Menaul School - Sandstorm Yearbook (Albuquerque, NM)

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RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES ' Menaul students participate in many religious activities. Everyone attends church, Wednesday chapel, vespers, and Sunday School while the Gospel Team and Westminister Fellowship Council are composed of smaller groups. Students choose between First and Second Presbyterian Churches for regu- lar Sunday services. This year one Sunday a month a busload of staff and stu- dents have visited other churches than these twog by May all the Presbyterian Churches in Albuquerque will have been visited. Members of the Menaul staff lead or sponsor at least one Wednesday chapel during the year. Ministers and other speakers, films, and discussion groups have been on the chapel programs. Vespers, led by housemothers and students, are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays in each dormitory. Sunday school classes taught by some of the faculty members are held in different buildings on the campus. Each Sunday afternoon a short worship service and class is held. The lessons this year have been based on the history of the church. WESTMIINISTER FELILOWSHIP COUNCIL Religious activities on the campus are supervised by the Westminister Fellow- ship Council. A youth budget is also set up by this group. All the students are given the opportunity to set the youth budget goals in their Sunday evening program and also the foreign and national missions objectives to which the money is to go. This year our budget will go to the Puerto Ricans in Harlem district in New York City. E Other activities conducted by the 'Westminister Fellowship Council are special services such as the inspiration Week services and the Easter week services. Each Sunday evening group has its own treasurer and the youth budget is worked out through these oflicers. OHicers of the Council are: Moderator ....... .................... E ddie Montano Secretary ....,.. ........ R ose Marie Lopez Page Thirty eight

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HOUSE CGUNCILS The House Council is an organization that is composed of representatives from each class chosen by the students of each dormitory. The president of each council becomes a. member of the Student Advisory Council. The group's aim is to work together with the housemothers and monitors and see that all goes well in the dormitories. The group holds meetings where acttv ities concerning the dormitory are discussed. Old Brick ond Annex Miss Ruth Barber, Dean of Girls Grace Romero Susie Rivera Eleanor Young Joyce Arellano Frances Duran Evalyn Vigil Gloria Martinez Mrs. Minnie I-leyman, Supervisor Bennett Holl Mrs. Hilda Harry, Supervisor Buddy McBride Isaac Gallegos Tony G. Romero Robert Pegau Pierson Holl Tim Cisneros Louis Sosa John Cornay Ray lVIontoya Not Pictured: Mrs. Ruth W'a1ker, Supervisor Page Thu ty seven

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GOSPEL TEAM At Menaul the Gospel Team is one of the most active organizations connected with religion. On this Team the boys and girls have a great opportilnity in carrying forward God's work. This year's chief activities have been taking religious services to distant communities such as: Dixon, Embudo, Cuba, Lindreth, Casa Blanca, and Seama. The Gospel Team also led the World Day of Prayer Service and made a recording for a chapel service that two of our graduates were to lead in Illinois. Members are accepted when they belong to some evangelical church, can keep Gospel Team Standards, and have a desire to live for Christ. Members: Joyce Arellano LeRoy Martinez VV alter Atencio jane Cordova Max, McBride Eddie Montano Florila Montoya janet Nieto Edna Lee Ortega Alfredo Padilla Lou Ellen Fernandez Frances Duran ' s Ethel Herrera Susie Rivera Adelina Trujillo Gospel Team Officers are: President ................,........ Secretary ..................................... ................ Executive-Committee Representative ....... Raymond Montoya Cora Lee Duran Dolores Montoya Elias Duran Elsa Rendon Christina Vialpando Concha Griego Jake Maestas Lita Romero Evalyn Vigil .....,....Dolores Montoya ..............Lita Romero ........LeRoy Martinez Page Thirty-nine