San Jon High School - El Coyote Yearbook (San Jon, NM)

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Boys' and Girls, State Curious about the many attractions in New Mexico were Bill Cain, Donna Sue Jackson, and Connie Duke, Boys' and Girls' State Al- ternates. Boys' and Girls' State are held each year for the purpose of teaching boys and girls about government. When the students re- turn to school in the fall, the delegates report on what they learned about government, Eager to learn more about the state of New Mexico and its government were Carol White and Jerry Ray Tillman, Girls' and Boys' State Representatives, The Girls' State dele- gate was sponsored by the San Ion-Porter Extension Club and the Boys' State delegate was sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce Boys' State was held June '7-13 at the New Mexico Military Institute, and Girls' State was held June 14-20 at the University of New Mexico.

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Donna Hedgecock, Inez Ortiz, Gloria 0rtiz, Hazel Bradley, Edna Chisum, and Thelma Wood mastered the calculator and received proficiency certificates, They earned these by adding a column of figures in 80 seconds or less, Gloria Ortiz and Sandra Bone were among the group who went to Las Vegas on Highlands Day. Gloria won a bookkeeping certificate and Sandra a shorthand certificate. Sandra also eamed a certificate of proficiency on the calculator, Awards Stanley Frost, Kaye Stanley, and Joe Wood will attend Highlands University on the early admissions program. A person qualifies by their score on the Junior Statewide Test. Joe and Kaye merited scholarships on their grades and the test. Donna Hedgecock, Carol White, Thelma Wood, Patty Coombs, Sandra Bone, Hazel Bradley, Kaye Stanley, and Jerry Liles re- ceived typing awards, Carol and Kaye re- ceived 60 word -per-minute awards and the rest were 50-word awards,