Menaul School - Sandstorm Yearbook (Albuquerque, NM)

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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

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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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1, , AQTIVITY CLUBS This year something new was added to our school program, the Mfednesday activity period. It began the first period and advanced one period every week until all six periods were used. By advancing one period a week the regular work periods and classes were not interrupted. All students participated in one of the eleven clubs: sewing, square dancing, photography, chess, pep squad, crafts, rifle, speech, and projecting. The square dancing cl1.1b can be used as an example of the active part the students took. To begin with, they were taught the terminology of square danc- ing music and how square dancing is done. Simple introductions and dances were taught. As the students improved the more intricate and faster numbers were introduced. The active participation in these clubs will help all who join to grow socially and to enlarge their knowledge of the particular field. A11 the clubs carry one thing in mind, accomplishment. Page Forty-three