Oral history project preserves New Mexico memory voices
Las Cruces interview with Frank Brito among 14 collected by NMSA and NMSU historians. The project records Rough Riders, Villa era figures, Pancho Villa era memories, Chicano leaders, and local ranchers. Tape interviews cover Texas trip, El Paso gun run, and campus history while inviting more subjects and donations to build a lasting archive.
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Alice Roosevelt
Frank Brito
Las Cruces
NMSA
Brio
Miss Roosevelt
New Jersey
Brito
NMSU
Monroe Billington
New Mexico
Louis Sadler
Columbus
N.M
Hugh Milton
E. Bud Flanigan
Milton
Charles Harris
Pancho Villa
Gene Brack
Sant Antonio
Tex
Alberto Pena
Patrick Flores
Art Santa Cruz
Esteban Arellano
Lorenzo Baldez
Sadler
Villa
Douglas MacArthur
Clyde Tombaugh
Fred Lambert
Buffalo Bill Cody
Dona Ana
UTEP
Oklahoma
Columbia University
Columbia
Theodore Roosevelt
History Department
Engineering exhibit category debuts at regional science fair
The 12th annual Southwestern New Mexico Regional Science Fair at NMSU on March 27 featured over 130 students from Las Cruces and nearby towns. A new engineering exhibits category was added to emphasize STEM growth, with awards including trips to the state fair in Secorma and the international fair in Kansas City, savings bonds, and certificates.
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Alex F. Burr
NMSU
Burr
Southwestern New Mexico
Las Cruces
Cloudcroft
Hatch
Alamogordo
Deming
Secorma
Kansas City
Four NMSA astronomers to analyze Mariner findings of Mars
Four NMSA astronomers will analyze Mars images from the Mariner 7 and 71 missions at JPL Pasadena while orbiting and mapping about seven percent of the surface from November to March. Bradford A. Smith leads the team with Susan A. Dean Thomas Kirby and J C. Robinson as staff associates. The group studies weather, clouds, lighting, and seasonal changes, seeking potential Viking landing sites for 1976, with no expected life signs from Mars.
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NMSA
Mariner
Mars
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena
Calif
Mariner 71
Earth
Bradford A. Smith
Mariners VI
VIE
NASA
Mary
Smith
Susan A. Dean
Thomas Kirby
J.C. Robinson
Dean
Kirby and
Robinson
University
Marines
Deimos
Kirby
Viking
United States
Canadian student wins Overpeck Scholarship at NMSU
Robert $. Schmucker of Monetville Ontario Canada received the J C Overpeck Scholarship Award for the spring semester at New Mexico State University. Schmucker was chosen for the 100 dollar award by a committee of agronomy professors. The scholarship was established by former agronomy department head J C Overpock of Las Cruces.
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Robert $. Schmucker
Monetville
Ontario
Canada
J.C. Overpeck
NMSU
Schmucker
Agronomy Department
J.C. Overpock
Las Cruces
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