Menaul School - Sandstorm Yearbook (Albuquerque, NM)

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THE SANDSTORM Nmeteen Forty-three THE SCHOOL YEJXR l94Z I943 AT ALLISON jAME.S SCHOOL HIS YEAR THE SCHOOL has attempted to dovetail its program with the war effort in every way possible The school store has conducted several campaigns for war stamp selling among the children with the result that to date more than SIOO worth of these stamps have been sold The school has also par ticipated in the fat savings campaign by sending out government published leaflets to the families of the children represented on the campus and also by saving as much fat as possible on the campus itself More than a ton of scrap iron has been picked up around the campus while the tm cans coming from the school krtchen have been turned over to the bottling works in Santa Fe for making of caps for bottles Persistently throughout the year the student council has been working together with the staff in the Save Serve and Conserve Program which the Federal Government has set up for schools and evidently the successful working of this program is indicated by the fact that equipment is being better treated and there is less breakage about the campus than and cultivating of a School Victory Garden which consists of nearly 20000 square feet of excellent soil We hope to raise a large enough root crop off of this plot to provide us with root vegetables for a large portion of this coming school year Several adjustments have been necessary owing to the war effort this year with only three men on the staff instead of the usual six the other three being replaced by women It is gratifying to note that the program is continuing just as efficiently and perhaps even more so than in the past in spite of the disproportionate percentage of men to women on the staff This year there has been a total enrollment of 107 of which 94 are on the roll at the writing of this report These figures compare favorably with figures of the past Approximately 40 different communities in northeastern New Mexico and southern Colorado are represented rn this enrollment and the largest percentage of church members is made up of Catholics while second largest is made up of Pres byterian During the week of Inspirational services held in March under the guidance of the Rev ulian Duran of Chimayo a number of students took a dehmte stand for Christ for the first time while the great majority of the student body were strengthened in their faiths which they had already professed prior to these services Throughout the year this year the staff has been particularly on the lookout for opportunities to improve the program at the school The hope of the school staff is to bring the educational program down to the level of the needs of the children who enroll at Allison James School rather than constantly to force the children into an educa tional program which in no way meets their particular needs usual. At the present time, the entire school family is concentrating on the laying out Page Twenty three

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THE SANDSTORM Nmeteen Forty three STUDENT COUNCIL HE STUDENT COUNCIL at Menaul IS a governing body composed of nlne members four from the semor class three from the Jumor class and two from the sophomore class These members are chosen so they can act as leaders to guide and lead the rest of the students rn promotmg order obeylng rules and ln anythmg whlch would lead to mamtammg the :deals and standards of the school The Council meets frequently and dlscusses many problems that come up The Louncxl also takes charge of several 6CtlVltl9S durmg the year They planned the Hallowe en party and stunts An lmportant actnrty with v hrch they helped was the ratlomng problem They explarnecl and showed to the students how the rationing problem THE MENAUL FARM HIS YEAR we were fortunate to get lVlr Daniel Vasquez as our new manager of the farm He has been trained for this lund of work and we hope through his supervlslon great progress wlll be made Thus year the farm wuu be more important than any other year on account of food shortage We are plannmg to rarse a number of crops which wxll supply us next winter Everyone ns doing has best ln farmmg thus year Almost every faculty famlly IS planting a vlctory garden ln which to ranse therr own vegetables Poultry was added thrs last year and we have been gettmg a good many eggs The school dmxng room IS belng furnished from eighty to a hundred fresh eggs each day Eggs are of great help m our school now that there IS a meat shortage Because of the success we have had we have ordered four hundred more baby chucks This year we have been short of feed so we have not been gettmg as much mlllc as we should ln splte of this hardshrp we have been feeding sllage which replaces the laclc of alfalfa to a great extent This feed rs a mxxture of corn stalks and beets and xts chem! cal compounds help to mcrease the amount of mlllc Cream has always been a profitable product from the farm This year a mlllc house has been bullt whxch wall provxde sanitary condxtlons m handlmg the mrlk ln the summer time the cream 15 separated and sold to a local creamery Since last fall we have sold pigs amountrng to almost one thousand dollars V ' ' . . V. - N' . . was going to affect us, and how we all had to cooperate in saving all we could. Page Twenty fue