Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 8

A-8 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Sunday, October 31. 97l Menaul nniversary 4 i i i 1 rv I ill 1:11 Central America, the West Indies, and Mexico. Also many young people of Anglo background have enrolled in the school, as well as some of Indian and Negro origin. Not only do students come from all over but the staff as well. SPORTS HAVE always been important at Menaul.

When competitors were few, Menaul played the University of New Mexico and Albuquerque High School, often coining out victor. One basketball team journeyed to Chicago to play. Dave Tomlinson, coach since 1945, has had good and bad seasons, very often starting out with a bunch of green players who develop into creditable athletes by the end of a season. Throughout its long time of service, Menaul has graduated men and women who have gone on to college to become leaders not only in New Mexico but throughout the Southwest. Many teachers and administrators in Albuquerque and the northern counties are alumni.

Four are presently pn the staff of UNM. THE SCHOOL boasts at least four successful medical doctors, dentists, several ministers, lawyers, business men, nurses, government employees. Several have been members of the New Mexico Legislature, including the oldest living graduate, Cosme Garcia, class of '16. There have been ten superintendents in these 90 years: J. S.

Shearer, 1881-2; R. W. D. Bryan, 1883-88; Robert Colman, 1889-92; Miss McNair, 1895-97; J. C.

Ross, 1898-1916; H. C. Donaldson, 1916-53; Homer J. E. Townsend.

1953-1957; Harry Brandt, 1957-63; Frank Latta, 1963-68; and Izar Martinez, 1968 to the present. A unique feature about Menaul is the loyalty of its alumni, who have formed chapters in the Bay area of California, Los Angeles, Denver, Espanola Valley, as well as locally. Their support is strong, awarding scholarship aid to many. At Homecoming and Commencement they appear in sizable numbers for fellowship and business Albuquerque. She soon discovered that an institution on a 200-aere campus with emphasis on agriculture as well as industrial arts and the three R's was more than a woman could cope with.

In 1897, J. C. Ross came as superintendent. After Dr. Me-naul's death, the school was renamed in his honor.

(Menaul is a name of Welsh origin, three brothers coming to this country in the 1880's. A descendant of one of them says the name originally was McNaul, which somehow became corrupted to Menaul.) ORGIXALLY, Menaul was an elementary school providing general education for boys of Spanish-American background from northern New Mexico counties as well as from southern Colorado. (A similar school for girls was in operation in Santa Fe. Grand-ually the lower grades were eliminated and the high school years added.) The first high school graduation (11th grade) was held in 1906 with six in the class. The second superintendent was Harper C.

Donaldson, who held the post from 1916 to 1953. Not only was he superintendent but coach, teacher, disciplinarian, and above all, friend to the boys. During his time many of the present buildings were erected: the Administration Building (now called Donaldson Hall), the Teachers' Hall, the gymnasium, a shop building and some residences. The biggest change in the school came in 1934, when it became a coeducational senior high. IN RECENT years, the school base has changed radically.

Instead of being a school predominantly for the Spanish-American, its doors are now open to any student who wishes to apply. Being a school approved by the State Menaul has had a growing number of foreign students during the past decade, many being Orientals from a'i 1 a North Borneo, Vietnam, Hong Kong children of Chinese expatriates. Others have come from South American nations, l'lKKsOX HALL: This photo, taken shows Piorson Hall on the -Menaul School campus after it was i-emodeled. The building, razed in lOofi, was built at a cost of no kidding $13,756. (Menaul School this year celebrates its Oth anniversary.

Here is a resume of the school's long history, written by L. E. Buck, who retired recently after 37 years of teaching in the Mission Schools. By L. E.

Bl CK For The Albuquerque Journal Menaul School, a Presbyterian related, coeducational boarding high school, opened its doors in rented quarters in Los Duranes in 1881, and has been serving minority groups in the Southwest ever since. It was a "contract" school, for prior to the establishment of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the government contracted with religious and other groups to provide education for Indian children. DR. SHELDON Jackson, later identified with the development of education in Alaska Territory, signed the necessary papers establishing the institution the government would provide the students, paying a stated sum for each; and the religious organization would provide the facilities, teachers, and other needs of the school. First known as the Presbyterian Industrial School, the facility moved to its present location at what is now Menaul Blvd.

and Edith in 1882, a site described as nearly worthless, being covered with weeds, prairie dog holes and rattlesnakes. EARLY RECORDS indicate that the students came from 14 Pueblos and five other tribes. The boys and girls were taught "not only to read and write and cipher, but to put up a building, cultivate a plot of ground, and mend a broken plow." A disastrous fire nearly destroyed the school in 1887, causing many of the students to transfer to the newly-opened U.S. Indian School nearby. However, the church rebuilt the destroyed buildings, and in one instance used the same bricks as in the original structure, thus giving the name "Old Brick" to the oldest building still in use.

IN 1892, the school was discontinued as part of a general policy of most religious groups that it was to the best interest of Indian children to separate education between church and state. Churches could continue Indian education, but without a government subsidy. The Presbyterian Church has been active in the field of education in New Mexico since 1867, when school was opened in Santa Fe. Between that date and today, some 40 communities in the state have had Presbyterian schools for varying lengths of time. ONE OF THESE was in West Las Vegas (where the oldest Protestant church building still stands).

This had begun as a day school and in 1888 became a boarding school for about 100 Mexican boys. It was a number the staff Greyhound Bus Strike Threats End, Talks Set -a kg-' I -1 DAYTOXA BEACH, Fla. The possibility of a strike Halloween nicht by sonic 12.fKn drivers and oilier employees of Greyhound Bus 1 ines was ended Saturday with a labor-management agreement to continue negotiations, a federal mediator said. Mediator William Rose said the union has agreed to continue talks while awaiting results of a strike vote of the membership. Ballots will lie counted Nov.

8. The contract expires Sunday night. In addition to pay hikes and other demands by the Greyhound Division of the Amalgamated Transport I'nion, one of the issues at stake is the merging of separate division contracts into one national agreement, Hose said, Company Vice President Robert Cooke and Chairman School Founder Dr. James Menaul Reopened Menaul School in 1896 2L Si 1 Fern Sawyer Re-EIected Democratic Party Leader RUIDOSO (in Fern Sawyer, New Mexico Fair Commission member, has been elected to her third consecutive term as Lincoln County Democratic party chairman. Mrs.

Sawyer, Nogal rancher, is the daughter of Mrs. i Sawyer, New Mexico Democratic National Com-mitteewoman, of Crossroads, In southeastern New Mexico. Kills i'ranklm of the union council have met daily since Oct. 18 in Daytona Beach. Rose said he will reenter the negotiating sessions Tuesday.

Affected by a walkout of "the drivers, ticket agents, cashiers and maintenance employes would be Greyhound's eastern central and southern divisions and 11 states in its western division. Paris presents the MAXIBOOT FIRST CAMPUS: This photo, taken in 1897, shows a Indian (Menaul) School campus. At this time, the campus boasted three frame buildings and a new brick structure, at right It was virtually destroyed by fire after it opened, but students salvaged and cleaned the brick and "Old Brick" was rebuilt. couldn't adequately care for 1 Mrs. Jay Foss Honored at Meet SANDIER by OF BOSTON and the campus was small; the buildings too few; and the surrounding community considered "too vicious." Hence a radical change in site was deemed essential.

Dr. James Menaul, then synod executive for New Mexico and Arizona, wrote the Board of Home Missions in New York City suggesting moving the Las Vegas school on the outskirts of Albuquerque. In 1895 the move was accomplished. A MISS McNAlR, then principal of the Las Vegas school, accompanied the boys to Mrs. Jay (Abby) Foss was named Horsewoman of the Year at the annual dinner of the New Mexico Hunter-Jumper Assn.

Saturday night at the Downtowner Motor Inn. In the high point awards, Miss Kay Hatch of Los Lunas won top honors in the adult division hile Miss Marion Isaaks of Las Cnicrs won the junior division. Instant paradise MENAllj QUEEN: Menaul celebrated its 90th Homecoming Saturdav and this nrettv Linda Martinez, 17, was chosen to reign over the school's festivities. Miss Martinez is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Ren Martinez of Denver. (Journal photo) Roth Regular Hunter and Green Hunter high point awards wore won bv horses owned by R. C. Jones of Tatum. Reigning Roman won the Green Hunter Missing Woman division while Teddy Bear won the Regular Hunter division.

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Court Judce Sandiaen blocks from the home, police said. has Campos of Santa Fe, Apologetic Gunman Robs Shoe Store An apologetic robber escaped with about $200 Friday night from a shoe store. A clerk at Phil's Shoes, 4120 Fourth NW, told police she was working in the store when she saw a man sitting on a front counter. Patrolman Gene Marquez said asked another state court to in a define a golf course lot Mrs. Myrtle Belle Gibson, 74, a patient at the Western Elder iCare Nursinc Home at lsns University NE, apparently had been dead several days.

Her body was found below a As she approached, he reportedly told her, "give me all vour monev. I'm not kiddine hill beyond an electric supply suit filed by him against stockholders in a land development. Campos has named four men, including two former law firm partners, and the land development company as defendants in the suit filed in San Juan county District Court in northwestern New Mexico. THE LOTS are in Colonias de Santa Fe, a planned community on Tesueque Pueblo Indian land north of Santa Fe. Campos' attorney, Jack Smith of Albuquerque, said the along and sold one of the three out from under him." THE DEFENDANTS are Norman Rosen, Irving Jennings, Walter R.

Kegel, Fred N. Standley and the Sangre de Cristo Development Inc. Kegel, Standley and Campos at one time were law partners. Standley is a former New Mexico attorney general. Smith said the defendants apparently contend that the lot that was sold was on the golf course and since Campos had a golf course lot "he wasn't entitled to an additional one." Standley said the "entire dispute is over what is a golf course lot." The suit seeks a court judgment on what constitutes a golf course lot.

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