvrng operatrng a beauty parlor rn Chrmayo ln the same year Lazaro Estrada was captured and domestrcated at the Allrson He clarms that two or three of hrs ancestors at lVlenaul haye made places for themselves rn the Trementrna Hall of Fame He says that he too wrll be among the rmmortals after he has gone to college to study agrrculture Th followrng year IQ35 brought a flock of stupefred and unrefrned young rascals rnto our class Thev were Elras Valdez oe Martinez Lee Garcra lVlerlrnda 'Vlartrnez Leo Esprnar Felrprta lVlartrnez Vences Vrgrl Phrll Truyrllo Ruben Man zanares Vences lVlartrnez Ernest Sandoval Alfonso Naldez and uan Atencro Elras Valdez rs one of those earthv creatures from the sorl of Holman New 'Vlexrco It had been hrs hope that lVlenaul would establrsh a matrrmonral bureau before he left but hrs hope has not nraterralrzed as yet Hrs chrldren may be among the frrst to make use of thrs bureau Elras rs armrng at the medrcal professron unless war breaks out and he has to arm at the Germans oe Martrnez and Lee Garcra come from uesta New Mexrco the place where the brarn rs fertrlrzed bv the atmosphere where wrsdom grows on trees and the populace eats the frurts thereof oe and not Lee was chosen as our valedrctorran for fear that Lee mrght burn what little there rs of hrm wrth hrs blushrng Both of these talented young men are gorng to be crvrl engrneers some day Merlrnda dropped rn from the Land of Sweetness Mora She rs very hrstorrcally mrnded and spends her lersure moments wrtl lVlrss Hart about her hrstory lessons She rs also a great actor hayrng taken part rn the Spanrsh play and our class plays However she would rather haye a busrness career than one on the stage or screen Holman New lVlexrco clarms she rs Leo Espmar s natrve land but he doesnt dress the part All the other rogues around here from Holman do not possess hrs herkrsh rnchnatrons One queer thrng about hrm rs that he and a member of the farrer sex always manage to be seen rn the same place at the same trme He does not seem to be satrsfred wrth prcturesque New Mexrco because he wants to jorn the nayy and ee the world Felrprta Martrnez from the suburbs of the crty of Drxon New Mexrco may be recognrzed by her hard work gentle manners and neatness rn dress She has shown a great rnterest rn relrgrous actrwrtres Ernest Sandoval clarms part of Holman New Mexrco as hrs herrtage He rs one of those fellows whose ambrtron rs only equaled by hrs appetrte Hrs ambrtron was to do somethrng rn football and the menus helped hrm get a guard posrtron on the all crty team Hrs paramount object rs to become a curl engrneer The only thrngs lackrng are trarnrng abrlrty brrllrance of mrnd rmagrnatron reasonrng power etc Alfonso Valdez has become so Interested rn 'Vlr Prescott and hr shop that he r determrned to burld one lrke rt rn Drxon New lVlexrco and run the blacksmrths and mechanrcs around there out of busrness Alfonso has had some delrtescent hrgh yumprng abrlrty and thrs year he has surprrsed eyen hrmself by hrs powers Page 'en r l A SE-J l 9 3 9 l , r L - , ,u , ' . . - . . , 's ' s. ' . . - , ' -. s , , , , L e . V v I y v ' 9 9 V . .J , , A I 5 ! ! 9 - , , J . , , - , - l . ' , . . rl Q , ' . , , .J , . V . .. . V I a 4- Y A ' .Y . . . . . . , . . - L . S . , . . K . v. . Y . V .. V 5 . .. H' , ' , d' ' , . ' . L V , ., - . s , , . . , - ,Q 'I U 1 , V ' - . . - . '. . s. :- . ' Y t V I v U v . Y .