Menaul School - Sandstorm Yearbook (Albuquerque, NM)

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MENAUL PANTHER As an extra-curricular aclivity some Menaul students work on the Menaul newspaper, the Panther, which is published every month and is mailed out to alumni, church workers, and Friends in all parts of the World. Mr. James Warner, head of the English department, is sponsor. The co-editors are Genoveva Romero and Eddie Montano. - The Panther rated an International first place award denoting a newspaper of substantial achievements, according to the Critical Service report of the Quill and Scroll Society. Qultl. AND il' SCROLL r 032.53155 The Menaul Panther is a member of Quill and Scroll, an international honor society for high school journalists. In order to be eligible for membership a student must be a junior or seniorg must be in the upper third of his class in all academic work, must have either ten hours of Work on the production staff and sixty inches of published material or twenty hours of work and thirty inches of material. Members of the Panther staff who qualified for membership by the end of the first semester of 1953-54 were Genoveva Romero, Joyce Arellano, Jane Cordova, Cora Lee Duran, Edna Lee Ortega, Evalyn Vigil, Robert McBride, and Max McBride, Jr. Page Forty

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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

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NATIONAL HONQR SOCIETY The Anna E. Falls Chapter of the National Honor Society is increased in membership each spring by senior boys and girls who have qualified for it. ' Each year every member of the faculty is given a rating sheet for each senior boy and girl who is eligible for consideration for the National Honor Society. Students become candidates by achieving a B average in scholarship in all the subjects taken during their sophomore, junior, and senior years. Each faculty member rates the student in leadership, service, and character. Any student who makes the National Honor Society is given a pin and a seal for his diploma at the Scholarship banquet held each spring at Menaul. BOYS' AND GIRLS' STATE New Mexico Boys' State and New Mexico Girls' State, sponsored by 'the American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary, were established to give high school boys and girls a helpful knowledge of the principles of American government and to educate them in their duties and responsibilities as citizens. Boys' State was held in 1953 at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Tech- nology at Socorro, New Mexico, while Girls' State was held at the University of New Mexico. Delegates are sent by all accredited high schools in the state and are chosen on the basis of leadership, character, scholarship, service, and citizenship. Joyce Arellano, Manuel Martinez, Jr., and Max McBride, Jr., were Menaul's represen- tatives. LeRoy Martinez, also from Menaul, represented his hometown of Cuba. Page Forty one