Menaul School - Sandstorm Yearbook (Albuquerque, NM)

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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

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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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FUTURE BUSINESS LEADERS OF AMERICA The Future Business Leaders of America is a national organization for students in business education. All meetings are well organized and are begun with a prayer, the national anthem, and the F.B:L.A. creed. Projects such as the March of Dimes drive and the annual Curtiss Maga- zine sales are organized by the F.B.L.A. Miss Irene Richmond, business education teacher, is the advisor of this chapter. Co-sponsors are M rs. jane Tomlinson and Mrs. Fannie Spurrier. DRAMATICS Dramatics at Menaul usually starts in late fall when the sophomores and juniors have class play try-outs and continue through the end of the year when the seniors have their play the night before commencement. n This year some of the juniors, under the supervision of Mr. James YVarner, dramatized a mystery drama, The I-Iouse of Greed, while the sophomore class play was a comedy called Magnolia Blooms. They were both held on November 22, 1953. The class plays were fol- lowed by a Christmas play, Christmas Under the Stars, 'which was directed by Mr. L. E. Buck. Mr. Buck also directed the Spanish play, Zaragueta, a comedy in which any student in school could participate. The third play directed by Mr. Buck was the senior play, Here Come the Brides. Page Forty-two